New Music: Jeremih – Birthday Sex Acoustic Footage (live)
The full length performance of Jeremih’s “Birthday Sex” just went live on YouTube. Real music is making a comeback!
Source: JD Anderson | Universal Music
RIP: Dolla
Atlanta rapper Roderick Anthony Burton II, aka Dolla, was shot and killed in LA today. Some of you may recall Dolla as a member of the boy group Da Razkalz Cru back in 2001. Dolla signed to Akon’s Konvict Records in 2007 and seemed to have a bright future ahead of him with the release of his debut single “Feelin’ Myself”. But he could not escape the violence that permeates the Hip Hop community.
From the LATimes.com:
The man shot at the Beverly Center mall this afternoon was identified as Atlanta-based rapper Dolla, whose real name is Roderick Anthony Burton II, according to his publicist, Sue Vannasing. She said Dolla was shot in the head around 3:10 p.m. while he and another rapper, D.J. Shabbazz, waited in the area after shopping at the popular Westside mall. A friend who was with the rapper at the Beverly Center also confirmed his identity to The Times.
About two hours later, Los Angeles police detained a “person of interest” as he attempted to board a plane out of Los Angeles International Airport. The man allegedly drove his silver Mercedes SUV from Beverly Center to the airport.
Vannasing said Dolla had gotten into an altercation with other passengers on a flight from Atlanta to Los Angeles, but it’s unclear if that was related to the violence.]
[Updated at 5:15 p.m.: Police have arrested one "person of interest" in connection with the shooting but were looking for a second suspect.]
[Updated at 5:40 p.m.: The arrested suspect, who fled from the mall in a silver Mercedes, was detained at Los Angeles International Airport while trying to board a flight. Police said the shooting took place in the valet waiting area of the mall].
The shooting occurred just after 3 p.m. at the La Cienega Boulevard entrance to the popular Westside shopping center. All entrances and exits to the popular Westside shopping mall were sealed off as police swarmed the scene.
LAPD officials said that officers were sent to the mall on a report of a group fight, possibly involving a knife. LAPD Sgt. Ronnie Crump said two suspects ran in the direction of Beverly Hills.
At a Chipotle restaurant in the mall, several people were eating when the shots rang out.
“The customers were yelling ‘close the store, close the store, because somebody is shooting,’ ” said Elsa Hernandez, general manager of the restaurant.
An employee who was behind the restaurant, near the mall’s valet parking service, saw the tail end of the dispute, Hernandez said. “He saw a lady … shooting a handgun,” Hernandez said.
Obama doesn’t think this is an awesome thing
By the way, I’m all for a woman’s right to choose. But this video is cool.
Why are we bringing up old stale news?
Can somone explain to me why we’re bringing up old news and why are my readers emailing this old news to me?
For example, didn’t we already know that actor Shia LaBeouf’s people cooked up a fake story about him dating Rihanna, but no one believed the story so they dropped it? Why is he bringing this up again?
“It never got beyond one date,” he says. “The spark wasn’t there. We weren’t passionate about each other in that way, so we remain friends.” [link]
Correction: If it happened at all the way he says it did, I’m sure SHE wasn’t passionate about him in that way. I mean, she probably thought she was going on an innocent lunch date with the nerdy looking guy. I’m sure she wasn’t planning a lifetime together with him based on one date.
And speaking of nerdy looking guys and stories that should never see the light of day: why are we talking about these two again? She’s nothing spectacular and neither is he. SO they’re dating? So what? Don’t we already know that? Haven’t we talked about them for going on two years now? Am I missing something here?
It was an honest mistake, get over it; Doesn’t Obama make mistakes every day?
Thanks to loyal readers Brenda and Shana for bringing this to my attention. But I don’t see the big deal.
Naturally people were pretty confused yesterday when on the Washington Times’ website a story about dead kids ran with a picture of the Obama children. Time for the editor John Solomon to say he’s sorry or pass the blame potato:
Solomon says that no human individual paired the pic with the story, that a technological foul-up was to blame, and that the paper is tweaking its photo selection software to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
“The theme engine, through automation, grabbed a photo it thought was relevant, and attached it to the story,” Solomon says, acknowledging that the photo had gone up without a person seeing it. “There was no editorial decision to run it. As soon as it was brought to our attention, we pulled it down.”
Solomon also conceded that the automated system the paper has in place to pick photos doesn’t have a tight enough screening process, and said steps were being taken to fix that. “We regret that the technology has let us down in this case,” he said, “and are working to make sure that the [photo] matches are more relevant in the future.”
New Music: EDubb – Whooty **NSFW**
I can’t believe I clicked on this link… 
My excuse is I watched it for purely educational purposes only. And, if you must know: yes, I did learn something.
Comment of the Day: “They say LaLa is an aggressive lipstick…”
Sandrarose.com member mjoylaw left this comment in this post: “They say LaLa is an aggressive lipstick…”
Well, they also say there’s a kernel of truth in every rumor. MTV VJ La La Vazquez upset all the femmes and set tongues a wagging when she attended a recent Hawks game in Atlanta with this cute Dom by her side (her name is Candice Dixon for those of you who were wondering).
Anyway, I totally ignored the rumors since I had never heard such a thing about La La — and me and La La go way back so if anyone should know about her going that way it should be me, right?
When this question was brought up in certain circles that I run in, I defended La La by asking a simple question: can’t a beautiful woman sit beside a cute Dom at a basketball game without sparking unnecessary rumors about her sexuality? What do you guys think?
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