Friday - August 25, 2006 by Carl Chery P. Diddy In this week's Pulse Report, the streets are buzzing about Diddy making a fool of himself, Loon and 40 Cal's conflicting reports about their beef and an altercation breaking out at NYC's Idlewild premiere. 1. Diddy demands Proactiv bragging rights. Diddy, Diddy, Diddy. He allegedly invented the remix and now Puff claims to be the first to use Proactiv skin care. Take that! Take that! A drunken, platinum-teeth sporting, doo-rag wearing Diddy recently made the revelation in a clip presently floating on the net. "Ya'll know damn well that Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson is not using no Proactiv til Diddy wore Proactiv. Now, ya'll into skin care products. Now ya'll think it's official," Diddy complained. "Well ha! I was on Proactiv for seven years. That's why I got the silky smooth, cocoa butter skin. So Lindsay, Jessica, you're late. You should have followed my pretty ass from the beginning." O...K! Moving along. Your boy is so concerned with being stuntastic that he recently posted a clip of him waking up on Myspace. The subject at hand? Well, the Puffster reveals that he doesn't like having crust in the corner of his lips and suspects that his morning breath may be kicking. Eeeewwww! TMI, Diddy. TMI! Diddybop then talked about his breakfast preferences. Sausage, egg and cheese anyone? Look for more online clips from Diddy. The mogul swears that his myspace page will stay updated with fresh new videos. But just as Puff was putting new stuff up, old items resurfaced. Some may remember that shock jock Wendy Williams was allegedly suspended from New York's Hot 97 because she accused Puff of being gay. The photos that apparently lead Williams to that assumption are now posted online. One photo pictures Puff's lips uncomfortably close to those of his former protégé, Mason Betha, while another has him unintentionally mooning a crowd on an unknown beach. 2. Loon gives his side of the story. In recent weeks, 40 Cal has been making the media rounds, claiming that Loon took off running during an altercation the two had in a Harlem, NY barbershop. The Dipset young gun even stopped by SOHH.com to detail the encounter last week. Not so fast, according to a recent New York Hot 97 interview, Loon claimed otherwise. The former bad boy's account had him busting 40 in the head with a shovel. A woman, who claimed to be waiting on 40 outside of the shop when the fight took place, phoned into Hot 97 to corroborate Loon's story. Minutes into the interview, 40 called into the station. The two proceeded to discredit one another, speak on top of each other and issue threats for the remainder of the interview. So why are these two even feuding? Well, according to Loon, Cal set it off when he began taking shots on record. "Me and Jim Jones had a little friction between us and the kid 40 Cal supposedly had got on a few records with Jim Jones... talking about me and stuff," the Harlemite told Miss Jones on the morning show. "I knew Cal for a long time so when I seen him I just felt kinda disrespected with him trying to acknowledge me as a friend...you know partake in a conspiracy to try and assassinate my character, embarrass me or whatever the case may be. Dude knew he was out of order for partaking in this type of situation then when you see me, you just think you gon give me a pound." 3. Fight breaks out at Idlewild screening. Who ever said journalists are punks? Well, SOHH.com was present when a fight broke out during a press screening of OutKast's Idlewild in the big apple yesterday ( August 23rd). It is actually uncertain whether the two pugilists were writers or not. According to a SOHH correspondent on the scene, the scuffle coincidentally jumped off during one of the movie's most violent scenes. As two men duked it out in the front row, one stood with his shirt off, yelling, "he jumped me, he jumped me." As bullets flew on screen, attendees began moving around nervously, wondering if anyone actually had a gun in the theatre. Security guards eventually intervened and threw the boxers out. According to the guards, the fight was sparked when one of the two men repeatedly bumped his knee into the other sitting directly next to him. 4. Def Jam prevents Ye from rhyming in Khaled clip. Perceptive heads may have noticed that Ye only raps the chorus in DJ Khaled's video for "Grammy Family." No, it's not another one of Kanye's brilliant left concepts. A source at Koch Records recently told SOHH.com that Def Jam allowed the Louis Vutton Don to appear in Khaled's clip, but wouldn't let him perform his verse, hence the collection of Good Music artists reciting his raps throughout the video. 5. Pete Rock signs to Violator Management? DJ Premier just helped Christina Aguilera's Back to Basics reach the top spot on the Billboard 200... and Pete Rock may just be next. A source close to SOHH recently bumped into the Chocolate Boy Wonder and learned that he was heading to the Violator offices. Apparently a management situation is on the table. The powerhouse management company could definitely help Pete return to the forefront. Regardless, the legendary producer has been doing quite well for himself. In the past year, Pete has upped his mainstream contributions, producing for Jim Jones and 50 Cent among others. [For any questions, comments or criticisms, hit up Carl Chery at www.myspace.com/hdottt]

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Hurricane Katrina Survivors, Activist Convene For One Year Anniversary By Remmie Fresh Date: 8/28/2006 5:30 pm xml Survivors of Hurricane Katrina, community activists and elected officials still reflect, organize and plan action in the aftermath of the tragedy. In recognition of the one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the catastrophe that devastated New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf region, writer/community activist Kevin Powell and other community forces will convene for an insightful meeting of the minds called Hurricane Katrina: One Year Later. "We are doing Katrina: One Year Later as a way to remember the tragedy of late August 2005, and to stress to folks that all is not well, still, with Hurricane Katrina survivors," Powell told AllHipHop.com. "Families are scattered all over the country, hotels [and] places like New York City have moved to sue survivors for back rent, and New Orleans remains a city still devastated by debris and death." Katrina survivors, community leaders, elected officials, and other organizations intend to pack Brooklyn's Hanson Place Central United Methodist Church to face the policies, politics and glaring disparities in the aftermath of Katrina. "People can do something by helping survivors find jobs, housing, or by helping, in some way, to defeat the Bush administration's agenda and the Republican control on Congress," Powell continued. Additionally, Powell charged that while the Hip-Hop community has done much in the past for Katrina victims, help work was needed for those afflicted by the catastrophe. "As far as us Hip-Hop heads go, we need to step up again. A number of the displaced Katrina survivors are teenagers, 20-somethings, and 30-somethings," he said. "and we need to understand that a young person like [displaced student] Brandi Kilbourne needs help. To me, Hip-Hop in its pure form is about looking out for each other. Will the real Hip-Hop heads stand up, then?" But, the challenges are not limited to Hip-Hop as society on a whole must come to terms of what Katrina truly means. "I say the challenge for us on this one year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is to understand the difference between charity and justice. Charity just means we feel something for a moment, give money or time, then change the channel in our minds. Justice means we are committed in our bones not just to money, material things, status, and all of that, but to helping people who are less fortunate," he concluded. The Hurricane Katrina: One Year Later memorial service takes place today (Aug. 28) at 7 p.m at the Hanson Place Central United Methodist in downtown Brooklyn.

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Though he wasn’t the youngest Hot Boy, Juvenile certainly seems to have matured in the last eight years. From his salacious ballads, Juvenile is committed to showing the other side of the lifestyle with the upcoming Reality Check. In a candid discussion with AllHipHop.com, Juvenile touches on this new vision, his reactions to Katrina and beliefs of what really happened. While Juvenile was a public figure in activism for relief, he not only regrets that – but offers greater insight than has been seen from many of his peers. Reality Check seems to be advice that Juvenile is not only offering, but as something the New Orleans playboy is taking himself. In addition to that, Juvenile reveals the status of his former Hot Boy fraternity and corresponding label. Lastly, for all you chain snatchers out there, Juvy’s got a memo for you – but, you’d better snatch this feature first. AllHipHop.com: Tell me about Reality Check. The title leads that this could be responsive to Hurricane Katrina… Juvenile: [Reality Check] is basically what we all go through sometimes in life. Or, some of us ain’t even had our reality checked yet, you know what I’m saying. But for me, Katrina was mine, I had the title of the album from before Katrina even hit. So I hadn’t had mine yet, know what I mean? When, when the hurricane hit, they sent me back to the studio to really, really make the title true, ‘cause it changed everything, it made me really feel like, “Damn, how could I have a title like that before a hurricane and be so appropriate?” AllHipHop.com: Did you change songs or add new ones? Juvenile: I changed songs, added new songs. I mean, it delayed everything for me because you know I was close to putting my album [out around that time.] My reality check was like man, no matter what you do or how big you make it or how much money you made - I just built my house - no matter how much you accomplish, you still a n***er. I ain’t no better than nobody else, ‘cause I do still have problems [like ordinary] people. AllHipHop.com: Do you think people scoff when artists become activists? I mean, you have money, and a lot to come “home to,” so to speak… Juvenile: Everybody wasn’t like that, but I do think the majority thinks like that. I mean, the true colors come out during the worst times. They seen me full of alcohol, speak your sober mind, because you can’t control the truth then. It looked like it was a whole bunch of drunk ass people working for the government until the truth came out, you know what I’m saying? The truth came out and the answer is: they ain’t gonna give a f**k about us. AllHipHop.com: What’s the status down there now, like you know, it’s out of the media, it’s not really prominent like that anymore. People kind of want to know like how is it. Juvenile: I said all, all of the media, y’all full of s**t, you know. And probably won’t play me, probably won’t show my commercials or nothing, probably won’t play my videos or nothing but I got to get out, to me y’all full of s**t. AllHipHop.com: How so? Juvenile: Y’all should of, a lot of them should have been doing something different than what they was doing and showing. And then you, enough you’re not showing the truth, 'cause the truth is the levees didn’t break. The levee was breached, but not by water. It was breached by military, by military firearms. People heard a boom, then the waterways. So, you know it’s a whole bunch of lies man. Honestly when you saw me at that [Red Cross] press conference, you know, I was really in there mad, like, “Y’all full of s**t.” I really lost my s**t, you sure they didn’t, the insurance agency really ain’t giving me nothing yet, know what I’m saying? Oh, I was really, I walked out. AllHipHop.com: A lot of people have military-related theories… Juvenile: What happened was the water was backing up in the wrong areas: the tourist areas. And they knew it, and it was backing up in areas where some strong people was politically, and on other scales were, and those people knew what was going on. Like man, y’all could have fixed this pump system where everybody could be safe, but y’all fixed one area of the city. We watched them over the past couple of years, you know the pumping system that was designed to pump water on the lower main. They blew the levee. AllHipHop.com: Wow. Juvenile: It’s more like out with the old, in with the new. Now you got [wealthy real estate barons] down there, buying up all the property - now it’s a big business venture. If you didn’t pay your taxes on your property - and half of the people weren’t able to pay taxes, you know - a lot of people lost their money for real. AllHipHop.com: Is this a new era of political mindedness for you? Juvenile: Nah, you ain’t gonna catch me doing a public anything, I’m not like that, all you’re gonna catch me doing is telling my people, ‘Get what the f**k you gonna get and get it right now,’ man. Get what you can get right now. Make the best of out of life you know what I’m saying. Stop crying, don’t feel sorry for yourself, do what you gotta do. It’s time to eat. AllHipHop.com: Moving on, what’s your relationship like with Cash Money these days? Juvenile: None. Juvenile: Trying to take five with your boy, whenever you want to fight -- AllHipHop.com: For real? Juvenile: Yeah, it’s for real. AllHipHop.com: Why’s it like that? Juvenile: ‘Cause, [the] man got a big mouth. AllHipHop.com: Who? Juvenile: Baby. He got a big mouth, [I'm] gonna punch him in it. AllHipHop.com: What’d he say this time? Juvenile: A lot. Now, what I’m saying, is how you even know he saying something? He’s always saying something ‘cause we gonna, I’m gonna get it on with him. AllHipHop.com: I heard y’all was working out a reunion of with Cash and Hot Boys or something. Juvenile: Yeah. AllHipHop.com: Why it didn’t go through? Juvenile: There’s another reunion between, that’s another reunion involving Cash Money, I think. I ain’t caught up with Cash Money thing. You probably [heard] B.G. talking about me, and him, and Mannie Fresh. AllHipHop.com: Right, right, so no reunion? Well, what about B.G. though? Juvenile: No, nah, nah. We be bumping heads with each other, we be holler and stuff like that, you know. AllHipHop.com: Are you and B.G. on good terms? Juvenile: Yeah we good. But you know, we got a situation, and I got my situation right now. And it like we both trying to make it happen, like, “You got your little camp and I got my little camp,” we agree to do songs with each other, but it’s like, we both in motion. You know the Hurricane killed everything, too. AllHipHop.com: Are you working with Mannie on this album? Juvenile: All the time, all day. He ain’t even Cash Money either. AllHipHop.com: Yeah, I know. Last year you were the first person that confirmed that, at the BET Awards. Juvenile: Yeah, people didn’t believe me, people was looking at me like I was crazy or something, I’m telling you. AllHipHop.com: Well, what about Wayne? His album is very hot right now… Juvenile: You like that “Party Man” [actually titled “Fireman”] song? AllHipHop.com: Yeah, it is cool, but the album is better. What are your thoughts on his tattoo tear? People wonder about that kind of stuff these days… Juvenile: Tattoos [tear] is people’s fashion nowadays. My homey told me, they told me, when you get the little tattoo [tear] like that that means you put in some work. I'm gonna bash them, [that] little boy that grew up and he needs daddy. What I'm say is nobody remembers [him in the street], so all this s**t you saying, is false. Now far as rap, he's a good rapper, he been a good rapper. He's been to the best schools, he been, he been a good boy. AllHipHop.com: In the summer, there was a rumor of a dude who allegedly took your UTP chain… Juvenile: Man, that’s a long story. But that dude, honestly, [it must have been] one of the little cats, ‘cause I don’t have a chain like that. One of little cats on my bus got, guy got a little chain and slipped a little over, you know what I mean? And I guess since she give the chain to her dude and he got an itch, he was gangster and everything [sarcastically]. Man, keep the chain, da, da, da. I don’t even know what happened, the end of the story I don’t even know what happened with the chain. AllHipHop.com: There were pictures on the Internet for a second. Juvenile: Yeah, he come back on, you never saw him back on it, I wonder why you never see the Indian, right? We straightened it. He so stupid is out on the web site and showed his face on TV. Now you’re playing. Jump on the TV, that was like something on national TV, I got the chain, it’s me, we got the gun, okay, so now you know where, where is [the chain now]? AllHipHop.com: What prompted you to do this “Rodeo” single? Juvenile: It really falls upon the Reality Check title. And that song is an uplifting song for women. Once you see the video, you’ll understand that I’m trying to show you what these women go through, the women that stay in strip clubs what they go through after they leave away from the strip club. Some of them got kids, some of them forced women, forced into doing that. Some of them try to go to school, don’t have nobody to help them, some of them been badder than that. I’m showing you the other side of the picture. I’m just saying [to the women], “You’re beautiful anyway.” I got a daughter, I got a momma, and I got a wife. So I look at things differently, you know what I’m saying, I look at things like how could I make a song for them what I need, you know what I mean? Getting off of the G upside that you always catch me on, because every time you hear a song from G you expect it to be this way, you know what I’m saying? But this is something different and also when you get off into the album and you see there, that’s one in a million, you know what I’m saying, it’s like it was the only song on my album that was really radio playable to that extent. AllHipHop.com: Given the reality we’re faced with in 2006, why should people get this album? Juvenile: All I got to say is you ought to get my album. My album was generally done before the hurricane hit. But the hurricane hit, and I tried to change up as much but you’ll probably get more footage ‘cause I got a DVD coming out, and you’ll get more footage of the people actually [involved], me actually in New Orleans, and you seeing it really handle the truth because you’re talking everybody [affected] but the White people. AllHipHop.com: Do you ever feel that moves like that could compromise your gangster? Juvenile: [People are] kind of they scared to make songs like that, song needs to be made. I’m G’d up all the time, I am who I am, you know what I’m saying? I don’t feel like making a song like that takes anything away from my character, I feel like you know my respect stays there because I can make a song like that and I can make a song like that, you know what I mean and I ain’t gonna cross my boundaries. ALLHIPHOP.COM

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T hroughout the history of Hip-Hop, it would seem that artists who come into the game as the protégé of another artists never quite live up to the hype, or even to the success of the friend, mentor or whatever who put them on. You can argue that record sales don’t always reflect the popularity or skill of these protégés and crews, but the reality is: the proof is in the numbers. Slick Pulla, the first artist slated to be released on Young Jeezy’s Corporate Thugz Entertainment, may just be the guy to break that mold. After all, Slick’s priorities lie in shattering stereotypes. The Fourth Ward Atlanta native understands that he entered the race by following the competition’s rules on mixtape single “Birds Fly.” Now in, Slick Pulla says he’s got the lyricism that it takes to last the long haul in rap. While those promises have been made and broken before, few ATL newcomers are using their budget to solicit beats from Hi-Tek and Alchemist in addition to the usual suspects – an indication of Slick’s direction. The “Trapublican” candidate from Atlanta declares his platform, and introduces himself to the consumers he’ll need to keep him off the block and in the office. AllHipHop.com: Now, I know the album and everything is scheduled for ’07. Have you started working on it already? Slick Pulla: Oh yeah, I been working on it for a minute now. I’m in deep. It’s gonna be like my presidential campaign on CD. At the end of the day, when you finish listening to the album, it’s gonna give you the same effect like, “You know what? This cat need to be president! Let’s go ‘head and put him up there.” When the time is up, I know all eyes is really gonna be on me hard. Like, it’s cool now, everybody know I’m doing a album [or] whatever. But it get time to jump, the whole game gonna be looking. ‘Cause first of all, it’s gonna be the first installment of CTE. I mean, [Jeezy’s] album was the first installment, but this is gonna be CTE [Corporate Thugz Entertainment] on a business aspect, [and people will want to know about] the first artist, Slick. “Is he gone do good? Is he gone be on the same type of shit Jeezy was on?” All that kind of s**t. So the ball’s in my court now. AllHipHop.com: Who are some of the people that you’re working with on the album so far? Slick Pulla: Right now, I was really just messing with the young hungry cats, as far as production-wise. But now that I’m towards the end of everything, I’m starting to get in with people. Like I got in with Cool & Dre, I got a hit from them. I’m [trying to] get in with Hi-Tek, Alchemist, cats like that. I just wanna get in with all the heavy hitters, cats who make those kind of songs and then, after that I should have the perfect dinner for the streets. They can come eat. AllHipHop.com: You said Hi-Tek and Alchemist? That doesn’t sound like what most people would expect from an artist coming out of Atlanta… Slick Pulla: Yeah, but see, I’m from Atlanta, but I got a flow that’s universal. I got a flow where I can go on any kind of beat and it’s gonna always be South ‘cause of my slang and my flavor. But I’m one of them lyricists who, I can get on a West Coast beat, I can get on a East Coast beat. I can still do that and it be all good. I’ve always liked Hi-Tek music and Alchemist music, they nice with it. Imma also get in with Manny [Fresh] and [DJ Paul and Juicy J]. I’mma get in with everybody that needs to be got in with. AllHipHop.com: Now you said the album’s gonna be like your presidential campaign. Ugly stuff often likes to come out during presidential campaigns… Slick Pulla: Yeah, but you know, with the whole Trapublican thing, when I go into that mode, I’m really just speaking about social issue and just letting cats know I got another type of mind frame. Like, I can do the street, I can do the club, and also I got a conscious mind too where I can let you know I see stuff that’s going on with the government, like the way they treat us. Stuff like that, I’mma speak on all that kind of stuff. At the end of the day, I mean shoot, I’m just tryna get everybody to see me how I am. Slick Pulla is me all day. If it’s gonna be spoke on, it need to be spoke on. Imma handle it. I ain’t got no skeletons in my closet what I’m running from. AllHipHop.com: Speaking of skeletons that you don’t have, what happened with the shooting by Slice last year? Slick Pulla: I really felt the cat was tryna make a little slick move. So I peeped the move, and then shoot, that’s what resulted in the end. AllHipHop.com: But who was he? There was a rumor that he was some homeless dude from Tennessee… Slick Pulla: That’s definitely not what it was, it was a cat from another city. He was saying he was from Memphis. But he definitely wasn’t no homeless dude. But due to the way they handled me after that, I don’t do too much talking about it, ‘cause the police took me to jail after that.. AllHipHop.com: A lot of times, artists don’t take the opportunity to speak on situations. This is your chance right now to really speak on it and tell us what really happened, since all we had was rumor… Slick Pulla: I mean, s**t, I don’t really wanna go too much in depth with it ‘cause of that. But [the assailant] wanted me to listen to some music, and I was like, “I’ll do that when I’m finished.” But then he was [bothered by that]. So when I’m outside talking, he was saying something. Then I peeped that he was armed, I just seen up under his shirt a little bit. So I made a move, then I tried to dip. And that’s when he did what he did. ‘Cause like I said, I felt the dude was tryna’ take off. I felt the dude was tryna’ try something on me, so I kinda took off. And then that’s when he backed up and then, boom. The reason I don’t be talking on that stuff [is] that kind of stuff really happen everyday. That’s not my claim to fame. Like really talking about that a whole lot is like giving a n***a ammo to take a shot at me. ‘Cause like, I got shot in the leg! Come on man! I got n***as shot four, five times in the chest. So like, really that’s nothing. But then if you hear somebody talking bout it all the time. “Okay, this cat tryna talk about getting shot in the leg?” Then you give a n***a ammo. Next thing you know, you hear a diss record. That s**t ain’t nothing but a little flesh wound. That s**t went in and out, boom. [I] wrapped my s**t up, keep it moving. AllHipHop.com: So how did they end up taking you to jail behind that though? Slick Pulla: ‘Cause like I said, I took off on the dude. When I peeped the move, I’m like, “Hold up man! What the hell you trying?” And then boom, I made a move. But when I got shot, I went on to the hospital. But they caught him on the scene. He probably tried to kick the innocent role then, ‘cause I ain’t there. And then, they was already looking at me a certain way. But yeah, that’s why I don’t really do all that talking about it, ‘cause I got shot in the leg. Wasn’t nothing major like that. That’s what they think most people try to do to get on by doing. That s**t happen everyday. Like, right now, somebody probably getting hit up. That’s just part of life. So I don’t try to take them kind of things like that and capitalize off that, ‘cause I feel like my lyrics and my swag is what my claim to fame is. AllHipHop: How did you get started with the music game? Slick Pulla: I’ve always loved music. Like, I always used to work with music, but it wasn’t something I could take serious, ‘cause I got two kids. And then it’s a certain way of life I want. I feel like it’s all this money out here, everybody should be subject to the same amount of money. Everybody can get rich. It’s just about how you put your grind down. I’m not one of them type of people who gonna settle working 9-5 like, “Okay, I’ll just get paid $8.50-9 an hour,” like I’ll just take a paycheck the rest of my life. That means you containing yourself to just living a certain way. Sky’s the limit, you could do way more than that. So I was just like, if this happens, it happens. If it don’t, I still gotta get money, I still gotta feed mine, and then I still gotta be able to do the things I wanna do in life. So really, I was just really in the trenches, getting it how I live. And then that’s when I bumped heads with Coach K, Jeezy and Kinky B, Yussef and all those cats. And they took me under they wing, and everything been everything since then. But what it is with me is, I’m a loyal cat. So say for instance if this didn’t work, it won’t be like I would go sign with somebody else. ‘Cause these n***as is like my big brothers and stuff. This my family ‘cause they have changed my life. So I really wouldn’t wanna do it with anybody but them, unless I was doing it myself. And it still would be kinda wack just doing it by myself, ‘cause shoot, I wouldn’t have my homies there. AllHipHop.com: It seems like so far, whenever an artist comes out and they’re really successful, whenever they bring their crew behind them, they don’t really pop off like that. And automatically, the people that don’t know you, when they go to describe you, Jeezy’s name is gonna pop up. Do those things bother you at all? Slick Pulla: Nah. It don’t bother me because cats haven’t really heard me yet. “Birds Fly,” that was a street anthem we leaked. The mixtape stuff, that’s mixtape stuff. Cats ain’t really heard, heard me yet. The album’s gonna surprise a lot of people. I think it’s gonna blow a lot of mu’f**kas’ highs. People [are] underestimating me. Y’all don’t know what I talk about at home. Y’all don’t know what I’m doing in the booth! AllHipHop.com: But cats in the South haven’t really had to do that, though. Clearly, in Atlanta, over the last 18 months or so, you don’t really have to have lyrics. Slick Pulla: True indeed, I could just go in there and say [anything], put a nice hook on it, get a nice producer on it, and it’ll do something. But at the end of the day, I’mma kill myself at the end. ‘Cause that’s what you call fast fuel [or] fast food music. That’s just something for right then. What about next year? Cats are doing stuff like that, but who you gone be checking for four-to-five years down the road? That come from lyrics, making the person identify with you, touching a mu’f**ka heart all the way in Oregon or all the way in London. You can do that fast food music, but next year, mu’f**kas not gone wanna eat that. ‘Cause it’s gone’ always be somebody coming up with some s**t like that. So now you pretty much outta there ‘cause of the new cat. I mean it’s enough to get you a deal and your first album, that fast food s**t. A fan can’t grasp on to a little fast food song and just keep on like, “that’s my s**t,” for three, four years. But like ‘Pac, that the stuff where mu’f**kas like, “This is my s**t!” - even still now. But that fast food s**t, you can’t hold on to that for too ALLHIPHOP.COM

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Tuesday - August 29, 2006 by Janeé Bolden Dem Franchize Boyz Dem Franchize Boyz member Parlae, and six others appeared in a Fulton County courtroom yesterday for a plea hearing, only to have their charges reduced. As SOHH previously reported, Parlae (whose real name is Maurice Gleaton) was arrested along with seven other men at an Atlanta recording studio this June when police searched Making Big Moves Entertainment and discovered several pounds of marijuana. Yesterday, August 28th Parlae appeared before Judge Thelma Wyatt Cummings Moore at his plea hearing, which had previously been rescheduled from an earlier date. When the defendants' charges were read they had been reduced from drug trafficking to the charge of possession with the intent to distribute. "The crime lab responsible for weighing the drugs has determined the amount of drugs recovered was below ten pounds," Parlae's attorney Ash Joshi told SOHH. "The change in the charge is significant because trafficking carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years but the new charge of possession with the intent to distribute carries no minimum sentence." The case will also be moved to a new judge (Judge Craig Shwall) because fellow defendant, Making Moves Entertainment CEO Anthony Blalock (who was the target of the June 13th police search warrant) has another open trafficking case from a previous arrest. Joshi told SOHH that it's possible the courts may decide to charge Blalock separately from the other six defendants but either way Parlae probably will not have to report back to court for another three to four weeks. Joshi expects the case will go to trial within the next month and a half. Parlae will be returning to tour with the rest of Dem Franchize Boyz on their Up Close and Personal Tour this Friday, September 1 in Virginia Beach, VA. The remaining dates of the tour are listed below: 9/1 Verizon WirelessVAVirginia Beach,VA 9/3 Alltel Pavilion Raleigh, NC 9/4 Boutwell Auditorium Birmingham, AL 9/7 American Airlines Arena Miami, FL 9/8/ Ford Amphitheatre Tampa, FL 9/9 ChastainParkAmpitheater Atlanta, GA 9/10 Verizon WirelessNCCharlotte, NC 9/12 Germain Ampitheater Columbus, OH 9/14 FedEx Forum Memphis, TN 9/15 UMB Bank PavilionMOMaryland Heights, MO 9/16 DTE Energy Music Theatre Clarkston, MI 9/17 Charter One Pavilion Chicago, IL 9/21 Verizon WirelessTXSelma, TX 9/22 Cynthia Woods Pavilion The Woodlands, TX 9/23 Smirnoff Music Centre Dallas, TX 9/24 Verizon WirelessKSBonner Springs, KS 9/28 Gibson Amphitheatre Universal City, CA 09/29 Verizon WirelessCAIrvine,CA 9/30 Cricket Pavilion Phoenix, AZ 10/1 Journal Pavilion Albuquerque, NM 10/6 Sleep Train/Chronicle Pavilion Concord, CA 10/8 Sleep Train Amph. (Marysville) Marysville, CA

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Tuesday - August 29, 2006 by Janeé Bolden Master P New Orleans native, Master P, has recently penned "Uncle Willy's Family" a hip-hop gospel comedy play about one family's post Hurricane Katrina experience. The play stars comedian Terry Miles as Vietnam veteran Uncle Willy, who takes in several members of his extended family when their home is destroyed during Hurricane Katrina. "The moral of the play is put your trust in God, believe in your family. Nothing is impossible. Use hard times as an opportunity to grow," Master P told Yahoo!Music. Clearly the rapper, who was raised in New Orleans' 3rd Ward Calliope Projects, is putting this belief to practice. Master P, whose real name is Percy Miller, appears as an actor in the play, as does his son Romeo and his brother Silkk the Shocker who both rap as well. Master P also credited the success of Tyler Perry's Madea franchise for building up the gospel theater audience. "Madea opened the door, and there hasn't been another character who could stand on his own. This is a great opportunity to open up a lot more doors for other people to have a play based around a character," Master P told Yahoo!Music. "Uncle Willy's Family" is scheduled to go on the road touring the Gulf region during early September. The play is scheduled to visit Meridien, Jackson and Greenwood, Mississippi in addition to Beaumont, Texas. Additional performances are expected in New Orleans, Houston, Baton Rouge, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. For more information about "Uncle Willy's Family" please visit: www.unclewilly.com. In related news, Master P is also planning to begin casting his reality TV series next month. The show "America's Next Hip-Hop Stars". Snoop Dogg, Romeo, Paul Wall and former BET personality Free have been tapped to judge the competition on the TV show. Those interested in trying out can register at the official website for the series.

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