HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Hey kids!

News Flash: Even bloggers need breaks! This week I'm enjoying my born day as well as the holiday, so posts will be scarse and added at my (in no particular rush) disposal....sorry. LOL. Bear with me. Besides, you all should be out soakin up some sun and sippin on a cool cocktail anyway instead o being on the net anyway! but, if you're a blog addict and can't possibly go one day without surfing the net...check out the blogs in Hottest Blogs column.

Have a blessed Independence Day!
~Kisses~

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Happy Birthday Pussy Cat

Lead singer of PCD, Nicole "I Always Pronounce Her Name Wrong" Scherzinger celebrated the big 3-0 this weekend. Wonder if her gal pal Ne-Yo was there?

Hit up Street Anthem to find out.

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Nu Music....Treats For Summer

Montell Jordan Ft. Cignature - Not No More



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The Teddy Bear Takes A Wife

Former American Idol Winner, Ruben Studdard married his girlfiend Surata Zuri McCants at a church in his hometown (and my birthplace) of Birmingham, Alabama. Guesta say it was a quick 30-minute ceremony with just an exchange of vows, prayers and music provided by a string ensemble. Nope, Big Rube didn't even buss a verse. Congrats! More After the Jump!

The Ugly Side of Fashion

Ruslana Korshunova, 20, whose face has graced the cover of French Elle and Russian Vogue, jumped to her death from her ninth-floor apartment in her Water Street building in the Financial District just before 2:30 p.m.
"I heard what sounded like a gunshot or a bomb or an explosion," said a stunned Con Ed worker who was on the street below at the time of her suicide. "Her arms were crushed," Patrick said. "Her head was on the left side and blood was coming out in a
pool."
The 5-foot-8 head-bombshell has been featured in ads for DKNY, Vera Wang and Christian Dior among others and was hailed as "the next big thing" in a profile in Vogue three years ago.


--This is so disheartening. Ruslana's friends all say that she showed no signs of being depressed or suicidal. She ill truly be missed. If you are considering suicide or suspect a loved one may be please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. It is a 24-hour, toll-free suicide prevention service available to anyone in suicidal crisis.

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A Skater and A Scholar?

Lupe Fiasco has an opinionated view on political policies?...Who knew he was that deep? Apparently The Style Master! More After the Jump!

America's Most Lucrative Profession...

The Celebrity Baby Mama

I hate to say it kids, but the illest come up of the past decade is be a celebrity baby mama. Little girls start getting your hair and nails done and get your p-poppin game together, because it's a damn rat race out here. You gotta get in the game early. Russ spotted Kimora when she was 14 and bagged before she turned 20. Now that broad is about to clock about a half-a-millie a year
for the two RussMora's, Aoki & Ming. Stop by You Betta Recognize for the run down.

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SOHH You Thought You Were Safe...Think Again

Dominant hip hop sites Sohh.com, All Hip Hop, Dat Piff and World Star Hip Hop were all recently hacked by a group of racist spammers.



---Side note: We couldn't make this ish up if we tried! Check out Yo Daily Dose for the scoop. More After the Jump!

Stylin On You

Bebe's straight killing the red carpet! Check out Lolo's Cube



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On C.P. Time...Sorry

Hey Folks,

Yeah Yeah, I'm off to another late Monday "morning" start. Gimme a break, the girl had a lonnnnnngggg weekend. LOL. The details are kind of a blur, but I must take the time out to thank a few people.

Firstly, thanks to all of the linen-clad partygoers who came out to support the 6th Annual Damone Brown B-day Bash up in Buffalo, NY this Saturday. The night was incredible! Another great Get Fresh Production event. And special thanks to the staff at The Stillwater, "Buffalo Best Upscale Bar"...you guys were awesome! Ans of course D.T. and the Late Nite Noise fam. If you live in upstate NY and you missed it keep kicking yourself. LOL.

Secondly, I have to give a special shout out to all of my Universoul Circus fam! Yes, believe it or not before the chick was a blogger, she was an elephant-riding showgirl! I got a chance to catch the new show last night and it was amazing! Shout out to Mr. & Mrs. Walker, Deneise, Econuel amd the whole gang. Keep it up! I miss those days of starting every morning hearing Shuckey Duckey yelling "When I say "Big Top" ya'll say "Circus!" LOL. Good times.

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It Girl

Over at Single in L.A., Haute poses the question "Is Lauren London the black Angelina?"-aka-the new industry "it" girl. I don't know about all that, but L.L. is definitely my "I'm the sh*t girl!" Check her out. More After the Jump!

Run That Badge

Because of his blatent misuse of the n-bomb in his whack ass Kobe "rap," Shaq may be getting his badge revoked. Last January, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio made Shaq a special deputy, and then promoted him to a ceremonious colonel earlier this month. "I want his two badges back," Arpaio told the AP, "Because if any one of my deputies did something like this, they're fired. I don't condone this type of racial conduct." More After the Jump!

Two Sides To Every Story

Affat Fadel, the first suspeact accused of robbing and beating Oakland Raiders receiver Javon Walker told a judge Wednesday that police pressured his girlfriend to press domestic violence charges against him before he was arrested in the Walker case.
"My fiance, she was forced by the police, because of the other matter, to go forward with these accusations," Arfat Fadel said as he appeared by videoconference before Las Vegas justice of the peace Eugene Martin.

The judge also refused Fadel's request to reduce his $13,000 bail in that case and set a preliminary hearing for July 9 on felony kidnapping, coercion and misdemeanor domestic violence battery charges. Fadel remained jailed at the Clark County Detention Center. Fadel also faces multiple felonies, including kidnapping, robbery, battery and conspiracy in the June 16 robbery and beating that left the 29-year-old Walker unconscious on a side street off the Las Vegas Strip. Lt. Clinton Nichols said Walker spent several hours club-hopping late June 15 and early June 16 before "willingly" getting into Fadel's black Range Rover with Fadel and the other alleged assailant. "The suspects knew who Mr. Walker was. He did not know who they were," Nichols said Tuesday, and added that Walker "probably had a little too much to drink."

Fadel actually moved to my hometown of Buffalo, N.Y. a couple of months ago to take care of his daughter.

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A Web Surfing We Will Go...

Lolo's Cube has the run-down on the hottest looks on the BET Awards red carpet

2 Pistols and Dolla trade fisticuffs backstage and Street Anthem has the scoop

According to The Style Master, J-Hud is trying to upgrade her swag

Poor Haute! That girl had one of the worst first date convos, I've EVER heard

T.D. Jakes gives away his 20-year-old daughter's hand in marriage You Betta Recognize

Check out the behind the scenes footage of DJ Khaled's "Out Here Grindin" Yo Daily Dose
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Cracking Down On Child Slavery

Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution. The Justice Department says it targeted 16 cities as part of its "Operation Cross Country" that caps off five years of similar stings nationwide.

In all, authorities arrested 345 people — including 290 adult prostitutes — during the operation that ended this week. Since 2003, 308 pimps and hookers have been convicted in state and federal courts of forcing youngsters into prostitution, and 433 child victims have been rescued, Mueller said. The cities targeted in this week's sting are: Atlanta; Boston; Dallas; Detroit; Houston; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Miami; Montgomery County, Md.; Oakland, Calif.; Phoenix; Reno, Nev.; Sacramento, Calif.; Tampa; Toledo, Ohio and Washington.

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Another Case of Little Boys Gettin Lucky...I Guess

A teacher has been accused of having sex with eight members of a school baseball team.
Julie Pritchett began a relationship with a 15-year-old boy in February. The 34-year-old married teacher later approached other members of the team for sex. The incidents allegedly took place both on school premises and at the boys' homes while their parents were out.

She was discovered when one of the 15-year-old boys at the school, in the town of Trussville, Alabama, told his parents. They alerted the police. Pritchett, who taught at Clay-Chalkville Middle School, has been charged with two counts of sodomy and one count of sexual
abuse. Some of the boys involved are over the age of consent and are not co-operating with police. She faces 20 years in jail if convicted of the sex abuse offences.

--Despite the title of this post, I don't take the topic of child predators lightly at all. And be clear she is a freakin child predator. We need to stop taking this situations for granted when the victims are boys as opposed to girls. These monsters are everywhere, in our schools, neighborhoods and churches and they should be prosecuted to the FULL extent of the law!

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We're Not Even Safe In Our Own Homes

An ex-convict was found guilty Tuesday in the rape and torture of a Columbia University graduate student who survived 19 hours of torture in which he scalded her with boiling water and attempted to blind her before trying to burn her to death.

Robert Williams was convicted of attempted murder, rape, kidnapping, arson and other charges in the attack, which was so prolonged and agonizing that the victim begged her tormentor to kill her and later tried to kill herself. The verdict followed a gruesome trial that included dramatic testimony from the victim, who said the 31-year-old Williams made her swallow fistfuls of painkillers, ordered her to gouge out her eyes with scissors, sealed her lips with super glue and gagged her with duct tape before torching her apartment.

Williams, who previously served eight years in prison for attempted murder, could get a life sentence at a hearing set for July 24. The evidence against Williams included DNA from the victim found on a shirt he was wearing when he was arrested and DNA from him on one of the woman's T-shirts. The victim also identified him in court. The woman told teary jurors Williams repeatedly raped and sodomized her, scalded her with boiling water, threw bleach at her eyes in an attempt to blind her and slit her eyelids during the excruciating torture in her upper Manhattan apartment. Tied up and left unconscious to die in a fire her attacker set in her apartment, the woman woke up and used the flames to burn through some of her restraints and escape.

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When All Else Fails...Blame It On The Guard

Shaquille O'Neal took up 2 minutes of my life that I'll never be able to get back by spitting the CORNIEST freestyle of all time! If you thought Shaq Fu was bad...you ain't seen sh*t!

Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot! Who authorized this blatenet display of talentless f*ckery?

But, the question remains...how in the hell did Shaq get a room full of people (in NYC no less) to keep repeating "Kobe tell me how my ass tastes?"

**Falls down dead**....**resucitates self**

After a few more whack lines about Kobe losing in the NBA playoffs, Shaq drops the line, "I'm a horse, Kobe ratted me out, that's why I'm getting divorced."...What? No, son if Superhead couldn't ruin your marriage Kobe damn sure can't!

Click Here To See Vid on TMZ.com

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You Ain't Got Ta Lie Craig...You Ain't Got Ta Lie

Police are now charging Arfat Fadel with the robbery and assault of Oakland Raider's receiver Javon Walker. Javon initially said three men came to his room at the Bellagio
hotel, knocked him over the head, dragged him out of the hotel and robbed him -- and then left him on a Vegas street. But all of America knows that is a damn lie! Surveillance videos show Walker voluntarily walking out of the hotel and getting into Fadel's car. Javon it's time to keep it real. Give the dude a break. We all know at least one nigga who got his butt whooped and made up some outlandish story to save face later on.

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Dubbin For a Good Cause

The National Alliance Foundation, a non-profit network committed to promoting peace and harmony while raising funds and awareness for cancer, announced today plans for the First Annual Reggae Summer Fest For Cancer Research reggae show. The inaugural concert will bring top-flight reggae and entertainment to RFK Stadium, home of Major League Soccer's D.C. United team.

Reggae Summer Fest For Cancer Research, as it is billed, hopes to attract West Indians, reggae music lovers and people who have an affinity for Caribbean culture to the DC
area on Sunday, September 7. Part proceeds from the event will benefit the Jamaica Cancer Society.



Headlining the show will be international reggae crooner Beres Hammond, best known for such hits as 'Putting Up Resistance,' What one dance can do' and countless other chart-toppers. Other acts include Ky-Mani Marley, I-Wayne, Turbulence, Chuck Fender, Prestige, Etana, and Fire Star. There will also be a local flavor as well, as area bands-including STORM, The I-Ternals, Strykers Posse, New Kingston Band, Passion Band, Image Band, and Yawd Lynk-will provide their own familiar sound to this event.

For more information, go to http://www.reggaesummerfest.net/

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For The Gamers

Silversoft Technologies Ltd. recently launched Vigster , a new social network for video gamers.
The new release incorporates several new functionalities along with updates to the first release based on the feedbacks received from the early beta users.

Vigster is a social network for video games where users can connect with friends, create virtual game shelves to show off their games, discover new and exciting video and computer games, rate and review games, create and play video game quizzes, voice their opinions, have their say, comment on games, share games, share gaming experiences, buy video games, explore games and much more.


--This is my little brother's favorite new site. It's like Facebook for video game addicts! More After the Jump!

Next Up in a Long Line of F*ckery Nuptuals

Rick Ross and Foxy Brown are supposedly ready to take the next step.

The latest issue of Hip Hop weekly, alleges that Foxy has vacated her northern New Jersey home to live with the recent rap superstar in his Miami mansion. The highlight of the "exclusive report" is speculation that the couple will announce their secret engagement to the public during the BET Awards. **Yawwwwn**

---Clearly, I posted this for the folks who care, because I AM NOT one of them! I can just see it now, all the bridesmaids will be rockin county issued jumpsuits, and the flower girls will be laced in the illest Princess jeans designed by Trina. The bouquet will be made of dandelions and Rick's freshly plucked pubies and the whole shit will be sponsored by Rocawear! No thanks!


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The 213 Can't Stay Away From 5-0

Less than a month after 213 partner Warren G was arrested, then subsequently released for drug possession Nate Dogg was also stopped and apprehended by California Highway Patrol officers last evening. The traffic stop and subsequent arrest occurred after Nate's girlfriend made an emergency call to 911, according to TMZ.com, citing that the platinum rapper was following and threatening her life. After officers interviewed both parties on site, Nate Dogg,
born Nathaniel Hale was arrested for making terrorist threats on his spouse. Earlier this year, Nate Dogg suffered a stroke, a medical condition he only recently recovered from. In March, the
rapper plead guilty to a domestic violence charge, something that may gravely affect the terms of this arrest.


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Justice is Finally Being Served

Two arrests have been made in the murder of Philant Johnson, a childhood friend and personal
assistant of rapper T.I.

Brothers Hosea Thomas, 34, and Padron Thomas, 40, were charged with murder and
felonious assault for the death of Johnson, 26, and injuring three others. Johnson was murdered on May 3, 2006 in a shooting just hours after a performance by T.I. and Yung Joc at Bogart's nightclub. After the show, T.I. and his entourage headed to the Ritz nightclub for an after party, where an altercation with the shooters forced the rapper and his crew to leave.Witnesses said four men followed T.I.'s two vans, then pulled up next to the vehicles and fired, killing Johnson and injuring three others."T.I. and his group were in the VIP area," said Detective Tim Gormly said. "The suspects wanted to get in the VIP area and
weren't allowed to."

Hosea Thomas has a criminal history including drug possession and trafficking convictions. Padron Thomas is a listed sex offender and has been convicted of robbery and rape. He is currently being held in custody of the U.S. Marshals Service for an
unrelated drug case.Each brother was charged with murder and seven counts of felonious assault.

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Trying To Keep A Sista Down

ESPN’s Page 2 writer Jemele Hill has been suspended from her post after referencing Adolf Hitler in an article about the NBA champion Boston Celtics and the Detroit Pistons.

In a recent editorial describing why she couldn’t root for the Celtics, Hill—a lifelong Pistons fan—wrote:
"Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It's like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan."Deserving or not, I still hate the Celtics."

Her Hitler remark received a flurry of angry comments from site readers and that portion of the editorial was taken out shortly after the column was published, but the damage had already been done.

--Even tho it obviously wasn't the best choice of words (and not all that clever), this is America people! If Imus and Dog Chapman are still cashing checks, then so should Jemele! Let her issue a public apology and move the hell on! More After the Jump!