STAR JONES ON “LARRY KING LIVE” (CNN)
Star Jones is under fire for reneging  on a promise she made to speak to 1,500 overweight teenage girls and their mothers, members of the Detroit nonprofit full and fabulous, in February of last year. Why? Because they didn’t pay her enough and she had better things to do [...]

OFFICIAL IMAGE STILL VIA ALLMOVIEPHOTO.COM
The fact that I, and probably millions of other folks, got the opportunity to peep American Gangster on a crystal clear bootleg DVD weeks before the official November 2nd release didn’t deter everyone from actually heading out to the movies … because final figures released yesterday showed that the movie netted [...]

 
In my short absense from blogging, I missed the arrest of 3 … count them … THREE … celebrities! I mean really, is this becoming a trend? Is getting arrested what’s hot in the streets? If so, let me know so I can throw on my stocking cap with the eyes cut out and hit [...]

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KANYE WRITES HIS OWN BOOK! » Mr. West can now add author to his ever-growing list of occupations; the rapper makes his very first literary debut, Thank You And You’re Welcome, with co-author J. Sakiya Sandifer. What exactly can we expect? “An entertaining volume of ‘Kanye-isms’ — the creative, humorous and insightful philosophies and [...]

KALEIDOSCOPE (1999)
Kelis Rogers-Jones, best known for the smash hit “Milkshake” from her Platinum-selling album Tasty in 2003, has been dropped from her U.S. label Jive Records recently. The apparent reason for this was cited to the poor lack in units pushed for the singer’s 2006 album Kelis Was Here, which barely went Gold, thus failing [...]

T.I. AT THE REHEARSALS FOR THE 2007 BET HIP-HOP AWARDS JUST HOURS BEFORE HIS ARREST » (PHOTO: FRANK MULLEN // WIRE IMAGE)
Well folks, after 2 weeks of incarceration, U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Baverman released T.I. on bail to the tune of $3 million. But of course, there’s a small itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny little catch. The rapper, [...]

Yolanda “La La” Brown, famous for adding her vocals to the hook of popular Lyfe Jennings song “S.E.X.,” was found dead, along with her producer/rumored boyfriend, JeTannue Clayborn, in a Milwaukee recording studio Friday night.
Milwaukee police say both were found in the Loud Enuff Productionz studio at 55th and Lisbon. Both had gunshot wounds and [...]

AP PHOTO / MATT SAYLES
T.I. plead not guilty Friday and was once again denied bail and will remain in jail for at least one more week. One request from his team of lawyers was that the judge release the rapper on $2.2 million bond. The judge considered house arrest and that a person stay with [...]

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BILL MAHER GETS GANGSTA! » Former Politically Incorrect talk show host Bill Maher got into a bit of a scuffle this week during a live taping of Maher’s current television program, Real Time with Bill Maher, when a rowdy protester interrupted one of his weekly open panel discussions by holding up a [...]

 
Sorry for my slack this week. I’ve been having some serious internet problems since last weekend. There’s nothing I can really do about it though besides waiting it out seeing as we only have one cable internet service in this area … and they suck!*cough*CHARTER*cough, but anyhow, Britney Spears has been in the news a [...]

Hip-hop legend Nasir Jones, 34, is completely baffled at recent reports of the supposed “relapse” of his upcoming album, slated to be release December 11th. As you may know, there has been continues claims of [ the label's ] impediment towards the project and even the preposterous rumor of “inevitable” withdrawal. But the emcee insists [...]

T.I. & TINY AT THE 2007 VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS // PHOTO BY ETHAN MILLER FOR GETTY IMAGES
First up, I just caught wind on some more information regarding T.I. Although he was denied bail in today’s hearing, U.S. Magistrate Alan Baverman scheduled a hearing for this Friday. At that time, he will decide whether there was [...]

He did it last year with “Hip Hop Is Head,” and now Nas is attempting to spark some discussion and controversy with the title of his new album, “Nigga.” I’m sure homeboy has a damn good reason for naming his album this, but damn! Peep the story straight from BILLBOARD below:
During an Oct. 12 concert [...]

DAMN HOMIE! CELEBRITIES JUST DON’T KNOW HOW TO ACT…
What a weekend! I decided to dedicate today’s rundown to our beloved celebrities who don’t know how to act. T.I. got sent to jail for packing more heat than the Al-Qaeda and when he went to his court hearing today, he was denied bail. So there’s no [...]

PHOTO: SPLASH NEWS
T.I. and his crew (including longtime girlfriend Tameka “Tiny” Cottle) were arrested Saturday evening in a Walgreens parking lot just hours before he was to perform AND receive two awards at the BET Hip Hop Awards. Word on the block is he planned to pick up machine guns and silencers bought for him [...]

SHAUNIE: “I WANT TO SAVE OUR MARRIAGE” » Shaquille O’Neal’s divorce battle may be postponed, as his wife Shaunie Nelson has filed papers to the court denying that her marriage is irretrievably broken down. The basketball legend filed for divorce last month claiming that his wife had been “secretive about her assets … particularly with [...]

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Tameka’s starting to piss me off again. I’ve done a pretty good job over the past month or so not calling her by her famed alias “Man-eka,” but that’s about to end … now. I used to be a diehard Usher fan, and while I haven’t been fond of the way he’s been [...]

As if losing all credibility and possibly his career wasn’t enough, in addition to receiving some jail time (length unknown at the moment), Mr. Michael Vick, who was charged on several counts of “animal cruelty” has to pay a hefty price, to the tune of $20,000,000. Yeah, I could’ve said $20 million, but I had [...]

Yesterday TMZ put out a story saying that Bobby Brown had a HEART ATTACK SCARE and recorded a “death bed video” and err-thang! . . . Well according to Bobby-B himself, that’s totally not the case. The “King of R&B” (according to Whitney Houston) spoke with Lee Bailey of Eurweb exclusively about the “incident.” Apparently [...]

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DIDDY MIGHT HAVE TO PAY UP SOME SERIOIUS $$$ » Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with a lawsuit from a former associate who claims the mogul owes him more than $19 million for music by the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. According to the Associated Press, James Sabatino, a former consultant for Diddy’s [...]