Rapper Plies and R&B singer Ne-Yo were both spotted in Miami on the set of their new video for Bust it Baby Pt. 2. Algernod’s new album, Definition of Real is set to drop on June 10th. Oh, you didn’t know? That’s Plies’ government name! Funny shit, huh? DJ Khaled and Rick Ross also made their way to the set of the video. CONTINUE READING
Mariah Carey has returned with her latest project appropriately titled E=MC2 (Island), the album hits all store markets April 15th so make sure you look out when it drops! Guest appearances include T-Pain, Damon Marley and Young Jeezy. Producers include T-Pain, Bryan Michael-Cox, Stargate and of course Jermaine Dupri. E=MC2 is exactly what the album represents, nothing short of the Emancipation of Mimi, and I think that it shows greatly throughout this project. There are mostly ballads on E=MC2; and some mid-tempos. Then you have classic, melodic magna opera which Mariah is known for, respectably. My favourite tunes from here would have to be Side Effects, Loving You Long Time, OOC and I Wish You Well. I have all of those on repeat the most! Ideally, I Wish You Well, for the simple fact that this is the Classic Mariah that I was mentioning about and the song itself spoke tremendous volumes. Overall I would say that E=MC2 is definitely buyable, listenable … er, um- “whip-able†(car listenable) if that’s a word. It’s just a fun, open and honest album much least like the Touch My Body video (which was JUST a video and wasn’t meant to be taken seriously!). I really enjoyed E=MC2 and I will definitely be getting my copy as soon as it comes out! Mariah, you know I got you! Please release Side Effects for me if possible, k? Oh, by the way, visitors of T2W we will be holding an exclusive E=MC2 album give-a-way to you pretty soon … so you might want to stay clicked for that!
Rapper Ludacris was spotted at a party for La Senza (lingerie company in Canada) enjoying some hors d’oeuvres and wine in Toronto over the weekend. Pretty random, I’d say!
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Here is the official T2W video premiere for Three 6 Mafia’s new single I’d Rather from their forthcoming album Last 2 Walk (Columbia) in stores June 24th, this Summer.
Basketball star Carmelo Anthony was arrested for DUI early Monday morning (Apr. 14th), just hours after leading his team to a victory over the Houston Rockets. The Denver Nuggets Small Forward was pulled over in his Mercedes after he was spotted weaving in and out of lanes and failing to dim his high-beam headlights. He was in the car alone when he was pulled over at about 4 A.M., Denver Police said.
In a statement issued through his attorney, Anthony said he regrets the incident.
“Carmelo apologizes to his fans, the Denver community, his teammates and the Nuggets organization for the distraction this is causing them,” the statement said.
Anthony was taken into custody, booked and later released after consenting to a blood test. He has a court date scheduled for May 14th.
Actress/model Claudia Jordan celebrated her 35th birthday last night in LA. Claudia is best known as a Barker’s Beauty on CBS’s game show The Price Is Right from 2001 to 2003, and now you can catch her on the popular game show, Deal or No Deal, usually holding case number 1.
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The Carters (Jay-Z & Beyonce) hit up the Houston Rockets Game in Houston Friday (Apr. 11th). As usual, the two have the blog world talking because they’re not rocking any kind of wedding bands. You just wait. After a while, it’s gonna be hard for them trying to remember to take those things off when they go out in public. Lol!
The beautiful and talented Alicia Keys is currently featured on the cover of the May 2008 issue of Blender Magazine. The magazine isn’t scheduled to hit stands until this Tuesday, but a snippet of the article has been making its rounds online and causing a lot of controversy in the process. She believes that the government was involved in the shooting deaths of slain rappers 2-Pac and Biggie, and she also expressed her feelings about “gangsta rap.”
There’s a knock on the hotel-room door, and a minder enters with a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich: lunch. We’ve been talking about Keys’s early jones for the Notorious B.I.G. “My favorite Biggie song is ‘Me & My Bitch,’†she says, licking a stray globule of jam off her finger. “That title doesn’t make you think he’s speaking about the love of his life, but he is. She throws his shit out the window, she flushes his drugs down the toilet—she’s crazy! But if you grew up like that, then you understood, that was love in that world.â€
We ask what other gangsta rappers she liked. And that’s when Keys drives a steamroller through the wall.
“‘Gangsta rap’ was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other,†she says, putting down the sandwich. “‘Gangsta rap’ didn’t exist.â€
Come again? A ploy by whom?
She looks at us like it’s the dumbest question in the world. “The government.â€