Eminem Slams Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon In New Dis Track, ‘The Warning’
July 31, 2009 by admin
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The battle that began with ‘Bagpipes From Baghdad’ and continued with ‘Obsessed’ continues.
By Shaheem Reid
Eminem
Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage
When will it end? No time soon, apparently.
The battle pitting Eminem against Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon — which began with Em’s “Bagpipes From Baghdad” and continued with Carey’s “Obsessed” — took another turn Thursday night (July 30), when Slim Shady dropped a new dis track against Mariah called “The Warning.”
Before he starts rapping, Em tells Carey, “Only reason I dissed you in the first place is because you denied seeing me. Now I’m pissed off.”
He doesn’t stop there. “You wanna hear something wick wack?/ I got the same exact [tattoo] that’s on Nick’s back,” the Detroit MC says a few seconds into his rap.
“Oh gee, is that supposed to be me in the video with the goatee?/ Wow Mariah, didn’t expect ya to go b—s out./ B—h, shut the f— up before I put all those phone calls out/ You made to my house/ When you was wilding out/ Before Nick, when you was on my di–.”
From there, Em goes onto graphically describe what he alleges was his one full sexual encounter with Carey, labels her a “liar” and other ugly names, and threatens to reveal personal pictures and phone messages he has of the singer. Eminem then plays bits of what sounds like it could be Carey’s voice at the end of song: The unidentified woman refers to herself as “Mary Poppins.”
“[If] you gonna ruin my career, you better get one,” Em advises Nick Cannon.
In recent weeks, all three parties have denied any hard feelings: When asked about his angry blog post about “Baghdad,” Cannon emphasized there was never any beef; Em has the song’s lyrics were “misinterpreted”; Carey and Cannon both denied that the male-stalker character she plays in the new video for “Obsessed” — a character with a striking resemblance to Eminem — was supposed to be a parody of Slim Shady.
Carey has denied having a previous relationship with Eminem; Eminem has insisted there was one.
“My wife doesn’t beef,” Cannon told MTV News recently. “She’s Mariah Carey. She’s not beefin’, she’s a vegetarian. People keep saying ['Obsessed'] was directed at certain people. To be completely honest, she did the record ’cause she’s a huge fan of this movie ‘Mean Girls,’ and there’s a line in the movie where one of the girls is like, ‘Why are you so obsessed with me?’ She says that at the beginning of the song, and that’s where the concept came from. But, you know, art imitates life.”
Carey told MTV News, “Everybody started having their own speculations about who the stalker [in the video] was. I’m like, look, when I look at that stalker and me with the beard and the whole nine yards, I look like my cousin Chris. I do. I look like my brother and my cousin Chris. So basically, you know, all the speculation about who I’m playing in the video, it’s not accurate.”
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Kanye West Watches While Naked Woman, Performance Artists Pay Tribute To 808s & Heartbreak
July 31, 2009 by admin
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West, unfazed by woman’s confrontational performance, seems to enjoy ‘Why Won’t You Let Me Be Great!!!’
By Jim Cantiello
Kanye West (file)
Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/ Getty Images
NEW YORK — Just hours before surprising fans by joining Clipse on stage at the Diesel party, Kanye West was sitting in the small Performance Space 122, watching a group of downtown performance artists pay tribute to his latest album 808s & Heartbreak.
In the new show, (named after a quote from one of Kanye’s fiery blog posts), post-modern dancers, video artists and cabaret legends reinterpret West’s highly personal 2008 album in fresh, and sometimes controversial, ways.
The show kicked off with an experimental animated film called “Say You Will (Kanye West at the Scale of My Household)” by Karinne Keithley, who is also renowned for her performance of Guns N’ Roses
Miniature horse figurines, snail shells and sweater buttons twirled around while 808s opener “Say You Will” was performed by female vocalists who sounded like avant-pop group CocoRosie.
Then, show co-creator Neal Medlyn appeared on stage and spazzed out to “Welcome to Heartbreak.” His dancing comprised of showing off his double-jointed thumbs and head-thrashing. What began as a silly display quickly turned into an eerie vision, as a naked woman emerged in the back of the stage and mimicked Neal’s increasingly harrowing movements.
The nude figure stayed for the album’s next track, “Heartless,” and was joined by several other dancers in a routine “constructed” by Christine Elmo. At one point, she contorted to make her upper torso seemingly disappear, thus making her appear literally heartless (as well as stomach-less, arm-less, and headless.) The sight of disembodied legs and buttocks slowly walking towards the audience was one of many unforgettable snapshots of the night.
The evening became tense and uncomfortable when notorious (and buck-naked) performance artist Ann Liv Young confronted Kanye personally, shouting that she didn’t think 808s was his best work, all the while grinding barbeque pork into her naked crotch (and then eating it). We all know Kanye is no stranger to confrontation and controversy, so perhaps Liv Young was paying tribute to that? In any case, the audience reacted with absolute horror during her “interpretation” of “Love Lockdown.” To Kanye’s credit, he barely flinched. (Liv Young rather shrewdly ended her performance by shouting, “I love your work with Common” before gathering her clothes — and pork products — and scurrying offstage.)
Thankfully, video artist Myles Kane defused the tension with a playful live-video-editing demonstration to Kanye’s “Paranoid.” Kane brilliantly manipulated video footage of “Robocop” and a blaxploitation flick, even intercutting between similar — and sometimes nearly identical — shots from the two disparate films. (The mood became even lighter once Varsity Interpretive Dance Squad bounded onstage, performing charmingly literal choreography to Kanye’s “RoboCop.”)
The final stretch of 808s — beginning with “Street Lights” — is especially dark and reflective. Thus, it was fitting that “Why Won’t You Let Me Be Great!!!” saved its most serious work for the end. Tony-nominated Kenny Mellman — of Kiki and Herb fame — delivered a gut-wrenching cover of “Street Lights” behind a piano while a woman’s sweater was slowly unraveled. Then, Dance Gang’s “Bad News” poetic choreography suggested that Kanye worked through his pain by evolving his art.
But it was Neal Medlyn’s grand finale that made the biggest impression on Kanye. Medlyn’s intensely emotional cover of album closer “Pinocchio’s Story” (while video of fireworks looped behind him) prompted West to seek out Neal after the show was over to tell him it moved him to tears. Medlyn and West talked for five minutes as the crowd of downtown artists looked in awe. The man they just paid tribute to was now paying tribute to one of their own.
Conceived by Medlyn, former “MTV Detox” producer Brendan Kennedy and the dance crew Catch, “Why Won’t You Let Me Be Great!!!” is appearing at PS122 in through Saturday.
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Michael Jackson Chef Says Tour Prep Was ‘Killing’ Him
July 31, 2009 by admin
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Kai Chase said Jackson looked good, but rehearsals were stressful.
By Gil Kaufman
Kai Chase
Photo: CBS
Investigators are still trying to piece together what happened in the days and hours before Michael Jackson died on June 25. But someone who witnessed the King of Pop’s last days said she saw the toll the intense rehearsals for the singer’s planned London comeback concerts were taking on the 50-year-old and that he said they were “killing” him.
Chef Kai Chase appeared on CBS’ “The Early Show” on Friday (July 31) and said that Jackson looked good and healthy in his final days, but that the grueling lead-up to the planned July 13 launch of the 50-show This Is It series at London’s O2 Arena was hard on his body.
“This tour was very important for him,” Chase said. “He [took] me to the side and told me, ‘You know, I really need you to make sure that I’m eating organic and healthy. I know you know what you’re doing, and I know you know what to do. That’s why you’re here. They’re killing me. They’re killing me. I’m working so much. I’m rehearsing a lot.’” Jackson’s father, Joseph Jackson, has claimed that the promoters of the concert series, AEG Live, were working his son too hard and that Jackson was not well enough to perform the string of shows.
Chase said Jackson was very excited about the shows and despite ample evidence that the singer was allegedly taking a number of prescription pain medications as well as the powerful anesthetic Propofol, she said she’d “never seen any evidence of drug use” at the rented Holmby Hills, California mansion Jackson was living in at the time of his death.
In light of revelations this week that police are investigation the 19 different aliases Jackson allegedly used to obtain prescription medications, Chase said she was “very shocked” to learn that her name was among the pseudonyms the singer was said to have used.
“This is all news to me. It’s unbelievable. It’s very shocking,” Chase said. She also gave one of the first glimpses at what happened on the morning Jackson died, saying the singer’s personal physician, cardiologist Dr. Conrad Murray, came downstairs 90 minutes later than usual that day to fetch the juices and granola that Jackson typically had every morning.
In an earlier interview with Chase said she got used to seeing Murray arrive at night and stay until after she left. When she would return the next morning, she described Murray coming down the steps carrying oxygen tanks, which officials believe might have been used in the administration of Propofol as a sleep aid for Jackson, who reportedly suffered from chronic insomnia. Murray is at the center of a manslaughter investigation and detectives are focusing on the use of the Propofol as a possible contributing factor in the singer’s death.
Chase said that when she arrived for work on the morning of the 25th, she suspected Jackson was sleeping late and began preparing lunch when Murray came down the steps a little past noon and began screaming for someone to fetch Jackson’s oldest son, Prince Michael.
“I walked into the hall and I saw the children there. The daughter [Paris] was crying. I saw paramedics running up the stairs,” she said. Soon after, Chase, the children, their nanny and a housekeeper held hands and began to pray quietly for Jackson’s safety. At 1:30, security guards told Chase and other staff members to leave the home because Jackson was being taken to the hospital.
Police served search warrants on Murray’s offices and home in Las Vegas this week and carted away evidence related to what they said was the potentially illegal prescription of medications to a known “addict,” seemingly referring to Jackson. Murray has not been named a suspect in the case, but police sources said earlier this week that he is the main focus of their manslaughter probe.
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Lil Wayne Still Working On Rebirth, Focusing On Young Money Label
July 30, 2009 by admin
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MC says he’ll release rock/hip-hop LP once his Young Money label is in order.
By Shaheem Reid
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Lil Wayne is in no rush to put out his Rebirth LP. The record’s release has been pushed back repeatedly, and no concrete date has been announced. Weezy says he’s been working on the LP, but he’s also been concentrating on getting his record company in order.
“Honestly, I’m just starting up this Young Money label and I’m trying to get my artists down right. Get everybody together,” Weezy told MTV News. “Once I got that together, then I could work back on me. I’m a very humble person. I know once I get to it, I’mma get to it. So like I was saying, it’s Young Money time, so making sure my artists get their just due.”
On Monday night, Wayne kicked off his latest tour, Young Money Presents: The America’s Most Wanted Music Festival. In addition to introducing his artists — from Drake to Nicki Minaj — throughout the show, Wayne carved out his own time with the audience. Weezy went from hip-hop to rock to pop during his set. He says the versatility of the music is indicative of what he’s offering on Rebirth.
“The Rebirth album is just me expressing myself without any boundaries. Without any margins, without any guidelines,” he said. “[I'm] trying to do something different. I told my record company, ‘Don’t tell me nothing about what I say. Don’t tell me nothing about what you hear. Just get behind me.’ That’s what Rebirth is.”
Wayne is on tour with the entire Young Money crew — as well as Young Jeezy, Soulja Boy Tell’em, Jeremih and Pleasure P — until September.
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‘The Hills’ Premiere Date Set
July 30, 2009 by admin
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New season, featuring Kristin Cavallari, will premiere September 29 at 10 p.m. on MTV.
By Jocelyn Vena
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Ready, set, drama! “The Hills,” minus Lauren Conrad, is set to return on September 29 at 10 p.m. on MTV. And when it does, a familiar face is set to make her comeback to reality TV. Of course, we mean Kristin Cavallari.
In addition to Cavallari’s return to MTV, Audrina Patridge, Lo Bosworth, Heidi Montag and husband Spencer Pratt are all expected to get caught up in what occasional “Hills” co-star Holly Montag described as the “whirlwind” known as Cavallari.
“I’ve seen a little, but honestly, she came in like a whirlwind ever since the first day at the wedding, the Speidi wedding,” Montag told MTV News.
And although Holly isn’t sure how to handle the ensuing drama, her brother-in-law, Spencer, welcomes the whirlwind to the show. “There wouldn’t be a ‘Hills’ if there wasn’t a Kristin Cavallari, because the ‘Laguna Beach’ brand wouldn’t have had the power,” Spencer said. “We still love Lauren, we’d love to have you come back on the show. But hey, you were the calm, quiet girl trying to steal Kristin’s boyfriend, the cool girl at the high school. So shout-out to the cool girl joining ‘The Hills’!”
Cavallari herself has been quite open about the stir she’s causing in the lives of the kids on the show and said that she felt it was time for her to come back.
“Well, I’m coming back for a few reasons,” Cavallari explained in May.
“One is they’ve been asking me to do ‘The Hills’ for a while now, and I just thought, what was the point of going on ‘The Hills’ when it was Lauren’s show and all it would really do is relive high school drama, which was ‘Laguna Beach.’ So I thought with Lauren leaving, it’s kind of the perfect time.”
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Exclusive: Spencer Smith Reveals New Members Of Panic! At The Disco
July 30, 2009 by admin
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Band carrying out Blink-182 tour dates with members of the Cab, the Brobecks.
By James Montgomery
Panic! at the Disco’s Spencer Smith and Brendon Urie
Photo: Jean Baptiste Lacroix/ WireImage
For two weeks, Spencer Smith sat idly by while his former bandmate, guitarist Ryan Ross, spoke at length about leaving Panic! at the Disco and venturing out on a career of his own. Late Wednesday (July 29), that all changed.
Smith spoke with MTV News about splitting with Ross and bassist Jon Walker — echoing Ross’ sentiments, he called the decision “beyond amicable” — and his and Brendon Urie’s decision to carry on under the Panic! at the Disco mantle.
“I suppose it’s inevitable that our two bands will always be linked now … sort of like what happened when Blink-182 split, with Angels & Airwaves and +44, or At the Drive-In split into Sparta and the Mars Volta,” Smith said. “But that’s just a media thing, really, a way to add something to the story. Brendon and I are still friends with Ryan and Jon, we really like their new band [the Young Veins], they really like our band, and we hope fans like both of them. There’s thousands of songs on my iPod, there’s room for both our bands on it.
“And with Brendon and I, really, there was never any doubt that we were going to carry on as Panic! Honestly, we wanted to move forward as the band,” Smith added. “We’re working on an album now that, hopefully, takes the best parts from both of our records … because we love them both and are really proud of them.”
But before Smith and Urie could move forward as Panic!, they had to come to terms with the past — something that’s proven to be tough, given the reaction most fans have had to the split.
“It’s one of those things where, it’s sad for us to know, but at the same time, it’s sort of heartwarming to know there’s people that love your band that much that they would genuinely be upset that we were splitting apart,” Smith said. “And I think that there was absolutely no way to get around that, and we have to keep reminding ourselves of that. And also knowing that it was the right decision, and as me and Brendon are moving forward and I’m sure Ryan and Jon are moving forward too. … It’s unfortunate that there’s no way to sort of get around the initial fan reaction, but it makes sense, and it’s amazing that they care about our band that much to really feel that way. Hopefully over the next few months, the music will amend that.”
Oh, and about that music. Smith revealed exclusively to MTV News that — for the immediate future, at least — he and Urie have tapped a pair of their friends to join the band for their upcoming dates with Blink-182. Replacing Ross on guitar is Ian Crawford, who spent time with Panic!’s Decaydance labelmates the Cab. And on bass, it’ll be singer/songwriter Dallon Weekes, mastermind behind Utah-based indie act the Brobecks.
“Yeah, we’ve taken on a couple of new guys for the tour. They’re friends, so the decision was easy. Plus, we’re really excited to play with them as musicians,” Smith said. “Ian is probably the most talented guitar player that me and Brendon have ever played with, and Dallon is a really nice guy and a really great bassist. It’s new. Like I said, we’re really excited.”
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