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T.I speaks on 50 cent and the gay community
Nov 29th
ummm is it me or is T.I. rocking some honey colored contact O_o
The self-proclaimed King of the South, rapper T.I., is being featured on VIBE magazine‘s year end Dec. 2011 issue.
T.I. had a lot to say about The Gays who currently wield the balance of power in the entertainment industry.
T.I. on all Americans having equal rights:
“Man, I will say this, the funniest joke I ever heard [comedian] Tracy [Morgan] say during a stand-up was, ‘C’mon man, I think gay people are too sensitive. If you can take a dick, you can take a joke.’ [Cracks up laughing.] That shit was funny to me. And it’s kind of true. They’re like,‘If you have an opinion against us, we’re gonna shut you down.’ … That’s not American. If you’re gay you should have the right to be gay in peace, and if you’re against it you should have the right to be against it in peace.’
But T.I., 31, did have some strong words for rapper 50 Cent and others who criticized his wife, Tameka “Tiny” Harris, 36, for not taking the drug charge that sent her man back to federal prison for 11 months.
T.I.: “I’ma tell you, 50 Cent and anybody else, we not gonn’a have no discussion about what my ole lady should’a, would’a, couda done for anything as it pertains to me,” begins his rant. “We ain’t gonn’a do that. I’m the only one in my family that’s gonna take a lick when it pertains to the legal system. Since me, none of my other family members have seen a jail cell. Nobody. I’m the last one. The buck stops here. I feel that a person that stands behind [his woman for a criminal charge] is a coward anyway.”
VIBE: I doubt she would have gotten any time.
“T.I.: She wasn’t gonna catch it period, ’cause I’m there. That wasn’t even a consideration. Even if she asked me to I would’ve been like, “Nah, you trippin’. “So you didn’t feel you were more valuable to your family, employees and business partners on the street?
T.I.: “That’s a discussion between me and another man. Not with the mother of my children. Not with the nurturer of my household.”
The Dec. 2011 issue featuring T.I. on the cover hits newsstands on December 6th!
UPDATE:
50 Cent responded to T.I.’s statements in VIBE magazine on his Twitter page:
50cent: If U can get 5 years easy 4 some sh*t and I’m the support of my family. Why would it be wrong if ya lady had to take probation? Shit she ballin to lol
Mashonda graces the cover of King magazine
Mar 22nd
Mashonda, is a certified M.I.L.F the ex-wife of Swizz Beatz covers the May/June issue of King magazine.
all i can say is dayummmmm, we see you boo!! love me some Mashonda=)
KING: Can you explain the “Loyalty” tattoo on your hand?
MASHONDA: I got it a year after everything started going downhill. It’s a reminder to me that I have to be loyal to myself for once.
Elaborate, please.
I was so loyal to everyone, and I totally forgot about me. This is what it represents—it represents loyalty to self. Now I have to do things that I love to do, and I have to make myself happy, because I don’t really agree when people say, “I need a man ’cause I want to be happy,” or “I’m not happy because I don’t have a man.” That’s not where it starts. Happiness starts from within, and that’s in my focus.
You’re also focused on Love & Hip-Hop. So the show does not revolve around you.
Exactly. I did a few episodes [first], then ended up doing a lot of episodes because the chemistry was perfect with me and Emily. I ended up being a recurring guest, and it worked out perfectly, because I’m on the show and people get to see me and hear my stories. But it’s not like a character that’s 100 percent there.
What is your role with Emily?
I’m like her support system, her counselor. I feel like a female Dr. Phil. That person who gives her advice and is not afraid to tell her my story and show her my life, ’cause I really want her to get hers together.
How awkward was it for you to be the shoulder to lean on?
At the time that we shot, I was in a great place, so that’s what made the difference. I felt like that was my therapy, and that’s all I wanted to do. Anytime I’d log in to Facebook or Twitter, there would be tons of women reaching out to me, thanking me for sharing my story. Those messages gave me a lot of strength, a lot of courage. From that point on, I just wanted to help women, and Emily being a good friend of mine, it was easy for me to go on there and talk to her and be honest.
Check out the rest of her pics=)
Nicki Minaj Covers Black Book Magazine
Feb 23rd
Nicki Minaj is the latest celebrity to cover an issue of ‘Black Book’ magazine.
Inside the fashion and pop culture mag, Young Money’s Barbie dresses like a doll donning a curly wig and carrying an oversized stuffed toy.
She later dons colorful makeup and 70′s style dress in the high fashion shoot.
The rapper, whose set to tour with Lil Wayne and Rick Ross this summer, also shared her thoughts on her comparisons to Lady Gaga.
According to Minaj, the comparisons are fitting considering that they both have similar tendencies.
She tells Black Book,
“We both do the awkward, non-pretty thing,” she says. “What we’re saying—what I’m saying, anyway—is that it’s okay to be weird.
And maybe your weird is my normal. Who’s to say? I think it’s an attitude we both share.”
I like this pic of Nicki…
Nicki Minaj on the cover of King Magazine
Dec 28th
King magazine has finally decided, to put Nicki Minaj on the cover.
she will appear in the Spring 2011 edition.
here goes excerpt:
How should your Ken bring out the freak in you, Barbie?
Just being super aggressive when the time is right.Are we talking about Mortal Kombat–style “Come here” aggression?
Just something that makes me feel like they’re in control, when we are behind closed doors
T.I. speaks to Vibe Magazine
Nov 22nd
Rapper T.I., currently serving an 11 month prison sentence in Arkansas for violating his probation.
Before he got thrown in the clink, he spoke to Vibe Magazine about his drug addiction.
It will hit news stands in a few days, and it will be for the December 2010/January 2011 cover story.
here goes the excepts from the interview:
I’ve heard you mention how the good that you’ve done is easily forgotten. Do you feel that you’ve been treated unfairly?
If I place my value in the way humans treat me, then maybe. But they’re human, man?they can’t help themselves. They do that to people they know personally. So how can I expect them to treat me, only knowing me through television? They did that to Jesus. They did that to Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali. They did it to every great person you could possibly think of. When it was all good, they was with them. When things got bad, then they was against them.
But in this case things didn’t “get bad.” It’s something you did.
Let me just say this: [he sits up on the couch] If you look at a guy who came up, no pops in the house, moms on welfare, food stamps; started selling dope when he was 12, 13 years old, came up handling guns, being in shoot-outs; started going to jail when he was 15. In all of this chaos and this mischief and lawlessness, the person who was just in jail for machine guns and silencers turns his life around. And now you want to crucify him ?for what? Three pills. I mean, of course it’s wrong and unacceptable and inexcusable. No problem. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s rather petty. It’s rather petty to hold someone’s feet to the fire for something so small when they have overcame things that were so big. All that could have been going wrong?if I was riding with more guns, or if I had gotten into a shoot-out and killed somebody, then I could see that. But just think about it. I’ve gotten it down to this much.
How did you get a drug habit?
I had a lot of work done to my teeth. Oral surgery, extractions, six, seven, eight root canals. Between January to February. As soon as I got out, I had a lot of stuff done. In the joint, you eat shit that is unhealthy for you. I had fillings that fell out and stuff that had to get dealt with. Of course for the pain they gave me oxycontin and hydrocodone. And, mind you, on October 13, 2007, I had cut off everything?weed, alcohol. Then I get these pills and I start taking them for the pain at first. And then I’m like, Wait?this shit makes me feel good. And it’s legal. After the pain went away, I kept taking it. I had like five, six prescriptions. So I had, like 80 pills. Everybody else might have a drink or smoke a blunt, I took a pain pill. Times when I had 18-, 20-hour days, I’d take a pain pill. And eventually I developed?I guess?the beginning stages of dependence.
Have you talked to Eminem about addiction?
Sure. We got a record together, and we talked a lot. I asked him how he knew he was an addict. Basically if you put yourself in harm’s way… if you risk that, you’ve got to assume that there is something fundamentally wrong with your thought process.
T.I.’s forthcoming album No Mercy, drops December 7th 2010.
Once again Dr.Dre says that Detox will be released soon
Nov 17th
Dr. Dre was featured on the cover of the new December 2010/January 2011issue of XXL Magazine.
in the magazine he stated: “Yes, Detox is coming”
“I’m really feeling it now. My energy has been back and forth with the record, tussling with doing it out of obligation, as opposed to doing it because I really feel it. My feelings about it have been going up and down. Now I’m in that place where I’m really feeling it, and it’s coming out right. It’s like, Yeah, I’m excited about it.
“The only part that has been pushing me back is just the fact that I’m getting older, and certain things to talk about… But I can incorporate other artists, new artists with this record, to say some of the things I won’t say. It’s been a little tussle in that area also, just because of age and being able to identify with the younger audience.” (XXL)
Dre is now 45 years old and this will be his first album in over 10 years.
He has no solid release date as of yet, his album is scheduled to drop in Jan 2011.
I’m not holding my breath, Dre has been coming out with Detox for the past 5 years.
I’ll believe when I see and hear it…just saying.
Nicki Minaj on the Cover of Black Men’s Magazine
Nov 9th
Nicki Minaj gets the cover of Black Men magazine again, with her debut album Pink Friday just weeks away,
Nicki Minaj is taking her promotional efforts up a notch. With rumors are flying that Minaj attacked Lil Kim on her Eminem collaboration “Roman’s Revenge ,” (something that Nicki denies) she is definitely trying her best to bring a lot of attention her way.
She looks very sexy in her latest spread.
Rihanna is talking about the Grammy incident again yawwwn
Oct 27th
Rihanna is once again beating a Dead horse,
She is on the cover of the latest Marie Claire UK Magazine, in the magazine she
talks about the pre-Grammy/Chris Brown incident…How convenient just in time for the release of her new album, #sideeye…
RiRi also talks about how she felt after the incident, her wake-up call, and her new relationship with Matt Kemp
Check out the excerpts:
On how she felt after the accident:
“God has a crazy way of working, and sometimes when stuff happens you feel like, ‘What did I do to deserve this?’ Why was it backfiring on me?’ But I needed that wake-up call in my life. I needed a turning point, and that’s what God was giving to me.”
On her wake-up call:
“All this terrible stuff they say to you, it breaks you down. [But] once you’re back on your feet — if you ever make it back on your feet — that’s the ultimate achievement. I remember I was in New York at the Trump Hotel and I woke up and I just knew I was over it. It was a different day. I felt different. I didn’t feel lonely,” she recalls. I felt like I wanted to get up and be in the world. That was a great, great feeling.”
On her new relationship:
“I feel like I smile for real this time. The smiles come from inside, and it exudes in everything I do. People feel my energy is different. When I smile they can tell that it’s pure bliss and not just a cover up.”
Fifty Cent and Soulja boy pose for XXL…
Oct 20th
50 Cent and Soulja Boyare on the cover of the November 2010 issue of XXL Magazine,
which will feature a provocative photoshoot and three-part cover story
that includes separate profiles on 50 and Soulja,
followed by a Q&A roundtable discussion between the two rappers.
In this issue, Soulja Boy also talks about his “connection” with 50 Cent…
Soulja Boy says: “Being Black, with money, from the hood, struggles, and coming from nothing to something, of course you’re going to share the common struggles. You going to have people hate. You going to have people that change on you, and all that. So of course, watching 50, and him going through what he did—if there wasn’t no 50 Cent, there would be noSoulja Boy. You know what I mean?”
About his young friend, Fif says: “If I had the wish to be another artist, just for right now, it would be Soulja Boy.”
Source: XXL
This has to be the creepest magazine cover Iv’e ever seen….
why is Fifth holding him and looking like that?
why is Soulja Boy holding his Nutz???
yuck!! wheretheydothisat?
