Take That, Take That
Diddy is closing his soul food and such resturant in New York City after 10yrs of business. Here’s what a statement from Bad Boy said…
Bad Boy is seeking a larger footprint for the restaurant in the New York City area, as the size and location of the restaurant no longer fit the Justin’s brand. The company sees the larger Justin’s Restaurant in Atlanta, which takes up most of a city block, as the prototype for the new New York City location. Bad Boy representatives are evaluating a number of options for a larger space in some of New York City’s prime traffic areas.
Shucks, and I never really got to taste the Veggie Lasagna! Oh well….
Darryl “DMC” McDaniels Search for His Adopted Parents Wins Emmy Award
DMC: My Adoption Journey—a documentary chronicling Darryl “DMC” McDaniels search for his adopted parents—was awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming. At the age of 35, shortly after the murder of fellow Run-DMC group member Jam Master Jay, DMC discovered that he was adopted. As he embarked on a search for his birth parents, he invited VH1 along to document the process. The result was DMC: My Adoption Journey, the first documentary in the cable network’s Roc Docs series, which debuted in February of 2006
GAME Pleads NOT Guilty…Don’t They All?
Compton native The Game appeared in a Los Angeles courtroom earlier today and pleaded not guilty to charges of making criminal threats, possession of a firearm in a school zone and exhibiting a firearm on the grounds of a facility for minors. The rapper stands accused of brandishing a firearm during an argument over a pick up game of basketball at the Rita Walters Educational Learning Complex on February 24. Game has a pretrial hearing scheduled for October 30.
Don’t Believe The Hype
I didn’t see this coming but I’m glad it did! There’s more to life than record sales and beef! I think this mostly has to do with public attention to Jena 6. I would love to see one of them speak about that….eh wishful thinking I know, but a girl can dream can’t she?!?
After putting up huge first week numbers in their epic battle for the top of the Billboard charts, Kanye West and 50 Cent will both see sales drop offs of nearly 80% this week. According to Nielsen Soundscan, Kanye’s Graduation—which scanned nearly 1 million units in its first week in stores—saw a 76% decrease this week. The Louis Vuitton Don’s third studio LP moved just under 226,000 copies and will surrender the No. 1 spot to country music star Reba McEntire. Similarly, 50’s Curtis saw a 79% dip from his first week total of 691,000, for a second week tally of nearly 143,000 units. -XXLmag.com
Damn Bill, just eat and shutup!
Bill O’Reilly should just leave his foot in his mouth for the rest of his life! No really, what ever happened to thinking before you spoke?! SMH!
After eating dinner at a famed Harlem restaurant recently, Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly told a radio audience he “couldn’t get over the fact” that there was no difference between the black-run Sylvia’s and other restaurants.“It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun,” he said. “And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.”O’Reilly said his fellow patrons were tremendously respectful as he ate dinner with civil rights activist Al Sharpton.“That’s right,” he said. “There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M.F.-er, I want more iced tea.’”
