Young Buck Disses 50 Cent on New Track

Young Buck has finally crossed the line. While he’s addressed being ousted from G-Unit in songs before, “Steroidz,” a song released onto the internet this weekend, marks the first time Buck launches a full-fledged attack on his former boss, 50 Cent.In the song’s first verse, Buck alleges that Fif has been paying Hot 97 DJ Funkmaster Flex, implying some form of payola before touching on his recording contract.
“My contract’s f***ed up and yours is too/the next 10 years, you is Jimmy’s h*e, dude/you Eminem’s slave/belong to [Dr.] Dre/think if they tried to hold yo *ss back from getting paid,” he asks.
Buck also accuses 50 of taking steroids and having relations with XXL Magazine’s Editor-In-Chief to get the publication's front coverBuck and 50 had a falling out back in 2008. The Nashville rapper started drifting away from the camp when he mentioned making friends with Lil Wayne and Jadakiss— two rappers who were at feuding with 50 at the time. The conflict reached new heights when Fif released a conversation in which a crying Buck begged to come back to his crew.

50 Cent Looks Back on 'Get Rich Or Die Tryin''

With the close of the decade fastly approaching, there is no shortage of “best of” lists reviewing top achievements throughout the pop culture landscape. But when it comes to most noteworthy music of the ‘00’s, one album that has been showing up on just about everyone’s list is 50 Cent’s 2003 debut Get Rich Or Die Tryin’. The seminal release, which has to date sold over 12 million copies worldwide, transformed the troubled Curtis Jackson, a former Queens, New York drug dealer and local mixtape favorite, into one of the biggest musical acts on the planet.
Propelled by the hypnotic Dr. Dre-produced anthem “In da Club” and the backing of hip-hop’s paramount seller Eminem (50 was the first artist signed to Em’s Shady Records, which released the project jointly with Dre’s Aftermath Records), Get Rich represented more than just a commercial triumph. It was a cultural landmark that gave East Coast street rap a fresh platform, opening up a new world for the unlikely entertainment mogul.
Looking back on the album, 50 Cent has a more personal attachment to Get Rich or Die Tryin’.
“With Get Rich I had so much to prove on that album,” recalls the rapper who dropped his fourth studio album, Before I Self Destruct, in November. “Everything had to be perfect in my head. I wanted to make sure that everything I said captured my true feelings at that time. I just felt like it was God’s plan to be where I was at. My mind frame at that point was the music. Anything that would have come in my way at that point I would have removed it the best way I know how. The ‘hood teaches you to do it in a way that’s not sensible.”

One of the aspects that made critics take note of 50 Cent was his surprising vulnerability, a trait that you would not normally associate with a combative, controversial artist who has been involved in high profile verbal sparring with everyone from Ja Rule, Jadakiss, and Game to Kanye West, Rick Ross, and most recently, Jay-Z. But 50 insist he was just keeping it real.
“A lot of rappers don’t write about their fears or point out where they didn’t get the best of a situation,” he says. “So the first time I experimented with it was with songs like ‘Many Men.’ I’m telling folks that there is blood in my eyes and I can’t see. I’m hurt at that point. I’m vulnerable.”
Yet, after Get Rich, 50 Cent’s life would never be the same as his success spun off a multi-million dollar label (G-Unit Records); a successful G-Unit clothing line; a major film (2005’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’); and a stable of platinum acts (a crew that included Game, Lloyd Banks, and Young Buck). But even as the commercial muscle has dramatically declined for 50 Cent, the spitter insists that he is still the same hungry kid who made the music world take notice.
“That’s what people want from me…. to give them the real shit,” he says. “That’s a part of me. It’s necessary to have aggression to survive but that’s not all of me. There’s so much more.”

Rihanna Last Girl At The Bookstore, Inks Book Deal

From the stage to the bookstore, Rihanna is poised to make her literary debut in 2010.
Thanks to a deal with Rizzoli, Rihanna will release a book in June, slated to retail around $38.
While details surrounding the project, titled 'Rihanna: The Last Girl on Earth,' are limited, sources say the 144 page book will likely end up being a mixture of photographs and short words written by Rihanna and Simon Henwood.
News of Rihanna's forthcoming project with Rizzoli, follows the release of Kanye West's debut literary project, also released by Rizzoli, titled "Kanye West Glow In The Dark".

‘Avatar’ Tops Box Office For Third Weekend, Breaks $1 Billion Worldwide

James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar" tops the weekend box office for the third weekend in a row, but also hit a huge mark when it pasted the $1 billion mark worldwide, only the fifth film ever to do it.
Over the weekend, "Avatar" raked in another $68.3 million, to bring its domestic total to $352.1 million, beating out all other films to make it the top movie.
The Cameron-directed 3D film opened two weekends earlier with $77-million. While that was definitely a strong start, it was far below dozens of other blockbusters that debuted as high as $158-million in their opening weekends. However, those films' numbers dipped heavily the weekends following. Not "Avatar" though, its continued strong for three weekends straight.
"It's like a runaway freight train. It just keeps doing business," Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston told the Associated Press. "Here's what's happening: I think everybody has to see 'Avatar' once. Even people who don't normally go to the movies, they've heard about it and are saying, ‘' have to see it.' Then there's those people seeing it multiple times."
"Avatar" was Cameron's first film since 1997's "Titanic," the biggest modern blockbuster with $1.8-billion worldwide.
The following list is the top 5 highest-earning movies of all-time, and "Avatar" is closing in on the #3 and #2 spots fast:
1 - "Titanic": $1.84 billion
2 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King": $1.12 billion
3 - "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest": $1.07 billion
4 - "Avatar": $1.02 billion
5 - "The Dark Knight": $1 billion
Finishing at #2 was Robert Downey Jr.'s crime caper, "Sherlock Holmes," bringing it $38.4 million; while third place was nabbed by "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" with $36.6 million.
Those top three movies, as well as the #4 "It's Complicated" with $18.7 million, steered Hollywood to a big start to 2010 after a year of record revenue, of $10.6 billion domestically, surpassing the previous record of $9.7 billion in 2007, according to Hollywood.com.
Rounding out the top 5 was Sandra Bullock's "The Blind Side," a true life football drama about the Baltimore Ravens' tackle Michael Oher. It earned $12.6 million.
That wraps things up this weekend. Next weekend, look out for new releases such as the Ethan Hawke horror "Daybreakers," the romantic comedy "Leap Year," and "Youth in Revolt."
This weekend's top 10 is as follows:
1 - "Avatar," $68.3 million
2 - "Sherlock Holmes," $38.3 million
3 - "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel," $36.6 million
4 - "It's Complicated," $18.7 million
5 - "The Blind Side," $12.6 million
6 - "Up in the Air," $11.3 million
7 - "The Princess and the Frog," $10 million
8 - "Did You Hear About The Morgans?", $5.2 million
9 - "Nine," $4.2 million
10 - "Invictus," $4.1 million