When you’re a bonafide star, you pretty much get your way. Unless of course your way could possibly get in the way of the cash flow that is.

Recently it was announced that Lil Wayne’s rock album, “Rebirth”, had been pushed back from April 7th to May 9th.
He announced his plans to do an entire rock n roll album in addition to the release of the Carter 4 early this year, much to the surprise of his loyal fans who are used to hearing him stick to rapping.
Well now word is that this was not just a standard push back but a direct signal from Wayne’s record label, Universal, that they are not rocking with him on this project.

The Carter III was the top selling album of the year and pretty much Universal Music’s cash cow of last year. They want to do everything to keep Wayne in the top position he is in right now and avoid anything that could knock him from that spot.

Word is the top brass at Universal think that this rock album would be a failure and would make the rap world look at Wayne even more sideways than most of us already do. People reports top execs at Universal have tried to talk to Wayne several times and explain to him that this album is not a reality, but of course those convos are to no avail.

Word is that they let his manager, Cortez Bryant, know that if Wayne doesn’t brighten up they have to turn into Mr. Evil Record Company and just tell him it’s never going to be released.

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Originally posted 2009-02-24 13:15:51.

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Update: Jackson toxicology results will take 6-8 weeks, says coroner

Michael Jackson died after being given a shot of a powerful narcotic which he was receiving daily, according to the blog that first reported news of his passing.

“A close member of Michael Jackson’s family has told us Jackson received a daily injection of a synthetic narcotic similar to morphine — Demerol — and yesterday he received a shot at 11:30 AM,” TMZ reported Friday.

“Family members are saying the dosage was ‘too much’ and that’s what caused his death,” they added.

If Jackson was given the shot at 11:30 AM Pacific time, it would have been about an hour before he was pronounced dead. The singer reportedly suffered slowed breathing in the moments leading up to his death.

According to the site, the live-in doctor who gave Jackson the shot is now missing.

The doctor, who remains unnamed, allegedly left his vehicle at Jackson’s home from which it was towed last night.

Wrote TMZ Friday morning: “Law enforcement sources tell us a BMW belonging to the doctor was towed from Jackson’s home last night. Cops are looking to interview the doc.”

“A law enforcement source says the doctor gave Jackson an injection before he died,” the blog alleged. “Jackson reportedly may have OD’d on Demerol. As we first reported, family members were concerned that Jackson was taking too much morphine.”

Jackson toxicology results will take 6-8 weeks: coroner

“Authorities are seeking to clear up the mystery surrounding Michael Jackson’s death, including whether prescription drugs could have been a factor,” the Associated Press reports.

Toxicology results will take at least 6-8 weeks, a Los Angeles coroner told the press, and there probably won’t be any released today on Jackson’s death.

“We’re conducting it as we do any other exam,” said Lt. Ed Winter, assistant chief coroner.

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Originally posted 2009-06-26 13:18:11.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – NASA on Tuesday named its new living quarters on the International Space Station “Tranquillity,” denying television comedian Stephen Colbert his attempt to get the new Node 3 named after himself.

Astronaut Sunita L. Williams, appearing on “The Colbert Report” on cable TV network Comedy Central, said NASA will name the new module Tranquility, instead of Colbert as he and his fans demanded after winning an online poll conducted by NASA.

But the U.S. space agency did make one concession. It said it will make a new Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) — a fancy way of saying “exercise treadmill” — a key fixture in the space station.

“Your name will be in space in a very important place,” Williams assured Colbert on his TV show. “Everyday somebody will have to jump on the COLBERT,” she said.

Initially, the comedian seemed upset, but then he hit on an idea. “By running on the treadmill, that is what powers the Space Station?” asked a hopeful Colbert.

“Well, not really,” said Williams, who in the past served as a flight engineer aboard the space station.

The comedic situation stemmed from NASA’s recent public outreach to drum up interest in the $100 billion International Space Station by holding an online contest to name the new Node 3, which will house life support equipment.

Colbert, who parodies a conservative political commentator on his TV show, waged a campaign encouraging fans to vote for him and he eventually won, earning 230,539 write-in votes to 40,000 for NASA’s top suggestion, “Serenity.”

Contest rules stipulated that NASA retained the right to name Node 3, but in March U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah, a Pennsylvania Democrat, called on NASA to do the democratic thing and use the name that drew the most votes — Colbert.

In the end, Colbert took Tuesday’s news with a friendly handshake, and he thanked Williams and NASA for playing along with him and his fans.

It wasn’t Colbert’s first attempt to brand a piece of public property with his name. In 2006, he topped another public vote to name a bridge in Budapest, Hungary. But again he lost because Hungarian law required that the bridge’s namesake be fluent in Hungarian and deceased.

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Originally posted 2009-04-16 08:20:13.

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