Monica has had a good year this year. She has 2 top 10 singles, her current album Still Standing, has managed to sell over 600,000 copies, and she got engaged!

Well it seems that she is aiming to do that again next year. Monica is preparing to release 2 studio albums next year, a full length studio album, as well as a Christmas album.

 “I’ve only worked with Polow so far, but I try to get with one or two producers and pretty much create the meat, and then you pretty much get the rest of it done around the center of the album.”

“I really want to come up with the album title very soon, so that it will have direction like Still Standing did.”

“I hope to at least have the title in January and a single in maybe March and an album in maybe July. It would have to be something pretty drastic to take me off my path. But if nothing changes, that’s the plan.”

Monica is one of the female RnB artists from the 90′s who is sticking to her RnB roots.

Eminem and Lil Wayne hit the stage on the year-ending episode of ‘Saturday Night Live’ last evening. The duo performed the songs ‘No Love’, ‘Won’t Back Down’ and ‘6 Foot 7 Foot’

Ciara gave her first televised performance of ‘Gimme Dat,’ and she slayed the stage. Even though I’m not the biggest fan, she definitely can dance her ass off.  Her energy reminded me of a young Janet.  Very entertaining performance.

Nicki Minaj stopped by the ‘Chelsea Lately’ tonight show to promote her ‘Pink Friday’ LP. Holding her own with hilarious host Chelsea Handler, the Nicki talked everything from album sales, to her alter egos, to butt pads, relationships, and male double standards.  Very entertaining interview to say the least.

Ja Rule, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, plead guilty to a 2007 gun charges this morning in a New York City courtroom. The incident in question took place more than three years ago after the rapper’s chauffeured Maybach was pulled over following a concert at NYC’s Beacon Theater in Manhattan. After smelling marijuana emanating from the whip, police found a loaded semiautomatic gun in the vehicle and charged him with gun possession. A judge later dismissed his statement to police that he had a “little bit of weed” on him. Originally, Ja Rule claimed that the stop was unjustified and questioned the use of a certain type of DNA analysis in the case.

If convicted, the platinum-selling rapper faced up to four years in prison. By pleading guilty today, Ja Rule will only serve two years in prison when he is sentenced in February. Ja Rule’s change of mind may have something to do with Lil Wayne’s verdict on a similar gun possession charge earlier this year. Lil Wayne was also nabbed on criminal weapons possession following the 2007 concert. The two had performed earlier that evening during a rendition of the track ‘Uh Oh,’ after which the emcee was pulled over and arrested. Weezy ended up spending eight months in prison for the charges after pleading guilty, and was released last month.