The country’s oldest crack dealer was sentenced this week to 18 months in prison, where she will celebrate her 89th birthday before being released.
Ola Mae Agee, 87, was convicted at trial this week of a felony charge of selling cocaine to an undercover cop in Florida. As previously reported, Agee was nabbed in May for selling crack from her Pensacola home. The hand-to-hand transaction was videotaped by investigators with the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.
A jury found Agee guilty after just 20 minutes of deliberation, according to court records. The felonious octogenarian is pictured here in a mug shot snapped after she was taken into custody following the October 26 verdict.

As Nicki Minaj notes in her cameo on Kanye West’s recent “Monster,” she currently commands “50K for a verse” with “no album out.” That last part is about to change: Capping a year spent chart-surfing with Drake, Lil Wayne and other high-rollers, the 25-year-old MC releases her debut LP, Pink Friday, on November 22. TONY recently caught up with Minaj in a midtown studio.

Interview after the jump!

A lot of your raps have been based on this idea that you’ve “made a million off a mixtape,” just the idea that you’ve come so far without putting out a proper album. So what are you hoping to get out of actually releasing an album at this point?
[Laughs hysterically]. Well, maybe I shouldn’t put one out, if you look at it that way! I want respect from my peers; I want respect from the world as an official artist, an artist that knows how to make music and songs and an album. And when you haven’t put out an album, there’s still something looming over your head a little bit. And I know that I’m capable of really giving a body of music—I’m not a feature artist. You know, some people are just good on a feature. I’m just good enough and I want to show that.
You’ve been so powerful as a guest artist, stealing someone else’s show, and I’m interested to see what you’ll do when it’s your show. Are you thinking a lot about that?
Mm-hmmm, but I’m excited about! Not that I’m thinking about it like, [Sadly] Mmm, dag. I’m happy about it. I’ve been waiting my whole life to do this.
Mixtapes and singles, that’s sort of how music is consumed now. Is the physical product important to you?
Or is it just the music? No, it’s just the music for me. I would like them to buy it on iTunes. It doesn’t matter. If they get it on iTunes, they’ll get the iTunes deluxe edition—they’ll get three extra songs. It doesn’t matter to me if someone has the physical album; I just want them to have my music. I want to have a body of music, so that when I go to my shows, I’m not only doing features. I’m not only doing the hot 16 on that song—I’m doing the entire song, and people know that it’s from my album.
Do you still buy CDs, or do you consume music digitally?
I do both, but that was a good question: Do I care if they have the physical album? My particular fans, though, the younger fans, they really want a physical album. They want to have the poster; they want to have the booklet.
I think that comedy is really important to your music, and the humor is something that really appeals to me about it, like “Somehow I understood him when he spoke Thai” [from “Your Love”]…
[Laughs] Random things.
Do you think of yourself as a comedian as well as a musician?
Mmm-hmm, mmm-hmm!
Are there comedians you admire, along with other rappers?
[Laughs] You have really great questions! Like, by far… No, I’m serious! Yes, I do consider myself to be a comedian. I love Martin [Lawrence] and I love Chris Rock and I love Larry David and I love Judge Judy! She’s a comedian to me in her own right. It’s like, you should be crackin’ up laughing. Some things in the songs should make you crack up. I like that.
In addition to the comedy, your raps also have this really competitive attitude, like “I just annihilated every rap bitch in the building.” Is there an element of comedy in that, too, or is it meant to be an actual put-down?
It’s not meant to be mean; it’s meant to be funny.
So it’s kind of like on the schoolyard—
[Sings tauntingly] Nyah-nah nah nyah-nah. That’s what rap is. That’s what hip-hop is to me. It’s like, “I’m this—I’m better than you, and anybody doin’ what I do, I do it better.” So what people don’t understand is, I don’t hate these girls. Like sometimes you would wish something bad on a person, if that was your real enemy. These people aren’t my real enemy—they’re a competitor in a sport. It’s no different from friggin’ goin’ on a basketball court. You gonna show off—you gonna do your craziest tricks and say, “What?” And [I’ll] push you to the floor if I need to, to show you I’m better than you at playin’ ball, but I don’t go to bed at night hating these people or wanting something bad to happen, you know? It’s so different, and yeah, there is a lot of comedy in it, and there is a lot of just, like, schoolyard [Twists neck to illustrate], twisting your neck—it’s just like that… But I am better.
Do you think that’s been a problem in hip-hop in the past, that things that are just meant as a dis get turned into an actual real-life feud?
That happens with anything. I mean, not just in rap. Things turn violent every day. That has nothing to do with rap. It’s just personalties. It doesn’t bother me, and I’m not gonna change because of it.
Why does there still have to be that distinction of a “female rapper”? Why are there not as many women doing this?
[Softly] I don’t know. I wish I knew.… I really don’t know. I think girls need to write their own raps, though. I think girls need to go in the studio, take a beat, start writing, stop depending on people to do shit for you. Because then, when it’s no longer your moment, you’re lost! You need that ghostwriter that you used to have from ’98. [Laughs] It’s like, “Mmm-mmm.” I think girls after me, and some girls before me—let’s be honest: There’s a lot of girls that’ve done a great job. But I just think women in hip-hop have really predominantly been the sidekick. You have to take yourself out from being the sidekick to the superhero. You can’t be Robin forever, you know what I mean? And that’s what I’m doing; that’s what Pink Friday is. It’s like, “Bitch, I’m Batman, ho.” [Laughs].
So you’re competing with all rappers, not just female ones.
Exactly.
The past year has been so huge for you—your profile has risen so immensely. Do you remember when the moment was that you said to yourself, “I’m becoming a star”?
There have been so many different moments. The VMAs was one; Yankee Stadium with Jay-Z and Kanye West, that was another big one for me; just being asked to be on Kanye’s album was huge for me. I won three BET awards, three hip-hop awards with no album out. There’s been a lot of things, but I guess I don’t sit down and take it all in, pause. It just happens and then I look back and say, “Thank God for this blessing” and blah blah blah. But I’m sure there’s a lot of things happening every day that I don’t even believe.
Another thing I really like about your raps is the self-nicknaming, how you kind of roll off all these names like Lewinsky or the Ninja. What is that all about?
It’s always been in rap. I mean, it’s like Jay-Z: Jigga Man, Hov, S. Carter. I see the big boys do it, and I guess I do it. Dag, the only one who don’t got a frickin’ nickname is Kanye West! [Laughs]
What drew you to the Lewinsky? That was so out of left field.
I don’t use Lewinsky anymore. [Mock-exasperated] I don’t want to talk about it!
You said something about “the mistress” in one of the raps—
[Still mock-exasperated] Ooookay, I get it! No, it was just, like, a joke at that time, because [Lil] Wayne was the President, and I called myself [Laughs] Nicki Lewinsky. It was a funny joke, but I don’t like it anymore.
Any new names coming that we can get a sneak preview of?
Hmmm… Have you heard of Roman?
Roman?
He’s a gay boy—he lives in me.
I look forward to that.
He’s out—he’s out of the closet already.
I was wondering how you felt about the rap in which Drake is basically proposing to you. What did you think when you heard that?
I thought it was cute. He’s a cute little lamb chop. He let me hear it before it came out, though, and I was like, “Whoa, are you really gonna say that?” I didn’t think he was gonna leave it in the song, but I love it.
I’m wondering about the distinction about rapping and singing. You’re known more as a rapper than a singer, but would you ever want to even that out?
Mmm-mmm. I would never even that out, but I would always do a little singing.
I think that duality is interesting, because there’s a part on the mixtape where you’re talking about how the first part was raunchy and you kind of wanted to move into a more “delicate” mode. Do you think a lot about both sides of that coin?
Mmm-hmmm. It’s important to me to stay true to both sides, because I have fans on both sides, so I can’t stray away too far from the crazy, real edgy stuff…[Quietly] ’cause my fans won’t like me.
Do you think you can still be believable singing a sweet love song after you’ve done all that—
Absolutely. I’ve done it on Pink Friday. I’ll play you the song before you leave. I’m believable at whatever I do, because I’m dead-ass doin’ it. Like, I’m not in the studio with somebody doin’ it for me. My fans have gotten to understand that I am many different people, and one day they get one thing, next day they get another thing, but it’s still true to me, and they don’t question it. Like with “Check It Out,” the song I have with Will.i.am, it’s, like, so pop, but, you know, it’s gettin’ played. You would think people would be like, “What?!? She’s selling out!” But it’s charting; it’s on Billboard, and it’s selling on iTunes, so it’s like… The moral of the story is, if I box myself in, it’s suicide. That’s the problem with rap: If you’re not careful, you suicide yourself. You gotta do whatever it is that you love, and not be afraid. ’Cause if you’re afraid, then they can smell fear, you know? I think with me, in the beginning I was afraid to do certain things, so it seemed unnatural and uncomfortable, but now, it is what it is.
Yeah, because “Your Love” was the first song that grabbed me…
You like that song?
I think it’s great, yeah. You’re sick of it?
It’s stupid.
Why do you think it’s stupid?
[Laughs] I don’t know. I recorded that song a long time ago, so it doesn’t feel like me, who I am now. Like, “Right Through Me” is more me, right now, talkin’ about a love story, but that one was more, like, fictional. But it was a pretty beat, and I love the sample, and I love the hook.
Well, you shouldn’t get too down on it—it’s a great song.
[Laughs] I know, right? “Damn.” [Snaps fingers in mock disappointment] You know I broke the record?
For?
For the first female rap artist in seven years to top the Billboard rap charts, and I was No. 1 for eight weeks.
So you can’t disconnect yourself too much from it.
[Mock-sighing] I guess… Fine.
Do you ever think about how you would plan a full headlining show? How would you fill an evening of entertainment?
[Assumes uppity British accent] Oh, well I’d have tons of girls all around the stage, and I’d have lots of color, and—I dunno—I’d probably have, like, you know, spaceships bursting out. And I’d give away lots of gifts, and I’d mingle with the crowd, and…dance routines, darling, and big, poufy dresses too, and ninja outfits too, and then, just, going crazy… Lots of wigs, too. And then a moment where I’m just [Tenderly] sexy and, like, serene and I’m with one boy and I’m doing a dance, like a pantomime or something. [In normal voice] And then that’s it!
[Mock-unimpressed] Only that?
[Laughs] Are you beginning to think I’m crazy?!?
So how many of those wigs do you have [Points to pink wig]?
[Mock-glamorously] Oh, lots, darling.
So is there someone that you have on staff who deals with only that?
Lugs my wigs around…dot-com. [Laughs]

Quite simply, I fuck with this in a very big way. Download it, thanks.

Download : Jah Cure feat Rick Ross & Mavado – Like I See It

When you get Eminem on your record you run the risk of him ‘murdering you on your own sh*t’ but Nicki holds her own on this one, sending a very clear message to a certain female rapper out there..

Pink Friday, Nov 22nd.

Download : Nicki Minaj feat. Eminem – Roman’s Revenge (Prod By Swizz Beatz)

A Plus D – Psycho Killer On The Dancefloor [mp3]
Talking Heads VS DJ Sign & Purple Project

Happy Halloween!

Vincent Azzopardi & Christopher Bailey by Andy Houghton, Lost Boys

Thanks to Homotography! My favorite photo blog.

 Straight from Mother Russia, Download Link & Tracklisting after the jump!
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Tracklist:
1) Trouble Man Intro
2) Flinch – Midnite Hustle (AC & Dell, 12th Planet VIP)
3) Statelapse – Mad House
4) Excision & Downlink – Reploid
5) Trolley Snatcha – Rocco’s Revenge
6) The Others – GTFO
7) 16Bit – FRZR3000
Noah D. – SRS VIP
9) Benga- Dirty Face
10) Joker – Instrumental
11) Rusko – Hold On (12th planet Remix)
12) Flux Pavillion – I Can’t Stop
13) Ras Kass – West Coast Dub
14) Skream – Listenin’ to Records on my Wall
15) DJ Sneak – Southern Boy (12th Planet & Flinch Remix)
16) I Square – Hey Sexy lady (Skrillex Remix)
17) Doctor P. – Badman SOund
18) Monstar – Put Ya Hands Up
19) Rye Rye feat. M.I.A. – Sunshine (12th Planet Remix)
20) Datsik – Domino
21) Jakes – Justice
22) Skream – CTO
23) Mala – Eyez
24) Skream – Put Ya Knees Up
25) Distance – D.E.V.A.S.T.A.T.O.R.
26) Trolley Snatcha – Passin’ Me By
27) 12th Planet & Antiserum – Purple & Gold
28) DJ Die & Fabio – Brite Lights (Joker Remix)
29) 12th Planet & Datsik – Texx Mars
30) Jinder – Youth Blood (12th Planet Remix)
31) Subscape – Just Coz
32) Caspa – Geordie Racer
33) Benga – Lil’ Bits
34) Silkie – 80′s Baby
35) Boregore – Act Like a Hoe
36) Rusko – Do You Wanna Have a Party?
37) Breakage – It’s Over (feat. Roses Gabor)

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"Snooki costumes rule this Halloween -- celebs from Joan Rivers to Kelly Ripa to Melissa Rycroft to 'Jersey Shore' tough guy Vinny Guadagnino have already dressed up as the petite, party-loving 'Jersey Shore' star this week. Ellen DeGeneres even delighted/disgusted fans by dressing entirely as Snooki's famous 'poof' hairdo.

But last night, Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi made them all green with envy at a costume bash in Vegas.

Dressed as a pickle (or is she a sparkly green queen armed with a giant pickle sceptor?), the 22-year-old MTV star paid homage to her favorite tasty treat at the 'Nightmare in Jersey' celebration. 

Her look featured pickle-shaped spangles on her minidress, an emerald cape and a bright green manicure. 

Also in attendance: The Situation, who apparently dressed as a party pooper, choosing his everyday attire over a Halloween costume. Then again, how was he supposed to compete next to his magnificently greener-than-green co-star Snooki? Looks like she'd clobber anyone trying to steal her thunder with that scary jumbo pickle!
Snooki, whose costume was designed by The Light Group for the event, judged a $10,000 costume contest at the bash. No word yet on which partygoer's costume was even better than a pickle."

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Chloë Sevigny is so obsessed with a brutal century-old murder in New England -- she slept in thehouse where the killer hacked up the bodies ... and as the legend goes, the place is haunted.

You're looking at pics from the Lizzie Borden House in Fall River, Massachusetts -- named after a woman who allegedly murdered her elderly parents in cold blood, using nothing but a hatchet.

Who'da thunk ... the famous house is now a bed and breakfast -- and Chloë was one of its most recent guests ... doing a dead-on corpse impression, and even spending the night in Lizzie Borden's old bed.

For the record, Lizzie was accused of the murders but never convicted -- the creepy part ... no one else was ever arrested or tried.

Chloë Sevigny -- You're a 19th Century Dead Man

out in a.c. was a lot of fun, these are some pic's from Richie Rich's fashion show @ Harrah's Resort. JWOWW was really pretty in person.

King Ralphy, Ant Man & Ricardo - More pics later! :)
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"Pioneering electronic label Ninja Tune is turning 20 this year, and in addition to touring the whole world with many of their veterans and new blood, they’re dropping a crazy extensive commemorative box set and book, out today. With brand new tracks and unreleased joints from the archive, it’s a super solid document of their history and where they’re taking the label, which has always gone with its instinct and never fallen victim to trends. Case in point: this track we snagged from Sheffield house master/BBC radio DJ Toddla T and his lovely cohort, revered garage queen Ms. Dynamite. Dabbling in autotune, the far reaches of classic UK garage, stuttering house, British dance pop (in the Radio 1xtra sense of the term) and a dash of funky bashment, it’s everything and no one thing at once. Which means that, in its weird leftfield way, it sneaks up into the realm of populism. Tricky! Also, Toddla’s an amazing DJ and is coming stateside with the Ninja Tune tour this month, you shouldn’t miss it."

Download: Toddla T f. Ms Dynamite, “Want U Now”

Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/05/premiere-toddla-t-f-ms-dynamite-want-u-now-mp3/#ixzz03iBtmLHw

Cast as follows:

La Toya Jackson - Singer

Mark McGrath - Singer

Star Jones -Talk Show Host

Lisa Rinna - TV Star

Dionne Warwick - Singer

Richard Hatch - 1st winner of 'Survivor'

Jose Canseco -Baseball Player

Niki Taylor - Supermodel

Meat Loaf - Singer

Marlee Matlin - Actress

David Cassidy - Actor

Hope Dworaczyk - Playboy Model

Lil Jon - Rapper

Gary Busey - Actor

NeNe Leakes -'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' Star

John Rich - Big & Rich Member

Ludacris & Nicki Minaj – My Chick Bad – Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group

Young Money – Roger That – Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group

Mariah Carey & Nicki Minaj – Up Out My Face – Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

Sean Kingston &; Nicki Minaj – Letting Go (Dutty Love) – Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

Nicki Minaj & Sean Garrett – Massive Attack – Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

Trey Songz & Nicki Minaj – Bottoms Up – Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

will.i.am &; Nicki Minaj – Check It Out – Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

Young Money & Lloyd – Bedrock – Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

Nicki Minaj – Your Love – Best Rap Song

Young Money – We Are Young Money – Best Rap Album

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"The Real Housewives of New York City star will soon be launching her own Pinot Grigio wine! The reality star has teamed up with Opici Wines for the occasion."

Rihanna has confirmed that Nicki Minaj will be featured on her new album "Loud".



She has a great buzz and she has a thing to her. She is a star and that's why people love her. She's also really entertaining with her visual as well as her lyrics and she has great melody. I'm really amazed that she can write like that. Not only raps but she can write songs too. You know I worked with her before on Rated R and she was just writing me some really good ballads and I couldn't wait to work with her again and then have her on my record. It's a really fun song. It's called 'Raining Men'. No, nothing like the original. It's quite up-tempo but kind of quirky and funny."

Thanks:



Check Out Nicki Minaj on Regis & Kelly Here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xBNtlgbhowE

Judge Orders U.S. Military to Stop 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'



By JOHN SCHWARTZ

Published: October 13, 2010



A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the United States military to stop enforcing the "don't ask, don't tell" law that prohibits openly gay men and women from serving.



Judge Virginia A. Phillips of Federal District Court for the Central District of California issued an injunction banning enforcement of the law and ordered the military to immediately "suspend and discontinue" any investigations or proceedings to dismiss service members.



In language much like that in her Sept. 9 ruling declaring the law unconstitutional, Judge Phillips wrote that the 17-year-old policy "infringes the fundamental rights of United States service members and prospective service members" and violates their rights of due process and freedom of speech.



While the decision is likely to be appealed by the government, the new ruling represents a significant milestone for gay rights in the United States.



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Carl P. Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor in New York, with Rabbi Yechezkel Roth, left, and another Orthodox Jewish supporter during a campaign stop in Williamsburg on Sunday.

By ELIZABETH A. HARRIS
Published: October 11, 2010

The Republican candidate for governor, Carl P. Paladino, told a gathering in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Sunday that children should not be "brainwashed" into thinking that homosexuality was acceptable, and criticized his opponent, Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, for marching in a gay pride parade earlier this year.

Addressing Orthodox Jewish leaders, Mr. Paladino described his opposition to same-sex marriage.

"I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't," he said, reading from a prepared address, according to a video of the event.

And then, to applause at Congregation Shaarei Chaim, he said: "I didn't march in the gay parade this year - the gay pride parade this year. My opponent did, and that's not the example we should be showing our children." Newsday.com reported that Mr. Paladino's prepared text had included the sentence: "There is nothing to be proud of in being a dysfunctional homosexual." But Mr. Paladino omitted the sentence in his speech.

About an hour after Mr. Paladino's remarks, Mr. Cuomo's campaign released a statement condemning them.

"Mr. Paladino's statement displays a stunning homophobia and a glaring disregard for basic equality," it said. "These comments along with other views he has espoused make it clear that he is way out of the mainstream and is unfit to represent New York."Mr. Paladino declined a request to be interviewed after his appearance. His campaign manager, Michael R. Caputo, denied assertions that Mr. Paladino was antigay, and noted that he employed a gay man on his campaign staff.

"Carl Paladino is simply expressing the views that he holds in his heart as a Catholic," Mr. Caputo said in a telephone interview. "Carl Paladino is not homophobic, and neither is the Catholic Church."

"The majority of New Yorkers agree with him," Mr. Caputo added. He said the campaign had done its own polling.

During his appearance at the synagogue, with reporters in attendance, Mr. Paladino said: "Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie."

A same-sex marriage bill was defeated last year by New York lawmakers. Mr. Paladino has said that, unlike Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, he would veto such a bill if he were governor. But Mr. Caputo said that if the same measure passed in a statewide referendum, Mr. Paladino would uphold the law.

Brian Ellner, head of the marriage initiative for the gay advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, said that the Republican's remarks were insensitive given a recent swirl of news about suicide in the gay community and antigay violence.

The New York City Police Department announced on Friday that nine men in the Bronx had lured three men they believed were gay and then tortured them. Last month, a student at Rutgers University jumped off the George Washington Bridge after two classmates broadcast his sexual encounter with a man over the Internet.

Mr. Paladino's statements in Brooklyn were first broadcast by Azi Paybarah, a reporter for WNYC, and Reid Epstein of Newsday, on Twitter.

The back-and-forth between the two campaigns took a strange turn late on Sunday, when Mr. Caputo suggested that, on Aug. 20, a Cuomo staff member had referred to two gay male aides to Mr. Paladino as "girls." The aides were accompanying a Paladino volunteer dressed in a duck costume, and blowing duck calls, to call attention to what the Paladino campaign said was Mr. Cuomo's habit of ducking issues.

According to Mr. Caputo, the aides were approached by the Cuomo staff member and told: "If you girls don't get out of here I'm going to shove those duck calls down your throats."

Mr. Caputo said the encounter was "likely a hate crime since the Cuomo staffer clearly referenced their sexuality in his threat." The Cuomo campaign did not respond late Sunday

@ Juliet Supper Club this week.

#JustSayin

"When I was just starting out, someone suggested that we finish a meeting in the bedroom. I left. I was pretty shocked. I could see how someone who didn't know better might worry, 'My career will be ruined if I don't give this guy a blow job!'"

Shealita is soooooo bad!

Foxy Brown Ditches Gig Over Diva Demands

10/9/2010 12:15 AM PDT by TMZ Staff

Notorious troublemaker Foxy Brown left a NYC nightclub in the lurch earlier this week when she showed up for a gig nearly 4 hours late ... all because she didn't like the car they sent to pick her up.



Foxy was scheduled to perform at Splash Bar New York in Manhattan on Wednesday night, but the promoters of the gig tell TMZ they got an angry call from Foxy's people that night when the car they sent to pick her up arrived. Seems Foxy had requested a 2010 model SUV, but instead she got a 2009. It's odd she would care about what year the car was ... since she hasn’t had a hit since 1998.

We're told Foxy eventually gave in ... but showed up at the club only 30 minutes before closing. Foxy never took the stage -- claiming the promoters refused to pay her the other half of her $1,000 appearance fee.

A rep for Foxy tells us, “They promised they would give her the rest of the deposit and balance due when she arrived, but did not! Foxy was disappointed that the deposit and rider requirements were not met, that was all.”

The club's promoters are currently “discussing their legal options."