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[FeeFee]

Originally posted by RedefinedDiva
[B]Isn't she a little bit elderly to be with him....?
/B]

CTHU, CTHU, CTHU!!!!!!!

[CrimsonTide4]

Originally posted by Afrochic


Tracee Ellis Ross of the UPN Show ‘Girlfriends,’ the daughter of Diana Ross is now dating Corey Clark of American Idol Fame. Corey was the curly haired guy who got booted off the show when it was discovered he was arrested for beating up his kid sister. (Sidenote: Huh? What?

She gets a hearty azz hell no on that one. I smell him trying to use her to advance his career. She is tooooooo old for him.

[1savvydiva]

Originally posted by RedefinedDiva
The only death that will result is JaRule's self-esteem and image because Em, 50, and Busta KILLED JaRule on that song! There is no way Ja can make a comeback for that song!!

You ain't NEVA lied! Gurl when Busta says "What would I be without you!" I about DIED!!!!!! That song is HOT!

[kiml122]

Originally posted by RedefinedDiva
The only death that will result is JaRule's self-esteem and image because Em, 50, and Busta KILLED JaRule on that song! There is no way Ja can make a comeback for that song!!

I agree with that 100%. That song is just straight up off the chain, the dissing that is going on against Ja.

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by RedefinedDiva
I don't see the problem because the situation is not how it seems. Jubilee has always been a DJ. He has not always been a teacher. He attended Grambling (2D's alma mater ) and DJed. He makes some of the best bounce/party songs in N.O. He later became a teacher (he used to just be a sub).

I don't see the problem with him making his songs. Jubilee's song "Back That Azz Up" is nothing like Juvenile's. Jubilee's song came out a long time before Juvenile's. Jubilee doesn't make songs that are out the way like Juvenile's because he knows that children listen to his music. He makes fun songs. It's just dance music. I hope he makes another song for the summer....

Jubilee was at Gram when I was there too. Notice the Krimson and Kream I added to his name.

Anyway, Jubilee works well with the students he has (if it's special olympics, summer school (where he gives them a free concert at the close EVERY year or whatever), he is always there for those kids. This isn't what I've heard...it's what I have seen. (We service the same populations) They look up to him.
Whatever he does away from school, that's on him. Now, if he is having the kids to get drug para from his car during the school day-on school grounds (this happened to a local teacher yesterday) then I'd have a problem with that.

Yeah, RD....JUBILEE was robbed. Juvie knows it too. Only those of us who REALLY know his music and the local music can attest. It's just that the powers that be don't know.

"STOP....PAUSE...."

[AKA2D '91]

Vandross Not Breathing On His Own
Thu May 8, 7:45 PM ET Add Entertainment - E! Online to My Yahoo!


By Lia Haberman

Earlier Thursday, there seemed to be a bit of good news about Luther Vandross' prognosis--his publicist announced that the R&B soul man was finally breathing on his own after being felled by a stroke last month.


But hopes for a quick recovery were dashed hours later, when publicist Lois Najarian said the information was incorrect, and the singer still required assistance to breathe.


Relaying a message from Vandross' mother about the perceived improvement, Najarian initially told the Associated Press this morning that the singer no longer needed a tube in his throat to breathe. That proved incorrect, the publicist now says.


"There's been no radical change in his condition," his publicist, Lois Najarian, tells the AP. The 52-year-old remains unconscious and in critical condition in the intensive care unit at a New York City hospital.


The "Here and Now" singer was stricken in his Manhattan home April 16. Vandross wasn't discovered until hours later and was then rushed to Weill-Cornell Medical College, where he was listed in critical but stable condition.


According to his manager, Vandross' convalescence has been slow, hampered by a bout of pneumonia that caused a buildup of fluid in his lungs and labored breathing.


As a result, doctors were forced to perform a tracheotomy last week, inserting a tube through an opening in Vandross' throat to help him breathe easier.

[CountryGurl]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
Jubilee was at Gram when I was there too. Notice the Krimson and Kream I added to his name.

Anyway, Jubilee works well with the students he has (if it's special olympics, summer school (where he gives them a free concert at the close EVERY year or whatever), he is always there for those kids. This isn't what I've heard...it's what I have seen. (We service the same populations) They look up to him.
Whatever he does away from school, that's on him. Now, if he is having the kids to get drug para from his car during the school day-on school grounds (this happened to a local teacher yesterday) then I'd have a problem with that.

Yeah, RD....JUBILEE was robbed. Juvie knows it too. Only those of us who REALLY know his music and the local music can attest. It's just that the powers that be don't know.

"STOP....PAUSE...."

You're right Jubilee was robbed! His song had block parties all over South LA getting off way before Juvie!! He does help alot with the community he and my first cousin happen to be in the same Graduate Chapter(KAY) which I have seen do a lotfor the community.

[Gyrl7]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by RedefinedDiva


Isn't she a little bit elderly to be with him....?
Referring to Tracey and Corey

Lawd, I sho didn't want to be the one to point out that tid bit................CTFU CTFU CTFU.........I mean she is old enough to be either his OLLLLLDDDDDDER sister or his MAMA.
But I aint one to gossip .

[vanda]

You know when you think about it, one description describes both Tracey and Corey: Tall, thin, biracial with wild ass hair and troubled kin folk.

[bro_strawter]

Dr. Dre recently reconnected with Mary J. Blige and produced a track for her album Love and Life, but it's the singer's reunion with another studio Svengali that has M.J.B. and the faithful fans that have supported her for over 10 years smiling the most.

"My whole mission was to touch the audience that made me, the My Life audience, the What's the 411? audience," Blige explained on Thursday in New York. "In doing that [I wanted] to bring back my partner, my brother in this music business, Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs. I can't say that something came and told me [to work with him]. It just was all in the universe and he gave me a call letting me know that it was in the universe for him, too.

"He called, he said he wanted to co-executive produce my next album with me," she added. "I said fine, because Puffy and I have always worked great together."

M.J.B. isn't just tooting her own horn — she's speaking the gospel if you ask many hip-hop and R&B fans. Her first two albums, which Diddy oversaw, are hailed as classics. In fact, Mary said she didn't stop working with Diddy after 1994's My Life because of anything that happened in the studio: It was because of her reckless lifestyle.

"The reason we split up is me not understanding the business the way I needed to understand it at the time," she explained. "He had a label, he had a female artist, he had Biggie, but during the time I was really dogging myself. I was a mess on drugs. Any smart man or businessman would have moved away from me. It felt like he was becoming distant, but looking back, I now understand why. I wasn't delivering properly. I wasn't taking care of my health, so how can he roll his dice on me?"

The separation from Diddy worked in Mary's favor in a roundabout way. She gained a sense of independence and took more control of her musical direction, which didn't stick solely with Puffy's hip-hop/R&B hybrid theory.

"I never doubted myself, but I've always been insecure with my ability to do certain things because I lose some of my vocal abilities from smoking and drinking and doing drugs," she continued. "It was like, 'You know what, I'm going to go ahead and do it without you.' It was easy, but the streets and everybody's opinions is what made things so hard — 'Oh, she's not with Puff no more, she can't do it without Puff no more.' "

Obviously both Mary and P.D. have been successful without each other, but both started to think about joining forces again after recording a remix to Mary's "No More Drama" in 2001. During her No More Drama tour the same year, she started to notice how strong a reaction she would get from audiences while performing her hits off of her debut and sophomore LPs and when special guest Diddy would join her onstage.

"The response they gave us let us know we needed to do it again," Mary said. "[Working on the album] was just, 'Hey, I'm back and I understand you now. I've always loved you and I'm glad you're back in my life.' It was like nothing has ever changed. We still think the same but we have grown up. We still have the same arguments but now we understand how to [better resolve them]" (see "Mary J. Blige Teams Up With 50 Cent, P. Diddy To Discuss Love And Life").

Mary says she has new love songs for the ladies who have the same type of fights with their boyfriends and husbands that she experienced in her life. "Basically I said 'No More Drama' for myself," she said of her last album's premise and title. "But there is still a lot of drama for a lot of other women. The songs that are on there are about, OK, how long are you gonna let this guy beat your head off? There are songs like 'Not Today,' meaning, 'we're not having it today.' 'All of My Love' is about what I'm gonna give. Everything in me is what I'm going to give, because he's given it to me."

Although a few tracks, such as "When We Make Love" and "Let Me Be the One," which features 50 Cent, have hit mixtapes, Love and Life's official first single will be "Love at First Sight," which talks about her soul mate. The two had a chance to really bond one night while talking at a nightclub.

"The guy I'm with now was love at first sight," Mary explained. "There was something familiar about his spirit. It's almost like you've seen him somewhere before but you have not seen him before. This person connects with you. It definitely was not a physical thing, it was something else there. It was like I was looking at me."

Among the producers on the album are Tony Dofat, Mario Winans, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie and Dr. Dre, who produced "Not Today," which boasts a guest spot from Eve.

Outside of her LP,Mary co-wrote a track with Chaka Khan for her next project.

Mary also wrote two tunes for the upcoming Aretha Franklin album. Love and Life is scheduled to drop in August.

[Steeltrap]

Was on CBS Sunday Morning. Her apartment, designed by Roderick Shade, will be featured in an upcoming edition of Architectural Digest.

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by bro_strawter
Dr. Dre recently reconnected with Mary J. Blige and produced a track for her album Love and Life, but it's the singer's reunion with another studio Svengali that has M.J.B. and the faithful fans that have supported her for over 10 years smiling the most.

"My whole mission was to touch the audience that made me, the My Life audience, the What's the 411? audience," Blige explained on Thursday in New York. "In doing that [I wanted] to bring back my partner, my brother in this music business, Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs. I can't say that something came and told me [to work with him]. It just was all in the universe and he gave me a call letting me know that it was in the universe for him, too.

"He called, he said he wanted to co-executive produce my next album with me," she added. "I said fine, because Puffy and I have always worked great together."

M.J.B. isn't just tooting her own horn — she's speaking the gospel if you ask many hip-hop and R&B fans. Her first two albums, which Diddy oversaw, are hailed as classics. In fact, Mary said she didn't stop working with Diddy after 1994's My Life because of anything that happened in the studio: It was because of her reckless lifestyle.

"The reason we split up is me not understanding the business the way I needed to understand it at the time," she explained. "He had a label, he had a female artist, he had Biggie, but during the time I was really dogging myself. I was a mess on drugs. Any smart man or businessman would have moved away from me. It felt like he was becoming distant, but looking back, I now understand why. I wasn't delivering properly. I wasn't taking care of my health, so how can he roll his dice on me?"

The separation from Diddy worked in Mary's favor in a roundabout way. She gained a sense of independence and took more control of her musical direction, which didn't stick solely with Puffy's hip-hop/R&B hybrid theory.

"I never doubted myself, but I've always been insecure with my ability to do certain things because I lose some of my vocal abilities from smoking and drinking and doing drugs," she continued. "It was like, 'You know what, I'm going to go ahead and do it without you.' It was easy, but the streets and everybody's opinions is what made things so hard — 'Oh, she's not with Puff no more, she can't do it without Puff no more.' "

Obviously both Mary and P.D. have been successful without each other, but both started to think about joining forces again after recording a remix to Mary's "No More Drama" in 2001. During her No More Drama tour the same year, she started to notice how strong a reaction she would get from audiences while performing her hits off of her debut and sophomore LPs and when special guest Diddy would join her onstage.

"The response they gave us let us know we needed to do it again," Mary said. "[Working on the album] was just, 'Hey, I'm back and I understand you now. I've always loved you and I'm glad you're back in my life.' It was like nothing has ever changed. We still think the same but we have grown up. We still have the same arguments but now we understand how to [better resolve them]" (see "Mary J. Blige Teams Up With 50 Cent, P. Diddy To Discuss Love And Life").

Mary says she has new love songs for the ladies who have the same type of fights with their boyfriends and husbands that she experienced in her life. "Basically I said 'No More Drama' for myself," she said of her last album's premise and title. "But there is still a lot of drama for a lot of other women. The songs that are on there are about, OK, how long are you gonna let this guy beat your head off? There are songs like 'Not Today,' meaning, 'we're not having it today.' 'All of My Love' is about what I'm gonna give. Everything in me is what I'm going to give, because he's given it to me."

Although a few tracks, such as "When We Make Love" and "Let Me Be the One," which features 50 Cent, have hit mixtapes, Love and Life's official first single will be "Love at First Sight," which talks about her soul mate. The two had a chance to really bond one night while talking at a nightclub.

"The guy I'm with now was love at first sight," Mary explained. "There was something familiar about his spirit. It's almost like you've seen him somewhere before but you have not seen him before. This person connects with you. It definitely was not a physical thing, it was something else there. It was like I was looking at me."

Among the producers on the album are Tony Dofat, Mario Winans, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie and Dr. Dre, who produced "Not Today," which boasts a guest spot from Eve.

Outside of her LP,Mary co-wrote a track with Chaka Khan for her next project.

Mary also wrote two tunes for the upcoming Aretha Franklin album. Love and Life is scheduled to drop in August.

Maybe they can add her to the Essence lineup on July 4th with Puffy and the rest of his gang. That would be GREAT!

[AKA2D '91]

Patti LaBelle No Longer Endorses Hormone-Replacement Drug
Sat May 10,12:00 AM ET

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R&B's Patti LaBelle has revealed that she's no longer using the controversial hormone-replacement drug for menopausal women that she used to endorse in television commercials.



LaBelle said: "I felt really, really bad when I heard the news that it was dangerous so I haven't used my hormone replacement therapy, my Prempro, for about maybe a year since that controversy happened."


Prempro is prescribed to women with moderate to severe menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and for the prevention of osteoporosis.


The most common side effects include post-menopausal bleeding, hair loss and breast pain. However the potential--and controversial--increased risks include heart attack, stroke, breast cancer (news - web sites) and blood clots.


LaBelle said she didn't know that taking the medication carried such risks when she made commercials for the drug she once took regularly.


LaBelle said: "I hope the folk don't think that I knew that it wasn't credible because the reason I did the commercials is because I used it. I'd been using it forever."


LaBelle also said that she's presently not using any medication to deal with her "private summers," the singer's phrase for hot flashes related to menopause.


LaBelle's natural approach to good health also includes eating better to deal with her recently-diagnosed diabetes as she further explains in her latest cookbook, Patti LaBelle (news)'s Lite Cuisine

[CrimsonTide4]

Janet 'So Attached' To JD
Monday, May 05 @ 14:58:59 PDT


USA Today reports Janet Jackson told her sister LaToya at the Kentucky Derby how excited she was to be with boyfriend Jermaine Dupri. "I'm so attached," Janet said as she rushed back to his side. Janet flew in with Dupri's family, her personal trainer and chef. Meanwhile, LaToya told the paper she plans on returning next year for the big horse race. "This is so amazing," she said. "I'm coming back next year, maybe with (brother) Michael as my date." Janet admits that she wasn't as lucky as her sister in picking the winner. "I'm not winning. I normally don't do this, so I am not really sure who to bet," Janet said.

[Gina1201]

Ginuwine reveals in the June issue of Sister 2 Sister magazine that yes, he is still with Sole. In fact, she had their second child together in November, a girl named Dream. Their first child together is named Story. He also says that he plans to have no more kids (both he and Sole have one child each from previous relationships). In fact, Ginuwine stated that he has had a vasectomy! (TMI for me) He and Sole also plan to marry but no date has been set.