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I found a list of albums scheduled to come out next year and later this year, it'll be interesting to hear Slick Rick's comeback album: http://www.slumz.boxden.com/showthread.php?t=449144 I've been kinda sleeping on getting current albums this year, I probably only got about 10 if even that, most of the other stuff I got this year is pre-2005, the end of this year and beginning of next year releases look more promising than what's been out lately.

Mcgrady's out 3 weeks: Rockets G-F McGrady has back woes, could miss three weeks November 5, 2005 HOUSTON (Ticker) - Houston Rockets superstar swingman Tracy McGrady has a back strain and could be sidelined three weeks. McGrady, who has a history of back problems, is inactive for Saturday's game against the New Orleans Hornets due to back spasms. However, a team spokesman indicated McGrady could be out longer. The two-time scoring champion officially is listed as day to day and will continue to be evaluated. Veteran Derek Anderson started at forward in place of McGrady, who scored 23 points in Houston's season-opening win over Sacramento. The 6-8 McGrady is in his ninth NBA season and second with the Rockets. He was sixth in the league in scoring at 25.7 points per game last season, adding averages 6.2 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.73 steals in 78 games. In 566 games with Toronto, Orlando and Houston, McGrady has averaged 22.0 points, 6.4 rebounds and 4.3 assists. The five-time All-Star won scoring titles in 2003 and 2004 with Orlando.

Common "Be" Public Enemy "New Whirl Odor" Little Brother "Ministrel Show" I'm looking forward to the Redman, Ghostface, and Fugees next month

Well Mourning's gonna get more playing time since Shaq's out for 2-4 weeks so I put Mourning on my fantasy team now, hopefully he plays like he did in the playoffs last year for them or else they're in trouble, it's early in the season though. Updated: Nov. 4, 2005, 1:36 PM ET Shaq travels with Heat, may miss 2-4 weeks ESPN.com news services MIAMI -- Heat center Shaquille O'Neal flew with his team to Milwaukee on Friday, but is likely to miss two to four weeks with a sprained right ankle, the Miami Herald reported Friday. O'Neal The team said O'Neal, a 12-time All-Star was still listed as day-to-day. He received treatment Friday morning before joining the Heat for their afternoon flight to Milwaukee, where they'll play the Bucks on Saturday night. O'Neal was injured in Miami's 105-102 loss to the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night. He was getting in position for an offensive rebound when he stepped on Ron Artest's foot and rolled the ankle midway through the fourth quarter. X-rays were negative, but the 7-foot-1, 340-pound O'Neal left the arena on crutches. Heat coach Stan Van Gundy said after the game that he expected O'Neal "to miss some time," and teammates seemed resigned to playing without their center for at least a couple of games. O'Neal did not speak with reporters, and the team had no media availability before traveling on Friday. "He's the most dominant player in the game," Heat forward Udonis Haslem said Thursday night. "If you don't have him it definitely hurts you. At the same time, the other guys have the opportunity to step up." Only two games into the season, injury problems are already piling up for Miami. Projected starting small forward James Posey will probably miss a few more games because of an injured thumb, reserve forward Shandon Anderson has been sidelined by back spasms and isn't traveling with the team and backup center Michael Doleac hasn't made his season debut yet because of an injured calf. If O'Neal doesn't start on Saturday, the Heat will probably go to Alonzo Mourning, with undrafted rookie Earl Barron the likely choice to be the first center off the bench. O'Neal averaged 15 points and six rebounds in Miami's first two games. He missed nine regular-season games and two playoff games last year because of various injuries; the Heat went 8-3 without their starting center. "We've got enough firepower to win without him," Miami guard Dwyane Wade said. "If one person goes down, the other guys have to step up." The Associated Press contributed to this report

I got rid of Dampier who only scored 3 points in 2 games and picked up Mcdyess yesterday.

Bulls had an amazing comeback last night, Duhon with a triple double! :yeah:

Antoine Jamison had a big game last night scoring 29 points! :2thumbs:

Here's more info: 'U Can't Touch This?' Actually, Maybe You Can MC Hammer selling catalog to pay off debt. by Gil Kaufman Remember when MC Hammer used to brag about how "U Can't Touch This?" Well, times change. Now, not only can you actually touch this (whatever it is), you can own it. The balloon-pantsed MC, who turned the world on with his fancy footwork and a Rick James-sampling hip-pop hit 15 years ago, is selling one of the last remnants of the good old days. No, it's not the huge fleet of cars (that's gone) or the $12 million gilded castle in Fremont, California (that went for $5 mil a while ago). It's his songs, or more accurately, the music publishing and copyrights to his whole catalog. The move comes almost a decade after Hammer (born Stanley Burrell) filed for bankruptcy and after a number of lawsuits concerning the songs have finally been settled. "He filed for bankruptcy to protect himself from creditors and at some point it became involuntary bankruptcy, which means they not only seized his assets, but a trustee was appointed to guard them," said Randall Wixen of Wixen Music Publishing, the court-appointed administrator for Hammer's five publishing companies. At various points, Hammer has tried to buy the songs back, but Wixen said the rapper hasn't been able to raise enough cash to close the deal. The songs could not be sold until Hammer settled the suits, but now that they are available Wixen expects the whole lot to bring in something in the "upper seven figures" when the auction on them closes in early 2006. Starting on Tuesday (November 1), interested bidders can request the more than 300 pages of spreadsheet information on the rapper's catalog and a chance to "own whatever share of the songs that he used to own." Here's what you can get for your money: A 30 percent share of "Break 'Em Off Somethin' Proper" (with the lion's share going to the late Troutman brothers, Roger and Larry, of the funk group Zapp, for the big chunk of their hit "More Bounce to the Ounce") A 50 percent stake in Hammer's 1990 smash "U Can't Touch This" (the estate of late funketeer Rick James gets the other half thanks to the "Super Freak" sample) A 62.5 percent share of "Turn This Mutha Out" (with the rest going to George Clinton for the sample of Parliament's "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)") A 75 percent share of "Addams Groove" and "Pray" (with Prince getting 25 percent of the latter for its "When Doves Cry" sample) A healthy 90 percent of "2 Legit 2 Quit" and the full 100 percent of "Let's Get It Started" This report is provided by MTV News

It's wack how 50 Cent makes giving to charity private but makes his beefs with everyone public, he obviously made this statement to piss off Kanye and bring hype to his movie coming out, this isn't really about Hurricane Katrina or George Bush 'cause if it wasn't he would've made it 2 months ago when it happened and he didn't have his movie coming out yet.

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Yeah 50 Cent disses everybody 1st, it seems like he's jealous of who he disses since he has to diss them so much.

Maybe if 50 stops making stupid comments and doing stupid things then maybe people like'll me stop hating him, first of all he should stop dissin' successful brothers everytime he's interviewed, there's no need to diss the whole rap industry, Kanye's a positive cat that's trying to do the right thing and he don't deserved to get dissed like this. 50's the biggest hater of them all, it's like he wants to take away other brothers' fame to get ahead, that's being a sellout in my opinion, you could say 50 don't care about black people.

How could you call it a "Wave 'Em Off" CD and not put "Wave 'Em Off" on it, that track really has grown on me lately, that's a big statement for the haters to hear...

I thought it was wack that DMC wasn't at the Hip-Hop Honors when Rev. Run and Russell were hosting, I see DMC ain't in Rev. Run's reality show either so far.

Believe me if 50 said something earlier we would've heard it a lot sooner than now, there's been a lot of interviews from 50 Cent lately and not one did he mention this until now, in fact around the Hurricane Katrina time he said that he helped create Kanye's career so this gives me more of the impression that he wants to battle Kanye, he always can't say anythin' without dissin' another rapper, shut up 50 and "Don't Say Nothin'", at least Kanye was out there doing charity concerts even if you don't agree with what he says...

It's been 2 months since Hurricane Katrina, why didn't 50 make this comment earlier when he gets interviewed every other day? I didn't hear about him giving any money either and I didn't see him there helping the people. I don't think he really cares about it either, I think he's saying this to start controversey again, why can't the media interview somebody intelligent, tell me why... :paperbag:

http://contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mn...acist%20comment Rapper 50 CENT has lashed out at fellow hip-hop star KANYE WEST for accusing US President GEORGE W BUSH of racism in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The IN DA CLUB star believes human intervention could not have prevented the effects of the hurricane, which killed over a thousand people in the US gulf states in August (05), and sees no point in reprimanding the President for something which was beyond his control. He says, "The New Orleans disaster was meant to happen. It was an act of God. "I think people responded to it the best way they can. "What KANYE WEST was saying, I don't know where that came from."

I hope that Ginoboli has a big 4th quarter, he's supposed to be my best player, I need him to step up here.

I got 2 players going tonight, Ginoboli and Dampier, btw I see your man Nene got hurt early in the Nuggets-Spurs game and my man Ginoboli only has 3 points so far.

I think Chris Paul of the Hornets'll win ROY, he's the future of that team.

Russell Simmons said in the VH1 hip-hop documentary that "Will Smith is a big rap star that has sold more records than 50 Cent", I think his opinion holds more weight than anybody else that doesn't recognise Will as a rapper. 50 Cent's actually right about Will being a silly rapper back in the day 'cause his early albums were very comedy oriented, he was like the Eddie Murphy of rap on the early JJFP albums, not every rapper has to be gangsta like a character from Scarface to be a great rapper. btw you're right Vipa, let's not make this a 50 Cent hater board either.

Well in the article it says January 9th he'll be going to court and they'll tell him the exact sentence, I don't understand why'd he take money from his dead brother and his ex-wife when he's making millions already off of everything he recording over the last 40 years? I don't see how he'd be desperate for money...

Does it mean that MC Hammer won't get any money if people buy some of his old albums in the future and the person who buys the catalog would get paid instead? I wonder how he makes income then since he hasn't recorded anything recently?

Yeah I think there was a group of women over 10 years ago that was protesting against gangsta rappers like 2Pac, Dr. Dre, Snoop, and Biggie that were calling women bitches and hoes, they'd take a whole bunch of their CDs and step on them. btw, Will would've caught some controversey for "Bad Boys II" if there was posters of it on elementary school buildings 'cause he and Martin Lawrence were holding guns too but he knew better than to promote the movie for young kids to watch since it's rated R and it did quite well without controversey 'cause he has enough of an adult audience that like him anyway, 50 Cent probably knows that he won't be able to get enough adults to watch the movie since most of his audience is just kids so that's why he had to do that, I pity those parents who'd take their kids to go see it too though, they deserve to be dissed too. :shakehead:

Isley Bro Nailed for Tax Dodge By Charlie Amter1 hour, 20 minutes ago These are taxing times indeed for R&B legend Ronald Isley. A federal jury in Los Angeles on Monday convicted the singer of five counts of tax evasion and one count of willful failure to file a tax return. Isley faces up to 26 years in prison for the tax dodging at his sentencing Jan. 9. Jurors deliberated for a day and a half before rendering their verdict in the trial, which stretched over three weeks. The panel was apparently swayed by a steady stream of prosecution evidence that included documents showing the "It's Your Thing" singer hiding homes and a yacht under the name of his former wife and cashing royalty checks belonging to his late brother, O'Kelly Isley. During the trial, IRS officials said Isley tried to further avoid taxes by asking to be paid in only cash for performances between 1997 and 2002--amounts that added up to around $12 million, per California's CNS News Service. The IRS also claimed Isley bought personal cars using a business account and paid band members in cash to keep transactions off the books. The Ohio native was indicted in October 2004. He entered a not guilty plea in January. Isley, who suffered a minor stroke last summer, remains best known for his smooth vocals that have graced Isley Brothers hits for the better part of 40 years. The group got its start in 1951 and struck it big with the 1959 single "Shout," followed by a hit 1962 cover of "Twist and Shout," the 1965 Motown classic "This Old Heart of Mine" and 1969's "It's Your Thing," before having even greater success in the 1970s. The band helped define the R&B/funk groove of the era with hits like "Who's That Lady" and "Fight the Power (Part 1)" before moving toward a more disco sound as the decade ended. In 2003, the Isleys topped the charts with Body Kiss and, later that year, Ron Isley collaborated with Burt Bacharach on the album Here I Am. An Isley Brothers remix album, Taken to the Next Phase, dropped in August 2004.