Five symptoms men shouldn't ignore

Ask doctors if their male patients ignore big and obvious health symptoms, and they'll respond with laughter -- huge peals and guffaws.

Some doctors say men are more likely than women to ignore symptoms or deny that they even exist.

Once they regain the ability to speak, these doctors will say things such as "I don't even know where to start," and "You don't have enough room in your story for all the symptoms men blow off."

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Eminem Prank-Calls LL Cool J During Satellite Radio Show

Calling in to the show as 'Jason from Miami,' Slim challenges LL to play 'Name That Tune.'

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Lil Wayne Vs Al Sharpton?

On Lil Wayne’s final song on Tha Carter III, Weezy F Baby takes a moment to direct a diss towards Rev Al Sharpton. On the Nina Simone sampled “DontGetIt,” Wayne explains why he doesn’t respect Sharpton with some poignant conversation.

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The Game Explains New Release Date, Regional Love

In New York yesterday afternoon, The Game told HipHopDX about the two week push-back of his projected magnum-opus L.A.X. After the label confirmed a new date yesterday morning, the Compton rapper explained the reasoning and forces behind the move.

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HHDX News Bits (M.I.A., iPhone & Diddy)

At a concert in Brooklyn, British Hip-Hop artist Mathangi "M.I.A." Arulpragasam announced the cancellation of her European tour due to exhaustion.

"I'm canceling because I feel like physically I just have to stop for a second," M.I.A. told NYMag.com. "It's too insane, I was losing a sense of just, like, reality, you know what I mean? I think for an artist like me, it's so important for me to be in the streets and go to the same shop every day and see the same people and, like, communicate. And it's really difficult to do that when you're in the city every day for 24 hours".

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Wendy Williams' Husband Accused Of Hatching Murder Plot

A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses shock jock Wendy Williams' husband of scheming to kill his wife's rival.

Kevin Hunter allegedly tried to enlist the help of a male WBLS employee, the station where Wendy works, to help him find a hit man to take out Hot 97 radio personality Miss Jones, according to New York's Daily News.

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Lil' Wayne Stalks Kanye's First Day Sales, Moves 423K

Doubt on Lil' Wayne's Tha Carter III selling nearly a million in first week sales may cease as the New Orleans, Louisiana rapper's first-day sales have rounded out at about 423,000.

According to Billboard, the album will easily gain the number one spot on the Top 200 charts and is still expected to sell between 850,000-950,000 at the end of the first week. As previously reported by SOHH, Tha Carter III may outsell both Mariah Carey and Usher's first week sales combined.

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Young Jeezy Logs On W/ New Website & Mixtape

Young Jeezy announced the launch of his new blog and social networking site, USDAToday.com, yesterday, as well as the release date for his mixtape The Prime Minister.

The website, billed as "the official media source for the hood," will feature concert info, blogs, video footage, lifestyle products and community news, including a spotlight section for missing children provided by MissingKids.com.

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Nas Director Explains "N*gger" Video, "I Didn't Make This For MTV"

With the highly anticipated video for Nas' "Be a n*gger Too" recently hitting the net, SOHH caught up director Rik Cordero to get his take on the concept and construction of the video and why he felt he had to translate the song's vision to video.

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Winky Wright Calls Out Oscar De La Hoya

Floyd Mayweather’s abrupt retirement last week has left Oscar De La Hoya without an opponent for his scheduled September bout.

That will change if Winky Wright has his way, as the former junior middleweight champion has publicly called out the “Golden Boy” for a fall showdown.

Wright has pursued a De La Hoya bout since defeating Shane Mosley twice in 2004, and now feels the opportunity is here to bring this fight to fruition.

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C-Rayz Walz, Kosha Dillz Unite for 'Freestyle vs. Written'

Revered freestyler/rapper C-Rayz Walz is putting his talent to the test as he teams up with fellow Modular Moods rapper Kosha Dillz, for the upcoming album Freestyle vs. Written.

The 12-song project, which is described as a collaboration record featuring a Jewish and African-American rapper, will combine freestyle and written rhymes that were spawned during a 3 day recording session.

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Boxer Sues Jay-Z For $88 Million Over Rap Style

Former heavyweight boxer Mitchell Rose is planning to file an $88 million dollar copyright lawsuit against Jay-Z in Brooklyn Federal Court, AlHipHop.com has learned.

According to Rose, he gave Jay-Z his demo tape on March 12, 2001, following a bout between William Joppy and Felix Trinidad.

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Remy Ma Readies BlasRemy Mixtape

Life behind bars may prevent Remy Ma from seeing her fans, but the rap diva is doing her part to reach out to them with her forthcoming mixtape, BlasRemy.

The 17-song release will feature appearances from Papoose as well as 3Sum, Remy Ma's all-female rap group with Jackie-O and Shawnna.

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Scott Storch Issued Warrant For Arrest, Behind On Child Support & Taxes

Multi-platinum hip-hop producer Scott Storch faces mounted legal troubles as he currently has a warrant out for his arrest and owes over $500,000 in property taxes.

According to The Miami Herald, Storch failed to appear at a child support hearing, leading to Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Marc Schumacher issuing a pick-up order allowing authorities to jail him until he appears in court.




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Tyga Remains Mum On Chain-Snatching Rumors, Says "I Love The Hate"

Tyga released his debut album, No Introduction, on Lil' Wayne's Young Money Entertainment today, the same day as Weezy's highly anticipated, Tha Carter III. SOHH caught up with the young rapper to see how he feels about going head to head with his boss and the haters on the net.

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. Gary Gray Readies Marvin Gaye Biopic

Director F. Gary Gray will bring the story of legendary soul singer Marvin Gaye to the big screen.

According to Variety, Grey will be joined by C. Gaby Mitchell (Blood Diamond), who has been tapped to write the script, while David Foster and Duncan McGillivra will produce. This will be Gray's eighth feature film, which includes notable titles such as Friday, Set It Off and The Italian Job.



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Study links uncommon names to juvenile delinquency

New research suggests that boys with uncommon first names are more likely to get into trouble with the law.

Economists at Shippensburg University reached that conclusion after comparing a list of first names, sorted by relative popularity, with a list of juvenile delinquents.

"Our results show that unpopular names are positively correlated with juvenile delinquency for both blacks and whites," they write in a paper presented at a conference in Canada. "Furthermore, unpopular names are correlated with factors that increase the tendency towards juvenile delinquency, such as a disadvantaged home environment and residence in a county with low socioeconomic status."

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Working out may prevent drug and alcohol addiction

Sure, exercise is good for your waistline, your heart, your bones -- but might it also help prevent addiction to drugs or alcohol?

There are some tantalizing clues that physical activity might spur changes in the brain to do just that.

Now the government is beginning a push for hard research to prove it.

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Hidden Beach, Collipark Package New 'Unwrapped'

Hidden Beach Recordings' "Unwrapped" series is returning this month with a new slant and production collaborator. Offering jazz instrumental covers of Southern hip-hop hits, "Unwrapped Vol. 5.0: The Collipark Cafe Sessions" (June 24) was recorded in collaboration with Collipark Studios. The Atlanta-based entity has produced hits by Soulja Boy, Ludacris and Young Jeezy, among others.

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Bow Wow Has Big Love For The Big Screen

'Acting Is My Number-One Priority''Music is second to me right now,' rapper insists on the New Orleans set of 'Hurricane Season.'

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50 Cent 'Really Excited' By 'Blood On The Sand'

Video Game's Music, Love-Interest Details RevealedFif and G-Unit will contribute 19 exclusive tracks to the game, with Swizz Beatz providing an additional score.

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Game's Album Pushed Back Again

With big releases coming in July from the likes of Nas and G-Unit, it appears that Game’s upcoming L.A.X. has received the push back treatment yet again.

Originally scheduled for July 1st, then pushed to the 8th and 15th, L.A.X. will see another delay as the album is now scheduled to drop on July 22nd. It appeared that Game was adamant about going head to head with G-Unit but it may be possible that his label saw a big opening on July 22nd which doesn’t have a big release scheduled. There has been no word from Game or his label regarding the multiple delays.


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Lil Wayne Set To Go Platinum In First Week?

Lil Wayne is kind of a big deal these days. Tha Carter III is hands down the most anticipated album of the year and the most hyped since Kanye West and 50 Cent went head to head on September 11th of last year. Could it be possible that Lil Wayne sells more than both of those artists and maybe even go platinum in its first week?

According to EW.com, an executive at Wayne’s label claims that the album is poised to sell somewhere between 850k and 950k when the Soundscan reports are out next week. This is up from the previous estimate of 700k that was whispered to HipHopDX from an industry insider prior to the album dropping. Whether it cracks a million or not, it is set to still be the highest selling album of the year.

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Saul Williams "Doubles Up" After Nike Ad

Poet, writer and actor Saul Williams released his third album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust, with little fanfare last November. Williams partnered with rocker Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails fame and allowed consumers to select a free digital download or pay $5 for a higher quality version of the album. The result was a larger share of smaller sales. Williams sold 154,449 copies in roughly two months, with 28,322 of those copies being the $5 higher quality version. Then Nike called.

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50 Cent Ordered Not To Sell Property

State Supreme Court Justice Carol Edmead ordered 50 Cent not to sell the property on which a fire destroyed the $2.4 million home, where his ex-girlfriend and son lived.

The judge also ordered 50's ex, Shaniqua Tompkins, to pay the 50 $4,500 in rent by Friday (June 13) for staying in the house during its final month, according to Reuters.

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Producers From Tha Carter III Talk Creation Process

After months, even years of speculation on what Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III would sound like, many journalists and fans have previously inquired on personnel behind the milestone album. After telling one journalist that the whole album was produced by him and featuring only him, Lil Wayne ended up enlisting some superstar musical help, as well as some new names and sounds to his self-proclaimed masterpiece.

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Missy Elliott Changes Album Title, Explains Concept

Nas isn’t the only one in Hip Hop changing his album name after consideration of a former title. Just months ago, Missy Elliott rewarded her fans with the album title FANomenal. Though it looked to be a nice nod, her own endeavors and plans are now in the driver’s seat. The new title of her seventh studio album will be Block Party, and it is currently looking at an August release date, from what she has told Billboard.com.

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The Game Talks Nonviolence With Newark, NJ Youth

New Jersey students will get a first-hand account about the consequences of gang violence when West Coast rap star the Game makes an appearance at a school in Newark, New Jersey.

The Compton, California born rapper, who will serve as the spokesperson for the city’s Peace in Our Streets rally, will speak to youth about violence on the street at 3:30 p.m. EST Thursday (June 12) at the George Washington Carver School Playground.

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Jersey City Cancels Jim Jones Appearance

Rapper Jim Jones’ scheduled appearance at an HIV Testing Day event in Jersey City has been cancelled by city officials, AllHipHop.com has learned.

The Office of Mayor Jerramiah Healy has confirmed with AllHipHop.com that they have decided to eliminate the planned concert and speaking engagement by Jones from the June 27 festivities, due to the lyrical content of his music.

“The City of Jersey City is proud to sponsor events during the month of June that encourage our residents to be tested for HIV/AIDS,” Press Secretary Jennifer Morrill told AllHipHop.com. “When it was brought to the attention of the Mayor's Office staff that Mr. Jones was the star of the concert, a careful review of Mr. Jones' lyrics was done and ultimately the decision was made to cancel the show.”

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Winnipeg Police Chief Apologizes to Rapper

Just days after he was mistakenly pulled over and forced out of his car at gunpoint by Winnipeg police officers, Christian rapper Fresh I.E. received an apology from the city’s police chief.

According to Winnipeg police Chief Keith McCaskill, the error occurred Wednesday (June 4) after officers called in the license plate number of the rapper’s Chrysler 300 to a staff member to run it through a police computer.

The officers, who were at a Starbucks coffee shop, were suspicious after they saw the car exit the store’s drive-thru only and immediately swing back around and quickly drive past the take-out window again.

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Plies Involved In Bus Crash

Rapper Plies was invloved in a bus crash on Interstate 75 around 1:30 PM today. Plies was enroute to a signing at a local Fort Meyers Best Buy when the crash occured, resulting in his appearance being briefly delayed.

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Internet providers agree to bar access to child-porn sites

Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to Internet bulletin boards and Web sites nationwide that disseminate child pornography.

The move is part of a groundbreaking agreement with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that will be formally announced today as a significant step by leading companies to curtail access to child pornography.

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Busta Rhymes Album Delayed Until Samples Are ''Blessed''

After a highly anticipated July 1st release date, Busta Rhymes faces sampling conflicts that may postpone his upcoming album, Blessed, to a August release.

Busta recently did an interview with Hot 97 radio personality Peter Rosenberg where he explained why the album has been delayed.

"We just pushed [the album] about six to eight weeks because we having a little issue with two samples that I'm about eight five percent away getting cleared," he said. "I don't wanna change the songs because it'll change the feel of the record."

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Obese have heftier medical bills despite shortened lives

Obese twentysomethings — those who are 30 or more pounds overweight — will have lifetime medical bills that are $5,000 to $21,000 higher than their normal-weight peers.

And extremely obese young adults — 70 or more pounds overweight — will incur $15,000 to $29,000 more in lifetime medical expenditures than their healthy-weight peers, according to a study in the journal Obesity, published in advance online. These numbers take into account a shorter life expectancy for heavy people.

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Are Google, Yahoo the next dinosaurs?

Charles Darwin famously declared that "natural selection" was Mother Nature's way of improving a species so it could advance.

Internet search engines are locked in their own Darwinian drama. Depending how it turns out, desktop brands such as Google (GOOG) and Yahoo (YHOO) could become sturdier versions of themselves, ensuring survival as more people bolt for the mobile Web. Or they could become the Dodo birds of the Net — outclassed by a new generation of rivals.

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Sexual harassment has a new perpetrator Women Harassing Men

Complaints about women bosses preying on men have doubled since 1990. What’s going on out there?

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Retailers giving vinyl records another spin

It was a fortuitous typo for the Fred Meyer retail chain.

This spring, an employee intending to order a special CD-DVD edition of R.E.M.'s latest release "Accelerate" inadvertently entered the "LP" code instead. Soon boxes of the big, vinyl discs showed up at several stores.

Some sent them back. But a handful put them on the shelves, and 20 LPs sold the first day.

The Portland-based company, owned by The Kroger Co., realized the error might not be so bad after all. Fred Meyer is now testing vinyl sales at 60 of its stores in Oregon, Washington and Alaska. The company says, based on the response so far, it plans to roll out vinyl in July in all its stores that sell music.

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Sleeping at work -- more of us are doing it

At Jason Keith's last job, he discovered a colleague sound asleep at work -- head back, mouth open, snoring loudly -- while his co-workers laughed and snapped photos with their cell phone cameras.

"At first I thought he was faking it, but he was completely passed out," says Keith, 31, who works for a digital printing company outside Boston, Massachusetts. "He left the company about a month after that episode."

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Alicia Keys: AIDS not killing hope in Africa

was born in 1981, about the same time as the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed. In this limited amount of time, AIDS has grown into the worst public health crisis in human history.

It's amazing to think that all this has happened since I was a child and that myself and people younger than me have never lived in a world without this devastating disease looming over us.

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Missy Elliott Goes Back Around The 'Block'

Missy Elliott is eyeing an August release for her next studio album, "Block Party," on which she's presently putting the finishing touches. The oft-delayed set, which was originally slated for May, features production from Souldiggaz, Danjahandz, Pharrell, T-Pain, Pointguard and Timbaland.

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DJ A-Trak Links With Nike For Running Mixtape Series

In recent years, Nike has commissioned cutting-edge musicians to make exclusive 45 minute mixes for their promotional campaign. Past artists have included Aesop Rock and LCD Soundsystem. While the mixes have included all original music, many feature b-sides or alternate versions of current songs, adding to the work's mystique.

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Coolio Arrested For Driving With Suspended License

Rapper Coolio was arrested early this morning, according to TMZ.com. The actor and rapper was driving his 1996 Hummer, when he was stopped for a minor traffic violation in Los Angeles. Police officers discovered that Coolio had a suspended license from a 2001 incident, and apprehended him. Bail has been reportedly set at $10,000. This incident comes less than 48 hours after another west coast '90s rapper, Warren G was arrested for a similar Los Angeles police stop.

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Common, Three-6 Mafia, Akon & Diddy

After combining Jermaine Dupri, Young Jeezy and Mickey Avalon for its latest televised advertisement, Boost Mobile is continuing the tradition of unlikely combinations. Common, Flyleaf, Akon, Puddle of Mudd and Three-6 Mafia will take part in a concert for 3,000 volunteers involved with Boost Mobile RockCorps on June 20. The concert will be held at the Gibson Amphitheatre.

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Nas Announces July 15 Release Date For N***er

Nas has officially announced the release date of his new controversial untitled album, which was formerly titled N***er.

The album, which will be released through Nas’ boutique label Jones Experience, has been delayed several times, will land in stores on July 15.

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Pioneering South African Rapper/Actor Tiny Motho Silumo Shot Dead

Pioneering rap artist and brother of a popular producer in South Africa was shot dead outside of his apartment in Johannesburg last night.

Tiny Motho Silumo launched his music career in 1985 and is recognized as one of the first local artists to rise to prominence in the Hip-Hop scene.

Silumo toured the world with his brother, producer Richard Silumo and reggae singer and cousin Lucky Dube, who were members of a group called The Love Brothers, which was formed in 1982.

Dube was also gunned down in Johannesburg in October of 2007.

Tiny Silumo, also an actor who was recently featured in advertisements for a local fast food chain, was killed on the eve of a Million Man March, which is taking place in Pretoria today.

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T-Pain Launches Digitial Only Label

Multi-platinum singer/producer T-Pain has launched a new independent record label that seeks to bypass the traditional label model, in an effort to connect directly with the consumer.

Starting with the release of “Beam Me Up,” the first single by marquee artist Tay Dizm, Nappy Boy Digital will deliver music exclusively via all major digital download retailers.

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Charges Against Warren G Dropped

Attorney’s Office has dropped drug charges against Long Beach rapper Warren G., according to reports.

The rapper set the record straight about reports of his recent arrest in an exclusive interview with AllHipHop.com.

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More view cohabitation as acceptable choice

An analysis of cohabitation, marriage and divorce data from 13 countries, including the USA, shows that living together has become so mainstream that growing numbers of Americans view it as an alternative to marriage.

The National Marriage Project study of a sampling of Western European and Scandinavian nations, Australia, Canada and New Zealand found that cohabitation elsewhere is far more common and indeed viewed as an option to matrimony. The study found that anywhere from 15% to 30% of all couples identified themselves as living together, compared with about 10% right now in the USA.


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Economy squeezes the American Dream

Work hard, play by the rules and tomorrow will be better than today. That implicit promise has been at the core of the American Experience through good times and bad.

But now, whipsawed by plummeting home values, $4-a-gallon gas, rising food prices and gyrating financial markets, Americans increasingly fear that the national bargain has unraveled, that their once-steady march toward affluence has derailed. In a new USA TODAY poll, 54% of those surveyed say their standard of living is no better today than five years ago.

"Fewer Americans now than at any time in the last half century believe they're moving forward in life," concluded a recent report by the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center.

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Advice for men: Don't wait to see a doctor

During the first seven years of their relationship, Judy Kelly doesn't remember her boyfriend, Bill Horrisberger, ever going to a doctor.

"On a scale of one to 10, Bill was a zero," Kelly remarked when asked about her partner's willingness to get an annual checkup.

It turns out Horrisberger, 62, a retired English teacher from Atlanta, Georgia, isn't the only man who is reluctant to put on a hospital gown.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimates that American men are 25 percent less likely than women to visit a doctor.

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