New Eminem Album Coming In 2013

 

It looks like 2013 will mark the return of Slim Shady to the music scene. Eminem has put out limited edition baseball hats with the years of each of his solo albums on the side panel. 2013 is the last year noted on the hats.

For a limited time only in honor of the big games and the hometown team's return to The D we are pleased to offer the Eminem Baseball Tribute Hat in both home and away colors. Side panel is dedicated to the landmark Eminem solo albums. A portion of the proceeds will go to The Marshall Mathers Foundation.

In May Em announced he was postponing his upcoming boxing film Southpaw to concentrate on new music.

"He's focusing on his music right now, so while he's doing that, while he's in that space, he wanted to put this on hold for the time being," Eminem's spokesman Dennis Dennehy said at the time.

The new album will be the eighth solo project for the multiple Grammy Award winning Detroit rapper and the first since 2010's Recovery, which has sold over six million copies worldwide.

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Madonna Booed, Concert Goers Leave After She Urges Them To Vote For President Obama In New Orleans

 

Some of Madonna's fans would prefer it if she just sang instead of lecturing them on who to vote for.

During her concert in New Orleans on Saturday the pop superstar urged fans to vote for President Obama in the upcoming election.

"Who's registered to vote?" she asked the crowd. She then told them, "I don't care who you vote for as long as you vote for Obama."

The crowd reacted immediately with some people booing and others heading for the exit according to the Associated Press.

"Seriously, I don't care who you vote for...Do not take this privilege for granted. Go vote," she said.

The singer's "MDNA Tour" has hit several bumps. During a Paris show she angered French concertgoers by superimposing a swastika on the forehead of right-wing National Front politician Marine Le Pen. Le Pen said she would bring a formal legal complaint against Madonna for "making public insults."

"This is yet another provocation, intended to try to overcome [Madonna's] problems with her fans during a tour which is a complete flop," said senior National Front official, Florian Philippot.

In Instanbul she flashed her breasts and pulled down her pants baring her butt in Rome.

Madonna also drew controversy earlier this month when she used prop guns onstage and pretended to shoot several of her dancers while performing "Gang Bang" in Denver. A giant screen simulated splattering blood and falling bodies.

Concert goers were offended because just several months earlier James Holmes went on a shooting rampage at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and injuring 59 others.

Looks like Madonna's stunts are wearing thin.

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A$AP Rocky Says 'LongLiveASAP' Album Pushed Back to 2013. Talks Fashion, 'F*cking Problem' Single & More

 

A$AP Rocky is gearing up for the release of his debut album, LongLiveASAP. The 24-year old Harlem emcee recently sat down with Nessafrom Bay area radio station 94.9 to talk about the album and a few other other topics.

The two discussed his new single "F*ckin Problem," which was produced by Noah "40" Shebib and features Drake, Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz plus the delay on his album

"The thing with my album is I got things on it that's so out of this world and it's taking so long to get mastered, that the issue. And I refuse to take anything off, it's complete. Everything is being mastered and cleared right now. It just so hard to get things cleared because you gotta find people to clear samples," Rocky said.

Rocky added that the album will probably come out the first quarter of 2013.

They also discuss fashion, his current girlfriend and more.

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Can Brandon T. Jackson Carry The Beverly Hills Cop Franchise?

 

Announced at the top of this year, CBS has green lit a television series that continues the action comedy adventures of the Beverly Hills Cop feature film franchise.  Humor Mill has reporting that the show may have found its lead in actor Brandon T. Jackson.

Jackson, started his career as a comedian, but is best known for roles in films like Tropic Thunder, Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief and Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son,

If cast in Beverly Hills Cop, Jackson would play the son of Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley. Murphy is also planning to reprise his original role in a guest-star capacity with the focus of the series being on the son  Aaron Foley.

Sony Pictures Television order a script for the pilot from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan with Murphy executive producing. The show is reported to be an hour-long procedural, blending action and comedy.

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Matt Bomer May Have Lost Superman Role Over Being Gay

In a recent interview with GaydarRadio.com, famed romance author Jackie Collins revealed that actor Matt Bomer may have been turned down the role of Superman in 2006 simply for being gay.

“Matt Bomer, who is the most gorgeous guy..” she said. “..was up for the role of Superman. He had not come out of the closet but people in the know knew he was gay. He lives down the street from a friend of mine. She knew, and I knew. His audition tape went in and they called up the agent. Somebody didn’t like him and told them he was gay. They said, ‘No, no. We can’t cast you’. The reason he didn’t get cast was because he was gay.”

Collins’ claim comes under strange circumstances. After all, the director of 2006′s Superman Returns, Bryan Singer, as well as the film’s writers Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris, are all openly gay. What’s even more strange is that Bomer went on to be cast as the caped crusader in a Prius commercial in 2009.

Matt Bomer is best known for his leading role in USA’s White Collar, which had a successful run from 2009 to 2012. He’s also appeared alongside Justin Timberlake in 2011′s In Time , run from Leatherface in 2006′s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, and stripped for nearly everyone’s pleasure in this year’s Magic Mike. He came out perhaps the most publicly in February of this year, although he’s made no real effort to disguise it. He has thanked his partner Simon Halls, along with his three children, on multiple occasions and on multiple television shows. Jackie Collins equates Bomer’s failure to secure the role of Superman to simple celebrity politics.

“I think it should change but there are women out there who want to worship somebody,” she said. “If Justin Bieber said he was gay, he’d lose all his little girl fans. It’s a sad fact of life. So a lot of them get married, have a couple of kids and pretend to be straight.”

Bomer’s denial in Superman Returns proves that the overall system in Hollywood still has its share of grey areas. While most consider it to be the epicenter of liberal-minded actors and actresses, Matt Bomer’s case shows it is still a place where marketing, economics, and what women want determine the roles actors are given. Jackie Collins’ comments do seem to make the most sense. After all, it would be odd to imagine someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Jason Statham as gay given the type of audiences they’ve earned. With the amount of idolatry Superman represents, it’s fair to lump him into the same category and with a similar audience (albeit a bit geekier).

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David Oyelowo Is Sugar Ray Robinson In Boxer’s Biopic ‘Sweet Thunder’

       With the amount of biopics in production right now, it appears that it’s biopic season in Hollywood. Andre 3000 is in the process of bringing back to life Jimmy Hendricks, while there appears to be a growing controversy over the casting of Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone in her biopic. Now, David Oyelowo is the latest to recreate a real person as boxer Sugar Ray Robinson in Sweet Thunder.

According to Deadline, the film will be based on the Wil Haygood’s biography “Thunder: The Life And Times Of Sugar Ray Robinson”, which was first published in 2009.

The Synopsis of the book goes as follows:

Continuing to set himself apart as one of our canniest cultural historians, Wil Haygood grounds the spectacular story of Robinson’s rise to greatness within the context of the fighter’s life and times. Born Walker Smith, Jr., in 1921, Robinson had an early childhood marked by the seething racial tensions and explosive race riots that infected the Midwest throughout the twenties and thirties. After his mother moved him and his sisters to the relative safety of Harlem, he came of age in the vibrant post-Renaissance years. It was there that—encouraged to box by his mother, who wanted him off the streets—he soon became a rising star, cutting an electrifying, glamorous figure, riding around town in his famous pink Cadillac. Beyond the celebrity, though, Robinson would emerge as a powerful, often controversial black symbol in a rapidly changing America. Haygood also weaves in the stories of Langston Hughes, Lena Horne, and Miles Davis, whose lives not only intersected with Robinson’s but also contribute richly to the scope and soul of the book.

From Robinson’s gruesome six-bout war with Jake “Raging Bull” LaMotta and his lethal meeting with Jimmy Doyle, to his Harlem nightclub years and thwarted show-biz dreams, Haygood brings the champion’s story – inside the ring and out – powerfully to life against a vividly painted backdrop of the world he captivated.

Oyelowo is not only starring in the film, he is also executive producing. Also producing is Moneyball producer Rachael Horovitz and Game Change’s Danny Strong. Though no director has been selected yet, offers should be made in the coming week.

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Apple Unveils Smaller $329 iPad Mini. Will It Sell?

 

Taking a cue from some of its competitors, Apple on Tuesday announced a smaller version of its popular iPad tablet -- the iPad Mini. And the company that introduced the concept of tablet computers to millions didn't waste any time bashing those competitor in the process.

"Others have tried to make tablets smaller than the iPad and they've failed miserably," said Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller. "These are not great experiences."

At a media event, he unveiled the 7.9-inch tablet, which is 7.2 millimeters wide (the width of a pencil, Schiller said) and weighs less than 7/10ths of a pound.

It will have the same display-resolution specs as last year's iPad 2, not the high-definition "retina display" of the newest iPad, which also got an update on Tuesday.

The iPad Mini's display will be nearly an inch bigger than those of competitors like Amazon's Kindle Fire and Google's Nexus 7. It will also be somewhat more expensive.

The smaller iPad will start at $329 for a 16GB, Wi-Fi only version, ranging up to $659 for a 64GB model with cellular capability. Those prices are at the high end of what analysts had predicted. The new Kindle Fire HD and the Nexus 7 sell for $199.

Pre-orders for the Wi-Fi-only device begin Friday, and the iPad Mini will go on sale in stores November 2.

Models that have Wi-Fi and can connect over cellular networks will go on sale in a few weeks.

The device's screen has the same proportions as the larger iPads, meaning that apps designed for the tablet should also look good on the Mini. Apple promises 10 hours of battery life, and the Mini will have front- and rear-facing cameras like its bigger cousins. It also will have the "lightning" connector that came new on the iPhone 5 and new iPods.

"This isn't just a shrunken-down iPad," Schiller said. "It's an entirely new design."

As with other recent Apple events, today's main announcement wasn't much of a secret. Leaks ahead of the event sketched out most of the relevant details, from dimensions of the smaller iPad to what sizes it would come in.

The Apple event started off with upgrades to the Mac lineup, and a joke about expectations for the day.

"You knew there would be something called 'mini' in this presentation, didn't you?" said Schiller, while presenting an update of the company's smallest desktop computer, the Mac mini. It starts at $599 for 4 GB of RAM.

Schiller opened by unveiling the new version of Apple's top-selling MacBook, the 13-inch MacBook Pro.

The new version has a high-definition "retina display" screen for the first time and is 3/4 of an inch thick -- 20 percent thinner than the current 13-inch MacBook Pro. It weighs 3.5 pounds, making it the lightest MacBook Pro ever, Schiller said. Its price starts at $1,699.

Both the Mac Mini and the new MacBook Pro begin shipping today.

iPad mini worth buying?

Schiller also showed off a sleeker and more powerful version of Apple's iconic desktop, the iMac. It starts at $1,299 and begins shipping in November.

Released only six months ago, Apple's newest full-sized iPad also got an update, getting a faster A6X processing chip, an improved camera and, like the iPhone 5, 4G LTE capabilities.

Apple's full-sized iPad has been a huge success and still dominates the overall tablet market, so why go small now?

The biggest demand for non-Apple tablets has been for less expensive 7-inch devices such as Amazon's Kindle Fire, Samsung's Galaxy Tab, Google's Nexus 7 and Barnes and Noble's Nook. A smaller iPad would challenge these competitors head on, combining their popular size with Apple's killer features: the iOS operating system, Apple's app and media ecosystem, and quality design.

The Kindle Fire is great for buying books, movies and shows from Amazon, and the Nexus 7 has Google's well-stocked Play store for media and apps. However, tablets have proven they can do more than just entertain, and customers might be drawn to the quality and quantity of Apple's App Store selection. Developers have been creating top-notch apps for the iPad for more than two years. The smaller iPad's screen is expected to have the same aspect ratio, so those apps would work the same on the new device.

When the iPad came out, it was intended to be a consumption device. Ads for the tablet showed people reclining in various environments, clutching the iPad like a book. The spacious 10-inch screen was ideal for watching movies and TV shows, playing games, surfing the Web and otherwise consuming content.

That's how most tablet owners use their devices. Tablets are homebodies, used most often in the living room (30% of the time according to Nielsen) followed by the bedroom (21% of the time).

"Fully half the time they're using tablets, they don't leave the couch or the bed," said Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps. "If you can do everything on the smaller iPad you can on the larger iPad -- that plus the added convenience of being able to take it with you more places could take the wind out of the sales of Amazon."

A smaller, lighter device is more portable, and people might not be as afraid of taking a cheaper tablet out into the big bad world where it would be less protected. That would also be a boost for Apple in the education market, which it has been courting heavily.

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Lil Wayne Says He Has 90 Unreleased Songs With Dr. Dre "You Just Never Know Which One He Gonna Put Out"

 

Somewhere buried deep in Dr. Dre's vault there's a treasure trove of unreleased records from many of your favorite artists. Dre is such a perfectionist he keeps recording new music looking for the perfect songs for his long awaited Detoxalbum.

Will any of the tracks ever see the light of day? Only time will tell, but one artist who probably has as many unreleased songs with the Aftermath boss as anybody is Lil Wayne.

"I've always worked with Dre," Wayne told MTV News. "I'm not sure if you guys know how Dre works, Dre always send you a song, so I done probably did like 90 songs for Dre. You just never know which one he gonna put out."

Hopefully Dre will release some new music soon.

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Kendrick Lamar's 'good kid, m.A.A.d city' Expected To Sell Between 225-240K 1st Week. Taylor Swift's 'Red' To Sell 1.1-1.2 Million

Kendrick Lamar has to lot to be proud of at the moment. His new good kid, m.A.A.d city album is projected to sell between 225-240K its first week out, which will be good enough to claim the No. 2 spot on Billboard according to early sales projections from HitsDailyDouble.

In most other weeks good kid, m.A.A.d city would top the charts, but it happened to come out the same week as Taylor Swift's monster fourth studio album, Red.

Red is projected to sell between 1.1-1.2 million copies. That number could surpass the 1.124 million sold by the entire Top 10 from the corresponding week last year; for the week ending 10/30/11. It could also push it's way past Lady Gaga's Born This Way 1st week tally of 1.1 million.

Congrats to both Kendrick and Taylor.

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Diddy Injured In Hollywood Car Accident

 

Diddy was involved in a car accident in Hollywood, California yesterday that left him shaken up.

Beverly Hills police Lt. Lincoln Hoshino told Fox News that Diddy was riding in a Cadillac Escalade on Sunset Boulevard when a Lexus sedan turned left in front of it, and the vehicles collided.

Diddy complained of pain and had to lie down on the grass momentarily.

The Bad Boy Records boss refused to go in an ambulance to the hospital and said he would seek his own medical attention.

No one involved in the accident was hospitalized. A report was taken. No citations were issued

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20-Year Old Brazilian Woman, Catarina Migliorini Sells Her Virginity To Japanese Man For $780,000

 

20-year old Brazilian woman, Catarina Migliorini has successfully sold her virginity after a month-long auction.

A man called Natsu, from Japan, put in a winning bid of $780,000, holding off Jack Miller ($740,000) from the U.S. and Rudra Chatterjee ($730,000) of India.

Catarina will be interviewed before and after having sex with Natsu as part of an Australian documentary called Virgins Wanted.

Catarina has promised to use $722,000 of the money to build homes for impoverished families in her home state of Santa Catarina.

The act will be consummated on a private plane hired by the producers of the documentary to avoid legal problems in other countries according to Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo. Catarina will take a test to prove that she is a virgin. No kissing is allowed and Natsu will get an hour with her.

"The auction is just business, I'm a romantic girl at heart and believe in love. But this will make a big difference to my area," she said.

The filmmaker behind the auction doubts Catarina will actually give that much money to charity.

"I was surprised she said that because in all my dealings with her, she made it clear that it was a business decision for her," Australian filmmaker Justin Sisely said according to Gawker. "Now, given how big this story is in Brazil, she's trapped. If she doesn't give any money to charity, she's going to look bad."

Not sure how this is any different from prostitution and the idea of paying $780,000 for sex seems outrageous. It must be true that a sucker is born every day.

Check out Catarina's Virgin's Wanted video plus pictures below.

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