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DENVER - During the 2004 presidential election, Diddy and his Citizen Change campaign, known best for its “Vote or Die” slogan, figured prominently in headlines about celebrities and politics. So where is Diddy this time around? Here in Denver, there was some chatter among DNC organizers that led some to believe that Diddy had been asked specifically not to come. “That’s completely untrue” was Diddy’s response when asked about being un-invited to the convention. A rep for Diddy confirms: “An Obama advisor invited Diddy to the convention, but he was unable to attend because he was supposed to be in...

The rapper Diddy completely loses it over Palin's selection. It's quite funny. His incoherent ramblings are quite representative of the logic people use to support Obama. See here

Although the hatred for conservative media members by leftists in this nation knows no bounds, a new "song" by the rap group East Coast Avengers represents a new low in vitriolic musical expression.

Well, I have a headache after listening to the new rap song, “Kill Bill O’Reilly.” How out of date are the rappers who composed this masterpiece? They saw fit to include me in their broadside despite the fact that I quit the show 10 months ago.

White Jewish Rapper Responds to Ludacris and Obama with "OBAMANABULL"Rapper E-SHY's "ObamanaBull" Diss Video Making Waves on the Internet. New York, NY (PRWEB) August 7, 2008 -- White Rapper E-SHY, known for controversial records like Blacks and Jews, has released a "diss" track in response to OBAMA IS HERE and the racist & irreverent lyrics of LUDACRIS. E-SHY has also released a viral video depicting the comedic, yet not so light side of one of this years Presidential race's major issues, the perception that OBAMANIA is a farce. As the latest polls illustrate, this issue is a concern to a...

Once again, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is hurt by the ones who love him. On YouTube yesterday, rapper Ludacris released a song called "Politics," in which he denigrates President Bush, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) -- all in the space of about two minutes. "Well, give Luda a special pardon if I'm ever in the slammer/Better yet put him in office, make me your vice president," he raps. In the next line, the three-time Grammy Award winner calls Clinton an "irrelevant [slur for female]." He goes on to suggest that 71-year-old McCain belongs in a...

KANYE, WYCLEF BOOKED FOR DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION: Artists scheduled to perform during event beginning Aug. 25 in Denver.(July 18, 2008) Kanye West, Wyclef Jean and N.E.R.D. have been tapped to perform at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver to support the presidential nomination of Sen. Barack Obama. According to Billboard, West is rumored to be performing on behalf of Bono's One Campaign, which landed the rapper in conjunction with the RIAA. Jean and N.E.R.D. are expected to headline a party thrown by MTV and Rock the Vote. The convention, which begins Aug. 25 at Invesco Field in Denver, will culminate with...

Stars like P.Diddy and Alicia Keys rallied up to show their support for Obama at the BET awards on Tuesday. Diddy got on stage and started chanted "Obama or Die." He told the crowd, "If we all register and vote, we will have the first black president in the history of America." Diddy wasn't the only one overexcited about the possibility of having Obama as our next president. As Alicia Keys picked up her award for Best Female R+B Artist, she said, "Together we can do anything," before adding, "Obama y'all!"

*The question was sure to come up during press interviews for the upcoming "X-Files" movie. Rapper Xzibit, who plays an FBI agent in the film, was asked if he believes in the existence of other life forms in the universe. "I don't believe in aliens," the 33-year-old tells People magazine. "I don't think aliens or ghosts like black people. We never get abducted; our houses never get haunted. It always happens in rural areas, where no ethnic people live. The day I see somebody from South Central Los Angeles say, 'Man, I got abducted yesterday,' then I'll believe it." "The...

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO ALICIA KEYS Just in case you didn't know it, Alicia Keys has informed us that Gangsta Rap was invented, apparently by white people, to get black people to kill each other. Also ... just in case you were aware of the bi-coastal feud between Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. ... that was a plot by the government and the media "to stop another great black leader from emerging."

A Cook County jury on Friday acquitted R&B superstar R. Kelly of child pornography charges, marking the end of a high-profile trial rich in courtroom drama and celebrity intrigue. The 41-year-old singer, whose real name is Robert Kelly, long denied charges that he videotaped himself engaging in a variety of sex acts with his then-underage goddaughter. Authorities said the female in the video could have been as young as 13 at the time. The jury of nine men and three women deliberated for 7 ½ hours before finding Kelly not guilty on all 14 counts. As the verdicts kept coming...

50 Cent's mansion goes up in smokeLast Updated: 30 May 2008 10:24 PM A "suspicious" fire has burned down a multimillion-dollar home owned by rapper 50 Cent. Arson squad investigators were on the scene of the blaze which injured six people. A lawyer for the Grammy-nominated rapper's former girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins, said the woman lived in the Long Island house with two of her children. A fire service spokesman said all six people were taken to hospital where they are in a stable condition after suffering smoke inhalation. Earlier this year, Tompkins filed a lawsuit against 50 Cent, whose real...

Nathaniel Abaraham was arrested overnight in Pontiac. Police say he was selling drugs. He shot and killed an 18-year-old man outside a Pontiac party store. Since his release, he's been working on a career in rap music. Most of his lyrics are about death, violence and drugs.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Pioneering rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters, who spent more than five years in prison on a 1991 attempted murder conviction and faced threats of deportation years after rehabilitating his life, was granted a full and unconditional pardon Friday by New York Gov. David Paterson. Walters, 43, has been under threat of being sent back to his native United Kingdom, although he has lived in the United States since he was a child. In a statement, he expressed gratitude to Paterson and his lawyers, and hoped that he could finally put the turmoil behind him. "This has...

May 24, 2008 -- Did the Rev. Al Sharpton try to extort $500,000 from a leading rapper by threatening him with protest marches unless he paid up? Sharpton calls the accusation "absurd," but that's exactly what Bruce Williams, former right-hand man to Dr. Dre, reportedly charges in a new book. Who's telling the truth? Sharpton's record in that regard isn't reassuring; the allegation has a familiar ring to it - and it comes amid new questions about the rev's personal finances. Williams says the demand for the half-mil involved what was termed Sharpton's displeasure with vulgar rap lyrics as well...

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Gov. David Paterson is granting a full and unconditional pardon to rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters for the attempted murders of two men in 1991. The pardon is expected to halt efforts to deport Walters to the United Kingdom, the country he left as a child.

New York Governor Pardons Slick Rick May 23, 2008, 3:35 PM ET Hillary Crosley, N.Y. Veteran rapper Ricky "Slick Rick" Walters received a full and unconditional pardon from New York governor David Paterson today (May 23) for the attempted murders of two men in 1991, apparently ending a long legal sega. Walters has already served approximately five years in prison and was released in 1997 on parole and discharged in 2000. But he faces deportation under a federal statute mandating the removal of a lawful resident alien upon conviction of an aggravated felony or a weapon offense. In 1995, an...

NEW YORK - A weeping Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison Tuesday for shooting a woman outside a Manhattan nightclub...

As family members and friends grieved the loss of an 18-year-old budding hip-hop artist, police on Friday continued to search for at least one and up to three suspects involved in the stabbing that killed the rapper known as "Young Noddo" outside a Bushwick brownstone Thursday evening.

Showing that the left doesn't have a monopoly on political music or political videos, a rapper going by the handle DJ Clayvis released an anti-Barack Obama video, inspired in part by Rush Limbaugh's Operation Chaos.Here it is: The Barack Obama Song: The "Audacity For Nope."and http://www.youtube.com/v/-uAhg9Qg-Pc&hl=en I'd shorten it up a bit but this is a very good effort, compares very well to the Obama "Yes We Can" video. H/t: TechRepublican.

First the hip hop stars came out for presidential hopeful Barack Obama, with two star-studded videos from Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am and a rap from singer-actor Mos Def. Neither artist was working officially with the campaign team: whether Obama wanted it or not, they were on his side. Now, if a report in the New York Post is to be believed, the rapper Q-Tip (pictured) has persuaded Obama to appear on his new album "speaking" his way through one number. Given that Q-Tip is a Muslim - he converted in the mid-1990s and goes by the off-stage name of...

SAN LEANDRO — It was a tragic and unlikely end for an aspiring Bay Area rap artist. Kenneth Poynter, 27, also known as KDoe, had just finished talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone when he was struck and killed by an Amtrak train about 8 p.m. Feb. 7, while walking on Hesperian Boulevard. According to Poynter's best friend and music partner, D. Labri, 29, of Oakland, Poynter was an Oakland rapper who was deeply involved in trying to make his community a better place. "He was out there preaching this message of positivity and stopping the violence, and...

In a brief in-car interview aired on Fox News' O'Reilly Factor, 50 Cent was asked by a British reporter who he would back in the primaries. He gave his backing to New York Senator Clinton. "I just think she could do a job. There's nothing bad with Obama in my eyes either, I just think Hillary ... that would be my choice. "I'm not sure America's ready to have a black president. I think they might kill him," the rapper said as the reporter thanked "Mr Cent" for the ride.

Snoop Dogg appeared for a full hour on "Larry King Live" last Friday, Feb. 1, 2008. This clip is only about Politics. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do0H4wFq1NA

A local rapper died Friday afternoon from an accidental gunshot wound to the head at the small recording studio he co-owned and operated in west Houston, police said. Officers responding to reports of a shooting at Fam Tide Records in the 12700 block of Medfield found 32-year-old Michael Francis dead inside the studio, said Sgt. Robert Blain of HPD's homicide division. Investigators are in the process of interviewing four of Francis' friends and co-workers who were with him inside the studio at the time of the shooting, but preliminary information indicates that the man shot himself in the head by...

If you’re looking for a two-word motto for hip-hop in 2007, you could do worse than that: “Keep grinding.” This was the year when the gleaming hip-hop machine — the one that minted a long string of big-name stars, from Snoop Dogg to OutKast — finally broke down, leaving rappers no alternative but to work harder, and for fewer rewards. Newcomers arrived with big singles and bigger hopes, only to fall off the charts after selling a few hundred thousand copies, if that. Hip-pop hybrids dominated the radio, but rappers themselves seemed like underground figures, for the first time in...

CLEVELAND -- A rapper is facing serious charges after having a gun while going through security at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, NewsChannel5 reported. Jasiel Robinson, also known as Yung Joc, was arrested early Sunday morning at a security checkpoint. He was charged Monday with carrying a concealed weapon. < snip >

Rapper Pimp C, an influential hip-hop figure credited with helping launch the popularity of Southern rap, was found dead Tuesday morning at an upscale hotel on the Sunset Strip. Los Angeles County Fire Department paramedics responding to a 911 call found the 33-year-old native of Port Arthur, Texas, lying on his bed at the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood. "It appears that he died naturally," said Capt. Ed Winter of the county coroner's office. "There were no signs of trauma, no signs of drug paraphernalia." An investigation is pending. Pimp C, whose real name was Chad Butler, was a...

Pimp C, real name Chad Butler -- and one half of the rap duo UGK, was found dead in a hotel room this morning. He was 33. L.A. County Fire responded to a 911 call at the Mondrian Hotel, located on trendy Sunset Strip in Hollywood. They arrived to his sixth floor hotel room to find him dead in bed. UGK is best known for appearing on the Jay-Z track "Big Pimpin'" in 2000, and more recently with Outkast on the song "International Player's Anthem (I Choose You)." Pimp C had just performed with fellow rapper Too Short at the...

It’s so moving to see God using all His children to spread love and save lives. Watch and listen to the pro-life rap video "Happy Birthday": http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1793567620

An educator for 31 years, she was her superstar son's inspiration A publicist for Donda West told the BCC the former Chicago educator and mother of hip-hop superstar Kanye West died "as the result of complications from a cosmetic surgical procedure." The publicist, Patricia Green, gave no more details. Donda West died Saturday in a Los Angeles hospital. She was 58. A spokesman for the rapper released a one-sentence statement: "The family respectfully asks for privacy during this time of grief." An educator for 31 years, Donda West started her teaching career in the 1970s at Morris Brown College in...

(CBS) ATLANTA -- Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested Saturday - just hours before he was to perform at the BET Hip-Hop Awards - in a parking lot where federal officials said he planned to pick up machine guns and silencers his bodyguard bought for him. T.I., born Clifford Harris, is charged with possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers, as well as possession of firearms by a convicted felon. Harris was in federal custody, said U.S. attorney's office spokesman Patrick Crosby, who would not disclose his location. Sydney Margetson, a spokesman for T.I.'s label, Atlantic Records, declined to comment...

ATLANTA (AP) - Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested Saturday—just hours before he was to take the stage at the BET Hip-Hop Awards—after federal officials said he had paid his bodyguard to buy machine guns and silencers for him. The arrest resulted from an investigation that began this month when a federal firearms licensee contacted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about a man inquiring about buying a machine gun without registering the weapon as required by law, according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. After trying to buy several machine guns from...

Nas spoke exclusively to MTV News on Wednesday, dismissing his detractor. "It's what he's supposed to do. He has an image to uphold," Nas said initially, laughing it off. But the conversation took a more serious turn when Nas described O'Reilly's stance against him — and previous outbursts against peers such as Snoop Dogg and Ludacris (see "Ludacris Barks Back At Pepsi, O'Reilly; P-Roach Antics Not An Issue For Soda Giant") — as being prejudiced and outdated. "He's a racist," Nas said. "Everybody has a marketing plan; his marketing plan is racism.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies removed 12 distressed pit bulls from the Phoenix area home of rapper-turned-actor DMX in a raid that also found a number of firearms, police said on Friday. Sheriffs' office spokesman Capt. Paul Chagolla said DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, 36, was not at home during the raid. "We served an initial search warrant for animal neglect, and 12 pit bulls were removed," Chagolla told Reuters by telephone. "There are weapons in the home, and we are in the process of obtaining an amended warrant," he added.

Deputies with the Maricopa County sheriff's office raided the Cave Creek, Arizona, home of rapper DMX on Friday morning (August 24), and according to a police spokesperson, 12 pit bulls were removed from the residence, all in bad condition. Police would not get into specifics but did say the animals are being tended to by veterinarians. At this point, DMX (real name: Earl Simmons) has not been officially charged with any crime, but police are still investigating. DMX was not at his home at the time of the raid, during which police also discovered a large cache of weapons. Police...

He has inspired hundreds of thousands of people with his poetic, patriotic rhetoric about the United States, war and defending freedom. Nearly 300,000 people have seen him do his rap-style monologue on YouTube. He’s been given a nickname — “BadA** Marine” — and spawned a Web site and copycats, among them a student who performed the speech in a high-school talent contest and won. Video is here.

Cam'ron Won't Help Police Catch Serial Killers Story by: Rachael Darmanin If Cam'ron's next-door neighbor happened to be a serial killer, you'd probably never know. According to an interview with Anderson Cooper that will air on this Sunday's 60 Minutes, the platinum- selling artist, whose real name is Cameron Giles, says he would not offer any information to aid police catching a serial killer if he knew of their whereabouts, citing a potential subsequent decline in sales and the upholding of a "code of ethics" as his prominent reasoning. "If I knew the serial killer was living next door to...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Police have identified the victim of a shooting at a Colorado Springs motel as a rapper who performed under the name "Dat Boy O" or D-B-O. Thirty-year-old Iliff Omar Burleson died of a gunshot wound Friday night. The Colorado Springs Independent had recently described him as an up-and-coming talent. One of his songs, "Don't Blow Me Up," had been getting play on the local hip-hop station. No arrests have been made.

Like many urban teenagers, Ted Robertson doesn't mind spending more than he can afford to emulate his favorite rappers. He wears $500 Japanese designer jeans and $200 Air Jordan sneakers. A 17-year-old junior at NOVA, (Northwest Opportunities Vocational Academy), an alternative school-to-work transition program for at-risk students, Robertson is more concerned with keeping up with the latest hip-hop fashions than getting into college. "I try to dress like my favorite rappers, T.I. and Little Wayne," he says. "I want to save for a car, but I want a pair of Red Monkey Jeans that cost $1,000. I'm going to get...

     Convicted fanatic ... Mostafa    EXCLUSIVE  Hook son's job on Tube By NICK PARKEROctober 31, 2006           THE terrorist son of hook-handed Abu Hamza has been working on London’s Tube, The Sun can reveal.  Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, 25 — a convicted fanatic who has glorified suicide attacks like the 7/7 slaughter — was rumbled by Underground workmates when they saw his picture in The Sun.  They went straight to bosses, who told Mohammed Kamel Mostafa, 25, to sling his hook.But last night fury erupted over the security shambles that led to the convicted terrorist being...

THE son of the jailed Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri declared yesterday that he was proud to be a British citizen. Mohammad Mostafa Kamel, 25, who was jailed for terrorist offences in Yemen in 1999, said that it was wrong to associate him with his father’s views. “Everybody has their own beliefs and it doesn’t mean that if my dad believes something that I believe the same,” he told the BBC World Service Outlook programme. “I don’t agree with everything my dad says.” Mr Kamel, who was dismissed from a part-time maintenance job on the London Underground after his bosses...

FRANKFURT: Bollywood may wear its multi-religious pluralism as a badge of honour, but for the angry young British Muslims of Pakistani denomination, it’s all a sham and therefore a matter of extreme discomfort. As India's oversized filmdom stampedes across the world winning accolades, a group of British Muslim youth is trashing the Bollywood genre, warning that the "cheesy second-rate imitation of Hollywood...is overrunning Pakistan and brainwashing musalmaans". In a rap-video posted on youtube.com that is being widely circulated in Pakistani circles, the group reserves much of its venom for Bollywood’s reigning stars, many of who happen to be Muslims. "What...

50 Cent has stated that he is the George W Bush of hip hop, because nobody likes him. The rapper has admitted that he likes and identifies with the American President, but has no desire to take his place. He told Contactmusic: "You wanna know something? I actually like Bush. In some ways, I'm the George W Bush of hip hop - nobody likes me, but I'm still gonna run it for the next four years." "I don't need that kind of pressure [though]. All I need is a sequel to my video game and a new hit single," the...

PHILADELPHIA - Lil' Kim celebrated Independence Day one day early with her release from a federal detention center Monday morning after nearly 10 months behind bars. The rapper, who was sent to prison for lying about a shootout outside a New York radio station, walked out of the jail looking glamorous in sunglasses and an all-white, cleavage-baring outfit. Carrying a balloon and a bouquet of white roses, she waved to dozens of cheering onlookers _ some carrying signs that said, "Welcome Home, Queen Bee" _ before getting into a silver Rolls-Royce. The car pulled into a nearby parking lot where...

G-had and suicide bombers: the rapper who likens Bin Laden to Che Guevara · Record label chiefs' threat to quit over violent lyrics· This is about freedom of expression, says musician Mark Brown, arts correspondent and Luc Torres Wednesday June 28, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Two record company executives are threatening to resign from a label over an album by a radical Muslim musician which has tracks about the immorality of the west, suicide bombers and Osama bin Laden. Aki Nawaz is determined to release what is, by anyone's standards, a phenomenally angry album. He says he fully expects a...

Amy Martin had three answers when asked whom she admired most for a school project: her grandfather, Martin Luther King Jr. and Tupac Shakur. Like thousands of teens, Martin idolized Shakur, a rap star whose violent death a decade ago epitomized the thug culture he helped shape. Friday, it was Martin in the coffin --- the victim, her friends say, of trying too hard to live the kind of life she saw in rap videos. Stabbed to death by a former Marine as she and four other teens allegedly held him up at gunpoint on a dark Midtown street, Martin...

It really is hard out there for a pimp. That is, if by "pimp," they mean hip-hop star, and by "there," they mean Harpo studios. Ice Cube is the latest rapper to step up the offensive against unlikely beef recipient Oprah Winfrey, crying foul over the talk show hostess' alleged refusal to book hip-hop acts on her influential chatfest. The Are We There Yet? star followed in the footsteps of fellow rappers turned critics Ludacris and 50 Cent, telling FHM magazine that Stedman's better half has unfairly kept the arbiters of thug life off her airwaves. "I've been involved in...

Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel was shot this morning in an apparent robbery in the city. He drove himself to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where his white Chevy Impala LT sat outside the main entrace all morning, roped off by police tape. Police spokeswoman Beth Skala said Sigel was shot at least once in the upper right arm.

Rappers Ludacris and 50 Cent have dissed Oprah Winfrey. Now, Ice Cube has a beef with the talk show queen. "I've been involved in three projects pitched to her, but I've never been asked to participate," the rapper-actor tells FHM magazine in its July issue, on newsstands June 6. "For 'Barbershop,' she had Cedric the Entertainer and Eve on, but I wasn't invited," says the 36-year-old rapper, referring to his 2002 movie. "Maybe she's got a problem with hip-hop." Cube adds: "She's had damn rapists, child molesters and lying authors on her show. And if I'm not a rags-to-riches story...