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If it were just about the music, the long-awaited Hot Boys reunion probably would have already happened. All four members — Lil Wayne, B.G., Juvenile and the currently incarcerated Turk — seem to be onboard. There are even some unreleased Turk vocals in the vaults. However, B.G. said that with him and Lil Wayne having problems with the law, it's unlikely a record will drop anytime soon.

"I know I got my own personal dealings to deal with, as far as with the system and things of that nature," said B.G., who was arrested for illegal gun possession recently in Louisiana. Meanwhile, Wayne is expected to be sentenced to a year in prison in a New York court in February.

"I know Wayne's got to face the music with his situation with the system," B.G. added. "But we got time. We got a whole bunch of time to put the album together. We record quick. We already got songs done. But I look at it like, if we record from now until whoever gets sentenced or however it go, we still wouldn't be able to put the album out until [Wayne] comes home. When shorty comes home, I know he'll wanna record a whole 'nother album. So you might have a double Hot Boys CD. You never know. I don't know how it will work out."

Aside from legal woes, the Hot Boys project still poses problems on the business end.

"It's a paperwork thing," B.G. added. "We gotta get the paperwork straight. A lot of lawyers involved, a lot of managers involved — we gotta make sure everything is everything."

Meanwhile, Juvenile is more optimistic. He says he's already received a payment to work on the album.

"We been came to an agreement on that," Juve told us recently. "I already got a check on the new Hot Boys album. I'm probably the only one that has gotten paid. It's all a matter of them getting the business straight with B.G. — I think Wayne is already in — and Turk. Matter of fact, Wayne is in. Wayne is the one who wrote me the check."

Both B.G. and Juvenile say that they have now reconciled with Cash Money Records Co-CEO Bryan "Birdman" Williams.

"We spilled our guts out to each other," Juve said of his talks with Birdman. "We put it out on the table. We let bygones be bygones. Let's put all this aside and get money."

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Juvenile hasn't released an LP in three years. He's gone through some label reshuffling (his new LP, Cocky and Confident, will be released as a joint venture between Atlantic Records and E1 Music), continued to persevere through the lasting effects of Hurricane Katrina in his hometown of New Orleans, and worst of all, cope with the horrific murder of his 4-year-old daughter Jelani in early 2008.

The child was slain along with her mother Joy Deleston, 39; and Deleston's daughter Micaiah, 11, in their home in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Deleston's 17-year-old son, Anthony Tyrone Terrell, was arrested for all three murders and charged with aggravated assault as well.

Juvenile says it's impossible to fully heal from a tragedy of that scale.

"Time, man," he explained about how he has coped. "You don't get over things like that. That's something that goes with you for the rest of your life. I don't know, man, just time to yourself. I'm not even comfortable talking about it. I stayed away from the press, everybody had a million questions. I'm not even comfortable talking about it."

Juve said he's relied on his family as a support system.

"I got a great wife, good brother, great momma. My family is good," he described.

When he refocused on his musical career, Juve chose to get back to some of the material that brought him to prominence in the late '90s: the streets and partying.

"I'm moving around a little bit," he said modestly. "I got one record with Pleasure P called 'Hands on You,' it's a ladies' record. I got another one called 'Gotta Get It.' It's doing real good on radio. It's one of your regular Juve records, follows in the trend of 'Ha.' One of those rough, rugged, first records I always come with."

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It looks like the long-awaited Hot Boys reunion is out of the talking stages and getting serious. Money has been spent to ensure the reunion happens.

"I already signed the deal," Juvenile told Vibe contributor Alison Fensterstock in March. The interview went up on Vibe.com Thursday.

"So for me, I'm gonna definitely say it's a go," Juvenile said. "I already received the check. Wayne is going to put that out, so for me and Wayne, it's a go. I don't know if the business been straightened out, but I know B.G.'s on board and he's willing to do it. I don't know where Turk stands on the business side."

Last year, Hot Boy alums Lil Wayne, B.G. and Juvenile were hyped to join each other onstage at a New Orleans club. But before they had a chance to make it to the venue, shots rang out outside the club and the party was shut down.

"It was going to be a big, historic moment," B.G. told MTV News. "I was just saying that everybody was cool during the All-Star Weekend, then they start shooting. Why'd they have to shoot up on our night? Guess that's Chopper City for ya."

When we spoke to Lil Wayne that same day, Weezy said he was not going to the club to get with his old group but was open to working with them in the future. Late last year before the BET Hip-Hop Awards, Weezy told Mixtape Monday a reunion was in the works, but didn't know when it would launch.

Since the Hot Boys' breakup — amidst business fallouts with Slim and Baby, the heads of Cash Money Records — they've traded disses with one another and reconciled. Last year Juvenile suffered the murder of his daughter, while B.G. was supposed to drop a solo LP on Atlantic Records, but that never surfaced.

Universal Records, Cash Money's distributor, had no comment as to when the album will be released.

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A couple of the guys were missing, but it was certainly a start.

The Cash Money Millionaires reunited Sunday night at Dreams in New Orleans. Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, B.G., Baby and his brother Slim were all at the club for the last night of the Core DJs' annual weekend gathering. Hot Boy Turk is still incarcerated, and Lil Wayne, enjoying his first overseas trek, is in Europe on tour, so they were not present. Juvenile, who recently lost his daughter in a tragic murder, was said to be in good spirits.

Cash Money had planned to come back together — Turk, B.G., Mannie Fresh and Juvie left the label years ago — in February at the end of the NBA All-Star Weekend festivities, but due to a shooting at the club where the show was supposed to take place, the guys didn't get a chance to re-form.

"It was just going to be a moment in hip-hop history," B.G. said the day after the reunion was supposed to happen. "We all haven't been under the same roof together in over four years. It was gonna be a moment, and who knows what would have happened once we got in there? But due to it being Chopper City and it being New Orleans, they had a shoot-out in front of the club before we could even get there, and three people got shot, so they shut it down.

"I got a phone call saying, 'Gear up, everything is straight — we about to get ready to head out,' " B.G. added. "Then five, 10 minutes later, I got a call saying, 'They shooting around here, don't come.' Then I got a couple of more phone calls saying, 'They got yellow tape 'round here, police got it blocked off, it ain't happening.' ... I think you gonna have all us together real soon. I know it's gonna be before the end of this year."

"I knew nothing of it till I heard about it on the radio," Lil Wayne said of the would-be Cash Money homecoming. "I called [my manager. He] was like, 'Nah, we ain't going to that.' I was like, 'Why?' He said, 'Nobody paid us to go.' Simple as that. That's all I knew about it."

Hopefully Wayne will be kept in the loop once he returns to the States if the guys decide to hook up again. Meanwhile, we can definitely expect Wayne and Juvenile to appear on B.G.'s song "Ya Heard Me." The track was produced by Cool & Dre and appears on Gizzle's upcoming LP Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood. Trey Songz sings on the hook.

"It's the official Hot Boy reunion — the first time in seven years you hear Juvenile, B.G. and Lil Wayne all on the same record," Dre told us last week of his and Cool's production. "And it's crazy. It's coming out really, really soon. It's a record I'm proud of.

"They just got together," he added. "You know they all been going through some sh--. They all been through traumatic things in the past couple months. With Mannie Fresh's sister passing, and Juvenile's daughter, and with all the controversy surrounding Wayne, Birdman had a loss in his family. They lost their city to Katrina. I think this record is going to be healing for New Orleans, because they're the sons of New Orleans. They belong to that city. So when the city hears the record, they're gonna feel good. I'm just happy to be a part of it, to be honest with you. Lil Wayne is singing the hook with Trey Songz. It's just crazy."

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Juvenile's 4-year-old daughter, Jelani Deleston, her mother and her older sister were laid to rest in James Island, South Carolina, on Saturday, just over a week after the three were brutally murdered in their Georgia home.

According to several media outlets, Juvenile reportedly did not attend the funeral services. TMZ, citing an unnamed spokesperson for the rapper, reported that he declined to attend because he did not want to attract media to the gathering.

Jelani, Joy Deleston, 39, and Micaiah, 11, were shot and killed on February 28, allegedly by Deleston's 17-year-old son, Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr. Terrell has been arrested and charged with three counts of murder and three counts of aggravated assault. He is currently being held in a DeKalb County prison. Because of his age, prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty against him.

Juvenile (real name: Terius Gray) has kept a low profile during the ordeal, with the only public comment being a statement from his manager saying that the rapper was "shocked and devastated" to learn of his daughter's death. The extent of Juvenile's relationship with Jelani or her mother, a sheriff's deputy, is unclear.

Deleston brought a paternity lawsuit against Juvenile in 2004 claiming the rapper was Jelani's father. Attorney Randy Kessler, who represented Juvenile in the proceedings, told The Associated Press that the case was resolved peacefully by consent order in 2006, with both parties agreeing that Juvenile was the father. Juvenile had been making regular child-support payments, his manager told the AP.

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Rapper Juvenile is "shocked and devastated" by the shooting deaths of his 4-year-old daughter, the girl's mother and another child, his manager, Aubrey Francis, told The Associated Press on Saturday.

The bodies of Juvenile's daughter Jelani; her mother, Joy Deleston, 39; and Deleston's daughter Micaiah, 11, were found Thursday night in their home in Lawrenceville, Georgia, which is near Atlanta. Deleston's 17-year-old son, Anthony Tyrone Terrell, was arrested by Gwinnett County police on Friday and later charged with three counts of murder and three counts of aggravated assault. Terrell waived his first court hearing, where he would have been formally notified of the charges against him, on Friday, a Gwinnett County Magistrate Court clerk told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

"It really shocked him and devastated him to the point where I've never seen him before," Francis said of the rapper, according to the AP. "Right now he is relaxing and trying to grasp everything of what has happened."

Memorial services for the three have been set for this week in Charleston, South Carolina, according to the AJC. Funeral arraignments have not been disclosed. An obituary that ran in the AJC over the weekend confirmed Deleston was survived by her mother and brother of South Carolina, as well as another brother living in Japan. Deleston was an actress who appeared in locally produced films, and also worked as a sheriff's deputy. A private memorial service was held for the three on Sunday in Dacula, Georgia.

Police still have not announced a motive in the killings.

MTV News confirmed on Monday (March 3) that Terrell is being held in a DeKalb County prison; Deleston was a seven-and-a-half-year veteran of the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office and her son was placed in a different county to avoid potential conflicts during his processing.

Colleagues of the actress and schoolmates of her son have expressed shock and dismay over the shootings.

Robert Singleton, who appeared in multiple projects with Deleston, described her son as "a good kid." "That's the reason why it's so disturbing, because you just didn't see that coming," Singleton told the AJC. "He seemed very humble. He was respectful."

Lewis Colquhoun, who attends the same high school as Terrell, said the accused had always spoken highly of his mother. "Every time he talks about his mom, it's something good about her," the Central Gwinnett High School freshman told the paper. "I don't think it's true. I don't believe it at all. He's not the kind of kid to snap."

According to the AJC, Terrell implicated himself in the killings and revealed to authorities where he'd placed the weapon after the shooting, police said. The paper reported that officers responded to gunshots fired on Thursday evening and, after discovering bullet holes in the house next door, checked on the residents. There, police found the three bodies.

Because of his age, prosecutors cannot seek the death penalty against Terrell. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for him for Thursday morning in Gwinnett County Superior Court, prosecutor Danny Porter told the AP.

In 2004, Deleston brought a paternity lawsuit against Juveline, claiming that the rapper (real name: Terius Gray) was Jelani's father. Attorney Randy Kessler, who represented Juvenile in the proceedings, told the AP that the case was resolved peacefully by consent order in 2006, with both parties agreeing that Juvenile was the father. Juvenile had been making regular child-support payments, Francis told the AP.

Representatives for the rapper's label, Atlantic Records, and his former recording home, Cash Money Records, had no comment at press time.

[This story was originally published at 11:07 a.m. ET on 03.02.2008]

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The daughter of rapper Juvenile, along with her mother and sister, were murdered Thursday in Georgia, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The mother, Joy Deleston, a sheriff's deputy in Gwinnett County, was fatally shot, as were her two daughters, Micaiah, 11, and Jelani, 4. Jelani was the daughter of Juvenile, the paper reported.

Police in DeKalb County confirmed to MTV News that the alleged shooter was Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr., who is Deleston's son. Terrell, 17, is currently being held and is being charged with three counts of murder and three counts of aggravated assault, the AJC reported.

A representative with the rapper's label, Atlantic Records, had no comment.

Deleston, 39, was an actress who appeared in locally produced films, as well as a seven-and-a-half-year veteran of the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Office, according to the paper.

Terrell waived his first court hearing, where he would have been formally notified of the charges against him, on Friday (February 29), a Gwinnett County Magistrate Court clerk told the AJC. Defense attorney Lyle Porter, who could not be reached Friday, has been assigned to represent him.

"Investigators interviewed Mr. Terrell, and as a result of the interview, there was enough probable cause to charge him with the murder of his mother and two sisters," a police spokesperson, who said the motive for the shootings was still under investigation, told the paper.

Deleston brought a paternity lawsuit in 2004, claiming that Juvenile (real name: Terius Gray) was Jelani's father. Attorney Randy Kessler, who represented Juvenile in the proceedings, told The Associated Press that the case was resolved peacefully by consent order in 2006, with both parties agreeing that Juvenile was the father.

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Juvenile was arrested in Mississippi on Tuesday (February 12) for marijuana possession, according to TMZ.com. The New Orleans rapper was reportedly pulled over for having expired tags on his car — it has yet to be determined whether he was the one driving — after which authorities discovered the drugs. He was released Tuesday afternoon after being arrested, and it's not yet known when his court appearance will be. ...

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After her triumphant return to live performing and five Grammy wins on Sunday night, Amy Winehouse is on the road to recovery, according to her mother. Janis Winehouse told Britain's GMTV that the singer's solid performance via satellite during the show is proof that she's overcoming the substance issues that were threatening to derail her promising career. "Well, it's Amy coming back, she's definitely on the way back," Janis Winehouse said. "As you saw, she looks good, and ... she's on the road to recovery." ... Even with the tease of a potential Kanye West diatribe, a possibly controversial performance from Winehouse and the shocking Album of the Year win by Herbie Hancock, Sunday's Grammys were a ratings bust. Early numbers indicated that the show was the third-least-watched Grammys ever, with just 17.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. It barely edged out the 2006 show, which had 17 million viewers. ...

Eric Idle, the comedy legend who authored the theatrical production "Monty Python's Spamalot," has swapped out a reference the script makes to Britney Spears and replaced it with a reference to Posh Spice instead, according to AP. Instead of, "I am sick of my career/ Always stuck in second gear ... I've no Tony Awards/ I'm constantly replaced by Britney Spears," Lady of the Lake will now sing "replaced by Posh Spice." Idle reportedly chimed in on the switch-up, saying, "We don't laugh at sad people. [Show director] Mike Nichols requested it, and he's right. We changed the lyrics in London, on tour, on Broadway and in Las Vegas. We think that it's now too sad. Britney Spears is being tortured to death, and we don't want to be on that side." ...

Radiohead have another album coming out this year, and they're not happy about it. According to a post on fan site AtEase.com, their former label, EMI, is slated to release a greatest-hits package to coincide with the band's upcoming tour. Guitarist Ed O'Brien said, "They're planning to do a greatest-hits for April/May to coincide with our tour. That's an interesting one. We won't be doing any promotion for that, obviously." Meanwhile, the band has confirmed the first half of dates and venues for its upcoming North American tour, and if you live in Bristow, Virginia, well, you're in luck! The trek kicks off May 5 at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida, and will make stops at outdoor venues in Tampa, Florida; Atlanta; Charlotte, North Carolina; Bristow (holler!); St. Louis; and Houston. The last confirmed venue/date is May 18 at the awesomely named SuperPages.com Center in Dallas. Pre-sale for the above dates begins Thursday via the band's online W.A.S.T.E. site, with general on-sale following Saturday. The second half of Radiohead's North American jaunt will follow their summer tour of the U.K. and Europe. ...

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An appeals court has upheld the 37-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Ronald Isley. According to AP, the three-judge panel rejected the 66-year-old singer's argument that his sentence was unreasonable due to his age, poor health and lack of proof that the federal prison system can provide him adequate health care. The court ruled that the trial judge was correct in sentencing the "Twist and Shout" singer for his "pathological" tax evasion. Isley was sentenced in 2006 after being convicted of five counts of tax evasion and one count of willful failure to file a tax return. He suffered a minor stroke in 2004, but continued performing afterwards. He is currently in prison at the Terre Haute Federal Corrections Institution in Indiana, with release scheduled for April 2010.

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Ten young people were trampled or crushed to death Saturday night, as hundreds of music fans tried to force their way out of a concert by Indonesian melodic death-metallers Beside in Bandung, Indonesia, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. According to witnesses, people were packed into the venue and trying to escape the crush just as hundreds of others were surging their way inside. So far, police have not said what caused the stampede, but an investigation into the matter is ongoing.

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Pac's Life, another new collection of Tupac Shakur songs, is due next month. The late rapper's mother, Afeni Shakur, has assembled a host of acts to record a posthumous album, out November 21 on Amaru/ Interscope Records. Featuring contributions from Ludacris, T.I. and Keyshia Cole, Pac's Life will feature just one previously released Tupac verse along with unreleased lyrics and compositions from the late star. ...

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NBC's Madonna TV special will not feature the singer on a cross, The Associated Press reports. The concert special, which has been under heavy scrutiny by religious groups, will air November 22. ... Kevin Federline is taking to the road shortly after the release of his debut LP, Playing With Fire, on Halloween. The singer will play the first of eight dates November 4 at New York's Webster Hall and the last one November 22 at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California. Five of the gigs are taking place at HOB venues. ... Russell Simmons will lead a Diamond Information Center fact-finding mission to South Africa and Botswana from November 26 to December 4 to learn how the diamond business impacts and can help enhance the education and economics of African communities. ...

Haley Joel Osment pleaded no contest to misdemeanor drunk-driving and drug-possession charges on Thursday, AP reports. A judge sentenced the 18-year-old actor to three years of probation and told him to spend 60 hours in a rehab program and attend 26 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Osment, who did not go to the court hearing, crashed his car into a mailbox in July. ... Bloc Party, the Decemberists, the Walkmen, Lou Barlow, Devendra Banhart, Pretty Girls Make Graves and the Mountain Goats have taped PSAs for a new campaign called Save the Album. Info on the cause, which comes at a time when online single sales are higher than ever, is available at SaveTheAlbum.com. ...

Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. will play a string of East Coast solo dates later this month in support of his solo debut, Yours to Keep, which has yet to be slated for a U.S. release but is available overseas. The rocker is scheduled to perform October 28 in Asbury Park, New Jersey; October 30 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; November 1 in Philadelphia; and November 3 in New York. ... Weston are also touring the East Coast, as part of their three-gig reunion in December. The band, which called it quits back in 2000, claims it would like to "give our fans another chance to experience what made Weston so much fun. There are a lot of people who have told us over the years how much they miss our live performances. Some have said that they've never had a chance to even see us play live." The band plays Atlantic City, New Jersey, on December 29; New York on December 30; and Allentown, Pennsylvania, on December 31. ...

R&B singer Jon B is ushering in the holidays with a Christmas album, Holiday Wishes From Me to You. The LP, which features his renditions of "Oh Holy Night," "Joy to the World" and more, streets November 7. Meanwhile, his follow-up release, Back to Love, will drop in February. ... Incubus are turning to fans for help with the upcoming video for their next single, "Anna Molly." Six hundred Incubus aficionados will attend the band's show in San Francisco on Friday (October 20), and they are being encouraged to use their Verizon phones to record the band when it plays that song. The clip will be an amalgam of video shot during the performance of "Anna Molly." ...

CBS is the first radio corporation to settle with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over accusations that it used illicit pay-for-play practices, according to The New York Times. CBS agreed to use tougher policies in dealing with labels and will pay $2 million to various New York charities. ... A new merit badge is being offered to Los Angeles Boy Scouts who learn "about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music," according to AP. The badge, sponsored by the movie industry, depicts a film reel, CD and the international copyright symbol. ... Bob Seger and Anita Baker will perform "America the Beautiful" and the national anthem, respectively, before the first two World Series games in Detroit, according to AP. ... Sofia Coppola is seven months pregnant with a baby girl, AP reports. The father is Thomas Mars, frontman for French band Phoenix. ... The outlet also reported that Jaime Pressly is engaged to her boyfriend, DJ Eric Cubiche. ...

Staind singer Aaron Lewis is returning to his high school in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, on November 4 for a benefit concert for its art and music programs. "Music education in schools is a vitally important cause," he said in a statement. ... Army of Anyone, the band featuring former Filter frontman Richard Patrick and ex-Stone Temple Pilots Dean and Robert DeLeo, have announced the first dates of their maiden tour. The trek kicks off November 18 in Philadelphia and, before concluding November 30 in Nashville, will make stops in Hartford, Connecticut; Boston; Atlanta; and Orlando, Florida. The band's self-titled debut is due November 14. ... The Zippo Hot Tour featuring Papa Roach will kick off November 13 in Norfolk, Virginia, and wrap up December 17 in Amarillo, Texas. Philadelphia's Stealing December won a contest to be the opening band. ... Fair to Midland, the latest act signed to System of a Down singer Serj Tankian's Serjical Strike Records, will release The Drawn and Quartered EP on November 7. Their full length, produced by David Bottrill (Tool, Muse), is due in March. ...

10.19.2006

A word of advice: Don't offer Lindsay Lohan unsolicited advice. The actress/singer — who said in In Style's November issue that she pictures herself at 30 as a married homeowner with an Oscar who's made "the kind of record I want" — told the magazine that one of the more unsettling side effects of her very public profile is that strangers think they know her, and can act a bit too familiar. "The other day this guy I'd never met was like: 'Make sure you keep your sh-- together.' I was like, 'Excuse me? You know nothing about me.' I was flabbergasted." Lohan said the best counsel she's received has come from her mother, who advised, "Go with your first instinct" — though Lindsay warns that "this can lead to impulse buying." ...

Want to hear My Chemical Romance's The Black Parade before its Tuesday release? Starting Friday at 7 p.m., Hot Topic locations will be pumping the LP over the store's sound system. Fans can also pre-order the album there and get a coupon to take 15 percent off anything in the store in return. ... AFI have plans to re-release Decemberunderground as a series of six 7-inch singles packaged in a box set. Each single will be pressed on icy translucent vinyl, and will feature a cover shot of a band member. No release date has been pinned down yet for the limited-edition set, which will also include the previously unreleased track "Fallen Like the Sky." ...

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett and his wife, Lani, became first-time parents recently with the birth of their son, Angel Ray Keala Hammett. Metallica are currently in the studio, working on their forthcoming album with producer Rick Rubin. ... Pixies frontman Frank Black will be the musical guest on NBC's "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" Friday. Black is expected to perform "Johnny Barleycorn" from his latest solo LP, Fast Man/ Raider Man. ...

Just before Google's massive $1.65 billion deal to buy YouTube, three of the four major record labels — Universal, SonyBMG and Warner Music Group — quietly negotiated small stakes in YouTube as part of video and music-licensing deals made before the sale that will earn the companies as much as $50 million, according to The New York Times. One of the biggest threats to YouTube's success is the potential for legal action from record labels over the illegal posting of music and videos, and the deals with labels could help protect Google from copyright-infringement lawsuits, though that won't stop television or movie studios from potentially suing over the same issues. The labels' deal will allow them to share revenue from ads that will run alongside their music videos. YouTube has promised to use new technology to identify copyrighted material that users have uploaded to the site without permission. ...

Ending months of speculation, BBC News has confirmed that classic rockers Genesis are planning a reunion tour 10 years after lead singer/drummer Phil Collins left to pursue a solo career. Collins will re-team with guitarist Mike Rutherford and keyboardist Tony Banks for a major tour. A spokesperson told the BBC that it's possible a new album could be in the works as well. ... Keane took the stage on Tuesday at England's Hull Arena for the first time since singer Tom Chaplin entered rehab last month to treat a drug and alcohol addiction. According to the band's official Web site, the show opened with the "poignant" tune "Put It Behind You" and a trim and fit-looking Chaplin thanked the crowd for "making me welcome" and admitted that he was nervous. The group will spend the rest of the month touring England. There's no word on when they'll make it back to the U.S. to make up dates canceled in light of Chaplin's hospitalization.

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