Just as the storm surrounding Mariah Carey‘s botched New Year’s Eve performance dies down the star has learned that fresh drama is brewing.

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Shawn Stockman of the iconic group Boyz II Men has welcomed the birth of his new girl group DAME.

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The 74th annual Golden Globe awards are underway and as usual Black Hollywood is showing up and out.

With the likes of Kerry Washington, Angela Bassett, Tracee Ellis Ross and more donning some seriously head-turning looks, tuck in below to see who rocked the red carpet best:

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As we recounted here, R&B bad boy Chris Brown’s 2016 was a crazy year thanks to a number of highly publicized altercations, alleged assaults, and the like.  Now, barely a week into the new year, it appears the Grammy winner is set to have 2017 follow suit.

His ongoing beef with rapper Soulja Boy has been a rollercoaster to say the least, one many thought had come to a halt when the ‘Crank That’ hitmaker cranked out an apology last week.  Well…that was then.

With a celebrity boxing match scheduled between the two (Floyd Mayweather training Soulja and Mike Tyson in talks to train Brown), the ‘Run It’ singer reportedly ran to the gym to let off some steam on the basketball court when an altercation allegedly took place between him and its manager.  Needless to say, it didn’t end well for Breezy:

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Just as folk had begun to move on from Mariah Carey‘s disaster of a New Year’s Eve performance, the diva is shining light on it…herself.

Following a slew of statements from manager Stella Bulochnikov (and clap backs from the production team at Dick Clark), Mimi has issued her own response.

Hear it below…

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Today’s From The Vault pick comes courtesy of a boyband who somehow managed to leave a mark in the masses’ minds despite their short-lived stint at the top of the charts.
This week we give you B2K’s ‘Bump Bump Bump.’

The track served as the launching single from the group’s sophomore set ‘Pandemonium,’ which was released in late 2002. As with most of the set, it was written and produced by the Pied Pipper himself, R. Kelly, and benefited from a guest verse from Diddy – or P.Diddy as he was known at the time.

A post-00’s serenade of sorts, the track sees lead Omarion set his sight on one girl, trying to make her his “main squeeze.”

Clearly the group’s breakthrough as well as well as their signature single, it reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and went on to become a worldwide hit peaking at #4 in Australia, #7 in France and entering the UK Top 20.

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The song’s accompanying video was directed by Erik White and presented the quad dancing in colorful rooms with Diddy and lady dancers shaking it for the camera. You know the drill, a classic 00’s Urban male visual.

Though already blatant at the time, looking back something doesn’t feel right about the way Omari is apportioned the spotlight in this video. A practice that was essentially the case in most of the band’s offering’s more broadly.

Still, it didn’t stop legions of loyal fans lapping up all things O, J-Boog, Lil Fizz, and Raz B. Even if only for a short time.

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Watching this reminds that we’d like to see update of the R&B boyband formula. As much as we reminiscence fondly on the likes of B2K and groups which came after them, the truth is that this would never fly in 2017.

We can’t wait to see what a new age boyband would look and sound like. With music, fashion, and “masculinity” defined altogether differently to what it was a decade + ago, it’d be interesting to see how the concept will have evolved.

Your thoughts?

Aside from his ostentatious presence on his social media and his collaboration on DJ Khaled’s ‘Do You Mind,’ August Alsina’s musical efforts have been moderately subsided. That is until now.

The New Orleans crooner returns with new material, which sees him race to the front of the line of acts hatching freshness in 2017. Interestingly titled ‘Drugs,’ the cut sees the 24-year-old profess his obsession with a woman over a sultry slow-churning beat.

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‘Queen of Gospel’ Shirley Caesar received a royal backlash on Twitter this week after indirectly throwing her support to fellow gospel hitmaker Kim Burrell after the latter was slammed for a fiery anti-LGBT sermon.

As Burrell continues to lose everything from endorsements to promotional spots, Caesar – probably fearing the same was forthcoming – quickly tried to clarify her stance on the LGBT community by taking to Facebook to issue a statement.

Asserting the viral clip of her speaking was “taken out of context,” tuck in below to the gospel legend claim the true intent behind words:

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The L’s just keep getting handed to ‘Victory’ singer Kim Burrell.

The embattled gospel singer, whose anti-LGBT sermon from last week landed her in hot water with the community and its supporters, is continuing to see endorsements snatched from her.  After learning her appearance on ‘Ellen’ had been cancelled, the revered songstress learned her radio and television programming had been snatched from their respective points of air.

As if that wasn’t enough, yesterday she was greeted with news from BMI that she’d been uninvited from an awards ceremony honoring songwriters.

Burrell’s backlash has no end in sight:

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TGJ favourite Sevyn Streeter calls on Lyrica Anderson, Siya and Dreezy to complete her remix of DJ Khaled’s ‘Do You Mind.’

DJ Carisma’s ‘This Is the Queen’ mix houses the remix and arrives as Streeter’s fans look forward to the release of her ‘Girl Disrupted’ LP which is to drop via Atlantic Records.

Peep its release date here!

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Bruno Mars blazed back onto the scene last Fall with third album ’24k Magic,’ which topped charts across the globe.

Spearheaded by its title track, the LP has been a fixture in the upper echelon of the Billboard 200 and looks set to continue said run with the release of its next single.

There has been ample debate as to which song should be selected.

And now, it appears the stage blazer has made his decision.

Find out what he’s set to serve up below…

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Jhene Aiko gets psychotic in the asylum, self-directed visual for single ‘Maniac.’

With the dark sensual single as her backdrop, the ‘Souled Out’ singer is bound, gagged, and restrained before freeing herself and straddling a mannequin. The concept stems from Aiko’s research on the reasons women were admitted into mental institutions in earlier years. The reason: nymphomania, which is a side of the 28-year-old that she wanted to highlight more with this effort.

Peep the visual below…
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