July 2007 Archives

Yea, you read that right. The next page of the well executed marketing plan of Usher's calls for an exclusive interview with yet another tabloid.

Last night on "Making The Band 4," Diddy sent the finalist home for two months unsupervised.

I'm not sure how current this is, but when word that Laurie Ann Gibson was hustling a television show about her upcoming albm, I have been dying to hear what she sounds like.

Mathew Knowles spoke with "Extra" about Tumblina's stop, drop and roll last week.

Eve just dropped her new video for "Give It To Me" featuring Sean Paul.

When Soulman runs into artists... one of his favorite things to do is to have them prove their talent!

The drama continues as Usher runs home to his mother....

the fans are waiting on a real confession ...

Fans have to wait for new Janet Jackson just a little while longer.

let's wait a while....

I swear Usher has more stunts than Chuck Norris.

the paris hilton of r&b...

By now you've heard about Pimp C's interview where he calls out Ne-Yo and Russell Simmons for their gaiety!

Charlie Murphy has something on his mind.

Now that we've actually seen how Laurie Ann's departure from "Making The Band 4" played out on television, and we've seen the clips of her promotion her own reality show do you believe her?

I've been debating all morning whether or not to mention this.

When we met up with Mya yesterday, I was determined not to make her feel bad about the re-occurring album delays. She gave me a great interview... most of which you will see later. But check out these short clips of her telling us one of her secret pleasures and exactly what we would find if we drug tested her on the spot.

So the powers that be over at Music World / Columbia have leaked photos of Kelly Rowland on the set of her new video, "Put It In."

Get in.

Ella ella ella.... eh eh eh!

Rihanna is set to come out with her own signature line of umbrellas as a little something extra to support he massive single "Umbrella" which just broke some record on the UK charts.

Terrance J and Rocsi are still showing off the new set on "106 & Park." They welcomed Ne-Yo and Fabolous who performed "Make Me Better."

makes cake from collabos

Beyonce busted her ass during a performance of "Ring The Alarm" last night in Orlando and of course the video of it hit the innanet!

Y'all better enjoy this Rihanna cover of Vibe Vixen. Matter of fact buy it, 'cause it can become a collectors item.

We are still unloading exclusive interviews from the BET Awards 2007.

what are them things hanging from his chin?

Jennifer Lopez.... hmmm, let's go there.

Like Diddy says, someone is always trying to take your spot. Amerie has been keeping things going in Europe trying to hold on to hers.

The blogs are hot about Rihanna breaking a record for being at the top of the UK charts and her new Vibe Vixen covers. Clearly it's for sale... but for real... why aren't we buying it?

let's go little kitty kat...

I got a hold of a sneak peek of "Making The Band 4"

Since Jennifer Hudson won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Effie White in Dreamgirls, she has been triumphed, celebrated and .... HIGH ANTICIPATED!

one night only... you've only got til dawn!

We ran into Misa Hylton-Brim, Lil Mo, Terrance J from "106 & Park", Nina-Sky and a few other peeps at the Akademiks event last week.

Since Imma be working on a more extensive piece on Mario, I figured I would go ahead and run the interview we did with him a few months ago.

how will he do now that ne-yo has changed the game?

Y'all know producer Polow Da Don right?

If you don't know him then, you know his hits. Here are a few!

Since y'all bitched and moaned about us running the video of the Kelly Rowland collapse (which we only did to inform and only mocked after we were assured of her well being)... Soulman decided to install a Kelly Cam!

i'll be damned if pretty ain't a talent...

Last night I finally got a chance to watch BET's new game SHAME show "Take the Cake" featuring Joe Clair and modern day Sandra Clark aka Jackee Harry aka Toccara!

these two obviously aren't getting along on set....or they had sex

Sandra Rose posted a photo of an aged Rene Elizondo on her website. Renee would be Janet Jackson's boo from the most creative years in her music career.

As we dropped in our exclusive last week, Mya can't pin point a release date for Liberation, her new CD on Universal/Motown.

yessir...

Usher is so hell bent on fighting the power of the internet and the affects it has on his personal life that he is making moves to have his fan site UsherForever.com shut down.

Earlier tonight, Chrisette Michele performed at Borders Bookstore in New York City.

We all know producer Rich Harrison from his days with Amerie and producing hits for Beyonce like "Freakum Dress," "Crazy In Love" and "Soldier" for Destiny's Child. He also did a lil bit on Usher's last album, but now he's rolling with Young Steff on Richcraft Records.

There has been a lot of gossip hounds saying there is trouble in Danity Kane... and there probably is.

it's too many of them up there anyway....

Fantasia "Good Morning America" summer concert series:

While promoting her album, Ms. Kelly in Largos, Nigeria, Kelly Rowland collapsed due to dehydration.

Since it's official that Janet and Mariah and now on the same label, I guess Def Jam sees nothing wrong with a friendly competition.

you ain't never seen a fire like the one imma cause......

A while back I spoke to Trey Songz about his sophomore cd, Trey Day.

I guess Ciara is planning to release the video for "That's Right" as the follow up to "Can't Leave Em Alone."

Since he is blaming the bloggers... let's take it there, USHER!!!!!

Keyshia Cole has everyone anticipating her sophomore set. It's the kind of anticipation that second sets are made of. Think on it... every artists you love and respect laid it down on their sophomore cd. Will Key Key follow suit and deliver an album that is as good as My Life, as fluid as Emotions or as rambunctious as B'Day?

As we reported yesterday, two concert goers were done dirty at Beyonce's show in St. Louis when pyrotechnics went awry.

Last night Kells celebrated the release of Ms. Kelly.

bout all the advertising music world could conjure up...

Singer/songwriter Kandi was out at T.I.'s party at the Louis Vuitton store in Atlanta to wish him well on the release of T.I. vs Tip!

*while those other famous black hollywood blogs just aggregate what's happening in the news.... soulful be creating exclusives like a factory..

It's murder......

auntie ashanti.....

SOHH Soulful recently caught up with AJ Calloway, formerly of BET's "106 & Park" to see what he's been up to and to get his thoughts on the new hosts, Terrance J and Rocsi.

We've read time and time again over the past few days that T.I.'s new cd T.I. vs Tip is gonna bring in more than 500,000 units sold during it's first week, but not many people kept reading to see where R&B princess Kelly Rowland's Ms. Kelly would land.

soulman reworked the cover... thoughts?

While out at the BET Awards SOHH Soulful did more than ask about forthcoming cds and movie projects.... we got straight up nosey and asked Nelly and Ashanti when they planned on getting married.

grillz

Mya arrived at T.I.'s party at the Louis Vuitton store in Lennox Mall, Atlanta... arm in arm with producer Polow Da Don.

According to media insider Jim Hill, Beyonce is in talks to play the lead in the film adaptation of Disney's Broadway musical, Aida.

i don't know why you love me....

Amerie is heatseeking these days because of all the work she has been putting in abroad. Although I and several other writers can't get a straight answer from her crew about when Because I Love It will be released stateside... We'll have to be thrilled that word on the street is...

want you to turn the lights off... me on!

SOHH Soulful caught up with Akon at the BET Awards and asked if his losing his contract with Verizon and other accusations will make him change his stage show.

price of fame???

Since it's pretty slow... I scoured the music blogs and found a couple tracks to listen to. First up is 50Cent featuring Justin Timberlake with "She Wants It".

50 punked out on this one....

Since Kelly Rowland and her "people" at Music World and Columbia won't grant SOHH.com an interview we have to go digging for the information we'd like to be able to ask Ms Kelly ourselves.

chick gets more burn on this blog than on MTV

Before I get into this week's Top 5... Can I just ask, why wasn't this the cover shot of the cd?

better without you....

Ms. Kelly debuted at # 37 on the UK charts.But moving right along....

In part 2 of SOHH's exclusive interview with Bobby Valentino on the set of the DTP photoshoot, Bobby talks about why he comes across so lame on camera... "people are always saying don't do this, don't say that, so when I get on camera I kinda lame up."

breakin' dishes...

Now y'all know Soulman stands tall for Bobby Valentino. So I am here to deliver this message... dude is pissed that Def Jam broke out all the bells and whistles for Ne-Yo's release but claimed they did even know Bobby had a CD out the following week... you know what I'm sayin'.

anonymous over at Def Jam

We use to crack up on how choreographed and staged every move John Legend makes has become. Lucky for this young lady he loosened up and had some fun on stage.

Although I ain't mad at the collabo... I would have preferred to see a different video emerge from Ciara's Evolution.

upgrade!

Ray J was up and through the BET Awards and of course we had to stop Brandy's lil brother to ask him about T-Pain's comments about his johnson... as seen in the Kim Kardashian sex tape.

There has been a mild-- but official-- buzz about Lauryn Hill dropping another studio album-- a first in almost 10 years. However there has been talk of a new Lauryn solo album every year for the past 10 years so this could be more fodder. But do we care and idolize her like we use to? Check out what fans in the Bay Area had to say at a recent show.

Product placement in music videos and songs has become the norm. So Fergie is next up to get some of that money that's not coming in from record sales.

Last night was the NeYo concert here in NYC at the Copacabanna.

Trey Songz opened for NeYo and when I was arriving, he was just beginning to sing "Super Woman." You could hear screams from outside the venue as all the boy crazy little girls charged the crowds to get to the stage.