‘It was crazy, man,’ rapper says of Los Angeles shoot with director Parris. By Matt Elias The Game on the set of “Red Nation” Photo: MTV News On Tuesday night, underneath the 4th Street Bridge in downtown Los Angeles, the Game stood surrounded by smoldering dirt and flashing red lights. Smoke billowed in the background and road flares flickered brightly. It wasn’t the scene of an accident, but the post-apocalyptic set for Game’s music video “Red Nation,” the lead single from his long-awaited R.E.D. Album. “We shot this real rebel scene. I was over there in a bunch of dirt with rocks, and behind the gate were a bunch of guys I couldn’t see, looking all menacing and scary and [with] bats and sticks and poles,” Game told MTV News on the set. “And that was kinda crazy, man. I was in sort of like an army fatigue thing, doing my thing. But it was fun, man, the first shot — had a lot of fun, got real sweaty ’cause I was jumping around, man. A lotta dust and smoke — it was crazy, man.” The clip is helmed by director Parris, whose recent work includes Enrique Iglesias’ “Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)” and Diddy-Dirty Money’s “Angels.” The track features a collaboration with Lil Wayne and a familiar sample: Zombie Nation’s club classic “Kernkraft 400.” The West Coast rapper was sporting a maroon Mohawk, and while the hairdo is new, his approach to making music videos hasn’t changed. “You know what the funny thing is about the video treatment is that I just go as they tell me — I never read it,” Game said. “And just so you know, I ain’t never read a video treatment for none of my videos. I kinda just show up, I put in whatever the stylists got picked out for me, and then I go meet the director — usually for the first time — and we kind of just go with the flow.” Stay tuned to MTV News for more from our set visit with the Game, along with more details on The R.E.D. Album. Related Artists The Game
The criminal complaint filed by the arresting officer in the Mister Cee sex scandal has been leaked by TheSmokingGun.com. The report reveals in graphic detail the compromising position that Mister Cee was allegedly in at the time of arrest. According to the complaint, Mister Cee, born Calvin Lebrun, and Lawrence Campbell (who XXLmag.com claims goes by the name Brooke-Lynn Pinklady on Facebook), were arrested at 3:55AM, not 4:05PM as previously reported, near the Holland Tunnel in Manhattan at the corner of Watts and West streets on March 30th. The complaint says that the arresting officer observed “Campbell manipulating defendant Lebrun’s exposed, naked and erect penis with defendant Campbell’s mouth and lips in an up-and-down motion consistent with oral sex.” A source told the New York Daily News that Cee was arrested twice last year on October 8th and November 20th in Manhattan for loitering for the purpose of prostitution. Read the full criminal complaint at TheSmokingGun.com . Spotted @ XXLmag.com RELATED: HOT97′s Mister Cee Arrested In Gay Sex Scandal RELATED: NYPD Confirms Mister Cee Arrest
Game is sporting a new bright red mohawk hair-do, as revealed in a picture posted to the rapper’s Twitter account. The new do was met with a lot of criticism from fans. Game responded to the criticism on Twitter by saying “N*ggas hatin on the mohawk ha ha ha… I didn’t dye my sh*t for you Ms J a** n*ggas! Let’s see how the women feel ??? (Now ducking from all the panties being thrown)” Source: Game’s Twitter What do you think about Game’s new hair? RELATED: WTF! Chris Brown Dyes Hair Blonde?! RELATED: Chris Brown’s Hair Is Black Again
Kemba Walker and the UConn Huskies defeated Butler 53-41 on Monday night to become national champions. Coach Jim Calhoun, who won his third national title, said after the game that it may have been the happiest moment of his life. Calhoun, Walker and the rest of the Huskies certainly earned their one shining moment! Click here to watch every “One Shining Moment” video from the last decade and scroll… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Huffington Post Discovery Date : 05/04/2011 15:00 Number of articles : 2
I wasn’t anticipating Minitroid as much as some of you — especially not as much as Jonathan — but now I can see where the adoration is coming from, first-hand. A playable tech demonstration for the in-progress tiny Metroid fan game has been put online. Tokinsom, Betatronic, and Jamie Billings are really on to something with this game. I fear that it could be a long, long time before we get to play… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Destructoid Discovery Date : 05/04/2011 01:43 Number of articles : 2
Growing up, I, like pretty much every other young girl, wanted to be a princess. I dressed up in costumes and wore a long pink skirt over my head pretending I had really long ‘Princess Jasmine-esque’ hair, and bossed around my friends, who I, in my obnoxious state, didn’t let be princesses for the game. I imagined living in a castle, riding horses all day, waving to adoring fans who flocked to meet me, traveling to far away exotic countries and of course, getting to wear a tiara. To my six year old mind, this sort of lifestyle seemed like bliss. Now, I’m not going to lie, sometimes when I see photographs of Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, I still wouldn’t mind being a princess, at least for a day, because I secretly (or probably not so secretly) love him. But watching all the drama and intense scrutiny the world over about Prince William and Kate Middleton’s impending wedding has really changed my mind about being a bonafide princess. I came across an article about Kate Middleton and how she was criticized for wearing a sheer blouse , because her style would have to change now that she is to become a princess, and it got me thinking; I really don’t think the perks of the job are enough to counterbalance the crazy scrutiny and intense pressure placed upon royals, and I don’t think the job is one I could handle, and here are 5 reasons why. 1. Intense scrutiny You only need to open a magazine, or try to read a newspaper, to see how crazy the hype about the “Royal Wedding” is, even here in America. Tabloids have devoted whole sections to event, the iPad has a new app so you can have access to every minute detail, from wedding dress selections to cake ingredients, the happy couple’s faces are plastered on everything from plates and mugs to condoms and refrigerators, even jewelers are making replica Princess Diana engagement rings. It is a circus. Weddings are stressful enough being your average everyday person, adding in the attention of the entire world by being a princess, sounds plain horrific. 2. Lose normal life Can you even imagine not being free to relax in your own home or have the luxury of wandering around town on your own, without a security detail following your every move? Apparently, Prince William and Kate will get to live in a castle (my six year old self is dying inside a little of jealousy), but their home, Kensington Palace, is also a museum, so everyday, flocks of tourist will be roaming the grounds. Even though obviously private quarters are off limits to tourists, it would still bug me that even in my own home, I’m not completely free from the prying eyes of the public. 3. Risk losing family For Danish Crown Princess Mary, marrying Prince Fredrick meant having to give up her native Australian citizenship and signing away her right to custody of her children in the event of a divorce. Kate Middleton has already spoken about her fears of not being able to be a member of her family in the same way as before once she becomes an official Princess, and the fears she has for her family being hassled by paparazzi constantly. It sadly all seems like a little bit too much to go through, no? 4. Paparazzi Celebrities get followed by paparazzi all the time, and generally I have little sympathy for them. In my mind, it’s a mall price to pay for living the high life and getting paid ridiculously well to do a job you love. But the constant presence of the cameras in people such as Kate Middleton’s life, is something that I have sympathy for. She is not famous for being a singer, actress, sports star, even reality television ‘star’, but simply for being in love with someone who one day, will become King of 16 countries, so she did not invite paparazzi into her life, nor does her career benefit from the attention. Rather, the paparazzi attention focuses on her fashion sense, weight, and etiquette, and desperately looks for a cheating scandal. I can’t think of anything worse than being followed everyday by cameramen, and the entire world commenting on my weight, what I look like without makeup, whether or not my hair color suits me, was my outfit too expensive or too racy, was eating a hamburger appropriate for a royal? And imagine the scandal if I dared to do something mundane or something not deemed ‘proper’ enough by Royal standards! 5. Having an allowance I could get used to the idea of being given an allowance, hell, I can’t think of anything better than getting an allowance! But, having to rely on the allowance because I can’t actually go out and go to work everyday like everyone else on the planet, sort of kills off the fun of the free money. What would you do to occupy your time, if you didn’t get a chance to work in a field you were passionate about, just because you’re going to be a Queen? Being a Princess is a lot of fun when you’re a kid, and reading about the enviable wardrobes and vacations of modern day royals, makes for a fun daydream, but in reality, I would take my boring, normal lifestyle every day of the week, over being a real-life Princess, even if I got to wear a tiara. Should Husbands Wear Wedding Rings? Prince William Won’t Be Tamera Mowry Shows Off Her Engagement Ring On “Wendy” [VIDEO] Who’s Who In Black Royalty
This New Orleans-bred actor is the first Black actor to be featured in nearly a decade on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue. Anthony Mackie changed the game by landing on the cover of Vanity Fair’s 17th annual “Hollywood Issue” ; and admits he realized the weight he carries by gracing the highly coveted glossy cover! Mackie opens up: “The magazine came out and it’s interesting how the conversations have changed, which is surprising to me,” “When my publicist told me they got me for the cover of Vanity Fair for the Hollywood edition I didn’t know what it meant. Looking at it now it was a monumental step in the course of my career. I want to be 70 or 80 like an Anthony Hopkins or Morgan Freeman and look back at a body of work instead of getting one or two jobs and trying to overcome the idea of just being an actor instead of being an artist. It’s been amazing. Every day I tell people that I don’t want you to overlook my race. I don’t want you to look at me as something different than what I am. When you look at me I don’t want you to like me in spite of being a Black male. I want you to include me because of who I am, that being a Black male. It’s been funny from both the Black and White perspective; from the everyday perspective and the Hollywood perspective. Everyone has an opinion so I try to put it out there and let it be what it is.” “The last Black man to be on the cover of Vanity Fair for the Hollywood edition was Omar Epps and that was over 10 years ago. I think it’s good for right now, but it definitely does not solidify in my path in Hollywood history.” Despite having starred in films like ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ ‘The Hurt Locker,’ ‘Notorious’ and ‘The Adjustment Bureau,’ Mackie, like many Black actors, has a face people know even when they can’t remember his name. “I get mistaken for one of my closest friends, Jamie Hector who was on ‘The Wire,’” he laughed. “Literally every day someone stops me and asks me for my autograph and if they can take a picture with me for being on ‘The Wire.’” Though Hollywood recognized Mackie’s value by including him in the Vanity Fair issue, the Obie Award winner does feel that the recent Black-out during this past award show season was disturbing. “It’s frustrating, but not for the reason of not having the representation. I think we’re at a point where we need to start making our own movies. I think there are enough stories out there that we should be telling those stories. I think in the early 90′s we had the opportunity to make our own movies and we got complacent. If you go back and watch ‘Love Jones’ and ‘Love and Basketball’ or ‘The Brothers,’ they were great movies and they represented us. ‘Boyz N The Hood’ and ‘Juice’ represented us. We made those movies and everybody just got lazy. It’s no reason that the people who made those movies shouldn’t still be making movies. Martin Scorsese didn’t stop after his first movie. James Cameron didn’t stop after ‘Titanic’ so why is it that the people who represent us and tell our stories just don’t exist anymore. They’re out there living in LA writing. They’re making movies; they’re just not making the movies that represent us. That’s what frustrates me because I feel like you have an entire new crop of young talent and they have not only no one to work with but they don’t have any material to work on. You can’t say we don’t have the money or the opportunities because White people are doing it. If you look at what Judd Apatow is doing, he’s shown us how to go out and take our ideas, put them on a page and make it. Ben Affleck made ‘Gone Baby Gone’ and ‘The Town’ because he couldn’t get cast as an actor. I think it’s about time that we as Black Hollywood stop talking about what people aren’t giving us and get up off our ass and start making the movies that we want to make.” With all this chit chat about making black movies, will Mackie make a move from actor to producer?! Or is he all talk?! Source
This New Orleans-bred actor is the first Black actor to be featured in nearly a decade on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue. Anthony Mackie changed the game by landing on the cover of Vanity Fair’s 17th annual “Hollywood Issue” ; and admits he realized the weight he carries by gracing the highly coveted glossy cover! Mackie opens up: “The magazine came out and it’s interesting how the conversations have changed, which is surprising to me,” “When my publicist told me they got me for the cover of Vanity Fair for the Hollywood edition I didn’t know what it meant. Looking at it now it was a monumental step in the course of my career. I want to be 70 or 80 like an Anthony Hopkins or Morgan Freeman and look back at a body of work instead of getting one or two jobs and trying to overcome the idea of just being an actor instead of being an artist. It’s been amazing. Every day I tell people that I don’t want you to overlook my race. I don’t want you to look at me as something different than what I am. When you look at me I don’t want you to like me in spite of being a Black male. I want you to include me because of who I am, that being a Black male. It’s been funny from both the Black and White perspective; from the everyday perspective and the Hollywood perspective. Everyone has an opinion so I try to put it out there and let it be what it is.” “The last Black man to be on the cover of Vanity Fair for the Hollywood edition was Omar Epps and that was over 10 years ago. I think it’s good for right now, but it definitely does not solidify in my path in Hollywood history.” Despite having starred in films like ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ ‘The Hurt Locker,’ ‘Notorious’ and ‘The Adjustment Bureau,’ Mackie, like many Black actors, has a face people know even when they can’t remember his name. “I get mistaken for one of my closest friends, Jamie Hector who was on ‘The Wire,’” he laughed. “Literally every day someone stops me and asks me for my autograph and if they can take a picture with me for being on ‘The Wire.’” Though Hollywood recognized Mackie’s value by including him in the Vanity Fair issue, the Obie Award winner does feel that the recent Black-out during this past award show season was disturbing. “It’s frustrating, but not for the reason of not having the representation. I think we’re at a point where we need to start making our own movies. I think there are enough stories out there that we should be telling those stories. I think in the early 90′s we had the opportunity to make our own movies and we got complacent. If you go back and watch ‘Love Jones’ and ‘Love and Basketball’ or ‘The Brothers,’ they were great movies and they represented us. ‘Boyz N The Hood’ and ‘Juice’ represented us. We made those movies and everybody just got lazy. It’s no reason that the people who made those movies shouldn’t still be making movies. Martin Scorsese didn’t stop after his first movie. James Cameron didn’t stop after ‘Titanic’ so why is it that the people who represent us and tell our stories just don’t exist anymore. They’re out there living in LA writing. They’re making movies; they’re just not making the movies that represent us. That’s what frustrates me because I feel like you have an entire new crop of young talent and they have not only no one to work with but they don’t have any material to work on. You can’t say we don’t have the money or the opportunities because White people are doing it. If you look at what Judd Apatow is doing, he’s shown us how to go out and take our ideas, put them on a page and make it. Ben Affleck made ‘Gone Baby Gone’ and ‘The Town’ because he couldn’t get cast as an actor. I think it’s about time that we as Black Hollywood stop talking about what people aren’t giving us and get up off our ass and start making the movies that we want to make.” With all this chit chat about making black movies, will Mackie make a move from actor to producer?! Or is he all talk?! Source
This New Orleans-bred actor is the first Black actor to be featured in nearly a decade on the cover of Vanity Fair’s Hollywood Issue. Anthony Mackie changed the game by landing on the cover of Vanity Fair’s 17th annual “Hollywood Issue” ; and admits he realized the weight he carries by gracing the highly coveted glossy cover! Mackie opens up: “The magazine came out and it’s interesting how the conversations have changed, which is surprising to me,” “When my publicist told me they got me for the cover of Vanity Fair for the Hollywood edition I didn’t know what it meant. Looking at it now it was a monumental step in the course of my career. I want to be 70 or 80 like an Anthony Hopkins or Morgan Freeman and look back at a body of work instead of getting one or two jobs and trying to overcome the idea of just being an actor instead of being an artist. It’s been amazing. Every day I tell people that I don’t want you to overlook my race. I don’t want you to look at me as something different than what I am. When you look at me I don’t want you to like me in spite of being a Black male. I want you to include me because of who I am, that being a Black male. It’s been funny from both the Black and White perspective; from the everyday perspective and the Hollywood perspective. Everyone has an opinion so I try to put it out there and let it be what it is.” “The last Black man to be on the cover of Vanity Fair for the Hollywood edition was Omar Epps and that was over 10 years ago. I think it’s good for right now, but it definitely does not solidify in my path in Hollywood history.” Despite having starred in films like ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ ‘The Hurt Locker,’ ‘Notorious’ and ‘The Adjustment Bureau,’ Mackie, like many Black actors, has a face people know even when they can’t remember his name. “I get mistaken for one of my closest friends, Jamie Hector who was on ‘The Wire,’” he laughed. “Literally every day someone stops me and asks me for my autograph and if they can take a picture with me for being on ‘The Wire.’” Though Hollywood recognized Mackie’s value by including him in the Vanity Fair issue, the Obie Award winner does feel that the recent Black-out during this past award show season was disturbing. “It’s frustrating, but not for the reason of not having the representation. I think we’re at a point where we need to start making our own movies. I think there are enough stories out there that we should be telling those stories. I think in the early 90′s we had the opportunity to make our own movies and we got complacent. If you go back and watch ‘Love Jones’ and ‘Love and Basketball’ or ‘The Brothers,’ they were great movies and they represented us. ‘Boyz N The Hood’ and ‘Juice’ represented us. We made those movies and everybody just got lazy. It’s no reason that the people who made those movies shouldn’t still be making movies. Martin Scorsese didn’t stop after his first movie. James Cameron didn’t stop after ‘Titanic’ so why is it that the people who represent us and tell our stories just don’t exist anymore. They’re out there living in LA writing. They’re making movies; they’re just not making the movies that represent us. That’s what frustrates me because I feel like you have an entire new crop of young talent and they have not only no one to work with but they don’t have any material to work on. You can’t say we don’t have the money or the opportunities because White people are doing it. If you look at what Judd Apatow is doing, he’s shown us how to go out and take our ideas, put them on a page and make it. Ben Affleck made ‘Gone Baby Gone’ and ‘The Town’ because he couldn’t get cast as an actor. I think it’s about time that we as Black Hollywood stop talking about what people aren’t giving us and get up off our ass and start making the movies that we want to make.” With all this chit chat about making black movies, will Mackie make a move from actor to producer?! Or is he all talk?! Source
Did you believe in Thia Megia last night? The young American Idol hopeful dedicated her rendition of “Daniel” to her brother and was told by Jimmy Iovine that “if they believe it, you get to the following week. If they don’t, I don’t believe you do.” So the challenge was laid out, and Megia didn’t falter in the face of it. But she also performed yet another ballad, the third of the evening, and one that couldn’t compete with those of Lauren Alaina and Pia Toscano . Might Thia be in trouble? Randy said she may have played it too safe. We’ll find out tonight. Thia Megia – Daniel
