New Music: Michael Jackson: This Is It, Plus Safire’s Original 1991 Version
I like Safire’s version better than Michael’s remake. Sorry, Mike.
Here’s a tidbit of info that you probably didn’t know, courtesy of a commenter on YouTube:
Michael wanted to call the victory tour ‘this is it’, but his brothers didn’t want that, so it was? 4 against 1. Michael wanted to call it this is it, because it was going to be the final performances with his brothers. Now he chose this title so that it was sure that he was not going to perform anymore after This is it.
Was This BET’s Most Random Hip Hop Awards Ever?
You know things are looking bad for the music industry when the biggest celebs on the red carpet at the BET Hip Hop Awards were nobodies with butts filled with silicone, and reality TV personalities. Someone had better do something fast to revitalize the industry before everyone ends up being out of work.
Speaking of random, made-for-TV fashion designer Sheree Whitfield could have done a lot better than this jumpsuit, I think. Isn’t it a shame how her ex-husband (and former NFL player) Bob Whitfield rants and rages at her daily on his Twitter page and nobody cares?
They say producer/rapper Missy Elliott escorted a hawt chick on her arm into the Civic Center.
Rappers Trina, left, and Soulja Boy, who bonded out of jail Wednesday after his arrest for running from the cops.
Rap legends Kid N’ Play were in the house.
Plies graced the red carpet with his thug presence.
I thought this boy was in jail? Rapper Lil Boosie and his daughter sat in the audience. Boosie was sentenced to two years in prison recently. I’m guessing he’s out on bond while he appeals his sentence.
I don’t even know who Alesha Renee is. This is sad…
Atlantic Records PR Guru Sydney Margetson, left, and Jamie Foster Brown (Sister2Sister publisher)
Photos: Wireimage/Getty
Morning Wood: Akon!
I had always heard that Akon was packing, but I never knew how seriously until I saw these pics! Akon and Wyclef Jean showed off their goodies during the taping of MTV Africa over the weekend.
Thanks to loyal reader honey pot for the pics!
Beyonce Tried To Stop Lil Mama
CLASSIC video of one attention whore (Beyonce) trying to stop another attention whore (Lil Mama) from grabbing the spotlight away from her hubby (Jay Z) during the VMAs last month.
Is Trey Gay? You Be The Judge…
Struggling R&B singer Trey Song decided to come for me over the weekend on Twitter.com after I wrote a tweet congratulating him on his apparent win during the BET Hip Hop Awards which took place here in the ATL over the weekend.
It seems that one of my readers pulled a fast one on me by emailing me to say that Trey won the “BET Best One-hit-wonder Award.” After tweeting a congratulatory message to Trey on Twitter, I checked with BET, and as it turns out, there is no such award.
Just as I was about to delete the offending tweet — and issue an apology to Mr. Song, the same reader emailed me to say that Trey was “going in” on me on the social microblogging site.
In response to my tweet (which as I said was tweeted in error), Trey mobilized his half-million strong fan base of followers on Twitter.com to make my face a trending topic on Twitter.com and Google.com. I was ridiculed and disrespected by total strangers for hours on Twitter.com until my face finally stopped trending.
I am puzzled as to why Trey didn’t mobilize his 500,000 (mostly unemployed and broke) Stans on Twitter to buy his most recent album, which debuted at #3 on the charts with a measly 131K copies sold. To date, Trey’s CD is nowhere near going gold.
I was also clueless as to why Trey would come at me on Twitter over what was obviously an error. Then my friend informed me that Trey might be butt hurt by my constant references to his (alleged) down low lifestyle. But how can that be when I’ve never gone into any specific details about his sexual exploits with other industry men?
For years, the entire industry has been whispering that Trey takes it up the rear and gladly returns the favor. But I never mentioned the baseless gossip since we here at Sandrarose.com hold ourselves to a higher standard than other blogs.
In fact, from what I understand, Trey’s label sank a lot of cash into remaking his soft cupcake image, in part, because of the rampant gay rumors.
They even paid a celebrity blogger to manufacture a laughable faux relationship with the struggling singer. But, lol, nobody in their right minds believed it.
Speaking of said blogger, I’m told she at first balked at the chance to help remake Trey’s image, but whatever they offered her must have been too good to refuse. She can’t stand the punk as you can clearly see from the following email that she sent to an industry exec (please note the date the email was sent):
——– Original Message ——–
Subject: Re: Hey
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:32:44 -0500
From: Necole (NecoleBitchie.com)
To: [Name removed]Oh trust me, you don’t want to get to a point where other bloggers are talking about you.
I should know. Um who’s jealous of trey songz? lol. i can’t….he is a nobodyYea you are not lying about “more fake people which I can’t stomach”.Womp womp!
Yea twitter is fun once you figure it out. you’ll be addicted in no time. just you watch!
Necole
And to those who think this email is fake, I have the email with the headers in its original form, not a copy. Of course, it could be that she thought Trey was a “nobody” until she met him. But it’s interesting to see what she thought about him until he started kissing her ass.
It will take Trey a hot minute (depending upon how dumb he is) to figure out that he was used for blog hits. But then again, he used her too, right?
Oh, by the way, the person she sent this email to originally DID NOT forward the email to me. I want to make that clear! Let’s just say I have my ways of getting information.
Moving right along…
PICS: Friends, family say goodbye to Ashley ‘A.J.’ Jewell
Tameka Foster’s ex-husband Ryan Glover, 2nd from right, comforts Ashley “AJ” Jewell’s good friend, producer Jazze Pha, far right, as friends look on. Family and friends turned out to say goodbye to Ashley “AJ” Jewell, who passed away from unknown causes last week. The funeral was held at the Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur, yesterday.
Pictures by BRANT SANDERLIN, BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM
L to R: April Love, Ed Hartwell, Lisa Wu Hartwell (with back to camera) and Lisa McCall (Kandi Burrus’ manager) were among friends and family who attended the funeral of AJ Jewell at Ray of Hope Christian Church yesterday.
Frederick Richardson, the man charged with killing Jewell, was ordered held without bond.
Photo: BRANT SANDERLIN, BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM
One of several cars carrying Jewell’s family pulls into the church. RHOA cast member Kandi Burruss’ engagement to Jewell had been a point of contention between Burruss and her mother, who objected to her daughter marrying a man with six children from four different women. Burrus gave a moving eulogy during the service.
Photo: BRANT SANDERLIN, BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM
Women walk toward the church as a deputy directs traffic. In a recent interview with the AJC, Burruss said she was surprised that the public was so interested in her life with Jewell. Other funeral guests included R&B singer Monica, Usher’s estranged wife, Tameka Foster; Jamie Foster Brown (Sister2Sister magazine publisher), RHOA cast members NeNe Leakes, Kim Zolciak and Dwight Eubanks. Sheree Whitfield was noticeably absent. Old school R&B singer Danny Boy sang.
Photo: BRANT SANDERLIN, BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM
Tameka Foster’s Hair is Unbeweaveable
How embarrassing for Tameka Foster: first her soon-to-be-ex husband Usher called the cops on her twice for vandalizing his car. Then rapper Young Jeezy dissed her to her face at the new Compound nightclub last night.
After I posted the pics from last night, my readers pointed out the visible tracks in Tameka’s horrible weave. How tacky! It just goes to show that money doesn’t buy class.
Photo by Prince Williams/ATLPics.net
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