With his wife Sonia on his arm, Sammy Sosa celebrated his 41st birthday and his new light-skinned complexion with a party at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Saturday night. Though his skin is about 10 shades lighter than what he used to be, he says he’s “not trying to look like Michael Jackson.” The baseball legend revealed that his new complexion is the result of a bleaching cream he puts on before going to bed every night, and he’s reportedly using the cream to restore his skin after being in the harsh sun all those years playing baseball…. Yeah, right!

Singer Estelle attended an event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Super Mario Brothers video game at the Ninteno World Store Thursday night (Nov 12) in New York City.

And Miranda Cosgrove attended the Australian Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards in Melbourne Friday evening (Nov 13). Her popular tv series “iCarly” won the award for “Fave Comedy Show.”

We also have recent pictures of Zoe Saldana, Vivica A. Fox and Timbaland when you continue reading!

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It looks like Justin Timberlake called in the big guns all in the name of charity. TLC, Alicia Keys, Snoop Dogg and Ciara all performed live in concert in support of Justin’s benefit for Shriners Hospitals for Children at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino Saturday night (Oct 17) in Las Vegas.

Producer/rapper Timbaland and country music sensation Taylor Swift also performed at the second annual “Justin Timberlake and Friends” benefit concert.

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Here are some photos from the red carpet of the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, held Sunday night (Sep 13) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Big names like Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Ne-Yo, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Kanye West and more all showed up and posed for pictures. Continue reading for the rest of them!

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Popular financial gurus Forbes has released yet another list. Their previous list featured Beyonce perched at the top, earning a staggering $87 million in one 12-month period. And now her husband, rapper Jay-Z, is sitting at the top of the “Hip-Hop Cash Kings List,” earning an estimated $35 million over the past 12 months. A far cry from the $82 million he pulled in last year, but still pretty damn good, especially in a recession.

Fellow NY rapper Diddy came in right behind Hov with $30 million in the bank, with Chicago rapper Kanye West following behind with $25 million. Continue reading to see who made the top 10!

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In the wake of Michael Jackson’s shocking and equally heartbreaking death, everyone who’s anybody has spoken up to tell the world what Michael Jackson and his legacy meant to them. This just goes to show the magnitude of the impact he had (and will continue to have, even in his death) on the entertainment industry as a whole. Throughout the day, we will be posting official statements reflecting on the King of Pop’s legacy from the biggest names in music and entertainment. Stay tuned!

Lil Wayne: “I personally can’t believe it. But it’s more unfortunate for the world of music. … My love goes out to his family. … A sad day in history, not [just] music.”

Snoop Dogg: “I feel like his music will never die and his spirit will never die, because he influenced so many if us. He gave us a lot of hope that we feel like we can be big. He was very inspiring and up close and personal with his fans. That to me was special. That’s one of the things that I loved about Mike. When I got a chance to meet him, that’s the feeling and spirit that I got from him.”

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Actor Denzel Washington and singer/songwriter Justin Timberlake chatted it up courtside Tuesday night at Game One of the Western Conference Finals between the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles for the 2009 NBA Playoffs in LA at the Staples Center. Other famous faces including T.I. and Timbaland were also at the game. Continue reading for more!

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MIAMI // WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26TH 2008 » Pharrell & Timbaland both made surprise appearances last night at the Miami stop of Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet tour. Continue reading for more photos and to peep Madonna and Timbo on stage together.

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Pop singer Rihanna is the face of Gucci’s Tattoo Heart accessory collection, on sale through January 31st 2009. 25% percent of sales from the line will be donated to UNICEF. The Good Girl Gone Bad, alongside Gucci, launched the collection with a party last night at a Gucci flagship store in New York. Continue reading for more photos, and to see who else showed their face at the event.

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The sexy Keri Hilson and Timbaland have a new video out, and above you can check out the GOT premiere of “Return the Favor” from Keri’s debut album In A Perfect World – in stores December 9th 2008!

NEW YORK // WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15TH 2008 » Music producer Timbaland and singer Keri Hilson took the stage together last night in New York City at the GQ Magazine Gentlemen’s Ball. Follow the break to check out photos of Usher, Forest Whitaker, and more pics of Keri and Timbaland.

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My girl Keri Hilson and Timbaland made a pit stop on the promo trail at TRL Monday. As you already know, Keri premiered her new video, and talked about her debut album, “In A Perfect World,” which is due for a late summer/early fall release, so definitely be on the look-out for it. Rumor has it that she and Terrence J exchanged numbers on Monday’s 106 & Park, so if that’s the case … TJ better watch his back ;-) That’s all I’m saying.

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Producer Timbaland and his girlfriend, music exec Monique Idlett, are now husband and wife. According to US Magazine:

The two wed — in their sweats! — in Virginia on Tuesday by a family pastor.

They are getting hitched again in a formal ceremony in Aruba on June 22.

The couple, who are based in Miami, welcomed a baby girl, Reign, last year. (He also has a son from a previous relationship.) He popped the question at Idlett’s baby shower.

Congrats to the happy couple!

Hip-hop king Jay-Z and R&B queen Mary J. Blige showed up and showed out (from what I hear) in Miami’s American Airlines Arena Saturday night! The two were there, along with Kanye West, Timbaland, and The Dream, to kick off their Heart of the City tour. Rappers Young Jeezy and Fabolous showed their support from the audience, and were photographed backstage. It looked like a pretty damn good show! Wish I could have been there.

More flicks after the cut!

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‘4 Minutes’ will be the first single from ‘Material Girl’ Madonna’s 11th studio album Hard Candy (Warner) in stores April 29th. The song was produced, as well as featured by, Justin Timberlake and Timbaland. Below is a medium quality radio rip of the single TBR in March 2008. I love this song so freakin’ much, great single choice, this is a definite club banger! When you hear the intro it feels like something is about to happen, I can’t explain, the energy is incredible! Can you imagine if this were to come on at the club? It would be madness and dance mayhem!

Madonna ft. Justin Timberlake + Timbaland – 4 Minutes {Radio Rip} – direct link

‘Elevator’, featuring (as well as produced by) Timbaland, is Flo Rida’s second single from his album Mail On Sunday (Atlantic).

Sara Bareilles rises three spots, at number 9, to number 6. Rihanna rises up just two spots, number 5 to number 3, from last week’s chart with the electro-single “Don’t Stop The Music”; Chris Brown climbs to number 2. Meanwhile Flo Rida’s smash hit “Low,” featuring T-Pain, retains it’s number 1 spot on the charts once again.

#1 – Flo Rida Featuring T-Pain – Low
#2 – Chris Brown – With You
#3 – Rihanna – Don’t Stop The Music
#4 – Timbaland Featuring OneRepublic – Apologize
#5 – Alicia Keys – No One
#6 – Sara Bareilles – Love Song
#7 – Fergie – Clumsy
#8 – Snoop Dogg – Sexual Seduction
#9 – Yael Naim – New Soul
#10 – Sean Kingston – Take You There

If you want a more detailed view of Billboard’s Hot 100 chart or would like to view the remaining 90, continue on here.

GET YOUR 3-D GLASSES READY! » Hip-hop Emcee Missy Elliott and music video director Dave Meyers are doubling up once again to bring us yet another creative, artistic video with stellar 3-D effects and high-energy dance moves. But this time it will be for Elliott’s new single “Ching-A-Ling,” which recently made it’s peak position at number 39 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song, being the latest single lifted from Step Up 2 the Streets soundtrack available in stores February 5th, also will be Elliott’s first single off her untitled album reportedly dropping the fifth quarter of this year. Read more

NAS ISN’T GETTING DROPPED! » Yeeeah … you know that rumor about Nas getting dropped by his Def Jam? Not true, according to Rolling Stone, a label-rep says to Rock Daily, “that is absolutely ridiculous and untrue.” These falsified claims first starting surfacing on the National Enquireresque-site MediaTakeOver, which quoted an “inside source,” stating, “If Nas doesn’t change his mind, he’ll be dropped. And he doesn’t have to much time to come to that realization.” The Emcee has been frequently in the media now leading up to the release of his forthcoming album Nigger. Now, you would think people would stop using gossip sites as resources, especially MeidaTakeOver of all mockery of gossip sites, but clearly they are still doing this.

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Thanks so much to the Regulator Blog (via Chris) for this! I been waitin’ – in Riley Freeman voice – if Atlantic doesn’t release this their nuts! LOL. “Elevator,” hopefully, is the next single from fellow “Miamian,” Flo Rida – and it features Timbaland. He also produced this song! I know, instant hit. What-what! Flo Rida’s debut Mail on Sunday (Atlantic) drops March 18th and features the smash hit “Low” featuring T-Pain.

Flo Rida ft. Timbaland – Elevator – page link

Here’s the latest video, “Scream” featuring Nicole Scherzinger and Keri Hilson, from Timbaland’s “Shock Value” album.

And here we thought steroids were just for athletes! Some of music’s biggest names like Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent, Timbaland and Wyclef Jean came up in connection with an Albany, New York based steroid investigation, The Times Union of Albany reported. They even named playwright/director Tyler Perry!

Citing unidentified sources, the report alleged that the above-mentioned music stars, along with award-winning author and producer Tyler Perry, may have received or used performance-enhancing drugs. Grammy-winning singer Blige blasted the report when reached for comment by the New York Daily News. “Mary J. Blige has never taken any performance-enhancing illegal steroids,” the singer’s spokeswoman Karynne Tencer told the News. Ken Sunshine, a spokesman for Perry, declined to comment to the Associated Press.

Law-enforcement officials have said evidence does not indicate the celebrities broke the law. For now, at least, officials are focusing on the doctors, pharmacists and clinics providing the drugs. Albany District Attorney David Soares launched his investigation into steroid trafficking last year. Soares has declined to comment on or confirm the identities of the stars who came up in the probe. His multistate investigation has focused on Signature Pharmacy of Orlando, Fla. So far, 10 defendants have pleaded guilty and some professional athletes have been linked to the probe in news reports.

Records shared with the Times Union and information from several cooperating witnesses on Long Island indicate the celebrities received prescribed human growth hormone or steroids. In some cases, aliases were used for their delivery. Former Sen. George Mitchell released his report last month on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. Hearings are set to begin this month in Congress on the Mitchell report.

Well … I’ll be damned! The outcome of this will be quite interesting.

Yahoo! Music got an exclusive behind the scenes look at the makings of Timbaland’s brand new video for his new single “Scream” which features Keri Hilson and Nicole Scherzinger. Looks like Timbo’s still releasing songs from his new album “Shock Value.”

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Janet Jackson » “Feedback” » LISTEN » (Full) » I’m sure you all remember me posting about Janet Jackson’s forthcoming single not too long ago (in April). Here is her brand new song “Feedback,” produced by Rodney ‘Darkchild’ Jerkins, it will be the first single lifted from Janet Jackson’s 10th studio album, appropriately entitled, Discipline (Island Def Jam). The singer’s new LP is due out February 26th of next year.

Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson + Nicole Scherzinger » “Scream” » LISTEN » (Full) » “Scream” is set to be the forth single lifted from Timbaland’s Shock Value (Interscope). The heavy string/tambourine sounding single features co-production by Danja and a guest appearance by Keri Hilson and light background vocals from Nicole Scherzinger. I really wasn’t all into this song that much at first but it’s getting there!

Fergie ft. Soulja Boy » “Clumsy (Collipark Remix)” » LISTEN » (Full) » Yelp, you read right. Collipark decided to make a remix to Fergie’s song “Clumsy” and decided to throw Soulja Boy in the mix! I like the original of “Clumsy” so much that any remix wouldn’t do me, not even Soulja Boy swayed me, sorry.

Chingy ft. Ludacris + Bobby Valentino » “Gimme Dat (Explicit)” » LISTEN » (Full) » “Gimme Dat” is slated to be Chingy’s second single from his forth studio album Hate It Or Love It (Def Jam/DTP). The single features stellar production by Full Scale and guest appearances by Ludacris and Bobby Valentino (vocals). The bass did it for me, this is my cut! Very nice single choice. Hmm, I wonder if Chingy reads blogs becos he has definitely stepped his game up this time around I’d say!

Timbaland has been celebrating after his publicist Monique Idlett gave birth to his first child. The pair, who had secretly been dating for two years, have also announced their engagement after the music producer, real name Timothy Mosley, proposed during their baby shower last month.

A source said: “They welcomed a baby girl (Reign Mosly) into the world a couple of days ago. They’re both really happy together. They’ve known each other for years.”

Reports earlier this week revealed that a woman who works for Timbaland’s record label Mosley Music Group was expecting his baby, but it was originally stated that the pair were not in a relationship together. Timbaland and Idlett plan to marry next year.

I mean dayum! Did anyone see this coming? Talk about keeping shit under wraps! But anyhow, congratz to the two on their engagement and their newborn.

OneRepublic make their amassing debut with Dreaming Out Loud, set to be released November 20th off of Interscope and Timbaland’s Mosley Music Group, if your feeling any of the following material from them you should go out and pick up your copy.

With the mutual success of “Apologize” I found it cumbersome to get into this album, but after I got over the fact, it wasn’t so bad. In culmination with aesthetic arrangements this album had incredible rock ability I’d say. Production for this particular project include Ryan Tedder, Timbaland and Greg Wells on the group’s first official single lifted entitled “Mercy”.

Overall, for a debut, Dreaming Out Loud wasn’t so bad in my opinion. I think OneRepublic hit all the pro marks, respectively, for this album. An album I would definitely recommend for a solid buy. My favorite tracks, in no particular order, are “Apologize,” “Stop and Stare,” “Someone To Save You,” “Tyrant,” and “Won’t Stop”.

OneRepublic » “Mercy” » [ full ] » LISTEN
OneRepublic » “Won’t Stop” » [ full ] » LISTEN
OneRepublic » “Apologize” » [ full ] » LISTEN
OneRepublic » “Stop and Stare” » [ full ] » LISTEN

Well it’s been quite a ride for pop sensation Justin Timberlake from the release of his sophomore effort FutureSex/LoveSounds (Jive/Zomba) last year to the FutureSex/LoveShow world tour he embarked on earlier this year (and apparently continuing through to November 26). Timberlake is set to release the FutureSex/LoveSounds Deluxe Edition (audio/DVD), with added material, including a subtle duet with mega star singer Beyoncé Knowles. The two disc set will be available sometime later on this year. Below you can hear “Sexy Back (Remix)” featuring Missy Elliott and “Sexy Ladies” featuring 50 Cent.

Justin Timberlake ft. 50 Cent » “Sexy Ladies (Remix)” » LISTEN » (Full)
Justin Timberlake ft. Missy Elliott » “Sexy Back (Remix)” » LISTEN » (Full)

Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson, D.O.E. + OneRepublic » “Way I Are (Remix)” » LISTEN » (Full) » Whoa! What a collaboration we got here! It seems music producer Timbaland has once again team up with OneRepublic for the “Way I Are” remix featuring Keri Hilson and D.O.E. I think I might like this more than the original, wow! I love it, this will definitely be a stellar club banger, no doubt!

Chris Brown » “Fallen Angel” » LISTEN » (FULL) » Apparently this is a UK bonus track (DAMN, they always get the good stuff!!) from Chris Brown’s late Exclusive album in stores now! The song, “Fallen Angel,” features some solid production from Mr. Bryan Michael-Cox which probably explains why I love it so much! <3. And is that a Spanish breakdown at the latter? Oh, n/m it was just reversed lol.

Sean Paul » “Hardcore (Killa Beez Riddim)” » LISTEN » (Full) » You know what? I give up on Sean Paul, I’m not feelin’ this at all. It seems he just gave up with this album, luckily his people have pushed it back ’til next year, which isn’t too bad. Hopefully they will get it right during that time with everything…

The-Dream ft. R.Kelly » “Shawty Is A Ten (Remix)” » LISTEN » (Full) » Well this song has definitely been all over the radio lately, so much, that King of R&B himself R. Kelly decided to join hitmaker The-Dream on the “Shawty Is A Ten” remix. It seems that all the material I’ve heard so far is about infidelity, lol, but I’m just not feeling anymore material after “Shawty Is A Ten” becos it’s so hott!

Okay, this is surprisingly digestible – you know what – I’m not even gonna lie. I will admit, I was a little skeptical, about this whole Face Off ordeal at first. But so far, all of the recent material I have heard from these two are gold. It is highly likely this will push at least Gold status; citing how Bow Wow and Omarion’s debut collaboration, “Let Me Hold You,” did the equivalent anyhow. And with solid delivery like that, who can complain?

“Girlfriend” • ( FULL )

Being a die-hard Trey Songz fan, he already was the “enabler”. So, in essence, I was ultimately looking forward to this kind of collaboration. Seeing how I am also a Jigga fan as well, I was floored. I have yet to believe such a collaboration is possible. Although with the type of production, backing with Jay’s flow, on this track is nothing to mess with, I kind of felt this continuity going in my mind with Trey’s voice so I was not surprise once he made his brief appearance. Usually [rappers] adding to a Hova’s rap is highly unnecessary and almost seems unfeasible in correlation with the beat. But Trey sort of hung in there and stuck it out with the arrangements – I did not get that vibe at all.

“Blue Magic” ft. Trey Songz • ( RADIO RIP )

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This is probably my most favorite collaboration from Timbaland and my most favorite OneRepublic song! It’s too late to apologiiiiiiiiiize! LOL, gotta work on that high note… OneRepublic’s self-titled debut will hit stores November 20th!

The 4th Annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors went down last night in NYC. It featured appearances/performances form Snoop Dogg, Diddy, Eve, Keyshia Cole, LL Cool J, Ciara, Nelly, and tons more. Check out the show when it airs this Monday at 10 PM EST. Check your local listings for more details. Peep the photos from the show below and after the cut!

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