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CIARA MAINTAINS CURRENT MANAGEMENT

Well, guys...Ciara ain't going with Jimmy Henchmen's Czar
Entertainment! I'll tell you some people have no idea was going on (that's me). Here is a statement from the real management, "The rumor about Ciara going with Czar Entertainment is absolutely not true. Ciara has been long time managed by Phillana Williams, who happens to also be Senior Vice President of Marketing for Island Def
Jam." I heard the phone lines went crazy off of that, so now there is no reason to call.

FOXY'S UNEXPECTED VISITOR

Last night Foxy Brown had a birthday party (even though her birthday passed) and it was off the heezy. I was told by a couple people that at least half of Brooklyn was in that club. Anway, Foxy came through driving the Bentley with Kim Osorio, formerly of The Source. But, there was some weirdness when Maino got in. I heard that Foxy'x camp
wasn't too pleased with that. Nobody knows if Foxy found out about Maino being there or why he was there. Despite Maino's presence, I heard Foxy had a lot of fun. This was apparently her last public appearance until she gets surgery for hearing loss. Oh, why wouldn't anybody want Maino at a Foxy Brown party? I think its because Maino
is extremely cool with Lil' Kim and Lil'Kim and Fox Boogie are extremely not cool. Comprehende?

D'ANGELO IS ALIVE

If you didn't see it yet, D'Angelo isn't dead or critically injured. Those were really bad rumors. He was in a car accident, but he's cool. So many people got a bad report initially and it just spread like wildfire. Anyway, he is home and chillin' in the crib recovering.

I HEARD JOHN LEGEND HAS A…

Ladyfriend. Yep, that's right. For those of you that thought he was some sort of DL dude, think again. The word on the rumor block is John Legend is dating Jackie Reid of BET News. Now, who the devil would start a rumor like that? I can't imagine that pairing being false, even though I don't know if it is or not. I just think it's so far-fetched that it's realistic. And, Ms. Reid is fly, fly, fly. They might have ended her run on Nightly News, but somebody knows how to keep me thinking about Jackie.

GUCCI MANE ASSAULTED IN JAIL?

Aw man…rumors are getting brutal now. I am hearing that Gucci Mane was assaulted in prison yesterday and his lawyer is trying to have him reassigned. Word is some convicted murderer with nothing to lose allegedly attacked him yesterday. Now, Gucci is alive, but I heard that he might have lost a tooth or two. Damn, shame if this is true.
I also got word that his label may have been raided again – what the business is with that? (You love my Southern slang, right?) Seriously, the unconfirmed word is that Gucci feels there is a hit on him and is seeking to get out of that jail. Who would want to hurt Gucci Mane if he is actually hurt?

LIL' KIM IS GOING OUT LIKE A SOLDIER!

I heard that Lil' Kim had a huge bash the night before she went to jail! It was full of people like Mary J. Blige, Fredro Starr, Sticky Fingaz of Onyx, Maino, Freddie Foxxx, Swizz Beatz, the staff at Atlantic and more. RIDERS TO THE END! I heard she got smashed and had mad fun before the big day! Now, the word I got was that the ladies at the Philly prison facility were cheering for Kim as she came inside. Just love. My prayers go out to her. This is pure
speculation, but the New York Daily News suggested that Dave Mays was dating Kim's manager Hillary and he's been extremely supportive. AHH has been supportive too, but I didn't get any invite to the party! Anyway, the word is out that Kim's got that fire-fire in The Naked Truth (out Sept. 27th). Now, I got an exclusive from my homey DJ SoLID of the Mixape Warriors! Its called "Quiet" featuring The
Game and I think she's attacking Foxy Brown. You have to cut and paste the link below to hear it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PKVQ8Y9K

AN ADDITION TO HOV'S WRATH!

Tio Ron out in California wants to know why R.Kelly wasn't included your "Jay-Z's wrath" list. I've been told that Kelly is on the warpath with this lawsuit against Jay-Z and had traveled to New York to handle his biz. The rumor is, He's not letting it go even though he's in his own legal quandary. Well, we'll just have to see what happens, because I don't know anything.

FREE, FREE – I LOVE YOU FREE!

I can't help it. I can't get this chick out of my mind! Ciara? BLAH! Keyshia Cole? TOO RUGGED! Foxy Brown? TAKEN! Martha "M.Diddy" Stewart? TOO HOOD! There was a Free sighting down in Atlanta! Apparently, Nas and Ludacris had a Virgo party and Free was in the place to be. She was "nice" in her element with all the party
people. Now, if I knew, I would have gone to ATL for that. I need my Free! Anyway, I will keep you in tune with all things Free as long as there is air in my lungs and love in my heart.

They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry!

-illseed
Ring 'Em Out, Ring 'Em Out!
Not only is Southern rhyme-spitter T.I. trapping platinum albums,he's also trapping gold with his ring tones. Cell-phone users have
downloaded more than 500,000 music tones from the rapper's album Urban Legend. Meanwhile, Usher's Confessions album has yielded 1
million ring tones sold, while Ciara's Goodies and Destiny's Child's Destiny Fulfilled have generated 500,000 ring-tone downloads each.
PR Newswire

Chris' Wonder Years
Chris Rock has gotten the green light to produce a comedy pilot for UPN called Everybody Hates Chris. The funnyman will narrate the
single-camera pilot, which follows a young teen and his experiences inside a predominately white school in Brooklyn during the '80s.
Meanwhile, Chris can be seen next in the prison comedy The Longest Yard, which tackles theaters May 27. The Hollywood Reporter/Reuters

C-Murder's Bid for a Retrial Rejected
Corey "C-Murder" Miller was denied a new trial last week by the Louisiana state appeals court and is now scheduled for a sentencing hearing on second-degree murder charges. The rhyme-slinger was convicted for the 2003 shooting death of a 16-year-old clubgoer in New Orleans, and faces a mandatory life sentence in prison without parole. C-Murder's attorney Ron Rakosky says he might appeal the decision. AP/Billboard.com

Robot Love
The computer-generated animated flick Robots, featuring the voice of Halle Berry, ruled this weekend's box office by grossing $36 million. Vin Diesel's family comedy The Pacifier followed in second place with $18.2 million. Be Cool, which stars John Travolta and Cedric the Entertainer, took the third spot with $10.3 million.
E! Online

Caribbean Idol
Fantasia will set herself free in the Caribbean. The R&B songbird is among the artists confirmed to perform at the annual St. Lucia Jazz Festival. Also joining Fantasia for some fun, sun and music are the Isley Brothers (featuring Ron Isley), New Edition and sax man DaveKoz. The music festival runs April 29-May 8. AP/ABC News

Crew: The Junior M.A.F.I.A.

Representing: BK to the fullest and B.I.G. forever!
DVD: "The Chronicles of Junior M.A.F.I.A."
411: "My sister went to sleep with my brother," "God don't care how many records you sold" and P. Diddy is a "selfish mutha----a" are all some of the revelations that people such as Lil' Cease, the Junior M.A.F.I.A. and Mase share in this new DVD.

The disc goes in depth into the M.A.F.I.A.'s story from the last decade plus. We see their origins with the Notorious B.I.G. to their
falling out with Lil' Kim to what they say really sparked the Death Row/ Bad Boy feud. The great thing about the M.A.F.I.A. is that they
appear to have videotaped everything. Word on the street is that the DVD was put together by editing just six videotapes. The crew is said to have way more footage, and they are already working on a part two.

There's some real exclusive stuff here, such as behind-the-scenes in the Bad Boy locker room during Summer Jam '97. It was really a family atmosphere. You see Mase sitting between Styles of the LOX and Black Rob. "Check me at the God hour," Mase keeps yelling into the camera for no apparent reason. There's also Lil' Kim chilling and laughing with Carl Thomas, and even a bald-headed Cam'ron was in the mix, peeping game.

Joints To Check For:
B.I.G. in the studio. Unfortunately this is all too brief, and Biggie appearances are all too sparse on the DVD, but wow. To see Big in the studio doing his thing while recording"Respect" and "Warning" is remarkable. The M.A.F.I.A. even tell the real story behind the song "Who Shot Ya." According to them, it was originally
supposed to be a posse cut with Big, Keith Murray and LL Cool J, but Big murdered two verses and took over.


Why Kim left the M.A.F.I.A. It just doesn't seem right to mention the JM without Lil' Kim, but the once-cohesive unit is no longer as
one, and Kim is definitely not messing with her former crew. As they tell it, the falling-out started when Kim started having an affair
with M.A.F.I.A. member D-Roc. Roc threw Kim out of his house one day, and Cease, who was present, would not open the door for her to
return ("I was gonna stay out of it," he says).


The loss of B.I.G. and Tupac. It gets so surreal here. Cease tells about the night when Tupac got shot in New York in 1995 at
Manhattan's Quad Studio during a botched robbery. Cease claims that Tupac's assailants did not shoot him five times. In fact, he
alleges, Pac shot himself in the groin when he was reaching for his gun. Cease also infers that the shooting must have scared the
robbers and that's when they shot him.

Cease and company also reveal stories of when Pac and Big were close friends, and the leader of Thug Life used to come and hang out in
Brooklyn.

The M.A.F.I.A. also detailed the night of Big's death, shooting footage in L.A. and recreating the ride in the Suburban when he was shot. The most heartbreaking moment of the DVD comes when Cease explains that he always heard that when someone dies, they defecate on themselves. After the shooting, when Big was being pulled out of the Suburban, Cease noticed a large wet spot on Biggie's pants.

For a long time, Cease refused to go to the hospital, but finally entered when it was confirmed that Biggie was dead.


Don't Sleep: Other Notable Selections This Week

DJ Lennox's Live Big
Mista Rello & Jadel's Sexy Music, Volume 3
E-Nyce's Premo Beats: Hip-Hop Legend Joey Fingaz & DJ Moet's MY Hood A Tu Barrio
DJ Kay Slay's Protect Ya Neck (hosted by Ron Artest)

'Hood's Heavy Rotation: Bubbling Below The Radar "Number One Spot" by Ludacris
"More Reasons" by Cam'ron "Get Ya Sh-- Together" by T.I. featuring Lil' Kim
"Mello" by Freeway
"Oh Baby" by Memphis Bleek
"The Wolves" by Ghostface

Celebrity Favs
Common, one of Chicago's finest, is currently working on some thought-provoking musical stew to be served up in 2005. He says big up to the true school. "I usually go back and listen to a lot of old hip-hop to inspire me, whether it be Nas' Illmatic or Only Built for Cuban Links by Raekwon. Some of the songs I liked that came out this year are 'Jesus Walks' [and] 'Why.' I like Nas. I'mma go get his album today. That's some of the good hip-hop to me. People say hip-
hop is dead. Nah, that ain't what it is. It's still some good hip-hop out there."

The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground 
Ja rules, but we're not talking about Jeffrey Atkins. We're speaking of Juelz Santana's 5-year-old nephew Ja'quaye, who is nicknamed
Young Ja. Ja appears, singing, "Y'all got a problem, his name is Santana/ You don't wanna play around, we'll squeeze them hammers" on
Juelz's new theme song, "S.A.N.T.A.N.A." Ja also stole the show last Tuesday in Harlem, getting onstage at the Apollo Theater and
performing with the Diplomats for the first time ever.

Santana says he's not at all surprised by how his relative has been able to handle himself.

"That's my dude; he's a young me," 19-year-old Santana beamed. "He's a young star. He's got that swagger. He'll come up to you and be
like, 'What's good? What's poppin?' It's like hanging out with a cool-ass 15-year-old. He's only 5! I see something in him. Everybody
that's ever ran into him says he's a star."

Santana says the light bulb went off in his head to musically connect with his nephew after seeing the tyke vibe to his records.

"He be boppin' to some of my hard songs," Juelz described. "He showed me kids listen to hard music. I said if I had him on my hard song, the kids will love it, and my fans will love it. Sometimes I just go to that dude for
inspiration, just like some older rappers I
know watch me. For you to stay fresh, you gotta get with what's young, what's coming into style."

Young Ja will be appearing a couple of times on Santana's upcoming solo LP, and Juelz says his young homie is being groomed right now
to rap, should he want a career on the mic.

"He's seeing things," Juelz laughs. "It's happening, but it's not going too fast. I don't want him to get overwhelmed by this sh--."

Talib Kweli is back on the streets this week. He just released his The Beautiful Mixtape Volume 2: The Struggle Continues. The disc has
15 new Kweli joints, including a bunch of songs first leaked on an unfinished version of his official album, The Beautiful Struggle, earlier this year. Kweli's not one to be boxed in by labels, so he does his thing with the likes of Snoop, the Game, Ghostface, Ludacris, Common, Saigon and David Banner. Check "Tryin' to
Breathe," with Killa Mike, produced by the Midi Mafia, the best song Kweli left off his album. 

Just Blaze has finally settled on a home for his Ft. Knox Entertainment. One of Jay-Z's favorite producers to work with has just inked a deal with Atlantic Records to release Saigon's long-awaited debut The Greatest Story Never Told for sometime in 2005. Of course Just is doing a bulk of the production, and the word on the street is that Saigon, who has been devouring mixtapes for the past few years, is almost done. Do ya thing, kid!

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