It’s safe to assume Soulja Boy had A LOT of help writing his upcoming book, “Teenage Millionaire,” based on hearing him speak in interviews. Yea so what, he’s a product of a crappy school system but he’s sitting on millions. Soulja Boy gives us a little more detail about what we can expect from his first book.

“It talks about me making my first million dollars at 17 years old.  I talk about how my life changed. It talks about the music industry, everything I learned about the music industry — how I got into the music industry with my mind set, all the ins and outs that I go through. All the chapters break down my beliefs and what steps and methods I took to get in this position. I just go and break [them] down into detail. I just want all my fans to read it when my album drops and have a good read and feel where I’m coming from.”

“Teenage Millionaire” will release next month in conjunction with his new album.

Here is the new trailer to the thriller 13 starring 50 Cent, Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham and Ray Liotta. This is not the sequel to 50’s other movie Twelve. Movie is based off the French original that follows a man who assumes a dead man’s identity and “finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence,” and a Russian-roulette-style competition where the losers truly lose everything. 50’s Cheetah Vision production company is not involved so you actually might see this one hit theaters in the U.S. Sorry…only the French version is out right now. But isn’t it funny to see 50 speaking French (0:56)?

Here comes another smash music video off of Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty from Big Boi featuring Yelawolf.

Fo-real Pharrell is really doing his art thing lately. From the team that brought us Pharrell’s “The Ear” short video (see here), comes their next collaboration simply titled “The Greatness.” For this exhibit, Pharrell’s face was re-created onto a vase inspired by surrealist masks and Greek-style using 3D modeling software. The exhibit Yi Zhou and will be shown at an event in London. You can expect Pharrell and the greatness of his face will be there. Via: Hypebeast

Forbes takes a closer look at Russell Simmons’ entrepreneurial side in this “Serial StartUps” video feature. Everything from his Rush Communications to his own credit card line is discussed. A great view inside one of the true masters of business.

Here is the first pic of Rihanna on the set of the upcoming big budget action film Battleship. It was announced back in July that Rihanna was cast in an unknown role by director Peter Berg but now this pic clearly indicates she’s a U.S. Navy girl.  How a girl from Barbados ends up in U.S. Navy gear is beyond us…but I guess that’s movies for ya. Battleship is not expected to hit theaters until 2012.

One of the greatest songs of the year. Now here is the OFFICIAL “F**k You” music video which is just as genius as the song.

Rather than a straight documentary style biopic, the Tupac Shakur biopic that is currently in pre-production will instead focus on more of the dramatic elements of his life including specific reasons why he was killed. The producers have officially signed on Oscar-nominated screenwriters Stephen J. Rivele and Chris Wilkinson who are no strangers to biopics having penned both Ali and Nixon. This just shows that the producers of this film are out to prove this as a critically acclaimed film and not just some cheap rendition of Pac’s life.

But Rivele says their goal is not to show who killed Shakur, but rather why anyone would want to. “He was obviously very angry, and had been subjected to a great deal of violence at home, in the streets and in prison,” says Rivele, “But he was just beginning to shed that anger and look for a purer voice…He was in the process of changing himself, and entering a new phase of his life — essentially a Romantic vision — and had set up a new label, and a new production company to create it. He saw the contradiction between the musical persona of ‘Thug Life,’ and his essential nature as a gentle, sensitive person. And that was partly responsible for his murder: He was not a gangster, but the people around him were. They saw he was going to leave, that they were going to lose him, and so I think they decided to kill him.”

The announcement of this writing team is a huge step forward for the Pac pic. As previously announced, Antoine Fuqua will be directing and is currently in the process of casting a relatively unknown actor for the lead role. More news to come. Via: Vulture NY Mag

Here are our top reasons why this could actually happen:

1. T.I.’s long term film production deal with Sony: Word was that no actors in the movie wanted to stick their neck out and help promote Takers before the release except T.I.  It got to the point that the Sony Pictures President of Marketing decided that the studio should shift all their focus on the one who had the most to lose, T.I. Not only does he have a long term production deal with Sony, but T.I. went the extra mile promoting the movie as a co-producer in Takers. The result?

2. Takers was the #1 Movie in America this past weekend: True, the competition wasn’t that strong, but a #1 is still a #1. Takers cost an estimated $20 million to make and already has grossed $20 million during it’s opening weekend. Even with a $40-$50 million total box office, it will turn a nice profit with home ent, cable, video-on-demand and international grosses included. All in all…a nice profit.

3. T.I. can actually carry a movie: He really made The ATL watchable, and because of point #1, Sony created all-new TV ads and trailers that focused on T.I. as the main character of the film. They then sent T.I. on a 10-city / 20-day tour that he carried all by himself. Sit down 50 Cent. T.I. can actually open a movie.

4. There is always straight-to-video: Sony is the same studio that brought us Smokin’ Aces 2 directly to DVD and the upcoming SWAT 2 with Tony Yayo is on the same path. Who says Takers the prequel has to go in theaters? If T.I. were to star or have a good sized role, the movie could make a profit on rentals and home ent sales alone.

But the real question my WoooHa Warriors is….would you even want to see a Takers prequel? T.I. and Chris Brown are hoping you do.

Per their announcement last week, the New York Yankees and Jay-Z are set to launch a series of co-branded gear ranging from New Era fitteds to hoodies and tees. Here is a first official look at the gear. More pics after the jump. We are still waiting for the LA Dodgers x Snoop Dogg gear to be announced any day now. Via: RR
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