Monday night Tamar Braxton earned a perfect score on Dancing with the Stars for Famous Dances Night after she and partner Valentin Chmerkovskiy killed Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation.‘
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D.R.A.M. SAYS DRAKE ‘JACKED’ ‘CHA CHA’ FOR ‘HOTLINE BLING’
Fresh off performing in Drake’s hometown of Toronto, D.R.A.M. took to Twitter to air our his grievances following the premiere of the “Hotline Bling“ video. He wrote “Just performed in Toronto for the 1st time tonight and it was bittersweet,” said the Virginia singer-rapper, adding, “Bitter though, cus after my performance all I’m seeing is Cha Cha/Hotline Bling comparisons on my timeline.”
He continued, “Ni**as want to know how I feel about that,” he said before calling out Drake. “Yeah, I feel I got jacked for my record…But I’m GOOD.”
While the songs may sound alike, “Hotline Bling,” produced by Nineteen85, credits a sample of Timmy Thomas’ 1972 song “Why Can’t We Live Together” and not “Cha Cha.”
Beyonce Poses it Up for BEAT Magazine
Beyoncé is feeling patriotic for BEAT magazine. She reveled that she was on the cover last week, posting the picture up on her Instagram.
During the Q&A with the mag, she also revealed what she sings in the shower (“Holy Ghost” by Kim Burrell), Netflix or chill? (Netflix and chill), last song that got stuck in her head (Fetty Wap’s “Jugg”), and what she puts on her pizza (Extra tomato sauce and jalapeños).
In other news, Beyonce along with Nicki Minaj, Lil, Wayne, T.I. and many more will take the stage tonight at the Barclays Center for the Tidal X show.
New Video – Drake – “Hotline Bling”
Drake debuted the video for his latest smash “Hotline Bling” via Apple Music. The song samples the D.R.A.M. song “Cha Cha,” and has spawned a number of remixes by other artists. The video was directed by director X.
The song is currently No. 2 on the Hot 100, but Drake is hungry for the No. 1 spot. “I have never had a billboard number one,” he wrote on Instagram.
Bobby Brown Penning a Memoir
Back in 2008 Bobby Brown wrote a tell-all book about his life with Whitney Houston where he claimed she only married him to quiet the gay rumors and that she introduced him to cocaine.
While that book never saw the light of day. Bobby has signed on to write another one. Dey Street Books announced yesterday that Bobby Brown was writing a ‘raw and unvarnished’ memoir and would “tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston.”
Bobby Brown’s book ‘My Prerogative’ is due out next June.
Taraji P. Henson Covers Essence Magazine
Taraji P. Henson, the break out star of the hit series “Empire,” is gracing the cover of ESSENCE magazine’s November 2015 issue.
Taraji told ESSENCE that “even though people are just now finding me as Cookie, thank God for Netflix because people are so moved by my performance they’re like, ‘Where has she been?’ I’ve always said I want to do the type of work that people study.”
“These kids are thinking they can do reality TV and come and do this craft that I studied, sweated and grinded,” says Henson. “People forget it’s a craft because it’s so pop now…Can they make me believe the words coming out of their mouth?”
The issue hits newsstands October 16th.
Lamar Odom Found Unconscious in Crtical Condition
Lamar Odom is reportedly in critical condition after being found unconscious at the Love Ranch South in Nevada on Tuesday afternoon.
The 35-year-old basketball player has been airlifted to a Las Vegas hospital for treatment, according to TMZ.
Lamar checked into the ranch on Saturday and allegedly partied with girls for days. At one point, sources say he was seen taking an herbal substitute for Viagra.
When someone entered Lamar‘s hotel room on Tuesday, he was found in a state of unconsciousness and fluid was seen coming out of his mouth. He was taken to a local hospital and was not able to breathe on his own, so doctors had to intubate him.
NEW MUSIC: THE WEEKND FEAT. NICKI MINAJ – ‘THE HILLS (REMIX)’/Video from SNL f/Nicki Minaj
The Weeknd is sitting on top of the charts for a third week with his smash hit “The Hills.” He has drafted Nicki Minaj for one of two official remixes (the other features Eminem).
Nicki joined The Weeknd tonight when he performed the song on tonight’s “SNL.”
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Nick Gordon Injected Bobbi Kristina with Lethal Drug Cocktail?
Shocking new details from the civil lawsuit filed against Nick Gordon in the death of Bobbi Kristina Brown have come to light.
From 11 Live:
Bobbi Kristina Brown died after Nick Gordon injected her with a toxic mixture and then placed her unconscious in a bathtub, new documents in a civil lawsuit allege.
The new allegations are made in response to Nick Gordon’s motion to stay discovery proceedings in the civil lawsuit filed by Brown’s conservator. Discovery is the legal procedures used to gather evidence for a lawsuit.
20th Anniversary of the Million Man March!!
Thousands of black rights activists from across the nation gathered Saturday on the National Mall to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March and call for policing reforms and changes in black communities.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who spearheaded the original march, led the anniversary gathering Saturday at the Capitol called the “Justice or Else” march. I remember being a 14 year old boy back in 1995 the MMM was an awesome experience for a young buck like myself. I remember seeing Maya Angelou and the late Rosa Parks speak, and just seeing so many black men gathered together for a positive cause was inspiring.
In 2015, Farrakhan called Black Lives Matter protesters the next leaders of the civil rights movement and called on older leaders to support them.
“What good are we if we don’t prepare young people to carry the torch of liberation to the next step?” he said.
At the march, the families of several unarmed African-American men and women killed in encounters with law enforcement encouraged the crowd to continue to speak out against police misconduct.
“We will not continue to stand by and not say anything anymore,” said Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old black teen shot dead in Sanford, Florida on Feb. 26, 2012.
March participants spoke of their sense of purpose in guaranteeing black Americans rights for which many have fought for generations.
The original march on Oct. 16, 1995, brought hundreds of thousands to Washington, D.C. to pledge to improve their lives, their families and their communities. Women, whites and other ethnic minorities were not invited to the original march, but organizers said all were welcome Saturday.
The National Park Service estimated the attendance at the original march to be around 400,000, but subsequent counts by private organizations say the number was at least double that. The National Park Service has refused to give crowd estimates on Mall activities since.
Just a few statistics, in 1994, law enforcement agencies arrested 3.5 million African Americans, comprising 30.9 percent of all arrests, the FBI said. In 2013, law enforcement arrested 2.5 million African Americans, which made up 28 percent of all arrests, the latest FBI data shows.
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