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A good friend to SPATE Magazine and a fabulous comedian, Rasheed passed away of a heart attack. our condolences go out to his family.


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Our condolences go out to the Taylor family. NFL player Sean Taylor was shot at his home by an intruder. There are no suspects currently. He played for the Washington Redskins.

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Before, Rihanna and Beyonce there was Mariah Carey. I love Mariah and I guess I always will. She is about to drop her new DVD of her tour.
Carey's "The Adventures of Mimi" tour has been captured on film and will be available on DVD exclusively at Best Buy retailers beginning December 4. Her album got pushed back to 08 and they say it may drop in February. I can't wait.

We hear that Neyo got dropped from the R. Kelly tour. People are saying that Neyo performed to a screaming crowd and R. Kelly may have had a problem with the competition. Neyo's manager Tango says that R. Kelly may have felt threatened by the young hit maker. Anyway, Neyo hold your head up, I know you have about 20,000 more hit songs in you. R. Kelly is getting old now, and he held the post for R&B king for a long time. It's time for a new king. Some people don't know when to quit. Nah we love R. Kelly too.

If you didn't see him on 106 and park then you may have caught his performances with Tank & Joe. Well if you didn't see him there then you may have caught him recently opening for Donnell Jones and Jagged Edge. Harlem gets around and its no secret that he will be a power player in music in the future. Representing Harlem to the fullest Harlem writes and performs all of his tracks. Most of them he produces also. You will get to read a full interview with Harlem coming in the next issue of SPATE Magazine. Visit Harlem at his myspace page.

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The story of legendary Hip-Hop collective The Juice Crew is coming to the big screen in a new movie titled The Vapors.

The Vapors will be directed by Furqaan Clover, who also recently shot Queen of Media, which tells the story of radio personality Wendy Williams.

Actress Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee, Barbershop 2: Back in Business) has been attached to the project to play the role of rapper Roxanne Shante, while actor Clifton Powell (Friday After Next, Norbit) has been cast as influential DJ Mr. Magic.

The Vapors is set against the backdrop of New York City’s Queensbridge Housing Projects, where The Juice crew was based.

The character driven story is inspired by the true life events of DJ Marley Marl, Biz Markie, Big Daddy Kane and Roxanne Shante and chronicles the group’s rise to fame during Hip-Hop’s golden age.

The legendary collective was headed up by Marley Marl and featured legendary rappers like MC Shan, Big Daddy, Kane, Craig G., Biz Markie, Kool G. Rap and DJ Polo, Roxanne Shante, Masta Ace, TJ Swan, Cool V and Tragedy.

Juice crew members Roxanne Shante and Biz Markie released seminal records on the Philadelphia-based Hip-Hop label Pop Art in 1984, before entering into rap history when Juice Crew member MC Shan released the classic single "The Bridge" in 1986.

The single sparked "The Bridge Wars" between MC Shan and the Juice crew and Bronx rapper KRS-One and his Boogie Down Productions, one of the most legendary feuds in Hip-Hop history.

The Vapors is scheduled to start filming in January of 2008.

Imperial Records and Terror Squad Entertainment are releasing Fat Joe’s first official single, “I Won’t Tell (featuring J. Holiday)”. The song is already exploding at radio stations around the country and rapidly heading to the #1 spot on the charts! The street single, “The Crackhouse (featuring Lil’ Wayne)” was serviced to radio only a few weeks ago and is also getting tons of love and mix show airplay, early supporters are saying it’s sure to be the next hustler’s anthem.

Fat Joe has been in the studio all summer creating his new album, The Elephant In The Room the album will be in stores March 11^th, 2008. The album features multiplatinum producers, Scott Storch, Cool & Dre, Terror Squad artist, DJ Khaled, Danja Handz and impressive, up and comers, The Runners and LV. In addition to these powerhouse producers the album also features guest artist, Lil Wayne, Diddy, J. Holiday, Rick Ross and Dre of Cool and Dre. This is Fat Joe’s eighth album and it promises to be his biggest and most successful project to date. The album cover will be shot by photographer, Jonathan Mannion in an unknown location. The video of “I Won’t Tell” is going to be a star-studded, extravaganza, reminiscent of the Notorious B.I.G.’s “One More Chance”. The video will be filmed, November 20^th in Miami during DJ Khaled’s big, holiday weekend and directed by Gil Greene (he also directed “We Taking Over” by DJ Khaled).

The previous album Me, Myself & I on Terror Squad/Imperial Records has currently sold over 250,000 units and the single “Make It Rain (featuring Lil Wayne)” has currently sold over 2 million ring tones and over 1 million digital downloads. As a solo artist and with Terror Squad, Fat Joe has already sold over 4 million records worldwide. Fat Joe is a hip hop icon and an amazing businessman who is a legendary member of the Diggin in The Crates Crew with Big L and Lord Finesse. He also launched the career of his protégé, Big Pun, who was the first Latin rapper to sell over one million units and Fat Joe also received a Grammy nomination for best performance by a rap group or duo with “Lean Back.”

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Stephon Marbury is fueding with Isiah. We hear that Stephon is upset because Isiah wants to take him out of the starting lineup. Well we hear to he is talking reckless about Isiah and says "I got a lot of stuff on him, you wouldn't believe what I know about him". Says that he will spill the beans if he is benched. I don't know but it's looking like a reality show over there at the Knicks camp. I would love for them to bring a video camera into the equation....lol

Jadakiss is now officially signed with the Roc. Reps from Defjam have confirmed the signing and now we wait for the new one to drop on em.
Jadakiss has not released an album since 2004.

For those that don't know, Alicia Keys dropped today and since I'm a big fan of hers you must go cop that right now then come back and read SPATE Magazine.

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Kanye West is at the top of his game and tragedy strikes. His wonderful mother has passed on. There comes a time when you have to ask god a question. Why would you take our angels? But he has an answer for everything. Kanye loved his mother very much and she was only 58 years old. Our condolences go our to him and their family.

We got a chance to talk to C-Side on SPATE RADIO. Recently signed with 1720 records and discovered on myspace. C-Side has worked with artists like Akon, Ray Lavender and many others. They are producers as well as artists. Peep out the interview.

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Checkout Usher's new song "The Painter"

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Check this out it's a banger.

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Raekwon not felling Rza. Check out the video. Raekwon says he is getting jerked around a bit.

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For those that haven't seen this video. Cassidy is real nice right there and I like the fact that he prayed in the video.

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Alicia Keys got a chance to sit down with Allhiphop you can checkout the interview by clicking here

The beautiful Chuanda Mason from BET "Hell Date is now writing for SPATE magazine. You can catch her blog right here and pick up the print magazine also. We are gonna have some nice pictures of her so you better go pick that up.

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The same people keep making the news, sorry people I had to hit you with a different picture....lol

Queens, New York rapper 50 Cent was named the world’s best selling Hip-Hop artist at the 19th Annual World Music Awards in Monaco on November 4.

The World Music Awards featured performances by a number of the world’s top recording acts, including Rihanna, Avril Lavigne, Mexican band Mana and others.

50 Cent’s latest album Curtis helped him win the World’s Best Selling Artist Award, which is determined by actual sales figures gathered from countries across the globe, as opposed to a voting process.

Akon took home three awards, including Best Selling R&B Male Artist, Best Selling African Artist and Best Selling Internet Artist.

"You are witness to seeing me receive any kind of award for music the first time in my life," Akon told the crowd.

Other big winners during the evening included Mika who took home four awards, including Best Selling Male Entertainer and World’s Best Selling Pop/Rock Male Artist and Avril Lavigne, who won Best Selling Pop/Rock Female Artist and Best Selling Canadian Artist.

Shaggy won World’s Best Selling R&B Male Artist and Entertainer of the Year, while Rihanna took home the World’s Best Selling Pop Female award.

Generations united as R&B legend Patti Labelle and Canadian singer Celine Dion were honored with the Legend Award. Newcomer Ciara introduced Patti Labelle the “the High Priestess of Good Vibrations,” while Prince Albert II introduced Dion and honored her for selling over 200 million records worldwide.

The 19th Annual World Music Awards was sponsored by 80-year-old English fashion brand Belstaff.

Proceeds from the event will benefit a World Music Award hospital being built in Darfur.

(Allhiphop)
First T Pain and now Trey Songz. R&B dudes getting gangsta and arrested. Wow!

R&B singer Trey Songz was arrested in Springfield, MA early Sunday (Nov 4) along with several members of his entourage following a shooting outside a local venue.

Songz was charged with behaving as a disorderly person and resisting arrest.

The singer, born Tremaine Neverson, was released after posting $500 bond.

The shooting took place in the parking lot of The Hippodrome, where Songz performed Saturday evening.

According to Lt. John Slepchuck of the Springfield Police Department, police officers where present when shots were fired behind the venue at 1700 Main Street.

“Our disorderly person charge can involve several different things including the use of certain language, failure to do what an officer asks,” Slepchuck told AllHipHop.com. “[Neverson] was interfering with an active crime scene involving a victim.”

The alleged shooter, 29-year-old Anthony Williams remains in police custody facing multiple charges, including assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm without a license and assault with intent to murder.

He is scheduled to be arraigned this morning. Williams’ unidentified victim suffered non-life threatening injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital.

It is unclear whether Songz is connected to either man.

The singer was connected to another similar incident in less than a month ago, though he was not directly involved.

Songz’ October 11 performance at Opera Nightclub in Atlanta was interrupted when an altercation between two men in the audience erupted in gunfire.

New clues in the Jam Jay murder have come up. It is said that one of the witnesses claim that the killer had a tattoo on his neck. There are many different stories to what actually happened on that day, but we do know that the man that shot Jay embraced him, and then fired two shots the first hitting a friend seated next to him and the other hitting Jay in the back of the head. Many believe that the police know who did it but it's a matter of getting the witnesses to co-operate. Some say the gun used to kill Jay came from his own house.

(Allhiphop)
Jive Records has issued a statement explaining the arrest of superstar producer/R&B singer T-Pain.

T-Pain, born Faheem Najm, was stopped driving a Lamborghini Gallardo in June, but his license had been revoked for being a habitual traffic violator, officials reported.

Police issued an arrest warrant on June 15 charging the rapper with a non-moving traffic violation and driving with a suspended license.

"He is a habitual offender," Tallahassee Police Department spokesperson Kathy McGhin said. "This is his third charge."

T-Pain surrendered voluntarily yesterday morning (November 2).

"T-Pain was given a few traffic tickets several years ago for minor infractions [a speeding ticket, running a stop sign, failure to pay]" a representative for Jive told AllHipHop.com. "These were mistakes that Pain made as a young man that just received his driver's license. He did not have the money nor the knowledge at the time to take care of them."

Jive shot down reports that T-Pain was arrested and clarified that he voluntarily turned himself in and scheduled his surrender with a local attorney and law enforcement officials.

"There was no bail and he was released on his own recognizance within a few hours…He will not miss any scheduled engagements."

T-Pain is scheduled to play at Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) homecoming tonight (November 3) at the Civic Center from 8-11 PM.

Other artists on the bill include Lil Wayne, Musiq Soulchild, Webbie, and Plies .

Jay Z rocks David Letterman with a band. Well, I doubted the comeback for a second but I think he is genuine because he does not need the money. He loves hip-hop and thats why he is on top.
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