The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency chronicles the adventures of Precious Ramotswe, a heroine who proves that with the right dose of confidence and determination, anything is possible. Precious truly embodies the characteristics that a No. 1 Lady possesses – she is a leader who is confident, independent, compassionate, optimistic, empowered, determined, and inspirational.

To celebrate the premiere of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency on March 29th, HBO is partnering with the Botswana Tourism Board and the YWCA to recognize and celebrate inspiring women across the US through the No. 1 Ladies’ Contest.

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Like our friends from The Cynical Ones, we noticed how Ciara politely swagger jacked a few of Beyonce’s videos. If you still haven’t peeped Ciara and Justin Timberlake’s brand new video for “Love, Sex, Magic” then click here to do that, then come back to this post. And even if you haven’t, the pictures and Mike’s write-up speak for themselves:

The premise of Ciara’s “Sex Love Magic” video is basically look at the kitty kat diva in her freakum dress getting bodied trying to be Justin Timberlake’s suga mama.

While I’m sure her intentions were to get me to focus on how sexy she is and forget how mediocre her material has been thus far, all I can think about after watching this is how much of a wack ass she is. This video looks like a tribute to the Beyonce anthology, and while Beyonce is not an originator by any stretch at least when she jacks something she makes it her own — which is what you’re supposed to do when you bite.

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Beyoncé recently opens up to MySpaceTV Channel The Hook Up about her reaction to Barack Obama’s winning the election and her own breakdown of some tracks from her upcoming album. Beyoncé also has put up the full album listening party via her MySpace page. Check out her new album, I Am… Sasha Fierce, today and buy it in stores November 18th. Check out the interview above.

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So I was perusing the internets this evening, and stumbled upon a post by our friends over at That Grape Juice that mentioned a certain “mystery singer,” whose name is “Sasha Fierce.” So who is she? She has an official website and an official MySpace page, and if she is who we think she is … she released two brand new videos over the weekend (IIWAB & SL).

Once you get to the MySpace page, you see a myspace page that has a default picture resembling a “robotic arm” – that’s what I see … is she gonna wear that robotic suit-looking thing she wore at the BET Awards on the sasha fierce part of the album? – and influences that list words like “Music, Life, Love, Empowerment, Beauty, Passion and Strength.”

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Today marks the 7th anniversary of the untimely death of Aaliyah Haughton, a popular female R&B singer who had a music career spanning from the mid-nineties all the way up until the year 2001, when she was suddenly taken away from us due to a faulty airplane engine and an overloaded cabin. Ironically, a few days prior to today, a new video from Cassie was released. And within the first few seconds of watching the video I could point out elements of Aaliyah’s style right off. I didn’t even have to look that hard.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Cassie is a pretty girl. No, let me take that back. Cassie is a VERY pretty girl. I’ve always said that she should stick to modeling and just leave the singing thing along because I can never take her seriously as a singer/entertainer. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way it is. But the fact that the people behind her are even CONSIDERING molding her into a 2008 version of Aaliyah is appalling and a little heartbreaking, with me being a huge Aaliyah fan back in the day and all. Continue reading to see what I’m talking about, and leave your thoughts in the comment box. I’m curious to see whether or not it’s just me who thinks this way.

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I posted a few candids of Dawn & Que last week and posed a question. With Beyonce and Jay-Z we have “Jayonce.” With Chris Brown and Rihanna we have “Chrianna.” Now, with Dawn & Que making their rounds as a couple, what the hell should we call them? Well, a couple of our loyal readers came up with some great suggestions that the rest of us can vote on! I’ll leave this poll up for about a week, and the nickname with the most votes is what we over here at T2W will call them. Let’s see how far this catches on, and once it does, you’ll know where it started ;-)

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Jennifer Lopez is adding a masculine scent to her portfolio this September, for the very first time. Following the spring/summer release of Deseo for Women, J.lo had began advertisement for her new scent, Deseo for Men. J.lo recently said:

“I wanted to capture the intimate and personal nature of a man who is sexy, yet strong,” Lopez says. “We are always looking to create something new and exciting, and one thing that I had yet to do was a men’s fragrance.”

When asked to describe the scent of the cologne J.lo said:

It has “top notes of lemon, red berries and cedar leaf; a heart of tobacco leaves, guaicwood and orris, and a drydown of sandalwood, cedarwood, patchouli, amber and vanilla.

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Former child star Gary Coleman and his wife of seven months Shannon Coleman recently taped an episode on “Divorce Court” in hopes to save their marriage.

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The rehabilitated Miss Jackson hits up Miss Jones‘ Hot97 morning show recently to talk about her album Disciple (Island), which is in stores now and the number 1 album in the country, Ciara “jacking” her style, strip club lifestyles, marriage, possible similarities with Beyonce [and her father, Mathew] and more! And I have to shout out my guy Showtime from ThaTOTT.com for sending this in to me!

CLICK HERE TO HEAR THE INTERVIEW!!

Above you can see a Target commercial (which is being aired on TV now) featuring some amazing tap dancing skills from two talented brothers, Sean and John. Sean and John are identical twin tap dancers. At age 6 they started training with tap master tapper Alfred Desio at The Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles and have been tap dancing together professionally since age 8. The energy and originality they bring to their performance is unbelievable! They have a unique combination of the traditional style of the past and hip-hop style of today.

They have been featured on several television shows/commercials including NBC’s American Dream, The People’s Choice Awards performing with Tony Danza, The Tonight Show, The Apollo, The Roseanne Show, 30 Seconds to Fame, The 2004 MTV Video Music Awards 04 performing with Nelly and Christina Aguilera, America’s Got Talent (semi-finalists), TV Azteca’s “Quien Tiene Estrella” (finalists), Target/Converse Campaign, Dance Fever, and they have worked with Prince, Usher, Stevie Wonder and many more.

They’ve also toured nationally with Mary Wilson of The Supremes, an off Broadway Musical “Sophicated Ladies” honoring Duke Ellington, a 3 month show at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. They were a part of Prince’s “Musicology” music video, choreographed Usher’s tap dance for the “Movie Rocks Awards,” and did a tribute to the legendary Frank Sinatra. Sean and John’s most honored and memorable performances were on stage along side legendary tap dancers The Nichloas Brothers and Gregory Hines. Sean & John have performed throughout California, doing several charity events for schools, churches, and communities.

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If you’re interested in seeing more from these guys, check out another video of them on the streets of NYC tap dancing to DJ Unk’s “Walk It Out” after the cut!

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Before I call it a night and take my ass to bed (I have class in the morning and it’s damn near 1 AM lol). I just have one burning question: Did Prince, Rihanna, and Alicia Keys share the same hair stylist for the night?

Okay, so I’m browsing through Getty Images looking for photos to post of various celebrities arriving at tonight’s 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Then I come across this photo tagged GERALD LEVERT. And I’m thinking to myself, “Isn’t Gerald Levert dead?” But I can’t get mad. This happens a lot. I can recall on several occasions when I’ve been browsing through Wire Image, and have come across a photo of some guy and they have the tag as “Chris Brown” or “Bow Wow.” Or they might even have Chris Brown tagged as Bow Wow, or vice-versa! And what’s even more ironic, is that Sandra Rose recently posted on her blog about an incident similar to this one where a photographer at Wire Image mistakenly named a performer “Keyshia Cole.” I mean, people do make mistakes, but in my opinion, if you’re going to be a respectable photographer, you should at least know your subject(s). And if you’re going to be taking photographs at an event like the Grammys, you should at least know simple things like … oh duh, Gerald Levert is dead, and has been dead for over a year now. Very disrespectful…

Now, I’m done with my rant … back to the Grammy posts!

I’m so thrilled, much to everyone’s horrific disappointed, the New York Giants won Super Bowl XLII! What-what! EVERYONE knows (or should know) that THEY were truly the underdogs, so I’m surprised at how people claimed that the New England Patriots would win, but not really. Undefeated don’t mean shit!!!!! Bwahahahahahaha! Tryin to find a damn video so that we may relive the moment – Youtube where ya at?

Beyonce’s apparently a legend when it comes to Connect 4, haha. According to Kanye West’s latest blog post, playing Connect 4 while on tour in Europe helped him to zone out a bit. And last night at Jay-Z’s new 40/40 club in Las Vegas, he got a chance to play the legendary Beyonce, who beat homeboy 9 times in a row! But he was able to get a win though, and of course he had to document the once-in-a-lifetime occasion with a photo! [peep the picture above] She probably let him win though cause you know, Beyonce’s nice like that. Just kidding, Lol! Peep 2 more photos he posted after the cut. It’s good to see Kanye updating his blog again.

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Well, I Googled her. Whoever told this child she can sing, rap, or whatever the hell she doing needs to get shot, twice. Idk, I have to hear more material to give her a shot, cos this ain’t doin it for me – no matter how catchy, dumbed down, flashy cashy it is – it’s just not doing it for me. I can’t dance to this, I’m not inspired, I feel no empowerment whatsoever. It’s not even radio friendly. So no, thank you.

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Rapper Chingy recently hit up “The Wendy Williams Experience” to suffer a brutal tongue lashing from Wendy and her bitch, Charlemagne. The interview started off with “Charley” calling him wack, and Chingy surprised me by keeping his composure. Real talk, if I were a celebrity I would neeeeever sit down with Wendy and that guy. I, for one, like my religion and would like to keep it =) Peep the interview for yourselves below:

At first, I really could not believe it — M.I.A. artist of the week — dubbed by MTV. Weren’t they the ones who tried to get her banned though? Whatever the case, I’m really happy, becos she truly deserves the recognition. I believe she is one of the many underdogs of this industry, so you can’t even imagine how I felt about this. THIS is big for HER! M.I.A. is simply the shit, I cannot stress this enough, Doc.

Ne-Yo called in to Big Tigger’s radio show on 95.5 yesterday to speak on the craziness surrounding the Double Up tour with he and R Kelly. As we reported yesterday, he was dropped from the tour and he cleared the air and talked about the REAL reason why he was dismissed. Ne-Yo went on to say that he still has respect for R Kelly as an ARTIST, but as a person … some (if not, all) respect has been lost. And I don’t blame him! Let me sum it up for you:

So he’s not trying to start any beef, he’s just speaking the truth. No harm in that right? I’d like to hear what Kellz has to say about this. And we have YET to hear Keyshia’s side to the story. Ne-Yo’s the only one being real with us.

Mary J. Blige fans can now pre-order her new album, appropriately entitled, Growing Pains before it hits stores December 18! Along with the pre-order of GP MJB fans will get the first single, “Just Fine” produced by ‘Tricky’ Stewart and Jazze Pha, instantly! If that’s not all on December 18 you can receive the Digital Booklet along with a bonus track entitled “Mirror” featuring Eve!

Check out a mash-up video (above) of “Just Fine” featuring “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough!” As I said before, being a MJ fan myself, that “Just Fine” reminded me a lot of that song (as did the video). God, there will never be another Michael Jackson.

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Did yall hear about the interview with hot97 and bow wow.. Well make a long story short.. Bow wow was dissin ciara and 50 and 50 was in the buildin of Hot 97 heard what bow wow was sayin. I mean Bow was actin mad tuff before 50 went upstairs to where he was and bow wow was in shock.. how about 50 made bow wow say sorry and re say all good things in place of the bad things he said about them,… it was so funny, then bow ended the interview.Also on the wendy williams experience, bobby valintino was sayin how he doesnt like Black girls who are brown skinned and syain thats why he always has light skin girls in his video because the “dark” girls look dirty.. it pissed me off to know end but he needs to be put on blast , i have a anti bobby thing going on now.. but check all this info out cause its all true and a lil funny.

- T

Oh lawd if this is true somebody HIT ME UP! I have got to find the audio of this!! Bow Wow being punked by 50 live on air? Bobby V talkin nonsense live on air? This is all too much!

Kelly Rowland made an appearance on popular radio show “The Wendy Williams Experience.” This interview is effin hilarious!! I love listening to interviews on this show because Wendy is so damn ruthless! They were really doggin my girl, but she held her own. I do disagree with one thing Kelly said though. She would do so much better with anyone other than Mathew Knowles managing her career. But that’s just me… Check out the interview below!