Rico Love: “Monica and Amber are not recording a song together”
That Monica Brown is NOT recording a song with stripper-turned-singer Amber Rose. Mo’s producer Rico Love, who produced half of Monica’s much-anticipated album, New Life, is outraged that a certain blog “misrepresented” his hard work based on a photo.
“Monica was in the studio last night when La La [Anthony] stopped by and they took pictures,” Rico explained.
“[Amber] was just passing by and they took a picture together,” he said of Mo and Amber, who released her first single, “Fame” last week.
“They are not recording no song together!” said Rico via phone from his seat at Madison Square Garden where Mo’s husband, Shannon Brown, and the Phoenix Suns are taking on Carmelo Anthony and the NY Knicks.
“I’m losing my patience with this sh*t,” said Rico as he tried to be heard above the roar of the crowd in the arena.
Rico continued: “The only duets that Mo has is with Brandy, which is due out Feb. 6,” he said. “There are no duets with Monica and any other females, period!” He also revealed that the music video is slated to shoot next week.
“I know how sensitive these chicks can get, but we take our artistry very seriously,” said the producer who has worked with Usher, Beyonce, Kelly Rowland and others.
“We’re not trying to act nasty toward anybody. But that was totally wrong information to put out based on a picture that was taken in passing.”
Monica’s album, New Life, is scheduled for a March 26 release.
Monica Brown and Amber Rose, Chris Brown and Wiz Khalifa in the Studio
Yesterday the Internet was abuzz when Kanye West’s former beard Amber Rose tweeted a pic of herself posing with legenday R&B singer Monica Brown in a studio. Monica is busy recording her much-anticipated album, New Life, set for a Feb. 21 release (which we hope will rocket her into the stratosphere). We really hope Amber was just passing through the studio and that Mo obliged her with a photo? We would hate to hear Amber shrieking on a Monica track.
Behind The Scenes of Estelle’s “Thank You” Music Video
I am not a big Estelle fan at all, especially after she came for your auntie on Twitter.com. I have been very supportive of this broad, especially since she’s British like your auntie. But when she showed me such utter disrespect, I unfollowed her right then.
Luckily for Estelle, I happen to really like someone in her camp who has been very supportive of Sandrarose.com in the past.
The music video for Estelle’s current single “Thank You” premieres tonight on BET’s 106 and Park at 6pm EST.
Wikipedia Goes Dark to Protest Obama’s Web Piracy Bills
If you planned on visiting Wikipedia.org today to look up celebrity discographies or birth dates (like I often do), forget about it; Wikipedia has gone dark for 24 hours to protest Obama’s proposed web piracy bill.
The online encyclopedia ranks up there with Google, Yahoo and other high traffic websites as the most visited online. Wikipedia, and other websites, took a stand against 2 bills: the Protect Intellectual Property Act and Stop Online Piracy Act, which are under consideration in the Senate.
The bills, backed by the motion picture and recording industries, intends to put a stop to online piracy and copyright infringement by infringing upon the rights of visitors to popular websites.
If signed into law by President Obama, the PIPA and the SOPA bills would require ISPs to block online access to foreign websites which supply many of the bootleg movies and CDs that are now available for download online.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) claims the online piracy costs as much as $250 billion per year and costs the industry 750,000 jobs.
But critics of the bill say the SOPA act would infringe upon “free expression while harming the Internet” and “severely inhibit people’s access to online information.”
Wikipedia says the bills would place “the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites.”
Critics say smaller websites (such as Sandrarose.com) “won’t have sufficient resources to defend themselves” against a shut down for hosting content that may be considered pirated (such as Beyonce’s new album).
Wikipedia went offline at midnight on Jan. 18, and plans to stay dark for 24 hours.
New Music: Mob Wives Rap by G Fella ft. Rock Mafia
VH1′s ‘Mob Wives‘ is a huge hit, mostly due to the surgically altered permanent pout of Angela “Big Ang” Raiola. Whether she’s really a biological female is up for debate. But Big Ang tells VH1 what she wants in her ideal Goodfella — even if he is dead.
VH1: We’ve all seen the clip of you talking about finding a nice wise guy to take care of you. If you could create your dream wise guy, who’s your ideal man? What qualities does he have?
Big Ang: Oh, John Gotti. I thought he was the most handsomest, classiest, and I personally knew him. That’s…the kinda guy I like. [Laughs] That’s definitely the guy. He was so handsome, and the way he used to carry himself and walk into places, I’d be like “Hi, John!!” I knew him, and that’s the kind of guy I’m talking about. I knew John before he became who he was and he was handsome from the day he was…I used to work in a big wise guy bar in Brooklyn called The Nineteenth Hole and he used to come, and he wasn’t even “John Gotti” like he was when he died, he was nobody at the time. Matter of fact, I think he had just come home from jail, he wasn’t even a wise guy then. He was just so handsome, I used to stare at him all the time. READ MORE
Italian rapper G Fella paid homage to the Mob Wives with a new track he threw together using a sample from Rock Mafia‘s hit song “The Big Big Bang”.
Listen to “Mob Wives Rap” after the break!
Monica Headlines Battle of the Bands 2012
R&B Diva Monica will headline the annual Battle of the Bands on Jan. 28 at the Georgia Dome.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports: “eight college marching bands from historically black colleges and universities will showcase their music and showmanship at this annual invitational event, but it will also spotlight the talents of Grammy-winning Atlanta singer and songwriter Monica.”
Monica will perform at the Battle of the Bands on Jan. 28, just weeks before the scheduled release of her seventh album, New Life. You can get a taste of the new album on the Georgia native’s website, which features the video for the track “Until It’s Gone.” You can pre-order the album there, too.
Tickets for the event, which begins at 3 p.m. Jan. 28, are available at Ticketmaster or at the Georgia Dome Box Office. Tickets are $10-$12.
The bands participating in this year’s Honda Battle of the Bands are:
Albany State University’s Marching Rams Show Band
Bethune Cookman University’s Marching Wildcats
Jackson State University’s Sonic Boom of the South
Prairie View A&M University’s Marching Storm
South Carolina State University’s Marching 101
Tennessee State University’s Aristocrat of Bands
Virginia State University’s Marching Trojan Explosion
Winston-Salem State University’s Red Sea of Sound
Amber Rose – Fame ft. Wiz Khalifa
If you waited all morning to hear the new Amber Rose single “Fame” you didn’t miss anything. The track is every bit as boring as you thought it would be. Amber’s carousel ride, Wiz Khalifa, jumps on the track with a forgettable verse. The single premiered on Perez Hilton’s blog this morning.
Here’s what the former stripper had to say about her first foray into the world of music:
I’m so excited to release my first song… It’s CRAZY! Working with Wiz is a dream come true; I am fortunate to have his support.
This is a very personal song to me that I wanted to record for my fans. I want people to see the world from my eyes, you know, from BEHIND MY SHADES! It’s my interpretation of what it means to be “FAMOUS,” which is not something superficial but instead being self-confident and happy with who you are.
You can feel famous everyday if you believe in yourself! Source
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