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Rapper Fat Joe Get 4 Months In Prison For Tax Evasion

Fat Joe has just been ordered to spend 4 months behind bars for failing to pay more than $1 MILLION in income taxes. Joe (real name Joseph Cartagena) pled guilty back in December to stiffing Uncle Sam on a boatload of taxes for the years 2007 and 2008 ... More at TMZ ›

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"THREE TO SEE"

August 3rd Mohegan Sun

NBC Sports Network Fight Night

 

Curtis Stevens vs. Saul Roman

Eddie Chambers vs. Thabiso Mchunu

Tomasz Adamek vs. Tony Grano

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TOMASZ ADAMEK vs. TONY GRANO

PRESS LUNCHEON

THURSDAY, JUNE 27th - 12PM EDT 

 

 

PRESS CONFERENCE DETAILS

 

WHO: Tomasz "Goral" Adamek
Jersey City, NJ and Gilowice, Poland
48-2, 29 KO's 

 

WHERE: Wisla Club, 73 Main St., Garfield, NJ, 07026,  973-772-2664,  http://www.wislaclub.com/ 

 

WHEN: 12:00PM, Thursday, June 27th

 

MEDIA CAN EMAIL QUESTIONS FOR ADAMEK TO: ehaley@mainevents.com QUESTIONS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN THURSDAY 6/27 AT11:00AM

 

 Use this link to watch Adamek Press ConferenceThursday, 6/27 12PM EDT

 

FIGHT INFO: Heavyweight, Tomasz "Goral" Adamek will take on Tony Grano, Hartford, CT, 20-3-1, 16 KO's, for 10-rounds as part of the August 3rd "Three To See" card at Mohegan Sun, Uncasville, CT.  In the main event Curtis Stevens and Saul Roman will clash for 10-rounds in a  middleweight war. Also co-featured will be a 10-round cruiserweight battle between Eddie Chambers and Thabiso Mchunu .  

 

NBC Sports Network Fight Night will telecast the August 3rd show beginning10:30PM EDT.

 

Tickets are priced at $120 and $35 plus facility fees and can be purchased by calling Mohegan Sun Box office 860-862-8499 or toll free at 888-226-7711 ext 8499. For ADA accessible sales, call Mohegan Sun Box Office at 860-862-8499.

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On July 4th, Jay-Z will be releasing Magna Carta Holy Grail which will have production by Rick Rubin, Swizz Beatz, Timbaland, and Pharrell. Besides the initial announcement, everything has been pretty hush hush about the project. At the Despicable Me 2 screening, Skateboard P kind of spoke on the album. Find out what he said below.

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How India.Arie Started Living for Herself - Super Soul Sunday - Oprah Winfrey Network
By 2009, a series of physical setbacks, a broken engagement and a cross-country tour left India.Arie exhausted and at a spiritual crossroads. She says that despite selling millions of albums, gracing magazine covers and becoming a darling of the critics, her soul felt out of balance. India.Arie shocked her managers, label and family by quitting music. About a year later, she says, she had an epiphany that shifted her entire perspective. Watch to find out what it was.

For more Super Soul Sunday, visit http://www.oprah.com/SuperSoulSunday

Find OWN on TV at http://www.oprah.com/FindOWN
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Brooklyn rapper Mike Rab (Michael Garrett) believed that filming his street activities would cause fans to pay more attention to his music. According to reports, the 38-year-old rapper hired videographers to film a drug deal and he now faces 10 years to life in prison for the crime.

http://rollingout.com/criminal-behavior/38-year-old-rapper-hires-videographers-to-film-drug-deal-and-now-faces-life-in-prison/

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SAME PARK, NEW FLOOR

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EBC Rucker Park 2013 will be the only outdoor basketball tournament in the world played on a regulatio

EBC Rucker Park

The Entertainers Basketball Classic at Rucker Park in Harlem, New York, is a street basketball tournament established in 1983. The EBC is considered the premier street basketball tournament in the world. [1]Spurred in large part by the unprecedented competition brought to the park by the EBC, And1 calls Rucker Park “the birth of streetball,” ESPN counts the park as one of its “Top 100 Sports Arenas in The World”,[2] and Bleacher Report has it nestled between Madison Square Garden in New York City and Wembley Stadium in London.[3] Current and former NBA basketball players who have participated in the EBC at Rucker Park include the likes of Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Kevin Durant. Many famous recording artists have also participated in the EBC as coaches, including P. Diddy, Jay-Z and Fat Joe. Among those who have been in attendance at the EBC are former President Bill Clinton, NBA Commissioner David Stern, actor Denzel Washington and business mogul and NBA owner Mark Cuban. The New York Times credits the Harlem Shake as originating from halftime entertainment during the EBC at Rucker Park.[4]

 

http://ebcruckerpark.com/ebc-history/

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MIAMI HEAT PARTY 2013

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Chantelle, Gabrielle Union, & Sanaa Lathan

Miami,  FL – June 20, 2013 – After battling it out all season long, the Miami Heat found themselves in the NBA finals yet again, ready to win another championship.Hyde AmericanAirlines Arena was packed with fans watching the Heat take on the San Antonio Spurs one last time for a neck and neck game that ended in the ultimate victory in favor of our own Miami Heat.

SOURCE OF PHOTOS AND WRITE UP http://worldredeye.com/2013/06/heat-vs-spurs-game-7-hyde-aa-arena/

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Kayne West performs during the Samsung Galaxy Notes II launch at Skylight at Moynihan Station, on Oct. 24, 2012 in New York City.

Kayne West performs during the Samsung Galaxy Notes II launch at Skylight at Moynihan Station, on Oct. 24, 2012 in New York City. / 13THWITNESS/GETTY IMAGES FOR SAMSUNG

Kanye West has upset some Parkinson Disease groups after one of his lyrics on his latest album "Yeezus" seemed to poke fun at the symptoms experienced by people with the disease.

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West

West raps during "On Sight": "Soon as I pull up and park the Benz / We get this b---- shaking like Parkinson's."

Leslie A. Chambers, president & CEO of theAmerican Parkinson Disease Association, said to CBSNews.com that the organization was alerted to the lyric after a reporter from TMZ asked what it thought of the lyric. Vice president Kathryn Whitford told the website that she found it to be "distasteful and the product of obvious ignorance."

SOURCE OF STORY http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57590133/parkinsons-disease-groups-offended-by-kanye-west-lyric/

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Joseph Robinson and his wife, Sylvia, co-founded Sugar Hill Records, which was based in Englewood.

Joseph Robinson and his wife, Sylvia, co-founded Sugar Hill Records, which was based in Englewood. - 

The spot on Englewood’s West Street where hip-hop history was made is marked by a “for sale” sign. A chain-link fence blocks the entrance to what is now an empty lot, and a few cars are parked inside.

That’s all that is left of the Sugar Hill recording studio, where the song that introduced rap music to a mainstream audience was recorded in 1979, sweeping Englewood — and the enigmatic members of the Robinson family who ran the company — into the center of a burgeoning music craze with the now-iconic riff, “hip-hop and ya don’t stop.”

- See more at: http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/music/Sugar_Hill_Records_tax_issues_latest_chapter_in_Englewood_hip-hop_familys_rock_history.html?c=y&page=1#sthash.JVGduJ2X.dpuf

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