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DJ Spinderella's Birthday Party in Cali!

Rza's Wu Chess Challenge if you are down with Chess!

Who Will Be the New Jesse Jackson

Too Short New Studio?

Death Row Records Sold in Auction

Flavor Flav has a confession session with Jamie

DJ Spinderella's Birthday Party in Cali!
07/30/2008

Local promotional company and �Suga-T� of the �E-40 and the Click� unite to bring forth a positive event to both the Modesto and Stockton communities. Suga-T, along with Ms. Toi, most famously known from Ice Cube�s smash hit, �You Can Do It,� and Salt-N-Pepa�s legendary deejay, Spinderella, seen recently on the popular VH-1 reality show, The Salt-N-Pepa Show, will be celebrating Spinderella�s Birthday with parties at the Fat Cat Club, in Modesto, California on August 1st, and Chativas Sports Bar & Grill at the waterfront, the following day on August 2nd, in Stockton, California. Doors will open at 9pm on both days.
This event is not just a birthday celebration, but it is also helping to support the launch of �The Be About It Project�, an organization designed to mother, educate, and keep the peace and unity in the community.

log onto www.suga-t.net.

Rza's Wu Chess Challenge if you are down with Chess!
07/20/2008

The Challenge!
Think you can rap about chess? Prove it!
Upload a video response to RZA's challenge.

The Winners!
RZA will pick the best chess rhyme. The Winner will receive $150 credit at the WuChess Store and 3 Free WuChess Memberships.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YAIVQ_oh88

The Rules!

The contest will start 8am EDT July 15 and end 8pm EDT August 10. So get your entries in soon!
RULES & CONDITIONS

Who Will Be the New Jesse Jackson
07/15/2008

by Najee Ali
Rev. Jesse Jackson's words last week that he wanted to cut Obama's nuts off was a source of outrage for many blacks across the nation. He has apologized. Obama has accepted. Personally, that was good enough for me. I think it's time to move on this week to more serious issues such as the economy, gas prices, the war in Iraq, global warming. But rapper Nas just wouldn't let me. He told MTV that Jesse was finished.
"I think Jesse Jackson, he's the biggest player hater," Nas said. "His time is up. All you old �, time is up. We heard your voice, we saw your marching, and we heard your sermons. We don't wanna hear that � no more. It's a new day. It's a new voice for more check out www.daveyd.com

Too Short New Studio?
07/15/2008

*A $1 million judgment against rapper Too Short, stemming from a 1991 car accident, may lead to the closing of his two-month-old recording studio in Oakland.

The Oakland Tribune reported that the artist owes over $700,000 dollars to a family, after his GMC truck was involved in a 1991 head on collision with a Mercury Cougar. Too Short was reportedly fleeing the scene of a previous accident where he clipped a parked car, when the Mercury crossed over the center divider and the two vehicles crashed, head on.

Although he was not responsible for the accident, Too Short, born Todd Shaw, did not have insurance and was legally drunk at the time of the deadly crash. He was later sued by one of the families for $17 million dollars, but agreed to an out of court settlement of $1 million dollars.

According to court documents, Too Short has paid over $282,000 dollars over the last decade, but has yet to pay the remainder.

If he fails to fork over the balance, The Alameda County Sheriff�s office will seize the equipment in the rapper�s Oakland-based UpAllNite studio, which opened in May, the Tribune reported.

Allhiphop.com is reporting that Too Short has already moved the equipment out of the studio and to an undisclosed location in case the facility is raided. The rapper is due back in Oakland Superior Court on Aug. 13

Death Row Records Sold in Auction
07/15/2008

Death Row Records, the legendary West Coast hip-hop label that launched such seminal rappers as Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre to superstardom and made mint at the front of the early '90s gangsta-rap boom, has been auctioned off for a relatively measly $24 million.

New York-based Global Music Group released a statement today confirming it was the top bidder at a June 24 auction and had purchased Death Row, including its hits-laden catalog and any outstanding recording contracts, for a relative song.
Death Row filed for bankruptcy in April 2006 after company kingpin Marion "Suge" Knight was unable to pay a $107 million judgment to former partners (and former couple) Lydia and Michael Harris, the latter a convicted drug dealer. The Harrises successfully sued the label claiming they were owed a lion's share of the profits for providing start-up funds.

After Knight failed to respond to the suit and skipped several court hearings, a default judgment was entered. That forced Knight to file for Chapter 11, posting debts of $137.4 milion and only $4.4 million in assets.
According to his camp, the move also allowed him to retain control of the masters to such classic rap albums as Dre's The Chronic, 2Pac's All Eyez on Me and Snoop's Doggystyle and prevented a judge from appointing a trustee to take over managing the firm and its assets.
Not so, according to the Global Music Group, which was started by former skin-care magnate Susan Berg and also has offices in Tennessee. The company dabbles in country, rock and R&B, as well.

A board member for the music company, who did not wish to be identified, told E! News that GMG had gotten "everything," beating out competitors like Warner Music Group and EverGreen Copyrights, and said Knight no longer has a relationship with the infamous label he cofounded with Dre.
"We've got people out in L.A. masquerading like they own everything when they don't," said the exec. "We're going to be in the process of not only putting out new stuff for the catalog but signing new artists as well."
Upcoming releases could include a new posthumous Shakur compilation, made up of unreleased tracks from the vaults.
The board member said that Global Music Group was still going through what it acquired, including figuring out what artists still have contracts with Death Row.
Knight and his lawyers were not immediately available for comment.
SOURCE: E! ONLINE

Flavor Flav has a confession session with Jamie
06/28/2008

S2S Publisher Jamie Foster Brown caught up with the hypeman- turned-TV star as he was filming his sitcom "Under One Roof" in Vancouver, Canada. Flav described this moment as a dream come true because he always wanted his own sitcom.

As he basked in his own happiness, Flav had nothing but kind words for the women he's met on the "Flavor of Love" series and others who have crossed his path. He even spoke lovingly of his brother, who recently complained to S2S that Flav never helped him get into the music business (see page 18). Flav and his manager said that's not true at all, but Flav never showed anger toward his brother; instead he questioned why his brother would say something like that.

Which "Flavor or Love" contestant makes him the most proud? What would he do differently as a parent if he could throw life in reverse? Is he really looking for love on TV? Read on to find out this and more about your boy, Flavor Flav!

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Jamie: Finally! We got you. Finally!

Flav: Finally got me? Finally got y'all too! What's going on baby girl?

Jamie: You got a new show?

Flav: Yes, ma'am. I got a brand new show coming right about now. It's called "Under One Roof." It's a sitcom.

Jamie: What's it about? Tell me.

Flav: Well the sitcom is about an exconvict who gets out of jail, and he goes and finds his rich brother. He moves in with his rich brother; brother's wealthy, he's married, his wife don't like him. So she tries to kick him out, but brother can't kick him out because he owes him.

Jamie: Okay, now why does he owe him? Is the brother older or younger?

Flav: The brother is younger. Let me tell you this: I play the part of the ex-convict out of jail. And my rich, wealthy, Black brother, he's played by Kelly Pereen. One day when we was young, my little brother stole a car. I was riding with him. So he crashed the car. I jumped behind the wheel and I took the weight. So when I went to jail for all of these years, he finished school, went to an Ivy League college, became a wealthy, Black Donald Trump kind of guy, you know, a real estate guy. When I got out of jail, I didn't have nowhere to go. So I go and find him, and I'm like, "Yo bro, remember that favor that I did you back in the day when I took that weight? Well, I need somewhere to go." So he moved me in with him.

Jamie: How did this come about, and why did they choose you? Was this something that you thought of, or they came to you?

Flav: Honestly, they came to me with this. A couple of my friends were involved in this television show called "Dance 360." They had me come down to the set; they said, "Yo, Flav, come down to the set because the people on the set will love you." So I ended up going down to the set and I met Claude Brooks. Claude Brooks is the producer of the show. So everybody really loved Flav. I guess Claude Brooks had me on the back of his mind, and they put this project together, and I guess he said, "Well, there's no other perfect person for this part but Flavor Flav."

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