Today is Michael Jackson's 50th birthday, but he plans to stick to his routine for the big day. "I'll just have a little cake with my children and we'll probably watch some cartoons," the pop star said in an interview with ABC News' "Good Morning America."
Never one to shy away from an opportunity to defy logic and sanity, Jackson also said he's "looking forward to doing a lot of great things" with his career. "I think the best is yet to come in my true humble opinion." Uh huh.
In addition to a massive tracklist that includes a much-hyped new Guns N’ Roses song, Rock Band 2 also plans on rolling out a ton of playable full album downloads in the months following the game’s release in September. Among the albums reportedly involved are the Foo Fighters‘ The Colour and the Shape, Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Jane Addiction’s Nothing’s Shocking.
The Jonas Brothers held on for a second week at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 with their new album. The glamour boys moved 147,000 units in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan, 72% less than its debut total of 525,000.
I've got an idea: Instead of going after the millions upon millions of people downloading music, why don't we prosecute the parents who enable and expose their children to this vapid, soulless horseshit?
Just sayin'.
The body of rap legend Dr. Dre's son Andre Young, Jr was found at his Woodland Hills, Los Angeles home on Sunday morning. A cause of death has not yet been determined, but police have ruled out foul play in his passing. His mother reportedly heard him snoring in the night, just hours before he died.
Marion "Suge" Knight has been released from the Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas, after posting $19,000 bail yesterday (Aug. 28) and promising to appear in Las Vegas Justice Court on Sept. 26 on felony assault and drug charges.
Police arrested the downward-spiraling hip-hop mogul on Wednesday morning after officers witnessed the bloated egomaniac beating his girlfriend while holding a knife, in a parking lot near the Las Vegas Strip. Police say Knight had the drugs Ecstasy and hydrocodone when he was arrested.
Rapper DMX pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to buy his daily dose of cocaine and weed in Miami and was awaiting extradition to Arizona on outstanding drug charges there. He was sentenced to time served in Miami, according to his lawyer, Bradford Cohen.
He was picked up two days after his July arrest on a charge of trying to buy illegal drugs from an undercover officer during a street corner sting.
"He got shafted on this one," said Cohen, who said the evidence in the Florida drug sting was weak and flawed. That's right. DMX: another helpless victim in a problematic system.
T.I. is justifiably"ecstatic" and "overjoyed" after setting a record for the biggest jump to top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart with "Whatever You Like," the first single from his upcoming Grand Hustle/Atlantic album Paper Trail and first-ever chart-topper as a lead artist for the rapper.
Kid Rock's Rock'n'Roll Jesus (Atlantic) continues to head toward the top with sales of 101,000, bringing him to No. 2 on the charts. All without iTunes, no less. The hit single off Rock'n'Roll Jesus, "All Summer Long," has been one of the biggest hits of the summer without being available through Apple's iTunes Music Store.
Rock's explanation? "I tell people in my organization, 'Do not ever come up to me and say, "This is what everyone's doing and how they're doing it." Don't ever give me that lame-ass bullsh*t,'" he tells Billboard at a Nashville tequila bar. "As soon as someone says, 'You have to be on iTunes ... they're the No. 1 retailer' ... I don't have to. Because I remember being a kid when I heard a song that I liked, I would jump on the bus, ride to Detroit, get a $2.50 transfer and walk a mile to the hip-hop store to buy the new Eric B. & Rakim record. You're not going to stop people from obtaining what they want if it's available at some level."
Right. And for the record, by "jump on a bus and ride to Detroit," he means "go to the music store in the affluent suburban town I lived in outside of Detroit." Which happens to be the town I grew up in. And there were five music stores.
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