Ne-Yo on the “Double Up” tour in ATL (Wireimage)Ne-Yo is finally fighting back for getting kicked off R. Kelly’s Double Up Tour for no reason:
Rapper Ne-Yo sued the promoter of R. Kelly tours for firing him after two shows as the opening act for Kelly because the audience and the critics liked him better, court papers obtained on Wednesday show.
Ne-Yo, whose real name is Shaffer Smith, and Compound Touring Inc. filed the suit Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Georgia-based Rowe Entertainment Inc., alleging breach of contract and violation of the right of publicity.
Compound Touring and Smith are seeking unspecified damages, but the suit maintains he was to be paid $785,000 for 25 shows opening for Kelly’s “Double-Up Tour” that began Nov. 14 and is still owed $735,000. READ MORE
Looks like this tour is the pits and Ne-Yo should get his money. R. Kelly recently had to cancel a tour date in Virginia scheduled this month for a court date concerning those child pornography charges.
RIHANNA’S $500,000 FEE
Rihanna in Moscow (Rihannadaily)Where was Rihanna on New Years Eve? Well word is last week, she did a private performance for a Russian Billionaire that paid her $500,000:
Despite her $500,000 fee, Rihanna’s performance only lasted 40 minutes. Additionally, according to Tvoi Den, Rihanna insisted on the presidential suite at the Ritz-Carlton for her six-hour stay. It comes with an “oversized dressing room” and a security room with an “autonomous energy supply system,” the hotel’s web site boasts. READ MORE
Ri-Ri better work it out of the country!
EDDIE & TRACY CONFIRMED MARRIED
Eddie & Tracy at ‘Movies Rock’ last year (Wireimage)Soon after posting a rumor saying that Eddie Murphy and Tracy Edmonds got hitched, People reported that the couple did indeed get married in French Polynesia in front of 25 friends & family:
In a sunset ceremony on the beach Tuesday, Edmonds walked barefoot down the aisle to Gladys Knight’s “Makings of You.” The bride wore a custom-designed form-fitting dress by stylist and designer Sugia Nazel and Jill Baracci, designer and owner of Baracci boutique.
Murphy wore a cream suit and vest with an off-white handkerchief.
Among the guests were best man Johnny Gill, maid of honor Nicole Avant, matron of honor Julie Lev, as well as Edmonds’s parents Jacqueline and George McQuarn, her brother Michael, Murphy’s mother Lillian Lynch and his brother Vernon.
Edmonds, 40, gave her bridesmaids gold and diamond earrings from XIV Karats in Beverly Hills, and Murphy, 46, gave his groomsmen D.Atlantis watches.
Sounded very romantic…congrats to them.
first ! yah neyo do whats righttttt
damn, i was.
HA!
congrat eddie…….neyo what you have to do..
i didn’t go becasue neyo was dropped…seem as though i didnt miss much
SOOO I WONDER IF SHE IS KEEPING EX-HUBBYS LAST NAME? HMMMMM
Can some one tell me when in the hell did neyo become a rapper (as stated above)?!
n-e-ways do the damn thang to all!
I don’t blame Ne-Yo for suing. I’d rather see him not touring with R.Kelly narcassitic self.
I wonder if Rhianna lip-synched her performance b/c for $500,000 she would have to sing “Umbrella” live and in russian. Rhianna better watch out, that billionaire may be looking for a 3rd wife. lol
Tracey & Eddie (sigh) – I wonder if she signed a pre-nup and did it include “you must bare at least 3 or more children for me” clause.
Wow at Rhi, and people say she can’t sing, well obviously everyone don’t feel that way to the tune of $500,000….damn for one performance….get it girl.
Next to Eddie and Tracey….Tracey, what goes around comes around, you are no better a woman than nicole or mel b…why is it that some women seem to think they can do a better job than the other woman, or that they are just better than the other woman? Ever thought none of the women are the problem, maybe it’s the guy? Wait, let me guess, Eddie said they both were crazy and liars and so forth…right, right….he’ll be saying the same shit about you when you tire of his ass and move on….right about the same time the next woman steps in and rolls her eyes at you, thinking SHE can do better…..i swear it’s just a vicious circle, but hey, whatever.
go ne-yo….sue that pedo’s ass!
LMAO@NEYO, MY MAMA LOVES DAT BOY, LOL, I WAS WONDERING WHERE RIHANNA WAS DURING NEW YEARS EVE, AND HEY THATS TRACY AND EDDIE, GOOD LUCK TO THEM!
Neyo should definitely get his money. Rkelly is always jealous when someone outshines him on tour. First with Jay-Z and now with Neyo. SMH I hope Neyo gets his money.
Who cares about Rihanna anymore? She has no talent and I’m sure the performance she gave the Russian involved her being on her knees. She’s the next Mya.
Congrats to Eddie and Tracey, but I’m tired of hearing about them. Eddie needs to be taking care of his baby who he hasn’t even seen yet. SMH
hmm, Im not that big a fan of Neyo, so It doesnt bother me he was kicked off the tour. I think he’s salty. Get your own tour Neyo and You can kick who you want off too..R.Kelly Rocked Columbia, Holla
Ne-Yo, boo you need to sue for more cuz that was very bad on Kelly’s side and plus he can spare a few mil since he’s going to jail soon!
Good luck with that Neyo cause first off, he’d have to prove the crowd liked him better than kellz, and two, i heard there were contractual issues not met by both sides. Whatever, may the liar in this be revealed and the good guy the victor. I refuse to take sides cause no one knows what happened but them two of them.
I hope Ne-yo gets paid. R. Kelly is so pathetic.
I hope that is not a slit i see in Rih’s pants. Sooooo Russian Billionaire huh? I know that lots of celebs do ‘private performamances’ for rich folks for a lotta money but I’m tempted to say something here…. or was… till i read that reggie thread (they are reportedly engaged btw). Some of y’all black men really hate black women huh?
Congrats to Eddie and Traccccccccccciiiiiiiiiiie. They desrve each other (smiles sweetly)
Not sure if I would have married Eddie (Hell no I would not), the alimony from Baby Face had to be serious! Oh and uh, Eddie’s gay. Glad Ne-yo is going after R. Kelly with his can’t share the spotlight *ss! I hope he gets his money!
GET IT NE-YO!! GET YO DAMN DOUGH!!! that’s how we do it….Ne-yo knows he’s that shit and them niggas juss poop stains!!!!!!!!!!
Who cares about Rihanna anymore? She has no talent and I’m sure the performance she gave the Russian involved her being on her knees. She’s the next Mya.
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SMH at that comment made above. If Ri did get on her knees for 500,000 dollars thats better then you getting on yours for $5.
And yuke, Eddie looks gay as hell in this pic….tracie is either blind or willing to look the other way…and how can you respect a man who “for whatever reason” is not seeing his child? I don’t know if it’s true that he hasn’t seen Angel Iris, but if it is, Eddie is pathetic and so is Tracie.
LMAO @17
Ne-Yo will probaly get paid. R. Kelly is paying out of the a$$ right now so maybe his lawyers will put up a good fight for him. Who knows?
Rihanna, work it out girl. She probably didn’t charge that much, it’s probably a number the billionaire threw out there when he requested her. What wouldn’t she do for a half of a mil? LOL!!
Congrats to Eddie and Tracey. Hope it works out for them.
i give eddie 6 months tops…
SMH @ the 2 Rihanna stans. I’m not saying anything that other people haven’t already said. She can’t sing, she can’t sell records, and people say she fucks for tracks so I’m just telling it like people are saying it. I feel sorry for Rihanna stans the truth must hurt huh? Unlike Rihanna I don’t get on my knees for anything by the way. Why didn’t ya’ll pay more than $5 to buy this bitch’s flopped c.d. then maybe people would think she got talent. SMH
Neyo is about to be paid.
Rihanna’s 15 mins are up everybody’s all about Alicia who has REAL talent now. And $500,000 is not that much. I’ve seen bigger stars like Janet and Beyonce get paid triple that for a performance.
Eddie and Tracey make a beautiful couple. But he did do Mel wrong so Tracey better watch out.
Go head then Neyo..I aint mad at cha’.
LOL @6 talking about the russian man may be looking for a 3rd wife..that was a good one!
Good luck with that Ne-Yo, next time be sure to sign your contracts.
I love Neyo so I hope he gets his money.
Rihanna? Next! She’s old news.
Eddie and Tracey are too cute but Eddie does need to handle his business as a man and take care of his child. Has he even seen her yet?
Why isn’t R Kelly in jail yet?
Rihanna is a joke. I wouldn’t pay $5 to see her for 40 minutes, let alone 500K. But, as her boy Jay would say, “I can’t knock the hustle.” Get that money girl, with your no talent self…LOL!
One word for Tracey Edmonds Murphy – BEARD!!! I’ll bet in their minds, Johnny Gill and Eddie Murphy were really exchanging those vows to one another.
Here’s the article about Rihanna. Can’t tell if there dissing her or were pleased.
In the Spotlight
One of the guests invited to hear Rihanna sing was Roman Abramovich, who quietly danced on the spot.
By Anna Malpas
Published: December 28, 2007
This year in a new spirit of austerity and cutbacks, RusAl head Oleg Deripaska treated his colleagues and friends not to a Tanzanian goat apiece, but to the nearest thing for an oligarch: a New Year concert whose star, Rihanna, only charged $500,000. George Michael, who sang for Vladimir Potanin last year for a reported $3.3 million, wouldn’t even get out of a Ritz-Carlton featherbed for that. Still, she’ll learn. As Komsomolskaya Pravda put it, “she’s a young singer, so she charges practically nothing.”
The best coverage of the party last week was in Tvoi Den, which headlined its article “Deripaska Gave Abramovich a Black Woman for $500,000.” There’s a real craft to writing headlines like that, which pack so many offensive implications into so little space. Still, the article wasn’t so bad, even giving Rihanna the privilege of a name at the end of the second paragraph. The Abramovich reference is due to the fact that Roman turned up to the party, with his girlfriend Darya Zhukova. But tabloids differed on whether the designer-stubbled one tapped his toe to “Umbrella” or broke into a full-blooded boogie.
A blurry photograph in Tvoi Den shows Abramovich looking bored, and a reporter wrote that he “observed the young people having fun with his famous half-smile, quietly dancing on the spot.” However, Komsomolskaya Pravda said he “danced away all night to Rihanna’s catchy hits.” Which admittedly would have been difficult, given that her performance only lasted 40 minutes.
Rihanna insisted on the presidential suite at the Ritz-Carlton for her six-hour stay, Tvoi Den wrote. It comes with an “oversized dressing room” and a security room with an “autonomous energy supply system,” the hotel’s web site boasts. But there were no wardrobe malfunctions, debauched afterparties or late-night fallings out of night clubs, so frankly she didn’t provide the paparazzi with value for money.
Sadly, Rihanna’s concert has been the most bling New Year’s party reported in the tabloids, which is painful to write of an event that also included a performance by local pop sensation Tokio. And there seems to be little prospect of celebrity shenanigans in the city over New Year’s, given that all the beautiful people are heading for warmer or snowier climes.
In Star Hit magazine, television host and celebrity editor Andrei Malakhov drew a handy map of the Russian elite’s vacation destinations. And if he’s right, it looks as if Courchevel is so January 2007. I don’t know whether the arrest of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov earlier this year had an effect on bookings, but Malakhov writes that the French ski resort will be a forlorn ghost town this holiday. Its only visitors will be former Miss World Oksana Fyodorova and teenage designer Kira Plastinina, who will probably sulk in her young executive suite.
Instead, the people who matter will be sipping glЯhwein over the border in Switzerland’s St. Moritz. Among them are Abramovich, Zhukova, restaurateur Arkady Novikov, Dima Bilan’s producer Yana Rudkovskaya and film director Fyodor Bondarchuk. And Swiss hoteliers are probably adding zeroes to the price of fondue as we speak.
Another destination likely to be offering overpriced Sovietskoye Shampanskoye this New Year’s is Miami, where many Russian pop stars have second or third homes. We’re talking blond crooner Nikolai Baskov, permed superstar Valery Leontyev and the local version of Posh and Becks, popster Natasha Korolyova and her stripper husband Tarzan.
But one beach destination stands out as the ultimate no-no. Ashen-faced vacationers will be canceling their bookings and sticking to the safety of Khimki as they read that Jamaica is due to be invaded by rapper Timati — who, no doubt, will be affecting the local patois within hours of landing. And troubles never come alone. He will be accompanied by celebrity It Girl Ksenia Sobchak.
Damn LMAO @ CeeCee. That’s mean but I kinda agree with you. LOL
Neyo should get whats owed to him.
I also agree with whoever said Rihanna is a joke. Enough said.
Good luck to Eddie and Tracey. Hope he treats her better than he treated Mel B.
seems like ri-ri is turning into a bit of a DIVA…when she was in london my friend saw her in selfridges and said hi, apparently rihanna just looked at her funny and walked off without saying hi back…..OUCH
When Ne-Yo sues R. Kelly, will this make R. Kelly go to jail. They lock you up for any and everything nowadays, except for rape and murder.
Congratulations to Tracy and Eddie……..I guess.
Oh and to you as well Rihanna….
also i agree with 23, rihanna has reached her peak…i dont think she has much more to show the world, she’s just got a great stylist and marketing team behind her…she’s good now, but i dont know if she’ll sustain it….someone like ciara has still so much potential to give…and i agree alicia keys is great too…
@ # 22..RIHANNA’S CD HAS SOLD OVER A MILLION PLUS COPIES,SO HOW DA FUCK IS DAT A FLOP..IM SURE U ARE ONE OF THOSE GHETTO FOLKS WHO DONT KNOW UR FACTS..UR JUS GOIN BY WHAT EVERYONE SAYS..LOL..LAME!!
AND @ # 23. $500,000 IS ALOT OF MONEY FOR 40 MINS..AND WHY ARE U COMPARING HOW MUCH SHE MADE TO JANET & BEYONCE..SHE JUS CAME OUT 2 1/2 YEARS AGO..THEY HAVE BEEN OUT SINCE SHE WAS A LIL GIRL. SO OF COURSE THEY WILL MAKE MORE THAN HER..YA’LL JUS TRYNNA FIND REASONS TO HATE..
Jumpoffs- The award goes to them! They had the best YEAR ever!
Rihanna go suck a D*CK!!!!!
Ne-Yo is going to get his money and probably more than he is asking for.
Congrats to Tracey and Eddie I guess.
Rihanna is doing it big, I ain’t mad at her.
I’m sure Rihanna did more than a musical performance in that hotel room for $500,000…let’s be realistic.
Good for Ne-Yo and congrats to Eddie and Tracey.
Rihanna better watch out. She’s talentless and yet keeps making demands. She had nothing to do for New Year’s because Jay had everyone performing except for her and her management found somewhere for her to perform. I’m sure the Russian guy said after she performed that “it’s only peanuts the $500K, but I could’ve spent it on a stripper.” Real singers collect $1 mil – even J.Lo got a mil.
I can’t wait for her time to be up – people sweating her is going to her head. She can’t sing, dance, sell albums or concert tix.
Also, Rihanna’s c.d. has not sold a million in the U.S. as of yet. Her sales in London totalled with the U.S. is what takes her to 1 million, but that’s not good. None of her c.d.’s sell because she’s a one trick pony. For the demands that she makes and the shit that she pops, you’d think she was selling like Alicia. She needs to sit down somewhere.
Riri should get da heck out of this country. That lil ingrate be dissin her own people!
RIhanna HaS N() TaLeNt!!!!!!!!!!!
She’s a waste of the record labels money.
They should stop signing the mediocre people and expecting them to sell records.
I understand that it take the black people off the streets, but at who’s risk? They’re messing up the industry with their cheesy songs. It sad to see these teenagers just being sucked into the soulja boy’s, laffy taffy’s, and walk it out’s and they’ll never know what REAL music is something with a statements or meaning behind it not just shaking ass. You won’t even give a Common or a Talib kweli the time of day but Soulja boy’s one the HOTest “rappers” out their. THey should change it from Hip Hop to Dance and from R&B to POP. It’s damn shame of what it has come to.
I Love Neyo, I hope he does sue that molester and win.
Eddie, take care of your 7 kids first before you wife somebody up.
Rihanna is the shiit. Love u mama. She must be doing something right, Cause everybody is Talking !!!
and she taking it st8 to the bank,,, hahahaha
@ # 39, umm check billboard for your facts . RIHANNA HAS SOLD OVER A MILLION COPIES IN THE U.S.A… KNOW UR FACTS..THANX ,AND HAVE NICE DAY!!
Thanks for the article #28.
When people are dissing you in other countries for the local star, you know your time’s almost up – LMAO.
She better make as much money as she can in pictures because that profession’s short lived too. Also, how she thinks she’s outdone her peers that she’s not even on their level to be mentioned in the same sentence, there’s a new crop of young hot singers coming out in ’08 that can actually sing and dance, i.e., Vanessa Hudgens, Kat DeLuna, etc.
#44 – Get with the times. Everyone knows Billboard doesn’t post the actual numbers, but post the AMOUNT OF RECORDS BEING SHIPPED by the record companies. NOT THE SAME AS WHAT’S BEING SOLD.
FOR EXACT NUMBERS, GO TO SOUNDSCAN.
i read that ne-yo is only asking for $785,000 for the 25 dates, that’s like $31,000 a city, that’s nothing to what i thought he could get but GET IT!!
rihanna is going to be fuckin for that money, 40 minutes to half a mil, she’ll be some russian billionaire’s jumpoff that night.
and eddie and tracey are married, i don’t care because i doubt it will last, it mocks russell and kimora match made business venture marriage.
Make that bread RiRi! Ne-yo is owed so why not get payed! I choose not to support The Kelster, I wanted to support the others, but I will have to get at them when they tour again w/o “Sir-Piss-Alot”!!
Right is just right Ne-yo get your money!!!
Get your money Neyo, Kelly should’ve been glad you even considered doing his tour.
I hope that Russian billionaire got more than Umbrella for all that money. He’s sitting somewhere right now mad as hell, wondering where the other $499,999 went.
Haters are ridiculous…..if that russian guy wanted a pretty face and/or nice body, he could have called up a call girl service or went to the local strip club….so OBVIOUSLY, it’s not that type of deal…i see the haters on here throwing more than salt, they throwing shoes, chairs, and whatever else….lol….and this people is why she WILL be around for a long time, controversy….controversy, keep people talking is the key today….so keep talking, keep throwing them chairs, and Rhi keeps getting paid….lol
You say Rhi has no talent, but nobody spending $1.00 on your asses to even sing the star spangled banner. Obviously, some people, not all, think she has talent, and like i said, to the tune of $500,000. She could have requested more, and i’m sure he would have paid it. I’m proud of her.
so eddie can go get married but cant do ish for his baby? umm a real man. and what kind of woman is tracey that you would marry a man who hasnt even seen his new baby? that dont bother her? i guess not. i mean when the last time you seen her with her own damn sons?
@ # 46, IF U HAVE A SUBSCRIPTION TO SOUNDSCAN OR BILLBOARD WHICH OBVIOUSLY U DONT..U WOULD FIND THIS…
ON SOUNSCAN…
Title Chart positions Sales and certifications
U.S. CAN UK FRA AUT JPN GER AUS WW
2005 Music of the Sun
* Released: August 30, 2005
* Formats: CD, digital download
10 7 35 93 45 14 31 – 23 Worldwide sales: 1,500,000+
U.S. Sales: 700,000+
RIAA certification: Gold
2006 A Girl Like Me
* Released: April 25, 2006
* Formats: CD, digital download
5 1 5 18 21 4 13 9 3 Worldwide sales: 3,400,000+
U.S. sales: 1,200,000
RIAA certification: Platinum
2007 Good Girl Gone Bad
* Released: June 5, 2007
* Formats: CD, digital download
2 1 1 15 3 7 4 5 1 Worldwide sales: 3,459,350
U.S. sales: 1,350,000+
RIAA certification: Platinum
AND THIS ON BILLBOARD…
The first single from the album, “Umbrella”, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the issue date June 9, 2007. It is the second lead single of an album by Rihanna to reach number one in the U.S, after “SOS” from A Girl like Me. “Umbrella” also hit the top spot in the UK Singles Chart for ten consecutive weeks, the longest running chart topper in a decade.[7]
On the issue date June 23, 2007, Good Girl Gone Bad entered the U.S. Billboard 200 at number two with 162,000 copies sold in its first week. Epiphany by T-Pain snagged the number one spot away from Good Girl Gone Bad, selling just 8,600 more copies. This is Rihanna’s best opening week album sales to date, significantly improving on the 68,000 first week sales of Music of the Sun and the 115,000 first week sales of A Girl Like Me. In the United Kingdom the album sold 53,000 copies in its first week, debuted at number one, and so far has sold over 557,000 copies, earning Platinum certification. The album has sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. and more than 3.3 million copies worldwide.
ne-yo is an R&B singer, not a rapper.
I hope Neyo wins…this is not the first time people touring with rkelly has had a problem or complaint….so I believe Neyo on this and hope he gets all the money owed to him….Congrats to Rihanna for the 500grand…do your thing is all I can say….as far as eddie and tracey?…I guess congrats…why they still callin her edmunds…did her divorce go through? I hope Eddie is taking care of his kids running off to get married.
GOOD 4 R. Kelly ass.. Go Ne-Yo.. u my baby!
Damn @ Rihanna! she doin it big lol
Eddie Murphy –> *blank stare* Relevance?
Damn… children not invited to their own parents weddings anymore?
So much for the whole blended family
good for rihanna make that money girl..@whateva thanks for doing your research bc i didn’t know where to look for her sales…i’m glad she went plat..get em ri ri..
EM’ I THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THAT PICTURE OF RIHANNA LOOKS ALOT LIKE CIARA FROM HER “THAT’S RIGHT” VIDEO WHEN SHE HAD ON THE BLACK SPANDEX PANTS AND THE BLACK BRA AND SHE WAS DANCING…LOOKS TO ME AS IF SHE’S SWAGGER JACKING B-CUZ ON THE”GOOD GIRL GONE BAD” TOUR WITH CIARA RIHANNA HAD A SHORT BOB AND THEN WHEN CIARA WAS ADDED TO THE TOUR AND SHE HAD BLACK LONG CURLY HAIR AND THEN RIHAAN SWITHED IT UP AND START WEARING HER HAIR LONG AND CURLY THATS WHY CIARA SWITCHED HER HAIR COLOR TO LIGHT BROWN…CIARA ORIGINALLY WANTED TO CUT HER HAIR AND DIE IT BLACK BUT RIHANNA BEAT HER TO IT…I LIKE RIHANNA TOO BUT I ALSO LIKE CIARA IT SEEMS TO ME THAT RIHANNA LOOKS LIKE CIARA ON THE PICTURE UP TOP B-CUZ SHE USUALLY HAS SOMETHING SHORT ON WITH HER LEGS OPEN……OH YEA CIARA ALSO WORE THAT OUTFIT TO PERFORM “LIKE A BOY/THAT’S RIGHT” AT THE BET AWARDS WHEN SHE RIPPED OFF HER #25 JERSEY…(RIHANNA STICK TO THE BOB GIRL…JUS LET CIARA HAVE SOMETHING OF HER OWN FOR ONCE)
who cares about rihalien ?!
that girl has not talent
she’s just pretty like cassie those girls needs to stick to modeling