More News for the New Year!

[AKA2D '91]

So sad about Lamont.

Sydney Simpson....lawd! I guess she went "ghetto".

[FeeFee]

Originally posted by Bamboozled
Milwaukee Native Lamont Bentley Dies In Los Angeles

POSTED: 5:28 pm CST January 19, 2005

Milwaukee native and sitcom actor Lamont Bentley has died in Los Angeles.

Bentley played Hakeem Campbell on UPN's long running show, "Moesha."

V-100 radio reported Bentley died in a car accident.

He was 31 years old.

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/e...58/detail.html

This is so sad. Very sad.

[Conskeeted7]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
They may think they are ABOVE the law! Then also soror, that could be the problem. Many in the biz TRUST their accountants. They ASSume that their hired help is doing his or her job. Then, when it's too late, they find out he or she wasn't. That's when there is trouble and the accountant is "fat rich" and the "starra" is broke.

I guess this is true. It just seems that with the news about celebs and tax problems, any new person on the scene would make sure that they paid close attention to that issue.

Has anyone else heard this:
SEAL TARGETS FIFTY CENT IN RAP BLAST
Seal has sparked a potential feud with 50 Cent by criticizing his high-living image, as part of the singer's anti-rap culture offensive.

The star -- who last week slammed rappers for portraying women negatively in both their videos and lyrics -- cites 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' album as an example of all that is wrong with hip-hop music in the 21st century.

The British singer tells hip-hop magazine Sister 2 Sister, "[It's like] 'I'm just going to make a rap video, right? And I'm going to tell the young get rich or die trying or I'm just gonna have loads of cars; I'm just gonna have loads of hos in my video.'

"I really feel there is a responsibility and what goes around comes around."

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by Conskeeted7
I guess this is true. It just seems that with the news about celebs and tax problems, any new person on the scene would make sure that they paid close attention to that issue.

Has anyone else heard this:
SEAL TARGETS FIFTY CENT IN RAP BLAST
Seal has sparked a potential feud with 50 Cent by criticizing his high-living image, as part of the singer's anti-rap culture offensive.

The star -- who last week slammed rappers for portraying women negatively in both their videos and lyrics -- cites 50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' album as an example of all that is wrong with hip-hop music in the 21st century.

The British singer tells hip-hop magazine Sister 2 Sister, "[It's like] 'I'm just going to make a rap video, right? And I'm going to tell the young get rich or die trying or I'm just gonna have loads of cars; I'm just gonna have loads of hos in my video.'

"I really feel there is a responsibility and what goes around comes around."

I suspect Seal's blasts against Fiddy won't carry much weight because Sealhenry is taking some on other boards that I belong to because of Heidi Klum and the baby.

[AKA2D '91]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ple_bill_cosby

[strivingsf]

He is the reason epidural's were invented.
Brazilian gives birth to 'giant' 17lb baby
By Danielle Demetriou
21 January 2005


A woman has given birth to a baby boy described by doctors as a "giant". He weighs nearly 17lb (8kg), twice the size of an average newborn.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=603023

[AKA2D '91]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._ot/fcc_powell

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by strivingsf
He is the reason epidural's were invented.
Brazilian gives birth to 'giant' 17lb baby
By Danielle Demetriou
21 January 2005


A woman has given birth to a baby boy described by doctors as a "giant". He weighs nearly 17lb (8kg), twice the size of an average newborn.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...p?story=603023

We're discussing Babyperson Ademilton over on DST Blvd. See Say What 4.

[2Tuff2Quit]

Johnny Carson, King of Late Night, Dies

By JEFF WILSON
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Johnny Carson, the ``Tonight Show'' TV host who served America a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter, droll comedy and heartland charm for 30 years, has died. He was 79. ``Mr. Carson passed away peacefully early Sunday morning,'' his nephew, Jeff Sotzing, told The Associated Press. ``He was surrounded by his family, whose loss will be immeasurable. There will be no memorial service.''

[TheEpitome1920]

More than six drama-filled years after the release of her Grammy-winning solo debut, it looks like Lauryn Hill's sophomore studio album is finally nearing fruition — with a little help from Kanye West, perhaps.

The pair have collaborated on at least two songs, and while it isn't certain that the collaborations will make the album's final track listing, given West's spiritual slant, the producer seems like a perfect fit for Hill, whose music has taken an ethereal turn in recent years.

Still, the pair's collaboration is somewhat ironic, considering that West sampled a Hill song for the original version of his track, "All Falls Down." The then-relatively unknown producer couldn't get clearance to use Hill's performance and re-recorded the song using singer Syleena Johnson.

Representatives for West and Hill could not be reached for comment.

Hill's last studio set, 1998's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, won five Grammy awards and turned her into a household name. However, rumored turbulence in the singer's personal life contributed to a long delay in the release of any new music.

The silence was finally broken in 2002 with MTV Unplugged 2.0, culled from an MTV special of the same name. The album featured Hill singing spiritually driven, acoustic songs while accompanying herself on acoustic guitar (which she'd only recently learned to play). The songs' lyrics reflected the religious and at times mystical bent that some of her comments to the media had taken. The singer's behavior has been unpredictable in recent years.

Recently, Hill has turned up to do a series of live performances and even reunited with the Fugees last year for Dave Chappelle's Block Party, which also featured West (see "Chapelle Throwing A Block Party With Kanye, Lauryn, Others"). While talk of a Fugees reunion album has been constant, fellow Fugee Wyclef Jean has often said that any group material would come only after Lauryn has finished this album.

[AKA2D '91]

Jermaine Dupre heads Virgin Urban Music (can you get Xscape?)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...c_dupri_virgin



Puffy may bid to own part of Theater group
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...u/people_combs

[kiml122]

I heard on the radio this morning that Monica could be pregnat, and that she could be pregnat by that rapper Young Buck that she was having a little thing with when she did that video.....to the song Should Have Know Better. I see seh still likes the rough necks

[BabyBlue91]

2005 Academy Award Nominations

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by kiml122
I hard on the radio this morning that Monica could be pregnat, and that she could be pregnat by that rapper Young Buck that she was having a little thing with when she did that video.....to the song Should Have Know Better. I see seh still likes the rough necks

G-g-g-g-g-nit!
Buck isn't as ugly as Fiddy, but still. The history of allegedly polished women getting with roughnecks goes back to Whitty and Booby.

[AKA2D '91]

LOL @ allegedly!