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What Does Steve Jobs’ Widow Have Against ‘Steve Jobs’?

Laurene Powell Jobs reportedly pressured Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale and every studio in Hollywood to not make the movie.

She must have had a change of heart.

Steve Jobs’ widow encouraged Walter Isaacson to write the book on which Steve Jobs—the movie that opened Friday in New York and Los Angeles—is loosely based.

“If you’re ever going to do a book on Steve,” Laurene Powell Jobs told Walter Isaacson in 2009, “you’d better do it now.”

Isaacson, the author of biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein, had been invited by Jobs to write his. Isaacson had demurred. Not now, he told Apple’s co-founder and CEO. Maybe in a decade or two, when you retire.

But Jobs was ill—more ill than Isaacson knew. Jobs had just taken a second medical leave to deal with the spreading cancer that would kill him in 2011. His wife, who knew Isaacson from Teach for America, where they both sat on the board of directors, also knew that his time was short.

“[She] did not request any restrictions or control, nor did she ask to see in advance what I would publish,” Isaacson writes. “In fact she strongly encouraged me to be honest about his failings as well as his strengths.”

3-6 Mafia Rapper Koopsta Nicca Dead

Via WMC Action News– Memphis rapper Robert “Koopsta Knicca” Phillips has died.

He was 40 years old.

Phillips was a member of the Memphis rap group Three 6 Mafia.

According to his Facebook Page, Phillips was on life support due to an aneurysm.

He later died Friday.

Phillips is the second member of Three 6 Mafia to die in two years.

Ricky Dunigan, known as Lord Infamous, died in December 2013.

“To all who are concerned Robert Cooper Phillips aka Koopsta Knicca has officially left us all. This is a great lost to us all. We will continue to keep him alive with his music,” a page administrator to Phillips’ Facebook page said.

Young Jeezy Says He’s The ‘Father of Trap Music’

With unmistakable resolution in his voice, yet without the slightest trace of arrogance, multiplatinum rap impresario Young Jeezy proclaimed to the overflowing crowd in the Loudermilk Conference Center, in his signature baritone, that he is the “Father of Trap Music.”

Speaking with former Huffington Post commentator and BET social critic Marc Lamont Hill, Jeezy touched upon a multiplicity of topics during the one-hour chat, including his new album, Church in These Streets, the concept behind the rapper’s new single, “GOD,” the Ferguson riots, police brutality and the #BlackLivesMovement that swept the county in a fury.
In discussing the album that comes out on the 10th anniversary of his entry into the business Jeezy said,

In a world where everyone is bringing us down as a culture, I want to uplift us because Gods don’t kill Gods, we just speak highly of each other.