(L to R: Antwaun Cook, Jamie Foster Brown of S2S & Fantasia at Baby Shower)
Oh baby!Fantasia Barrino and her boyfriend Antwan Cook finally welcomed a healthy baby boy to their family on Monday (December 12) after news hit the web about the former American Idol winner going into labor. According to RadarOnline, Barrino checked into the Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina that morning.
According to PEOPLE.COM, the baby’s name is Dallas Xavier Barrino and clocked in at at 7 lbs., 9 oz. She also released a statement saying:
“I feel so blessed that my son Dallas Xavier was born healthy, and is a wonderful new addition to our family,” Barrino, 27, tells PEOPLE. “I thank all my fans for their well wishes and continued support.”
I’m sure Mrs. Paula Cook is still feeling some kind of way. Isn’t she and Antwan still married? Welp. Either way, congrats to Fantasia! **cues in “Baby Mama” song** [Source]
After having #dembabies, Mariah Carey is back to her music grind. The 41 year-old mother of two has gotten to work on her upcoming, untiled studio album. With many producers and writers itching for credits on her album, Mariah has decided to work with one of her favorite producers again, Jermaine Dupri!
The two longtime friends posted pictures of themselves enjoying themselves, while working hard at laying down tracks in the studio. We’re sure they’ve been cooking up some musical magic. Hopefully her first single will drop really soon! *does a happy dance*
TWEET TO MAKE MUSIC COMEBACK AT TOP OF 2012
Yes, yes, YES! It looks like Ms. Southern Hummingbird aka Tweet is coming back to the music game! It has been six years since her second studio album It’s Me Again. Since then Tweet had been working on releasing her 3rd album Love, Tweet but had to cancel any release of its single tracks due to an online leak.
No word on what the new album will be titled. But the good news is: a new gem is on the way!
Da Brat (aka Shawntae Harris) spoke with Concrete Loop earlier this week in a very candid interview describing her time in prison. The rapper (who was released on Monday), shocked a lot of people back ’07 when she was sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a nightclub waitress.
Proclaiming she now has control over her temper, Brat spoke about what she learned from the experience, writing a book and so much more. Make sure to check out the full interview below.
DA BRAT “PART 1″
(SPEAKS ON SERVING TIME, WRITING A BOOK & MORE)
DA BRAT: Hi Angel!
ANGEL: Hey what’s up Da Brat? Thank you for sitting with us and talking to us.
DA BRAT What’s happening? I’m chillin, chillin’. Just got finished eating me some steamed vegetables and tilapia.
ANGEL: Ok, I was going to ask you, what was one of the first things you did when you got out?
DA BRAT I went to this restaurant in the country called the Huddle House and had me some country fried steak w/ a lot of gravy on it and some mushrooms. It was good as hell.
ANGEL: [laughs] That’s wassup. Yeah that’s the first thing a lot of people do right? Get that food.
DA BRAT Un huh.
ANGEL: So, we know you completed three years in prison..
DA BRAT Two and a half, two and a half years. And I’m on an ankle monitor right now. They got me on house arrest right now. they just won’t leave me alone.
ANGEL:Yeah I read that you were going to be on probation for seven more years?
DA BRAT Yeah probation seven years. I’m on parole til August and I’m on an ankle monitor right now, I can’t leave the house. At least I’m in the comfort of my own spot and I’m getting everything setup right now.
ANGEL: Well we hit up the Concrete Loop twitter followers earlier and told them that we would be speaking with you and one of the questions they asked the most is ‘What have you learned from your prison experience”?
DA BRAT I learned not to take things for granted so much. A lot of things that I had right at my feet. When it’s kind of taken away from you and you can’t do those things anymore, you really really learn to appreciate them more. Like studio time, a lot of times J.D. might be like “Brat, come to the studio” and I was like “naw I’ll be there later.”[laughs] I would go to sleep and not go but when you in prison you wish you could go. You can do the things you have a passion for, you wish you could hug and kiss your family when you want to. I missed flying back and forth to Chicago every week to see my family. My grandmother had been sick so and losing love ones and all that and not being able to go to the funeral. And those things really hit hard when you can’t do things that you are so used to doing. I learned a lot of patience as well, you know in prison you can’t just flip out on somebody…you kinda just gotta be like “okay, okay..” You just mind your own business.
Super producer/mogul Jermaine Dupri recently got some new ink while he was in California and it’s a design of girlfriend, singer Janet Jackson in what looks like a play on the Virgin Mary pose. Very interesting and that shading is hott.
Peep what he said via his blog, Global 14 while he was on the table:
THIS IS ME ON THE TABLE TWITTERING WITH YALL WHILE I’M GETTING MY RIB CAGE DONE. THIS IS THE LONGEST I HAVE EVER SAT FOR A TAT, I HAD TO TAKE 100 BREAKS CAUSE THAT SHIT HURT LIKE HELL. SHOUT OUT TO MY MAN JUN CHA. I TOLD YALL I WAS GETTING SOMETHING BY HIM. IF YOU EVA IN LA AND YOU SERIOUS ABOUT TATTOOS YOU NEED TO HOLLA AT HIM.
After having #dembabies, Mariah Carey is back to her music grind. The 41 year-old mother of two has gotten to work on her upcoming, untiled studio album. With many producers and writers itching for credits on her album, Mariah has decided to work with one of her favorite producers again, Jermaine Dupri! 
Yes, yes, YES! It looks like Ms. Southern Hummingbird aka Tweet is coming back to the music game! It has been six years since her second studio album It’s Me Again. Since then Tweet had been working on releasing her 3rd album Love, Tweet but had to cancel any release of its single tracks due to an online leak. 
