Miami Rapper Bizzle Shot and Killed At Local Car Wash
Popular local Miami rapper Bizzle was shot and killed last night (October 15), at a car wash in Liberty City, Miami.
The Miami Herald reports that Bizzle, 37, was shot and killed during an argument around 8:00 PM.
The rapper, known for local hits like “Lip Biting Animal” and “Naked Hustle,” was in an SUV with his two young children when he arrived at the car wash.
At some point, Bizzle, born Robert Labranche, got out of the SUV and argued with a black man in his 20′s, who eventually shot and killed the local rapper.
According to police, the two children inside of the SUV did not witnessed the shooting.
“Fortunately they did not see the incident,” Miami Police spokesman Willie Moreno told the Miami Herald. “They were on the other side of the building.”
Police are looking for a black man in his 20s, wearing all black, who fled the scene.
Did Jay-Z Really Threaten to Destroy Chris Brown’s Career?
Now that Rihanna and Chris Brown have rekindled their once blazing flames, Big Bro Jay is back to protecting his precious lil sis from that big bad rude boy.
Supposedly Jay Z hasn’t attempted to interfere with their romance, but isn’t against tearing Chris Brown apart.
According to The Sun, the rapper threatened to end the thronged singer’s career if he makes a wrong move.
Jay-Z told Rihanna that if Chris is truly making her happy then to go for it,” revealed a source.
“He invited them as a couple to his concert in New York and backstage he called Chris to one side and told him if he hurts Rihanna, whether emotionally or physically, it’s over for him. He’ll ensure it will result in the end of his career.”
So far, Jay-Z nor his camp has publicly acknowledged the Sun’s story.
Rick Ross Talks Black Bar Mitzvah and Maybach Music
Maybach Music Group CEO Rick Ross recently sat down with AllHipHop.com to discuss his growing business empire and a very busy October, which so far, has seen “The Boss” release a new mixtape and acquire two Wingstop franchises, all while preparing to release Meek Mill’s debut album for the label.
Ross, whose own album God Forgives, I Don’t was recently certified gold, just released a controversial new mixtape titled “The Black Bar Mitzvah.”
“The Black Bar Mitzvah,” which has been criticized by some Jewish rappers, was recorded in two days, according to Rick Ross.
“If you listen to it, it’s freestyles I did it over two days [when] I was in Anguilla shooting ‘Diced Pineapples.’ All the songs we was listening to that I liked that I was a fan of, I pretty much just put freestyles on,” Rick Ross told AllHipHop.com.
According to Rick Ross, one of the goals of “The Black Bar Mitzvah” release was to heighten the awareness surrounding the October 30 release of Meek Mill’s highly anticipated debut Maybach Music Group debut, Dreams & Nightmares.
“It was really something to promote Meek Mill’s album as well, shout out to all the DJs,” Rick Ross explained. “October 30 Meek Mill album drops. That’s what it’s really all about atMMG right now .”
Rick Ross also offered up some info on the rising stars of MMG and their pending releases.
“It’s like when you sign to MMG it won’t be long before you on tour, making moves,” Rick Ross told AllHipHop.com. “Rockie Fresh of course he on his Electric Highway Tour, shout out to Stalley, he’s working on his debut album and Wale’s working on his third album.”
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Rappers Serve Fans For Breast Cancer Awareness
A number of legendary rappers will band together this Wednesday (October 17) to raise awareness about breast cancer. Dozens of rap veterans will return to Doug E’s Chicken and Waffles in Harlem New York, for the annual “Waiting For a Cure” event that is being put together by Kangol Kid of UTFO. “Waiting For a Cure” is part of a series of events being produced by the Mama Luke Foundation this month. The Mama Luke Foundation is a breast-cancer awareness organization founded by Kangol Kid and Minister Shaunda Lumpkin. Each year in October during Breast Cancer Awareness month, the Mama Luke Foundation hosts the “Waiting For a Cure” event where well-known rappers serve fans their meals. Last year, artists like Doug E. Fresh, Roxanne Shante, Rahiem (Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5), LA Sunshine (Treacherous Three) and others took part in the event. This year’s “Waiting For a Cure” event will take place on October 17 at 5:00 PM.
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Tina Fey to co-host next year's Golden Globe ceremony
Tina Fey of 30 Rock fame is to reunite with fellow US comedy star Amy Poehler to host the 70th annual Golden Globes ceremony in 2013.
The "magnetic duo" replace British comedian Ricky Gervais who has been the show's acerbic host since 2010.
Fey and Poehler previously starred together in the film Mean Girls and on Saturday Night Live.
The awards, voted for by Hollywood's foreign press, will air on January 13, less than two weeks before the Oscars.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC, who organise the event were "thrilled" to have Fey and Poehler on board, with Paul Telegedy, of NBC describing their involvement as a "major coup".
"Tina and Amy have a proven chemistry and comedic timing from their many years together on SNL to their successful co-starring roles in Baby Mama," he said.
Poehler's show, Parks and Recreation is currently in its fifth season on NBC, while Fey's 30 Rock is airing its seventh and final season on the network.
The comedic duo previously co-hosted Weekend Update, a satirical news sketch on SNL, from 2004 to 2006.
British comedian Gervais, who spent three years ruffling feathers in Hollywood by making barbs about some of its stars, announced earlier this year that he would not be returning as host.
Viewing figures dipped slightly this year from 17 million in 2011 to 16.8 million in 2012, with many observers noting that Gervais' jokes seemed less caustic than in previous years.
The Globes are usually handed out about a week before the Academy Award nominations are announced, but that won't be the case next year.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has moved up the Oscar nominations announcement to 10 Jan - three days before the Globes are set to air..
The 85th annual Academy Awards, which will be hosted by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, is to be held on on 24 February.
Nas Loses Georgia Home to Foreclosure
Nas just can’t seem to escape the worst in life.
First he gets divorced, hit up for taxes, and now he’s lost his house.
According to TMZ, the rapper’s 2-bedroom, 3-bathroom Georgia home went into foreclosure for payments amounting to $507,000 of the $585,000 original loan.
The house sold at an auction last month to the highest bidder for $348,500.
With over 3,500 square feet and a walk-in pool and hot tub, granite counter tops, gym and game room, the buy is a great one … for the new owner.
Read more at http://www.eurweb.com/2012/10/nas-loses-georgia-home-to-foreclosure/#ojXB0CdmMPkvIpPJ.99
Silver Deep Sharks & Cruisers Wins TCI Softball league
The Female Championship Game was played on Saturday between the Silver Deep Cruises and Ladies Panthers.
The Cruises took the game with a 12 to 10 Win, winning the Championship again for the 7th time in a row.
The celebrations were immediate as the ladies took to the field with champagne and fanfare.
Coach Cox said he was elated after the game, he could not contain himself after his team poured water all over him per tradition.
The Men Championship played between the Silver Deep Sharks and Kishco started on
Saturday and ended on sunday, the Sharks won the game 15 to 3 also winning the Championship again for the second time.
Godfrey Been told RTC Sports this morning that, 'It was a great season the best we ever had, with all games being very competitive through out the payoff and Championship.' A tired Been said, 'I want to thank all the players and fans for a very good year and we look forward to next season.'
India, China added to list of KYC-friendly countries
The Cayman government has now included India and China on the list of countries that have laws and regulations in place considered to be equivalent to those of the Cayman Islands, with respect to the evidence of identity required from applicants for business. Mexico remains on the same list, despite the recent US Senate report which found that HSBC’s Mexican branch (HBMX) had accounts in the Cayman Islands believed to have links to organized crime. In July Mexican regulators imposed a fine of nearly $28 million on HBMX for not having sufficient anti-money laundering (AML) controls. Around the same time the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority announced an investigation into the apparent breakdown of AML procedures at the Mexican bank, but no results from that investigation have so far been revealed.
The US Senate committee released a damning 330-page report on 17 July on the failure of the London-based HSBC, Europe's largest bank, to institute safeguards to prevent money laundering through some of its affiliates, which included a detailed investigation into HSBX and its Cayman Islands accounts. The committee found that the Cayman accounts had operated for years with lax anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) controls and information. An estimated 15% of the accounts had no KYC information at all, which, the report stated, meant that HBMX had no idea who was behind them, while other accounts were, in the words of one HBMX compliance officer, misused by “organized crime”.
"CIMA has a long history and strong reputation of acting to ensure that the regulatory framework in the Cayman Islands is sound," CIMA’s Managing Director Cindy Scotland said at the time. "We intend to continue, and moreover, enhance that reputation in light of the growing complexity and interconnectedness of the global financial services industry. “
Earlier this month Premier McKeeva Bush, who is also Minister of Finance, told members of the Legislative Assembly that CIMA was still in the process of conducting their investigations. “When those investigations are complete, a more comprehensive statement will be made on the matter,” he said.
Today the Ministry of Finance announced that the Third Schedule of the Money Laundering Regulations (2010 Revision) has been amended to include India and the People’s Republic of China. The Third Schedule of the Law specifies those countries that have laws and regulations in place considered to be equivalent to those of the Cayman Islands, with respect to the evidence of identity required from applicants for business. Any business incorporated in, or formed under, the laws of a country specified in the Third Schedule of these Regulations shall be capable of constituting the identification procedures deemed satisfactory by Cayman Islands law.
These amendments were approved by Cabinet and published in an Extraordinary Gazette Friday, 20 September 2012.
Lance Armstrong: UCI chief's remarks stun doping expert
A blood doping expert says comments by a top cycling official that Lance Armstrong never took performance-enhancing drugs are "flabbergasting".
According to a US Anti-Doping Agency report, Hein Verbruggen, the honorary president of the International Cycling Union, claimed in 2011 that Armstrong had "never used doping".
Verbruggen denies making the comments.
Ashenden, who has been an independent reviewer of blood profiles in cycling since 2008, continued: "For the honorary president of the UCI to say he [Armstrong] hadn't doped, in the face of everything, I really have to question what his motives were to say that. I find that absolutely flabbergasting."
Armstrong has been provisionally stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he won between 1999 and 2005 after Usada's report labelled him a "serial" cheat who led "the most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen".
Armstrong decided not to contest allegations of doping in August. The removal of his Tour titles and accompanying lifetime ban is still to be ratified by the UCI, cycling's world governing body.
Usada's report quotes Verbruggen as saying in May 2011: "There is nothing. I repeat again: Lance Armstrong has never used doping. Never, never, never. I say this not because I am a friend of his, because that is not true. I say it because I'm sure."
Ashenden also raised questions about a "triangle" apparently involving Armstrong, the UCI and a drug-testing laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland, formed as a result of a payment in excess of $100,000 (£62,200) the American cyclist made to the sport's governing body.
The UCI admitted it accepted a donation from Armstrong in 2002, but strongly denies it was connected to any cover-up of a positive test.
Ashenden added: "The UCI should never have accepted money from Armstrong under any circumstances.
"But if they took money after they were aware there were grounds to suspect Armstrong had used EPO, it takes on a really sinister complexion.
"We know Armstrong paid the UCI more than $100,000 and around that time the UCI gave the Lausanne laboratory free use of a blood analyser worth $60,000 to $70,000.
"That's what I mean by a triangle. The laboratory meets with Armstrong. All of this takes place at about the time that [former Armstrong team-mates] Floyd Landis and Tyler Hamilton said under oath that Armstrong bragged he had managed to have a result covered up."
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Gayle expects tough Bangladesh tour
West Indies opener Chris Gayle has said that he wouldn’t take anything for granted in his team’s upcoming tour of Bangladesh. Even though West Indies have lost only an ODI and a Twenty20 each in Bangladesh, he described the hosts as “dangerous at home”. The left-hand batsman was named in the 15-man Test squad which will arrive in Dhaka on November 3 to play two Tests. West Indies will also play five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 international. “It is going to be a very challenging (series).
We know how dangerous Bangladesh can be at home. It’s not a team where you want to go there and take lightly,” said Gayle. “You’ve got to be mindful of the conditions and try and add up as quickly as possible and settle as much and whenever you get a chance, just try and maintain it and take it from there.” Upon making his return to Test cricket, Gayle averaged 80 against New Zealand which includes a 150 in his comeback innings. He has played four Tests against Bangladesh so far, in 2002 and 2004, and has an average of 69.40. West Indies have toured Bangladesh for full series twice, in 2002 and 2011. Gayle wasn’t in the teams during last year’s tour and as a result it had brought the teams closer.
But the likes of Marlon Samuels, Kirk Edwards, Darren Bravo and Devendra Bishoo starred in the 1- 0 and 2-1 wins in the Test and ODI series. “Most of the guys have been there before in Test series and in ODIs so most of the guys have experience, so it should be an interesting series,” added Gayle. Denesh Ramdin also toured Bangladesh in October last year, but played only in the ODI series and the solitary T20I. Carlton Baugh was the preferred wicketkeeper in the Tests, but Ramdin, since making a comeback earlier this year, has scored a century against England. He has been named the vice-captain for the Bangladesh series, and is keen to take the opportunity after scoring 18 runs in the two Tests against New Zealand recently. “It (the tour of Bangladesh) is an important one for me.
I did not get (many) runs against New Zealand in the home series, and I would like to go out there and capitalise (on the opportunity). I was there last year but I did not get the opportunity to play, so hopefully I can play this time and get some runs up there,” he said. The wicketkeeper, who is yet to play a Test against Bangladesh, added that the team has the momentum after winning the World Twenty20 earlier this month in Sri Lanka. “All the players (on the West Indies team) are on a high, and hopefully we can keep the momentum going and take that into the (pretour) camp in two weeks time, go up there and beat the home team,” Ramdin said. (CMC)
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