he even gave up his studies for it. >> rap chose me. didn't choose it, because back then i didn't know i'd decide to be a rapper, that i'd drop everything for the world of rap. there are lots of cafÉs here, like this one, where we'd sit and talk. we'd write lyrics and we didn't have money. we'd tap the tables with our fingers to produce the beat we wrote to. ♪ >> nowadays wajdi mascott, whose real name is wajdi trabelzi, records his music in his own production studio. ♪ to be able to do so he went into debt, rented a house, turned it into a studio and hired employees for his productions. they're fellow musicians, and he goes on rap tours to the interior of the country with them. like this -- a concert in southern tunisia, one of seven this year. >> that was in douz. look at that sincerity. that was an unforgettable moment. the people there spontaneously sang along with me. it was the best reward possible. >> the theatre on "avenue habib bourguiba" was one of the centers of the uprising against former president ben ali. wajdi and his fri

gangster rap. ♪ >>> europe hopes it is super mario to the rescue in italy.he former commissioner, mario monti is trying to form a new government. italy and the rest of europe hope the yale-educated economist can pull the rest of the country back from the brink of financial ruin. the overseas market are optimistic. hong kong's hang seng picked up 371 points. if london, the ftse opened higher. the dow gained 170 points last week. the nasdaq in the negative, losing seven points. >>> bank customers may have won on debit card fees. but banks are still getting their money. the new quietly imposed charges are for replacing a lost debit card, depositing money with a mobile phone, or receiving a wire transaction. >>> and retailers may also be hitting you with stealth fees. many layaway plans have some upfront payments. charles schumer wants the stores to do a better job about relaying their fees. >>> the story about the greek hero and the gods of ancient greece drew and audience that was 6 the% male. "immore also the" took in $32 million. "jack and jill" was in secon

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the far right freedom party leads polls general election its leader has penned a rap saying islam is on the rise mr struck out while austrian so concerned about his long because he said ng this is an area where there are two very thorny issues the european crisis is our main problem now we also face problems in our migration policy this largely concerns migration from in countries such as turkey more than fifty percent of turkish immigrants don't want to integrate into north korean society they don't want to learn the language and organize parallel and opposing structures the activities of radical islamists have become visible in our society they hinder its your peaceful and democratic development in this since we are certainly a political force that comes out against any such radicalization. if you states refused to work with your policy when it was in power five years ago what will be different this time. but i think that europe is living through a turning point in its development because just as the whole world is getting through a turning point and a period of democratization i a

." >> [ rapping ] ♪ yep ♪ uh-huh ♪ you know what i wear ♪ green and yellow ♪ green and yellow ♪ green >> time to playlow  "guess the president." you get 4 clues and 20 seconds to check your knowledge of white house history. here goes. without much formal education, he became a lawyer in his teens. as a major general in the war of 1812, he defeated the british in the battle of new orleans. he killed a man in a duel -- for insulting his wife. his supporters became the modern democratic party. and when they partied to celebrate andrew jackson's victory, washington was shocked at the mess they made at the white house. but our seventh president was a popular reformer -- the first frontier man to lead the country. after two terms, he gave a farewell speech warning against paper money. that's ironic, because nowadays you see him on every $20 bill. >> when he wrote lyrics about his favorite football team, he had no idea it would make him a hip-hop star. carina reports on a teen rapper's surprising success. >> [ rapping ] ♪ i'm that kid with the spikes and the mike ♪

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." >> [ rapping ] ♪ yep ♪ uh-huh ♪ you know what i wear ♪ green and yellow ♪ green and yellow ♪ greenup, college is hard. down, those books are heavy. nnamdi, voice-over: my sport is football. but my passion is education. so every year, i take promising high schoolers on a college tour. you're getting it. lights there. darks there. nnamdi, voice-over: to show them that higher education means a brighter future. [toot] [laughter] my name is nnamdi asomugha. i don't just wear the shirt, i live it. announcer: find out how you can live united for education. give. advocate. volunteer. go to liveunited.org. do you wear this? these people really needed us and i was going to make a difference, right here in my community. announcer: be there for your community, at nationalguard.com. >> time to play "guess the president." you get 4 clues and 20 seconds to check your knowledge of white house history. here goes. without much formal education, he became a lawyer in his teens. as a major general in the war of 1812, he defeated the british in the battle of new orleans. he killed a man in a duel -- fo

maybe i underestimated bieber's rapping about. >> now are you a belieber? >> he can rap.ruth. >> i feel like a turkey today. >> sometimes we show you videos just to make you laugh. but at least this one is timely. a guy in a turkey suit dancing around a college campus. now if you want to check out the entire video of the dancing turkey, just head to our website rightthisminute.com. >> matt dradle. >> he is joining us right this minute to tell us about some of the latest greatest videos that they have. >> what's going on, "right this minute" crew. >> ready to see some good stuff. what have you got? >> first one to check out is going to be random chick nose dive. >> oh! >> what do people do when they have nothing to do and they don't know about our site. >> maybe it's fake and she wanted to get herself out there. >> i say it's real. >> i'm going to go with fake. >> i'm going to break the tie breaker. i think it's fake, also. >> if it's a real nose dive, i want to see her nose messed up. definitely holding her nose afterwards. >> what else do you have for us, matt? >> let's

he told me he is a rap artist. he is a ghost writer. >> i have a record deal waiting on me. aka is sa soon, and i got a demo coming out in a few months. if you're a rap fan, listen to it. >> when you start talking to inmates you are not sure what to believe. they start telling you these stories. you're kind of like say, all right. >> i have been a ghost writer in the rap industry for about 13 years. a lot of stuff i have written from behind these walls i have sold to other artists. that have been out there and been successful. >> i said, well, do a rap for me, and he just like rolled one right off his lips. it was called "15 to life." >> here we go. ♪ 15 to life doing 15 to life ♪ ♪ brother locked up once again chained like a slave on the bus once bound for the state pen ♪ ♪ it's going to be a rough ride ♪ ♪ because i'm about to do time for the crime of a homicide ♪ >> when he we met him, moore was 17 days away from his release date. >> finally my head's straight and i'm going to go for that because i'm burned out on this. you don't see know females. you don't see know laugh

gangster rap. ♪ >>> europe hopes it is super mario to the rescue in italy.mario monti is trying to form a new government. italy and the rest of europe hope the yale-educated economist can pull the rest of the country back from the brink of financial ruin. the overseas market are optimistic. hong kong's hang seng picked up 371 points. if london, the ftse opened higher. the dow gained 170 points last week. the nasdaq in the negative, losing seven points. >>> bank customers may have won on debit card fees. but banks are still getting their money. the new quietly imposed charges are for replacing a lost debit card, depositing money with a mobile phone, or receiving a wire transaction. >>> and retailers may also be hitting you with stealth fees. many layaway plans have some upfront payments. charles schumer wants the stores to do a better job about relaying their fees. >>> the story about the greek hero and the gods of ancient greece drew and audience that was 6 the% male. "immore also the" took in $32 million. "jack and jill" was in second. >>> in the central va

him rapping is unbelievable, and he becomes his character, childish gambino. >> steve: wow. >> jimmy: that's his whole thing. and if you don't know who childish gambino is, write it down. because you'll know who it is after you see him tonight. and you go -- yeah. and take a picture. a mental picture. i mean, like, this guy is going to blow -- he's going to blow. he's already -- he sold out, like, some crazy show last night. >> steve: yeah. >> jimmy: like 800 million people last night. [ laughter ] >> steve: i think it's 1800 -- yeah, 1800 million. >> jimmy: yeah, whatever. 1800 million. i didn't read the e-mail. [ light laughter ] but anyways -- but today is friday, and that's usually when i do catch up my stuff. you know, i check my inbox. you know, i -- i like to send out some thank you notes. so, i was wondering if you guys don't mind -- [ cheers and applause ] -- i'd like to write out a few thank you notes. is that okay? can i write out a few thank you notes? [ cheers and applause ] thank you so much. james? can i get some thank you note writing music, pl

minaj...minaj accepted the awwrd for favorite rap or hip- hop album.second awaad of the night. ((minaj says, "oh, this one pould actually make me cry. ii can't believe this is happening) haapening."))minaj also won for favorite rap or hip hop artist. 3 3 3 (( "and the america music award goes to maroon 5.")) 5."))maroon five won for best the people that matter most. levine says, "wow, this is i hink in order to get one of these, you have to have reat fans. so, i'd like to thank our manager and our incredible fanssfor making this happen. happen.like adam said... the awarddwas the band's first 3 american music award. nd for avorite country band group or duo ... lady antebellum won. it was the group's second american music award. this year's "artist of the year award" that kept the audience on the edge of their seats.so who woo the big award? a stunned taylor swift. swift.((this is like the craziest thing that's ever happened to me. to be nominated allng side of artists i'm a super fan of.)) of.))((áááad libááá)) speaking of music... we've got a very tale

plus -- [rapping] >>> shocking news of the music were.t investigators say about the sudden death of rep legend heavy d. >>> welcome back t "good morning washington". a chairman town a woman who accused herman cain of sexual harassment is it now revealing her identity. karen kraushauer says she wants to speak out. herman cain has denied the allegations and did so during a news conference yesterday. republicans could be on the verge of controlling virginia's government. they won a majority in the house of delegates. and a win in the senate race in central virginia, could give them control of the body. >>> they acquitted at a maryland state senator on that bribery and conspiracy charges. he was accused of taking money to advocate for shoppers food warehouse as the head of the budget committee. >>> turning out to the penn state scandal. on friday, the board of trustees plans to appoint a committee to investigate the child sex abuse case. hundreds of students rallied outside joe paterno's home demanding that he stay as head football coach. joe

tonight we're ad adding all you rap tour doubters.cooper is getting biblical and apparently talking about himself in the third person. not sure why. we'll stop that right now. back in the spring harold camping who runs a christian broadcasting network called family radio announced to anyone that would listen, which turned out to be the entire world's press corps that he had learned through study of the bible that the end of the earth, the rap tour, the destruction of all living things would end on may 21st. spoiler alert, it didn't. that was great because the next morning i had a really good bagel. a few days later mr. camping held a news conference and said while the world did not end, the wheels of the rap tour were indeed in motion. listen. >> on may 21, 2011, we didn't feel any difference. we didn't see any difference in the world, but we from the bible that god brought judgment day to bear on the whole world. the whole world is under judgment day, and this is a -- it will continue right up until october 21, 2011, and at that time

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. >> it appears there was a local wrap artist or a few local rap artists who had just concluded filming a video. >> reporter: seven people including the 1-year-old son of one of those artists was hit. rap artist, cousin of kafani insists he was not there. >> one of my promo people just drives around and promotes my music. i don't even be in the van. nobody ever see me in the van. >> reporter: we have to get in the way of the violence. >> reporter: on the scene we see members of the outreach team who say they're hoping to prevent more violence. >> going to the victims, and trying to make sure that they don't retaliate. and if we can maybe, run into the other people and ask them to back up if we can. >> reporter: police say they are also trying to reach some of the people in this video to sort out the suspects from the victims. >> reporter: police have even set up a hot line just for this case. it is 510-773-2805. and it can also accept text messages. now three people including that little boy are still in critical condition tonight. in the last 30 minutes we've seen a little bit of encou

all of it took place during the shooting of a video starring a rap artist. video gunmen upper right, police say there were three gunmen they opened fire you see people going to the ground and scattering. some on the ground returning fire. one of the victims a toddler shot in the head and in critical condition. again, 50 shell casings found on the ground it was a massive shootout with a lot of people there. police need some of those witnesses to step forward to put the pieces together on this case. >> anyone who has information regarding the shooting please come forward. we know there were a lot of people out here this evening. there are a lot of people who may have information that can assist the oakland police department with this investigation. >> reporter: police believe that music video being shot started the rap artist khafani. he's tweeting he was not shooting a video there he wasn't there he does say that the toddler victim is his cousin he refers to him as hiscus police concerned about retaliation they are on -- they are asking for the public to step

. >> i said at the beginning the room was full inprevious panel and you had rap music commentators and artists who are discussing politics is serious issues and so forth but there was more interest and i should have brought some of my rap poems. let me just close out with a portion of one of them that i think is very relevant because i wrote it in the early 1990s, 1991 or '92 and it's so relevant still now until -- it's always on my mind. one of the first rap forms i wrote and put it in a congressional record it was a poem about the meeting that took place at the white house to decide how to cut the budget. it was the old question on the table right now cutting the budget. it was on the table then and the danger was that they would cut all the budgets that helped the people who had the greatest needs then and then same dangers now and my rap poem was at the great white dc mansion there's a meeting of the mob and the question on the table is which beggars will they rob? it's beggars will they rob. all the make a deal and the poor has no appeal and there's a meeting of the mob that's the

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in it a guy claims the only way to make his little girl stop crying is to play certain rap songs.kay, okay. [ baby crying loudly ] [ happen music rap music ] >> there you go. dad

time i do my best and it's really hard for me to use new means of communication like face at twitter rap music and comics i do it consciously because i want to start a dialogue with people. especially young people who are often disappointed in politics and in whom politics excites screens are discussed because i want to involve them in a scuffle and i succeed i love to be recorded i record my rap tracks and upload those videos onto you tube where you can watch them but i do not arrange concerts in behind the people's representatives so to speak and maybe the one who can persuade you and this one can be contained as long as possible it goes those who do not want to integrate have a destination for you back to your motherland have a nice trip we have another unemployed here like this. all the up on your website age destruction eighty is called vienna's blood what does that mean then upload this thing and i mean a root is a global trademark of beautiful vienna and the culture of living of vienna citizens i mean aboot an operetta by strauss the magnificent performance you can see every year

. >> he always walked around rapping and making raps up. you see so much live and so much potential and never got a chance to find his way. >> he said he feels relieved to know police are close to solving the case. man is in custody so far, they are close to arresting others. >> we hope justice gets done and we can stop the violence. >> one person is in custody hera the oakland police department tonight. police are looking for others and they hope to make arrests soon. in oakland, i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> an unusual development in all of this. a public outcry might have saved a man from deportation. he is a protester from mexico. police arrested panch o ramos. he was never charged with a crime, but turned over to immigration officials and then released. his attorney believes the public support helped free him. thousands signed a petition in support of ramos. >> it's unusual for somebody to be released on their own reconzans without having a bond posted or placed on electronic monitoring. >> immigration officials will not sa

>> reporter: there is speculation there may have been a rivalry between two rap groups, rivals, but we are trying to confirm that. >> how about the little boy? was he inside the house hit by a straight bullet or outside with these guys? >> reporter: we are trying to confirm that also because on that video you don't see a 1- year-old boy in that park lot or an adult with a baby so we are trying to find out where the boy was at the moment. was he at the scene or was he across the street in a neighborhood and one of the gunshots hit him at that moment. >> so very sad. gil diaz in oakland, thank you. >>> the man suspected of killing vallejo police james capoot returns to court this morning. 37-year-old henry albert smith, jr., could face the death penalty if convicted. he is scheduled to enter a plea today. capoot was shot and killed after chasing a bank robbery suspect in vallejo on november 17. he was a 19-year veteran of the vallejo police department. >>> defense attorneys are expected to put former bart police officer johannes mehserle back on the witness stand in a federal trial this

the toddler is related to kafani the rap artist. is the woman related to him in any way? >> reporter: we don't know the woman's identity or her relationship to anyone. kafani said not only was his cousin the little boy shot but there was another victim also his cousin and the father the toddler shot in the hand. >> not as seriously hurt. thank you, christin. >>> police hope surveillance video will lead to the suspects in a black friday shooting outside a bay area walmart. it shows a dar colored buick pulling into the parking lot of the san leandro store just before 2 a.m. two men then got out and confronted a group of shoppers walking to their car. police say they robbed the men of $5 and jewelry then shot one of them before speeding off. >> the three victims went to the walmart to buy videogames. they were out of stock. why they were shot appears random at this time. >> reporter: the manwas shot is recovering. police think this is the manshot him a 29-year-old from oakland. there is a warrant out for his arrest. another man was arrested at the scene. police are looking f

still a little deeper into the causes of the occupy movement nazis other than cause he talks to the rap star both technique and exact gradual erosion of basic rights has inspired a nationwide wave of protest. technique i just want to know what do you think is happening right now in the country in terms of the occupy wall street movement getting something amazing you have a lot of big changes going on in the revolution perhaps. it depends on what your definition of revolution is if it's blood in the streets and the royal family being murdered i don't know if that's necessarily going to happen but i think what is definitely be boring to continue to transpire is more and more people realizing just how disenfranchised they are they're realizing just how little control they have over their own democracy so they would want to give more of a voice that i also think what's happening here is is mirrored in other parts of the world where people are just so opposed to the use of centralized power of the federal system that's so i wouldn't control of the state system. but yet they want it to be mor

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we felt like it was -- >> jimmy: "the history of rap." we had to do a trilogy.on that song at all. >> no, that was not -- [ as michael jackson ] ♪ if you want it then you got it ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ first you want it then you've got it ♪ ♪ but you got to make your mind up you got you make your mind up ♪ ♪ you want it you want it you want it you want it ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> so when i was a kid, i mean, i thought that he was saying, "i'm going to say it one more time, i'm not going to stop." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: that makes sense. >> but, i mean, that makes sense, right? ♪ i'm going to say it one more time i'm not going to stop ♪ ♪ i'm going to say it one more time i'm not going to stop ♪ >> jimmy: which would again -- that makes sense for why -- he wouldn't stop. i didn't think about it. [ laughter ] >> that makes sense for why he repeated it 1,000 times in the song. and then, when i grew up and became halfway an adult -- >> jimmy: you said, yeah. >> i found out he was actually just saying, "ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa." >> jimmy: yeah, and does tha

. >>> new information in the death of rap legend heavy d. tmz is reporting that he had been suffering from pneumonia. the self-proclaimed overweight lover of hip-hop became one of rap's top mitt makers in the late '80s and early '90s. heavy d collapsed moments after returning to his beverly hills home yesterday actually friend said he complained he couldn't breathe and then he later died at and l.a. hospital. investigators believe the cause of death was medical. he was 44 years old. >>> a massive asteroid headed towards planet earth. an update on the close encounter we first told you about yesterday. did it do what scientists expected? that is coming up next. we're still here so i guess that is all we care about. >> you got it, sarah. in fact, we're doing just fine. so that is good news. we have a full moon to look forward to tomorrow. lots of sunshine in the forecast today. i'll have details on that. julie wright is in with a look at your on-time traffic coming up after the break. reak.  >>> welcome back. taking another live look outs