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GUCCI MANE SENTENCED TO 12 MONTHS IN JAIL

Gucci Mane was sentenced to 12 months in jail on Thursday (November 12) for probation violation and taken away in handcuffs, according to his lawyer.

Mane pleaded guilty to assault in 2005 for attacking a nightclub promoter, and last September, he was sentenced to a year in jail for failing to fulfill his court-ordered 600 hours of community service in that case. He went to jail and served until March. Upon his release, Gucci went straight to the studio and recorded five songs.

The sentence is a blow to Gucci's career. The ATL rapper has an album coming out — The State vs. Radric Davis — on December 8 and is arguably at the height of his career; in terms of his sentence, he may be out of jail in six months.

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GERMAN GOALIE ROBERT ENKE COMMITS SUICIDE

Robert Enke was an understated presence in net as the goalkeeper for Germany’s national team and most recently for the Bundesliga squad Hannover 96, and reportedly a reserved, likable man off the field. But after the 32-year-old goalie committed suicide Tuesday, many fans and former teammates are still wondering how well they knew Enke, who had been treated for depression since 2003 and lost his two-year-old daughter to a rare heart disorder in 2006. As is usually the case in these situations, no explanation quite makes sense.

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WYDU BLOG LOVES THEY ALL COME DOWN

Shout out to Trav and if your a hip hop fan def check out Wake Your Daughters Up.

"Always good to hear new music from former Spotlight artist Mekka Don. The thing about Mekka's music, it's honest music, you ain't going to hear no bullshit. That's what the new song, "They All Come Down," is all about. An honest take on "celebrities" and their falls from grace. Not your typical hip hop subject matter and that's why I'll be bumping it. -Trav"

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THEY ALL COME DOWN

THEY ALL COME DOWN VIDEO PREMIERE

"They All Come Down" is a record written and recorded by Mekka Don which explores the lives and rise of all stars and their inevitable fall. Jared Zwerling plays the role of the celebrity in this video - living the good life - but it all comes crashing down. Mekka Don narrates as he hopes to never sufffer the same fate.

THEY ALL COME DOWN VIDEO PREMIERE

Humungoid Films and M.O.V.E Records debuted the video for Mekka Don's new single, "They All Come Down" to rave reviews at Manhattan hotspot Taj in NYC,Tuesday at the first ever Undaground Railroad Showcase presented by The Source, Tyku, and M.O.V.E. The online premiere of the video is coming soon. They All Come down will be available for Download on ITUNES, starting....

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ARTIST PROFILE: MEKKA DON

Mekka Don's story has been extensively profiled in print (XXL Magazine,The Daily News, American Bar Assocition) to online(Hip Hop DX Next, The Source.Com, Ill Roots, New York post), and on you tube in the Humungoid Films produced reality series The "Legal" Hustler. Mekka is working hard to live up to The Daily News's claim that he is "bringing" change to rap. After receiving his JD from the prestigious New York University Law school, passing the New York Bar, and working at a top law firm, Mekka Don found himself unfulfilled, and wanting to make a greater impact than . As he says in one of his songs, " If i stayed up in the office, you probably wouldn't see me. I patrol the neighborhoods because I know the people need me. He abruptly quit his cushy 6 figure job and decided to pursue his true passion Hip Hop, because he felt it gave him a unique opportunity to create a new lane of music for young, "legal" hustlers. Mekka Don hopes to make music that is both fun and insightful. He ventures deep into the contemplative and insightful side with this track They All Come Down.

We sat down with Mekka Don to gauge his inspiration for the song and the takeaways he hopes for fans to take.a

MUSIC PRODUCER PROFILE: BRIAN HARRIS

Brian Harris other wise known as B. Harris is one of the hottest young producers coming out of the midwest. He has produced for Mekka Don Jay Slim and Bizzy Bone from bone thugs along with many others. Brian provides the dark beat for They All Come Down, taking a break from his normally uptempo production.....

PRODUCER PROFILE: PABLO BONELLI

I started a company called Battle Hill Games or BHG as we like to call it (we do videogame events, like birthday parties and tournaments) .
I bartendr at the coolest bar in CT called The Gingerman. I have been there for years and its great I get to network with alot of people. It has helped me to go to school by being so flexible. It has given me the time to concentrate on that which I trully love (beside my gorgeous wife and my two awesome kids)...Film

I got together with a great friend and awesome producer, Anthony Boreland. and we have hit the ground running. working on small projects such as an online reality show and music video as well as entering some small film contests and preparing larger ones. it's all hush, hush, :)

BHG has become a platform to showcase my creative ramblings. I designed all the graphics (logos, brochures, websites, etc.).

We've shot a commercial fort BHG, shot a pilot for a reality show that is being pitched and I'm finishing up a short we started back in January.

DIRECTOR PROFILE: CHRIS BUDDY

After first finding fame as Will Ferrel's stunt double in Talladega Nights, Chris Buddy realized that his future was better suited behind a camera rather than in front of it. Combining raw talent, and creativity with a can do mentality, Buddy has been working in the NYC film industry for over ten years and is currently working on his second feature documentary film. With his passion for documentaries,hip hop, and film, Buddy has a bright future ahead of him.

PRODUCER PROFILE: V ANTHONY BORELAND

Anthony is originally from New Rochelle, NY. He found his passion in 2001 while producing a short film with some friends on a whim. Despite creating what was possibly the worst movie ever made, he loved being a producer and it became his dream. After one year at Brooklyn Law School, Anthony recognized that his moral fortitude was better suited for the more ethical entertainment industry. In 2007, he founded Humungoid Films with long time friend Pablo Bonelli, an aspiring film director. Since, Anthony has been at the helm of more than 15 productions, including the Youtube hit reality series, “The Legal Hustler,” featured in XXL magazine. Anthony recently completed his MBA in Marketing Management at Pace University, and is currently developing his first feature film.

KURT COBAIN

(CONTENT FROM WIKIPEDIA.COM) Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Nirvana.

With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nirvana's second album Nevermind (1991), Nirvana entered into the mainstream, popularizing a subgenre of alternative rock called grunge. Other Seattle grunge bands such as Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden also gained wider audiences, and as a result, alternative rock became a dominant genre on radio and music television in the United States during the early-to-middle 1990s. Nirvana became the "flagship band" of "Generation X," and Cobain, as its frontman, found himself anointed by the media as the generation's "spokesman." Cobain was uncomfortable with the attention and placed his focus on the band's music, believing the band's message and artistic vision to have been misinterpreted by the public, challenging the band's audience with its third studio album In Utero (1993).

During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with drug addiction as well as the professional and personal pressures surrounding himself and his wife, musician Courtney Love. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead at his home in Seattle, the victim of what was officially ruled a suicide by a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head. The circumstances of his death have become a topic of fascination and debate. Since their debut, Nirvana, with Cobain as a songwriter, sold over twenty-five million albums in the US alone, and over fifty million worldwide.[3][4]
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KURT COBAIN'S SUICIDE NOTE

FEDERAL TRIAL LOOMS IN $3.2 BILLION PONZI SCHEME

BY: STEVE KARNOWSKI
Until the Bernard Madoff scandal broke, it was a Minnesota businessman who stood accused of orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme authorities could ever recall.

Tom Petters, 52, who seemed to have a golden touch as he built a small merchandise liquidation company into a diversified empire that owned well-known businesses such as Polaroid, goes on trial this week. The size of his alleged fraud: $3.65 billion.

Petters' world began to unravel a year ago when his trusted lieutenant, Deanna Coleman, walked into the U.S. attorney's office with what prosecutors called a "staggering" allegation.

Coleman said for more than 10 years she had helped Petters run a multibillion dollar Ponzi scheme. She said they fabricated documents to trick investors into loaning money that Petters would claim to use to buy TVs and other electronic goods that he would purport to resell to big retailers like Costco and Sam's Club. Those goods never existed, prosecutors claim, saying most of the money really went to finance Petters' lifestyle and to pay off other investors.

Petters is charged with 20 counts, including wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering and conspiracy, which could imprison him for life. He maintains his innocence, and remains jailed. The trial is expected to take about six weeks, with jury selection starting Wednesday.

Coleman and six other alleged conspirators reached plea agreements, and most have cooperated with investigators.

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JIM MORRISON

Birth: Dec. 8, 1943
Death: Jul. 3, 1971

"I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing the established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom- external revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom."

Singer, Songwriter. Born in Melbourne, Florida, the son of a naval officer, he adopted a bohemian lifestyle in California while attending UCLA while literally homeless, sleeping in any convenient place handy, friends couches, rooftops, in cars and under the pier at Venice Beach. A voracious reader of books, he started a rock band with fellow student Ray Manzarek after he graduated. They quickly found two more members, Robby Krieger and John Densmore. Dubbed with the name "The Doors" it quickly found fame in the Rock and Roll music world with their music constantly topping the music charts. Jim Morrison developed a unique singing voice and became the lead singer of the group. His life style leaned on mysticism while engaging in drugs, alcohol and bizarre behavior leading to many legal confrontations with the law. He grew tired of his fame and sought anonymity in Paris with his long time girlfriend Pamela Courson. They lived in various expensive hotels while taking in the usual tourist hangouts. His health was already in decline and he was excessively overweight. While in a bath tub, he was found dead at the age of twenty seven. He had been under treatment by a Paris physician who mercifully stated the cause of death as heart failure thus avoiding an autopsy. His death was kept secret leading to a conspiracy theory of a faked death. A Paris funeral service took charge and Jim Morrison was placed in a standard simple french veneered coffin and a direct burial was completed at the Famous Le Pere Lachaise Cemetery in eastern Paris. The grave unmarked for many years became much to the chagrin of cemetery officials a number one Paris tourist destination.

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