Just wondering…. I remember it being debated but did we ever come up with a verdict? She’s had some GREAT albums to her credit. Here’s her performance of “Shine” last week…

It’s a nice song and Ashanti looked stunning!

Beyonce  grew up rich and better than you!

The Single Ladies singer has raised some eyebrows and angered many with a rather, uhm, interesting new interview in the December issue of Elle magazine.

She says:

“I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”

Ouch. Burn!

We thought musicians weren’t supposed to talk smack about other musicians???? Especially about their parents.

Looks like Beyonce doesn’t only have a big ass, she’s got a big head too!!!!

During the interview, even Momma Tina Knowles speaks out about their family. She says that one day dadager Mathew Knowles took Beyonce, her sis Solange, and some friends to the Bottoms, “a rough section of Houston.”

Tina reveals, “He had my kids talking to the homeless people there. I told him, ‘Mathew, that could have been dangerous.’ He said, ‘I want them to feel their songs, not just sing them.’ ”

What kind of ish talk is this?????

They must have all been smoking some crazy ish that day!

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Now Prince knows damn well he doesn’t even know what’s going on in the Lakers/Celtics game in LA.  Ok, maybe he does.  He IS wearing his clear platform sneakres afterall.  He’s got a HOT babe on his arm. And his perm is RIGHT so I can’t even hate on Mr. Purple Rain.  Get it Prince.

I can’t believe this man is 50 YEARS OLD!

George Francis, the nation’s oldest man, who lived through both world wars, man’s first walk on the moon and the election of the first black president, has died. He was 112.

Francis died Saturday of congestive heart failure at a nursing home in Sacramento, his son, Anthony Francis, said Sunday.

“He lived four years in the 19th century, 100 years in the 20th century, and 8 years in the 21st century. We call him the man of three centuries,” said the younger Francis, 81.

UCLA gerontologist Dr. Stephen Coles, who maintains a list of the world’s oldest people, said Francis lived 112 years and 204 days.

With Francis’ death, Walter Breuning of Montana, who is 112 years, 98 days old, becomes the country’s oldest living man. At 114, Gertrude Baines of Los Angeles is the nation’s oldest living person. The world’s oldest person is Maria de Jesus of Portugal, who is 115 years, 109 days old, and the oldest man is Tomoji Tanabe of Japan, who is 113 years, 101 days, Coles said.

Francis, who at his prime barely weighed more than 100 pounds, was born June 6, 1896, in New Orleans. As an African-American in the South, he felt the sting of the Jim Crow-era segregation laws in his early life.

His son said Francis tried to enlist in the U.S. Army during World War I but was turned down because of his stature.

“We always attributed his longevity to his mental and physical toughness,” Anthony Francis said.

George Francis quit school after the sixth grade, became an amateur boxer as a young man and later worked as a chauffeur, an auto mechanic and a barber.

He and his wife, Josephine Johnson Francis, had a son and three daughters. Josephine Francis died of cancer in 1964.

Even in his waning days, Francis never lost his passion for politics, his family said. He voted for Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s and for Barack Obama in 2008.

In an interview with The Associated Press after Obama’s victory, Francis, who used a wheelchair, said he felt like jumping up and down.

“He is going to give black men a break in the world, and give them a better opportunity to live and make more money,” he said. “For people who say voting doesn’t matter, I think that’s crazy.”

Anthony Francis said his father was devoted to his family and that he attributed his longevity to them.

“He said `My children and my friends, I live off of them,’” he said.

Besides his four children, Francis is survived by 18 grandchildren, 33 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great grandchildren.

I’m tired of hearing from people saying “Sacramento’s nothing, there’s no talent, there’s no nightlife…blah, blah, blah.”
 

He wore down Hillary Clinton and wiped out John McCain, so we knew he had the stomach for a fight.

And this is what it looks like.

Barack Obama, 47,  showed off his impressively muscled tummy and a toned pair of pecs while on holiday in Hawaii.

The U.S. president-elect is throwing down something of a challenge by being photographed in his swimming trunks.

These are the Results of MTV’s Mixtape Monday 08 Mixtape Awards: There are 2 selections for each category, one by Shaheem Reid and one by Rahman Dukes.

Mixtape Act of the Year
G-Unit

Mixtape DJ of the Year
DJ Drama
Green Lantern

Radio and/or Satellite DJ of the Year
Green Lantern
Whoo Kid

Lyricist of the Year
Nas

Most Slept-on Album of the Year
The Game, L.A.X.
Mobb Deep, H.N.I.C. 2

Album of the Year
Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
T.I., Paper Trail

Concert of the Year
Kanye West’s Glow in the Dark Tour (Close second props to the Rock the Bells Jones Beach stop)
Atlanta’s Birthday Bash

Producer of the Year
Kanye West

Topic of the Year
The Auto-Tune takeover
Did Jay-Z and Beyoncé get married?

Breakthrough DJ of the Year
DJ Infamous
DJ Scream

Breakthrough MC of the Year
Shawty Lo

Live Performer of the Year
Kanye West (Gotta give a shout to my runner up T.I. His shows had so much energy.)
Lil Wayne

Internet Superstar
Charles Hamilton
Consequence

Breakthrough Of The Year (Producer)
Drumma Boy
Don Cannon

Craziest Collaboration
Jay-Z, T.I., Lil Wayne and Kanye West on “Swagger Like Us”
Young Jeezy and Nas on “My President”

Standout Street CDs and Independent Albums of ‘08

50 Cent’s Sincerely Yours, Southside
G-Unit’s Return of the Body Snatchers and Elephant in the Sand
Lil Wayne and DJ Drama’s Dedication 3
The Clipse’s Road to Till the Casket Drops
DJ Khaled’s We Global
Prodigy’s H.N.I.C. 2
J. Period’s March 9th Mixtape and Best of Mary J. Blige (Three CD Edition)
Notorious B.I.G. and Big L’s Live From Amsterdam
Nipsey Hussle’s Bullets Ain’t Got No Name, Vol. I and II
Crooked I’s Block Obama I and II

Courtesy of MTV.com

EVER WONDERED WHAT RAPPER LUDACRIS LOOKED LIEK AS A 12 YEAR OLD? WELL, PEEP IT BELOW!

YOU MUST WATCH THIS….THIS IS FREAKY!!

Is Michael Jackson really facing a life-threatening genetic condition?

The reclusive King of Pop’s camp is remaining mum after a biographer with a penchant for tabloid-friendly fare claimed Jackson is in desperate need of a lung transplant.

Author Ian Halperin, insists the 50-year-old entertainer is suffering from a sometimes-fatal genetic condition called alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.

Jackson’s condition has worsened over the years to the point where “his quality of life is severely diminished,” Halperin tells In Touch magazine, so much so that he’s “barely able to speak” and has lost 95 percent of the vision in his left eye.