Heavy D was on weight loss program when he died
According to published reports, rapper Heavy D was on a weight loss program when he died suddenly last week at the age of 44.
The rapper had begun a weight loss plan and kept a regular workout regime, according to EURweb.com.
Tony Wisniewski, the rapper’s trainer at the Ultra Body Fitness gym in Los Angeles, set Heavy up on a fitness plan three months before his death. Wisniewski is the same trainer that helped him lose 150 pounds back in 2008.
Autopsy reports show that Heavy D, real name Dwight Arrington Myers, weighed 344 pounds at the time of his death.
The autopsy was completed on Wednesday, but the coroner’s office declined to release a cause of death until they know the results of toxicology reports, which could take weeks.
According to Heavy D’s cousin, he had a “touch of pneumonia,” after returning from a trip to England a few days before he passed.
“We really do believe obesity makes people do worse with lung diseases,” said Dr. Benjamin Suratt, associate division chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Vermont/Fletcher Allen Health Care hospital.
“If Heavy D died of a garden-variety pneumonia,” said Suratt, “it could be that he wasn’t able to fight it off due to his lungs not being able to fully expand and his immune system not having been fully functional.”
Jay Z Pulls Occupy T-Shirts from Rocawear Amid Criticism
Rap mogul Jay Z has come under heavy fire for attempting to profit off the Occupy Wall Street movement by selling ‘Occupy All Streets’ t-shirts on Rocawear.com without donating a portion of the proceeds back to the movement.
Jay Z quickly pulled the t-shirts from the website amid heavy criticism in the media.
The Occupy movement organizers say Jay Z is typical of the corporate greed that gave birth to the Occupy movement. Jay Z, Kanye West and Russell Simmons have been widely criticized for pretending to be supporters of the movement when they are really looking for ways to line their own pockets.
Before the t-shirts were pulled … TMZ spoke with Grim, one of the leaders of the Occupy movement, who told us, “Jay-Z, as talented as he is, has the political sensibility of a hood rat and is a scrotum. To attempt to profit off of the first important social moment of 50 years with an overpriced piece of cotton is an insult to the fight for economic civil rights known as #occupywallstreet.”
LEAKED: Rihanna – Talk That Talk
Rihanna’s much-anticipated 6th studio album, Talk That Talk, sprung a leak and flooded the Internet overnight. Her record label’s amateur plumbers immediately went to work trying to fix the leaks, but it was too late as thousands of eager Rihanna fans (and some Haters) already downloaded the full set.
We didn’t get a chance to listen to all of the songs, but here are the tracks that we’re feeling so far:
Cockiness
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Talk That Talk ft. Jay Z
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Where Have You Been
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U DA One
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Celebrity Seed: Keyshia Cole
R&B Diva Keyshia Cole tweeted this pic of her cutie pie son, Daniel Hiram Gibson, Jr., aka DJ, on Twitter.com yesterday. He looks so adorable in his Gucci jacket, destroyed straight leg denim jeans and Vans boat shoes! We had to check DJ’s birthdate again to make sure he was just born last year. He looks like a 3-year-old! DJ is going to be taller than his daddy, Cleveland Cavs star Daniel Gibson.
Beyonce Baby Bump Watch 2011
Cartoon rapper Nicki Minaj tweeted this pic today of herself posing with a very wooden looking Beyonce backstage at the Victoria Secret Fashion show in New York on Wednesday. Normally, Bey’s bump looks like a pillow. But in this pic it looks like she stuffed her laundry and the linen from her hotel bed up under there.
Source: ME
Kim Kardashian spotted hanging out in Atlanta
Disgraced reality star Kim Kardashian isn’t hiding in her hotel while in Atlanta filming a cameo for Tyler Perry’s new film.
According to the NY Post, “Kim headed out on the town in Atlanta last night, getting dinner at Spice Market in the W Hotel with several friends from the set of Tyler Perry’s new movie “The Marriage Counselor.”
Kardashian has been in Atlanta filming since Monday. She plays Ava, a friend and co-worker of marriage counselor Judith, played by Jurnee Smollett of “Friday Night Lights.” Since Judith is romantically challenged, Ava swoops in to give her a makeover. It’s a fitting role for fashion-conscious Kardashian.
The reality TV star returned to Twitter yesterday after a few days’ absence, writing, “I miss my twitter dolls! Love u guys.” She continued with a statement on how she is being handled in the press. “What a wise little soul my baby sister RT @KylieJenner: It’s always the people who know the least about you who want to judge you the most,” she wrote.
And it’s always the ones who depend on you for their livelihood who enable you and make excuses for your behavior.
Photos by Bauer Griffin
In Case You Missed It: Braxton Family Values, Ep 1
The 2nd season of the popular ‘Braxton Family Values’ reality show premiered last night on WEtv. Grammy award-winning singer Toni Braxton, her mother, Evelyn, and her sisters, Tamar, Towanda, Trina and Traci allow the WEtv cameras to follow them as they go about their daily lives.
In last night’s episode, Toni, who moved to LA, and her ex-husband, Keri Lewis, get back together. Tamar is secretly recording her own album apart from the family project. This leads to a heated showdown between Toni, Tamar and Evelyn.
Everyone wonders why Tamar only pecked her husband, Vince Herbert, on the cheek during an intimate moment between the couple. If you’re into body language, Tamar’s body posture said all you need to know about their relationship. Tamar and Vince most likely have separate bedrooms. That doesn’t mean they don’t love each other.
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