Keyshia Cole “Heaven Sent” Music Video

Beyonce is currently recording her third LP, set for a late 2008 release. Check out one of the first leaks from the still untitled album.

Beyonce “Beautiful Nitemare”

Swooping to the rescue complete with red tights and a cape, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has offered to save Aretha Franklin’s home from foreclosure, just as long as she promises to never wear fur again. Read the rest of this entry »

Beyonce is promoting her hometown of Houston, Texas in a series of magazine advertisements prompting readers to check out the charming Southern city. Read the rest of this entry »

The Los Angeles Times has been had. Last week, the publication ran a report claiming that the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur in the lobby of a Manhattan recording studio was carried out by associates of Sean “Diddy” Combs, Biggie Smalls, and Jimmy Henchmen, The Smoking Gun is now reporting that story was an elaborate daydream created by incarcerated con man James Sabatino. Read the rest of this entry »

Laila Ali and her husband, former NFL star Curtis Conway, are expecting their first child. The daughter of boxing legend Muhammad Ali breaks the news in May 2008 of Essence Magazine, which hits newsstands on April 11th. Read the rest of this entry »

Maryland-based songwriter/producer Dayna ‘D’Mystro’ Staggs is suing Kanye West for copyright infringement over his T-Pain-assisted hit track “Good Life.” Staggs claims Kanye”didn’t obtain a licence” to sample his record Volume of Good Life for the track. The Plaintiff goes on to state that West was “only at the age of six or seven years of age (sic)” when his song was written. Staggs objects to the “vulgar and offensive” images associated with the song, , claiming it “harms the reputation” of his inoffensive tune. Staggs is demanding eighty-five percent of all world sales of the proceeds from “Good Life.”

Making the Band vets Danity Kane perform on The Tyra Banks Show on Wednesday.

Beyonce and mom Tina Knowles will debut House of Dereon Lingerie later this year as part of the line’s Spring 2008 Collection.

Usher’s new wife has been described as “domineering” during the Los Angeles video shoot for Usher’s new track “Love in the Club” over the weekend of March 15th. Read the rest of this entry »