Category : Music Business News
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Warner Bros Layoffs
Warner Brothers Records had several layoffs last week, some say, to make room for the Asylum staff who sources say will assume some of the...
Q Tip’s Birthday Party Last Night (pics)
Q-Tip’s Birthday Party, last night, Santos Party House, New York (click or larger image)...
Snoop Dogg’s Wife Is Not Dead – MTV News
Snoop Dogg’s Wife Is Not Dead – News Story | Music, Celebrity, Artist News | MTV News....
OH NO: Jobless Claims leap 126% in Georgia!!!
The AJC reports that huge numbers of Georgians continue to file claims for unemployment insurance and more grim job reports lie ahead, but the state™s...
WOW: Mike Tyson Video: Now you understand
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TASTELESS: Fox Reality Show About Layoffs
˜Someone™s Gotta Go™ will let employees decide who gets pink slip The Fox network is making a reality show out of the troubled economy. Read...
Lil’ Kim’s Download #1 Most Added Single!
Rapper and �”Dancing with the Stars � phenom Lil™ Kim and her Brookland Entertainment single �”Download � (feat T-Pain, Charlie Wilson) is the #1 Most...
Twee Fall Down but Twee Get Up: Donnie McClurkin
There are some thing’s you just KNOW but … Gospel person Donnie McClurkin promotes “We All Are On” anyway at J&R Music and Computer World...
Marvin Gaye: 70th Birthday & Motown Anniversary
Santa Monica, CA: In the 50th anniversary year of Motown, April 2, 2009 will mark the 70th birthday of the late great Marvin Gaye. Sadly,...
RAB Pics (industry conference)
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Miracles Get Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (pics)
For those of you who don’t know, the original Miracles included a woman, Smokey’s wife Claudette. In addition, the group’s BIGGEST hit was without Smokey,...
OH NO: Don Cornelius Sentenced…
… to 3 years PROBATION for spousal abuse. � Don Cornelius has been sentenced to three years’ probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor spousal...
NO INVITE FOR ME?/TV One Roast for John Witherspoon (pics)
Now I would have gone to this.. Do the TV One people know who I am? (bloggertantrum)(laugh). The photog was really good except no pics...
OH NO: Keyshia Cole’s Sister Neffie Expecting Again
I might be the only person in the black community that has not watched Keyshia’s show but just heard from Jamie that Keyshia’s sister is...
Trick Shot at Jim Jones Show
Perhaps we are just at that point where we are totally pro Obama and the positivity he brings to the black community but we have...
Jim Jones Cusses out Hotel Clerk Over Declined Card
Lesson for new record executives like Jim Jones who has been appointed to a VP position at Koch… Have one of the 300 dudes you...
Kandi Burruss on Fianc� & Record Label Comeback
Our friends over at Sister 2 Sister magazine got an exclusive on former Xscape and new Atl Housewife member Kand i Burruss. Bravo has picked...
OH NO: Coolio Contradicts His Own Content
I will admit, I watched Coolio’s show on Oxygen a couple of times. In several episodes, he was extremely concerned about losing his son “to...
OH NO: Black Boy Beats White Bus Driver (disturbing video)
When I was a kid, there was always a male or an assistant adult on the bus. We did some crazy sh… but we would...
OH NO: Housewives CRASH Niecy Nash’s Party in Atl
If Neicy Nash looks stunned in this pic it’s because her birthday party was crashed by all of the Housewives of Atlanta who brought their...
Producer Conference in Phoenix
The world’s premeire conference specifically geared towards producers returns to Phoenix Saturday May 9th – Sunday May 10th, 2009, at the Phoenix Hyatt Regency. 2-day...
NY Paper Questions Tyler Perry’s Closet Stance
I decided to kill the link. Tyler Perry is a great, talented and ambitious black man. That’s all the public needs to be concerned about....