Videos After The JumpThe East Coast is buried under snow right now, but that didn't stop Rihanna from hitting up Rockefeller Center Saturday (December 19).
The Def Jam superstar taped a segment “NBC’s New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly.” Which will air December 31 at 10pm.
Riri performed "Wait Your Turn (The Wait Is Over)" off her 'Rated R' cd. Then Jay-Z joined her for "Run This Town" off his album 'Blueprint 3'
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Her name is Cymphonique, and she could be Nickelodeon's next teen star.
The cable channel has inked a substantial talent development deal with the 13-year-old actor/singer/dancer to develop series for her or add her to existing projects.
Additionally, Sony Music, which has a partnership with Nickelodeon, has signed Cymphonique to a record deal.
Under the pacts, Cymphonique could star in a comedy/musical or a straight comedy series.
"She is extraordinarily talented for somebody so young," Nickelodeon's executive vp talent Paula Kaplan said. "She has great comedic timing, an amazing voice and is very self-assured."
Additionally, "we have had long history with this family," she added.
Cymphonique is the daughter of Percy Miller, aka Master P, and the sister of actor-rapper Romeo.
Romeo, then billed as Lil' Romeo, was 9 when his father brought him to Nickelodeon. He headlined his own series on the channel for four seasons.
Nickelodeon is entering the comedy/musical series space with two upcoming shows: "Victorious," toplined by "Zoey 101" co-star Victoria Justice, and "Big Time Rush," about a boy band, which launches in January.
Cymphonique, who has appeared in an episode of Nickelodeon's "Just Jordan," was a finalist on Disney Radio's "N.B.T. (Next Big Thing)." She is repped by Fortitude.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
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Video After The JumpSasha Delvalle, the beautiful young lady who plays Princess in 50 Cent's 'Before I Self Destruct' movie is starting to do big things in the modeling and acting world.
If you have seen 'Before I Self Destruct' chances are you probably hated the character she played, but loved watching her play it which is a sign she did a great job.
Peep the photo shoot Sasha did for DynastySeries.com and the video where she models to the sounds of 50 Cent's "Get It Hot" off the album 'Before I Self Destruct'
'Before I Self Destruct' the movie comes packaged with the album, so go cop the cd today!
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It's been a few months since every man's favorite magazine, Kingfolded.
Don't worry though, the magazine is coming back in a major way with the Dominican beauty Rosa Acosta on the cover and she didn't come alone.
This collection of women is by far the hottest ever for King or any other mag like it. The new issue goes on sale December 24th.
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Bria Myles
Rosa Acosta
Bernice
Sasha Delvalle from "Before I Self Destruct" movie
The good folks over at MTV UK have started an annual Best Boobs In Hollywood list.
There are a couple of surprises here in my opinion. Just how exactly do you comprise this list? I mean there has to be a formula of some sort right?
Well enough with the chatter, let's take a look at the list.
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Video After The JumpNew York State Police have released dramatic new video footage of the January 10th gun battle that shut down I-90 for hours and ended when a sniper's bullet killed 22-year-old Darrel Brown of Hartford, Connecticut.
Investigators say Brown was high on PCP and running from Connecticut authorities when he opened fire on police with an AK-47 from the back seat of a cab that had been pulled over in East Greenbush.
The new footage shows the state trooper talking to the cab driver and Brown.
When the trooper realizes that Brown is armed, the trooper runs from the cab.
The cab driver frantically waves his hands out the window before he runs from the vehicle.
The video documents the first nine minutes of the nearly hour-long shoot-out.
The footage begins when the trooper makes a U-turn to pursue the speeding cab and ends with one of Brown's bullets hits the camera in the dashboard of the cruiser.
Trooper Maureen Tuffey says PCP use may explain erratic behavior in people.
"You can't reason with them," she tells us. "You can't get them down on the ground. You can't make any kind of sense out of them."
Police say Brown was a known member of the Bloods street gang.
Hartford Police wanted to question him about a carjacking and assault that had happened the night before the deadly shoot-out.
"It appears that he was fleeing to the Capital Region," Trooper Tuffey tells us. "He had one or two people here he knew. He did not even tell the cab driver what his final destination was. He was giving his journey incrementally as they went along."
Three minutes elapsed between when the trooper and cabbie run for safety and when Brown first opens fire.
Police believe Brown was fumbling with the lock on his gun.
That could have saved the lives of the cabbie and trooper.
Witnesses told police that Brown yelled "shoot me" and "kill me."
Investigators will never know exactly why Brown opened fire.
"Whether he just gave up hope and decided to go down in a blaze of fire or it was a definite suicide by cop," says Trooper Tuffey. "It's difficult for us to actually pinpoint that."
Police never cited the cab driver for speeding.
Source: Fox23News
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An 18-year-old man was busted for having sex with horses at a Hudson Valley harness track, authorities said Friday.Erick Rivera was charged with five counts each of sexual misconduct with an animal and burglary after a six-month investigation at the Goshen Historic Track in Orange County.
Rivera sneaked into the track at night from his nearby rented room and abused the animals, Goshen Village Police Chief James Watt said. Horsemen became suspicious beginning in July when they found the fillies bridled and immobilized in their stalls during morning checks.
"This guy makes Michael Vick look like a charter member of PETA," Watt said, according to the The Times Herald-Record of Middletown. Watt told The Record that a surveillance camera recorded the unemployed Rivera in a barn. Rivera is being held in the county jail on $15,000 bail.
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Videos After The JumpThe Queen of R&B Mary J. Blige stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live Friday (December 18) in support of her new cd 'Stronger withEach Tear'.
In addition to performing "I Am", Mary talked to Jimmy about Co-Executive Producing the soundtrack to the movie 'Precious', what her kids want for Christmas and being a guest judge on American Idol.
'Stronger withEach Tear' is in stores December 21.
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Video After The JumpEven as he's serving time for a probation violation, Gucci Mane has the people's support. "Burrr!" You can hear that call from the kids in the studio audience at BET's "106 and Park" to the d-boys celebrating in the clubs. After years on the scene, Gucci Mane LaFlare made a lasting impression on everyone in 2009, when they finally let him roam the radio with a string of guest appearances on heavily rotated cuts from Trey Songz, Mariah Carey and Mario. Then his own singles "Wasted" and "Spotlight" (featuring Usher) became bona fide hits too.
Still, the airwaves weren't Gucci's bread and butter, the streets were. An estimated 150 of his songs hit the mixtape circuit this year, and there were dozens and dozens of unofficial CDs with the ATL trap star's face on the cover. Clubs in the South were forced to play hour-long Gucci Mane sets, while night spots in other parts of the country also found themselves adding him to their playlists. With his high volume of work and the consistently glowing reception he gets, we have deemed Gucci Mane our Mixtape Artist of the Year.
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Lil' Wayne was rollin' through Texas with marijuana on multiple tour buses, this according to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Border Patrol agents tell TMZ a random search of the vehicles uncovered a pot stash on two buses -- but we're told no drugs were found on Wayne's person ... or anyone else in the entourage.
Officials tell us a drug-sniffing K-9 unit picked up the scent outside the bus. Agents then walked the dogs onto the bus, where they located the weed.
As we first reported, Wayne and 11 members of his entourage are being detained at an internal B.P. checkpoint in southern Texas.
So far, no arrests have been made.
Source: TMZ
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HOUSTON — Former Geto Boys rapper Willie D pleaded guilty in Houston to wire fraud over the bogus sale of iPhones and other electronics.
Prosecutors say the 42-year-old artist, whose real name is William James Dennis, pleaded guilty Friday over purported sales through a company called Texas One Wireless.
Sentencing is April 23 for Dennis, who faces up to 20 years in prison.
Dennis was indicted in June on charges accusing him of selling iPhones and other electronics to online shoppers without delivering the merchandise.
Investigators say the $132,000 fraud involved at least 29 individuals since September 2008. Dennis, who is free on bond, must make restitution.
Dennis was the lead member of the gangsta rap Geto Boys, who recorded hit songs between 1989 and 1996.
Source : Houston Chronicle
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A person points at a X-ray of a 2-year-old boy showing needles inside his body in a hospital in Ibotirama, northern Brazil. (Associated Press)BRASILIA, Brazil -- Doctors prepared to perform emergency surgery on a Brazilian toddler on Friday to remove some of the 42 sewing needles that were allegedly inserted into him by his stepfather during a series of bizarre rituals.
Surgeons in the northeastern city of Salvador plan to take out a needle that punctured the 2-year-old boy's heart and others close to other vital organs, said Susy Moreno, a spokeswoman at the hospital where the boy is being treated in the northeastern city of Salvador.
"This operation is to remove the most threatening sewing needles," Moreno said. "More operations may be necessary."
The operation was expected to take as long as as six hours, Brazilian media reported. Moreno did not say how long the procedure could last.
Police say the boy's stepfather confessed to pushing 42 supposedly "blessed" sewing needles deep into the child because his lover told him to while in trances. The rituals were performed over a period of a month to try to keep the couple together, the stepfather told police.
Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, a 30-year-old bricklayer, told detectives the woman would enter into trances and "command him to stick the needles in the boy's body," police inspector Helder Fernandes Santana told The Associated Press by telephone. The stepfather told police the rituals happened every few days for a full month, with him inserting several needles during each session.
The lover, Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos, paid to have the needles measuring up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) blessed by a woman who practiced the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble, and convinced Magalhaes that inserting them into the boy would somehow allow them to be together, Santana said.
Police, however, believe Dos Santos was out for revenge on the boy's mother, though they did not say why.
"According to his confession, he acted under influence of the woman, but it was he who stuck the needles in the boy's body," the inspector said.
Magalhaes and dos Santos were both arrested, though no charges have yet been filed.
Dos Santos is not believed to be a member of any religious or occult group, and authorities believe she came up with the idea of the rituals on her own, Santana said.
The two were taken to an undisclosed lockup for their own protection after a mob threw stones at the police station where they were being held. It was not immediately clear whether they had legal representation.
Authorities also detained the woman who blessed the needles so she could be questioned, but Santana said he expects she will be released without charge because she did not know how they were being used.
The boy's mother, a maid, took him to a hospital in the town of Ibotirama on Dec. 10, saying he was complaining of pain.
After X-rays revealed the cause, the mother told police she didn't know how the needles got inside her son, whose name was not released because of his age. The boy was later transferred for more advanced evaluation at a much larger hospital in the coastal city of Salvador.
Police and doctors concluded it would have been impossible for the boy to have ingested the needles - which have also been found in a lung, in his left leg and spread throughout his abdomen.Afro-Brazilian religions practiced in Brazil have no ceremonies, rituals or practices involving harm to people, said Nelson Inocencio, director of African-Brazilian studies at the University of Brasilia.
He worried that the incident could hurt the image of the religions, of which Candomble is the most popular, and concentrated most in Bahia state.
"What happened to this boy without a doubt could feed into the prejudice against Afro-Brazilian traditions," he said.
Source: KTLA
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Video After The JumpWhich stars had the biggest year? All this week, we've been unveiling our Top 9 men and women of 2009, and now we are down to the top spot.1. Michael Jackson
Where were you when you heard the news? It's a question reserved for only the biggest of moments, and it's usually not asked fondly. And that was the case with the death of Michael Jackson, an event that stopped the world in its tracks.
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The Neptunes are ending the year on a high note and have been named the top producers of the decade. According to Billboard, the duo of Pharrell and Chad Hugo are worthy of the honor through their stellar production on his like Jay'Z's “Give It To Me” and The Clipse's “Grindin.”So who else made the list?Timbaland, Kanye West, Lil Jon, Bryan Michael Cox and JD just to name a few.
Peep Billboard's list of 'Top Producers of the Decade' below.
Beyonce Knowles' mom -- the original costume designer for Destiny's Child -- has filed for divorce from her husband Mathew Knowles.Tina Knowles filed divorce papers in Harris County, Texas last month, in an attempt to end their 29-year marriage.
Back in October, Mathew was hit with a paternity lawsuit from a woman who's not his wife -- no word if that affected Tina's decision to pull the plug.
Mathew has been Beyonce's manager for years, so there could be a ton of cash up for grabs in the split.
The couple has two children together -- Beyonce and Solange..
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Video After The JumpAlexa Chung's run as a daytime talk show host has ended. MTV has cancelled the show after two seasons.
R&B singer Trey Songz had the distinction of being the last live performer on Thursday (December 17th). Trey performed I Invented Sex/Say Ahh for the audience.
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Video After The JumpRobin Thicke is out promoting his new album 'Sex Therapy: The Experience".
He stopped by The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien and performed his hit single "Sex Therapy". A sick remix to the track was just released with Ludacris killing his verses. Peep it below
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Video After The JumpWhich stars had the biggest year? All this week, we've unveiled our top nine men and women of 2009 — with the winners announced today!
It's been a big year for Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears, but there's not much question that 2009 was Lady Gaga's year. New York native Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta began the year as a hot hopeful and will end it as one of the biggest pop stars in the world. And there's no one who challenged, provoked, entertained and, well, titillated us over the past 12 months quite like she has.
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