The Last Photo Of Slain Rapper M-Bone Of Cali Swag District

Montae Talbert, the rapper better known as M-Bone and member of the West Coast hip-hop group Cali Swag District, was killed in California in a drive-by shooting on Sunday evening, according to police.

Founded by former Death Row artist Big Wy and Dairold Potts, Cali Swag District was made up of M-Bone, Smoove, Jay Are and Yung, and the group earned national fame for the single “Teach Me How to Dougie.”

Cali Swag District released a statement to TMZ, saying their friend and fellow group member was “the victim of a random act of violence last night, Sunday May 15 in his hometown of Inglewood, CA.”

“As police are still investigating the shooting and untimely death, we ask that anyone with information contact the Inglewood Police Department.

“M-Bone was an inspiration to his family, friends and fans. He was a hardworking, passionate artist and dancer that will be deeply missed.”

According to TMZ, the rapper was next to his car outside of a local liquor store late Sunday when shots rang out. M-Bone was hit and taken to a nearby hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

Just a few weeks ago, FOX News caught up with the group for what now turns out to be one of M-Bone’s last ever interviews.

Here are excperts from that interview:

FOX News: You guys left your mark on dance floors across America last year with everyone wanting to learn how to do the “Dougie”… how did that come about?

Yung:  The Dougie is a dance that originated from Dougie Fresh himself, it came from a move he used to do… Fresh used to rub his head all the time when he was on stage, so Dallas, Texas took it in and turned it into a D-town Dougie – moving from side to side and rubbing the head!

FOX News: And now you have “The Kickback” – what else can we expect?

M-Bone:  Songs for the ladies!

FOX News: Your fame happened pretty fast, are you all still pinching yourselves?

Smoove: Yes it all happened so suddenly, so everything we do is like a learning process, and the respect level is through the roof. We get respected by people that we didn’t even talk to back in middle school or in high school. They’re like, ‘man, I remember when we were the best of friends!’ But it is cool they respect us now, life is good.

Yung: A lot of people look up to us, like in the airport last night some dude walked up and said could I give him some advice on how to make it. It’s incredible.

M-Bone: Yeah and it happens all time. 

FOX News: Music aside, what’s next?

Jay Are: I want a TV show, we need a TV show!

M-Bone: Commercials… oh, and we need that Nike contract! Haha.

Yung: Movies, going overseas. We expect a lot. A lot.

FOX News: What about any dream collaborations?

M-Bone: We’ve got the Bieber fever.

Smoove: (Make us happy) and go and get the album, The Kickback, or I’ll be back! And follow us on Twitter! Scream at us, hit us, follow us, we follow back, we hope for conversation, just don’t act stupid and it’s all good.

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Television review: Becoming Chaz

Los Angeles Times Television Critic

May 10, 2011

Midway through "Becoming Chaz," the raw and revelatory documentary about Chaz (nee Chastity) Bono's physical transition from female to male, Chaz visits his Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor and her partner to show them the results of his recent chest surgery. The women, who loaned Chaz the money to have his breasts removed, have prepared a lovely brunch and while Chaz chows down, he eagerly describes the side effects of his transition, which includes regular doses of testosterone. Not only does he find himself increasingly unable to abide women's "gabbing," he tells them, his sex drive has increased enormously.

"It's a shame women can't feel it," he says, "and know how biological it is."

"Huh," says his sponsor. And while Bono, oblivious, continues to eat, the two women sit, frozen in a brief but excruciating pause. It all comes down to chemistry, after all.

"Becoming Chaz," which premieres Tuesday night on OWN, is undoubtedly one of the most thought-provoking films you will see on any screen this year, a frankly chronicled tale of Chaz's life as a transgender man that opens a more than occasionally mind-blowing conversation about the essentials of gender, and subsequently, sexuality.

Often likened to gay identity before the Stonewall riots, or women's lives pre-"The Feminine Mystique," the transgender experience is actually one of the few human conditions almost completely without cultural, literary or artistic landmarks. Over the centuries, poets and playwrights have expressed, albeit in veiled terms, the love that dared not speak its name just as women have had their say, and champions. But the idea that a person could be born into a body at odds with his or her sense of gender has only recently entered the public conversation, through films like "Boys Don't Cry" and talk shows like Oprah Winfrey's.

Transgenderism remains so foreign a concept to those who have not experienced it that its explanation falls totally to those who have. In Chaz Bono, the transgender community found its first celebrity spokesperson since Renée Richards. Not only is Chaz a man (the transgender male community, as the film says, is much less public than the female) but he was famous long before he identified as transgender.

It is a heavy burden, and one with which Chaz, a witty and articulate but non-attention-seeking individual, is not terribly comfortable; fame caused almost as much conflict in his life as his ill-fitting body did. But having committed to becoming a spokesperson for this marginalized community, Chaz tells his story with a graphic and stunning simplicity. The action begins as he is preparing to have his breasts removed, and documents his recovery from the surgery, his subsequent legal transition from female to male and the reactions of his longtime girlfriend Jennifer Elia as well as his friends and family.

Elia, like her partner, is breathtakingly honest, often hilariously so, whether popping a zit on Chaz's back at one point, or shaking her head over his emerging "swagger." Her struggle with sobriety is an ongoing tension in the relationship (Chaz is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict), as is the fact that she is a lesbian. Early on, when Chaz confides that the two never acted like a lesbian couple, Elia retorts, "What does a lesbian couple act like?" But Chaz's transition clearly has an impact on their relationship. Elia fell in love with a woman and Chaz is now a man, which prompts all manner of questions about the nature of enduring love.

And then there's the elephant in the room. Cher, like her son, is not one for mincing words. Other family members — Chaz's aunt and grandmother, stepmother Mary Bono and her children — offer unconditional, unquestioning support, but Cher, who publicly voiced her unhappiness when her then-daughter Chastity came out, is clearly ambivalent. Though the pain and distance Cher's reluctance inflicts on Chaz is palpable, neither filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato nor Chaz portray her as a monster. Instead, she is seen as expressing the feelings of confusion and loss any mother might have. So when, while promoting her film "Burlesque," Cher actually uses the pronoun "he" and announces that she thinks Chaz is very brave, it is a moment of hope, if not triumph.

Miraculously, "Becoming Chaz" doesn't go much for triumph, at least not in the theatrical sense. Instead, the film presents life as ongoing and complicated, as it actually is, for the transgendered and non-transgendered alike. Becoming a man doesn't solve all of Chaz's problems, just his biggest one.  Copyright © 2011, Los Angeles Times

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100 The definitive list of the world’s most beautiful women.

The definitive list of the world’s most beautiful women.

100. Melanie Iglesias
The winner of Maxim’s 2010 Hometown Hotties contest still makes the office swoon every time she walks in. Oh, God, here we go again!

99. Candace Bailey The Attack of the Show! cohost pushes all the right buttons for the gamer-and-geek crowd.Heat factor: Her sultry voice has given life to the likes of Barbie and a Jenna Jameson doll on Robot Chicken.

 98. Camilla Belle

Teen girls may envy her for once dating a Jo-Bro, but we’ve had our eye on this half-Brazilian beauty since 10,000 B.C.Heat factor: She played the young girl in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Feel creepy yet?

 97. Hope Dworaczyk The onetime Playmate of the Year wowed Trump’s wig on this year’s Celeb­rity Apprentice.Heat factor: She told Maxim her last name rhymes with “Jurassic.” Got it? Good!

96. Sophie Monk The Maxim-approved sexpot made Date MovieClick way more erotically charged. And here you were thinking it was Fred Willard and Adam Sandler.Heat factor: She was born in England but raised in Australia. Nice set of citizenships! and

95. Serinda Swan Currently starring in Breakout Kings, Serinda has portrayed a sorceress (Smallville), a goddess (The Lightning Thief), and a digital siren (Tron: Legacy). Serinda, want to play D&D with us?Heat factor: She says she has a crush on Prince William. Blimey!

94. Alessandra Torresani Not that we watched Battlestar Galactica spin-off show Caprica or anything, but we did, coincidentally, make a shrine to Alessandra when it got canceled.Heat factor: She has a black belt in tae kwon do.

93. Kelli Hutcherson 

The MMA delivers its biggest knockout courtesy of this smokin’-hot Strikeforce ring girl.Heat factor: With modeling gigs aplenty (think surf shops and energy drinks), this ray of California sunshine is just getting started.

92. Nicky Whelan  

She popped up in Hall Pass, but those with a thing for Australian soap operas will know her as the insanely hot Pepper Steiger in Oz’s biggest TV export—and starting point for Kylie Minogue—Neighbours.Heat factor: The bikini was invented specifically for Nicky, a fact so hot it sounds like we just made it up!

91. Erin Andrews  

Long before she wowed us on Dancing With the Stars (we’re suckers for a mambo), Erin reigned as the best sideline reporter of all time.Heat factor: A one-two punch of genuine sports smarts and knockout looks? Yes, please!

 90. Lauren Storm

She took the world by, well, storm after her on-screen ménage à trois in I Love You, Beth Cooper.Heat factor: Lauren’s back on the big screen this winter in M.U.D. Which is what your name will be if you miss it.

89. Lyndsy Fonseca 

Who’d believe the babe from Kick-Ass and Nikita started out on The Young and the Restless? We would, because we can Google.Heat factor: Get your Lyndsy fix when Nikita (hopefully) returns this fall.

88. Daniela Ruah 

Despite watching every single episode of NCIS: Los AngelesHeat factor: Daniela has ever starred in, we still have no idea what NCIS stands for. It’s almost like we were distracted by something. She speaks three languages. That’s three more than our copy editor!

87. Emmanuelle Vaugier 

We can’t prove this sultry French-Canadian was named after the Skinemax babe who helped us through our awkward years. But you can’t prove she wasn’t!Heat factor: She’s the world’s smokingest FBI agent on Human Target.

86. Autumn Reeser  

Thanks to this Entourage alum’s stint as a scientist on No Ordinary Family, the lab coat has never been sexier.Heat factor: Autumn once revealed that she enjoys scrapbooking. Somehow we’re still turned on.

85. Rachelle Leah

This UFC knockout may work in an Octagon of horrors, but her endless curves are a circle of perfection. That’s poetry, people.Heat factor: Follow her on Twitter (@rachelle_leah), where she sometimes posts love poems. Aww.

 84. Paz de la Huerta

This feisty New Yorker sprang into the public conscious­ness in Boardwalk Empire, prompting even more trips to the poor man’s Vegas.Heat factor: See her in Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story, about the infamous porno flick Deep Throat.

  

83. Carly CraigIs 

it wrong that we can’t stop watching the Hall Pass gross-out queen’s impression of Judy Garland having an orgasm on funnyordie.com? Probably, right?Heat factor: Her dad was a major leaguer who played with George Brett.

82. Kelly Kelly

So nice they named her twice, this WWE Diva is the hottest blonde in the ring since Hulk Hogan.Heat factor: See her fight dirty on Syfy’s WWE SmackDown.

81. Gabrielle Union

Gabrielle Union From Ugly Betty to FlashForward, Gabrielle is always your favorite part of the shows you say your girlfriend makes you watch.Heat factor: We’re definitely a pro-Union shop.

80. Danica McKellar

She was every 12-year-old’s crush as Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years and grew up to be a math genius.Heat factor: Her voice can be heard in a ton of cartoons you’re definitely too old to be watching.

79. Mini Anden

At first we were disappointed that The Mechanic wasn’t about an oil change, but then we saw the exquisite Mini and found the strength to carry on.Heat factor: Bottoms up! The sultry Swede has a tattoo of fairies on her butt.

78. JWOWWO

nly a woman with the word wow in her name could give Jersey Shore a spray-tanned kiss of class.Heat factor: The Italy season of Jersey Shore begins next month. Mamma mia!

77. Anna Chapman

As we all know from watching James Bond movies, there is nothing sexier than a Russian spy. Insert your own “undercover” joke here (and your own “insert” joke, come to think of it).Heat factor: This is also where we’d make a Cold War joke, if it were still the 1980s.

76. Diora Baird

This former Guess girl once again claims a spot on our list of all who are hot, because God blessed us with two fully functional eyes.Heat factor: Check her out in the thriller Transit and the comedy Last Call, out later this year.

75. Nicki Minaj

Finally, a rapper who spits sick verses and looks good in spandex.Heat factor: Nicki was the first lady to make MTV’s “Hottest MCs” list. Hooray for women’s rights!

74. Laura Vandervoort

TV nerds forgot all about the new Wonder Woman when Laura reprised her role as Supergirl on Smallville this spring.Heat factor: Laura was on the cover of the final issue of Stuff magazine. RIP, brother!

 73. Jamie Chung

She showed off her fighting skills in Sucker Punch and gets punchy as a bride-to-be in The Hangover Part II.Heat factor: Tough and sexy, Jamie loves doing her own stunts.

72. Stacy Keibler

Meet the ultimate former WWE Diva from whom we pray to get a figure-four leg lock nightly.Heat factor: Roles in TV comedies (hope­fully in short shorts) are on the way.

71. Taylor Cole

The Texas stunner kept our hearts racing through the entire season of The Event as a mysterious socialite.Heat factor: Get a quick Taylor fix by picking up The Green Hornet on DVD.

70. Arianny Celeste

This Maxim cover star and UFC Octagon Girl isn’t too high and mighty to attend the prom of a teenage fan or post meat loaf recipes on her Web site. Mail us a slice, Arianny!Heat factor: Catch her in person as she presides over UFC carnage in an Octagon near you.

 69. Emma Watson

Elfin features and a posh English accent make Emma the cutest witch ever (not that there’s much competition).Heat factor: Emma casts a “Hotticus” spell in the final Harry Potter movie next month.

 68. Anna Paquin

The blood and guts are fine and all, but what keeps us tuning in to True Blood is the weekly dose of this cutie’s naughty bits.Heat factor: Bite into Season 4 this month.

67. CiaraThe leggy 

R&B songstress’ 2010 Basic Instinct put her back at the top of the hot-chicks-who-can-sing heap.Heat factor: Ciara is rumored to be alley-ooping with Knicks all-star Amar’e Stoudemire.

66. Aly MichalkaStar 

of the CW’s pompom-based miniskirt-fest Hellcats, Aly is hotter than a barbecue in an all-girl sauna.Heat factor: She’s genetically designed to be a cheerleader—her mom was a Raiderette!

65. Elisha Cuthbert

After all these years, 24’s sexy kidnap victim is still on our minds 24-7.Heat factor: Fortunately, you can see her every week on ABC’s Happy Endings.

64. Miley Cyrus

The sweet Kids’ Choice Awards staple has blossomed into an angel-voiced, bong-friendly entertainer we all can enjoy.Heat factor: This “Party in the U.S.A.” singer is touring overseas this summer, so book a flight to Perth stat!

  

63. Ana De La Reguera

This Nacho Libre and Eastbound & Down star is the dream combo of funny and sexy. Fuxy! Wait…Heat factor: Have a nerdgasm watching her in next month’s comic book adaptation Cowboys & Aliens.

62. Whitney Port

She conquered L.A. (The Hills) and New York (The City), and her bikini-ed trips to the beach have been well-documented by the paparazzi.Heat factor: Read her book, True Whit, and quote passages back to her when you see her.

61. Eva Amurri

Susan Sarandon’s daughter made a splash in her own right with a memorable role as a stripper on Showtime’s Californication.Heat factor: Recently engaged, she’s dabbling in producing, but we prefer her in front of the camera. See why?

 60. Kelly Brook

The Brit babe with a bod that deserves its own empire keeps getting hotter. Unlike Britain, where it’s raining.Heat factor: Watch her in Pi­ranha 3D. Again, and again, and again.

59. Grace Park

On Hawaii Five-O the former Battlestar Galactica star is the sexiest law enforcer on the island. (Sorry, Dog the Bounty Hunter.)Heat factor: Her characters on both BSG and Hawaii Five-O were originally played by men. That’s change we can believe in!

58. Christina Aguilera

Proving there’s a prize for screwing up the national anthem when you’re this hot, Christina scored a judge spot on The Voice.Heat factor: Kidding! Her credentials come from being a five-time Grammy winner.

57. Audrina Patridge

We couldn’t save her on Dancing With the Stars, but the Hills alum came back with her own reality show, Audrina.Heat factor: Follow her on Twitter @AudrinaPatridge.

56. Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks As resident bombshell Joan Harris on Mad Men, busty Christina quickly catapulted to sex symbol status.Heat factor:Drive. Dangerous curves ahead! This September Christina costars in

55. Joanna Krupa 

Maxim cover babe Joanna has danced with the stars and driven professional athletes nuts on The Superstars.Heat factor: Look forward to more eye- popping photo shoots...if there is a God in heaven, that is.

54. Vanessa Hudgens 

The beauty in Beastly is our favorite foxy Disney alum.Heat factor: The image of Vanessa blasting dragons with a machine gun in Sucker Punch is burned in our minds.

53. Ashley GreeneMove 

over, Robert Pattinson! Twilight’s hottest vampire is sinking her teeth into a ton of upcoming big roles.Heat factor: OMG! The hottie is going for laughs alongside Miley Cyrus in LOL.

52. Minka KellyThe 

Cali native has been a sexy cheerleader (Friday Night Lights) and a sexy coed (The Roommate).Heat factor: You’ll soon see Minka weekly thanks to the Charlie’s Angels reboot.

 51. Nicole Scherzinger 

The ex-Pussycat proved she has moves to spare in her Dancing With the Stars win.Heat factor: She’s been cast in Men in Black 3. Yes, there will be a Men in Black 3.

 50. Selita Ebanks 

This former Victoria’s Secret model, originally from the Cayman Islands, got us to tune in to The Celebrity Apprentice.Heat factor: Don’t stare too long; your eyes might burst into flames.

 49. Alison Brie 

With her tight sweaters and short skirts, Community’s resident princess is cuter than a basketful of kittens cuddling with a baby penguin.Heat factor: She’s also on Mad Men, you say? Now, that’s a girl with ambition

48. Julianna Hough 

From the ballroom to Burlesque, this country-crooning hottie is quickly becoming a bona fide triple threat.Heat factor: Hough shakes her “thang” at the multiplex in the upcoming Footloose remake.

47. Odette Annable

This former homecoming queen and current TV crush has gone from Cloverfield’s damsel in distress to lock-picking bad girl on Breaking In.Heat factor: Odette made her film debut as a bratty kid in Kindergarten Cop. And that’s not a ru-mor!

46. Beau Garrett

The former Guess girl wowed fanboys with a spandex-happy turn in Tron: Legacy.Heat factor: Beau adds sexy to the police procedural in Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior.

45. Emmanuelle ChriquiAs 

Sloan on Entourage, this hottie saves us from broverdosing.Heat factor: She’s continuing her premium cable domination on Showtime’s The Borgias.

44. Anna Faris Whoever said girls can’t be funny never met Anna Faris. And whoever said funny girls can’t be hot definitely never met Anna Faris.Heat factor: Anna will once again have you guffawing in What’s Your Number?

43. Naya Rivera

As resident bad girl and sexy cheerleader Santana on Glee, Naya embodies two of the girls that never gave us the time of day in high school.

Heat factor: Santana and Brittany (Heather Morris) sealed their “besties with benefits” status with a kiss last fall.

42. Emma Stone

In her breakout role in Superbad, she made taking a head butt look good. Hot, smart, and funny can all come in the same package.

Heat factor: If Emma’s two July rom-coms don’t tickle your funny boner, catch her in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man.

41. Jaimie Alexander

After this raven-haired babe’s role as the badass goddess Sif in Thor, we’re considering converting to Norse.

Heat factor: Jaimie has revealed that she’s a Michael Bolton fan. Don’t worry, Jaimie, we won’t hold that against you.

 40. Hilary Duff

The beauty already boasts an impressive résumé—singer, actress, clothing designer, author—but we still can’t get “enuff” of Duff!

Heat factor: Sexy sister alert! Hilary and her sister, Haylie, have both been Maxim cover girls.

39. Rebecca Mader

British, sexy, funny, and sexy, she once lived on an island with smoke monsters. (Did we mention she’s sexy?)

Heat factor: The Lost lovely is now found on No Ordinary Family.

38. Lindsay Lohan

What a year it’s been for La Lohan! Whether going to jail or posing for our camera, she looked hot.

Heat factor: Her hometown of Merrick, Long Island also boasts Debbie Gibson as a former resident. Coincidence?

37. Zoe Saldana

The Avatar starlet is the only human who could make pointy ears and a tail sexy.

Heat factor: She shoots to kill as an assassin in Columbiana and returns in the Star Trek sequel.

36. Brooklyn Decker

The all-American stunner went from modeling to moviemaking with her film debut in Just Go With It.

Heat factor: See her next in the board game adaptation (!) Battleship.

35. Kim Kardashian

More than 6.7 million Twitter followers can’t be wrong, can they?

Heat factor: The reigning queen of reality television regularly hocks perfumes and other stuff you won’t buy in ads you won’t mind watching.

34. Avril Lavigne

Three Maxim covers and four albums later, the sassy songstress remains the punk princess of pop.
Heat factor: Look out for some summer tour dates, sk8er boi!

33. Dania Ramirez

This Maxim cover girl clearly has a thing for short, stout guys: She played A.J.’s girlfriend on The Sopranos and Turtle’s beloved on Entourage.

Heat factor: Sexy sister alert, part two! Her sister Denise is also an actress.

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