THE NEW AND SLIM PAUL WALL

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Rapper, Paul Wall  lost a significant amount of weight.  He went through a procedure called Gastric Sleeve. He recently gave an interview with Ozone Magazine, check out what he had to say about it:

When did you decide to get serious about losing weight?
Honestly, when we were in Afghanistan and [reps for VH1’s] Celebrity Fit Club were contacting [me] about coming on the show. That was a hell of a wake-up call. [Being fat] isn’t a secret. You can look in the mirror and try to hide it and cover it up, and it may work here or there, but there ain’t no shirt or hat you can put on or haircut you can get to hide the fact that you’re morbidly obese. That’s what the doctor said: I was “morbidly obese.” I decided not to do [the show] but it was still a wake-up call to have people calling you saying, “Hey, you’re really, really fat.”

What kind of weight-loss surgery did you get?
The surgery I got is called gastric sleeve. There’s three kinds: gastric bypass, lap band, and the gastric sleeve. Gastric bypass is the one where you lose the most weight the quickest; it’s for people who are 400-500 pounds and have health problems that they need to fix right away. Since [the weight loss] happens so fast it leaves you with a lot of saggy skin. The lap band, which is very popular, is when they put a band around your stomach and it makes you feel like you’re full, so you don’t eat. But there’s ways to cheat with it, and with the lap band, you can always get it removed to go back to normal. [My weight] has been up and down my whole life, so I wanted to do something to permanently fix the problem. Since going back and forth on the drugs for years and taking diet pills, my metabolism was really gone. So I decided to go with the gastric sleeve, because it’s a little more serious than the lap band. They also cut out the hormones that make you hungry. So I actually don’t even get hungry anymore. The doctor talked me out of doing the lap band; he told me it’s the most popular, but it’s not as effective. With the lap band, you lose about 50% of your excess weight. I was 120 pounds overweight. I weighed 320 pounds, and I’m six feet tall. So with the lap band I still would’ve been morbidly obese. With the gastric sleeve, you typically lose 80% of your excess fat. I lost 100 pounds with it, so that’s putting me in a more healthy weight class.

Having lost 100 pounds, do you see a noticeable difference in your life?
Yeah, hands down. I feel like I got my life back. When you’re so big like that, it’s embarrassing. I didn’t want to go out and be seen. I felt uncomfortable because I’m not used to being that big. People would see me and say something about it, because it was no secret. I was morbidly obese, 120 pounds overweight. It was just embarrassing. I’d be on stage feeling like I was about to collapse. I’d get dizzy spells. I’d be on the airplane and have to ask for seatbelt extensions. Once you go up in the air, it’s really hard to breath. I was just thinking, “What if I have a heart attack?” I want to be here for my kids. I don’t want to have a heart attack. My son is four and my daughter is two and a half. The doctor told me that when you’re 50 pounds overweight, it takes 15 years off your life. So it literally saved my life.

Have you been working out too?
Nah. I’ve probably worked out twice since I had [the surgery] and that was just a light workout.

Here’s what Paul used to look like:
 

Quote of the Day: Chris Brown On Completing Domestic Violence Class

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R&B star Chris Brown is celebrating today after completing his 12-month long domestic violence classes. The court-ordered sessions came following the now-infamous ‘incident’ between the singer and ex-girlfriend, model Rihanna.

WINTER ESSENTIALS

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Gotta stay warm and most definitely fly!!!

G. Dep Former Bad Boy Artist Confesses To Murder

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Former Bad Boy MC G. Dep admitted this week to fatally shooting a man nearly 20 years ago.  The New York Post  reports that on last Wednesday, the 36-year-old rapper, born Trevell Coleman, walked into the 25th precinct in Harlem and confessed to killing a man way back in 1993. “I shot and killed someone 17 years ago,” he reportedly told an officer at the precinct. According to the Post report, Dep told police that he was riding a bike when he approached his victim, 32-year-old John Henkel, on Park Avenue and East 114th street near the James Weldon Johnson housing projects. Dep, just 18 years old at the time, was planning to rob Henkel, but when he resisted, shot him three times in the chest with a .40-caliber hand gun. He then fled from the crime scene and threw the gun into the East River. Henkel was pronounced dead at St. Luke’s hospital.
The crime took place in the 23rd precinct, so investigators from that station house were contacted. William Dunn, a detective at the 23rd precinct, reportedly reviewed the case, which had gone cold, and found that the rapper’s story went hand-in-hand with what was on file. G. Dep was charged with murder for the 1993 shooting, and is being held without bail. A police source, in an attempt to explain why Dep would suddenly confess to the crime, said “It was just eating away at him.” “My client is presumed innocent, and the case is going to grand jury,” said G-Dep’s lawyer, Michael Alperstein. G. Dep came to hip-hop’s attention in 1998 with a guest appearance on “The Mall,” from Gang Starr’s Moment of Truth LP. He signed to Diddy’s Bad Boy Records the same year, and released his debut LP, Child of the Ghetto, in 2001. Despite two well-regarded singles, “Let’s Get It” and “Special Delivery,” the album was heavily bootlegged and failed to move many units. He later split with Bad Boy Records, and in 2004 dropped a mixtape, The Deputy: The Sheriff Is Back in Town Volume 1. But since 2003, he’s racked up 25 arrests for crimes ranging from drugs to burglary to grand larceny.

BEYONCE & JAY-Z IN AUSTRALIA

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Beyonce and Jay-Z were spotted in Australia during the weekend. The duo were taking a break from the Hip-Hop King’s tour with U2.

RICK ROSS ASSOCIATE WAS MURDERED!

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An associate of hip-hop star Rick Rosswas been shot and killed in his Miami, Florida home after robbers invaded a Christmas party and opened fire. Raymond Adderly, an aspiring rapper, was celebrating the holidays with his wife and three children on Tuesday (14Dec10) when a group of men stormed into the house and murdered him in front of his family. The violent crime has left city residents stunned and Adderly’s brother-in-law, Gentry Chambers, admits he is heartbroken, reports AllHipHop.com. He says, “We’re in shock. It’s awful. It’s awful my nephews and sister have to go through this during the holidays.” Police have launched an investigation into the tragic incident, although cops had yet to name any suspects as WENN went to press.