Keyshia Cole – Just Like You

The smoother, less aggressive tone of this album suggests that maybe Cole has vented enough—but we beg to differ. It’s hard to find flaw with tracks like “I Remember,” a slow, gentle track constructed with strings and guitar arpeggios, but it does take its sweet time getting to the point and sounds rather like a [...]

Mary J. Blige – Growing Pains

“I’m talkin’ ’bout things I know,” Mary J. Blige wails on “Work That,” the second single and opening track of Growing Pains. The album squeaked into 2007 too late to make best-of lists but otherwise would have stormed its way up several, for sure. She needn’t have hit us with such a pronouncement: In 16 [...]

Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III

Lil Wayne put out enough material in 2007 to inspire a Vibe magazine list of the 77 best Lil Wayne songs of that year alone. That level of output is the primary reason behind Tha Carter III’s bumpy ride. The albums opens well with the appropriately boastful “3 Peat,” followed by the symbolic torch-passing of [...]

Alicia Keys – As I AM

By the time this long-awaited album saw its release date, most fans had probably read at least a couple of interviews with Alicia Keys in which she explained that first single, “No One”–a firestorm of a song clearly born of a sore heart and steeped in serious soul-searching, was about her decision to retreat from [...]

Kanye West 808s and Heartbreak turns personal

I guess Kanye’s new album “808s and Heartbreak” is his own personal album since he’s singing on it. It was a surprise to everyone when he announced that he will try singing this time around and we all know that he tried it once at a concert and he didn’t work out.
But wait…there’s more. He [...]

Jennifer Hudson’s family murdered

The Chicago Southside just claimed another victim today. Another senseless killing, another life taken and another family destroyed.
Hudson’s fifty-seven year old mother, Darnell, and twenty-nine year old brother, Jason, were found murdered inside Darnell’s home in Chicago, Illinois. The victims were reportedly shot to death before 3 p.m. They were discovered by a family cousin. [...]

Lyfe Jennings behind bars once again

Lyfe Jennings used to be a talented artist until he joined the rank of the reckless and those needing attention so badly that they can’t seem to stay out of trouble. Now he is facing felony charges after firing a gun and leading police on a car chase in Georgia over the weekend.
Lyfe started his [...]

Wyclef Jean receives Birthday wishes in Haiti

Every kid in Haiti wants to be like Wyclef. Wyclef is the most famous Haitian that have left and became famous here in the US. Wyclef is best know for his part in one of the best Hip Hop group around the Fugees with Lauren Hill. They came out on Oct 17th to celebrate his birthday.
Wyclef is a [...]

Janet Jackson is back on tour after illness

Rumors were flying on the web about Miss Jackson cancelling her tour because of low ticket sales. It was also rumored that it was because of over drinking and drugs and perhaps she was pregnant. Apparently they were not true. Janet was suffering from Vertigo and serious migraine.
She is back in full force and looks [...]

Rapper NAS titled his CD the “N” word

We have just been taken back 50 years folks just because of an irresponsible industry filled with greed and a lack of common sense.
 
Why would black executive allow an artist to label their work “NIGGER”? When asked about the title, here is NAS response.
 
“I wanna make the word easy on mutha—-as’ ears,” he explained. “You [...]

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