Archive for 2009

Nas & Damian Marley – Distant Relatives (Cover x Tracklist)

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

01. Intro (Something New) (Produced by Damian Marley)
02. As We Enter (Produced by Damian Marley)
03. Revolutionary (Produced by Damian Marley)
04. Count Your Blessings (Produced by Damian & Stephen Marley)
05. Belief is Key (Produced by Damian Marley)
06. Africa Must Wake Up (feat. K’naan) (Produced by Nas, Damian & Stephen Marley)
07. Black Horizon (feat. K’naan) (Produced by Damian Marley)
08. Only the Strong (Produced by Damian & Stephen Marley)
09. Our Generation (feat. Joss Stone & Stevie Wonder) (Produced by Damian Marley)
10. Empowerment (Produced by Stephen Marley)
11. AID (Produced by K’naan & Nas)
12. Let’s End It (Poverty) (feat. K’naan) (Produced by 9th Wonder & Damian Marley)
13. The Earth (feat. Bob Marley) (Produced by Salaam Remi, Damian & Stephen Marley)
14. Black Man’s Paper (feat. Erykah Badu) (Produced by Afry) [UK Bonus]
15. Weed On (feat. Snoop Dogg) (Produced by Damian Marley) [iTunes Bonus]

REPORTS: Brittany Murphy Dead

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Murphy went into full cardiac arrest last night and could not be revived, according to TMZ. The Los Angeles Fire Department tells the site they received a call from a home belonging to Murphy’s husband, Simon Monjack. The actress was pronounced dead on arrival at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

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OK Magazine.

“Due to creative differences, Ms. Murphy and the production company mutually parted ways,” her rep said.

Murphy had also voiced the part of LuAnne Platter on the animated comedy, “King of the Hill,” since 1997.

“2day the world lost a little piece of sunshine,” Ashton Kutcher, who dated Murphy in 2002 – 2003, posted on Twitter on Saturday. “My deepest condolences go out 2 Brittany’s family, her husband, & her amazing mother Sharon. see you on the other side kid.”

Shane Sparks MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew judge charged with molesting young girls

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

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And just like that, MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew has been thrusted back into the media spotlight just before the holidays. After the franchise survived an almost knock out blow on behalf of Lil Momma destroying Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” performance at the VMA’s this year, her fellow judge Shane Sparks joins the ranks of today’s alleged sex predators.

Los Angeles police arrested “America’s Best Dance Crew” judge Shane Sparks (born Melvin Shane Sparks), Friday morning (December 18) on a felony warrant and charged him with eight counts of felony child molestation. He is being held on $590,000 bail.

Sparks, whose age was listed as 40 in the arrest warrant, was charged with six felony counts of committing a lewd act on a child, identified by her first name and last initial as being under the age of 14, “with the intent of arousing, appealing to, and gratifying the lust, passions and sexual desires of the said defendant and the said child.” The alleged incidents are said to have occurred between July 1, 1994 and August 1, 1994, December 1, 1994 and August 3, 1995, August 4, 1995 and April 30, 1997 and April 4, 1995 and April 30, 1997.

He was also charged with two counts of oral copulation of a person under the age of 16 by someone over the age of 21 for incidents that allegedly occurred between April 4, 1995 and April 30, 1997 and August 4, 1995 and April 30, 1997. [Source]

Thanks to Gyantunplugged for the read