Actor Michael Rapaport was such a passionate fan of hip-hop legends A Tribe Called Quest , it’s almost tragic what happened after he was granted permission to film the group, reunited after disbanding in 1998, for his directorial debut in the documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest . Having captured incredibly intimate footage of members Phife Dawg, Q-Tip, Jarobi White, and Ali Shaheed Muhammad — along with a veritable oral history of the ’90s-era Native Tongues hip-hop movement culled from musical luminaries of past and present — Rapaport found himself on the outs with A Tribe Called Quest just as his passion project was on the brink of a distribution deal.
Unless your boss plays mind games with you involving genitalia and shaved coconut, makes you work while your “gam-gam” is on her deathbed, and insults you for sport, he/she has nothing on Kevin Spacey in the new UK trailer for Horrible Bosses . So, watch and take pleasure knowing that your superior (hopefully) won’t ever be as bad as the power-wielding Spacey, the sexually inappropriate Jennifer Aniston or the coke-fiend Colin Farrell.
Bow Wow is a father. The rapper made this admission in a rambling note on his official website, going into detail about why he kept the truth of his three-year old daughter, Shia, from fans and even saying he contemplated suicide at one point. Bow Wow on Groupies “For the past 3 years i been batteling life,” Bow Wow says. “Even thought about taking my own. I felt like as a kid i did everything and saw everything too fast which spoiled my adult years. I felt as if i had no purpose to live(Thinking selfishly) until god gave me the illest gift of my life. No lambo, no blk card nuffn ammounts to my lil girl… “I waited so long to tell yall the truth because i was nervous on how yall would look at me.” The mother of Bow Wow’s child is reportedly named Joie Chavis. Below, we’ve posted more thoughts from this artist on fatherhood and neva trippin about baby mama BS… I change diapers. Aint as bad as i thought hahaha. I want her to live with me so bad. Jus us 2. Thats my dream man but fellas yall know how it go. Baby gotta stay with they momma and all dat bull. I hate that! So i have to fly 5 hrs away to see her. I find myself going into my i phone book jus lookn at pix of her. Sometimes i tear up cuz i just cant believe it brotha be emotional. All in all im good. This is my 1st. I know all my fans gone support me and ride for her like yall been doin my whole career. To the ones that say “Im heart broken how can he do that to us” well i do have a life thats not all about movies or making albums. Im 24 now. I cant wait 4eva. Im happy and if your a fan then ud be happy too cuz yall gone be with me every step of the way. The bs that comes with having a baby momma is expected. So i neva trip.
Jennifer Aniston opened up, a little, about a subject she never talks about – the split with her now ex-husband, Brad Pitt – on Inside The Actors Studio . Sitting down with James Lipton, she reflected on starring in the hit movie The Break Up after having just gone through her own, well publicized one. “It was just a beautiful story about a couple breaking-up. And I was slightly familiar on the topic and the issue,” the Horrible Bosses star joked. “I sort of honestly felt like, what a great way to sort of exercise that.” “I enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it,” she said. “You would think otherwise, because even the producers were like, ‘I don’t know if we should ask you to do this.'” “But I was like, why not? Turn the page, let’s move on.” Aniston, who is now dating Justin Theroux , has given just one interview on her divorce from Pitt, which took place more than FIVE YEARS ago. At the time, she told Vanity Fair this: “Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I’ve thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely.” “But I’m also doing well,” she said, adding that while she knew of the attraction between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie , she didn’t blame her for the split. “It’s just complicated. There are all these levels of growth – and when you stop growing together, that’s when the problems happen.” Hopefully she’s in a better place now. Not that it will stop Star, In Touch, OK! and their ilk from recycling the same ridiculous stories. [Photo: WENN.com]
Horrible bosses– the bane of every working man (and woman’s) existence. Whether they’re loud, obnoxious, or downright lazy, at some point they all inspire homicidal tendencies in the people unlucky enough to work for them. With the release of Horrible Bosses this Friday, The Urban Daily lists the worst of the worst offenders in corporate management from the small and big screen. Sergio Roma in Get Him To The Greek– Diddy plays record mogul Sergio Roma, whose Pinnacle Records is close to financial ruin. In the clip below, Sergio delivers a verbal tongue lashing to one of his underlings at their weekly staff meeting. J. Jonah Jameson in Spiderman– As the cantakerous top dog at the fictional Daily Bugle, Jameson has zero tolerance for stupidity–and our friendly neighborhood Spiderman. Louie DePalma in “Taxi”–as the head dispatcher for the Sunshine Cab Company, Louie is a nasty troll who delights in spreading misery to everyone around him. Miranda Priestley in The Devil Wears Prada– the editor-in chief of Runway Magazine, (rumored to be fashioned after real life Vogue magazine’s editrix Anna Wintour). No one can cast a withering stare better than this ice queen. Gilbert Huph in The Incredibles– Poor Gilbert Huph. How could the soulless corporate pencil pusher know he was about to fire one of the most powerful superheroes in the world? Watch what happens when Mr. Huph tries to conduct Bob Parr’s ‘exit interview’: Mel Sharples in ”Alice”–Rough, gruff, and about five decades behind in the women’s movement, Mel could definitely use a few classes in Sensitivity 101 (start at 1:25 mark). Eugene H. Krabs in “Spongebob Squarepants”–The owner of The Krusty Krab, Mr. Krabs is the crustacean Gordon Gekko of Bikini Bottom. He will do anything for a buck, and as witnessed in clip below, will even dabble in a little eco-terrorism to do so. Bill Lumbergh in Office Space –Lumbergh is the passive-aggressive, bureaucratic type of boss who seems to forget–or just doesn’t care–that employees have a life outside their office cubicle. Wilhemina Slater in “Ugly Betty”–Cold and heartless, Wilhemina takes fashion very seriously. In the clip below, Wilhemina serves a fashion police ticket (and a pink slip) to an employee at Mode Magazine. Ari Gold in “Entourage”–Based on real life Hollywood talent agent Ari Emanuel, Ari Gold is an equal opportunity offender. From faithful assistant Lloyd to long-suffering wife Mrs. Ari, no one is safe when Ari goes Chernobyl on your ass.
‘ From the Westside, With Love II just came out last week, so it was shocking to me to see people that knew those songs,’ MC marvels after packed show. By Steven Roberts Dom Kennedy Photo: MTV News New Yorkers are a notoriously tough crowd — ask the Knicks or Yankees. Or try suggesting your favorite pizza spot, because you’re already wrong. The city is also full of staunch music critics, from The New York Times to the Apollo Theatre’s Sandman. Hip-hop acts have a notoriously tough time getting the crowd to put their hands in the air. West Coast MC Dom Kennedy didn’t seem to have much trouble Tuesday evening, however. Kennedy headlined a packed house — more like sauna — at SOB’s in Lower Manhattan. And to many people’s surprise, Leimert Park’s very own had the crowd in the palm of his hand. Even Kennedy looked pleasantly surprised at the start of his set as the audience repeated every word to songs old and new. He said the show was a bit of a celebration for the hard work he’s put in over the past few years. “I realize that these are people that were probably listening to my music every day or every other day since these projects have come out,” Kennedy told MTV News. ” From the Westside, With Love II just came out last week, so it was shocking to me to see people that knew those songs. But the other ones, it was our time to get together and have a good time.” Kennedy said he knew he had a following in New York based on the reception he received at the listening party for his Original Dom Kennedy mixtape earlier this year, but the moment he got to the show and saw he couldn’t make his way from the green room to see any of the opening acts, he knew it would be a special night. Kennedy’s From the Westside, With Love II dropped via iTunes last week, making it his first retail release. It’s the follow-up to his From the Westside, With Love, a project Kennedy felt was really good — most critics felt the same, but he thought it wasn’t complete. He wanted Part II to show his growth. He also wanted it to show that Tuesday evening’s overwhelming reception wasn’t a fluke. “I built my projects to be the best,” Kennedy said. “Whether it’s a free project, whether my first project just came out on iTunes for $6.99, I built those projects to compete with Lil Wayne CDs, with everybody’s album. Whoever people consider the top album, whether it be selling or music-wise, I want the Dom Kennedy album to stand next to those.” What do you think of Dom’s latest mixtape? Let us know in the comments! Related Videos Mixtape Daily: Lil Wayne, Dom Kennedy Related Artists Dom Kennedy
Aniston welcomed her co-stars ‘with an open lab coat,’ Jason Sudeikis tells MTV News. By Kara Warner, with reporting by Eric Ditzian Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis in “Horrible Bosses” Photo: Warner Bros If you haven’t heard anything about the upcoming comedy “Horrible Bosses,” there are really only two things to know about the film in order to understand its appeal: It’s rated R and stars Jason Sudeikis, Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston, plus several other excellent supporting roles and cameos to look out for. The movie revolves around three friends (Sudeikis, Bateman and Day) who are so fed up with their bosses (Farrell, Spacey and Aniston) that they decide to kill them. As you can see from the cast list, the guy/girl ratio is a bit skewed, so when MTV News caught up with the leading men, we asked how Aniston fit into the mix of things. Naturally, the boys took a seemingly innocent inquiry into highly inappropriate territory. “You don’t welcome her; she welcomes you,” said Day, whose character Dale is the victim of some serious sexual harassment at the hands of Aniston’s character Julia. “She’s the heavy in the room.” “Jason and I, unfortunately, we did not get to swap talent spit, as it were,” Bateman pointed out, before the three funnymen digressed into an off-topic back-and-forth about what “swapping talent spit” means and where the phrase originated. “Errol Flynn used to say that,” Sudeikis said of the legendary actor known for his onscreen swashbuckling and offscreen debauchery. “It started in the Poconos, actually,” Bateman jokingly corrected. “Flynn used to spit all over people,” Day added. “It wasn’t swapping so much as receiving.” “Charlie did all the talent with Jennifer,” Bateman said, attempting to get the group back on topic. Day revealed that Aniston did, indeed, welcome him into their scene work. “With an open lab coat,” Sudeikis added, alluding to one of the many scenes in which Day’s character finds himself in an uncomfortable scenario with Aniston’s. “And an open labia,” Bateman chimed in, which drew groans from his co-stars. “I’m not touchin’ that,” Day said. “It’s spelled the same!” Bateman said in mock protest. “This is MTV!” Sudeikis exclaimed, hinting that Bateman’s comment was over the line, even for us. “The network that brought us ‘Skins’!” Related Videos MTV Rough Cut: ‘Horrible Bosses’ ‘Horrible Bosses’ Clips
Despite some chatter to the contrary , comedies are alive and well in Hollywood this summer. Especially R-rated comedies: the combined domestic grosses of The Hangover Part II , Bridesmaids and Bad Teacher are closing in on $500 million. Into this landscape arrives Horrible Bosses (out Friday), the Seth Gordon-directed comedy about three dudes who try to kill their titular terrible employers. How come Bosses works so well when some other summer comedies have not?
This is a fiery matchup for the ages: Mark Wahlberg (who once sparred with Eminem on Total Request Live ), and director/producer Allen Hughes (who once sued Tupac Shakur for attacking him on the set of a music video), may join forces on Broken City , “a noir-style drama about an ex-cop turned private detective who is hired by the mayor to see if his wife is cheating on him.” Ooh. Vertigo meets Chinatown meets even more shadows. For novelty’s sake, I hope they throw in a fight with a rapper. [ Deadline ]
