DMX says he’s hanging up his mic, picking up the Bible
Multi-platinum rapper DMX says his forthcoming fifth record, “It’s Not a Game,” will be his last, MTV News reports. “I’m going into the church,” he reportedly said. “I wanna take some time off--you know, read my Bible and just get more into the word.”
Multi-platinum rapper DMX says his forthcoming fifth record, “It’s Not a Game,” will be his last, MTV News reports. “I’m going into the church,” he reportedly said. “I wanna take some time off--you know, read my Bible and just get more into the word.”
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System of a Down bassist sues venue security
Shavo Odadjian, bassist for alt-metal outfit System of a Down, has filed a lawsuit against a Grand Rapids, Mich., security company for allegedly elbowing him in the face and dragging him out of an arena after he tried to go backstage during a Slipknot performance, Billboard.com reports.
In the suit, Odadjian, who is an Armenian-American, reportedly accuses the guards of assault, ethnic intimidation and humiliation.
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New Deftones album expected on May 20
California quintet Deftones--whose record label, Maverick Records, apparently jumped the gun last year by announcing that the group’s next album was due out last November--plan to deliver the album to fans on May 20, VH1.com reports. The tentatively self-titled set is the follow up to 2000’s “White Pony.”
“Fans got hold of [the date that Maverick announced last year] ... and we weren’t even done with the record!” band member Abe Cunningham told VH1.com. “How dare they put out a release date?”
How dare they, indeed.
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Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst isn’t as stupid as originally thought
Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst--whom a number of press outlets ridiculed for his use of the word “agreeance” during his impromptu anti-war comments at last month’s Grammy awards--has been vindicated by several linguists who have confirmed that the word “agreeance” really is a word, after all, according to Reuters.
Both the North American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and the chairwoman of the University of Southern California’s linguistics department have reportedly said that Durst didn’t make up the word--which both linguists admit is largely obsolete--and that he used it correctly.
“Agreeance is a word according to the Oxford English Dictionary,” Durst said in a posting on Limp Bizkit’s website. “So the dumb asses at the Orange County Register [who called Durst “illiterate” following the perceived flub] and everyone else are welcome to intern at [Durst’s Interscope imprint] Flawless Records until they learn enough about journalism to write for a major daily newspaper.”
So there.
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Youssou N’Dour calls off tour to protest U.S. Iraq policy
Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour has called off a planned North American tour due to protest the United States’ Iraq policy, Billboard.com reports. “It is my strong conviction that the responsibility for disarming Iraq should rest with the United Nations,” N’Dour said in a statement.
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Tim McGraw’s tour supports the Red Cross
Tim McGraw will donate 50 cents from every ticket sold on his website and 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of special Red Cross/Tim McGraw T-shirts will go to the Red Cross, according to the AP.
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