Brandy is going to be a mom!
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Brandy didn't want to wait nine months to find out whether she would have a boy or a girl. The 23-year-old singer-actress, who's five months pregnant with her first child, is going to have a girl. "I always wanted to know what it was, so I can get the names together, and so ...
| RnB Performers Featured On 'Dark Angel' Soundtrack
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Khia's "My Neck, My Back," which is Number 17 on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hip-Hop/R&B Singles chart this week, is the first single from the Dark Angel soundtrack, which is scheduled to hit stores April 23 on Artemis Records. The hip-hop-heavy soundtrack for the popular ...
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Soul Train Music Awards Winners
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - A newcomer and a veteran act took home the most wins at the 16th Annual Soul Train Music Awards Wednesday (March 20) night in L.A., as Alicia Keys and the Isley Brothers nabbed three awards apiece. Keys was honored with awards for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist and Female ...
| Alicia Keys Finalizes Summer North American Tour Plans
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Neo-soul singer and pianist Alicia Keys has mapped out the rest of her summer tour, which kicks off July 4 at the previously announced Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. The tour, which plays outdoor venues and fairs across North America, will be her second headlining ...
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Snoop Dogg may soon be better as actor...
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - Rapper Snoop Dogg may soon be better known as actor Snoop Dogg. In addition to recent roles in Bones, Training Day, The Wash (allstar, Nov. 14, 2001), and the previously reported forthcoming big-screen adaptation of '70s police-action series Starsky & Hutch, Snoop has three ...
| TLC Working On New Album
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - The trio of T-Boz, Chilli, and Left Eye, better known as TLC, is back in the studio and working on a new album. The group is presently working Los Angeles and Atlanta and have recruited long-time collaborator Dallas Austin as well as with Babyface, Diane Warren, Raphael ...
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Alleged R. Kelly Sex Tape Turning Up On N.Y.C. Street Corners
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Copies of the purported 26-minute R. Kelly sex videotape sent anonymously to the offices of the Chicago Sun-Times last month have made their way on to the streets of New York City. The tape allegedly depicts Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Kelly and three separate women, ...
| Ja Rule, The Roots, & Others Join UrbanAID 2 Benefit Lineup
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Ja Rule, the Roots, Musiq Soulchild, Ashanti, and Fat Joe have joined the lineup for LIFEbeat's UrbanAID 2 benefit, scheduled for April 8 at the Beacon Theater in New York. Alicia Keys, P. Diddy, and Jay-Z will also perform at the AIDS charity event. Comedian Jamie Foxx will ...
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Pink Kicks Off North American Tour May 2
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Pink will get her touring party started on May 2 in Phoenix, Ariz., at the Web Theatre. The tour, which runs through June 28 in Los Angeles as of now, will be the artist's first headlining North American tour. Pink's touring in support of her sophomore album, Missundaztood, ...
| Hip Hop Hall o' Fame
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Hip Hop will honour its heroes past and present at this year�s Hip Hop Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Wednesday in New York. Deceased rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur will receive special honours along side fellow inductees LL Cool J, Queen Latifah, Run-D.M.C., ...
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Lil' Romeo Raps For The Kiddies At $1-A-Minute Tour Opener
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Lil Romeo web) - Clad in an orange jumpsuit and backed by uncle Silkk the Shocker, prepubescent rapper Lil' Romeo began his national tour Friday night with a $27 concert that ended up costing fans roughly a dollar a minute. Romeo's entire performance lasted about half an hour, ...
| Jigga Tops The List
NEW YORK (Spin Magazine) - Rapper Jay-Z has topped the list of Spin Magazines�s 40 most important artists in music today. In the issue that features the list, they say that Jay-Z having released an album and staging a sellout tour in the weeks following September 11, that he �showed his versatility ...
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New Lauryn Hill Music Coming In Spring
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts) - After almost a year in the vault, new Lauryn Hill music is finally surfacing. A double Unplugged album will hit stores sometime this spring - her first LP since 1998's Grammy-winning The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. MTV2 will air the "Unplugged" special Sunday night at 8 ...
| Ice Cube Keeps The Laughs Rolling In All About The Benjamins
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Buying rapper-producer turned actor Ice Cube as anything more than a streetwise badass with a knack for one-liners (see Ghost of Mars, Anaconda) is a stretch by anyone's imagination. Roles like the one he had in Friday, where Ice Cube is only partially acting, are the types ...
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Bubba Sparxxx Fly
ATHENS, Georgia (Top40 Charts) - Three men were assaulted and stabbed at rapper Bubba Sparxxx�s 25th birthday party in Athens Georgia in three separate incidences early Wednesday morning. Reports say that Eric Diamond McAnally was jumped by four or five men and stabbed twice in the back and side. Two ...
| C-Murder Pleads Not Guilty To Second-Degree Murder In Louisiana
LOUISIANA (Louis. News) - As expected, jailed rapper C-Murder - real name Corey Miller - pled not guilty to second-degree murder charges in 24th Judicial Court for Jefferson Parish, La., on Wednesday (March 6), according to a spokesperson for the court.
The ...
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P. Diddy Settles Court Battle With Ex-Girlfriend Over Child Support
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Sean "P. Diddy" Combs has finally reached a settlement in his ongoing child support battle with ex-girlfriend Kimberly Porter over their 3-year-old son, Christian Casey Combs, according to a spokesperson for Combs at Dan Klores Communications. After failing to show up in Manhattan ...
| Tony Toni Tone Member Sues Attorney For Letting Destiny's Child Off Easy
NEW YORK (Yahoo) - Attorneys for Tony Toni Tone member Dwayne Wiggins filed a suit against Wiggins's former counsel, Bloom, Hergott, Diemer & Cook LLP, on February 27 in Superior Court of the state of California in and for the county of Los Angeles. The suit accuses the firm of legal malpractice, breach ...
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Alicia Keys Joins LIFEbeat's UrbanAID 2 Lineup (Adds Tour Dates)
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - GRAMMY Award-winning Alicia Keys - who took home five trophies last week - has joined the lineup for one of the biggest annual AIDS benefit concerts, LIFEbeat's UrbanAID 2. The event, set for April 9 at the Beacon Theater in New York, also features the previously announced ...
| C-Murder 'Vehemently Denies' Murder Charges After Indictment
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - Rapper C-Murder, younger brother of Master P, has "vehemently denied" the second-degree murder charges for which he was indicted in 24th Judicial Court for Jefferson Parish, La., on Thursday (Feb. 28). The ...
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