Teairra Mari's New Look

Ms. "Hunt 4 U" is sporting a new look for her new music. What do you think?

Holly Marie Smooth Magazine Spread!!!

Holly Marie Private Dancer Banner

Holly Marie is a 23 year old model from North New Jersey and a die hard Dallas Cowboys fan. As an alumni of the University of Maryland, she’s got the smarts and the beauty to back it up. Holly is also got the moves as a formally trained dancer. About her dancing Holly says…

"I’ve been dancing all my life pretty much. I started when I was five years old and continued up until I was 18. I’m trained in ballet, classical, modern, hip-hop and African dance. It’s crazy that I was so into dance, though, because I was such a tomboy. I played every sport you can think of. I hung out with the boys more than I hung out with the girls."

This cinnamon glazed honey is half Puerto Rican and Black and is looking to grace some of the hottest men magazines and music videos.

Behind the Scenes: Ludacris "Nasty Girl" Casting Call!!!!

It looks like this is going to be a pretty HOT video.

Word of the Day: Relish

Relish (Noun):
1. liking or enjoyment of the taste of something.
2. pleasurable appreciation of anything; liking: He has no relish for obscene jokes.

50 Cent's Brand Platinum...Coming Soon...

Via Forbes:

Last May, 50 paid a visit to billionaire mining baron Patrice Motsepe in South Africa. Flanked by select members of their respective entourages, the unlikely duo descended into a subterranean trove of platinum, palladium and iridium, growing like moss on the earth's warm innards. A spectacular backdrop for a bling-drenched music video, to be sure.

But 50 was there for other business: to forge a joint venture with Motsepe that could soon bring him an equity stake in the mine--and 50 Cent-branded platinum to the world.

"Things that people wouldn't actually expect me to be involved in," 50 muses a few weeks later, reminiscing on his trip. "I've got a diverse portfolio."

Full story HERE

Exclusive Behind the scenes footage of Papoose's "Real Ni**as Finish Last"

He's creeping back on the scene, hopefully everything works out for him.

Saigon says Beef with Joe Budden is officially over!!!

I wanted to hear more. But its cool.

We told you we would get that Amber Rose Smooth Magazine Spread!!!

Enjoy:

Whitney Houston is MAD @ Ray J for doing a Dating Show!!!

According to the tabloid weekly Whitney Houston flipped out on Ray J from doing his new reality show. Here’s a piece of their report:

”Whitney is on the warpath because Ray J agreed to do this dating show even after she asked him not to!” revealed a close friend. “She knows he’s a hound dog.”

And why is Whitney so angry?

”Ray J told Whitney he was doing the show for the exposure and the money – and that as soon as it was over, they would be back to normal,” said the friend.

“He downplayed the sexy aspects to Whitney, but recently she’s started seeing promos for it – and it’s not at all the way Ray described it to her.”

“There were girls bumping and grinding on Ray. She saw him kissing another girl – and in bed with yet another girl who’s on top of him.”

Jesse Jackson- Letter to Barack Obama!

The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., is one of the only other
African-American men to be seriously considered for the Democratic
nomination as president. Rev. Jackson's two presidential campaigns hit a milestone in U.S. politics: in 1984, his campaign registered over 1 million new voters, won 3.5 million votes and aided the Democrats in regaining control of the Senate in 1986. In 1988, his campaign registered over 2 million new voters and won 7 million votes.

A civil rights leader and founder of the RainbowPUSH Coalition, Inc., Jackson sat down to write an open letter to President Barack Obama. With the passion Jackson is known for, he challenges the nation's first Black President to carefully examine important policies including those relating to the
economy, education and Voting Rights Act.



Dear Mr. President:

What a joy and relief it is to be able to salute you as President Obama. Congratulations on a magnificently run campaign. Your discipline, vision, strength and courage will take America and the world a long way. Now that we have made it through the courtship of the primary season, the engagement party in Grant Park on November 4th, and the wedding on January 20th, we're entering into marriage—the final stage, one that is full of challenges.

It's high noon in our politics, when hope abounds. But it is midnight in our economics. But we have hope that the darkness will lead to a new light that will shine even brighter. We are in a time of the worst economic crisis of the last half century, and amid expanding wars and conflicts in Iraq, the Middle East and Africa. The two great themes of ending poverty at home and unnecessary wars abroad must dominate our priorities.

We need an economic stimulus. We also need equal protection under the law, which we've never had. Those who have been dealt the most inequality deserve targeted stimulation. Our character is measured, as you mentioned in your Inauguration speech, by how we treat the least of these. The least of these are gripped in poverty, high infant mortality, less access to capital, first-class jails and second-class schools, the highest victims of home foreclosures. They need targeted job creation and job training to offset targeted discrimination and denial leading to structural inequality. They need to be able to restructure and modify their loans, real foreclosure relief to save their homes.

Mr. President, I applaud your recent proposals to recommit our nation to education and invest in our most valuable asset, our youth. As you do, I'd like you to consider the RainbowPush Education Stimulus Plan, a simple yet sweeping plan to help families finance college costs that are steadily putting higher education out of the reach of most Americans. I propose that students holding and applying for college loans should be offered interest rates that do not exceed 1 percent—the same favorable terms that are being offered to large banks by the federal government. It's simply a matter of fairness.

Currently, students are generally forced to borrow loans with interest rates that range from 4 to 8 percent. Since that's inadequate to pay the costs of tuition and housing, most of them borrow from the commercial banks with 12 to 14 percent interest rates. Yet, these are the same banks that can borrow from the federal government at 1 percent interest; it's like scalping students. Many students must also finance their education with credit cards that carry interest rates of 20 percent or higher. As you know from your personal experience, graduating students will be saddled with debt for decades to come.

It gets worse when the students who get the loan cannot start payments within six months and are then penalized. As jobs are leaving, chances are they cannot start working in six months and need a longer grace period. Furthermore, the schools that lend them the money are penalized if students default on their loans; this pattern must end.

Through this 1 percent student loan program, along with the expansion of the Pell Grant program, which should correspond with the cost of the average college education, these programs will go a long way in developing the next generation of intellectual talent and leaders of our nation. This is an opportunity we cannot afford to pass up. We must go another way and seek the change that you eloquently talked about and promised.

Section Five Voting Rights Act, the key to political enfranchisement for all Americans, is now in peril as the Supreme Court reviews its validity. We must fight for the Voting Rights Act and prevail. Lyndon Johnson was right in his vision of a Great Society and the War on Poverty. We must build up on that great democratic tradition and carry it forward today.

Lifting the boats at the bottom is our moral challenge. Our foreign policy must place a priority on the escalating Middle East crisis which affects the whole region. One thousand lives were lost in the Gaza crisis while 3,000 died from cholera in Zimbabwe. Children in Haiti—100 miles off our shores—are eating mud pies as a staple. We must have one set of rules and standards and not lure Cubans to come to U.S. as refugees, and then deport or jail Haitians.

Twisting words sometimes has deadly consequences. What is an economic political refuge? Well, they are all human beings fleeing for their lives.
We're anxious to work with you, Mr. President. To follow through on Dr. King's last message, brought forward on his last birthday celebration, let us gather the moral courage to end poverty at home and end unnecessary wars abroad. I'm convinced that, yes, we can. We will. We must.

Keep hope alive.

Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
President and Founder
RainbowPUSH Coalition, Inc.

Waxin' that Ass: Literally! MIchelle Obama gets waxed!!!

America’s new First Lady is to be immortalised - as a wax work. Wax museum Madame Tussauds is currently working on a wax figure of Michelle Obama. The new figure will be unveiled in March at the Madame Tussauds in America’s political capital Wsshington DC. But the company has already released images of the clay head currently being sculpted. Michelle Obama will be the third First Lady to be immortalized in wax by Madame Tussauds, joining Jacqueline Kennedy and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Paparazzi catches Sanaa Lathan & Tariji Henson enjoying a Lakers Game!!!

It looks like she didn't want her picture taken!







There is so MUCH I can say about this last photo, but I'm going let her live.

Nick Cannon to direct Mariah Carey's New Video!!

Wedded bliss is quickly turning into career bliss for Nick Cannon! Just days after DJ-ing an ABC Inauguration-night party where his wife Mariah Carey performed, it appears Mr. Carey is now slated to direct Mariah’s new music video for the song “My Love.”

Auditions were held in North Hollywood on Wednesday for actors and extras to appear in the video.

Those who are chosen will shoot the video
on Saturday in L.A. with Mimi herself.

They doing their thing. Keep it up!

Lisa Raye Essence Interview [Discussing Suggestive Pictures]

Lisa Raye chats about suggestive pics (that would be above & below) and her husband turning all hollyweird in this second edition of the two part interview (read the first here):

ESSENCE.COM: There were some suggestive magazine photos that resurfaced which gave the country more ammunition to declare that you weren’t fit to be a First Lady. Did your husband ever defend you?
LISARAYE: I’m the First Lady and I knew that I could no longer do those kinds of photo shoots. They were old photographs from a few years ago and I’m an actress, so I know why that magazine chose to run them again. Still, I felt like when Michael asked me if I posed for that magazine he could have shown a bit more support and spoken on my behalf and say, “My wife would not do this.” When he questioned me, I said, “Are you serious? Might this be the same series of the photos and posters you framed and proudly said, “This is my wife?” To not ask me as your wife and accuse me of something like that really hurt. Then people want to say no other First Lady would do this. Well, neither did I because it was done years ago, and quite frankly, the other First Ladies couldn’t pull that off if they wanted to.

ESSENCE.COM: Many have speculated about his interest in you as a wife both personally and professionally. In other words, your Hollywood connections would have proven beneficial to him. Do you agree?
LISARAYE: I started the island’s first film festival and used my relationships to help produce and improve the music festival by bringing people I knew to the island. I was also able to cut the budget
. It’s funny because all of a sudden he became Hollywood, and I’m thinking, Hold up! Do you want to be the Premier or what? Wait a minute we don’t have to entertain everyone, every second. You are married and the president of this country. Then I have to ask, “What’s going on?”

Hookupz: The Dream getting it in with Christina Milian??

This is the second time we've spotted The Dream rendezvousing with Christina Milian. Looks like it's getting serious.

This was at The Dream's listening party in NY:

Ashanti & Her Mother's Night Out On The Town

Ashanti and her good looking mother, Tina, spent some quality time together at Carlos McKinney’s Grammy nomination and birthday celebration at Suzie Wong last night in NY.



Singer Ashanti and music producer Carlos McKinney attend Carlos McKinney’s Grammy nomination and birthday celebration at Suzie Wong on January 28, 2009 in New York City.



Singer Ashanti, Music producer Carlos McKinney and singer Tayma Loren attend Carlos McKinney’s Grammy nomination and birthday celebration at Suzie Wong on January 28, 2009 in New York City.