Foxy Brown and Lil Kim have so much in common and I don't understand why they're not happily swapping cell stories at the Oh My Nappy Hair Salon on a regular.

Both are being sued by a book publisher who wants advances they were paid after failing to deliver books they were commissioned to write. Simon & Schuster Inc. say they paid Foxy Brown $75,000 in 2005 for an autobiography to be called ‘Broken Silence’ which she was due to hand in by February 2006. Lil' Kim was paid $40,000 in 2003 for a book due in June 2004.

According to the Associated Press, Brown’s attorney says she has not yet seen the lawsuit while Lil' Kim’s attorney did not respond to a phone call.

Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown are used to having the book thrown at 'em -- just not actually writing them.

The two felonius rappers just got sued by Simon & Schuster, the publishing house, for failing to deliver on books they were paid to write. And it's not like they didn't have the time to write 'em -- both spent long stints in prison; Kim for perjury, Foxy for assault.

S&S wants their money back -- over $100K in total -- with interest. Foxy's lawyer gave us this statement: "In 2005, after Foxy Brown's delivery of her uniquely personally written synopsis, both Simon and Shuster and Inga Marchand were excited to join together to publish her autobiography, Broken Silence, one of the most highly anticipated books in rap history. Then tragedy struck, and Foxy Brown was diagnosed with sudden severe hearing loss and her health became a priority.

With Simon and Shuster's blessings, Foxy Brown underwent extensive surgical proceedures and a lengthy recovery time, fighting to restore her hearing. After returning we were told that Simon and Shuster decided not to go forward with the project. Many attempts were made by Foxy Brown's agents to resurrect the deal, to no avail. Now that Foxy Brown is being courted by many publishers to negotiate a new book deal, I find it suspect that after all of these years of silence, Simon and Shuster pick now to bring this meritless action when they were the ones to halt the project. Foxy Brown would love to continue with Simon and Shuster and welcomes talks to continue to solidify a deal."

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Publisher Simon & Schuster is suing rappers Foxy Brown and Lil Kim. Both women are accused of receiving tens of thousands of dollars in advances while failing to deliver the books they promised to write.

The publishing house, a unit of CBS Corp said today in separate lawsuits filed in state court in New York that Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, and Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, signed contracts to write books.

Simon & Schuster said it paid Brown $75,000 under a 2006 contract for an autobiography tentatively titled Broken Silence.'' The publisher said Lil' Kim signed a contract in 2004 and was paid $40,000 for an untitled novel. Continue Reading.....

Simon & Schuster obviously have more money than sense! 

Foxy and Kim don't even write their own rhymes, so what made S&S think that they both had the ability to write an entire book???

via Breitbart

NEW YORK (AP) - A New York publisher is suing Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim, saying they were paid advances for books they never delivered.Simon & Schuster Inc. says Brown was paid $75,000 in 2005 to deliver an autobiography called "Broken Silence" by February 2006; and Lil' Kim was paid $40,000 in 2003 for a novel due June 2004.

The publisher wants its money back through the two lawsuits filed Thursday.

After signing the deals, both women were imprisoned for several months. Lil' Kim went to prison in 2005 for lying about a shooting, and Brown in 2007 for violating probation arising from a fight with two manicurists.

Brown's attorney says she hasn't seen the lawsuit and can't comment. Lil' Kim's attorney didn't immediately return a call Thursday.

Lil’ kim:
Where’s all mah soul sistas
Lemme hear ya’ll flow sistas

Mya:
Hey sista, go sista, soul sista, flow sista
Hey sista, go sista, soul sista, go sista

Mya:
He met Marmalade down IN old Moulin Rouge
Struttin’ her stuff on the street
She said, “Hello, hey Jo, you wanna give it a go?” Oh! uh huh

Chorus:
Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya dada (Hey hey hey)
Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya here (here)
Mocha Chocalata ya ya (oh yea)
Creole lady Marmalade

Lil’ Kim:
What What, What what
Mya:
ooh oh

Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir
Voulez vous coucher avec moi

Lil’ Kim: yea yea yea yea

Pink: He sat in her boudoir while she freshened up
Boy drank all that Magnolia wine
All her black satin sheets, suede's, dark greens
yeah

Chorus:
Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya dada (da-da-da)
Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya here (here ohooh yea yeah)
Mocha Choca lata ya ya (yea)
Creole lady Marmalade

Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir (ce soir, what what what)
Voulez vous coucher avec moi

Lil’ Kim:
yea yea uh
He come through with the money and the garter bags
I let him know we bout that cake straight up the gate uh
We independent women, some mistake us for whores
I'm sayin‘, why spend mine when I can spend yours
Disagree? Well that's you and I’m sorry
Imma keep playing these cats out like Atari
Wear ideal shoes get love from the dudes
4 bad ass chicks from the Moulin Rouge
hey sistas, soul sistas, betta get that dough sistas
We drink wine with diamonds in the glass
bottle case the meaning of expensive taste
if you wanna Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya
Mocha Chocalate-a what?
Real Lady Marmalade
One more time C’mon now

Marmalade... Lady Marmalade... Marmalade...

Christina:
hey Hey Hey!
Touch of her skin feeling silky smooth
color of cafe au lait alright
Made the savage beast inside roar until he cried,
More-more-more

Pink:
Now he's back home doin' 9 to 5

Mya:
Sleepin' the grey flannel life
Christina:
But when he turns off to sleep memories creep,
More-more-more

Chorus:
Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya dada (da daeaea yea)
Giuchie, Giuchie, ya ya here (ooh)
Mocha Choca lata ya ya (yea)
Creole lady Marmalade

Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir (ce soir)
Voulez vous coucher avec moi (all my sistas yea)
Voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir (ce soir)
Voulez vous coucher avec moi (C‘Mon! uh)

Missy:
Christina...(oh Leaeaa Oh)
Pink... (Lady Marmalade)
Lil’ Kim...(hey Hey! uh uh uh uh...)
Mya...(Oh Oh oooo)
Rot wailer baby...(baby)
Moulin Rouge... (0h)
Misdemeanor here...

Creole Lady Marmalade Yes-ah......

"Lady Marmalade" was first recorded by an American Band Labelle in 1974.

The second popular version was recorded by the British all female band All Saints in 1998.

The newest and the most popular version is recorded and released in 2001 by Mýa, Christina Aguilera, P!nk & Lil' Kim. This version of song is put in the famouse French movie Moulin Rouge!

Now that we have the money covered, it's time for phase 2 of the master plan. As you can see in the video, a wise person once said:

First you the money
Then you get the motherf--kin' power
And after you get the f--kin' power...

Well, after the power will have to wait til round three. Now, you're probably asking, "Hank the Bank, you're already one of the most powerful people in the world. What can you possibly do to get more power?" 

The answer, of course, is after the jump.

A gang of four Energizer Bunnies, each coming in at a steal of $18.95. Like to do things yourself? Get some badass bunny kicks for $15.95! You are foot-sized large right? Like something concealed? How about two bean bag bunnies to attack your enemies in public?

Nothing symbolizes power more than the Energizer Bunny, and now you'll have four at your disposal, and two secret ninja bunnies, not to mention slippers that say you're not one to be messed with.

Money, Power, ...

Check out the collection of customers' kids all dressed up in the Gallery.

Lil' Kim was spotted leaving her hotel heading to the Black Ties nightclub. She was celebrating her bday this past weekend. As you can see, she looks a metallic mess! She turned 33 on July 11th and we see she went out with a bang! Happy Birthday Kim! Well...Belated. Don't pull this look out every again...

Thank You And Your Welcome. 

Please Stay Fly!

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Treats-throwback [Junior Mafia/Notorious B.I.G]

Get Money

x=) MiaAlien

Written: June 2004

Although school's out and my summer plans included a heavy load of sleeping and suntanning, I have inadvertently signed up for summer school. Every time I turn on my car radio, I enter Hip-Hop Gender Roles 101, and so far my lessons have made me angrier than Snoop Dogg after a drug bust. 

It's as though I enter an alternate universe where a woman's sole purpose on earth is to sexually pleasure her male counterparts. While the men are out "pimping all over the world," I've learned I should be waiting "clothes off, face down, ass up," and even though this would seem like a great deal (my man can struggle with airport security and jet lag while I lay back and work on my yoga stretches), I have become increasingly revolted by the messages blaring out from my stereo.

Rappers make millions of dollars off lines like "Game is the topic/ And what's between your legs is the product/ Use it properly/ And you'll make dollars bitch" or my personal favorite "Can you control your hoe? (You got a bitch that won't do what you say)/ You can't control your hoe? (She hardheaded, she just won't obey)/ You've got to put that bitch in her place, even if it's slapping her in her face," and despite the fact that these rhymes are filthier than Lil' Jon's dreadlocks, it is not their overt sexism or violent sexual references that make my jaw drop (like it's hot) -- it is my realization that these lyrics do more than entertain my male peers. Instead of simply promoting fads like Lacoste shirts and Cristal, through their music, rappers are spreading their views on women to an audience of teenage boys larger than Fat Joe's waistline, and I feel the effects everywhere I go.

From the school hallway, where on more than one occasion I have heard comments about the way I fit in my jeans, to the mall parking lot where pick-up lines usually begin with "Ooh, sexy ... " teenage boys express the same misogynistic sentiments as their rapping idols. I know that music is not the only driving force behind their behavior, but I believe rap's influence on my peers is stronger than the light reflecting off Jay-Z's ice.

My logic is simple. If 50 Cent and Nelly can gain immeasurable fame from replacing the words woman, girlfriend, and female with slut, bitch, ho, and numerous other creative terms, why should it be inappropriate when 17-year-olds, like an endearing boy named Brian that I met at a friend's house last Friday night, ask their friend if there are "any hot vaginas at the party in Solon?" And when I am accosted by lyrics like "I said it must be your ass 'cause it ain't your face" each time I tune into my city's hip-hop station, should I be surprised when I hear, "Walk that ass back over here, girl," as I take a stroll through my neighborhood? (At least rappers have the decency to rhyme when they are being chauvinistic and degrading.)

The truth, however, is that my tastes in hip-hop do not fall into simple categories, and although some of this music really does make me lose control, I love wilin' out to good rap as much as the next kid—there are numerous empowering female rap artists who continually impress me with their music. No matter where I am, for example, when a Missy Elliot song comes on, my hips start going like a Hawaiian dancer on a dashboard and I know I will never feel repulsed by her rhymes.

Queen Latifah, too, consistently makes me happier than Akon after his prison release with her "I'll rap your chauvinist butts into a hole" attitude, and I'm always up for a talk about sex if Salt 'n' Pepa are the ones moderating the discussion. But even my classification of some rappers isn't as simple as Lil' Romeo's lyrics; although the majority of his music is distasteful, I can't deny that Snoop's most popular hits make me want to keep the party going till six in the morning.

My conflicted music moods have really got my bling-bling in a bundle. When Eminem starts rapping about "an ass like that," my first reaction is to swear off hip-hop and join the LeAnn Rimes fan club, but how can I when I'd be Will Smith's "party starter" Saturday through Sundayand Monday through Sunday (yo)? And though I truly don't care who Mike Jones is -- even now that he has his grill -- because I've never wanted to be his "dime that's top of the line: cute face, slim waist, with a big behind," does that mean I can't get on the "good foot" with Timbaland?

After debating the issue in my mind like Lil' Kim on the witness stand (except my dilemma won't end me up in jail), I've finally come to some conclusions.

Even though I have problems (99 even?) with rap because it can send messages that make teenage girls more likely to feel emotional and physical abuse are acceptable in healthy relationships, and even though I feel defeated every time I turn off my car radio because I can't find a station playing songs I am comfortable listening to with the windows down, I'll just hope that one day in the spirit of MC Lyte and Ms. Melodie, the future of popular radio will include new songs that don't make me want to alert NOW.

Until then I'll just have to wait for the day when my radio dial doesn't have to jump around (searching for the right station) like the women in Kanye's Work Out song.

The deal is, with every graduating class comes a party, and with each party a writing contest.  Last year... I forgot what it was.  I entered and lost.  Whatever.  This time around I thought I might have a chance: a good news/bad news film treatment contest.  The good news is that a famous/classic children's book has been chosen to be turned into a big Hollywood film.  The bad news is, well, it's being made into a crappy big Hollywood film.  100 to 200 words.

This should so totally be mine.  I know films, I know classic kid's books, I even know how to write a freakin' treatment.  But humor is the name of the game and maybe I'm not as funny as I think I am when under the gun.

There were co-winners, a treatment for Kathi Appelt's The Underneath pitched as as musical -- "It's Cape Fear meets Oklahoma!"  The other winner was Anne of Green Gables starring Li'l Kim.  Me?  I went with It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World crossed with Pulp Fiction for a retelling of the P.D. Eastman classic Go, Dog, Go! It goes a little something like this...

Yo, Dawg, Go!

An Old Dog careens off the highway and with his dying breath reveals to a group of strangers of a secret stash hidden in a suitcase in a coastal California city.  Among the strangers are Big Dawg and Little Dawg, a pair of hitmen who have been assigned to retrieve the suitcase for their boss, Top Dawg.  They immediately wipe out the other witnesses to the accident and head off to claim the loot themselves.

Along the way Little Dawg is asked by Top Dawg to look after his wife who insists on a series of exchanges over whether or not they like each other's hats.

Eventually Big Dawg and Little Dawg continue their drive across country and discover the suitcase with the loot on top of a large tree full of other Dawgs.  While Little Dawg sends the tree full of Dawgs to bed for the Big Sleep, Big Dawg foams at the snout barking biblical verse from Ezekiel before returning the suitcase to Top Dawg.

Driving away, Big Dawg and Little Dawg discuss the misuse of the article “der” in the name of the fast food chain Der Wienerschnitzel.

Quentin Tarantino directs.

Eh, I at least gave it a shot.  Maybe I was too esoteric in my references.

More Proof That Hollywood Is Nuts

Scarlett Johansson

Hollyweird has struck again. I believe the Spanish call it loco. Actress Scarlett Johansson stunned the press and public by saying, "I'm engaged to Barack Obama." Yes and Lil Kim is engaged to John McCain (she'd probably give him a heart attack).

Seriously, yes, Scarlett Johansson really said that she is engaged to Obama. Scary, I know, because, well, he's married and running for president.

Johansson emailed him once, and received a response from one of his aides, Reggie Love, relayed from Obama, telling her thank you.

Barack Obama and his wife Michelle

However, it is being said Scarlett told a lot of people, and by a lot of people I mean the press, that she and Obama regularly email each other and she gives him advice. Advice on what? What tie to wear with what shirt? Couldn't be on politics.

Note to Hollywood: remember how you guys messed up the last election for the Democrats. Yes, feel the flashback.

Michelle Obama: she said what?

Emailing someone once or even a couple times does not constitute a relationship. Why say the following when you know he is a.) married and b.) running for office:

"I am engaged ... to Barack Obama. My heart belongs to Barack, and that is who I am currently, finally, engaged to. Yes."

Barack Obama's response was:

According to Obama, Johansson is lying about trading lengthy e-mail exchanges. "She sent one email to Reggie, who forwarded it to me," Obama said, referring to his 26-year-old personal assistant, Reggie Love. "I write saying, 'thank you Scarlett for doing what you do,' and suddenly we have this email relationship."

UPDATE: Groan. A reader suggests, "I did not... have... textual relations with that woman, Miss Johansson."

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Video Clip : Right Now

Singer : Lil' Kim

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Nombre: Can’t Hold Us Down

Artista: Christina Aguilera feat. Lil’ Kim

Tipo: DVD Movie [VOB]

Tamaño: 298MB (312709120 bytes)

Duración: 00:04:31

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INFORMACION

Nombre: Lady Marmalade

Artista: Christina Aguilera feat. Lil’ Kim, Mya & Pink

Tipo: DVD Movie [VOB]

Tamaño: 273MB (287219712 bytes)

Duración: 00:04:32

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Lil' Kim, American rapper

5 BOROUGHS- LL feat Method Man, KRS-One, Lil Kim & Jim Jones

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