2 Chainz performed to a sold-out Center Stage Tuesday night and the crowd went bananas when he brought out T.I. to perform the “Spend It” remix! The King also did his verse from the “N*ggaz in Paris” remix . Check it out! 2 Chainz and T.I. perform “Spend It” remix T.I. performs “N*ggas in Paris (remix)” RELATED: 2 Chainz Brings Out Travis Porter [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO] 2 Chainz Talks Sold Out Show, Success, New Album & More [EXCLUSIVE] 2 Chainz Center Stage Concert SOLD OUT! Watch It Here! [VIDEO] 2 Chainz Ft. T.I. “Spend It” [MUSIC VIDEO] 2 Chainz Talks Signing To Def Jam! [WORD ON THE STREETZ EXCLUSIVE] 2 Chainz Backstage At Birthday Bash 16 [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]
Mary J. Blige took to the stage of “American Idol” last night to perform the Rick Ross assisted “Why” off her current album My Life 2: The Journey Continues . After singing her heart out, Mary personally addressed each one of the judges! Check it out! RELATED: Mary J. Blige On ‘The View’: “I’ve Never Done Crack!” [VIDEO] Mary J. Blige Talks Infamous Nightclub Fight With Hubby On “Wendy” [VIDEO] In Case You Missed It: 5 Amazing “VH1 Divas” Performances! [VIDEOS]
In 1988, Public Enemy’s “Night Of The Living Baseheads” was one of the most vocal indictments of crack cocaine use ever heard on record. The haunting video was the real life version of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” with zombie-like “baseheads” dragging themselves about. Pop Culture Moment #1: Chappelle’s Show Premieres What many fans at the time didn’t know was that Public Enemy member Flavor Flav was a user of the deadly freebase drug. In fact, Flavor Flav told TheUrbandaily in an interview in 2011 that he thought the song was actually written about him. “It was kind of difficult doing the video to that song because I felt that Chuck was talking about me,” he revealed. “…I took it personally because of a guilty conscience. Because I was doing it…at the time that we wrote the record.” RELATED POSTS: FACT OF THE DAY: Michael Clarke Duncan Is A Vegetarian FACT OF THE DAY: Drake’s High School Ambition Was To Break Dance FACT OF THE DAY: Nas Was Born In Brooklyn
Let’s play a little game of Would You Rather, felony crime edition: Would you rather sit through all of Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked , or have a naked man flash your children from the first row of a movie theater? That’s the conundrum some parents were faced with last weekend in a Chicago area multiplex when one Edward L. Brown interrupted an afternoon showing of the latest Fox chipmunk sequel. Details inside! (And it only gets weirder!) According to the Riverside-Brookfield Landmark (via Jim Vejvoda at @StaxIGN ), 34-year-old Brown gave fellow patrons at the North Riverside Park Mall’s Classic Cinemas theater a shock on December 29: About a half hour into the 4 p.m. showing of the kiddie feature Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked , police say an entirely naked Edward L. Brown stood up from his seat in the front row, faced the crowd of 86 theater-goers, stretched out his hands and displayed his genitalia for all to see before sitting back down to enjoy the movie. (Note reporter Bob Uphues’s detail that the butt-naked Brown displayed himself “before sitting back down to enjoy the movie.” Nice touch.) Even better than Brown’s bizarre naked nonchalance? The explanation he gave police when they promptly arrested him onsite: According to the police report, Brown told officers that he had been let inside the movie theater for free by an unknown female who allegedly told him to have a seat in the front row of the theater, take off his clothes and wait for her, so they could have sex, smoke crack and do heroin. Classy! And really strange! Sounds like someone may have gotten punk’d. Just sayin’. Brown was charged with “three felony counts of sexual exploitation of children, aged 4, 6 and 6; one misdemeanor count of sexual exploitation of a minor aged 14; and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct;” the theater patrons, meanwhile, were given refunds and ticket vouchers to see the rest of Chipwrecked another time. And so I ask, which is worse: Being flashed by some weirdo sex-crazed drug user at the movies, or having to sit through Chipwrecked twice? And consider Brown himself. He may have landed in jail with multiple gross felony counts to his name, but at least he didn’t add insult to injury by paying to see Chipwrecked . And in fairness, those Chipmunks don’t wear pants, either. • Naked man interrupts ‘Chipmunks’ at North Riverside Mall theater [Riverside-Brookfield Landmark]
Hold up, waaaaaaaait!! For years, the 44-year-old mother of two was a star in the fantasy fetish community that worshipped the overweight and the feeding that led to it. Simpson had a website where men paid $19 a month to watch her eat. She flew around the world for various events. And she became famous in the British papers. But as the year winds to a close, Simpson has moved on. She left New Jersey earlier this year after her romantic relationship with a man ended and returned to her hometown of Akron. She has turned away from the fantasy world, replacing her pre-recorded videos of her with a blog about her journey to health. She already has lost about 85 pounds, and she hopes to join a gym soon to begin walking in a pool. She has modified her eating, as well. “I realized that I was their fantasy,” she said. “Here I was getting bigger and bigger, and they had their thin wives, with 2 1/2 kids and a picket fence.” Being that she is 600 lbs. Simpson doesn’t believe that she will ever be a Victoria’s Secret model, but she did go through some pretty dramatic model-esque lengths to lose weight… “I’m not trying to be a size 4,” she said. “I’m not trying to be a thin-mint. I just want to be normal and more active.” She has struggled to lose weight for years. She weighed about 200 pounds when she attended Springfield High School in Summit County. Simpson often ate an apple a day along with a weight-loss drink. She said she even smoked crack cocaine for a few months several years ago in an attempt to shed pounds, though she says she didn’t become addicted. “All it did was make me clean my house really, really fast,” she said. LMMFAO!! Who the hell says: “To hell with Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers, pass me the pipe and a couple rocks!”??? Fellas, would ANY of you hit this??? Source More On Bossip! Silver Spoon Swag: Stars That Were Born Rich Already! Sneaky Geniuses: Stars That Are Wayyyyy Smarter Than They Look Gone Home To Glory: The Notable Names That Passed Away In 2011 Part 1 X-Rated Bangers: The Hottest Black Adult Movie Stars In The Biz…Would You Wife Any Of Them?
Winning the Palme d’Or was cool, and blowing out the box office on Memorial Day weekend was pretty nice, too. But as Fox Searchllght prepares to take The Tree of Life to its broadest audience to date — more than doubling its screen count this weekend to over 100 — what better time to bring out the big guns? And I mean big .
Say what you will about Battle: Los Angeles — and both Roger Ebert and Movieline’s Michelle Orange had a lot to say — Aaron Eckhart was convincing as the strong-jawed military hero who faces a SoCal alien air raid. That’s saying a lot considering that Hollywood has created some very unlikely characters to go up against extraterrestrials. In honor of this small coup for Battle: Los Angeles (available on DVD and Blu-Ray this week), let’s round up some of the most surprising movie personalities to fend off aliens.
A friend once told me that his gold standard for new acquaintances involved the Leonard Cohen song “Anthem.” “There is a crack, a crack in everything,” the song goes. “That’s how the light gets in.” He applied it as a kind of authenticity test, because — pace Mr. Cohen — there are people out there who appear to lack the crack, whether it never fully formed or has been willfully spackled shut. There are films that lack it, too, some more ironically than others. Watching The Art of Getting By , the story of a singular teenager told in oppressively uniform terms, I was reminded of my friend’s judgment of a man I was seeing: No crack, no sir.
A Louisville, Kentucky man is in police custody after authorities say he was arrested and found to be hiding crack cocaine in his penis. WLKY News reports that Antoine Banks was arrested after they found him in possession of salvia and liquid codeine during a routine traffic stop. For that he was charged with second-degree possession of a controlled substance and possession of synthetic cannabinoid agonists or piperazines. More at HipHopWired.com
Photo: asla This crack garden is not what it sounds like… It’s a sustainable, simple and cheap answer to a design problem. How to make a garden out of a concrete slab without spending a fortune. Created in the small back yard of a San Francisco apartment building, it was inspired by those tenacious little plants that take hold no matter how inhospitable the space. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
