R&B star Ashanti stopped by BET’s 106 & Park to premiere her new video ‘The Way That I Love You’ earlier this week. In her interview with hosts Terrance J and Rosci, the singer spoke about her rumored beef with INC label mate Ja Rule. You can also see the finalized version of the song’s video in Part 2 of the interview below:

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It has been announced that viva Whitney Houston will hit London to play a special concert on May 8th. Check out the report via Contact Music:

WHITNEY HOUSTON is set to make her live comeback in London on 8 May (08). Organisers of the Caudwell Children’s Legend Ball in Battersea have revealed they’ve booked the diva for a charity show. Charity founder John Caudwell tells Britain’s Marie Claire magazine, “We are thrilled to have an artist of Whitney’s calibre to headline the event.” The comeback concert isn’t a big surprise – Tina Turner came out of retirement to perform at the charity’s 2007 gala, which helped Caudwell raise over $2 million (GBP1 million) for disabled children. Houston is currently recording a new album with her mentor, music mogul Clive Davis, who claims the comeback project will be released in November (08).

Great news about the concert; it’s been a long while since Whitney hit the UK. An album release in November, though? How long has she been working on it for? Anyway, here’s hoping she brings her ‘A Game’, as I’ve always felt Whitney’s ‘comeback’ would be the most likely. As, unlike others, her appeal is solely with her voice and not reliant on any kind of sexy image. Any of the singles from her last successful release ‘My Love Is Your Love’ could be a hit today IMO. I guess time will tell.

2008 is really is shaping up the year of the divas – Janet, Mariah, Madonna, Whitney; a certain Ms. Knowles is set to release her third album in November too.

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Check out this new track from Keri Hilson called ‘Get It Girl’. Not to be confused as a song from Keri’ forthcoming album ‘In A Perfect World’, the cut is lifted from Timbaland’s first mobile album for Verizon Wireless subscribers. Despite pretty solid production on the part of Timbo and Keri’s great flow over it, I was left kinda underwhelmed by this. Let’s just say it’s more befitting to what it’s being used for (mobile album aka ‘not worthy of being a legit LP track’).

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During Janet’s set on Good Morning America yesterday, she performed her new single ‘Rock With U’. The perofrmance didn’t air on the telecast, but wascaptured in its entirety by an audience member uploaded to the official GMA site. The choreography was overly on-point; this performance really has me liking the song a little more.

What do you think of the performance?

The video for Jay-Z’s new single ‘I Know’ – the third to be lifted from his ‘American Gangster’ album – made its yesterday. I’m liking this. Interestingly, Lenny Kravtiz’s daughter Zoe stars in the vid.

What do you think of the video?

Word has it Nicole Scherzinger’s ill-fated solo debut ‘Her Name Is Nicole’ has been officially shelved, despite the news of her working on the album alongside the next Pussycat Dolls record. It may as well be (axed), as yet more material from the album has surfaced; this time the Polow Da Don produced ‘Who’s Gonna Love You’. Perhaps the best track to come from the mass garbage she was churning out as singles, Polow really delivered on the production front. Nicole’s voice also compliments the track fairly well too. With that said, something still feels kinda off with the song. I don’t know if it’s her vocal delivery or what; I just can’t put my finger on it.

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Directed by Brett Ratner – who was also at the directorial helm of Mariah’s ‘Heartbreaker’ and ‘We Belong Together’ clips – the vid neither fell below or above my expectations. The simple, light-hearted concept was befitting to the song. Saying that, for Mariah’s sake, I hope the rest of her forthcoming ‘E=MC²’ album and the future videos are of a higher caliber than this, because I still feel kinda short-changed with all of this after the near-perfection that was ‘The Emancipation of Mimi’ record. Random tidbit: did anyone else spot the return of the ‘Mariah Whine’ for a brief moment when she was in the red dress? LMAO!!!

What do you think of the video?