Janet Jackson has been hospitalized after getting sick hours before a concert, her rep said last night.
From one of my e-pals:
Lil Wayne and Buju Banton were supposed to headline a concert in Nassau, Bahamas Friday September 26th 2008. The show was postponed until Saturday 27th 2008. On Saturday, despite rain and other inconveniences, people arrived at the concert in droves. Buju performed, but Lil Wayne was a 'NO SHOW'.
A local news paper was quoted as saying they believe it was a money issue but, concert goers are still not sure what happened.
The promoters for the event was Red City Entertainment. General admission was $45, VIP was $80, Platinum was $200 including Bacardi drinks and food. They also had 6 sky boxes for $20,000 EACH and Lisa 'Red' Tottle of Red City Entertainments said 4 were already sold as of Thursday the 25th. (The sky boxes included a hostess, a bartender, free drinks and food and easy access to a bathroom, oh and they can ONLY hold 20 people each. so that's like $1000 PER PERSON!!!!).
DMX appeared in a Phoenix, AZ court room yesterday after missing dates due to an undisclosed illness. His appearance lasted only two minutes and his attorney told the judge he was not at liberty to discuss his clients medical condition. DMX is facing charges of marijuana possession, identity theft and animal cruelty.
Yeah so, Ray J's older half brother C-Dove has a myspace page and the lead song is a message to Ray about how he's gonna kill his ass. Click here to listen to the bitter big brother anthem.
They say at Jermaine Dupri's 36th b-day party, 'Maine had too much to drink and vomited all over Janet Jackson. Spies say Jan was so pissed she left the party in her chauffeur driven Maybach---without his ass.
Los Angeles county prosecutors have said they will not file felony charges against Kanye West for breaking a paparazzo's camera during an altercation earlier this month.
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Kanye West's aunt Yolanda told a British tabloid, "There were some moments when she [Dr. West] dieted, some moments when she'd lose the weight, but you know how we do, we pick that weight back up and she finally got to a point where she just wanted to get it done and completely be done with the dieting. It was a quick fix for her to where the dieting just wasn't working. Did Kanye want it done? No. But he's a mama's boy and what mom wanted was what he wanted to make sure she had. And now he's got no mom."
Prince, who became a Jehovah's Witness in 2001 and ministers door to door says, "Sometimes fans freak out. It might be a shock to see me, but that's no reason for people to act crazy, and it doesn't give them licence to chase me down the street."
His people released this statement: "Terrence Howard's mother, Anita Williams, has sadly passed away after a long battle with cancer. Terrence will take some time to privately grieve with his family. He appreciates everyone's support during this difficult time."
was held for 11 hours in British customs yesterday before he was allowed into London to perform at the Orange RockCorps charity concert. Busta was being refused entry because of his convictions in the U.S. for carrying weapons and assault. Ludacris was flown in to replace him, but in the end Busta was allowed into the country.
Transcribed by Myra Panache
"I was on a rare break between tour dates. Valentine's Day had just passed and I got a call from Big. He was in New Orleans for a show. "I want to see you," he said. My heart skipped a beat. I flew to New Orleans, when I got to his room, it was filled with all of Junior M.A.F.I.A guys. But Lil Kim was absent. I'd told Big on numerous occasions that I was going to beat the shit out of her as soon as I saw her. So I assume he made sure she was nowhere nearby."
"Big and I settled into our usual routine: Sharing a blunt, a meal and each other. I felt like there might be a possibility that we could get back together. He felt so familiar to me and I felt safe around him. I wasn't going to ask him. I decided I'd let him come to me if that's what he wanted. I was just going to stay in the moment and enjoy the time we were sharing. But I did think it was a good sign that we were together. He wasn't with Kim. He wasn't with Tiffany. He was with me, his wife. What neither of us knew was that spending that night in New Orleans would end up connecting us forever."
"A few weeks later, I sat in the bathroom of my apartment and stared at the little white stick with the dark blue line. I was pregnant and I know exactly how it happened. I couldn't believe it. Big and I rarely used protection and I'd only gotten pregnant once, early on in the relationship. I'd had a miscarriage before we could think about what we were going to do about it."
"I decided I was keeping this baby. I called Big to share the news."
"He didn't sound happy or sad. Just very noncommittal. "You keeping it?" he asked.
"Yeah. I am," I said. It was a quiet moment. "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure..." Big made a weary sound. "Homegirl got pregnant, too," he said.
"What does that have to do with me?" "I made her get an abortion," he said.
I asked, "So what are you saying?" "You sure this is the right time?" he said.
"Look," I told him. "I wasn't prepared for this, either. I know we're not together. But now we're going to be parents. And we'll have to make it work. You can figure out how to relay all of that to your little girlfriend."
"The next day, the doctor confirmed that I was having twins."
I ran into Angie Martinez, a DJ on Hot 97, at a party. I told her, "Me and Big are having a baby!" Of course Angie announced it on her show the next day.
"One day, this Tiffany chick called my house in the early days of my pregnancy, I was not amused. "You supposed to be having Big's baby?" she asked me. "Who the fuck is this?"
"This Tiffany. I want to know what's going on. You supposed to be having twins or something?" "Are you out of your mind?" I asked. I had actually just found out that one of my eggs had failed to develop and that I was carrying one baby. I asked her, "Did Big tell you to call me?"
No she said, before she could finish, I told her, don't ever call my fucking house. She said, "Well, I don't know how Big gonna be supporting no new baby. He said he was gonna pay for my father's funeral!" Why ya'll not divorced anyway? I studied law in school and I know it don't take that much to get a divorce."
I told her, "You are talking to the wrong person right now, don't make that mistake again."
Miami Heat B-baller Dwyane Wade shut down his sports grill chain 'D Wade's' before it even started and now he's suing his partners. Two of his Florida based clubs closed within weeks and one on Aventura Boulevard in Miami closed before it even opened. D Wade claims his partners ran the restaurants into the ground while his ex-partner's counter suits claim Wade didn’t bother to show up for any of the parties promoting the club and blame him for the epic fail, plus they want upwards of $25 million dollars for their trouble.
LisaRaye used her birthday party in LA to hold a benefit for Turks and Caicos Islanders who were devastated by hurricane Ike [weird, right?]. Anyway, according to one of my favorite message boards, almost none of the invited celebrity guests showed up except for MC Lyte and Spinderella, who shared dj-ing duties, and John Salley and Kim Porter. Sanaa Lathan, Vivica Fox, Elise Neal, Malik Yoba, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Tamala Jones and the rest of the advertised celeb guests bailed on her. And to add insult to injury, on top of the $20.00 entry fee, LisaRaye passed around a bucket to drum up more cash and only came up with $300.00 more dollars.
We all know T.I. was paying the mother of his two oldest children $2000.00 a month, plus tuition, medical insurance and other expenses and that she wanted more dough so she took him to court and was awarded an extra $1000.00. Well that ain't even close to what she wanted. They say Lashon Dixon was asking the court to increase her child support payments to $10,000.00 a month.
Atlanta rapper Ludacris' pool house burned down last night. Luda was not home at the time of the blaze and no one was hurt.
Fulton County Fire Department spokesman Gregory Chambers says a relative was in the basement of the main residence when the fire started and was not injured. Chambers says the fire was put out within 30 minutes but destroyed the pool house, which he says is larger than most homes.
T.I.'s original baby mama, LaShon Dixon, won a small victory in family court the other day, and I do mean small. T.I was ordered to give the mother of his two oldest sons, 8 year old Messiah and 7 year old Domani, an additional $1000.00 a month on top of the $2,000.00 she already gets. Tip was also ordered to continue to pay for the boys private school, uninsured medical bills and expenses related to the children's extracurricular activities.
Well don't bother committing it to memory. It shut down after only a few months. The one in Boca Raton closed 2 months after it opened and the one in Fort Lauderdale closed after 2 ½ months and plans to open one in Chicago have been scrapped.
Hedge fund manager Maria Dominguez went one of P Diddy's White Parties wearing a mermaid costume with starfish pasties on her boobs and got mad at Puff after pictures showed up in Vibe Magazine, so she sued for invasion-of-privacy claiming the pictures caused her "mental strain and distress, disturbance of peace of mind, irreparable harm to her reputation, to her person and forced her to lose certain business opportunities." No Dice, Maria.
Spike Lee has written School Daze part II but can't find anyone willing to fund the project. The new film focuses on the same college 25 years later and was set to star Kanye West and Alicia Keys.
Atlanta rapper Big Boi, recently signed to T.I.'s Grand Hustle management. The only problem is, according to SOHH, he didn't bother to tell his old manager. Ouch.
Prosecutors got the green light last night to bring Fred Goldman's lawyer to the witness stand - outraging O.J. Simpson's lawyers.
Kanye is developing a puppet show project for Comedy Central called Alligator Boots. They're touting it as a hip-hop meets the Muppets kind of thing.
Nelly's new cd 'Brass Knuckles' moved a paltry 43,000 units its first week out.
"People feel that because I'm a fully functional adult and not a heroin addict, I won't sell magazines. Everybody wants me to be the guy sleeping with every celebrity woman in this industry. Everyone wants me to be this guy in the club, popping 17 bottles. Everybody wants me to be Diddy, but that's not me."
The new label, called StarRoc, is a 50/50 partnership between Jay's Roc Nation company and Norwegian producers Stargate [Stargate produced Ne-Yo's "So Sick", "Unfaithful" and "Take a Bow" for Rihanna and Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable"]. The label will be housed in Jay's Rock the Mic recording studio in Manhattan.
DMX, who was scheduled to appear in court in Arizona today, was taken to an emergency room in Aventura, Fla. yesterday for "fear of a stroke."
Last week jurors on the OJ Simpson kidnapping and robbery trial heard a tape recording of police officers who arrived on the crime scene saying, "This is great. ... California can't get him. ... Now we'll be able to." The comments were picked up on a digital recorder that had been secretly placed by star witness for the prosecution, Thomas Riccio, who had arranged the meeting in a hotel room between OJ and two sports memorabilia dealers that escalated into a confrontation.
Asked about having kids with JD, Janet said, “At some point, it’s coming. … I know he’s waiting for me. I’m the one that’s holding up the whole thing. … I don’t know, I guess I’ll just have to see. But it’s coming.”
"Naomi is wonderful. Will I put a ring on her finger? Maybe very soon," said Naomi Campbell's billionaire boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, when asked about her at a recent charity event; And in other Naomi news, she was recently named the new face of Italian fashion house DOLCE + GABBANA.
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