Aiight y'all, Beyonce just released two new videos. The first on TRL, "Beautiful Liar," featuring Shakira. And the second on BET, "Upgrade U," featuring Jay Z.
Remember that ASCAP / Grammy event I told y'all about... where Ciara saved the day for me on the red carpet? Well what I didn't mention is that Jennifer Hudson was there as well.
The Oscar winner blessed Soulman with 60 seconds... 'cause sometimes in this game, that's all you get.
Not seen on the big screen since 2000, Janet Jackson is said to be starring in the new Tyler Perry flick, Why Did I Get Married.
That waistline ain't to be fucked with.
The surprise in this isn't that Ray J is a grown ass man. It's not even that Ray J is bangin' some of the most desirable women in Hollywood. The surprise is the more women he bags, the more women come a calling.
Ray J loves himself some Kims!
A few weeks back the New York Daily News ran eye witness accounts that Ciara was getting her creep on with 50cent deep in LeFrak City. Check it here.
Jennifer Hudson, The People's Princess. That's what Andre Leon Talley called her. The first time I heard that reference, was for Princess Diana... and it meant the people loved her, but the establishment didn't. Jennifer Hudson has just been named the best actress in her category this year.
THAT'S MAJOR!
And we know by Eddie Murphy's example, you can deserve to win and not.
Monica's new single is "Sideline Ho." That we know. She dropped an exclusive on Sandra Rose's site a while back. When she hit up the blogs she checked in with SOHH Soulful too.
Y'all remember Nina Sky? The twins, Nicole and Natalie reppin' Queens?
Joe's latest video for "If I Were Your Man" is out.
Last night Ciara's video for "Like A Boy" premiered on BET via "Access Granted."
When Jill Scott's Collaborations cd came out late last month very few people got excited.
Rich Harrison. You know the name. And if you don't know the name then you know the hits. He and Amerie developed a sound with her first album, All I Have. It's been recreated in Beyonce's "Crazy In Love", Jennifer Lopez's "Get Right" and of course A's "1 Thing".
For Amerie's forthcoming cd. Because I Love It, there is no sign of Rich Harrison. Read about why here.
Like when all producers blow up, they work with all the big names. But when the dust settles and they become a staple, sometimes new ventures are required to take it up a notch or two.
ENTER RICHCRAFT RECORDS!
The other day I was having a conversation about the upcoming Biggie anniversary and how his life after death has been so over celebrated/exploited that the upcoming ten year anniversary seems moot. Some respected hip hop heads are like... 'can we let go of the Big was the greatest propaganda and keep it moving?'
Should Fugee fanatics do the same?
Are y'all ready for them Brits? Is it me or are we going through a mini British invasion. Joss Stone has a new project. Lily Allen is making noise already. Is Corinne Bailey Rae British as well?
Also up in the mix in a major way is Amy Winehouse.
Toni Braxton went from filing a $10 Million lawsuit against Barry Hankerson, to re-filing her lawsuit at the state level to settling her case with Hankerson and Blackground Records altogether.
All to find out what we suspected all along.
The other day (Feb 15th) I met up with Pretty Ricky. Those are some live muthafuckas!
Earlier in the week we talked about Kelly Rowland stopping traffic at the DJ Premier event on Tuesday.
Aiight y'all I can finally run the video I shot with Musiq Soulchild a couple of weeks ago. Musiq doesn't do that much press... especially online, but he looked out for us. I appreciate that. His new cd LUVANMUSIQ is due in stores March 13th.
Ahhh shizzle. Jennifer Hudson gets her shine on the cover of LIFE magazine.
Beyonce is the first non athlete, non model to be on the cover of Sports Illustrasted.
Thats a record!
SOHH Last night I went to the Inspired In New York event to honor DJ Premier. It was hosted by Kelly Rowland herself, along with my first mentor, former Editor in Chief of Vibe magazine, Emil Wilbekin
The AEC/ASCAP luncheon at the Beverly Hilton honored Sheryl Lee Ralph, Chris Brown and Common.
Jennifer Hudson is the third African American woman since December 2002 to grace the cover of Vogue magazine.
You read it right. Those are media passes to Beyonce's exclusive post-Grammy party. I'll fill ya'll in later. I need to sleep this one off.
Break out the Pepto Bismal. "Irreplaceable" has remained the number song in the country for 10 straight weeks.
Nas' second single from Hip Hop Is Dead is "Can't Forget About You" featuring R&B's newest big voice Chrisette Michele.
Last night (Feb 7th) I went to see Justin Timberlake and Timbaland perform at Madison Square Garden.
In a word... IMAGINATION.
Congrats to Jermaine Dupri. Dude was just named President of Island Urban Music.
Y'all know what this is...
We'll start where we normally end. DAMN!
What a minute ain't that Brandy's brother?
You wanna know what grinds my gears, lack of privacy. Where does it say that a man, famous or infamous, can't hose down the sugar walls of a socialite in front of his mini-DV camera, from the privacy of his own bedroom, without it resurfacing at the Crenshaw Swap Meet?
Musiq Soulchild is returning to the scene and a lot is brand new about his familiar sound.
Y'all Jimmy Cozier. He was one of the first artists signed to J Records back in the day.
TMZ.com is reporting that the $50 Million lawsuit filed against Brandy is considered invalid by California state law.
From jump let me say I ain't hating on the Fergalicious one. I'm all for anyone that can make a dollar out of fifteen cents.
Who knew Ciara was cozy coze with 50cent?
Brandy isn't the only R&B chic with major legal woes. As we mentioned before, Toni Braxton sued her former manager, Barry Hankerson, for $10 million due to breach of contract.
But is there more to the story....
You gotta love Prince. You just gotta. Homeboy is performing today (Feb 4) at the Super Bowl Halftime Show in Miami.
Aiight y'all, I'll be pulling up out of Harlem next week and heading to L.A. for the Grammy festivities. It's my first trip out west specifically for this ceremony so y'all know a brutha is geesed!
I was politic'n with the peeps over at GIANT magazine earlier and was given a wake up call that I slept on the fact that Jennifer Hudson graces the cover of the Feb/March 2007 issue.
We all recall Mary J. Blige's public expression of disgust about her previous Vibe cover in December 2005. It was during the Vibe Awards that our girl from Yonkers kept it real while on stage receiving the magazine's coveted VLegend Award.
Since Mary is all renewed and enlightened, and Mimikins is no longer spinning webs over @ 215, Mary happily graces the cover of Vibe's "150th Collector's Edition Issue."
Thank God they got rid of that bubbly font! But they went overboard on the cover lines.
Man... I been amp'd about Diddy and Keyshia Cole's duet "Last Night" ever since we got a sneak peek of Key Key laying down the vocals in the booth on her BET reality show.
