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3/22/17

The Daily Buzz For March 23


Jane Fonda LOOK GORGEOUS on the cover of Harpers Bazaar Espana April 2017
Need I say more? The pics and article are below
BEAUTIFUL!


#RHoA: Drama Between Porsha Williams And Phaedra Parks At The Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion? Seating Chart Revealed!
It’s already been revealed that the Real Housewives Of Atlanta reunion for season 9 is the most “shocking” and “epic,” but Cynthia Bailey says it’s the perfect time for the ladies “to just address it. People can own up to it or lie about it or not own up to it.”
“I actually like the reunion. I’m a big closure girl,” Cynthia adds, “I’m moving on whether you choose to or not.”
Cynthia admits she wasn’t “too freaked out about the reunion,” because “I really wasn’t too involved in too

“I thought it was gonna be a tough season because of the divorce stuff, but after Peter [Thomas] and I managed to get through that with some grace and class, everything else just kind of fell into place,” Cynthia explained to Bravo’s Daily Dish.
Instead most of the drama will be between Porsha Williams, Kandi Burruss, and Phaedra Parks – and the seating chart shows Phaedra and Kandi on either side of Andy.
Cynthia complains that the lesbian drama between Kandi and Porsha “went on for way longer than it needed to” and she’s hoping they’ll find that closure. She doesn’t have similarly high hopes for Kandi and Phaedra’s friendship, however – and also hints that it possibly turns into an issue between Frick and Frack! You don’t say
In fact Cynthia feels Phaedra should have confessed to the comments she made about Shamea Morton allegedly hooking up with Kandi, which lead to Porsha being implicated in lesbian drama. “I just thought at this point, just for the sake of solidarity for their friendship, she would say, ‘OK, I just want to say, you guys are really giving her a hard time. I was the one saying this, and if I was wrong to say it, then I take it back,'” says Cynthia. “Just something. I just feel like something should have been said from her at this point, just in support of her girl.”

Well, can we really expect so much of Shady Phae-Phae?

Are You Looking Forward To The Real Housewives Of Atlanta Reunion Shows?


#EMPIRE: THE WAIT IS OVER! Spring Premiere on FOX - TONIGHT!
Scoop: EMPIRE Spring Premiere on FOX - Wednesday, March 22, 2017After launching a deadly missile at Angelo, Lucious announces his new music project, Inferno, and puts everyone on notice – especially Cookie, who then vows to knock him off his throne for good. The two engage in an epic clash – fueled by a history of love, loyalty and betrayal. Meanwhile, Jamal befriends musician Tory Ash (guest star Rumer Willis) during his stay in rehab, Andre continues with his plan to take over EMPIRE, and Hakeem and Tiana battle Nessa for a spot in the music showcase in the all-new “Sound & Fury” spring premiere episode of EMPIRE airing Wednesday, March 22 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (EMP-310) (TV-14 D, L, S, V) Rumer Willis guest stars
About "EMPIRE":The drama returns in Season Three, as the battle continues for the Soul of Empire. Each member of the Lyon family must cope with the events that were set in motion in the Season Two finale. Lucious pursues his music legacy with his streaming service, while also clashing with his half-brother, Tariq (Morocco Omari), who is leading a federal task force investigating him.


#NEWMUSIC: Chris Brown Remixes Konshens’ “Bruk Off Yuh Back”
Aye! Chris Brown is getting back into party mode.

With his “Party Tour” on the way, and warm weather almost here the R&B superstar sets off some good vibes with a sexy remix to the dancehall hit “Bruk Off Yuh Back” by Konshens.
Breezy flips the original and gets explicit with a Jamaican accent. “Me love the way your legs slide up / Bruk off yuh back / I love it when you watch your back / Show me that you care when you throw that ass,” he sings.
The original has been buzzing since its release in December 2016. Now, the remix arrives just in time for Breezy’s “Party Tour,” which kicks off March 31 with 50 Cent and Fabolous.

LISTEN HERE
“Bruk Off Yuh Back” also lands ahead of Brown’s Heartbreak on a Full Moon single “Privacy,” which is expected to drop this week.

#HOTNEWHIPHOP: New Music: Raekwon feat. Ghostface Killah – ‘This Is What It Comes Too (Remix)’
The Chef and Ironman cook up another one of their legendary duets on the remix to “This Is What It Comes Too,” a bonus cut off Raekwon’s forthcoming album The Wild.
“This what it comes to, wildin’ like the west,” raps The Chef. “Down in this concrete jungle, homie, hope you got ya vest on.”

Ghostface Killah matches his Wu-Tang brother’s streetwise bars with his own gritty and witty rhymes. “Stack chips like Legos,” he raps. “Pop up on you ni**as like Eggos / Two hands on the Draco / Hole in your back, the size of a miniature bagel / Live wires with your girls still stuck on our huevos.”
Raekwon said the collaboration came due to popular demand. “Ghost is my brother and we’ve been on this blessed journey for a while now,” he told Billboard. “Me and Ghost are an institution and I know the fans were calling for a remix, so this is what it comes to: Ironman Lunch Mix.”

In addition to Ghostface, The Wild (due March 24) features Lil Wayne (“My Corner”), G-Eazy (“Purple Brick Road”), CeeLo Green (“Marvin”), and Andra Day (“Visiting Hour”).

Listen to “This Is What It Comes Too HERE

OOOH LADIES LOOK! Shirtless Orlando Bloom Goes Rock Climbing, Jumps Off a Cliff!

Orlando Bloom shows off his hot body while getting ready to jump off a cliff during his vacation on Tuesday (March 21) in St. Barts.
The 40-year-old actor was seen going rock climbing to get to the top of the cliff and then jumping off the high peak.
Orly spent another afternoon enjoying the beautiful weather and gorgeous views while hanging out on a luxurious yacht with friends, including billionaire tech mogul Jim Clark and his wife, model Kristy Hinze-Clark.
The actor was seen the day before paddleboarding in the sun, but he kept his shorts on this time unlike the moment he famous was spotted in the buff last year.


Oh? Deleted Scene From Hip Hop Squares Exposes T.I. The BEEF between and Nicki’s Ex Safaree
Team Safaree shares a deleted clip from last night's episode Hip Hop Squares on VH1, along with a snippet from Safaree's new single 'All That', and fills in the blanks behind his beef with Atlanta rapper T.I...
LOL!


Drake Posts Up with Sade’s Transgender son Mickailia "Ila" Adu
Monday night British Icon singer Sade Adu and her son Mickailia attended Drake's show at 02 Arena in London...
And the champagne Papi decided to catch a few flick with Sade and her son Mickailia
Nice…Sade we need some new music Mama!


Chuck Berry's Final Album Gets Release Date, New Song Drops
Chuck Berry‘s final album will be getting a posthumous release and the first song from it has been dropped just days after he passed away.
The legendary entertainer died last week at the ago of 90 and his final album, Chuck, will be the first new album his fans hear from him since 1979.

“Working to prepare the release of this record in recent months and in fact over the last several years brought him a great sense of joy and satisfaction,” the Berry family said in a statement posted to Facebook earlier this week. “While our hearts are very heavy at this time, we know that he had no greater wish than to see this album released to the world, and we know of no better way to celebrate and remember his 90 years of life than through his music.”

The final album will be released on June 16. Listen to “Big Boys” HERE.


Apple launches red iPhone 7
Apple is introducing a new color option for its iPhone 7 lineup today: red. While the iPhone maker has offered special product red cases for the iPhone previously, this is the first time the actual handset is available in red itself. The new Product (RED) iPhone features a red aluminum finish, and is launching as part of Apple's partnership with (RED).

“The introduction of this special edition iPhone in a gorgeous red finish is our biggest (PRODUCT)RED offering to date in celebration of our partnership with (RED), and we can’t wait to get it into customers’ hands," says Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Apple's partnership with (RED) involves highlighting the AIDS fundraising campaign with red-themed designs for products and apps. Apple recently turned its App Store and associated top apps the color red for the world AIDS day.
Apple’s last color change to its iPhone lineup involved a new glossy jet black finish for the iPhone 7, and before that the company also introduced the rose gold option with the iPhone 6S. Today’s red option is perhaps the most striking of all the colors available for the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, and it will be available on Friday, March 24th in 128GB and 256GB models starting at $749


Tyrese Slams Women With Weaves, Implants, & Injections: ‘You Look Like A Manufactured Clown’
SHOTS FIRED FOR REAL! Tyrese took to social media and slammed women with weave and fake body parts after he overheard a group of women’s convo that rubbed him the wrong way.
The newly married actor and singer went in on women he says look like “manufactured clowns” starting at their fake lashes to their butt injections.

In the midst of his no-holds-barred post, Tyrese noted, “IM NOT trying to be mean I’m just sending a message that US REAL MEN SEE THE BULLSH*T and IF He decide to rock with you it’s just cause they wanna get one off no one will EVER take you serious like that or really make that move……….. Cause you look like a manufactured clown.”
Read Mr. Gibson’s full post below.

Tyrese
I just feel the need to send a message to all of these “type” of ladies all races of ladies who just think Dudes are just STUPID??……. WE KNOW the difference in real hair and fake clips on’s we know eye lash extensions, we know fake hard titties pointing in 4 directions with your ribs showing in the middle? Why so much separation? We know when you got little chicken legs and it leads to and oversized #fake ass you guys are really starting to go TOO FAR with manufactured beauty – fake lips, skinny nose barely can even breathe through your own nostrils – Sitting across from you and you couldn’t even HIDE your weave tracks?? Come on……. IM NOT trying to be mean I’m just sending a message that US REAL MEN SEE THE BULLSH*T and IF He decide to rock with you it’s just cause they wanna get one off no one will EVER take you serious like that or really make that move……….. Cause you look like a manufactured clown – Some of you have convinced yourself that it’s OK cause of how many dudes be trying to get at you…… Please let me explain….. You got your temp fix and you will continue to “attract” men who ONLY want a temporary fix……. Shout to #TeamNatural #TeamSquats and #TeamTakeMeAsIAm – #TeamMatureEnoughToConsiderHarshTruth because you’re single doesn’t mean you’re lonely- know this… Hoes, sluts, tramps are never without a man… You’re single cause YOU have standard and know your actual value- I had to rip out a chapter from my New York Times best selling book #MANOLOGY to let y’all know us as MEN are much more aware and smarter than some of you think…… If your beauty has been purchased that’s fine…. own it, enjoy it…. Just know that us REAL ones out here see the REAL….

The response to Tyrese’s post had been a mixed bag.
One fan wrote, “LMAOOOOOOO OMGGG this is straight truth!!! Straight facts hunny!!!!!! Lol, have me Rollin with the nose thing lmaooooo!! I’ve heard and seen so much I thought about the nose myself but your message just proved to me IM GOOOOOD! ðŸ’‹ you real!!”

Another responded, “You could have kept this “message” to yourself…Trying to build up one version of a woman by bad mouthing another is never a good look. When men do this, it comes across that they really don’t respect women or care for them in general.”

What do you think about Tyrese’s post? Do you agree or were you offended?


REVERSE RACISM? Puff Daddy’s Revolt TV Accused Of Firing Staffers For Being Old White Men.
Puff’ Revolt company is accused of discriminating old white male staffers.
That’s according to Page Six..
According to the site, A group of white employees is going to war against Revolt TV — claiming the music channel owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs canned them because they weren’t young and black, according to a new lawsuit.
Douglas Goodstein and four other Caucasian producers — who are each over age 39 — worked on the televised version of Revolt’s popular urban talk-radio program “The Breakfast Club.”

The producers say they had experience on other famous programs, such as “The Howard Stern Show,” but were treated by bosses “worse than other employees who were younger and African-American,” the Manhattan Supreme Court suit claims.


Taylor Kinney Opens Up About Dating After Split with Lady Gaga: 'I Don't Think I Have a Type'
Taylor Kinney is opening up for the first about his life post-split with former fiancee Lady Gaga.
The 35-year-old Chicago Fire actor shared during the NBC Summer Press day in Los Angeles that he’s too busy to date since the split.
“My dating life is through Chicago Fire,” Taylor said. “I live vicariously through my character.”

Taylor and Gaga ended their engagement last year after dating for over five years. Gaga has been dating talent agent Christian Carino since early this year.
As for getting back into the dating scene, Taylor said that he doesn’t really go after a specific woman.

“I don’t think I have a type. I think it’s more of an energy,” Taylor said. “I think of compatibility as the intangibles of something, and someone that you meet and connect with, and someone you can laugh with, and maybe share a simililar sense of humor, then things go from there.”


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3/19/17

The ICON who invented Rock-N-Roll, Chuck Berry, revolutionary guitarist-songwriter, dead at 90! 😩


The ICON who invented Rock-N-Roll, Chuck Berry, revolutionary guitarist-songwriter, dead at 90!😩
Chuck Berry, who died Saturday at 90, was one of the architects of rock ’n’ roll, as a singer, songwriter and guitarist. More than any artist of the 1950s, his songs exploded with imagery that saw rock ’n’ roll not just as a fad but as the future — a vision of freedom that transcended generation and race.

Berry’s opening solo on “Johnny B. Goode” blared reveille for subsequent generations of rockers. Every rock guitarist since is in his debt. In addition, Berry wrote and sang at least two dozen rock ’n’ roll classics, including “Maybellene,” “Roll Over Beethoven” and “Back in the U.S.A.,” many of them recorded at Chicago’s Chess Studios in the 1950s and ’60s and later covered by countless artists, including the Beatles, Beach Boys and Rolling Stones.

“If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry,"' John Lennon once said.

Berry was one of rock ’n’ roll’s defining figures and one of its most notorious — he was imprisoned three times over his life for various offenses.
St. Charles County police in Missouri said officers responded to a medical emergency on Buckner Road about 12:40 p.m. Saturday. Inside the home, they “observed an unresponsive man" and immediately administered lifesaving techniques. Berry was pronounced dead at 1:26 p.m. The department released a statement confirming “the death of Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr., better known as legendary musician Chuck Berry.”

Born Charles Edward Anderson Berry in St. Louis in 1926, Berry grew up singing in church and listening to blues and country music on the radio. An admirer of Louis Jordan, T-Bone Walker and Nat “King” Cole, Berry began playing guitar in high school. As a teenager, he was sent to a reformatory after being convicted of attempted robbery. He moonlighted as a beautician in St. Louis and worked on an auto assembly line to support his family. While in his 20s, he led a three-piece blues group during regular weekend gigs.

Berry developed a sound that synthesized genres and created the most popular template for rock ’n’ roll: a small, guitar-led combo performing original songs. A half-century before, country guitarists borrowed riffs and runs from blues performers. Berry flipped the formula; he was essentially a country-music guitarist who added blues inflections and a faster rhythm-and-blues beat. Plus, he played electric guitar, and the amplification enabled him to simulate the sound of two or three guitars playing at once. He thickened the sound by employing a two-string technique, sliding along the frets and bending them to create enormous power and drive. His tone evoked a trumpet.

Rock 'n' roll pioneer Chuck Berry, was back on stage in 2011 at Blueberry Hill, the St. Louis club where he has performed monthly since 1996. This was his first performance since he appeared to collapse on his keyboard during his January 1 show at Chicago's Congress Theater.
Berry’s staccato-laced rhythmic drive also derived from swing jazz and the ebullient boogie-woogie played by another St. Louis musician, pianist Johnnie Johnson, who would become his often-unsung collaborator.
Johnson would sue Berry in 2000 for songwriting credit on more than 50 songs, but the claim was dismissed because a judge determined too much time had passed since the songs were written. Together, they played counterpoint melodies and solos that raised the excitement level of countless classic songs, with Johnson’s strong left hand and Berry’s hard strumming beefing up the rhythmic pulse.

Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, who acknowledged that his own rhythm-guitar style was based on Berry’s technique, said the guitarist “always was the epitome of rhythm and blues playing, rock and roll playing. It was beautiful, effortless, and his timing was perfection. He is rhythm supreme.”

The Berry-Johnson partnership was forged on New Year’s Eve 1952, when the guitarist was enlisted as a last-minute replacement for an ailing saxophone player in the Johnnie Johnson Trio in East St. Louis. Berry became a regular in the well-established band, and soon became the star attraction with a style that included his signature “duck walk,” skipping across the stage in a half-crouch while playing his guitar.

 “Every weekend, they’d be looking for Chuck,” Johnson told the Tribune in a 1992 interview. “When he’d play that guitar, the people would form a circle and square dance. Chuck did this song from the Grand Old Opry, ‘Ida Red,’ and the people loved it.”

It must have been startling to see a crowd of urban blacks dancing steps associated with rural whites, but such was the genre-blurring alchemy Berry achieved. In addition, his clear, precise diction as a vocalist was a departure from the wild, shouting style associated with the so-called race music of the day.

“A lot of places we played, they thought Chuck was white until they got a look at him,” Johnson said.

Even so, Berry came to Chicago in spring 1955 determined to become the next Muddy Waters. On hearing Berry’s guitar playing, Waters was impressed enough to introduce him to Leonard Chess, co-founder of Chess Records, who encouraged the handsome, articulate stranger with the big hollow-body guitar to make a demo tape.

The tape included Berry’s bid for blues stardom, the slow, sensual “Wee Wee Hours,” with a lavish Johnson piano line. But Chess much preferred another song on the tape, “Ida Red,” an old country song that Berry juiced up with comically exuberant boy-chases-girl lyrics involving a Cadillac Coupe DeVille and a V-8 Ford.

“The big beat, cars and young love,” Leonard Chess later said. “It was a trend and we jumped on it.”
Chess liked the song’s upbeat tempo and saw it as a way for his blues label to break into the teenage pop market. He was right. By Aug. 20 of that year, the song he retitled “Maybellene” was the No. 5 pop record in the country.
The song was as distinctive lyrically as it was musically. In the first line of his first hit, Berry coined the term “motorvatin’,” as if he were bent on reinventing the English language even as he invented rock ’n’ roll. The longtime critic Robert Christgau called him “the greatest rock lyricist this side of Bob Dylan.” Narratives populated with images of cars, girls and school brimmed with humor and underdog charm.

At a time when most grown-ups sneered at rock ’n’ roll as mere juvenilia, Berry invested it with poetic power. Rock ’n’ roll, in his telling, was more than just a passing fad, “kids music” that would be dismissed and forgotten in a year or two. In the vision laid out in Berry songs from “Roll Over Beethoven” to “Back in the U.S.A.,” rock ’n’ roll was a world of endless possibility, a promised land where even a poor black kid could be a star.

His lyrics invariably identified with teenagers in their endless struggle with adult authority, and championed the idea that fun was just as much a part of growing up as preparing to be an adult. But he also infiltrated the charts with seemingly upbeat songs that painted subtle portraits of racism (“Brown Eyed Handsome Man”) and satirized the workday runaround (“Too Much Monkey Business”).
He also celebrated his newborn sound and its break from the past. As an African-American who had his fill of the status quo, there was double-edged meaning when he sang, “Hail, hail rock ’n’ roll / Deliver me from the days of old.”

The narrators and protagonists in his songs were inevitably thinly veiled alter egos, never more so than “Johnny B. Goode,” the little country boy “who could play his guitar just like a-ringin’ a bell.” He also demonstrated a feel for Latin music in “Havana Moon,” doo-wop in “Almost Grown” and deep blues in “Childhood Sweetheart.” From 1955 to 1959 he had nine Top 40 hits, an African-American in his 30s who embodied the yearning, joy and frustrations of a largely white, teenage audience.

But legal troubles derailed his career at its peak. Two controversial, racially tinged trials in which Berry was accused of transporting an underage girl across state lines in violation of the Mann Act (prohibiting white slavery and the interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes”) ended with the singer serving a year and a half in prison.
When he was released in 1963, Berry found his songs as popular as ever, thanks to covers by the Beatles, Stones and Beach Boys. His chart successes slowed to a trickle, even as he recorded classic songs such as “Memphis,” a poignant portrait of a divorced father looking to reunite with his young daughter.

He finally scored his first No. 1 single in 1972, albeit with one of his most trivial songs, the smutty “My Ding-A-Ling,” while substantive songs such as “Tulane” and “Have Mercy Judge,” which loosely chronicled his misadventures with the law, were largely overlooked.

Berry’s last studio album arrived in 1979, but he maintained a robust touring schedule, demanding a hefty fee upfront in cash. His cash-and-carry routine made him a target of Internal Revenue Service investigators, who charged him with tax evasion in 1979. Berry pleaded guilty and served four months in prison.
He got into further legal trouble in 1990 when he was sued over allegations that he planted a video camera in the women’s bathroom at a restaurant he owned in Missouri. He settled a class action suit out of court with 59 accusers for a reported $1.2 million. A police raid at his home turned up marijuana and the bathroom videotapes, including one allegedly showing a minor. Berry pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drug possession and was given a six-month suspended jail sentence and probation.

Berry the stage performer also had a checkered history. He played monthly shows at his hometown club Blueberry Hill from 1996 to 2014 that could be galvanizing. But he could also come off as petulant in his travels, voicing his displeasure with the pickup bands hired to perform with him around the world and cutting shows short.
The heavy road schedule eventually took its toll. At a Jan. 1, 2011, concert at the Congress Theater in Chicago, he collapsed after about an hour onstage and had to be escorted off, suffering from exhaustion.

Berry’s place in rock history was already ensured. He was among the first musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, and the next year he was celebrated in a Taylor Hackford documentary, “Hail! Hail! Rock ’n’ Roll,” with acolytes such as Richards, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen, Robert Cray and Linda Ronstadt paying homage. He is at best a reluctant and often a surly participant in the party captured on film, as if carrying decades of accumulated bitterness for various insults and indignities, both real and imagined.

Here was an artist on intimate terms with various forms of imprisonment, both racial and legal, and music was his way of breaking the shackles. Little wonder he provided the movie — and by extension, his life — with its cornerstone statement: “Rock ’n’ roll … it’s freedom.”

He was to release his final album, simply titled “Chuck Berry,” in 2017.
R.I.P ICON!

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