Last night, Coldplay revisited their cover of the Beastie Boys' "Fight For Your Right (To Party)" at the Hollywood Bowl—they did it at the 2009 All Points West festival, too, and apparently didn't learn their lesson—to pay tribute to Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys founder, filmmaker, and humanitarian who died yesterday at age 47. Here are a few other (some better) covers of Beastie Boys songs:
Videos: Beastie Boys Covers, Including Jay-Z, Blondie And Phish
Video: Naked Model's Hair Catches Fire At Diddy's Party
The launch of Diddy's latest album, Last Train to Paris, has been a bit bumpy here in New York. First there was the confusion caused when the album tried to take over a SoHo train station (not to mention the strange sight of Diddy teaching the Bieber to walk) and now the FDNY are involved? Turns out the Fire Department was called in on Tuesday night to assist at the album's launch party (atop the midtown hotel the London NYC) after a model in a hot tub caught on fire. Exactly. Better to just jump to the video, eh?
Cops Probe "Fabolous Link" In Rapper's Death
On March 13, up-and-coming rapper G Baby (pictured) was fatally shot at Archer Avenue and 143rd Street, a few blocks away from a nightclub. Now the Daily News reports that police are looking into a possible link between Fabolous and the shooting, though cops "aren't sure what role, if any, the Brooklyn rapper might have played in the March killing, but a surveillance video shows Fabolous leaving Club Amazura seconds before a mystery gunman blasted Greg (G-Baby) Brown in the back."
Busta Pays "Fan" $75K
Busta Rhymes has been busted for many things, and often gets of scott free. But not today! The NY Post reports that a Brooklyn judge ordered the rapper to pay $75,000 to a fan, Alex Duncan, that he assaulted at a 2003 concert. Allegedly Duncan wasn't a fan of the rapper at all, but was there to see Fabolous, who canceled. Allegedly when he stood up at the show and Rhymes took notice, Duncan told him he wasn't there to see him, and yadda yadda yadda Busta doused him with water, pelted with water bottles, and had his bodyguard punch him.
David Wright Gets Some Pre-All-Star Game Batting Practice
After just making the All-Star roster last week, David Wright stopped by vitaminwater's Homers on the Hudson event. The contest gave people the chance to hit a ball off a tee 150 feet into an inflatable glove (on top of an inflatable vitaminwater bottle, of course) on a barge in the Hudson--if successful, they win $1 million. It wasn't very easy, for Wright or Jets safety Kerry Rhodes or any of the non-professional athletes, but actually rapper Fabolous did pretty well, managing to hit the glove.
Brooklyn Man Stabbed to Death at Flatiron Club
A 25-year-old man was stabbed to death inside the Flatiron club Duvet early Friday morning. Shamel McKinsey stumbled outside and collapsed outside on West 21st street, "blood gushing from his wounds, just after 3:30 a.m.," according to the Daily News. McKinsey, who had an arrest record for drug possession with intent to sell, was pronounced dead at St. Vincent's Hospital. Police suspect that McKinsey may have been partying with the rapper Fabolous at Duvet,...

