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There are some upcoming artists that I keep an eye on to see how things are progressing and Esperanza Spalding is one of them. She is just what the industry is missing. After shocking the world (lol) and beating out Justin Bieber at the Grammy’s last year and taking home the “Best New Artist” award Esperanza has been making moves. She’s back with a new single and video

Mary sat down with Wendy Williams and discussed her past battle with addiction, the club fight with her husband last year and much more. Check out the interview below:

The NBA has announced the starters for the NBA Allstar Game this year. Find out if your favorite player made the cut.

Yep Bey could be $500 million dollars richer if you believe the rumors that Simon Cowell is trying to get her to be the next judge on X-Factor. If you haven’t heard this week Simon FIRED judges Nicole Scherzinger, Paula Abdul and host Steve Jones. While some are saying Mariah Carey is being courted as a judge sources say Simon really wants Beyonce to judge he feels

Check out Madonna’s new video “Give Me All Your Lovin” featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. The three ladies are set to perform this during the Super Bowl halftime show.

Looks like the Sanders divorce is getting super messy. First Deion’s daughter slammed Pilar on twitter saying she was cheating on Deion and nothing but a golddigger. Then Pilar said she was duped(is that a word) into signing a pre-nup that would only give her $1 million dollars if they divorced. Now Pilar is stating Deion will not give her any money unless she does sexual favors for

I think it’s safe to say Tracy Morgan is NOT a moma’s boy. Rumors circulated earlier this week that Tracy Morgan’s mom Alicia Warden was about to lose her home because she owes the bank $25,000 and that Tracy wasn’t doing anything to help him mom. Tracy’s sister Asia Morgan told Daily News her famous brother only offered a one-time payment of $2000 to his mom and the mom refused to take it. Tracy released a statement on

NEW VIDEO: OMG Girlz “Gucci This”

Are these the original three girls??? These don’t look like the same girls I interviewed almost 2 years ago…..maybe I’m tripping…..lol

UH OH Nicki Minaj done gone and gotten herself banned. Apparently BET has decided not to air the “Stupid H**” video because it is simply put “too explicit for tv”!! Check out the video below and let me know if you agree with BET???

I woke up this morning to the sad news that Soul Train founder and host Don Cornelius passed away in an apparent suicide. Don Cornelius started airing episodes of Soul Train locally in Chicago in 1971 the following year the show was syndicated making Soul Train a hit and Don Cornelius a national star. Soul Train paved the way for some of your or your parents favorite artists. Check out some Soul Train clips below:

Rapper Webbie was attacked at one of his shows in Chicago. According to Mediatakeout some of the fans were upset because they felt Webbie wasn’t supporting fellow rapper Lil Boosie enough. Boosie is going to be locked up for a really long time and as far as I knew everything was still “trill” with him and Webbie. Last time I interviewed Webbie (about 6 months ago) all he was screaming was FREE BOOSIE. Check out the video

Say What Now!!! Hypeman/reality star Flavor Flav’s 19 year old daughter Dazayna Drayton was arrested on Sunday for battery after some sort of family dispute. Sources say she slapped Flav in the middle of the dispute at his Las Vegas home and police were called to the scene. Drayton was taken to jail by police and was later released. Flavor Flav has spoken out on the incident telling TMZ:

Super Bowl XLVI is right around the corner with the AFC champion New England Patriots taking on the NFC champion New York Giants. Besides seeing how excited men get over this game my favorite part is usually the halftime show and finally the performers have been announced find out who made the cut below:

Check out the trailer for Tyler Perry’s new movie “Good Deeds” starring Tyler himself, Gabrielle Union, Thandi Newton, Phylicia Rashad & more. “Good Deeds” hits theaters Feb 24th.

Congrats goes out to the cast and crew of the film “The Help” they picked up 2 awards at this years Sag Awards. Special congrats to