THE MEGACITY MONSTERS MIXTAPE RELEASE PARTY IS FRIDAY AUGUST 6TH 2010.

True Family CEO TF Linkx, myself and Gilly Gadan at the TIMA awards last week.

True Family Records and BFamillion Enterprises has done it again. They are releasing their Megacity Monsters mixtape on Friday August 6th 2010 and the release party will be at the Poor Alex Theatre in Toronto. August 6 at 9:00pm - August 7 at 4:00am. There will be special performances by Linkx, J.Jones, Ride out Squad, Sway and Bondz. Congrats on the mixtape. Please always remember the fallen hero Scrilla who died last Xmas and saved 5 lives in the process.

Let's hope Linkx will send HipHossip a mixtape for review and one for the car plus my birthday gift since that is my birthday.

STORK LANDING ALL OVER TORONTO: KISS FM RADIO HOST JJ KING WELCOMES HIS GIRL TO THE WORLD.

Photo via Facebook: JJ King and new daughter.

Congrats goes to JJ King formerly of Flow 93.5FM who welcomed his brand new baby girl to the world. HipHossip Congratulates JJ King and his wife on the arrival of their first child....a beautiful daughter. I will get names and weight info on HipHossip.com shortly. God bless her....

Congrats from KJ and I at HipHossip.

AP NEWS: ELLEN QUITS IDOL, J-LO TO STEP IN AND MORE.

MY PAL KANYE WEST WALKS INSIDE FACEBOOK HEADQUARTERS AND STARTS RAPPING TO THEM.

Geez the "Nigga " word was quite prominent in this song. With the release of a new album approaching, Kanye West is making sure he's up to date with the social networking sites.

He joined Twitter on Wednesday, one day after going to the offices of Facebook, in Palo Alto, Calif., to preview some of his new material.

Videos of him rapping acappella while standing on a conference table have been posted on YouTube. On his website afterward, West posted a letter to Facebook, thanking the staff for their support: "You're energy was a gift so electric, so genuine, that it really helped me give my best."

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RAPPER MICHAEL "MEYEND TRICKS" GEORGE REMEMBERED BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS ON ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH.

TODAY MARKS 3 YEARS TORONTO LOST A REMARKABLE YOUNG MAN! PLS REMEMBER MICHAEL GEORGE TODAY...

Edwardson George is a big man. And he’s been able to maintain his stature despite the murder of his son Michael, 25, shot dead July 29, 2007, at Wilcox Creek Pathway co-op near Sheppard Ave. and Morningside Ave.

He says there isn’t a moment of any day he isn’t thinking about his boy.

“Very, very hard for me,” George said Friday during a plea for people who know anything to call Crime Stoppers. “He was not only my son, he was my buddy.

“Michael had two names for me: Dad and Pops,” he said.

When Michael, a rapper who went by the stage name Meyend Tricks and whose album 4 Ever was released by his family during the plea, wanted his father to be a buddy, he called him Pops.

“But when he needed me as a dad, he’d just say, ‘Dad, can I speak to you?’” George said.

“Getting up every day has been very, very difficult,” he said. “I have to make sure the rest of the family is okay.

“It hurts,” George said. “I wake up every day and I’m not myself. I’m not 100% because I don’t have him with me and I cannot speak to him, and I cannot call him when I need to talk to him about certain things that we normally talk about.”

The music was supposed to be the young man’s future, but has instead become his legacy.

It’s available on his Facebook page for free.

The night he died, Michael had dropped off his friend in Ajax after a party and then returned to his girlfriend’s townhouse in the co-op.

When he pulled in at 3:30 a.m., he was ambushed by a gunman who opened fire before he could get out of the car.

Toronto homicide Det.-Sgt. Steve Ryan said in 2007 that the assassin apparently lay in wait and the killing didn’t appear random but it was unknown why the young man was targeted.

“I just want the person or persons who perpetrated this crime to be caught,” George said. “They can’t go around doing things like this, hurt so many families, hurt so many people. We want justice, justice for Michael.”

Atlanta R&B artist Tim Campbell also a TIMA nominee came to show support for the George family.

Michael's uncle carries his Toronto Independent Music Award for Best Rap. An award he never lived to see.

Michael's mom Scherry and sister Sarah

Michael’s mom Scherry called for anyone who knows anything to call Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477.

She also challenged the pervasive gang culture mantra of not snitching.

“Man up and be a snitch,” Scherry said.

Const. Scott Mills said while Crime Stoppers points detectives in the right direction, homicide officers need witnesses.

“We can’t solve the case unless we have a witness that gives us the information,” he said. “But if you know who it is and are too scared to come forward, call 1-800-222-TIPS,” or go online at www.222tips.com, or text TOR and send a message to CRIMES.

“I never thought I would be in this position,” George said. “I know what Michael is like. For this to happen to Michael, it tells me they don’t care, people don’t care.

“I miss him dearly, I miss him every second of the day, 365, 24 hours a day,” he said.

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TORONTO INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS YET ANOTHER SUCCESS!

The Toronto Independent Music awards was held on Friday July 23rd 2010 once again at the Phoenix Concert theatre in Toronto. Awards were given out in various music genres. It was a fun night as many in the music industry came out to see their fave indie artists get recognized in what they do best. Daniela Oliva, the founder put up a great show with lots of sponsors including $60,ooo in prizes. It was a full house of performances, green room appearances and photos. I presented the Best Alternative Rock award which went out to Waxmen. These guys JUMPED onto the stage with happiness. This is what the TIMAS are about. Pictured on the red carpet with the CEO and Founder Daniela Oliva is Atlanta based R&B artist Tim Campbell who was nominated for Best International/USA artist. The White Ravens won but we hear Campbell raised off the roof at Yonge-Dundas Square 2 days later at Youth Day 2010 with his R&B performance.

DAD WANTS JUSTICE FOR RAPPER: FAMILY OF MICHAEL"MEYEND TRICKS" SPEAKS TO MEDIA ABOUT HIS DEATH, LAUNCHES HIS NEW ALBUM AND ASK PUBLIC FOR HELP.

R&B singer and Best International artist nominee Tim Campbell support Ed and Scherry George, Michael's parents during the media conference.

Michael's uncle carries his Best Rap Artist award from the 2007 Toronto Independent music awards which Michael never saw. He was gunned down days before the awards were handed out.

Edwardson George is a big man.And he’s been able to maintain his stature despite the murder of his son Michael, 25, shot dead July 29, 2007, at Wilcox Creek Pathway co-op near Sheppard Ave. and Morningside Ave.He says there isn’t a moment of any day he isn’t thinking about his boy.“Very, very hard for me,” George said Friday during a plea for people who know anything to call Crime Stoppers. “He was not only my son, he was my buddy.“Michael had two names for me: Dad and Pops,” he said.When Michael, a rapper who went by the stage name Meyend Tricks and whose album 4 Ever was released by his family during the plea, wanted his father to be a buddy, he called him Pops.“But when he needed me as a dad, he’d just say, ‘Dad, can I speak to you?’”

George said.“Getting up every day has been very, very difficult,” he said. “I have to make sure the rest of the family is okay.“It hurts,” George said. “I wake up every day and I’m not myself. I’m not 100% because I don’t have him with me and I cannot speak to him, and I cannot call him when I need to talk to him about certain things that we normally talk about.”The music was supposed to be the young man’s future, but has instead become his legacy.

It’s available on his Facebook page for free.The night he died, Michael had dropped off his friend in Ajax after a party and then returned to his girlfriend’s townhouse in the co-op.When he pulled in at 3:30 a.m., he was ambushed by a gunman who opened fire before he could get out of the car.Toronto homicide Det.-Sgt. Steve Ryan said in 2007 that the assassin apparently lay in wait and the killing didn’t appear random but it was unknown why the young man was targeted.“I just want the person or persons who perpetrated this crime to be caught,” George said. “They can’t go around doing things like this, hurt so many families, hurt so many people. We want justice, justice for Michael.”Michael’s mom Scherry called for anyone who knows anything to call Crime Stoppers at 416-222-8477.

She also challenged the pervasive gang culture mantra of not snitching.“Man up and be a snitch,” Scherry said. Const. Scott Mills said while Crime Stoppers points detectives in the right direction, homicide officers need witnesses.“We can’t solve the case unless we have a witness that gives us the information,” he said. “But if you know who it is and are too scared to come forward, call 1-800-222-TIPS,” or go online at www.222tips.com, or text TOR and send a message to CRIMES.“I never thought I would be in this position,” George said. “I know what Michael is like. For this to happen to Michael, it tells me they don’t care, people don’t care.“I miss him dearly, I miss him every second of the day, 365, 24 hours a day,” he said.

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L'IL WAYNE'S ALBUM "I M NOT A HUMAN BEING" TO BE RELEASED FROM JAIL!

Lil Wayne is set to release a new album in September – despite being incarcerated for gun crime.

The rapper's co-manager Cortez Bryant told Vibe magazine that the album would be named I'm Not A Human Being and will be out digitally on September 27 – Wayne's birthday.

"We not about to roll out no three month set-up," he said. "I'm not even putting it out in stores. We just going to put it out virally and maybe package it up for Christmas. Give 'em a hard copy later for fan appreciation."

Bryant said the album would be a prelude to the rapper's forthcoming Tha Carter IV album.

Lil Wayne began a year-long jail sentence in New York for gun crime in March.

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No comment on that album title.. but beats that Cam'Ron shyt.

PLAYBOY LAUNCHES SAFE FOR WORK SITE.

Playboy on Tuesday launched a new, non-nude website that it described as being safe-for-work and a "satirical antidote to the drudgery of the work day."

Produced specifically for the Internet, www.TheSmokingJacket.com contains posts and viral content in categories such as Girls, Entertainment, Sex, Videos and Lifestyle.

It also provides links to other videos around the web as well photos from the Playboy archives.

"The smoking jacket isn't just something I like to wear around the mansion," Playboy's iconic founder Hugh Hefner, 84, says in a video posted on the site. "It's Playboy's safe for work website. Next to the mansion, it's the best hangout on the planet."

Playboy's traditional magazine business has been hard hit by declining circulation and advertising revenue as people turn to free pornography on the Internet.

On Tuesday, the new site had posts such as "How to Get Laid at Work," and "How to Hang Out with Porn Chicks".

Photos include a spread of Playmate Kimberly Phillips in lingerie and a smoking jacket. From the archives, there's the 1983 Playmate Playoffs featuring bikini-clad women with classic Farrah Fawcett-styled hair competing in water-soaked events.

The Playboy.com web site, which contains nudity and longer lifestyle articles, has 6 million unique monthly visitors to its site, Playboy said.

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FOCK THE POLICE BUT HE PLAYS ONE ON TV! RAPPER/ACTOR ICE -T ARRESTED FOR DRIVING OFFENSE.

New York City police say they have arrested rapper-actor Ice-T on accusations of driving with a suspended license.

Police say the entertainer was driving a 2009 Cadillac near West 40th Street and 11th Avenue on Tuesday when officers stopped him for not wearing a seat belt. They said they ran a check and discovered his license was suspended.

The NYPD said he would be given a ticket and released.

Ice-T denied wrongdoing via Twitter. He says he has a valid New Jersey license and calls the police's allegations against him a "lie."

The actor has played Detective Fin Tutuola on the TV drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" since 2000.

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ASHER MEDIA RELATIONS IS DOING A METAL GIVEAWAY.

Asher J of Asher media relations sent us this. A contest that's eye popping! Better enter..Good luck.

Let's talk about this week's giveaway from Metal Injection.com. One lucky winner will receive super-killer prize which is metal drum god Gene Hoglan's first instructional drum DVD, "The Atomic Clock" (more info about the DVD http://www.ReversedRecords.com/ & http://www.HoglanIndustries.com/).

How do you enter? All you have to do is go to Metal Injection.com and correctly guess who it is in the obscured photo displayed. (Hint: Somebody from Gene's past). Leave a comment with your guess and they will pick one entry to be the winner. Good luck!

- http://www.metalinjection.net/free-swag/guessing-game/win-gene-hoglans-instructional-drum-dvd

SHAQ ATTACKS CTV!

Canadian sensation Justin Bieber is among the elite group of professionals challenged by Shaquille O’Neal in the new season SHAQ VS, airing Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET beginning August 3 on CTV (visit CTV.ca to confirm local broadcast times). In this six-episode reality competition series, O’Neal takes his athletic prowess beyond the basketball court and at times away from sports altogether as he strives to become a champion at new challenges each week. The series will also air on TSN2.

“I’m out to prove that I can compete beyond athletics,” said O’Neal. “I’ve spent all year sharpening my skills and I want to win. There’s no challenge bigger than me.”

The series closely follows Shaq and his adversaries throughout the rigorous training process and the pre-game hype leading up to every challenge. Each week Shaq competes in an athletic challenge or a non-sports competition, with some episodes featuring Shaq taking on two challengers. To level the playing field, O’Neal negotiates a handicap with his opponent and trains with a coach prior to the challenge.

In the premiere episode “Shaq VS Dale Earnhardt Jr.”, (Aug. 3 at 9 p.m. ET on CTV), four-time NBA champion Shaquille O’Neal races head to head at Concord Speedway in North Carolina against Dale Earnhardt Jr., NASCAR’s most popular driver and recent winner of the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway and more than 40 NASCAR-sanctioned races. Shaq has forgone the familiarity of basketball hardwood for the cramped quarters of a stock-car cockpit – all 7-foot-1-inch, 325 pounds of him. In this episode he also travels to the nation’s capital to take on the Scripps National Spelling Bee champion, 15-year old Kavya Shivashankar, and enlists the help of this year’s finalists, along with Kavya’s 8-year old sister, Vanya.

Other celebrities featured with Shaq are:

• Rachel Ray; fiery daytime talk show host in a New York City cook-off
  
• Charles Barkley; former NBA all-star and NBA MVP winner, challenged to tee off at The St. Regis Monarch Beach golf links
• Joey Chestnut; Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Champion, challenged outside Serendipity 3 in Las Vegas
  
• Penn and Teller; illusionists and comedians, challenged to defy the odds at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and CasinoSugar Shane Mosley; professional boxer, who faces off against Shaq in an exhibition match at Caesars Palace in Vegas
• Chris Johnson; 2009 NFL Offensive Player of the Year and running back for the Tennessee Titans; DeSean Jackson; wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles and Dwight Howard; NBA All-Star and centre for the Orlando Magic, team up with Shaq to challenge Tyson Gay; American track and field sprinter, in a 200-metre relay race

In the first season, O’Neal competed against Olympic Games gold medallist Michael Phelps in swimming; Super Bowl-winning Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in football; championship fighter Oscar de la Hoya in boxing; two-time National League MVP and St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols in baseball; and two-time Olympic gold medalists Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor in beach volleyball, with the help of U.S. Open, Australian Open and Wimbledon champion Serena Williams.

SHAQ VS is produced by Media Rights Capital in association with Stewart Street Productions. Orly Adelson, Will Staeger, Barry Adelman, Shaquille O'Neal, Scott Messick, Trice Barto, Perry Rogers, Colin Smeeton, Mike Parris and Steve Nash serve as executive producers for the series.

IS CHRISTINA AGUILERA FEUDING WITH HER LABEL?

A representative for pop singer CHRISTINA AGUILERA has dismissed reports she is locked in a bitter feud with record label bosses over disappointing sales of her latest album, Bionic.

Aguilera's fourth studio album debuted at number three on the U.S. Bill board charts, but quickly fell out of the Top 10, with sales barely hittng a disappointing 200,000 in its five weeks of release. Music bosses are in a panic to boost sales as the new mum fights to com pete with racy acts like Rihanna and Lady Gaga, reports the New York Post.

A source tells the publication, "The label has done its part, but she's headstrong. There have been candid conversations between her and the label about connectivity, but it doesn't seem that she's been open to that dialogue." However, a spokesperson from RCA denies the label is at odds with Aguilera, and insists bosses back her efforts, saying, "(Aguilera) is a pillar of the RCA Music Group and is an undeniable talent with one of the great est voices of our time. She continues to push herself as an artist, and we are behind her efforts 100 percent." Aguilera's manager, Irving Azoff, further disputed the claims: "I am the one who deals with the label, and this couldn't be further from the truth."

TOP MODELS REFUSE TO BE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH LADY GAGA!

Lady GaGa has made some enemies lately in the fashion world. The “Poker Face” lady has pretty much enraged models, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell when they found out she'd be joining them in a cover-shoot for i-D magazine.

Apparently they did not find out until recently that they would be joined by GaGa in the September issue. In fact it was pretty much last minute – said sources. The left very angered at the notion that they would be united with the bizarre singer, when they first found out.

Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell had intended on doing a combined shoot together, but the editor decided to throw in Lady GaGa in as well, said sources. They snubbed the idea dramatically enough that it seemed to have impacted the editor to make some changes.

Naomi and Kate implied that they didn't want to have Lady GaGa as a third wheel and declared on having their own theme done so they were all shot individually and not together.

The issue decided to go along and they will now have a separated “pullout” so there will actually be three covers from three independent shoots.

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Good for Gags. She never does photos with fans!!

LADY GAGA DETHRONED ON YOUTUBE BY JUSTIN BEIBER.

Teen sensation Justin Bieber has knocked Lady Gaga off her reign as holder of the most-viewed video on YouTube.

Bieber, 16, who was discovered on YouTube, racked up more than 246 million views of his music video "Baby" on Friday, pushing Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" into second place with 245.6 million.

The Canadian singer, currently on tour in the United States to promote his hit album "My World 2.0", thanked his fans in a Twitter message, but added that he thinks Lady Gaga is "an incredible artist who (I) have great respect 4. and her vid is incredible.

"So it doesnt matter who has more views what matters is that we have incredible fans that support us...that im sure we are both greatful 4," he continued.

Bieber signed a record deal at age 14 after posting his own videos on YouTube and now causes mob scenes of hysterical girls wherever he goes.

Lady Gaga, 24, is in the middle of her "Monster Ball" tour and recently became the first living person to have more than 10 million fans on social networking site Facebook.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/Justin+Bieber+claims+Lady+Gaga+YouTube+throne/3293857/story.html#ixzz0u6Uj4TEQ