Celebs Out & About
ARAB MONEY
Her Majesty Tuanka Nur Zahirah of Malaysia shut down Harrods today in London where she is attending Fashion Week. I don’t know how much she spent but I’m sure it was well worth closing those doors for those couple of hours. I wish I could gotten the change she had left over from her purchases. What if our First Lady Michelle Obama was this fabulous? I love me some Michelle, but I would like to see her work it out in some Gucci or Prada just once.
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UPDATED: According to V-103′s Ryan Cameron, that’s Rickey Bell of New Edition/BBD walking with Megan Good and a friend in Hollywood early this morning. He sure gained a lot of weight. Maybe it’s Megan’s good cooking?
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First lady Michelle Obama is always talking about keeping her youngsters Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, grounded. Well, how is she going to accomplish that when her pre-teens are sharing the cover of a teen magazine with their favorite stars? Cover source
How Baby Got His Arab Money
Bryan “Baby” Williams, founder of Cash Money Records held his birthday party at the Velvet Room last Sunday. They say they’ve never seen the Velvet Room so packed.
Rumor has it that Baby invested some of his Cash Money Records loot into an off shore oil rig with a few Saudi billionaires. When the Saudis sold the oil rig, Baby’s take was well in excess of $100 million. That would explain why every available female was at the Velvet Room on Sunday.
Lol, I wish I could name names of a few industry females that I know who never go out, but they were at the club on Sunday! 
These are just rumors, mind you. But one of Baby’s many tattoos indicates there might be some truth to the rumors.
The tattoo shows an oil rig with the words BRONALD — a combination of the Williams brothers first names: Bryan and Ronald.
Thanks to Prince Williams of ATLPICS.net for the photos!
India.Arie Covers JET Magazine
India.Arie Is On a Mission
Talented artist tells why she almost quit the business and how her new love helps her heal. Two years ago Grammy Award-winner India.Arie almost walked away from the music industry. She grew tired of the competition, the need to have her music categorized, and, as she calls it “the politics of the music industry.” “I was planning on what to do with my money, what I would do to make it grow. I really was going to retire,” she told Jet magazine.
But after much reflection, the passionate artist made peace with the music industry on the liner notes of her latest CD, Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics. “I’ve learned that music is a challenge, not a competition. I released the fear of chart positions and album sales, and reconnected with the love of music and the love of the listener and the love of myself again.” (p. 36)
Recession Rescue: How to Find a Job Fast.
President Obama has been straightforward with the nation, saying that times are going to get harder before they get better. As a way to cope with the slumping economy, Jet magazine is offering a series of stories on ways to survive the recession. In this issue, one job seeker shows how he got creative to score his new gig fast. (p. 24)
Video: What R U Wearing? By Middleman of StyleSessions
For those of you who don’t live in Atlanta, peep this video to see how we’re doing it. Middleman of StyleSession is the stylist to the stars. When celebrities appear on award shows, they fly in a style specialist like Middleman to make sure that whatever they wear is fresh and, most importantly, current.
There’s nothing more embarrassing than walking up to the podium to accept your award wearing last year’s fashions. It’s not about name brand dropping either, it’s about staying ahead of the style curve and creating trends for others to follow.
And since I know that it’s just in your hearts to hate on members of the black Overclass, I’m turning off the comments.
These Young Girls Are a Mess
Dawn Richard, formerly of Danity Kane, stripped buck naked for this month’s KING magazine. I saw the outtakes from the shoot, trust me — just like Ciara, she was naked. When you don’t have any talent at all — just like Ciara — you strip.
FanMAIL: And Yet Another Reader Gets it
For those of you who think I have some kind of personal vendetta against your president, you are so wrong. It’s just that I don’t drink Kool-Aid and I prefer to keep my head above the sand so I can clearly see what’s going on around me. And what I see is frightening.
Judging from my emails, I’m not alone in my thinking.
Loyal reader Latrece writes:
Thank you for your HONEST coverage of the POTUS, as you refer to him. I am one of 2 others I know who knows that something about Barack (or “Barry” as his friends call him) is not right. I pointed out during the election that for some reason, dirt was repeatedly presented to the public via the media on every other candidate BUT Barry. Surprisingly, nothing that was brought up about him stuck, the little that the media presented. This was THE most biased election in American history. Smells like a setup to me! NOW, post election, that Barry’s in the White House, we are, all of a sudden, being revealed the truth? “Something something, something something just ain’t right!” — Keith Sweat, probably speaking to Lisa Wu-Hartwell.
I appreciate your recent comments about Joe “Dirt” Biden because he is about as valuable as half a penny in the 99 Cent Only store. People questioned Sarah Palin’s ability to run the country because she’s a woman and a mother of 5. What I wanted people to focus on was her state’s energy policies since Alaska isn’t dependent on foreign oil like we are here in California. No one wanted to listen. “The Terminator” is our Governor. The Mexicans and white Republicans voted him in without so much as a second though, simply because he’s a movie star. To date, our state is practically bankrupt, which makes no sense.
Google Attempts To Silence Blogger Again
Blogger.com, which is owned by Google, has responded to the persistent whining and complaining of Beyonce, her daddy Matthew Knowles, and her obsessed fans by attempting (yet again) to silence the Hateonbeyonce blog.
Google/blogger has succeeded in impeding traffic to the HOB blog by placing a warning page between viewers and the blog.
The young lady who runs the blog has been threatened and harassed by Bey’s rabid fans, who incessantly email blogger.com with their juvenile complaints.
They did the same to Sandrarose.com, but obviously their attempts to silence us were futile and a complete waste of their time.
As a result of the tireless efforts of Sandrarose.com and blogs like HOB, Beyonce has become the laughing stock of the industry. Furthermore, she was toppled from her throne by Rihanna, who is on temporary hiatus at the moment.
We thought this was a free country where citizens had the right to express themselves freely without vengeful retaliation? Where’s the ACLU when you need them?
