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The Daily Buzz for Aug 7


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Kelly Rowland Turns Heads For TW Steel


Kelly Rowland has been in Australia shooting new show ‘Everybody Dance Now‘, jetted into New York this week to launch TW Steel‘s latest line of watches
Unveiled as the luxury line’s spokesmodel last year, the 31 year old proved herself fitting for that billing after dazzling at The Standard Hotel.
For now, peep more pics.

WERK MISS KELLY!


9 Year Old Boy Joshua Smith Sells Popcorn To Help Get Detroit Out Of Debt
I was on Facebook and saw this touching story that my cousin posted on her Facebook wall. She always tells me about how I need to post more news that really matter’s, so once I saw and read the story, I knew it was important to make sure we support people who do selfless act’s. Detroit is at least $100 million in debt yes people that’s right $100 Million, but that hasn’t discouraged 9-year-old Joshua Smith (pictured above with HOT 107.5′s Paigion) from setting up a lemonade and popcorn stand in front of his home to help the city out of its financial crisis, the Detroit Free Press reports. Just so yall know I told yall about Paigion a few months ago, she’s working hard to be picked by BET to be one of the new host for 106 N Park (I think she would do a great job).
The boy–or perhaps, young philanthropist in the making–was on his way to piano lessons one day when he noticed that the grass at the parks near his home was as tall he is (Joshua stands nearly 5-feet). He also observed that water fountains were broken. After some thinking, Joshua told his parents that he wanted to open a lemonade stand to help Detroit take care of itself.
Flynn and Rhonda Smith, his parents, were impressed with their son’s audacious plan.

“I’m really proud of him; he wasn’t asking how can he make money to buy himself something. My wife and I were talking about this earlier — neither of us ever thought to do anything like this when we were kids,”
Flynn Smith, a high school math teacher and associate pastor told the Free Press.
What he and his wife did not tell their young, ambitious son is that his efforts would have virtually no financial impact on the city’s debt.
WATCH Joshua Talk About His Plans To Help Detroit With Its Finances… And make sure yall support his movement…
With a nearly $100 investment in food, Joshua’s parents helped their son pop the popcorn, expand the menu and and pass out flyers advertising the stand. WOW I love parents that help their kids follow their dreams.
The flyer says: “May you please help the City of Detroit. Please buy this popcorn and drinks. It’s not so expensive. I didn’t make it expensive so you would have to spend all your money. The money will help clean up trash on the ground and cut the grass in the parks.”
From 5-8 p.m. each day, Monday through Friday, Joshua can be seen selling fruit punch (which he says is organic), water and popcorn (which he says is seasoned with sea salt) in front of his home.
Word of the boy’s efforts spread quickly and neighbors quickly dropped by to purchase popcorn and lemonade.
How To Help!
Joshua Smith’s Lemonade Stand is being held 5-8 p.m. daily through Friday. Find it at 4252 Leslie, Detroit 48238.
PayPal donations accepted via www.musingsofastrongblack woman.com. For info, call 313-715-5510 or e-mail rhondajsmith@rhondajsmith.com

Spotted @ NewsOne.com. Interview by Paigion of HOT 107.5. Photos and Video by @ItsYaGirlAC of HotHipHopDetroit.com


will.i.am and Coca Cola launches new eco-friendly line... with a pair of $349 headphones
Should headphones made out of recycled trash ever cost $349? It depends on how cool they are.
In hopes of giving products made from recycled materials a little more cachet, musician will.i.am and The Coca-Cola Co are partnering to make a line of clothing and gear called Ekocycle.
The idea is to brand recycled products with a hipper image that resonates with young consumers.
The cool factor: Musician will.i.am hopes to bring some cachet to recycled clothing and accessories with his new line Ekocycle
'If you think about [recycled] products now, none of them are cool,' said will.i.am, who is best known for his work with The Black-Eyed Peas.
'You have to bring some art and fashion sensibility into this technology that turns a bottle into something cool.'
The first Ekocycle product will be a pair of headphones by Beats, a popular and pricey line created by rapper Dr. Dre and music producer Jimmy Iovine - both friends of will.i.am.
The Ekocycle version will cost $349, which is on the high end of the range of Beats headphones.
An Ekocycle hat by New Era will cost $32.
The plan is to partner with a variety of other big-name designers to sell items including bicycles, shoes, handbags, glasses or even high-end chairs and tables.
That means the items won't be cheap, despite the unpolished image recycled products often have.
The first Ekocycle ad, with a voiceover and song by will.i.am, is set to air today during the Olympics, which Coca-Cola is sponsoring.
Already, products made out of recycled waste tend to be more expensive because of the process required to incorporate the materials.
But will.i.am and Coca-Cola are hoping celebrity power and impressive brand names like Beats can overcome price barriers.
All Ekocycle products will be marked with a logo that tells people how many recycled bottles or cans went into the product. The Beats headphones, for example, contain about 3 plastic bottles.
The volume of recycled materials used in the products won't make a dent in reducing waste at first, notes Bea Perez, chief sustainability officer for Coca-Cola. But she said the idea is to get younger consumers thinking about waste and recycled products in a new light.
Coca-Cola declined to give details of its business agreement with will.i.am, but said it will donate its portion of the licensing profits to recycling and community improvement groups.
Will.i.am is reviewing ways to contribute his royalties to educational charities.

New Play Inspired By Natalie Cole’s Life
Josiah Theatre Works is pleased to announce the world premiere drama musical Sangin’ The Tears Away, inspired by Natalie Cole. The musical will officially kick off Josiah Theatre Works’ 4th Anniversary Season in New York City on August 19th. Sangin’ The Tears Away was written and directed by Nickolas Long III. A Pre-Reception Honors Ceremony will be held at 6PM, before the 7:30 performance. A nationwide tour of Sangin’ The Tears Away is planned for December 2012. For more information visit www.smarttix.com. For group sales or to place an ad in the programs email josiahtheatre@gmail.com.

Is Macaulay Culkin a hardcore heroin and oxycontin addict?, Well the Enquirer says so.
In February of this year, a paparazzo caught an exclusive photo of Macaulay Culkin looking emaciated and clutching a Red Bull. Culkin eyes look glassed over, and he’s incredibly frail looking. A lot of people wondered if he was on drugs, which his rep of course denied. In more photos that came out that month (above), Culkin looked about the same – very thin and blitzed out of his mind. 

The Daily Beast had a profile of Culkin last month, in which their journalist went to one of the monthly DJ parties the former child actor holds in Manhattan. His parties have child themes usually, like dinosaurs or prom, and the author described Culkin as friendly but detached. He also said that Culkin kept going in the back of the bar with a group of people who came back smelling like pot. So it sounded like Culkin was just toking up, and that he was still making appearances occasionally. I found that story reassuring because I was honestly worried about him after those photos came out.
All of that is preface to this sad story that Culkin is a hardcore drug addict who is abusing Oxycontin, heroin, and a cocktail of prescription drugs. Oh no.
From The Enquirer: Is former child star Macaulay Culkin hopelessly hooked on heroin?
The 31-year-old actor has allegedly been seen by several eyewitnesses using a deadly mix of potent pre­scription drugs and unless he gets help, they say his secret addiction will kill him!
According to a blockbuster new report in the National Enquirer, the Home Alone star regularly shoots up heroin and the powerful prescription painkiller oxycodone and nearly overdosed once.
Macaulay’s legal team strenuously denied the claims that the actor nearly overdosed and bought thousands of dollars of prescription drugs.
According to the Enquirer, Culkin spends up to $6,000 a month on other dangerous painkillers, and has turned his Manhattan apartment into his own private drug den where he gets high during hours alone or with his close circle of whacked-out pals.
The once golden boy’s drug use intensified about 18 months ago, say the insiders, when he fell into a downward spiral over his dead-end career and a shattered romance with Hollywood hottie Mila Kunis, who’s now dating Ashton Kutcher.

“Macaulay Culkin is hooked on drugs and it’s killing him!” said a source close to the star told the Enquirer.
“He’s been hooked for a year and a half, and his drug of choice is either heroin or oxycodone. Mac is surrounding himself with junkies and lowlifes. It’s a real tragedy.”
Another close friend claims to have witnessed Culkin’s increasing drug use and said his friends are afraid for his life.
“Macaulay Culkin is surely dying. He’s addicted to heroin, oxyco done, Percocet and Vicodin. I have witnessed his drug taking, which has escalated over the past year and a half to the point where he needs serious help.
“His closest friends fear that he’ll overdose or his heart will explode. If he doesn’t get help and enter rehab now, he could be dead in six months.”
The friend told the National Enquirer that they hoped he would get help before something tragic happens. “It should have been a wake-up call, but it didn’t seem to have any effect on him. Mac is still partying hard. I pray that he finds the courage and strength to clean up before it’s too late.”
[From Radar]
The Enquirer does run BS stories occasionally, but they wouldn’t run something like this without solid sources. I believe this, I just hope it isn’t as bad as their sources claim. I also hope that if this is true Culkin gets the help he needs soon. He had a tough childhood to say the least, his father was abusive and he was pushed to work at a young age. His sister Dakota died in 2008 after being hit by a car, and that probably affected him more than his breakup with Mila Kunis, although that’s pure speculation. Maybe now that the news is out he’ll start to realize that he needs help.

Beanie Sigel Prepping “Pre-Prison” Tour
Beanie Sigel has a lot of things to take care of before he heads to prison to serve a two-year sentence, for skipping out on his tax bill. In promotion of his forthcoming pre-prison album, The Time, the 38-year-old will embark on an accompanying tour, reports All HipHop.
Starting in mid-August, Beans will hit the likes of New York City, before heading to the Left Coast with stops at the Key Club in West Hollywood, Calif., and The New Parish, in Oakland. In addition to the shows, he will also make spot appearances on programs like 106 & Park, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, to publicize his new single “The Reunion.”

Back in March, the Philly native signed a distribution deal with EMI which was put in place by his current label home, Ruffhouse Records. “If you've been through what I've been through in my career, you wouldn't trust no one. You'll fourth guess everything,” he explained. “What made me do the deal with Chris Schwartz was actually to get the deal together for State Property.”
The “pre-prison” tour (which is hopefully a working title) begins Aug. 16 at New York City's SOB's.

“Tamar And Vince Show” To Premiere In Sept
We TV has renewed several of its original series, and will launch its first spinoff series, Tamar & Vince. The series follows Braxton Family Values star Tamar Braxton as she pursues a pop music career with the help of her husband, Vince Herbert, and will premiere September 20th. Braxton Family Values, which has also been renewed, will premiere its third season in the first quarter 2013. However, if you can’t wait that long — a special season of Braxton Family Values will begin August 16th. Additionally, the network has also set a December 13th premiere date for the second season of Mary Mary.

Brandy Featuring Chris Brown- ‘Put It Down’ Photos and Video
R&B Songstress Brandy released exclusive pictures by the singer, the pics arrive before the launch of her new LP ’2/11′.
In the video, Brandy shows off her choreography, always strong vocals, and killer shoe game. Looks like Brandy is claiming her throne and headed straight for the top. Check out pics from her video shoot.
“Put It Down” features Chris Brown and will appear on Brandy’s forthcoming album ‘Two Eleven,’ due this fall.
Brandy and Chris Brown got hugged up on the set of her Hype Williams-directed video for the single. In the video, Brandy will be featured in front of two Ferraris and perform a dance routine choreographed by Frank Gatson Jr.
In the meantime, Brandy has been releasing teaser shots to build up anticipation for the video which should drop later this week.
Meanwhile, her album, ’2/11′, hits stores October 2. Check out ‘Put it Down’ here:
I must admit Brandy’s promotion game TOPS Monica’s by leaps and bounds!

Stripping Isn’t Enough: Octo-Mom Is Beggin’ For $150,000 For Her Foreclosed Home!
If it ain’t one thing, it’s another!
Octomom Nadya Suleman Is Begging Fans For $150,000 To Save Her Foreclosed House
Octomom may have stripped her way off welfare, but she couldn’t strip her way out of foreclosure … and now the mother of 14 is begging her fans for $150,000 so she can put a down payment on a new pad.
In case you forgot … despite Octo’s recent XXX endeavors, she still couldn’t make the mortgage payments on her La Habra house and it was foreclosed on last month.

Sources close to Octo tell TMZ she’s been given two weeks to move out, but the problem is she doesn’t have enough cash to buy a house of her own … especially one that can fit her giant brood.
Octo’s solution … set up a page on a website called GoFundMe.com, where her fans can send her money through the internet! All she’s asking for is a cool $150k to get started.
In the meantime, we’re told Octo is trying to book as many jobs as possible, just in case her fans don’t come through.
Its a shame

Dennis Rodman’s New Talent Is Writing Children Books
Hopefully this won’t be the book cover…
Dennis Rodman Writes A Children’s Book
Don’t expect Dennis Rodman to look to prepaid cards or payday loans to help pay his massive child support debt…..cause he’ll be writing children’s books and selling them to your kids.
Would you let NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman teach life lessons to your kids? The question may soon be answered when the former basketball star releases his own children’s book entitled: Dennis The Wild Bull. Reportedly, Rodman wants to inspire kids by writing about he overcame some of the challenges he faced as a young person.
The Huffington Post reports:
Dennis Rodman has staked his claim in the literary world before, penning four autobiographical titles, including 2005′s “I Should Be Dead By Now.”
But the Hall of Famer’s newest work, “Dennis The Wild Bull,” isn’t the latest account of his raucous life, it may actually be a prequel — written for children, TMZ reports.
Details on the children’s book, which is slated to be released later this year, are minimal, but according to a website dedicated to the work, it will “convey good lessons to children based on Dennis’ own experiences as a world class athlete while overcoming obstacles as a child.” Rodman teamed up with author/screenwriter Dustin Warburton and illustrator Dan Monroe to create the book.
Would you buy his book for your children?

Meagan Good Gets HOT For UPSCALE's August 2012 Cover, Gushes On
Being Typecast & Why Her Husband's Love For God Is So Sexy!
Sexy newlywed Meagan Good is making the most of her good publicity from her wedding, hit movie Think Like A Man and the upcoming sequel, and her new NBC show she's set to star in. Check out the fab chick covering the August 2012 issue of UPSCALE, and what she had to say about her equally sexy God-fearing hubby and being typecast....
She's set to star in a new network tv mystery series, and she just got laced with a wedding and beautiful ring from a great guy. What else could a girl want?

Meagan Good, star of the upcoming NBC series "Infamous", opened up to UPSCALE Magazine about what true power is in her eyes, and how her husband, DeVon Franklin, brought love and healing into her life. And the gorgeous 30-year-old is determined to show people she hasn't been typecast as the sexy girl every man wants.

On being typecast:
"There were a couple times where the director said 'We really like you, but you're a little bit too sexy.' And I'm like, 'Well, what do I need to do? Wear a turtleneck? You know, loose-fitting clothes?' And they're like "Nah, it's just something that you give off." I don't know that I necessarily believe that. I believe that people, when they have a pre-conceived notion of who you are, and things you've done in the past, sometimes they forget that as an actor you're able to shut off whatever you need to shut off, and you're able to turn on whatever you need to turn on."

On her love for her husband:
"To me there's nothing sexier than a man that loves the Lord. I can't imagine anything more attractive. And then, we just get each other, we don't judge each other. He understands me. His love has brought a lot of healing to a lot of areas that have been really painful for me. "
"Being with someone who is a preacher as well, people tend to try to sensationalize everything you do. So that's definitely been a different experience for me..."

On what true power is:
My definition of power is being able to move, and live, and do the things that you aspire to do and that you believe are part of your purpose to do, without letting other people's opinions or judgements manipulate your direction, without getting discouraged when a door closes, and just kinda having a good sense of self, and knowing who you are, and being strong in your walk with God. All of that, to me, is what power is.
Loves her.

Is Usher Moving Forward with Custody Battle?
Insiders claim that despite reports to the contrary, Usher has every intention on moving forward with his custody battle against Tameka Raymond...
Shortly after Tameka's 11 year old son Kile was hospitalized, rumors surfaced that Usher was calling off the custody battle and had been standing by Tameka's side in her time of need. After Kile succumbed to his injuries condolences for Usher poured in from the media and his celebrity pals.

Sources are calling foul and tell Straight From the A that even though Usher showed up for Kile's funeral he didn't speak to anyone or offer condolences to the family.
The insider tells SfTA,
We feel like the only reason he came at all is because the media kept portraying Kile as “Usher’s stepson.”
He wasn’t supportive to the family at all and we feel he used the situation to draw sympathy from his fans.
The sad thing about this entire situation is that Tameka swallowed her pride and actually reached out to Usher while Kile was hospitalized.
She could never get him on the phone so she left a message begging him to help her with some of the expenses her insurance wouldn’t cover.
He never returned her calls and when Kile passed away Tameka reached out to him again and he still hasn’t responded to this day.
and despite reports, 

Usher has no intention of dropping that custody dispute and his high powered PR team leaked that fake story about him wanting to settle, hoping fans would think that it was Tameka who is being uncooperative but that is so far from the truth.

Maybach Music Group Covers VIBE's 2012 Juice Issue
Were you expecting anyone else? With Self Made Vol. 2 and God Forgives, I Don't in stores and Dreamchasers 2 burning up the streets this summer, Maybach Music Group is the cover choice for VIBE's annual Juice Issue. Rick Ross, Wale, and Meek Mill hold the front cover while Omarion, Stalley and Gunplay hold down the gate fold.
“Our genre prides itself so much on finding new Isht that we don't appreciate nothing no more,” Wale says to John Kennedy of Vibe. “They're so busy telling niggas that they're not great or not future legends, that they anoint niggas that haven't done nothing! I'm not taking nothing away from Chief Keef, but they just jumped so fast! Y'all was just on A$AP hard! I sold 165,000 in the first week in the face of niggas that blatantly didn't want to see me win. But y'all concerned about who's next…”


AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES
‘Rappin’ N Rhymin’

I see you have a headband to soak up all that sweat when your doing your hip hop cardio blast workouts. I’ll give everyone a minute or two to imagine that……..and you’re welcome.

HAVE A GREAT DAY!!
EFREM

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