Alicia Keys Covers Complex Mag's November issue...
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Friday, September 28, 2007
We Don't surrender
Foxy Brown's new Single cover...
Inga is trying to get that money... but we all know what happenend to Kim's album when she was in the pin....We've been waiting on "Black Roses" for how long... It wont hurt to wait another year until she come home.
Inga is trying to get that money... but we all know what happenend to Kim's album when she was in the pin....We've been waiting on "Black Roses" for how long... It wont hurt to wait another year until she come home.
New Heat : Beanie Sigal
Beanie Sigal ~ What they gon say to me.
Beanie went in on this track...
This makes me want the old ROC back...Word..
Ashanti Covers King..
Ashanti does King some justice in the November issues. She looks pretty(in a high school prom kind of way) She always seem to come thru when it comes time for a photo shoot...Hopefully her upcoming album "Declaration" wont be a flop.
Were rooting for you girl...
Thursday, September 27, 2007
On the Fashion tip:
Would You Rock??
These boots are by Chanel.....Are you feeling them??... If you are they'll run ya $500 a pop.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
On the set of "Blue Magic"
Check out these screen shots from the set of Jayz's new video Blue Magic feat. Pharrell:
(This video better be hot...)
(This video better be hot...)
I found Cam.......
Where's Camron???...apparently he isn't on the low no more..Cam was spotted in McDonald's... He even had the audacity to pose with a fan looking like this:
On the Fashion Tip.
Check out these snap shots of Jennifer Hudson on the set of the most anticipated movie of 2008 "Sex in the city":
(I am so going to be at the movies opening night.)
(I am so going to be at the movies opening night.)
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Rihanna covers Fashion Mag.
Check out the interview:
By John Crossingham
Photographed by Gabor Jurina. Styled by Tammy Eckenswiller.
Like Grenada or St. Lucia, it’s a place nearly everyone has heard of, but few know anything about, beyond that it’s hot and beautiful. Not unlike our cover girl. But despite its size, the tiny tropical isle is the birthplace of one of the biggest pop stars in the world today.
Rihanna strides into the photo studio an hour late. No one seems to mind, and aside from relief, there is little fanfare. She scans the shoot’s rack of clothes coolly, then strolls over to the makeup table. At the point of our meeting, her latest disc, Good Girl Gone Bad, is barely a week old. It and the first single, the inescapable “Umbrella,” are doing quite well, thank you.
Prior to her arrival, I’d been surrounded by people in their 30s and 40s, all swearing to an inability to remove her album from their player. Hyperbole before the big meeting? Perhaps, but even less-than-devoted followers of pop/R&B can’t claim to have any greater resistance to her powers.
Just 19 years old, Rihanna is on her third album. Signed to the Blue Note of hip-hop, Def Jam Recordings—a label run by Jay-Z, one of the most successful artists and businessmen in music—she already has contracts with JC Penney and Nike and a recent Cover Girl campaign under her belt.
In pop terms, her age is less the exception than the rule, but from head-shaving and rehab to wardrobe choices that disdain underwear, many young stars behave in ways that make 24 ripe for a mid-life crisis.
And then there’s Rihanna. Aside from unsubstantiated rumours regarding dalliances with Jay-Z, her name is never in the tabloids. Not that she’s a wallflower. Ask about the process behind her new album, and her confidence is blunt.
“I had all the freedom I could ever ask for,” she confirms, her voice sleek with cockiness. “Not that they gave it to me. I was just taking it. That’s why it’s called Good Girl Gone Bad. I wasn’t about listening to what anyone wanted me to look like, or sound like, or act like.”
Now, in pop music, a young star taking the reins isn’t all that simple. Or even the best idea. A recent Wall Street Journal article about Rihanna’s peer, American Idol success story Kelly Clarkson, chronicled that singer’s recent fall from grace. With an underachieving single, “Never Again,” and an arena tour cancelled due to low ticket sales, most of the blame was being aimed at Clarkson’s adamant decision to write her own material for her third release, My December.
To hear her talk, Rihanna had no less need to take control over her third disc. “Before, it was kind of boring,” she intones frankly of her first two albums, 2005’s Music of the Sun and 2006’s A Girl Like Me. “It worked because, exactly, it worked. It was generic. It’s been done before. With this album, I wanted to take risks. I wanted to take chances.”
Listening to Good Girl, it’s hard to know exactly what she’s risking. If Rihanna’s idea of sticking it to the Man is collaborating with proven hitmakers like Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and Ne-Yo, not many executives would complain. Maybe the key is that despite her tough talk, Rihanna has a keen sense of how the industry works and how to play to her strengths. Take the story of first single “Umbrella,” for example.
Its pseudo–dance hall refrain (“you can stand under my um-burr-ella/ella-ella/ay-ay-ay”) drips so convincingly with her native Bajan cadence that it’s kind of surprising to learn she had no hand in its composition. Maybe she didn’t write it, but she fought damn hard to get it. “It came to the label for another group,” she recalls, “and one of the executives at the label, she said, ‘I have to play this for you.’ I heard it and I loved it, and I battled to get it.”
It is easy to see why. Not only does the song suit her range and phrasing perfectly, but it’s also a definitive “summer jam”—expertly constructed with a universal theme of commitment, but just silly enough to never take itself too seriously. From someone whose most commonly stressed mandate is to “have fun,” it’s an ideal fit.
Not that Rihanna’s having too much fun right now. Our conversation stops as she tries to extract an errant eyelash, which has worked its way under her lid, without ruining her freshly applied makeup. Aside from the hustle and bustle of photographers and editors preparing for their turn with the young star, it’s completely silent. Suddenly, the key to her balanced approach is clear: The shoot is late, she’s doing an interview while getting made up, she still has to choose what to wear, and she’s unfazed by any of it.
She’s grounded. Now, every pop star from Britney to Xtina will tell you that they are grounded on some level. But to what? Childhoods spent in malls in Louisiana or Staten Island, freighted with everything that goes with North American culture—the entitlement, the desensitization, the relentless consumerism?
These things are not quite of Rihanna’s world. As she puts it, “I think it’s a few things, but part of it is being brought up in a different culture.” A culture that Rihanna literally brings with her. “My friend,” she says, pointing at one in her entourage, who looks up smiling. “She’s from Barbados. I stay in contact with my friends and my family a lot.”
Of course, she’s got money, fame and handlers, and she can list off her favourite designers (Dolce & Gabbana, Zac Posen and Balenciaga among them) in a way that makes it clear she can afford them. It’s just that you get the sense she appreciates all of this on a level that an American girl simply cannot. Confident but not arrogant, humble but not shy—has Rihanna really nailed the balance? I leave our interview feeling just that…
“You get a refreshing burst of shine without all that sticky feeling.” I look up from my laptop as, in a serendipitous moment, Rihanna dances across my TV screen while I sit trying to finish this article. It’s her Cover Girl ad for Wetslicks Fruit Spritzers. At the end of the ad, she sings the Cover Girl slogan and drops a plug for Good Girl Gone Bad. Everybody’s happy.
A few days earlier, when asked about the campaign, she brightens immediately. “When they first approached me, they said it was between me and this other girl,” she recalls. “We just prayed about it, and eventually they called and said, ‘You’re our Cover Girl.’ I was like, ‘What!?’”
If this seems all too perfectly placed—as she says, “another dream come true”—Rihanna seems aware of the finite nature of her right now red-hot career. “I just try to think about the fun in it,” she tells me. “You have to have fun, or you will go crazy.”
I don’t think you need to be a pop star to appreciate that.
First published in FASHION Magazine October 2007
An American Gangster.
Ok so now Jay-Z & Nas are pulling a Kanye & Fifty? Well I'm hearing that he & Nas are both planning to drop on Nov 6th. Sources say Jay has been quietly going to the studio laying down tracks 9 in total. The album was inspired by the upcoming movie "American Gangster" in which Denzel Washington portrays Frank Lucas, a early 1970s Harlem heroin kingpin. Funk Master Flex will be premiering a track (I'm guessing off the album) today feat Pharrel called "Blue magic". So if your in Ny or the Tri-state check it out.... Or just come back tomorrow it'll definately be posted.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Looking Fab
Ashanti out & about looking fab in Chanel from head to toe..(Literally).. I'm rooting for this girl... But the last two songs I've heard from her are o so "Mediocre"..I'm guessing she's writing them herself.. So maybe it's time to hit up the Neyo's & Brian cox's....
I'm just saying..
Wendy Williams Interviews Kanye
(Part one)Kanye addressing the gay rumors
(Part two) Kanye addressing his backstage rants
(Part Three) Kanye West Talking About Lil Wayne, His Longevity In The Game, Dame Dash & And His Relationship with Jay-Z and Beyonce
(Part Four) Kanye West on Beating 50 Cent in album sales.
( Part Five) Kanye West on The Rumors, Nudity & Being Used by Different Networks and Magazines
(Part Six) Kanye on Light Skinned Girls, Britney and the inappropriateness of “My Girl Got a Girlfriend”
Candids
Check out Garcelle Beauvais..She looks damn good at 40... & yes She's "Still" pregnant with twins.
(Cute maternity Top)
(Cute maternity Top)
Ja rule Interview.
Check out this interview from black gossip site Bossip
Necole Bitchie: Today, September 11th we have 50 and Kanye both going up against each other. What do you think is going to come of that competition? Do you think 50 is going to outsell Kanye?
Ja Rule: 50 ain’t gonna outsell sh*t. Kanye gonna smack that n*gga right about now
Necole Bitchie: So, you are riding with Kanye?
Ja Rule: I ain’t riding with nobody. I’m riding with Rule. I’m just speaking the truth [laughs]
Necole Bitchie: Now you did say in a recent radio interview that 50 was sheer genius. You called him brilliant or I guess the way he came out. Could you elaborate on that?
Ja Rule: Well I didn’t mean to give him that much credit [laughs] but you know he was clever in his marketing scheme. He’s a marketing guy. He should be a marketing guy at a label somewhere and sh*t. He’s really good at marketing himself and promoting his projects or projects that are of his camp or whatever. ..that may not even be good projects but he knows how to promote them and have people gear up to go check them out. Like this album right here that he has out, I haven’t heard one good song.
Necole Bitchie: um, you and 50 actually had a physical altercation in Atlanta and-
Ja Rule: [interrupts] and I whooped that ass
Necole Bitchie: So, you don’t think you’ll ever put this to rest with 50 and make some good music together?
Ja Rule: I don’t got no problems with 50! You know what I’m sayin’. I ain’t thinking about that dude. I don’t got no problems with him at all. But when people ask me about him, all I do is speak the truth baby. I never fabricated nothing about this man. He’s the n*gga that fabricated, and told all the stories, told all the lies. This n*gga is a liar. Everything about him is a lie down to his name. He took his name from another n*gga. Like who the f*ck does that? That’s like Chris Rock CB4 sh*t. Like who the f*ck takes a name from another n*gga? And now, you this n*gga? It’s insane, man. This n*gga’s Gusto from CB4. He done stole Gusto’s name and sh*t!
Nothing that he says is real you understand? He said he got shot 9 times. He didn’t get shot 9 times. He says he got 400 million for f*ckin Vitamin water, he didn’t get 400 million. Everything he says is a f*ckin lie!
On Superhead
Necole Bitchie: Did you consider her like another groupie or did you really care about [pause] her?
Ja Rule: Nah, she was just a person that I met. She was just… I don’t..I don’t really know how to describe her
Necole Bitchie: Just a friend…ya’ll was chillin…
Ja Rule: We weren’t even friends like that. She was an associate. An acquaintance. Somebody I knew
Necole Bitchie: ok, but you made like three chapters you know…
Ja Rule: I mean-
Necole Bitchie: Ya’ll crazy! So did you enjoy the chapters that you were in? Did she paint an accurate picture or no?
Ja Rule: I didn’t um… actually read it
Necole Bitchie: oh, you didn’t?
Ja Rule: Nah, what does it say? What does she say? What does she say?
Necole Bitchie: She found out that your wife was 5 months pregnant and then she went off on you, throwing you know…glasses and stuff at you in the club and you let her go
Ja Rule: oooh sh*t! Hell no ain’t no sh*t like that go on [laughs] See what I mean, you know people write books they gotta beef it up, they gotta make it good, they gotta make it interesting for the people.
For more of this interview Click Here
Jae Hood Dissing The lox?
Cheeks...LoL..
50 got all the neglected artist on his team...I give it to the man...He about his business
New Video. Rock Star
R.kelly ft Ludacris & Kid rock.
This song is hard...R.Kelly may be a child molester but he definately makes good music. The video could of been better,or I guess I just had my own vision. Over all Ludacris came hard the song is definatly a club banger.
This song is hard...R.Kelly may be a child molester but he definately makes good music. The video could of been better,or I guess I just had my own vision. Over all Ludacris came hard the song is definatly a club banger.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
On the Fashion tip: Shop Lauren Conrad
If you watch "The hills" Then your Familiar with Lauren Conrad...If your not, still check out a couple pieces from her clothing line..
Check out more here.
Check out more here.
Dehaven Blast Jay-z once again...
I wish this dude get a life.. This is a grown ass man crying because Jay aint taking care of him. I understand that was his man.. But this guy is acting like he was writing Jay rhymes.
New Music!!
DJ Envy & Red Cafe ft Juelz Santana, Sean Kingston, Busta Rhymes & Jd ~ Dolla Bill remix
Damn.. B.E.T's rap city moved to 1 am?
I guess they were struggling with the ratings...But why 1 am? like really who is up that late? why not just cancel the show? Rap city has been around for quite some time now & it's now being replaced by straight videos.. (Where's Tigger when you need him?)
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007
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