One of my favourite voices in contemporary R&B, American Idol’s 2004 winner Fantasia Barrino talks to People magazine about her recent suicide attempt. “I realized how people end up in the grave,” she says. “Because that one moment [snaps her fingers] of just breaking or feeling like I can’t, I can’t go on, it’s too [...]
Yesterday on Twitter, politically-minded entertainer Wyclef Jean announced his intent to appeal against Haiti’s electoral council [CEP]‘s decision to reject his bid for presidential candidacy for failing to meet meet residency requirements that demand he must have lived there for the past five years. “Jean is appealing the decision, and said he has the documents [...]
For the past four months, a grandiose ecological problem exists in the waters located in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20, 2010, the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill took place in the Gulf of Mexico. British Petroleum (BP) has claimed responsibility for this environmental disaster, but has blamed Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton for their [...]
Controversial R&B master R. Kelly plans to release a trio of projects, titled Epic, Love Letter and Zodiac. Featuring four new and unreleased songs alongside a selection “aspirational songs and timeless R. Kelly classics”, Epic is the first to emerge from the trio – up for international release on September 21st via Amazon. Epic Tracklist: [...]
The gorgeous Paula Patton (Hitch, Déjà Vu, Precious) – or should I say Paula Thicke – will be joining the cast of Law & Order: SVU this season on NBC, playing the new Assistant District Attorney. I’m a stickler for crime shows and many-a-night have been spent working with Law & Order as the backdrop [...]
Continuing the wave of interest created by anticipated Facebook film, The Social Network, there’s another film on the way exploring an even bigger online phenomenon: Google. Based on New Yorker columnist Ken Auletta‘s 2009 book, Googled: The End Of The World As We Know It, which tells the story of Google founders Sergey Brin and [...]
Having announced his bid for office earlier this month on Larry King Live, Wyclef Jean has been disqualified from the approved candidates list for Haiti’s November 28 presidential election. “Haiti’s electoral council gave no reason for not allowing him to run, neither did it make an official announcement on his case. Instead late on Friday [...]
Shooting for the stars, NASA has enlisted the help of award-winning recording artist Mary J. Blige, who started the charity Foundation For the Advancement of Women Now (FFAWN), to encourage young women to pursue careers across a spectrum of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). FFAWN will work together with NASA’s Summer Of Innovation project; [...]
With guest features from Erykah Badu, Ludacris, Anthony Hamilton, Marz and Lisa Ivey, the full tracklisting (consisting of only 9 songs) has been unveiled for the forthcoming collaborative album by David Banner and 9th Wonder, titled Death Of A Pop Star. Exploring the theme of the death of contemporary black music, Death Of A Pop [...]
Take a look at a rather abstract screenshot from the video for “Miss Me”. “Miss Me” the Lil Wayne collaboration from Drake‘s debut album Thank Me Later will get its world premier on MTV tomorrow at 8pm (EST) and then will be available to view on Drake’s blog after. (Unless the interweb gangsters get their [...]
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