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There’s A New Bad Lieutenant In Town

Variety is reporting that Val Kilmer and Xzibit are the latest to sign on to Werner Herzog’s update of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 crooked-cop classic Bad Lieutenant. The new version—which Herzog is claiming is not a remake, but a continuation—stars Nic Cage, though we doubt Ol’ Melty Face can hold a candle to Harvey Keitel’s original performance.

Keitel’s drugged-out, alcoholic, minor-raping, compulsively gambling scumbag paved the way for Denzel’s Training Day tour de force and reinforced what quite a few of us already thought about the boys in blue (word to Spider Loc). After the jump, check out a few famous moments from the original flick, as well as the Schoolly D banger “Signifying Rapper,” which was featured prominently in the movie (and was ultimately cut from the VHS version after Jimmy Page’s bitch ass complained about the same “Kashmir” sample that he later gave to Puffy).

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Don King’s Prizefighter Makes Boxing History

Muhammad Ali might be pound-for-pound the greatest fighter of all time, but boxing’s history goes much deeper. Don King’s new Prizefighter video game (in stores June 10th) will teach you a lesson or two about the sport’s other greats with their “Historic Fights” option.

The 2K Sports release casts some of the greats from the ’30s to the ’70s like Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, and Ken Norton, letting players compete in some of the most storied bouts of all time. The game, which also features a slew of modern fighters, lands in stores on June 10th. Watch the game’s “historic” trailer after the jump.

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Justice Gets Gangster In The “Stress” Video

After the vibrant, artsy look of their last two videos D.A.N.C.E. and DVNO, Parisian electronica duo Justice take a decidedly different direction with their newest video for their throbbing synth banger “Stress.” The Romain-Gavras directed clip, which recently premiered on Kanye West’s blog, follows a group of young delinquents (all rocking Justice’s cross logo on their jackets) as they rage through the streets, fighting pedestrians, destroying cars and generally causing mayhem. Sounds like Grand Theft Auto meets Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Brace yourself for the destruction after the jump.

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Rappers Remember Sean Bell

Today the three New York Police officers that gunned down Sean Bell were found not guilty. With New York in an uproar over the outcome of last November’s shooting in front of Club Kalua, and protests by Al Sharpton in the works, rappers like Mickey Factz, Prodigy and Queensbridge affiliate Un Pacino also expressed their feelings about the trial before the outcome. Listen to both songs after the jump.

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Big Money For Video Game Criminals

Violence and video games have become big news in the U.K. lately, thanks to the release of the government-commissioned Byron Review, a report on the effect that gaming and the internet can have on children. While Tanya Byron, the woman behind the review, has publicly stated that we need to stop blaming video games for society’s problems, the British press has used this as an excuse to do just that.

But the media’s hysteria has now reached a new low. A national U.K. newspaper has placed a classified ad, stating that they are willing to pay hundreds of pounds for stories about people who were turned on to a life of crime by playing video games. The best part? The ad is listed on StarNow, a job listing site for actors and models. So now’s the time: write a few lines about how Resident Evil 4 turned you into a chainsaw-wielding lunatic, practice those on-cue tears and get ready to stack that gwap! Read the full ad after the jump.

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Did Biggie and Puffy Know Who Shot Tupac?

In an LA Times article, writer Chuck Philips reveals new information on Tupac’s 1994 shooting at New York’s Quad Studios. Sources close to Sean Combs spoke with Philips about what really happened that pivotal night. Read the full article here.

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