By Ivory M. Jones, BET.com Staff
Eminem is giving his fans the opportunity to have their work heard on his SIRIUS Satellite Radio channel, Shade 45.
The Detroit-bred rapper is asking fans to remix his new single, “Jimmy Crack Corn.” Hopefuls can download the a capella version of the song from the Shade 45 page on SIRIUS’s website. The winning entry will be broadcast on Shade 45 for two weeks.
Submissions will then be judged by members of the channel’s programming staff and Shady Records’ A R department. Five finalists will receive a Shady Limited clothing prize pack. The grand prize winner and a guest will be flown to New York City for the winning entry’s premiere on the station.
The grand prize winner will also receive a personalized Eminem Presents: The Re-Up album plaque signed by Eminem. All entries must be sent in via snail mail and postmarked by March 2 and received no later than March 7. For more information, visit .
Recording artists Kanye West and Kirk Franklin are among the list of honorees to be feted by the 100 Black Men, Inc. at its 27th Annual Benefit Gala on Feb. 23 at the New York Hilton in New York City.
“We pay tribute to our past accomplishments, salute the progress we’ve made, and look forward to our future endeavors,” 100 Black Men’s president Phil Banks Jr. said via press release. Other honorees at this year’s event are NFL player Curtis Martin, the Hon.
Charles Rangel, Newark, N.J. mayor Cory Booker, businessman Ian Moore and Abyssinian Baptist Church pastor Rev.
Calvin Butts. Singer Howard Hewitt is slated to perform.
Former Source magazine head Ray “Benzino” Scott’s legal issues are far from over.
A federal judge has refused to dismiss tax-evasion charges against the rapper/executive. U.S.
District Court Judge Ray W. Zobel rejected Scott’s attorneys request that the charges be dropped because Benzino’s accountant was working as an FBI and IRS informant at the same time he was prepping his tax documents. “There is something fundamentally wrong with the government employing [Scott’s] controller to gather evidence of other crimes at the very same time the controller is ostensibly putting together the information necessary to prepare [Scott’s] tax returns,” Benzino’s legal team argued in court papers.
According to The Boston Herald, George Moore, who handled finances for The Source, secretly recorded conversations with Scott. However, prosecutors maintain that Moore was never paid for his cooperation with the government.
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