Michael Jackson’s Michael: A Track-By-Track Preview.
Whether or not you're happy about it, a new Michael Jackson album is arriving December 14. And while the beleaguered pop superstar died before the project could be completed, a team of producers who Jackson was working with over the past five years helped finish the collection, taking unfinished demos and crafting them into songs for Michael, the first posthumous set from MJ.
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Alicia Keys’ Digital Death Campaign Reaches $1 Million Goal.
It's time to welcome some of your favorite celebrity tweeters back to the land of the living.
Last week, several celebs temporarily signed off their Twitter accounts and Facebook pages to help raise $1 million for Alicia Keys' Keep a Child Alive organization. They proclaimed their own Digital Deaths last Wednesday on World AIDS Day and met their goal Monday (December 6). Some stars began tweeting immediately.
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Young Buck Gets Back On His Grind With New ‘Street Album’.
Young Buck doesn't concern himself with media reports detailing his troubles with the tax man or contractual disputes with G-Unit pitbull 50 Cent. Instead, the Tennessee native deals with his issues in the booth. And on the Drumma Boy-helmed Back on My Buck Sh--, Vol. 2, street-album fans will get some of Buck's most heartfelt rhymes yet.
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Drake, Ne-Yo, Avril Lavigne To Perform For ‘Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’.
Get the streamers and those ridiculous glittery glasses ready. "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2011" is set to ring in the New Year with a star-studded lineup. Hosted by Dick Clark, Ryan Seacrest, Jenny McCarthy and Fergie, the ABC event will feature performances from Drake, Jennifer Hudson, Ne-Yo, Avril Lavigne and Train live from New York and Los Angeles.
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Waka Flocka Flame ‘Feels Good’ About Gold-Certified ‘No Hands’.
2010 has been a banner year for Waka Flocka Flame, not only in the streets, but also on the Billboard charts.
Now, the Atlanta MC's female-flavored anthem "No Hands," featuring Roscoe Dash and Wale, has been certified gold by the RIAA after selling 500,000 copies.
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Teaser For Michael Jackson’s ‘Hold My Hand’ Video Released.
It's hard enough to finish a song by a noted perfectionist such as Michael Jackson after the singer's death, but the challenge of filming a video for the first posthumous single from the most celebrated video maker in music history has got to be even more daunting.
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T.I. Shows ‘No Mercy’ In Video Premiere.
T.I. won't be around this week to celebrate the release of his new album, No Mercy due to his 11-month prison stint on a probation violation, but the King of the South left behind an emotionally gripping clip to tide fans over.
The video for the album's title track opens with a trenchcoat-and-sunglasses-wearing Tip solemnly getting out of his black Ferrari in front of a church while the song's melancholy piano intro plays behind him.
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Rick Ross Praises Keri Hilson’s ‘The Way You Love Me’ Video.
Keri Hilson may have stirred things up with her steamy "The Way You Love Me," but her video co-star, Rick Ross, is giving props to the clip, comparing it to Janet Jackson's "Control."
"When I got the record, I most definitely knew she was going to another level and I was excited for her,".
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50 Cent Calls Michael Jackson Collabo The ‘2010 Version’ Of ‘Thriller’.
In less than two weeks, Michael Jackson's first posthumous album, Michael, will hit stores and include a string of unreleased MJ tracks. The 10-song set includes a collaboration between the iconic performer and 50 Cent.
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Keri Hilson Insists ‘Way You Love Me’ Video Is No Stunt.
In the brand-new video for her head-banging, rock-tinged "The Way You Love Me," Hilson, strapped into a leather bikini, bypasses the R&B book of double entendres as she delivers a jaw-dropping chorus, exhorting her man to "F--- me, f--- me."
Directed by veteran choreographer Laurie Ann Gibson, with a look from Rick Ross, the clip set the Net ablaze after it premiered on a hip-hop site earlier this week. Platinum-blond Keri gyrates, thrusts, licks and gets (way) low as she laces the song with enough saucy language and expletives to make your favorite rapper blush.
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