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50 Cent: 'I Tape All My Calls With Idiots'

Rapper 50 CENT has taken steps to prove the authenticity of a taped telephone conversation between himself and former G-UNIT bandmate YOUNG BUCK - by broadcasting the whole recording on his website.
Earlier this week (16Jun08) the In Da Club hitmaker released a new track - entitled The Taped Conversation - featuring Buck grovelling to the rapper, seemingly begging him to be allowed back in to the hip-hop group after he was kicked out in April (08) following a dispute over song royalties.
Buck - real name David Darnell Brown - has subsequently criticised his former bandmate, insisting the taped conversation was doctored - with Brown's manager Blue Williams branding 50 Cent "an obviously scorned and angry man".
Now, 50 Cent is aiming to disprove Brown's claims the conversation was heavily edited, by making the recording available in its entirety on his site ThisIs50.com.
And the star has further blasted his former music partner, telling New York radio station Hot 97 on Thursday (19Jun08) he always tapes his conversations - especially if the people on the other end of the phone are "idiots".
He says, "A lot of times people don't see what the other person is doing. They don't understand the cause and effect. They don't see the other person; they just pay attention to me."
When asked if he tapes all his phone conversations, the star replied, "With idiots, yeah! So if they saying something crazy, it's right there."
50 Cent - real name Curtis Jackson - also said his friendship with Brown is beyond repair, unless the rapper is open to seeking professional help for his alleged impulsive spending and drug habits.
He adds, "He needs to go to a program and get some real help. Then maybe we can talk to each other."

Howard Donenfeld

Artist: Howard Donenfeld

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:

Enchanted Forest

Year: 1996
Tracks: 7

Serial Joe

Artist: Serial Joe

   Genre(s):
Pop: Pop-Rock

Discography:

Serial Joe

Year: 2000
Tracks: 12

At an age when almost boys' lives are consumed by the likes of pubescence and G.I. Joe, the members of Serial Joe were busy edifice their music careers. Ever since the rock band north Korean won the 1998 Much Music Video Award for Best Independent Video ("Skidrow"), their heavy act gainful off. Awards and nominations began rolling in and attention for the Newmarket, Ontario, Canada-based ring has been gaining unbelievable momentum. After unrelentingly playing in their parents' basements since 1997, Serial Joe decided it was meter to go public. The ambitious young group severally released their number one record album, Kicked, in 1998. In 1999, they received a YTV Achievement Award for Best Band and were nominative for the Much Music Video Award for Best Rock Video ("Mistake"). They were prestigious to play Woodstock '99 as comfortably. In 2000, they won a Much Music Video FACT Award for Best Video ("Deep") (the award was presented by Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons of Kiss during a tour with the famed glam rock band). 2000 proven to be an regular better class for the young banding; bassist Jon Davidson was 17, vocalist/guitarist Ryan Dennis was 17, guitar player Ryan Stever was 18, and drummer Dan Stadnicki was 17. Serial Joe has earned a number of prestigious nominations, including a 2000 Much Music Award nomination (People's Choice Award for Best Canadian Band), a Juno nomination for Best New Band, and a Gemini Award nomination for Best Specialty Show (YTV Achievement Awards, tenth Anniversary Show). In the summer of 2000, the striation released its second album, Serial Joe (Aquarius Records), on which they got a chance to work with Dave "Rave" Ogilvie, manufacturer of such artists as Marilyn Manson, Jane's Addiction, and Nine Inch Nails. Serial Joe's debut record album, 2000's Face Down, with Aquarius/DKD Group, has gone atomic number 78.

Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown

Artist: Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown

   Genre(s):
Blues
   R&B: Soul
   Other
   Country

Discography:

Back to Bogalusa

Year: 2001
Tracks: 13

Pressure Cooker

Year: 1999
Tracks: 9

American Music Texas Style

Year: 1999
Tracks: 12

Gate Swings

Year: 1997
Tracks: 13

Long Way Home

Year: 1996
Tracks: 13

Man

Year: 1995
Tracks: 13

Just Got Lucky

Year: 1993
Tracks: 13

No Looking Back

Year: 1992
Tracks: 11

Texas Swing

Year: 1990
Tracks: 17

Standing My Ground

Year: 1989
Tracks: 9

Live

Year: 1989
Tracks: 1

Makin' Music

Year: 1979
Tracks: 9

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Sugar Ray

Artist: Sugar Ray

   Genre(s):
Pop: Pop-Rock
   Alternative
   Rock: Pop-Rock
   Pop: Pop-Rock
   Alternative
   Rock: Pop-Rock

Discography:

In The Pursuit Of Leisure

Year: 2003
Tracks: 12

Sugar Ray

Year: 2001
Tracks: 11

14:59

Year: 1999
Tracks: 13

Floored

Year: 1997
Tracks: 13

Lemonade and Brownies

Year: 1995
Tracks: 14

The Best Of

Year:
Tracks: 15

Belying their origins as a strident casimir Funk metal band, Sugar Ray turned out several of the well-nigh breezily infectious summer singles of the late '90s, hitting on an likable combination of gay pop, lightly funky hip-hop grooves, and reggae lilt. Pegged as likely one-hit wonders after their 1997 find smash "Fly," Sugar Ray managed to wield their life history momentum far yearner than many observers expected, helped in no little part by the teen-mag pinup looks of lead vocaliser Mark McGrath. Of class, it as well helped that the band was capable to duplicate the carefree vibration and effortless catchiness of "Fly" on its subsequent singles. Not everything Sugar Ray recorded drill hole the sonic stamp of "Fly," but that was sure as shooting the sound that made them receiving set staples.

Refined sugar Ray were formed in Orange County, the heavily suburban country south of Los Angeles, in 1992. Guitarist Rodney Sheppard, bassist Murphy Karges, and drummer Stan Frazier had been playing parties together in a hard rock/heavy metal address band, Shrinky Dinx, since the late '80s. Karges served as the touring bassist of L.A. punk veterans the Weirdos in 1990, although a story that Sheppard had once been a shake off phallus on Demesne of the Lost was obviously false. Friend Mark McGrath became the lead vocaliser of Shrinky Dinx after jumping up onstage to perform unitary night, and they soon began collaborating on original material. The set played about the L.A./San Diego area, edifice up a undermentioned, and got one of its friends to finance a music television for one of its original tunes; it lesion up getting them a care with Atlantic in 1994, albeit owing more than to their look and potential. The scourge of legal action by Milton Bradley, which owned the rights to the original Shrinky Dinks toy, forced the band to change its refer to Sugar Ray (after pugilist Sugar Ray Leonard). Around the same clip, they began augmenting their live shows with the turntables of Craig Bullock, aka DJ Homicide, world Health Organization later became an official member of the mathematical group.

Sugar Ray released their debut record album, Lemonade and Brownies, in the spring of 1995. Dominated by fast-growing blue funk metal, with touches of punk and alternative rock, the record's typically roar guitars and smart-ass humour seemed to place the dance orchestra as a potential keg-party front-runner. Commercially, however, the record album stiffed. Atlantic distinct to taste over again, based on the enthusiasm Sugar Ray generated on their drawn-out supporting circuit, and sent them into the studio with manufacturer David Kahne (world Health Organization, among many other credits, had latterly masterminded Sublime's commercial breakthrough). The resultant role, Floored, became double-platinum run into thanks to "Fly," a laid-back groove tailor-made for summertime. With help from reggae wassailer Super Cat, "Fell" set new airplay records at modern-rock wireless, and reigned as peradventure the most omnipresent hit of the summertime. The song didn't sound a great deal like anything else in Sugar Ray's repertoire, ostensible to come out of nowhere, and when Floored failed to grow a significant review impinge on, many fictive that "Fly" was a fluke the band would never be able to reprize.

Over again with Kahne in the producer's professorship, Sugar Ray delivered their third base record album at the start of 1999. The title, 14:59, was a wry reference to Andy Warhol's "15 proceedings of celebrity" dictum, simply as it turned out, the group's time wasn't up by a long jibe. 14:59 lesion up outselling its predecessor, finally going triple platinum. The number one single, the "Aviate"like "Every Morning," shot to identification number 3 on the pop charts and became the group's s number one at modern-rock wireless. Their follow-up singles were successful this time around as well, as the hits "Someday" and "Falls Apart" consolidated the group's growing reputation for summery, radio-friendly alternative pop; addition, the album boasted a guest coming into court from hip-hop legend KRS-One. The band played Woodstock '99 that summer, and likewise made a edgar Albert Guest visual aspect on Run-D.M.C.'s Crown Royal album. In the outflow of 2000, McGrath made his playacting debut depicting a doctor on an episode of the acclaimed play ER. Sugar Ray returned in the summer of 2001 with their self-titled one-quarter record album, which entered the charts at numeral sextet and gave the band its first-ever Top Ten album; meanwhile, the first-class honours degree exclusive, "When It's Over," was another substantial hit in the familiar Sugar Ray mold. But in spite of reviews claiming that the isthmus sounded more than like a band than ever so earlier, Sugar Ray's gross revenue were at last disappointing; perhaps hurt by the comparatively lusterless functioning of follow-up singles "Answer the Phone" and "Ours," the record failed to go atomic number 78 within a year's fourth dimension.

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