After a very public falling out with her family earlier this year, it looks like Keyshia Cole is back on terms with her sister Neffe and their mom Frankie!

The R&B singer threw an album pre-release party for her new album Calling All Hearts (due in stores next week) in Atlanta at Opera nightclub in Atlanta, and invited her family to celebrate with her. KC’s mom Frankie is currently featured on the VH1 reality show “Celebrity Rehab.”

Other celebs spotted at Keyshia’s pre-release party were Bobby V, Yung Joc and DJ Drama. Check out 10+ pics below!

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BMI held their annual artist showcase last night at the Havanna Club in Atlanta, Georgia. Young Money rapper Drake was the headlining performer for the showcase, which had a few celebs in the building including Birdman, Big Boi, Bobby Valentino, Shanell, the twins from Jagged Edge (Brandon & Brian) and more. Check out a few pics below and when you continue reading…

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Ryan Leslie, Melanie Fiona and Jadakiss posed for pics as they hung out together backstage at the Power Live concert at New York City’s Highline Ballroom last Tuesday night (Dec 22).

We have more from Melanie and Ryan, along with new flicks of Gabourey Sidibe, Juelz Santana, Lloyd Banks, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Jermaine Dupri and more when you continue reading!

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Rapper Yung Joc is officially free from any contractual obligations with his former label Block Entertainment.  The Atlanta based rapper confirmed this with our friends over at Baller Status and stated  wasn’t allowed to discuss any issues dealing with Block Entertainment to press due to a clause in one of the terms of his release.

“I just got my release and one of the terms of the release was a defamation clause, so honestly, I can’t really talk about it too much.” Yung said. “I’ve been released, severed the business ties. May God bless them and their regime, but I’m doing my own thing now.”

As far as future endeavors, Joc is in the midst of talking with a few other labels working out other contract agreements, though he wouldn’t drop any names.

Joc positively states: “I’m actually in negotiations right now with a few labels. I just choose not to call out the different entities. Things are looking very good, God is very good. When I was going through this whole thing with the Bad Boy/Block situation, I didn’t know what the other side was going to be. I didn’t know if there was going to be light on the other end. I was hopeful, but it’s actually working out for the best. I ain’t mad, nobody’s mad right now, everything is good.”

He has previously released two albums under BadBoy and Block Entertainment: 2006’s New Joc City and 2007’s Hustlenomics.

The biggest names in hip-hop entertainment hit up the 2009 BET Hip-Hop awards, held in Atlanta, GA this past weekend. Folks like Soulja Boy, Gucci Mane, Monica, Tiny & Toya, Pretty Ricky, Shawty Lo, Plies, Rick Ross and more all walked the red carpet before making their way into the building to enjoy the show, which will air on BET Tuesday, October 27th at 8/7c.

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And the drama between rapper Yung Joc and Diddy‘s Bad Boy record label continues…

In an exclusive interview with Rolling Out, Joc is speaking on why he hasn’t come out with an album yet, among other things. The Bad Boy recording artist first showed that he wasn’t happy with his label earlier this year because of unpaid royalties and a lack of promotion. He also publicly revealed that he had plans on filing a lawsuit against Diddy’s Bad Boy label and Block Entertainment.

“Honestly, there is no current situation with Bad Boy right now,” the rapper said. “We’ve been in talks of me being possibly released. I just don’t think at the present time that regime is the right outfit for me at the moment, considering I work very hard as an artist and I’m still in the position where I’m not able to put out my music because of some conflicts of interest…”

Continue reading to check out the entire video!

We definitely applaud Yung Joc for publicly speaking out about his label situation. It’s no secret that Bad Boy artists don’t do too well due to lack of promotion and it’s about damn time somebody speaks up! Day 26 … are you listening?

Rapper Yung Joc premiered his brand new music video today for “Posted At The Store,” which is the second single from the Atlanta native’s upcoming album, Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood, due in stores sometime in Fall 2009. Peep the video, which features rappers Gucci Mane and Yung Ralph, after the cut!

The fellas of Day 26 enlisted Yung Joc to bless their “Imma Put It On Her” debut track from their sophomore studio album, Forever In A Day, in stores soon! Diddy (of course) makes a cameo on the vid repping Bad Boy to the fullest. Continue reading to check it out!

We’ve gotta admit, it’s kinda hard really getting into their music knowing all of the bitchassness that went on behind the scenes. Have you been keeping up with the new season of Making the Band on MTV? Que is crazy!

This is a new track from R&B singer Monica and rapper Yung Joc. Apparently, this was left over from Yung Joc’s most recent album, Hustlenomics. The Atlanta-based rapper is currently working on his next album, due in 2009, titled Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood.

LISTEN: YUNG JOC F/ MONICA – RIDAH

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COMMON & T-PAIN GIVE EACH OTHER DAP ON THE RED CARPET AT THE 2008 BET HIP-HOP AWARDS

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AIRDATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23RD 2008 ON BET @ 8 PM EST. The 2008 BET HIp-Hop Awards went down in Atlanta over the weekend, and here you can check out the photos from the red carpet. If you haven’t heard yet, Katt Williams was nixed from his hosting duties, and T-Pain filled in for the comedian at the last minute. BET made up some bogus story talking about how Katt bet T-Pain he couldn’t beat him in a break dance battle, and how Katt’s hosting duties were up for grabs to whoever won. It later came to light that Williams had been arrested on the morning of the show. Sound familiar, anyone? *Cough* T.I. *cough* got arrested *cough* last year *cough* and he was *cough* supposed to perform. I’m just saying…

Anyway, follow the break to check out photos of Ciara, T.I., Flo Rida, Rick Ross, and more all on the red carpet at the ’08 BET HIp-Hop awards.

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Rumors have began to spread regarding rapper Yung Joc‘s child support payments. Joc cleared up the allegations live on the radio via Atlanta’s popular V-103 station this past Monday (Aug. 18th) stating that he was, in fact, up-to-date with child support payments to his baby mama, Fatimah Jester. But a problem recently arose which caused a temporary delay with the payments, so basically homegirl made a big deal about the situation not considering the fact that what was going on wasn’t Joc’s fault.

“I never missed a payment,” Joc said during the radio interview. “I don’t pay it directly to her; I pay it through [the Georgia Department of Resources Office of Child Support Services]. My banker wires the funds to DHR; they wire the funds right to her account. However long that takes, she needs to discuss that with them, and not put me out there bad like that.”

In addition to filing a lawsuit for back child support payments of $2,000, which is basically one month of missed payments, Fatimah put out that the rapper doesn’t keep in touch with her and doesn’t spend time with his 7-year-old son Amoni. But Joc cleared that up too, saying the complete opposite.

“They brought up all the charges I been through, but they never brought up the fact that since I been on I’ve contributed over half a million to charities and I do charitable work every week,” Joc explained. “You got cats out here that don’t even be with their kids. And it hurts even more because I am a black man … you born into this world as a black man, your back’s against the wall. So I’m trying to do everything I can to go against the odds.”

Me thinks homegirl just wanted a little publicity. One month of missed payments is hardly enough to file a lawsuit. Maybe two or three, but one? C’mon now! Lol. It’s dudes out there that owe hundreds of thousands, even millions, in child support. And she’s crying over $2,000. SMH.

It’s this new group from Chicago named Hot Stylz. I thought Chicago was the only people that knew about this group! The name of Hot Stylz’s new single is called “Lookin’ Boy” featuring Yung Joc. It’s kinda hard to explain but in Chi-town when you just talking about somebody for about a good 10-15 minutes we call it a “roasting session” and we also called it “heating”. It’s fun and it mad funny! You just say a lot of stuff that most of the time don’t even make sense. Check out the video to get a concept.

Here is another T2W video premiere. David Banner‘s second single, “Get Like Me” featuring Yung Joc & Chris Brown. David Banner’s upcoming album, The Greatest Story Ever Told, will be in stores June 3rd.

David Banner ft. Chris Brown, Yung Joc + Jim Jones – Get Like Me (Radio Edit) – page link

The Summer of 2007 was definitely a time for Rihanna to shine, with the smash hit of “Umbrella” featuring executive producer/mentor Jay-Z, already having released two previous albums, both 2005′s Music of the Sun and 2006′s A Girl Like Me, one would question if Rihanna is moving too quickly in her natural prime. Although I do admit to actually purchasing and owning two of Rihanna’s album releases, I felt she was rushed into finding a specific identity to stick with, not just for her, but also her label. Needless to say, numbers don’t lie, “Umbrella” was indeed a hit and possibly one of my favourite records from her.

Rihanna ft. Jay-Z – Umbrella – PAGE LINK

Well! I would have never, ever, ever, EVER thought “Crank Dat” would blow up like that, yeah the songs is actually old but I guess peeps just caught wind of it and it started to gain mainstream access. I kind of got sucked into the “Soulja Boy” craze too, it was a fun little dance that lasted for a while, I trying not to over analyze things this year as a resolution. I know y’all remember the “Bump,” the “Running Man,” the “Cabbage Patch,” etc.

Soulja Boy – Crank Dat – PAGE LINK

As much as I hated that awfully dreaded “Kiss Kiss,” produced by/featuring T-Pain, I loved it even more, as it began to grow on me, definitely another hot single for the Summer, and clearly a static hit versus “Wall to FLOP Wall”. I almost lost Chris Brown there, but to be completely honest, I’ve been pretty nice and notably fair with him, really. =D

Chris Brown ft. T-Pain – Kiss Kiss – PAGE LINK

“Low,” a song also produced by/featuring T-Pain, was very big down here, there is absolutely no avoiding Flo-rida and T-Pain here in Miami at this point, the song was in heavy rotation on all the local radio stations known to man and immediately peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 music charts.

Flo-rida ft. T-Pain – Low – PAGE LINK

I think 2007 partially belonged to Alicia Keys with the chart-topping single “No One”. Aside from all the solid remixes heavily played on the radio, the song itself charted to number one and remained there for 10 weeks on U.S. Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-hop Songs chart and it has received two nominations for the 2008 Grammy Awards: “Best Female R&B Vocal Performance” and “Best R&B Song”.

Alicia Keys – No One – PAGE LINK

And what would this post be without the man of the hour T-Pain with “Buy U a Drank,” featuring Yung Joc? The single was number 1 on on both Billboard’s Hot 100 and Hot R&B/Hip-hop Songs charts not to mention the consecutive plays it receive on U.S. radio last year in 2007. T-Pain’s contemporary-like sound and stellar production definitely earned him a spot at the top!

T-Pain ft. Yung Joc – Buy U a Drank – PAGE LINK

This past Friday, it was reported that Jay-Z wouldn’t be able to celebrate the opening of his new 40/40 club in Las Vegas this weekend because of the club not passing some kind of inspection test. But obviously, everything was cleared up and the party went on as planned. But eff the party! Check out the dude behind Jay-Z. If that ain’t a piercing side-eye, I don’t know what is. Maybe someone should teach Al Sharpton the PROPER way to throw your diamonds in the sky.

I guess Beanz and Bleek taught ol’ boy the proper way to rep the Roc.

I see Papa Joe is still kickin… I wonder where his protege Mathew Knowles wa

Despite making a late appearance to court yesterday, Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Michael Ryan allowed Yung Joc, who was born Jasiel Robinson, to remain free on $50,000 bond, which he had posted Monday. His next court appearance is scheduled for January 25. Because he was late for the Wednesday morning arraignment, Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutor Gayle Williams told the media that the rapper was considered a fugitive of the law, and that his bond would be doubled to $100,000.

Joc’s attorney, Stanley Jackson Jr., was apologetic about his client’s absence at the hearing and said the rapper was out of town on personal and family obligations. Ryan chided the lawyer but allowed Yung Joc to stay free on bond, Reuters reports. Jackson Jr. said his celebrity client is innocent of the charge. [ SOURCE: MTV ]

Atlanta rapper Yung Joc failed to appear at an arraignment hearing in Cleveland this morning and as an unfortunate result, has had his bond raised to $100,000. According to the Associated Press, Joc (real name Jasiel Robinson) was a no-show at the Cuyahoga County courthouse, where he was expected to answer to charges of carrying a concealed weapon.

Stanley Jackson Jr., Joc’s attorney, told the court that his client was busy with family and personal obligations. Cuyahoga County assistant prosecutor Gayle Williams is expected to ask the court to issue an arrest warrant for the rapper. Municipal Judge Michael John Ryan advised Jackson that his client must appear in court and doubled the rapper’s bond from the previous amount of $50,000.

He better get his ass to court ASAP! Weapons charges are no joke … ask T.I.

Just in time for us to begin our “end of the year” posts, Yung Joc is the proud recipient of our “Dumb Ass of the Year!” award. Home boy attempted to take a loaded gun onto a Delta Air Lines flight, and was charged with carrying a concealed weapon. 27-year-old Jasiel Robinson (Yung Joc) was arrested about 6:20 A.M. Sunday at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport before boarding, police spokesman Lt. Thomas Stacho said.

Police found a semiautomatic handgun and ammunition in his carry-on bag, and he told them he did not know the weapon was there, Stacho said. Robinson was attempting to go through a standard security checkpoint when he was stopped and questioned, then arrested without incident, said Fred Szabo, airport commissioner. Robinson was freed this morning on $50,000 bond after he was formally charged with the felony. He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.

“Yung Joc maintains his innocence. He would appreciate privacy as he addresses these allegations,” said Stanley Jackson Jr., his lawyer.

Stupid ass! I’m gonna give him the benefit of the doubt (since it’s Christmas) and believe his little story that “he didn’t know it was there.” But never-the-less … stupid ass!

Uh-oh, Cherish, I see you! They done stepped it up with “Killa,” featuring Yung Joc, this is a definite club banger! The song is about a girl who knows this guy is bad for her, and he’s a player but she still wants him. The video premiered today on BET’s Access Granted and comes from Cherish’s sophomore album entitled The Truth (Sho’ nuff/Capitol); due out February 5th next year.

“Helpless When She Smiles” is the second single produced by John Shanks from the Backstreet Boys 2007 album Unbreakable (Jive/Zomba), which was released on October 30, 2007. Despite rumors that the Backstreet Boys were upset with the record label’s choice, the video for “Helpless When She Smiles” was filmed November 15 in Joshua Tree National Park, California. It is directed by Bernard Gourley. The music video is set to premiere on December 12 on Yahoo! Music. The video is filmed in only black and white.

Sean Kingston premieres his brand new video, “Kingston” directed by D. Sikorski, from his eponymous album in stores now.

Here’s the second video featuring Gorilla Zoe “Gettin To Da Money” from Yung Joc’s sophomore album “Hustlenomics,” which is in stores now. I hope this one works out for him. Coffee Shop was just pure wackness…

When Screamfest ’07 hit NYC last week (Wednesday August 22 2007) they didn’t hold anything back! In addition to the headliners and supporting acts (I’m sure you know who they are by now), you had the likes of 50 Cent, Kanye West, and Jay-Z sharing the same stage! Yeah, you read it correctly … Kanye West and 50 Cent. A HISTORIC MOMENT in Hip-Hop indeed! Diddy, Da Brat, Wyclef Jean, and Yung Berg showed up too. I wish I could’ve been there!

SIDENOTE: I wonder how many “damn you’re late” comments I’m going to get! I still have love for y’all though! Haha.

Y’all know it’s summer, and for the past 7 years, BET has sponsored a tour in what they call the “Scream Tour.” From 2001 – 2006, the show featured Bow Wow, Omarion, and some other teeny bopper groups, but this time around they changed it up – from the name, to the line-up! For 2007, it’s called “Scream Fest” and it features an ATL line-up with T.I. and Ciara headlining, and Yung Joc, Lloyd, and T-Pain acting as openers. Now when they had those Pretty Ricky losers, and Bow Wow ‘nem, they had no problem coming to SC. Now that they have people on the roster that I like, they act like they can’t show SC any love! What’s up with that? Okay, enough of my venting. Check out the dates after the cut if you plan on attending…

08/03 – New Orleans, LA @ New Orleans Arena
08/04 – Houston, TX @ Toyota Center
08/06 – Dallas, TX @ Nokia Theatre
08/09 – Cleveland, OH @ Wolstein Center at CSU
08/10 – Chicago, IL @ Allstate Arena
08/11 – St. Louis, MO @ Scottrade Arena
08/12 – Kansas City, MO @ Kemper Arena
08/16 – Detroit, MI @ Joe Louis Arena
08/17 – Indianapolis, IN @ Indiana State Fairgrounds
08/18 – Washington, DC @ Verizon Center
08/19 – Hampton, VA @ Hampton Coliseum
08/21 – Mansfield, MA @ Tweeter Center
08/22 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
08/23 – Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Spectrum
08/24 – Baltimore, MD @ 1st Mariner Arena
08/25 – Greensboro, NC @ Greensboro Coliseum
08/26 – Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
08/29 – Denver, CO @ Coors Amphitheatre
08/31 – San Jose, CA @ HP Pavilion
09/01 – Los Angeles, CA @ Gibson Amphitheatre
09/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ Gibson Amphitheatre