G-Dep Officially Indicted For Confessed Murder

Former Bad Boy rapper G-Dep may have finally gotten the peace he was looking for but at a hefty cost; 25 years to life.

A New York grand jury officially indicted him for murder Tuesday after he confessed to shooting a man three times in the chest when he was 18 and fleeing the scene.

Since his confession, Dep, real name Trevell Coleman, told The NYPost that he didn't know his victim died when he decided to come clean on the cold case.

According to Dep, he just wanted a clean conscience.

“I was surprised — for some reason, I really didn't think that he died,” the bald and bearded Coleman said in a jailhouse interview. “When they told me, I was like, ‘Oh, I'm not going home after this.”


His lawyer, Michael Alperstein, claims Coleman was prompted to confess to the crime as part of a 12-step program to conquer his battle with drug addiction.

Dep remains behind bars pending his sentencing.

Cam Newton wins Heisman Trophy

Cam Newton has won the Heisman Trophy after a season in which he played brilliantly but was also the focus of an NCAA investigation.

Newton won in a landslide vote Saturday night, easily outpointing runner-up Andrew Luck to become the third Auburn player to win college football's biggest individual award.

Newton beat out Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, Oregon running back LaMichael James and Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore.

The week before the Southeastern Conference championship, the NCAA announced that Cam Newton's father Cecil Newton tried to pull off a play-for-pay scheme with Mississippi State, but there was no evidence that his son or Auburn knew about it. The NCAA decided Cam Newton would be allowed to play, but his father's access to Auburn athletics would be limited. The sports governing body has left open the possibility that Cam Newton's status could change if new evidence came to light.

Newton, who was not selected to the Football Writers Association of America's All-America team, led the Southeastern Conference in rushing with 1,409 yards, scored 21 touchdowns and was the nation's top-rated passer with 2,589 yards passing and 28 TD throws.

Newton was greeted by hundreds of Auburn fans when he entered the Best Buy Theatre before the awards show.

Fans clad in orange and blue and carrying signs with slogans such as "War Cam Eagle" arrived nearly an hour ahead of time to recreate an Auburn tradition. Fans normally line the path into Jordan-Hare stadium in a "Tiger Walk" for players before games.

Newton's Tigers will play James and the Ducks in the Tostitos BCS National Championship Game in Glendale, Az. on Jan. 10.

Wiz Khalifa Dating Natalie Nunn???

The Internet was ablaze Friday with news that rapper Wiz Khalifa was spotted getting “closer than close” with reality star Natalie Nunn.

The Bad Girls club cast member was spotted at a club with the Black And Yellow emcee seemingly leaning in for a kiss.

While Nunn remained mute on the pictures that surfaced on the web, Khalifa quickly took the time to shoot down the rumors.

According to Wiz he was only “giving her a shotgun”, or helping her get high off marijuana.

The Day John Lennon Died: A Look Back at the Tragic Events of His Murder

Every Beatles fan who was old enough to watch the news in 1980 remembers the sickening feeling. The murder of John Lennon took a beloved rock star and willing cultural divining rod from his devoted following. It took a newly maturing 40-year-old man from his wife and two sons.

John Lennon's murder also took an enthusiastic adopted New Yorker from the city he had come to love as his own. That's the approach author Keith Elliot Greenberg took for his new book, 'December 8, 1980: The Day John Lennon Died.'

"I'm not a Beatles scholar, by any means," Greenberg tells Spinner, though he nevertheless does an admirable job of portraying the key moments and relationships in Lennon's life that led to his contented, newly refreshed frame of mind on the eve of his murder. "I am a crime reporter, and a New Yorker. I felt I had the ability to tell the story in true-crime fashion, as well as the passion to convey what life was like in New York in 1980."

As Lennon and Ono returned to their apartment from an evening recording session, Chapman, who had been lingering on the block for days, emerged from the Dakota's archway to shoot the former Beatle in the back. Though Lennon had been in the habit of addressing his own mortality -- on the day of his murder, he'd told a visiting interviewer that he hoped to die before Yoko -- the author is careful not to read too much into it.

"I think John was always referring to his own mortality," he says, pointing out that Lennon lost several people close to him, including his mother, onetime bandmate Stu Sutcliffe and Beatles manager Brian Epstein, during his short lifetime. "If you looked at a transcript of my conversations, you might say the same thing about me."

John and Yoko's life together, and Yoko's grief over the death of her husband, have been covered extensively, acknowledges the author. "I wanted to work the story along the margins. I wanted to tell the little stories in addition to the big story. To me, they add richness to the bigger tale."

Greenberg, a native New Yorker who who was born in the Bronx, raised in Queens and currently lives with his family in Brooklyn, once worked in television for Geraldo Rivera, a friend of the ex-Beatle and his wife. The author was a teenager in the late '70s, when John and Yoko were celebrated (and sometimes hounded) by the New York media.

"John Lennon made me proud to be a New Yorker," he says. Unlike some public figures, Lennon accepted the city on its own terms. Sadly, that's what killed him.

The fact that Yoko Ono did not flee -- she still lives in the Dakota -- is a tribute to the city's resilience, Greenberg says.

"She has enhanced the city by contributing a million dollars to build Strawberry Fields. She made New York a more beautiful, serene, positive place."

Imagine that.

Young Buck Speaks On Game Trying To Bring Back G-Unit And His Status With 50 Cent [Video]

In a recent interview with Tim Westwood, Cashville Records rapper Young Buck has offered his thoughts on Game recently wanting to bring back together G-Unit.
When Westwood asked Buck if he would ever reconcile with G-Unit, Buck replied,

"Me going back? To be continued. I know the picture you was left with before you done seen Buck again. It was one big family. It was a movement and it was a beautiful movement and I think the fans enjoyed that and I think they want that still. I wouldn't definitely just turn down the situation at this point but it would have to be done in a genuine way as far as the whole movement of what it should be. It would just have to be done in a genuine way."

Buck also spoke on why he put away his differences with Game, and why he does not have beef with anyone anymore.


"I done reconciled with Game because in reality I don't feel like the situation of when there was a situation dealing with the G-Unit and Game it was a situation where I would consider beef...When you consider beef, that's a whole different world. A lot of these are just considered misunderstandings but they're able to make it to the beef categories and carried out like that."

Peep the full interview below to see if Buck is down for the G-Unit reunion and more.

Kanye West's Media Trainer Quits After "Today" Show Interview

Kanye West Media Trainer Quits After Disastrous 'Today' Interview

According to The New York Post, Kanye West's media trainer Susie Arons has quit after only three days on the job following his interview on the "Today" show with Matt Lauer.

As previously reported, Lauer seemed to have went on a personal attack and proceeded to be former President George W. Bush's bodyguard in the interview.

According to The Post, Kanye's camp hired Susie Arons on Monday, an executive vice president at Rubenstein Communications, for help handling the interview. Collectively, they agreed West should cancel the interview, and it was called off Monday night.

But on Tuesday morning, Arons was notified that West was waiting at NBC's Rockefeller Center studio for the Lauer chat, and she rushed over at West's request.

According to a show insider, "West shut himself in a dressing room with Susie, and could be heard rehearsing possible questions and answers. But the interview began, and it was as though he had crammed for a test and then his mind went blank."

As seen around the world, Ye became frustrated around the questions which were obviously brought up to promote the former President's new book which he seems to have lifted from pages of previous published books by his subordinates according to The Huffington Post... Go figure.

The NY Post also reports that when Lauer and West took a break, West "huddled again with the media trainer because he still hadn't found a way to express himself," said our source. The disastrous interview aired Thursday, and Arons resigned from working with him yesterday morning.

Despite the media sabotage and backlash, Kanye's new album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" drops November 22nd and is already being heralded as a classic.

Ron Artest Wears a Fake Beard, Plays Football With Jimmy Kimmel (VIDEO)

NBA star Ron Artest is an odd fellow. He's won a world championship, but he's better known for his unique brand of behavior.

Artest was the first basketball player to ever run into the stands and attack a fan. Less dangerously, but just as weirdly, he drank cognac during the halftime of games, wore a bathrobe to practice -- and applied for a job at Circuit City, so that he could get an employee discount (while earning millions of dollars a year).

All of this makes Artest a risk to have on your team -- but it also makes him an excellent guest on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' (weeknights, 12AM ET on ABC).

Ron has been on the show before, and Jimmy is excited to have him back. Kimmel is ready for some weirdness. Artest doesn't disappoint him. Mr. Artest showed up in a fake beard, and also wore a crazy hat and socks with sandals. This was a major fashion faux pas, but that was just the beginning. Next, Ron made Jimmy play touch football, and confessed his undying love for singer Celine Dion. It was all so bewildering that ... well, you should just watch it for yourself.

Kanye West Reveals Banned Cover To "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy"

A naked Kanye West and his "phoenix" as cover art didn't jive with distributors, but 'Ye gave fans a glimpse anyway, and blasted retailers who disapprove.

Although he's giving out weekly free songs via G.O.O.D Fridays, Chicago Hip Hop superstar Kanye West has kept a number of things mysterious about next month's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The Def Jam artist's fifth album may be coming November 22, 2010, but it was unclear what the art-inspired rapper's cover would look like.

Today, West tweeted what it will not look like. Kanye's intended cover featured a painting of what is believed to be a naked woman sitting on a naked man's lap. West indicated that the man, who is also holding a bottle, is supposed to be him. The woman, he called his "phoenix."

The cover is below:


With West's label presumingly banning the cover, the rapper criticized retailers that would deem the content unsuitable, specifically Wal-Mart.

West also pointed to the popularity of nudity on album covers in the 1970s. Artists including John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, The Scorpions and David Bowie have all used nudity or overly sexual themes on cover art.

Previously in Hip Hop, Ice-T's Home Invasion and The Coup's Party Music had banned covers

Meadowbrook Student dies after being hit by train (RIP Joshua Franklin)

 

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY - Chesterfield Police have identified the man killed in a train accident Friday night to be a local high school student.

Police say Joshua D. Franklin, an 18 year-old Meadowbrook High School student who lives in the 6400 block of Cosmic Rd. was walking by the tracks near the Defense Supply Center when he was struck by a train. The incident happened at around 9:30 p.m. Friday night.

Franklin was pronounced dead on the scene. The incident remains under investigation.

A vigil is scheduled to remember the victim Monday night. Friends and family will gather at the railroad tracks where Franklin's body was found at 7:00 pm.

His mother tells CBS 6, she believes he was rushing home from a friends house to meet a 10pm curfew.

"He told me he wasn't going to use it again. That's why I knew he was rushing. He probably just wasn't thinking and used the shortcut," said Chrisandra Franklin.

When Chrisandra Franklin got the news about her son being struck by a train, she and her daughters rushed to the scene.

"I went up the train tracks, the police said you can't come up here and I said this might be my son. Once I saw his body, I said, Jesus, I knew it was my son."

Franklin says her son had his faults but called him a special young man.

"He cooked me breakfast every Saturday morning. He watched over my youngest daughter, you know. He was a big brother. It was like he was the man of the house," said Franklin.

Joshua's friends say he worked at the Boys and Girls club on Bainbridge street in South Richmond for the past three years.

They say he loved to play football and had planned to go to college.

And you could always count on him for a good laugh.

"He was a loving person, make you laugh, always put a smile on your face. He was just goofy a real comedian, good to be around," said best friend Casey Trice.

Family and friends comforted Joshua's mother and sisters at their Chesterfield apartment. Still in shock over this tragedy now asking why it had to happen.

Chrisandra Frankllin says "I love him but I know God loves him more. And I know I have angels watching over me but now I have a personal angel looking over me because I know my son was one."

"I just wish he could come back. It's not going to happen but I just miss him and love him," said Trice.

Many kids in living in the Regency Lake apartments in Chesterfield near the accident scene say, they use those train tracks as a short cut everyday, never expecting a tragedy to happen.

Since Joshua's death, there's been a huge outpouring of support from his friends.

So, his family is holding a vigil Monday evening at 7pm near the train tracks at Strathmore and Dundas roads. They're asking the public to bring flowers, roses and candles in memory of Joshua Franklin.

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A man died after being struck by a train in Chesterfield County Friday night.

It happened about 9:30 p.m. on the tracks near the Defense Supply Center. Investigators say the victim was walking beside those tracks when he was hit by a train traveling south.

The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His identity is being withheld under his family has been notified.

Police are conducting an investigation.

Michael Vick - The Rib Injury

Michael Vick told a Virginia Beach, Va., radio station Monday night that he's hoping to miss "maybe a week, maybe two weeks" from his rib cartilage injury.

"There is some cartilage damage up in there and a small fracture up in there, so maybe a week, maybe two weeks," he said, according to philly.com. "I just have to work through it. I've always been a quick healer. It won't be no more than one, two weeks hopefully. Hopefully.

"I'm feeling good, despite the rib injury. I'm fighting through it. Overall, I'm feeling well."

He has already been ruled out of this week's Eagles game against the 49ers, according to ESPN.

Monday afternoon, Eagles head coach Andy Reid called Vick "day-to-day, week-to-week" at his press conference.

Reid noted that Vick was still sore from the hit he suffered when two Redskins converged on him during a 23-yard scramble in the first quarter that was called back due to a penalty. Vick didn't return to the game and Kevin Kolb took over as quarterback in the 17-12 loss.

"The most important thing is just rest," Vick told WXTG Radio. "There is really nothing you can do for a rib injury, especially in the upper part of your rib cage. I'll get rest, I've got a Hyperbaric machine and I'll be spending a lot of time in that trying to restore my blood cells. I'll stay in the treatment room, getting ice for it and just trying to get movement."