The only Bad Boy release on this week's Billboard 200 is "Press Play" at 116, down from 109.
From
Reuters UK:
Warner Music Group has signed a deal to allow its entire catalogue to be played over the fast-growing social networking music service Last.fm, the innovative site that links music fans to new and old hits.
With more than 15 million active users per month, Last.fm has earned glowing praise for its system which recommends songs by tracking a listener's music-playing habits and automatically linking them to fans with similar tastes.
The deal with Warner, the world's fourth-largest music company, is the first with one of the major labels and the network's co-founder Martin Stiksel said they were in talks with the other three major labels and content holders.
Via
Ryan Sullivan.
From the
Making the Band 4 MySpace:
Charlotte, NC
Feb 10
CANS Bar & Canteen
500 W 5th Street
Charlotte, NC
Washington, DC
Feb 13
Platinum
915 F Street NW
Washington, DC
This is a week old, but
worth reading, anyway.
Rarely in hip-hop do you see someone coming out clean-cut, positive and having fun. Do you think that�s helped with your success?
Definitely. I had a different sound and a different look. I wasn�t the average dope boy or thug, so it kind of helped. �He�s not wearing what everybody�s wearing. He�s hot.� It draws people in, and that�s what helps create a movement. A lot of people consider me the Southern Ma$e. But before he was Ma$e�
He was Murder Ma$e.
Exactly. So there was another element. Just because you don�t see it now doesn�t mean it don�t exist. The different elements are there, but what I reflect� I don�t wanna portray all those images, so I don�t define myself in one. I used to sell dope. I did all that s***. Don�t just think I�m a good boy. I know better now. I�m a grown man now. I got kids. This s*** is for real to me. I�m really living my dream right now. All that dumb s*** is in the past.
From
XXLMAG.com:
The documents recently surfaced when Mack included them in a motion challenging the unrelated conviction for bank robbery he is currently serving time for. Philips writes that the police records disprove several aspects of Poole�s theory including the notion that Mack had a shrine to Tupac in his garage, and that he offered another officer a job working security for Knight. Much of the information that Poole used to build his theory came from two other LAPD detectives, Brian Tyndall and Greg Grant. Grant has since retired and Tyndall now heads a task force created last year to reinvestigate the murder.
From
Hello! Magazine:
Rapper and record executive P Diddy does not usually come across as being particularly sentimental, but as exclusive photos in the latest edition of HELLO! magazine reveal, he certainly has a soft centre. And the proud new dad of identical twins D'Lila Star and Jessie James is simply overwhelmed by the birth of his gorgeous girls.
They
have a picture as does
USA TODAY.
The New York Times has a
write up on Cassie.
After a fall tour of Japan, she returned home to New London for Christmas. Within days, she jetted off to Paris, where she performed on �Hit Machine,� France�s answer to �T.R.L.� Currently, she is preparing for a spring tour of Africa and Dubai, and making inroads toward recording a follow-up to �Cassie� in New York.
From
SOHH.com:
Sean 'Diddy" Combs and Jay-Z are reportedly in negotiations with Comcast to launch a Video On Demand channel with urban themed programming.
And from the
New York Post:
That would explain why hip-hop stars Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs, along with Harvey and Bob Weinstein, were spotted at the cable operator's massive Market Street compound in Philadelphia last week. One source familiar with the meeting said it was both a getting-acquainted session and a chance to bounce around ideas about urban programming.
Once again, DJ Richard "Diddy" Dearlove, who may end up being best known for suing Diddy, has
filed suit.
Richard "Diddy" Dearlove says that Combs has breached an earlier undertaking not to use the name "Diddy" in Britain, because people there can see Combs' pages on the international MySpace and YouTube sites where he appears as "Diddy."
"We want him either to use a neutral name like P. Diddy or to shut them down," said Iain Purvis, Dearlove's lawyer at the High Court in London where the case is being heard.
Are MySpace and YouTube "international" websites? Generally speaking, websites are considered to be based where they are physically hosted and are held to the laws of that country. I am under the impression that both MySpace and YouTube are hosted in the U.S. Whether or not they can be accessed in the U.K. is unimportant. A person from the U.K. can buy CDs released in the U.S., if they so choose. That is inevitable.
I may very well be missing something, but he seems to want the courts in the U.K. to apply U.K. law to U.S. based websites. Of course, there are extenuating circumstances, such as Google and FOX (the owners of YouTube and MySpace) having business in the U.K., I'm sure, that may or may not affect it.
Diddy and co. seem to be making adjustments to both pages to compromise, perhaps as part of negotiations (just guessing?). For example, when you visit
his YouTube page, you see:
UK USERS MUST VISIT:
www.youtube.com/pdiddy
The link is to an alternate account at YouTube where it says P. Diddy instead of Diddy.
And,
his MySpace page now has a large banner at the top saying that U.K. users "MUST CLICK HERE". It takes you to an
alternate MySpace profile where, again, it's P. Diddy instead of just Diddy.
It's all a little loopy, when you think about it, but if it leads to the issue being over, it may be worth it. I'm not an attorney or anything, but, if Dearlove is pushing for Diddy to stop calling himself Diddy on MySpace and on YouTube, period, my gut says to fight it. It's just a name, but that's not the point. There would seem to be something more at stake here.
