Don't tell Kanye he doesn't have love for the hippies at Bonnaroo! After being booed and blasted by festival goers for his show starting 2 hours late, Kanye blasted back, loudly on his blog. He used the caps lock too...He must really be peeved! Kanye says the fans can blame the festival managers and Pearl Jam's lateness. Since the situation pushed his show closer to daylight, it ruined the Glow in the Dark experience, which seemed to upset him the most. Ya'll know Ye is sensitive about his work.

Here's a snippet of the very long and emotional post...

BONNAROO SHOULD HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT IN MY DEFENSE BUT SINCE THEY HAVEN'T LET'S BREAK DOWN THE WALLS ON THIS TRUMAN SHOW AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY OCCURRED!!! FOR OVER A MONTH WE WENT BACK AND FORTH ON WETHER OR NOT WE COULD EVEN FIT MY STAGE AT THE FESTIVAL. ONE DAY THEY WOULD SAY YES... WE'D SEND THEM OUR SPECS THEN THEY THEY'D SAY OK... THEN THEY WOULD SEND SPECS BACK THAT DIDN'T FIT THE STAGE. WE WERE OBVIOUSLY DEALING WITH FUCKING IDIOTS WHO DIDN'T REALLY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO REALLY PUT ON THIS SHOW PROPERLY. THEY TRIED 2 GIVE ME A TIME SLOT WERE IT WAS STILL LIGHT OUTSIDE ... I HAVE A FUCKING LIGHT SHOW DUMB ASS, IT'S NOT CALLED GLOW IN THE DARK FOR NO REASON SQUID BRAINS! MY PEOPLE WORKED OUT A COMPROMISED STAGE PLOT AND A 3AM TIME SLOT AND I AGREED. FAST FOWARD TO THE DAY OF THE SHOW. MY PRODUCTION MANAGER TRIED TO LOAD IN FOR 24 HOURS BEFORE I WENT ON STAGE BUT THE FESTIVAL WOULDN'T ALLOW US TO DO ANYTHING UNTILL PEARL JAM LEFT THE STAGE. PEARL JAM ENDED ONE HOUR
LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Geez, Bonnaroo really pissed in his Cornflakes! Thankfully I'll catch the show at Essence, in all it's glory. You can read the full post after the jump...

I am sick of negative people who just sit around trying 2 plot my downfall... Why???? I understand if people don't like me because I like me or if people think tight clothes look gay or people say I run my mouth to much, But this Bonnaroo thing is the worst insult I've ever had in my life. This is the most offended I've ever been... this is the maddest I ever will be. I'm typing so fucking hard I might break my fucking Mac book Air!!!!!!!! Call me any name you want.... arrogant, conceited, narcissistic, racist, metro, fag whatever you can think of.... BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN'T GIVE MY ALL! NEVER SAY I DIDN'T GIVE MY ALL! THIS SHOWS NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY TO BE GOOD AT SOMETHING THERE WILL BE PEOPLE THERE TO LIE ABOUT YOU AND BRING YOU DOWN! LIKE WAYNE SAYS PLEASE DON'T SHOOT ME DOWN CAUSE I'M FLYING! I'M FUCKING HURT BY THIS ONE. ALL I CARE ABOUT ARE THE FANS. JUST SAY THIS OUT LOUD IN A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE, "KANYE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT GIVING A GOOD PERFORMANCE." CAN ANYONE HONESTLY SAY THAT ????????? HAS ANYONE EVEN TAKEN THE TIME TO AT LEAST DO THE MATH??? BONNAROO SHOULD HAVE RELEASED A STATEMENT IN MY DEFENSE BUT SINCE THEY HAVEN'T LET'S BREAK DOWN THE WALLS ON THIS TRUMAN SHOW AND LET YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY OCCURRED!!! FOR OVER A MONTH WE WENT BACK AND FORTH ON WETHER OR NOT WE COULD EVEN FIT MY STAGE AT THE FESTIVAL. ONE DAY THEY WOULD SAY YES... WE'D SEND THEM OUR SPECS THEN THEY THEY'D SAY OK... THEN THEY WOULD SEND SPECS BACK THAT DIDN'T FIT THE STAGE. WE WERE OBVIOUSLY DEALING WITH FUCKING IDIOTS WHO DIDN'T REALLY HAVE THE CAPACITY TO REALLY PUT ON THIS SHOW PROPERLY. THEY TRIED 2 GIVE ME A TIME SLOT WERE IT WAS STILL LIGHT OUTSIDE ... I HAVE A FUCKING LIGHT SHOW DUMB ASS, IT'S NOT CALLED GLOW IN THE DARK FOR NO REASON SQUID BRAINS! MY PEOPLE WORKED OUT A COMPROMISED STAGE PLOT AND A 3AM TIME SLOT AND I AGREED. FAST FOWARD TO THE DAY OF THE SHOW. MY PRODUCTION MANAGER TRIED TO LOAD IN FOR 24 HOURS BEFORE I WENT ON STAGE BUT THE FESTIVAL WOULDN'T ALLOW US TO DO ANYTHING UNTILL PEARL JAM LEFT THE STAGE. PEARL JAM ENDED ONE HOUR
LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT THAT POINT WE'RE RACING AGAINST THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AT 4:20AM DON COMES BACK 2 THE BUS AND TELLS ME, " IT WOULD TAKE 45 MORE MINUTES TO PUT ALL YOUR PYRO IN!" I SAY I HAVE TO GET OUT THERE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE . I HIT THE STAGE AND PEOPLE HAD BEEN THROWING SHIT ON THE STAGE AND HAD ACTUALLY HIT THE JANE SCREEN WITH, I GUESS BOTTLES OR SOMETHING AND HAD BROKEN MY FUCKING SCREEN. REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE A SHORTY AND WATER WOULD HIT THE TV?????? WHEN I GOT 2 "THROUGH THE WIRE" I STEPPED ON THE FRONT PART OF MY STAGE AND THERE WAS SO MUCH LIQUID ON THE STAGE I COULDN'T MOVE WITHOUT SLIPPING. I HAD TO ADJUST MY WHOLE PERFORMANCE STYLE BECAUSE OF IT. A FEW MORE SONGS IN AND THE SONG WAS ON IT'S WAY UP.. I CUT A FEW SONGS FROM THE SET BECAUSE I WANTED PEOPLE 2 EXPERIENCE STRONGER WHILE THERE WAS STILL SOME DARKNESS TO PERFORM IT IN. I'VE STRUGGLED WITH STRONGER FROM IT'S CONCEPTION. REMEMBER LAST SUMMER WHEN I CANCELED SOME TV APPEARANCES. IT WAS BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO PERFORM STRONGER IN THE DAYTIME. ANYONE WHO CAME TO THE GLOW TOUR CAN UNDERSTAND WHY I WANTED PEOPLE TO SEE IT PROPERLY. IT BROKE MY HEART THAT I COULDN'T GIVE THESE FANS STRONGER IN IT'S GREATEST FORM... BY THE TIME I GOT TO STRONGER IT WAS DAYTIME AND IT BROKE MY HEART. I'M SORRY TO EVERYONE THAT I DIDN'T HAVE THE ABILITY 2 GIVE THE PERFORMANCE I WANTED TO. I'M SORRY... SOMETIMES I GO 2, 3 DAYS W/O SLEEP WORKING ON MY PERFORMANCE... I HAVE TO ICE MY KNEES AFTER EVERY SHOW AND THEY HURT WHEN I WALK THROUGH THE AIRPORT... HAVING AN EXPENSIVE STAGE CUTS MY PAYDAY IN HALF... CALL ME WHAT YOU WANT BUT NEVER SAY I DIDN'T GIVE MY ALL!!!

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We've heard a bit of buzz about Jazmine Sullivan as a songwriter over the last year or so, but she's ready to hit the scene as a artist! Her debut single "Need U Bad" is a hot track featuring Missy Elliot and Lamb. I hear a bit of Lauryn Hill and Faith Evans in her vocals. She hails from Philly and her soulful raspy tone is fresh right now. I look forward to hearing more tracks from the up and coming songstress since her debut is definitely in heavy rotation right now.


Check out more about Jazmine on her Official MySpace.

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Oh Em Gee! I could write a novel about the horrible travel experience I just had with American Airlines. Delays, rude employees, no service, you name it...The pits! Absolute worst! They charge for everything, down to those funky peanuts. Four of the six flights I had in the last week were delayed.

However, I'm back! So I just wanted to vent that really quick before I grab a glass of Riesling and try to blog a little tonight. Posts should resume to normal over the next couple of days.

Thanks for all the well wishes, I've missed you guys too!

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Since it is Father's Day, let bask in the heartwarming sights of Will and Willow Smith at the premiere of "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" along with the lovely Smith Family! How adorable is she and her braid? Both Will and Willow have films releasing this year, just a family full of stars. As Fresh would say, Now that's Black Love!

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Can Def Jam "Rihanna-fy" Amerie's career? After two moderately successful albums, Amerie has struggled to keep on top of the R&B game while on Columbia Records. In need of a complete career upgrade, this maybe the move needed get her some play here in the U.S. as she's kept the interest overseas.

A source tells Britain's Daily Star newspaper, "She was offered a deal too good to turn down and the promise to build upon her reputation for classy and sexy R&B".

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This time it's Snoop's wife Shante, picked up for a DUI in Orange County, Ca early Saturday morning at about midnight. She was pulled over by Fullerton police, booked, cited and given a notice to appear in court.

I wonder if this will make the next season of Snoop's Father Hood?

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Marshall Mathers came out hiding to punk LL Cool J live on air when he called in to his SHADE 45 show on Sirius Radio. It wasn't really ha ha funny, but I've missed Eminem so it was cool to hear from the semi-retired emcee.

He does reveal that he is in the studio, so hopefully we can look for new music from him soon!

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Katee and Joshua killed it tonight on So You Think You Can Dance! This was the BEST dance of the night. I loved it! Katee held her own and the unison was on point. Definitely my favorite couple of the night.


SYTYCD is my summer guilty pleasure!

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Read it and weep folks, or laugh, or just shake your head...

Shock jock Wendy Williams' husband plotted to kill a Hot 97 rival DJ [Miss Jones] for badmouthing his wife on the air, an explosive federal lawsuit filed charges Wednesday.

Kevin Hunter, who is married to Williams, sought out a male WBLS employee for help in finding a hitman to rub out Hot 97 personality Tarsha Jones, the lawsuit claims.

Hunter "was apparently angry over some comments that Miss Jones made about his wife on the air," the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court claims. [SOURCE]

No. Words.

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In the July issue of Vibe Magazine, Usher is still telling the story that he didn’t fire his mother, rather just put her in early retirement!

"I decided to not fire, not get rid of, but to give [my mother] the ultimate compliment — to retire her to be a full-time grandmother.

"My mother and I decided to change her situation, together," he adds. "There was a conversation. I didn't write her a letter or pink slip her."

Call it what you want, it was involuntary on her part I believe. She didn’t even go to the wedding because she didn’t agree with the decision to marry Chewbacca Tameka. Not many mothers would miss their son’s wedding unless they were just extremely displeased! That says more than any reason Usher can give for her dropping the momager title.

In other Usher confessions, he tells Cosmopolitan Magazine that he has a hard time staying faithful…

“I’m good at making love, but I’m not good at being in love. It’s a conscious decision every day to love the person you’re with.”

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Newsweek caught up with Lil' Wayne as he drops his highly anticipated album, Tha Carter III and asked him about the overdramatic leak last week...

The record leaked a couple of days ago. This DJ, Chuck T, is claiming that he leaked it. This album was delayed a year because of another leak. What goes through your mind after all this, that the week before the official release there's this leak?
Nothing goes through my mind. It harms me in no way because, first of all, I am good music. Bootlegged or not, what you just heard, or what you will hear, is great. And that's the point I'm trying to get across at the end of the day and the beginning of the morning: that I'm great. Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it. I don't really care about the leak or the DJs that's leaking it. I'm glad that people even care enough about it to make this situation a topic.

It wouldn't bother you if people decided to download it instead of going out and buying it?
This is my 15th year. This is what I do and I'm very, very straight. I don't need anything. With my fanbase, I know—whether it's downloaded, leaked or not—I know when I step on stage, I'm going to get the same reaction that I always get. That's what matters to me.

Did you pick up the album or downloaded it? I had to download it, you know, for research purposes! Check out the rest of the Q&A session here.

In case you missed it, check out his much talked about freestyle on 106 & Park after the jump...

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Word on the curb is that Timbaland is set to marry his publicist fiance Monique Idlett of two years in Aruba June 19th 22nd. According to Life & Style Magazine, "Guests are being told to be prepared to fly to Aruba on that date."

Timbaland and Monique have a seven month old daughter together.

UPDATE: According to Us Weekly, the pair legally married at home in Virginia last night!

The two wed — in their sweats! — in Virginia on Tuesday by a family pastor.

They are getting hitched again in a formal ceremony in Aruba on June 22.

The couple, who are based in Miami, welcomed a baby girl, Reign, last year. (He also has a son from a previous relationship.) He popped the question at Idlett's baby shower.

CONGRATS!

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If 50 Cent thought he was about to unload his burned mansion for insurance money, he can let that go, for now. The judge has ordered that the insurance money be put in a trust until pending law suits over the property between 50 and his son's mother Shaniqua are finalized.

Shaniqua's lawyer requested to order so that she can access to all of his assets, should she win her $50 million lawsuit filed earlier this year. [insert side eye here]

The judge actually ordered her to pay 50 Cent $4,500 in rent for May by Friday. 50 pays Shaniqua $6,700 a month in child support, $4,500 of that as a housing allowance. LOL, that's funny!

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How does the saying go: Two tears in a bucket…Well you know the rest! Karrine and the “Eddie Winslow tried to kill me” side show rolls on. This time she went to HipHollywood.com for a camera shoulder to cry on.

However, Darius tells a different story…

“Darius says he didn’t hit her with his car — she ‘jumped on the trunk of my car and then the roof of my car. She started beating my vehicle and windows.’ It says she then attempted to get into the car by breaking the windows ‘with her fist.’ In another incident, Darius claims Karrine ’slapped me so hard that she hit a bystander.’”

The really sad part? There is a child in the middle of this. His momma is the official hoe of the millennium, stays in a dysfunctional relationship and does anything to stay in the media.

...he makes a very valid point. Who gives a flying fig tree if he changed his nickname? Here's the better question...ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE?

I know people are changing their Facebook and MySpace status to "Barack Obama 'o8" or some variation of that and aren't even registered to vote. This is only half the battle! We still have to get him to the White House in November, so if you aren't registered, you can't help him!

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Goethe

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Janet Jackson airs her dirty laundry about what some consider a flop of her last album Discipline, which had only sold 392K in the US since it's February release. Hmmm...that pretty flop-ish, if you ask me.

So don't expect a third single anytime soon, Janet she tells SOHH.com. She goes on to say that Island Def Jam discontinued promoting the album after her single, "Rock With U," failed to chart. Additional friction apparently resulted from Island also releasing "LUV" as a single, despite Jackson's wish that "LUV" be worked on its own.

In a statement to Billboard, an Island Def Jam spokesperson says, "Unfortunately we haven't experienced the results we would have liked with this new album. But we respect and support Janet."

Janet is excited about her Live Nation "Rock Wit U" tour which jumps of Sept. 7th. I would be to, that's where the money is and despite low sales, I think she still has it as a performer and her fan base has always supported her shows. It's been a minute since she's been on tour, so I think she's ready to be back on the stage.

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Mariah Carey is showing off her slimmed down and highly bronzed body in Hawaii on the set her new video for "I'll be Lovin' U Long Time" which is the third single off her latest album E=MC². The track will T.I. on the remix as well.


While Mimi worked, her new hubby Nick Cannon was spotted in Honolulu getting some retail therapy and fanfare...

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Leona Lewis, who is usually sweet and timid, pulls off hot and sultry on the cover of Blender Magazine. Looks like she's found some of the confidence the judges on the UK's X Factor wanted her to.

In her feature article in the mag, she confesses that at 23-years old, she still travels the world with her teddy bear.


See more pics and a snippet of her feature here.

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Riddle me this, why did Rickey Smiley call Usher's wife Chewbacca live on air, in the middle of the interview with Usher? ...and he didn't even catch it. Hilarious.


Rickey Smiley is a fool by any standards. I can't even be sympathetic, though.

Labels: Shits and Giggles, Usher