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Hotels Cash In on the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Phenomenon — Dollars and Sense

Shauna Wright — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:08:05 +0000

If you’re one of the bazillions of people obsessed with ‘Fifty Shades of Grey,’ it might be time to book your summer travel plans — several hotels are now offering vacation packages inspired by the steamy erotic novel. Fans of the book know lead characters Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele often traveled in Christian’s helicopter [...]

Snoop Dogg's Smokable Songbook Will Make You Burn After Reading

K. Thor Jensen — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:06:54 +0000

Leave it to Snoop Dogg to push the envelope in weed consumption. To promote his new rolling papers called ‘Rolling Words’, the sticky icky rapper has released a book that you can smoke. Each page of the book is printed on perforated rolling papers using non-toxic ink. So, the idea is that you flip to [...]

Katy Perry Fears Russell Brand Will Tell-All About Marriage in New Book

Jessica Sager — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:00:06 +0000

Uh oh. Just days after Katy Perry jetted off to Asia, leaving soon-to-be-ex husband Russell Brand behind in Los Angeles, the drama is back in full force. Sources told Us Weekly that Perry is petrified that Brand will air all of the couple’s dirty laundry in his upcoming third book.

Lil Wayne Prison Memoir Hitting Bookstores in November

Trent Fitzgerald — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:10:39 +0000

Lil Wayne has inked a deal with Grand Central Publishing to publish a book titled ‘Gone Till November.’ The tome is described as a prison memoir of the rapper’s thoughts that he jotted down while serving his eight-month prison bid at Rikers Island for weapons possession

New Book Claims Sean 'Diddy' Combs Ordered the Hit on Tupac Shakur [VIDEO]

Chris M. Junior — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:59:38 +0000

Before leaving the Los Angeles Police Department, Greg Kading made copies of reports and recorded confessions pertaining to the separate murder cases of rappers Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace (aka Notorious B.I.G. and Biggie Smalls).

Those materials are a big part of Kading’s new self-published book ‘Murder Rap.’ Due October 4, the book includes a claim by a police informant who says he was offered $1 million by Sean “Diddy” Combs to kill Shakur and Suge Knight, who ran Death Row Records, Shakur’s label home.

'Things Fall Apart' Writer Chinua Achebe Rejects $1 Million Offer for 50 Cent Movie to Share Book's Title

Juwon Ajayi — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:40:51 +0000

Things Fall Apart is considered one of the most important books to come out of Africa. The book’s author, Chinua Achebe, is a respected novelist, poet, professor and critic. So when the producers of 50 cent’s film of the same name tried to pay the author $1 million to keep the name, he said no.