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23. June 2008

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The New York indie rockers’ new video premieres Friday night on ‘FNMTV.’By Danielle Beavers

If you don’t think one Ezra Koenig is enough, you’ll be pumped to see a flurry of his clones when Vampire Weekend debut the video for their song “Oxford Comma” on Friday (June 20). Drawing inspiration from some of the members’ favorite films, the band winds up, well, all over the place: Expect farmers, revolutionaries, cowboys, [...]

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23. June 2008

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50 must remain unarmed and at “curbside” when dropping off the couple’s sonBy Gil Kaufman

The battle between 50 Cent and ex-girlfriend Shaniqua Tompkins — mother of the couple’s 11 year-old son, Marquise, whose house burned down in a suspicious fire earlier this month — heated up on Thursday when Tompkins took out a temporary restraining order against the rapper. The legal order, which requires 50 to forfeit all firearms [...]

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23. June 2008

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‘If they saying something crazy, it’s right there,’ Fif says of his need to record his phone calls.By Shaheem Reid

Round … um, everybody is losing count. On Thursday (June 19), 50 Cent told his side of the latest drama between him and Young Buck on New York’s Hot 97 radio station. Earlier this week, 50 released portions of a call between him and Buck, in which his former crew member broke down in tears over [...]

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23. June 2008

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Police say two brothers had been in altercation with T.I. and his entourage in a club earlier that night.By Gil Kaufman

More than two years after the highway gun battle that resulted in the death of T.I.’s childhood friend and assistant, Philant Johnson, police have arrested two Cincinnati brothers they accuse of being the triggermen in the assault. Hosea Thomas, 34, and Padron Thomas, 40, have been charged with murder and felonious assault in the May 3, [...]

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23. June 2008

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Just before he made it big, Koenig was an eighth-grade English teacher getting gum stuck on his chair.By Nicole Guanlao, with additional reporting by Joseph Patel

BROOKLYN, New York — What does Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig have in common with Sting and Gene Simmons? It’s definitely not a shared sense of style. But like Sting and Simmons, the cardigan-and-Top-Sider-sporting 23-year-old spent a year as the antithesis of the flashy, rule-breaking rock star: a teacher. Before belting out tunes like “Oxford Comma” [...]

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23. June 2008

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‘Puff surprised me with it,’ singer says of Weezy’s guest verse.By Shaheem Reid, with reporting by Yasmine Richard

Cassie just wants to be the wifey. Is that too much to ask for a gorgeous model/ singer/ Kanye West video co-star? Apparently so. “It could go a bunch of different ways,” she said earlier this week in L.A. on the set of her video for “Official Girl.” Chris Robinson directed and the million-selling Lil Wayne [...]

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15. June 2008

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Brit filmed the cameo — separate from the group — last week.By Gil Kaufman

Britney Spears may have looked “hot and blond” in the cameo she filmed for the Pussycat Dolls’ new video, “When I Grow Up” — which will premiere on FNMTV Friday night — but we may never know just how hot and blond. Spears, who filmed a bit part in the video for the first single [...]

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