

| LW | TW | artist / album | label | power index | % change | |
| -- | 1 | EMINEM | SHADY/AFTERMATH/INT | 753,870 | -- | |
| RECOVERY | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | DRAKE | YM/CASH MONEY/UNIV MOTOWN | 156,451 | -66% | |
don't compare me to them other bums over there
It's like apples to oranges, peaches to plums yeah
I'm bananas pussy, cut off the grapes and grow a pair
But I swear, you try to diss me, I'll slaughter you
I put that on everything, like everyone does with auto-tune
That last thing you wanna do is have me spit out a rhyme
And say I was writing this and I thought of you so
There’s some drama, some issues and hopefully it’ll get resolved real soon cuz that man worked hard for his empire. The people close to him deserve to reap the benefits off of what he put out there and I don’t think [Dilla's mother, Ms. Yancey] is getting what she deserves and I hope it goes down well. And I hope it goes down soon. It’s crazy how certain people can be cold hearted toward certain situations and I hope it gets resolved real soon.
Dr. Ian Smith always looks pretty happy, even when he’s berating guests on “Celebrity Fit Club” who can’t get their weight loss strategies together. Maybe it’s good health - or maybe it’s that Dr. Ian knows what it takes to be happy.
Now, he’s sharing his insights in his new book, “Happy: Simple Steps to Get the Most Out of Life.” Smith says that the key is to appreciate the little things in life. He found out that despite all the material advantages that many people have in the United States, it is not the world’s happiest country. That distinction belongs to Denmark.
“They believe they’d like to have it all, but accept that they can’t have it all,” he told the Atlanta Journal-Constituion, “so they’re grateful for what they have and don’t think about what they don’t have. In the U.S., people always want more. They’re never satisfied.”
In “Happy,” you can expect to find that happiness has nothing to do with money or beauty, fame or shopping. Nope, not even losing weight necessarily makes you happy, though it’s possible that if you’re healthier overall, you can enjoy life more.
Dr. Ian touches on several keys to happiness in his book. They include:
- How to be optimistic
- Why optimism and realism are not opposites
- How to get outside yourself
- The importance of family and community
- Why involvement leads to contentment
- Shedding the treadmill mentality of getting and spending
- Tapping the power of simple pleasures
- Mastering modern life to live in the moment
- What we can learn from the Danish people
- How to be, not just to do
Smith uses scientific research to prove his points and makes the case that happiness is somewhat set by genetics, but that much of what allows you to be happy is in your control. If he can do for happiness what he’s done for health, then he’s probably on to something.
Dear Young Warriors fighting the wrong wars! Killing each other is definitely played out. Being hurt from the lost of a love one was never cool.
Dear Young Warriors fighting the wrong war! I know that feeling, that frustration with life and needing to take it out on someone, any one. But....
We chose the dumbest things to go the hardest for. I remember seeing deaths over 8 ball jackets, Fila sneakers, and name plate chains. Deaths over "he say, she say"!!!!! "I'm from this block or I'm from that block", or "my moms n pops is f*cked up now the whole world gotta pay"!!!
I remember feeling like I was the hardest "n*gga" breathing. And I couldn't wait to prove it. But let's think. What are we really proving?? And proving what to who?? Everybody knows Chicago breeds the strongest of the strong but I just feel, me, being ya brother from another state feels your pain as if I grew up with you in ya very own household.
You have the ability and mindpower to change they way we are looked at. Look who's watching us young warriors, look who's throwing us in jail constantly, look at the ignorance in the world. Look at the racist dogs who love to see us down. Loving to bury us in the ground or in jail where we continue this worthless war on one another.
Young warriors.... We are WASTING more and more time. We gotta get on our jobs and take over the world. Cuz this movie left the theaters years ago, Juice, Menace, Boys n the Hood , Blood n Blood Out, Belly!
When we see each other why do we see hatred? Why were we born in a storm, born soldiers, WARRIORS....and instead of building each other up we are at war with each other.. May the soul of this young person find peace with the almighty. I'm with you young warriors. You're me and I'm you. But trust me! you are fighting the wrong war.
-Nas



Complex: When the pictures of you and a lady friend hit the blogs, it caused some commotion because people thought you were stepping out on Kanye. Who is that lady and what’s the story?
Amber Rose: [Laughs] I will definitely straighten that one out. That is my bestest friend Dez. She’s been my friend for about ten years now. We were dancers-you know, strippers-together, and that night when we took all those pictures, I was back in Philly and hadn’t seen her in a while, and I was like, “Yo Dez, let’s just take some shots of Hennessy and take some fuckin’ pictures, just for us.” She didn’t realize I do have some type of celebrity-status, and she posted them on her MySpace. Kanye knows that that’s just my friend, we’re not lesbian lovers. Everybody made a big deal out of that and it’s like, how many girls do that everyday and take silly pictures?




In my Maury Voice: "SWIZZ....YOU ARE THE FATHER!""I can no longer ignore the harmful rumors that my friend Alicia Keys is in any way linked to my marital circumstances or to the decision that Mashonda and I have made to separate"

Swizz Beatz has a two year old daughter with Moscow born singer Jahna Sebastian.The two allegedly met at London famous club Ministry of Sound in August 2007. All her attempts to contact Swizz Beatz after realizing she was pregnant failed. So she did it with the help of her lawyers.In July 2009 Swizz Beatz had to come to London to take the paternity test (it is reported that Alicia was there as well) and the results proved that he was indeed the father.
The singer who now resides in London addresses that since then she gets no financial support from her famous baby daddy.
Are they even interested in making money from music anymore? Lady Gaga plugs 15 things in her new video. Dude, she even plugs a burger! That’s probably how they’re making money right now – buying up the burger joint, putting the burger in a music video and making loads of burger money.
I don’t know. Again, there’d Lady Gaga – people say we’re similar, that we both mix all these things in the pot and spit them out differently, but she spits it out exactly the same! None of her music’s reflective of how weird she wants to be or thinks she is. She models herself on Grace Jones and Madonna, but the music sounds like 20-year-old Ibiza music, you know? She’s not progressive, but she’s a good mimic. She sounds more like me than I f*cking do! That’s a talent and she’s got a great team behind her, but she’s the industry last’s stab at making itself important – saying, ‘You need our money behind you, the endorsements, the stadiums’ Respect to her, she’s keeping a hundred thousand people in work, but my belief is: Do It Yourself.
Very. But it’s not like “Haus of Gaga” (laughs). Me blindfolded with naked men feeding me apples and sh*t.
Everybody gets turned into a product push so fast – these weird fucking ‘hipster’ parties promoting Red Bull or whatever. There’s a difference between saying ‘no’ to everything and ‘yes’ to everything. I’m not f*cking Coldplay because I said ‘no’ to certain things. When I did my ‘selling-out’ show for MTV they made me a hundred grand and I built a school with it in Africa.




AC SIDE NOTE..MAKE SURE THE B!TCH IS BADDER THAN YOUR CURRENT GIRL...#IMJUSTSAYIN

The fiancee of actress/signer Jennifer Hudson, reality television star David "Punk" Otunga, has started appearing on Florida Championship Wrestling shows. He appeared at last night's television taping to help break a brawl between DH Smith and ECW wrestler Tyson Kidd. Otunga is going under the name "Dawson Alexander Esq." in FCW. He wrestled his debut match at a show outdoors a few weeks ago. Otunga recently appeared on the reality series, I Love New York 2, and was in the next-to-last episode as one of the final contestants. Several weeks ago, Otunga took a leave of absence to be with Hudson in light of tragic events surrounding her family.
In a poll on WWE.com, more people are looking forward to SmackDown's Elimination Chamber Match (65%) at No Way Out rather than Raw's (35%).
The drop of Emeritus was supposed to be the swan song and the final curtain call for rapper Scarface, but even his statement of stepping out of the game had to be retracted as he is returning and already preparing his next album.
Making quick rounds, Face has already tapped into talents such as John Legend for his upcoming release, which has yet to be titled and without a scheduled date to drop.
During an interview with HipHopDX, producer Mike Dean chopped it up and gave an update on where Scarface is at with the next project.
“It's sounding good. We just scored a feature from John Legend on there. I hooked him up with John, making sh*t happen. I don't know what's up with the album or a release date or anything, we're just working on a few songs right now. For the last few albums, I haven't had much on his albums because we haven't been in the studio together. He'll do music somewhere else and bring it to me."
It was only 2008 when the rapper said he was going to hang up the microphone and that Face was officially dead. He was adding that he was looking to give back and start producing for other rappers.
Already locking down the likes of Lil Wayne, Kanye West and potentially Jay Z, the engine behind the Canadian rapper might not be large enough to snag an appearance from Sade.
Springing back onto the scene from her usual musical hiatus, Sade dropped Soldier Of Love, but had made sure to have minimal press following her.
In regards to a possible collaboration with Drake, a discussion with The National Post revealed that Sade hasn't even spoken to anyone in the rapper's camp.
“I don't think they have contacted me. I've never collaborated because I've always avoided working outside my safety zone — I can be exactly who I am and can fail or success within the moment. I feel safe working like I do. I wouldn't want to work in a situation where I am expected to deliver because I think I wouldn't deliver.”
“Hey u guys, Jermaine n I just finished the theme song for the film. I hope u like!” she tweeted.
Titled “Nothing,” the song also features Bryan-Michael Cox as a producer.
In “Married Too?” due in April, Janet reprises her role as Patricia Agnew. She is also in the studio working on a new album with Dupri and Cox.

AC's side note, IF SADE's WORST ALBUM PEAKED AT #18 AND "only" WENT GOLD.....COME ON NOW ENOUGH SAID...ARE YOU GETTTING THE POINT, WORST=GOLD
AC's is going to go ahead and say: The album will overtake the No. 1 slot on the Billboard 200 album chart **YEA B!TCHES**
"THIS IS WHY I STILL HAVE A BLOG...," Kanye wrote December 10. "TO BE A PART OF MOMENTS LIKE THIS... NEW SADE... HOW MUCH BETTER THIS THAN THAN EVERYTHING ELSE?"
An early morning earthquake rattled northern Illinois on Wednesday, shaking an area about 50 miles west-northwest of downtown Chicago, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The magnitude 4.3 quake hit just before 4 a.m. CT (5 a.m. ET), with an epicenter about 3 miles underground. The USGS pinpointed the quake between the towns of Virgil and Sycamore.
Several callers to CNN said the quake shook their homes severely, but there were no immediate reports of major damage.

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer Warren Sapp was arrested in Miami on Saturday night for misdemeanor domestic battery!
Sapp has been accused of violently attacking his girlfriend, who police noted had "a swollen right knee and bruises on the back of her neck" when they arrived at the Shore Club Hotel early Saturday morning.
The former NFL player's girlfriend says Sapp attempted to throw her out of his hotel room, and when the two began quarreling, he "grabbed her and began to choke her."
The explaination for the chocking?
Sapp has told the police he wanted his girlfriend to leave their hotel room because
"he was expecting company."
UPDATE: HE POSTED BAIL ON SUNDAY MORNING!
his lawyer asked everyone to "reserve judgment" on Sapp until all the facts come out.
Sapp was arrested yesterday on one charge of misdemeanor domestic violence after an alleged altercation with his girlfriend in Miami.
He posted the $1,500 bond and was ordered to stay away from the alleged victim.
