Young Joc is relieved of all contractual obligations from Block Entertainment and Bad Boy Records.

From HipHopWired.com

Young Joc has revealed that he has officially ended his contractual ties with Block Entertainment.  As previously reported, the Atlanta MC was vexed with Block Ent. CEO Russell “Block” Spencer and Bad Boy CEO Sean Diddy Combs who were playing around with his career.

In July, Joc recorded his version of Drake’s “Successful” where he addressed issues with his former boss with bars like:

“My opposition’s ambitions is to foul me so flagrant/ And Russell I’ve been very patient, trying not to turn you into a D.O.A. patient / So face it my minds another caliber, Pimp I’m light years, you’re still Gallagher/ The roof, the roof is on fire, nah its just this bridge right here liar liar / Aiight I’m tired of going in on it so I’mma ask God to go ahead and lay his hands on me… Amen”

Not even a church is safe from racism.

Members of the Philemon Baptist Church in Ada, OK.,discovered their house of worship covered in racial slurs and threats of violence.

“”I think they need to know what happened here. I hope that they will just be aware that it’s still alive and well. Racism,” said Blondell Colbert to KFOR-TV in Oklahoma. Colbert is a longtime member of the church.

Watch the video below:

The PR war has begun.

Chris Brown’s friends, dancer’s and DJ used their Twitter accounts to express their dismay at Rihanna’s interview’s on ABC. (The first part of Rihanna’s interview was aired Thursday morning, Part II will air Friday night)

Brown, himself will also tell his side of the story to Sway during a MTV special to air 6pm EST Friday.

Here’s a sneak peak!

A woman who loses her job and falls behind on her Rent-A-Center accounts, is propositioned by a store employee to exchange sexual favors for payments.

She did what any self-respecting woman would do—she called the cops.

David Dinkins, the first African-American mayor of New York City calls out President Obama for not doing more to help out the Democratic candidate Bill Thompson who lost to incumbent Michael Bloomberg.

From New York Post:

“The president should’ve done more. He found time to go to Virginia, he found time to go to New Jersey and he should’ve been here,” former Mayor David Dinkins, who was in office from 1990 through 1993.

He was referring to Obama’s stumping with New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine, who lost to Republican Chris Christie this week, and Virginia Democrat Creigh Deeds, who lost the gubernatorial race to GOP candidate Bob McDonnell.

By comparison, the country’s first black president gave the most lukewarm of endorsements to Thompson, who lost to Mayor Bloomberg by a mere 5 points on Tuesday.

UPDATE: Alleged shooter is alive in stable condition

A major in the U.S Army is dead after he allegedly killed at least 11 soldiers, one contractor and wounded 31 others.

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, an army psychiatrist was shot dead by military police at the Ft. Hood Army Base in Texas. Ft. Hood is the largest base in the country.

Two other suspects are in federal custody. Their roles in the murder plot have not been released.

President Obama comments on shootings:

When I first read this story, I thought it was a joke. Alas, it is not.

From Associated Press

A South Carolina man caught on video having sex with a horse was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty for the second time in two years to abusing the creature.

Rodell Vereen was also ordered never to go near the stable where the horse’s owner caught him and held him for authorities at shotgun point over the summer. He apologized to the woman and to himself after admitting to buggery at the Horry County courthouse.

“I’m sorry about what I’ve done. I didn’t mean to do it. It’s my fault. I’m sorry for what I’ve done to myself,” Vereen said during Wednesday’s court hearing.

Vereen was arrested in July after Barbara Kenley caught him entering the barn at Lazy B Stables in Longs, about 20 miles northeast of Myrtle Beach. She had been staking out the stable for more than a week after setting up a surveillance camera and videotaping Vereen’s assault on her 21-year-old horse named Sugar.

Kenley said she became suspicious because her horse was acting strange and getting infections, and she noticed things were moved around the barn and dirt was piled up near the horse’s stall.

Vareen was sentenced to probation in 2007 for having sex with the same animal.  He was sentenced to a five-year prison stint with the possibility of release in three years.

Former Bad Boy Records artist Shyne held his first press conference since his release from prison and subsequent deportation to Belize.

Shyne, who changed his name to Moses Leviy and coverted to Judaism also talked to school children in Belize about the perils of fame and making smart decisions.

Read more about the event here.

Hip-Hop artist Lupe Fiasco said that emcess and radio stations must do more to curb violence in urban communities.

Speaking about the death of Derrion Albert during an interview on 107.5 WGCI in Chicago, Fiasco said that some of the lyrics in rap music is influencing youth to do negative things.

From HipHopWired.com

“Hip-Hop has to take some fault for that. Just in the fact that the amount of violence and the amount of negativity that’s in Hip-Hop and the music, it attributes to so much that goes on, negatively, in the hood,” said Fiasco who added that radio stations need to be more selective on what music plays on air.

Lupe added that another overlying issue is the fact that positivity is not endorsed as heavily in outlets such as the radio. Oddly enough, people must not want to be lifted and told that there is a better way.

“It lacks entertainment value. It lacks a certain kind of hype around it. A certain “coolness” about it. So it doesn’t fit on the radio.”

Keith Bardwell, the controversial Louisiana justice who refused to marry an interracial couple last month has resigned from his post.

From Associated Press

A Louisiana justice of the peace who refuses to marry interracial couples resigned Tuesday, after weeks of calls for his ouster from civil rights groups and several public officials, including the governor.

Keith Bardwell quit with a one-sentence statement to Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne: “I do hereby resign the office of Justice of the Peace for the Eighth Ward of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, effective November 3, 2009.”

Gov. Bobby Jindal, a Republican, called Bardwell’s resignation “long overdue.”

Beth Humphrey, who is white, has said she and her now-husband, Terence McKay, who is black, received their marriage license from the parish clerk of court, where they also got a list of people qualified to perform the ceremony. When she called Bardwell’s office on Oct. 6 to ask, Humphrey said Bardwell’s wife told her that the justice wouldn’t sign their marriage license because they were a “mixed couple.”

When questioned, Bardwell, who is white, acknowledged he routinely avoids marrying interracial couples because he believes children born to them end up suffering. In interviews, he said he refers the couples to other justices of the peace, who then perform the ceremony, which happened in this case.

“There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage,” Bardwell said in an October interview with The Associated Press. “I think those children suffer, and I won’t help put them through it.”