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Rihanna talks about Chris Brown, her fantasies and taking charge in Rolling Stone: On her Sexual Fantasies “Being submissive in the bedroom is really fun. You get to be a little lady, to have somebody be macho and in charge of your shit. That’s fun to me…I like to be spanked. Being tied up is fun. I like to keep it spontaneous. Sometimes whips and chains can be overly planned – you gotta stop, get the whip from the drawer downstairs. I’d rather have him use his hands. On wanting a man to take charge “I think I’m a bit masochistic. [***the condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering, physical pain, and humiliation]. I love feeling like I’m somebody’s girl. I think that is common in people who witnessed abuse in their childhood.” On easing up on the Restraining Order against Chris Brown That’s my decision. It doesn’t mean we’re gonna make up, or even talk again. It just means I didn’t want to object to the judge.” On her current relationship with Chris “We don’t have to talk ever again in my life. I just didn’t want to make it more difficult for him professionally. What he did was a personal thing – it had nothing to do with his career. Saying he has to be a hundred feet away from me, he can’t perform at awards shows – that definitely made it difficult for him.”

The numbers are in and Chris Brown has positioned his newly released album entitled ‘F.A.M.E.’ to the number one spot with 273k units sold! Congrats

Amber Rose spoke her mind about people talking sh*t about her: Morning Twit Fam, didn’t really wake up in a good mood today. I’m just so sick of being ridiculed. assuming things without knowing. I’m super nice to everyone I meet. I’m a very caring compassionate person. I don’t deserve to be talked about so negatively. I really hate explaining myself that’s why I stay so quiet but I will say this….. I was with my ex for 2 years and now I have a new Love. [Two People] that’s it. If that makes me a whore then so be it. I have NEVER slept with Fabolous, Drake, Chris Brown, Amare, Lebron, Cassidy etc nor have I ever been a Prostitute. Comedian Lil Duval responds on his twitter: No disrespect, but that’s what comes [with] being around so many different men. In our mind if ur with him, u f**ked him. In this world, it’s not about what you think you are, it’s about what people SEE [you] as and it’s up to you to make them see what you see. You’ll see what I’m sayin’ later on. not bashing you. Just understand, you are what’s perceived in this industry.

The Miami rapper was arrested for possession of marijuana Friday night in Shreveport, Louisiana. A strong smell of marijuana led police to Ross’ hotel room around 11 p.m. According to the police report, upon entering the room officers saw approximately one gram of the drug in plain view. Carol City-raised Ross — whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II — was charged with possession of marijuana first offense and released on a misdemeanor summons. Gossip site TMZ reports Ross was in Shreveport to perform at a club, and the club’s celebrity guest of the night was also arrested. Philadelphia Eagles start Jason Peters was booked for a loud music violation and resisting arrest after an incident in which he refused to turn down his car stereo. Ross, 35, may not mind his arrest so much: after pictures showing him on duty as a Florida corrections officer in the early 1990s surfaced, image-conscious convicted drug trafficker “Freeway” Ricky Ross sued him for copyright infringement. The case was later dismissed. Source

The group, is accusing Snoop of using his popularity to encourage minors to drink the beverage, produced by the Pabst Brewing Company. In an attempt to halt the production of beverages like Blast, which contain both alcohol and soda, Marin reached out to California State Senator Alex Padilla to strengthen its ban the drink, and others like it. “While the federal government was shutting down dangerous caffeinated alcohol, Pabst Brewing Company was cooking up ‘Blast,’ a super sweet, fruit-flavored, supersized alcopop containing as much alcohol as four and a half cans of beer,” said Marin CEO Lee Levingston. “Joose, Four Loko, Tilt, and now Blast are racing to the bottom to harm youth. Senator Padilla’s bill should limit such products to one standard-size drink.” According to Livingston, Snoop’s affiliation with the brand is directly related to the injuries reported by numerous college students between of the ages of 17 and 19. The institute reported that over 2 million youth illegally drink alcohol in the state of California, costing the state $7.3 billion a year. Last year, the federal government banned seven alcoholic beverages containing caffeine, including Four Loko and Joose, but Marin hopes to get more off of the market. Blast, a fruit flavored drink, contains 12 percent alcohol in a 23 ounce can, and features labels resembling bubble gum wrappers, which some argue is directly targeted at young people. The drink is scheduled to hit shelves next month. Snoop has yet to release a statement on the matter. Source

Atlanta rapper Ludacris has been tapped to be the headlining performer for the 2011 Civil Rights Game Week. The Civil Rights Game Week is a four-day event sponsored by MLB and the Atlanta Braves, taking place from May 12th-15th. Organizers told AllHipHop.com that the game is meant to pay tribute to all of those who have fought on and off the field for equal rights for all Americans. Ludacris and a special guest will host a one-hour performance that will take place following the day's game between the Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies. "I'm a fan of baseball, and I am honored to be a part of MLB's family and tradition of being a pioneering organization for civil rights, social justice and equality," Ludacris told AllHipHop.com in a statement released today (March 24th). "I have studied the strides made in baseball and in sports and the impact they have had on social issues affecting race and race relations in America," Ludacris told AllHipHop.com. "The Civil Rights Game Week is a celebration of those achievements and a reminder of our ongoing responsibility to continue leveling the playing field for all." The Civil Rights Game Week takes place on Sunday (May 15th) between the Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies.

LOS ANGELES - Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and enduring fame and glamour made her one of the last of the classic movie stars and a template for the modern celebrity, died Wednesday at age 79. She was surrounded by her four children when she died of congestive heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been hospitalized for about six weeks, said publicist Sally Morrison. "My Mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humor, and love," her son, Michael Wilding, said in a statement. "We know, quite simply, that the world is a better place for Mom having lived in it. Her legacy will never fade, her spirit will always be with us, and her love will live forever in our hearts." "We have just lost a Hollywood giant," said Elton John, a longtime friend of Taylor. "More importantly, we have lost an incredible human being." Taylor was the most blessed and cursed of actresses, the toughest and the most vulnerable. She had extraordinary grace, wealth and voluptuous beauty, and won three Academy Awards, including a special one for her humanitarian work. She was the most loyal of friends and a defender of gays in Hollywood when AIDS was new to the industry and beyond. But she was afflicted by ill health, failed romances (eight marriages, seven husbands) and personal tragedy. "I think I'm becoming fatalistic," she said in 1989. "Too much has happened in my life for me not to be fatalistic." Her more than 50 movies included unforgettable portraits of innocence and of decadence, from the children's classic "National Velvet" and the sentimental family comedy "Father of the Bride" to Oscar-winning transgressions in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "Butterfield 8." The historical epic "Cleopatra" is among Hollywood's greatest on-screen fiascos and a landmark of off-screen monkey business, the meeting ground of Taylor and Richard Burton, the "Brangelina" of their day. She played enough bawdy women on film for critic Pauline Kael to deem her "Chaucerian Beverly Hills." But her defining role, one that lasted past her moviemaking days, was "Elizabeth Taylor," ever marrying and divorcing, in and out of hospitals, gaining and losing weight, standing by Michael Jackson, Rock Hudson and other troubled friends, acquiring a jewelry collection that seemed to rival Tiffany's. She was a child star who grew up and aged before an adoring, appalled and fascinated public. She arrived in Hollywood when the studio system tightly controlled an actor's life and image, had more marriages than any publicist could explain away and carried on until she no longer required explanation. She was the industry's great survivor, and among the first to reach that special category of celebrity — famous for being famous, for whom her work was inseparable from the gossip around it. The London-born actress was a star at age 12, a bride and a divorcee at 18, a superstar at 19 and a widow at 26. She was a screen sweetheart and martyr later reviled for stealing Eddie Fisher from Debbie Reynolds, then for dumping Fisher to bed Burton, a relationship of epic passion and turbulence, lasting through two marriages and countless attempted reconciliations. She was also forgiven. Reynolds would acknowledge voting for Taylor when she was nominated for "Butterfield 8" and decades later co-starred with her old rival in "These Old Broads," co-written by Carrie Fisher, the daughter of Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Taylor's ailments wore down the grudges. She underwent at least 20 major operations and she nearly died from a bout with pneumonia in 1990. In 1994 and 1995, she had both hip joints replaced, and in February 1997, she underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumor. In 1983, she acknowledged a 35-year addiction to sleeping pills and pain killers. Taylor was treated for alcohol and drug abuse problems at the Betty Ford Clinic in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Her troubles bonded her to her peers and the public, and deepened her compassion. Her advocacy for AIDS research and for other causes earned her a special Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, in 1993. As she accepted it, to a long ovation, she declared, "I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being — to prove that we are a human race, to prove that our love outweighs our need to hate, that our compassion is more compelling than our need to blame." The dark-haired Taylor made an unforgettable impression in Hollywood with "National Velvet," the 1945 film in which the 12-year-old belle rode a steeplechase horse to victory in the Grand National. Critic James Agee wrote of her: "Ever since I first saw the child ... I have been choked with the peculiar sort of adoration I might have felt if we were in the same grade of primary school." "National Velvet," her fifth film, also marked the beginning of Taylor's long string of health issues. During production, she fell off a horse. The resulting back injury continued to haunt her. Taylor matured into a ravishing beauty in "Father of the Bride," in 1950, and into a respected performer and femme fatale the following year in "A Place in the Sun," based on the Theodore Dreiser novel "An American Tragedy." The movie co-starred her close friend Montgomery Clift as the ambitious young man who drowns his working-class girlfriend to be with the socialite Taylor. In real life, too, men all but committed murder in pursuit of her. Through the rest of the 1950s and into the 1960s, she and Marilyn Monroe were Hollywood's great sex symbols, both striving for appreciation beyond their physical beauty, both caught up in personal dramas filmmakers could only wish they had imagined. That Taylor lasted, and Monroe died young, was a matter of luck and strength; Taylor lived as she pleased and allowed no one to define her but herself. "I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me," Taylor said around the time she turned 50. She had a remarkable and exhausting personal and professional life. Her marriage to Michael Todd ended tragically when the producer died in a plane crash in 1958. She took up with Fisher, married him, then left him for Burton. Meanwhile, she received several Academy Award nominations and two Oscars. She was a box-office star cast in numerous "prestige" films, from "Raintree County" with Clift to "Giant," an epic co-starring her friends Hudson and James Dean. Nominations came from a pair of movies adapted from work by Tennessee Williams: "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" and "Suddenly, Last Summer." In "Butterfield 8," released in 1960, she starred with Fisher as a doomed girl-about-town. Taylor never cared much for the film, but her performance at the Oscars wowed the world. Sympathy for Taylor's widowhood had turned to scorn when she took up with Fisher, who had supposedly been consoling her over the death of Todd. But before the 1961 ceremony, she was hospitalized from a nearly fatal bout with pneumonia and Taylor underwent a tracheotomy. The scar was bandaged when she appeared at the Oscars to accept her best actress trophy for "Butterfield 8." To a standing ovation, she hobbled to the stage. "I don't really know how to express my great gratitude," she said in an emotional speech. "I guess I will just have to thank you with all my heart." It was one of the most dramatic moments in Academy Awards history. "Hell, I even voted for her," Reynolds later said. Greater drama awaited: "Cleopatra." Taylor met Burton while playing the title role in the 1963 epic, in which the brooding, womanizing Welsh actor co-starred as Mark Antony. Their chemistry was not immediate. Taylor found him boorish; Burton mocked her physique. But the love scenes on film continued away from the set and a scandal for the ages was born. Headlines shouted and screamed. Paparazzi, then an emerging breed, snapped and swooned. Their romance created such a sensation that the Vatican denounced the happenings as the "caprices of adult children." The film so exceeded its budget that the producers lost money even though "Cleopatra" was a box-office hit and won four Academy awards. (With its $44 million budget adjusted for inflation, "Cleopatra" remains the most expensive movie ever made.) Taylor's salary per film topped $1 million. "Liz and Dick" became the ultimate jet set couple, on a first name basis with millions who had never met them. They were a prolific acting team, even if most of the movies aged no better than their marriages: "The VIPs" (1963), "The Sandpiper" (1965), "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), "The Taming of the Shrew" (1967), "The Comedians" (1967), "Dr. Faustus" (1967), "Boom!" (1968), "Under Milk Wood" (1971) and "Hammersmith Is Out" (1972). Art most effectively imitated life in the adaptation of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" — in which Taylor and Burton played mates who fought viciously and drank heavily. She took the best actress Oscar for her performance as the venomous Martha in "Virginia Woolf" and again stole the awards show, this time by not showing up at the ceremony. She refused to thank the academy upon learning of her victory and chastised voters for not honoring Burton. Taylor and Burton divorced in 1974, married again in 1975 and divorced again in 1976. "We fight a great deal," Burton once said, "and we watch the people around us who don't quite know how to behave during these storms. We don't fight when we are alone." In 1982, Taylor and Burton appeared in a touring production of the Noel Coward play "Private Lives," in which they starred as a divorced couple who meet on their respective honeymoons. They remained close at the time of Burton's death, in 1984. Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was born in London on Feb. 27, 1932, the daughter of Francis Taylor, an art dealer, and the former Sara Sothern, an American stage actress. At age 3, with extensive ballet training already behind her, Taylor danced for British princesses Elizabeth (the future queen) and Margaret Rose at London's Hippodrome. At age 4, she was given a wild field horse that she learned to ride expertly. At the onset of World War II, the Taylors came to the United States. Francis Taylor opened a gallery in Beverly Hills and, in 1942, his daughter made her screen debut with a bit part in the comedy "There's One Born Every Minute." Her big break came soon thereafter. While serving as an air-raid warden with MGM producer Sam Marx, Taylor's father learned that the studio was struggling to find an English girl to play opposite Roddy McDowall in "Lassie Come Home." Taylor's screen test for the film won her both the part and a long-term contract. She grew up quickly after that. Still in school at 16, she would dash from the classroom to the movie set where she played passionate love scenes with Robert Taylor in "Conspirator." "I have the emotions of a child in the body of a woman," she once said. "I was rushed into womanhood for the movies. It caused me long moments of unhappiness and doubt." Soon after her screen presence was established, she began a series of very public romances. Early loves included socialite Bill Pawley, home run slugger Ralph Kiner and football star Glenn Davis. Then, a roll call of husbands: • She married Conrad Hilton Jr., son of the hotel magnate, in May 1950 at age 18. The marriage ended in divorce that December. • When she married British actor Michael Wilding in February 1952, he was 39 to her 19. They had two sons, Michael Jr. and Christopher Edward. That marriage lasted 4 years. • She married cigar-chomping movie producer Michael Todd, also 20 years her senior, in 1957. They had a daughter, Elizabeth Francis. Todd was killed in a plane crash in 1958. • The best man at the Taylor-Todd wedding was Fisher. He left his wife Debbie Reynolds to marry Taylor in 1959. She converted to Judaism before the wedding. • Taylor and Fisher moved to London, where she was making "Cleopatra." She met Burton, who also was married. That union produced her fourth child, Maria. • After her second marriage to Burton ended, she married John Warner, a former secretary of the Navy, in December 1976. Warner was elected a U.S. senator from Virginia in 1978. They divorced in 1982. • In October 1991, she married Larry Fortensky, a truck driver and construction worker she met while both were undergoing treatment at the Betty Ford Center in 1988. He was 20 years her junior. The wedding, held at the ranch of Michael Jackson, was a media circus that included the din of helicopter blades, a journalist who parachuted to a spot near the couple and a gossip columnist as official scribe. But in August 1995, she and Fortensky announced a trial separation; she filed for divorce six months later and the split became final in 1997. "I was taught by my parents that if you fall in love, if you want to have a love affair, you get married," she once remarked. "I guess I'm very old-fashioned." Her philanthropic interests included assistance for the Israeli War Victims Fund, the Variety Clubs International and the American Foundation for AIDS Research. She received the Legion of Honor, France's most prestigious award, in 1987, for her efforts to support AIDS research. In May 2000, Queen Elizabeth II made Taylor a dame — the female equivalent of a knight — for her services to the entertainment industry and to charity. In 1993, she won a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute; in 1999, an institute survey of screen legends ranked her No. 7 among actresses. During much of her later career, Taylor's waistline, various diets, diet books and tangled romances were the butt of jokes by Joan Rivers and others. John Belushi mocked her on "Saturday Night Live," dressing up in drag and choking on a piece of chicken. "It's a wonder I didn't explode," Taylor wrote of her 60-pound weight gain — and successful loss — in the 1988 book "Elizabeth Takes Off on Self-Esteem and Self-Image." She was an iconic star, but her screen roles became increasingly rare in the 1980s and beyond. She appeared in several television movies, including "Poker Alice" and "Sweet Bird of Youth," and entered the Stone Age as Pearl Slaghoople in the movie version of "The Flintstones." She had a brief role on the popular soap opera "General Hospital." Taylor was the subject of numerous unauthorized biographies and herself worked on a handful of books, including "Elizabeth Taylor: An Informal Memoir" and "Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair With Jewelry." In tune with the media to the end, she kept in touch through her Twitter account. "I like the connection with fans and people who have been supportive of me," Taylor told Kim Kardashian in a 2011 interview for Harper's Bazaar. "And I love the idea of real feedback and a two-way street, which is very, very modern. But sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream." Survivors include her daughters Maria Burton-Carson and Liza Todd-Tivey, sons Christopher and Michael Wilding, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. A private family funeral is planned later this week. ___ Associated Press Writer Bob Thomas contributed to this report.

Rihanna is featured and splatted on the cover of the upcoming Fabulous Magazine. Inside this issue, the red headed diva answers a few direction changing questions about her life and career… Let’s begin with her Chris Brown moment: Today, she’s not quite as forthcoming when the subject of Brown is broached. The mere mention of his name prompts a change in atmosphere and a sharp: “Excuse me?” When asked again she snaps: “Next. You obviously want to talk about Chris Brown, I don’t.” She continues… I wanted people to move on from it, [because] the last big thing they know about me is that night. And I don’t want that to be what people define me as. Rihanna speaks on her competition: I never focus on who or what is at the top, because when people become better at what they do individually, it’s noticed. And that’s all I want to be: an artist who was known for growing constantly and becoming bigger and better. It’s not about who’s better between Rihanna, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga. I’m more in competition with myself. I always challenge myself to do better next time. It doesn’t matter who’s at the top as long as I’m getting closer to that point every time. That’s all I care about. Rihanna on being a sex symbol: Every time I hear that it’s definitely flattering, but also uncomfortable. That’s not a priority on my list – being a sex symbol or being overly sexy. I’m just a normal woman. I don’t really focus on being a sex symbol. Why she dyed her hair red: I think I was ready for something new and loud and expressive. It’s really adventurous – I wanted something that was fun, you know. I didn’t want a normal hair colour. I’d had blonde and it was so boring. Black is still my favourite, but I was looking for a colour that was edgy. I guess it was just the place I was in at that time. I felt like being spontaneous, and I also wanted to go for something extreme. I couldn’t do green or purple or pink, so red was like the fine line between normal and extreme!

Wyclef Jean, the American singer and music producer, has been shot in the Haitian capital while campaigning. The 41-year-old former member of music group The Fugees was in a stable condition in hospital in Port-au-Prince on Sunday, being treated for a bullet wound to his right hand. His management declared via Twitter: “We have spoken to Wyclef, he is ok. Thank you for your thoughts and prayers.” Following last year’s tragic earthquake, the hip-hop sensation declared he would stand for president, only to be told he was inelegible. Instead he returned to Haiti to campaign for Michel Martelly. The shooting comes as polls open for a presidential run-off on the Caribbean island. On Sunday Haiti’s 4.7 million voters will choose between a political newcomer, entertainer and singer Martelly, 50, and former first lady Mirlande Manigat, 70, a law professor and opposition matriarch. It follows a chaotic first round vote on November 28 that dissolved into fraud allegations and unrest. The United Nations, which is supporting the election, says voting improvements have been made that should better ensure a clear, credible outcome in one of the world’s poorest and most disaster-prone states.

The stew beef between Hip Hop Mogul Russell Simmons and legendary comedian Bill Cosby heated back up this weekend at the Jackie Robinson Annual Awards dinner. Back in 2009, the two began a feud when Simmons gave his opinion of Cosby’s “State of Emergency” project. Back then, Russ openly expressed that he felt as though Bill Cosby was too judgmental of black folks, especially rappers. According to Russell’s recent blog on Global Grind, when he spotted Bill at the dinner this past weekend, he wanted to apologize but things didn’t go as planned. I wanted to find him to apologize, to tell him I was sorry about my statements and to tell him that I loved him. Suddenly I turned and he was behind the curtain and I said “I love you” and he responded on some real hip-hop, “Get the f*ck out my face! His next move was straight up old school pre b-boy hood shit. He walked by me and bumped me with his shoulder as I walked off stage after presenting my award to Sean [...] I then loved him even more. Source

Wealthy skateboarding legend Tony Hawk dumped his third wife, Lhotse Merriam, for his best friend and business partner Matt Goodman’s wife, Cathy, sources told Page Six. Sources said Merriam found out about her action-sport-star husband’s new relationship in December after she found a plane ticket for Cathy that Hawk had booked for her to join him in San Francisco — despite his being lifelong friends with Matt Goodman. Hawk filed for divorce in San Diego from Merriam on Feb. 11. They have one child together, Kadence Clover, and Hawk has three sons from two previous marriages. “We remain deeply committed and loving parents to our daughter, and out of respect for that responsibility we ask that people honor our family’s privacy during this important time of transition,” the couple said in a statement at the time. Hawk married Merriam, his former publicist, in 2006, two years after divorcing his second wife, Erin, his former nanny. Cathy was married to Goodman for nearly 20 years, and they have two kids. Sources said Goodman and Cathy have now separated. Hawk — who’s credited with putting skateboarding on the map and who became a multimillionaire from his Tony Hawk Pro Skater video games — and Cathy were recently spotted in New York together, sources said. Hawk and Goodman had been friends since childhood. Sources told us Goodman stood as a groomsman at every one of Hawk’s three weddings. Goodman and Hawk also together founded action-sports movie company 900 Films. Goodman is now working with media company Bandito Brothers. Merriam had no comment when we called for a response, and neither did Goodman. A rep for Hawk said, “We do not comment on the personal lives of our clients.” Source

Nathaniel D. Hale, aka, Nate Dogg, died Tuesday, his family announced. The rap star, born and raised in Long Beach, Calif. He was 41 at the time of his death, the cause has not yet been released. However, Hale had suffered two strokes, one in 2007 and another in 2008. The Hip Hop legend is known for his great hooks and has worked with likes of Dr Dre , Snoop Dogg, Eminem & 50 cent. Our hearts go out to his family and friends.

Amber Rose speaks on Foxxhole Radio: On when she would be taking off her clothes or releasing a sex tape: Didn’t you see my titties on South Beach? There ain’t gonna be no sex tape, I’m not into that sh*t. I’ve been offered a lot of money but I chose not to do it. I chose to take the high road and I feel like just because of my past and my profession and what I did in my past doesn’t mean that I [would do that]. I was a stripper since I was 15-years-old. South Philly. I was a South Philly hood rat my whole life. I feel like I grew up. [I'm] more cultured. I’ve traveled the world now, I’ve learned more things [and] I’ve learned how to speak well. On whether her and Kanye would get back together: No, I don’t think so. You know in every relationship you have problems and you try to work through and then sometimes things don’t work out. But it was very real for me. I was very much in love. I was with him for two years. We lived together, we traveled the world together, we had a lot of fun together. A lot of really cool moments…I was the ill bitch to a rock star. On whether she participated in threesomes with Kanye: I’m not into threesomes. I had two, 3 year relationships with women. So, I was with women for six years before I met Kanye. [He knew that] On whether she was dropped from Ford Models after the break up: I was not dropped from Ford Models, they closed their celebrity division and my contract was up. What people don’t understand is when you’re in a modeling agency and your contract is up but you still get jobs without them. It’s a good thing, so they don’t take 20-30% of your money. I walked fashion shows in Paris, London, New York even after my contract was up. I didn’t have to [re-sign with them] I was getting work without them and it’s easier to get my own money without paying them. One of the co-hosts argued that she had achieved fame off of Kanye West’s name and exploiting the fact that she slept with women, in which Amber responded: I never wanted to be famous it just happened to me. I literally was with someone that I loved very much and we were out people would say “Kanye I love you but can you snap a picture of me and Amber Real quick?” Me and Kanye were in a very committed relationship. When I was out with Kanye, I became famous. He was with a girl for six years that he was going to marry. What’s her name again?? Source

TMZ was approached several days ago by someone claiming to have the sex tape. The person sent us a short video and two photos. We’ll keep this PG-13 and just say … the people in the video are both givers. The video and photos are clear — it’s Usher and Tameka. Sources close to Usher — without specifically admitting the existence of a sex tape — tell us they believe this video could have been among the things Usher had stolen out of his car back in December 2009. Usher reported more than $1,000,000 worth of jewelry and electronics taken — including two laptop computers. Source

Chris Breezy may not be done dropping subliminal messages in songs to his ex-girlfriend Rihanna but he sure in the hell is done apologizing for putting hands on her… In an interview with the new issue of Page Six Magazine, the controversial singer – who most recently made headlines when nude photos he took of himself were leaked online – claims that “at the end of the day, if I walk around apologizing to everybody, I’m gonna look like a damn fool.” He then goes on to describe himself as a “grown ass man” who is “in a positive place.” Brown is still serving five years probation after recently completing court-mandated domestic violence classes and 180 hours of community service. The toughest part, though, is rebuilding his image in the public eye, Chris says. “The last two years, everybody dissed me, but my fans were so dedicated. The way I look at it is, you can’t walk around mad, because then you just prove everybody right that you’re an angry person.”

Terrence has been pretty busy these days. He recently did an interview with DrJays.com: Other than “The Game” & “106 & Park,” what do you have going on? We have two scripts that we’re putting into production ourselves-One for a romantic comedy and one a drama action that me and my team will be producing. And then I have a big offer for a movie that we’re finalizing the last details on. I just signed a major book deal; it’s a relationship book or Lack there of.. that will be coming out hopefully the fall of this year. Besides that 106 & Park is everyday. We just expanded the radio component of our show to a lot more markets, including Hot 97 here in New York. What was it like working on the game? Working on it was amazing. My first day on set, as soon as I walked out they were like, “we have to re-do some of the shooting order. So we need you to do your shoot when your naked….that’s going to be the first shot.” From the moment I walked on set, they gave me like two hours to get prepped with hair and make-up and all of that. Then I was butt naked in baby oil kissing somebody I’ve had a crush on forever two hours later. It was whirl wind experience. Luckily I had worked with Pooch on “Stomp the Yard 2.” Pooch is a leader on the set so he really made me at ease and feel comfortable on the set and just everybody was amazing and it was a lot of fun. Source

Beyonce and Michelle Obama team up for a good cause. The Grammy award winning songstress has re-written and re-recorded one of her hit songs for the “Let’s Move! Flash Workout” campaign. Bey will also provide an instructional video demonstrating the dance/exercise routine, which will be distributed to participating schools. “I am excited to be part of this effort that addresses a public health crisis,” Beyonce said in a statement. “First Lady Michelle Obama deserves credit for tackling this issue directly, and I applaud the NAB Education Foundation for trying to make a positive difference in the lives of our schoolchildren.” Lucky middle school students across the nation will participate in a pre-choreographed “Let’s Move!” dance/exercise routine at an identical time on May 3rd at 1:42 p.m. EST. Source

“Well, I’m actually saying he’s a winner. I know Charlie. He’s not doing so badly. I thought he be a wreck. I think so far Charlie’s been a winner.” When asked whether or not he would be opposed to casting sheen for his hit NBC show The Celebrity Apprentice, Trump responded by saying: “I would love to have him, but I’ll be honest I think they are going to end up signing him for a lot more money then he was getting paid in the first place,” Donald explained. “It’s all about ratings in this crazy business and if you have ratings you can be the worst person in the world but they will sign you.” Trump even shared his thoughts on whether or not he believed Charlie could be replaced on Two & A Half Men: “I think with Charlie they will do better then they have ever before and the show was already doing well,” he said. “I think Charlie will be a big star for a long time to come. He must be a PR person’s nightmare,” Donald said laughing, “But I really get a great kick out a Charlie. I think he’s gonna be just fine.” Source

Yesterday, photos of Bobbi Kristina snorting (what looks to be) cocaine, circulated on the internet after being published in The National Enquirer. There were immediate questions of the authenticity of the photos, as well as speculation regarding the influence of both of her parents past battles with addiction. The photos show Bobbi Kristina in two different settings, both times someone else is holding a small tray of a white,powdered substance broken down into lines. Now that Twitter has become the new press conference, Bobbi Kristina tweeted her official response to the accusations of drug use, and blamed it all on a relationship gone wrong: The pictures_ a former very dear person to me did this. Set me up to make it look exactly what it looks like. God will smite them yes..But it’s really not what it looks like.. People will do anything for money which is extremely sad, and I’m very hurt by this.Thing’s people do these days to hurt others is a shame. All I can do now, is keep my head up high, keep looking towards the lord.All the lord is telling me is be still. That’s all, and that’s exactly what I’m going to do. #BeStill. I love my family so much. My mom just comforted me to the max, and I’m so thankful for her. Thank you so much lord for blessing me with an Phenomenal family and incredibly phenomenal mother. Thank you for giving me the strength to move forward and put things in the past. And the person that did this was a result of a horrible relationship that went sour. I was in love_ he was in love with money. I’ve learned My lesson. I’m so much greater and blessed for it today, and I believe nothing less. That is the last I will speak of this, let’s praise god And be greatful and thankful for your family, and people that truly love you, strength, courage, and life lessons learned. GodblessUall «3 Source

In a recent interview with MTV, rapper Lil’ Wayne finally took the time to examine and respond Jay-Z’s recent “baby money” jab towards Weezy and his “father” Birdman in his song featuring Kanye West entitled “H.A.M.“ “I’m like really, half a billi, n**** really you got baby money. Keep it real with n*****, n***** ain’t got my lady money.” Here is Weezy’s response: “Kanye played it for me personally. I wouldn’t ask him about a Jay-Z line because he’s not Jay-Z, me and my wit, given my wit, I would probably play off of it,” Wayne explained. “But I wouldn’t make it a competition, because actually, the subject that he’s talking about in that line, I can’t box with the god. I’d be the first one to tell you that, given my wit, and the type of person that I am, I’d capitalize and I’d play off of it. Yeah, I definitely would.”