*NSYNC, the Backstreet Boys, O-Town, and other artists react to news of the death of Lou Pearlman, their former manager who died in prison at the age of 62.
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This past weekend, the city of Tampa was supposed to be lit with premium Hip-Hop entertainment brought to fans by the inaugural H.I.T. (History In Tampa) Festival, presented by both WorldstarHipHop and Vybe Nation. However, it appears that Vybe Nation failed to come up with the proper amount of funds for all the artists scheduled, including Fabolous, August Alsina, DJ Khaled, Fabolous, Jim Jones and Tink. Continue
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Blacks And Hispanics Are Less Likely To Be Approved For A Mortgage Do you think minorities are less likely to be approved for a mortgage or loans from a bank? According to The New York Times this discriminatory act is nothing new most communities… In 2014, Hudson City Savings Bank, New Jersey’s largest savings bank approved 1,886 mortgages in the market that includes New Jersey and sections of New York and Connecticut, federal mortgage data show. Only 25 of those loans went to black borrowers. Hudson, while denying wrongdoing, agreed last month to pay nearly $33 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Justice Department. Federal officials said it was the largest settlement in the history of both departments for redlining, the practice in which banks choke off lending to minority communities. Banks normally try to avoid borrowers who seem likely to default on their loans, but some stepped over the line, officials say, excluding entire communities and the creditworthy people who live in them. In 2014, black people held 5.2 percent of the nation’s home loans, compared with 8.7 percent in 2006, according to the Federal Reserve Bank. Hispanics have struggled to regain lost ground as well, accounting for 7.9 percent of home loans in 2014, compared with 11.7 percent in 2006. Federal and state officials said it was impossible to determine how widespread discriminatory lending had become. They believe a vast majority of banks are operating legally, but recent lawsuits have revealed striking disparities. Discuss.
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Race Matters: Study Shows Blacks And Hispanics Are Less Likely To Be Approved For A Mortgage Than White People
Rick Ross Taken Off Of House Arrest After Allegedly Pistol-Whipping Man Rick Ross is now free to gallivant the world with Lira Galore because he’s finally off of house arrest for allegdly pistol-whipping man in Atlanta according to TMZ . Ross was ordered to stay put at home in the case where he allegedly pistol-whipped a man. A judge ruled Friday Rozay’s home confinement wasn’t necessary since the alleged victim didn’t live anywhere near him. The judge said Ross has to stay clear of where the alleged victim lives, and he has to notify officials before leaving the state of Georgia. Ross was given some traveling wiggle room in August … for business reasons. Looks like the rapper will take advantage of his newfound freedom … he’s got a show in Chicago next month. Now Ross can spend more time with lady without worrying about her trying to date one of his artists !
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Free Man: Rick Ross Taken Off House Arrest After Allegedly Pistol-Whipping Worker At His Atlanta Mansion
These days, Taylor Swift can do no wrong. The woman makes a million dollars a day , and she other artists comparing her to Shakespeare . But there was a time when Taylor was just a little girl who was down with the Teletubbies trend way before her classmates: Swifty posted the above photo to Instagram yesterday, along with a caption reading: “When you dress as the yellow teletubby for Halloween, but it’s before Teletubbies got huge so all the kids at school ask you why you’re dressed as a yellow pregnant alien.” Yes, as hard as it is to imagine now, there was a time when both Taylor and Teletubbies were unknown to the general public. In case you were never on board with the T-Tubz, Taylor is dressed as Laa-Laa, who…looked and acted just like the rest of the Teletubbies but was yellow. But hey, yellow pregnant alien is a cool costume too. She could’ve laughed it off with a joke about giving birth to the weird baby-sun thing that loomed over Teletubbyland, but it totally would’ve gone over her classmates’ heads, because these freakin’ kids didn’t watch Teletubbies! What, did they live in caves?! We hope this incident more than any other inspired Taylor to go on to great things and that she occasionally calls one of the kids who laughed at her and is all like, “Hey, it’s me, the pregnant yellow alien. Anyway, I’m about to go on stage with Mick Jagger . Just thought you’d like to know.” Sorry, we might be getting too worked up over this yellow Teletubby thing. View Slideshow: Taylor Swift Instagram Photos: This Singer Has Style!
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Show Creators Embrace “Homeland Is Racist” Graffiti Prank For Being Subversive Three Arabic-speaking street artists hired by the Showtime series “Homeland” to create realistic graffiti for the Season Four set instead wrote “Homeland is racist,” “Homeland is a joke” and “#blacklivesmatter” along with other subversive messages — then released a statement owning up to their prank and calling out the show for it’s inaccurate and biased depictions of the Muslim world. According to NY Daily News reports : “It was our moment to make our point by subverting the message using the show itself,” wrote Egyptian artist Heba Amin and her fellow artists Caram Kapp and Stone. “We wish we’d caught these images before they made it to air,” Alex Gansa, the creator of “Homeland,” told the Daily News in a statement about the stunt, which had former CIA officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) walking past graffiti declaring that the show was racist. “However, as ‘Homeland’ always strives to be subversive in its own right and a stimulus for conversation, we can’t help but admire this act of artistic sabotage. In June, the show’s production company hired the trio for a two-day job in Berlin writing apolitical graffiti on a set depicting a Syrian refugee camp, the artists wrote. They were given images of graffiti supporting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad as a reference and told it was “OK, of course,” to write “Mohamed is the greatest” — but busy crew members failed to notice when the three artists went rogue. “In their eyes, Arabic script is merely a supplementary visual that completes the horror-fantasy of the Middle East, a poster image dehumanizing an entire region to human-less figures in black burkas and moreover, this season, to refugees,” the artists wrote. “The show has thus created a chain of causality with Arabs at its beginning and as its outcome — their own victims and executioners at the same time.” Wow, that is pretty impressive, but do you think someone may lose their job over this? Seems like some fact checker or production assistant should have been on hand to translate. Do y’all watch “Homeland”? We gotta say that it is pretty good TV — but at the same time we understand the artists point. Instagram
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What’s been keeping the publicity train rolling for TIDAL since its announcement was the artists behind the service rather than the function. Jay Z did…
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Apple Music Is Probably Better Than TIDAL, And A Drake Album Announcement Puts Salt In The Wound
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