Prince Covers Billboard
With his blue velvet jacket on, gold silk shirt with just the right button job to show off some chest fur, his curly fro and fly-inspired sunglasses, isn’t Prince just the definition of rock star opulence? I mean, he does it up at all times just because he can, and can be seen practicing for performances in sparkling silver wedge heels, a hat shaped like a lion and flashy yellow pants (see the excerpt from his interview with the magazine). And by this time, we know that he’s the only guy who can adorn himself like this and still get comments about how alluring he is, even at the age of 54. He just rocks. Maybe that’s why he’s covering the newest issue of Billboard as he’s been announced as the upcoming recipient of the Billboard Icon Award. Just last year Stevie Wonder was given such an honor, and Prince will receive his during the televised awards ceremony on Sunday, May 19 (He’ll also reportedly perform during the show as he picks up the award).
In the newest issue of the magazine, Prince talks about his battle to have full ownership over his songs and work (and I think we’re all hoping he’ll touch on why he and YouTube don’t gel–seriously though, I can’t watch none of your videos!?), his three decades in music, and more as interviewer Gail Mitchell tries to navigate the world famous Paisley Park production studios, and the funk-tastic yet mysterious creature that is Prince. If you’d like to check out an excerpt of the issue, and even buy it, check out Billboard.com to get your Prince fix on. But until then, what do you think of his funky-fresh-dressed-to-impress cover?
Prince has released a new track. Provocatively called “Screwdriver,”
it’s a delicious mesh of guitar pop and harks back to the Purple One’s Parade era.
LISTEN:
Now available on the diminutive star’s website, some like Vulture think the combination of ”Screwdriver’s” release, Prince’s Billboard cover, and recent Minneapolis Dakota Jazz Club shows are signs of an imminent new album.He also unveiled his new website, www.20pr1nc3.com.
Go over to Billboard for the full story
Ciara Parties With Fans In London
Ciara trekked it to London
Ciara threw on her sneakers and rocked a cute and casual look for her big party. She launched her latest album 'One Women Army' at DSTRKT nightclub London
And while there, she spent some time taking pics with her fans saying, "Having So Much Fun With My Fans.. #London
Well hopefully she can find a Army there to buy her CD because The Americans took a pass on it!
Bobbi Kristina Gets New Car No More Crashing
Bobbi Kristina has giving up the black Chevy Camaro that she has had nothing but bad luck in. She has decided to purchase something a little more safe to drive.
TMZ reports BK has purchased a new 2013 Lexus IS 250. The daughter of legend Whitney Houston purchased the car a little before Christmas and is feeling a lot safer driving it. Sources say the visability is much better which may avoid accidents. Bobbi has crashed her car a few times in the past year, hopefully she stays safe with the new Lex!
At The Video Shoot of Lil' Kim's "Jay-Z" VIDEO SHOOT
The Queen Bee, Lil' Kim, recently shot scenes for Tiffany Foxx's "Jay-Z" single. Tiffany is Kim's latest protege and is signed to her International Rock Star Records. The track appears on Tiffany’s mixtape Yellow Tape. And Kim is back on her sneaker wearing New York
The video was shot in Brooklyn and features Kim sporting a customized Special 'Opening Ceremony' Varsity Jacket.
And despite a breakup around the holidays, it looks like Kim is rocking with Mr. Papers again and he's in the Maserati scene.
In addition to videos, Lil' Kim "might" make a reality tv appearance as her best friend Jennifer Dalton has joined the cast of "RHONJ" and Kim is the godmother of Jen's daughter. We'd love to see Kim with the housewives!
Listen to a snippet of "Jay-Z" :
Thoughts? Better yet what does Jay Z thinks?
Shawty Lo says “I wasn’t ARRESTED!” Explains Being in Handcuffs
Well Here is the pic that started the rumors.
It appears a bunch of assumptions about 36-year-old rapper Shawty Lo (real name Carlos Walker) garnered even MORE negative attention about the almost-reality star. If you’ve been following our coverage, then you’d remember that the rapper had a pending reality show called “All My Baby Mamas” tentatively to air on the Oxygen network. To our knowledge, the show has since been cancelled due to a petition and an overall negative response from the public. Fast forward to the present day and Shawty Lo was back in the news recently, when a photo of him in handcuffs hit the net. Various blog sites reported that the rapper was arrested, but we’ve now learned that he was only shooting a music video for a song called “Petition,” where he is in handcuffs in one scene. His publicist Kali Bowyer spoke on the allegations:
“Not one of those blogs fact checked with me… And failing to pay child support just isn’t true!”
Oh well the show still is canceled!
OOOH R.Kelly has a B-List Birthday Party!
AP9- R Kelly
AP9- MaryJane(far right) Real Mistresses of Atlanta
Demetria McKinney and Ap9
Towanda Braxton and Rodney Perry
Devyne Stephens- #BigMan-on-Campus
Jason Geter-Manager TI- Executive Producer-Mr GrandHustle- Amy Eslami (Multicultural marketing Manager for Bacardi/GreyGoose)
Rodney Perry, Frank White, Demetria McKinney, Devyne Stephens, Tango Dollar, Carlos Emmons aka #MrWetWilliesATL
Is that BreakUp- Mario? Looking Good Son!
Carl Payne and Jazzy Fizzle Grey Goose and Cranberry Spirits aflow!!!
Takeo Spikes-NFL and the ladies!!!
Baby Dee and the Crew
Amber- where’s AKON???
Takeo Spikes and Frank White
The Infamous DJ Infamous
Fun Times I guess!
Ex-Girlfriend Brooke Crittendon REVEALS Kanye West Is VULNERABLE & INSECURE, Says Kim Kardashian "Fits His Brand"
You can learn a lot about a person when their "ex" starts spilling intimate details. And though Brooke Crittendon didn't throw her ex-Kanye West completely under the bus during a recent interview with The Sun, she did give an interesting perspective on why he ended up in the arms of reality tv starlet Kim K.
Brooke, who dated Kanye from 2004 to 2006 (before he got engaged to Alexis Phifer), explained her thoughts about the pairing of Kanye and Kim by bascially saying the "relationship" compliments his ego. Obvi. She said:
“For Kanye, what other person besides Kim Kardashian is there? There’s Halle Berry
She adds that a man like Kanye wants certain things from his career and for his life. That checklist will include, money, fame, the hot chick and the kids to go along with it. And she confirmed 'Ye's been eyeing the sextape star turned self-loving reality star for a minute now:
"I know he has had a thing with her for a while. I’m sure he watched her [sex] tape. After we broke up, we caught up as friends and he mentioned her, I knew something was there ... Them being together satisfies them for now. Having a baby ticks a box. She wanted kids and it’s his legacy.”
Brooke also credited Jay-Z with having a huge influence on Kanye settling down with Kim.
“He admires Jay-Z and they are very close. Over the years Jay has been a role model to him. Whether it is starting to be more mature, taking chances with clothes or getting married and starting a family, ultimately he takes those cues from Jay.”
Though it seems Brooke suspects their relationship won't last (since it will only momentarily satisfy Kayne), she admitted that dating Mr. West had its perks.
“By day I was working in an office (she was a production assistant at MTV) and in the evening this fairy godmother would arrive and I’d have all these amazing experiences. It was like a two-year trip to Disneyland .
Our first anniversary was the first day of his tour in Miami
She also revealed something you might not expect about Kanye...he's vulnerable and insecure. Actually...you may have guessed that.
“He was not macho — he needed you to be with him and needed your opinion. He was quite vulnerable. He was insecure as he couldn’t be with me every day. I got the impression he worried he wasn’t good enough for me. He needs people to tell him he is good and that he is needed and wanted. He wouldn’t start his show unless I was at the side of the stage. One night the show was delayed because he couldn’t find me."
Really Brooke? Despite his insecurity, it didn't stop him from living the life of a rockstar which included all those OTHER chicks. Brooke said his cheating is what led to their breakup.
“I was very naive. I was a normal girl and in my life you meet a guy, you go on three dates and that’s your boyfriend. But he was a superstar and it got too much for me to handle.
There was a lot of attention from other women. Kanye was very open and honest but it ended up with me knowing too much. I don’t want to be silly and say it wasn’t cheating because I knew about it. I was never OK being one of many — or even one of a few."
Brooke added that what distinguishes her from Kim is that she's an ordinary girl and wasn't willing to conform to Kanye's expectations and be robbed of her individuality.
We've heard she isn't little miss innocent either when it comes to cheating ways. But that's for another day. We guess the grass is always greener....
Faith Evans speaks on Finding Biggie’s Murderer, and Lil Kim’s Shade
Faith Evans hit up the Wendy Williams show and dished on her bambinos (the similarities between CJ and Biggie), bringing Biggie’s killer to justice and her most recent encounter with Lil Kim. Peep some excerpts below.
On what their son CJ knows about his father:
“I don’t have to tell him much at all. I think between him spending time with Ms. Wallace, Cease (Lil Cease) D-Rock and doing the movie–he has had such a great history lesson on his dad. The funny little things that he does that he would have never seen him do like flick his toes together or the way he used his one finger to rub his nose when his sinuses are bothering him, a lot of stuff that his dad used to do that he does.”
On finding the person responsible for Biggie’s murder:
We haven’t laid that to rest.We still very much want to see the person responsible brought to justice. That means more to us than anything. We’ve never entered into a lawsuit for any financial gain. We’ve paid millions of dollars just in lawyers fees over the years. When they’re gonna step up and and say hey we’re gonna solve this thing, then we’ll pick it back up. But there’s no point in paying lawyers fees if then LAPD isn’t really cooperating.”
On if she is has made up with Lil Kim:
“I’m not tripping. I’ve made peace with first of all God a long time ago, especially since we lost him all of that certainly went out the window. I would even say before he passed away I removed myself from any ill feelings towards her for that.”
On the last time she saw Lil Kim:
“We were at Puff’s white party in LA and I ran up to her and got her attention and said congratulations on everything god bless you and she looked at me and said, “Who is that?” I think she knows where I was coming from and she knows I’m in a different place.
Watch the clip:
Sounds like Faith has definitely moved on. And in other news, her hit reality show ‘R& B Divas’ co-starring Nicci Gilbert-Daniels, Syleena Johnson, Monifah Carter and Keke Wyatt was renewed for a second season today by TV One and will resume production in Atlanta later this month.
Lifetime Movie “Betty & Coretta” Trailer
Here’s your first official look – via a two-minute video preview- at Angela Bassett and Mary J. Blige in the upcoming Lifetime original movie Betty & Coretta. The tele-film will premiere on Saturday, February 2nd at 8 p.m. EST, and will center on the relationship between Betty Shabazz and Coretta Scott King. Specifically, it will follow how they continued on as single mothers after their husbands were assassinated.
As already reported, Mary J. Blige plays Betty Shabazz, and Angela Bassett plays Coretta Scott King. Actor Malik Yoba plays Martin Luther King Jr., while Lindsay Owen Pierre has the role of Malcolm X in the movie.
Check out the trailer:
Interesting!
Shakira and Gerard Pique welcomes a baby boy
Congrats Shakira welcomes her first child, a healthy baby boy name Milan Milan
Shakira took to her website to share the good news,
“We are happy to announce the birth of Milan Piqué Mebarak, son of Shakira Mebarak and Gerard Piqué, born January 22nd at 9:36pm, in Barcelona , Spain
The name Milan
Both the child and Shakira are doing well.
Consequence EXPOSES Kanye West For Allegedly Gossiping & Cheating With Kim, Raqi Thunda For Passing Diseases & Others Who WRONGED Him
"LAHH 3" star Consequence stopped by Power 105 1's "The Breakfast Club" with his girlfriend/baby mama Jen The Pen where he gave a no-holds barred interview explaining his break from Kanye West, how he feels betrayed by his cousin Q-Tip and his complete disgust with co-star Raqi Thunda. Here are the highlights:
On Raqi Thunda:
Consequence called her out regarding her "radio career" saying all she did was fetch water at Sirius radio. Bloop. He called her "basic" and said she took a base salary for "L&HH 3" and doesn't even have representation. "You moving like a base head out here. You a racoon out here in these streets you starving. And you passing niggaz diseases. You messy."
On Joe Budden:
Says he has no desire to work with Joe...because it would be for free. He added that Joe once got hit in the head by Raekwon.
On Kanye West:
"Basically, this is what happened. Q-Tip talks like a girl. Listen, he goes and he tells Kanye behind my back about the baby. I didn’t want Kanye to know because we were still going through money things and it was nasty. It was a lot of things that was involved. A lot of people who was involved with me and Kanye not bumping no more. When I did the Sway interview, I had flew out to London
Jen the Pen was VERY upset that Kanye West did not send them a gift or a card when they had their child. She called him "tacky." Though Consequence and Kanye had a falling out, the couple felt that their 10-year friendship should have meant a little more to him.
Jen also revealed that they had Kanye's back when he and Kim had their "first" affair while Kim was with Reggie Bush. They never "outed" them and kept it a secret.
He added that his other major issue is that Kanye likes to say he is one of the greatest rappers of all-time but doesn't give him due credit (he says he's ghost-written several rhymes for him). He also revealed that he was writing for Q-Tip and Phife by the time he was 18.
He added that all he really wants is "5 Minutes." At some point the interview got a little greasy and he let it be known that "5 mins" was "Queens" talk for a five-minute fight. He said he'd like 5 mins with Kanye, Big Sean, Pusha T and Q-Tip. Shots fired G.O.O.D. Music.
On Q-Tip
Cons accused Q-Tip of betraying him to get to Kanye. “She said it so let’s just clear the air. Q-Tip, because he was trying to finagle his way in the door – Kanye was my connect. The whole world know that,” Consequence revealed. “But because Q-Tip has issues with his mortality, so to speak. He’s on G.O.O.D. Music now because he was running around telling me little secrets about Kanye. Trying to angle. You know what I’m saying? But how you gonna angle me when you’re supposed to be my family?”
Watch the interview:
WOW….That is a lot of Tea!
Tamar Braxton & Da Brat Hit ATL Radio
Promoting her new single and video, ‘Love & War’, we caught Tamar Braxton visiting Atlanta
Push hard Tamar……PUSH HARD!
Prank Callers Call Police to Chris Brown’s House
Not cool! Prank callers called 911 reported a gun, drugs, and violence at Chris Browns house this evening Jan 21, 2013.
Upon arrival cops learned that everything was ok and it was all a prank! Moments later Chris Brown posted on his instagram that its #notcool stop playing with people lives, and stop lying to the police!
AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES
‘Taxi Cab Confessions’
Oh, I see you’re into role playing.
HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYBODY!!!!!!!!
EFREM
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