Our girl Beyonce, or Sasha Fierce, or whatever she’s deciding to call herself these days, is featured on the cover of the latest issue of GIANT Magazine, which hit news stands yesterday! In the interview, she talks about how she envies her husband’s stage presence.
“Jay is so cool. He can just stand on stage completely still, and the audience will go nuts,” says Beyonce Knowles. “Me? I have to work it! I’m shaking it and throwing it and rolling around on the floor.”
Don’t stop Beyonce, we like the shaking, throwing, and rolling around on the floor!
18-year-old rapper Soulja Boy, who made headlines about a month ago for making statements thanking slave masters, took time out of promoting his forthcoming album, iSouljaBoyTellEm, to donate toys to underpriveleged kids via a charity event called “Toyz N Da Hood.”
Toyz N Da Hood was founded by Hittmenn DJ president Robert “Kaspa” Smith, and is partnered with the non-profit Kids with Strong Opinions, Inc. Together the two organizations reach out to Atlanta-based celebrities and present them with opportunities to give back to their native communities. Their past events included participation from Chris Brown, Akon, Young Jeezy, Polow Da Don, Mr. Collipark, and Devyne Stevens. As a Hip-Hop superstar that came from very humble beginnings, Soulja Boy jumped at the chance to assist in bringing a joyous holiday season to his young fans.
“It’s all about putting smiles on kids’ face this holiday season,” Soulja Boy told AllHipHop.com. “I’m happy to do anything I can during these hard economic times to make a kid’s holiday season a little brighter. Growing up I didn’t have much, so I can relate to these kids and know how important it is to them. To see how excited they get when we donate all these toys is worth anything I can do to make that possible.”
A toy drive will run through December 17 at various Atlanta middle and high schools, where students will compete to collect the most toys for their school. The winning school will earn a free concert featuring top Hip-Hop stars from the region. Last year, the drive succeeded is disseminating over 20,000 toys. This year’s goal is 50,000. On December 19, Soulja Boy hosts the centerpiece toy drive event at Atlanta’s Walmart, located on 6149 Old National Highway. In addition to signing autographs and copies of his latest album isouljaboytellem.com, the collected toys will be donated to underprivileged kids and low-income families.
Maybe he’s not such a butt-head after all… This is definitely a good look for the young rapper!
According to SOHH, Rapper/producer Jermaine Dupri is set to receive the prestigous Bill of Rights Award next Monday, December 8th, in California. The award will be presented by The American Civil Liberties Union and will pay homage to Jermaine Dupri and his accomplishments having worked with superstars like Jay-Z, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Usher and more.
He will be sharing the award with Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and the two of them will join the likes of Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, Antonio “LA” Reid, Rosa Parks, Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Stone, and more people who have received the award in the past.
NFL football player Plaxico Burress was the butt of all jokes this weekend after shooting himself in the leg at a Manhattan club Saturday night. Well, he turned himself in on Monday, and was released 4 hours later on $100,000 bond. The judge ordered the New York Giant wide receive to return on March 31st 2009. Possible charges include criminal possession of a handgun. If found guilty, he could be suspended from his team.
The man, who was a suspect and “person of interest” in the murders of Jennifer Hudson’s mom, nephew, and brother, was formally charged and subsequently arrested on Monday, according to recent reports. 27-year-old William Balfour was being held in prison for violating his parole right after the October 24th Chicago murders, and now, he has been charged in the shooting deaths of Darnell Donerson, Julian King, and Jason Hudson. He is now being questioned by detectives in the Wentworth area of Chicago, IL.
Since being taken in as a potential suspect in the Hudson family murders, Balfour has maintained a tense relationship with authorities as he refused to take a lie detector test and cooperate with detectives assigned to the case. Balfour’s mother, Michelle Balfour, has stood by her son throughout the investigation while denying that he had anything to do with the deaths. During a hearing in November, Balfour’s girlfriend told authorities that a gun used in the slayings was “identical” to the gun that was recovered. As a result, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board board opted to keep Balfour in custody pending a review board panel hearing on Wednesday (December 3).
According to TMZ, Chris Brown and Rihanna are looking at a $1 million lawsuit from a Florida photographer who claims that he was beat and robbed for taking a picture of the couple without their permission back in May of this year.
Luis Santana just filed a $1 million lawsuit in Florida — claiming his $3,000 camera was stolen from him after being form-tackled outside Brown’s 19th birthday party at the Vintage Ultra Lounge in St. Petersburg. Luis says bodyguards for RiRi, Brown and the Lounge attacked him for taking a photo of the couple through their open limo window, according to The St. Petersburg Times. The reason Santana’s suing for such a large amount — he says the photo would have made a killing since the two lovebirds weren’t officially dating, and it showed them together.
So he’s basically trying to get paid because he didn’t get paid the first time. Is that legal?
Here is the official Gossiponthis.com music video premiere of Busta Rhymes brand new video for his latest single, “Arab Money,” featuring Ron Browz. Check it out above and let us know what you think in the comments!
On Friday, November 28th 2009, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour was working the door during a Valley Stream, NY Wal-Mart’s “Black Friday” sale even and was trampled to death after urging customers broke the door down. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital an hour later.
Some workers who saw what was happening fought their way through the surge to get to Mr. Damour, but he had been fatally injured, the police said. Emergency workers tried to revive Mr. Damour, a temporary worker hired for the holiday season, at the scene, but he was pronounced dead an hour later at Franklin Hospital Medical Center in Valley Stream. Some shoppers who had seen the stampede said they were shocked. One of them, Kimberly Cribbs of Queens, said the crowd had acted like “savages.” Shoppers behaved badly even as the store was being cleared, she recalled.
“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling, ‘I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’ ” Ms. Cribbs told The Associated Press. “They kept shopping.”
Wal-Mart security officials and the police cleared the store, swept up the shattered glass and locked the doors until 1 p.m., when it reopened to a steady stream of calmer shoppers who passed through the missing doors and battered door jambs, apparently unaware that anything had happened.