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Jay Z claims he turned down an offer to perform at the Super Bowl next year and the NFL responded by offering a slot to Justin Timberlake. The question is will he invite Janet Jackson to perform? Remember the two famously performed(and stripped)in 2004 and it led to huge backlash and numerous fines for network CBS. I'm sure the censors will be in full effect as Justin performs. I would expect a PG rated show though from the former Disney star.  Female rapper, Khia(song: "My Neck My Back") has called out singer, K. Michelle over her Lupus disease diagnosis. To sum it up, Khia basically feels that K. Michelle's revelation is straight up bullshit. Who knows? K. Michelle has yet to respond. But she was however quick to respond to Joseline and Azealia Banks in the past. K. Michelle is known for getting the girls together but she met her match in Azealia Banks(the two fell out when plans to tour together fell through) and I think she'd certainly would meet her match...

A week or so ago, Joseline Hernandez(of VH1's "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta") went on a social media rant towards executive producer of the show, Mona Scott Young. Joseline alleges that Young along with VH1 owes her $150,000. She called out the producers(mostly Young) over how they make the cast of the show fight as well as a barrage of other claims that Joseline made(that I can't remember now since this was a few days ago). It was reported that Joseline quit "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" over money and in the trailer for tomorrow's reunion special, Joseline is seen exiting the reunion set refusing to take part in the show. On the show's finale which aired last week, a montage of Joseline's most volatile moments while on the show were chronicled which upset Joseline. Joseline said in another social media rant video that producers put together the video because they were upset with Joseline for quitting the show. Fast forward to a few days ago, Mon...

So Trina posted a picture on her Instagram with Ariane(who is one of the cast members of "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta"). Ariane is not a regular cast member but a "friend of" who makes occasional guest spots on the show. Well once K. Michelle saw the picture of Trina and Ariane, she warned Trina to watch out for Ariane. K. Michelle is referring to when Ariane said that K. Michelle left her standing outside with no ride. This was seen in the last season of the show and K. Michelle disputed the claims and has been upset ever since. In other news, there was a mysterious sign floating around in L.A. and some other major other cities. The sign read "4:44" and many thought it eluded to Jay Z releasing a new album or that was the time Beyoncé is rumored to give birth. Well it turns out that everyone was wrong as the sign pertained to a movie that will be on Jay Z's Tidal and Sprint. I'm not sure why people always think that Jay Z and Beyoncé posting sign...

I saw on Twitter that Beyoncé's team sent a letter to a fan who ran a website selling unauthorized merchandise. The fan who is allegedly said to be very young pleaded with Beyoncé and her team to not pursue legal action. I believe her team was simply telling her to stop selling the merchandise but she could still have her fan site. The reason being is Beyoncé's name is trademarked so if you are going to use her name(for say like a clothing design where her name appears), you have to get permission. Now who you go through to do all that, I don't know but because I'm not in the business of designing clothes. So Remy Ma was caught throwing shade at Nicki Minaj via a Instagram post posted by DJ Clue(that's a name I haven't heard in awhile). The event is for Nicki Minaj's homecoming celebration and in the comments there was a screen shot of Remy Ma saying "home going" and if you all know what "home going" mean, its another name for dying. Ba...

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 ...

Khia says she has no beef with Trina despite dissing her over the years. Khia was recently asked on air during her YouTube show what the origin of her beef with Trina was. Khia went on to say that it was a "gag" and shade is naturally thrown throughout Hip Hop. In another video Khia blasted K. Michelle who was the victim of a sex tape leak out on social media. Several 10 second clips of K. Michelle engaging in oral sex and masturbation surface but K. Michelle has denied the claims. Khia took K. Michelle to task for calling out her "Love & Hip Hop" co-star Mimi Faust for her sex tape when she is now doing the same thing. What do you think? Is K. Michelle a hypocrite? I like think so but that's neither here nor there. In other music news, Kelis is in the studio working on new music. I wonder what she's cooking up? I was listening to "Kelis Was Here" last night and remembering how great an album it is. I prefer Kelis when she does R&B and I...

Hello all! So the hosts for the 2016 BET Awards has been revealed and its none other than "black-ish" stars, Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson. I swear I read that Mike Epps was the host this year but maybe that was just a rumor. In reality TV news, Toya Wright and Mickey "Memphitz" are now officially divorced. We all know Toya from the BET show, "Tiny & Toya" fame and for being Lil' Wayne's former wife. Memphitz is famously known for his volatile relationship with K. Michelle which has played out over the years on the blogs, the court room, and TV. Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose are also now officially divorced. The former couple celebrated by going to a strip club together. Happy Birthday to Prince! The singer would of been 58 years old today! R.I.P.

Eve is headed on tour with her former collaborated Gwen Stefani. John Legend and Chrissy Teigen(sp) just had a baby! Congrats! R.I.P. to actress Doris Roberts who played on "Everybody Loves Raymond". Rihanna's "Work" featuring Drake is #1 on the Hot 100 for the 9th week. Beyoncé's short film is to be released this week on HBO April 23 9 P.M. EST and her accompanying album is said to be locked in for release this month, no one knows the date though except Beyoncé and her team. K. Michelle's music has been banned by some radio stations after her spat with Angela Yee on "The Breakfast Club". I watched the said interview and K. Michelle was really way out of line if you ask me. I feel she was just turning up for the cameras. She criticized Angela Yee for bringing up a story brought to her by rapper Uncle Murda who alleges K. Michelle has a stinky vagina! K. Michelle thought it was in poor taste for Angela Yee to bring it up. K. Michelle's mai...

Azealia Banks is set to release her new single sometime today. The single is entitled, "The Big Big Beat". She describes the song as a "Detroit House Style Vibe" with "Diana Ross teas". It is the first single to be released from her "Slay Z" mixtape. While we await on that, just yesterday I was talking about Beyoncé and how she was performing at the Super Bowl. Well low and behold Queen Bey dropped a video to the song "Formation" exclusively on TIDAL but of course it made its way to other outlets. The song is reportedly the song Bey will perform during the halftime show. Of course the video sent shockwaves through social media and rumors of her new album being released have reached a fever pitch. In other music news, K. Michelle finally met up with her estranged ex-boyfriend Memphitz aka Mickey Wright. Memphitz is responsible for giving K. her first record deal and they later had a relationship that turned violent. Several accusations...

I apologize for the lack of updates. There is really no excuse besides the fact that I've been working and sometimes just really tired and pooped out at the end of the day. So to catch you all up to speed on what's been going on since I last left, let's see...well Rihanna's "ANTI" album is #1 this week after debuting at #27 last week due to early release. She is currently shooting the video to her new single, "Work" featuring Drake. Speaking of new albums, Wiz Khalifa just released his new album, "Khalifa" and Future drops "EVOL"(love spelled backwards). Erica Dixon of "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta" fame says she won't be returning to the show that made her a reality star and to be honest I don't blame her. Her storyline wasn't going anywhere and it was basically each season her rehashing her issues with Scrappy. I'm sure the re-addition of K. Michelle will more than make up for her absence. Hmm what else...

Hello all! So a few days ago K. Michelle announced that she was returning to "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta". Now this is something I definitely didn't see coming. If that's not enough her VH1 reality show will return in January as well. Then there's K.'s third album that she will be releasing in March, so expect a K. Michelle overload in 2016. In other music news, VH1 Soul will now be known as BET Soul. This news comes directly for Viacom who owns both networks including MTV. What do you all think about that? Videos are not as viable as they used to on the networks. Videos are made now more so YouTube, VEVO, and other third party sites. It's funny because MTV used to be primarily known for showing videos as well as BET and VH1. My, how things have changed. Personally my attention is so short these days, videos don't interest. There are a lot music videos that I have never seen and don't care to see, same thing with movies. But that sounds like a pe...

So K. Michelle says she is reducing the size of her butt to be respected by those in the industry. She says she'd rather men look at her instead of her butt when striking deals. Well I can certainly respect her for her decision, her assets has earned her a lot of the deals she currently has. Wouldn't you say? In other music news, Rick Ross has called it off with his girlfriend Lira Galore who was was said to marry. Blame the media scrutiny both received when it was revealed that Galore once dated Meek Mill, who is a member of Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group. Perhaps to scrutiny was too much bare and I can't say I blame Rick Ross for calling it off, if indeed he is the one who called it off. So what do you think of today's stories? I hope you enjoyed reading! Until next time folks! Thanks for reading! :)

So Ne-Yo's girlfriend, Crystal has confirmed that she is indeed pregnant and posted the ultrasound to prove it. This was basically news a few weeks ago and everybody went in on Ne-Yo after making his ex-wife get her tubes tied. In other news, Mary J. Blige and Tamar Braxton are going on tour. Safaree, Nicki Minaj's ex has hooked up(pun intended) with K. Michelle. The two have collaborated for K.'s third album. He thanked the singer on social media and took a stab at Nicki by insinuating he ghostwrote her lyrics, a rumor that has been going on for quite awhile. If you recall K. Michelle had beef with Nicki Minaj because she stole her song with Meek Mill, which was title track for her album; "Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart?". And Lil' Wayne and Christina Milian have reportedly broken up but did they ever really admit they were together. In the midst of their breakup, the two have released a collaboration titled "Do It". To be honest I'm surprised Chri...

It was only a matter of time before Azealia Banks butted heads with K. Michelle. The two outspoken musicians had it out on Twitter a few days ago with most of the insults coming from Azealia of course. It all started after K. cancelled her tour with Azealia. Well apparently Azealia was feeling some type of way about it or some fan asked her about it and she didn't hold back. It was a matter of time before K. caught wind of the bad mouthing and K. pretty much dismissed the drama. Good for you K. Speaking of Azealia, she did reveal that her "Slay Z" album featuring covers over some of Jay Z biggest hits will arrive in September. She said the album will feature 8 tracks. Cool! I'm ready for some new Azealia music anyway. Congratulations to Jill Scott! Her new album, "Woman" has debuted at #1 on this week's Billboard charts. This is Jill's second #1 album. Jill will be sharing the silver screen with Azealia Banks in "Coco" which is due to be ...

Young Thug was arrested this morning after threatening to shoot a mall cop in the face. Just a few weeks ago The Game was arrested in a similar incident when he threatened an off duty cop. What's wrong with these rappers? The world may never know. Chris Brown's house was robbed while the singer was not there but his family was. Brown's aunt was held at gunpoint. The incident prompted Brown's Mother to issue a statement to those responsible on Twitter. Mama Brown is not to be played with. Personally I think it was an inside job. Chris is known to hang around nothing but a bunch of "yes men" and thugs. I think he needs to close in on his circle of friends fast! What do you think? On the the tour front, Janet Jackson has added more dates to her Unbreakable World Tour. She will be making addition tour stops in Cleveland, Dallas, Chicago, and Detroit. You going? And if that's not enough touring for you, K. Michelle and Azealia Banks is teaming up to tour toget...

Hey guys! I hope you all enjoyed your holiday festivities. I know I did! I had plenty of food, laughs, drinks, gossip, and fireworks! So every once in awhile we get an artist who goes on social media particularly Twitter and airs some things out. That was the case last night with K. Michelle. She took to Twitter in the wee hours of the morning to express her disdain on everything from black media to still healing from her abuse. She goes on to say how she fought with women on TV for two years who didn't believe her story and how blacks don't support one another and are always tearing each other down. Very true! I admit I didn't like K. Michelle when she was on "Love & Hip Hop" in its earlier seasons. I never disbelieved her allegations but I just hated how dysfunctional she was. I do find myself liking her a little more these days. But what do you think about K. Michelle's feelings? Do you all follow her on Twitter? In other music news, its been reported...

K. Michelle says she's not dating Safaree, ex boyfriend of Nicki Minaj. The rumors have intensified based on the constant interaction between the two via social media. Safaree sent K. flowers and she posted it on Instagram. There were several other examples but I've had a brain freeze. But like K. said she's not dating Safaree. Can't say I blame her. I always thought he was gay. :) Speaking of gay, Lee Daniels, creator of "Empire" is eyeing The Weeknd to appear on season 2 of the hit show. What do you all think about that? I would say his hit single, "Earned It" played a big part in that. But can The Weeknd act? I guess we shall see. And at this point it seems like anyone whose anyone is being considered for "Empire" must be nice. I remember when they ran that contest for the viewers about a walk on role on the show. You know I applied! And Chris Brown was being blamed for yet another fiasco, this time on a plane. The story was that Bro...

HIGH ON LIFE: News of Nelly getting arrested Saturday morning is making the news rounds. The 40 year old rapper was arrested in Tennessee after his bus was stopped and for failing to provide the proper documents to operate the bus, the officers searched the bus. The whiff of marijuana didn't help because there was also marijuana found on the bus as well as drug paraphrenalia and five rocks of meth which tested positive. This whole story is shocking but then again its not. Nelly's use of drugs have been a constant rumor in the last few years. If that wasn't enough the officers also found several handguns. RIDE OUT: And Lil' Wayne left a cryptic tweet on Twitter saying he needs a "ride or die" which prompts me to believe that Christina Milian ain't that. She was singing that she was a "Rebel" for him so who knows. I dont know what kind of relationship Lil' Wayne and Christina Milian have. Hell I'm not sure if they know. But whatever it is ...

RUDE BITCH: Rihanna will be debuting her new single tomorrow "Bitch Better Have My Money" #BBHMM from her upcoming album rumored to be titled #R8 by her RihannaNavy fans. For this new album Rihanna said she wanted songs that were timeless and that she could perform years from now but I'm thinking with that title, you plan on performing this 20 years from now? We'll see. But get excited! Are you? CRY BABY: Well Tamar Braxton got on her show "The Real" and cried a river of tears after being called a Muppet by nemesis K. Michelle. The war of words between Tamar and K. have been going on for quite awhile and I don't know why Tamar chose to cry on her show about it but possibly to say she was really offended by it but also to make K. look like the bully she portrays to be a lot. But with that being said I'm sure Tamar has said some hurtful things to K. as well. But you don't see K. crying but I think their beef is very petty and they need to squash i...

Not only is Justin Timberlake celebrating a birthday, he announced that he and his wife Jessica Biel are expecting their first child together. Happy Birthday Justin and congratulations to you and Jessica. Well it looks like these days celebrities who beef with another love to get back at one another in some type of capacity, case in point. K. Michelle was seen on social media twerking to Safaree Samuels, ex-bf of Nicki Minaj's new song. When Safaree caught wind of it, he hailed the video and praised her hour glass figure, which is very similar to that of Nicki's. This was all in response to Nicki Minaj hooking up with Meek Mill, who was also messing around with K. Michelle and K claims Nicki Minaj stole her song, Buy A Heart featuring Meek Mill. Did you follow? Anyway on a sad note, Bobbi Kristina, daughter of the late Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown was found unresponsive in a bathtub by husband(friend or whatever their association is) Nick Gordon. Bobbi was rushed to a hospi...