Tour, which also features Soulja Boy Tell’em and Jeremih, will now continue through September. By Jayson Rodriguez Lil Wayne performs at “American’s Most Wanted” tour Photo: MTV News Good news for all the rap fans clamoring to see one of the hottest hip-hop tours of the summer: The Lil Wayne -powered Young Money Presents: The America’s Most Wanted Music Festival has been extended, it was announced Wednesday (August 5), with 10 additional shows added to the bill.
Even Ugly Bett y can get her man! We snapped America Ferrara on the set in Central Park dressed in her usual Ugly outfits getting a smooch from her co-star. You can see in the pictures that Betty is getting transformed after three years in braces, frumpy sweaters and lack-luster hair
Who says 50 Cent doesn’t give love to his peers? The captain of the G-Unit squadron recently shelled out some major coin to help out his much younger friend, recent birthday boy Soulja Boy Tell’em. Fif presented a studio tour bus to the Atlanta rapper as a gift.
“50 gave me a bus to record my album since I was on tour,” Soulja told us last week on Young Money Presents: The America’s Most Wanted Music Festival.
Apparently, Fif wants to make sure his labelmate can complete his upcoming album, The DeAndre Way, while out on the road with Jeremih, Pleasure P, Young Jeezy and Lil Wayne. (Drake has missed the past few dates because of a leg injury.) Soulja can record and make beats on the bus and doesn’t have to book studio time.
“When they came at me and was like, ‘Wayne wants you to be on tour with Drake, Jeezy, a lot of people,’ of course I’mma do it,” he said. “My first tour I did was with Chris Brown. Now this is gonna be my second official tour. I been doing a lot of shows, spot dates, but this is my second official tour.
“If I’m doing a Soulja Boy Tell’em concert, it’s gonna be mostly Soulja Boy fans,” he added about the differences between going out on treks by himself and with others. “The second difference is if I’m doing a show, I’m gonna fly in and fly out. On this type of tour, you got Young Jeezy fans in the crowd, Lil Wayne fans in the crowd, Jeremih fans in the crowd, Pleasure P fans in the crowd, and this is not the only time you gotta do it. You gotta do it four or five days straight. This is what I’m built for, though. This is what I’m designed for.”
Soulja said he still thinks nobody alive can match him on the stage, but he does credit the late Michael Jackson for being his only competition. “That’s the truth. That’s still the truth,” he said with a smile. “That was when I first came out. … I can’t bust the moves like I used to.”
At the ripe old age of 19, Soulja still is ready to compete. He’s trying to steal the show every night on the America’s Most Wanted tour.
“I try to strive for my best. I respect everybody in the tour, likewise, but I’m trying to have the best show in the tour,” he said. “I’m gonna stay and watch everybody, though.”
Amor Vulgaris If Bill Clinton didn't seem completely focused on his wife Hilary's campaign, there's a very good reason. He was just coming off a bad break up with a long time mistress.
(post updated with a video) Bill Clinton tells Richmond (VA) that “OBAMA UNDERSTANDS” Former President Bill Clinton was in Richmond to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. He was at Virginia Commonwealth University – my university! Former President Bill Clinton addressing people at Virginia Commonwealth University in RIchmond, VA
(Getty Images) Cabaret dancer Andrea Rincon (from Guanabee.com) So Bill Clinton and his entourage recently had a “noche de soltero” (boys night out) in Buenos Aires, and it turns out he maybe got a “baile hot” (lap dance) from the “pulposa” (well-endowed) former Big Brother contestant Andrea Rincon .
Listen up Lindsay Lohan, cause I’ve got a piece of advice for you: wearing a bright orange scarf on your head while shopping at American Apparel isn’t going to make the paparazzi stop taking pictures of you.
‘The boys admittedly knew a lot more than the girls,’ actress Rachel Nichols said. By Adam Rosenberg Marlon Wayans and Channing Tatum Photo: MTV News There are a lot of fan expectations riding on a movie like “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.” Between the long-running comic book line and the multiple TV series, it is a treasured franchise to many people
In 2007, Isaac Brock — wild-eyed, unkempt mastermind of Modest Mouse — mentioned in an interview that Oscar-nominated actor Heath Ledger had expressed interest in directing a video for “King Rat,” a throwaway track from MM’s We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank.
Not only that, but famed director Terry Gilliam, with whom Ledger was working on “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus,” had agreed to animate the clip. It all seemed rather odd, and Brock appeared nonplussed by the project (telling VH1, “I hope it works out and I don’t sound like a f–ing liar at the end of this”). Modest Mouse fans around the world greeted the news with a resounding “Wha?!?”
Then, in early 2008, Ledger was found dead in a New York apartment, and the entire project was quickly forgotten by pretty much everybody except Brock and the California-based artist collective known as the Masses.
Masses members Daniel Auber, Norris Houk, Jade Taglioli and Sara Cline picked up the reins, determined to finish the “King Rat” video as a tribute to their friend (and Masses member) Ledger. Some 18 months later, the video is finally complete, premiering Tuesday (August 4) on Modest Mouse’s MySpace page, iTunes and the Masses’ Web site.
In the video, humans are hunted by a vessel of grotesque whales. They are harpooned, beaten with clubs, skinned alive, ground through processing tubes and made into seal food while the whales drunkenly cavort. Ledger’s original vision for the video was “to raise awareness on modern whaling practices through a potent visual piece” (so sayeth an accompanying press release) — and, accordingly, all proceeds from the iTunes download of the video will go to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an international non-profit organization committed to ending the slaughter of wildlife in the world’s oceans.
It’s pretty admirable, and as Ledger’s final vision, pretty beautiful, too. With each bloody harpoon or flailing human carcass, the “King Rat” video manages to match Brock’s penchant for ugliness, but this is nothing new, as any MM fan can tell you. Brock doesn’t so much sing on “Rat” (or any innumerable number of songs he’s released this decade) as he does bellow, belch, gurgle, gasp, whimper and whine.
Brock has spent most of the ‘aughts slowly transforming into bastard stepchild of Frank Black and Tom Waits — a wailing, slurring lunatic who never met a phrase (or phrasing) that he couldn’t abuse within an inch of its life. And accordingly, Modest Mouse’s musical output has followed suit, seemingly deriving some perverse pleasure from tormenting the listener. For every expansive, pretty, windswept moment they’ve unfurled over the past three albums (“The Stars Are Projectors,” “Blame It on the Tetons,” “Little Motel”), they’ve piled up an equal amount of buzzing, claustrophobic, downright ugly tunes (“Alone Down There,” “This Devils Workday,” “Fly Trapped in a Jar”). It’s not exactly a stretch to assume that Brock might be a black-hearted misanthrope, delighting in pushing his fans’ buttons.
And that’s what is probably the most impressive thing about Ledger’s “King Rat” video. In some way, it proves that Brock is actually a human being, a compassionate guy who’s using his celebrity to do some good. It would seem that, for all his hissing and spitting, all his sadistic ways, he’s actually got a conscience, too.
