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Archive for July 24th, 2007
50 Cent Takes Aim at Shooting Game
Posted in 50 Cent, Celebs, Hip-Hop, Live Music, Records Deal, Rumor on the July 24, 2007
50 Cent is apparently no fonder of fake shooting than he is of the real deal.
The Massacre rapper filed a $1 million lawsuit against Internet advertising company Traffix Inc. Friday, claiming that the Pearl River, New York, outfit pilfered his image for a banner ad that invites would-be consumers to “Shoot the Rapper” and “win $5,000 or five free ring tones GUARANTEED”—meaning, “Click here, and end up on one of our client’s Websites.”
If one’s mouse aim is on target, a misty spray of blood appears on the screen before the new Website opens.
The ad does not name check 50 Cent but, according to the complaint filed in New York State Court, the cartoon rapper on the screen is obviously supposed to be the 32-year-old hip-hop star.
The “vile, tasteless and despicable” depiction of 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, was “completely unauthorized” and “literally calls for violence against him,” states the lawsuit.
Before he hit it super-big with “In Da Club,” 50 Cent was shot nine times in a drive-by outside his grandmother’s house in Queens in May 2000. He inked a short-lived deal with Columbia Records from his hospital bed, later moving on to Universal Music Group’s Interscope after Eminem hooked him up with Dr. Dre and included the tune “Wanksta” on the 8 Mile soundtrack.
Traffix Inc.’s lawyer, Ezio Scaldaferri, told reporters that he had not yet seen the suit and couldn’t comment.
Madonna to perform on Lennox song
Posted in Celebs, Concert, Joss Stone, Madonna, Music, Music Award, Music People, New LP, Pink, Pop Music, Shakira, Song on the July 24, 2007
Lennox is set to appear at a special concert in London next month
Madonna is among a host of female stars to appear on a new charity single by vocalist Annie Lennox.
Sing will feature contributions from 23 singers including Shakira, Joss Stone, Dido and Celine Dion, who were asked to perform by the former Eurythmics star.
Lennox, whose new album is due for release in October, wrote the song after her work with Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Aids charity.
The singer’s last solo collection, Bare, was released in 2003.
Other singers to appear on the new record, which is being released in September, include Pink, Fergie, Gladys Knight, Bonnie Raitt, Melissa Etheridge and Lennox’s fellow Scottish star KT Tunstall.
The song will raise funds for the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), whose own vocal group The Generics inspired Lennox to create the track for her Songs of Mass Destruction album.
The award-winning singer, who released her first solo album 15 years ago, performed at the 46664 concert in South Africa in 2005, staged to highlight awareness of the plight of women living with HIV and Aids.
Lennox has amassed four Grammy and 11 Brit awards in a career spanning more than 25 years.
