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Lil’ Kim On Dacing With The Stars (Week 6)

14th Apr

Lil’ Kim is still on fire on Dancing With The Stars; the feisty rapper and dance partner Derek Hough performed The Jive this week, earning Kim the highest score of the night (and her personal top score). Go Kim!

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14th Apr

Following the dismal sales of Bow Wow’s most recent LP ‘New Jack City II’ (31, 000 copies to be exact), the rapper has decided to hold true to his earlier promise to hang up the mic:

Shad had me cracking all the way up! If this wasn’t a video full of excuses, I really don’t know what is. Your album belly-flops on the charts and now, all of a sudden, you’ve ‘donedidit’ all and moving on from Hip-Hop LMAO. Blunt as it may sound, I’m pretty sure Hip-Hop stopped caring about Bow Wow a long time ago.

The phrase ‘it’s about quality, not quantity’ comes to mind during this obvious ‘save face’ of a clip; of Bow’s 7 albums, how many do you actually have? What’s more, how many were actually any good? I will say, though, Mr Moss, is very smart, as, without being overly pessimistic or hard on the boy, after those sales I can’t see his label holding onto him for too long. It’s looking very much like a ‘retire, before I get my behind dropped!’

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Happy Easter From That Grape Juice

12th Apr

That Grape Juice wishes you all a very Happy Easter. I hope you’re enjoying the day with your mostest and closest lol…I know I will be. Thanks for you’re continued support and remember to keep it locked on That Grape Juice!

11th Apr

Peep R&B ‘singer’ Cassie sporting a very unusual do; having shaved off one side of her hair. A fashion statement or a cry for attention, who knows. That said, she does actually kinda-sorta-ish pull it off!

What do you think of Cassie’s new look?

10th Apr

Even More Day26 Drama

A mess…

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New Song: LeToya – ‘Lady Love (Snippet)’

10th Apr

Check out this snippet of the title track from LeToya Luckett’s sophomore LP ‘Lady Love’. While full judgement will be given upon hearing the track in it’s entirety, I must say I’m liking how LeToya really seems to have evolved with her material with this 2nd CD – judging by the cuts heard thus far.

Hit or Miss?

Naomi Campbell Covers Giant

9th Apr

Peep supermodel Naomi Campbell striking a pose on the cover of Giant magazine.

The star, often branded a ‘diva’, recently spoke out against her ex-manager, blaming him for her not so favourable reputation:

Supermodel NAOMI CAMPBELL has taken aim at her former boss, blaming him for her reputation as an awkward diva.The Brit insists she’ll never forgive Elite chief John Casablancas for the comments he made about his one-time top model when she left his agency – because they’ve stuck with her….…Firing off about the father of The Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas in the new issue of America’s Giant magazine, Campbell says, “He had to attack me because I decided to leave. Models can leave agencies. I was not under a written contract.
“I was shocked to see how he acted. He started that first rumour (that I was tough to work with).” But Campbell insists she has had the last laugh – because she’s still working with the world’s top photographers: “The people that love me, love me and that’s what matters to me.”

Oh whatever LOL. Naomi is a diva and she knows it. Her phone throwing episodes never cease to crack me up. Ms. Campbell always seems to throw her cell at the same sorts; I’ve always wondered what would happen should she attempt such behaviour with ‘Shaniqua from the block’ or Tanisha from ends LOL.

What do you think of the cover?

EnVogue Perform At The Trumpet Awards

9th Apr

Vocal power-houses EnVogue are still going strong, most recently performing at the Trumpet Awards. The ladies gave medley of their biggest hits ‘Hold On’, ‘My Lovin’ (You’re Never Gonna Get It)’ and ‘Don’t Let Go(Love)’. While they’ve had better showings, I enjoyed this. Good stuff.

What do you think of the performance?

Former 3LW Star Signs With Def Jam

9th Apr

Adrienne Bailon, formerly of 3LW and more recently The Cheetah Girls, has reportedly signed a solo deal with LA Reid’s Def Jam.

Word has it, 25 year old is in the studio, working with hitmakers such as Brian Michael Cox (Usher, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige), The Dream (Rihanna, Beyonce, Mariah Carey), K. Brisco (Britney Spears’ “Womanizer”). What’s more, the as yet untitled LP is set to feature nothing but ‘club bangers’. {Source}

Sounds interesting…

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Solange / Kelly Rowland Label Drama?

8th Apr

Our friends over at AOL Black Voices have offered a real interesting insight to the Kelly Rowland record label situation, as well as supposed drama with Solange’s deal. Check out the detailed report below:

Last week, the internet was abuzz with the rumors that Kelly Rowland had been dropped by Columbia Records.
The day after the story surfaced online, the record company CEO, Robert Stringer attempted to quell the rumors by releasing a formal statement.
“Kelly Rowland is one of our finest contemporary artists and a musical force to be reckoned with. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to work with Kelly and we will continue our working relationship with her under the Destiny’s Child moniker. The decision for Kelly to seek other opportunities for her solo career was agreed upon mutually, and any reports to the contrary are false,” Stringer offered.
Anyone with a remote knowledge of the music business understood that since Rowland was signed to Columbia Records via a production deal with Music World Entertainment, the company founded by Mathew Knowles, it was inevitable that her deal with Columbia Records was compromised once the 28-year-old singer ended her management agreement with Knowles back in January.
Now my sources tell me that the real reason the story about Rowland leaked the way it did last week was so that no one would realize that Geffen/Interscope Records has opted not to further their relationship with Knowles’ daughter Solange Knowles.
The eclectic singer’s sophomore release ‘Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams’ has only sold around 138,000 units since its release in August of 2008 and Geffen/Interscope didn’t see the value in doing a new CD on her.
“Geffen did a one-off deal with Music World Entertainment for Solange and wasn’t interested in doing a new contract with her. People at the label really liked working with her because other than her infamous news outburst in Las Vegas, she was a constant professional. There were challenges dealing with her camp, but Solange was great to work with. In the end, the CD didn’t sell despite Solange’s countless high
profile appearances,” the record label source told me.
One of the record labels that Knowles has been meeting with about signing his youngest daughter is Epic Records.
Incidentally, Epic Records is also the label that had initially approached Rowland about a new recording contract upon learning that she would be dissolving her management and recording relationship with Music World Entertainment/Columbia.

Epic’s new president Amanda Ghost, a London-bred former recording artist and songwriter, recognized Rowland’s impact as an international recording artist and thought she would be able to duplicate her European success here in America.
“Amanda was really into signing Kelly and then Matthew started meeting with her about Solange. I’m told he used his influence in the Sony system with Beyonce to complicate the existing offer to Kelly and then the deal ultimately didn’t happen,” the source explained.
Ghost was recently spotted at the South By Southwest Music Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas where she was apparently scouting Solange, who performed on the last night event.
So both Rowland and Solange are now currently without record company homes; though I am told that Rowland will likely be announcing a new record deal in the coming weeks.
At press time, a rep for Music World Entertainment was unavailable for comment.

Wow! All I can say is: the plot thickens…

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Alesha Dixon – ‘Let’s Get Excited’ Video

8th Apr

UK vixen Alesha Dixon premiered the video for ‘Let’s Get Excited’ today, the third single from her smash album ‘The Alesha Show’. While it’s predecessors ‘The Boy Does Nothing’ and ‘Breathe Slow’ were great cuts, there’s little that ‘excites’ me about both this song and video. Put simply, neither then song or it’s accompanying clip, I feel, are strong enough to keep up the momentum Alesha has going at the minute. Of course, things could go otherwise…

What do you think of the song / video?