Recording Artists Timbaland, KanYe West, Robin Thicke, Rihanna (sporting a new cane), and Chris Brown hit up a special taping up TRL yesterday and announced the 2007 VMA nominee list.
Justin Timberlake and Beyonce lead the nominations with seven nods each. Following closely behind are Rihanna and Kanye West, who got five nominations a piece, while Amy Winehouse, earned three.
Check out some new photos of Diddy’s first baby mama, Misa Hylton-Brim modeling some clothes from her new online boutique, Madison Star Couture.
Misa has a 13 year old son, Justin, with Diddy. Justin was recently in the blog headlines for getting a lapdance from some grown-ass woman.
Erykah Badu and Common performed at Chakra in Miami Beach over the weekend. I always secretly wished they would get back together.
She’s manipulating the media. Pretending like she left her womanizing boyfriend.
In reality, he left her because of her deception regarding a personal matter. This playa has a woman in “every” area code, (domestically and internationally). Nothing can slow his flow.
She’s just trying to save face. For the past year, he was just going through the motions of being in a relationship with her, they were together in name only for media purposes and industry events.
It appears that he has moved on but this may be a “decoy” scenario because he has a “famous non-black woman” stashed away that he has yet to make a public appearance with.
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•New Jersey authorities have issued a warrant for Rodolfo Godinez, a 24-year-old Nicaraguan national, in connection with the execution style slaying of three college students in Newark, NJ. Cops say Godinez also goes by Rodolfo Gomez and has a criminal record including arrests for robbery and weapons possesion.
•A 15-year-old became the third person arrested, while 28-year-old Jose Carranza, an undocumented illegal immigrant from Peru, and a second 15-year-old are also behind bars. The “principal suspect,” Jose Carranza, pled “not guilty” after turning himself into authorities.
•Carranza and the juveniles are charged with three counts of murder, four counts of first-degree robbery, one count of attempted murder, one count of conspiracy to commit robbery, and various weapons charges. Now, the manhunt is on for at least two other people believed to be involved in the brutal murder. [ READ MORE ]
According to CNN.com, two people have been arrested in connection with the murder of 3 college students in New Jersey.
Jose Carranza, 31, of Newark, surrendered with his lawyer at midday Thursday, Mayor Cory A. Booker said. And the second suspect is said to be 15 years old, so his name was not released.
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NEWARK, New Jersey In a city where the murder rate has risen 50 percent since 1998, three promising College students were murdered execution style in a playground on Saturday.
Their names: Dashon Harvey, 20, Terrance Aeriel, 18, Iofemi Hightower, 20. There was also a fourth victim who police say survived the gunshot wound to the head. Natasha Aeriel, 19 (Terrance’s older sister) is said to be in fair condition at the hospital.
The four lived in Newark and were to attend Delaware State University this fall. None had criminal records, according to authorities, and relatives and neighbors said they were not involved in drinking, drugs or gangs.
“They were good kids,” Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow said. [SOURCE]
Cornered by thugs in a desolate Newark schoolyard, four college students kept their cool and sent each other a flurry of text messages that said, in essence - we’ve got to get out of here.
But before they could escape, three of the victims were marched to a wall, forced to kneel - and shot dead, police said yesterday.
The sole survivor, Natasha Aeriel, was in stable condition and under a 24-hour police watch at a Newark hospital after giving cops a sketchy description of Saturday’s slaughter and the five men responsible for the executions. Aeriel had been shot before the other students were slain.
“We’re getting the story piecemeal from her,” Police Director Garry McCarthy said of Aeriel, 19, a junior at Delaware State University. “Based upon witness testimony, we believe it was a robbery.”
McCarthy would not release the desperate text messages but said the victims did not appear to know their attackers. He also said they did not die without a struggle. [READ MORE]
A $50,000 reward was being offered for information leading to the arrest of those involved.
Fabolous feat. Lil’ Mo - Make Me Better (Remix) (full) - download
Lil’ Mo is on remixes now, that means there really is an album coming out! No, I’m joking - Fab and Mo have always worked together. I can’t see one without the other. “Make Me Better” is already a huge song, and I think that this remix is a really good look. Even though I am deathly tired of the sample, I think that they made good use of it, and made it their own. Folks will eat this up. Who can resist a Fabolous and Lil’ Mo collaboration?
Nas feat. Cee-Lo - Less Than An Hour (full) - download
If you know me, you know I pretty much fall in love with everything that Cee-Lo touches. Not so much a Nas fan, but I am digging the production on this. “Less Than An Hour” is taken from the Rush Hour 3 soundtrack. I didn’t really pay too much attention to Nas on the track, but good Lord, Cee-Lo rides music so well. I can’t get enough of his voice. Although some people would disagree, Cee-Lo sings his tail off - and he has so much control over what he does with his voice.
The R.Kelly trial is set to start Septembber 17th and word is the the girl who was featured in that infamous tape is going to take the stand in R.Kelly’s defense.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the young woman, who’s father played bass for Kelly and who the singer refers to as his “goddaughter” in the liner notes of his TP2.com album, will turn 23 this September. She is set to take the stand and testify that she is in fact not the girl in the infamous video tape.
Prosecutors are expected to counter those claims by calling to the stand the young woman’s relatives, friends, parents of friends and others, to testify that she was the girl in the video… [READ MORE]
She was 14 when the video was taped and former R&B artist and Kelly protégé Sparkle, who happens to be her aunt, identified her.
