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The controversial O.J. Simpson book, “If I Did It” in which the former NFL star outlines a detailed-yet-hypothetical account of the murders of his ex-wife and her friend, has hit No. 2 on the New York Times best-sellers list for nonfiction, topping President Clinton’s new book “Giving.”     

The rankings reflect the best-seller info for the week ending Sept. 22, and are scheduled to run in the Times on Oct. 7. The news, however, was released Thursday -The independent New York-based publishing house has already printed 200,000 copies of the tome and plans to print more next week, spokesman Michael Wright told Reuters.      

That total is already half the number of copies churned out by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.-owned HarperCollins in a previous printing canceled last year amid a public outcry over the book and Simpson’s reported $1 million publishing advance.
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NEW DELHI: Two-wheeler manufacturer TVS Motor Co on Monday reported a 49.53 per cent dip in its September sales at 53,991 units against 1,06,972 units in the same month a year ago.

The company said that its total two-wheeler sales in the month declined by 29.04 per cent to 1,15,091 units compared to 1,62,200 units in the same month last year. In the scooter segment, TVS Scooty continued to post higher growth figures, reporting a 8
.49 per cent surge at 27,199 units sale in September this year over 24,890 units in the same month in 2006.

Exports during the month, however, surged 26.
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It looks like 50 Cent and Ciara have kissed and made up. A few weeks ago MediaTakeOut.com told you that Ciara was furious with 50 Cent for hiring a look alike to pose on the cover of his new album. Now an insider tells us that Ciara’s taken him back.

One of Ciara’s longtime friends agreed to speak exclusively with MediaTakeOut.com – and give some insight into the superstar couple’s relationship. The insider tells, “They care deeply for each other. People keep trying to make [their relationship] into some sort of fling, but it’s not … it’s very serious.” The insider added, “This is the deepest that I know Ciara has ever felt for a man.”

And according to Ciara’s friend, their relationship is stronger than ever. The insider explained, “Losing to Kanye West was devastating to [50 Cent] … A lot of people aren’t there for him like they used to be. But Ciara’s been there to give him any support he needs …
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Joseph Kahn’s latest music video is a scorching, ultra-sexy hip hop track, “Ayo Technology” by 50 Cent featuring Justin Timberlake. It is exactly what one would expect from one of the most recognized music video directors in the past decade who has won several MTV Music Video Awards as well as a Grammy for Eminem’s “Without Me” video. Shot on location in London, England, the voyeuristic “Ayo Technology” has already raised eyebrows with network censors at BET and MTV. MVWire recently spoke with Kahn about the making of his latest video, and whether or not the editorial changes really made him clean up his act.I sent it in to Randy Sosin and there really wasn’t that much of a brief really, I didn’t even know what the brief was…he just wanted it to be cool and sexy in some way and I wrote my interpretation of that.It’s not that there is that much plot to the video, but the details are pretty big: Justin chasing a girl, 50 Cent chasing a girl, Timberland is behind him on a monitor watching it all and they all go to a club and essentially that is the concept. Things definitely changed because I was making up stuff as I went along, once I got to the set.Randy Sosin is a very particular commissioner that I have worked with for a very long time and he is definitely one of the best commissioners out there. He is just one of those guys that is just creative himself and really appreciates funny ideas. Actually, you know what…he had me write on a 50 track before this one and he wanted something along the lines of a “Knights of Cydonia” concept for 50 Cent, which is pretty funny. I actually wrote something along that line, the concept I will use for something else so I won’t say it here, but it was pretty out there. It was his wish fulfillment, what he would like to see a rap video go into but the reality is that what I wrote would never fly.I worked with Ingenuity Engine—Dave Lebensfeld … I shot the 50 cent video in London and it was a tough thing for me because I had to shoot all the effects in London and ship them over to LA (where Enginuity is based), and do the edit in Canada where I was shooting a commercial. We work over the Internet to look at the changes. It’s not my favorite way of working at all; I do it because I have no choice, I am traveling around the world… it’s so much easier for me to be there, point at the monitor and say this is what I want. It feels sometimes like it’s making someone paint a picture while they are blindfolded and you’re not quite sure where they put the paint on the canvas until you see it. In all fairness David is so fast and smart he really did an impossible job; he did all these effects in a week and a half, even with this incredible clunky process of having to work through the Internet.With this video as with others you have directed you have a nice way of integrating the look of the video with the visual effects to where the effects are not overbearing in the video.I have been trying to get away from visual effects and get more organic; there is a certain filmmaking style I wanted to master and it just seemed like visual effects for me were getting a little stifling in terms of what type of scenes I could come up with when I wrote the treatment. On the 50 Cent video there really were no limitations like that because it just seemed like the concept I had done… actually I had done a piece of this concept before on Janet Jackson’s “So Excited” video. I have been having this idea for a long time of having X-ray vision and finding ways to look through people’s clothing. After I did it there I realized there are a few other things I can do differently that A) would have been cheaper and B) more effective. So when I finally came up with this it was a nice chance to develop that idea further. The one idea that I am really happy with is when Justin looks through the camera with infrared vision and sees through the wall with the diagnostic thing that is happening around. That was a really nice solution because before I did that with motion control and then I realized there is another way to do it that is actually more effective.Chris Probst was the DP who I have worked with forever. (He was) constantly fucking up the film stock and underexposing things and exposing it in weird ways and going for a naturalistic slickness. This 50 / Justin video has a dirty slickness to it that we finally sort of approximated.
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I wonder if Chris Rock says anything about Joe Budden

For one exciting moment earlier this year, Young Buck seemed to be on his way out of G-Unit. In one interview, he chastised Tony Yayo for allegedly slapping Game’s manager’s kid and talked about bonding with Jadakiss during All-Star weekend. And he removed 50 Cent’s anti-Cam’ron rant from the end of his song “Hold On.” 50 Cent didn’t take too kindly to this sudden burst of independence; in one interview soon after, he said that he’d be willing to kick out any G-Unit member whose name wasn’t Tony Yayo and that Buck in particular shouldn’t get too comfortable. Up until that point, Buck had served as the crew’s most loyal and reliable enforcer, the guy who’d unthinkingly back 50 Cent up on whatever ridiculous feud he was starting that week. It was a weird role for Buck, the best rapper in the crew and the only one with an audience that extends even a little bit outside G-Unit’s base. I was hoping either he or 50 would pull the trigger and Buck would take his rightful place in the Southern rap constellation as something other than a G-Unit backup guy. He sounds better on churning Southern beats like “Get Buck” than he does on assembly-line G-Unit club-rap, he has better chemistry with Young Jeezy and Trick Daddy than he does with any of the G-Unit guys, and his short-fuse persona is a whole lot better suited to lone-wolf ferocity than it is to overdog gloating. But now it’s six months later and everything is more or less back to normal. On Rap City the week before 50 released Curtis, Buck hung in the background, playing pool and throwing warnings at all of 50’s newest foes and dumping all his money on the floor when 50 told him to. When 50 made an offhand bullshit comment about how Lil Wayne is a good rapper who doesn’t know how to make good songs, Buck started ranting that he’d expose Wayne and end Wayne’s career. And now the new G-Unit Radio mixtape is out, and Buck has a track dissing Lil Wayne. This guy won’t give up on G-Unit until G-Unit gives up on him.

Buck’s Wayne dis is called “Class Is In Session,” and it’s a relatively unremarkable piece of mixtape-boilerplate menace, with rattling drizzly beat and Buck doing his baby-Scarface snarl. Buck also tosses a few warnings at new G-Unit target DJ Khaled, but that’s nowhere near as important as Buck’s new campaign against Wayne. Last month, 50 included a few cursory lines about Wayne on an unbelievably halfassed love-song called “Part Time Lover,” but they were mostly just grumbling digressions about Wayne kissing Birdman. But Buck’s song represents G-Unit’s first real attack on the guy, though it’s just as unlikely to do Wayne any real damage as “Part Time Lover” was. G-Unit’s big issue with Wayne is apparently Wayne’s decision to do a song with old G-Unit arch-nemesis Ja Rule, the unexpectedly great single “Uh-Ohhh!” That’s the same problem that 50 Cent had with Fat Joe and Jadakiss a couple of years ago. Apparently, it’s just not OK for anyone to do a song with Ja Rule for any reason.
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Lil Wayne recently took time out to address shots taken at him by 50 Cent.

In an interview with Hot 97 in July, 50 Cent called Lil Wayne ‘a whore’ for his numerous features on other rappers records including his enemy Ja Rule.

50 would continue taking stabs at Wayne by releasing a track called “Part Time Lover” , where he insinuated that Weezy and his mentor Birdman were gay for kissing each other in the mouth.

In a recent interview with Vibe , Wayne revealed he has no plans of replying to 50.

“A person like 50 Cent say anything about me, you gotta understand, that’s what makes them who they are,” Weezy said.  “So me getting mad, that would be outta Lil Wayne’s character.  There’s been plenty of recorders right here in my face saying, What you think about such-and-such saying…?  Nothing!  I don’t think nothing!  That ain’t me, I’m from New Orleans, man, we kill, for real, I’m not gonna stress that”

Wayne also discussed his July arrest on gun and weed charges.  The New Orleans rapper claims he was interrogated about other rappers rather than what he was busted for.

“When they locked me up in New York and they asked me about Jay-Z, 50 Cent, G Unit and no fucking gun or weed like they made it look like on TV,” he explained.
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