Lawrence Washington

"I started singing professionally when I was twelve years old. At fifteen, I did my first small tour over in Europe with a group called Youth for Christ. I've also done a lot of musical theatre. I sang with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and I've also done some Broadway...Kandi decided she wanted to work with an openly gay artist and I was the product of choice. She came up with this brilliant concept to do a song about people being in the closet or people wanting someone to be in the closet. Be it a woman messing around with a married man or a gay man messing around with a man on the DL. The song is saying that I'm not your closet freak. I'm not someone you can keep in the dark when the lights are up but when the lights go off, you want to love me and give me affection. That's what the song is about and that's what I'm all about." - Lawrence Washington tells Essence.com following the recent Real Housewives Of Atlanta episode which showcased his latest talent; vocal abilities.



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Vivica Fox

Yep - If you flip to the last page in every other glossy magazine, you will see Vivica Fox promoting her new line of hair extentions. The actress has teamed up with a hair extension developer to create her own line of healthy and freshly cut hair human. If you are in need of a few high quality hair extensions, click here.

Nicki Minaj

"While naysayers debated whether she was too campy or oversexualized or wore too much Barbie Doll pink lipstick, Minaj was busy breaking records. She made guest appearances on some of the year's biggest songs (including Ludacris's "My Chick Bad"), and her solo track "Right Thru Me" gave her her twelfth hit on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart this year. And then her summer jam, "Your Love," achieved another milestone: It was the first time in eight years that a female rapper had a No.1 rap song." - Cori Murray writes about the rapper Nicky Minaj rise to fame under the News & Culture column for the December 2010 issue of Essence Magazine.

Rapper Nelly

Performed his hit song “Just A Dream” just before the main boxing event of Manny Pacquiao vs. Antonio Margarito during their WBC World Super Welterweight Title bout at the Cowboys Stadium on November 13, 2010 in Arlington, Texas.

Manny Pacquiao was the winner of this scheduled fight.

Ne-Yo

“Much luv to my twit fam and everybody showin’ luv to my new addition!! She’s healthy and happy. Feels like I’m in luv for the first time...Welcoming that lil’ girl to the world last night defined for me what ‘willing to kill and die for’ truly means. My world, my life, all hers.” - The singer tweeted after Monyetta Shaw, gave birth to their daughter Madilyn Grace Smith on Friday, November 12th.

Nicki Minaj

"The last job I had was as an office manager in a little, tiny room where I literally wanted to strangle this guy because he was so loud and obnoxious...I would go home with stress pains in my neck and my back. That's when I went to my mother and said, 'Look, I'm not going back to work.' I'd been fired like 15 times because I had a horrible attitude...I worked at Red Lobster before that and I chased a customer out of the restaurant once so I could stick my middle finger up at her and demand that she give me my pen back. I swear to God I was bad." -The Rapper Nicki Minaj reveals to Billboard Magazine after admitting that she will never work a 9 to 5 Job.



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Tina "Louise" Knowles

"I cannot handle this and have not handled it well at all. I just love Tina so much until I can't go on without her." Quoting: James Knowles

As conversation has it in a previous post, several anonymous posters truly believe that Tina Knowles has assumed the identity of Tina "Louise" Knowles. According to articles listed below, Tina "Louise" Knowles was murdered by her husband in September 1994. She left behind four children and many believe that she's the biological parent of singer Beyonce Knowles - as conversation has it.

President Barack Obama

"I think that I've learned that America is incredibly resilient. We went through as bad of a financial crisis as anything in our lifetimes. And you know, the country has bounced back. It's not bounced back all the way, but people are tough, and folks work hard, and they're not easily shaken. It has been so impressive to me the way folks have been able to just keep goin' about their business. Some of them in very difficult circumstances. I think I've learned about myself that I'm pretty resilient too. I'll get knocked down a couple of times. But when I read letters about folks who've lost their jobs and haven't been able to find one, sent out resume after resume, and then finally after a year and a half, they get hired, you know, that inspires me. It says to me, "You know what, whatever I'm goin' through, it's nothin' like what families around the country are goin' through. And if they are able to keep goin' even when things don't go the way they want then I sure can as well." - President Barack Obama says after Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes asked, "What's the most important thing you've learned about your two years here, about yourself, about the job?"...click here in case you missed the President's recent segment on 60 Minutes.

Kobe Bryant

With a salary of $24.8 million, Forbes Magazine has listed Kobe Bryant as the highest-paid NBA player in the league and through the 2013-14 season.

Lil Wayne

"I was gone till November, but I didn't trip cause I know he was gonna get 'em...I'm back. It feels good to be back. If you love me like I love you, please make some motherf***ing noise. I'm fresh home from my vacation and...ain't nothing, nothing, nothing like home.” - Rapper Wayne says as he joins the rapper Drake on stage during the finale of his "Light Dreams and Nightmares" tour in Vegas (Nov. 6, 2010).

Ludacris

"Actually when I was in college, I studied business because in the music industry a lot of people say it's 90 percent business, 10 percent music. So it's important that you understand that education is extremely important," - Ludacris says while promoting the "Get Schooled" campaign at Thurgood Marshall High School in San Francisco (on Friday Nov. 5).



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Catya Washington

Catya Washington of the Reality TV show "Bad Girls Club" was arrested by the Pennsylvania State Police for possessing a firearm as well as illegal drugs on Thursday, November 4th. According to the Pennsylvania State Police Department, the celebrity had cocaine and other narcotic stuff in her possession when she was pulled over. A bail has been set for $500,000. The actress is scheduled to appear in court on November 22nd.

Lil Wayne

According to Lil Wayne's court documents, he can't drink alcohol or do drugs for three years. Many websites are reporting that the rapper has already violated his probation, by posting the picture above on his official twitter account. Hopefully, the liquid sitting in the glass beside the rapper is just apple juice...

Maybe its time for the rapper to read the fine prints on his court documents because his competitors are waiting for him to violate the terms of his probation...

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Jay-Z

"We didn't need dirty money to start Roc-A-Fella" - Quoting: Jay Z

Well, it seems as if the rapper will soon choke on his own words. In his book decoded, the rapper shared a potential drug bust:

Soon Jay-Z was onto bigger deals. He and his crew traveled up and down the East Coast, sourcing and unloading drugs. Jay-Z recounts the time, in 1994, when he was driving down I-95. He had a stash of crack in a fake compartment in the sunroof of his Maxima when he got pulled over by cops for “no good reason.” The police knew they couldn’t search his car without probable cause, so they called the K-9 unit — the dogs would be able to sniff out the drugs. But the unit didn’t show up, and the cops had to let him go. A minute later, he saw the K-9 unit speeding down the highway in the other direction, but too late — he was already home free. It’s a moment he would later recount in his 2004 hit song, “99 Problems” with the lyric: “I got 99 problems but a bitch ain’t one.” At the time, Jay-Z was slammed for the misogynistic use of the word “bitch” — but, as he reveals in his book, he was actually referring to a female dog, or the dogs that never caught up to him that day. “It would have changed my life if that dog had been a few seconds faster,” he writes.

The rapper goes on to share that in the same year (1994) his record label, Roc-a-fella was created. In case you haven't heard, the co-founder Kareem "Biggs" Burke was arrested last month. Here's the jist of a article posted on a random website:



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Raz B

The web is at a buzz regarding Marques Houston filing a restraining order against Raz B. Well, the restraining order was filed shortly after Raz B gave a damaging interview with Vibe Magazine.

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VIBE: Vibe's far from the first interview you've done this month. Do you feel like your life is being threatened?

Raz B: There’s pressure coming, but I have a lot of protection and when you work for God you have nothing to worry about. People ask why are you coming out now but this has been going on for a very long, Chris has been molesting boys for a while.

How many boys total do you think it's been?

A lot of people share their stories with me. And it's all crazy. Chris used to have me have sex with him and he used to suck my penis. This stuff is satanic, but I thank God for my testimony so I can help someone else.

How long was this going on for?

Between the ages of 13 and 17.

Were you threatened with anything if you refused to have sex with him?

He would text me and say well you know what I did. The confusion is Chris did molest me but they thought he was putting his penis in my bootyhole. But that was Marques Houston. I'm very vocal [now]. I'm not afraid of anything.



Were there any condoms involved?

Um, maybe once it was unprotected. I believe so.

But did you ever adamantly say 'No'?

Finally when I was able to realize these niggas were really gay I was able to leave.

You didn't realize you were taking part in homosexual acts before 17?

Well I didn’t know what the fuck was going on. I was a young kid and these people took advantage of me.

Since this went on for so long, I imagine you may questioned your sexuality? After awhile…

I knew I always liked women and I’ll forever like women. I've never had any male on male relationships. Besides from my past, I’ve never been with a man.

You didn't question yourself in the slightest? Did you not want to even think about the possibility?

As I got older as I got enlightened. Before I lived w Chris I was speaking in tongues. When you got all this money around you're very blinded. As you get older things start to change. But Chris Stokes is a monster and I feel sorry for Marques Houston.

Have you heard if Marques still having sex with young men or boys?

I’ve heard stories that he's had sex with very well known [male] dancers in the game.

So he's a gay man with a problem...

I don’t know Marques like that to say. But any person trying to mess with kids and have sex like that… that’s gay to me homie.

Damn. What kind of psychological damage has your past done to you?

It's done a lot. I'm traumatized. I had to sit back and think. I have a five-year-old son now, so what is my son gonna think when he grows up? He's gonna know that his father spoke the truth. I have no shame in my game, God's going to handle it.

Why not just take Chris Stokes and Marques Houston to court?

That’s a demonic system.

Do you ever get scared that you could follow in the pattern of Chris Stokes and do this to another boy?

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Swizz Beats

First Matthew Knowles and Now Swizz Beats...

It's being reported that Swizz Beats will teach a class within Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His teaching session is scheduled for the 2010/11 academic year.

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Beyonce Knowles

A unauthorized comic book entitled, "Fame: Beyonce" will become available to the public come January 2011 (Cost. $3.99). The 32 page Comic book was created by Bluewater Comics and will detail the singer's rise to stardom. Click below to view a few pages within this Comic book:

Rihanna

Rihanna was recently spotted in Barbados , as she attended the funeral of Prime Minister David Thompson, at the island's Kensington Oval stadium. After paying her respects to the late Prime Minister, the singer jetted to London to switched on Christmas lights at the Westfield Shopping Centre.

Lil Wayne

It has been confirmed that the rapper was discharged at 8:35 a.m. from a Rikers Island cell after serving out his sentence (8 months to 1 year).

Rihanna

"We took a studio bus on tour and, after every show, we'd sit in an empty car park until 5am and record ... Some of the car parks reeked of piss. One I'll remember until the day I die. It smelt like truckers had been peeing there for ever. I had to run between buses holding my breath." — The Singer reveals what studio hours were like when she recorded her last album Rated R.

To include, the singer has graced the December 2010 issue of Marie Claire Magazine. To Browse through her spread, click on the images below:

Nicki Minaj

“These girls aren’t mad at me. They’re mad at themselves. [It’s] jealousy, insecurity, and being broke. When you haven’t capitalized and you see I’m about to capitalize on this shit like it’s never been done before, then you’re mad at yourself.” - Nicky Minaj tells YRB Magazine about her haters and competitors while shooting down questions on why she never took Kim’s (Lil' Kim) bait.

Mariah Carey

“I put my body through like a whole kind of cleansing kind of situation and prepared...I had to be on progesterone. I did end up being on progesterone like every month to go through the cycles.” - Mariah Carey reveals after recently admitting that she's expecting her first child with husband Nick Cannon.