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Exclusive: N.O.R.E. Responds To Jumping Account In Prodigy’s Book

‘There are certain things that you’re not supposed to talk about,’ Nore tells MTV News of Mobb Deep MC. By Rob Markman N.O.R.E. Photo: MTV News Despite Prodigy’s account in his new book “My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy,” Queens rapper N.O.R.E. insists that he isn’t the shook one he is depicted to be. In the “Hell on Earth” chapter, Prodigy recounts an incident when members of his entourage jumped Nore in front of a Queens club, which led Noreaga and his crew to retaliate immediately with gunfire. For the full excerpt, head to MTV News’ RapFix blog , but here are a few salient lines from Prodigy’s book: “Come over here so we can talk,” [rapper Ty] Nitty told [Nore], putting his arm around N.O.R.E.’s neck and walking him into the street. After a few steps, Nitty started punching N.O.R.E. in the face while he had him in a headlock. N.O.R.E. dropped to the ground and the crew jumped him. Gotti, Havoc, and I stood by the trucks and watched them beat the clothes off that boy. Man, I never saw somebody get jumped so bad! In an exclusive interview with MTV News, Nore — who is dropping the free online mixtape NORE-Easter on Sunday — admitted that some of Prodigy’s accounts are true. Still, he expressed his overall disappointment in the Mobb Deep rapper’s decision to drum up old beefs. “There are certain things that you’re not supposed to talk about,” Nore said. “Now, I didn’t read the book and I don’t read where he’s going crazy. I read the little inserts where he [talked] about the jumping incident. Let me just clear the record up and say: None of the things that it says in the book would ever make me go at him. I’m not gonna see him and try to throw him in the full nelson.” Nore does admit to getting jumped that night in Queens, which he estimates occurred in either 1996 or ’97. “I did get jumped. They jumped me with 40 people,” he recalled. “If you ever see 40 people jump on one man, that one man never gets touched, because most of those 40 people are hitting each other. You can’t hit the target. I got up.” Next is where the two rappers’ accounts differ. In the book, Prodigy said that during the beat-down, N.O.R.E. was stripped of his chain. “I never got robbed in my life,” Nore fired back. Prodigy also said that the “Super Thug” rapper and his crew came back with a TEC-9; Nore said it was a 9mm. In the aftermath of the gunfire, Mobb Deep affiliate Ty Nitty was left shot in the back. “Why would you bring up something where your man got shot?” Nore asked. “I thought you would be cool with Ty Nitty. I like Ty Nitty.” Nore also revealed that he spoke to longtime friend and frequent collaborator Prodigy just a few days ago, and P assured N.O.R.E. that only positive things were written about him in the book. “When I spoke to him the other day, he said, ‘Yo, I only spoke about good things about you in the book, and when you see the book, you’ll realize that,’ ” Nore recalled. “I said, ‘Yo, P, first off, nobody can really make me change on you, because I know you.’ I know him personally. We’re cool. We speak.” The Queens MC doesn’t expect things to change between him and Prodigy, but he felt he had to respond. “I don’t know why he would bring up a situation where they clearly lost,” he said. Stick with MTV News for more on N.O.R.E.’s respond to Prodigy’s book. Related Artists N.O.R.E. Prodigy of Mobb Deep

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Justin Bieber to Celebrate 17th Birthday Cheesecake with Grandma

Justin Bieber is planning to celebrate his 17th birthday with his grandma and cheesecake made by her. Justin Bieber loves cherry Cheesecake. Justin Bieber had some plan of his birthday celebrations. He wants to celebrate his 17th birthday with his grandma and wants a cherry cheesecake made by her. He wants to spend time with his loved ones, but that does not mean that, he want to be with his alleged girlfriend Selena Gomez. He turns 17 on March 1, 2011. Justin Bieber said that, there will be no birthday bash on his 17th birthday as he is very busy with his work. He has got only four days to start his world tour and he wants to relax and get charged for world tour, which starts on March 4, 2011. He also said that, his grandma makes the best cherry cheesecake and he wants it to be made for his 17th birthday. She made it for his 13th birthday. As per the sources, he wants to spend with his grand parents and hangout with them for some time. He did not reveal the details, if he is going to spend with Selena Gomes on his birthday, whom they call them ‘Best Friends’. Reportedly, he also sent the trucks filled with flowers to her recently. He called up a flower store and asked them to fill her house with variety of flowers. The flower store has used different flowers they have got in stock and they have been delivered in different trucks. Selena was thrilled with the flowers gift and loved the surprise.

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‘Super 8’ Super Bowl Clip Presents Even More Mystery

J.J. Abrams/Spielberg collabo teaser depicts train wreck, a Super 8 camera and a foreboding voice-over. By Katie Calautti A scene from “Super 8” Photo: Paramount Super Bowl XLV ushered a double dose of “super” — namely, the premiere of the 30-second trailer for the highly-anticipated J.J. Abrams-directed, Stephen Spielberg-produced vehicle “Super 8.” The creative force behind “Lost,” “Star Trek” and “Cloverfield” has kept his upcoming project ensconced in secrecy, refusing to divulge details about the science-fiction blockbuster — letting slip only that it’ll be set in 1979 as something of a throwback to Spielberg’s most beloved tales. What we had to sate our curiosity until tonight was the film’s release date , cast list and a painfully cryptic teaser screened before “Iron Man 2.” The “Super 8” Super Bowl XLV spot aired toward the last portion of the second quarter, and features a more elaborate view of the teaser’s train wreck, soundtracked to whimsical, John Williams-esque music. The only dialogue comes in the form of a foreboding voice-over: “Do not speak of this. If you do, they will find you.” It opens on a view of what could be any Main Street in small-town America, as our young protagonist rides his bike into what turns out to be an epic train wreck. A quick shot shows him dropping a Super 8 camera. Presumably, he’s captured footage of something that’s meant to be kept under wraps (our money’s on whatever’s attempting to forcibly pound its way out of the train car in the next shot). We’re given quick glimpses of Kyle Chandler (playing, perhaps, a concerned parent?) and Elle Fanning (standing with a group of kids, the Super 8 camera propped between them), masses of people being herded off army trucks and into shelters, perplexed-looking government officials and explosions — all with a somewhat otherworldly bent to it (think: “E.T.” meets “War of the Worlds” meets “The Goonies” meets “Cloverfield”). It appears that the film will largely be seen through the perspective of the young boy, and it certainly looks like an homage to Spielbergian style, with some J.J. Abrams action and mystery thrown in for good measure. Can we perhaps get 30 more seconds, J.J.? What did you think of the “Super 8” trailer? Let us know in the comments! Check out everything we’ve got on “Super 8.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .

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Lady Gaga Monster Ball Paris Tour Stop Cancelled

A ban barring vehicles over a certain weight on the road in bad weather derailed singer’s Paris date. By Mawuse Ziegbe Lady Gaga Photo: Paul Morigi/ WireImage Lady Gaga’s French fans will have to wait to check out the singer rock “Bad Romance” due to some bad weather. The superstar’s Monster Ball Tour was slated to hit Paris’ Bercy venue on Sunday (December 19), but severe weather derailed the pop megastar’s plans. According a translation of a press release posted on the theater’s website , Gaga’s Sunday show was cancelled because of a ban barring heavy vehicles over 7.5 tons from hitting the road in dicey conditions. Gaga tweeted that French authorities had taken custody of her caravan for over a day and arrested two members of her camp when the crew arrived for the Paris date. “All 28 of my trucks for the Monsterball were detained by the French government going on over 26 hrs, 2 of my employees were arrested trying to get into Paris so we could perform,” she tweeted . “I am furious and devastated, its unfair to my fans and to me.” Gaga added that she tried to tone down the theatrics but was told a lack of production resources ruled out the option of a simpler version of the elaborate stage show. “I asked if I could do a stripped version of show, but there would be no sound or power source, its all been detained,” she wrote . “I’m so sorry,angry+sad.” The songstress, who famously hates ditching appearances , apologized for not being able to hit the stage. “I love Paris + I love my French fans. I’m sorry little monsters. A photo of storm, I’m stuck on bus,” she wrote, tweeting a snapshot of the grey weather. The theater maintained that the Monday show will go on as planned, but could not confirm if the Sunday date will be officially moved to Tuesday. What do you think of Gaga’s show being cancelled? Let us know in the comments! Related Photos The Evolution Of: Lady Gaga Related Artists Lady Gaga

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End Gulf Oil Spill With ‘Mother of All Bombs’ (Updated)

The Marine Corps’ most (in)famous technologist has a solution for the Gulf oil spill: Blow the crap out of it, with the Mother of All Bombs. Over the past decade, no one in the Corps has been more creative, more persistent and more migraine-inducing in his pursuit of warfighting gadgetry than Franz Gayl. Some of his ideas were rock-solid, like small spy drones and bomb-resistant trucks. Eventually, the Pentagon bought tens of thousands of the trucks, due in large part to his agitating and whistleblowing efforts. Other concepts of his were more fringe: oribiting troop transports, super-strength exoskeletons, laser guns that could roast insurgents alive. Now Gayl, a civilian scientist (semi-) employed by Quantico, may have come up with his most dramatic idea yet: Use a 21,000-pound megamunition to generate a king-sized shock wave that would force those leaking pipes on the seabed shut. Deploying the GBU-43 MOAB — known as the “Massive Ordnance Air Burst” or “Mother of All Bombs” — would be “proven, safe and ‘green,’” Gayl tells our pal David Axe, of War Is Boring. The bomb consumes all its own fuel, after all. And it’s not a nuclear weapon, like the one the Russians allegedly used to shut down out-of-control wells. If there are no MOABs to be had, Gayl adds, a Vietnam-era Daisy Cutter will do just fine. Either one … can be enclosed in a simple pressure shell, that is augmented with several tons of liquid oxygen canisters, and lowered to just a few meters above the leaking well head. An oxygen-enhanced MOAB or Daisy Cutter detonated at a water depth of 5,000 feet will indeed have an interesting effect on all the well-related plumbing and equipment that is above, at, and slightly below the sea floor…. The exploding MOAB or Daisy Cutter would have an incredible implosive-sealing effect on oil plumbing within the immediate vicinity of the detonation. Gayl’s active, active mind hasn’t stopped looking for ways to bring technology to bear to solve the most intractable problems. Nor does he limit himself by exploring the implications of those solutions. For instance: what would happen if the Mother of All Bombs went off-target at the bottom of the Gulf? UPDATE: Gayl sends along this handy set of slides, depicting how the MOAB vs. spill operation might work. added by: Omnomynous

When Gossip Was Gritty: Confidential Magazine

In the new book Shocking True Story , Henry E. Scott details the rise and fall of Confidential magazine which was the TMZ of 1950s Hollywood sleaze.

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Wyclef Jean: Give the Millions You’ve Raised to Those Who Can Help Haiti Now

Ego and financial improprieties aside, Wyclef Jean has demonstrated a genuine desire to help the people of Haiti. To do that, it’s time he acknowledge his personal foundation isn’t equipped to provide disaster relief and donate to those who can.

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41 dead as a 13 year old suicide bomber hits NW Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber flung himself at a military convoy passing through a busy market in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing 41 people in the latest in a wave of deadly strikes, the military said. The bomber targeted a paramilitary convoy as it passed through a security checkpost in a bazaar in Alpuri town in Shangla, a district neighbouring Swat valley and the target of a recent anti-Taliban military offensive. Pakistan's army claims to have cleared Swat and nearby districts of the Taliban threat in an offensive launched in April, and are now poised to start a similar ground and air assault in the nearby northwest tribal belt.

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Don’t have health insurance? get fined

Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as divisions among Democrats undercut President Barack Obama's effort to regain traction on his health care overhaul. The fast-moving developments put Obama in a box

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Commandos free abducted reporter in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — A New York Times reporter who was kidnapped last week was freed by commandos Wednesday. New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell was abducted Saturday while covering a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan.

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