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Azealia Banks Begs To Be Dropped From Label via Twitter (@AZEALIABANKS)

Azealia Banks never shies away from her feelings about her music and her label.

The rapper and singer recently took to Twitter to unleash some details about her deal with Universal Music. "Can someone at Sony buy me off of Universal please?" she tweeted last night. "Please help: Serious Inquiry."

The rapper also revealed that she and Kanye share the same manager.

Banks is gearing up for her delayed album Broke With Expensive Taste which is slated for a March release. The last single released front he album was the Pharrell-produced "ATM Jam."

Other collaborations from her album include tracks with Theophilus London and Kevin Hussein.

Source: sohh.com

Man Allegedly Killed Family Because He Didn't Have Car Seats

A Queens, NY man accused of murdering his girlfriend and baby daughters last weekend was arraigned in court today, and prosecutors claimed the 28-year-old stabbed the infants to death before attempting to flee to Mexico because he didn't have car seats.



Earlier in the week Miguel Mejia-Ramos allegedly admitted to fatally stabbing girlfriend Deisy Garcia and daughters Daniela Mejia, 2, and Yeslin Mejia, 1, multiple times telling officers he had "snapped" after finding a photo of Garcia with another man. And in court today, a Queens District Attorney said that Mejia-Ramos, who was picked up by federal agents near the Mexican border, had made statements to cops claiming he killed the infants "because he didn't have car seats to take them with him," according to the Post. He claims to have hugged them and begged their forgiveness before putting them in bed and stabbing them.



Mejia-Ramos, who was arraigned on multiple charges including first-degree murder, second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon, faces life in prison without parole if convicted. "I have every intention of keeping him in prison for the rest of his life with no chance of parole," the District Attorney told reporters today, adding in a statement: "I was at the crime scene last Sunday night and as I said at that time, 'I have seen a lot in my 23 years as District Attorney but there is nothing more disturbing than seeing children—in this case mere babies—as victims of violence.'"



Miguel Mejia-Ramos also allegedly told cops he considered committing suicide after murdering his family, but changed his mind and made a dash for his native Mexico; in addition, prosecutors say Mejia-Ramos told officers he knew not to take credit cards with him after watching episodes of the TV show "I Almost Got Away With It." He is currently behind held without bail.



Source: NY Post

Cafeteria Lady Accused of Stealing Over $1M in Lunch Money

A cafeteria manager suspected of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of a decade or more has been arrested by Fulton County, GA., police, reports local affiliate Channel 2 Action News.

Channel 2 broke the news when a whistleblower at North Springs High School in Sandy Springs approached them claiming that manager Brenda Watts had been running a cash-only line in the cafeteria for up to 15 years. The unidentified whistleblower claims no records were kept of any transactions in the cash-only line.

The police charge that Watts stole $500 a day. That's $2,500 a week, which is a staggering $90,000 in a school year. Over 15 years, that would be $1,350,000. A

According to the arrest warrants, Watts lives in a five-bedroom, 5,400 square-foot home in south DeKalb County.

World's Tallest Waterslide Gets Terrifying POV Video

Last summer, pictures of the world's tallest waterslide came to light, and they were enough to make you queasy. Now, the folks behind the diabolical slide have released a POV video showing just how insane it truly is.

Dubbed the Verruckt, the slide, which is taller than the Niagara Falls, is being built at Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts in Kansas City. It opens summer 2014.

Check out the video up top.

The Breeze Is Too Def To Die!

Man, I can't get me enough Breeze ! You may remember his slick, underrated album T.Y.S.O.N. on Atlantic Records from 1989, or maybe you just remember him from his cameos on all those King Tee albums. He was the best rhymer in The LA Posse ; but he never quite broke through the music industry. He was signed to Def Jam, but they never released any of his material (labels, how can we make that happen??), and eventually wound up on an indie label that put out a cool, underground 12" in the early 90s, but never managed to release that long-awaited second album... which was to be titled, appropriately enough, Blackballed.



So, starved for Breeze records, I picked up his one cheesy, crossover-attempting single, "Great Big Freak." The video played on Yo! a couple of times, and it's not bad or anything. It uses some chunky funk samples and the Posse were pro producers. Furthermore, both Breeze and guest/ fellow Posse member Big Dad have kick some fly deliveries with an emphasis on fast, multiple rhymes to keep their core fans happy. But let's face it; a song about girls and excessive instrumentation really isn't the kind of song we wanted to hear from Breeze.



But this 12" has an exclusive remix on it. And like I said, until someone raids the Def Jam vaults, we're stuck with a dearth of Breeze material, so I picked it up. And the remix is pretty good. It uses a lot of the same instrumental, but adds even more. New samples, deeper bass thumps, a nice change-up for Dad's verse. At times it's almost too much and feels sloppy; but for the most part it succeeds in turning it into a more creative, energetic street mix. The idea seems to have been to a put a little more hip-hop back into the song, and it does... but at the end of the day, it's still "Great Big Freak." I recommend it for anyone who legitimately considers themselves a Breeze fan; but if you're just passing through, I'd suggest picking up literally any and every other Breeze song before copping this one.



The B-side, "T.Y.S.O.N." is much more in line with the kind of Breeze we want. A harder track with Breeze just flexing skills and battle rhymes, with these really awesome Muhammad Ali (no, not Tyson) vocal samples comprising the chorus. It's great. But, of course, it's just an album track. Hell, it's the title cut. And nobody should be checking out "Great Big Freak" unless they've already got the much stronger LP, so it's kinda pointless.



Rounding out the 12", we get the Instrumental for "Great Big Freak" on the A-side, and the Censored Version of "T.Y.S.O.N." on the B. So there you go, something even less desirable than a regular album cut. But if you were bored and and desperate enough to play the Censored Version anyway, like I was, you stumbled onto a pretty awesome surprise...



It's actually an exclusive remix! Yeah, they weren't lying about the "Censored" part, and that's definitely annoying. But this was Breeze in 1989, there's not a lot of cursing to cut out. So after the intro, it basically plays through unhindered. He just says "fuck" once in the first verse; and amusingly, they kind of miss the mark and censor more of the word after it than the "fuck" itself.



And the remix? It's dope. I mean, the original is already killer, so it doesn't need any improving on. But this is definitely a hype alternative. They're actually using the same philosophy as the "great Big Freak" remix, where they use the same core instrumental, including all the signature sounds (and yes, vocal snippets); they just sometimes swap it out to add more funky samples into the mix. Some of it has more of a P-Funk mix, which you'd think would be a step down from the edgy, screechy feel of the original; but it actually comes together perfectly. It never dips into sloppiness either. It's just def! And if you've listened to "T.Y.S.O.N." a million times over like I did as a kid, this breathes all new life into it. Oh, and where the original version always fades out, this remix keeps going with some fresh cuts by Smooth the DJ - not really like attention-drawing fast DJ-slicing-up-the-wax kind of stuff, but just rubbing in all these great grooves.



So it turns out this is something not just for the serious Breeze fans desperate to squeeze every last drop of music from his too short career. This is a hot little 12" that, because it's so slept on, can usually be picked up out of the virtual dollar bin. As you can see from the scan, my version is the promo version, which just comes in a plain sleeve with one of Atlantic's infamous "When You PLAY IT, SAY IT!" stickers on it. But there's also a regular, commercial release version which comes in a picture cover and has the exact same track-listing, including both remixes.

Did Khloe Create Fertility Issues to Cover Up Failing Marriage? (@KhloeKardashian)

You can almost anything including reality shows with a grain of salt these days.

In a recent interview with Jimmy Kimmel, Kim Kardashian may have exposed a family secret. Khloe's alleged fertility issues served as her story line on the current season of Keeping Up With The Kardashians, but according to Kim, Khloe didn't want to have kids with ex-husband Lamar Odum in the first place.

"Khloe wasn't trying to get pregnant," said Kim. While her family pushed her into getting fertility treatments, Khloe wasn't really trying to have children. "She wasn't showing up to these doctor appointments on purpose and behind our backs because she knew [the marriage] wasn't working," said Kim.

The two split up last year and it looks like Khloe is happier than ever. Do you think it was a good cover up?

Source: Hollywood Life