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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 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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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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EARL " THE GOAT" MANIGAULT

Called "the king of his own generation of ballplayers, [and] the idol for the generation that followed" by Pete Axthelm in The City Game, Earl Manigault never realized his incredible potential as a basketball player because he succumbed to the lure of drugs in the Harlem neighborhood of his youth. He brought the fans to their feet in legendary one-and-one competitions in New York City playgrounds against future professional stars such as Connie Hawkins and Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). In the New York Times, Abdul-Jabbar referred to Manigault as "the best basketball player his size in the history of New York City," and many other professional players who have witnessed Manigault in action have also sung his praises. "I let thousands of people down," Manigault admitted to the New York Times. "But I'm nothing phony. And there was a time when I gave the people what they wanted."

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TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE "GOAT" check out the movie REBOUND: THE EARL MANIGAULT STORY WITH DON CHEADLE.

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U.S CHARGES BILLIONAIRE WITH RECORD INSIDER TRADING

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and executives from some of the most prestigious U.S. companies were charged on Friday with the largest hedge fund insider-trading scheme ever.

Investigators said they used court-approved telephone wire taps for the first time in a Wall Street insider trading case, sending shivers through the hedge fund industry which has traditionally picked up and shared trading tips to make big profits.

At the center of the case are Rajaratnam, his Galleon hedge fund and two executives from hedge fund New Castle, which was a unit of Bear Stearns Asset Management before Bears Stearns Cos collapsed in 2008, but is still in operation.
Three executives from major American companies IBM, top consulting firm McKinsey & Co and the venture capital arm of chip giant Intel Corp are also facing criminal charges.

"This is not a garden-variety insider trading case," Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan, said at a news conference. He said the scheme made more than $20 million in illegal profits over several years.
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U.S. CHARGES BILLIONAIRE WITH RECORD INSIDER TRADING

LIL WAYNE GUILTY ON GUN CHARGE : HEADED TO PRISON IN NEW YORK

In a story eerily similar to Plaxico Burris's Lil Wayne is now headed to prison on a gun charge. The details of the case are controversial but it seems Wayne copped a year deal and the sentence could be reduced by up to a year. Very saddened by seeing another young star headed to prison. To read more as well as get reaction frmo some of his peers check the rest of the story from MTV.com

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LIL WAYNE PLEADS GUILTY TO GUN CHARGE

RAPPER LIL BOOSIE HEADED TO 1 YEAR PRISON BID

On the eve of his TOP 10 debut of “SUPERBAD – THE RETURN OF BOOSIE BAD AZZ,” Trill Entertainment/Asylum Records recording artist, LIL BOOSIE has agreedto a 2-year prison term for possession of marijuana. Boosie heads back to court on November 9, 2009 to receive his sentencing and is expected to spend a year in jail according to the Good Time allowance that the Department of Corrections grants.

COMPLEX: 10 RAPPERS WE WISH WEREN'T IN PRISON

Well, it’s official: T.I. reported to the judge today to plead guilty to his weapons charges, and got formally sentenced to a year and a day (which could well end up being less when time served on house arrest gets taken into consideration). Clifford gets to voluntarily head to jail sometime after May 19, which gives him a couple of months extra to finish making the world a better place.

Needless to say, we’re making sad-face emoticons over here at Complex; not only is the civilian population losing one of the South’s finest lyricists and a genuinely smart and likable dude, but it’s just one more objectively great emcee who gets chalked into the “Incarcerated” category. There’s more than 20 rappers locked up right now, but since we don’t really fux with shermhead cannibals, we had to narrow it down to our 10 favorite (including Tip). For a look at the other nine, read on…


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SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR SANFORD ADMITS TO AFFAIR

Gov. Mark Sanford admitted Wednesday to an extramarital affair with a woman living in Argentina and to lying to South Carolinians to cover up his tryst — then asked everyone, including his family, for forgiveness.

The two-term S.C. Republican, a rising GOP star, fought tears during a news conference hours after a reporter from The State newspaper surprised him at the Atlanta airport on his way back from seeing the mother of two during Father’s Day weekend.

Sanford did not respond in the State House rotunda when asked whether he would resign his office. Spokesman Joel Sawyer later said the governor had no plans to step down.

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HIGH AND TIGHT THE RISE AND FALL OF DARRYL STRAWBERRY &DWIGHT GOODEN

"All that was left now was to blow his brains out and hope the life insurance policy would take care of his family," says Bergen Record sportswriter Bob Klapisch on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series.

CONTENT BELOW TAKEN FROM: TIME MAGAZINE FEATURE "THE TOP 10 ATHLETE DRUG BUSTS"

They were rare talents, and they knew it. In 1985 — only his second season in the majors — Dwight Gooden posted one of the best pitching campaigns in history, amassing 24 wins, a minuscule 1.53 ERA and 268 strikeouts. His 23-year-old teammate Darryl Strawberry jacked 29 home runs and was touted as a future Hall of Famer. (Asked several years ago how he stacked up against a new Mets phenom, Strawberry replied, "Are you kidding me? I was awesome.") The following season, the duo led the Mets to what the Shea faithful hoped would be the first of many world championships.

Yet both saw their careers derailed by drugs. Gooden opened the 1987 season in a substance-abuse center and was banned from the league during the 1995 season after twice testing positive for cocaine. Strawberry's career did not fare much better; it was pockmarked by crack and cocaine usage, prostitute solicitation and domestic violence.

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THE RISE AND FALL OF MIKE TYSON

Mike Tyson is one of the most intriguing and troubled sports figures of all time. ESPN documented his rise and fall in a special documentary.
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STEVE PHILLIPS TAKES LEAVE OF ABSENCE AFTER AFFAIR

ESPN on Wednesday granted Steve Phillips, an analyst on its Sunday night baseball games, an extended leave of absence after The New York Post reported that he had an affair with a 22-year-old production assistant at the network. “We were aware of this and took appropriate discipline at the time,” the network said in a statement.
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STEVE PHILLIPS TAKES LEAVE OF ABSENCE FROM ESPN
ALSO HERE IS THE EERIE 911 PHONE CALL FROM PHILLIPS WIFE

FREEWAY RICKY ROSS RELEASED FROM PRISON AFTER 20 YEARS

Freeway Ricky Ross was released from prison recently after serving 20 years on drug trafficking charges.Freeway" Ricky Ross , was a drug trafficker best known for the "drug empire" that he presided over in Los Angeles, in the early 1980s.The nickname "Freeway" came from Ross owning several properties along the Harbor Freeway.His old house he grew up in is where a freeway now stands.During the height of his drug dealing, Ross claims to have made "2-3 million dollars a week".

In 1996, Ross was sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted of trying to purchase more than 100 kilograms of cocaine from a federal agent. Ross became the subject of controversy later that year when a series of articles by journalist Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News brought to light a connection between one of Ross's cocaine sources, Danilo Blandon, and the CIA as part of the Iran-Contra scandal.The decision in Ross's case was brought to a federal court of appeals where his sentence was reduced to 20 years. His sentence has since been reduced further for being a model prisoner and he was moved to a halfway house in California in March 2009, and was released on September 29, 2009.

READ THE STORY OF HIS RISE AND FALL HERE

THE FALL OF ELIOT SPITZER

New York Governor Elliot Spitzer's resignation as Governor came amid an embarrassing sex scandal. A man who spent years upholding the law as New York's incorruptible Attorney General has found himself falling as rapid as he rose. Check the story below and a light hearted parody of the former Governor's scandal.

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JOHN EDWARDS AFFAIR LEADS TO NASTY FALL FROM GRACE

John Edwards admitted to ABC News in an interview with Bob Woodruff Friday (WATCH THE INTERVIEW) that he repeatedly lied about an extramarital affair with a 42-year old campaign employee, but strenuously denied being involved in paying the woman hush money or fathering her newborn child. The former Democratic U.S. senator from North Carolina said he would be willing to take a paternity test and divulge the results publicly.
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John Edwards admits his affair with Rielle Hunter was a mistake.


"Two years ago I made a very serious mistake, a mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness. And we have kept this within our family since that time."

Edwards, 55, said he told his entire family about the affair after it ended in 2006, and that his wife Elizabeth, who has incurable breast cancer, was "furious" but that their marriage would survive. The couple have three children, Cate, 25, Emma, 9, and Jack, 7. When he confessed his affair to his wife, "she was mad," Edwards said.

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JOHN EDWARDS ADMITS AFFAIR: LIED AS PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

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DJ AM FOUND DEAD

DJ AM, born Adam Goldstein, has been found dead in his New York apartment, police sources tell TMZ. The 36-year-old DJ, mostly known for his work with Blink-182’s Travis Barker and handling the music at big-name celebrity hot-spots, last tweeted some Grandmaster Flash lyrics from “New York, New York” — “New york, new york. Big city of dreams, but everything in new york aint always what it seems” — on August 25th. Sources tell TMZ he hadn’t been heard from in several days, and police broke down the door of his apartment when a friend knocked and got no answer. His rep issued a statement that confirms his death and adds, “The circumstances surrounding his death are unclear. Out of respect for his family and loved ones, please respect their privacy at this time.....”


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HEATH LEDGER

Why was Heath Ledger so ambivalent about his own stardom, and what happened at the end of his life? Vanity Fair contributing editor Peter Biskind sheds new light on these difficult-to-answer questions as he writes about the actor’s remarkable talent and untimely death in the August cover story, “The Last of Heath.”

In his article, Biskind explores Ledger’s final movie role, his uncertainty about Hollywood, his devotion to his young daughter, and what happened in the days and weeks leading up to his death as he battled chronic insomnia, pneumonia, and exhaustion.

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