Kanye West once claimed he was OG, but it seems his designs are not. Photographer Jim Goldberg is accusing the rapper of ripping off a denim jacket that belonged to Tweeky Dave, a homeless, drug-addicted teen who was the subject of a book Goldberg published in 1995 entitled Raised By Wolves . The jacket in question is being sold for $400 at Kanye’s pop-up shop in Manhattan and features handwritten messages that appear to have been penned in permanent marker all over the front, back and sleeves. Goldberg included an iconic photo of Dave’s jacket in the book, and Kanye wore a replica of the garment at New York Fashion Week in February. Both the original jacket (seen above on the left) and the one Kanye wore notably displayed the words “F**k off and die” in bold print underneath the back collar. The piece Kanye wore was designed by Australian artist Pauly Bonomelli, who credited Goldberg and the now-deceased Dave for his design inspiration. However, when Kanye released similar jackets as part of his line, no credit was given. Goldberg, who now owns Dave’s original jacket, expressed his frustration with Yeezy in an interview with i-D magazine. “For the jacket to become sold as fashion – it really put me over the edge,” he said. “The spirit and intention of Kanye could be right, but the manner in which he is presenting it is wrong,” he added. “All meaning has been lost. [He’s] forgetting history – not acknowledging where that design came from is wrong.” The photographer drove the point home even further when he shared a pic of the Yeezy replicas on a rack to Instagram. “Tweeky Dave would be rolling over in his grave #yeezy #pablo #tlop,” he wrote in the caption. View Slideshow: Yeezy Season 3: 17 Hottest Photos From Kanye West’s Fashion Show!
The last time we heard from him, Bam Margera was getting beat up after trash-talking some random Europeans while on tour doing…whatever it is Bam Margera does on tour. So when Bam popped up on the debut season of VH1’s Family Therapy a few weeks ago, we weren’t surprised to see that he’s since admitted he has a problem with alcohol. We were a bit surprised by his choice of sober companion: Bam Margera & Michael Lohan on Family Therapy Yes, that’s Bam bonding with Michael Lohan, which – fun fact – is actually far more dangerous than any stunt he ever pulled on Jackass . Much of the the show is typical VH1 trainwreck-rubbernecking disguised as an earnest attempt to help some C- and D-listers battle their demons, and that’s fine. The insane relationship between Tiffany “New York” Pollard and her mother is enough to justify the series’ existence. But Margera and Lohan both take the show from typical guilty-pleasure reality TV to disturbing glimpse into the minds of some very troubled men. Many fans have noted (with an upsetting amount of schadenfreude) that Bam no longer resembles the slender, energetic daredevil his fans knew and loved. Lohan, on the other hand, is exactly as we remember him: He’s still terrorizing Dina Lohan , who, in turn is still lying about everything she can, including her well-documented habit of doing coke with her daughter . We don’t think VH1 bargained for quite this much sadness when they picked this roster of celebs. View Slideshow: Michael Lohan: Breakin’ the Law!
Forget Jackass . Bam Margera unintentionally found himself on an episode of Jacking Off Bare Ass last night. Here’s what went down: Law enforcement insiders tell TMZ that Margera dialed 911 after he was awoken by a naked woman kissing him inside his Pennsylvania bedroom. Weird, right? It gets weirder… When Bam was on the phone, the 24-year old intruder drooped to the floor and started to touch herself. Yes, like that! Margera reportedly hung up and kicked the birthday-suited female out of his home. When the cops arrived, they found her in the area surrounding the mansion and arrested her on the spot. She now faces charges of burglary, criminal trespass, and stalking. So the only question that remains: Does anyone know where Tila Tequila was last night?
‘Jackass’ alum tweets a picture of himself from a hospital bed after hernia operation. By Terri Schwartz Bam Margera Photo: Frazer Harrison/ Getty Images Bam Margera is a daredevil on and offscreen. The “Jackass” alum took a 100-foot tandem kayak jump off a waterfall in Oregon with pro kayaker Steve Fisher Wednesday and lived to tell the tale. However, he did have to undergo a hernia operation Thursday as a result. Margera tweeted a picture from his hospital bed showing him a bit out of it and hooked up to medical machines but still giving a thumbs-up to show that he’s all right. Though he was originally supposed to appear at an art show in Pennsylvania on Friday night (June 1), the 32-year-old had to cancel his plans, tweeting , “Can’t make it to the show tonight, in hospital still. Phil, Ape & Boof will be there. Stop by if your in WC.” It’s unclear if Fisher was also injured in the fall, but we would guess that Margera would reference it if that was the case. Fisher also has a Twitter but hasn’t used it in years. This isn’t the first time Margera’s stunts have gotten him in trouble. Back in February, he was arrested after jumping into a pool fully clothed during Mardi Gras in New Orleans and refusing to get out. He ended up not getting a ticket because, according to him, the police didn’t know what to charge him with. “I was just swimming in a pool with all my clothes on, and I refused to get out,” he told E! Online . “No ticket. They just wanted to f— with me, drunk Mardi Gras nonsense.”
‘@CeeLoGreen will no longer be a part of #LOUDtour due 2 commitment with ‘The Voice’,’ singer tweeted. By Jocelyn Vena J. Cole Photo: Jason Merritt/ Getty Images Rihanna has found a new man to be her official tour opener. After Cee Lo Green had to drop out of the singer’s Loud tour due to other commitments, the “California King Bed” designated J. Cole as the “Forget You” singer’s replacement. Rihanna announced via Twitter that rapper J. Cole, who was already on the road with the singer, will fill Green’s shoes as her main warm-up act on the tour, which began this month. “#GOODNEWS @JColeNC is our new official opener!” she wrote on Tuesday night. “@CeeLoGreen will no longer be a part of #LOUDtour due 2 commitment with ‘The Voice’ #Cantmissit.” Green had to leave when his schedule became too crammed with other commitments, including his judging gig on the hit NBC talent competition “The Voice,” which is also presenting a tour this summer. “He always puts 100 percent into his work and with the requirements and time commitment to ‘The Voice,’ on top of heading back into the recording studio and an upcoming book, he feels that he wouldn’t give his fans the show that they deserve,” Green’s spokesperson said, according to The New York Times . Rihanna’s Loud tour travels the U.S. through July 24 before heading to Europe in August. It’s set to wrap up in late December. There was a similar switch-up for Rihanna’s Last Girl on Earth Tour in 2010, when Nicki Minaj pulled out at the last minute and was quickly replaced with Travie McCoy. Ke$ha also opened on that tour. Related Artists Rihanna J. Cole Cee Lo Green
‘You’re gonna kill yourself, man,’ Margera recalled warning ‘Jackass’ co-star about his driving. By Gil Kaufman Ryan Dunn and Bam Margera Photo: Peter Kramer/ Getty Images A week after attending a memorial service for his friend and “Jackass” co-star Ryan Dunn , Bam Margera sat down for an interview with E! Online to discuss the car accident that took the lives of Dunn and friend Zachary Hartwell and talk about the final message he got from his fellow daredevil. “He was my best f—ing friend in the world. It’s been five days now, and I can’t stop crying, man,” Margera said. “I just don’t think it should’ve been him.” Looking drawn and tired, with wife Melissa Rothstein by his side holding his hand, Margera said the phone call he received about the accident was “pretty much the worst news I’ve ever heard in my life.” The call came while he was asleep in Arizona, with Margera’s friends urging him to get on the line with his brother right away to discuss the news. Sounding and looking a bit woozy, Margera remembered that he was a passenger in a car Dunn was driving in 1996 that flew off the road in the same spot. “He flipped me in a car eight times at the same exact spot in 1996,” Margera recalled. “Thank God I had my seat belt on, because [“Jackass” contributor] Chris Raab put one on me, but my brother didn’t have one on. He flew 40 feet. Thank God he’s alive. But like, Dunn was always a maniac at driving.” Asked to recall the final words he spoke with Dunn, Margera pulled out his phone and read a series of texts the pals exchanged on the night that Dunn drank with friends at a Pennsylvania bar. “Are you all right, need me to come over there and get people out of there?” he read, laughing about a string of jokes the two had shared over the legal travails of former baseball star Lenny Dykstra. “Stopping for a beer, be there when I can,” read the final message he got from Dunn, who was annoyed by the local traffic in West Chester, Pennsylvania, that night due to a local running event. He also revealed that the high-speed crash — police estimate that Dunn was driving in excess of 130 m.p.h. in a 55 zone and had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit at the time — was just a block or so from Hartwell’s house. “And he must have just missed the exit,” Margera speculated. “He should have just f—ing turned around, but he skidded out and ran right into a thing … and seeing all these burnt, f—ing pieces of tree … that was tough for me. I went twice.” Asked if the press focus on Dunn’s blood-alcohol level is a “disservice” to the stuntman’s memory, Margera said, “That doesn’t really matter at all. … First of all, I’ll say it about myself, it will take me three beers to even feel normal. If you drink three beers and then three girlie shots, whatever, it has nothing to do with that. He is a maniac in a car. He has a goddamn Porsche and he drives fast.” Margera went on to explain that Dunn’s Porsche was the “lightest one possible,” outfitted with a Lamborghini engine, a turbo booster and nitro boosts, which he said caused the car to fishtail when it sped down the road. “I said, ‘You’re gonna go right into a pole, dude,’ ” he recalled warning Dunn. ” ‘You’re gonna kill yourself, man,’ ” he responded when Dunn joked that he was a race car driver. If he could go back to that night, Margera said he would have told Dunn, “Give me your goddamn keys, you idiot.” Related Videos Remembering Ryan Dunn Related Photos Fans Pay Tribute To Ryan Dunn Ryan Dunn: A Career In Photos
‘You’re gonna kill yourself, man,’ Margera recalled warning ‘Jackass’ co-star about his driving. By Gil Kaufman Ryan Dunn and Bam Margera Photo: Peter Kramer/ Getty Images A week after attending a memorial service for his friend and “Jackass” co-star Ryan Dunn , Bam Margera sat down for an interview with E! Online to discuss the car accident that took the lives of Dunn and friend Zachary Hartwell and talk about the final message he got from his fellow daredevil. “He was my best f—ing friend in the world. It’s been five days now, and I can’t stop crying, man,” Margera said. “I just don’t think it should’ve been him.” Looking drawn and tired, with wife Melissa Rothstein by his side holding his hand, Margera said the phone call he received about the accident was “pretty much the worst news I’ve ever heard in my life.” The call came while he was asleep in Arizona, with Margera’s friends urging him to get on the line with his brother right away to discuss the news. Sounding and looking a bit woozy, Margera remembered that he was a passenger in a car Dunn was driving in 1996 that flew off the road in the same spot. “He flipped me in a car eight times at the same exact spot in 1996,” Margera recalled. “Thank God I had my seat belt on, because [“Jackass” contributor] Chris Raab put one on me, but my brother didn’t have one on. He flew 40 feet. Thank God he’s alive. But like, Dunn was always a maniac at driving.” Asked to recall the final words he spoke with Dunn, Margera pulled out his phone and read a series of texts the pals exchanged on the night that Dunn drank with friends at a Pennsylvania bar. “Are you all right, need me to come over there and get people out of there?” he read, laughing about a string of jokes the two had shared over the legal travails of former baseball star Lenny Dykstra. “Stopping for a beer, be there when I can,” read the final message he got from Dunn, who was annoyed by the local traffic in West Chester, Pennsylvania, that night due to a local running event. He also revealed that the high-speed crash — police estimate that Dunn was driving in excess of 130 m.p.h. in a 55 zone and had a blood-alcohol level twice the legal limit at the time — was just a block or so from Hartwell’s house. “And he must have just missed the exit,” Margera speculated. “He should have just f—ing turned around, but he skidded out and ran right into a thing … and seeing all these burnt, f—ing pieces of tree … that was tough for me. I went twice.” Asked if the press focus on Dunn’s blood-alcohol level is a “disservice” to the stuntman’s memory, Margera said, “That doesn’t really matter at all. … First of all, I’ll say it about myself, it will take me three beers to even feel normal. If you drink three beers and then three girlie shots, whatever, it has nothing to do with that. He is a maniac in a car. He has a goddamn Porsche and he drives fast.” Margera went on to explain that Dunn’s Porsche was the “lightest one possible,” outfitted with a Lamborghini engine, a turbo booster and nitro boosts, which he said caused the car to fishtail when it sped down the road. “I said, ‘You’re gonna go right into a pole, dude,’ ” he recalled warning Dunn. ” ‘You’re gonna kill yourself, man,’ ” he responded when Dunn joked that he was a race car driver. If he could go back to that night, Margera said he would have told Dunn, “Give me your goddamn keys, you idiot.” Related Videos Remembering Ryan Dunn Related Photos Fans Pay Tribute To Ryan Dunn Ryan Dunn: A Career In Photos
‘I’m glad that he went on because O’Reilly just calls out rappers a lot,’ one music journo tells MTV News of the outspoken MC’s Fox News appearance. By Rob Markman Lupe Fiasco on “The O’Reilly Factor” Photo: FOX Lupe Fiasco won’t back down. After he labeled U.S. President Barak Obama a “terrorist” and questioned U.S. foreign policy, the Chicago rapper appeared on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor” on Monday to duke it out with conservative political pundit Bill O’Reilly. Though it was thoroughly hyped before its broadcast, the five-and-a-half-minute pre-taped debate was a bit of a letdown for Rap Radar’s digital content director, Brian “B. Dot” Miller. “The thing is it wasn’t live; Lupe probably said a whole lot of things that were edited,” Miller said. “But the points that were expressed, I felt like he had a good argument. I wish it could’ve gone on a little bit longer, but that’s the power of TV.” Adam Fleischer, XXL magazine’s music editor, also agreed that the way the debate was edited detracted from the end result. “I’m glad that he went on because O’Reilly just calls out rappers a lot, [and] then they don’t usually get a chance to speak for themselves,” he said. “[But] I would like to see the whole interview because it was so clear that things were chopped up. They were switching from clip to clip.” Vibe magazine Senior Editor Clover Hope, on the other hand, didn’t mind the segments, though she, too, is interested in seeing what was left on the cutting-room floor. “I didn’t really notice [the editing] too much. I wish they would’ve pointed it to the Web though,” she said. After Lupe made those controversial comments about Obama and declined the TV host’s initial invitation to appear on his Fox show, ‘O’Reilly called the rapper a “pinhead.” But last night Lupe stood strong, clarifying, then defending his position. “The statement that I made, which was, ‘I believe that the biggest terrorist, Obama and the United States of America and its foreign policy, that was what the whole context of everything was,” Lupe pointed out on the show. “And it’s really just an expression of me trying to understand critically, the society.” O’Reilly, who is often critical of the president, came to Obama’s defense, saying that Lupe’s fans aren’t “exactly political science PHDs,” but rather “impressionable kids.” O’Reilly added that the responsibility of the president is to protect the country and that Obama was doing that through “aggressive action.” Both agreed that the death of Osama Bin Laden was a legitimate action. Fiasco went on to assert that the aim of the war in Afghanistan was to go in and find Bin Laden, which O’Reilly then charged was in effect an oversimplification of the war. “I thought he actually did a good job of holding his own and clarifying that point that he just wasn’t talking about Obama, just America as an institution,” Hope said about Lupe’s overall performance. “I just think it’s too complicated to reduce it to ‘Lupe thinks Obama is a terrorist.’ ” The debate wrapped on a light-hearted note when O’Reilly and Lupe joked about changing the show’s name to “The Fiasco Factor.” “I don’t think one necessarily got the best of the other,” Fleischer said. “O’Reilly had home-court advantage so he kind of controls the narrative, but Lupe held his own.” “I don’t think anybody necessarily won that debate,” Hope agreed. “They kind of both talked.” What did you think of Lupe’s performance on the Fox News show? Sound off in the comments! Related Artists Lupe Fiasco
From sewage-diving to corn-sledding, the late star’s antics were sure to make viewers laugh and gasp. By Gil Kaufman Ryan Dunn in “Fisherman’s Wharf” on “Jackass” Photo: MTV He was one of the less outspoken members of the “Jackass” crew, but late, bearded prankster Ryan Dunn made up in destruction and indelible stunts what he lacked in loudmouth bravado. The 34-year-old skateboarder, who died in an early morning car crash on Monday in Pennsylvania, stood his ground alongside such fellow daredevils as Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera and Steve-O in the “Jackass” TV show and movies, as well as on his 2005 MTV anti-home-improvement show “Homewreckers,” the Margera-led spin-offs “Viva La Bam” and “Bam’s Unholy Union,” and his recently launched G4 show, “Proving Ground.” While some of the “Jackass” crew were known for placing themselves in front of paintball firing squads, walking on giant stilts off diving platforms or staging elaborate pranks on passersby, Dunn’s “specialty” was riding BMX bikes into muddy creeks, getting slathered with nasty fish and human excrement and being dragged behind four-wheelers on all the wrong sleds. In memory of Dunn, we decided to take a look back at some of his most memorable TV moments. (Head over to the Movies Blog for highlights from Dunn’s “Jackass” movie career .) “Poo Dive” When MTV News sat down with the crew last fall, the “Jackass” stars agreed that one of their all-time favorite stunts was Dunn’s first one for the original TV show, in which he dove into a tank of sewage. “I loved when [Bam Margera] made Ryan jump into the poo factory, the ‘Poo Dive’ I think we called it,” creator Jeff Tremaine said. ” ‘Cause that was horrible, but the best part was … revealing his tattoos that we didn’t know about. That was the first time we ever met Ryan.” Dunn made his infamous dive while wearing just tighty whities that were duct taped onto his body and a snorkel. Though pal Bam Margera was grossed out by the floaters, Dunn called the dive, “exhilarating … my skin is silky smooth!” See photos of Ryan Dunn throughout his career. “Why do I always do the jobs that make me smell real bad?” Dunn lamented as he agreed to dive into 32-degree water in San Francisco. After being tossed into a giant vat of sardines while wearing a black peacoat and fisherman’s cap, Dunn emerged covered in slime, only to sit in an empty tank and get covered in sardine juice and a torrent of tiny fish. “Snake River BMX” Among Ryan’s best bike gags on “Jackass” was the one when he tried to ride a crappy banana-seat bike up a ramshackle ramp and over a freezing, boggy creek. He never got close to hitting the landing ramp on the other side and eventually the cops arrived to break up the party. “Corn Sledding” Ryan looked supremely confident as he was pulled by a four-wheeler on a plastic sled through a cornfield at high speeds on “Jackass.” He was impressively able to hang on for long periods and even got a bit patriotic when he was handed an American flag to wave on his ride. He finally bailed after being pulled over a hill and smashing his tailbone. Remember Ryan Dunn with us on our Facebook page. “Ice Barrel Jumping” Dunn donned a blue unitard and matching crash helmet for a “Jackass”-staged barrel jumping competition against Big Brother magazine editor in chief Dave Carnie. He made it pretty easily over two barrels but got racked hard when the tally was upped to five. While Carnie easily cleared the hurdles, Dunn repeatedly landed on the cold, hard ice, eventually getting smashed over the head with a metal pail by Carnie. “Office Chairs” Wearing his best regular-guy drag (a lame suit and tie and nerdy eyeglasses), Dunn rode an office chair down a skate ramp in a joust with fellow “Jackass” and CKY regular Brandon DiCamillo. The pals smashed into each other in spectacular fashion over and over. Dunn later tried the trick while sitting behind a desk complete with computer and monitor. “Hot Dog BMX” Again taking his chances on a skate ramp, Dunn donned a hot dog suit and rode his BMX bike down into a spectacular crash. In true “Jackass” fashion, as he lays prone, a crew member runs up and squirts mustard in his mouth and all over his face. Do you have a favorite Ryan Dunn stunt? Let us know or share your thoughts in comments below. Related Videos Remembering Ryan Dunn Related Photos Ryan Dunn: A Career In Photos
