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  • Common To Star In Upcoming Series On AMC

    Chicago bred emcee turned actor Common is seemingly a hot commodity in Hollywood.

    According to published reports, Common has landed a role on an up and coming show entitled Hell on Wheels that is scheduled to air onAMC.

    Hell on Wheels is described as a western centered around the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860’s.
    Common will be playing the role of  “Elam,” a biracial freed slave seeking his fortunes along the railroad line.

    With Common’s acting resume growing in diversity, AMC states that it was only right to choose the emcee to play the role.


    “Common brings a layered intensity to a very complex role,”     Joel Stillerman, AMC’s SVP programming said. “This part required someone who can transcend the stereotypes of the period and bring the character to life in a truly unique way, and he brings that.”

    Production for Hell on Wheels is scheduled to begin this August.

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  • Rihanna Says Incident With Chris Brown Led To Eminem Collabo

    Rude gal Rihanna recently sat down in an interview to discuss how the collaboration for the song, “Love The Way You Lie”, withEminem took place.

    In an interview with Access Hollywood, Rihanna reveals that Eminem actually approached her to collaborate on the project due to her experience with Chris Brown.

    “He actually approached me to do the song,” Rihanna said in the interview. “The song was so deep and so meaningful to me that couldn’t turn down the chance to work with him.”

    Although Eminem has been known to poke fun at pop singers unfortunate circumstances, Rihanna states that he never made fun of her for the ordeal with Chris Brown. RiRi also states that it was their unique stance on different sides of the issue that helped make the project so powerful.

    “I think that because we both have been involved with domestic violence, just on different sides that made the song have that power to grab your attention,” Rihanna continued. “I am so glad that we created the project and I am glad to be able to work with someone as creative as Eminem.”

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  • Hasn’t Margarito been punished enough? Fans need to welcome his fight against Pacquiao

    By Matt Stein: It seems like boxing fans will never forgive Antonio Margarito (38-6, 27 KO’s) for the hand wrap incident before his fight against Shane Mosley last year in January. At that time, a plaster-like substance was found on Margarito’s hand wraps immediately before his fight against Mosley. After the hand wraps were removed and a set of substitute non-plaster containing hand wraps were put on Margarito’s hands, he went out and was stopped in the 9th round by Mosley. A week later, Margarito had his boxing license revoked for one year by the California Athletic Commission.

    Margarito has now done more than a year of the suspension, and yet he still doesn’t have his boxing license and many fans dislike him intensely. My question is where is the compassion among fans? Is this a society where when you make a mistake, you’re forever penalized? Everyone makes mistakes and they should be forgiven after they’ve been punished for them. You can’t just permanently punish someone for their mistakes because how can they learn from them if they’re finished after only error.

    I think it’s high time that Margarito be re-embraced by boxing fans. The man has done his time, paid his price and is now looking to fight the biggest fight of his career against Manny Pacquiao on November 13th. This will be Margarito’s biggest payday of his career, and if he does the impossible and pulls off an upset of Pacquiao, he will be a huge star, whether some fans like it or not. I expect that the Nevada Athletic Commission will give Margarito his boxing license back so that the November 13th fight against Pacquiao will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada. Margarito will end up with a boxing license even if Nevada doesn’t give it to him. This fight is bigger than Margarito’s past mistake, and the money is too huge for one of the Commissions to deny the talented Margarito his boxing license.

    Few boxing fans are giving Margarito much if any chance at beating Pacquiao. They see Margarito only for his last two fights against Mosley and Roberto Garcia. However, my guess is many of those same boxing fans would be picking Margarito if this was 2008. Margarito looked great at that time and was at the top of his game. But in the Mosley fight, Margarito came in weight drained and not in the best of shape. It wasn’t that he lost anything; it was that he had taken off too much weight in too short of a time frame. This won’t be the case on November 13th. We’ll be seeing the old Margarito and I think he’s going to give Pacquiao a lot of problems and very possibly beat him up and stop him the same way that Margarito stopped the hard hitting Kermit Cintron on two occasions in the past.

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  • Arum says that he’ll look at putting together Cotto-Pacquiao II next year – News

    By Jason Kim: You may not be too eager to see a rematch between Miguel Cotto and Manny Pacquiao, but that’s likely what you’ll be seeing next year. Top Rank promoter Bob Arum, who promotes both Cotto and Pacquiao, said that he’ll look to put them together depending on how Cotto does in his next fight.

    In an article at ESPN, Arum says “Cotto, we figure, should have another fight this winter and shown the improvement he’s made under Emanuel Steward [Cotto’s new trainer], and then we could look at him maybe next year” [against Pacquiao again]. Cotto had been in the running for a rematch with Pacquiao up until recently when Arum finally decided to go with Antonio Margarito, another one of his Top Rank fighters, for the fight with Pacquiao.

    It will be for the vacant World Boxing Council junior middleweight title and will enable Pacquiao to go for a record setting 8th world title. Arum had thought of having Pacquiao go against Cotto, since he holds the WBA junior middleweight strap, for Pacquiao’s shot at the record. However, Pacquiao destroyed Cotto by a 12th round TKO last year in November 2009, and it was thought that it might be too soon for boxing fans to be seeing a rematch between Cotto and Pacquiao. However, even a rematch between Cotto and Pacquiao in 2011, might be too soon for many fans. Cotto has fought only once since the loss to Pacquiao, beating another Top Rank fighter Yuri Foreman last June.

    If Cotto fights one more time before facing Pacquiao in a rematch, that would still likely be too soon for many people. When a fighter has been beaten as badly as Cotto was in the Pacquaio fight, it takes a string of wins over high quality fighters for fans to forget about the earlier loss and to think that the fighter might have a chance. It’s unclear who Cotto will be fighting next, but it’s probably not going to be someone with a big enough name for fans to see Cotto as being able to beat Pacquiao in a rematch. Beating the little known Foreman was okay, but the guy had no power and was on a bad right leg. Cotto probably needs wins over guys like Paul Williams, Sergio Martinez or Andre Berto for boxing fans to give him any chance at beating Pacquiao in a rematch.

    However, that’s not going to happen now or possibly ever. At best, we probably will see Cotto against someone like Pawel Wolak. Trainer Freddie Roach would like to match Top Rank fighter Vanes Martirosyan against Cotto, but that probably won’t happen. I’m not expecting much at all for an opponent for Cotto. Foreman was perfect for Cotto, because he had no power. I’m guessing it’s going to be someone that won’t be able to inflict too much punishment on Cotto and make him look bad for a rematch with Pacquiao. Alfredo Angulo would be perfect, but he won’t get picked because he would have a very excellent chance of knocking Cotto out. I don’t expect him to get a chance anytime soon against Cotto.

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  • THAT SUX DMX Going Back To Jail!

    DMX will surrender in a Los Angeles courtroom and will begin serving more jail time.

    According to TMZ, although it is not sure which crime he will be serving time for, X’s manager has said that he is ready to surrender in a courtroom and head back to a place DMX knows a little too well.

    The crime X will be serving time for was committed four or five years ago and although this story is just developing, DMX’s manager says that X is focused on taking care of past legal issues.

    Hip-Hop Wired will keep you up to date with the latest legal troubles from DMX.

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  • SOME ONE PLEASE CALL 911 LMAO Wyclef Jean Considers Running For President Of Haiti

    Wyclef Jean is making headlines after announcing that he’s considering running for President of his native country of Haiti.

    The Yele Haiti head has reportedly been considering a bid for presidency since 2007 when he was made ambassador-at-large for the country.

    Now with the 2010 election on the horizon and President Rene Preval unable to seek reelection, Clef has released a statement to media saying,

    “Wyclef’s commitment to his homeland and its youth is boundless, and he will remain its greatest supporter regardless of whether he is part of the government moving forward … If and when a decision is made, media will be alerted immediately.”

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  • Eminem Says Elton John Calls Him Once A Week To Counsel Him On Drug Problem

    Eminem is speaking on his ongoing relationship with Elton John; the man he credits with helping him kick his addiction to prescription pain killers.

    As previously reported, Sir Elton admitted to counseling Em for over 18 months while he struggled to get clean before the release of hisRelapse album.

    Now with Recovery; the follow-up to Relapse in stores, Em says the music legend is continuing to offer him assistance.

    He tells Spin Magazine that Elton calls him once a week and predicted that he’d become more aware of his surroundings once he got sober, a prediction he says came true.

    “Elton John calls me once a week. He used to tell me stuff like, ‘You’re going to start seeing certain things you’ve been overlooking’. And it came true. I’d walk around like, ‘Damn, that tree does look crazy, look at all those leaves!’ Things I didn’t notice when I was f–ked up.”


    Em previously described their uncanny friendship to the Detroit Metro Times saying that John was someone he could“identify with” and knows how “hectic things can be.”

    The two first established a relationship in 2001 when they performed “Stan” at the Grammy’s.

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  • The World’s First Man To Undergo A Full Face Transplant Is Released From Hospital

    The world’s first man to undergo a full face transplant held his first press conference to speak about the success of his surgery.

    The 31-year-old Spanish man, who is only identified by the nameOscar, spoke with considerable difficulty at the news conference held at Vall d’Hebron hospital, where he was operated on in late March.

    The 24-hour surgery allowed doctors to lift an entire face, including jaw, nose, cheekbones, muscles, teeth and eyelids, and placed it masklike onto Oscar’s.

    Oscar had to have a face transplant after accidentally shooting himself in the face five years ago.

    The incident left Oscar unable to breathe or eat on his own and after several facial reconstruction procedures, he underwent the total face transplant.

    Although the surgery was a success, the head of the surgical team, Dr. Joan Pere Barret, states that the man will need between a year and 18 months of physical therapy and is expected to regain up to 90 percent of his facial functions.

    Oscar is reportedly already seeing vast improvement.  In the press conference doctors reported that he is now able to drink liquids and eat soft foods and has been able to speak for the past two months.

    Doctors also report that Oscar has regained feeling in most of his face and is partly recovering movement of his muscles and had to be shaved because of beard growth.

    Doctors were skeptical about the success of the surgery initially after Oscar suffered acute rejection twice — once four weeks after the surgery and again between the second and third months. Both times, the new face was saved with medication.

    Although he has a long road to recovery, Oscar reportedly seemed relaxed as he looked out at reporters with eyes he cannot yet close completely.

    His sister states that not only is his family eager to have him home, but that Oscar is eager to enjoy “little things, like walking down the street without anyone looking at him, or sitting down for a meal with his family. Doing things that all of us do on a normal day.”

    Even though Oscar is reportedly the first man to have successfully undergone a full face transplant, a medical team in France announced a similar operation earlier this month, saying a 35-year-old man with a genetic disorder has an entirely new face, including tear ducts that cry and a chin that sprouts stubble.

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  • Lloyd Announces Name Of New Album

    R&B crooner Lloyd is set to drop a new album and has revealed the album’s title via Twitter.

    As previously reported, the last time Lloyd was in headlines it was for less than positive reasons after making a comment that he “told Chris Brown to cry” at the BET awards in June.

    Now moving past the onslaught of negativity he received for themisconstrued statement, Lloyd is set to release a new musical project.

    Lloyd made the official announcement on his Twitter page telling his 74,000 plus followers,

    “This is going to be the name of my next album/masterpiece…King Of Hearts ♥♥♥♥♥ …release date unknown.”


    Young Goldie’s fourth studio album is said to feature production from Polow Da Don, Jim Jonsin, The Runners, Rico, Love, Dr. Dre and Timbaland with a single tentatively to be released in August.

    The project will be his Zone 4/Interscope debut after he made the decision not to sign to Young Money.

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  • Hater Throws Beer On The Game While Holding His Kids

    Man Throws Beer On the Game And His Children

    It seems that someone took The Game’s no beef kindness for weakness at a concert in Los Angeles over the weekend.

    At a concert held on Saturday (July 24), The Game was closing a show and decided to bring his kids on stage to say “Hi” to the fans.

    After both his children speak on the mic, The Game tells the fans to enjoy themselves and Be safe.”

    “This is L.A. and ya’ll came out 1,500 strong,” The Game said. “This is Black Wallstreet, we are more than a label, we are a family and we love ya’ll. Be safe ya’ll.”

    It is at this point a heckler must have thought the love fest was getting too deep, because that is when he did the unthinkable.

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