One of the fan favorites from Rihannas “Talk That Talk” album is the very short “Birthday Cake”. Written by the Dream the song is only one minute and eighteen seconds. But come the new year, the first thing on her agenda is giving her fans a full version of the song.
Brandy is serious about her 2012 takeover and she’s enlisted popular producer Odd Future’s Frank Ocean to help her create some magic…
Brandy tells BET
“We have great chemistry. We both understand music in the same ways. To work with him on this album was great as well, and I hope I can get in (the studio) with him some more because his music is just so moving; I’m inspired by him. I think he’s a great artist and he hasn’t even touched on what he will touch on in the future.”
In an interview with VLAD TV, Young Jeezy, says that not only is he on the verge of canceling his Twitter account, but the social networking site caused the murder of one of his good friends. He cautions everyone to be aware of the power of words and know that it cyber wars are dangerous:
I just lost a homeboy over twitter beef so I don’t think it’s a joke, not at all. R.I.P to Kev; He was a good kid. I lost my homeboy and I had to be in the hospital; I left the club and came to the hospital. I had to sit there with his mother and that’s why I tell you, to y’all this sh*t is questions but to me, this sh*t is real. I sat in the room with his mother and brother; the nurse walked in and said “Ma’am, I’m sorry but you lost your son to multiple gun shot wounds to the chest” and she walked out and left her to deal with that. I had to sit there with her and comfort her.
I also attended the funeral and this was three weeks ago, so my thing is “I get it”! Everybody got an ego and everybody is tough but I feel like this sh*t is meant for networking. My thing is these kids got to know they can’t take this sh*t and make it a negative. They can’t be f*cking killing each other over words. I feel bad I had to sit there and bury him with his brother. It kind of hurt me because three weeks prior to that we were all hanging, smoking and having a good time.
It’s just crazy to see what these kids are doing today over some internet sh*t. It almost made me want to not be on twitter no more and it’s probably why I haven’t just been on it because I’m like, “Damn, what the f*ck is going on?” I understand everybody is tough these days; tough economic times make sh*t really frustrating for people but it’s one thing to have an argument in your neighborhood but when you start beefing on f*cking twitter and people start dying, that’s when you know we got a problem.
Younger brother of Hip-Hop mogul, Percy “Master P” Miller, will be spending the remainder of his life in jail for the 2002 murder of a teenager at a club.
Corey “C-Murder” Miller appealed his 2009 second-degree murder conviction in Louisiana’s 5th Circuit Court of Appeal for the shooting death of Steve Johnson, and was denied by the court.
The three-judge panel rejected Miller’s argument last Wednesday that he didn’t get a fair trial.
C’Murder claims that the presiding judge allowed prejudicial and unsubstantiated testimony into the courtroom, including witnesses to the shooting who claim that they were threatened by the No Limit Solider. He also accused prosecutors of purposely and systematically removing black people from the jury.
Lebron James brought in 2012 with a big bang proposing to his longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson.
She was spotted at the Miami Heat vs. Charlotte Bobcats game on Sunday gushing as she held up her ring for all to see.
The night before, she kicked off a New Years Eve dinner and celebration of Lebron’s 27th birthday but it turned into her special night. Lebron had waited all night for the perfect moment to catch her off guard and pop the big question. Moments after the New Year rang in, he got a little help from D Wade, who patiently held the ring while Lebron did his thing. After being totally caught of guard and shocked, Savannah said, ‘Yes!’ and received a beautiful diamond ring.
A man confessed to police he murdered a prostitute in a rage after finding out she was really a man.
Kenyan L. Jones, 26, from Kansas City, faces charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of Darnell D. Pearson, 31.
He told police he picked up the prostitute on Christmas Eve and paid to have sexual relations with her, believing she was a woman.
Several hours later Jones became aware the prostitute was actually a man, he left him to get a handgun before finding Mr Pearson in a different area of town and ‘popped him’.
Police said they found the 31-year-old’s body just before midnight after an eye witness called 911 and told dispatchers he saw a man in a hoodie running from the scene.
The Associated Press reports that FEMA is seeking to recover more than $385 million that it claims was erroneously paid to victims of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma. The debts average approximately $4,622 per recipient — slightly less than 5 percent of the $8 billion that FEMA distributed after the devastating storms. Congressional testimony reveals that some of the errors, ranging from clerical errors to failing to interview applicants, are due to the incompetence of FEMA employees.
Even though Congress approved legislation that allows FEMA to waive many of the debts— and President Barack Obama signed the measure into law last Friday—the agency is still determined to seek payback.
If you wondered what ever happened to India.Arie, according to her former manager she ended her own career…
Via TMZ
According to a lawsuit filed earlier this year in federal court in Tennessee, Noreen Nalli served as India.Arie’s manager from 2005-2009, when she claims Arie dumped her without notice.
The two are now involved in a she-said-she-said battle. Nalli claims India.Arie still owes her money from when they worked together and India.Arie counter-sued … claiming she overpaid Nalli.
But here’s the interesting part … Nalli claims India.Arie constantly canceled shows, rejected offers to perform, and would be unavailable for weeks at a time … which hurt record sales and therefore cost Nalli additional money.
A rep for India.Arie tells TMZ that “she remains hopeful that the matter will be resolved amicably.”
Online sites for dating prisoners have proliferated in recent years. On the surface, these sites profess to specialize in connecting people behind bars with those seeking pen pals. Behind this façade, sites with names like jailbabes.com act as bridges that transform long-distance friends into lovers.
Arlen Bischke started a prisoner pen-pal site called meet-an-inmate.com in 1998 to help prisoners connect to the outside world. “They become very lonely and often get cut off from their friends and family,” Biske told theGrio. “Correspondence with a stranger can give them something to look forward to and help their moral.”
Yet his site and those similar to it feature inmate profiles as inviting as any on OkCupid. Posing in spruced-up versions of their prison uniforms, prisoners use these sites to sell themselves to potential pen pals and describe the types of people they want to meet.
One compelling prospective pen pal, Israel Cosme, age 30, displays his perfectly toned chest to visitors of meet-an-inmate.com telling all takers, “I love to laugh and have been told I have a great sense of humor.”
Eva Hoeke, editor-in-chief of Jackie Magazine, the controversial magazine that’s having a PR nightmare over the racist terms used in an article to describe Rihanna, has resigned. According to Necole Bitchie, the editor and the publisher felt her credibility were compromised by the incident, and in a statement on the publication’s Facebook page, she announced she is laying down her editorial responsibilities. Here’s what the statement says:
I realize that my first reaction on Twitter, where I indicated that it was a joke, was an incomplete description of what I, and also the author of the article referred. The term ‘n—a b—h’ h” has come over from America and we have only this to describe this particular style of clothes that we can try to interpret. Due to the enormous pressure from social media, I promised to do better regarding the language in future issues of Jackie and I have offered to rectify the situation.
I have now come to the conclusion that rectification is not the right solution. I regret that I have taken too quickly positions on an item in Jackie – which incidentally had no underlying racial motive. In the course of events I went with, the publisher came to the conclusion that, now that my credibility is affected, it’s better for all parties if I immediately lay down my duties as editor. After my eight years giving my heart and soul for Jackie, I realize that these errors – although not malicious intent – are a reason for leaving. “
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