Sunday, November 30, 2008

Britney Covers Glamour

Britney is featured on the Glamour magazine Jan 2009 issue. For more of the amazing pictures and article check out Britney Spears Media

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New Music: Dawn Richard Feat. Que of Day 26


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Diddy's I Am King

Diddy dedicated his new fragrance "I Am King" to President-Elect Barack ObamaMuhammad Ali, and Martin Luther King Jr. In true Diddy fashion, Diddy positioned the clip as his black James Bond audition tape.

New Music: Ashanti - Crime

New Music: Beyonce - Roc

Roc was produced by Stargate. Rumor has it, its a tribute to hubby Jay-Z

NSYNC Reunion?!?!


Justin Timberlake could soon be returning to his musical roots if Lance Bass has his way - the singer is keen to reunite 90s boyband 'N Sync.

The boyband split in 2002 and the stars went on to pursue solo projects - but Bass wants to bring the band back together to record new material.

He tells In Touch, 
"It's a definite possibility. We are like brothers - it's perfect."

Bass, who finished third in the final of U.S. reality show Dancing With The Stars earlier this week, has been bombarded with offers since his appearance on the hit show - but music is the only thing on his mind.

He adds, "There are so many crazy doors opening. 
There is talk of putting an album together next year, but I would much rather do it with 'N Sync. So we are going to be talking about that."

What do you think? Excited?
Photo:WOJ

Quick Updates

Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera, and John Legend honored those making a difference in the world on “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute,” which aired on Thanksgiving Day.

Katy Perry has a girl crush on Natalie Portman. The singer recently revealed that her smash hit single I Kissed a Girl was inspired by actress Scarlett Johansson. She says, "Scarlett Johansson is a beautiful woman as everybody in the world probably agrees and the I Kissed a Girl song is inspired by all beautiful women and the power they release in their beauty.

Miley Cyrus has been inspired to give up her acting/singing career to study photography following her controversial shoot with legendary snapper Annie Leibovitz. The Hannah Montana star sparked outrage by posing in just a bedsheet for a Leibovitz spread in Vanity Fair magazine earlier this year. But the singer/actress was so fascinated watching the artist at work, she is now determined to gain a degree in photography herself. And Cyrus is convinced that the best way to study the medium is by enrolling at a university in Britain. She says, "I do want to come to London to study photography. I hear there are some really great art schools, so I would love to do that."

According to BritneySpears.Com,  Britney’s X Factor appearance pulled 12.8 million viewers meaning more than 53 percent of the entire viewing audience tuned into the UK show to see Britney’s performance.

Dave Matthews & Tina Turner Use American Express

Dave Matthews and Tina Turner are featured in the American Express commercial along with Gwyneth Paltrow and Brian Grazer.

New Video: Pink - Sober

Friday, November 28, 2008

Katy Perry Covers FHM


Katy Perry is featured on the Janurary 2009 issue of FHM Magazine.
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How Did Aubrey O'Day Spend Her Thanksgiving?


Aubrey O’Day helped serve a Thanksgiving meal to the homeless at the New York City Rescue Mission on Thursday. Her mother, Kandy O'Day was there too.
Photo:Rap-Up

Solange Still In Beyonce's Shadow..


BEYONCE's younger sister SOLANGE KNOWLES had to fight to get her songs heard by top music producers - because no one wanted to be known for helping out the sibling of a superstar.
Solange, 22, recently released her second album Sol-Angel and the Hadley St Dreams, but she admits having such a famous star in the family was more of a hindrance than a help as she struggled to win over big names like Q-Tip and Pharrell Williams with her own talents.
She tells Britain's Hello magazine, "I can see how people would think that I'm here because of Beyonce. "But with this record, that really wasn't in my head. I started this record completely independently - I had no record label, I had no main producer, and everyone turned me down.
"Probably because of that, like, 'We're not going to reward her because she's Beyonce's sister', and I understood that."
 
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MTV's Aids Awareness Turns 10

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MTV marks the 10th anniversary of its AIDS awareness campaign this year with an hour-long documentary by U.S. singer and Destiny's Child founding member Kelly Rowland. 

The music channel launched "MTV Staying Alive" in 1998, and has produced films, competitions and celebrity tie-ins to educate young people about the risks of HIV and AIDS and encourage them to talk about it. 

The latest initiative is a video diary featuring Rowland, who along with Beyonce Knowles helped launch the successful girl band Destiny's Child in 1990. The group split in 2005. 

In "
The Diary of Kelly Rowland," the 27-year-old travels to South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and the United States and meets young people affected by HIV/AIDS and those trying to educate people about the risks. 

"It places HIV/AIDS out in the open, and in doing so creates an openness of dialogue on the 'taboo' subject," MTV said in a statement. 

The video can be watched at www.staying-alive.org from Monday, which is World AIDS Day. 

Thursday, November 27, 2008

New Video: Jamie Foxx - Just Like Me

“Just Like Me” is the lead single off Jamie Foxx’s third album Intuition. The “anything you can do, I can do better”-themed video co-stars T.I. and was directed by Brett Ratner (Mariah Carey, Madonna).

Ludacris On The Late Show With David Letterman

Ludacris talks about going green!

Luda also performed One More Drink with T-Pain (below)

Britney's First Performance Of Womanizer

Britney performed Womanizer at the Bambi Awards in Germany

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Check out the video of T.I. handing out free turkeys yesterday (November 25) to the local community. Tomorrow (November 26) T.I. will help serve food at the Hosea Williams Feed the Hungry and Homeless annual Thanksgiving Day event.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Aubrey O'Day Poses For Playboy!?

Aubrey O’Day has gone all the way. In a not-so-surprising move, Diddy’s former least innocent angel has reportedly posed nude for Playboy.

The ex-Danity Kane member spent all day at a Manhattan photo studio on Tuesday doing a spread for the popular men’s magazine, according toTMZ.com. The photos were taken by photographer Markus Klinko (Mariah Carey, BeyoncĂ©). Lion cubs were supposedly involved in the shoot.

Mariah Carey Pregnant?

Is Mariah Carey pregnant? No way, the singer insists on Wednesday's episode of Ellen
But Ellen 
DeGeneres seemed determined to put her to the test. "Let's just toast with Champagne," the sly talk show host suggested, reaching for a bottle and some flutes. "It's just fattening," demurred Carey – who married Nick Cannon in May – adding, "This is peer pressure!" 
When DeGeneres persisted, the two clinked glasses – but Carey only 
pretended to drink the wine. "You're pregnant!" DeGeneres declared. "No, no, no," Carey insisted. "We will let you know when we're going to have a family." 
So why refuse the bubbly? 
"It's too early for me," explained the Grammy-winner. "I only drink after 3 p.m." 
She then only pretended to sip the bubbly.
So on second thought..."You're pregnant," Ellen said.
But still Mariah resisted: "I didn’t say that. No, no, no. My mother would be at home like, on the computer like, What are you talking about? We will let you know when we’re going to have a family."

Beyonce Dances In Rockefeller Plaza


BeyoncĂ© gave a great performance this morning on NBC’s “Today” show concert series in New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza. Donning a Catwoman style suit, Beyonce performed “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” “If I Were a Boy,” “Crazy in Love,” and “At Last.”
Photo:Rap-Up

Behind The Scenes: Britney's Rollingstone Shoot

Britney's dancing to Black Eyed Peas!

New Video: Ne-Yo - Mad



Ne-Yo becomes a hero in the black and white video for “Mad,” the third single off his latest album Year of the Gentleman.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

All Eyes On Me In The Center Of The Ring Just Like A Circus


A year after her very public meltdown, Britney Spears is back to work and out of trouble. But what has the comeback cost her? Rolling Stone has Britney’s full story in the issue of Rolling Stone that hits newsstands this week. “I feel like an old person now,” Spears tells RS’s Jenny Eliscu. “I do! I go to bed at, like, 9:30 every night, and I don’t go out or anything, you know what I mean? I just feel like an old fart.” Spears says she’s considering lopping off the weave she’s worn since shaving her head in 2007, and counts up her tattoos (they now number seven), giggling.
Photo:Peggy Sirota/RollingStone 

Heres a 30 second clip of Circus music video. The video is scheduled to releae December 5th
*Wanna hear Circus? Check out the playlist on the left below the 'Songs Of The Moment'*

Picture Of The Day


BeyoncĂ© poses with Etta James at the premiere of Cadillac Records at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on Monday. The singer plays the legendary blues singer in the film, which arrives in theaters December 5th.
Photo:Rap-Up

New Video: Kanye West - Heartless

Kanye West HEARTLESS NEW Music Video - OFFICIAL

Monday, November 24, 2008

Picture Of The Day

Joel and Benji Madden playing music in the evening for staff of US NGO International Medical Corps (IMC), who runs the health clinic and the TFC in Sam Ouandja town and refugee camp.
Photo:ONTD

Taylor Swift Covers CosmoGirl


Last month, CosmoGirl anounced they will not be producing any more magazines. The last issue for December/January double issue features Taylor Swift as its cover girl!

The 18-year-old country cutie, who picked up Favorite Female Country Artist at the AMAs last night, is featured on the cover and in an accompanying five-page spread, where she is lauded with the lead position in the magazine’s annual Born To Lead honors section. Taylor was photographed for the feature in New York’s Central Park.

Check out the full photo spread at JJJ.

Taylor Swift: Insider Special Edition, a special episode of CMT Insider, premieres this Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, at 10AM ET. She will join Jay Leno on The Tonight Show on December 5th for a performance and interview.

Photo:MattJones/JustJaredJr

Chris Brown Is A Superstar on Third Album


Chris Brown has revealed the official title and assembled a wish list of collaborators for his third studio album.

The “Forever” singer says Madonna and Coldplay are on his short list of dream collaborations for his new LP Graffiti, the follow-up to 2007’s Exclusive, due out next year.

“It’s going to be my stepping stone from Chris Brown to superstar,” the singer told The Associated Press on the red carpet at the 2008 American Music Awards.

The 19-year-old star took home three American Music Awards on Sunday including the top prize for Artist of the Year.

Photo:Rap-Up

Critics Review Kanye's 808s And Heartbreak

Kanye West’s new album 808s & Heartbreak hits stores and the internet today. What are the critics saying about Kanye?

The Washington Post: 808s & Heartbreak [is] an album so exquisite, so assured, it threatens to invent an entirely new strand of urban pop music. The result is the best album released this year, an information-age masterpiece about falling into the depths of loneliness while a nation of millions checks your blog for updates.

Chicago Tribune:This is not the album Kanye West fans likely expected, nor is it one they likely will embrace as eagerly as his previous multimillion-sellers. It also assumes that West’s fans care about his inner life, even though endless controversies have given them good reason to write him off. West plows ahead anyway. This one is for him. 4 out of 5

USA Today: His career has been built on pushing boundaries and expanding possibilities. This time, the Louis Vuitton Don does it by stripping away the celebrity trappings and exposing his naked emotions. 4 out of 4

Los Angeles Times: Though several tracks—the oddly peppy “Paranoid” and “Robocop,” about a monstrous ex—are danceable, 808s & Heartbreak heavily endorses the rave scene’s concept of “chill.” Its mood comes closest to the vaporous electronica of obscure artists like the Junior Boys and M83.

Chicago Sun-Times: The formula is touching and very effective at times, notably on “Say You Will,” “Welcome to Heartbreak,” “Coldest Winter” (which builds on the 1983 Tears for Fears song “Memories Fade”), “RoboCop,” and “Love Lockdown.” But a formula it is, and it wears thin and becomes slightly predictable and repetitive over the course of 12 tracks.

Boston Globe: It is by far the strangest record he’s ever made: a willfully sullen and uncompromising electro-pop album from one of hip-hop’s biggest stars. Aside from the first two singles (”Love Lockdown,” “Heartless”), much of 808ssounds like a sonic wasteland, with West’s digitized voice floating in like a tumbleweed.

The Guardian (U.K.): Predictably, the hardcore are baffled (sample Internet response: “Has Kanye gone crazy?”) but West stopped appealing to them after he toured with U2. He’s a pop star now, and, thankfully, an iconoclastic one.
4 out of 5

My Favorites: Love Lockdown, Amazing, and Paranoid

What are your favorite track?

List Of 2008 American Music Award Winners

Complete list of winners at the American Music Awards:

— Artist of the Year:

Chris Brown

— Pop-Rock:

Male artist: Chris Brown

Female artist: Rihanna

Band, duo or group: Daughtry

Album: "As I Am," Alicia Keys

— Soul-R&B:

Male artist: Chris Brown

Female artist: Rihanna

Album: "As I Am," Alicia Keys

— Rap-Hip-Hop:

Male artist: Kanye West

Band, duo or group: Three 6 Mafia

Album: "Graduation," Kanye West

— Country:

Male artist: Brad Paisley

Female artist: Taylor Swift

Band, duo or group: Rascal Flatts

Album: "Carnival Ride," Carrie Underwood

— Adult Contemporary:

Jordin Sparks

— Alternative Rock:

Linkin Park

— Latin:

Enrique Iglesias

— Contemporary Inspirational:

Third Day

— Soundtrack Album:

"Alvin and the Chipmunks"

— T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist Award:

Jonas Brothers

— Award of Merit:

Annie Lennox

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Luda & T-Pain Perform on SNL

Ludacris and T-Pain perform Chopped N Skrewed on Saturday Night Live

2008 American Music Awards Performances

Beyonce - Single Ladies


Fly On The Wall - Miley Cyrus


White Horse - Taylor Swift


Pink - Sober


Mariah Carey - I Stay In Love


Christina Aguilera - Medley of Beautiful, Keeping Getting Better, Genie In A Bottle, Aint No Other Man, and Fighter.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

Quick Updates

Travis Barker (former Blink-182 drummer) has filed a negligence lawsuit against the owner and makers of what he claims was a "defective" Learjet that crashed Sept. 19, killing four and leaving Barker and DJ AM with severe burns.

Taylor Swift says she reads the gossip blog, but tries to ignore the comments because "when people can be anonymous, they're vicious and it's like sixth grade stuff, like, on crack." 

Kanye's new album, 808s & Heartbreak, is streaming in its entirety on his MySpace page.

Britney Set For Mini Tour In Germany


Britney Spears is scheduled to fly to Germany on Monday for a mini-tour before her new album Circus is officially released, Para Todos magazine exclusively reveals to JustJared.com.

The 26-year-old pop princess’s backup dancers are expected to fly with her for the little promo tour.

Britney’s upcoming MTV documentary, Britney: For the Record, premieres next Sunday, Nov. 30 @ 10PM ET/PT.

Photo:JustJared

No Doubt News!!!







There Back!!!!!!!!
No Doubt is coming back and will be touring America and maybe the WORLD!
No Doubt has released a new promo pic on their official website, which also has a scrolling “instant messenger chat conversation” between all of its bandmates (Gwen StefaniTom DumontTony KanalAdrian Young). Here’s a sample:

Gwen: “I think we should go out now, I don’t think we should wait. Pack up the babies and get a bunch of nannies. So fun! Would be so spiriting to get out there and play all those songs again. I think that if we go on roue, it will inspire us to write. I need to see the fans out there.”

Tony: “I’m down to play. We need to play. It’s been too long… ND 2009… I’ll call management. It’s time to play.”

Photo:Nodoubt.com

Jamie Foxx's New Album Cover Intuition

jfoxx_intuition.jpg


Here is the official album cover for Jamie Foxx’s Intuition, available December 16th. The album includes The-Dream and Tricky Stewart-helmed first single “Just Like Me” featuring T.I. along with contributions from Timbaland, Ne-Yo, Sean Garrett, and Salaam Remi.

Photo:Rap-Up

Kevin Rudolf Rock's Jimmy Kimmel

Kevin Rudolf performed his Top 10 single “Let It Rock” on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Friday. Kevin’s debut album In the City releases next week featuring collaborations with Nas, Rick Ross, and Lil Wayne.

Friday, November 21, 2008

New Video: Solange - T.O.N.Y.

“T.O.N.Y.” is the third single off Solange’s sophomore album SoL-AngeL and The Hadley St. Dreams Look for cameos from Cee-Lo Green and Kid Cudi.


Ludacris - Theater Of The Mind Commercial

Look for appearances by T.I., Rick Ross, T-Pain, Common, Swizz Beatz, and more.

Theater of the Mind Official Commercial from DTP TV on Vimeo.

Jermaine Dupre Video Blogs About Dubai

Quick Updates

BeyoncĂ©’s third solo album I Am…Sasha Fierce has only been at retailers for a few days, but it’s expected to debut at No. 1 and move over half a million copies in its first week.

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Eminem has been immortalized in chocolate. Artist Enrique Ramos has created a portrait of the famous rapper made out of what else but M&M’s.


Jay-Z and BeyoncĂ© are not only sitting on top of the Billboard charts, but hip-hop’s royal couple has also landed on top of Forbes magazine’s annual list of Hollywood’s 20 Top-Earning Couples. 


Janet Jackson, Jermaine Dupri, Michael Jordan, Robert De Niro, and Lindsay Lohan were among the celebrities flown out on an all-expenses-paid trip to attend the $20 million grand opening of the $1.5 billion Atlantis, The Palm resort on Palm Jumeirah Island in Dubai. Kylie Minogue capped off the evening by performing during a fireworks spectacular.


Madonna and Guy Ritchie finalized their divorce today at a court in London. The two were granted a so-called “quickie divorce.” Madonna listed the reason for the split as Guy’s “continuing unreasonable behavior.”


Rumor Mill: Word on the interview is Britney Spears may make an appearance at the American Music Awards this Sunday. No performance is scheduled though.

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