The freaks come out at night. Young Jeezy teams with 2 Chainz in the video for “SupaFreak,” a cut off his album TM:103: Hustlerz Ambition. Jizzle makes it rain in the club as scantily-clad women parade on the bar. T.I. joins the debauchery, which wouldn’t be complete without some girl-on-girl action. Unleash your inner freak.
BET recognized the achievements of legends in the fields of music, literature, entertainment, media, service, and education at its 5th Annual BET Honors. Mariah Carey, Stevie Wonder, Maya Angelou, and Spike Lee were among the honorees at Saturday’s taping at Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. The star-studded evening featured musical performances and touching tributes.
Common, Jennifer Hudson, Aretha Franklin, Queen Latifah, Willow Smith, Jill Scott, and First Lady Michelle Obama were also on hand to salute the honorees. The special will air during Black History Month on February 13.
Rihanna’s friends are so worried about her hard-partying ways they’re urging the singer to check into rehab – before she meets the same tragic fate as Amy Winehouse.
Concerns about the “We Found Love” songbird reached a fever pitch in mid-December after she was forced to race offstage during the middle of a concert to vomit. But instead of being more cautious about her well-being after that episode, the 23-year old has continued to party and lose weight.
“Rihanna has gone off the deep end,” disclosed a source in the music industry. “She has been burning the candle at both ends for nearly a year and now she’s on the verge of collapse.
Via US Weekly
In the February issue of Essence, loves of nearly three years Gabrielle Union and Dwyane Wade talk candidly about their views on marriage — and why Union may be headed to reality TV.
“We’re not rushing it,” Wade, a 29-year-old NBA player, says. “Both of us have been married before, and we understand that if we choose to marry again, we want it to be right.”
(Wade has two sons, Zaire, 9, and Zion, 3, with ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches; Union was wed to NFL player Chris Howard from 2001-2006.)
“We both took failing at marriage hard,” Wade explains. “The next time it’s gotta be forever.
Union, who next stars in Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds, echoes her boyfriend’s sentiments. “When it happens, it’s going to be something that only our friends and family know about,” the 39-year-old actress tells Essence. “That is, unless the E! Network comes up with the right number, of course.”
Lil Kim and Trina partied all night at a club in Tampa over the weekend. The two have been friends for quite some time now, and have supported each other in their respective careers. It’s good to see that some females in the hip-hop game can play nicely together. Check out the pics:
Via Associated Press
Survivors from a luxury cruise ship that ran aground and tipped over, leaving at least three dead and 69 people still unaccounted for, described Saturday a chaotic evacuation, as plates and glasses crashed and they crawled along upended hallways trying to reach safety.
Three bodies were recovered from the sea after the Costa Concordia ran aground off the tiny island of Giglio near the coast of Tuscany late Friday, tearing a 160-foot (50-meter) gash in its hull and sending in a rush of water.
The ANSA news agency quoting the prefect’s office in the province of Grosseto as saying that authorities have accounted for 4,165 of the 4,234 people who had boarded the liner.
By morning Saturday, the ship was lying virtually flat off Gigio’s coast, its starboard side submerged in the water and the huge gash showing clearly on its upturned hull.
Passengers described a scene reminiscent of “Titanic”, complaining the crew failed to give instructions on how to evacuate and once the emergency became clear, delayed lowering the lifeboats until the ship was listing too heavily for many of them to be released.
Helicopters plucked to safety some people who were trapped on the ship, some survivors were rescued by boats in the area, and witnesses said some people jumped from the ship into the dark, cold sea. Coast guard rescuers were continuing to search the ship for passengers.
Madonna invited “20/20’s” cameras inside the studio for the first time in 30 years as she recorded a new song with M.I.A. The “Paper Planes” hitmaker received direction from the pop queen while laying down her vocals on a track entitled “Birthday Song.”
“Na na na, na na na na na na na, gonna sing my song tonight,” sings M.I.A. on the catchy pop tune.
She also appears on “Gimme All Your Luvin’,” the first single from Madonna’s upcoming album M.D.N.A., which features Nicki Minaj. The trio may perform together at the Super Bowl next month.
Hip-hop heads got their money’s worth at the star-studded “Tru-2 Music” concert at Club Nokia L.A. LIVE on Friday night (Jan. 13). Busta Rhymes and Rick Ross co-headlined the evening, which also featured performances from YG and Eric Bellinger.
Bussa Buss stormed the stage in a black feathery coat, showering the front row with champagne and filling his set with plenty of surprise guests including Swizz Beatz, Snoop Dogg, and Chris Brown, who performed “Look at Me Now.”
The Teflon Don, who rescheduled the show after his medical emergency last year, performed his Rich Forever mixtape cuts live for the first time including “Holy Ghost,” “Yella Diamonds,” and the controversial “Stay Schemin’” with French Montana. “I felt dat real #CaliLuv,” tweeted Rozay.
Snoop Dogg’s recent weed arrest didn’t stop him from lighting one up backstage as he mingled with his peers. Other celebrity sightings included Ameriie, Iggy Azalea, and Nipsey Hussle.
Solange strut down the catwalk at the Alberta Ferretti fashion show during Milan Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2012. The singer, whose favorite designers include DVF, Opening Ceremony, J. Crew, and Boxing Kitten, recently signed a modeling contract with Next Model Management.
In an interview with Vogue Italia, the new aunt spoke about becoming Rimmel’s first black spokesperson.
“I don’t by any means consider myself the most qualified for model material,” she told the magazine. “I think that people tend to respond to what is real. Black women carry that flame with so much ease and confidence. It is being captured and celebrated on all fronts in fashion now.”
Solange is finishing up her third album. “There are a lot of songs about sex,” she confessed to V magazine. “It’s the kind of record you put on when your man is coming over, when you’re with your girls. There are songs that make you wanna dance because we were kind of partying our way through the record, but it’s very chill.”
The state Health Department in New York opened and quickly closed an investigation into whether or not parents were kept away from their children in the Lenox Hill Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit during Beyonce’s stay after it was determined that the complaints did not come from actual parents…
From The NY Post
The state Health Department yesterday announced that it had opened a probe into the controversy behind the blessed event at the Upper East Side hospital, amid claims that the safety of other babies was put at risk and parents were blocked from seeing their newborns to accommodate the power couple.
But then, hours later, the Health Department abruptly declared it has closed the “review,” saying there was nothing to the controversial claims.
Yesterday afternoon, state Health Department spokesman Michael Moran said, “We have gotten two complaints and we will investigate.”
He said the complaints were “not from parents” — one was anonymous, and the other came from “a person who read about it.”
Hours later, another department official, Jeffrey Gordon, announced, “We have reviewed the complaints and they have been dismissed.’’
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