Check out singer Keri Hilson‘s new video for her second single, “Pretty Girl Rock” from her upcoming album, No Boys Allowed. In the video, Hilson pays homage to past and present day pretty girls/women of the music and entertainment industries (Janet Jackson, Donna Summer, TLC and more). The video was directed by Joseph Kahn.
Big shout out to Keri for performing at our ConcreteLoop 5th Anniversary Re-Launch Party last night (November 11). We appreciate the love!
No Boys Allowed hits stores December 21, 2010.
Rapper Nicki Minaj covers the December issue of Billboard just before the release of her solo debut album, Pink Friday, which will be released November 23. In the cover story, Nicki discusses former jobs, getting respect from the guys and more. Check out a few snippets:
On her former jobs
“The last job I had was as an office manager in a little, tiny room where I literally wanted to strangle this guy because he was so loud and obnoxious,” Minaj recalls. “I would go home with stress pains in my neck and my back. That’s when I went to my mother and said, ‘Look, I’m not going back to work.’ I’d been fired like 15 times because I had a horrible attitude. I worked at Red Lobster before that and I chased a customer out of the restaurant once so I could stick my middle finger up at her and demand that she give me my pen back. I swear to God I was bad.”
On getting more respect, especially from the guys
“When I do songs like ‘Monster,’ when I’m on a record with Jay-Z and Kanye West, when I’m on a record with Wayne and Em — I definitely think the dudes give me respect,” Minaj says. “They haven’t come easy but I think people are starting to give me more props.”
On “Roman’s Revenge”
“‘Roman’s Revenge’ is where I’ve become a different human being,” Minaj says. “I didn’t give a damn who I offended, whose feelings I hurt — this needed to be said, and it cracks me up when I listen to it. I’m a maniac on that track. I knew true hip-hop fans would love this.”
On getting kicked out of Young Money
“I started to record by myself and I lost track of what I was doing and who I wanted to be,” she says. “It wasn’t until I linked back up with Wayne that he gave me this speech. He said, ‘What happened? You were hot,’ and it just hurt me so much. I wanted to prove to him that I was still hot. It hurt my ego so bad that I went back with a vengeance.”
First Lady Michelle Obama visited the Ramstein Air Force Base in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany on Thursday (November 11) and helped serve donated steaks to over 200 service men and women and their families in celebration of Veteran’s Day. The menu included mashed potatoes with gravy, peas, corn on the cob, garlic bread and lemon meringue pie. After serving food, Mrs. Obama made her rounds about the room, giving out kindhearted hugs, handshakes and thank yous to all the military families in attendance. [Source]
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Actors Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington cozy up at the New York premiere of Night Catches Us, which hits theaters December 3. Check out more photos below.
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