Coolest Prez Ever!!!! President Obama Slow Jams the News on ‘Jimmy Fallon’ ‎

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On Tuesday night, President Barack Obama did what no president has done before: He “slow jammed the news” with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots on “Late Night.”

Stepping in for regular news jammer Brian Williams, Obama slow jammed one of his policy positions over the smooth vamping of house band The Roots.

“I’m President Barack Obama, and I, too, would like to Slow Jam the News,” said Obama before taking his place on a stool and laying out his agenda.

“What we said is simple: Now is not the time to make school more expensive for our young people,” Obama said to wild applause from the college crowd at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

Fallon then stepped in to offer some slow jam support. “You should listen to the President,” he crooned. “Or as I like to call him, the Preezy of the United Steezy.”

Jennifer Hudson Hears Painful Testimony About Slain Family.

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The trial of the man charged with murdering three of Jennifer Hudson’s family members resumed Tuesday with the Oscar-winner shutting her eyes as a police officer described finding her dead family members.

 Hudson sat next to her fiancé as prosecutors shifted their focus to presenting crime scene evidence in the case against her former brother-in-law, William Balfour.

 Hudson hung her head and shut her eyes as Chicago police Sgt. David Dowling described finding her mother’s body sprawled in the living room with gunshot wounds through her back.

 Hudson didn’t move as Dowling described finding her brother dead in his bed of a gunshot wound to the head. His sheets were pulled up as if he had been sleeping.

 Balfour was estranged from his wife, Hudson’s sister, at the time of the killings. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering Hudson’s mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew.

 Hudson, wearing a black top and green skirt, sat in a fourth row bench well within view of jurors Tuesday. Her sister and Balfour’s ex-wife, Julia Hudson, sat on her left.

 Chicago prosecutors created a buzz Monday by calling the Oscar winner and “American Idol” finalist as their first witness, but on Tuesday they began getting down to the nitty-gritty of their case.

 With no surviving witnesses to the murders, prosecutors must offer overwhelming circumstantial evidence that Balfour committed the grisly crime on Oct. 24, 2008. They are expected to introduce evidence in the next few days that includes cellphone records and security-camera footage that place Balfour in the area of the killings, because he denies he was there.

 Another challenge will be tying Balfour to the alleged murder weapon, a silver and black .45-calibre handgun that sat Monday on a stack of papers at the prosecution table in plain view of jurors and Jennifer Hudson.

 Public defender Amy Thompson told jurors during her opening statement that DNA found on the gun didn’t match Balfour, which “absolutely, positively” excludes him as the killer. But prosecutors claim that Balfour targeted the family in a horrific act of vindictiveness against his ex-wife.

 Shortly after Thompson and prosecutors laid out their cases, Jennifer Hudson took the witness stand in sometimes tearful, gut-wrenching testimony. Hudson, who was in Florida at the time of the shootings, spoke of her family and her reaction to her sister, Julia Hudson, telling her in 2006 that she was marrying Balfour.

 “None of us wanted her to marry him,” the 30-year-old said, her voice cracking as she struggled to hold back tears.

 Later, Julia Hudson described how Balfour repeatedly threatened her and her family after she rejected his pleas in May 2008.

 “He said, ‘If you leave me, you will be the last to die. I’ll kill your family first,'” she said, her voice quivering.

 Under cross-examination, she acknowledged she was still having sex with Balfour days before the slayings.

 The killings happened the day after her birthday. Prosecutors believe that Balfour became enraged by balloons he saw at the home that he thought were from her new boyfriend.

 Prosecutors said Balfour went inside the three-story house around 9 a.m. and shot Hudson’s mother, 57-year-old Darnell Donerson, in the living room, then shot her 29-year-old brother, Jason Hudson, twice in the head as he lay in bed.

 Investigators allege he then drove off in Jason Hudson’s sport utility vehicle with 7-year-old Julian inside, and later shot the boy in the head as he lay behind a front seat.

 If convicted of at least two of the murder counts, Balfour would face a mandatory life sentence.

 

The Kardashians Snag Richest Deal Ever In Reality TV

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If you thought the Kardashians reign were over, you thought wrong. Kim, Khloe and Kourtney snagged a $40 million deal with E! for three more seasons of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”

The 7th season of the hit show, airs May 20. TMZ reports “the $40-plus million deal does not include all of the products and other items associated with the show that Kim, Kris and the rest of the brood are able to hock.”

Nicki Minaj Rejoins Twitter

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Queens MC Nicki Minaj as realized the power of social networking.

After deleting her Twitter account because people were leaking her new material, Nicki Minaj reactivated her Twitter. Minaj has yet to type a single character since re-opening the page. When she left Twitter, Nicki had 10,000,000 followers. The Young Money rapper has gained 60,000 back.

Many believed Nicki Minaj’s deletion of Twitter was a stunt to drum up more sales of her album Pink Friday 2: Roman Reloaded. While on a press tour in London, Nicki told everybody how much she hated social networking. She also t0old Tim Westwood that she was contemplating retirement.

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian Step Out in Style to Restaurant Opening

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Kanye West and Kim Kardashian hit the town for the grand opening of Scott Disick’s restaurant RYU in New York last night. The fashionable couple held hands, smiling for photographers as they made their way inside. Over the weekend, Kim was seen wearing earrings with Kanye’s initials.

“It’s a really good friendship that went into dating,” Kim’s sister Khloe told US Weekly. “She wore the KW earrings, that pretty much confirmed that!”

Kanye has been a friend of the Kardashian family for some time. “We’ve known Kanye for like nine years, and we had a double-triple-foursome date,” Khloe told Andy Cohen on “Watch What Happens Live.” “He’s great with the family, but again, we’ve known him for so long. It’s not like some stranger getting into a hurricane.”

New Music: Goodie Mob – ‘Fight to Win’

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Cee Lo Green reunited with his Goodie Mob bandmates on “The Voice” last night to debut the group’s new single “Fight to Win.” Dressed as warriors in metallic gold suits with glowing teeth, the Atlanta collective performed the courageous track, which will be used as the theme song for the NBA. The elusive André 3000 even stopped by the show to watch them perform.

“It’s really a special song and you can tell it’s a continuum of what Goodie Mob stands for,” Cee Lo told Sway on “Sway in the Morning. “It’s definitely African Americana.”

Cee Lo, Khujo, T-Mo, and Big Gipp have recorded 10-15 songs for their upcoming album Age Against the Machine, but a release date has not been set.

Be Strong Jenn!!! Jennifer Hudson Takes the Stand Family’s Murder Case

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Grammy and Oscar winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson testified on Monday that she had known the man charged with killing three members of her family since they were in middle school together but never liked him.

Hudson was the first witness called at the murder trial of William Balfour, who is charged with shooting dead her mother Darnell Donerson, 57, her brother Jason Hudson, 29, and her nephew Julian King, 7.

Balfour, married to Hudson’s sister Julia Hudson, did not treat Julia or her son, Julian, well, Hudson testified. “I would tell her (Julia) over and over again not to marry William,” she said.

Hudson testified about the harrowing day of October 24, 2008, when she learned that her mother and brother were dead and her nephew was missing. She flew home to Chicago and identified her mother and brother’s bodies at the morgue. On October 27, she was back at the morgue to identify her nephew’s body.

Before Hudson moved out in the summer of 2006, the family had lived together in the same house in Chicago where the bodies of her mother and brother were found. Julian King’s body was found in a white SUV that Jennifer Hudson had bought for her brother Jason.

Prosecutors say Balfour stole the vehicle, killed Julian in the back seat, and then abandoned it. The murder weapon, a handgun which had been stolen from Jason Hudson, was found in a vacant lot near the SUV, according to prosecutors.

In opening arguments at the trial, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Veryl Gambino described Balfour as a jealous and vindictive man who repeatedly threatened to kill Julia Hudson and her family.

“These weren’t just words. They weren’t just threats. They were deadly warnings of what was to come,” Gambino said.

If convicted, Balfour could face life in prison.

Deion Sanders Live Tweets Alleged Assault From Pilar Sanders

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There’s clearly never a dull moment in the home of the soon to be divorced couple of Deion Sanders and reality star/model, Pilar Sanders. One week she’s accusing his kinfolk of assaulting her in the home and now it’s apparently his turn. Yes, a little earlier Deion took to Twitter to allege that he was assaulted at the hands of Pilar and one of her friends.

Lie About Marriage Ruined Brandy’s Career

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In an upcoming episode of Behind the Music, Brandy admits lying about being married to her child’s father was the turning point in her career.

Back in 2001 Brandy began quietly dating music producer Robert Smith. When Brandy became pregnant a year later, she lied and said she and Robert had been secretly married.
Brandy and Robert separated shortly after Brandy gave birth to their daughter and in 2004 Robert exposed Brandy’s lie in the press revealing they’d never been married at all.

Brandy explains why she lied,

“It was all about setting this perfect image. The lie about being married was the fall of my career.”

Cut it Out!! Nicki Minaj Thinking About Leaving the Game

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Nicki Minaj stopped by the Tim Westwood Radio Show on the London leg of her Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded promo tour and hints that she might be getting ready to leave the game.

Referring to herself in third person as the kid, Nicki tells Tim she feels she’s not getting enough props,

“People aren’t even giving the kid props for taking it back to the essence… This is my fourth mixtape, really. The kid did like that so she could feed her fans. But really, now the kid is thinking maybe she should leave the game.”