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The final tracklist for Marsha Ambrosius‘ Late Nights & Early Mornings album has been revealed.  The album is the solo debut for the former Floetry member and reportedly features writing and production from Just Blaze, Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keys in addition to Ambrosius herself.

Charlemagne “The God” is the leading voice of Power 105.1 “The Breakfast Club.” He is the reason the show is successful–period! Although, the ratings may be high at 105, certain celebrities have major gripes with the outspoken host. First Diddy refused to go on the show and now Drake is calling him out for being […]

In a move straight outta Kanye West‘s playbook, Snoop Dogg paid a visit to Twitter‘s San Francisco headquarters to debut some new music from his forthcoming album, The Doggumentary.  Snoop and his crew made themselves at home as Snoop took over the office’s DJ booth (Hold up, whaaaaat??? a DJ booth???) and spun a few […]

Will Smith is currently in talks with Sony Pictures about the possibility of a remake of the popular 1982 film musical, Annie, which would star his daughter, Willow, in the title role.

Rapper David Banner will be inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame during a ceremony to be held tonight. Banner was honored during a private ceremony that took place in his hometown of, Jackson, along with artists like Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Charlie Pride, Conway Twitty, Sam Cooke, Jerry Butler, Elvis Presley and others. […]

Video is surfacing of a rap group called the “Monkey Gang” who critics are calling “The Most Ignorant Rap Ever.” Rumor is that it might be a parody, but the way rap is going, who knows. RELATED STORIES Mighty Casey “Crackhead Superheroes” [VIDEO] VIDEO: Mighty Casey “Black Rapping School”

Thirteen years after Tony Toni Toné broke up, the group’s front-man Raphael Saadiq is still going strong, with his fourth solo studio album, Stone Rollin’, due out in March.

Ok, so after Kanye ‘jumped out the window’ with his “G.O.O.D. Fridays” Artist-Approved-Weekly-Free-Download series, every other artist has to follow suit, right?….With Timbaland & Snoop Dogg having already begun releasing music under #TimbalandThursdays & #PuffPuffPassTuesdays,  it would seem so to us earthlings that this is the new hot marketing tool in music, but at closer […]

With all due r-e-s-p-e-c-t to Aretha Franklin, we have to agree with Halle Berry that she probably isn’t the ideal person to play her in a movie on her life. Given her place in history as one of the greatest voices in music, you can’t have just anyone lip-sync their way through her biopic. At […]

The next time you attend a Plies concert, be sure not to throw anything on stage while the rapper is performing.  You may have to dodge some bullets.