Eminem is making his “Relapse” a double: not only did the best selling rapper reveal the release date for his highly-anticipated return to the rap game, but he announced that the follow-up will drop in 2009 too.
“Relpase,” Eminem’s first full album of new material in four years, is due from Interscope/Aftermath/Shady on May 19. The album’s first single, “Crack the Bottle,” is currently at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100. A second album, “Relapse 2,” is promised before the end of the year. “A lot of people were expecting Relapse to drop last year,” said Eminem in a statement. “I was one of them. Then Dre and I went back in the studio in September for a few days, and that turned into six months. We were on such a roll; we wound up with a ton of new music produced by Dre.”
Los Angeles County prosecutors charged R&B singer Chris Brown with two felonies on Thursday, including assault and making criminal threats.
Check out photos of Rihanna and boyfriend Chris Brown before the alleged assault.
Brown was arrested last month after he allegedly beat up his girlfriend, pop star Rihanna, in Hancock Park following a pre-Grammy Awards party.
In the case handled by the District Attorney’s Family Violence Division, Brown, 19 was charged with one count each of “assault with force likely to produce great bodily injury” and “making criminal threats.”Accoring to a statement from the DA’s office, the victim is identified only as Robyn F. Rihanna’s full name is Rihanna Robyn Fenty.
Brown is scheduled to appear for arraignment at 3:30 p.m. in Los Angeles. He has been free on $50,000 bail since his arrest on Feb. 8 by Los Angeles police.
There’s no doubt this is going to get a whole lot worse before it starts to get better. The whole ‘back together’ thing sure throws an interesting spanner in the works.
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Rihanna and Chris Brown are back together, PEOPLE has learned exclusively.The pair have reunited almost three weeks after Brown, 19, allegedly battered the “Umbrella” singer on Feb. 8, a source tells PEOPLE.“They’re together again. They care for each other,” says the source. The on-again couple are currently spending time together at one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’s homes, on Miami Beach’s Star Island.Adds the source: “While Chris is reflective and saddened about what happened, he is really happy to be with the woman he loves.”In its latest issue, PEOPLE reports that Brown called Rihanna on her 21st birthday one week ago. “He called to wish her happy birthday,” a source told the magazine. “They’ve reached out to each other. It’s been mutual.”Brown was booked by LAPD for making criminal threats but the case has not yet been presented to the District Attorney, who will ultimately determine which charges, if any, will be prosecuted.
Solange really stays promoting her current LP ‘Sol-Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams’, most recently stopping by AOL’s The Bridge to perform a string a songs from the album, as well as a cover of Zero 7’s ‘Destiny’. Peep the performances below:
Move over Barnum & Bailey — Britney Spears is the new ringmaster in town, and her “Circus” tour is going to be more than light tricks and puffs of smoke!
The pop princess is going to be sawed in half and disappear into thin air — and those are just two of the tricks Spears has up her sleeve for her upcoming tour, “The Circus Starring Britney Spears.”
“Right away, she got into the boxes and into the magic contraptions to learn the stuff, and she’s so excited about this tour and all the elements that are in it,” illusionist-comedian Ed Alonzo dished to E! news. Alonzo has revealed that he will be performing onstage with Brit during her concerts, where the “Womanizer” singer will serve as the magician’s assistant.
Ed continued, “We’ll be doing a little dissection, transposition, a vanish, an appearance — and if I do a trick, she doesn’t just hold the props, she’s actually getting inside the big boxes or I am slicing her up.”
Alonzo also dished that Spears has a knack for magic! “I made [the tricks] really easy for her, but there are some complicated things that she is doing that you would think a contortionist would have to do, or a trained magician’s assistant,” he said, “but because she’s a dancer, it really makes sense to put her in the magic, and it works and she’s really, really good at it.”
Britney will also perform some of her hits that helped her skyrocket to the top of the charts. Ed confessed that the show would feature “the best music of Britney that people have loved over the years and, of course, brand-new favorites from the new album.”
“The Circus Starring Britney Spears” kicks off March 3 in New Orleans.