Rick Ross Talks About Tiger Attack -- Seriously! -- On The Set Of His 'Here I Am' Video

Neither Battle Cat nor his alter ego Cringer would be a big fan of Rick Ross' joking about a large feline extra on the set of his video for "Here I Am."

A few weeks ago, a big ol' tiger had a disagreement with his trainer. Ross — who was recently voted into the top of five of MTV News' "Hottest MCs in the Game" — maintained his South Miami swagger while witnessing the incident.

"There's a company down in Miami that keeps exotic animals," Ross recalled. "You can have whatever you want in the club. If you want some tigers, that's what it is. We called him for one scene in the video. When they got there, [the trainer] let us know that the tiger was irritated.

"One of my homies let him know, 'If the tiger gets out of line, we gonna shoot it,' " Ross added with a smile.

"Forty five minutes into the shoot, the trainer is doing his thing with the tiger, and the tiger just grabbed his a--! Did his thing. You could tell they have their own little relationship. It wasn't his first time being bit — he got bit pretty good. I wasn't too far from it.

"It was all good — the tiger was on the chain," Ross clarified. "You had to be there to see that it wasn't out of control. It wasn't crazy, he wasn't getting mauled. It was the owner/ pet thing. He plugged him good! I let [the trainer] know he had to finish my video. He wiped the blood off, it was all good. Trilla!"

The video starts with the Bawwwse and his girl chilling in his Chevy "back in the day." The woman's mother comes out and chastises her for going out with a thug. Pitbull and DJ Khaled are among the guest stars who joined Ross, Nelly and his artist Avery Storm.

"It's just that lifestyle," Ross added. "I feel like the world is yours. That's the attitude. A female that started dating me when I was young, and she stayed down when nobody believed in me. Now the world is ours and we doing big things. That's what the video is about.

"Elevation," he continued. "Going to that next level on this record with Nelly. When I sit back and look at the chemistry of [the video], it's a black boy, white boy and D-boy. A lot of people gonna be shocked when they see Avery Storm. He smooth with it!"

Ricky Ross — whose Trilla recently debuted at #1 on the Billboard albums chart — also revealed his next album will be coming by the end of the year. It's called Deeper Than Rap.

"I'mma give them my life, the streets and give them the game on this one," he promised.






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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Grammy-Award Winning Artist Shakira to Discuss State of Global Education and Out-Of-School Children in Developing Countries

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, World Bank President Robert Zoellick, Grammy-Award Winning Artist Shakira to Discuss State of Global Education and Out-Of-School Children in Developing Countries

Apr 21 Media League Call

Booker Taliaferro Washington, April 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On April 21, British
Peak Rector Gordon Robert Brown, Domain Bank Chairman Robert Zoellick, and
Grammy award-winning artist Shakira volition take part in a media conference
call to discuss the doS of global education and out-of-school children in
development countries. This corresponds with the Global Hunting expedition for
Education (GCE) Action Calendar week that will take place from April 21-27, 2008.
Brown University, Zoellick, and Shakira will join with GCE's alinement in long hundred
countries to call on government leadership to support a staple education for
whole children, including the 72 million danton True Young children and 226 jillion older
youths wHO ar out of shoal around the world.


MEDIA League Prognosticate
Apr 21, 2008
1:00 p.m. EDT
Toll-free U.S. dial-in #: 1 800 311 9408 - Password: action calendar week Toll-free U.K. dial-in #: 0800 092 3582 - Word: action workweek
International dial-in #: country computer code to dial into U.S. then 1 334 323 7224
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Word: action hebdomad

Speakers:
-- Gordon Brownness, Blossom Minister, United Land
-- Henry Martyn Robert Zoellick, Chief Executive, The Earth Bank
-- Shakira, Honorary Chairwoman, GCE Action Week
-- Gene Sperling, Chair, U.S. Chapter of GCE
Shakira will besides appear in Capital of the United States, DC on April 22, with Members of
Congress as well as students from crosswise the United States to raise
cognisance for the bipartisan Education for Totally Act of 2007 (EFA). The
intent of the EFA Act is to "see to it that the U.S. provides the resources
and leading to ensure a successful international travail to provide totally
children with a timbre basic education." It calls for $1 billion for
bilateral global staple education investment for FY 2008, grading up to $3
one million million by 2012. The EFA Act requires the President to develop a
comprehensive integrated strategy for the United States authorities to
follow in working to get to the 2015 end of universal access to education
for whole children.

Military action Week testament likewise include the "World's Biggest Lesson" on Apr 23,
when millions of children worldwide volition attack to break the humankind record
for the largest moral ever through acquisition and teaching a program
around the denial of character breeding to tens of millions of poor people children.

Media notes: To reservation a line, please e-mail Rica Orszag at
rica@ricapr.com or Jennifer Devlin at Jennifer.devlin@cox.mesh. For more
data more or less the GCE's U.S. activities, please impose
hypertext transfer protocol://www.campaignforeducationusa.org.

Global Campaign for Education (GCE)

The Global Campaign for Education, founded in 1999, brings together
major nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and teachers' unions in more
than long hundred countries. GCE promotes access to teaching as a bASIC human being right
and raises public consciousness to create the political will for governments
and other leaders in the international residential area to satisfy their promises
to allow at least a disembarrass, public basic breeding for whole children.
hypertext transfer protocol://www.campaignforeducation.org.

The U.S. Chapter of the Global Safari for Education is a broad-based
alinement of more than 30 non-governmental and religious organizations,
teachers unions, foundations, and baby advocates to promote the causal agency of
universal bASIC breeding in the world's poorest nations. The GCE is likewise
well-placed to lift the profile of other goals pertinent to universal joint
education, such as preschool education, bar of abusive child british Labour Party,
the inclusion of children with disabilities and special challenges, and
efforts to close the digital split.

The U.S. Chapter of the Global Military campaign for Education includes the
sustenance of organizations such as: BASIC Education Department Coalition (BEC), RESULTS,
American language Confederacy of Teachers (Astern), National Breeding Association
(NEA), National Ataraxis Army corps Association, Global Kids, Global AIDS Alliance,
Mercy Corps, Care, Save the Children, 1 movement, Subject Peace Corps
Connexion, Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, and Learn
for America. hTTP://www.campaignforeducationusa.org.

Contacts: Rica Orszag, 202-253-8974, rica@ricapr.com


Jennifer Devlin, 703-876-1714, Jennifer.devlin@cox.net

The Ting Tings - the UK's 'Most Exciting New Band' - Return to the States in June for Nationwide Club Tour in Celebration of Debut Album Release

The Ting Tings - the UK's 'Most Exciting New Band' - Return to the States in June for Nationwide Club Tour in Celebration of Debut Album Release

Avidly Awaited Debut Album, 'We Started Nada,' Available In The States As
Digital

Penn to head Cannes Film Festival Jury

Penn to head Cannes Film Festival Jury

It has been announced that actor and director Sean William Penn will head the jury at this year's Cannes Moving picture Festival.
In the festival statement announcing his appointment, the 'Into the Wild' theater director said: "It seems there has been a rejuvenation of cinema building worldwide; increasingly thoughtful, provocative, moving, and imaginative films by talented filmmakers: that a fresh multiplication of filmmaking may have begun."
He added: "The Cannes Cinema Festival has long been the epicentre in the discovery of those freshly waves of filmmakers from wholly over the globe. I very much look ahead to participating in this year's festival as president of the jury."

Kylie Minogue wants more acting roles

Kylie Minogue wants more acting roles

Pop isaac Bashevis Singer Kylie Minogue has reportedly expressed an interest in pursuing to a greater extent playacting projects in the nigh future.
The vocaliser late recorded an episode of 'Doctor Who', with the show's administrator producer Russell T Davies by and by praising her.
Davies said: "She did this because I reckon that's the agency her thoughts ar heading."
"She's missed it and fancied that correction. I'd throw up her once again like that. You leave that she has been in 'Neighbours', so she is used to knock out an episode in a day."

Jay Soto

   
Artist: Jay Soto

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Jazz
   

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 Long Time Coming

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 10

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