While reports are still early, mega rap star Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak is expected to outsell Ludacris‘ Theater of the Mind by close to 300,000 units.

According to industry website HitsDailyDouble.com, Ye’s fourth project should fend off all newcomers and reach No. 1 on next week’s Billboard Top 200 charts. Reports are showing the Grammy winning rapper easily pulling out somewhere between the 450,000 to 500,000 albums sold mark in his first seven days in stores. The new album will be Ye’s first-ever release without a Parental Advisory sticker and aims to offer fans an alternative look by dishing out R&B sounding tracks and a majority of auto-tuned verses.

Whitney Houston isn’t singing “I Will Always Love You” to ex-hubby Bobby Brown.

E! News has confirmed a statement issued by the 45-year-old singer’s publicist that puts to rest rumors of a romantic reunion between the formerly tumultuous lovebirds. Nancy Seltzer called a report in Wednesday’s Chicago Sun-Times “a complete fabrication.”

The article said Whitney and Bobby, who divorced in April 2007, were seen in Georgia enjoying an intimate dinner. Houston and Brown were married 14 years and have a daughter, Bobbi Kristina. During their marriage, allegations of abuse, infidelity, and drug and alcohol arrests plagued the couple. 

Whitney has recently been romantically linked to 27-year-old singer/rapper Ray J. She is expected to release a much-awaited comeback album in the coming weeks. 

We were spending some quality pre-turkey time taking in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, with the Miley and the Snoopy and such, when the Cartoon Network’s float, featuring the demented denizens of Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, rolled into Herald Square…and then got Rick Rolled by the Astley himself.

Now this is better than pumpkin pie.

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL RICK ASTLEY, THE BRITISH ONE (OR TWO) HIT WONDER IN THE ‘80′S…ALL MY 30 AND OVER PARTY PEOPLE REMEMBER HIM, DON’T BE ASHAMED!!

LOOK, I KNOW IT’S NOT HIP-HOP OR HOLLYWOOD, BUT THIS IS AWESOME…SIMPLY AWESOME.

THIS GUY GRADUATED IN 2 1/2 YEARS, A POSSIBLE NFL PICK, AND WANTS TO BECOME A SURGEON AND DO HIS PRACTICE IN IMPOVERISHED COUNTRIES.

IN A WORLD OF PACMAN JONES, T.O., AND CHAD “OCHO-CINCO”, THIS IS REFRESHING AND INSPIRATIONAL. OH, BY THE WAY, THIS IS AFTER 6 OF HIS TEAMMATES WERE SUSPENDED FROM THE TEAM FOR VARIOUS CRIMES OFF THE FIELD.

AS I SAID, SIMPLY AWESOME!

SPEAK ON IT!

Blender Magazine celebrates the year in music with the 33 best albums of 2008.

The list runs the gamut of musical genres, resulting in a pretty inclusive review.

Do U agree?

1. Lil’ Wayne, Tha Carter III
2. Girl Talk, Feed The Animals
3. TV On The Radio, Dear Science
4. Metallica, Death Magnetic
5. Hot Chip, Made In The Dark
6. Robyn, Robyn
7. Of Montreal, Skeletal Lamping
8. Randy Newman, Harps & Angels
9. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
10. Fall Out Boy, Folie A Deux
11. Death Cab For Cutie, Narrow Stairs
12. My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
13. Al Green, Lay It Down
14. Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue
15. Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
16. Be Your Own Pet, Get Awkward
17. Conor Oberst, Conor Oberst
18. Ponytail, Ice Cream Spiritual
19. Katy Perry, One Of The Boys
20. Wale, Mixtape About Nothing
21. Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part I: Fourth World War
22. Coldplay, Viva La Vida
23. The Cool Kids, Bake Sale
24. The Roots, Rising Down
25. Santogold, Santogold
26. Usher, Here I Stand
27. Mariah Carey, E=MC2
28. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Real Emotional Trash
29. Raphael Saadiq, The Way I See It
30. Young Jeezy, The Recession
31. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
32. Taylor Swift, Fearless
33. Hayes Carll, Trouble In Mind

Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges and T-Pain appeared on Saturday Night Live last weekend.  Their sketch (above) mocks Luda’s decision to replace T-Pain with a white rapper named “Blizzard”.  Not really hilarious, but worth a watch…


Luda & T-Pain SNL Skit
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Is Chrihanna our new Power Couple?

Chris Brown racked up 3 American Music Awards last night–beating out vets and #1 chart killas like Lil Wayne, Kanye, Jay-Z, and others. Rihanna beat out people like Mariah, Mary J. Blige for her 2 awards.

 And neither Chris nor Rih Rih is known to have mass rave reviews about their singing or performance abilities. Yeah, Chris does his thing for the Pop N B stage. And Rihanna does her thing–fashion wise–for pretty much the same crowd.

And I’m sure their unsecret secret couple status is doing nothing but propelling them more into the power spotlight. But folks had their panties in a wad that youngins like them could possibly beat out legends in the game.

A lot of folks were pissy that these two won last night. Either they were just really deserving of the sparkly awards, or they won due to the AMAs votes being fan based. We all know 13 year old girls vote their asses off with thier text messages and phones and internet. And grown ass folks like me are not wasting text messages to vote for MJB on a damn awards show.

But maybe that alone means it’s time to crown a new King and Queen of the entertainment world. Even if neither are established actors yet. Maybe it’s the times we live in. Does Celebrity trump well rounded experience and talent?

Speak on it…