News, pictures, music and videos from December 16, 2008

Ne-Yo Drops Off $30,000 Check to Elementary School

Tuesday, December 16th 2008

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R&B singer and songwriter Ne-Yo dropped by M. Agnes Jones Elementary School in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia to present band director Arthur McClenton and his students a $30,000 check for brand new instruments, courtsey of VH1’s Save the Music Foundation and an anonymous donor.

“Music is not what I do, it’s who I am,” Ne-Yo said. “If you cut off off my arm right now a song would probably fall out…And I know it may be cliche, but these kids are our future. And we are going to have some very smart, but very boring, very bland kids if we don’t keep programs like these in the schools.”

This is definitely a good look for our boy Ne-Yo. Continue reading for more photos!

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[VIDEO PREMIERE] Soulja Boy F/ Sammie – “Kiss Me Thru The Phone”

Tuesday, December 16th 2008

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Here’s the GOT premiere of Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em’s latest music video, “Kiss Me Thru The Phone,” which features young R&B singer Sammie. Peep the video above, and be sure to pick up his album – iSouljaBoyTellEm – which dropped today.

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[NEWS ROUND-UP] Akon Clears Up Criminal Past // Jennifer Hudson Calls Off Video Shoot // Stevie Wonder to Join “Dancing With the Stars?”

Tuesday, December 16th 2008

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AkonAKON SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT ABOUT HIS CRIMINAL PAST » Hip-hop star Akon (real name: Aliaune Thiam) cleared up allegations of him fabricating his criminal past to create this “gangster image” we all know him for. Just earlier this year (April 2008 to be exact), The Smoking Gun, a website famous for letting people know what’s really up with these celebrities, published reports of Akon’s true criminal past, making it known that the founder of Konvict Musik wasn’t in jail for 3 years, as he had claimed in numerous media interviews and in the lyrics of his music. But in an interview with Access Atlanta, Akon said that the “three years” he had previously mentioned didn’t represent one long sentence. Instead, they represented an accumulation of all of his run-ins with the law.

“I got caught up in cars and this and that. Kept going in and out of jail. Three months here, six months there, two weeks here,” Akon said. “And it was to a point where I was like, ‘This really doesn’t make any sense. What am I doing?’ And the last stretch I did was six months in Dekalb County (Georgia) after I was pulled over in a stolen car. So I guess when I was being interviewed, and I would say, ‘Yeah I did about three years,’ I wasn’t saying I did a three year stretch, I was calculating the time from when I started to get in trouble to the time when I said, ‘Enough is enough.’ And I think that was mistranslated in the Smoking Gun article and other stories.”

Yeah … usually when you say “I did 3 years in prison,” it usually means you did three years in prison! Not 3 months here, 6 months there, a week here, 12 hours there, 72 minutes there. He knew what he was doing to get those album sales, SMH…

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Doug E. Fresh in Financial Trouble: Over $3.5 Million in Debt!

Tuesday, December 16th 2008

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The human beat box we all know as Doug E. Fresh is over $3.5 million in debt! And multiple banks in New York are pursuing the hip-hop icon to get their money. According to reports published by The New York Post, not one, not even two, but THREE of Fresh’s Harlem home mortgages are behind payment and he is facing around $60,000 in debt stemming from credit card charges by American Express.

In addition to all of that, the IRS has also hit the rapper with a tax lien worth over $360,000, in addition to over $40,000, which he already owed to the state. So not only are the banks on his back, he has Uncle Sam to worry about too! SMH…

But hopefully his latest business venture, a restaurant named “Doug E’s Chicken & Waffles,” which is set to open in the Harlem area in January 2009, works out so that he can get out of the deep financial hole he’s in.

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