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Listen: Serena Williams Raps Now
12 May 2012 10:47 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Serena Williams, tennis star, fashion designer and sometimes actress has stepped into the booth to record a few songs. One of the rap songs was leaked to TMZ, and you can listen to the track below.
The oft-Grand Slam champion has admitted that she doesn't "love" tennis, so it seems the songs are another step in Williams' attempts to branch out. She has also joined Sleep Sheets, a company which offers sleep aids.
As for the lyrics? "I ball hard, no tennis racket / I can't see these haters through my Gucci glasses," she begins rapping over a bouncey, Southern-inflected beat. "Swag out this world you should call me Venus," she continues. "That's my sister, my name is Serena."
She even gets into a bit of "hashtag rap," the style in which one ends a couplet with a word that captures the essence of the preceding clause (it's something Lil' Wayne »
- The Huffington Post
Mayweather vs Cotto: Justin Bieber and 50 Cent escort champ Floyd Mayweather to the ring
6 May 2012 12:22 AM, PDT | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Floyd Mayweather won the super welterweight championship title on Saturday (May 5) in Las Vegas, defeating defender Miguel Cotto. That's not shocking. What is shocking is who flanked Mayweather as he walked to the ring: Justin Bieber and 50 Cent.
The Bieb, whose "Boyfriend" video just dropped on Thursday, carried the Mayweather's previous title belts to the ring and both stayed in his corner as he went 12 rounds against Cotto before he was unanimously declared the winner.
The Twitterverse exploded with the news of Mayweather's surprising companions. Most comments mirrored this tweeter, who wrote, "50 Cent and Justin Bieber in this bit! lmfaoooooo."
Also on hand in Las Vegas for the fight were Lil' Wayne and Mary J. Blige,
Next up for Mayweather: A possible three-month jail sentence on domestic violence charges.
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Nicki Minaj, Skrillex, A-Trak & More Team Up With Pepsi
1 May 2012 9:17 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Forget battle of the boy bands. This summer, it's all about battle of the soda brands, as Pepsi and Coca-Cola will go head-to-head with new global ad campaigns, featuring celebrity endorsements.
Nicki Minaj is currently shooting her global ad campaign for Pepsi, joining the likes of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Britney Spears, all of whom have starred in Pepsi marketing campaigns. Minaj's single "Moment for Life" -- from 2010 -- will act as the campaign's soundtrack, out May 7, Billboard reports.
The deal isn't that surprising, given some of the lyrics on her sophomore album, "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded." In the title track, featuring Lil' Wayne, Minaj raps, "The ad is global / Your ad was local."
Pepsi is also preparing to launch another campaign for the 25th-anniversary of Michael Jackson's iconic album Bad. According to Billboard, the marketing campaign, which will launch in mid-May, includes a series of Jackson remixes from popular DJs. »
- The Huffington Post
Lil Wayne Signs Four-Album Deal With Cash Money Records
12 April 2012 3:41 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
Lil Wayne is staying loyal. The rapper, who has been signed to Cash Money records since he was eleven years old, has inked a deal with the label to put forth another four albums under the Young Money banner. Wayne made the announcement during an interview with MTV’s Hip Hop Pov, while also revealing details about his contract with the label and what fans can expect from his new releases. “Contract-wise, I only get paid for 12 songs. Maybe on a Carter album, you probably only gonna get 12 songs, maybe a bonus 13,” Weezy said. “But on
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- Sophie A. Schillaci
Videodrome: The Best In Recent Music Videos Including Jack White, Drake, Benga & More
12 April 2012 9:59 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
In case you missed it, we resurrected our old Videodrome column a few weeks back: our semi-regular showcase for the best music videos around. Since the form has given the world game-changing helmers in both the blockbuster and arthouse worlds, it's always important to keep an eye on promos, and indeed, one could argue that there's more invention to be found in the short-form than there is in features. So, with no further ado, the five best music videos we've seen in the last few weeks. As ever, any tips and suggestions are more than welcome.
Benga - "I Will Never Change" (dir. Us)
Coming from un-Googleable collective Us (aka Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor), who won Best New Directors at last year's UK Music Video Awards, their promo for dubstep star Benga is barely a music video. In fact, technically, it's not -- it's a teaser clip for the musician's latest record, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Jaimie Etkin: 'The Voice' Recap: Who Should Get Eliminated?
3 April 2012 1:50 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Ah, the live auditions, when we can no longer blame the coadges for making ridiculous and unfair choices. Pressure's on us now, America.
There was a lot of build up about what "The Voice" coadges would be wearing during the first week of live performances since we'd seen them in the same attire -- Christina Aguilera's discus hat included-- for two weeks.
And though Christina disappointed us this time -- the pop songstresses ditched the bedazzled plate she called headgear and looks almost completely normal -- Cee Lo, however, was a completely different story. With a red, fringed jumpsuit, earring and bizarre wig, Cee Lo looked like he could out-ridiculous Will Ferrell in "Blades of Glory."
And though it was hard for us to get past the look, here's what went down when Team Christina and Team Blake took the stage:
Jermaine Paul
Team: Blake
Song: "Livin' On a »
- Jaimie Etkin
Lil Wayne Told To Cut The Grass Of Home On The Market
18 March 2012 6:36 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Kenner, La. — Lil Wayne has been told to cut his grass.
The Times-Picayune ( ) reports the rapper was cited for high grass and weeds at his 10,000-square-foot mansion in a gated subdivision in Kenner, La., a suburb of New Orleans. http://bit.ly/yxftea
The Code Enforcement Department issued the ticket to Dwayne Carter, the New Orleans-born singer's given name, sometime between Feb. 26 and March 2, according to a list released by the city.
The home is on sale for $1.7 million. Listed as a "celebrity" mansion, the house has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, two half baths and a "beautiful, spacious open floor plan."
Among the house's amenities are a four-car garage, a theater and movie room, an entertainment bar, a pool house. The master suite has a fireplace with his and her baths and a steam room sauna and Jacuzzi. »
- AP
Adele Sells 730K Copies Of Her 21 Album Since Grammy Win
22 February 2012 12:05 PM, PST | x17online.com | See recent x17online news »
Los Angeles, California (X17online) - Adele is breaking records as her album 21 has racked up 730,000 in sales since winning six Grammy awards, including Album of the Year, Feb 12. That marks the biggest sales week for an album since Lil' Wayne's Tha Carter IV in September of 2011, which moved 964,000 copies. According to SoundScan, Adele's 21 has the second-largest sales week for an album outside the Christmas season, only falling short of the Titanic soundtrack, which sold 848,000 in one week after debuting two months prior. Adele is also marking her 21st week at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. »
Dave Grohl Sets The Record Straight On His Grammy Rant
17 February 2012 1:15 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Dave Grohl drew a lot of attention with his acceptance speech/rant for Best Rock Performance at the Grammys on Sunday, with many (us included) noting the subtle swipe at electronic dance music. Now, Grohl is back with a second rant to clarify the real meaning behind what he said with a public statement.
Here we go!
Oh, what a night we had last Sunday at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. The glitz! The Glamour! Seacrest! Where do I begin?? Chillin' with Lil' Wayne...meeting Cyndi Lauper's adorable mother...the complimentary blinking Coldplay bracelet.....much too much to recap. It's really is still a bit of a blur. But, if there's one thing that I remember Very clearly, it was accepting the Grammy for Best Rock Performance...and then saying this: "To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what's important. »
- Gazelle Emami
Dave Grohl apologizes for Grammy rant
17 February 2012 12:36 PM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
On Grammy night, Foo Fighter frontman Dave Grohl made his distaste for computer-assisted music clear. Or so we thought. Now, in a new statement, Grohl heartily apologizes for giving the impression that he's not a fan of electronica, hip-hop and basically anyone else who might have been offended.
Here's what Grohl said last Sunday (Feb. 12):
"To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what's important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do... It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head]."
In a statement released Friday, Grohl softens his stance, basically saying that he was thinking on his »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Lil Wayne Engaged - Valentine's Day Proposal to Girlfriend Dhea
16 February 2012 6:44 PM, PST | National Ledger | See recent National Ledger news »
Lil Wayne has got engaged. The 'Lollipop' rapper popped the question to his girlfriend Dhea on Valentine's Day (02-14-12) and he took to his twitter account Wednesday to confirm she accepted his proposal. He wrote: "She said yes!" The pair are expected to wed in the spring and the cocktail waitress is pregnant with Wayne's baby, MediaTakeOut.com reports. The new arrival would be the 29-year-old rapper's fifth child as he already has four kids, including his first Reginae, who was born when he was just 15 to Antonia 'Toya' Carter, whom he was married to between 2004 and 2006. Wayne - whose real name is Dwayne Carter Jr. - has three other children, who were all born after 2008; Dwayne III, whose mother is unknown, Lennox Samuel Ari, born to actress Lauren London, and Neal, with singer Nivea. Wayne looks set for a busy 2012 as he is releasing a memoir in November »
Grammy Awards 2012: The Best Performances of the Night
13 February 2012 5:00 AM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »
It was the ultimate concert. Grammy-watchers enjoyed a front row-seat view as the music industry's biggest voices celebrated music's biggest night Sunday on the stage of Los Angeles's Staples Center. And while Adele, the night's top honoree, wowed with a perfect-pitch performance of her award-winning anthem "Rolling in the Deep," and Katy Perry brought the fire with her new tune - not to mention Jennifer Hudson's heartfelt tribute to the late Whitney Houston - several other show-stopping moments took place throughout the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. For those who might have missed them, People.com breaks down the night's most memorable performances. »
- Alison Schwartz
2012 Grammy winner list: Adele, Foo Fighters win big
12 February 2012 8:22 PM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
It truly is the Year of Adele, as the British singer took home every Grammy she was for which she was nominated, totaling six wins altogether, including Album, Record and Song of the Year. Foo Fighters were second for total wins, with five, followed by the absent Kanye West with four wins.
The complete list of winners:
Album Of The Year:
21 -- Adele
Wasting Light -- Foo Fighters
Doo-Wops & Hooligans -- Bruno Mars
Loud -- Rihanna
Record Of The Year:
"Rolling In The Deep" -- Adele
"Holocene" -- Bon Iver
"Grenade" -- Bruno Mars
"The Cave" -- Mumford & Sons
"Firework" -- Katy Perry
Best New Artist: (artist/producer)
The Band Perry
Skrillex
Song Of The Year: (songwriter)
"All Of The Lights" -- Jeff Bhasker, Malik Jones, Warren Trotter and Kanye West, songwriters
(Kanye West, Rihanna, Kid Cudi and »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Maureen Ryan: 'Key & Peele' Review: Is This The Next 'Chappelle's Show'?
30 January 2012 2:22 PM, PST | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
I've only seen the first two episodes of the sketch-comedy show "Key & Peele" (Tues., 10:30 p.m. Est, Comedy Central), but they made me eager to see more.
The confident and amusing "Key & Peele" will inevitably be compared to "Chappelle's Show," which became a huge hit for Comedy Central less than a decade ago by examining race issues with a knowing, laid-back wit that allowed people of all races to laugh at themselves. There were many comics over the years who made it more permissible to joke about race, but "Chappelle's Show" deservedly had an outsized impact on popular culture in part because it was so casually funny about a topic that can be thorny and difficult.
As I re-watched "Chappelle's Show" in recent months on Netflix, I appreciated once again the way Chappelle combined incisive observations with surreal goofiness to create sketches like "I Know Black People" and "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories. »
- Maureen Ryan
Lil Wayne writing prison memoirs
12 January 2012 4:08 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
New York (AP) — Lil Wayne is offering a literary tour of his prison days. The million-selling rapper has signed with Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, for the memoir "Gone Till November." Hachette announced Thursday that the book will tell of his eight months spent at the Rikers Island complex on a gun possession charge. Scheduled to come out in November, two years after his release, the book will be an "internal monologue," based on diaries he kept while in prison. Born Dwayne Carter Jr., Lil Wayne had the best-selling album of 2008 with "Tha Carter III," »
- AP Staff
Lil Wayne to Publish Memoir about Prison
12 January 2012 3:12 PM, PST | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »
Rapper Lil Wayne (born: Dwayne Carter) has signed a deal to publish a memoir based upon his most recent jail visit, which is set to be released this November.
Grand Central Publishing has agreed to base a memoir called Gone Till November upon notes that Carter wrote while he was serving an eight-month jail sentence at Rikers Island after being convicted on a weapons possession charge.
A press release revealed that Carter's prison journals will detail "his thoughts and feelings, strange people he met, his plans, his family, his children, his past, present and future."
While Carter was in jail, his friends created a website called "Weezy Thanx You" that posted some of his prison letters.
Carter's first letter was entitled "Gone 'til November," in which he professed, "For my time here, my physical will be confined to the yard. My love and my spirit, however, know no boundaries."
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Lil Wayne's Surprising New Project
12 January 2012 12:27 PM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
New York — Lil Wayne is offering a literary tour of his prison days.
The million-selling rapper has signed with Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, for the memoir "Gone Till November." Hachette announced Thursday that the book will tell of his eight months spent at the Rikers Island complex on a gun possession charge. Scheduled to come out in November, two years after his release, the book will be an "internal monologue," based on diaries he kept while in prison.
Born Dwayne Carter Jr., Lil Wayne had the best-selling album of 2008 with "Tha Carter III," which won a best rap album Grammy. »
- AP
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