Alicia Keys & Miley Cyrus makes the Promos For ‘The Voice’
Alicia Keys and Miley Cyrus will join originals Adam Levine and Blake Shelton as coaches on the NBC hit.
True to the show’s rotating roster of talent, they replace Christina Aguilera and Pharrell Williams – who are sitting the season out.
It’ll mark the first time two females have occupied spots on the US series, which up until now has always favored a three guys/one girl format.
#RhoA: Nene Leakes Explains Why She Is So Successful Beyond ‘RHOA’, Embraces Plastic Surgery After ‘Unrecognizable’ Nose Job
Nene Leakes has become a success in her own right after starring in Real Housewives of Atlanta on Bravo. Now Nene is speaking out and giving advice on how to become successful. During a recent interview with E! Live from the Red Carpet, Nene opened up about what she did in order to transcend the RHOA fame.
“I’m smart and a lot of these girls that are on these shows, they come on the show looking for a rich husband or they come on the show because they just want to be here because they want to be known to be beautiful or I just got new Botox and filler today. Look at my car,” Leakes said in a recent interview. “And while they were doing all that, I was making connections because I wasn’t interested in all of that. I was interested in how we can make this the next big thing.”
“A lot of them are not that smart. A lot of them have cute faces, but they are bit of an airhead,” Nene continued. “A lot of them do not know how to make a business. A lot of them have men that have always worked. They don’t know how to start creating anything.”
Nene Leakes continued to speak about how she chose the projects that she did and why they are working for her. Possibly one of the best pieces of advice that Nene had was to not only choose business ventures that you are passionate about but also to avoid things that are trendy
“Now is this going to be making me money while we at home asleep? Is this going to make me money even after I’m on TV? See, that’s the kind of money you want to make.”
Leakes explained that her appearances on Fashion Police and her clothing line on HSN all stem from her love of fashion. It also helps that she has a very loyal fan base and has grown to be one of the most famous women ever to star on a Real Housewives reality show on Bravo.
In addition to rumors that she will be returning to Real Housewives of Atlanta for another season, Nene Leakes is also busy with a summer TV show called To Tell The Truth. This isn’t her first gig away from RHOA, as Nene had roles on Glee and The New Normal. While Nene admits that she likes doing TV, she also made it very clear that she knows that TV won’t last forever and so she’s building a brand that she believes will keep her paychecks coming for a long time.
Now that Nene has achieved a certain level of fame, the Bravo star has been taking a few liberties with her appearance. The Real Housewives of Atlanta star admitted to recently having another nose job and reviews have been mixed about whether or not her fans like it.
Some have described Nene’s new look as “unrecognizable” and have been shading the reality star for her decision to change her face. Others have said that Nene’s new nose looks great and have praised her decision to change her face so drastically.
Even Nene Leakes has responded to some of the comments about her new nose job and has been very forthcoming about the work she has had done and how she feels about having more. She even recently joked about calling her plastic surgeon because she felt a belly roll coming on.
Certainly, Nene has nothing against tuning up her assets and keeping everything firm. She just made it very clear during her interview that it’s business first and beauty later. Nene seems to practice what she preaches too because she didn’t start making all of her drastic body changes until after she had set up her very successful clothing line, blog and branched out into TV that wasn’t broadcast on Bravo.
#EMPIRE: Do you know how many folks have watched EMPIRE Season 1 &2?
That TV smash that is ‘Empire’ has raked up over 37 BILLION viewers across all media platforms since its debut!
WOW…Good for them and if you want to keep it like that. Season 3 better be as GOOD if not BETTER!
New Music: Maxwell – Gods
YESSS!!! A long time coming, but we finally get to hear “Gods” by Maxwell.
With a week to go before his long-awaited, highly-anticipated new album blackSUMMERS’night is released, the soul crooner gives us one more taste with the sizzling love song.
Following the amazing “Lake By The Ocean,” and “1990x,” the singer-songwriter continues to prove why he is one of the greatest to ever do it, and always worth the wait.
“With your crimes you convicted me / As you swore so convincingly / You play the game of Gods,” he sings.
Listen here:
Maxwell is currently traveling across North America on his “SUMMERS’ Tour,” with supporting act Ro James.
If you pre-order the album on iTunes now will receive all 3 tracks as instant downloads.
Common Debuts New Single ‘Love Star’ at ESSENCE Festival
Common brought the “Love” to ESSENCE Fest.
During his performance at the New Orleans festival on Saturday (Jul. 2), the Chicago MC delivered his new single “Love Star” and revealed a release date for his upcoming 11th album.
“This is ‘Love Star’ off my new album coming out in September,” he told the crowd at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
“Our fragrance is patience,” Common raps on the mellow love song. “We can major in communication / Related like cousins, though we kissin’ though / Love can be sick or medicinal.”
The track eventually transitioned into his hit song “The Light.” Common’s set also featured classics like “Testify,” “Go,” and “Love of My Life.”
Watch Common debut “Love Star” IG Vid courtesy of Rap Up
Common’s September album will be a follow-up to 2014’s Nobody’s Smiling. A title hasn’t been announced just yet.
'Extremely careless,' but FBI advises no charges for Hillary Clinton's emails
WASHINGTON — The FBI recommended Tuesday that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should not face criminal charges over her use of private email servers as secretary of State, even though she and aides were "extremely careless" in handling classified information.
The FBI recommended Hillary Clinton shouldn't face charges over her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. VPC
While FBI Director James Comey offered a harsh rebuke of Clinton and her aides for mishandling classified, top-secret information, he said there is no evidence Clinton intended to do so, the basis for criminal charges.
"Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information," Comey said in a 15-minute statement explaining the investigation, "our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."
Comey said his agency acted apolitically and went where the facts took them. While, technically, the FBI makes recommendations to Justice Department prosecutors over potential charges, Attorney General Loretta Lynch has said she would accept the bureau's views in this case.
"In looking back at our investigations into mishandling of removal of classified information, we cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts," Comey said.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized the FBI's decision, tweeting that "the system is rigged" and citing charges brought against Gen. David Petraeus over handling of classified information.
"General Petraeus got in trouble for far less," Trump said. "Very very unfair! As usual, bad judgment."
In another tweet, Trump noted that the FBI director "said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow."
The Clinton campaign said it was pleased with the decision made by "career officials" at the FBI.
"As the Secretary has long said, it was a mistake to use her personal email and she would not do it again," said Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon. "We are glad that this matter is now resolved."
Clinton, who campaigned later in the day with President Obama in North Carolina, did not address Comey’s statement or the FBI’s findings during a morning speech at the National Education Association in Washington.
While opting against recommending charges, Comey did take Clinton and State Department officials to task for their procedures in handling sensitive information.
"Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information," he said.
Comey said that, of the 30,000 or so Clinton emails provided by the State Department, 110 messages in 52 email chains were determined to have contained classified information at the time they were sent or received.
Eight of those email chains contained information that was top secret at the time they were sent or received, the FBI reported; 36 of the email chains contained secret information at the time; and eight contained lesser confidential information.
Part of the investigation dealt with whether foreign adversaries tried to hack Clinton's private email system, Comey said. In recent years, the Chinese and Russian governments are among those who have been accused of prying into American secrets.
It is possible that “hostile actors” were able to access Clinton’s personal email account, Comey said, but there was no “direct evidence."
The director said that the yearlong inquiry, which has shadowed Clinton throughout the primary season, was made "more complicated'' because the former secretary used several different email servers and administrators during her tenure at the State Department. The reconstruction of those networks, Comey said, was akin to making sense of a "huge jigsaw puzzle'' whose pieces had been scattered across the floor.
"The effect was that millions of email fragments end up unsorted in the server's unused or slack space,'' Comey said, describing the task as Clinton's different servers were decommissioned and software removed. "We searched through all of it to see what was there, and what parts of the puzzle could be put back together.''
Comey said the evidence supports the conclusion that "any reasonable person in Secretary Clinton's position or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation."
David Axelrod, a longtime political adviser to Obama, said Clinton's email was "ill-conceived and reckless," but "no indictment and no indication of criminal intent is an important line of demarcation."
The issue will remain political, he added.
Citing Comey's "rebuke," Axelrod said "the Republicans will use it as a cudgel."
The case is now "part of the record voters will consider," Axelrod said. "But the conclusion lifts the cloud of indictment no candidacy could have sustained."
House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., meanwhile, said the FBI decision "defies explanation," and could undermine the rule of law.
"No one should be above the law," Ryan said.
The director's statement also was roiling some in the ranks of the FBI, said one official who is monitoring reaction. The official, who declined to be identified, said some agents were disappointed with both the conclusion and the timing of the announcement, coming just three days after Clinton's 3 1/2-hour interview with federal investigators.
After the Saturday interview, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said the former secretary of State was "pleased to have had the opportunity to assist the Department of Justice in bringing this review to a conclusion."
Federal officials said the timing of the director's announcement — an unprecedented publicly released recommendation in the midst of an investigation — was not related to Clinton’s campaign appearance with Obama or last week's disclosures about the unplanned meeting between Bill Clinton and Lynch on the tarmac of Phoenix's Sky Harbor Airport, which Republicans protested. Lynch said they discussed personal matters, not the investigation.
Disclosure of the meeting prompted Lynch to announce Friday that she would accept the recommendation by the FBI director and career prosecutors. The Justice Department declined to comment on the timing of a final announcement in the matter.
"I know there will be intense public debate in the wake of this recommendation, as there was throughout this investigation,'' Comey said. "What I can assure the American people is that this investigation was done competently, honestly and independently. No outside influence of any kind was brought to bear.''
As the political implications of Comey's announcement played out Tuesday, legal analysts also weighed in, with some suggesting that the FBI director could have used the same narrative to support charging the former secretary of State with mishandling classified information.
Robert Cattanach, a former federal prosecutor, said it was difficult to reconcile why Clinton's "extremely careless'' conduct, as described by Comey, did not trigger the statute's provision for "gross negligence.''
"To me and most people on the street, those terms connote the same thing,'' Cattanach said. "That's a hard one to pass the smell test on.'
Can we move on NOW?
YESSSS! Halle Berry BROKE THE INTERNETS with a STEAMY HOT 4th of July pic!
'Half a million peeps!' Halle Berry interrupts her July 4 holiday with sizzling bikini snap to celebrate reaching 500K Instagram followers
Halle Berry seems delighted that she has hit the 500,000 mark after joining the network in March.
In fact the actress interrupted her July 4 holiday celebrations to thank her fans - on Instagram, of course.
The beautiful 49-year-old posted a steamy and revealing photo of herself frolicking in the sea in a black bikini somewhere warm.
She wrote: 'When you look at your page and you realize there are now half a million peeps here to hang with you... excited to be creating with you guys. Thank you!!'
OOOPS: Katie Rost Leaving Real Housewives of Potomac
On the Real Housewives of Potomac season one reunion show Katie Rost tearfully admitted her engagement to Andrew Martin had been called off.
Guess we'll never find out why...
Katie announced on social media last week that she will not be returning for another season of The Real Housewives of Potomac.
WOMP!
Traci Braxton Says Sister Toni Braxton Dating Birdman Is Like Incest
Traci Braxton finds it a little strange that her eldest sister, Toni Braxton, is dating Birdman. A few months ago, theJasmineBRAND.com broke the story that the famous sister was quietly dating the Young Money Records founder.
And now, their relationship has partially been confirmed with pair being spotted in public.
HipHollywood recently caught up with Traci who shares that she’s a bit weirded out by them being a couple.
"He’s been in the family for such a long time, so it’s like almost incest. It’s like kissing your brother in the mouth or something."
Traci then used the term “good friends” before suggesting he’s simply "another flower on the wall."
As for hoping her sisters eventually get married, Traci explained,
"as long as he treats her right. As girls, we are going to dominate the whole relationship anyway."
Singer Tank Calls Out Stephen A. Smith Over Kevin Durant: Stop tearing down our heroes!
Singer Tank is one of many celebrities taking to social media, sharing their opinion of Kevin Durant’s move to the Warriors. As you know, on Monday the NBA baller announced his decision and now everyone has an opinion. However, Tank is not a fan of the comments made by popular sports commentator, Stephen A. Smith. Here’s a short clip of Smith’s comments.
Tank responded to this, and wrote on social media:
"Let’s get one thing straight! I’m only kinda mad cause the Warriors are stacking up against my team. That’s it! As far as a successful black man making the best decision for him and his family I support @easymoneysniper ?!! Burning that mans jersey after he gave you 9 years of everything he had! Brough something to a city that basically had nothing! Senseless and tasteless! Thank God the OKC organization has class and the upmost respect for this man.@stephenasmith stop tearing down our heroes! Stop painting a negative picture of those who decide to take destiny in their own hands. The game has controlled players for so long and now the players are starting to understand their value! Play however long God allows, play where ever God allows, and get all the money He’s made room for your gift to receive!.. #Respect"
Do you think Smith’s comments about Durant unfair?
#EGGPLANT NATION! Meet Felix
Meet Felix and he isn’t THE CAT! And you can GO HERE TO SEE THE PICS! And remember they’re NSWF!
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ENJOY!
AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES?
‘Precious Cargo’
What? We’ve all got those favorite pair of pants that fit just right and we do whatever we can to save them. Sew them up, use duct tape, a few staples here and there, maybe pull out the welder if needed. Just doing what we gotta do.
HAVE A GREAT DAY ALL!!!
EFREM
Lil Kim pulls put out of Essence Festival says “She’s So Disappointed”
