Woman Tries to Smuggle Cocaine Through Airport In Dreads

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A 23-year-old South African woman was caught attempting to smuggle 1.5 kilograms of cocaine in her dreadlocks on a flight to Bangkok. Authorities arrested her and held her in the capital yesterday after customs officers noticed a suspicious white substance in her hair, according to the Daily Mail. After a search, it was discovered that she matted the drug into her dreads before boarding a flight from Brazil.

The amount of cocaine was worth roughly $144,000. Nolubabalo claimed she was hired by a Thailand-based businessman to smuggle the drugs for about $1,800. The amount is far less than the price the woman may have to pay for the failed smuggling attempt, including the possibility of the death penalty. Thailand has some of the toughest anti-drugs laws in the world, and just this week another South African was executed for drug smuggling in China after an unsuccessful attempt by South Africa’s president to convert the sentence.

 

It’s a Boy! Fantasia Finally Has Her Baby

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The singer Fantasia Barrino has just given birth to a baby boy.  Yesterday, at approximately 1:30 pm EST, the singer was admitted to Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina.   The original due date for the child was December 29, but it came two weeks early.

The child’s father, is believed to be Antwaun Cook who was married at the time of the affair.  Fantasia first achieved success as the winner of the third season of American Idol back in 2004.  Since that time, her career has seen numerous ups and downs, including a moment when she attempted suicide last year.

Trey Songz Reveal New Album Cover for ‘Chapter 5’

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Many of teenage girls and grown women alike have been anticpating the return of Trigga Trey.  Trey Songz is gearing up for release of his next CD ‘Chapter 5.’  With much of his success accumulating over the past few years.  It will be interesting to see what direction ‘Chapter 5’  goes.  Either way, I’m sure his fans will be pleased.

Fantasia Expected to Deliver Baby Sometime Today, After Going into Labor

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Fantasia Barrino and Antwaun Cook baby birth is expected for later today. The American Idol singer entered labor roughly two hours ago, reports claim. Antwaun is still married to his estranged wife, Paula Cook.

Antwaun’s wife Paula Cook claimed Fantasia had an affair with her husband starting in August 2009. “Beginning as early as August, 2009 and continuing up until the date of the parties’ separation, Defendant / Husband engaged in behavior that was inconsistent with his marital status and / or responsibilities to Plaintiff / Wife” Paula Cook claimed in her divorce papers.

In 2009, pictures surfaced online of Antwaun Cook and Barrino dating. But in a Honey Magazine interview at the time, Barrino denied dating Cook at the time. “Yes, [the rumors] were all really cute to me. I guess it was something about a guy from T-Mobile? [Cook was a T-Mobile sales agent in a Charlotte, NC store in November 2009]. Inaccurate. He was hot, but I think I’m looking for my own man. There’s no boo in my life, I’m married to my career.”

Barrino went on to claim she didn’t even know Antwaun. Barrino told Honey that she had never even met Cook before. “Right now I’m not really focused on a boyfriend; we all know what happens when you get them … As a matter of fact, I’ve never even [met him] before. I think I’d want to be with a guy who’s in the same tax bracket as I am … or higher!”

Fantasia would later say that she was open book her fans. “Fantasia has always been an open book. Honesty, self-respect, and personal responsibility are values she wears proudly” said a Barrino representative in 2010.

 

Three FAMU Band Members Arrested For Brutal Hazing of Clarinet Player

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Three Florida A&M band members were charged Monday in the beating of a woman during hazing rituals that became so severe that her thigh was broken, police said. The beatings came about three weeks before drum major Robert Champion was killed during a band trip to Orlando. Police say hazing was involved.

Tallahassee police said that on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, band member Bria Shante Hunter was beaten with fists and a metal ruler to initiate her into the “Red Dawg Order” — a band clique for students who come from Georgia.

Hunter told police that days later the pain became so unbearable that she went to the hospital. Besides her broken thigh bone, she had had blood clots in her legs.

Sean Hobson, 23, and Aaron Golson, 19, were charged Monday with hazing and battery, and James Harris, 22, was charged with hazing.

Champion’s death and now the arrests have exposed a hazing tradition that has long haunted the university. Former clarinet player Ivery Luckey was hospitalized after he said he was paddled around 300 times in 1998. Three years later, band member Marcus Parker suffered kidney damage because of a beating with a paddle.

After Champion died, the university indefinitely suspended performances by the famed Marching 100 and school President James Ammons has vowed to break what he calls a “code of silence” on the hazing rituals.

Leon County records show that all three were in jail on Monday night. A university spokeswoman confirmed they were students. Attempts to reach listed numbers for the three were unsuccessful.

Police say that the hazing happened at Harris’ off-campus apartment in Tallahassee and that at one point he stopped Golson and Hobson from hitting Hunter further.

Officers said in the arresting documents that Hunter was targeted by the other members of the “Red Dawg Order” because she tried to get out of going to a group meeting. She was repeatedly punched on the tops of her thighs by Golson and Hobson, according to information the police got from others who witnessed the incident.

Courtesy of NY Daily News

Beyonce May Just Win the $100 Million Law Suit Filed Against Her

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Via NY Daily News

Superstar Beyonce’s  first attempt to shoot down a video-game manufacturer in a $100 million legal battle was off target, but she might score a direct hit in the next round.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles Ramos told Beyonce’s lawyers last month that he was denying their motions for dismissal on the technical grounds they raised — but still might toss the entire case on the overall merits.

“This record screams out for it…I’m serious. This is close,” the judge said in a transcript obtained by the Daily News.

“I don’t want to see this case get protracted,” he told Beyonce’s lawyers, Jordan Siev and David Kochman.

The case focuses on a $100 million deal that Beyonce was negotiating with Gate Five LLC for an interactive videogame. Viewers imitating her in front of a screen would get praise or advice from the singer in her voice.

Gate Five accused Beyonce of a “double cross” by pulling out of the talks at the last minute and demanding a sweeter contract.

However, according to the transcript, Beyonce withdrew from the talks when she learned that Gate Five was proposing at the last minute to eliminate her 40% ownership stake in the franchise.

It’s a completely different deal. We’re talking apples and oranges here,” Siev said.

Good Luck Bey!!!

Lil Wayne Gets into Fight With Look-A-Like Rapper in South Africa, Plus Video of the Impersonator/Rapper….You be the judge!!

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Lil Wayne got into a physical confrontation with another rapper in Johannesburg, South Africa.

According to more than a dozen eye witnesses, rapper Lil Wayne got into a fight, inside a Johannesburg club called HUSH. The fight occurred, according to one eye witness, when Weezy and some of his YMCMB goons attempted to confront a South African rapper, who copies Lil Wayne’s style. The rapper goes by the name Young Nucho.

The witness says, “Mack Maine and security asked Nucho to leave the club, but he refused. Nucho had [goons] with him too, so nothing happened.” But later that evening, it popped off. Supposedly Nucho is impersonating and leading fans to believe he’s Wayne.

Multiple clubgoers confirm that Nucho and his crew attempted to approach Weezy. It’s not clear if they wanted to show him hate. But either way, Weezy wasn’t having.

A big fight broke out allegedly, where Weezy put hands on Young Nucho. Any real die hard fan can tell the difference.

Chris Brown Touches Down in Dubai

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Chris Brown recently visited Dubai with his girlfriend Karrueche.  He was there to perform at the  Dubai Festival City Concert and brought his ‘F.A.M.E.’ tour to the Middle Eastern getaway for the first time.

 ‘F.A.M.E.’s’ follow-up, ‘Fortune’, will see a release date sometime in the early beginnings of 2012.

2011 Christmas of the Carols with the Obama’s and Other Celebrities

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The Obamas – along with a host of other stars including Jennifer Hudson, Cee Lo Green and Conan O’Brien – got in the festive spirit yesterday for the concert of Christmas carols to benefit the Children’s National Medical Center  here in the Nation’s Capital. 

In honour of the ‘season to celebrate miracles’, Obama spoke about the story of Jesus’ birth during a short speech to the crowd.  He said the story of Jesus Christ has changed the world by teaching basic values such as loving one another, serving the less fortunate and keeping faith.

Justin Bieber, Cee Lo Green, Jennifer Hudson, The Band Perry and Nickelodeon star Victoria Justice took turns singing holiday classics.

The concert will air on Friday on TNT.

IRS Don’t Play That……:MC Hammer Sued By IRS For Nearly $800,000 In Back Taxes

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The one-time King Of Rap MC Hammer still owes the I.R.S. $779,585 in back taxes and has now filed a lawsuit against the Oaktown MC and his wife.

According to TMZ, the back taxes are mainly from his financially troubled years, 1996 and 1997, and the government wants any concert earnings automatically directed back to the government.

Hammer filed for bankruptcy in 1996 after being more than $13 million in debt.