Wearing a spiky, sparkly gold dress with matching heels, pop/R&B singer Rihanna posed for photos on the red carpet as she arrived to her Rated R album release party at the Juliet Superclub Tuesday (Nov 24) in New York City. Other celebrities at the party were DJ Clue, Tyson Beckford, Sean Garrett and more. Ri’s mentor Jay-Z arrived later but didn’t walk the red carpet. Continue reading for more pics!

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R&B singer/songwriter Ne-Yo turned 30 yesterday (Happy Birthday Ne-Yo!) and celebrated with a big party the night before (Sat. Oct 17) at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City.

The celebrity guest list included Mary J. Blige, Teyana Taylor, Raven Symone, Regina King, Adrienne Bailon and more. Continue reading to check out the rest of the pictures from the party!

The 51st annual Grammy Awards went down last night in Hollywood, despite all of the hoopla surrounding the whole Chris Brown and Rihanna situation, and dozens and dozens of the biggest names in celebrity entertainment showed up on the red carpet to pose for photos: Jay-Z, T.I., Keyshia Cole, Jennifer Hudson, T-Pain, Diddy, Robin Thicke and more! Continue reading for the rest of the photos.

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Here is the T2W video premiere of Karina Pasian‘s latest single, “Can’t Find The Words”, from her upcoming album First Love (Def Jam). Look for Karina’s debut album in stores August 19th! Check out her latest video above!

Here is the official (and alternate) album cover for St. Luis rapper Nelly‘s forthcoming album set to be released Sept. 19th, Brass Knuckles (Universal).

Here is the official album cover for Queens rapper LL Cool J‘s forthcoming album set to be released Sept. 9th, Exit 13 (Def Jam).

Here is the official album cover for Atlanta rapper T.I.‘s forthcoming album set to be released Sept. 30th, Paper Trail (Atlantic).

Here is the official album cover for Karina Pasian‘s forthcoming album set to be released Sept. 19th, First Love (Def Jam).

This is brand new music from Def Jam artist Karina Pasian! The song is called “Can’t Find the Words“; it was produced by Ryan Leslie and it will be the second single lifted off Karina’s debut album, First Love, in stores August 19th, 2008! I really like this song! It’s relative and easily single worthy to me. Whoo! Go Karina!

♫ CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO “CAN’T FIND THE WORDS”

16-year-old Karina Pasian is the next best thing from Def Jam. She’s been singing since the age of 7 and playing the piano since she was 3 years old. She’s from the Dominican Republic, and on top of that, sings in 7 different languages! – Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, French, and of course, English. Her debut single, 16 at War, was produced by Tricky Stewart and written by hit-maker The Dream. Check out the video for 16 @ war above, and let us know what you think about Karina, the video, and the song in the comments. If you’re intersted in knowing more about Karina Pasian, check out the links below. The first link is a link to her personal blog, designed by Yours Truly.

KARINA’S PERSONAL BLOG: WWW.MEETKARINA.NET

KARINA’S MYSPACE: WWW.MYSPACE.COM/KARINAPASIAN

Haven’t done this in awhile, y’all! Here is yet another Who Owns the Track? post featuring young starlets Karina Pasian and Cassie. Official Girl is the official first single from Cassie forthcoming project, the song was written by The Clutch and produced by Danja. Obviously Karina passed up the track but Dustin thought it would be dope if I posted both versions. I have to say that, I love Cassie, but Karina definitely owns it! I think the song fits her more as far as vocals, attitude, etc. But it really isn’t up to me quite yet … so I need to know Who Owns the Track?

Cassie – Official Girl – page link
Karina Pasian – Official Girl – page link

Okay, it’s official! New artist Karina Pasian, who is currently a signee to Def Jam, will debut her eponymous album June 2008. Pasian’s first single from her forthcoming debut effort is entitled ‘Sixteen At War’, written by The-Dream. It can be fully streamed below. You can also check out her MySpace for more information as well as artist updates.

Karina Pasian – Sixteen At War – page link

Nicole Scherzinger – ‘Happily Never After’ – page link - Irony. This is said to be Nicole Scherzinger’s 4th single from her yet-to-be-release album Her Name Is Nicole (Interscope). It seems as though Scherzinger’s people are ‘grasping at straws hits’ now, and I don’t blame them, seeing how subpar all of her previous singles have done on the charts, as opposed to Scherzinger’s moderate success with the PCD. Well, I suppose I’ll add my commentary on the song now . . . I find it kind of blah, or boring, the lyrics and production are definitely on point (courtesy of Ne-Yo) but it’s lacking something to me.

Ashlee Simpson ft. Tom Higgens – ‘Little Miss Obsessive’ – page link – This is said to be Ashlee Simpson’s second single from the album Bittersweet Word (Geffen) set to be released mid-Spring 2008. ‘Little Miss Obsessive’ features Plain White Tees’ Tom Higgens. The single, much less with ‘Outta My Head’, has more of the mid-tempo pop rock sound Simpson is most famous for. I like ‘Outta Myy Head’, it’s catchy, but so not her sound. Though she did say it was a ‘fun’ little song that was ‘personal’. Me no likey. I want that ‘Little Miss Obsessive’ Ashlee Simpson: pop rock.

Karina Pasian – Slow Motion – page link – I have seriously underestimated this young lady, named Karina Pasian, bb! I am loving all the material I’ve heard so far from her. I heard she been rolling with Def Jam for a minute which is questionable. I think Pasian has a lot of talent and charisma to offer! I hope to be hearing more from her in the future is all I’m saying . . .

Def Jam’s Karina Pasian is the truth! I wasn’t really checking for her when I heard that ‘With You’ remix a long time ago but after I heard ’16 At War’ I fell in love! Seeing how The-Dream wrote this song I’m not surprised at all about my immediate liking to it. This song is so relative at today’s age, it also would’ve been a good song for me when I was 16, it really would’ve helped. I think I grew up too fast during that time but then again I’m kinda glad I did. It made me a little smarter and wiser to say the least. Not to say I smoked or anything, but I was pressured so much and then made fun of, even when my mom couldn’t afford namebrand clothing. I still wore namebrand but not every single day like the rest of the kids, I often wondered how they could afford it living in the ghetto (becos I sure as hell couldn’t afford it). But anyway I’m glad I didn’t do any of that, most of the people I went to school with are now dead, in jail, or have babies — so thank God.

Karina Pasian – 16 At War – page link