Diddy Spills His Guts Out: "I'm Confessing That I Used To Be A Bed Wetter"

Bad Boy Records CEO Diddy appeared on popular talk show "Ellen" leading into the weekend and revealed how he owes his current swag to beating a bed wetting habit.

Puffy, who appeared on the show to discuss his new AQUAhydrate partnership, blamed Kool-Aid for giving him a weak blatter growing up.

"One thing I want to say is, I grew up as a Kool-Aid kid. I never drank water," Diddy told DeGeneres. "I used to pour a half a pound of sugar into the Kool-Aid. Besides it having me bouncing off the walls, I used to be a bed wetter. I guess I'm confessing that I used to be a bed wetter. So I went on this quest to stop wetting the bed, and the first day I had a sleepover and I didn't wet the bed, it was, like, one of the greatest days of my life. It gave me the swagger that I have today because I stopped wetting the bed." (MTV)

The Bad Boy did not stop there and went on to warn viewers about the backlash of too much sugar in your body.

"Excess sugar consumption, especially refined white sugar, can cause many health issues and conditions, including the need to urinate more often," according to the Livestrong website. " Too much sugar triggers the urinary tract system in an effort to eliminate the substance from within the body." (MTV)

Details on Diddy's new AQUAhydrate power move surfaced online a few days ago.

Entertainment powerhouse Sean "Diddy" Combs and actor/producer Mark Wahlberg today announced a joint venture with Southern California-based fitness and wellness water brand, AQUAhydrate. Per the arrangement, Combs and Wahlberg will oversee business strategy along with CEO John Cochran, formerly President of Fiji Water. Together they will help drive the AQUAhydrate vision and be instrumental in helping secure retail partnerships for the water brand, such as their recently signed deals with Safeway, Kroger and GNC. (Real Talk NY)

In light of the business venture, SOHH reached out to former Bad Boy Records artist and health nut Styles P for his reaction.

"It's great," Styles told SOHH when asked for his reaction to Diddy getting behind AQUAhydrate and artists like 50 Cent launching his own Street King energy shot line. "It's f*cking great. We need it. You need to live right. So it's great. The juice bar is still going on. ... It's all about balance. Everything needs balance. You can't do all sh*t that's wrong for you. You know what I'm saying? The waters and [healthy drinks], I think it's great for artists to do that. Whatever artists do, regular people are going to do. It's great to see artists doing something healthy or something that benefits everybody." (SOHH)

Universal Zulu Nation criticizes WorldStarHipHop in open letter

Media, gossip site WorldStarHipHop has been facing a lot of criticism lately. First, the website was in hot water over a video it posted of a man being stripped naked by three men on the street in New Jersey then whipped with a belt. The men suspected in the video were later arrested and charged, but the footage caused some outrage in the community, claiming that sites such as WorldStarHipHop were desensitizing youth to violence.

Now, Universal Zulu Nation’s Minister of Information Quadeer “M.C. Spice” Shakur has penned an open letter to the site, putting the site’s creator Lee “Q” O’Denant on blast.

Check out an excerpt:

As I mentioned earlier, Mr. O’Denat, I am a representative of the Universal Zulu Nation, and we take our Culture quite serious. You are a Black man who has accomplished quite a lot without a formal education, and I’m quite sure when you dropped out of New York’s Grover Cleveland High School, you would never have imagined that you’d be as successful with your company, World Star, LLC. Doesn’t it bother you just a little that another Black man (that man being yourself), has “made it” out of the “ghetto”, only to display unnerving images and videos of young adults berating, belittling, and beating each other solely for the purpose of the enjoyment of who you are led to believe are “millions of Hip-Hoppers?”

Mr. O’Denat, the followers of your site are impressionable young men and women who “follow” you for a reason. As salacious as you may want your site to be, our youth are looking for answers and solutions to the many problems that plague our communities. The young people use your site as an outlet to escape the world they are living in, only to find that you place them right back at the starting point. Brother, you are well aware, or should be aware of the way Haitians are treated all over the world, including their own country. After all, Mr. O’Denat, you are Haitian, and you have even labeled yourself as a “Haitian Ghetto Nerd”, to gain God knows what kind of accolades. I am not Haitian, but I find it deplorable for a Haitian to associate such a dignified people with the “ghetto”, when Haitians come to this country to escape ghetto life.

Clarksdale mayoral candidate Marco McMillian found dead

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A 22-year-old man was charged with murder Thursday in the death of a mayoral candidate, whose body was found near a river levee in the Mississippi Delta this week.

The Coahoma County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release that Lawrence Reed of Shelby was charged in the death of Marco McMillian, 34, a candidate for mayor of Clarksdale.

Campaign spokesman Jarod Keith says McMillian’s bid was noteworthy because he may have been the first openly gay man to be a viable candidate for public office in Mississippi.

An investigation began Tuesday when McMillian’s SUV slammed head on into another car on U.S. Highway 49 near the Coahoma and Tallahatchie county lines.

Reed was driving the car, but McMillian was not in it, according to sheriff’s department spokesman Will Rooker.

McMillian’s body was found the next day near the Mississippi River levee between Sherard and Rena Lara, Coahoma County Coroner Scotty Meredith has said.

Warren Strain, a spokesman with the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, said the autopsy was completed but toxicology and other test results are pending, and no cause of death will be released until the report is completed.

The sheriff’s department has not released a possible motive for the crime.

Reed was taken to the Regional Medical Center in Memphis after the car wreck, and was listed in good condition on Thursday, a hospital official said.

Little is known about Reed or how he was acquainted with McMillian.

A recent address listed for Reed was at a Clarksdale apartment complex, but the manager said the unit was rented by another man who has since moved out. The manager said he did not know Reed.

Sissiretta Melton, 33, said she had known McMillian since they were in seventh grade in Clarksdale and described his death as “dramatic” for those who loved him and his community.

“It’s just terrifying to everybody that knew him personally because you ask, ‘Why?’” Melton said. “Why would it happen to someone like him?”

Melton said people knew early on that McMillian had a bright future and that he could have left Mississippi behind for good.

“He knew this town needed him,” she said. “Kids here have nothing. We don’t even have a decent movie theater. He wanted to bring those things here.”

Keith has said McMillian had big plans for Clarksdale, a town of about 17,800 people best known as a hub of Blues music.

Although Keith said McMillian’s sexual orientation was noteworthy in the conservative state, Melton took issue with the way McMillian has been characterized at times since his death, saying he was not one to flaunt his sexuality, but was comfortable with who he was.

“He was just a standup guy,” she said.

Clarksdale is known as the home of the crossroads, where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil for skills with a guitar. Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman is part owner of the Ground Zero Blues Club in town.

But the town also struggles with the grinding poverty that is typical of the Mississippi Delta.

Those who knew McMillian said he had connections across the country, and hoped to put those to use for Clarksdale.

McMillian had forged ties while serving for four years as international executive director of the historically black Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. Photos on McMillian’s website and Facebook page show him with a younger Barack Obama, former President Bill Clinton and with U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat.

McMillian was CEO of MWM & Associates, described on its website as a consulting firm for nonprofit organizations. In addition to his role at the fraternity from 2007 to 2011, McMillian had previously worked at Alabama A&M University and at Jackson State University.

Hilton Hotel Under Fire for Racist Mural

Deandra Pittman, a massage therapist at The Roosevelt Hotel New Orleans, has filed a lawsuit against the Waldorf Astoria hotel over a discriminatory painting that hangs in the hotel lobby.  “[The mural] creates a hostile work environment and subjects [me] to feeling demeaned and looked down upon,” says Pittman.

The 73-year-old painting depicts African-Americans slaves picking cotton, tilling the fields and drinking alcohol. Employees of color at the Roosevelt Hotel, which is owned by Hilton Worldwide, have complained repeatedly about the mural, but management has refused to remove the painting or take it out of spectator’s sight.

Al Thompson, Jr, the attorney representing Pittman in her suit against the hotel says, “the hotel should appreciate the sensitivities of their employees and their guests.”

RZA On the Offensive Over Sampling Infringement Allegations

RZA, the acclaimed Wu Tang Clan member, record producer and budding filmmaker, is attempting a new offensive tack against those who accuse him of sampling theft.

This week, he filed a lawsuit against JVC Kenwood Holdings, a multinational company whose holdings include Teichiku Entertainment, which is said to be in the business of acquiring rights to musical sound recordings and compositions.

RZA (born Robert Diggs) is upset that the record label Island Def Jam has withheld more than $50,000 in royalties based on the claims that one of Teichiku's sound recordings was illicitly used on Kanye West's 2010 song, "Dark Fantasy," which RZA produced.

As a result, RZA is going to court to get a declaration that "Dark Fantasy" is not an infringement. It's just one of several lawsuits that the RZA has planned on this front.

Sampling theft allegations are becoming increasingly common. Jay-Z, Madonnaand Beastie Boys are among the artists in court over pending claims.

According to the latest lawsuit, RZA was notified that "Dark Fantasy" contained an unauthorized sample from "Gincyo Watadori," performed by Meiko Kaji. The defendant demanded compensation.

What happened next, according to RZA's court papers, was that West's label Island Def Jam refused to pay royalties, claiming "that it is entitled to indemnification from plaintiff against defendant's copyright infringement claim."

So RZA is going to court against the accuser in an attempt to show the sampling allegation has no merit. He's represented by Stephen Rothschild and Howard King at King, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner.

King provides more information.

"We see dozens of baseless copyright-infringement claims against our clients every year," he tells The Hollywood Reporter. "Rather than engaging in costly and fruitless dialogue trying to convince claimants and their contingency lawyers that our clients do not succumb to extortion and settle ridiculous claims, we have decided to commence declaratory relief actions to squash some of these claims and, perhaps, recover our costs of defending same. The RZA complaint is the second one of these we have filed this month, with more to come."

King adds that the claim made by Teichiku Entertainment is that RZA sampled a short piano run.

"RZA did not use Teichiku’s piano run, and it sounds different from the one in 'Dark Fantasy,' " says King. "In fact, it would have been technologically impossible to sample the piano run without the rest of the music in 'Gincyo Watadori,' and the piano run in 'Gincyo' is so simple that the least talented person in the studio could have replayed it had anyone wished to do so."

Kim Rappaport Named RCA Records Senior Director, Business & Legal Affairs

Kim Rappaport has joined RCA Records as Senior Director, Business & Legal Affairs, making the move from Sony Music's corporate legal team, RCA announced today.

In her new role, Ms. Rappaport will focus solely on label affairs and report to RCA Record's Executive Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs, Dan Zucker.

Ms. Rappaport began her career as an anti-piracy litigator at the law firm of Arnold & Porter, LLP, where she represented record labels in industry-wide digital copyright actions. 

In 2007, she moved in-house to Sony Music where she worked as litigation, employment and most recently transactional counsel under Sony Music’s Executive Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs and General Counsel, Julie Swidler. 

Former Temptations Frontman Richard Street Dies

Former Motown vocalist Richard Street, a member of the Temptations for 25 years, has died. He was 70.

Street's wife, Cindy, says her husband died early Wednesday at a hospital in Las Vegas after a short illness.

Richard Street sang as a young man with Temptations members Otis Williams and Melvin Franklin, but didn't join the famed Motown group until the early 1970s. He later made the move from his native Detroit to Los Angeles with other Motown acts and stayed with the group until the mid-1990s.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete, but Cindy Street expects services to be held sometime next week in Cypress, Calif.

She says her husband "was a really good person" who should be remembered for his work with theTemptations.