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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
What is Planking & Why Are Your Favorite Rappers Doing It? [Photos]
If you have logged onto any social network websites within the past couple of days, then you probably have heard the word planking as it continues to take over the internet.
The rules are simple: you must lie face down, palms flat against your sides, with your feet together and pointing at the floor, and of course have someone take a picture of you doing it.
While it is uncertain who started the trend and why, many have accused the trend to be a pointless fun internet joke while others say it's a racist act that dates back to the "planking" of slaves on a ship.
Whatever the reason, peep the page #'s below to see some hilarious planking pictures including some of your favorite rappers planking.
Suspect Planking
jayz planking
Yelawolf Planking
Joe Budden Planking
Sky High Planking
Shape-up Planking
Presidential Planking
McDonald's Planking
A History Of Violence: 20 Rappers With Real Rap Sheets
Many rappers rhyme about their quick-tempered criminal exploits, but there are a few MCs who actually have the rap sheet to prove it.
And we're not talking about your garden-variety disorderly conduct or DUI charges, ranging from murder to kidnapping to cannibalism, there are some current and former rappers with some serious strikes on their criminal records.
A handful of these rappers have thrown their lives away to the prison system, while a few served their time and were given a second chance at life.
Others built their reps in Hip-Hop off their past criminal lives.
Here are 20 Hip-Hop artists who caught violent felonies before during or after their rap careers.
Maino
Served a five to 15 year sentence in the early ‘90s for a drug related kidnapping.
Cool C
Currently on death row for the 1996 murder of Philadelphia police officer.
Gucci Mane
Charged with the murder of Henry Lee Clark III (got off on self-defense) in 2005. Spent six months in jail for assaulting a club promoter with a pool cue the same year.
X-Raided
Sacramento rapper is serving 31-years in prison for a gang-related murder.
Flesh-N-Bone
Served eight years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon.
Cassidy
Served eight months in prison for involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Desmond Hawkins.
C-Murder
Serving a life sentence for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Steve Thomas.
Big Lurch
Gone off PCP, Lurch killed his female roommate and ate parts of her body in 2002. Currently doing life.
Da Brat
Served 21 months in prison for the 2007 aggravated assault of a nightclub waitress with a liquor bottle.
Tru Life
Serving eight years in prison in connection with the stabbing death of Christopher Guerrero.
Remy Ma
Currently serving an eight-year sentence for assault, illegal weapons possession and attempted coercion in the 2007 shooting of former friend, Makeda Barnes-Joseph.
Shyne
Served nine-years in prison for two counts of assault, reckless endangerment and gun possession in the infamous, “New York Club Shooting.”
Slick Rick
Spent five years in prison following his first album for attempted second degree murder after shooting two men in 1990.
G. Dep
The former Bad Boy artist confessed to shooting a man in 1993, last December. Currently awaiting trial.
Mac
The former No Limit artist is serving a 30-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter.
Mac
The former No Limit artist is serving a 30-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter.
Chi Ali
Former teen rapper, famous for the 1992 track “Age Aint Nothing But A #,” is serving 14-years for the 2001 shooting death of Sean Raymond.
Styles P
Served eight months in prison for a 2002 stabbing.
Turk
The former Cash Money Hot Boy is serving a 12-year sentence for his role in the shooting of a SWAT team deputy in 2004.
Steady B
Currently serving a life sentence for his role in the 1996 murder of a Philadelphia police officer.
Police Say Reluctant Witnesses Hamper M-Bone Murder Investigation
Police in Inglewood, California are still seeking suspects in the shooting death of Cali Swag District rapper M-Bone, six weeks after his murder.
The rapper, born Montae Talbert, was gunned down at the height of his success, in front of a liquor store in Inglewood, on May 15th.
According to police, witnesses have been reluctant to come forward and share information regarding the shooting that night.
"When witnesses don't want to come out and talk, that's a challenge," Lieutenant Oscar Serrano of the Inglewood Police Department told Time Magazine. "It's proven to be a challenge in these types of shootings, and it's a challenge right now."
During the BET Awards last weekend, Cali Swag District paid tribute to M-Bone, who choreographed the group's dance moves.
Cali Swag District's hit single “Teach Me How to Dougie” and the accompanying dance became a pop phenomenon in 2010 and 2011.
Despite M-Bone's phenomenal success with “Teach Me How to Dougie,” his high-profile murder remains unsolved, despite a "substantial" reward being offered by the Inglewood City Council.
According to Lieutenant Serrano, the investigation into M–Bone's murder is remains open.
@rickyrozay Sued After Pitbulls Kill Neighbor's Dog
Hit rapper Rick Ross is being sued by a neighbor in Atlanta who claims his three pitbulls killed her Yorkshire Terrier.
TMZ.com reports that Rick Ross' three pitbulls escape from his Atlanta mansion in April.
The dogs attacked Ross' neighbors' three-year-old Yorkshire Terrier, who suffered “three large bite wounds on his back,” as well as “a very large bite” around his neck.
According to the lawsuit, the Yorkshire sustained injuries that were so severe that the owner had to euthanize the dog.
Ross was cited for the incident, but the owner is upset because the rapper allegedly never apologized for the dog attack.
The owner of the Yorkshire Terrier is seeking $15,000 in damages plus court costs.
Rapper Sent To Bellevue After Climbing Times Square Lightpole & Promoting CD
A Brooklyn rapper known as C.I. Joe was arrested in Times Square
yesterday (June 28th), after he climbed atop a 25-foot light pole and
began rapping.
C.I. Joe, born Raymond Velasquez, 34, climbed on top of the pole at 44th St. and 7th Avenue during the morning rush.
According to reports, the rapper had just been thrown out of MTV's nearby headquarters, while trying to promote his latest mixed CD.
C.I. Joe climbed on top of the pole, threw copies of his demo CD to the crowd and rapped to curious onlookers, who thought that incident was a staged stunt.
It wasn't until police arrived with yellow airbags that onlookers realized that the rapper's life was in danger.
Police finally coaxed C.I. Joe down from the light pole and sent him to Bellevue Mental Hospital in an ambulance, where he underwent a psychiatric evaluation.
Charges against the rapper are pending.
C.I. Joe, born Raymond Velasquez, 34, climbed on top of the pole at 44th St. and 7th Avenue during the morning rush.
According to reports, the rapper had just been thrown out of MTV's nearby headquarters, while trying to promote his latest mixed CD.
C.I. Joe climbed on top of the pole, threw copies of his demo CD to the crowd and rapped to curious onlookers, who thought that incident was a staged stunt.
It wasn't until police arrived with yellow airbags that onlookers realized that the rapper's life was in danger.
Police finally coaxed C.I. Joe down from the light pole and sent him to Bellevue Mental Hospital in an ambulance, where he underwent a psychiatric evaluation.
Charges against the rapper are pending.
@liltunechi Visits Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory
“I’m not even going to try to play cool guy here, it was so crazy sitting there with Wayne, talking like a regular dude trying to figure out how to ollie higher and trying to learn how to boardslide,” blogged Drama. “The entire Cash Money family are some of the coolest most mellow dudes in the industry when they’re able to just relax.”
Wayne is gearing up for the second leg of his “I Am Still Music” tour, which kicks off July 13 in Hartford, Conn., with Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Lloyd, and Far East Movement.
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