Bow Wow has been grabbing headlines for his troubles with the IRS, but he’s just a pup compared to Lil Kim. When it comes to owing money to the government, the Queen Bee is leading dog. According to TMZ, the rapper owes the feds the astounding 7-figure sum of $ 1,026,862.42.

As per documents obtained by the gossip website, Kim owes money for every single year spanning 2002 to 2009. In the final of individuals a long time alone, she wracked up $ 86,347.85 in tax financial debt — an volume just not too long ago heaped onto the complete.

Among the colossal tax liens and her ongoing battle with Nicki Minaj, who disses her mercilessly on the track ‘Stupid H–,’ Lil Kim is going through a bit of a rough patch. Maybe her prolonged-awaited autobiography and documentary will support remind her of previous glories and point the way toward the future — and earn her some money to spend off Uncle Sam.

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There are numerous techniques to get popular on the World wide web, from cutting a warbly music video about your favorite day of the weekend to becoming a New York congressman with an uncertain grasp of Twitter’s immediate-message function. Here’s how the 31-year-previous Australian-Belgian musician Wouter De Backer, who sold out the El Rey Theatre on Thursday night when he performed as Gotye, got observed.

Initial, he recorded “Somebody That I Used to Know,” a quiet, stately breakup song brightened around the edges with samples and vocal harmonies. Then he made a modest video in which he’s painted to blend into a mural and gets an earful when the song’s guest vocalist Kimbra emerges — painted in related stripes — to inform him off.

An adorable cat video really should be in a position to tear this clip to ribbons in Internet site visitors figures. But “Somebody That I Utilized to Know” is at the moment zeroing in on 60 million views, and it’s producing an American star of the genre-bending Gotye. He had a prolonged career prior to this, releasing numerous independent albums of reggae-influenced, electronics-infused folk-pop in Australia, in which he’s currently a main artist. But he may possibly be one particular of the greatest examples of YouTube helping to break a non-novelty pop star in America. His El Rey show proved there is severe musicianship behind individuals on-line likes.

De Backer cut a great-guy, alt-dude visage onstage at the El Rey, complete with bedhead, a deep V-neck T-shirt and a heartfelt vocal functionality. His last L.A. show in the fall, at the Silver Lake indie-rock club the Satellite, sold out quickly, and for this tour with a complete backing band Gotye proved he’s currently aiming for festival crowds.

De Backer (a drummer and multi-instrumentalist) decked the El Rey stage with acoustic and electronic percussion kits that he wandered among amongst verses. At the back of the room, a video-manipulator tweaked animation samples that lent often-amusing, at times-haunting edges to his songs.

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At this a long time Super Bowl, there are players — dudes who put on helmets and pads and run about for 60 minutes — and then there are gamers. Cee Lo Green is the latter. According to TMZ, the singer and rapper hit up an Indianapolis strip club in the wee hrs of Thursday morning (Feb. 2) and dropped some $ ten,000 in money.

The sometime Gnarles Barkley frontman rolled up with his homeys from the reunited Goodie Mob, and upon getting into the house of gyration, sources say, Cee Lo asked for lap dances from “the baddest bitches in the club.”

Given Green’s professionalism, we’re sure the outing had one thing to do with his much-anticipated guest turn in tonight’s Super Bowl halftime display. Cee Lo will apparently bring a “new sound” to headliner Madonna’s traditional hits and lend his inimitable voice to a display that will also consist of Nicki Minaj, MIA and of program, lots of pom-poms.

Maybe he was researching feasible choreography?

Reps for Drake have denied allegations that the Canadian hip-hop phenom cheated Ericka Lee — a lady who claims to be both his ex-girlfriend and the co-writer of his hit ‘Marvin’s Room’ — out of songwriting royalties, TMZ reports.

“This claim is completely with no merit and our client has not engaged in any wrongful conduct,” reads the statement.

According to Drizzy’s peeps, Lee agreed to lend her voice to the track and at first sought no compensation. It was only immediately after she lawyered up, reps say, that she started asking for income.

Even though Drake reportedly presented her four to 5 % of the publishing, plus $ 50,000, according to the Hollywood Reporter, Lee filed suit, insisting she be declared co-writer of the popular track. Rather than settle, the ‘Take Care’ creator looks prepared to prove his case.

“Drake tried for months to resolve the matter amicably, and he now appears forward to becoming vindicated in court,” the statement concludes.

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