Michelle Williams‘ ‘Journey To Freedom’ led her to ‘The Breakfast Club’ this week.

The singer and broadway star has been hard at work plugging the set, which serves as her third faith-based album.

Naturally, as anyone who’s watched the Power 105.1 show will know, no topic was off-limits.

So, watch below as the vocal powerhouse sounds off on everything from her album to depression to past management to Keyshia Cole and much more. An amazing interview, we must say!

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Just one week remains until Chris Brown‘s new album ‘X’ dances into stores. As such, the singer has begun blazing the promotional trail for the hotly anticipated set.

His latest stop was ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’, where – backed by The Roots – he rocked the stage with a medley of the LP’s biggest hits ‘Loyal’ and its title track.

Watch C. Breezy in action after the jump…

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It’s finally here!  The Queen Bee of Rap Lil’ Kim is back and ready to reclaim her throne with ‘Hardcore 2:  The Mixtape.’

Teasing fans with drops like that of her newly risen Jadakiss-assisted single ‘Real Slick,’ the highly anticipated mix tape comes as the rap potentate’s first full body of work since 2011’s ‘Black Friday.’  Originally scheduled to drop tonight at 9:11 pm, the demand for the digital album was so great that it temporarily shutdown Kim’s site – sending fans into an uproar over the extended wait.

Now that the wait is over, did she deliver a critical masterpiece worthy of being pegged the sequel to her classic 1996 debut ‘Hardcore?’

Take your first listen to ‘Hardcore 2’ and tell us below:

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Tomorrow brings with it the arrival of ‘No Good Deed’, the latest thriller from Sony Pictures.

The movie, which stars award-winning actor Idris Elba and Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, tells a chilling tale that critics have christened a must-see.

Henson plays Terri; a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta. However, when Colin (Elba) – a charming but dangerous escaped convict – shows up at her door claiming car trouble, things  She offers her phone to help him yet soon learns that “no good deed” goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.

Exciting, right?!

Well, we caught up with both Elba and Henson to discuss the movie and more. Hit ‘PLAY’ above as our Patrick chats with two of Hollywood’s biggest names!

Your thoughts?

It’s finally here!

Unsigned but more than equipped to go toe to toe with Pop contender is Carmen, the exotic beauty behind the budding smash that is ‘Cold.‘

Love big hair, wind machines, fierce moves and vocals? She’s your girl, serving all of the above in abundance in the song’s official video, releasing the clip alongside a team made up of creatives pulled from Camp J.Lo and Camp Nicole Scherzinger.

Why we can’t get enough of her?

Urban Contemporary excellence after the jump!

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Jagged Edge take a mature step in the right direction with their new single ‘Ready’ today, releasing the love song before the October 27th release of their new album ‘J.E. Heartbreak 2.’

Why it’s a step in the right direction? It’s theme, which sees the quartet leave the club-hopping escapades to their genre sons (Chris Brown & Trey Songz) to court the ears of older audiences with talk of marriage, commitment and true love.

Good music from a great group, below…

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Responsible for her introduction to the game back in 2006, Ryan Leslie‘s short-lived run at the top with Cassie may seem to have spawned nothing more than a hit in the single ‘Me & U’ and modelling career for the stage-shy singer.

Fortunately for the pair, looks are often deceiving- doing very little to tell a story that’s been anything but short-lived for the producer, who has revealed just how much he has earned from the aforementioned ‘Me’ and its parent album, ‘Cassie.’

A ‘Hot 97’ exclusive below…

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He may presently be topping headlines for calling a Canadian reporter a ‘piece of sh*t’ on live TV (click here if you missed that), but former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is also reportedly hard at work with putting the final touches on his forthcoming biopic…starring Jamie Foxx.

According to Tyson, he and Foxx are in discussions to begin production on the film that would see the ‘Unpredictable’ singer portray him at different stages of his life using CGI technology.

“Me and Jamie Foxx are in discussion, and we gonna do it,” said Tyson, 48. “Within a year to 18 months, we’re going to do the Mike Tyson story and he’s going to portray me, and now they have this new animation; because you know Jamie’s pretty much my age so he can’t portray me but they have this new system.”

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Their struggle to sell albums may be real, but it would seem very little can stop Jason Derulo and Jeremih from rockin’ and rollin’ on the ‘Billboard Hot 100’!

How the pair are causing quite the scene on the US singles chart?

Good news after the jump…

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Has the chart-slaying beauty that is Rihanna eyed Yung Berg material to complete her new album?

Maybe…maybe not. Why the confusion?

Well, yesterday saw the ‘Work For It’ rapper reveal that he was hard at working on new music for the Grammy winner, hinting that he was to nab a placement on the hotly anticipated release.

His tweet below…

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Today’s the day!

Lil Kim releases her first body of work in three years later this evening when ‘Hard Core 2k14’ is unleashed on the masses.

The set, which follows 2011’s ‘Black Friday’, has been hyped (and delayed) in earnest. Will it deliver, though, now that it’s finally nigh?

New number ‘Real Sick’ –  featuring rapper Jadakiss – aims to serve up an early answer. Take a listen to the track, which premiered early this morning on Shade45 radio, below…

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It would seem Adele isn’t the only Sony chanteuse set to make major moves this quarter.

For today has brought news with it revealing that ‘A Star is Born’ icon Barbra Streisand is to deliver a rare Late Night performance on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.’

Epic news below…

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