R&B singer Keyshia Cole and her family are headed back to BET this fall for a six part series called “Family First.”
Her and NBA baller Daniel Gibson, and their son DJ will be featured in the new show. Keyshia’s mother Frankie will also make a few appearances, they had a fallen out a few years back, but have reconnected. We also will finally see footage from that dream Hawaiian wedding.
Usher debuts the cover art and tracklisting for his seventh album Looking 4 Myself. Due June 12, the standard edition features 14 tracks including the No. 1 single R & B single “Climax,” with appearances from Pharrell, Luke Steele, and Rick Ross on the Jim Jonsin-produced “Lemme See.” The deluxe version includes four additional tracks. See the tracklisting below.
Looking 4 Myself Tracklisting
1. “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop”
2. “Scream”
3. “Climax”
4. “I Care for U”
5. “Show Me”
6. “Lemme See” feat. Rick Ross
7. “Twisted” feat. Pharrell
8. “Dive”
9. “What Happened to U”
10. “Looking 4 Myself” feat. Luke Steele
11. “Numb”
12. “Lessons for the Lover”
13. “Sins of My Father”
14. “Euphoria”
Deluxe Edition
15. “I.F.U.”
16. “Say the Words”
17. “2nd Round”
18. “Hot Thing”
Bobby Brown opened up about the death of Whitney Houston during a one-on-one interview with Matt Lauer on the “Today” show. The New Edition singer, who learned about his ex-wife’s passing through his bandmate Ralph Tresvant, recalled first hearing the tragic news and responded to criticism that he was partly responsible for her demise.
“I just started crying,” said Brown, 43. “You never expect someone close to you to just die. It was really hard.”
The toxicology report concluded that Houston died from accidental drowning and had cocaine in her system at the time of death, which surprised Brown. “I was hurt. Me being off of narcotics for the last seven years, I didn’t know that she was struggling with it,” he said. “But at the same time, it’s a hard fight to maintain sobriety that way.”
While he doesn’t blame himself for her death, he wonders what could have been done differently. “Maybe I coulda done something different to ensure that she had a longer life,” he added. “But you have to want it, you know? Some things just happen. God probably just needed her for the choir up there in heaven and that’s the biggest voice you have.”
Despite those who say he contributed to her death, he says drugs were a part of her life before he met her. “I didn’t get high on narcotics before I met Whitney. I smoked weed, I drank beer, but no, I wasn’t the one that got Whitney on drugs. I’m not the reason she’s gone.”
Their 2005 reality show “Being Bobby Brown” shined a spotlight on their relationship. “It makes me feel terrible, but I know differently. If anyone ever knew us, if anybody ever spent time around us instead of time looking through the bubble, they would know how we felt about each other. The reality show gave us a wake-up because we were able to see what other people were saying about us. We were able to see that our drug use had affected our relationship, had affected the love that we felt for each other.”
Brown, who’s about to get married again soon, will always have love for his ex-wife. “I had 14 beautiful, beautiful years with that woman. I loved that woman with everything that I am and I believed she loved me the same way,” he said. “Even though I’m getting married soon, my fiancée knows how I felt about that woman, my kids know how I felt about Whitney, that’s no secret. I was in love with her deeply.”
The Teflon Don, Rick Ross announced that he has signed Omarion to Maybach Music Group. “Today I become a made man. Omarion aka Maybach O.,” said the former B2K member, who is readying an EP. His first single “Let’s Talk” features Rozay and samples Notorious B.I.G. and Salt-n-Pepa.
Ross explained how he linked up with Omarion. “I ran into the homie, we had a few conversations and I flew him down to Miami and he played me a dozen records,” he said. “I was amazed by the music he put together. We had a few conversations and we made a situation happen. He’s a phenomenal entertainer. His dancing is incredible. He’s an actor, he’s a writer. I thought it would be a great move for both of us. I’ve been looking to enter the R&B arena, I felt he was the best artist to kick the doors open.”
Jada Pinkett-Smith sits down with her daughter Willow Smith and her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones for a candid conversation in what Jada hopes to be an on-going series called Red Table Talks.
In the trailer for the series Jada’s mother admits to Willow that she wasn’t a good mother to Jada and a tearful Willow expresses the desire to be alone with her mother and grandmother. Jada describes Red Table Talks as an intimate and honest conversation about Love, Life, Fame, & Family.
Coming this Mother’s Day 5/13/2012.
Last night around 9pm Tyler Perry Studios in Southwest Atlanta went up in flames. Neighbors claim they heard two explosions before the blaze started. The fire was put out by 10 pm but one building was badly damaged and the front of another had completely collapsed. Tyler Perry’s 200,000-square foot studio sits on 30 acres and houses several sets and a 400 seat theater. Tyler Perry was at spotted outside the burning studio but would not speak with reporters.
Just last month Wiz Khalifa was cited for marijuana possession in Nashville, Tennessee and the same thing happened to him again last night.
Wiz was ticketed after his concert in Winston-Salem, North Carolina after officers searched the rapper and his tour bus and turned up 11.39 grams of weed. Like shooting fish in a barrel.
Wiz was cited and released and is required to appear in court at a later date.
To celebrate their twins’ first birthday this past Monday, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon pulled out all the stops — in Paris. Marking the occasion on Sunday with pink and blue balloons, custom-made French pastries, confetti and lots of toys, Carey, 42, and Cannon, 31, had a ball toasting Moroccan and Monroe alongside several close friends at the Plaza Athenee.
Say what you want about Rihanna, but one thing for certain is that she is a bad gurl!! She and her homegirls got freaky up in the club and RiRi took to Instagram to share her enthusiasm. She’s such a “lil freak” like my man Usher say, but you gotta love it!!
Don’t let the pretty face fool you. LoLa Monroe gets ugly with her rhymes on “Dark Red Lipstick,” produced by Rob Holladay. Taylor Gang’s First Lady throws on her six-inch heels and rides out on the mysterious track, which was inspired by TLC’s “No Scrubs.”
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