In Today’s Video we look at JOE and Why he overshadowed Michael; even in death he tries.. to torment his son

Joe Jackson: shameless?

Journalist and blogger Jimi Izraeli tells CNN’s Kiran Chetry why he thinks Michael Jackson’s father is shameless.

Oooohhh Yeah We Are Alll IN with Jimi Israeli; Joe is a Fricken Pirate.

Who the hell steals their Dead Kids’ Ticket to an Award show; and then goes and does the red carpet when they’re supposed to be in mourning. Joe is “Real Piece of Work”.. HOE HOE HOE

Michael Jackson private funeral to be held before Tuesday memorial in LA

(all stories from the uk telegraph and uk times)

A public memorial service for Michael Jackson will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday after the Jackson family attends a private funeral with close friends.

But as organisers prepared for the free service at the arena, home to the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, authorities scrambled to plan alternative arrangements for the thousands of fans expected to turn up to pay their respects to the King of Pop.

The Staples Center holds only 20,000 people, so LA authorities will erect large television screens outside to accommodate the tens of thousands of mourners expected.

Jermaine Jackson, the singer’s elder brother, said he believed hundreds of thousands of fans could descend on the city, including up to 20,000 from the UK alone.

The organising of the memorial has already been marred by indecision and red tape, and will be further delayed as America marks Independence Day, which is a national holiday.

There were also questions On Friday over who will pay for the massive police operation, with the cash-strapped city of Los Angeles struggling to pay officers overtime.

The state of California has just declared a “fiscal state of emergency” and is being forced to pay its bills with IOUs.

Jermaine Jackson said there would be a private ceremony for the singer’s family and special guests before the public memorial. He said the family also wants to hold other memorials around the United States.

Mr Jackson also said he did not believe Debbie Rowe, the mother of two of his brother’s three children, had a chance of winning custody of them.

Miss Rowe was married to the singer for three years and is weighing up whether to proceed with a legal battle for Prince Michael, 12, and Paris, 11. A court has made Jackson’s mother Katherine, 79, their temporary guardian.

Jackson is expected to be buried in a $25,000 (£15,000) casket made of solid bronze and plated with 14-karat gold. It is called the Promethean and is the same style used for the entertainer James Brown.

Ken Ehrlich, who will produce the memorial service, said it would not be a tribute show, but there would be some performances.

He said: “It will be a memorial service reflecting the dignity of what the family wants. It will be a fitting memorial to Michael Jackson. No dance numbers.”

Randy Phillips, chief executive of AEG Live, which was promoting Jackson’s 50-date comeback tour at the O2 Arena in London, said the singer had passed a medical with “flying colours”.

He disclosed that the promoters had taken $17.5 million (£11 million) in insurance coverage through Lloyd’s of London.

The policy covered Jackson’s accidental death, including from a drug overdose, but not if he died of natural causes.

A cause of death has yet to be established as the coroner awaits toxicology reports, but powerful sedatives were found at Jackson’s rented home in Los Angeles.

The casket, called a Promethean, will feature a blue velvet interior and a hand-polished, mirror finish, according to TMZ.com.

It is the same type of coffin which soul singer James Brown was buried in.

Jackson saw the casket first hand when he paid tribute to the singer as he lay in state in New York City’s Apollo Theatre, where he started his career, in 2006

Brown’s body was transported to the theatre on a white carriage similar to that seen in the last few days at Jackson’s Neverland ranch.

On Thursday it emerged that Jackson’s funeral will be held on Tuesday at the Staples Centre, the home of LA Lakers in Los Angeles.

The stadium holds 20,000 people and, if the Jackson family takes up the offer, large television screens would be placed outside for thousands of other fans to watch.

Sources close to the family say they are fully committed to holding a public memorial for his fans and are being guided by “what Michael would have wanted”.

The Jackson family met the Los Angeles Police Department and the California Highway Patrol to discuss possible funeral arrangements in the city, a police spokesman said.

Another venue has had to be found after an initial plan to hold an event at Jackson’s Neverland ranch, 150 miles north-west of Los Angeles, was blocked by red tape.

It is illegal under Californian law to bury a body outside a designated cemetery. Police were also concerned about the practicalities of holding a public viewing at Neverland, which is only approachable by a small two-lane road.

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which hosted the 1984 Olympic Games and can hold 92,000 people, has also emerged as a possible venue for the memorial.

The current whereabouts of Jackson’s body is being kept a closely guarded secret.

It has been suggested that he will be buried in the Hollywood Hills at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, and that his body is already there. Film legends including Humphrey Bogart and Clark Gable are buried there.

However, a spokesman denied reports that Jackson’s body is there. The spokesman said: “We’ve never had him and we’re not going to.”

Jackson, who died aged 50, is expected to be temporarily buried in a cemetery, but a final resting place has been assigned for him by his family at the Neverland ranch, 150 miles north-west of Los Angeles, where he lived until 2005.

The spot is next to the ranch’s train station. Jackson used to ride in the train, which he named after his mother, Katherine, every day to go from his house to his private zoo.

It is against California law to bury a body outside a cemetery, but the family intends to challenge that. Jermaine Jackson, 54, the singer’s brother, said: “The people who make the laws can change the laws.”

But it could take months to obtain legal consent. The initial burial place is likely to be Forest Lawn Memorial Park, where stars including Marvin Gaye and Bette Davis are buried. But the family may decide to keep the exact location of the grave secret before moving the singer’s coffin to Neverland.

The singer, wearing a stage costume, will be laid to rest in a gold-plated coffin, along with tokens from his life in music, including one of the white gloves he loved to wear.

But, according to US media reports quoting a friend of the family, the Jacksons want the coffin entombed in concrete immediately after the funeral – which is expected to be held in secret before Tuesday’s public memorial service – because of fears that a crazed fan could try to dig it up.

As well as the risk of someone disturbing his remains, family members are concerned that his grave could be desecrated, or be daubed with graffiti referring to his 2005 trial on child abuse charges, of which he was cleared.

A similar double burial was held for Elvis Presley.

Jackson’s public memorial service will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Millions of applications have been made in an online lottery for 17,500 tickets.

There are fears that touts may be using multiple email addresses to apply for the free tickets in order to sell them on ebay.  Ken Sunshine, the Jackson family spokesman, said: “I’m hoping people have dignity. For those that try to take advantage of this, shame on them.”

Hordes of ticketless fans are expected to descend on Los An geles, and 1,400 police officers have been asked to volunteer for duty to control the crowds.

If Jackson is buried at Neverland, his family faces an uphill battle with nearby residents to open it as a place of pilgrimage similar to Graceland, where Elvis is buried. Graceland attracts more than 600,000 visitors a year.

Michael Jackson was more of a Phenomena than Person;
if you met him, you remembered him. I met him as a young motown singer, passing through town. he was sweet, quiet and well mannered as were all the Jacksons.

It would be the later years, that would mould a distinct impression of Michael Jackson aside from the Jackson 5; and make us all want to create our own tributes to him – upon his final curtain call.

we’re going to update this page as we feel it, and provide links to all kinds of Michael Jackson Memorabilia. as well BadGalsRadio will be spinning 100 Michael Jackson Hits over the next 7 days. every hour you will hear at least “3 Michael Jackson hits” – No Diggity.

we remember the man in the mirror this way, because he made us all look deep into that mirror; and recognize who we are.

Michael Jackson Bio Part 1 – 6 (consecutively posted below)

it was his step away from the Jacksons, that presented a new and more interesting Michael to the music world.

he was an instant hit. it’s his ability to dance, sing and think on his feet that endeared us to him. Thriller – his best selling album, is the worlds best selling album still to this day. now that is quite a mark on history.

Even those of us who thought he was slipping away from reality, watched to see what would happen. he was so charismatic that he could draw a crowd wherever he went; it just magically happened..

he was a superstar if ever the word could be used justly..

Michael Was the King of Pop – and He Earned that Title, Righteously through a sacrifice of blood, sweat and tears.

His many strange peroids were usually punctuated with a new and undeniably hot tune or album. he never made a album that didn’t sell at least 1 million copies. his albums still sell like the day they were released globally on cd, and now again on Vinyl – from the early motown reissues. he has been in the spot light his entire life.

This Comeback was anticipated to be the greatest show he had ever planned. the rehearsals in Los Angeles were going well; even with reports of an occassional tired day here and there.

Michael was a trooper to the end in everysense of the word..

maybe he knew better than any of us, the sacrifices it takes to create a legacy that recovers from such scorn as was heaped on him in his later years. Michael perservered and pushed on – never looking back and making plans always for more and better.

that, I am sure – is why we loved him so..

” Long Live the King – Long Reign the King of POP ”

Michael Joseph Jackson 08/29/1958 ~ 06/25/2009

BREAKING NEWS: Singer Michael Jackson, 50, has suffered a heart attack and died,

- gossip website TMZ reports.

Paramedics were unable to revive him.

TMZ were told: “when paramedics arrived, Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.”
Jackson is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.

The website reports he had been taken to hospital in Los Angeles after CPR treatment by paramedics who were called to his home.

Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics were first at the scene of the singer’s $US100,000-a-month rented home in Holmby Hills near Sunset Boulevard about 12.12pm (local time) to find him not breathing, the Los Angeles Times reported.

He died at UCLA hospital.

Jackson was reportedly planning a comeback and was living in LA while rehearsing a series of 50 sold-out shows in London, the Los Angeles Times has reported.

‘King Of Pop’ Michael Jackson Dead At 50

Jackson Was Not Breathing When Paramedics Arrived, Officials Say

Dave Hogan/Getty Images Michael Jackson

LOS ANGELES — Michael Jackson, the sensationally gifted child star who rose to become the “King of Pop” and the biggest celebrity in the world only to fall from his throne in a freakish series of scandals, died Thursday.

He was 50.

Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Ed Winter, the assistant chief coroner for Los Angeles County, confirmed his office had been notified of the death and would handle the investigation.

The circumstances of Jackson’s death were not immediately clear. Jackson was not breathing when Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics responded to a call at his Los Angeles home about 12:30 p.m., Capt. Steve Ruda told the Los Angeles Times.

The paramedics performed CPR and took him to the hospital, Ruda told the newspaper.Jackson’s death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s, when he was popular music’s premier all-around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.

His 1982 album “Thriller” — which included the blockbuster hits “Beat It,” ”Billie Jean” and “Thriller” — is the best-selling album of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide.

The public first knew him in the late 1960s, when as a boy he was the precocious, spinning lead singer of the Jackson 5, the music group he formed with his four older brothers. Among their No. 1 hits were “I Want You Back,” ”ABC,” and “I’ll Be There.”

He was perhaps the most exciting performer of his generation, known for his feverish, crotch-grabbing dance moves and his high-pitched voice punctuated with squeals and titters. His single sequined glove, tight, military-style jacket and aviator sunglasses were trademarks second only to his ever-changing, surgically altered appearance.

“For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don’t have the words,” said Quincy Jones, who produced “Thriller.” ”He was the consummate entertainer and his contributions and legacy will be felt upon the world forever. I’ve lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him.”

Jackson ranked alongside Elvis Presley and the Beatles as the biggest pop sensations of all time. He united two of music’s biggest names when he was briefly married to Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie, and Jackson’s death immediately evoked that of Presley himself, who died at age 42 in 1977.

As years went by, Jackson became an increasingly freakish figure — a middle-aged man-child weirdly out of touch with grown-up life. His skin became lighter, his nose narrower, and he spoke in a breathy, girlish voice. He surrounded himself with children at his Neverland ranch, often wore a germ mask while traveling and kept a pet chimpanzee named Bubbles as one of his closest companions.

“It seemed to me that his internal essence was at war with the norms of the world. It’s as if he was trying to defy gravity,” said Michael Levine, a Hollywood publicist who represented Jackson in the early 1990s. He called Jackson a “disciple of P.T. Barnum” and said the star appeared fragile at the time but was “much more cunning and shrewd about the industry than anyone knew.”

Jackson caused a furor in 2002 when he playfully dangled his infant son, Prince Michael II, over a hotel balcony in Berlin while a throng of fans watched from below.In 2005, he was cleared of charges he molested a 13-year-old cancer survivor at Neverland in 2003. He had been accused of plying the boy with alcohol and groping him, and of engaging in strange and inappropriate behavior with other children.

The case followed years of rumors about Jackson and young boys. In a TV documentary, he had acknowledged sharing his bed with children, a practice he described as sweet and not at all sexual.Despite the acquittal, the lurid allegations that came out in court took a fearsome toll on his career and image, and he fell into serious financial trouble.

Jackson was preparing for what was to be his greatest comeback: He was scheduled for an unprecedented 50 shows at a London arena, with the first set for July 13. He was in rehearsals in Los Angeles for the concert, an extravaganza that was to capture the classic Jackson magic: showstopping dance moves, elaborate staging and throbbing dance beats.

Singer Dionne Warwick said: “Michael was a friend and undoubtedly one of the world’s greatest entertainers that I fortunately had the pleasure of working with. … We have lost an icon in our industry.

“Hundreds of people gathered outside the hospital as word of his death spread. The emergency entrance at the UCLA Medical Center, which is near Jackson’s rented home, was roped off with police tape.”Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Jackson has just died,” a woman boarding a Manhattan bus called out, shortly after the news was announced. Immediately many riders reached for their cell phones.

So many people wanted to verify the early reports of Jackson’s death that the computers running Google’s news section interpreted the fusillade of “Michael Jackson” requests as an automated attack for about half an hour Thursday evening.

In New York’s Times Square, a low groan went up in the crowd when a screen flashed that Jackson had died, and people began relaying the news to friends by cell phone.”No joke. King of Pop is no more. Wow,” Michael Harris, 36, of New York City, read from a text message a friend sent to his telephone. “It’s like when Kennedy was assassinated. I will always remember being in Times Square when Michael Jackson died.”

Associated Press Writers Derrik J. Lang in Los Angeles and Virginia Byrne, Nekesa Mumbi Moody and Jocelyn Noveck in New York contributed to this report.

This Story illustrates why we constantly say that you Betta Wrap It UP, REGARDLESS.

Chris Brown wanted for Felony Battery…against Rihanna?

(dimewars provided this article and the videos)

Chris Brown and Rihanna went missing in action from the Grammy’s last night, prolly because RiRi has a black eye and Chris is running from the PoPo.  Word on the block is that Chris Brown is being hemmed up by 5-O in  “an alleged domestic violence felony battery incident” against some unidentified woman ( cough, cough, Rihanna)..

“The LAPD says that Brown was in a vehicle with an unidentified woman in Hancock Park, Los Angeles just after midnight last night when an argument started… the police say Brown and the woman got out of the car and the argument escalated. The incident resulted in an allegation of assault by the woman, who as yet has not been identified. She reportedly had visible injuries. Police say Brown was not at the scene when they got there.”

Damn who would of thought Pretty @ss Chris Brown could lay down his pimp hand?  If this is true, Chris’ career as a pop star is done and he’ll have to become a rapper!

This is just too much monday mornin drama for one Full Moon..
Rhianna and Chris Brown ? WTF Y’all

Lil Girls and Boys should learn to leave adult business alone when they handle it in PUBLIC. If Rhianna Gave Him an STD What Else is she doing ? She’s been really reachin for a while ..

LAPD Names Rihanna the Victim in Chris Brown Assault Case

February 08, 2009

by:

Ani Esmailian

Image by Splash News

- HollywoodScoop.com

The LAPD just named Rihanna the victim in the Chris Brown assault case. The couple was seen getting into a car together late last night.They got into an argument on North June Street, according to a Los Angeles Police Department statement.

Chris Brown stopped the car, the two got out, and the argument escalated, according to police. A witness called 911 and Chris left the scene before LAPD arrived.

Brown turned himself into the Sheriffs Department at 6:30PM EST accompanied by his attorney Mark Geragos and Geragos’ investigator, Scott Ross. He is currently being held on $50,000 bail.

“He turned himself in around 7 p.m. to one of our stations and is being interviewed by detectives now,” Officer Karen Smith confirmed to People.

The pair drove into a parking lot behind the police station on Venice

Boulevard just east of La Brea Avenue in a black Cadillac Escalade. They entered through a back door where a posted sign read “authorized personnel only.” Police are expected to release a statement later this evening

Both Brown and Rihanna canceled their performances at tonight’s Grammy Awards.

UPDATE:
According to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Chris made bail and was released at 8:35PM. He is due in court on March 5.

RhiRhi did You Give This Man an STD ?

How Bout This One ?

if you did, you know that there’s gonna be consequences and repercussions when you do something so skank baby girl..

you been suspect for a long time tho..

BREAKING NEWS: Rihanna, Chris Brown Pull Out of Grammys

(us magazine)

Sunday February 8, 2009

Scott Gries/Getty Images
Chris Brown is being investigated in an alleged domestic violence felony battery incident.

According to the Los Angeles Police Department, the singer, 19, was in a vehicle with an unidentified woman in L.A.’s Hancock Park neighborhood around 12:30 a.m. Sunday when they began arguing.

Police say Brown and the woman got out of the car and the argument escalated.

The woman, who had visible injuries, phoned 911 and alleged Brown attacked her.

When officers arrived they found the victim, but Brown had already left the scene, police say.

The LAPD is conducting an investigation into the incident.

See today’s top celeb news photos

Earlier Saturday night, Brown and girlfriend Rihanna were at Clive Davis’s Pre-Grammy party in Beverly Hills.

When contacted by Usmagazine.com, Rihanna’s rep said, “Rihanna is well. Thank you for concern and support.”

Neither Rihanna nor Brown is attending tonight’s Grammy awards.

See red carpet photos from the Grammy Awards!

“We have just been informed that Rihanna will not be attending tonight’s 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards. We’re sorry she is unable to join us this evening,” the Recording Academy said in a statement Sunday.

In a separate statement, the Academy said: “We have just been informed that Chris Brown will not be attending tonight’s 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards. We’re sorry he is unable to join us this evening.”

Have you ever seen someone who should only open their mouth to say yes or no.. Really Doh

SOHH Exclusive: Young Jeezy On Obama Presidency, “It’s Gonna Take Him A Couple Of Years To Get It Right”

Written by Cyrus Langhonre

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:00:00 Z

Gaining a stellar buzz from his pro-Barack Obama single “My President Is Black,” Young Jeezy spoke with SOHH about his realistic interpretation of what the upcoming new administration will mean for Americans.

Talking with SOHH’s Gyant on the set of his video shoot, Jeezy brought local residents out to fill the streets to support his new political record.

“We here, we putting on for our city,” Jeezy told Gyant. “Barack Obama, baby. The Recession, you know what it is.”

Admitting the actuality of having our first African American president was difficult to realize in the beginning, Jeezy is ready to support Barack through good and bad times.

“Man, it was hard to sleep on at first ’cause you always think about the negative things but at the end of the day, man, they said we couldn’t and yes we did,” Jeezy explained. “We got it done. And that’s all that matters. And when my man get inaugrated, get into office, it’s gonna take him a couple of years to get it right, but we gonna bare with him.

While celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and Beyonce have confirmed their attendance at Barack’s inauguration in January, the rap star also promised he would make the trip to Washington, DC.

“We gonna walk with him” Jeezy revealed. “I’m gonna be there baby, I’m there. It’s gonna be like a press concert, I’m in there, you know what I mean?

Wowwww… this surely hasn’t been on national news IN the US; wonder why..

Army deserter seeks asylum in Germany over Iraq

Reuters – U.S. Army specialist Andre Shepherd waits for the start of a news conference in Frankfurt, November 27,

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A U.S. soldier who deserted his unit to avoid returning to Iraq has applied for asylum in Germany, saying the Iraq war was illegal and that he could not support the “heinous acts” taking place.

Andre Shepherd, 31, who served in Iraq between September 2004 and February 2005 as an Apache helicopter mechanic in the 412th Aviation Support Battalion, has been living in Germany since deserting last year.

“When I read and heard about people being ripped to shreds from machine guns or being blown to bits by the Hellfire missiles I began to feel ashamed about what I was doing,” Shepherd told a Frankfurt news conference Thursday.

“I could not in good conscience continue to serve.”

Shepherd, originally from Cleveland, Ohio and ranked as an army specialist, applied for asylum in Germany Wednesday, said Tim Huber from the Military Counseling Network, a non-military group which is assisting him.

According to U.S. law, soldiers who desert during a time of war can face the death penalty.

The soldier said he was particularly hopeful he would be granted asylum in Germany, a staunch opponent of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, due to the legacy of the post-war trials of Nazi officials, notably in Nuremberg in 1945-1949.

“Here in Germany it was established that everyone, even a soldier, must take responsibility for his or her actions, no matter how many superiors are giving orders,” he said.

Shepherd, who enlisted in January 2004, is only the second U.S. soldier to have applied to Germany for asylum “in a similar situation,” said Claudia Moebus from the government’s department for migration. The earlier application was later withdrawn.

The specialist was posted to Germany in 2005 where he undertook desk jobs, but he gradually began questioning the justification for the Iraq war and began worrying he would be sent back to serve there, said Huber.

“That’s when he went AWOL,” he added.

Earlier this year, Jeremy Hinzman, an American who applied for refugee status in Canada after deserting the U.S. Army when he received orders to go to Iraq, said he would appeal a deportation order returning him to the United States.

Another U.S. deserter, Robin Long, was deported from Canada in July and sent to jail in Colorado.

(Writing by Josie Cox; Editing by Sophie Hares)

Mannn the economy is really showing the raggedy side of things. Who would adopt Mikaeel’s Giraffes’s and not have a few miles for them to run around on; as they did when they were at Neverland ? For Shame…

PETA SEEKS MIJAC’S HELP WITH FORMER GIRAFFES:

Animal rights group says animals are being mistreated at their new home.

*TMZ.com is reporting that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is upset over the current treatment of giraffes that were once owned by Michael Jackson, and have sought the entertainer’s help in trying to make things right.

During the downward spiral of Neverland Ranch a year ago, a large portion of Jackson’s pets – including four giraffes – were sold to an Arizona couple that wanted to start an animal sanctuary.

PETA claims the giraffes are stuck in cages barely as wide as the animals are tall, reports TMZ. They wrote the King of Pop a letter asking him to help pressure the owners into doing something more humane.

The couple that owns the animals says the giraffes have been moved to their new 150 x 150 ft. digs — and the animals will have an even bigger space to roam when their 185 acre sanctuary is up and running.

and on a different side of his head – his money ish is DEEEEpppp sohh had this lil tid bit,

Michael Jackson’s finances have been under the media microscope this week thanks largely to the lawsuit levied by a Bahraini Sheik he has recently settled. On Monday (November 24)  UK’s Daily Mail published an in-depth look at Mike’s money troubles that drew gossip guru Perez Hilton to dub MJ as a “millionaire living like a billionaire”. Just a few of Jacko’s ultra-expensive habits are listed below:

- Visits to a “brain guru” for $300,000, ice cream, $400 of Body Shop lotions, toys and a Ferrari, all paid for by the Sheik.

- $135,000 on bills

- $2.2 million on legal fees

- Staff salaries at $4 million a year

- $1.2 million yearly to children Paris‘ and Prince’s biological mother Debbie Rowe

- Living expenses and care for the children’s nanny, Grace Rwaramba, whom they call mom, who suffers from lupus

- $61,000 for cream to treat his “vitiligo” (skin condition)

- $25 million to the family of the boy who accused him of molestation

- $3 million a year to maintain Neverland and its staff…which he no longer possesses the deeds to

- During his trial in Santa Barbara in 2005, it was said that Jackson was spending about $30 million more than he was making

Rebel Talking… Michael needs to suck it up and either finish that album he’s been working on the last three years or make nice with Jermaine and the rest of his brothers and go on tour before he’s too old and frail to moonwalk anymore.

and speaking of cages that are too small, Remy Ma wants out, Suuurreee.

News: Remy Ma Wants Out Of Jail, Lawyer Files Appeal

Written by Cyrus Langhorne

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:53:46 Z

An attorney for incarcerated New York rapper Remy Ma has filed an appeal requesting to have her eight year prison sentence dropped.

(Ed Note – That is the most unbelievable line in this whole story, Dropped, and she point blank shot this woman who lived and testified. co’mon Remy)

According to TMZ, Remy’s lawyer pointed out various flaws in her recent summer trial when she was charged and placed behind bars for the shooting of acquaintance, Makeda Barnes-Joseph.

“THE TRIAL COURT’S ORDER FORBIDDING DEFENSE COUNSEL FROM ARGUING DURING SUMMATION THAT MAKEDA JOSEPH WAS SHOT DURING A STRUGGLE FOR THE GUN DENIED MS. SMITH A FAIR TRIAL,” a document reads. “MS. SMITH WAS UNFAIRLY PREJUDICED BY THE INCLUSION IN THE INDICTMENT OF THE COUNTS REGARDING THE VIOLENT GANG ASSAULT AT THE PLAYER’S CLUB, AS TO WHICH THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF HER COMPLICITY, BUT WHICH LIKELY COLORED THE JURY’S CONSIDERATION OF THE REMAINING COUNTS.”

In addition to claims of bias during the case, her attorney would like her possession of a weapon charge dropped.

“THE GUN POSSESSION CHARGE MUST BE DISMISSED BECAUSE PENAL LAW 265.03 UNQUALIFIEDLY BANS THE POSSESSION OF HANDGUNS OUTSIDE THE HOME,” it reads. “OR PLACE OF BUSINESS AND IS THEREFORE UNCONSTITUTIONAL.”

As previously reported by SOHH, the former Terror Squad member turned herself in to New York police in July 2007 for the shooting of Joseph outside a nightclub. Remy was later sentenced to an eight year bid last May and is currently beind held at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women in Bedford Hills.

and on an even crazier thug tangent, bigsweetie is sayin one time ganked him for his icing.. whhooooo you say it was Phat Bwoy ??

Suge Knight Cries Foul, Blames Cops For Missing Bling

Written by Cyrus Langhorne

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:46:48 Z

Just over a week after filing a lawsuit against rap star Kanye West over a missing diamond stud earring, Suge Knight is now blaming California authorities for another case of stolen jewelry.

According TMZ, the former record label mogul has pointed the finger at Barstow police in his U.S. Bankruptcy case. Suge claims – in a an incient that hapened three years ago – while being transferred from police headquarters to West Valley Detention Center to the California Institution for Men, his earring was stolen

As previously reported by SOHH, the former Death Row Records owner recently sued Kanye for over $135,00 stemming from a gun shot wound and robbery attained at the producer’s pre-MTV Video Music Awards party, also back in ‘05.

In related news, Suge also recently made headlines after being charged with three felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from a physical confrontation with his girlfriend last summer.

Aretha & Diddy Could hook YOU up;

*How about this? Lady Soul and Diddy are hooking up! No, not that way, but to launch a new “American Idol” style show.

That’s right, according to WENN, Aretha Franklin and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs are combining forces to find talented R&B and hip-hop stars. But, unlike “AI,” the winner of their new venture will be decided by them – not the public. “The country will not vote. It will just be me and Diddy voting for who the next star will be,” says Franklin. Look for the show sometime in 2009.

That’s Mondays Mess, now go start something