Irv Gotti recently addressed Eminem’s placement on VIBE’s “Best Rapper Alive” list and questioned the rapper’s emcee skills as compared to Jay-Z and Ja Rule.
Ok, we were with you on Jay, Irv, but you’d rank Ja Rule above Em? Blasphemy!
Claiming his opinion is not based on their previous beef, Irv explained his gripe in an interview with MTV News.
“Vibe did a thing and they had him as the No. 1 rapper,” Gotti said. “Shit like that kinda pisses me off. You know why? Because let’s take Eminem’s records. Watch my analogy. Eminem is a great artist, no doubt. He puts words together, he’s witty, a smart lyricist, a great lyricist. But how can we say the guy is the best rapper alive? Look at Hov…I been to battles with [DMX], Jay and Ja, that was some real shit. Homie, you wouldn’t been able to survive…I say take Eminem, and let him say ‘Hard Knock Life.’ Still hot. Now, let’s have Jay-Z say the ‘We Made You’ song. They would laugh him out the fucking building…It would be over.”
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Bobby P is a dad for the fifth time – his manager girlfriend Alicia Etheridge gave birth to a baby boy in Las Vegas this week.
The ’80s boy bander made the announcement during a concert at Rok Nightclub in New York City on Wednesday (03Jun09), revealing the couple welcomed their son Cassius into the world on Monday June 1, TMZ.com reports.
The “Don’t Be Cruel” star has four other children from previous relationships, including 22-year-old Landon (an aspiring performer who appeared on MTV’s Rock the Cradle) with Melika Williams, 19-year-old LaPrincia and 17-year-old Bobby Brown Jr. with Kim Ward, and 16-year-old Bobbi Kristina from his marriage to pop diva Whitney Houston.
Denzel Washington has given up hope that he will ever play the nation’s first Black president on the big screen – because he fears he is “too old” for the role.
The 54-year-old Oscar winner would like to play Barack Obama, 47, in a film but fears it will be many years before the president’s life is made into a movie.
He says, “When Obama’s story is ready to be told I’ll be too old to do it. And if it were made now, he has too much to do to have me asking for tips on how to play him.”
This just in: Sony Records has issued a release date for Whitney Houston’s long-awaited comeback album. The Grammy winner’s still-untitled seventh studio album drops September 1.
Her last album of original material was 2002’s Just Whitney.
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In an interview with RapRadar.com on Wednesday, Eminem confirmed what many fans have suspected since Sunday night’s 2009 MTV Movie Awards — he was in on the scene-stealing stunt that left a bareback Sacha Baron Cohen half-naked in his lap.
“I’m thrilled that we pulled this off better than we rehearsed it. It had so many people going ‘nuts’ so to speak. Everyone was blowing me up about it,” Em tells the site. And at the end of the show, what did he do? “After the ceremony I went back to my hotel and laughed uncontrollably for about 3 hours. Especially after I saw it on air.”
Oscar-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson has joined the cast of the upcoming remake of the popular 1984 film The Karate Kid.
The star — who played Queenie in the hit 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button star, has been cast as the mom to Will and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s son Jaden in The Kung Fu Kid, which will also star Jackie Chan, MTV News has learned.
The movie, produced by The Smiths, is set to open theaters in 2010.
So much for grieving the loss of your marriage, Nas…
Hip-hop impressario Nas and the Prince of NeoSoul Maxwell lived the single life — drinking and puffing cigars — during a visit to the Caribbean island of Turks And Caicos on Monday.
The two tipsy Tweeters later uploaded a few photos of themselves chillin’ with some unidentified women on the micro-blogging website.
