Queen Latifah & Common Cover Uptown

The April/May issue of UPTOWN features Common and Queen Latifah as they promote the new movie, Just Wright.

via: Uptown

Drake & Nicki Minaj On XXL Magazine

Is this the 2010 version of Jay-Z and Foxy Brown or Biggie and Lil Kim?

Tyler Perry Why Did I Get Married Too Trailer



Jamie Foxx “Law Abiding Citizen” Trailer

In theathers October 16th.

Lisa Marie Presley Says He Knew

Years ago Michael and I were having a deep conversation about life in general.

I can’t recall the exact subject matter but he may have been questioning me about the circumstances of my Fathers Death.

At some point he paused, he stared at me very intensely and he stated with an almost calm certainty, “I am afraid that I am going to end up like him, the way he did.”

I promptly tried to deter him from the idea, at which point he just shrugged his shoulders and nodded almost matter of fact as if to let me know, he knew what he knew and that was kind of that.

14 years later   I am sitting here watching on the news an ambulance leaves the driveway of his home, the big gates, the crowds outside the gates, the coverage, the crowds outside the hospital, the Cause of death and what may have led up to it and the memory of this conversation hit me, as did the unstoppable tears.

TRANSFORMERS “REVENGE OF THE FALLEN” HIP HOP AUTOBOTS RACIST?

Director Michael Bay’s new sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has been questioned for racism. Autobot twins Skids and Mudflap which are the characters in the picture above have Revenge of the Fallen have critics up in arms, said AP writer Sandy Cohen in Yahoo! News.  “Disguised as compact Chevys, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They’re forced to acknowledge that they can’t read. One has a gold tooth.”

It’s hard to view Mudflap and Skids as anything but racist, said Ty Burr in The Boston Globe. They are “shuck-and-jive Autobots who talk in ridiculous gangsta-speak.” And they’re also  “Jar Jar Binks times two and the first known example of robot blackface,” not to mention “insultingly unfunny comic relief.”

For those of you who’ve seen the film, what are you thoughts on this?

Chris Brown Gets Probation Order To Stay Away From Rihanna

Under terms of the agreement, Brown will serve five years of probation and must serve 180 days in jail or the equivalent — about 1,400 hours — in “labor-oriented service,” said Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office. He must also undergo a year-long domestic-violence counseling class, she said.

Brown, 20, had previously pleaded not guilty to felony counts of assault and making criminal threats in connection with an attack on his girlfriend, Rihanna, also a singer.

But under the plea deal, he pleaded guilty to one count of assault with the intent of doing great bodily injury in connection with the argument inside a rented Lamborghini on a Hollywood street in February.

Rihanna, whose real name is Robyn Rihanna Fenty, made a brief appearance at the hearing — after Brown had left the courtroom — to hear Los Angeles Criminal Court Judge Patricia Schnegg discuss the issuance of a “stay away” order requiring him to stay 100 yards from her. Through her attorney, Rihanna had requested that such an order not be issued.

But Schnegg refused that request, saying she would issue such an order but would revise it to 50 yards — 10 yards if the two are at the same “industry event” together.

Schnegg told Rihanna, who was wearing a black dress with white pearls around her neck, that she would consider lifting the order after Brown completes his domestic violence counseling but advised Rihanna not to contact Brown. Asked whether she understood, Rihanna said she did before leaving the courtroom via a back door.

Source: CNN