Labels: Lupe Fiasco

Beyoncé's planned concert in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has been canned amid protests by local Muslim groups, Billboard reports. The groups are reportedly upset that the singer has refused to obey the country's strict dress code for performers, although the November 1 concert's promoter, Pineapple Concert, did not give a reason for the cancellation in a statement issued Friday (September 28). Female performers are not allowed to show skin from the tops of their chests to their knees. In August, Gwen Stefani's concert in the country was also preceded by protests for the same reason — but she reluctantly abided by the guidelines, saying in a press conference before the show that she had made a "major sacrifice." ... [SOURCE]

Labels: Beyonce

"The track was considered for Chris Brown -- he thought it was his -- but it was my record and I decided to give it up to J. Holiday," explains The-Dream. "Chris said the record won't be No. 1 unless he's on it. I bet someone $500,000 that it would go to No. 1 and I collected my money just last week."

Labels: The Dream

Labels: Kanye West, Shits and Giggles

Alicia Keys was honored by the NY Chapter of the Recording Academy...


I'm on the fence with this outfit...




Us Weekly held a Hot Hollywood party at L.A.'s Opera...








Heeeey! Kool-Aid!

Labels: Alicia Keys, Chris Brown, Fergie, Kanye West, Mary J Blige, Will.I.Am

Mychal Bell's release on $45,000 bail came hours after a prosecutor confirmed he will no longer seek an adult trial for the 17-year-old. Bell, one of the teenagers known as the Jena Six, still faces trial as a juvenile in the December beating in this small central Louisiana town.

"We still have mountains to climb, but at least this is closer to an even playing field," said the Rev. Al Sharpton, who helped organize last week's protest.

"He goes home because a lot of people left their home and stood up for him," Sharpton said. [SOURCE]

Labels: Jena 6

Labels: J. Holiday, The Leak

Calumet City Police Chief Russell Larson confirmed only that an unidentified woman’s body had been found in the area Thursday morning. But Nailah Franklin’s uncle Jon Merrill and family friend Andrew Holms said authorities had told the family the body is that of his 28-year-old niece.

Franklin was reported missing Sept. 19 after she missed a meeting with her boss at Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly. Her car was discovered in Hammond, Ind., on Friday night near an abandoned building.

Shortly before she disappeared, Franklin had filed a police report about getting threatening phone calls from a man she had dated briefly. Chicago police said Monday they had interviewed someone Franklin once dated but have not named a suspect in her disappearance. [READ MORE]

The invite is designed to look like an old style newspaper with headline blaring "THE UNTOUCHABLES STRIKE AGAIN." The untouchables are TI, Lil' Wayne and Young Jeezy who will co-host the party. The invite encourages guests to "come suited and booted."

pics via ozonemag.com

Labels: jeex, Lil Wayne, T.I., Tiny

Labels: J. Holiday, Jessica White

Spotted @ YBF

This is the proposed album cover for Jay-Z next project American Gangster. It is pretty fly, classic and what you would expect from Hov...Very understated! I am soooo looking forward to this album, since it really conceptual and inspired!

Labels: Jay Z

Michael Jackson is just...I have no words. He covers L’uomo Vogue, with is the Italian men's version of the mag. This must be the beginning of a major trainwreck comeback from Jacko...

The fashion spread is reportedly part of a deal between Michael Jackson and Roberto Cavalli. Word on the curb is that Michael would do the photo shoot for Cavalli and in return, Cavalli would design clothing for Michael as a part of his new look for a new album release.

Sha-Mone! Continue reading for more...you know you wanna!

Labels: Michael Jackson

The Atlanta native said he and Pain did indeed have to defend themselves in London — they were in town to perform at the MOBO Awards — but they came out unharmed and with all their belongings intact. The commotion happened shortly after midnight, when Joc was bringing in his birthday at U.K. club Crystal Club on Thursday.

"It was my birthday, so we was poppin' bottles," he continued. "We was bottle-poppin' major. Pain was talking to this chick and this big football-player-looking dude came up. He was big as hell. ... The dude grabbed her arm and she was like, 'I'm not leaving,' and [moves] away from the dude. ... The next thing you know, the dude started talking sh-- to Pain. The dude poured his wine out and ... I looked back at my security [guard], gave him my chain. He put it in my case and handed it to Rico. The dude hit T-Pain's partner in the head with a glass in his hand." [SOURCE]

Labels: Don't Believe the Hype

Labels: Miss Jones, Usher

Keyshia Cole kick of her for the celebration at Sol in NYC...but I hear she was ready to tear down the city so this was just one stop!

Queen Latifah dropped a new album Trav'lin Light...I know extra random!

Labels: Jamie Foxx, Keyshia Cole, Queen Latifah, Will.I.Am

Labels: Beyonce, Justin Timberlake

Labels: Karrine Steffans

Labels: Jena 6

Fonzy bestows his wisdom in his new book Advance Your Swagger: How to Use Manners, Confidence, and Style to Get Ahead coming to a Dollar Tree near you! [LOL...I keed keed]

Labels: Fonzworth Bentley

Labels: Amanda Diva

Oscar-winner Halle Berry has hired security guards because of racist threats to her unborn baby.

The star, three months pregnant, has received letters at her LA home from an anonymous sicko.

One said she and her child would be "cut into hundreds of pieces".

Halle, 41, who has a white father and an African-American mother, is expecting her first child with white Canadian model Gabriel Aubry.

A source close to the actress said: "Halle does not normally use security but she has taken on a couple of guys to make sure." Police are investigating the threats. [SOURCE]

Labels: Halle Berry

Lil 'Kim and Mary J. Blige at Biggie's funeral | The SUV Biggie was riding in

Waymond Anderson, a former R&B artist now serving a life sentence for murder in a separate case, said in an Aug. 20 deposition that he lied as part of a scam to win a monetary settlement from the city.

Anderson's deposition, first reported Wednesday in the Los Angeles Times, states that he was offered a portion of any settlement if he testified that former police Officer Rafael Perez told him that another ex-police officer, David Mack, was involved.

Both Mack and Perez have long denied any involvement in the March 9, 1997, murder of the New York rapper, also known as Biggie Smalls.

"I don't know David Mack, I don't know Rafael Perez," Anderson said in the deposition. "It was a lie, and I'm ashamed of it." [READ MORE]

Labels: Notorious BIG

Labels: Beyonce, Jonetta Patton, Tameka Foster, Usher

Check out Jennifer Hudson on set of Sex in the City in New York...She is playing an assistant to Carrie in the film, which is set to be released in May of 2008. I have many questions about the boots and purse, well the whole ensemble, that I hope will be answered in the movie.

Labels: Jennifer Hudson

Labels: Kanye West, Wendy Williams

Labels: Letoya Luckett

Erykah Badu, Nas and Kelis, Wood Harris and Mos Def were all recent patrons of the L.A. store "The Hundreds," check 'em out! Their blog is pretty interesting!

[Look how Cute!]

Kanye and Alexis hit up the Intermix Store Opening in L.A. along with Eve and Kim Kardashian...

Wendy Raquel Robinson was spotted at the opening of The Store by Girlie Designs

Cuba Gooding Jr., Taye Diggs and wife Idina Menzel, and Marlon and Shawn Wayans supported the National MS Society's "Dinner of Champions" in L.A.

Jamie Foxx made is way to The Late Show with David Letterman to promote his new movie The Kingdom, which looks like a great movie...

Will.I.Am stopped through Fuse TV's The Sauce on the promotion tip too, his debut solo album Songs About Girls was released yesterday.

Jennifer Lopez and hubby Marc Anthony kicked off the "En Concierto" Tour at PS 36 in the Bronx...I'm saying though, the mu-mu look is not helping dispel the pregger rumors!

Labels: Eye Spy

“It’s more of what I’m giving other people. It’s like the 80s, its musical. I’m doing the ‘Umbrella’ routine to this whole album. All of my records are singles. The album is really visual as well, it appeals to all your senses, similar to ‘Thriller’.”

Labels: The Dream

Labels: Nicole Scherzinger

Spotted at ONTD

Labels: Kimora Lee Simmons

Labels: Ne-Yo, Rihanna

Labels: Mya

The television spot grants viewers a behind the scenes pass to follow Knowles’ hectic life on tour, a whirlwind schedule taking her from photo shoot to dance rehearsal to press conference all in a day’s work. With cameos by her parents, Matthew and Tina Knowles, the fast-paced spot captures her real life struggle to balance between her career and her family. As Knowles finally unwinds in her hotel room after a day of jet-setting, she manages to squeeze in some promised shopping for her niece and nephew with just a few quick clicks of the mouse. She shops online effortlessly with her American Express Card knowing it affords her peace of mind in an otherwise chaotic day.

Labels: Beyonce

Labels: Lil Wayne

Labels: Whitney Houston

Labels: Alicia Keys

Very cute... and not her usual white!








Nicole Murphy looks like the Cocoa Barbie...




Do we expect anything more or less from Da Brat?






Damn you, Golden...You slay me everytime! What in the name of Amy Winehouse is going on with the eyes?






...and Yes, still together!

Labels: LisaRaye

Melody: Tell me about your new project April Fools.

Darrin: Well, it’s a movie I did two years ago that’s out on DVD now. Directed and written and produced but Nancy Norman. It’s in the same vain as “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” I play a young detective who is a partner to Obba Bomatunde’s character and his daughter has witnessed a murder that seems to have come back to haunt her.

Melody: How did you get involved with the project?

Darrin: Nancy Norman actually called me. I’d met her through someone else and she told me that she really liked my work and she was doing this movie and wanted to know if I would be interested in doing the movie. She’s a really nice lady and she’s worked with Treach [of Naughty by Nature] who’s a friend of mine, so I said sure why not. I’d never done anything like that or played a detective, so I thought it would be fun.

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Melody: Okay, expanding your repertoire. Now some may recognize you as the dancer/choreographer, or some may know you as Lem [of Soul Food] or from "Stomp the Yard", so which came first, acting or dancing?

Darrin: Dancing, dancing definitely came first.

Melody: So how did you transition into acting?

Darrin: I just made the choice to do that. I’d spent a lot of years dancing and choreographing and wanting to evolve I chose to go into acting. I started going on acting auditions as opposed to dancing auditions.

Melody: Are you still dancing and choreographing?

Darrin: Absolutely, I just released a DVD, “Darrin’s Dance Grooves Part 2” and you can find that on my website DarrinHenson.com. I still teach classes, I just taught a class here in L.A. this weekend. Most of the time people go to my website to see what I’m doing and where I’m teaching but I am definitely still heavily involved in choreographing.

Melody: I must admit that I do own Darrin’s Dance Grooves Part 1…

Darrin: Ah, thank you! We have a following clothing line right now, it’s a whole lot of fun. It’s called Henson, the logo is real vibrant, and the clothes are really fun as well. A lot if ladies gear, hoodies, and tops. For working out, you know. We designed as line that is definitely for the mature woman who likes to exercise.

Melody: Okay, a line activewear, that really falls into your area of expertise. So can they find out more information about that on your website?

Darrin: Absolutely.

Melody: So what are some other projects that you have outside of the DVDs?

Darrin: I just finished filming a movie, The Express, with Dennis Quaid, myself, Charles Dutton, and Rob Brown and that is due out October of 2008. It’s a football film, and I play Jim Brown. So I am excited about that. I am also on a 5 episode arc right now on the ABC Family show Lincoln Heights which comes on Tuesdays at 8.

Melody: Are you focusing on more films or television?

Darrin: Um, both. You know I dance on the weekends, so that’s taken care of. As long as I am acting, it doesn’t matter if its film or television.

Melody: So where you do you see yourself in the next 5 to 10 years?

Darrin: What I would have liked to do is, win an Oscar, an [NAACP] Image Award, I would like to win an Emmy by then. I would like to open a school for children who have reading and writing problems, to help them with their artistic side meaning singing, dancing, rapping, what have you while they work on their curriculum in school. I would like to participate in the movement to heal Africa and just be a person who is consistently growing. Though I don’t believe in a destination, it’s all a process.

Melody: So a little background on you, where are you from and where did you grow up?

Darrin: I’m from New York and I grew up in the Bronx.

Melody: Okay, my mother’s from the Bronx.

Darrin: Good woman.

Melody: That she is. [Side Note: He recognized my Louisiana accent, which was crazy.] Do you come to Louisiana often?

Darrin: I’ve been to New Orleans quite a few times.

Melody: That’s a great place to visit.

Darrin: Where do you live at in Louisiana?

Melody: I live in Baton Rouge, about 45 minutes away from New Orleans.

Darrin: Oh Baton Rouge! I shot a movie in Baton Rouge a couple of month ago.

Melody: Really?

Darrin: It was called “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” and they just finished shooting the movie with Patti LaBelle and Ciara “Mama I Want to Sing.”

Melody: That’s right, I knew about that one, but I didn’t know about “A Good Man is Hard to Find.”

Darrin: “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is me, Hill Harper, and Golden Brooks. Also Darius McCray and Mel Jackson.

Melody: Okay, is there a release date for that one?

Darrin: You can go to Codeblack.com to find out.

Melody: Okay and that is the same one as “April Fools.”

Darrin: Yup.

Melody: Wonderful, is there anything else you would like to highlight or promote?

Darrin: Definitely, my clothing line, just come to my website DarrinHenson.com and check it out. Drop me an email, drop me a note, I answer all the emails myself. Pick up a copy of “Darrin’s Dance Grooves Part 2.”

Melody: I will have to do that. I have to say part one was a little difficult for me though.

Darrin: We made part two a lot easier to learn from.

Melody: Okay, are there any particular styles of dance in part two?

Darrin: It’s Hip Hop but we do it with a split screen, back and front. So when you dance, you see it from the back and the front.

Melody: That’s good, I wish more people would do that! Now do you have a MySpace?

Darrin: Yes, www.myspace.com/darrinhenson, all my new pictures and everything are up on there as well.

Melody: Okay great, I’ll have to stop by there. Well thanks for taking the time to talk to pop-junkie.com come.

Darrin: Thank you.

Labels: Darrin Henson, Exclusive

"I did the lemon-pepper-maple syrup diet for seven days. "When I got really hungry, I ate fruit. I lost eight pounds and kept it off." [SOURCE]

Labels: Ashanti

Labels: Naomi Campbell

MiMi was out traipsing around Manhattan around 3 a.m. [in some really fugly shoes]...What were you doing?

Nicole Ritchie caught some waves and relaxed on the beach in Hawaii showing of her lil' belly...

Jennifer Lopez brought back the big brim hat while out doing promotions in London. Plus the mu-mu-esque top, and they wonder where the pregger rumors come from?

Labels: Beyonce, Jay Z, Jennifer Lopez, Mariah Carey, Nicole Ritchie

Labels: Jay Z, Pharrell

Labels: J. Holiday

Ashanti and Nelly were all booed-up at the premiere of her new movie Resident Evil: Extinction at the Planet Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas...Nelly is looking extra bored! Not one picture smiling or even a hint of a smile. I'll be waiting for the DVD anyway...

Labels: Ashanti, Nelly

"I don't feel like you have to be a size zero. We should all just embrace who we are physically," she said. "I'm not supposed to be a stick figure girl. It's just not me."

Last year, the singer first confessed her "bleak" diet consisted of "basically soups and fish prepared really blandly." And Carey couples the nutrition plan with arguably the most well-traveled trainer in town.

"I have a wonderful trainer whose name is Patricia, she lives in St. Barts, poor girl," she said. "People say, 'Only you would fly someone from St. Barts to New York to work out.' "

Carey added, "We do water aerobics mostly." [SOURCE]

Labels: Mariah Carey

Girl stop! Golden Brooks looks scorching mess at the Chanel and P.S. Arts Event in Beverly Hills.

G. Brooks take note and get schooled on how to do it...



See how the natural, non-tranny look works for Kerri Washington!

Labels: Golden Brooks, Kerri Washington

A judge on Friday denied a request to release a teenager whose arrest in the beating of a white classmate sparked this week's civil rights protest in Louisiana.

Mychal Bell is one of the group known as the “Jena Six.” His request to be freed while an appeal is being reviewed was rejected at a juvenile court hearing, effectively denying him any chance at immediate bail, a person familiar with the case told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because juvenile court proceedings are closed.

Earlier, Bell's mother emerged from the hearing in tears, refusing to comment. [SOURCE]

Labels: Jena 6

[Jay Z in January 2007 at the GM Car Show with the 'Jay Z Blue' Denali...Get it!]

This is the new single from Jay's new project American Gangster to be released this November with the release of the movie of the same name. Produced by the other Louis Vuitton Don, Pharrell it's definitely an 80's laced track.

::UPDATED::
Download: Jay Z - Blue Magic CDQ Version

Labels: Jay Z

Labels: Amy Winehouse

Labels: Beyonce

Labels: Patti LaBelle

Labels: J. Holiday

Everybody say [Bed is] a babymaker song, but that’s not the only one on there [laugh].

Labels: J. Holiday, The Dream

Zahara and Pax hung out with mom Angelina in NYC as well, but I am wondering why they are not in some kind of school too, Head Start or something?

Labels: Angelina Jolie, Beyonce, Tyra Banks, Zahara Jolie-Pitt

Labels: Aretha Franklin, Fantasia

Labels: Diddy

The album, which his label plans to release in early November, came together over the past few weeks after Jay-Z was shown the film, directed by Ridley Scott, in which Denzel Washington portrays Frank Lucas, a early 1970s Harlem heroin kingpin.

Following the underwhelming critical and commercial reception for his “Kingdom Come” CD late last year — and as Jay-Z grapples with whether to stay on in his post at Def Jam — the tie-in to a major motion picture gives him a chance to rebound strong and extend his reach to a wider audience.

In an hourlong telephone interview, Jay-Z, 37, who has spoken of spending his early years in Brooklyn both rapping and drug dealing, said that the movie had tremendous resonance for him and had sparked a burst of creative activity that even he found surprising. He has already recorded nine tracks, almost every one prompted by a specific scene.

“It was like I was watching the film, and putting it on pause, and giving a back story to the story,” he said.

“It immediately clicked with me,” said Jay-Z, who has made passing references to gangster movies in previous recordings but has never delved so deeply into the genre. “Like ‘Scarface,’ or any one of those films, you take the good out of it, and you can see it as an inspiring film.” [READ MORE]

Labels: Jay Z

Heineken Red Star Soul Event With Common, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Teedra Moses and Deemi in ATL...













Stars came out to benefit the MLK Memorial with a the concert at New York City's Radio City Music Hall










London's MOBO Awards went down tonight...

Labels: Craig David, Gabrielle Union, John Legend, Kerry Washington, Ne-Yo, Robin Thicke

Labels: Kid Rock, Ludacris, R Kelly

Zesty!

Labels: Oscar De La Hoya

Check out the latest song from Chris Brown, it's an uptempo song with a slight Go-Go twist...It was produced by Brian Michael Cox. It doesn't jump out at me the first go-round. It may be one that grows on me, the chorus melody is pretty cool. His sophomore album Exclusive drops November 6th.

Download: Chris Brown - Throwed

Update: Check out Chris' new album cover for Exclusive...

Labels: Check It, Chris Brown

Labels: Remy Ma

Labels: Rihanna

Labels: Beyonce

Sexy actress GABRIELLE UNION has a new hip-hop honey in the shape of birthday boy LUDACRIS. The rapper, who recently turned 30, and the Bad Boys II star have been dating for the last two months, according to friends. The new romance is Union's first serious fling since she split from husband Chris Howard in 2005. Union, 34, was the rapper's special guest at his recent birthday party, which he held at Cafe Martorano at the Rio hotel in Las Vegas on 7 September (07). A source who attended the exclusive party tells In Touch Weekly magazine, "They were openly affectionate." [SOURCE]

Labels: Gabrielle Union, Ludacris

Labels: Cassie, Diddy, Jay Z, Kanye West

Arriving to BET for 106 & Park

Labels: Ashanti

Labels: Usher

Kanye West's "Graduation" (Def Jam) easily leads the star-studded class of Sept. 11 releases, posting The Billboard 200's largest sales total in more than two years. Nielsen SoundScan will show West's album moved 957,000 during its first six days when the tracking service refreshes its charts tomorrow morning (Sept. 19).

Also pumping album volume are 50 Cent's "Curtis" (G-Unit/Interscope), which will lock down the No. 2 slot with 691,000 sold. Kenny Chesney's "Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates" (BNA/Sony BMG Nashville) will bow at No. 3 with 387,000 copies. [SOURCE]

Labels: 50 Cent, Kanye West

Ashanti made her way to 106 & Park yesterday...the good news: the dress and shoe game are hot, the bad news: she got attacked be the wig crypt...AND her first single from her upcoming project, "Hey Baby [After the Cub]" is wiggity wiggity whack...sorry boo, you totally swagger jacked Diddy and Keyshia Cole's "Last Night." Note to Ashanti: Give up the ghost on the "ooh baby, yeah baby!" it's so 2001! Her new album The Declaration is due out on December 4th.

Download: Ashanti - Hey Baby [After the Club]

Funny we had the same look after I listen to it!


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So Mya is still going at it...unfortunately this song, "The Only One" is just not up to par. Seriously, her vocal is quite suspect on this song. Luckily it didn't make the cut on the never to be liberated album Liberation...Nothing she's release is making her comeback any more confident.

Download: Mya - The Only One

Labels: Ashanti, Check It, Mya

Labels: Cassidy, Swizz Beatz

In Touch reports that Jennifer had an ultrasound performed in a New York office on September 12. “The test calculated that she was about 12 weeks pregnant,” an insider says. “She’s due in the spring.”

Jennifer, 38, and singer hubby Marc Anthony, 39, have been trying to have a baby the last two years but finally had some luck in July with in vitro fertilization — so successful, in fact, that there’s a possibility she’s having TWINS!!!!!

“The way the fetus is lying made it difficult for the doctor to tell if there was more than one baby in there,” says the insider. [SOURCE]

Labels: Jennifer Lopez

"Not as much and I am sorry to say I do make a distinction," said Thomas when asked if he thought it was offensive for a black man to call a black woman a "bitch."

"A white male calling a black female a 'bitch' is highly offensive to me," he said.

"Please don't mischaracterize the video that was shown in court today. I don't think it's right for any man to ever call a woman a 'bitch.' I didn't do it, and I wouldn't do it. Thank you," said Thomas. [SOURCE]

Labels: Isiah Thomas

Walter Alexander, 46, said Simpson may have been tricked because the memorabilia dealer who tipped him off also recorded everything on tape.

“It sounds like a setup to me,” Alexander told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday. He said Simpson had thought the memorabilia belonged to him after getting a call from the dealer.

“He did believe that he was going to retrieve his own property,” Alexander said. [READ MORE]

Labels: O.J. Simpson

Labels: Taraji P. Henson

Labels: 50 Cent, Check It, Diddy, Jay Z

Labels: Jada Pinkett Smith

Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner's new movie "The Kingdom" premiered in L.A. last night, with Will and Jada Smith, Jeremy Piven, and Serena Williams in attendance.

The Kingdom will open in theaters September 2th. You can watch the trailer and see more arrivals under the cut!!

Can you hear Will Smith's laugh in the picture!?


Doesn't look like any trouble in there paradise...awwwe!






Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon and her hubby must have the doctor on speed dial by now, she is a cute preggers too! About to pop, but still fly! Gotta love it !


Trailer for The Kingdom

Labels: Jada Pinkett Smith, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith

Lil' Boosie, Lupe Fiasco, Plies, Rich Boy, Young Dro and other lead the list of XXL Magazine's "Leaders of the New School" and grace the cover of the November issue...Wipe 'em dowwwwwn! Ya heard?

[SOURCE]

Labels: Lil Boosie, Lupe Fiasco, Plies, Rich Boy, Young Dro

Labels: Dwyane Wade

Alicia Keys channeled her inner Charlie's Angel for the [rumored official] cover of her upcoming release As I Am. I am not really feeling the font used for her name but I love the black and white beauty shot. Plus check out 2 new promo shots. As I Am comes out Nov. 13th!

Labels: Alicia Keys

Nas and Kelis celebrated Nas' birthday with Chris Webber and Erika Dates at TAO Bistro at The Venetian Hotel and Casino Resort in Las Vegas..complete with retro theme!

Continue reading for more pics of the shindig!

Labels: Chris Webber, Kelis, Nas

Download: T.I. - Hurt ft. Alfa Mega, Big Kuntry King

Labels: T.I.

Prosecutors were planning to charge Simpson with two counts of robbery with use of a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery, burglary with a deadly weapon, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and coercion, said Clark County District Attorney David Roger.

A conviction on the most serious charge, robbery with use of a deadly weapon, could bring a sentence of three to 35 years for each count, he said. A judge ordered Simpson held without bail, police said. [SOURCE]

Labels: O.J. Simpson

Labels: Diddy

Labels: Kanye West

Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx was immortalized on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame" on Friday, becoming the 2,347th celebrity to have a star bearing his name laid on the sidewalk.

Foxx, winner of the best actor Academy Award in 2005 for his portrayal of soul singer Ray Charles in "Ray," paid tribute to his grandmother during a ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard.

"My grandmother's gotta be spreading her wings and flying around in heaven, just so happy," the 39-year-old entertainer quipped to reporters.

Meanwhile Foxx had words of support for troubled singer Britney Spears, whose comeback performance at the MTV Video Music Awards last weekend has been savaged by critics this week.

"I think Britneys gonna be fine," Foxx said. "I think that she was courageous to get up there and do her thing. I wish her well for that." [SOURCE]

More pictures from the unveiling under the cut..

Labels: Jamie Foxx

Labels: Britney Spears, Shits and Giggles, Tyra Banks

Labels: 50 Cent, Common, Diddy, Jay Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, T.I., UGK

Liya Kebede, Iman, Bethann Hardison, Naomi Campbell

Labels: Iman, Naomi Campbell, Rachel Roy

Erykah Badu performed at the Heineken Red Star Soul Concert in Chicago at Crobar along with Chrisette Michelle... A picture is worth a thousand words, and this one says as Mama Patterson would say "Praise him....Praise him!"

More under the cut!

Labels: Chrisette Michele, Erykah Badu

Yung Joc shot the video for his newest single "Bottles Poppin'" which features Gorilla Zoe in Atlanta this week...

Download: "Bottles Poppin'" - Yung Joc ft. Gorilla Zoe

See more shots from the video shoot under the cut!

Labels: Gorilla Zoe, Yung Joc

Kasseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean, who turned 29 on Aug. 30th, celebrated with wife Mashonda and friends at the Martin Lawrence Art Gallery in NYC last night. He snagged a signed Andy Warhol painting for his birthday...

Continue reading to see more pictures from the event!

Chadd Elliot, Swizz, Andre Harrell


Mashonda, Swizz, Miss Info


Mashonda and Autumn


Darrin "Dee" Dean and Swizz


Mya and Swizz

Labels: Miss Info, Mya, Swizz Beatz

Usher made an in-store appearance at the Macy's at Lenox Square in Atlanta to unveil his new cologne, Usher. The advertisement is very Unforgivable-esque...

Continue reading to see more flocks from the event...

Labels: Usher

Labels: Dawn Robinson

"Hip-hop is more powerful than politics and religion. It's the only thing that brought black people, white people, German people, Asian people, African people (together). I traveled the world — hip-hop changed people's lives," [SOURCE]

Labels: DMC

Labels: Akon, Plies

Labels: Tupac

Labels: Mariah Carey

Jimmy Jan and Terry Lewis

Jimmy Jam with wife and children


Magic Johnson


Quincy Jones


Chris Rock


Janet Jackson




Johnny Gill


Bobby Brown


New Edition members Johnny Gill, Bobby Brown, Ricky Bell

Labels: Bobby Brown, Chris Rock, Janet Jackson, Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis

Only Baby Jesus knows what possessed Wendy Williams, the self proclaimed tranny, to rock the Knowles family inspired red lip to AllHipHop.com's "Rebirth of Hip Hop" party in NYC last night! From that grin on Russell Simmon's maybe he knows too? Andre Harrell, Alesha Renee and Kevin Liles came to the party as well...

Labels: Russell Simmons, Wendy Williams

Zaraha was all smiles as her and Angelina Jolie picked up brother Maddox at school...how can you deny a smile like that! Sadly, there are reports that she suffers from a condition called hip dysplasia that may require surgery. I hope that's just a rumor...

Continue reading to see more of the pair in New York City...

The two were spotted out and about with matching designer handbags earlier this week as well...how adorable is that?

Labels: Angelina Jolie, Zahara Jolie-Pitt

"Your girlfriend's changing her number on me, and people are taking the stand" in a grand jury, the rapper allegedly growled before angrily storming off.

Remy Ma then sent over her own boyfriend - whom prosecutors also did not name - and his posse, lead prosecutor Michael McIntosh told the judge.

A tense, boyfriend-boyfriend "staring contest" ensued at the Players Club near Remy Ma's old stomping grounds along Randall Avenue, prosecutors said.

When the witness' rattled boyfriend tried to head for security, he was jumped by the posse of Remy Ma's boyfriend, the prosecutor claimed - leaving the boyfriend with a fracture in his face, and a buddy's jaw broken so severely that his mouth will be wired shut for months.

Prosecutors described the violent confrontation in hopes that Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Rena Uviller would find the new allegations serious enough to hike Remy Ma's bail, which is already a whopping $250,000. [SOURCE]

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Foxy Brown's manager today said, "And to the pregnancy rumors, this is the official statement: She is not pregnant." [SOURCE]

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It looks like 50 Cent is headed for retirement, if store reports continue to trend the way they were by mid-afternoon today (Sept. 11). 50 Cent had told SOHH.com that he would quit the rap game if his new G-Unit/Interscope album, "Curtis," was outsold by Kanye West's Def Jam set "Graduation," both of which were released today.

Sales data is finalized Sunday at midnight when the Nielsen SoundScan week officially ends, but early indications are that West will be the victor, at least in the first week.

According to executives with three of the major labels, whose job duties include projecting first week scans based on early store sales reports, "Graduation" could come in at the 575,000-700,000 range, while "Curtis" is being projected in the 500,000-600,000 range.

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Sarah said, "I just wanted to let you know that whatever you write about me I want it to be truthful things."

"I never moved out of Atlanta," she said. "I have always lived here and I'm definitely 33. I graduated [from Spelman] in '96. My birthday is next week and I'm going to be 34," she said. "I never ran away from Atlanta because I was pregnant." Sarah, who was born in Minneapolis, said she moved to Atlanta at age 17 to attend Spelman College.

Sarah's response to Kim's assertion that she didn't know her: "A lot of what you said is true about me and Kim. There's so much more to the story than that. She definitely knows who I am," said Sarah. "Yes, it's true, we've had words. [Kim] knew about my pregnancy prior to her getting pregnant. In fact, Kim and I met [Sean] at the same time."

Sarah stressed that she doesn't seek out the spotlight: "That's not for me. I don't enjoy that. I'll let Kim have that"

She also talked about the rumors that surrounded her pregnancy last year: "There's been rumors out there that [Sean Combs] offered me a million dollars to not have the baby, said Sarah. "If he gave me a million dollars I wouldn't be calling him every month for child support," she joked. "I mean, he pays me on a monthly basis, but there's rumors that he offered me a million dollars hush money."

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Diane Von Furstenberg | Baby Phat | Tracy Reese

At New York's Fashion Week many top designers chose to employ one or two black models and a few Asians in shows and some had none, Reuters reporters who attended over 40 shows by found. Blacks, and blacks in combination with another race, make up about 13 percent of Americans, U.S. Census data shows.

Diane von Furstenberg and Baby Phat were among the few that had a more equal racial mix of models. At least half the models used for Baby Phat, which features Kimora Lee Simmons' glitzy urban designs, were black or Asian.

J. Alexander, a runway coach on TV's "America's Next Top Model" who helped produce Baby Phat's show, said the standard for using black models is "two girls, three maximum" per show.

"And you normally get one to make it clear that she is obviously dark too so they don't get any lip from journalists or any backlash for being racist," he said.

Several designers and a few models, including top black model Alek Wek, were reticent to comment on race, although Wek acknowledged difficulties at the start of her career.

"There were people who criticized me but I took no notice," the Sudanese model told Reuters. "You can see I am black, that's who I am.

"Whether you are black or white, modeling is hard work and you have to be really determined to succeed." [SOURCE]

Kimora Lee Simmon's Baby Phat and KLS Collection











Tracy Reese Collection

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Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson has joined the cast of "Sex and the City: The Movie," which begins filming next week in New York.

Hudson will play the assistant to Sarah Jessica Parker's character, Carrie Bradshaw, in the film based on the hit HBO comedy series.

In July, the show's four leads, including Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, came aboard for the film after New Line Cinema agreed to finance and distribute it. Chris Noth also joined the cast to reprise his role as Mr. Big.

Michael Patrick King is writing and directing. [SOURCE]

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Salt is angry about being unappreciated when they were together and Pepa blames Salt for breaking up the group. Their lifestyles are also polar opposites: Salt has indeed found God and is living a quiet life in Long Island with her husband while Pepa is still the party girl and desperately wants to re-capture the glamour of Salt-N-Pepa’s glory days. Can they overcome their differences long enough to heal their friendship and perform again? [SOURCE]

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ESSENCE: Were you always going to be a solo artist?

KEYSHIA COLE: Well, actually, I was gonna be in a group with these two girls. We were in Los Angeles and we were working with Damon Elliot, who is Dionne Warwick’s son, and he was like, “Keysh, if you wanna sign with the girl group, you can; but I’ll sign you solo.” And I was like, I’d rather be solo because I do everything in the group anyway. They’re just pretty. We were gonna get, like, a $30,000 advance and split it ten/ten/ten; but I figured, "Why should I give them my $20,000 when I can get it myself?" So I told them, “I’m sorry, but I can’t.” Then I recorded a couple songs with Damon and one of them was (the hit single) “Love.”

ESSENCE: Early in your career you went to Los Angeles and met legendary music producer Suge Knight and Tupac Shakur. What was that like?

COLE: My brother was close with Pac, he got records with Pac and everything. And Pac’s mother is really cool with my brother and me. So to me, Pac was just like a big brother. That time was like one of the biggest moments in history, and I saw everything. I was with them in Malibu and Vegas and I stayed in the “big house” by myself. I knew the world, the whole industry, everything. I was only fourteen.

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I Love New York 2 has set its group of hopefuls...A midget? For real? Com'on! I. Have. No. Words. I'm. Done.

See more @ Vh1

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The reaction from her so-called peers wasn't much better. 50 Cent was gape-mouthed as he watched the spectacle from the front row, while Rihanna was caught on camera giggling with a girlfriend.

"She didn't seem like she wanted to be there. There was no spark," rapper Common observed to the Daily News. "I don't wanna disrespect her, but she can't sing!"

Adds rapper-cum-producer Akon, "I think she needed to have focused more on the show and less on the parties."

Kanye West took a moment from tossing one of his many (and totally played out) hissy fits to tell USA Today, "I have no words."

Neither did Ashanti, although she didn't need any. When the paper asked her what she thought of Brit-Brit's blah bump-and-grind, she "laughed, rolled her eyes and walked away" before her rep stepped in and said she had no comment. [READ MORE]

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Check out Beyonce's new ad for House of Dereon American Express, who joins Ellen DeGeneres and Tiger Woods as a spokesperson for the credit card company...*cha-ching*

See the lady...that's Mama Knowles, yeah look closely past the makeup, photoshopping and you'll see it. I honestly though it was Cruella DeVille, straight up...she looks like a damn corpse! But Beyonce looks great in her gold dress and Louboutins...though they photoshopped the hell out of her legs!

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If you really want some fresh R&B in your life make sure to cop J. Holiday's Back of my 'Lac on October 2nd...No joke this cat is one of the best voices I've heard in a long time! And no one is paying my ass to say that either...

Just to hold you over, Download: J. Holiday's Chocolate City MixTape

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As long expected, Sherri Shepherd has been added to The View – in what Barbara Walters called "the worst-kept secret" on television.

Wearing a bright red dress and accompanied by a recorded rendition of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons' "Sherry," Shepherd made her entrance and took the open seat at the table.

I'm so excited," she said as the studio audience rose to its collective feet. "Oh, my God. I'm actually one of the girls. I'm here. And it's all good. I'm with all the ladies." [SOURCE]

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"I wasn't even coming from the place of who, what, why," Porter tells the magazine. "I laid low and did what women do: I did my background work, collected information [about the other woman]. But I wasn't even on it like that because I was pregnant, and what was bubbling inside me was a blessing from God. I couldn't let my energy be on that. I didn't have time for any drama, trauma and bull----."

As Porter was to learn, the other baby was born five months before Porter and Combs's twins arrived. The mother was Sarah Chapman, 33, who lives in Atlanta, worked in fashion and knew Combs for several years, her attorney tells Essence.

Of Combs's behavior, says Porter, "It's not an original script. He's not the first man who's cheated. He's not the first man who's had a baby outside of his relationship. He's not the originator of this. But at this point in my life – I have girls now – it's a different program."

"I would have preferred to find out from him because that's a man," she says. "I know it's hard for anyone to say to their significant other, 'I've gotten into some s--- and I got a baby on the way.' But men do get caught up in things; I'm not naive to that. Still, there's a right and a wrong way to handle it. Because, most of all, we were friends. Even if I couldn't have understood it as a woman, I would have understood it as a friend." [SOURCE]

Labels: Diddy, Kim Porter

West, waiting for an elevator in a crowded hallway, began yelling about losing all five categories for which he was nominated.

"That's two years in a row, man ... give a black man a chance," West said, stomping around his entourage and directing his comments at a reporter. "I'm trying hard man, I have the ... number one record, man."

West said he never will return to MTV. [SOURCE]

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Britney Spears hot mess of a comeback on the VMAs is proof that the little bit of talent she had is [as Justin would sing] gone...gone...gone...

K-FedEx is somewhere drunk and rolling at her dismal performance! Video under the cut!

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