Monica and Shannon Brown Are Engaged
Last night, while the entire blogosphere was buzzing about R&B Diva Monica’s engagement to Lakers guard Shannon Brown, I received a phone call from a family member who asked to remain anonymous.
First and foremost, congratulations to Monica and Shannon! He proposed to her last week and gave her a beautiful 10 carat rock which Mo wore during her appearance on the 5th Annual Black Girls Rock Awards. Black love is beautiful!
After Mo’s stylist tweeted a photo of her rock on Twitter.com, Mo took to her Twitter page and tweeted:
We realize people will have their opinions. That’s the way of the world. But we know who we are & who’s we are. We pray 2 an awesome God 2gether And that is what keeps us strong. So for all my real supporters who are happy for me. I thank u, I love u, & I’m realistic enough about life To know my journey has just begun. I don’t have anything else to say about it. 2 people who judge. If u worked on self u wouldn’t even see me.
The family member had exclusive details about the engagement that she only shared with Sandrarose.com.
She said Shannon proposed to Monica last Tuesday in front of both sets of parents in a very intimate setting.
The family member said Shannon wanted to break the big news to both sides of the family because “they wanted it to be private and intimate and amongst family because family is most important to them.”
She said the couple met in June, 2010, on the set Mo’s video shoot for “Love All Over Me”. She said they will continue the courtship with each other even though they are engaged. In other words, the wedding will not take place next week, or any time soon, until they are ready.
She said Monica is extremely happy and she’s telling friends that she has “never ever ever” been treated with such love and respect by a man, ever! She is stress free because her man doesn’t live in the nightclubs.
Both Mo and Shannon have great relationships with their respective parents. According to the family member, the entire family will meet Shannon at Monica’s birthday bash in LA this coming weekend.
My source said, “Now that Shannon has taken the relationship to the next level, everyone will meet, the kids included.”
She said this relationship is “extremely serious” to him. They both have a mutual respect for one another.
Monica’s 30th birthday bash in LA on Sunday will feature a pink carpet. All proceeds from the event will be donated to breast cancer research.
Photos: Twitter.com
Will Justin Bieber come out of the closet after bullying incident?
Everyone is talking about the alleged assault charges pending against pop teen idol Justin Bieber.
According to online reports, Justin is accused of assaulting a 12-year-old boy at a laser tag centre in Canada over the weekend.
Bieber, who was in Canada visiting his dad, was allegedly cornered inside the laser tag center by an “aggressive” 12-year-old boy who taunted him and called him a “faggot.”
When the boy extended his hand to him, Bieber shoved the kid’s hand away and left the area. The boy had no visible injuries.
Bieber was subsequently thrown out of the Planet Lazer Entertainment Centre in Richmond, B.C. by its owner on Friday afternoon, according to one report in Canada. The “Baby” singer was said to have been with two of his bodyguards at the time of the incident.
The boy’s father, who told witnesses that he was a lawyer, later complained to police, who are now investigating the claims. A spokeswoman for The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said: “We are investigating an alleged assault at the venue.”
Ever since Bieber took the teen world by storm with his high pitched voice and bubble gum hits, he has been the subject of gay rumors.
He surrounds himself with effeminate looking men, and the 16-year-old loves to play with little kids.
His best friend is Will and Jada’s son Jaden Smith — who is not the most macho boy in Hollywood.
And Bieber has never been seen with a girl — unless you count those staged photos of him kissing his music video co-star in the back of his mom’s Honda.
According to TMZ, Bieber will be going public — probably within the next week — to lend his support to the anti-bullying campaign.
With all the depressing news about gay teens ending their lives after incidents of bullying, wouldn’t this be the opportune time for Bieber to finally come out of the closet?
Celebs Out & About: Rihanna, Ciara, The Dream, chris brown
Ciara is getting a lot of mileage from that brown Hermès bag that she borrowed from her BFF Kim Kardashian. Maybe if CiCi had some hit records she could afford to buy her own Hermès bags in different colors?
Rihanna posed with an excited fan outside of Madeo restaurant in Beverly Hills yesterday.
Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend chris brown was thousands of miles away strolling in the Soho neighborhood of New York City yesterday.
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Kanye West’s Cover Banned?
According to producer Kanye West’s tweet over the weekend, his new album cover was banned in the USA.
The cover features a painting of what looks like a black man reclining on a blue chaise lounge while holding a bottle of beer. The man grins leeringly at the viewer while being straddled by a mythological winged creature (that looks suspiciously like a white woman).
“Banned in the USA!!! They don’t want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix!” Kanye wrote on his Twitter page.
But was the cover really banned before the album is even released? Or is this yet another lame attempt by a troubled man to garner more attention than he deserves?
I think I’ll go with the latter.
Lil B Kisses a Male Fan’s Hand
Rapper Lil B became the first rapper to kick open the closet door, and he did it while performing live onstage.
How appropriate is it that the first openly mainstream gay rapper is from the Bay area?
During a recent concert, Lil B reacted to a positive comment from a member of his mostly male audience by asking, “For that, can I kiss your hand?” The man quickly extended his hand for B to kiss.
Lil B then got the crowd of about 200 males chanting his absurdly sexist, misogynistic lyrics, while the cameraman focused on two lone white females near the stage.
I can’t even repeat the sexually graphic lyrics on my family-oriented blog.
This news comes at a time when emotionally troubled gay teens are taking their own lives at an alarming rate. Hopefully Lil B’s actions will give gay teens hope and inspiration.
Lil B, who rose to fame by releasing skateboard raps with his former group, The Pack, doesn’t even have his own Wikipedia page yet.
But all of that will change soon. You know the industry loves to promote gay and/or down low rappers (Kanye West and Drake come to mind).
A recording industry that once glorified gangster rap music and the thug life has now abandoned that genre following declining record sales and increased incarcerations of key rap artists.
Over the past decade, the focus has slowly shifted from gangster rap to pop rap featuring gay and down low rappers who don’t have criminal records.
Photo: Gunner Stahl Photography
Video source: Vladtv
Did Christina Aguilera Dump Her Hubby for Samantha Ronson?
Christina Aguilera’s divorce drama has taken a new twist. They say Christina dumped her hubby, Jordan Bratman, for Lindsay Lohan’s former live-in lover, DJ Samantha Ronson.
If the rumors are true, that would explain why Lohan can’t stay off the sauce or stop self-medicating with prescription meds.
A source very close to both Christina Aguilera and Samantha Ronson tells X17online exclusively that the singer and the DJ are taking their friendship to the next level.
Ever since Samantha went to Cabo with Xtina, “the two have been inseparable,” says our source. “I’ve seen them hanging out together. Christina Aguilera really lets down her guard around Sam. They’re very comfortable with each other.”
The pop star was even seen leaving Sam’s place late at night earlier this week AND she stopped by The Roxy on Sunday to see her new favorite DJ spin.
In June of this year, Xtina herself even told Company Magazine that she is “attracted to women.”
The singer also said the following to Out Magazine in May: “My husband knows that I get into girls. I think it’s fun to be open and play.”
Is it a coincidence that Aguilera suddenly split from Jordan Bratman so soon after her Cabo trip (where she got even closer to Samantha)?
Our source also reveals that the twosome’s relationship is nothing like the one Samantha had with Lindsay Lohan. “Their relationship is different because Christina doesn’t create the kind of drama that Lindsay did.” Ouch!
Source: X17
Medical Minute: Narcissistic Rage (Nick Cannon related)
The Internet is buzzing about Nick Cannon’s dramatic meltdown on Twitter.com yesterday.
Apparently, Cannon became unhinged when fellow comedian Chelsea Handler injured his ego by tweeting this:
I just heard nick cannon is starting a comedy tour. Who’s going to do the comedy?
Cannon, who was performing a stand-up comedy routine at the time, left the stage and took to his Twitter page to launch an astonishing attack against Handler.
His angry, over-the-top responses (he wrote 15 tweets to Chelsea’s 1) was shockingly misogynistic, sexist, and some might even say, racist.
Here are a few examples:
Everyone knows @Chelseahandler had sex with the head of E! for her show. So when its canceled does he get residual pussy for the reruns?
Just talked to @50cent He said he made @chelseahandler get G-Unit tattooed on her balls!
@50cent wasn’t hitting @chelseahandler they was just sharing testosterone tips
Why do all these angry ugly whitetrash folks want beef with me?
Narcissistic Rage (also known as “blind rage”) is described as a sudden, explosive verbal or violent response to a frustrating situation that ceases only when the person is able to express their rage.
The difference between narcissistic rage and anger is that healthy people feel angry whereas narcissists do not. A healthy person will say “I feel angry.”
A quick test to see if you’re dealing with a narcissist is to ask him what he’s feeling.
He won’t be able to answer you effectively because narcissists have trouble expressing their feelings verbally.
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