Former Bad Boy Entertainment rapper
Loon finds humor in the verbal assault he received on a mix-tape track from
Mase. "He's a clown! I'm laughing at the situation. This man must have really lost his mind," said Loon, a.k.a.
Chauncey Hawkins, over lunch at Buckhead's Atlanta Fish Market.
Loon initially retaliated with two dis records of his own, 'You Not a Ryda' and 'You Heard.' On the latter, the Harlem-bred hip-hopper calls Mase a hypocrite by rhyming: "Yo pastor, I thought you seen light?/ It just don't seem right/ The world thought you had an epiphany/ All you doing is spending church money in Tiffany's."
Declaring that he will only battle Mase in verse, Loon is clear that if his nemesis records another track about him, his next response will be "more aggressive."
"It will have an aggressive twist that will establish some concrete facts that maybe only he will understand. To let him know if you come out your mouth on the second record or say anything, you know which direction I'm going. If you continue to move forward, I'm going to smash you," Loon warned.
In the meantime, Loon is at work on his first post-Bad Boy release on his own label, Boss Up Entertainment, in partnership with rock label Cleopatra Records.
According to
50 Cent,
Mase, has signed with G-Unit. During my interview with the 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' rapper in New York City, 50 disclosed: "I'm actually not supposed to say this, but I'mma say it anyway. Me and Mase sat down and had conversations. I told him, 'When you were writing Murda Mase material you sold $4 million records. If you can sacrifice for a moment, having people being confused with what your intentions are and have them think that maybe 50 is so evil you went from God to the G-Unit. That he got you thinking like that. It'll all be for a greater win when you generate that interest of [millions] of people to deliver a record that has a positive message.'"
What can we expect from Mase's upcoming G-Unit release? "What you gonna hear when you hear Mase's new record is the production caliber of a
'Get Rich or Die Tryin' and
'The Massacre' with a more positive message. The concept of it is the phases he's gone through in his life. It's such a dramatic change, like, wow, you got a minister talking aggressive."
Juicy DetailsTaye Diggs and
Idina Menzel told Details magazine that music keeps their marriage fresh. "We sing our feelings a lot. We're just silly. He likes to teach me how to freestyle and I do, like, the Jewish white girl thing," Menzel told the men's glossy. Diggs added that his wife calls him "my chocolate-y husband."
Despite receiving death threats in the mail for being an interracial couple, the former 'Kevin Hill' star told Details they weren't too shaken by the terrorization. He admitted he is more irked by those who call him a sell-out for marrying a white woman. "I've always had a problem with the word sell-out. For someone to point the finger and judge you without having walked in your path, I think that's entirely ignorant," he shared.
BuzzworthyAfter showering her with several bouquets of flowers from
Saundra Parks of Daily Blossomin,
Usher serenaded his publicist
Simone Smalls by singing "Happy Birthday" on the red carpet of the Victoria's Secret Show. Not to be outdone, her other client, rapper
Lil' Jon had a custom-made diamond-encrusted pimp cup made for her birthday.
Renee Elise Goldsberry is also one of the stars of the
Oprah Winfrey-produced Broadway adaptation of
'The Color Purple,' but the 'One Life To Live' actress will have to leave the show shortly after its Dec. 1 debut because she's pregnant. No word on how the pregnancy will affect her role as
Evangeline Williamson on the ABC soap.
Model
Liris Cross has a steamy swimsuit calendar hitting stores before the holidays. The images were shot by acclaimed shutterbug
Keith Major (
Iman,
Tyra Banks). Cross will host a segment called 'Elite 8' on ESPN's 'EBC Sports' and recently voiced all of the female characters for a video game called '187: Ride or Die.'
