Celebs Out & About: Angelina Jolie, Christina Milian, Serena Williams
My apologies for the slow posts today. There’s a lot going on that I can’t mention on the blog right now. Hopefully it will all be over soon.
Leggy singer Christina Milian was spotted heading out for a girls dinner with tennis star Serena Williams at upscale restaurant Madeo in Beverly Hills last night. The duo were all smiles and Christina’s ring is finally off! She’s one hawt mama ad The Dream is a big fool!
Tennis superstar Serena was wearing a cast on her right foot following surgery. I want to say something about this pic so bad because it is literally begging for a caption. But I know my readers are getting wary of me stating the obvious. So I’ll let you do it.
Idiot Throws Beer, Ice at The Game and His Son
Why would anyone — drunk or sober — throw beer and ice at a man holding his small child? Are thugs that damn disrespectful?
According to Chopitupmag.com, slight mayhem ensued when outraged rapper The Game leaped into an audience looking for the nut who doused his son with a cup of beer and ice at a recent concert:
Not everybody was showing California love for The Game and his two small sons when the West Coast rapper appeared on stage with some of his label mates and crew. The Game had just shared a heartwarming commentary on his love for the city, when Young Jeezy’s Lose My Mind-which The Game called his favorite joint-began to play, when a cup of beer and ice flew from the audience-and dashed The Game and his small son, who was in his arms!
“Hey yo, whoever just threw that fucking cup and beer on my kids, you about to get fucked up, and I’m about to get sued for it”, The Game announced after stopping the music. His goons then jumped into the crowd and The Game implored the crowd to point out the offender. Slight mayhem ensues as panicked people who are pointed out realize something bad is gonna happen-but aren’t sure exactly what.
Photo: SP
CNN: Is it the return of Lauryn Hill?
Hill, 35, is scheduled to perform in a few shows as part of the lineup of the Rock the Bells tour. In the past few days, a previously unheard track titled “Repercussions” which is purported to be of her singing has hit the Web. The notoriously private singer also recently gave an interview to National Public Radio, sounding very much like a star on the comeback trail.
“I’m starting to get excited again,” Hill told NPR. “Believe it or not, I think what people are attracted to about me, if anything, is my passion. People got exposed to my passion through music and song first.”
Not everyone is convinced.
“I’m not sure if there is a comeback,” said Gail Mitchell, senior editor covering R&B and hip-hop at Billboard magazine. “Maybe that interview with NPR was to prime people, but until there is an announcement or new music, I don’t think we can say that anything is set.”
“Is she coming back or is she just doing what she has always done?” said Sandra Rose, who runs the popular gossip site SandraRose.com. “She performs, makes some money and then she disappears again.”
It’s not quite the career the world expected of Hill after her hit album, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” was released in 1998 and went on to garner the singer 10 Grammy nominations (the most of any female performer at the time) and five awards.
Maureen Dowd: ‘Obama Needs Some Black People Around Him’
Famed NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd tackles last week’s biggest story, the one that Hot Air refers to as the l’affair Sherrod.
The West Wing white guys who pushed to ditch Shirley Sherrod before Glenn Beck could pounce not only didn’t bother to Google, they weren’t familiar enough with civil rights history to recognize the name Sherrod. And they didn’t return the calls and e-mail of prominent blacks who tried to alert them that something was wrong…
“I’ve known these two individuals — the husband for more than 50 years and the wife for at least 35, 40 — and there’s not a racist hair on their heads or anyplace else on their bodies,” [Rep. John] Lewis said…
“The president’s getting hurt real bad,” Clyburn told me. “He needs some black people around him.” He said Obama’s inner circle keeps “screwing up” on race: “Some people over there are not sensitive at all about race. They really feel that the extent to which he allows himself to talk about race would tend to pigeonhole him or cost him support, when a lot of people saw his election as a way to get the issue behind us. I don’t think people elected him to disengage on race. Just the opposite.” Read More…
The Urban Blogosphere Reacts to Jermaine Dupri Threatening a Blogger *Update*
Over the weekend I received numerous emails and phones calls from fellow bloggers and non-bloggers expressing concern and encouragement.
Update:
Earlier I wrote that not one female blogger was among them. But I was wrong. Blogger K.I.M., who is also an industry veteran, did write a post in support. Thanks to longtime member Attorneymom for pointing that out.
Dennis Byron, Editor-in-Chief of Hip Hop Enquirer, points out that JD’s punk azz made terroristic threats from outside of the United States’ jurisdiction (he was in France) — probably under the false belief that it was legally OK for him to do so.
LEGAL MINDS CHIME IN ON HOW THE LAW CAN HANDLE THESE TYPE OF THREATS
By Dennis Byron | Hip Hop Enquirer
Prominent Atlanta Criminal Defense Attorney Larry Ellerbe who has been an analyst in the past on other crime related stores hand this to say:
It appears that everyone is disturbed over the allegation of Jermaine Dupree threat to blogger, Sandra Rose. I am not here to weigh in on whether the alleged statements are legally actionable because I was not there. What I can do is give you a legal perspective as to what is required to be considered a terroristic threat. I believe an informed reader can come to the conclusion if Jermaine Dupree is in jeopardy of legal consequences. So what are the elements of a terroristic threat?
1. Someone willfully threatens to commit a crime that will result in death or great bodily harm. Usually threatening someone property does not rise to the level of a terroristic threat unless you are connected to said property and you obviously will be harmed by its destruction.
2. The threat was made with the specific intent that it be taken as a threat. This means that if it appears that you do not have the means to carry it out but you made the statement with the intent that the person believes you can carry it out it still classifies as a threat.
3. The threat is so unequivocal, unconditional, and specific as to convey a gravity of purpose and immediate prospect of execution. What this means is that the threat states what you will do and not what you can do. Ex. I can blow your car up if I get a bomb as oppose to I will blow you car up when I get the bomb. See the difference?
4. The threat actually caused fear in the victim. The person must actually believe the threat. Is this the case with Sandra Rose?
5. The fear was reasonable. If someone tells you that he/she is going to shoot you with a ray gun they just invented then it is unlikely you could take this threat seriously.
Keep in mind each state has it rules that constitute terroristic threat. Consider the alleged [threats] made [by] Jermaine Dupree, weigh it against the elements needed to be considered a threat and you make your own decision without listening to someone else’s opinion.
Now there still lies the question of if the alleged threat was made outside of the United States does the U.S. still have jurisdiction to prosecute the charge?
The answer to the question is not a simple one but what is important to note is that anytime a violation of the law is done via the airwaves and/or internet it becomes interstate, intrastate or an international matter. It may become a federal matter and thereby jurisdiction will not become a hindrance to prosecution. Also note that also the alleged threat may have been made in France the alleged recipient of the threat was in the U.S. which may give rise to U.S. jurisdiction to prosecute said threat. Thus may become an interesting matter for the Attorney General of the Northern District to decipher.
Source: ‘Jermaine Dupri Depressed Over Breakup With Janet Jackson’
Close friends of troubled producer Jermaine Dupri say he’s depressed and despondent over his breakup with pop legend Janet Jackson. His friends asked this blogger to try and understand the reasoning behind Friday night’s emotional outburst that led to death threats.
“Your post hit him where it truly hurts,” said one friend, who asked to remain anonymous. “You hit him in a place where he lays awake at night and can’t sleep because he’s thinking about it.
“How would you feel if the woman you loved blamed you for ruining her career and now she’s dating a billionaire?“
In a recent interview with Atlanta tabloid the Creative Loafing. JD told a writer that rumors of his separation from Janet are mere “assumptions” — despite the fact that Janet has apparently moved on with her life. A friend tried to explain why Dupri seems to be in denial.
“He can’t let go of her. He was really in love and love makes you do crazy, crazy things!,” he said. “People in the industry have been saying that he single handedly messed her [career] up completely. That has been said by everybody,” he added.
Celebs Out & About: Halle Berry, Jay Z, Tina Turner, Diddy, Trey Songz, Busta Rhymes
A worn and tired looking Halle Berry and her former boyfriend Gabriel Aubry were spotted arriving at LAX with their daughter Nahla to catch a flight out of Los Angeles yesterday. At least they keep up pretenses for their daughter.
Aging rapper Jay-Z sipped expensive champagne while watching a game between the New York Yankees and the Kansas City Royals on Friday (July 23) at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Luckily his wife Beyonce wasn’t there or she would have falling drown drunk by the 9th inning.
