Clearly 2011 is not the year for Papa Knowles. First Mathew Knowles loses his daughter as a client, then he gets sued by the TV One network for breaching an exclusive deal over the Essence Music Festival. Now Radio One (TV One’s sister company) is pulling music by all and any artists currently signed to or associated with Knowles’ music company, Music World Music.
According to an employee at Radio One, the head woman in charge, chairperson and founder, Cathy Hughes, is NOT having it with Mr. Knowles or any act currently associated with him:
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“All Radio One personnel were told to pull all Music World artists out of rotation immediately and indefinitely! We were told that the mandate came straight from Ms. Hughes and that there would be ramifications for anyone playing or mentioning a Music World artist or song on air…Radio One owns at least 12 gospel stations across the country – that’s the majority. It’s hard for artists to sell CD’s without radio airplay! Right now Music World definitely isn’t getting any from Radio One.” [Source]
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With Radio One serving as a valuable tool for promoting gospel artists, this basically puts Knowles’ popular gospel artists like Juanita Bynum, Trin-I-Tee 5:7, Vanessa Bell Armstrong and BET’s Sunday’s Best newest winner Amber Bullock at a loss.
Los Angeles Dodgers star and former boo to Rihanna, Matt Kemp did a little Christmas shopping at The Grove in Los Angeles, California a couple of days ago…
Fonzworth Bentley was spotted with his wife/actress, Faune Chambers over the weekend while heading to an event at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. In a recent interview, Bentley talked about how he manages to balance his marriage and career (VIEW VIDEO). Congrats to the newlyweds!
Robin Thicke and Paula Patton walked the red carpet together at the U.S. premiere of Paula’s upcoming movie, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol on Monday evening (December 19) at the Ziegfeld Theatre in NYC. In the film, Patton plays a secret agent named Jane Carter. The film hits movie theaters on Wednesday, December 21st.
Later that night, Robin Thicke stopped by the Chelsea Lately show and was clearly buzzed off of that alcohol (scotch to be exact). The Love After War singer kept it smooth and shared a little story about how Paula inspired his song “All Tied Up”. He also talked about how his dad, Alan Thicke (from Growing Pains) used to “woo the womens” back in the day. Peep the full interview below.
Check out another track from up and coming singer Rochelle Jordan. Hot of the heels of her recent mixtape release, R O J O, she is working on yet another mixtape, R O J O 2, for 2012. Make sure you keep an eye out for this rising music star.
