Disgraced R&B star Chris Brown’s comeback just met a setback — superproducerr Timbaland has cut the crooner from a song on his forthcoming album Shock Value II.
Brown pleaded guilty to beating up ex-girlfriend Rihanna during a fight on the eve of the Grammy Awards last February — resulting in several musician refusing to to work with the “Kiss Kiss” hitmaker.
Timbaland insists he’s not one of those artists – but he has cut Brown’s vocals from new tune “The One I Love.” Timbaland’s manager, Marcus Spence, tells the website the decision to cut Brown from the track “was a creative decision for both parties.”
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Grammy-winning singer Alicia Keys treated fans to a live set of several of her biggest charttoppers on NYC’s Rockefeller Plaza Tuesday.
It was all apart of The TODAY Show’s weekly concert series. Look out for A. Keys’ new studio album, The Element of Freedom, dropping next month.
Fans hoping to buy Usher’s new album in time for the holidays are out of luck — the release of Raymond Vs. Raymond has been pushed back. The singer’s sixth studio album was originally scheduled to hit stores in early 2010, but was later pushed up to Dec. 21.
However, the future of the LP remains uncertain after Usher announced he’s not ready for a holiday release.
“We believe that the album is so strong that we want to give it the opportunity to have the proper set-up before coming out,” a rep for the singer said Monday.
Usher recently finalized his divorce from wife of two years Tameka Foster.
Rihanna was so embarrassed by rumours she landed her record deal by embarking on a sexual relationship with Jay-Z, she couldn’t look him in the face. Rumors surfaced alleging the Rated R star was more than just friends with her mentor when she was discovered in her native Barbados by the rap mogul in 2006. Even her closest friend believed she’d bedded Hov to get signed — but Rihanna insists she has never been intimate with the hip-hop star.
“It was like: ‘Of course she had to give Jay-Z oral sex to get that deal.’ That rumour was everywhere in Barbados and it was so disgusting. It made me feel really weird. I would even be weird around Jay-Z. I wouldn’t be able to look him in the eye,” Rihanna recently confessed. “One day, he called and he was like, ‘Yo, you can’t buy into these rumours. You can’t let people move you with anything they say.’ The rumours got very funny to me after that.”
Jennifer Hudson is headed to the White House, The Washington Post revealed Monday afternoon.
The new mom — who gave birth to her first child a baby boy named David Daniel Jr. last August — will sing for President and Mrs. Obama and their guests at a state dinner in Washington Tuesday night. The Oscar and Grammy-winning star performed the National Anthem at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, when then-Senator Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president.
A newly single Kelis is making her return to the industry – minus the “Milkshake.” On Monday, the quirky vocalist unveiled an electronica/trance-inspired number — produced by UK sensation David Guetta — in a bid to launch her musical comeback. This is official first single and title track from Kelis’ upcoming album, titled “Acapella.”
A second autopsy has been requested in the death of A.J. Jewell.
Ashley “A.J.” Jewell, who appeared alongside former Xscape star Kandi Burruss on Bravo reality show The Real Housewives of Atlanta, died in October following a brawl in a bar parking lot in Atlanta, Georgia.
Police have ruled his death a homicide after the Fulton County Medical Examiner found the massive head injuries he suffered in the bust-up had aggravated Jewell’s existing medical conditions, including sickle cell disease, leading to his passing. But Jewell’s relatives are not entirely convinced by the coroner’s report and the Fulton County District Attorney has “tentatively” agreed to grant the family’s request for another autopsy.
“Physical altercation resulting in sickle cell trait related exertional collapse” and an enlarged heart have been listed as contributing factors in A.J.’s death.
