Pint-sized star Lil’ Kim made her debut on the season premiere of Dancing With The Stars. The ‘Lighters Up’ rapper danced the Cha Cha to Janet Jackson’s classic ‘Nasty’ with partner Derek Hough.

Agreeing with the judges, Kim did great IMO.

As the March 24th release of Keri Hilson’s’ In A Perfect World’ LP draws nearer, the singer has dropped this album-teaser video clip, featuring the track ‘Make Love’ (I say album-teaser as this is not her new single). You may recognise a certain Mr West in the vid too. Good stuff.

Review up shortly…

In the meanwhile…

In some good news for Ciara fans (finally), the R&B star has confirmed that she will be joining the European leg of Jive label-mate Britney Spears’ ‘Circus’ tour, which rolls over this side of the pond in June. The ‘Never Ever’ singer also revealed that the release of her much delayed ‘Fantasy Ride’ has been pushed up a week, and will now drop May 5th.

This is definitely a good look for CiCi, who has caught a lot of flack over the drama surrounding her project. I find it pretty funny that she’ll be opening for Britney, as all signs point to CiCi’s show being much better than Ms. Spears’ – who, having seen clips of her performances on tour, is still stiffer than a plank of wood on stage.

Peep Beyonce and an army of male models filming a piece for her forthcoming ‘I Am…’ world tour, which kicks off later next month. Looks interesting…

It’s a Saturday and boy has today been dry on the news front! As ever, though ,things can (and usually do) change at anytime. The coming week, you will enjoy even more here at That Grape Juice, I assure you.

With that said, I’m throwing it back to you guys to express yourselves as you wish. As ever, it’s always entertaining to read – and read them I do…

Following yesterday’s much anticipated announcement that Michael Jackson is to return to the stage here at London’s 02 in July, the media have been in a frenzy. Of course over the confirmation of the live shows, yet also due to the information that has begun to surface about the AEG Live-sponsored project.

With the announcement making headlines around the globe Jackson’s official website has been struggling to keep it’s servers afloat, after a whopping 16,000 people per second log on to register for the opportunity to partake in the ticket pre-sale on Wednesday. {Source}

Show organisers are promising “an explosive return” of the star with a band of the “highest calibre, state-of-the-art stage show and incredible surprise support acts.” One of the special support guests said to be gracing the stage with Jackson, will reportedly be sister Janet (Source). For what it’s worth, Britney Spears and Ne-Yo are in the country around Jackson’s July 8th first show kick-off.

What’s more, AEG have confirmed that an exclusive new Michael Jackson video showcasing his electric performances over the years will make a record breaking debut this Sunday at 9.30pm on ITV. MJ will be the only artist ever to take over an entire ad break. {Source}

RollingOut.com sat down with R&B singer Nivea recently, with the end result being a mix between hilarious and disturbing. In this must-see interview, the ‘Laundromat’ singer, who seemed to be under the influence of something, spoke candidly about her relationship with ex-husband The-Dream, being a mother and more.

Beyond what she’s saying, this is essential viewing, just to see how she carried on. I really didn’t know whether to laugh or feel sorry for her at some points. Either way, the moral of this one is quite simply that…

UK girl-group sensations The Saturdays are said to be lining up the roof-raising ‘Work’ as their next single. Featured on their Gold certified LP ‘Chasing Lights’, the cut is a delicious slice of Urban-Funk-Pop, which is does just enough to appeal to each audience. Great production, even better vocals (each member of the group holds their own on the vocal tip). Amazing.

Tidbit: You’ll be seeing a lot more of The Saturdays on That Grape Juice (sly grin LOL)

The Chris Brown / Rihanna assault drama is really set to take a turn for the worse, with the police report surfacing on the net and in the media more generally today. You can watch the CNN’s report on the shocking (yes, shocking) content of the affidavit – which describes in detail what exactly happened on that evening in February- or you can read it for yourself below.

Peep the official album cover for Day26’s sophomore effort ‘Forever In A Day’, which drops April 14th via Bad Boy Records / Atlantic. While the group’s new musical offerings, as featured on the current season of Making The Band 4, have me somewhat anticipating the record, the cover is a flat out hot mess. Very amateur looking…very ‘this is our first album’ looking too. SMH…

After more than 4 years out of the limelight (well kinda), Eminem is prepping not one, but two albums this year. Peep the report below via Billboard:

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.”

Hmmm. ‘Stan’ and ‘Lose Yourself’ aside, I’ve never really been big on Mr Mathers. What’s more, in the time he’s been gone, I may be wrong, but I can’t say his presence in the Hip-Hop world was missed on any level of significance. So I’m kinda pessimistic about this all. That said, I guess time will tell…