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Jay-Z Returns From European Vacation, Ready To Hit Studio

With a wealth of talent like Cam'ron and the Diplomats and Beanie Sigel's State Property collective bolstering the Roc-A-Fella roster in less than a year, Jay-Z can afford to take some time off every now and then, like he did for a recent trip to the South of France. But the Jiggaman, who just came back to the States after a month away, says don't expect him to be taking any permanent vacations.

"My retirement is not based on Roc-A-Fella as a company," said Jay, who's dropped hints in the past about hanging it up. "I don't put out an album every year to meet a quota, I put out an album every year because I love to make music and that's what I was feeling at the time. But it's definitely nice to know that you have young artists, so if I decided I wanted to come to the South of France for two years I can do that."

Jay is heading back into the studio soon, possibly with Timbaland and Tone of the Trackmasters, to finish up The Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse.

"I started [before I went on vacation]," he disclosed. "I did seven joints when I started this one. I got some new producers, I always gotta bring out the new talent as far as production. The new guys hit the drum machine, I think they hit it hard."

Jay is also impressed with the way Freeway hit the mic for his debut, Philadelphia Freeway, which has been pushed back from August to October.

"I think Free is amazing," he said. "Free is a major talent. The Young Guns are growing, but they're going to be a problem. Oskino and Sparks are still in the growing stages, but Free is there right now."

Freeway and several other members of the Roc-A-Fella family are going on the road with Jay, as Young Hov co-headlines the eclectic Sprite Liquid Mix Tour, which starts in New York on August 20. Co-main attraction 311 and openers Nappy Roots, Hoobastank, N.E.R.D., and Talib Kweli will also be featured on the outing.

Before inking the deal with the Liquid Mix Tour, Jay was supposed to be a part of the now- defunct Triple Threat Tour with Ja Rule and P. Diddy. He chalks that up to the timing not being right.

"When it first started out I was gonna do the tour," Jay detailed. "I pulled out to start the album. I was like, 'I'm in a cool space right now.' Ja and Puff were supposed to go on tour together, they had the dates lined up. His road manager asked me for a couple of acts. So I'm thinking they going on tour. In my mind everything's sealed. That's fine, they gonna go do their tour, I'm like, 'Cool, they got the dates, they gonna go out in August. I'm gonna go do a Sprite run real quick, a little warm-up for my album.' Their tour didn't happen, so it looks like ... I don't know how it looks to them, but that's the truth of the matter."

"I had Ja cancel tours and cancel getting a lot of money for that Triple Threat Tour," Murder Inc. boss Irv Gotti said of the failed outing. "Everything was a go, we signed off and [Jay] pulled off at the last minute. I respect whatever reasons he pulled out for, and at the end of the day he's still my brother. Me and the dude are real tight."

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Cam'ron Arrested On Drug, Gun Charges

Cam'ron, one of Roc-A-Fella's most valuable rappers, was arrested in Manhattan on Monday on drug and weapons charges.

The 26-year-old rapper, who has been riding the wave of his current release, Come Home With Me, was on his way to the set of Roc-A-Fella's latest film, a music-industry spoof titled "Death of a Dynasty," when his Range Rover was pulled over for a traffic violation. According to a police spokesperson, officers approaching the car said they saw marijuana in full view and searched the vehicle, turning up a .22-caliber handgun.

Cam (born Cameron Giles) and a male passenger were charged with criminal possession of a firearm, criminal possession of marijuana and criminal possession of a forged fire department placard (used for parking and toll privileges).

After spending the night in jail, Cam'ron was arraigned on Tuesday (July 30). He was released after pleading not guilty and posting bail.

"All of us at Roc-A-Fella Records, as well as his family and fans, are fully behind him," read a statement from his record label. "We believe that when the truth of what happened comes out, Cam'ron will be vindicated."

The rapper will now return his attention to promoting his new single, "Hey Ma," as well as the upcoming September release of his film debut, "Paid in Full."

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A man holds an ivory chessman July 28, 2002. Believed to be the oldest piece in Europe, it was found in the ancient southern Albanian city of Butrint in Sarande some 300 km from Tirana two weeks ago. The find suggests the game that originated in India in the fourth or fifth centuries, was played in Mediterranean countries 500 years earlier that it was previously thought to have arrived on the European continent. The 4-cm-high ivory piece, which was found by local archaeologists led by a Richard Hodges, a British professor, has a little cross and is either a king or a queen.

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Eminem King Of The Carnival At Anger Management Tour Launch

For a few moments Thursday night at the Anger Management Tour kickoff, you couldn't help but wonder if Eminem was thinking, "I've created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Marshall no more."

The curtain was down and the lights on the stage were up, showing a set modeled after a carnival. It was five minutes before Slim Shady revealed himself to the nearly sold-out crowd. As the headliner, he'd heard openers Xzibit, Ludacris and a frustrated Papa Roach get rousing applause, but now, the crowd was booing profusely at the mere mention of Em's name.

Of course, that was because the people mentioning the rapper's name were, among others, Lynne Cheney and C. Dolores Tucker, who, in a seemingly endless succession of TV news clips, read prepared statements hurling mud on the Detroit MC with the speed of a Dwight Gooden fastball circa 1985.

The more the people on the three screens that were suspended in the air at the start of "The Eminem Show" scoffed at his music, the more vocally furious the crowd became that somebody was badmouthing their champion. Em ended all harsh feelings as he made his way onto the stage via a Ferris wheel, starting his set with "Square Dance."

"People, it feels so good to be baaack," he said, stepping to the forefront in a black ball cap and yellow T-shirt, flanked by his hypeman and D12 member Proof.

"Don't be scurred, 'cause there ain't nothin' to worry about," he exhorted to the screaming crowd as he ran down the three runways that extended off the stage and formed an "E" around two pits of people.

Em's set mirrored the maniacal genius of his latest album's music and theme. In addition to the amusement ride, screens, and a huge tent that Em and D12 went in and out of throughout the night, there was a giant mouth full of teeth as a backdrop, a platform above the tent where mixtape guru DJ Green Lantern let his records spin, and a trampoline.

"Holy sh--," there goes Jermaine Dupri," Em joked at the beginning of his follow-up number, "Business." Adding humor, another man wearing a top hat and tails and about as rotund as D12 member Bizarre joined the festivities, dancing with an open umbrella. Regardless of the extras of the set, Em was holding true to his lyrics on the song: The spectators were experiencing "hip-hop at its most purest" as the hungry MC prowled the stage and moved the crowd.

The screens became the centerpiece again during "White America." An animated video of the cut played, displaying, among other things, police stomping and kicking a man and a poster of Uncle Sam pointing his finger that read, "I'll Kill You." Down below, Em let out his bellicose calls of "White Americaaa/ little Eric looks just like this," while the clip played out, showing kids that look strikingly similar to the animated Slim Shady wearing "I Am Eric" shirts.

When members of D12 started coming out for "When the Music Stops," life imitated art: The beat cut off. Later, during "Fight Music," the track abruptly conked out again.

"Buffalo, y'all are so hot, the system shorted out," Em explained.

The fans literally brought the heat minutes later, pulling out their lighters. Two years after the song "Stan" dropped, the tune remains one of Em's most popular — everyone sang Dido's part in unison and swayed their hands along with the MC.

After Obie Trice performed his verse from "Drips," Slim Shady let everyone know he was no different from Puffy: He needs a girl.

"Ladies, I ain't married no more," he told the females, much to their delight. A woman pleading with him to save her cut off his monologue. She was inside the giant mouth and had only managed to get one arm out.

"I'mma tell you like I told Mariah, 'Bitch, you make me hurl," he responded to her appeal, setting up "Superman." The girl, who turned out to be frequent Slim Shady back-up singer Dina Rae, made her way out the mouth on her own. However, as she sang her ad-libs to the cut, she looked strikingly like the curly-headed Mariah Carey who made her debut singing "Vision of Love."

The blond-haired rapper left "My Name Is" and "The Real Slim Shady" off the playlist, and no one seemed to miss them. After all, his current theme song, "Without Me," which served as his closer, is probably his most popular (at least for 99.9 percent of the people in attendance).

"I hate you, Slim Shady," a voice boomed out the speakers as a man ran out onstage, tossing a myriad of insults at Em. Dressed in a red Adidas sweat suit and bearing a striking resemblance to Moby, the man started flying in the air. Not letting him get away, Obie Trice pulled out a fake shotgun and took aim at him. By this time the Moby doppelganger was out of eyesight, and then a dummy dressed like him fell to the ground and was consequently pummeled.

"Obie Trice, real name no gimmicks" started to blare through the speakers, signaling the start of "Without Me." And just to make sure everyone got their money's worth (and all that money he paid for those screens didn't go to waste), Em performed a grand finale of "My Dad's Gone Crazy." A cartoon of his daughter Hailie sang the chorus on the screen.

The MCs were the overwhelming favorites throughout the night. Xzibit got things started with a flurry of his bangers and unreleased material, including the first single from his upcoming Man Vs. Machine, "Multiply." Wearing all white, X, who's been out with Eminem on several tours, injected his dark humor into the end of his set.

"Where the ladies?" he asked, setting up the segue to his most popular verse. "I got two words for you ... not 'Love you.' Bitch please!"

Ludacris loves the ladies so much he has to bond with them everywhere he goes, as cited in "Area Codes," which rang through the arena. Cris' set was almost as big a spectacle as Slim Shady's. His DJ's booth was made to look like the front end of a Cadillac Escalade, and he had giant, three-dimensional cartoon characters of himself and the dog on his album cover onstage. Cris' call of the wild rivaled X's vulture-like yell.

"Oooh, oooh," he exclaimed, signaling "Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!)." "How you gonna act like I don't get loud," he rhymed, standing on the tip of the third runway. And while his solo hits like "Southern Hospitality" and "Ho" kept the crowd reciting his words, his posse cuts kept them in motion.

"Break some, break some, take some," he and his Disturbing the Peace clique ordered, performing one of their new songs. "Move Bitch" had to be the most energy-filled song of the night, as he and DTP had them throwing them bows. Many of the fans were still saying part of the song's chorus, "Get out the way," a few minutes after the ATL collective went backstage.

In between performances, the X-ecutioners extinguished some of the boredom, spinning and cutting records by everyone from Wu-Tang Clan to Freeway. But who really sits in their seats during breaks in the show, anyway? The concert staples of hitting concession stands and cruising for cuties were in full effect with the crowd.

The enthusiasm level went down a few notches for Papa Roach, the only act to use live instrumentation. The group, which wore all black and went with a propless set, was plagued by sound problems. Lead singer Jacoby Shaddix was visibly upset with having to use a confining microphone with a cord. He previously tried to amp things up by walking in the mosh-less pits, and even climbed into the stands. However, the "cordless piece of sh--" he threw down in disgust kept his words muffled.

"This is the first night, ladies and gentleman," he reminded the crowd. His words almost doubled as a pep talk to his crew that things would get better as the tour progressed.

The situation brightened a bit for Papa Roach toward the end of their performance. With the sound improving, they recovered with "Born With Nothing, Die With Everything" and their bread-and-butter finale, "Last Resort."

"Thank you and f---" Shaddix told everyone as they exited. You have to believe the latter words were for the soundman, whom the P-Roach frontman nicknamed "F---face" for the night.

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Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Alan Greenspan smiles as he receives praise from members of the Senate Banking Committee before addressing the committee at the Hart Senate Office Building, July 16, 2002. Stocks extended losses in early morning trade today after Greenspan said the U.S. economy has held up against a steady pounding of corporate accounting blow-ups but needed time to fully heal.

Philadelphia 76ers star Allen Iverson surrendered to police July 16, 2002 to face criminal charges that include four felonies for allegedly threatening two people with a gun. Iverson, who led the NBA in scoring last season, would plead not guilty to criminal trespass, simple assault, weapons violations and other charges at an arraignment, his attorney told reporters.

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Photographer Scores Bull's-Eye with Shot

An Irish photographer whose shot of a raging bull bearing down on his camera in Pamplona sparked a flood of concern about his fate said on Wednesday that modern technology had kept him out of harm's way.

Reuters' photographer Desmond Boylan's close-up of an enraged bull -- already bearing a T-shirt trophy on one of its horns -- was carried around the world and prompted numerous inquiries about the fate of the photographer. One German paper ran the photo with a headline asking: "How well is the photographer?" while a Scandinavian picture agency rang Reuters to inquire if Boylan had been killed.

But although thousands regularly join the beasts for the annual running of the bulls during the week long San Fermin Festival, Boylan remained safely behind the barriers set up along the route.

Armed with a remote control, Boylan said he wrapped his camera in wads of bubble wrap leaving just the lens poking out and slid it out under the barrier on to the road.

"It was pandemonium. I saw the bulls coming -- it was the biggest rush of adrenaline," said Boylan, who snapped off two frames just as one beast came crashing toward the barrier.

Each year several people are gored or trampled by the bulls as they run through the streets of the Spanish town. Since record keeping began in 1924, 13 runners have been killed and hundreds more injured by the bulls.

Fox Hunters Ride Through City to Fight Ban

Fifty hunters on horseback rode through central London on Wednesday blowing their horns and bringing traffic to a halt in protest against government moves to ban the ancient countryside pursuit of fox hunting.

Sporting shiny riding boots, skin-tight jodhpurs and traditional red hunting jackets, the riders staged a replica of a protest more than 50 years ago when farmers rode through the capital to fight against a similar proposed ban.

"I was here in 1949 when I rode on a farmers' protest against exactly the same thing..," said 73-year-old Dan Barton. "They tried to do it to us then, and now they are trying to do it again."

Despite overwhelming support by members of parliament -- including Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair himself -- for a ban on fox hunting, the government has so far shied away from outlawing it in the face of stiff opposition from rural lobby groups and the upper chamber of parliament, the House of Lords.

In a statement widely written off as a fudge, rural affairs minister Alun Michael said in March that the government would "consult" on the divisive issue for six months to try and "search for common ground."

Fox hunting has been practiced in Britain for more than 300 years. Hunters on horses chase foxes across the countryside with a pack of hounds until the fox is caught and killed by the dogs.

Opponents of the sport say it is cruel, barbaric and completely out of place in a modern society.

But supporters -- including royal heir Prince Charles -- say hunting is a service to farmers who regard foxes as vermin, and that it maintains thousands of rural jobs.

Alex Ford, who rides with the Llangeinor Hunt in South Wales, slammed the "urban bigotry" of those calling for a ban, saying they knew nothing about the countryside.

"The politicians who want to destroy our jobs know nothing of our way of life, but want to interfere in it because of the spin they swallow whole from the anti-hunters," he said. "It's time to beat urban bigotry. We will never accept a ban."

Conservative member of parliament James Gray, who represents the North Wiltshire region in the rural west of England, met the protesters outside the House of Parliament where they handed him a letter to be delivered to Blair.

He promised to make sure Blair got the letter and heard the message: "Whether he will listen or not, I don't know, but the countryside will keep on shouting about it until such time as he does listen," he told reporters.

In the 1949 protest -- against the then Labour government of Prime Minister Clement Attlee -- farmers rode on horseback through some of London's most famous areas, Piccadilly, Regent Street and Oxford Street. They became known as the Piccadilly hunt and a club of the same name still exists.

Missing Open Golfers Baffling

British authorities are investigating whether dozens of Nigerians fraudulently obtained visas by posing as golfers with invitations to next week's British Open.

Organizers of the golf classic said they had sent invitations to 47 Nigerians to enter qualifying tournaments, but only four actually showed up. A smaller number of Ghanaians were also no-shows.

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club was surprised, because in previous years the number of Nigerians seeking to compete in the open was "in the single figures," spokesman Stuart McDougall said.

"They entered for the championship, and we tried to check their golfing credentials as best we can in Nigeria," he said. "But Nigeria is not an easy country to get through to."

A spokeswoman at the Foreign Office said authorities had not determined whether the missing golfers had actually applied for or received visas, or whether they were in Britain.

"UK Visas is looking into it," she said, of the visa issuing agency run jointly with the Home Office.

If they received visas, the Nigerians were not actually obliged to appear at the tournament:

"Obviously, you can't round people up and say: 'You must play golf,'" she said.

"However if they were applying for an event which they didn't intend to turn up for, then they were giving false information, which isn't right."

A spokesman at the Home Office said presenting false information in a visa application could be an immigration offence which could result in being ordered home -- if the offender is ever caught.

Woman Spends 10 Months in German Jail for Sister

A woman pretending to be her older sister spent 10 months in prison for her sibling's crimes before deciding she had had enough of life behind bars, German police said Wednesday.

Prison officials realized they had been keeping the wrong woman behind lock and key when the 33-year-old impostor failed to return from a period of leave, police spokesman Georg Himbert said.

"Apparently she decided she was sick of it and didn't come back," Himbert said.

He said police assumed the woman was sitting in for her 37-year-old sister, who had been sentenced to several years for multiple fraud offences, so that she could take care of her four children.

The voluntary inmate, who bears a striking resemblance to her sibling, used forged documents to enter the prison and could now face additional jail time for forgery.

Investigators search Iverson's house to look for gun

Thu Jul 11, 2:09 PM ET
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA - Police searched Allen Iverson's mansion and his uncle's home Thursday as they investigated accusations the NBA star forced his away into a cousin's apartment with a gun.

About 10 police investigators went to Iverson's suburban house, looking for "handguns, phones, telephone records, auto repairs, photographs," court documents showed.

Police also searched the downtown apartment of Iverson's uncle, Greg Iverson, who they believe was with the Philadelphia 76ers' guard the night they are accused of going to an apartment complex with a gun.

The developments came a day after prosecutors said they were considering whether Iverson should be charged with threatening two men while looking for his wife at the complex where his cousin lives.

Iverson and his wife, Tawanna, had been involved in a fight that spanned two days. At one point, Iverson threw his wife out of their mansion, according to tapes of a 911 call obtained by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Tawanna Iverson and another man had fled Iverson's home and were in hiding, according to the report.

Police presented their case to the district attorney's office Wednesday. Detectives believe they have sufficient evidence to charge Iverson with aggravated assault — a felony — terrorist threats and related offenses.

"We came to the conclusion that the investigation would continue," said Cathie Abookire, a spokeswoman for District Attorney Lynne Abraham.

Iverson shot baskets with family and friends on a court outside his mansion Wednesday.

Iverson and his wife of 11 months have not commented publicly. His lawyers did not return phone calls and Iverson ignored reporters who shouted questions to him at his home.

Iverson, a former league MVP, is accused of going to the Cobbs Creek Court apartment complex to look for Tawanna and cousin, Shaun Bowman, who lives there. Neither was there, said Charles Jones, who has lived in the apartment since March.

Jones made the 911 call more than 10 hours later, the Inquirer reported.

It wasn't clear how Jones obtained his information about the Iversons' fight. During the 911 call, Jones said Iverson had threatened to kill his wife and shoot Jones, the Inquirer reported.

Jones met with police Tuesday and told reporters Iverson had a gun when he forced his way inside the apartment early on July 3 and threatened Jones and another man.

Police said Iverson has no gun permit, nor does he have a gun registered in Pennsylvania.

Iverson, whose dazzling play and bad-boy image have made him enormously popular, has had other brushes with the law.

As a teen-ager, he was arrested in a Hampton, Virginia, bowling alley brawl in 1993 and spent four months in prison before then-Gov. Douglas Wilder granted clemency. The conviction was overturned on appeal in 1995.

In 1997, Iverson pleaded no contest to a gun charge after police near Richmond, Virginia, stopped a car in which he was a passenger and found a gun belonging to him and two marijuana cigarettes. A marijuana-possession charge was dropped.

Iverson completed 100 hours of community service, two years of drug testing and three years' probation, after which his record was cleared.

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$50,000 of cannabis found at Rotorua Airport

11 July 2002

Cannabis with a potential value of $56,640 was found in an Edgecumbe man's bag at Rotorua Airport, the Tauranga District Court has been told.
Police say Karl Harold Rangiaho, 38, was found at the airport on April 27 with 2.91kg of high quality cannabis.

Rangiaho admitted a charge of possession of cannabis for supply.

Police said the cannabis would normally be sold as bullets, or tinnies, for $20 each and at that rate Rangiaho had the potential to make a profit in the vicinity of $56,640.

Judge Richard Watson remanded Rangiaho on bail until August 13 for sentencing.

Eminem, Dr. Dre, DJ Premier Produce Songs For Xzibit's 'Man Vs. Machine'

Eminem, the producer, contributes his beat-making talents to Xzibit's Man Vs. Machine album, which is scheduled to be released September 3 on Loud/Columbia Records. Eminem joins the ranks of Dr. Dre and DJ Premier, who also contribute songs to the record. Dr. Dre and Eminem serve double-duty, rapping on the album that also features guest vocals from Snoop Dogg.

In 2000, Xzibit released Restless, his platinum third album. In 1998, he released 40 Dayz And 40 Nightz, and in 1996, he issued his debut At The Speed Of Life.

Additionally, Xzibit, Eminem, Papa Roach, X-Ecutioners, and Ludacris kick off the Anger Management Tour later this month.

Anger Management Tour Dates (subject to change):

July 18 - Buffalo, NY - HSBC Arena

July 19 - Hartford, CT - Meadows Amphitheatre

July 20 - Scranton, PA - Montage Mountain

July 21 - Bristow, VA - Nissan Pavilion

July 22 - East Rutherford, NJ - Continental Airlines Arena

July 25 - Camden, NJ - Tweeter Center

July 26 - Wantagh, NY - Jones Beach Amphitheatre

July 27 - Mansfield, MA - Tweeter Center

July 30 - Cleveland, OH - CSU Convocation Center

July 31 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center

August 1 - Rosemont, IL - Allstate Arena

August 2 - St. Paul, MN - Xcel Energy Center

August 5 - Nampa, ID - Idaho Center

August 6 - Tacoma, WA - Tacoma Dome

August 7 - Portland, OR - Rose Garden

August 10 - Sacramento, CA - TBA

August 11 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre

August 12 - Fresno, CA - Selland Arena

August 15 - Chula Vista, CA - Coors Amphitheatre

August 16 - Devore, CA - Blockbuster Pavilion

August 17 - Las Vegas, NV - Thomas & Mack Center

August 20 - Phoenix, AZ - America West Arena

August 21 - Albuquerque, NM - Tingley Coliseum

August 22 - Englewood, CO - Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre

August 24 - Maryland Heights, MO - UMB Bank Pavilion

August 25 - Bonner Springs, KS - Sandstone Amphitheatre

August 31 - Tampa, FL - Ice Palace

September 1 - Sunrise, FL - National Car Rental Center

September 4 - Atlanta, GA - Hi Fi Buys Amphitheatre

September 8 - Auburn Hills, MI - Palace Of Auburn Hills

Eminem's Used Car Sells For Almost $29k On Ebay Auction

Eminem's former car sold on the Internet auction site Ebay on Monday morning, July 8, for $27,900.

The custom-painted purple 1999 Mustang convertible was traded in by Eminem ( news - web sites) (Marshall Mathers) to Russ Milne Ford Inc. of Macomb, Michigan. The dealership inspected the two-door, six-cylinder vehicle with automatic transmission, a purple exterior and beige/tan interior, still under existing warranty with an odometer reading of 16,000 miles.

The car was originally painted "laser red" and then custom-painted purple at Eminem's request. The detailed Ebay listing also said: "Front bumper has a noticeable crease on the left front."

The dealership stated during the auction that everything in excess of the "fair market value" of $17,000.00 will be donated to charity, which means a possible final donation of $10,900, depending how tax and license costs are addressed. A 10% deposit was requested within three days of close of auction and the buyer is responsible for any shipping costs.

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“8 Mile” Soundtrack News

He is already the most successful rapper in the world, will Hollywood be the next the succumb to Slim’s wrath. Mr Mathers starred in his first motion picture about a young white kid from Detroit struggling to become a rapper. Sound familiar? It is somewhat based on his life, not 100% accurate though. The movie will come out this November and will be accompanied by a soundtrack. The soundtrack will likely come out on Shady Records/Interscope. Not surprisingly, Eminem and his Shady artists are all over the soundtrack. Here is the tracklisting for the album:

1. Eminem - "Cleaning Out My Closet"
2. Obie Trice - "Detriot Heavenly"
3. Reckless Youth - "Remember That..."
4. D-12 - "Trouble"
5. Eminem - "Drug Culture"
6. Proof, Kon Artist & Obie Trice - "Street Types"
7. Dana Marie - "Hate & Pain"
8. D-12 - "Devils Night"
9. Xzibit - "Gone Tomorrow"
10. Eminem, Dr. Dre & Nate Dogg - "Gangsta Rap"
11. Royce Da 5'9 & Mike Bones - "Gutter"
12. Swifty - "Once Upon A Time..."
13. Bizarre - "Love Me Tonight"
14. D-12 Feat. Offence - "After Effects"
15. Eminem - "8 Mile"

Nas Calls Cam'ron A 'Dummy,' Retracts Call To Steal Funkmaster Flex's Chain

Concert boycotts, calling out other rappers, exposing alleged dirty radio politics and under-the-table payoffs: Nas has done it all in the past few days. Some have chalked up the usually reserved street poet's actions and words of late to straight wildin' out, some say he's just awakening, others have been saying the King of Queensbridge has snapped. He can't even explain it.

"I don't know why I'm saying this, I don't know what's gotten into me, but one thing I know is that I love the music too much and I try to stay real to it," Nas said Friday in Hershey, Pennsylvania, just before his performance as part of Usher's Evolution Tour. "When I see people faking the funk, I can't have it."

New York radio station Hot 97 wasn't having it last Wednesday when it held its annual grand slam concert Summer Jam. While Nas was the scheduled headliner for the Uniondale, New York, event, he declined to show up when the station, he said, would not let him perform the song "Ether." Instead, he went on Hot 97's rival Power 105.1 and went on a tirade about the day's events.

Hot 97 defended itself the next day and said it didn't have any beef with Nas performing "Ether," but rather it was perturbed by a mock lynching of Jay-Z that was supposed to take place during his set.

"What I was about to do was no different than what Eminem would do onstage when he brings out dolls of Britney Spears, of his own moms," Nas rebutted. "Or what [Dr.] Dre did when he had a lawsuit against Michigan from them not allowing him to express himself.

"They conspired together to make sure I wasn't dissing any other rappers, but for some reason they promote other rappers dissing Nas every time," he continued. "I just want to figure out what's happening with that. I want to prevent that from happening with any artist in the future, not to be exploited or put in slavery by any radio station or anything for that matter. This is supposed to be our freedom of speech, our time to voice our word to the world and they're giving us limitations — well, giving me limitations — because it seems like every time you turn on that station it's a new rapper talking about me and they promoting it like it's the best thing since sliced bread."

Nas was indirectly referring to Cam'ron's appearance on Hot 97 in the wake of Summer Jam night. While on Power 105.1, Nas said Cam was a "good" lyricist but added his latest album was "wack." The Harlemite, not too far removed from his impromptu performance at the concert, hit the studio and recorded a scathing comeback, where he raps over Nas' "Hate Me Now" for a portion of it and, among other things, threatens Nas by saying, "Take your daughter to R. Kelly and have my way with her face."

"To talk about people's moms and daughters, that's how you reach down and try to hurt somebody's feelings," Nas said of Cam's rhymes. "He's lost. He's looking for a way to sell records but he doesn't understand that he's getting used by Hot 97 for ratings and to speak up for [Funkmaster] Flex, who don't care about nobody except for himself. They got a dummy to be a dummy and go up on the radio and speak out against me. It's unfortunate because they're using [Cam'ron] and he's not even a part of my fight. My fight is against any power structure that's gonna try to hold the freedom of speech and that fight is not over yet."

One fight that Nas also hinted isn't over — though he iterated he wants it to stay strictly in the verbal form — is with Flex. On Friday afternoon, during a pre-taped interview on New York radio station 107.5 WBLS' "The Wendy Williams Experience," Nas accused Flex of taking money under the table to play records (a claim that Flex has heard before and has denied in several interviews) and basically put up a bounty, saying, "If you a real man, take Flex's chain and give it to me. If you a real man, when you see Flex take off his chain and I got something for you. If you a rap artist, that's real, smack that n---a man!"

"I didn't mean that, because as a real man I'm not gonna promote any violence," a remorseful Nas said of his diatribe. "I'm not gonna ask for any harm to be done to Flex. I was outraged, I was angry and I'm man enough to say I really don't want nothing to happen to him because he's not fit for it, he's not built for it. He's just a mouth that gets paid to do whatever he wants to do ... I take that statement back."

On Saturday, Nas did have his chance to perform in front of some New Yorkers who traveled down to New Jersey as the Evolution Tour made a stop at the PNC Bank Arts Center.

With no one threatening to censor him, he hit them with one verse of "Ether" then abruptly ended the song, saying, "Nah, I'm done with that, I need new competition, I'm moving on," as the crowd chanted for him to finish.

"I been through a lot of things in my life and I'm going through a lot of things right now, but I can't let all the negativity get to me," he also told the audience during his performance. After his finale of "One Mic," the onlookers gave him a standing ovation that lasted a little over two minutes.

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50 Cent Worth A Million To Dr. Dre And Eminem

50 Cent's rhyme slinging on mixtapes paid off its biggest dividend recently, impressing Eminem so much that he'll be jointly issuing 50's next record with Dr. Dre.

Specifically, it was a compilation of previously released and new material that 50 Cent recorded with his clique the G-Unit that caught Em's ear.

"Em had a CD of the music, the CD I put out on the streets, and they hollered," the Queens rapper explained as he sat in a Detroit hotel room before recording a duet with Eminem. "It was late. They called me like 9 p.m. on Friday to fly out at 6 the next morning. I flew out to L.A. Em had two album release parties. Then I sat down and spoke to him the next day. He was doing voiceovers for '8 Mile.' I met with him and Dre, then we decided like, 'Yo, we want to do it.' "

Besides Dre and Slim Shady backing up the money truck and squashing all competing bids by signing him for more than $1 million, 50 said the talent pool behind Shady Records and Aftermath Entertainment made his decision a no-brainer.

"There were a lot of people hollering, and then it got really crazy once they found out [Eminem and Dre] were interested," he said. "[The money] wasn't really what drew me to the situation. Dr. Dre's production, the chemistry, there's different things I can do here. He's from N.W.A. He knows exactly what I'm doing. When he heard the music, he was like, 'I know exactly what to do with this to make it work.' Here it's, 'Lets make the best record.' Creatively, it's a better space for me."

In addition to 30 songs he already had in the stash when he met up with Dre and Shady, he said he's just finished two more.

"I did records produced by both of them already," 50 revealed with a confident laugh. "I'm straight right now. The Dre record, he wasn't present. He was in Hawaii, but he left the music for me. The Dre record is totally different from anything you heard from me before. The Em record is slow, it's a dark record. I'm [rapping] grimy. It's real hard. It's got my name in it."

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