Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Where In The World
is Naomi Campbell? In St. Tropez with her billionaire boyfriend.
Click here if you care to live vicariously.
Jay Z
8 Years Ago Today
R&B princess Aaliyah died when her plane crashed seconds after take off in the Bahamas. An autopsy showed the pilot had cocaine in his system and alcohol in his stomach. The plane was also found to have been overweight with luggage and not up to date on its maintenance checks.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Roxanne Shante gets her PhD on Warner Music's Dime
It's time for Hip Hop history class y'all. Before there was a Salt N Pepa, MC Lyte or a Queen Latifah there was Roxanne Shante, who shot to fame after she recorded an answer track to UTFO's classic rap Roxanne Roxanne. [<--please report to Youtube for further research] Roxanne Shante signed a recording contract with Warner Music when she was 14 and you know what happened next: she got stiffed on her royality checks and ripped off by lawyers, managers and label execs. Still, Rox was able to enforce a forgotten clause in her orginal contract where Warner had agreed to pay for her education for life. In 2001 Roxanne earned a Ph.D in psychology from Cornell University and forced Warner to stick to their agreement by threatning to go public with the story after they initally balked at paying her $217,000 tution.
The Pending Divorce
seems to be agreeing with him. More pictures of Usher sans the wife or kids frolicking in St. Tropez here
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Wives? What Wives?
Usher and Snoop spotted partying like two single guys in St. Tropez over the weekend. More party pictures here
Vanessa Williams Naked on Ebay
The photographer who took those naked pictures of Vanessa Williams that caused her to forfeit the 1984 Miss America crown must be on hard times because Photographer Guy put the negatives from that shoot up for sale on Ebay. The starting bid is $200,000.00. Click here to see Vanessa's pictures from back in the day and here to bid on the negatives.