Wiz Khalifa Appears On New Issue Of FADER Magazine

It's no longer surprising to see newer artists on the cover of magazines now. It used to be a big deal but times have changed and Wiz currently has two hit singles out now; "Black & Yellow" and the recently released, "Roll Up" produced by Stargate and the upcoming video features Bad Boy singer Cassie.

Music Biz:
Monica Plans Second Wedding!

Yes Monica tied the knot secretly last year but I guess this will be the one for public consumption!
Nothing says Valentine’s Day at E! Online like some celebrity wedding scoop. R&B singer Monica and L.A. Lakers player Shannon Brown are getting married again this summer—to each other.

Huh? Keep reading for the walk-down-the-aisle details…

“Our first wedding was in our home, but we’re going to do it again so that our family can enjoy it,” Monica told me yesterday at the Grammys.

The two announced last month that they quietly tied the knot in November after getting engaged the month before.

“We’re going to go all out and have a good time,” Monica said. “I’m Southern and he’s from Chicago. I’m very close to my mom and my family, but I’m also very close to my in-laws, so we just want to have one big party.”

Location?

“I think we’re going to do it here or in Europe,” Monica said. “We’re going to have to decide over the next week. But you know, what we did was we it with each other, for each other and committed our lives to one another, so we didn’t really need anybody else there.”

As for a wedding dress, Monica’s thinking something from her Grammys designer, Stephane Roland: “I want to talk to them and see if they make gowns because I wasn’t something really edgy and really fun.”
Ne-Yo Disses Use Of Auto-Tune
Didn't Jay-Z do this too? Read below for the full story!
Ne-Yo recently spoke out regarding the overuse of Auto-Tune, the vocoder-like vocal effect popularized by artists like Akon and T-Pain. The 'Beautiful Monster' singer explained that the audio processor should be used to support singers by assisting their tired vocal chords during extended recording sessions, not as an actual "sound," becuase it obscures their natural singing voice.

"You don't want to blow your throat out trying to do the same note a thousand times, so you sing it a few good times and you let the Auto-Tune catch whatever notes fall out," Ne-Yo explained. "It was not meant to be wings. You were not supposed to strap it on your back and jump out the building, that is not what Auto-Tune was meant to be."

The singer/songwriter, whose production team Stargate, scored one of 2010's biggest hits with Wiz Khalifa's 'Black and Yellow,' continued to call Auto-Tune's saturated use in hip-hop "wack," saying artists who employ the effect as a signature sound like "robots."

"If you using it for what it's meant for, cool, fine and good," Ne-Yo continued. "I feel like the best singers do... Not 'I can't sing at all so let's just turn Auto-tune all the way up so that I sound like Willie the robot,' that's wack! That's terrible, it takes all the character outta your voice and you become a robot. You hear it on the radio and you go 'who is that?' and you have no idea because everybody sounds the same. If you're a singer, sing!"

Ne-Yo is currently hard at work on his highly-anticipated fifth album, which does not yet have a release date. He will also star in two forthcoming films, 'Red Tails' and 'Battle: Los Angeles,' both scheduled for summer 2011 release.
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