Keyshia Cole To Release New Album!

There had been rumors about Keyshia Cole working on a new album and there was also the stories about Keyshia Cole's pregnancy and love life. So there is definitely a lot of experience to draw from on this upcoming Keyshia Cole album. Read below for more info as well as stories on Foxy Brown's collaboration and Gangstarr's Guru's health scare.

Keyshia Cole took over the R&B game and many anointed her as the new Mary J. Blige. The comparisons were there and Keyshia has the soul and pain for it.

She did a rarity in R&B by releasing two consecutive albums, in 2007 and 2008. Upon her debut, Keyshia Cole was known as a promising R&B talent, but she was considered a legend after the release of her third album, A Different Me.

After having two busy years, Keyshia Cole took this year off. Now, late in 2009, Keyshia has begun working on her fourth project that will be released sometime next year. This album, by far, will be the most personal album in Cole’s entire musical career.

By making a personal album, Keyshia Cole has decided to give it a personal title. Keyshia will be the name of her fourth release and critics are already trying to compare the album to Mary J. Blige’s album, Mary. There is a story about Keyshia Cole that has yet to be told and she is preparing to tell it.

Keyshia will be released before Valentine’s Day in 2011.

Ron Browz Talks Foxy Brown Collaboration!

Ron Browz may be a name many believed would stay behind in 2009, but Harlem’s Ether Boy is pedaling forward with a surprise female by his side—none other than Brooklyn’s own Foxy Brown.
The two were snapped two weeks ago inside Wyclef’s studio, Platinum Sounds, working on their recently released collabo, “Ride Ya Bike (She’s A Biker),” Browz’s first single since May’s “Gimme 20 Dollars.” The 27-year-old rapper/producer says he and Brown met for the first time while in JFK airport this past April and shared an instant connection.
“The chemistry was really cool. It felt like we had already known each other. So when we exchanged numbers and I called her, it was no problem for me to say, ‘Foxy I need you on this record,’” Browz told VIBE. “Artists like her who haven’t been out in a while are usually picky, but she was just like, ‘You seem cool, let’s get it done.’”

That same positive energy persisted during the recording of “Ride Ya Bike,” which premiered on Hot 97 last weekend before surfacing on the Web on Wednesday (Feb. 24). “As soon as Foxy got in the studio, took her jacket off and I played the record, she was like ‘This is hot, give me a pen!’” said Browz. “It was like a little party.”
The fun even went so far as to spark Brown’s memories of her golden days with another New York rapper. “Yesterday, she told me this song reminds her of ‘Ain’t No Nigga’ with Jay-Z. She was like, ‘I feel like it’s 1996 again. We’re the 2010 Bonnie and Clyde, so we’re just going to do mad records.’”
Though many artists might feel humbly unmerited to such a compliment, Browz viewed it as a reaffirmation of his talent. “When artists that big believe in me, it just gives me more ammunition to do what I do. ’Cause it’s from people who love hip-hop, that embrace it. They don’t care if it’s AutoTuned, they don’t care if it’s not. As long as it’s dope or fresh, they’re with it. And that’s what she’s on. We speak everyday now and hang out. The vibe is there.”
Browz also added that his album, scheduled for a spring release and distributed independently through Ether Boy Records, will either be titled The Club King or, per Brown’s suggestion, Harlem’s Don.

Guru Suffers Heart Attack!

Rapper Guru, who rose to fame with pioneering group Gang Starr and later released a series of successful solo albums under the "Jazzmatazz" banner, is in a coma after suffering a heart attack and will undergo surgery today (Mar. 1), according to a Sirius radio interview with his former partner in Gang Starr, DJ Premier.

Guru, whose real name is Keith Elam, has kept a low profile of late. The 43-year-old artist released a solo album, "Lost and Found," in May 2009, which ended a two-year break following his fourth Jazzmatazz album, "The Hip-Hop Jazz Messenger: Back to the Future."

Gang Starr never officially broke up but hasn't been active in more than five years. Its last album was 2003's "Ownerz."

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