Rush Limbaugh keeps losing sponsors threatening his driven income, which has been valued at over $50 million per year. Last week he called a Georgetown student a “slut” and a “prostitute” “slut” and a “prostitute,” for attempting to testify at a House committee on contraception, arguing that women who ask the public to help pay for their birth control should post sex tapes online “so we can all watch.”
He tried to justify it all in the same way Don Imus did back in 2007, by blaming it on Hip Hop.
Rush said on his radio show:
You talk about a double standard. One of the greatest illustrations of it is that rappers can practically say anything they want about women, and it’s called art.
Game must pay five officers $1 million apiece for an incident from October 2005.
A North Carolina court upheld a 2010 ruling yesterday for Game to pay $5 million in compensatory damages to five Greensboro police officers.
According to MyFox8, the officers filed a defamation suit against the West Coast rapper and Bungalo Records, Inc. in 2006. They claim they were libeled and slandered and that their identities were wrongfully used in Game’s DVD Stop Snitchin’ Stop Lyin’. Full Story
This is what we’ve been waiting for, Jay-Z and Kanye are coming over to Europe for their “Watch The Throne” tour. They will kick off on May 20 at London’s O2 Arena.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs announces REVOLT, his new cable TV network. REVOLT is a revolution in music on television, a place where artists and their viewers come together and engage with technology and social media. It’s a channel where new artists can share their work in the way it was meant to be: raw, uncut, and uncensored. REVOLT was selected by Comcast to be the first music network to truly leverage the power of social media, fueling the live music dialogue and influencing the music culture for the video-centric generation.
That’s whats up, big moves by Diddy. Hope he brings some good content.
TMZ just reported that Whitney Houston, passed away at age 48. Story in development.
According to our sources, Houston died at the Beverly Hilton hotel. A police crime lab vehicle was seen outside the hotel just moments ago (see below).