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The Queen of Soul, Ms. Aretha Franklin is speaking out on claims that she's Whitney Houston's godmother. Apparently Dionne Warwick referred to Aretha as Whitney's godmother during Whitney's funeral which Aretha was absent at. It has been a long standing belief that Aretha was Whitney's godmother. Aretha was definitely feeling some type of way and faxed a letter to the Associated Press which led to the headlines. No one is more shadier and pettier than Ms. Franklin. Bow down. A possible runner up to the sheer pettiness of Ms. Franklin is K. Michelle. She was fuming mad last week when her name was mentioned on daytime talk show, "The Real". Radio show host Angela Yee from "The Breakfast Club" famously got told off by K. Michelle during an interview and Angela discussed while on "The Real". Host Loni Love chimed in mistakenly referring to K. Michelle as Keyshia Cole which was shade in itself. K. Michelle took to Twitter to dis Loni Love ...

I took it way back to the year 1985. I was one years old when this song was released. The song is pretty sappy but I've always had a soft spot for it.

Like the album spotlight, there will also be the Throwback Album. The Throwback Album will showcase an older album. One, that is at least 10 years old and considered a classic(in my eyes or by most people). Chaka Khan's "I Feel For You" is one of my favorite albums of all time. It is an album that I grew up on as a child. It was an album I heard many a days while growing up. I liked the album as a child and would love it even more as I got older. What I like most about this album besides Chaka's extraordinary voice is the strong material present here. Though the material is very dated it was a very risky album for Chaka and it shows where music was and where it was going in 1984(the year I was born). The album yielded a few hits including the title track, "Through The Fire"; which was later sampled by Kanye West on "Through The Wire". Many of the songs here are original but also contains a few unoriginal songs including the title track which was wr...