King of Comedy Succumbs to Pneumonia

Bernard (Bernie Mac) McCollugh, died early Saturday morning of complications due to pneumonia, the comedian had been hospitalized for about a week at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

A few years ago, Mac disclosed that he suffered from sarcoidosis, disease that causes inflammation in tissue, most often in the lungs.Mac also suffered from sarcoidosis, a rare autoimmune, inflammatory lung disease, but he had said the condition went into remission in 2005. His publicist, Danica Smith, has said the pneumonia was unrelated to the sarcoidosis.

A Soul Icon's Passing

Legendary soul singer, songwriter, musician, actor producer, and every ones favorite cartoon Chef, Isaac Hayes, passed away Sunday afternoon. A relative found Hayes unconscious on the floor near a treadmill inside his home, according to the station's Web site. Hayes was taken to Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, where he was pronounced dead at 2:08 p.m.

Deputies with the Shelby County Sheriff's Department are continuing their investigation into the icons death, but they believe no foul play was involved.

Ironically Hayes recently completed work on a movie called ''Soul Men,'' in which he appears as himself. The film stars Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac.

READING...WRITING...RAPPING!!!

Publisher Simon & Schuster filed separate lawsuits in the New York State Supreme Court Thursday against Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim for not delivering books for which they'd accepted advances. Inga Marchand was paid $75,000 for an autobiography tentatively titled "Broken Silence," and which was due by February 2006. Kimberly Jones signed up in 2003 to write her debut novel by June 2004 and was paid $40,000.

"Both accepted the money and both books never were delivered," stated a spokesperson for the publishing house.

Hmmm....I wouldn't mind reading an "Erotic Noir" novel, from Lil Kim, it might be a good look for her, besides, she has nothing better to do, and she should have finished penning the novel while she was in jail....Foxy on the other hand, the only way I would read her book, was if it were ghost written by Jay-Z!!!

Not trying to be mean, just speaking the truth...and I'm Inga's biggest (and only) fan!!!

Bad Food & Bad Taste In Music....

About a month ago Taco Bell released a letter addressed to 50 in which the company suggested he change his name for a day to "79 Cent," "89 Cent" or "99 Cent" in order to gain promotion for their value menus.

"We know that you adopted the name 50 Cent years ago as a metaphor for change. We at Taco Bell are also huge advocates for change. We encourage you to 'Think Outside the Bun' and hope you accept our offer." A rep stated when contacting Fiddy.

Curtis told them to kick rocks, and Taco Bell, without obtaining 50's authorization made him the star and focus of its nationwide advertising campaign by using his name, persona and trademark to promote Taco Bell's business and products, so now, Mr. Jackson is suing Taco Bell.

Its bad enough they try to pass off that crap as food, now they want us to associate it with lyrics about getting shot? And if they really wanted him to do it, they should've put Vitamin Water on the menu!!!

BITCHFEST 2008!!!

I loved it! 2 successful, wealthy, black women in an all in all battle of insults. I will say this....I have yet to see anyone make Wendy Williams shut up!!! Until Omarosa......

The celebreality star, was a guest on the radio Queen's new talk show to promote her new book. "The Bitch Switch". During the interview Wendy basically gave an instant thumbs down to Omarosa's book, saying her ways may not be for everyone, and making fun of Omarosa's plastic surgery.

Wendy, did you attend the "Tyra Banks School of Talk Show Hosting & Wig Wearing" Live TV, is a little bit different from being a shock jock...let the guest speak, and personal jabs aren't always necessary. What did you expect to happen when you backed Omarosa into the corner, talking about her silicone job? Of course she came out swinging, and told the truth, you will talk shit later on your radio show about the guests on from the talk show...nevertheless this was all probably one big publicity stunt and the two are enjoying a nice brunch in a spa together as we speak on it. Whatever it was it worked. Good Job Ladies!!!

Check it out for yourself: http://youtube.com/?v=Wndi5YKMVRM

RE-RE COMMENT OF THE WEEK...

"I really love Amy Winehouse. I wanna record with her one day — hell yeah. To be in the studio recording with her would be an amazing experience. And I would do whatever drugs she was doing that day"

Negro Please...Don't try and use the British troublesome crooner, as an excuse. Make up your mind, 1st you wanted to quit the rap game for fatherhood (not a bad idea) and now you want to smoke crack with Amy just to get her whack ass on a track? Keep it up you will be out of the Westside Connection, as quickly as you were brought in... faster than you can say....WC!

I'm telling Cube!!!

Enough Foreplay, Dre!!!

This week "The Doctor" revealed to the world that the long awaited CD could drop this year, nevermind the fact that he said this 4 years ago, this week Dre has this to say...

"I'm just now — over the last couple of months — starting to feel that it's going to be right and it's something I can be proud of, and everybody is going to love it," Dr. Dre told USA Today. "In a perfect world, I'm shooting for a November or December release." The "Who's Who's" of Hip Hop will be on the longest anticipated CD ever....Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Nas, 50 Cent, Snoop and many more are on the potential masterpiece.

At this rate, by the time Detox hit stores, my 6 old daughter will be old enough to listen to it, and I'll be old and into jazz....

Seriously Dre...GET OFF THE BENCH...THE WEST NEEDS YOU!!!

My Boyfriend's Back!

In the fall, Bow Wow is joining yet another family: HBO's "Entourage" crew. "I'm playing a character named Charlie who is an up-and-coming comedian, which is different for me, because I'm not really a comedian. But I can be a clown when I want to," he said. "I'm actually E's new client, and I signed on to their agency. I'm having fun this year. A lot of opportunities are being thrown my way."

Honestly, I think his music making days should be nearing an end, and Lil Shad would be much more successful as an actor, it's quite rare that a celebrity plays a roll, other than themselves on the hottest show HBO's has to offer, so this is a step up for Bow Wow...can't wait to see it!

From G's To Gents..The Recap

From the producers of Charm School, and Executive Producer Jamie Foxx, MTV has blessed us with another reality show, this time teaching the guys a thing or two with Fonzworth Bentley heading the lessons.

By the way this was my idea, however I suggested using the guys from I Love New York, with Billie Dee Williams being the HNIC...Jamie where is my check???...oh well..I digress.

14 hood figures, wanting to change their lives for the better, aspire to become gentleman and win the $100,000 cash prize to the last G standing, is reason enough for me to watch. Not to mention E6 looks really nice in my bedroom...I mean on the TV in my bedroom, sorry I lost focus for a minute.

Ahem...the first challenge, was to meet Mr. Bentley for a 1 on 1, now this shouldn't have actually been a challenge, but the guys were left to an open bar for about 20 minutes beforehand and well....as you can imagine... Pretty Ricky took a leak out of doors which is not very gentleman like, and others proceeded to mark their territories with words. E6 and The Truth, blessed the house with the first argument of the season, from there Frederick the Butler (a cheap knock off of Geoffrey from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air) gathered the men into the study, where they were presented with navy cashmere blazers as uniforms, and ebony spheres, to be used as voting tools and "black ball" a fellow G, therefore denying his membership into the exclusive club and said roughneck is excluded from the house and kicked off the show.

To no one's surprise the first two that were cast away were Pretty Ricky and The Truth causing them to hang their blazers on the door on the way out.

Keep watching as the guys learn how to tie, ties, play cricket, the art of chivalry and etiquette lessons from Hip Hop's #1 metro-sexual.

Bet's anyone??? My money is on Shotta...

PS...check out Creepa's in his "Hater Blockers"...love that term! I'm using that one for the rest of the summer.

THE 2008 ESPY AWARDS RECAP

First off, I am by no means, a sports inclined girl...if Allen Iverson is not playing, I'm not watching...quite honestly I didn't even know what channel ESPN was on my TV! However I asked a guy friend and (after an irritated sigh, and a you are such a bimbo stare) I turned to 35 and managed to sit through enough, to give you the truth!

Hef, signed a permission slip to let Kendra Wilkinson out of the Bunny Cave/Compound to host the red carpet, with the agreement being, she can find a rich and young athelete, she could play trophy wife to. Annoying laugh aside she did an alright job on the red carpet.

Justin Timberlake, hosted the event with giving a Broadway-like musical number, making fun of everyone from himself, to Jessica Simpson, recapping this year in sports follies. All the while taking jabs at David Beckham, sniffing his shoe and commenting "Yep, smells like $250 million to me!"

JT even managed to make Mrs. Beckham, the robotic fashionista, Posh laugh, which was a feat in itself.

The most enjoyable portion of the evening for me, was witnessing Samuel L. Jackson present Tommie Smith and John Carlos with the Ashe award, for thier stance in the 1968 Olympic Games at Mexico City. The two put up the Black Power salute while receiving their medals, causing Smith and Carlos a suspension from the U.S. team and were banned from the Olympic Village. Those who opposed the protest said the actions disgraced all Americans, supporters, on the other hand, praised the men for their bravery and 40 years later, they received praise from the sports world.

If you really need update of the winners...here you go:

Best Male Athlete: Tiger Woods

Best Baseball Player: Alex Rodriguez

Best NBA Player: Kobe Bryant

Best WNBA Player: Lauren Jackson

Best NFL Player: Tom Brady

Best Fighter: Floyd Mayweather

Best Team: Boston Celtics

Best Game: New York Giants over New England Patriots at the Super Bowl•

Best Championship Performance: Tiger Woods, 2008 U.S. Open

Best Play: New York Giants Eli Manning’s pass to David Tyree at the Super Bowl

Best Upset: New York Giants over New England Patriots at the Super Bowl

All of that and I still didn't see AI in the audience-Damn!

Out & About...

While originally sentenced to 30 days behind bars for violating probabtion on a DUI charge, the reality star, like so many before her, has been released early from Lynwood's Century Regional Detention Center after serving just four hours and 37 minutes.

Maybe the E! Network pulled some strings???

The Baby Actually Looks Black....

Halle & her baby girl, Nahla Ariela Aubry, seen in public for the first time since her birth 4 months ago.

Awwww.....

Gold Digging, Baby Machine Lands A Reality Show

The Lifetime Network, has decided to try their hand at celebreality with a show about the most jilted Baby Momma ever, Kim Porter. Cameras will follow Porter, and the brood around as she adjusts to a new life in Los Angeles as a single mom.

Too bad this isn't on MTV or Diddy would be the Executive Producer. If she has any sense, she should stick to what she knows and try to have a baby with Mr. Underwood (Blair that is, he is behind the project) , and forget all this reality show nonsense.

Not trying to be mean, just speaking the truth!!!

Shhh...This Is Not Soul Plane!

On a New York to L.A. flight earlier this week, with daughter Bobbi Kristina the mother-daughter duo gave an impromptu and unsolicited concert to passengers on the aircraft.

“Whitney and Bobbi Christina are singing the new Ne-Yo song,” a passenger emailed from the plane “I am dieing!”

Excuse me Flight Attendant-Is there a button you can press to make a cracked out, diva singer, and her New Edition spawn, shut the "F" up?

DMC in Surgery

Darryl McDaniels, a.k.a. DMC of the group Run-DMC, was hospitalized in New Jersey on Wednesday after suffering from pain and swelling in his left arm.

“Doctors discovered two major blood clots, and he is undergoing surgery today,” publicist Tracy Miller told MTV News. “They are very glad they caught it early. Doctors have chosen to remove the clots, as opposed to dissolving, to ensure a better recovery.

Something Else From Robin Thicke

If you slept on his first CD, you need to get it now, and catch up, so you will be ready for the next installment, Something Else, due in September.

More of the blue-eyed soul that Thicke has perfected in the last few years and is oozing with the candlelight and wine vibe that permeated his platinum CD The Evolution of Robin Thicke. While most of the album is mellow, there are a few more uptempo cuts this time around, including the title track, According to Billboard it will feature no guest appearances and combine Motown and disco with "the creativity of the Beatles and Bob Dylan." The first single "Magic" is already playing on radio around the world. Other tracks featured on the record include "Side Step" and "Dream World".

This will probably be the only CD in my collection that is NOT a bootleg....

Not trying to put myself on blast, just speaking the truth!

Why Is This Show Still On The Air???

"The View" co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck was in tears Thursday after a discussion about the use of the n-word, in which fellow co-host Whoopi Goldberg told her the two "don't live in the same world." During a segment covering Jesse Jackson's recent use of the n-word while preparing to tape an interview on FOX News, Whoopi and co-host Sherri Shepard, contested that the word has a different meaning for black people.

Will The View ever be cancelled? Can someone give just Whoopi her own late night talk show??? I want to see an African American woman hosting a late night talk show, with a topless all male band!

New York Loves Hollywood

Tiffany (New York) Pollard will be back with a third season of her VH1 reality show, this time sharing the bill with her "Tailor Made" for TV, boyfriend George (Tailor Made) Weisgerber.

This season is going to be called 'New York Loves Hollywood' and will follow her attempt to become an actress in Los Angeles.

VH1's top money maker, claims she has stopped smoking, has a personal trainer and a life coach (Oh I thought that was Sister Patterson's job?)

Hmmm...so she is trying to make the switch from reality star, to a serious actress...however, this is yet another reality show??? Not sure how that will work..wait...yes I am...Tailor Made will get dumped in the first 3 episodes and she will make unmemorable guest appearances in forgettable shows, playing herself no doubt, while cameras follow her around to acting classes and auditions for pilots that will never air.


Sorry for the spoilers!

Not trying to be mean, just don't want you to waste your time!

NC+MC= PG13 LOVE

Question-What are Minnie & Mickey thinking behind those masks?

Answer- I hope they don't invite us up to their room!