R. Kelly Baselessly Accused of Dance-Move Theft & other

Friday 15 August 2008

Rick Ross, T-Pain, Big Boi, David Banner Rock Ozone Awards In Houston Despite Pre-Show Scuffle

HOUSTON � You know you're in for a memorable awards show when fists are thrown, the police are called in and somebody gets (mildly) injured earlier one award is proclaimed or anybody gets to perform. On Monday nox at the George R. Brown Convention Center, the third annual Ozone Awards began with a physical altercation between H-Town MCs Mike Jones and Trae that took place piece some hearing members were just getting to their seats. The show hadn't even started.

After the hassle, Trae was escorted out of the main mansion by police, but later returned. Jones � wHO has lost a considerable amount of weight in recent months � was taken away for minor medical assistance.

Host DeRay Davis was evidently unaware of the clash as he began his opening monologue, telling the audience that everyone came in repose and no one was fighting. Some audience members immediately retorted that he was wrong.

"Did I miss an ass-whoopin' or somethin'?" he asked.

"Yeah!"

"Damn!" the comedian responded with surprise.

Once the show eventually started, artists from the South and the West Coast did show strong unity, especially during a moving tribute to UGK's late Pimp C, in which MCs joined forces for covers of some of Pimp's famous verses. Too Short came out and did C's rhyme from Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'," David Banner followed with bars from UGK and Outkast's "Int'l Players Anthem," to which Big Boi added his own poesy. Webbie was next, rapping Pimp's lines from "One Day." Bun B unopen it out backed by a good choir for "Angel in the Sky."

Shortly after the tribute, T-Pain beat out Pimp and others for the TJ's DJ's Tastemaker Award, which goes to the person who sets standards in music, fashion and stylus. T-Pain's triumph was understandably an anticlimactic moment: The crowd had anticipated a win by their hometown hero, fifty-fifty yelling out "Pimp C! Pimp C!" in the anxious moments before the winner was announced. Pain later double over his award, locution C merited it.

Rick Ross Trilla

Best Rap Artist

Lil Wayne

Best R&B Artist

Chris Brown

Best Rap Group

UGK

Best Lyricist

Lil Wayne

Breakthrough Artist

Shawty Lo

Best Rap/R&B Collaboration

Usher (featuring Young Jeezy): "Love in This Club"

Club Banger of the Year

Webbie (featuring Lil Boosie & Lil Phat): "Independent"

Mixtape Monster

Trae

Most Slept-On Artist

Z-Ro

Pimp C Award (Trillest Artist) [Editor's annotation: i.e. "not afraid to utter their mind"]

David Banner

TJ's DJ's Hustler Award

DJ Khaled

TJ's DJ's Tastemaker Award

T-Pain

Best Video

UGK (featuring Outkast) "Int'l Players Anthem"

DJ of the Year

DJ Khaled

Best Mixtape/ Street Album

Tie: DJ Drama and B.G.: Gangsta Grillz: Hood Generals

Chamillionaire: Mixtape Messiah 3

Best Producer

Polow Da Don

Best Rap Artist (West Coast)

The Game

Best Rap Group (West Coast)

D.P.G. (Dogg Pound)

Best Rap Album (West Coast)

Snoop Dogg: Ego Trippin'

Living Legend

J Prince

Patiently Waiting: Florida

Brisco

Patiently Waiting: Georgia

B.O.B.

Patiently Waiting: Texas

Lil Will

Patiently Waiting: Mississippi

Lil C

Patiently Waiting: Alabama

Jackie Chain

Patiently Waiting: Louisiana

Mack Maine

Patiently Waiting: Tennessee

All Star

Patiently Waiting: Carolinas

Snook Da Rokk Star

Patiently Waiting: Kentucky

Hurricane

Patiently Waiting: California

The Jacka

Patiently Waiting: Arizona

Willy Northpole

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Friday 27 June 2008

Spurned wife-turned-YouTube star defends videos

A British actress who found YouTube fame after posting monologues about her failed marriage to a Broadway theatre owner and producer has defended her popular videos in a New York court.

Tricia Walsh Smith, 49, is fighting a claim by her husband, Philip Smith, 74, president of the Shubert Organization, that she engaged in spousal abuse by making the YouTube videos, which she says have been viewed more than four million times.

During the first day of their divorce trial, Walsh Smith said she made the videos after her millionaire husband threatened to leave her penniless.

Several of the videos, made in the couple's Manhattan apartment, were played in court.

In them Walsh Smith accuses her husband and his daughters of conspiring to evict her from the plush apartment, and says she discovered her husband hoarding the impotence drug Viagra even though they never had sex.

"We don't live in the Middle East. I don't have to walk three steps behind my husband. I'm entitled to get angry and have an opinion," said Smith, who wore black-rimmed glasses and a brown button-down dress.

She said that she sent mass emails, including one with a link to one of the YouTube videos, to "everybody in the theatre world" to ensure that friends and business associates of her husband would see it.

Philip Smith's lawyer, David Aronson, described his client as "petrified of publicity of any kind".

He said that Smith's wife had said "horrible, horrible" things about her husband "for all the world to see".

Philip Smith, who wore a pinstriped suit and walked with a cane, showed no emotion during his wife's testimony.

Walsh Smith insisted that she was the victim.

After living with Smith for 13 years, she faced immediate eviction from their apartment and believed she would not have access to any money guaranteed by a prenuptial agreement until after the divorce was finalized, she said.

She said she agreed to multiple interviews, for a fee, after becoming a YouTube star because she had no other income.

"The press, the media saved me," she said.

Since the couple split about a year ago, she said she had earned about $88,000 from newspaper and television interviews in the United States and Britain.

"I didn't know what else to do because I had no money ... I'm not just going to slink off into Central Park," she said.

The hearing is expected to continue for several more days.

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Monday 23 June 2008

Butterfly Temple

Artist: Butterfly Temple

   Genre(s):
Metal: Pagan
   Metal

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Za Solncem vsled

Year: 2006
Tracks: 11

Wheel Of Chernobog

Year:
Tracks: 14

Monday 16 June 2008

Leona Beats Amy For Bond Theme

Leona Lewis has apparently been chosen to sing the new theme song for the next James Bond film, 'Quantum of Solace'.

Earlier this year reports were that Amy Winehouse had signed on to perform the track, working with hot UK producer Mark Ronson.

Winehouse's people are now saying that it is "unlikely" Amy will be involved!

According to a source quoted in UK paper The Telegraph: "Amy was their original choice but she just can't get her act together and hasn't got the right image. The Bond guys now look set on Leona. She is reliable and has a great voice for it."

'James Bond: Quantum of Solace' is due for release later this year.

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Sunday 15 June 2008

LiveDaily Song of the Day: Less Than Jake - "Does the Lion City Still Roar?"

Today's Song of the Day is by Less Than Jake. The group's featured cut is "Does the Lion City Still Roar?," a track from their forthcoming late June release, "Gnv Fla."

Saturday 14 June 2008

Wahlberg too old for Funky Bunch reunion

Mark Wahlberg has passed on the opportunity to join The Funky Bunch reunion.

The actor began his career as an underwear model for Calvin Klein before going on to front the early '90s hip-hop group Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch.

However, the 37-year-old declined the chance to join the Funky Bunch for their planned comeback tour, saying he was too old.

"I wish them well, but rap is a young man's game," WENN quotes him as saying.

Wahlberg's new film The Happening is released in cinemas this week.

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L Rogg

Artist: L Rogg

   Genre(s):
Classical