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After the wide spread rumor pointing at Erykah Badu being pregnant with her third child, she finally spoke aloud to her fans judging her private life because of the three different children’s rapper fathers, Jay Electronica the latest one.

In an interview with MediaTakeOut.com Erykah said “I am an excellent mother and resent all the negative comments and insults on my character. I put much time and thought into having and raising my children. I’ve had the honors of having two home births and two wonderful partners by my side.”

Undoubtedly Erykah Badu is a soul singer and songwriter who deserves not only respect to her art but her intimacy being discussed over and over and over. Born Erica Abi Wright on February 26, 1971 in Dallas, Texas, she knows how hard is for a mother raise her children when the father leaves the home behind, as her own father did in her early childhood so nobody better than she to manage her personal decisions on motherhood.

Erykah has earned countless fans with her gifted singing style that mixes hip hop, jazz, and rhythm & blues, often referred as a cerebral and eccentric neo soul sub-genre who has been invited to play supportive roles in different movies, including the Blues Brothers 2000.

As a multi-award winning artist, Erykah Badu’s most acclaimed work has been “Love of My Life (Ode to Hip-Hop),” Best Video of the Year by American Music Awards in 2003, and best Collaboration, Best Film Song, Best R&B Song, and Best Urban/Alternative Performance, by BET Awards, Black Reel Awards, and Grammy Awards respectively in that same year.

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The rumor mill has been buzzing about a possible new rap beef since 50 Cent’s song “You So Tough” hit the net.

Fif seemingly took aim at T.I. on the track, accusing him of getting a sweetheart deal in his federal gun case because he’s a snitch.

On the track off the upcoming G-Unit album Terminate On Sight, 50 raps:

“Nowaways this rap sh*t ain’t adding up / How n*ggas get caught with 10 machine guns, only get 12 months? / Oo-weee, don’t talk to me / If you talking to him, you talking to them…/ I got the best lawyers that money can buy / they say at best they woulda got me 10 or maybe 9 / I said, how do you explain how the homie breezed? / They said, you keep your mouth shut or you eat the cheese.”

T.I. responded:
“He politely told me that it’s unlike Fiddy to say stuff in songs and not just say it directly, and that he really doesn’t want to perpetuate any negativity, so he wasn’t going to respond to it,” Gyant said.

The self proclaimed King of the South is currently serving a year on house arrest and putting in at least 1,000 hours of community service. He’ll also serve a year in jail and pay a $100,000 fine behind his guilty plea in the federal gun case.

From what I understand, The Game and Young Buck are no longer at odds – not even a little bit. But it gets more deeper. I hear that Nu Jersey Devil is saying that Game and Young Buck have reconciled their differences and are even going to work together. They got on a call after Game heard Buck say, “F**k G-Unit!” (Check for that video in yesterday’s report). HERE IS THE KICKER – The Game and Young Buck talked and agreed that they will both be on each other’s albums. According to rumor, Buck will be on Game’s next single. From what I understand, The Game has a song with Lil Wayne that might just be the next single and Buck might be added to the song. That’s the next single from what I know.

My homey gave me some info in addition to what I said over the weekend pertaining to Mike Tyson’s alleged hit. The dude Mike allegedly tried to have killed was Damion “World” Hardy and he is the dude being charged for killing 50’s alleged shooter - Daryl “Homicide” Baum. Homicide or Hommo was a close friend of Tyson’s. Part of the reason Mike took Hommo’s death so hard is Mike put Hommo out about a week before his death. According to my sources, Hommo was living with Tyson in Vegas but Mike was shook in his own house and acting paranoid so Hommo offered to leave if it would make Mike more comfortable. Mike said yes. Hommo went back to Brooklyn where he had real beef to handle and met his fate so Mike always felt guilty. Mike is a fighter but Hommo was a killer. Sources say. This is all connected to the killing of World’s brother Wise and World allegedly retaliating. Deeper than the sea floor traveled by the mantis…

My goodness! There sure is a lot of beef going on in the game and there apparently is a new one. This one comes all the way from NORWAY. Over the weekend. Rick Ross aka “The Boss” visited Oslo, Norway for a concert, from what I heard. It was crazy! Something shocked the fans over there in Oslo! After Ross performed “The Boss,” he called out Plies! Specifically, I am being told that he called him the B-word aka a female dog! On top of that, Ross apparently stated that he’s already “done smacked the s**t outta him” a couple years ago and Plies should thank Trick Daddy and Ross for his career. Where is this coming from? I know Trick Daddy recently lashed out on Plies for what, is still don’t know. Anyway, after he dissed Plies. Ross spit a freestyle over the “I’m so hood” beat. Once again, it’s on!

June 12, 2008. NEW YORK (Reuters) - A battle has broken out among Live Nation Inc’s top executives over the concert-promotion company’s strategy to reshape the music industry by making big, expensive deals with artists, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Wednesday.

Live Nation Chief Executive Michael Rapino has tried to slow the pace of multimillion-dollar deals with artists, while Chairman Michael Cohl wants to accelerate it by striking deals with as many as 15 more artists, the Journal reported.

Live Nation struck a $120 million deal with Madonna and a $150 million deal with Jay-Z, the paper reported. It has held talks for a similar deal with South American pop star Shakira, according to several people involved, though no agreement has been reached, the Journal said.

This is going to mess up Jay-Z’s “A Billi” dreams.

Da Snowman knows how to sell a few things or two. And now Young Jeezy is set to take his hustle to the Web. The Def Jam star announced the launch of USDA2Day.com. The site will blog and serve as a social networking hub for all things Jeezy and CTE related. The first project to be promoted will be Blood Raw’s debut solo project, My Life The True Story, due June 17. The site will also host Jeezy’s new mixtape, The Prime Minister, available for download beginning June 14.

“Detox is NOT dropping in ‘08″ - Bishop Lamont. What the bloody hell? I want to personally talk to Dr. Dre about this fiasco called Detox. I mean, lets be honest here. Rap albums are not what they once were. People have really strong singles and some hot mixtapes, but who is pumping out classic albums these days? Dre (and a few others) are the only ones really carrying the torch in that regards.

And to think…when this video came out..I naively believed. I heard the damn thing is even finished.

As far as I know, Eminem has confirmed his presence at at Nelson Madela’s 90th birthday celebration in London, but I heard that there will be an interesting twist on it. Elton John has also confirmed that he will be performing at the gala as well. Now, from what I understand, E.J. is going to have Eminem on as his special guest on the stage and shock the world all over again. I’m sure you all remember when Em was at the height of his anti-gay stage, he and Elton John performed “Stan” together at the Grammy Awards. (Dido has to be pissed at that!) Anyway, I wonder who will come out with Amy Winehouse? Martin Luther King’s son?

Is there a beef brewing between The Dream and Lil Wayne? I am hearing that some of the lyrics from their respective songs have resonated deep in the hearts of the two men that have Nivea in common. If you put “I Luv Your Girl” and “Lollipop” back to back, it’s like a battle. The Dream seems like he’s telling Wayne he loves his girl which is actually Wayne’s ex-girl, but Wayne throws back at Dream when he says, “Shawty said the n***a that she wit aint s**t.” Am I bugging? Let me know!