CANDIDS: KELIS & NAS / BARACK / MYA / NIVEA / GOLDEN / USHER / MARY / ELISE / VANESSA
Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
Nas and Kelis were spotted leaving Katsuya restaurant in Hollywood last night. Glad they weren’t promoting Nas’ album again.
COURTROOM ROUNDUP: T.I. PLEADS GUILTY / REMY MA FACES 25 YEARS
Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
T.I. LEAVING COURT LAST YEAR. ( Photo: AJC )
Clifford “T.I.” Harris has plead guilty to federal weapons possession charges on Thursday (March 27) and will spend one year behind bars.
The rapper plead guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm, possession of machine guns and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He will begin his sentence after completing at least 1,000 hours of community service.
RANDOM PICS: LIL MAMA PHOTOSHOOT
Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
( Photography: John Ricard )
Check out these new shots of rapper/singer Niatia “Lil Mama” Kirkland from lil-mamaonline.com. The 18 year-old, who is now the host of MTV’s hit show “America’s Best Dance Crew,” will be releasing her debut album, “VYP – Voice of the Young People” on April 29th.
In related news, the season finale of America’s Best Dance Crew airs tonight and I have to shout out the JabbaWockeeZ. They got my vote.
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BLACK HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: HENRIETTA LACKS
Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951) was the 31-year-old leading contributor to the sciences of aging and cancer, but she never knew it.
Born on Aug. 18, 1920, in Roanoke, Va., Lacks was a wife and mother of five who, on Feb. 1, 1951, went to Johns Hopkins Hospital because of a vaginal discharge; that day she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Treated in the hospital’s segregated ward for blacks, Lacks died on October 4, 1951, but she will live forever…
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♫ NEWS: TEYANA TAYLOR TALKS ABOUT ALBUM / DANITY KANE’S DOLLHOUSE GOES #1 / KANYE GETTING SUED FOR “GOOD LIFE”
Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
Teyana on TRL last month. (Wireimage)
Recently, Teyana Taylor, who has been nicknamed the Teen President, had an interview with TheSingersRoom, where she gave a little insight into her debut album, From A Planet Called Harlem.
Singersroom: It’s becoming increasingly obvious that you are completely different than any other artist out right now. Can you explain the direction and sound of your debut album?
Teyana Taylor: Well, for my album, it’s called From A Planet Called Harlem, it’s kind of like my own world of Harlem world. It’s like us coming together and collaborating. Everyone who wants to visit says, “Yeah, I want to go to New York!” We got that swag. From the walk to the talk to the way we dress. It’s kind of like our own little planet. So, I named the album From a Planet Called Harlem and it’s so dope because I worked with so many different producers with so many different styles. So, my music is coming from so many different directions as far as rapping, urban, rock, a little bit of jazz. It’s really, really a great little look and there a lot of different great songs.
VIDEO: KEYSHIA COLE - “HEAVEN SENT”
Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
BET’s “Access Granted” premiered Keyshia Cole’s new video “Heaven Sent” this week. As we told you a few weeks ago, the video was filmed in beautiful Hawai’i (shout out to my peeps in the 808) and was inspired by the “Footprints in the Sand” poem. Benny Boom-directed it and this is the fourth single from Cole’s sophomore album, Just Like You.
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ROUNDUP: LAILA ALI EXPECTING / Diddy Victim of LA Times Incompetence / KIMORA OFFICIALLY FILES FOR DIVORCE
Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
Laila Ali, 30, is expecting her first child with husband former NFL player Curtis Conway, 36. ESSENCE magazine has the exclusive for their May issue.
“I don’t know yet if we are having a boy or a girl, but I’m excited that I have a life inside me that my husband and I created.
Curtis is very calm and has a quiet confidence, and he wanted what I wanted—to be married and have a family,” says the former boxer, who retired undefeated as the women’s super middleweight champion.
“I am 100 percent undeniably happy,” Ali says. “I’ve never been able to say that before.” [ READ MORE ]
