"You gonna hate me, Imma hate you too. Simple as that. Die mutha fucka, die mutha fucka, die. If you don't give a fuck, I don't give a fuck." ~ Diddy on Nas' "Hate Me Now"

SOHH it seems that Diddy and his campaign to take over the net with his ego-driven viral videos/video diary has backfired. No, he didn't violate the terms and services agreement. No, he didn't misrepresent himself. And despite him videotaping himself taking and piss and comparing it to some of the best sex he's ever had, he didn't even overexpose himself.

The story goes... Diddy creates a video of himself at Burger King proclaiming himself the king of music and fashion. Nothing strange there. He goes on to order a Whopper and then announce that he and BK bought a channel on YouTube and it's named "Diddy TV" (all channels on YouTube are free).

Within hours of the clip being added to YouTube over 1,700 comments were left, most of them negative. Shortly thereafter, spoofs and parodies of Diddy’s vids began popping up, in particular one by the user LisaNova who goes to a fruit stand and orders a fruit salad with everything and says that she is partnering with the stand to BUY a YouTube channel. Inferring how "smart" a deal it is. Are you catching the shade here?

Long story short, peeps are pressed that Diddy did what he does: makes a million dollars out of fifteen cents. Diddy helped mainstream hip hop, why would mainstreaming and profiting off of the latest internet fad be any different. Kudos to him for doing it just in time for the announcement that Google not only acquired YouTube, but that both entities have etched deals with major record labels which makes them less like copyright infringers and more like pimps in their own minds.

Will this mole hill won’t keep Diddy down. Well, according to Burger King, which on Monday announced a multi-year, multi-platform campaign showcasing Diddy, "No." And if they asked Whitney, the answer would be "Hell to the no!

But anyways, Diddy’s Press Play hits stores this Tuesday (10/17). Although you shouldn’t wait until then to press play and listen to “Thought U Said” featuring Brandy. Brandy is a bad girl and despite the fact that she hasn’t released a project since 2004 but both Kanye and Diddy have called on her everytime the beat drops speaks volumes.

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As a trial date seemingly loomed closer, the hearing for R&B superstar R.Kelly has once again been pushed back.

In opposition to published media accounts, a hearing for Kelly's trial was scheduled for today (October 13), not his actual trial. Yet according to the Cook County State's Attorney's office, the date has been rescheduled for October 27th.

The hearing will consist of pre-trial motions and a final date for the actual trial could be set during the proceedings.

As previously reported by SOHH, the singer is facing 14 counts of child pornography, stemming from a video tape released in February of 2002 by an unknown source, that was sent to the Chicago Sun-Times.

The clip allegedly shows the crooner engaging in sex with an underage female. The female in the video is allegedly the then 14 year-old niece of Sparkle, one of the singer's former artists and protégés.

Since his arrest, Kelly has vigorously denied that the man in the video is actually him. The suspected victim and her parents have also publicly denied that she is the person on the tape.

The tape, which was widely bootlegged and made available to the public, furthered wide spread debate on whether or not the man in the video was indeed Kelly.

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* Friday, 10-13-2006 @ 6:26pm

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Ali Jones of the St. Lunatics accused a St. Louis officer of overusing his taser gun after being pulled over this weekend (October 14).

Ali was reportedly pulled over in Hazelwood, MO before being gratuitously tased, he claims. While the rapper contends the officer tased him 46 times, a release from the Hazelwood Police Department states that the rapper had resisted arrest and kicked the arresting officer.

"My back is a mess," Jones told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "He tased me repeatedly over and over."

Ali also said the arresting officer made racial comments during the traffic stop. On the other end, a statement from the HPD reads that Ali was driving with an expired license and that he resisted arrest and damaged the patrol car. Though Ali admits to committing a traffic violation, he denies hitting the officer in anyway.

"There is no way that I could kick him from the back seat," he offered.

Ali was arrested and later released. He is charged with third-degree assault on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and property damage

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Day four of The Source sexual harassment trial kicked off this week with talks of an alleged sexual affair between 50 Cent and former Source editor-in-chief Kim Osorio.

Osorio was back on the stand today (October 16) to continue her testimony from last week, saying that the humiliation she allegedly suffered at the hands of Raymond "Benzino" Scott, former co-owner of The Source, went on long after her employment for the magazine ended.

Months after being terminated, Osorio landed her current position as executive editor of music at BET.com. She testified that she and her superior were on a boat in Miami to interview Murder Inc's Irv Gotti when they ran into Benzino and fellow former Source co-owner David Mays.

"Ray stepped in front of me and said, 'What up?'" Osorio testified. Then she said security stepped in and said something to Benzino.

"He started yelling, 'We can take this off the boat!'" the plaintiff recalled. "He said, 'Get her the fuck off the boat!'"

Osorio said she was then forced to leave the boat and was unable to do her job.

It was a hard-earned testimony for the plaintiff, as Judge Jed S. Rakoff admonished the plaintiff's counsel several times about asking leading questions.

Former Source vice president of content and communications Tracii McGregor was also on the stand this morning. McGregor testified that she had concerns about Osorio's reputation and she brought them to Mays.

"There were rumors swirling that Kim had affairs with various rappers," McGregor said.

Those rumors were exposed in a live broadcast on NY radio station Hot 97 when Osorio was being interviewed by correspondent Sway. "He asked her about giving 50 Cent 'brain,' live on the air," McGregor said.

McGregor also testified that she was made aware that 50 Cent wrote a song alluding to his escapades with Osorio, though she admitted to never having heard it. Throughout McGregor's testimony Judge Rakoff continually warned her about editorializing, rather than simply answering the question.

At one point, the jury was even led out of the courtroom and Judge Rakoff threatened to fine McGregor $10,000 if she continued to go beyond the scope of questioning with "superfluous" answers.

"In 10 years on the bench, I've never had a witness who so repeatedly and willfully violated the court's [directions]," Rakoff said, adding that the plaintiff's counsel didn't help by asking so many poor questions.

But McGregor was able to speak to Benzino's claim that the only reason Osorio submitted a written complaint of discrimination was for fear of losing her job. McGregor testified that Osorio called her one evening, after McGregor had already left the company, asking for advice. McGregor said Osorio heard she was going to be terminated and she wanted to know how McGregor's parting ways with the company was handled.

According to McGregor, Osorio asked about severance pay specifically. "[Osorio] said, 'I'm not trying to leave. I'm not trying to be outta here,'" McGregor testified. "I told her to pack up her things anyway because I had to sneak back in to get my things."

Stay tuned for more of SOHH's exclusive coverage of The Source sexual harassment trial as it develops.

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* d yo says...
* 50 cent is f#@$ing everything
* Monday, 10-16-2006 @ 4:24pm

* the one and only says...
* 1st, you tricks!!!!
* Monday, 10-16-2006 @ 4:26pm

* GOD'S CHILD says...
* Mays And Benzino Are Straight beeyatches. Those Two Have Access To All The Women In The World And These Cats Sweating Employee. Benzino And Mays Should Be Jailed!
* Mond

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At the end of day three of SOHH's exclusive coverage of The Source sex trial, tales of inter-office relationships, torrid business trips and sex with rappers were all commonplace at the magazine.

After a brief 15-minute recess, the trial reconvened with former Source editor-in-chief Kim Osorio still on the stand. She testified that she wasn't the only female employee at The Source being harassed. Osorio told the jury of multiple instances when she witnessed former Source honcho Raymond "Benzino" Scott touching and speaking to managing editor Adilla Francis in an inappropriate manner.

"He would grab her and hug her and kiss her ... Sit on her lap," Osorio said.

On a business trip in Puerto Rico, Osorio said, she and Francis were coming off the elevator in the hotel where a convention was being held after meeting with Benino and then Source publisher Dave Mays. "He grabbed her and said, 'Come on, you're coming with me,'" Osorio recalled. She then said Benzino then instructed Mays to, "Take Kim to get something to eat."

Osorio testified that Francis had complained to her about Benzino's behavior and the plaintiff advised Francis to file a written report. At this point in her testimony, Judge Jed S. Rakoff posed his own question to Osorio.

"You were the editor-in-chief, were you not?" asked Judge Rakoff.

"Yes," she replied.

"Then why didn't you take further action?" he continued.

"Because I was afraid he was going to fire me," Osorio said.

Osorio alleged that though Benzino had blatantly pursued Francis, he turned his sights on her, inviting the plaintiff to Atlantic City, NJ for the weekend. She then described a scene where the two were leaving the office one evening on the elevator.

"He kept saying, 'Come to Atlantic City with me?'" Osorio said he asked repeatedly. "'You're coming to Atlantic City with me.'"

Once the two were outside of the building, Osorio accepted a ride from him to the parking lot to get her car. She testified that Benzino persisted in asking her to go away with him and when they pulled into the garage and she got out of the car, he said, "I'm gonna call you. You're coming with me."

According to the plaintiff, when she got home that night Benzino called her at least 10 times on her cell phone and at least another 5 times on her home phone. She said she doesn't know how Benzino got her home number and that she didn't answer the phone.

Osorio also alleged that during her employment, Benzino repeatedly questioned her about her sex life, demanding to know if she were having relations with certain hip-hop artists. "Nas, Jay-Z, Slim Thug... Any artist I ever wanted to do a story on, I had to be fucking them," Osorio said.

She went on to say that Benzino asked her about her sex life, in general, all the time. "'Who are you fucking?'" Osorio alleged he would ask. "'Tell me who you're fucking.'"

She said he revealed to her that he'd slept with recording artists such as Foxy Brown, Trina and Lil Kim. According to Osorio, he even told her about Mays' sex life. "He said, 'Dave used to do it. He slept with [veteran female MCs] Nikki D and Yo-Yo.'"

According to Osorio, Benzino also admitted to having a sexual relationship with Francis. "'We slide off at lunch,'" Osorio alleged Benzino said.

Osorio said Benzino also made a vulgar remark to her at one point about a cover photo of Ashanti [see photo above]. "He said, 'Ashanti looks so good on the cover. She got a fat pussy. But I can't, that's Irv's piece.'"

Osorio also alleged that at one time Benzino called radio personality Minya Oh, better known as Miss Info, a "ching chong slut." He also said that Oh was "on her knees as an intern," Osorio told the jury.

When court reconvened after lunch, Osorio's attorneys called Sabrina Smith, another former Source employee, to the stand. Smith, who was called early due to a scheduling conflict, testified that she met Benzino in the elevator of the magazine's office one day and that he remarked that she had a "fat ass" as she exited the elevator. Smith said she didn't learn that Benzino was co-owner of The Source until later, when he began calling her at work repeatedly. The calls became so frequent that at one point that she stopped answering in-house calls and then stopped answering the phone altogether.

After Smith, Osorio retook the stand and told the jury of Benzino and Mays' plot to ruin the reputation of New York radio personality Angie Martinez.

"Ray said he wanted to attack her in the magazine," Osorio recalled of the April 2005 feature entitled "Hot Air." "He wanted to know who she fucked and sucked and put everything out there. He said he wanted to put the fact that she had a child by a certain artist in the magazine."

According to Osorio, Mays was in on the plot to defame Martinez and equally zealous, as he rejected the first version of the article submitted. "Dave said the article we had submitted wasn't vicious enough and if I had to make something up, then go ahead and make it up."

Osorio's testimony went on for most of the day recounting time after time, incident after incident of Benzino's alleged misconduct at work as well as that of Mays and a general environment of hostility. But every vignette the plaintiff's team offered wasn't accepted by the court.

Osorio told of an incident when she was invited to speak at a feminism conference at a university in Chicago. She said she had already accepted the engagement and her travel plans were confirmed when Mays got wind of the news and forced her to pull out. "He said, 'The Source shouldn't be involved in any feminism conference,'" Osorio said. "'This is the kind of thing that should be attacked in the magazine.'"

But Judge Rakoff struck this testimony from the record, finding that it is perfectly lawful for the magazine to take a certain position on feminism, if it so chooses. "This is an issue of free speech and not an example of discrimination," he said.

The trial will reconvene Monday (October 16).

[For more on The Source sexual harassment trial, check out SOHH's exclusive Source trial blog.]

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* tunes says...
* first beeyatches. but real talk the music industry some grimey sh!t.
* Friday, 10-13-2006 @ 11:04pm

* Bubo says...
* Nikki D? Yikes. I was wondering how lil Kim got 5 mics.
* Friday, 10-13-2006 @ 11:15pm

* Bones says...
* LoL. Word. The head must've been GOOD for that album to get 5 mics.
* Friday, 10-13-2006 @ 11:38pm

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Should Brandy be charged with Vehicular Manslaughter for causing the fatal accident that killed a mother of one last December?

According to the California Highway Patrol she should be. Read more here.

http://sohh.com/articles/article.php/10776

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