Female Singer, Asa, Questionmark Feud Gets Messier** Asa Alleges Death Threats

The bad-blood flowing between top Nigerian female singer, Asa and former label, Questionmark Entertainment has taken a new dimension.

Going by the latest development, Asa has alleged death threats on her by some people.
Asa took to twitter yesterday to make this known. According her tweet, "I am passionate about my music, I have received death threats from these people, I have kept my head up and focused on giving my best always."

Tweeting further, the international artiste tweeted, "I do not have any NEW ALBUM selling in Nigeria called DOWN ON ME. Please do not purchase it!

She further pointed out the perpetrators behind the illegal sale of fake CDs.
According to her, "unfortunately, we blame it on Alaba Market but it's not from them but from Question Mark Entertainment. Please pass on this message.

Asa then further hinted on plans to take a legal action on Question Mark Entertainment with this tweet, "we will inform you of any LEGAL releases when there is.
You will recall that Asa fell apart with Question Mark Entertainment some years ago. It was speculated that her former label boss, Kelvin once pointed a gun at her, which led to the birth of the track, Jailer.

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There's More About Me Than The Way I Look – Cossy

That Cossy Ojiakor is received by her fans as a sex symbol is fast becoming a cliché. However, the actress and singer says she has other attractions apart from flaunting her natural endowments on television. She believes that the time has come to show off her voice. She spoke with 3m360 on many issues. Excerpts:

Tell us more about the new song you are working on.

My new single has been released. I featured Ego. The song is actually about the things that happened to me in the movie industry. In the industry, we have lots of guys who have a preference for different kinds of ladies. Some guys love ladies with big hips, fair skin or ladies with big breasts and all that.
It was unfortunate that one of the directors liked my figure to the point that his wife got very upset about it. Even without the man saying a word to me, the wife saw me on set and gave me a slap, which I received in good faith and did not try to fight back.When someone is more powerful than you are, you don’t fight, you run. Talking about it is the only way of fighting back.

Was she bigger than you?

Yes.

So you are singing to fight back?

Yes, but it is not just about her. Like I said earlier, I have been through a lot in the movie industry; I am using the song to tell my story. There was a movie I acted a long time ago, with a dog, but was fully clothed. All of a sudden, in 2009, it was in the tabloids that ‘Cossy slept with a dog’.
They took clips of a movie I had acted years ago and said it was a recent thing. It is sad how people can run you down. When people can’t be like you or wish to be like you, they would just hate you.

Are you saying it is goodbye to acting?

No; not really. I have been busy doing other things. I’m not even that free yet to shoot a movie. Right now, I’m doing music. I am supervising some work so I’m not looking for any acting role now but by next year, all the distractions would be over and I can focus on acting again.
There are a lot of female musicians out there.

Do you think you can compete favourably?

I’m not competing with anyone. I ventured into music because I felt like doing it. There are messages for me to pass across.

So, you are through with dancing?

Dancing?

Yes, you became popular with dancing for Fuji musicians...

I’m a happy person. I just do things because I want to do them. I enjoyed dancing then, I can’t dance anymore so I can’t even be in anybody’s video unless I’m featured.

What if you are given a well-paid role? Will you take it?

I have not actually been getting roles. When I got into the industry, I brought in some kind of revolution. Prior to that time, when people hug in movies, they usually avoid locking chests, but I am used to watching foreign movies, and I see the way they do it.
When people saw me act, they felt I was raw. I also did not have anyone managing me then; there was no one to guide me.

Many of the actresses you started with are now producing their own movies. Are you planning to do that too?

I had some money to do that, but I asked myself, ‘what if I do a movie and they end up banning it just like my other movies were banned?. I went to the Censor’s board to find out if it was my person or my movies that was banned.
They said they could not ban an individual but, the movies. The movies were not even so bad. One of it was a story about a young girl having fun. So the movies would have been a waste if I had invested in them.

So, your fans are not going to see your breasts on television anymore?

I’m always covered up now. Back then, I didn’t really have someone to dress me up. I’m a size 10 and my breasts are like size 14, so it was difficult getting the right outfits.
Besides, many people think that when they see me outside the movies, they would see me half-n*de. The only time you can see me dress sexy, is on set, in the club or when I go on a special outing.

Some people say you are not a Nigerian and that you only bear an Igbo surname?

I am from Anambra State.

Are you into any relationship at the moment?

With the experiences I have had in the past, I tend to keep to myself often. If someone already has an opinion, why do you want to keep convincing the person when there are a thousand and one people out there that you are yet to make happy? I’m happy.
I’m surrounded by people who love me. I actually just broke up with a guy. He promised to buy me a Range Rover on October 15, and when the date got closer, he started acting cold feet. So I let him go.

Are you saying marriage is not in your plans now?

I’m not emotionally ready for marriage now. Once you are married, you no longer have all the freedom you are used to. Definitely men would cheat, so you need to be emotionally ready to handle that.
Dating a man and being married to him are two different things. And I’m the kind of person, who can really ignore someone I'm upset with which would be impossible if you are married to him. So when I can take care of those things and handle living with someone, then I would be ready to get married.

What if you meet a man that sweeps you off your feet?

It depends. When I see someone I like, I would know.

What kind of man can satisfy you?

For a man to handle an artiste that everyone is all over, he must have confidence. And for a man to be able to handle a celebrity, he must be very rich and very confident too.
If you are not rich and a guy is out there looking at your wife and willing to offer her things that you cannot afford, you would not be bold to handle the situation, if you’re wealthy, nothing would shake you.

Jim Iyke sustains severe injuries from his Cameroonian female fans

Controversial actor, Jim Iyke will live to retell his story after he escaped being mobbed last weekend by female fans in far away Cameroon. However, he sustained injuries after the attack.

Jim Iyke was in Cameroon to shoot his new movie, when an army of female fans suddenly besieged him while on location.

The actor was said to have sustained deep cuts in his hands, leading to his losing some amount of blood in the process before he was rushed to the hospital. The incident took place in Limbe, Cameroon.

According to our source, as soon as the over anxious female fans learned that the controversial actor was shooting a movie in their country, they thronged the location in their tens of thousands and within minutes crowded him like bees on a honeypot- pressing to touch their idol.

The situation almost got out of hand, but the timely intervention of security men Jim Iyke would have been mobbed by the eager Cameroonian fans.

Confirming the incident online, Jim Iyke said

“Yeah, it’s true. Fans, kind of mobbed me in a club called Calypso, when we were shooting yesterday(last Saturday) night in Limbe, Cameroon. It got a little rowdy and a glass table with bottles of drinks next to me was broken.”“As the bouncers tried to pull me away, I slipped on the drinks on the floor and cut my two hands badly. I need three stitches on each of my fingers on the right hand and one on the left, because I lost a lot of blood, as I was bleeding profusely. The hospital was far and took some time to locate.

“I’m fine now and recuperating, but the shooting had to be suspended for a few days until the stitches can be removed.

Coolio And Son Locked Up In Same Prison , Like Father Like Son

Coolio and son Grtis arrested and booked in same Las Vegas jail: Rapper busted for traffic violation, son for robbery and kidnapping

We have got to do better. According to TMZ, rapper turned reality show chef Coolio was arrested in Las Vegas after being pulled over for a routine traffic violation. The “Gangsters Paradise” rapper had two active warrants for his arrest and was hauled into the Clark County Detention Center.What adds insult to injury is that Coolio’s son Grtis is currently serving a sentence in the same jail for helping a hooker rob someone at gunpoint.

What a doozy of a day for the Coolio clan.

The rapper, 48, was arrested in Las Vegas early Friday morning after he and a friend were pulled over for a routine traffic violation, 3m360 reports.Coolio was in the passenger seat.Upon running Coolio's name through the system, the police officer discovered the "Gangsta's Paradise" rapper had two active bench warrants out for his arrest based on multiple traffic violations. They promptly arrested him on the spot.Coolio (real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr.) was taken to the Clark County Detention Center, where, incidentally, his oldest son Grtis Ivey, is also being held - albeit for much more serious crimes.

Grtis, 22, is currently being held without bail for a number of offenses, including robbery with a deadly weapon, first degree kidnapping and grand larceny, according to TMZ.Coolio's sinning son was arrested last November following a bizarre string of events, starting with a female prostitute and ending with a straight-up robbery.According to police reports, back in October, the prostitute, Shantrice Wilkerson, had convinced a man named Joseph Hall to take her back to his apartment from the Luxor nightclub after they met.Wilkerson allegedly told Hall she had a "dream" of having sex on a pile of money, but didn't reveal that she was a gal for hire.Hall reportedly offered $5,000 to create the aforementioned pile, and Wilkerson agreed - but when the prostitute then demanded the money Hall had removed from his safe, he grew angry and left the scene.

Wilkerson remembered where Hall lived, however, and reportedly asked Grtis to help her wipe his apartment clean three days later.On that fateful day, Grtis barged into the apartment with a gun in hand, TMZ reports, and he and Wilkerson stole a safe, two iPads, two laptops and passports, among other things.

They allegedly locked Hall's roommate in the bathroom while they ransacked the place.Unfortunately for the bungling robbers, however, the roommate was still able to identify both of them in a lineup and Grtis has been locked up in the Las Vegas jail ever since.Both Wilkerson and Coolio’s son deny having had guns in their possession during the robbery, though Wilkerson admitted to stealing things, 3m360 reports.

Grtis will face a judge Monday

Drake Gets Into Twitter Beef With Stripper Maliah Michel, Subtweets Drake? Calls Him A Crybaby!

Drake’s “Find Your Love” leading lady, Maliah Michel may have sub-tweeted the rapper calling him a “crybaby” after he sent the following message:

“Sometimes I wanna tweet things like “B*tch how you stop fuckin with me and now you live on twitter everyday”…but then I just don’t.”

Maliah must have taken it personal, because she then tweeted:

“Lmao Yess I love Twitter and I don’t f**k with disrespectful crybaby ass niggas that’s y”

The argument started when the 'Headlines' rapper wrote on his account: "Sometimes I wanna tweet things like "Bitch how you stop fuckin with me and now you live on twitter everyday"...but then I just don't." Drizzy failed to specify what prompted him to diss Maliah, but she wasted no time in firing back. "Lmao Yess I love twitter and I don't f**k with disrespectful crybaby ass niggas that's y," she wrote on her account without aiming it directly at Drizzy. When her followers told her to stop beefing with Drake, she replied: "idk y its just show business." She then seemed to get annoyed with all the questions about her relationship with Drake, writing: "Lmao y y'all think that is the only man in my life it was 2 years ago. Please no more talk about him. Find me someone else. Who will appreciate me."

Score One For Ellen DeGeneres; One Million Moms Backs Down On Anti-Gay Boycott

Finally! The gay haters at One Million Moms have seen the light and reluctantly ended their boycott of JCPenney after they hired openly-gay Ellen DeGeneres as their new spokesperson. But the Moms couldn’t just walk away quietly–they had to leave with one final jab about the horrors of Ellen being gay.

Monica Cole, the director of One Million Moms, says that “other issues require her group’s attention, so OMM is moving on.” Yes, I’m sure there are other people they need to go hate now. Although, Cole made it clear that some of their members will still refuse to shop at JCPenney:

But we have heard back from so many of our members. We have heard back from men and women — not just moms — saying they will no longer shop there at JCPenney, as long as Ellen DeGeneres is their spokesperson.

The debate started last month after the retailer announced its decision to hire DeGeneres. One Million Moms, backed by the American Family Association responded with its disapproval almost immediately with anti-gay messages on their website:

DeGeneres is not a true representation of the type of families that shop at their store. More sales will be lost than gained unless they replace their spokesperson quickly. Unless J.C. Penney decides to be neutral in the culture war, then their brand transformation will be unsuccessful.

AFA spokesperson Bryan Fisher went so far as to say that JCPenney’s hiring of DeGeneres would lead to depression, suicide, and breast cancer among women who become lesbians due to the store’s choice of spokesperson.

Yeah, right. That’s an intelligent statement.

I don’t know about you, but personally, I am more inclined to shop there now. I mean, have you seen their new commercials with Ellen? She’s hilarious. Particularly the one where she wants to return a skort because “it’s a skort”

Kanye West Upsets Royal Family(Britain’s Royal Family Not Feeling Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music)

Kanye West has been living in London for the past few months working on his fashion line and music projects, and his presence may have miffed the royal family. Kanye has reportedly been renting out the top floor at The London Lanesborough Hotel, next door to Buckingham Palace, where he invited the G.O.O.D. Music team to stay with him to finish up their upcoming album. According to Big Sean, their stay at the posh London hotel upset the royal family who happened to be staying in the room underneath Ye and crew.

"Every room was a studio,” Sean told The 3m360. The royal family below were complaining like, 'We got all this loud-ass rap music above us and weed smoke.'"

The G.O.O.D. Music guys have been hard at work on their upcoming compilation album which Big Sean predicts should be out this spring. "We're gonna do the G.O.O.D. Music album first; we been working on that," Big Sean said. "So, me, Kanye, Cudi, CyHi, John Legend, Common, Pusha T, everybody on G.O.O.D., Mr Hudson: We're all working on a new project; it's almost done."Earlier in the week, Kanye got the party going at his Paris Fashion Week show, where he revealed his second women’s collection. Guests like Diddy, Common, Alicia Keys, Cassie, Swizz Beatz, Big Sean and Kim Kardashian were all spotted at the runway show alongside fashion royalty such as Vogue's Anna Wintour and Anna Dello Russo. At the after party, Azaelia Banks, Common, Waka Flocka Flame, Mos Def, Big Sean and A-trak hit the runway for a show of their own and gave a performance for party guests. A go-kart track was even set up around the runway for some added fun.Kanye knows how to throw a good party. Maybe if the royal family can't beat him, they should join him.

Notorious B.I.G.: Sean "Diddy" Combs, Li'l Kim and More Pay Tribute on 15th Anniversary

The world lost a huge talent when Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down 15 years ago in a shocking L.A. drive-by. The details surrounding his death have remained murky despite an FBI investigation that spanned eight years and hawked its own conspiracy theories.But one thing remains certain: that the influential rapper was deeply loved and respected by those he continues to inspire.Stars gave props to Biggie today, and here's what they had to say…

MORE: Five Things We Learned About Notorious B.I.G.'s Murder From Newly Released FBI FilesLil' Kim appeared on MTV's RapFix Live and recalled a memorable conversation she had with the late rapper: "I was his biggest fan, rockin' with him. And I was shorty, I was his pride and joy. Sometimes he would say to me, 'I feel like you're my baby, like I birthed you.'"She also paid tribute to his legacy. "He should be proud of himself. He should be very proud," Kim said. "He did some good things when he was here."Others took to Twitter to celebrate Biggie:"Be excellent for Biggie. He took excellence seriously. RIP Biggie," Estelle

Bobbi Kristina To Receive Whitney Houston’s $20m

Bobbi Kristina, the daughter to late singer Whitney Houston has now been made a multi-millionaire as news emerged early this week that all her mother’s assets were ‘willed’ to her.This is according to a 1993 will filed by the singer, a month after Bobbi was born.The late ‘Queen of Pop’s assets which is estimated at $20m (N3.2b) includes furnishings, clothing, personal effects, jewellery and cars. All will be passed to her ‘surviving children’ that is Bobbi

According to reports, Houston’s money will be put in a trust which Bobbi, 19, will have access to as she grows. When she clocks 21, she will receive a portion, another sum will be given to her when turns 25 and the rest when she hits 30.Meanwhile Whitney’s ex-husband Bobby Brown arrived Nigeria on Wednesday, March 7, 2012 for a Friday concert alongside former New Edition band mates Bell Biv DeVoe at the Expo Hall of the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

Robin Thicke Tributes Whitney Houston With “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” Cover

Robin Thicke delivered an encore performance of his cover of Whitney Houston’s “Exhale (Shoop Shoop)” (the lead single from the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack) on The Ellen Show this morning. The R&B crooner took to his piano while performing a beautifully stripped down version of Whitney’s hit song, as photos of the fallen star throughout her illustrious career appeared on screens across the stage.

As much as we love Houston’s arrangement of “I Will Always Love You”, it’s nice to hear another one of her wonderful songs be covered by an artist who was clearly a fan of her work.Robin — who will soon be seen on the ABC singing reality competition Duets — also performed his own tunes on the program in the form of a web exclusive — listen to the smooth singer perform his Love After War single “Pretty Lil’ Heart” while playing the 88 keys:

Rihanna Goes Topless On Twitter, Talks About Her Beef (video)

has never been shy about showing off her body! Although she covered herself in all the right places, the 24-year-old singer showed off her sexy curves in a topless photo. Rihanna captioned the racy photo with, “Where have you been all my life?!” — lyrics from her song “Where Have You Been.”
Rihanna’s exhibitionist ways have gotten her in trouble in the past. Back in September, an Irish farmer told Rihanna to cover up while filming her latest music video on his property. While shooting the music video for “We Found Love,” RiRi decided to go au natural and ditched her top while running through a field

[Video] Comedy King Eddie Murphy’s upcoming ‘A Thousand Words’ Unleashes Latest Exclusive Movie Clip “Act Like Me”, Releasing on March 23,2012

Watch this exclusive video trailer to catch the comedy king ‘Eddie Murphy’ in his latest upcoming comedy film ‘A Thousand Words’, movie clip titled ‘Act Like Me’ !!‘A Thousand Words’ hitting theaters on March 23rd, 2012 is a savvy, money-grubbing head of a literary agency who discovers he only has a thousand words left to say before he dies.Check out this latest exclusive trailer of movie clip titled ‘Act Like Me’ from the movie ‘A Thousand Words’!!

Fun Unlimited- American Pie 4: Reunion Starring Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan Exclusive Official Trailer Released !!

Here is the exclusive official trailer of the latest fun unlimited “American Pie 4: Family Reunion”, the latest slice of American Pie series starring Jason Biggs and Alyson Hannigan !!In American Pie 4:‘Family Reunion’, the friends are all in their 30′s now, and we can assume the story will be centered around Jim and Michelle’s pregnancy. The friends all reunite for the birth and a weekend of memories, when all hell breaks loose.Check out this video to catch the exclusive official trailer of “American Pie 4: Family Reunion”, releasing this April !

'Disco Inferno' singer Jimmy Ellis of Rock Hill dies at 74

The end came silently Thursday morning for Jimmy Ellis. But the life, before death at age 74, was never quiet. Jimmy Ellis burned that mother down.James T. Ellis, "Jimmy," died Thursday, but the song "Disco Inferno" will live forever.

The silent killer, Alzheimer’s, with no regard for greatness that will never be quieted or a song that changed the world, needs no noise for its desperate deed. But in a lifetime that lasted 74 years until Thursday, there was always sound around Jimmy Ellis who grew up in a shotgun shack on Pond Street in Rock Hill’s Crawford Road neighborhood. Songs sung driving a school bus at age 16, winning talent shows and at roadhouses, songs to his kids and grandkids, in churches and arenas and on television and in movies. And the sound above all sounds, words from deep in Ellis’s soul down there way below the diaphragm where the magic lives, that will last until the world end“‘Burn that mother down!’” said Johnny Ellis, Jimmy Ellis’s younger brother. “ ‘Burn, baby burn.’ Doesn’t matter where you go, who they are, everybody knows when they hear the words ‘Burn that mother down’ and ‘ burn, baby burn’ that the song is Disco Inferno. And the man with that voice who sang that song was Jimmy Ellis.”

That song, "Disco Inferno," turned The Trammps - the band Jimmy Ellis fronted, and its silver-voiced singer from entertainers into plain - out American cultural icons. The song was featured in the "Saturday Night Fever" movie in 1977, and the subsequent soundtrack that sold an astounding 15 million copies as it stayed atop the charts for half a year. In 1978, "Disco Inferno" as a single became for a while the Number One dance song in America, and thus, the world.

The refrain “Burn, baby burn” sung throughout that song, in the background and flowing like lava, hot and burning just like the words, is unforgettable and will surely last as long as there is music on the face of the earth. It is not so much a chorus as a demand, a magical spell, or just plain fated destiny. The song sung by Jimmy Ellis of Rock Hill, a voice that careens over mountains and screams through valleys with “Saaaatisfaction -(and in the background the Trammps singing ooh-ooh-ooh) came in a chain reaction,” remains, 35 years later, iconic in not just music, but popular culture and life.

“The song Disco Inferno remains a big favorite in Europe to this day, and is played here and everywhere,” said Ellis’s wife of 46 years, Beverly. “Disco Inferno? The whole world knows the words.”The song was played at discos around the globe - and still is. Disco Inferno is in movies and on TV shows and commercials. Jimmy Ellis, with that song, became plainly, immortal.“It does not matter where you go in the world and I been all over this world playing music, Disco Inferno is being played somewhere on a radio or in a mall or on a train or a plane,” said Johnnie “Boggie” King, another legendary musician who grew up with the Ellis brothers playing music together. “To lose Ellis is to lose a legend. The song and our Ellis - we call him Ellis, not Jimmy - is around somewhere. The cat just went to the mountaintop with that one song - and he never come back down.”Even though Ellis and the Trammps had been touring for years before 1978, and had other songs and a bunch of albums, it was Disco Inferno that turned Ellis into a household voice.“We had to move because when that song got huge, it was the biggest thing in the country,” said Erika Stinson, 42, the younger of Ellis’s two children. “People just showed up at the house. It was unbelievable. All of a sudden here I am a little girl going to school and my father is leaving on tour and he is dropping me off at school in a limousine. I didn’t think it was strange that Stevie Wonder came over to see us. It was no biggie that my father was tight with the Bee Gees. The whole world knew the song. And it still does.”

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/03/08/3804499/singer-of-disco-inferno-jimmy.html#storylink=cpy

Fox Cancels “Terra Nova”

For those who loved the Fox show Terra Nova, I bring less than stellar news. According to 3m360, Fox is officially cancelling the show. The good news is that no one really watched it, so it looks like no one is going to be entirely broken-hearted.While the show has been on the chopping block since it premiered, Fox continued to air it on the chance that the show’s storyline, which was ever-evolving, would be able to draw in a dedicated fan-base. While this never panned out, some critics did tip their cap to the show’s narrative improvements. Obviously, this never quite impressed the network enough to keep the show going.If you’re on the outs about the show (which many are), the storyline follows a family who travels back to prehistoric times (yes, dinosaurs and other giant predators) in an attempt to change the course of history and save mankind. The premise, while interesting and ambitious, was a bit too large to take on without the production value that HBO has to offer.More surprising still is the fact that film titan Steven Spielberg executively produced Terra Nova. I guess this goes to show that just because you created the biggest dinosaur franchise in the history of film (Jurassic Park), it doesn’t mean you can create a decent dinosaur television show. Though nothing is confirmed, it is being hinted that the show could land on a different network where it would pick up where the story left off before its Fox cancellation.