Word of the Day: Platitude

Platitude (Noun):
1. a flat, dull, or trite remark, esp. one uttered as if it were fresh or profound.
2. the quality or state of being flat, dull, or trite

New Video: Rick Ross- Mafia Music

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Nick Cannon Shows Up to Mariah Carey's Video Shoot!

Mariah Carey brings her boo Nick Cannon to her Video Shoot for "My Love".

Eve Making a Comeback TOO!!

Eve is trying to make a comeback that nobody seems to be interested in:

Rapper/actress EVE is desperate to release her long-awaited fourth album - because she fears its songs will become so old, she’ll be forced to rework them again. The Tambourine hitmaker was originally due to drop her disc Here I Am on Interscope in a joint deal with Dr. Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment in August 2007, but after months of wrangling, the CD never materialised.
Now signed to Geffen Records, Eve is itching to get her music back on the radio - after being forced to re-record a host of tracks on the newly-titled Flirt.

In an interview with NYPost.com’s PopWrap blog, she says, “Unfortunately I am caught up in a whole music label situation. The album is finally going to come out this spring or summer. But with all the time that passed, we went back in and reworked the whole thing.”

And Eve decided to scrap a number of mid-tempo tracks in favour of more club-friendly beats - because she didn’t want to be reminded about the uphill battle she faced to get her album on shop shelves.

She adds, “I had to get in there and put in some upbeat music that I wasn’t depressed about… It won’t be called Here I Am anymore. Now it’s called Flirt.

“I am truly, truly sitting on some amazing music. Nobody’s been waiting longer than me to get this monkey off my back!”

Lisa Raye EXPOSES her Ex-Husband

She says:

LisaRaye McCoy is testifying this week about the large sums of money ex-husband Prime Minister Michael Misick, doled out on her during their marriage. His financial dealings are now the focus of a British investigative commission that is wrapping up hearings this week on the main island of Providenciales. The Turks and Caicos still answers to a London-appointed governor, who formed the commission last summer after a British Parliament report found complaints of rampant corruption on the islands.

The commission could call for a criminal investigation based on what it finds. The hearings that began Jan. 13 at the Regent Palms Hotel have included sworn testimony from Misick’s estranged wife, actress LisaRaye McCoy, that she used a government-leased jet to vacation in Africa, visit her daughter in Switzerland and commute from Los Angeles. The couple also leased a Rolls-Royce and spent more than $1 million on the interior design of their home. Misick has denied abusing public funds, as reported by The Associated Press.

Investigators said in the hearings that eastern European developer Mario Hoffman acquired resort land at a deep discount and received special tax breaks around the time one of his bankers gave the prime minister a $6 million loan - part of $20 million in personal loans that Misick has amassed from banks, a developer and political appointees. Misick, 43, a London-educated lawyer and realty broker, testified himself that he continued to collect sales commissions after being elected prime minister. Now in his second term, Misick is also the tourism minister, the Turks and Caicos’ promoter-in-chief. Since he took office in 2003, the gross domestic product in the territory of 22,000 people has more than doubled to $750 million - largely through a resort-building boom. Island aficionado Mark Amherst of privateislandsblog.com said the Turks and Caicos is “the new No. 1 holiday retreat for A-list celebrities.”

Amerie Making That SERIOUS Comeback

Apparently Amerie has revamped her album and it is completed and ready for release. Her new image is amazing as well.

Rihanna & Michael Jackson Facing Lawsuit!

Michael Jackson and Rihanna are getting sued by singer Soul Makossa’ singer, Manu Dibango:

African singer MANU DIBANGO has filed suit against MICHAEL JACKSON and RIHANNA, accusing the pair of stealing a hook from one of his songs.

The 75-year-old singer, who hails from the Republic of Cameroon, claims his 1972 song Soul Makossa was used by Jackson for his hit track Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ from his 1982 album Thriller. Jackson had reportedly reached a financial settlement with Dibango after accepting he used parts of the song, reports the Associated Press.

But the issue was revisited when pop singer Rihanna obtained Jackson’s permission to use the melody on her Grammy-nominated single Please Don’t Stop the Music - failing to contact Dibango too. According to court documents filed in Paris, France on Tuesday (03Feb09), Dibango is seeking $650,330 (500,000 Euros/£464,520) in damages.

His lawyers have also asked the courts to block record labels Sony BMG, EMI and Warner from receiving any income from the songs until courts settle the issue. French judges will decide on 17 February (09) if Dibango’s case will be heard.

AP: alleges copyright infringement of Obama image

NEW YORK – On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE.

Designed by Shepard Fairey, a Los-Angeles based street artist, the image has led to sales of hundreds of thousands of posters and stickers, has become so much in demand that copies signed by Fairey have been purchased for thousands of dollars on eBay.

The image, Fairey has acknowledged, is based on an Associated Press photograph, taken in April 2006 by Manny Garcia on assignment for the AP at the National Press Club in Washington.

The AP says it owns the copyright, and wants credit and compensation. Fairey disagrees.

"The Associated Press has determined that the photograph used in the poster is an AP photo and that its use required permission," the AP's director of media relations, Paul Colford, said in a statement.

"AP safeguards its assets and looks at these events on a case-by-case basis. We have reached out to Mr. Fairey's attorney and are in discussions. We hope for an amicable solution."

Deelishis Tells A Shocking Story About How A Stalker Almost Tried To Poison Her To Death!

S2Smagazine reports "Deelishis shares her story about a hater who tried to kill her."

Bow Wow's Promo Poster

What do you think of this?? It's been taking a lot of heat.

Keyshia Cole's Billboard Interview

With four weeks atop the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, Keyshia Cole discusses what it took to get "A Different Me" to No. 1.

Kim Kardashian Has No Facebook Account!

She says:

"For the hundred thousand trillionth time I DO NOT HAVE A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT!!!!

A blogger -- who obviously didn’t do his homework -- stated yesterday that my Facebook got hacked into and that my alleged account sent out an email blast to all my Facebook friends complaining about it.

I am so sick of people saying I got engaged because my Facebook profile says so, or I'm single now because my Facebook says so!

Call me old-school but I love MySpace and I used to love Friendster! Maybe I need to get a Facebook account to shut down all of these fakes!"

Khloe Kardashian is Scorned

When it comes to dating professional athletes, the Kardashian ladies agree that football players are more convenient than basketball players. “It’s easier to date a football player for sure,” Khloe Kardashian, who split last week from Rashad McCants of the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves, tells PEOPLE. “Football players have one game a week, and they practice every day, but they’re all at home. “In basketball, they’re on the road all the time,” she adds to emphasize how much easier sister Kim Kardashian has it with her NFL star, Reggie Bush. After blogging about her split, Khloe turned up in Tampa with her sisters to party during Super Bowl weekend. “We’re here to celebrate the breakup,” joked other sister Kourtney at a pre-Super Bowl party at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. “Relationships are so hard in general, even living next door to each other,” Khloe says. “But they have 82 games a year in their season, and I work so much; it’s hard to spend time together. It just wasn’t as fun as it should have been.” Khloe also admitted that writing on her blog right away helped give her closure. “Otherwise, I could think, ‘I’ll take him back,’ ” she says. “I blogged the next morning so I wouldn’t change my mind. It made me feel better. And if I do go back, I’d have to blog about it and be like, ‘Sorry guys.’ ” Khloe adds: “I normally never talk about relationships. But since he was kind of public, my fans were angry that I wasn’t really saying anything.”

Sounds like Rashad Mccants screwed everything up for the VERY FEW Basketball players that may want to date her!

Pics from DJ Clue's Bday Party!

Dj Clue invited a bunch of celebrities to help him celebrate his party at Ultra Lounge in NY. Keri Hilson, Young Jeezy, Day 26 & more showed him some love that night.

Black Eyed Peas Member's Brother Murdered

BLACK EYED PEAS star APL.DE.AP’s half brother has been shot dead in the Philippines. Joven Deala, 21, was gunned down inside his sports utility vehicle in front of his girlfriend’s apartment in Angeles City in the early hours of Tuesday (03Feb09) morning.
He sustained a single bullet wound to the left side of his head. Chief Inspector Wilfredo Paulo tells the Associated Press that Deala and his girlfriend were eating inside the vehicle when two suspects fired at Deala, who was in the driver’s seat.
The gunman and his accomplice escaped on foot and Deala died on the way to the hospital. Paulo adds that the attack was apparently without provocation and investigators are looking for a possible motive.

The Obama's Read to Children & The Books Aren't Upside Down

The Obamas were at the Capital City Public Charter School in northwest Washington Tuesday. The president told a group of gleeful second-graders: “We were just tired of being in the White House.” A moment earlier the president shook each child’s hand.

P.Diddy Evading Police!!

Sean Combs was supposed to co-host a birthday party for DJ Clue at club M2 on West 28th Street Monday night with Kobe Bryant after the historic Knicks/Lakers game in which Bryant scored 61 points.

But nobody warned Combs that the New York Police Department had an undercover gun detail searching guests as they came into the club. “Everyone wanted to make sure that the dozens of NBA stars in attendance, including Lamar Odom, Vince Carter and Pau Gasol, would be safe,” the insider said.

When Diddy arrived at 1:45 a.m. with a six-man entourage, a witness said he “flipped out” when cops asked to search him and his friends. “He went nuts, saying, ‘Why are you disrespecting me like this? Why are you doing this to me?’ During the commotion, one of his guys slipped away, unsearched, back to the car.”

Combs “stormed off and started to text DJ Clue asking, ‘What the [bleep] is going on?’ and asked if he could go in the back entrance.” When told that the cops would have to search him and his friends there as well, Combs decided not to attend the party. His rep had no comment.

Combs has had issues in the past with hidden weapons and cops. In 1999, while he was dating Jennifer Lopez, a member of his entourage opened fire in a nightclub. A stolen pistol was found in one of Combs’ SUVs, but he was acquitted of gun-possession charges.

A rep for M2 - which is hosting a party for Will Ferrell’s Broadway show “You’re Welcome, America. A Final Night With George W. Bush” tomorrow - said, “We always welcome the police to safeguard our patrons.”

At least Bryant was happy to be patted down and stayed until 4 a.m. “He was in the VIP area, where there were strict orders not to let any women in near him,” we’re told. On his way out, Bryant (who drank water), after ordering two bottles of champagne for his pals, left the waitresses a $2,000 tip.

Erykah Badu Names Her Daugter

Soul singer ERYKAH BADU has named her new daughter MARS MERKABA. The star welcomed her first child with hip-hop star Jay Electronica on 1 February (09). And she took to her Twitter page to announce the newborn’s name just two days after giving birth.
Badu - real name Erica Wright - is already mother to son Seven Sirius with Outkast rapper Andre 3000, and daughter Puma Rose with rapper The D.O.C

Brandy Responds to Rumors that Whitney & Ray J are Still An ITEM!!!

In the Winter issue of Rap-Up magazine, Brandy reveals word-for-word Ray J’s sentiments about his relationship with Bobby Brown’s ex-wife, Whitney Houston.

“Well, every time I ask Ray J about Whitney he always says that’s just his friend. He’s not dating her. And I don’t think that he would lie to me. I said, ‘Well Ray, that’s not the way it looks. People think that you and Whitney are in a relationship.’ He was like, ‘Well, that’s what they’re gonna think, but I’m telling you the truth and I’m not dating Whitney. Whitney and I are just really good friends and that’s it.’ When I ask Whitney, she says the same thing, unless they are just pulling the wool over my eyes. But I think he’s telling the truth.”

Bow Wow & Soulja Boy's Lambo Beef gets Personal

Bow Wow TV reports "AKA SOULJA BOY: DONT PLAY WITH GROWN MEN LIL BOY. UR DONE! FINISHED! RIP TO YOUR CAREER, RIP TO YOUR LAMBO. AND RIP TO YOUR LAST ALBUM N*GGA!!! "