• Keyshia Cole covers Vibe, her breasts. [C&D]
• Those of you in need of some guidance — in the form of “philosophies and anecdotes” — from Kanye West, the Lord has answered your prayers. [SP]
• Now that he’s out of jail, Genarlow Wilson’s picking up where he left off. By going to college, I mean, not by getting head in a hotel room. []
• How….metro? [Jezebel]
• Looking for someone to blame for the AIDS epidemic in the U.S.? According to a group of scientists, Haiti’s a good place to start. []
Remember all that talk about Nicole Richie making a complete behavioral 180 for her unborn child? Maybe it was more like a 90 degree change.
According to the New York Post’s Cindy Adams, Richie was seen smoking in public not once but twice in the past few days. If Nicole Richie is really smoking-while-pregnant, I’m more shocked that she has the balls to do it in public than the fact that she’s doing it at all.
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UPDATE: It turns out Nicole Richie was in Australia when the Post informant supposedly saw her smoking cigarettes on two occasions in New York City. Cindy Adams owes Nicole Richie a beer. Well, a few sips of one.
Snapshot from Barack Obama’s MTV/Myspace forum yesterday in Iowa, where, according to a recent poll, he’s in a statistical dead heat with Hillary Clinton:
Asked via an IM question if he’d be willing to run on a ticket with Clinton and if he’d bring Republicans into his cabinet, Obama answered the second part first, saying, yes, he would absolutely consider having some Republicans in his Cabinet, noting that “Democrats don’t have a monopoly on wisdom.” As for the Clinton question, Obama said forcefully that it’s too early to say who he might pick as his vice president, but stressed that “I am not running for vice president.” What if the position was offered, Cillizza wondered? “No,” said Obama. “Because, as I said, I’m not running for vice president, I’m running for president of the United States.” Coming more than 20 minutes into the forum, the latter received the first sustained applause of the afternoon.
It’s interesting that John Legend releases a video that kind of looks like every other R&B video ever made for a song called “Another Again.” It goes along with the theme.
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If only I had the power to close the book on the Reality TV aspirations of has-beens, I would. I swear I would. Unfortunately, there seems to be a spot at a network for anyone and everyone who is or was moderately famous. The newest: Coolio & the Gang. Can you guess what it’s about?
Oxygen has greenlighted an unscripted series starring rapper Coolio that will follow his trials and tribulations as he tries to balance his work with his role as a single parent raising six teenagers.
The network has ordered six half-hour episodes of the series, titled “Coolio & the Gang,” set to air in second-quarter 2008. Oxygen will produce with RDF USA, whose reality credits include ABC’s “Wife Swap,” Fox’s “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” and Lifetime’s upcoming “How to Look Good Naked.”
Not to nitpick — I mean, a deal’s a deal, especially when you’re Coolio — but isn’t Oxygen supposed to the a women’s channel? Coolio doesn’t exactly fit right in.
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Dick Cheney’s in hunting-related hot water again. At least with Al Sharpton.
The self-styled racism detective called on the VP to leave his New York gun club because there’s a Confederate flag hanging in the clubhouse.
Okay, I’ll concede that when a club in New York hangs a Confederate flag, it’s probably pretty bad. But isn’t this all sort of in keeping with what we know and hate about Dick Cheney? Let’s not expect too much from him, now. At least he didn’t .
I’m looking forward to a statement from his camp with the classic defense: “Vice President Cheney has black relatives! Of course he would never join a club he knew to be racist.”
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I’m sure all of Rwanda is completely heartbroken that a scheduled visit from Paris Hilton has been canceled. She was going to save lives there. She said it herself.
“I want to travel the world,” she says. “I feel like there’s a lot I can do, and a lot I can do to help. I know [Rwanda] went through a lot of traumatic experiences, and I feel like if I go there, I can help save some people’s lives.”
Fortunately for Rwandans, the trip has been “rescheduled” for 2008. In this case, “rescheduled” might mean “actually never happening, ever,” but maybe I’m just using common sense and not placing enough faith in Paris Hilton.
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Halloween is supposed to be a holiday for the kids, who get to dress up like their favorite Disney characters and troll the neighborhood for sweets. But a lot of adults consider Halloween as a chance to expose the side of you that you keep hidden the other 364 days of the year. Most women use Halloween as an excuse to dress like a total slut and get away with it. But for the completely ignorant and/or racist, Halloween is blackface time. Every year, in the days following Halloween, some frat boy at some college gets in trouble for impersonating a black person. And they never learn!
So I put together a little poll to see what you guys think will be the most popular costume among the blackface set. O.J. Simpson’s an old favorite that I’m sure will be resurrected after his recent legal snafu. The Michael Vick craze has already begun. Jay-Z and Beyonce are the perfect costumes for the most popular couple in school. Plus, if the girl is blond, she doesn’t even have to wear a wig. And the Jena Six and Rutgers basketball team? Those two are only for the truly daring. But I’m sure America’s privileged college boys are up for the challenge.
I’m not sure what it is — I’d hazard a guess that it has something to do with not being attached at the hip to Irv Gotti and Ja Rule — but I have a newfound appreciation for Ashanti all of a sudden. She looks good, she sounds good, and she has seriously weakened her association with The Inc. I like that.
She glammed it up at Denise Rich’s Angel Ball last night along with lots of others. Check out more pics after the jump.
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By all accounts, Kelis’ Milkshake definitely still brings Nas to the yard, but, these days, I think that’s about it. Jive Records just dropped her because, her manager said, she’s misunderstood. Funny, I thought it was just because she wasn’t making any money.
Her manager Jeff Rabhan says, “It was a case of being in the ever-shrinking world of the record industry and finding herself on a label she wasn’t signed to and without a champion. “She’s a different kind of artist - very image and style-driven. It’s either something you get or you don’t.”
I like Kelis and Nas, both as individuals and as a couple. But between Kelis not having a label and Nas’ controversial new album (and possible flop-in-the-making), I’m thinking that pretty soon it won’t be too hard to keep up with the Joneses.
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