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The Most Notorious Rapper Beef Squashed?? The Game And 50 Cent
Will Smith's 'Suicide Squad' Explores Nature Of 'Evil'; Opens In Theaters Friday (Today)
‘I Want My Money’: Lawsuit Lil Wayne Filed Against Universal Music Group Halted
Everybody knows that money, family, friends and others don’t mix. In the ongo- ing public dispute between Lil Wayne and Birdman is a classic case.
Lil Wayne will have to wait to see if he can get the money he is demanding from Univer- sal Music Group because a judge halted his lawsuit against the company, theJas- mineBRAND reports. This de- cision sides with UMG, who filed a response to the case asking it to be held until the rapper sorts out his dispute with Birdman and Cash Money Records.
Weezy and his Young Money Entertainment com- pany took UMG to court in March, claiming it wasn’t com- pensating him royalties for his work with Nicki Minaj, Drake and Tyga. The initial report said Wayne was seek- ing $40 million, but the new documents say he wants more than $20 million.
UMG reportedly funneled the money that was owed to Wayne back to itself to pay for the $100 million advance it paid to Cash Money, the label that he and the other Young Money rappers are signed to. Cash Money is signed to Uni-
Lil Wayne has filed several lawsuits to get the money he says he is owed by UMG and Bird- man.
versal.
The New Orleans rapper also
has an ongoing $51 million lawsuit against Birdman, who is the CEO of Cash Money and, at one time, Wayne’s fa- ther figure. The latest ruling in the UMG case says that Tunechi must sort out his case with Birdman first and, because of the similarity of the suits, the first case will affect the UMG decision.
Despite rumors that Weezy and Birdman were working out their differences, Wayne officially axed any settlement talks with the mogul in May.
Curtis ’50 Cent’ Jackson and Jayceon ‘The Game’ Taylor.
One of the most storied beefs in modern Hip Hop is poten- tially over. The Game took to the stage at the Ace Of Dia- monds strip club in Los Ange- les at a 50 Cent-hosted event Monday (August 1) to an- nounce that he has no more problems with the G-Unit boss.
The Game posted a video on Twitter claiming he is cool with 50. “What happened that was 12 years ago. ...It’s 2016. Ain’t nobody on that old s...”
Footage was posted of the two rap giants in the same building, seeming to calmly ex- change some words while out of the camera’s earshot.
No official response from 50, either at the venue or on his favorite platform, Insta- gram. So it’s unsure if the beef is mutually squashed.
‘The Game’ was instru- mental in getting the L.A. Crips and Bloods to stop beefing, so just seems logical he squashes personal beefs.
50 is busy doing TV, he needs to be good too...you think.
"This is different from other superhero films," says Will Smith, star of the forthcom- ing film adaptation of DC Comics' Suicide Squad. "It's not about good versus evil. It's about bad versus evil."
Suicide Squad, starring Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis and Cara Delevingne, and di- rected by David Ayer has been given the tagline "Worst Heroes Ever".
The film title refers to its protagonists being a bunch of ne'er do-well superheroes who are offered a chance to redeem themselves on a mission ex- pected to end in certain death. Smith believes the film "is an exploration of the concept of redemption".
"We all discussed it as a cast in rehearsals - where is the line between bad and evil?" he says.
"You might do bad things for good reasons, or maybe even for fun. We decided that if you are bad, you are always re-
deemable. It's evil that isn't." Smith's character of Dead- shot is the leader of the group, which also includes Jared Leto as the Joker - previously portrayed by the late Heath Ledger in the Dark Knight
series.
Smith says "Deadshot is the
leader, the emotional heart of the Squad - but all of them suf- fer from low self-esteem, oth- erwise they wouldn't have created these lives for them- selves".
"There's one part where Deadshot yearns for the life he could have had in the mili- tary, he has this what-if mo- ment where he sees the path he could have taken very clearly. So audiences can see the choices that often make for a bad man or woman, what has driven them there.
"Viewers should be rooting for them, when it becomes clear their mission is destined to fail, to make a right choice, to work together as a group."
OWN’s New Series ‘Queen Sugar’ Gets Season Before First One Airs...The Power Of Oprah
Cast members of the new OWN series ‘Queen Sugar’.
Queen Sugar’s premiere episode can’t come soon enough — but for OWN, it did- n’t have to. Before the season one premiere on September 6, the network renewed the Ava DuVernay-directed series for a 16-episode second season.
The show has wowed us all already with its star-studded
cast and #InclusiveCrew. Based on Natalie Baszile’s novel, the show is set in Louisiana and has been filming in New Orleans. With Oprah Winfrey as executive pro- ducer, the buzz around the project is big. And if this latest update is any indicator, it’s also well-deserved.
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