Seattle Slim Presents The Beat-niks: I See You Jackin’ Bitch…

*In best Cartman voice: “CRIPPLE FIGHT!!!”*

Kidding……….
Anyway Ne-Yo has sued R. Kelly’s Double Up tour promoter for firing him after just two shows where he was the opening act. This is serious, they’re going to make you delirious….

R&B singer Ne-Yo sued the promoter of the R. Kelly Double Up tour for firing him after two shows as the opening act, claiming that the audience and the critics liked him better, according to court papers obtained on Wednesday.

Ne-Yo, whose real name is Shaffer Smith, and Compound Touring Inc. filed the suit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Georgia-based Rowe Entertainment Inc., alleging breach of contract and violation of the right of publicity.

Compound Touring and Smith are seeking unspecified damages, but the suit maintains he was to be paid $785,000 for 25 shows opening for Kelly’s “Double-Up Tour” that began Nov. 14 and is still owed $735,000.

I hope Ne-Yo gets him JUST for contributing such f*ckery as “I’m a Flirt” and “Same Girl.” Hell if I was the judge, I’d sentence him to death by firing squad.

(Spotted at Singersroom.com)

Rap did NOT have a good year this year and we all know it. If the sh*t ain’t dead to the lames then it damned sure is on life support and ready to flatline. Thanks Atlanta!!!

Lupe managed to be one of the few rappers to escape with a good release he can be proud of, coming in at #15 on the charts. Chingy is literally scraping the bottom of the barrel…….

According to numbers released by Neilsen SoundScan, Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco sold 144,079 copies of his sophomore album The Cool this week, debuting at #15 on the Billboard chart. While his 2006 debut album Food & Liquor debuted at #8 last September, it sold significantly less than The Cool, moving nearly 81,000 units after it was leaked months in advance.

St. Louis rapper Chingy’s fourth album Hate It or Love It, his first on Def Jam since reuniting with Ludacris’ Disturbing Tha Peace, also debuts at #84 this week after selling 31,517 copies. This is less than half the sales of his 2006 album Hoodstar, which sold just over 70,000 copies to debut at #8.

Ludacris and DTP must be proud………..

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Dude looks like a black, gay cruise captain!
Anyway, I bet this time last year and earlier this year, nobody thought it would come to this. Pretty Ricky is in shambles and now the drama is just beginning. Didn’t they take cues from Immature aka IMX?

MTV News has obtained a federal complaint filed on behalf of former Pretty Ricky member Pleasure by his attorneys Robert Meloni and Steve Schwartz.

In the complaint, the R&B singer (born Marcus Cooper), alleges a number of wrongdoings against Joseph “Blue” Smith and Bluestar Entertainment, the company Pretty Ricky is signed to in a deal with Atlantic Records. The group’s management and booking company, International Artist Agency, is also named in the suit.

According to Pleasure, Smith deceived the singer by first acting as a surrogate father to him and also serving in roles that were conflicts of interest for Pleasure and the group, including acting as a personal manager, business manager, booking agent, record exec and music publisher. The suit alleges that Smith “exploited conflict of interests in the competing roles he occupied in Cooper’s life.”

International Artist Agency, headed by Stephen Brush, is alleged to have abetted a number of Smith’s practices, according to the complaint.

Pleasure, according to the information filed earlier this week, is seeking a release from his contract with Bluestar and back pay owed to him. The suit claims that the former Pretty Ricky star has not been properly compensated for his contributions to the group, whose two albums have both been certified gold (500,000 Units sold).

Love is a losing game huh? Well I would sue too if my manager made me wear half the sh*t those cats wore. I mean somebody HAD to be threatening them for them to go along with that mess……

Manager: Here’s the outfits I picked out for you.
Pretty Ricky: But these are assless chaps!!
Manager: Y’all sugar tank ghettro-sexuals better put this on ‘fore I raise up and pop my trunk. Soul IV Real is still looking for work.

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NICE move Oprah!

Alicia Keys has won the lead role of Lena Horne in an upcoming biopic backed by Oprah Winfrey. Janet Jackson was originally {WTF???<--Slim} picked for the role but was cut after her Superbowl “Nipplegate” antics. Sources say Janet was “devastated” when she was fired, as she had been vying for that role for some time.

OH WELL!!! Janet Jackson should let this be a lesson. Not acting your age and trying to be like these young birds will only get you so far. Lately it hasn’t gotten her very far at all with her albums failing. Alicia Keys is a good look!

Oh no! This must come as TERRIBLE news to the Lilliputian people! How are they coping with their head leader, Sir Short Of Stop, being ill?

Bow Wow gave his camp a scare Thursday night when the 20-year-old rapper had to be rushed to a Cincinnati hospital after his concert performance at the U.S. Bank Arena.

Bow is said to be doing well but is still in the hospital undergoing tests. His record company, Sony Music, said in a statement on Friday (December 7) that the young superstar appears to be suffering from “stress and exhaustion.”

Get better little man. Get better!Source

Not even this whack YouTube video could save his album……..

Apparently Mike Jones’ album TANKED according to stats posted by BallerStatus.com. Add him to the mass grave that is rap sales right now………

And wrapping it up this week is Mike Jones, whose The American Dream EP checked in no. 182 with 6,800 scans.

Even The Roc’s Freeway did better than him with a debut at #42. *SMDH*

I feel bad for laughing about this. Actually no not really. It really is funny. Screwed up and cold-blooded but funny nonetheless.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Beauty pageant organizers were investigating Sunday who doused a contestant’s evening gowns with pepper spray and spiked her makeup, causing her to break out in hives.

Beauty queen Ingrid Marie Rivera beat 29 rivals to become the island’s 2008 Miss Universe contestant, despite applying makeup and wearing evening gowns that had been coated with pepper spray, pageant spokesman Harold Rosario said.

Rivera was composed while appearing before cameras and judges throughout the competition. But once backstage, she had to strip off her clothes and apply ice bags to her face and body, which swelled and broke out in hives twice.

“We thought at first it was an allergic reaction, or maybe nerves,” Rosario said. “But the second time, we knew it couldn’t have been a coincidence.”

Rivera’s clothing and makeup later tested positive for pepper spray.

Someone also stole Rivera’s bag containing her gowns, makeup and credit cards. And a bomb threat forced pageant officials to postpone the last day of competition on Thursday, said Magali Febles, director of the Miss Puerto Rico Universe pageant.

I am going to have to add this to my “List Of Wicked Things To Do To People I Don’t Like Or Want To See Break Out Into Hives.”

Here’s a video of homegirl toughing it out during the pageant. You can’t even tell she is on fire. *snickers* She won though!

I honestly wish I could say that I care but I don’t. When you do stupid things, bad sh*t happens.

Federal prosecutors plan to introduce T.I.’s prior arrests for possession of illegal firearms, ammunition and silencers as evidence in his upcoming federal weapons trial. According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Attorney’s office made their intentions known in a motion filed today in U.S. District Court in Atlanta. All of Tip’s prior weapons charges came after he had already been convicted of a felony. The first incident occurred on December 22, 2001 when the rapper was arrested under the false name Douglas Morgan for possession of a 9mm pistol. He was not convicted in that case. Almost a year later, on November 1, 2002, Tip was arrested and eventually convicted for carrying a 10mm pistol. Finally, on December 18, 2004, police executed a search warrant at his Fulton County home and discovered a firearm with an attached silencer, ammunition and pictures of the rapper holding weapons. Tip was convicted of felony drug charges when he was 17 and sentenced to 7 years probation. He later violated the terms and ended up serving a short jail sentence. T.I. is currently free on a $3 million bond and under house arrest for charges stemming from an October 13 federal weapons sting.

We have a saying back home in Patois “dat fi lik yuh,” which basically means that’s good for your ass. They are going hard on this guy aren’t they? They are really trying to send a message out.

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To quote DMX: “When we starvin’ we eat whatever’s there…..” Ain’t that right Kelly?

Ms. Kelly Rowland (aka Beyonce’s Wig Duster/Upkeep Technician) will join other singers like Blake Shelton, Patti Labelle, Michael Bolton and Nick Lachey on NBC’s “Clash Of The Choirs” this winter! These weaves don’t pay for themselves!

Michael Bolton, Patti LaBelle, Nick Lachey, Kelly Rowland and Blake Shelton will attempt to bring together twenty individually gifted singers from each of their hometown cities in a limited period of time. Michael Bolton will be traveling to his hometown of New Haven, CT; Patti LaBelle will be going to her hometown in Philadelphia, PA; Nick Lachey will be returning to Cincinnati, OH; Kelly Rowland will be going back to Houston, TX; and Blake Shelton will be traveling to Oklahoma City, OK.

The celebrities will be dealing with choir members from very different musical backgrounds and with very different kinds of vocal training. Once the choirs are assembled they will compete in live performances in New York. After each choir performance, the choirs will be judged by the alternate celebrity choirmasters and a musical expert. However, the fate of the choirs will be determined by viewers watching at home who will have the opportunity to vote via phone or at www.nbc.com.

The winning choir, along with the hometown celebrity musician, will get to pick a prize to help their community. The prize could be anything from renovating a school gym to an auditorium to a constructing a new neighborhood playground.

What a GREAT cause! I think Kelly deserves a little something for having such a dismal year. How about some relevance? A good album? Freedom from Beyonce? Something!

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WOW Trey!!! Is there a little frustration over the lackluster album sales???
TMZ obtained Trey Songz mugshot from his arrest over the weekend.

Cops booked Songz, whose real name is Tremaine Neverson, for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Springfield PD tells TMZ that officers were investigating a shot fired in the parking lot after the Songz show, when the singer tried to insert himself into the crime scene investigation. When asked by police to butt out, he responded with, “Don’t you know who I am?!” Obviously not.

I KNOW they didn’t know who the hell he was. It looks like Trey got caught up in this week’s “N*gga Moment.” I thought cats stopped doing that after 5-0 started beating and macing cats for approaching them……..