John "Teflon Don" Gotti. Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff. Alpo and Rich Porter. Pappy Mason. The list goes on. Since the early 1980s, rappers have established an underlying parallel with America's most notorious gangsters.

Some of the biggest rap artists' lyrics are littered with vivid street storytelling guaranteed to be influenced by real life tales from the litany of original gangsters.

One name that rings bells in the New City region is none other than Lorenzo "Fat Cat" Nichols. Nichols made a name for himself in the Southside section of Jamaica, Queens.

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50 Cent wants to give Australian singer Peter Andre a career boost - the rapper is offering to help re-record the star's 1995 hit Mysterious Girl.

Andre shot to fame in his native Australia with the song, a collaboration with Bubbler Ranx, and claimed a number two hit in the U.K. the following year (96).

He took an extended hiatus from his music career in 1997 after being dropped by his record label, but returned to the charts in 2004 with a re-release of Mysterious Girl, which debuted at number one in Britain. Rapper 50 Cent admits he's a big fan of the song, and he would like to re-record the track with Andre to give the tune another chart outing.

He says, "It's like Ymca, one of those songs everybody knows. Girls like it and it gets them up dancing. It makes people feel happy, even if it is never going to win a Grammy. "Pete seems like a nice guy and maybe, with the right remix, we can get him a number one in the U.S. as well as Europe this time".

 And the hip-hop star wants to be a part of the record himself - replacing Bubbler Ranx's rap section with his own contribution. He adds, "I would give my lyrics to it rather than use that guy he usedlast time".
 

Hip-hop star 50 Cent wants to help Australian singer Peter Andre's career, by re-recording his 1995 hit single 'Mysterious Girl'. Andre shot to fame with the song, a collaboration with Bubbler Ranx but took an extended hiatus from his music career in 1997 after being dropped by his record label.

He returned to the charts in 2004 with a re-release of Mysterious Girl, which debuted at number one in UK. The 34-year-old rapper admits he's a big fan of the song, and he would like to re-record the track with Andre to give the tune another chart outing, Contactmusic reported.

"It's like YMCA, one of those songs everybody knows. Girls like it and it gets them up dancing. It makes people feel happy, even if it is never going to win a Grammy," he said.

"Pete seems like a nice guy and maybe, with the right remix, we can get him a number one in the US as well as Europe this time," 50 Cent added.

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A Florida woman prominently featured in a homemade sex tape posted online by 50 Cent last year as part of his feud with Rick Ross has sued 50 (born Curtis Jackson) in New York City, claiming he unlawfully distributed the video over the Internet.

According to The Associated Press, Lastonia Leviston filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan, claiming unauthorized use of her name or image and emotional distress caused by the public release of a video.

She made with an unidentified man in 2008. In the tape, Leviston is seen showing off a tattoo on her chest with the initials “RR,” seemingly in reference to Ross.

And 50 is heard providing exaggerated voice-over narration to the action in his wigged “Pimpin’ Curly” persona. In the lawsuit, Leviston claims the rapper posted the video on ThisIs50.com last year, blurring out the face of the man in the tape but not hers, and that 50 edited himself into the video.

Last Wednesday (Feb. 24) 50 Cent was hit with a lawsuit for releasing a sex tape involving Rick Ross' ex-wife. A day later his assistant Dwayne McKenzie was confronted with allegations of arson, stemming from the 2008 fire that destroyed 50's Long Island estate.

McKenzie's ex-girlfriend, Shana Chin, testified in court on Thursday (Feb. 25) that he often bragged about setting the fire that burned down the Dix Hills mansion belonging to 50 Cent's ex-girlfriend, Shaniqua Tompkins.

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A pair of real estate agents nabbed the listing on the one-acre property rapper 50 Cent owns in Dix Hills.

The asking price is $499,999 for the .8-acre lot.,  according to a listing with Keller Williams Greater Nassau.

The vacant land used to contain a 5,200-square-foot Colonial with six bedrooms and five bathrooms. The rapper, otherwise known as Curtis Jackson, bought the house in 2007 for $1.4 million. His son and his son's mother had lived there until 2008.

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50 Cent’s beef with Rick Ross has landed him in the legal hot seat. Those who’ve been following the back-and-forth know that 50 (aka Curtis Jackson) isn’t above a low-blow.

He’s interviewed Tia Kemp, one of Rick’s baby mamas, who dished the dirt about Rick supposedly faking his whole lifestyle and his past as a prison guard. She also got a book deal from 50 for her part in the beef.


The rapper-mogul wasn’t so charitable to Lastonia Leviston, who also has a child with Rick.  Curtis obtained a tape of her having sex with.

A man named Maurice Murray and broadcasted it on his official Web site. Fifty narrated the video while dressed as his alter ego Pimpin’ Curly.


Now, the New York Daily News reports, Lastonia has filed suit against 50 in Manhattan Supreme Court for releasing the explicit footage without her consent.

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A Florida woman has sued rapper 50 Cent in New York City, claiming he unlawfully distributed her homemade sex video over the Internet after editing himself into it as a wig-wearing narrator. Lastonia Leviston filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in Manhattan claiming unauthorized use of her name or image and emotional distress caused by the public release of a video she made with a lover in 2008.

The lawsuit claims 50 Cent posted the video on his Web site last year after blurring out the lover’s face. It also claims the rapper introduces the video while wearing a curly wig and fluffy blue robe and can be heard narrating throughout. The rapper’s real name is Curtis Jackson. His lawyer hasn’t responded to a phone message seeking comment.

About a month after 50 Cent (born Curtis Jackson) wraps up his 28 city international excursion, which begins today (Feb. 23), G-Unit’s head honcho will commence filming a new movie project titled “Things Fall Apart.”

For the film, Fif will shed 65 pounds to fit the role of a college football star who’s been diagnosed with cancer. In addition to starring in the flick, Fif also co-wrote the screenplay and will have his film company, Cheetah Vision Films produce the project.

This is isn’t the first time Jackson shed a little weight for a movie role. Back in January of 2008, it was reported that Fif cut down some of his muscles for the role in “Streets of Blood,” a movie that placed the rapper alongside film veterans Sharon Stone and Val Kilmer.

50 Cent will shed the pounds for his latest movie, 'Things Fall Apart'.The buff rapper has to lose 65 pounds for the role, which will begin filming in May, in Michigan. The screenplay was co-written by Fif - real name Curtis Jackson - and will be produced by his own Cheetah Vision Films company.

The story is based on a college football player who gets ill with cancer.Co-producer Randall Emmett told Variety magazine about his planned weight loss: "Fifty is in the process of losing 65 pounds for the role."