Updated 13/10/03
"Magic" Touch....
50 Cent swept Sunday's World Music Awards in Monaco by winning in each of
the five categories for which he was nominated. The rapper was named best
artist, best male artist and best new artist and also won in the R&B artist
and rap/hip-hop artist categories. 50's buddy Eminem scored two awards, including
best pop/rock artist.
She's Reel....
Jennifer Lopez will release a DVD compilation, The Reel Me, on Nov. 18. The
disc will include all 17 of the singer-actress-sex bomb's video clips, and
will be packaged with a six-song remix CD, containing a brand-new R. Kelly
remix of her latest single, "Baby I Love U." Meanwhile, Jen and
Ben Affleck were spotted together at Saturday's Red Sox-Yankees game in Boston
Dawn of the Devil....
Expect Halloween to come early next year. Hip-hop collective D12 have entered
the studio to record the follow-up to 2001's smash Devil's Night, appropriately
titled Devil's Night II: Halloween. The group plans to release the sophomore
set in February, and the album will contain production work by Eminem and
Kanye West, among others
JAY-Z AND LIL' KIM LEAD THE NOMINATIONS AT
THE SOURCE AWARDS.... JAY-Z & LIL KIM lead all artists
with five nominations each for tonight's Source Hip-Hop Music Awards at the
American Airlines Arena in Miami. NELLY, 50 CENT, and CAM'RON & THE DIPLOMATS
are up for four awards. SCARFACE, LIL' JON & THE EASTSIDE BOYZ, LL COOL
J, THE CLIPSE, MISSY ELLIOTT, BABY, DAVID BANNER, LUDACRIS & DISTURBIN
THE PEACE, PHARRELL AND THE NEPTUNES, and EVE received three nominations.
JA RULE, FABOLOUS. NELLY, MURPHY LEE, LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ, YOUNGBLOODZ,
CAM'RON & THE DIPLOMATS, WYCLEF, and TRINA will perform. KURTIS BLOW will
be honored with the Pioneer Award.
DA BAND DEBUTS AT NUMBER 1... BAD BOY'S DA BAND - the group America watched grow, fight and learn did it with their first single. "Too Hot For TV" debuts at number one with their debut CD. The CD sold 203 thousand copies last week. The group is in Miami to serve as presenters at tonight's Source Hip-Hop Music Awards. Last week's number one album "Speakerboxx/The Love Below" by OUTKAST drops to number two.
WYCLEF IS RALLYING FOR IMMIGRANTS...Wyclef Jean will appear at a rally for immigrant workers tomorrow (Saturday, Oct. 4) in Queens, New York. The rally will celebrate the end of a cross-country bus trip designed to challenge government policies toward immigrants. This cause is personal to Wyclef since he's a Haitian immigrant and has been involved in the fight for immigrants' rights for years. About 900 took part in the bus tour which stopped at rallies, marches and community forums in over 100 cities. Tomorrow's rally in New York will be attended by social activists, religious leaders and government officials including Georgia Congressman John Lewis (who was one of Martin Luther King's organizers back in the Civil Rights days).
Crazy" for Radio....
Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson will attend this year's
Radio Music Awards ceremony in Las Vegas. The event will honor artists who
are popular among radio stations nationwide. The bootylicious diva garnered
a nod for Song of the Year/Hip-Hop Radio for "Crazy in Love." The
kudofest will air live Oct. 27 at 9 p.m. ET on NBC
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