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Rick Ross Shows Love To Lagos, Nigeria

August 19, 2012 By Madam Prezident 1 Comment

According to Hip-Hop Wired: Rick Ross brought some Maybach Music Group love all the way across the Atlantic (as in the ocean) to the motherland this weekend. The Miami rapper made a trip to Lagos, Nigeria for a show and MMG’s official video documentarian, Spiff TV Films, was along for the trip, so you can expect visuals soon. ”Filming in the slums in Lagos.i just bought out the whole grocery store and gave it to the village. #MMG presence strong in our homeland,” tweeted Rozay.

It doesn’t seem like Wale, who is Nigerian (but born in DC), was along for the trip, but the Bawse gave him a shout out,tweeting, ”I Salute #Lagos for having me.my trip wuz #boss gotta rep for my lil bro’s @Wale & Vic.luv,” Rozay.

Just this week, the “Hold Me Back” rapper appeared on the cover of the new issue of Rolling Stone magazine. In the interview, the Miami native revealed that it was a friend getting shipped to the bing that eventually led him to employment as a correction’s officer. Terry Richardson also dropped more pics from the mag’s photo shoot.

Rick Ross’ new album, God Forgive, I Don’t, is in stores now. Check out photos from his trip to Nigeria in the gallery.

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Rick Ross Talks To Rolling Stone About Being A Correctional Officer, Chic-fil-A, And The Dark Knight Shootings [Video]

August 16, 2012 By Madam Prezident Leave a Comment

Nice… so he’ll talk to the white folks about his past… but gets upset when one of his own asks him about it:

Rick Ross Talks To Rolling Stone About Being A Correctional Officer, Chic-fil-A, And The Dark Knight Shootings

Ross suggests that the seizures he suffered late last year were probably the result of smoking too much weed: ”I’m most definitely an avid user, a pothead, however you want to look at it. I call it green caviar. It’s like a short vacation – it helps me chill out. And people really love it when I chill out, because I can really be a dickhead.”
For the first time, Ross talks about his past life as a corrections officer – an opportunity, he says, to “wash my hands” after his best friend was sentenced to 10 years for trafficking cocaine and heroin: “This was my best friend, who I ate peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches with, and pork and beans with, my buddy, my partner, my number-one dude. Suddenly I’m talking to him over federal phone calls. Hearing the way it was building, I knew I couldn’t take nothing for granted,” says Ross. “My homey’s father was a huge influence on my life, too . . . He was the one who was like, ‘Yo, go get a job somewhere, man. Go be a fireman. Or go be a fucking corrections officer. Just go sit down somewhere.”
After he was suspended from elementary school for horseplay, Ross began attending a small Christian school: “They wanted me to learn the Ten Commandments. I told them I didn’t really have time for that right now,” recalls Ross, who eventually made his way back to public school and excelled as an offensive lineman in high school football. “I got through high school on my popularity and shit,” Ross says. “But my grades was never good. I was never good at math.”
Ross was digusted by the recent theater shooting in Colorado (“Such a cowardly act”), but he’s not in favor of gun control: “I think we all have a right to bear arms, whichever amendment that is.” Even assault rifles? He shrugs. “I got ‘em.”
Ross favors freedom of speech – all kinds: “Chick-fil-A obviously took their stand. That’s their right – the same way the pro-gay people are taking their stand. I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.” So does that mean he’d support a Chick-fil-A boycott? “Naw. I love that spicy chicken.”

Rollingstone

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Sorry Teyana, You Can’t Pull it Off the Way Janet Did

July 31, 2012 By bowatkin 4 Comments

Soooo, what do you think about Teyana Taylor copying Janet Jackson’s famous 1990s pose? Yea, we agree with you. Nobody can really do it like Janet. Teyana is hot in her own right, but there’s just something missing. Oh yea, that’s right. One of these women had sold a few platinum albums creating original music, while the other is just a young wannabe who isn’t creative enough to come up with her own poses.

Are we being too harsh? Naw, we’re not. Teyana baby, don’t try this at home. Go sell a few million records and try again.

Filed Under: Black Celebrity Gossip, Black Gossip Tagged With: Janet, janet jackson, lance gross, Music recording sales certification, People, Rolling Stone, Teyana, Teyana Taylor

Bruno Mars Spends $3.3M On New LA Mansion

July 26, 2012 By Madam Prezident Leave a Comment

Ballin!

Bruno Mars Spends $3.3M On New Los Angeles Mansion [Photos]

Via Real Estalker:

BUYER: Bruno Mars
LOCATION: Los Angeles, CA
PRICE: $3,254,000
SIZE: 4,064 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms.
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: He may only be 26 years old but singer-songwriter Bruno Mars already has one Grammy—plus half a dozen more Grammy nominations—and adequate scratch to drop several million clams on a quite contemporary and quintessentially Los Angeles crib at the tippy-top of L.A.’s geographically legendary Laurel Canyon. Property records for the sleek and low-slung house in question shows it was purchased in mid-July (2012) for the very grown up price of $3,254,000 by a Los Angeles-based blind trust our preternaturally well-informed friend and informant Lucy Spillerguts swears is connected to young Mister Mars. We can not verify the facts of the matter, children, but our dear Ms. Spillerguts never, ever steers us down the wrong celebrity real estate path.
Listing information we managed to squeeze out of the internets indicates the single-story quasi-Hollywood Regency-style residence measures 4,064 square feet and, at the time it was most recently sold in July 2012, was configured with 3 (carpeted) bedrooms and 3.5 (recently renovated) restrooms outfitted with swank finishes and fixtures.

Filed Under: Black Celebrity Gossip, Black Gossip Tagged With: Benny Blanco, Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, Katy Perry, Los Angeles, Nina Simone, Paul Epworth, Rolling Stone

Andre 3000′s ‘All Is By My Side’ Jimi Hendrix Biopic + Tyler Perry ‘s Alex Cross Trailer

June 28, 2012 By Madam Prezident Leave a Comment

More pics have emerged from the set of Andre 3000′s All Is By My Side Jimi Hendrix biopic.

He is seen walking with co-star Hayley Atwell, who plays Linda Keith, the then girlfriend of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards.

In the film, Linda introduces Jimi to Rolling Stones’ manager Andrew Loog Oldham and later, producerSeymour Stein. And the rest is history….

BONUS:

Popout

Tyler Perry take on a more dramatic role in the trailer for his latest film, Alex Cross, above.

Filed Under: Black Celebrity Gossip, Black Gossip Tagged With: Alex Cross, André 3000, Andrew Loog Oldham, Hayley Atwell, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Rolling Stone, Seymour Stein

John Mayer Says He Had To Take A Break After Doing A Bunch Of “Dumb Interviews”

May 15, 2012 By Madam Prezident Leave a Comment

John Mayer is still doing damage control over all that dumb isht he said TWO YEARS AGO:

Following two explosive interviews with Playboy and Rolling Stone in 2010, where he likened his chemistry with Jessica Simpson to “sexual napalm” and blamed his split with Jennifer Aniston on his frequent tweeting, Mayer felt the need to escape.
“It was a very strange time and it sort of rocketed me into adulthood. It was a violent crash into being an adult,” Mayer, 34, said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Tuesday. “For a couple of years it was just figuring it all out ,and I’m glad I actually stayed out of the spotlight. Because I think back then I would of said, ‘Give me two weeks or let me get out and do Ellen and let me explain myself.’ It was like, ‘No, idiot. Go away and be 33 and 34 instead of 28 for the fourth year.”
Mayer said he “had to go home for a minute” to heal from the backlash in 2010. “The plan that originally gets you out of high school and your hometown, in front of people, that plan was over. I had done it. I just sort of lost my head for a little while.”
The “Shadow Days” singer — whose new album, Born and Raised, will be released May 22 — was forced to cancel his 21-city tour in March in order to remove a granuloma just above his vocal cord. (He first had surgery to remove the enlarged nodule in October 2011.)
“It’s not a health concern whatsoever, but it has taken me out of singing,” Mayer told host Ellen DeGeneres, 54. “I tried to beat it the first time and couldn’t.”
Mayer then explained how the medical procedure works. “They cut this thing out of your throat and then they inject your vocal cords with Botox, which freezes your vocal cords so that this thing can heal without smacking up against the other side,” he said. “I just need more Botox next time.”

SMH @ them mentioning him fouling up Jen Aniston and Jessica Simpson but leaving out the n-word and the fact that he said he has a racist peen that would only let him close to black women that look like Kerry Washington or Holly Robinson Peete.

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