"This is too good to be true, but we think it IS true!!!!Clay Aiken has reportedly knocked up his best gal pal, Jaymes Foster - an LA-based record producer in her 40s who oversaw a few of his album productions.The baby is said to have been conceived via artificial insemination, cuz we all know the Gayken doesn't want to stick his pee pee in a vajayjay.He's much more than just a sperm donor, though!Clay supposedly intends to play an active role in raising the child due in August.Are they going to tell their child that the only sweet music mommy and daddy made were daddy's CDs?" PerezHilton.com
I'VE BEEN REALLY HARD ON THE BIG HOMIE USHER AS OF LATE...BUT HE SURE CAN PUT ON A PERFORMANCE!
FIF BEEF'S WITH HIS BABY MAMA IN PUBLIC!
FIF'S BABY'S MAMAS HOUSE BURNS DOWN
Newsday reports that early Friday morning, a raging fire destroyed 50 Cent’s Dix Hills home.Fire officials said, that 6 people were sent to hospital but there were no serious injuries.Officials would not say whether the fire was suspicious but police confirmed that arson squad investigators were on the scene.Last month, 50 Cent went to court to evict his fromer girlfriend and baby mother, Shaniqua Tompkins, from the Dix Hills home. Tompkins was sharing the house with her and 50 Cent’s son Marquise, her daughter from another relationship, as well as her boyfriend."The fire was huge, I mean huge," next-door neighbor Debra Lotz said. "I watched the whole fire from our pool [area] . . . It burned down to the ground."Neighbor Frank Hoyte said: Shaniqua Tompkins was standing outside on the street. She was barefoot and she was wearing a bathrobe.Hoyte continued that there were five others with her: two young boys, one being Marquise, the 10-year-old son of 50 Cent and Tompkins, as well as two teenaged girls and "an older woman" Hoyte said Tompkins told him that a passerby had banged on her door, told her the house was on fire and everyone needed to leave -- and then disappeared.Second Precinct Lt. Robert Sweeney from the Suffolk County Police said that "passerby" was actually an off-duty Suffolk cop who works in crime scene investigation.The fire broke out at 5 a.m. Firefighters from Dix Hills, Deer Park, Greenlawn, Commack and Melville all responded to the blaze.Fire officials said emergency medical technicians from Commack Ambulance and Huntington Ambulance also responded to the blaze and transported "six civilians" to the Hospital. Sources told Newsday the injuries were all believed to be smoke-related.
STATEMENT ON BEHALF OF 50 CENT ISSUED BY HIS PR FIRM:"Informed this morning while filming a new motion picture on location in Louisiana, Curtis Jackson expressed deep concern over this fire at his property. He is extremely thankful that everyone including his son, Marquis, escaped the burning house safely. He is confident that authorities will be conducting a thorough investigation of the incident and is eager to review their findings."
FIF'S BABY MAMA: HE TRIED TO KILL ME
TMZ just caught up with Shaniqua Tompkins as she got back to her house -- or what's left of it after this morning's big blaze -- and 50 Cent's ex-shawty went OFF!Check out the Video: Shaniqua -- Fiddy Tried to Kill Me!The lawyer for 50 Cent's baby mama, Shaniqua Tompkins, tells TMZ that she heard "someone" come into the house this morning at 4 AM, shortly before the fire broke out around a hour later. Paul Catsandonis, Shaniqua's lawyer, tells us that his client is "traumatized" by the fire and that the kids are similarly in total shock. Six people, including Tompkins and their 10-year-old son Marquise, were in the house. They all were transported to the hospital and treated for smoke inhalation.50 Cent's lawyer Brett Kimmel released the following statement to TMZ:"Any suggestion that Mr. Jackson had anything whatsoever to do with the fire at his home is outrageous and offensive."
Editors Note: I would like to send my regards out to the Jackson family as they go through this situation. Nothin' but love from myself, the show, and the Shadyville DJ family!
Swarovski crystals were seen at the "Pink Carpet" of the "Sex and The City" premiere and after doing a little research, I found that they are becoming the latest trend for common use on the upscale woman....where? On that happy area below the bellybutton and above the nannii! After conversing with a female friend of mine, the notion was denied for the simple basis that I asked if they would be applied with a glue gun. but that's how it goes down...I wonder if the hipster guys that already wear women's jeans and blouse's will make this a part of their manscaping ritual...I'm not really a hipster and a marginal metro guy and I'm even thinking about trying it out....no, that was a lie!
Speaking of ways to decorate the nannii, here's another one! Chicks are also dying their fuzzy spots tiffany blue so and shaving it into a box and topping it with a bow! This is a method of making the box appear to be that of renowned jeweler Tiffany and Co. to let her loved one know that she wants him to propose. Now that is something that won't be found on my mangina!
THE LIL' WAYNE AUDIO... THAT PROFESSES HIS BITCHASSNESS!!
So we covered the whole Lil' Wayne talkin' sh** thing and now there's actual audio to go with it...You know what? this cat really thinks he's somethin' special...I just hope that this kind of thing doesn't rub off on the less known followers of Weezy F. Baby...like for example...the local cats that recently won a regional award. They swear Wayne is god...let's hope they don't follow suit to this point while they're "sippin their drink."
USHER DEFENDS HIS LOVE FOR HIS WIFE...(YAWN!)
Check the video below...I guess this is the new trend when folks start getting older and have to find justification for their newfound artistic musical directions that are for the most part lackluster to the consumer!
This cat is gonna actually break the record next week for the biggest first week sales of the year...So while I haven't quite enjoyed his new joint as much as I wanted to...props on that one famo!
EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! I just don't get why someone would do this!!! does it make sense to breast feed for this long or am I just one of those people who stopped waaaaaaaay too early? This is one of the major talking points tonight!
FOR THE FOLKS THAT SAY:
"I CAN'T DANCE BECAUSE I'M WHITE!"
Charts Ending May 25, 2008: David Vs. David, The Showdown Moves To The Charts
David Cook and David Archuleta take their friendly competition from the set of American Idol to the national pop charts. Cook places a staggering 17 songs on the top 200 Hot Digital Songs chart. His bevy of hits includes the new #1, "Time Of My Life," which opens with a healthy total of 236,000 downloads. Cook's 17 entries have a combined total of 944,000 paid downloads. I don't think he'll need to go back to bartending anytime soon.
Archuleta places 12 songs on the Hot Digital Songs chart, topped by his cover of John Lennon's "Imagine," which opens at #16 with 71,000 downloads. Archie's songs have a combined total of 301,000 paid downloads. Thus, Cook was downloaded more than three times as often as his rival, whom he beat in last week's voting by a much less lopsided margin of 56% to 44%. (If Archie had won the title, would he be dominating the download battle? Probably. America loves a winner.)
Cook's new entries also include "Dream Big" (#7, 111,000 downloads), his cover of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" (#9, 98,000), his cover of Collective Soul's "The World I Know" (#14, 80,000), his cover of Aerosmith's "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" (#21, 60,000), and his cover of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" (#24, 56,000).
Third place finisher Syesha Mercado isn't represented in the top 200, but fourth-place finisher Jason Castro has two entries--his cover of Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah" (#81, 19,000 downloads) and his cover of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" (#102, 16,000).
Fifth place finisher Brooke White opens at #136 with her cover of the Beatles' "Let It Be" (12,000 downloads). Eighth-place finisher Michael Johns bows at #187 with his cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On" (9,000).
Five of the original versions of these songs also receive a spike. Collective Soul's "The World I Know" ranks #67 (23,000), Kamakawiwo'ole's "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" is #133 (12,000), Buckley's "Hallelujah" ranks #139 (12,000), U2's"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" is #148 (11,000) and Lennon's "Imagine" is #175 (10,000).
Several of the guests on the Idol finale, including OneRepublic,George Michael, Bryan Adams and ZZ Top, also surge this week.
This bodes well for the debut albums by Cook and Archuleta. I hereby predict that Cook will get off to a faster start than JordinSparks did in November, when she opened with sales of 119,000. But Sparks has slowly but surely turned her album into a hit. As of this week, it has sold 778,000 copies-which tops the Season 5 winner, Taylor Hicks, whose debut album has sold 702,000 copies.
On this week's album chart, 3 Doors Down lands its second straight #1 as 3 Doors Down debuts in the lead position. The band's previous album, Seventeen Days, achieved the same feat in February 2005. The band's tenure at #1 will, however, be brief. Usher will debut on top next week with his first album in four years, Here I Am. Usher's last album, Confessions, debuted with sales of 1,096,000. If he does even half as well this time, he'll have the biggest opening of 2008. (Hey, no pressure, Usher.)
3 Doors Down is one of those acts whose sales outstrip their fame. The rock quintet from Mississippi has sold 11,609,000 albums since it broke through in 2000. Only two rock acts that have emerged in this decade--Linkin Park (20,199,000) and Nickelback (16,561,000)--have sold more albums. Including acts from all genres, 3 Doors Down is in the top 10 among acts that first hit the album chart in this decade. Nelly heads this list with sales of 20,917,000 albums, followed by Linkin Park, Josh Groban, Rascal Flatts, Nickelback, Norah Jones, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Ludacris and 3 Doors Down.
Avril Lavigne, Coldplay, John Mayer, Keith Urban, Pink, Evanescence and Kelly Clarkson are next in line on the list of top-selling album acts that have broken through since 2000. Just about all of the acts in this cluster of names are more famous than 3 Doors Down, but 3 Doors Down has sold more albums.
The band's 2000 debut album, The Better Life, has sold 5,475,000 copies. But it did it the hard way. The album debuted at #104 and took 28 weeks to reach its #7 peak. The band's 2002 follow-up, Away From The Sun, has sold 3,779,000 copies. It debuted at #8, which is also where it peaked. Even though they didn't reach #1, those albums built the fan base that allowed the group's last two albums to debut in the top spot.
(One of the 3 Doors Down's founding members, Daniel Adair, left the line-up in January 2005 to join Nickelback. Since Nickelback has sold more albums than 3 Doors Down, I guess you could say he traded up.)
Here's the low-down on this week's top 10 albums.
1. 3 Doors Down, 3 Doors Down, 154,000. This total is down from the first-week sales total of the band's last album, Seventeen Days, which opened with sales of 231,000. "It's Not My Time" jumps from #27 to #17 on Hot Digital Songs. "Here Without You" jumps from #193 to #153. A third song, "Train," opens at #191.
2. Bun B, II Trill, 98,000. This new entry is Bun B's first album since the death in December of Chad "Pimp C" Butler, his partner in UGK. That rap duo opened at #1 in August with its fifth album, Underground Kingz-which is what UGK is short for. Bun B's first solo album, Trill, peaked at #6 in November 2005. Bun B's "Damn I'm Cold" bows at #137 on Hot Digital Songs.
3. Julianne Hough, Julianne Hough, 67,000. This new entry is the country singing debut by Hough, a two-time winner on ABC-TV's Dancing With The Stars. Hough's single, "That Song In My Head," bows at #70 on Hot Digital Songs. Hough will be the opening act on Brad Paisley's summer tour.
4. Frank Sinatra, Nothing But The Best, 54,000. The classy retrospective covering Sinatra's two decades on Warner Bros.' Reprise label (1961-1981) slips from #2 to #4 in its second week in the top 10. It overtakes the album that kept it from #1 last week (see #5), but a lot of good that does Frank now. The album features collaborations with Count Basie & His Orchestra, Antonio CarlosJobim and Nancy Sinatra.
5. Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs, 53,000. Last week's #1 album slips to #5 in its second week in the top 10. "I Will Possess Your Heart" falls from #48 to #85 on Hot Digital Songs.
6. Leona Lewis, Spirit, 50,000. Lewis slips a notch to #6 in her seventh week in the top 10. "Bleeding Love" drops from #2 to #5 on Hot Digital Songs.
7. Mariah Carey, E=MC2, 45,000. This slips a notch to #7 in its sixth week in the top 10. It's just 68,000 copies away from becoming the second album to top the 1 million mark in 2008. "Touch My Body" drops from #16 to #38 on Hot Digital Songs. "Bye Bye" falls from #38 to #46.
8. Duffy,Rockferry, 44,000. The Welsh singer's debut slips from #4 to #8 in its second week in the top 10. "Mercy" drops from #13 to #23 on Hot Digital Songs.
9. Madonna, Hard Candy, 39,000. This slips a notch to #9 in its fourth week in the top 10. "4 Minutes," Madonna's smash collabo with Justin Timberlake, drops from #5 to #8 on Hot Digital Songs.
10. Neil Diamond, Home Before Dark, 36,000. This falls from #7 to #10 in its third week in the top 10. It's Diamond's first album to spend more than one week in the top 10 since The Christmas Album spent three weeks there in 1992. It's his best showing by a non-holiday album since Heartlight had four weeks in the winners circle in 1982.
Three albums drop out of the top 10 this week. Jason Mraz'sWe Sing, We Dance, WeSteal Things drops from #3 to #11, Toby Keith's35 Biggest Hits dips from #9 to #13 and Keith Sweat'sJust Me plummets from #10 to #38.
Jesse McCartney'sDeparture opens at #14. This is the 21-year old heartthrob's highest charting album to date. His first two studio albums, Beautiful Soul and Right Where YouWant Me, both peaked at #15. McCartney's single, "Leavin'," dips from #9 to #11 on Hot Digital Songs. "It's Over" vaults from #125 to #77. McCartney is receiving very large checks for co-writing (with Ryan Tedder of OneRepublic) Leona Lewis' international smash, "Bleeding Love."
Donna Summer'sCrayons opens at #17, becoming her highest-charting album since SheWorks Hard For The Money went top 10 in 1983. Summer debuted in 1975 with Love ToLove You Baby, which brought eroticism to mainstream female pop and helped set the stage for Madonna. Summer was, of course, the queen of disco, which proved to be both a blessing and a curse. When disco died, circa 1980, many wrote Summer off, even though her talent transcended just one genre. What people missed back then is that many of her hits, including "Last Dance," "Heaven Knows" and "On The Radio" were deeply moving pop ballads--just set to a dance beat.
Foxboro Hot Tubs'Stop Drop And Roll!!! debuts at #21. The ‘60s-shaded album is a fun side-project by Green Day, which logged three weeks at #1 with its last studio album, American Idiot. (Green Day's sense of humor has been on display from the beginning. In 2001 they came up with a marvelously dry title for their greatest hits set, International Superhits!)
The soundtrack to Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull bows at #39. It's the highest-charting soundtrack in this long-running series, which has been scored by Oscar winner John Williams.The soundtrack to the initial Raiders Of The Lost Ark reached #62 in 1981. Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom hit #42 in 1984. Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade failed to chart in 1989.
Flobots'Fight With Tools vaults from #183 to #15, on the strength of the hit single "Handlebars" (which climbs to #34 on Hot Digital Songs). The album's sales increased by 697%, a greater increase than any other album in the top 200. On the down side, Filter'sAnthems For The Damned drops from #60 to #167 in its second week. The album's sales declined by 64%, the steepest decline of any album in the top 200.
Catalog Report: Time/Life's three-CD set I Can Only Imagine: Ultimate Power Anthems Of TheChristian Faith is #1 on the Catalog Albums chart for the fifth week. It sold 17,000 copies and would have ranked #25 if older, catalog titles were allowed to compete on the big chart.
Police Work: Twenty-five years ago this week, The Police's "Every Breath You Take" entered Billboard's Hot 100. The song topped the chart for eight weeks, longer than any other 1983 single. It brought Sting the Grammy for Song of the Year--the only one of the "Big Three" Grammy Awards (Album, Record and Song of the Year) that MichaelJackson did not win that year. In 1997, Puff Daddy sampled the song for "I'll Be Missing You," his heartfelt tribute to The Notorious B.I.G., who had been killed a few months earlier. The track, which also featured Faith Evans and 112, was #1 for 11 weeks-longer even than The Police's original.
Heads Up: Due next week, in addition to Usher'sHere I Stand, are Al Green'sLay ItDown and the Sex And The City soundtrack. Green's album features duets with Corinne Bailey Rae and John Legend.
R. KELLY'S TRIAL CONTINUES...WITH A TWIST!
Testimony came to an abrupt close today in the R. Kelly trial as the defense was sought out by a man that could possibly discredit the prosecution's key witness.
According to The Chicago Tribune, the unidentified man will fly into Chicago tonight and meet with Kelly's defense team. Cook County Judge Vincent Gaughan said, ""I have no idea what's going on. It might be the impeachment of the [prosecution's] witness."
Defense attorneys denied allegations that this was an attempt to delay the testimony of the prosecution's key witness, a woman who will likely testify she engaged in an under-aged three-way sex act years ago with Kelly and the alleged female on the tape.
Kelly's team said they were called by the mystery witness and they'd need time to meet with him in order to prepare.
Earlier today, Joel Rhea, a former teacher and basketball coach in Oak Park testified he met the alleged victim on the tape in 1997 since she played against his team.
He said the girl was best friends with one of his players and he'd see her at social events. Rhea said he identified the girl by her forehead, "Everyone gave her a hard time because she had a big forehead. We would joke about her forehead, that she had a big forehead."
Yesterday, a former Kelly employee identified both Kelly and the alleged victim as the participants in the tape. Linda Perryman said she recognized the girl because she'd frequent Kelly's studio and even saw her once with an overnight bag.
Kelly faces 14 counts of videotaping, producing or soliciting child pornography. He pled innocent to all charges and if convicted could face up to 15 years in prison.
The trial will continue tomorrow.
Rihanna: I have a good bull detector
Rihanna says she’s become a pro at identifying fake friends. The singer only has a small group of close pals because so many people just want to know her for her fame. ‘I have a good bull detector, so I'm good at figuring out who is real and which people want to be my friend because of what I am versus who I am,’ she explains. ‘I keep good people around me. My best friends are always there for me. They're honest and they keep me in check.’ And Rihanna, 20, says this savviness has helped her stand out from her peers – despite protests from her record label Def Jam.
‘I felt like the whole world had long, curly blonde hair,’ she tells the Daily Record.
‘Ciara, Beyonce, Mariah, Christina Milian. Everybody wanted to be like everybody else.
'So I cut my hair and they [Def Jam] made me put my long hair back in as extensions.
‘The second time, I didn't have any discussions, nothing.
'I just cut it, I dyed it black and I went into the studio making music my way.’
Lil Wayne seemed to be such a DJ friendly artist...just on the strength of the club and radio friendly joints he's known for putting out. But based on reports from Foundation Magazine that's not so much the case...In fact this cat is a hater! A big one! As a matter of fact I wanted to blame it on the purple drink but after thinking a little bit on it...F**** Lil' Wayne. I'll still drop his music on terrestrial radio but never again on a mixtape or on satelite!!! Here's how it went down: So Foundation Magazine was flown down to the ATL to do an interview with Lil Wayne. Being as though we are the only mixtape magazine out that focus of the interview was about Wayne's success with mixtapes. For some unknown reason Wayne decided to snap out saying "I dont know any mixtape DJ's, if you a mixtape DJ f**k you!!!. He then says "F**k Mixtapes, F**k Mixtape DJ's and F**k yall" and threw the magazine at us and then kicked us out of the interview. lol...I'm really not that upset about it...really...it just makes room for some of you up and coming cat's to get up for the down low!
WHAT YOU NEED PIERCE? "I WANT A BIG GUUUURL!!!"
So I'm not sure why some London tabloids are hating on Pierce Brosnan's wifey...I know it's all about looking like you've got an eating disorder for the ladies but I think that if the best damn 007 the world ever saw (in my eyes) wants a honey dip with a body enormous then let the man savor the flavor!!!
...frolicking at the beyach...
HOUSTON TELLS US WHY HE FLIPPED OUT AND EYE GOUGED HIMSELF!
Houston? Remember this cat? That song with Nate Dogg "I Like That" singer/rapper/poetry slammer is back to talk about his eye debacle! Most of you still randomly jam to this song in a dive club unbeknown of the situation so...feel free to get familiar!
HERE'S THE "EYE" OF DISPAIR:
KILL OBAMA?
To each his own on which one of these "winners" that will be chosen to be our next President but since when is it OK to be on a international media outlet and a. Put one of the hopefuls in the same realm as public enemy #1 and b. Make what would be taken as a death threat at any airport?
BOW WOW RETIRES FROM THE GAME...
After entering the rap game at the age of 13 under the tutelage of Jermaine Dupri and Snoop Dogg, Bow Wow has decided to bow out of the Hip Hop game and focus on acting. Over the last several years Bow Wow, whose real name is Shad Gregory Moss, has seen his acting resume increase with roles in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Roll Bounce and the upcoming films Patriots and Driving Lessons.
"After 16 years in the music industry and six successful albums, I've decided to shift my energy to something else I'm passionate about, acting,"Bow Wow tells The Hollywood Reporter. "I'm going to try to be the next Will Smith." Since the rapper-turned-actor is 21, his reference of "16 years" likely includes his 1992 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show at the age of 5.
Prior to his announcing his decision, Bow Wow began recording material for his seventh album, H.I.M. (History In the Making). The album is expected to be released late in 2008, and Bow Wow would not definitively state if it would be his last. In the meantime, Bow Wow will take a recurring role in the upcoming season of HBO's Entourage. Bow Wow will be cast as Charlie, a stand-up comic who is a client of Kevin Connoly's character Eric Murphy.
