Jackin4Beats Magazine

According to Jackin4Beats sources Ricky Ross has believed his lyrics for a long time now. He was beginning to feel himself so much that he started throwing little disses 50’s way.  When 50 didn’t respond right away Rick thought he had got away clean.

I guess Rick was wrong… 50 was just laying low doing his homework like a general is suppose to do. Not only has 50 vowed to end this dudes career (does he have the power to do it?) he came back with a track that pretty much decapitated the boss man. The title of the track is entitled “Officer Ricky (Try Me).”

50 must have decided to maximize the space on his track because he went after several others. I have to tell it like it is… The track is hot! 50 took aim at DJ Khaled and Lil’ Wayne.

I have to give props when props are do. I thought Rick was going to ignore 50 and keep grinding hoping that 50 would let all of this fade away. Rick responded right away by calling into Shade 45 and responding to the track “Officer Ricky.” He also said that he will give 50 48 hours to release a proper response.

My question is what in the hell is a proper response? Rick said that he had every intentions of squashing this beef at the BET Hip Hop Award but he claimed that he was turned off by 50’s demeanor.

Listen to the diss track for yourself:

Although this shouldn’t come as no surprise and needless to say this should have happen a long time ago. FINALLY Governer Rod Glagojevich got the boot out of office Thursday. The ironic part is not a single one of his lawmaker buddies came to his defense.

As most of you know Rod Blagojevich was brought down by a government-for-sale scandal that stretched all the way from Chicago to Capitol Hill. The scandal ended up turning the foul-mouthed Governor into a national punchline.

Some marijuana growers in Zurich, Switzerland were making cash hand over fist and life was good.

Everything began to fall apart when the Swiss police accidentally stumbled upon a two-acre marijuana plantation hidden deep inside a corn field.

The funny part is the officers were only looking for an address of a couple of farmers suspected in an alleged drug ring.

Imagine their surprise when Google Earth zoomed in and found marijuana. Talk about your indisputable proof…

The chief judge at the Guantanamo Bay war crimes court Thursday rejected President Obama’s call to halt the prosecution of terrorism suspects, ruling that a delay in the case of a Saudi accused in the Cole attack would “not serve the interests of justice.”

Army Col. James L. Pohl said the government’s request to postpone until May the Feb. 9 arraignment of Abd al Rahim al Nashiri was “not reasonable.”

“Technically, it’s within the judge’s discretion to treat this as a request or a motion on the part of the prosecutors and the government,” said Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond. “We like to think that even military judges are independent, to some extent, of the commander in chief.

“But given the clear message in the executive orders of last week, it’s difficult to understand why that request wouldn’t be granted,” Tobias added. “If the issue is really forced, the judge would probably have to yield.”

One factor in the judge’s decision to proceed with Nashiri case could be that some evidence against the Saudi would not be admissible in U.S. federal court, where critics of Guantanamo want the war crimes cases moved.

Nashiri is one of the terrorism suspects the Bush administration admitted waterboarding, an interrogation method in which a person is made to feel he is drowning. Eric H. Holder Jr., Obama’s nominee to be attorney general, called the technique torture during his confirmation hearing last week, and Obama has signed an executive order banning torture.

“Judge Pohl’s decision to unabashedly move forward in the Al Nashiri military commission case shows how officials held over from the Bush administration are exploiting ambiguities in President Obama’s executive order as a strategy to undercut the president’s unequivocal promise to shut down Guantanamo and end the military commissions,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Legal analysts said they doubted the standoff between Obama and Pohl would be allowed to mushroom.

The top official in the tribunal, former Pentagon judge and Bush appointee Susan J. Crawford, has the authority to step in and drop the capital charges against Nashiri, said his Navy defense lawyer, Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Reyes.

Crawford recently indicated a desire to distance herself from the legacy of Guantanamo by refusing to prosecute Mohammed Qahtani, a prisoner suspected of aiding the Sept. 11 plotters, on the grounds that his treatment under interrogation amounted to torture.

She also dropped charges in October against five prisoners connected with Al Qaeda recruiter Abu Zubaydah without explanation, stirring speculation that the government had been relying on evidence produced by “enhanced interrogation techniques” that wouldn’t be admissible even in the war crimes court.

Still, Guantanamo’s supporters in the Pentagon have continued to push ahead with trials. Just days before Obama’s inauguration, military prosecutors filed new terrorism charges against three of the five men Crawford dropped charges against.

A Pentagon spokesman insisted that Obama’s call for a halt in the proceedings would be honored.

“The Department of Defense is currently reviewing Judge Pohl’s ruling. We will be in compliance with the president’s orders regarding Guantanamo,” said Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey D. Gordon, a public affairs officer.

Military judges presiding over two other cases at Guantanamo, including that of alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four others, agreed to suspend those proceedings last week after Obama made the request.

President Obama signed his first bill into law on Thursday, approving equal-pay legislation that he said would “send a clear message that making our economy work means making sure it works for everybody.”

President Obama was surrounded by a group of excited lawmakers, the majority of which were Democrats, as he added his signature to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, a law named for an Alabama woman who at the end of a 19-year career as a supervisor in a tire factory complained that she had been paid less than men.

After a Supreme Court ruling against her, Congress approved the legislation that expands workers’ rights to sue in this kind of case, relaxing the statute of limitations.

“It is fitting that with the very first bill I sign – the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act – we are upholding one of this nation’s first principles: that we are all created equal and each deserve a chance to pursuer our own version of happiness,” said President Obama.

President Obama went on to say that signing the bill was not only for Ms. Ledbetter, but it was also done in the honor of his own grandmother, who worked in a bank all her life, and even after she hit that glass ceiling, she continued to get up again and again. He also stated that he was doing this for his daughters, because he wanted them to grow up in a nation that values their contributions, where there are no limits to their dreams.

The ceremony also marked First Lady Michelle Obama’s policy debut; she spoke afterward in a reception in the State Dining Room, where she called Ms. Ledbetter “one of my favorite people.”

The First Lady told Ms. Ledbetter’s story over and over again during his campaign for the White House; she spoke frequently as an advocate for him during his campaign, and made an appearance at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Now 70, Ms. Ledbetter discovered when she was nearing retirement that her male colleagues were earning much more than she was. A jury found her employer, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company plant in Gadsden, Ala., guilty of pay discrimination. But in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court threw out the case, ruling that she should have filed her suit within 180 days of the date that Goodyear first paid her less than her peers.
Congress tried to pass a law that would have effectively overturned the decision while George W. Bush was still in office, but the White House opposed the bill; opponents contended it would encourage lawsuits and argued that employees could delay filing their claims in the hope of reaping bigger rewards. But the new Congress passed the bill, which restarts the six-month clock every time the worker receives a paycheck.

Ms. Ledbetter will not see any money as a result of the legislation that President Obama signed into law. But what she has gotten, aside from celebrity, is personal satisfaction, as she said in the State Dining Room after the signing ceremony.

“Goodyear will never have to pay me what it cheated me out of,” she said. “In fact, I will never see a cent. But with the President’s signature today I have an even richer reward.”

Cheo Hodari Coker is a former journalist who can’t seem to tear himself away from the truth. His first screenplay, for Notorious, is on display in theaters and he is now onto his next biopic. Coker will adapt “Toughter Than Leather: The Rise of Run DMC – The Authorized Biography” for the big screen, and will also serve as co-executive producer of the film.

The movie will be produced by DJ Classicz, a branch of Davis Entertainment. The company bought the rights to Tougher Than Leather recently and is already getting the gears in motion for production of the film. The author of the book, Bill Adler, will also serve as co-executive producer. Adler is the band’s former publicist.

DJ Classicz president Dallas Jackson told THR “It’s an extraordinary rags-to-riches journey that I’m eager to bring to the screen. I’m hoping to have Run, DMC and Russell Simmons’ involvement. This will be a big movie about the 1980s hip-hop movement that took over the world.” Coker’s script will follow the lives of Joseph “Run” Simmons, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels and Jason “Jam Master Jay” Mizell in their rise to hip-hop stardom. The title of the autobiography refers to the band’s fourth album.

The members of Run DMC made it big in Queens, NY and were guided into national celebrity by Russell Simmons. The band was an integral part of the formation of what we know as hip-hop today, and was one of the first rap acts to make it into the mainstream. Run DMC is most famous for mixing rap and rock with their Aerosmith collaboration “Walk This Way.” The band not only brought this mix to the mainstream, but also brought hip-hop fashion into the forefront of American culture in the 1980’s. The band has been on hiatus since the untimely death of DJ “Jam Master Jay,” in 2002, but will be the second hip-hop act to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 4th.

Judging from Coker’s respectful rendering of Biggie in Notorious I am betting that this will be an honest yet thrilling portrait of these hip-hop greats.

Until the big movie is released I have embedded a throw-back video for your enjoyment – LOL

3D Horror Movie in 3D - Review Written by Tim Beachum

Without even having to think about it twice. I have to give this movie two thumbs up and a punch in the face! The 3D in this movie has taken things to an entirely new level. As most of you know I am probably one of the biggest movie buffs on the planet. However today’s movies fall short (and that’s being nice) when it comes to satisfying the consumer.
Every since the very first blind date, horror and romance have been intertwined like Keanu Reeves and bad acting.  As most of you know My Bloody Valentine is a remake. In most instances a remake is a huge mistake and you are left wanting to shoot the bastard that came up with the idea to remake the movie in the first place.
Defiantly not the case with My Bloody Valentine 3D. Finally I am glad to report that the filmmakers have actually knocked this puppy out of the movie screen and right into your lap.
WARNING: Make sure that you use the bathroom before going to watch this movie.  Once you get their you will be spending the majority of your time ducking large pickaxes, bobbing flying bullets and diving out of the way from falling tree limbs.
Don’t get me wrong there are times that the 3D effects seem a little gimmicky because the story forces the occurrence of projectiles. However the majority of the time  the 3D is right on point.
As most of you know nudity and horror movies go together like Britney Spears and cupcakes. However with most horror films you only get what I like to refer to as peek-a-boo nudity.  Now you see it, now you don’t. Not with My Bloody Valentine 3D baby! You get the full on all out breast in your face nudity. Actually you get way more than that, BUT I am trying to keep this site as clean as I possibly can.
I do however have something that I am a little curious about. I was wondering how does the film company plan on releasing this on DVD? Will the 3D effects still look good on a regular television? Will they only issue one pair of 3D Glasses with the DVD version if it’s released in 3D? Will you be able to use the glasses that you used and should have saved from the movie theater?
To bootleg or not to bootleg is the question that so many ask of me… Now that I am thinking about it… Has Hollywood inadvertently come up with a bootleg proof method of making movies? Or will the bootleggers simply place a different filter on the end of the camera and once again outsmart Hollywood? Hmmm…
Personally this movie is worth the cost of admission. I wouldn’t mind paying the high ass price of $29.99 when it comes out on DVD or if it comes out on DVD. That is as long as it came with the cool 3D glasses.

Check out a clip from the movie: