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Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was spotted out on Miami’s South Beach with his new girlfriend Porscha Coleman and his daughters Ming Lee and Aoki Lee. Aww, look at the little “family” playing in the sand!

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Time is running out for the L.A. City Attorney’s Office to file criminal charges against R&B star Brandy for her involvement in the death of a woman last December, due to a fatal car accident. According to TMZ, Brandy has yet to be charged with vehicular manslaughter, and statutes only allow one year from the date of the incident to file criminal charges, and the first anniversary of the accident is coming up fast! Sources say the City Attorney’s Office won’t make a decision until that last moment. If charges aren’t filed, the holiday rush will keep the public from noticing and the case might just disappear quietly.

The fatal car accident occurred on December 30th 2006 around 10:30 A.M. Brandy was reportedly driving northbound on the 405 Freeway, going about 65 MPH in her Range Rover. She didn’t notice when traffic in front of her slowed and rammed into Awatef Aboudijah’s car, causing the victim to veer to the left where she was hit by another car before slamming into the center median. Awatef died eight hours later at the hospital, succumbing to massive internal bleeding.

It seems like Mr. Kelly can’t stay out of the news, doesn’t it? Do you recall a certain line that R Kelly had supposedly crossed with his publicist? Well the word is that he’s been messing around with her 19 year old daughter! He has apparently known the young woman since she was 4 years old. Now, do me a favor, and give me a show of hands to the folks who are surprised. ((Crickets)) … Egg-zackly!

I don’t know what it is, but it seems as though homeboy can’t stay away from these young girls. All of these grown ass women practically throwing themselves at him and he decides to roll with the youngins. This man seriously needs some help! She’s 19 NOW, but who knows how old she was when they started out their “relationship.” SMH!

Snoop Dogg is a fool! I’ve been meaning to post this video for about a week now, but it sort of slipped my mind. My bad, y’all! Here’s “Sensual Seduction,” the latest video from the Doggfather from his latest album “Ego Trippin,” which will be hitting stores very soon! I can’t believe Snoop took it back THAT far with the old-timey “green screen” and video effects! It took me about 4 or 5 different video uploads and 2 different computers to realize that this is how the video actually looks! I have yet to see it on TV though, lol.

Nigger seems to cater to a very specific audience, but this week Nas assured MTV News that the album is for niggers of every color of the rainbow, not just the black ones.

It’s about the attacks that have happened to blacks, whites, all ethnicities…’Mick’ niggers, ‘guinea’ niggers, ‘kike’ niggers. I have a song called ‘You a Nigger Too.’

Another song on Nigger is called “The Fear of the Black Man’s Dick.”

That’s some shit you can get comedy [from], or you can get some seriousness from it when you talk about the barbaric castrations that happened in our past – which is very serious, nothing to laugh at.

The obviously controversial album has (ironically) been pushed back to February 2008, which happens to be Black History Month. Hey, if he likes it, I love it! I can’t wait to see how this all turns out. I still can’t believe homeboy is really going through with this whole “Nigger” thing … it feels so awkward typing that! Anyhow, how many marches do you think Al and Jesse are gonna organize before then? Probably none. They’re too busy trying to “bribe” Barack Obama!

Janet Jackson and music mogul Antonio L.A. Reid were spotted hanging out together eating dinner at the Waverly Inn in New York City. It has been reported that Janet Jackson is set to release an album in the next couple of months, and WILL NOT feature production from her boyfriend Jermaine Dupri. L.A. Reid will instead act as executive producer on the album in place of JD. CONTINUE READING

This is a new song from St. Louis rapper Chingy entitled “Check My Swag” from his sophomore LP Hate It Or Love It (DTP/Def Jam) in stores December 18! Below you can also “check his swag” in some recent promo (all images courtesy of Def Jam).

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Got a couple video premieres for you guys, first up is Blake Lewis with “Break Anotha,” his album A.D.D. is in stores NOW – I did an album review you can check out HERE! CONTINUE READING

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BET’s Stephen Hill and his long standing commitment to fighting AIDS/HIV was honored with “Live Beats.” “Live Beats: A Night of Musical Mayhem and Tonal Terror Fashioned by Fun(k),” took place this past Tuesday at the Highline Ballroom in New York. Mary J. Blige performed, and Diddy, Ashanti, L.A. Reid, and more showed up at the event. Check out lots of photos after the cut!

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