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Bow Wow Admits He Has a Daughter in Letter to Fans.

Bow Wow has revealed news he is now a father. The 24-year-old rapper-turned-film star opened up about his child in a letter to fans, which he posted on his official website.

The ‘Madea’s Big Happy Family’ actor expressed the joy felt over finally being able to share the news with his loyal supporters. “…God gave me the illest gift of my life,” Bow Wow wrote. “No lambo, no blk card nuffn ammounts to my lil girl. I waited so long to tell yall the truth because i was nervous on how yall would look at me. Yall know everyone makes a big deal out of everything i do. I wanted to be 1st n let yall know the real [sic].”

Over the past three years, Bow Wow battled inner demons, even contemplating suicide, which he detailed in the letter. “I felt like as a kid i did everything and saw everything too fast which spoiled my adult years [sic],” he revealed. But once his daughter was born, who he refers to as “Shai Shai,” his perspective on life changed dramatically.

Bow Wow went on to admit he changes diapers (“Aint as bad as i thought hahaha”) and spoke on the drama surrounding his relationship with Shai Shai’s mother (“The bs that comes with having a baby momma is expected”).

The Young Money/Cash Money member closed out the letter he penned by thanking his fans, which he hoped would continue to support him.

Read the full letter below.

Let me start off by saying i love my fans. With out yall i wudda been left the game. For the past 3 years i been batteling life. Even thought about taking my own. I felt like as a kid i did everything and saw everything too fast which spoiled my adult years. I felt as if i had no purpose to live(Thinking selfishly) until god gave me the illest gift of my life. No lambo, no blk card nuffn ammounts to my lil girl. I waited so long to tell yall the truth because i was nervous on how yall would look at me. Yall know everyone makes a big deal out of everything i do. I wanted to be 1st n let yall know the real. My lil girl is getting BIG fast. i love every minute of it. She inspires me to go harder.Even made me treat my mother better, its like it made me into a man over night. Never been a fan of posting pix of my daughter. Reason is because i want my boo boo to have everything i didnt. Want her to be able to cheerlead with her lil friends with out some asshole sticking his camera all in my lil girl face. I know how fame is. I missed out on so much that i now know how important it is to cherish and have those things in your life. Yes! I change diapers. Aint as bad as i thought hahaha. I want her to live with me so bad. Jus us 2. Thats my dream man but fellas yall know how it go. Baby gotta stay with they momma and all dat bull. I hate that! So i have to fly 5 hrs away to see her. I find myself going into my i phone book jus lookn at pix of her. Sometimes i tear up cuz i just cant believe it brotha be emotional. All in all im good. This is my 1st. I know all my fans gone support me and ride for her like yall been doin my whole career. To the ones that say “Im heart broken how can he do that to us” well i do have a life thats not all about movies or making albums. Im 24 now. I cant wait 4eva. Im happy and if your a fan then ud be happy too cuz yall gone be with me every step of the way. The bs that comes with having a baby momma is expected. So i neva trip. Jus gotta suck it up keep chin high and try not let her get the best of my feelings by playin them stupid games. Ima stay positive and keep maintaining long as i got yall i cant lose. I love yall. And shai shai daddy love u too! Wizzle!!!!


Boweezy
Cash Money/Young Money

Nicki Minaj Mourns Murdered Cousin.

It’s a sad day for Nicki Minaj and her family. The rapper’s cousin, Nicholas Telemaque, was murdered in Brooklyn, New York, on Monday and the ‘Super Bass’ singer took to Twitter to express her devastation.

“Lived in Brooklyn his whole life. My precious cousin. My baby. Killed last nite,” Minaj wrote on Twitter.

According to MTV News, police responded to a call in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, at 2:40 a.m. Monday morning and found Telemaque, 27, with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Kings County Hospital.

“My cousin Nicholas. Also goes by Juse, or @brolicalcoholic* Murdered. Last nite. Near his home. Brooklyn,NY,” Minaj also wrote on Twitter, attaching a picture of her fallen cousin.
Minaj spent the holiday weekend in Winnipeg, Canada, performing on tour with Britney Spears.

According to police, no arrests in Telemaque’s death have been made yet.

50 Cent to Write Book for Teens on Bullying.

Grammy-winning rapper and author 50 Cent is writing a book for teens called ‘Playground,’ a semi-autobiographical novel about bullying, reports MTV.

According to a statement from the book’s publisher, the novel will be released in January 2012, and follows a 13-year-old schoolyard bully “who finds redemption as he faces what he’s done.”

“I had a strong desire to write ‘Playground’ because I wanted to explore how a kid becomes a bully,” the hip-hop star said in a statement. “I drew on events from my own childhood and adolescence, but was excited to see the story take on its own life. This book would have been very helpful for me growing up and now that I have a teenage son, it is my goal that this will have a positive influence on all teenagers.”

The rapper’s released his first book, the autobiographical ‘From Pieces to Weight,’ in 2005, which went on to become a New York Times Bestseller.

Killer Mike-Affiliated Rapper Supa Sport Arrested by DEA.

Rapper Supa Sport has been indicted as the ringleader of a drug trafficking organization responsible for distributing heroin, crack, cocaine and marijuana.

The Detroit-repping, New Jersey-based MC — born Carl Barnett — was arrested by the DEA on June 10, and is being charged, along with 14 fellow members of his crew, the Detroit Boyz, with conspiracy to distribute controlled substances.

As an MC, Supa Sport recently released a mixtape entitled ‘Life in da Fastlane,’ which featured 8Ball & MJG, Lex Luger, Meek Mill and Atlanta rappers Killer Mike and Alley Boy. As Carl Barnett, or his street aliases “Pizzo,” “Marcale Hill” or “Mark Hill,” he allegedly ran the Detroit Boyz drug ring, coordinating the drug acquisitions, processing, packaging and resale out of an auto body shop in Morrisville, N.J. Barnett and the Detroit Boyz also customized vehicles with secret drug transportation compartments, and frequently traveled to Georgia to purchase cocaine — and perhaps to record — which they then distributed throughout the Trenton, N.J. area.

The 77-page indictment states that the DEA employed an informant to infiltrate the Detroit Boyz, and includes a sampling of Supa Sport’s lyrics, which likely provided similar information. On his Killer Mike-featured ‘Days Like This,’ the alleged drug trafficker boasts about selling “powder to the rocks and E’s for the poppers,” before lamenting, “The Feds takin’ flicks … They tappin’ my phones, invadin’ all my privacies.”

If found guilty, Supa Sport faces a minimum penalty of five years in prison, and a maximum of 40 years, plus a $5 million fine.

Tone Loc Arrested for Domestic Violence.

‘Funky Cold Medina’ rapper Tone Loc (whose real name is Anthony Terrell Smith) was arrested on Saturday afternoon at a Burbank, Calif., apartment complex and charged with felony domestic violence.

The arrest, one day before Father’s Day, stemmed from an alleged physical altercation with the mother of his child. According to TMZ, the 45- year-old West Coast rap star and voice actor was taken in, without incident, and booked at the local jail in a few hours. He is being held on a $50,000 bond.

Earlier this year, Tone Loc had another run-in with the law when he was spotted driving erratically in January and arrested for DUI. He was released on bail claiming a medical condition caused a seizure (the artist has collapsed onstage in seizure in the past).
Though best known for his 1980’s hits ‘Wild Thing’ and ‘Funky Cold Medina,’ the four-time Grammy nominee with the uniquely gravelly voice has also taken acting roles in films such as ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ and TV series such as ‘Touched by an Angel.’

Check out Tone Loc in a 1990’s TV appearance (he stars opposite Phil Harman in the opening scene of this clip), as he dons a badge to enforce law and order around the offices of ‘NewsRadio’:

Nicki Minaj’s Backside Is Fake, According to Ice-T’s Wife.

Nicki Minaj’s ample “assets” have long been a topic of discussion, and now comes more word that her body parts may not be real.

Ice-T’s wife, Coco revealed in an interview with Perez Hilton that as far as she knows, Minaj is rocking a fake derriere because the rapper admitted so. “Well, I read that it wasn’t. I thought that she came out with it. I heard it from her,” the 31-year-old told Hilton.

Sensing that she may have said too much, Coco quickly backtracked. “Okay I don’t know… We’re not even going to go there anymore. You know what I say about a lot of stylists that work with me… They work with me, they touch my body, they’re doing stuff all day long. So they’re doing that same thing to Nicki Minaj and they’re saying a little bit different.”

Minaj has never publicly come out and stated that her backside was fake, but scoffed at those who even care. “People will pick anything to talk about, and that happens to be the thing at the moment. I love being a conversation piece,” she told the New York Post last year.

Like the Young Money MC, Coco has also been known to make her rear end a focal point. The model-turned-reality star has been hit with rumors that she too is rocking a fake backside, a topic which she has addressed while promoting her new show, ‘Ice Loves Coco,’ which follows her day-to-day life and 10-year relationship with the rap veteran.

‘Ice Loves Coco’ airs on the E! network, Sundays at 10:30PM EST.

Fat Joe Talks Weight Loss, ‘If I Could Be 1000 Pounds I Would’.

Fat Joe has been known to boast about a stature that rivaled protégé Big Pun’s in girth. So when the husky rapper, who once tipped scales at 400 pounds, debuted his new 265-pound frame in his ‘Drop A Body’ video earlier this week, fans were understandably concerned.

In a video interview with the New York Daily News, the formerly obese MC addressed his drastic weight loss. He explained that while he has “always loved being fat,” a recent string of heart attack-related deaths amongst his group of friends has forced him to pay drop 75 pounds, out of concern for his family.

“I always loved being fat, obviously. I’m Fat Joe. If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that,” Joe explained, without a hint of humor. “The biggest killer of people is food. It kills more people than AIDS or gun violence or war, anything you can name. Eveybody keep catching strokes and heart attacks, and what happened to me was, like seven of my friends passed last year from heart attacks, and they were all 32, 34 years old, 35. And I said, ‘I got kids, I can’t leave ‘em like that.’ This world is too hard for me to leave my kids, without me supervising and being there for them.”

The Terror Squad leader went on to speak about his overweight fans using his weight loss as inspiration, rather than following Big Pun’s lead into morbid obesity.

“If Fat Joe, F-A-T J-O-E, fattest guy you know, could lose some weight, you could lose some too. Just cut back on the carbs and work out. Don’t go up in KFC, don’t go up in McDonalds, don’t go up in Burger King, don’t go up in none of that stuff,” Joey Crack admonished. “Big Pun died, he was 27, or something. That’s a shame, he was a genius, he was a beautiful person. Lotta my friends, too. I hope I can encourage you, you can be like ‘Yo, Fat Joe did it, I could do it, too.’”

Sean Kingston Badly Injured Jet Ski Crash.

MIAMI (AP) — Authorities say rapper Sean Kingston is hospitalized after a crashing a personal watercraft into a Miami Beach bridge.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Jorge Pino says Kingston and a female passenger were injured when the watercraft hit the Palm Island Bridge around 6 p.m. Sunday. Pino says both were hospitalized early Monday at Ryder Trauma Center, but he didn’t know their conditions.

According to TMZ, Kingston is in critical condition.

Pino says authorities are investigating the crash, and “nothing at this point would indicate that alcohol played a role.”

A representative for his label Epic Records confirmed early Monday that Kingston was in a crash and “was now stabilized.” No further information was provided.

Kingston rose to fame with his 2007 hit “Beautiful Girls” and was also featured on songs by artists including Justin Bieber

B.G. Faces 10 Years in Prison for Gun and Conspiracy Charges.

Former Cash Money rapper B.G. is facing up to 10 years in prison after being indicted on gun and conspiracy charges.

In a statement issued on Thursday (May 19) U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said that the New Orleans native — real name, Christopher Dorsey — is facing one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice and two counts of being a felon in possession of a fireman, following a November 2009 arrest.

B.G. and two associates were pulled over and arrested after a routine traffic stop in 2009, when police found three handguns, loaded magazines and extended clips in the rapper’s car. B.G. and one associate were charged with illegally carrying firearms, while the third passenger was charged with drug possession.

The 30-year-old rapper is now accused of trying to pass off ownership of the illegal firearms to another passenger in the vehicle. If he is found guilty, B.G. can find himself behind bars for up to a decade.

B.G. parted ways with Cash Money Records after having a dispute with CEO Bryan “Birdman” Williams, and has since launched his own label, Chopper City Records. He released his eleventh album ‘Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood’ in 2009, and the his twelfth, tentatively titled ‘It’s All On U, Vol. 3’ will likely be delayed by his current legal troubles.