June 17th, 2011

Hey Jacky,
I hope all is well.
I wanted to ask your advise about Taxi.com. I want to get into submitting songs for tv and film however I’m told taxi.com is a straight rip-off.
When you find a moment pleases are your thoughts on this site. Peace and keep up the good fight my brother.
Ike
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June 16th, 2011

Word of a man admitting to the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur is spreading.
According to convicted murderer Dexter Issac, who’s currently serving a life sentence for an unrelated crime, Jimmy Henchman paid him $2,500 to shoot Tupac at New York City’s Quad Recording Studios – and he says, Puffy was in on the plan.
Now I’ve spoken with Jimmy Henchman, but I won’t publish what we spoke about. Know why? Because I don’t want to end up testifying in court mane. But I will say this – Jimmy says the accusations against him are NOT true. I also spoke with inside source, Chuck Phillips.
Here’s what Chuck Phillips had to say:
“Jimmy and Haitian Jack opened a management company. They wanted out of the drug game, because they knew that there was money in hip hop. Puffy just got a million dollars from his $10 million deal with Arista and Jimmy wanted to impress him so he told Puffy I can get Tupac to sign to Bad Boy Records. Pac wasn’t going to sign to Bad Boy Records, and I know for a fact that there was at least 20 people in Quad studio that night and they all knew Pac was going to get ruffed up. I interviewed almost everybody who was there at the recording session and Isaac’s was the one who pistol whipped Pac badly but he didn’t shoot him. Tupac was going to pull his gun and instead he shot himself in his groin area.” Continue Reading…
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June 16th, 2011

According to sources, Dave Chapelle is planning a new TV show with a paid subscription service such as Netflix or Hulu. Both subscription services are now competing in the original programming market.
“Dave Chappelle’s going back to TV,” said the insider. “It’s not for a network. It’s for Netflix or Crackle or some other subscription service.”
“I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place?” Chappelle confessed to Oprah Winfrey when he returned from his strange pilgrimage to South Africa. “The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.” Continue Reading…
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June 16th, 2011

The major record labels are destine to fail sooner rather than later. Rather than innovate it’s just one big circle jerk!
The newly restructured Epic Label Group will combine the rosters of Jive and Epic and reunite Reid with Usher and Pink, who he discovered and helped develop.
The Hollywood Reporter has stated definitively:
That L.A. Reid, the X Factor judge and former Island Def Jam chairman is headed to Sony Music. He will take on the chairman title at the soon-to-be restructured Epic Label Group, which will encompass Jive Records. Continue Reading…
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