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Jimi Hendrix Estate Is Not Cool With Andre 3000′s Planned Biopic

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Just when we were getting excited about Andre 3000 rocking out in his new role as the late, great musician Jimi Hendrix in All Is By My Side, the Wall Street Journal reports there may be slight glitch that has the potential to halt the project. According to the report, the Hendrix family estate released [...]

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Report: Andre 3000 Snags Role Of Playing Jimi Hendrix In An Upcoming Biopic

Andre 3000 to Play Jimi Hendrix in Biopic

Remember how we were ecstatically anticipating a new solo album from Andre 3000, or even another Outkast album? Well, there doesn’t seem to be any new albums on the horizon for Three Stacks, but IFTN.com reports the Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik rapper is set to star as the legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix in an upcoming biopic about the [...]

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Last Lap: Kanye West Thinks Cash Money Signing Limp Bizkit Is A Bit Of A LOL

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Kanye West Thinks Cash Money Signing Limp Bizkit Is A Bit Of A LOL Kanye West, master of Twitter and epic rants, gave his two cents on the news that Cash Money Records signed Limp Bizkit today. And it was simply ‘lol’. We’re thinking that’s a pretty hefty insult from someone who’s not exactly known [...]

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Last Lap: Man Goes To Jail For Killing His Mom Over Avril Lavigne Tickets

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Man Goes To Jail For Killing His Mom Over Avril Lavigne In a crime of passion, a now 39-year-old man killed his 61-year-old mom in 2008 when she failed to call in a favor to get him Avril Lavigne tickets, now he’s going away for 40 well deserved years. [Prefix] Kelly Rowland Gushes Over Baby [...]

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When It Waynes, It Pours: Spending The Hurricane With Tha Carter IV

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While NYC residents are relieved to have been spared the worst of Hurricane Irene (we’re thinking of you, Vermont), I must admit to shallow disappointment in her pulling a robbery on my social life this weekend. Forced to stay indoors, I was able to spend some time with Lil Wayne’s recently-leaked Tha Carter IV while [...]

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Last Lap: Wednesday’s Odds And Ends In Music News

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MISSY ELLIOTT SPEAKS ON HER BEHIND THE MUSIC EPISODE: “I THOUGHT, ‘LET ME REINTRODUCE MYSELF’” Missy Elliott talked to Gerrick D. Kennedy at Pop & Hiss about her ongoing collaboration with Timbaland, the legacy of Aaliyah, and her Behind the Music episode, which premieres tonight at 10PM ET/PT. Also check out our sneak peeks of [...]

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Beyoncé, Kanye and Andre 3000 Serve Up a Sassy Summer Anthem

  We’ve got a live one! Leaking last night with the rest of Beyonc?’s album, 4, “Party” might be one of the strongest new contenders for our Song of the Summer, and we’re hoping it will also be her third single. Produced by both Kanye West and Consequence and featuring an insane verse from novelty-spitter [...]