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Congratulations are in order for Ice T and Coco. His wife just delivered a baby girl, Chanel who was 5lbs. The couple recently shared pics of their bundle of joy online. In other music news...Adele is #1 on the charts as expected as her new album, "25" debuted with sales of over 3.3 million copies. "25" marks the largest first week sales ever of a single album since Nielsen began tracking record sales in 1991. The previous title for the largest first week album sales was by N'Sync or was it Backstreet Boys? I can't remember. Anyway whichever group it was sold 2.4 million in their first week with their accompanying album. How was everyone's Holiday? Mine's was great! I was out of town so that is why there were no updates for the last few dates. My sincere apologies! I do thank you all; my readers, supporters, followers, for continuing to visit and ready my blog! I still do enjoy it even though I don't get to update as much as I want. Hopefully v...

R.I.P. to Bobbi Kristina. Condolences to the family. Future has the #1 album in the country with "DS2". It is his first #1 album. Janet Jackson's father Joe Jackson just celebrated his 87th birthday but also had several heart attacks while vacationing in Brazil. Mr. Jackson had to have emergency surgery. Hopefully he is okay. Ice-T and his wife Coco are expecting a baby! Congrats!   

Ciara is coming back this summer with her first single; "Ride" which is from her upcoming untitled album. The single features Ludacris and was produced by The-Dream. Be on the lookout for the single and video real soon. Music Biz: Ice-T Threatens Singer! Whatever possessed singer Aimee Man to criticize Ice-T via Twitter, we have no idea. But we think she will give it a second thought the next time she gets the urge. Here’s what she Tweeted: “Christ, there is no reason in the world anyone should ever have cast Ice T in a television show.” Aimee Mann As you can imagine to Ice-T , them is fightin’ words! So guess who he went in on via his Twitter account: “Oh s–t! FLTG this may be time for a DRIVE BY.. Some one tell who is this b–ch? Should I handle this or is it Drive by time?? Hey @aimeemann stop worrying bout my acting b–ch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time.. Eat a hot bowl of D–ks! Ice T.” And guess what? Not satisfied with his response, Ice-T continued...

Hello all! It is rather late right now as I type to you all. I am actually out of town visiting family. I will still be updating and I do apologize for not updating Friday. Now onto the music news and so forth, Kanye West hits us with two new songs. Check them out after the jump! Audio: Kanye West - Coldest Winter Newly leaked track that I am digging! I'm actually looking forward to Kanye's new album. Audio: Kanye West - Heartless Kanye's 2nd single off his upcoming album, "808s & Heartbreaks". I'm digging it! Music Biz: Akon's Free! Upfront/Konvict/SRC/ Universal Motown multi-platinum singer/songwriter/producer, Akon burst out of the starting gates with the winningly melodic and compulsively danceable single "Right Now (Na Na Na)." The song is sparking up the charts in a record-setting pace that's familiar to Akon's millions of fans worldwide."Right Now (Na Na Na)" is the lead track from Akon's 3rd upcoming album FREEDO...

Video: Monica feat Ludacris - Still Standing(live) Monica joined Ludacris on September 13 for the For Sisters Only Concert in Atlanta, GA. Video: Nelly Disses Ice-T When asked about Ice-T's recent comments about Soulja Boy, Nelly snaps back in this exclusive rant! Check it out! Nelly is a nice guy. I'm sure probably one of the nicest guys in the industry. It is kinda funny to see him snap off like this. Audio: Trina feat Lil' Wayne - Shawty Say Trina is back on the prowl! With her upcoming mixtape and album in the works, new Trina tracks are leaking by the dozen. Oh and by the way Lil' Wayne's feature is an interpolation from "Lollipop". So it's not quite the reunion you might be expecting but its definitely worth a listen.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with some of the things I do here at this blog, let me take a few minutes to inform you. At the top of each month I do a retrospective involving past events from the previous month. I do it because its nice to look back and see what was going on at a certain time in our lives. I have compiled a list of several people that TRULY had us talking all month long. Check it out! Ice-T It's been quite awhile[exactly almost 2 decades ago]since Ice-T had people in such an uproar. The rap legend[if you dare call him that]spoke out against rappers Lil' Mama and Soulja Boi. The rapper expressed his disdain against the new rap acts ruining Hip Hop. Ice's comments even forced loudmouth Kanye West to speak out siding with Soulja Boi. Jesse Jackson Could Jesse Jackson be jealous of the first black Democratic nominee Barack Obama? During an interview Jackson angrily whispered that he "wanted to cut his[Barack]n*ts off". Jackson's comments la...