Last Week In Music 6/14 - 6/20
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Eminem "Obsessed?" - Mariah Carey released her new single, “Obsessed,” off of her upcoming album titled, “Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel.” Many assume the lyrics are directed towards Eminem after Slim Shady taunted her and Nick Cannon on “Bagpipes From Baghdad” off of his "Relapse" album.
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Accidental Shooting - In what is being described as a freak accident, rapper and Onyx-member Sticky Fingaz accidentally shot fellow rapper Luce Cannon. The accident occurred when Sticky Fingaz was showing Luce Cannon his licensed Desert Eagle handgun. Somehow the gun accidentally went off shooting Luce Cannon in the leg.
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Porn Massages? - When two porn stars engaged in a Twitter beef, the name Kanye West came up. Retired porn star India called out Sinnamon Love for engaging in sexual practices with Kanye West. Love retorted that she was indeed on tour with West – but only as his masseuse. Sinnamon also is rumored to have massaged both Keyshia Cole and Fantasia as well. Some are curious as to why a porn star would be hired to do massages, but Sinnamon Love is said to be a licensed massage therapist.
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Beef - The several-year-old feud between Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane is seemingly being stirred up again. Jeezy released the song “24, 23” where he takes shots at Gucci with lines like, “They say the club is off the chain, I'm on my Louis sh-- today, f--- some Gucci Mane.” The beef stems from back in 2005 when Jeezy and Gucci made the song “So Icy” and soon after had a bitter fallout.
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Biggest Tour Of The Year - In what could quite possibly be the biggest tour of the year, Lil Wayne, Drake, Young Jeezy and Soulja Boy are set to hit the road for “America’s Most Wanted” tour. The tour, which will hit 21 locations, starts in Scranton, PA and wraps up in Dallas, TX.
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Reunited - After assembling one of the greatest rosters in modern music history and then losing most of the artists, Diddy is reuniting with The Lox, one of the earliest acts on Bad Boy Records. After several different recording homes since their original stint at Bad Boy, the group says that things have changed and the second time around will be more fruitful than the first.
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Country Rap - For the 2009 Country Music Awards, T-Pain surprised many by appearing in a spoof song with country music star, Taylor Swift. The song made waves on the internet as the duo’s unlikely pairing produced hilarious results.
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Online LP - 50 Cent released a full length album online entitled the “War Angel LP.” This is the first body of work he’ll be releasing in the next six months and 50 spoke on what the album’s purpose is. “Creatively, this is not even a mixtape. That's why I put LP next to it…My core audience will understand it immediately, and it's written specifically for that,” the Queens rapper told MTV.
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Usher Speaks - In a recent interview with "Entertainment Tonight," the R&B superstar spoke briefly about the divorce proceedings going on between him and his estranged wife Tameka Foster Raymond that has everybody talking. "If there's any turmoil, I think it's managing all of it," he said when asked about how he's been holding up. "But having an incredible team that helps me do that makes it very easy, or easier than it would normally be attempting to do it all myself.”