Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Since Everybody Pretty Much Stopped Talking About Them
Tyrese Gibson felt like this was the perfect time to release a statement about Chris Brown and Rihanna. He tells People magazine, "Although he [Chris] appears to be really strong through all of this, it’s really taking a toll on his spirit. People like me and Puff, we’re just trying to show him love and keep his spirits up while he’s going through all of the heat, and there are a lot people doing the same for Rihanna. It’s really hard for him to focus right now on his music, even though he really wants to. At the end of the day, I’m not trying to justify it because wrong is wrong, but unfortunately, us as entertainers, we have to grow up on stage with a lot of people looking at us. And a lot of people forget that he’s 19, she’s only 21.”
50 and Ciara In Las Vegas
According to Norm's Vegas Confidential Ciara and 50 Cent were seen together in Las Vegas at the 'Zumanity' show at the New York New York hotel on Saturday and at Cirque du Soleil's 'O' at the Bellagio on Sunday. Nothing newsworthy about that right? Wrong! They say 50 went out both nights dressed as Pimpin' Curly complete with afro wig and sunglasses.
Trick Daddy Reveals Illness
“I went to the doctor, like, 12 years ago. She took all kinds of tests, because I was trying to get rid of what we call dry skin; she did biopsies and blood tests and swab tests. She told me I have lupus. I am allergic highly to the sun, that’s my worst enemy. It’s like an AK-47 with a double clip on it. A lot of people try to cover it up with regular make-up. It makes your skin pigmented. You can go from dark to light and not light to dark. You have to cover it up and conceal it. My mama had 11 children from 10 different men. If she can live with that, I know I can live with this.”
Monday, March 23, 2009
50 Cent
lost his role in Sylvester Stallone's new film The Expendebles. The part will be played by 'Everybody Hates Chris' dad Terry Crews instead.
R Kelly
is somehow involved in a South African money scam. A Durban woman named Busisiwe Priscilla Zakwe claims she deposited 10.5 million South African rands ($1 million) into R Kelly's bank account for a concert that never happened. The concert investors are suing her. R says he never heard of the woman nor received any money, but investigators claim to have a copy of a deposit slip proving the transaction took place and have confirmed that the account belongs to R-ah. The case is scheduled to be heard in a South African court on September 10, 2009.
Aretha Franklin
celebrated her 67th birthday Friday at Seldom Blues in Detroit with a cake shaped like her inaugural hat.
Pay Your Taxes People
The tax man paid an early morning (6am!) visit to Method Man and repo'd his 2008 Lincoln Navigator for $52,000.00 in unpaid income tax.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Don Cornelius
pleaded no contest to one count of "corporal injury resulting in traumatic condition of a spouse" for kicking his estranged wife's ass back in October. He was also ordered to serve 300 hours of community service, he cannot own, use or possess any deadly weapons or threaten violence to any person, especially his wife Victoria. He must also complete a 52 week domestic violence treatment program and he has to stay 100 yards from the Mulholland estate where the attack took place. There is also a protective order in place and the four other misdemeanors Don was originally charged with have been dropped.
Queen Pen Needs Anger Management
According to online reports, in the past month old school rapper Queen Pen has tossed a drink in Rocsi from 106 and Park's face, got into a fight at a women's empowerment expo in North Carolina and almost came to blows with a stranger at an airport.