Sheek Louch claims Diddy Sean John still owns Lox publishing. Damn!! It pays to read the fine print, never know when you are signing your life over to the Devil.
Heath Ledger was found dead in Manhattan. He was 28. Cause of death is unknown (but some media outlets are speculating a drug overdose).
Condolences goes out to his daughter and family.
Ruby Dee was the ONLY African American nominated for an Oscar - in a Supporting role no less. What about Denzel??
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After emerging as a uniquely skiled threat in the Hip Hop world, why is Lupe Fiasco
EW: Wow! That’s a side of you that we rarely get to see.
LF: I grew up in the hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartmetn, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation. And we didn’t have cable, so we didn’t have the luxury of having our brains washed by MTV. We watched public television-cokking shows and stuff like that.
EW: Your dad was a martial-arts expect…
LF: My father [Gregory Jaco] was a Renaissance man. He was an operating plant engineer, a musician, and a martial artist. He had eight black belts and taught [martial arts] for 40 years. He was also in the military and the Black Panthers. My mother [Shirley Jaco] was an intellectual and a chef. I got nine brothers and sisters. Three of us have the same mother and father, everyone else is half brothers and sisters.
EW: Who were you raised by?
LF: It was like we were at my mother’s house to go to school and then after school, my father would come get us and take us out into the world-one day, we’re listening to N.W.A.; the next day, we’re listeing to Ravi Shankar; the next day, he’s teaching us how to shoot an AK-47; the next day, we’re at karate class; the next day, we’re in Chinatown; the next day, we’re in a weird-ass Pakistani store looking for a rug…. We experienced everything with my father because the things he was into were so vast.
