In Case You Missed It: Single Ladies, Episode 4
Thanks to Lady Jia for uploading episode 4 of VH1′s tasteless, but juicy scripted series “Single Ladies”! It gives me great pleasure to inform you that “Single Ladies” beat out “Barbeque Wives” in both of their time slots in the television ratings for Monday night! That’s significant because this is BBQ Wives’ 3rd season and it took “Single Ladies” only 4 episodes to surpass them! 
Morning Glory: Fantasia
Here is more proof that black men LOVE big women: singer Fantasia Barrino is gaining weight in preparation for the biggest acting role of her career. She’s set to portray Mahalia Jackson in a movie on the Gospel singer’s storied life. Meanwhile, over the weekend, Fantasia vacationed in St. Kitts with her boyfriend Antwaun Cook. If you recall, this is the man who Fantasia almost took her life for after their love affair sparked headlines all over the blogs two years ago.
The couple went snorkeling in the clear blue waters off St. Kitts yesterday. Barrino, 26, had performed at the annual St. Kitts Music Festival over the weekend and stayed on for a few days with a group of family and friends, including her nine-year-old daughter Zion.
It’s not her weight that made Antwaun fall madly in love with Fantasia. It’s something else. There’s another male industry exec who is head over heels in love with Fantasia. I can’t divulge his name, but he can’t stop talking about her. I tease him endlessly about his infatuation with her, lol.
Celebs Out & About: Jay Z, Beyonce, Alicia Keys
Singer Alicia Keys kissed her wax figure at the unveiling of her likeness at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in NYC yesterday. Alicia is in town helping to produce Lydia R. Diamond’s play “Stick Fly” this Fall. “I’m passionate about this play because it is so beautifully written and portrays black America in a way that we don’t often get to see in entertainment,” Keys said in a statement. She also re-released her debut album, Songs in A Minor, today as a special 10th anniversary deluxe collector’s edition.
I wonder how much Beyonce had to beg Jay-Z tp show up at her record launch party and special one-off gig at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London last night? We know Jay Z is a narcissist who only thinks of himself. He rarely supports his wife’s endeavors, but he expects her to be front and center whenever he’s in the spotlight. Don’t you hate people like that? Jay Z had been spotted watching tennis at Wimbledon, which caused him to arrive late to Beyonce’s gig.
Photos: Splash News Online
Why Black People Will Never Get Ahead: #Planking
The Internet craze “planking” made headlines around the world last month when a young man fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Brisbane, Queensland. According to London tabloid the Daily Mail, the man tried to “plank” himself by laying across the balcony railing.
Planking involves participants lying down in unusual places and then uploading pictures of themselves to social networking websites.
Ever since planking claimed it’s first victim, there have been other deaths and serious injuries connected to the fad. What once was strictly isolated to groups of idle middle class teens on Facebook has now reached black Twitter.
Blogger: ‘Russell Simmons hasn’t paid me since January’
Last year, the Russell Simmons-owned website Globalgrind.com took steps to cease scraping websites and blogs for their content. But not before building his prominent Internet brand off the backs of hard working bloggers without our permission.
It took many complaints and numerous negative write ups on blogs before Simmons and Global Grind stopped stealing our content.
In a post titled Global Grind Copies Content, Patrick O’Keefe detailed how Simmons and Global Grind rose to the top of the blog rankings by scraping content from established blogs (such as mine) as if the content originated on Global Grind.
This strategy helped Global Grind position its brand in the global marketplace which enabled Simmons to secure lucrative sponsorships from large corporations.
Simmon’s seedy reputation was further tarnished by the RUSH pre-paid debit card controversy, which has been well-documented. It seemed Rush had no qualms about stealing from his own people. Now an urban blogger has come forward to expose yet another one of Global Grind’s questionable business strategies.
According to Michelle Brown, who is enrolled in Global Grind’s ad network, she has not been paid for advertising on her blog since January, 2011. According to brown, owner of Straightfromthea.com, she was told by GG’s accountant, Deepa Shah, that another ad network, Adify, is tasked with paying bloggers their Global Grind revenue for advertising.
Brown was given the runaround by Shah in a series of confusing email exchanges, in which Ms. Shah explains that Global Grind paid out ad revenue to Adify, and now Adify was responsible for disbursing the money to bloggers in its ad network. You can read those emails below.
Beyoncé On Piers Morgan
I know that every blog has posted this video footage from Beyoncé’s interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, from London last night. But I’m posting it on the off chance that a few of you don’t surf those other blogs.
Video source: Yardie
Celeb Style: D’banj (Kanye’s new artist)
Kanye West recently signed 2 Nigerian artists to his G.O.O.D. Music label. One of them is D’banj, who, according to Upscale Hype, attended the 2011 BET Awards styled in a pair of Christian Louboutin Mika Raja flats ($2,395) from the Spring/Summer 2011 Collection. I would rather see a man dressed like D’banj than one dressed like those untamed beasts who roam the urban landscape with their pants hanging off their butts, like Lil Wayne and that ilk. We have to do better.
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