Timbaland

Timbaland has teamed up with the developer behind the "Grand Theft Auto" franchise to create a music-making application called "Beaterator".

"Beaterator" will feature 1,300 sounds and loops created by Timbaland and around 2,000 from the developers at Rockstar Games. This application will be split into three modes: Live Play, Studio Sessions and Song Crafter.

The "beat" application be will available for the PlayStation Portable on September 29th and the iPhone and iPod Touch later this fall.

According to Timbaland:

Jay-Z

Is scheduled to performed at the University of Illinois Assembley Hall on November 12th. The concert will began at 8 p.m. and tickets are priced at $35, $45 and $75.00.

Students who are enrolled at the University of Illinois will only receive a $5.00 discount during a pre-sale of tickets that's scheduled to take place this Thursday.

R. Kelly

Is requesting approval to finish a Michael Jackson album.

According to R. Kelly:

Wycliffe "Steely" Johnson

Is dead.

The popular reggae and dancehall music producer from the duo Steely and Clevie died yesterday. Many websites are reporting that he suffered from heart failure at around 5 a.m. and died at 10:32 a.m. at Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in Long Island, New York.

Steely Johnson suffered from diabetes and last December he was being treated for Kidney Failure. It was also reported that doctors recently removed a benign tumor from his brain that was the size of an orange and he later contracted pneumonia.

Steely aka Wycliffe Johnson and Clevie whose right name is Cleveland Browne, have worked with many popular artistes and groups such as Bounty Killer, Elephant Man and No Doubt.

Ludacris

Will give away 20 used cars and a month of free gas to 20 lucky residents of Alanta on September 6, 2009.

To qualify, you must be at least 18, willing to pay the taxes, registration and insurance for the vehicle and provide a valid Georgia driver's license.

The ludachris Foundation is also requesting that you submit a 300-word essay explaining why "you" deserve to win one of these cars. You have until the close of business today to submit your essay.

Bad Boys III

Columbia Pictures have agreed to a third installment to "Bad Boys".

They are seeking to hire the actress Sally Field's son, Peter Craig, to write the screenplay and to reunite with the producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Michael Bay and lead actor's Martin Lawerence and Will Smith.

Coolio

Funny - Coolio has been hired to play at small venue in Colorado for a "$3,000, a bucket of chicken and a bottle of Patron.." according to the show's booker. This concert will be held on Sept. 6, at "The Deli Zone" a restaurant in Longmont. However, some websites are reporting this this event took place last night.

In addition, the restaurant has booked Bizzy Bone, of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to perform on Sept. 19th.

Jay-Z and Beyonce:

Somehow, Solange Knowles was credited for the attendance of Jay-Z and Beyonce at a recent concert performed by a group called "Grizzly Bear".

In the clip below, you can catch Jay-Z and Beyonce "grooving" to the Grizzly Bear tunes.

This show was held in Brooklyn, on the Williamsburg waterfront.

In recent days, Solange developed a "tweet" relationship with members Ed Droste and Chris Bear...

Here's the clip:

Evan Ross

Evan Ross, born on August 26th, celebrate his 21st birthdate with a Michael Jackson-themed party at the Guys & Dolls nightclub in West Hollywood; on Friday. All of his siblings came out except Rhonda Ross.

Its been reported that Partygoers danced all night to Jackson tunes and all of the cocktail waitresses were wearing white studded gloves and fedora hats in honor of Michael Jackson.

Evan decided to celebrate his birthdate along side Michael Jackson's birthdate, so the crowd sung Happy Birthday to Michael after singing Happy Birthday to Evan Ross.

Diana Ross also sang a bit of her son's favorite MJ's song to her son Evan. The song came off of MJ's "Off The Wall" album.



Interesting Facts On Diana Ross:

According to wikipedia, Diana is the mother of five children. Ross married music business manager Robert Ellis Silberstein in January 1971. In the late 70's, Robert Ellis, was the manager of singer Chaka Khan, and Diana had plenty of fun dabbling in Chaka's career.

Daughter Rhonda Suzanne Silberstein was born on August 8, 1971. Many years later it was revealed that Rhonda's biological father is Berry Gordy. She is now known as Rhonda Ross Kendrick. Ross and Silberstein had two daughters: Tracee Joy Silberstein, born October 29, 1972, now known as Tracee Ellis Ross and Chutney Lane Silberstein, born November 4, 1975, now known as Chudney Ross. Ross and Robert Silberstein divorced in March 1977.

In February, 1986, she married Norwegian shipping magnate Arne Næss Jr.. Their sons are Ross Arne Næss (born October 7, 1987) and Evan Olav Næss (born August 26, 1988), now known as Evan Ross. Ross and Næss divorced in 1999. Næss was killed in a mountain-climbing accident in 2004.

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When then Doubleday book publisher and former first lady Jackie Onassis set up a meeting with Diana to publish her autobio, she asked her what type of story she wanted to tell. Diana responded, "I want an autobiography without revealing any personal information whatsoever." Jackie O sighed.

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Diana told friends she wanted to marry Ryan O'Neal. But after their brief romance in 1979, he said of her, "Diana Ross doesn't want to show her body, doesn't want to do sex scenes on the screen and doesn't want to be black."

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Diana's mother Ernestine had intended that her daughter be named 'Diane' but through a clerical error, the name 'Diana' appeared on the official certificate. Her father Fred said that he didn't care what name was on the certificate. His daughter's name was Diane and that's what her friends and family would always call her.

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Diana decided to name her third child after the spicy fruit relish, chutney. She misspelled the word on the birth certificate which is how her daughter ended up with the odd name Chudney.

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Diana and Arne asked Swedish Princess Christina, the sister of King Gustav, and her commoner husband, Tord Nagusson, to become Evan's godparents. Princess Christina and Filippa - Arne's first wife - have been best friends since they were young girls. For Arne and Diana to ask Christina to be their child's godmother seemed rather insensitive to Filippa's feelings. But for whatever reason, Christina agreed to be Evan's godmother.

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Diana has always measured herself against Barbra Streisand. She would rather be Barbra Streisand than anyone else in the world. Once, when asked about her idol, she had to admit that she had only admired her from afar because Barbra gives the impression of 'being untouchable'. The two of them have been at the same cocktail parties, but have only made eye contact and have never had a full conversation. She could never handle a social encounter with Streisand. She would be too jumpy, nervous and intimidated.

Kelly Clarkson

The following article is posted on the "Pakistan News" website:

Kim Kardashian

Funny - Lighthouse Beauty, the company behind 50 Cent's new aftershave has selected Kim Kardashian to market their new product.

Wait - What i am trying to say is ...Kim Kardashian will become the next "celebrity" to develop her own perfume.

According to Kim:


"Collaborating with Lighthouse Beauty was a really creative, innovative process...What's so different about their approach is that they have worked so closely with me on all aspects of my fragrance, the bottle, the juice... so I can develop a product that truly represents me and speaks to my fans...the fragrance really captures who I am."



Wait - Kim Kardashian has a fanbase?????

50 Cent

..decided to cancel his appearance at a "Family Day" celebration in his old neighborhood. Curtis Jackson III, was concerned that his appearance would prompt violence.

Jay-Z

..made an appearance on the HBO program, "Real Time With Bill Maher". During this interview, Jay-Z presented Bill with a book filled with blank pages of "his" so-called lyrics.

Beyonce Knowles

..will perform at the Donbass Arena in Ukraine tomorrow.

Ukraine's richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, has hired Beyonce Knowles to perform tomorrow at the new "Donbass Arena". This stadium will be the practice ground for Ukraine's leading football "club" Shakhtar Donetsk.

Fab'rik

During last night's episode of, "The Real Housewives of Atlanta", Lisa and NeNe went shopping at a well known bargain spot in Atlanta.

Many locals from Atlanta were a bit shocked that Bravo didn't air the price tags while Lisa and NeNe were shopping.

Here's a comment from a local blogger:

"Last night I was totally caught off guard when Real Housewives of Atlanta featured NeNe and Lisa visiting fab'rik! They usually allow us to see price tags right? We only saw NeNe and Lisa leaving the store with tons of bags in their hands and the clerks wishing them a fun trip.

Well fab'rik is a chic trendy shop and they have four locations in Atlanta. The reason Bravo did NOT show us how much the merchandise actually cost is because most of everything in the entire store is under $100!

I feel that fab'rik is accessible luxury and it would have been really nice if Bravo would have allowed the ladies to tell why they like the clothes! Luxury is a perception and educating consumers is a responsibility for marketers."

We all know - now - that Lisa came from the "bottom" and worked her way to the top, so to speak. It would've been great to know that she still "Bargain" shops, because your never when "it" can be taken away from you.

DeShawn Snow

...the former member of "The Real Housewives of Atlanta", is in the mist of creating a new reality show. This reality show will be titled, "Second Chances".

According to Snow:

"We really want to give them a chance and the people we are looking for [on Second Chance] are people who have been given up on or they have given up on themselves, they had children at a young age or they were on drugs, whatever, because you can really turn your life around,".

Michael Jackson:

As the witches within Hollywood select a "medium" to conduct a Michael Jackson seance, BET Networks will honor his memory by airing a weekend of specials.

In addition, Dirty Diana has surfaced.

Funny - as his birth date approaches, she appears.

Oh - Spike Lee has opened his neighborhood with a Block Party for what would've been Michael's 51st birthday.

Social Networking:

Two music director's have teamed up to create the online social networking site called, "ImGiggin.com". Scheduled to launch on September 1st, this site has been customize especially for those within the music industry.

Onree Gill and Ralph Rolle, have been in the music business for over three decades. Their tenures within the music industry were music director, percussionist and producer. They have worked with several artist including, Alicia Keys, Gwen Stefani, John Mayer, Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Stevie Wonder, Sting, Showtime at the Apollo, The BET Awards, The Caroline Rhea Show, and more.

Musical Selection:

Donell Jones signed with LaFace Records in 1996 and released his debut album, My Heart. This CD included a hit cover of Stevie Wonder's 1976 ballad "Knocks Me Off My Feet".

In 1999, Donell Jones managed to establish himself as a true R&B hit maker with his second album, Where I Wanna Be. This album produced several number-one hits such as "U Know What's Up", "Where i wanna be", "Shorty Got Her Eyes on Me" and "All This Love". The album went on to sell over one million copies.

Donell released his third album in 2002 titled, "Life Goes On...".

In 2006 Jones released his fourth album, "Journey of a Gemini". The song "Special Girl" is featured on this album.

Donell is planning to release a new album in late 2009 or near the beginning of 2010.

US Music Producers

..are preparing to sue websites that host lyrics to songs. The two targets of this suit are LiveUniverse and Motive Force LLC. LiveUniverse is a huge popular video, social-networking, and music site that's headed by MySpace founder Bud Greenspan. Motive Force LLC is headed by Sean Colombo, the group behild the free-lyric site LyricWiki.

Ray Charles

...music will stream exclusively during the seventh season premiere of "Cold Case". The season premiere will air on Sunday, September 27th on the CBS Television Network.

Soul Train

Warner Bros has decided to turn the long-running TV series Soul Train into a movie. The story line will follow a young street dancer as he takes part in a tour with other dancers and musical acts.

Warner Bros has selected Malcolm Spellman who wrote Dead Presidents - to write the script.

The former show host: Darryl Porter, Aaron Geller and Don Cornelius will serve as producers.

Soul Train came to an end in 2006. It featured performances from R&B, soul and hip hop artists.

Chris Brown

Someone is spending too much time trying to send Chris Brown to jail. After he was sentenced to probation and minor labor, for hitting his ex-girlfriend - Rihanna, these images of Chris surfaced on the internet...

Chris Brown's upcoming CD is titled, "Graffiti" and he's not the only artist who's into "Blubber" coloring via spray paint - on government property:

Terrance Boykin

Chicago rapper Terrance Boykin, also known as Bump J, has agreed upon a plea deal with federal officials. This plea deal will carry a minimum seven year sentence.

Signed on June 26, Boykin admitted his guilt in the Jan. 4, 2007 robbery of the Chase Bank, 800 Madison St., which netted $108,135. He also admitted threatening bank employees with a gun.

Under federal sentencing guidelines, Boykin, 28, faced between 37 and 46 months in prison for the bank robbery and life in prison for menacing bank employees with a .45caliber handgun.

Under his plea agreement, he will serve a mandatory minimum seven years on the charge of brandishing a gun during a crime of violence.

He will be sentenced for his crime of September 1st.

Police officers reported that Boykin and another man entered the bank the morning of Jan. 4, 2007, announced a robbery and took the money from a vault. Boykin was arrested in November 2008 without incident after a routine traffic stop by downstate Carbondale police officers.

Terrance Boykin earned local notoriety in 2004 for the Chicago hit, "Move Around," which was produced by superstar rapper Kanye West.

Around the time that this bank robbery took place, Boykin was working on a "comeback" album and had just released a record.

Lebron James:

Eminem, Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Drake have teamed up to produce a track for Lebron James upcoming documentary titled, "More Than A Game". This highly anticipated soundtrack will be released on Friday, August 28th.