DAMON DASH SUED OVER MISSED MORTGAGE PAYMENTS

August 20, 2008

Picture Source Hip-Hop entrepreneur Damon Dash is being sued by Eastern Savings Bank, for missing the monthly mortgage payments on a pair of Manhattan apartments. According to a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Dash has failed the $78,504 monthly note for the apartments since January. Dash is in danger of losing the apartments, which are located in the trendy Sugar Warehouse and in the Atalanta. Dash, who founded Roc-A-Fella Records with Jay-Z in 1996, also faces over $10,000 in late fees […]

CORSPE KEPT UPRIGHT FOR 3 DAY WAKE IN PUERTO RICO

August 19, 2008

A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing – even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake. Dressed in a Yankees baseball cap and sunglasses, Pantoja was mourned by relatives while propped upright in his mother’s living room. His brother Carlos told the El Nuevo Dia newspaper the victim had long said he wanted to be upright for his own […]

SONY LAUNCHES NEW URBAN LABEL

August 19, 2008

Sony has launched a new urban imprint dedicated to reviving the practice of artist development, AllHipHop.com has learned. Battery Records will be lead by Penalty Records Founder Neil Levine and distributed through Sony’s RED Marketing Group. While operating as it’s own independent company, Battery Records will primarily be responsible for the early-stage development of certain artists on the rosters of the RCA and Zomba groups of labels. “We started operation back in mid-June, so it’s a brand new division,” Neil Levine told […]

2008 OLYMPICS: BRITAIN CHRISTINE OHURUOGU WINS 400M GOLD MEDAL

August 19, 2008

Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu romped home to take the 400 metre gold medal in Beijing today. Ohuruogu produced a storming finish to overhaul favourite Sanya Richards and win in a time of 49.62 seconds and add Olympic gold to the world title won in Osaka last year. Richards tied up badly down the home straight and could only finish third behind Jamaica’s Shericka Williams. Ohuruogu admitted it was a dream come true to land Olympic gold. She said: ‘ I don’t know where […]

UK NEWS: JADE GOODY ENTERS INDIAN BIG BROTHER HOUSE / DIAGNOSED WITH CERVICAL CANCER

August 19, 2008

Jade Goody Reality TV star Jade Goody has spent her first night on the Indian version of Celebrity Big Brother.  (WHY????? I can’t believe they invited her on the show SMH….) It comes 18 months after the 27-year-old was accused of racism towards Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in the UK show. Goody told Indian audiences before she went in to the house the incident with Shetty was “in the past” and that she was “not proud of it”. Shetty takes Davina McCall’s […]

MASTER P TAKES ON BET WITH NEW CABLE NETWORK, ‘BETTER BLACK TELEVISION’

August 18, 2008

Hip-hop entrepreneur Percy Miller, a.k.a. Master P, is launching a family-friendly cable network, Better Black Television. The network will provide “positive content for a black and brown culture,” according to a company statement. BBTV, set to launch in 2009, will be a general entertainment channel running a wide range of scripted, unscripted and news programming, including drama and comedy series, movies, animation, reality, politics, sports and entertainment news, children’s educational and teen programming, as well as “responsible hip-hop music and videos.” Source  […]

2008 OLYMPICS: JAMAICAN USAIN BOLT WORLDS FASTEST MAN

August 17, 2008

Usian Bolt (second to L) Usian Bolt celebrated his coronation as the world’s fastest man 20 meters early, throwing out his arms and thumping his chest. But he still obliterated the world record in the 100 meters Saturday night, turning his Olympic gold medal performance into a show of astounding talent. Bolt could have run far faster than his 9.69 seconds had he run through the finish line, but he sliced 0.03 off his world record anyway. In the end, it was all about […]