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Filed under: Wayne Newton Wayne Newton has finally relocated the $2 million private jet he had previously abandoned at a Detroit airport three years ago … and it’s now right in his own backyard — literally. According to employees at the Oakland International Airport, Wayne –… Read more
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Experts point to radio hits and a starved fanbase as the main factors. By Paul Cantor Eminem Photo: Michael Caulfield/ WireImage Eminem is dominating the charts like it’s 2000 all over again, when his second album, The Marshall Mathers LP, spent eight weeks at the top spot on Billboard ‘s top 200 and went on to sell 9 million copies in the United States alone. His latest LP, Recovery, isn’t as big of a blockbuster just yet, but in the current music-industry climate, it’s killing. The album has spent seven non-consecutive weeks at #1, the first hip-hop act to do so since Outkast’s double-LP Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in late 2003/ early 2004. A lot of Eminem’s chart success can be attributed to a very old-school source: radio hits. His first two singles, “Not Afraid” and “Love the Way You Lie,” have been staples on top 40 stations since they dropped. “Radio still makes hits, and hits make artists relevant outside of their core consumer base,” Complex Editor in Chief Noah Callahan-Bever told MTV News. “That’s why you see that aberration in Em’s sales on Recovery vs. Relapse. To a 16-year-old, Eminem was bordering on being their older brother/ sister’s favorite artist, but ‘Love the Way You Lie’ has not only re-excited Em’s existing fans — now mostly in their mid-20s to mid-40s — but reintroduced him to new generation of teenagers for whom Relapse didn’t register.” New York Times music writer Jon Caramanica for thinks Em’s fanbase has also been starved. In a sense, they’ve been waiting for something worth buying from him. “Eminem has been around for long enough to develop different pockets of fans: total loyalists, casual listeners, people who like only specific songs or sorts of songs,” he explained. “That he’s continuing to sell week after week is reflective of the fact that all of these groups don’t get activated at the same time. There are still people out there who might buy an Eminem album but haven’t, and each week, it seems, a few more do.” But can Em’s reign at the top continue? “I believe Em has a couple more weeks on top of the charts, even if he gets knocked out of #1 a few times before October 1st,” Vibe Editorial Director Datwon Thomas said. “He has two mega-concerts where he’s headlining a hometown show with Jay-Z in Detroit and then opening for Jay-Z at Yankee Stadium in New York. The amount of media and fan fervor for these events alone will spur people to grab both artists’ albums from their respective catalogs. [And] if Em can build on that momentum and release another smash of a hit from this album, he’ll be OK well into the holiday season.” Working his album through Christmas seems like it might be an option, if only because his record label, Aftermath/Interscope, appears committed to going the whole 12 rounds with Recovery. “Nowadays, [labels] push [albums] until the first-week sales and then generally abandon ship,” Callahan-Bever said. “With Recovery, it’s clear that Interscope knew they had a record with legs and went out of their way to push it. ‘Love the Way You Lie’ just connects to people in that really special, emotive way that only one or two pop songs a year do, and that is just undeniable.” Will Eminem rule the charts until Christmas? Let us know in the comments! Related Photos A Decade Of Eminem At The VMAs Related Artists Eminem
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Wayne will also headline a homecoming concert the same day, says YM president Mack Maine. By Shaheem Reid Lil Wayne Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images Lil Wayne’s Young Money army are loading up and getting ready to unleash a wave of new music towards the end of this year and next year. The youngest of the Young Money crew, Lil Twist and Lil Chuckee, are working the Net and the mixtape circuit, as are Jae Millz and Gudda Gudda. Tyga, who’s performing shows in South Africa this week, just dropped a video for his Lil Wayne-featured “I’m On It,” and of course, his Chris Brown collaboration “Deuces” is an undeniable people-propelled hit. The record was a mixtape song, but through requests and video play on MTV Jams and “106 & Park,” it’s become a number-one hit. Young Money president Mack Maine says that Tyga has an official second single coming soon and is hoping the company releases his album before 2010 is over. If not, look for Tyga at the top of 2011. The biggest Young Money releases this year, of course, are coming courtesy of the leader of the family, Lil Wayne. Weezy has a 10-song project called I Am Not a Human Being that will be released digitally on his birthday, September 27. YM has tentative plans to come right back with more Weezy on November 5. That album, of course, will be his
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‘It wasn’t shot the way I would have shot it,’ Anthony Mandler says of Lil Wayne footage shot before he came onboard as director. By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Audrey Kim Lil Wayne and Drake Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images Drake’s “Miss Me” video is the third project between the rapper and director Anthony Mandler (Jay-Z, Rihanna, Mary J. Blige), following their work together on the Toronto star’s “Over” and “Find Your Love.” According to Mandler, he and Drake are establishing an aesthetic via their collaborations. Mandler said that “Over” was about reestablishing Drake visually and “Find Your Love” was intended to make Drake the lead in an anti-love story. With “Miss Me,” however, the director said the video was a particular challenge because co-star Lil Wayne’s footage was shot prior to Mandler coming onboard. “It wasn’t shot the way I would have shot it,” Mandler explained to MTV News. “So I had to come up with a world where I had ultimate control. I think with Drake, we’re always looking for overarching themes. We’re always looking for bigger themes to hang our hat on. With ‘Miss Me,’ what was interesting to me was not the idea of ‘miss me because Wayne was gong to jail.’ Because it was deeper than that. It was the attainability verses the unattainability. And how stars and people who are public figures are expected to sit on a platform and be grabbed and watched and photographed and controlled. “The idea for me was, what happens if it’s not that clear,” he added. The director said he incorporated a set where everything was slightly off. The set was built with a converging ceiling, in order to appear smaller. The lead actress in the video was never fully shown. The Young Money star appears but then quickly disappears. “Everything is a click off,” Mandler explained. “All these unrelated scenarios are related by a textual theme and trying to play that into that, rather than some straight narrative, because we didn’t have control … ’cause we didn’t have Wayne,” he said. Related Artists Drake Lil Wayne
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‘This ain’t built for cats like us … You and Drizzy stay clean,’ Bow says Weezy advised during a visit to Rikers. By Mawuse Ziegbe Bow Wow and Lil Wayne (file) Photo: Soren McCarty/ WireImage Lil Wayne’s daily prison routine reportedly consists of mundane activities like watching ESPN and chatting on the phone. Despite his seemingly laid-back schedule, the Young Money/ Cash Money leader has cautioned his prot
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The now-incarcerated Weezy appears projected on a wall throughout the clip. By Shaheem Reid Lil Wayne and Drake (file) Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images Drake’s “Miss Me” video featuring Lil Wayne debuted Thursday night (August 19) on MTV. The clip starts with a man in a hood standing in an alley. He’s lighting up a Molotov cocktail and throwing it at the wall. The music starts, and we see Drake performing against a white backdrop, but the shot is wide and reveals a black setting as well. The action cuts to a sexy woman dancing in a room alone, and later we see Drake in that same room, sitting on the floor as the woman shakes it for him. “Miss Me” has heavy performance scenes throughout Drizzy’s verse, and then we see a TV set in the alley. Lil Wayne appears on the wall in the alley rapping, and he again is shown on the wall in the room where Drake and the girl are, like a projection. The Birdman and most of Wayne and Drake’s Young Money family appear in the video as well. As the video comes to a close, it’s revealed that Drake was the man in the hood at the beginning of the clip. “Miss Me” was directed by Anthony Mandler, who has helmed all of Drake’s Thank Me Later videos. ” ‘Miss Me,’ it was something I was so excited to do,” Drake said recently on the set of another Mandler clip, for “Fancy.” “It was something not a lot of people expected me to do, especially with Wayne being in the situation he’s in. We did it as a team, held Wayne down. All the Young Money big dawgs came down — the men of Young Money — to show the muscle, to show we still in full effect. It’s a great piece. It’s darker than the feel of the song. It’s got very much like a youth-in-revolt, rebellious feel to it. I wanted to be aggressive, man. That was my chance to flex my little ‘We did it. We’re still here. Young Money is still in demand.’ And to deliver a message that I feel very strong about. I’m not trying to be the best in the world. I don’t think that’s possible. There’s always somebody better than you. I just hope they miss me, man. So this is it. ‘Miss Me.’ ” The next video Drake and Mandler will shoot is for “Show Me a Good Time.” What did you think of the “Miss Me” video? Does it make you miss Lil Wayne? Let us know in the comments! Related Artists Drake Lil Wayne
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Luke Wilson and Giovanni Ribisi pioneer the Internet’s biggest business. Giovanni Ribisi in “Middle Men” Photo: Paramount Pictures Putting porn on the Internet was a no-brainer: Masturbating millions wanted the stuff and were eager to pay for their solitary pleasures. The problem was how to separate these lonely souls from their money digitally. According to “Middle Men,” a new movie “inspired by a true story,” this problem was solved by Wayne Beering (Giovanni Ribisi) and Buck Dolby (Gabriel Macht), two over-wound young L.A. hustlers who in 1997 created a computer program to enable online credit-card payments, and then, in a further refinement, hatched the idea of anonymous billing, so that instead of your wife or whoever coming across a credit-card charge from, say, “Milf Wagon Productions,” all she would see would be a payment to, say, “24/7 Billing Company.” This allowed Wayne and Buck to operate, not as actual pornographers, but as blameless middlemen between the skin trade’s suppliers and consumers. Brilliant. The story is approximately derived from the experiences of Christopher Mallick, one of the film’s producers. Back in the wild ’90s, Mallick was an executive with the online billing outfit Paycom, and if “Middle Men” is any indication of the adventures he truly endured, it’s something of a surprise that he’s still alive. Having set up their fledgling porn site and billing operation, Wayne and Buck (both fictitious characters) settle back to wait for customers. Their wait is brief — money comes gushing in immediately. Soon they’re making $25,000 a day, and before long, much, much more. Unfortunately, enveloped as they are in a haze of booze, cocaine and VHS porn tapes, they have no capacity for conducting business. After deciding to produce their own porn for uploading, and visiting a big strip club to recruit performers, they find themselves in the crosshairs of a Russian mobster named Nikita (Rade Serbedzija). He agrees to supply the girls, but he wants 25 percent of the profits. Wayne and Buck realize they’re in over their heads. Fortunately, a skeezy lawyer named Haggerty (James Caan) connects them with a real businessman, a mild-mannered fixer named Jack Harris (Luke Wilson), who specializes in bailing out troubled companies. Jack is a straight arrow with a wife and kids and a beautiful home in Houston. But he immediately sees the lucrative possibilities in setting up Wayne and Buck — and himself — as porn-world middlemen. It’s just another business, he figures, and he’s confident he won’t get sucked down into the slime. He’s wrong, of course — it wouldn’t be much of a movie if he weren’t. But there’s also an interesting twist. Following an accidental death that puts the Russian mobsters in an even surlier mood than usual (“I kill you, your family, people you haven’t met yet,” says Nikita), Jack is approached by Curt Allmans (Kevin Pollak), an agent with the FBI’s Organized Crime Task Force. Surprisingly, Allmans has no interest in rocking Jack’s porn boat; in fact, he wants him to keep chugging along. Because it turns out that among the millions of porn hounds logging onto Wayne and Buck’s proliferating sites are Arab terrorists (“They’re men,” Allmans says, by way of unnecessary explanation), and as soon as they make that fatal mouse-click, the U.S. military can target and terminate them. This is very funny, as is much of the rest of the movie. The director, George Gallo, embraces the gamey porn scene with gusto: There’s oodles of nudity, of course (and lots of over-inflated breastage), and Gallo draws savory performances from Ribisi (who’s a wired wonder in several scenes) and Laura Ramsey, who plays a young porn star with no regrets (yet, anyway). And casting Caan as the lowlife lawyer was a good call — his Haggerty suggests the urgent need for a bath even if you’ve just recently had one. It’s too bad that Wilson, who’s not an especially expressive actor, can’t really hold the movie together. He anchors it with his earnest solidity, but he doesn’t deliver the frazzled intensity that Jack’s descent into the porn maelstrom would seem to call for. You might expect the character to be more buzzed by his exotic new surroundings; Wilson just seems morose. It’s a lively movie, though, with just the right acrid tang. In the end, Jack finds himself facing a very bad federal rap that can’t be dodged, however helpful he’s been to the FBI. He thought that being a middleman in the porn trade would isolate him from the sleaze, lift him above it. Instead, it just left him stuck in the middle. (“Middle Men” is a Paramount Pictures release. Paramount and MTV are both subsidiaries of Viacom.) Don’t miss Kurt Loder’s review of “The Other Guys,” also new in theaters this week. Check out everything we’ve got on “Middle Men.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com . Related Photos ‘Middle Men’
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‘Every time I pick up the phone to dial a number, I feel like I’m a bother, because I’m in jail,’ he tells Hot 97 of keeping in touch with friends and family. By Hillary Crosley Lil Wayne (file) Photo: MTV News Lil Wayne called in to New York’s Hot 97 radio station Tuesday evening (August 3) from Rikers Island to talk about his time behind bars, hopeful collaborations and his upcoming EP, I’m Not a Human Being, due in September. Wayne started his sentence on gun charges in March and is scheduled for release in November . “I’m calling you from Rikers Island right now, unfortunately,” Lil Wayne said over a crackling phone line to Hot 97’s Funkmaster Flex . When asked about the support he’s received from fans while in jail, he said, “It’s been more than amazing. I promise that I can’t explain the love and support I’ve been getting from my fans. I never knew it was like that, and I’ve been doing this for, what, 16 years? It’s breathtaking.” Wayne went on to remind listeners and fans how to reach him while he’s locked up. “All you have to do is go on my website WeezyThanxYou.com , and I think all of my information is on there where you can write to me, and I get my mail every day,” he said. “I read as much as I can and I respond, and if you want to hear me respond, all you have to do is check back on that same website, and I have a great lady named Karen Civil that puts up my responses, she puts up updates, everything is on there. Some people might faint when they see their name on there, and they be like, ‘Oh my God!’ It’s a great thing.” He also shared what he’s been listening to — and not listening to — during his jail time. “I’ll be very honest, Flex: I don’t listen to no music. All I listen to all day, if I am listening to anything, is sports. And that ain’t because of nothing, just the simple fact that I’ve never listened to anyone else’s music but my own, and since I’m not able to do that up in here, I don’t listen to anything. I don’t listen to nothing but my thoughts.” Wayne has at least checked out Eminem’s latest album, Relapse, which he’s featured on. “Em is him, and he’s back in a major way,” he said. ” … As far as Eminem the dude, he’s a great dude. He’s been keeping up with me since I’ve been in here, and I appreciate his support.” The rapper later said he’s “a sports fanatic” who “played football and baseball, and I played football more than baseball, but I never was any good, so it’s nothing to speak about. I just have a great knowledge of the game.” Wayne had a few thoughts about dream collaborations upon his release. “I’ve been saying to myself that I really want to do a song with either Andre 3000 or I really like my man Tech N9ne from the West Coast,” he said. “Other than that, I’ve been trying to do a song with this little dude Weezy; he’s stupid.” Wayne said he stays scarce when it comes to keeping up with Young Money stars Drake and Nicki Minaj. “I call Drake at least once a week, but I actually call three or four times a week, but he only picks up for me once a week,” the MC said with a laugh. As for calls to Minaj, he jokingly said, “That being my future wife, we talk every night. Nah, the same goes for her. I don’t like to bother them in the midst of what they’re doing, because I know they have a whole lot on their plate every single day. That’s my thing with everybody. They be like, ‘Why haven’t you called me?’ But it’s because I don’t want to bother. Put in this position, I just feel like every time I pick up the phone to dial a number, I feel like I’m a bother, because I’m in jail. I don’t have nothing else to do but talk to you, and that might not be what you want to do at the time. I don’t know if that’s just a conscious thing, but … I always feel like I’m bothering. I call Mack Maine every single day, and I know I get on his nerves, but he answers every single time.” Wayne went on to describe a typical day in Rikers. “I wake up around 12 noon, I jump on the phone, call Mack, call family, call my mother, call my kids — you know I got a lot of kids to call,” he said with a dry laugh. “After that, once I start reading that fan mail, literally, I could read it all day, every day because it’s so much. That fan mail knocks off like four, five hours of the day. And then I do dinner — whatever that may be in here — I jump on the phone again, and after that, I’m through.” As for what he’s learned from his stint in prison, the MC said he’ll “definitely move more carefully. I’ll definitely take heed to my situation and my status. I mean, when I ask myself … everybody says that you’re here for a reason, and I promise you, Flex, I try to find out that reason every day. I search for it. But I think when I get out, that’ll be the only time I’ll really know the answer. Every day I look for that reason.” As for Wayne’s upcoming EP, it’s on the way. “Yes, it’s gonna drop before Carter IV, only on the Internet,” Wayne said. “This is stuff that I recorded right before I came here.” As the jail phone beeped its warning that Wayne’s interview was coming to a close, the MC thanked all his fans for their support. “I don’t want the phone to hang up on us, so I want to say thank you to all my fans, and I love you, Flex, for giving me this opportunity,” he said. “I appreciate what you’re doing, Flex. Keep doing it.” What do you think about Lil Wayne’s comments from prison? Let us know in the comments. Related Artists Lil Wayne
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“Hello world . . . I#39;m good. Counting the days and still smiling,” Lil Wayne wrote on his blog (which also features a countdown clock for his release). As for Lil Wayne#39;s daily routine, “I know that people are inquisitive of what I do all day, so here goes,” he wrote. “I wake up around 11 a.m. Have some coffee. Call my kids, and my wonderful mother. I then shower up. Read fan mail. Have lunch.” 1. Sleep in. 2. Chat with relatives. 3. Catch up on reading. What might sound like a lazy s
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