Vlad TV exclusive in which Shawty Lo speaks on the brawl with PSC at the Dirty Awards. The rapper says T.I. don’t want it, Big Kuntry got punched in the face by Shawty’s goons. Watch the video.
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MC Hammer introduces Soulja Boy for his YouTube live performance of “Bird Walk”. And yes, MC Hammer does dance before Soulja Boy is introduced.
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Louisiana bred rapper Lil Wayne’s label announced on September 15th they have re-signed the rap star to a multi-album deal. The rapper currently has released six albums with the label in which he joined as teenager. Wayne’s latest album The Carter III made this year’s highest selling rap album (2.4 million) in a music industry were music sales are stated to be in a slump.
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After reading Kia Shine’s statement which was released a few days ago, it seems that all the rapper wanted was to be spoken to first before Wendy Day came up with her own analysis.

“A friend of mine sent me a visual of the comments that was made at the New Daisy [MemphisRap.com’s Showcase & Industry Networking Event] on Thursday and at The “How To Get A Record Deal” conference [S.E.A.’s] on Friday in Tunica, MS. Wendy Day made statements about me having poor first week sales and went on to say that this is why I was dropped from Universal/Motown and that I was making Memphis artists look bad because of this, and that I wasn’t making any money for myself or my label. She also went on to say that my CD had no substance as well. Why she choose to speak on my business without consulting with me first to make sure what she was saying was indeed TRUE is beyond me.” - Kia Shine

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Jada Pinkett-Smith will be honored by Essence Magazine during the inaugural Essence Black Women at a Hollywood Luncheon as one of three extraordinary African-American women. The luncheon will be held in Los Angeles on Thursday, February 21, 2008.

The actress, singer and director will receive an award in the category of Film for her help in changing and inspiring positive images of black women in television and film—both in front of the camera and behind-the-scenes. (more…)

Jay-Z has been putting in work and his crew has a reported 26 Grammy nominations. According to the rapper, he tells Billboard Magazine, “….we definitely put the work in and it’s great to be recognized for it. And “Umbrella”’s nominations for song and record of the year were fantastic. Rihanna came out of the gate with huge records; our whole thing was to make sure she didn’t get buried under those records and become the “‘Pon the Replay” girl. So to see her come full circle and get her Grammy nods was an incredibly rewarding feeling.” (more…)

Akon has been named Artist of the Year by Billboard magazine. The selection was based on his radio airplay and chart successes.

Although the BET Awards wasn’t the best, it was overall good.

Katt Williams held it down while hosting the 2nd Annual BET Hip Hop Awards keeping the crowd happy and doing his random jokes. LL Cool J seemed to have licked his lips very few times for the occasion (wow). It seems that Common won awards, could it be because Kayne West produced his album this time? By the way how did T.I. and Common have a tie for an award. (T.I. wasn’t there because he was taken to jail on weapon charges.) MC Lyte kept it real for the women, while Hurricane Chris was all “A Bay Bay” and doing his “Hand Clap”. Weezy “Lil Wayne” I’m just gonna say is that he got some skills and did his thang. But one question, why didn’t anyone take that cup from him he toted on and off stage. He was surely blazed up. Kanye West won several awards and even admitted for one of them that he actually didn’t think he deserved it. Was he struck by lightning? (more…)

Come August 13, the second annual Ozone Awards will take place at the James L. Knight Center in Miami, FL. announced by OZONE Magazine on July 24th. The Second Annual OZONE Awards is presented by Defient Entertainment and will air on MTV Jams, Labor Day Weekend (September 1st - 3rd).

The presenter/performance lineup for the awards show includes Rick Ross, T-Pain, Young Jeezy & USDA, Plies, Lil Wayne, Yung Joc, Gorilla Zoe, Lloyd, Rich Boy, Fat Joe, Bun B, Pimp C, Shop Boyz, Trey Songz, Lil Scrappy, Trick Daddy, with more names to be announced at a later date.
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The BET 2007 Awards Show jumped off ‘proper’ … in the beginning you can see 50 Cent and Ciara seated next to each other as though they are a new hot celebrity couple, as previously reported. Starting things out, boxing ring announcer Michael Buffer who shouted, “Are you ready to jiggle?,” introduced BET Awards 2007 host, comedian Mo’Nique (Parkers, Charm School) who represented the ‘Big Girls’ or as she puts it ‘Phat Girls’ with her major, major intro following the outstanding performance by Jennifer Hudson who performed “Tell You” alongside original performer, legendary singer Jennifer Holiday. Beyonce got much love from host Mo’Nique who referred to the singer as “The Queen”.

T.I. did his thing live with “Big Things Poppin’. He showed respect by giving love to rapper L.L. Cool J., and others. One guy was left hanging though with his hand out expecting T.I. to give him ‘five’ but the rapper didn’t respond leaving the guy hanging.
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