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Star Jones wrote a well thought out letter in response to Bill O’Reilly’s racial slur toward Michelle Obama on a recent show. As you all know by now, O’Reilly was talking to a caller who was angry at Mrs. Obama for saying, “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud […]
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Shawty Lo and DJ Unk were the only Dirty South superstars in the building when Lo celebrated the release of his CD Wednesday night at ESSO. Hits Daily Double estimates Lo’s CD will sell 35k units based on first day sales reports from major retailers.
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Rumors that DTP dropped their most recognizable artists at the behest of Def Jam chairman LA Reid have been confirmed by Def Jam sources. According to Sohh Ya Heard, Reid gave Bobby Valentino, Shareefa, and Steph Jones an ‘F’ following their R & B Live performances at Spotlight in NY on Tuesday. One […]
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Update: According to my loyal reader Rodney, the custom Hermes cost a tidy $67,000.
Thanks to loyal reader Darnell for verifying that the purple Hermès carried by Pharrell Williams in an earlier post does belong to him. In the following post from Pharrell’s blog, he explains he traveled to Paris to pick up his custom […]
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According to industry estimates: Erykah Badu and Janet Jackson are neck and neck for the #1 spot next week. Janet is expected to do 180k in sales while Erykah’s Amerykah is expected to push 160k - give or take 10k.
The amazing part of all this is Erykah contends for the top spot […]
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Gucci has been named the #1 brand in the world, according to Nielsen research:
In the latest survey, one in five global consumers said they would choose to buy Gucci (over any other luxury brand) if money was no option, making the Italian fashion brand that was revived by Tom Ford in the 1990’s the most […]
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Fonzi Thornton sits with Mary Ida Vandross at her son’s funeral on July 8, 2005
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:50:17
From: Kristi
To: sandra@sandrarose.com
Subject: Mrs. Mary Ida Vandross
Greeting Friends & Associates!
I received a phone call today with the news that Mrs. (Mary Ida) Vandross, mother of Luther Vandross, is in a coma. Mrs. Vandross’ is […]
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According to a source close to Keyshia Cole’s camp, “Keyshia and Floyd Mayweather are not an item. They really don’t know each other that well. She was in Vegas on vacation and attended his b’day party. That’s all there was to it!
The media is just trying to make a big deal out of nothing.”
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