Category: "Hush, Hush, Pass"
Hush, Hush, Pass: Michael Jordan Gets His Mack On For His Friends
The New York Post's Page Six is reporting that Michael Jordan was recently trying to mack some honies, but not for himself this time. The former Bull was out on the town with fellow ballers Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley at Tao in NYC racking up a thousand dollar tab. As the trio was rolling out Jordan allegedly invited some women to join them at their next destination where they were meeting Derek Jeter when one of the ladies pulled his card and said "Aren't you married?" Ever the smooth operator, MJ apparently said that he was hooking his boys up and not himself.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Kelis Endorses Ford, Dawn Robinson Needs a Street Team, Justin Timberlake Boxed In
Nas may be busy resurrecting hip hop, but his wife Kelis isn't just sitting at home resting on her milkshake. Mrs. Jones has landed an endorsement deal with Ford Motor Company to promote the new Edge crossover vehicle. Kelis has been brought on board by the car company to appeal to the African-American market in radio, television, and print ads.
She's been a member of groups En Vogue and Lucy Pearl and now Dawn Robinson is moving forward with her solo thing. The sultry singer is planning a tour with her husband Dre Allen to promote both of their projects, and the talented twosome is looking for a street team to go on tour with them. In addition to grinding on the road with Dawn and Dre the three individuals chosen may wind up on the reality television show that the pair will be filming.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Chris Rock Divorce Drama, New Badu to Debut on MySpace?, Star Jones Temping
Pookie Chris Rock is joining the ranks of celebrities caught up in a messy split. Rock recently filed for divorce from his wife of 10 years Malaak Compton-Rock and now word on the street is that Malaak wants his head on a platter and his money in her pocketbook. Apparently Malaak has evidence of her husband's infidelity and will be going after his riches in the divorce proceedings. Note to Chris: It's cheaper to keep her.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Beyoncé's Dreamgirls Drama, Ciara Tops Charts
Hush, Hush, Pass: Jeezy Squashes Beef and Talks Tour, Eddie Murphy Trapped?, Naomi Claims She's a Target
Young Jeezy is making the rounds this week to promote his new CD The Inspiration: Thug Motivation 102 and doing some damage control in the process. After talking greasy about Nas last week on Monie Love's Philly radio show, the Southern MC hit up Hot 97 yesterday to set the record straight. Jeezy told Miss Jones that he spoke with Nas and squashed the beef between the two. In addition, the two hip-hop stars are in talks to go out on tour with other artists on the Def Jam roster. We wonder if this tour will include hip-hop heartthrob LL Cool J, who has been extremely critical of the label that he helped to build.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Kanye Sued, Foxy Brown Warned, Jada Pinkett Smith Donates
Tags: Foxy Brown, Jada Pinkett Smith, Kanye West
Kanye West is the latest rapper to get sued. Former motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court that "accuses West of trademark infringement and unauthorized use of Knievel's image" in his video for "Touch the Sky." Knievel claims that the vid featuring Pamela Anderson and Nia "Motherf---ing" Long is vulgar, sexual, and racially charged and tarnishes his image. Evel is seeking to halt future showings of the video and millions in damages. Now, we ain't saying he a golddigger, but he ain't messing with no broke, broke...
A Manhattan judge is po'ed that Foxy Brown has not cooperated with her P.O.'s and has threatened the rap diva with jail time for violating her probation. Fox Boogie is on three years probation for throwing 'bows at two manicurists but she "has missed probation appointments, failed to take required drug tests and not enrolled in an anger management course." Brown's defense is that she didn't feel safe amongst the common criminals at her first probation appointment without security, but she subsequently passed two drug tests and is supposed to start the anger management class next week. However, despite her excuses the judge wasn't hearing her and issued a stern warning that she get it together or get put in jail.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Roc-A-Wear Catches A Case, Beyonce and Jay-Z Deny Wedding Rumors...Again, Scary Spice: Eddie Is My Baby Daddy!, Prince To Perform at Super Bowl, Halle Berry to Release An Album?
Remember when Jay-Z got sued last year by pro wrestler Diamond Dallas Page for trademark and copyright infringement for use of the diamond-shaped hand gesture to represent the Roc? Well, now Roc-A-Wear has been added to the lawsuit. The wrestler is seeking an injunction to bar Jay from using the hand symbol and to collect unspecified monetary damages. But until further notice Jigga and friends can be seen throwing up the Roc every chance they get.
In other Hov news, late last week spokespersons for both Beyoncé and Jay-Z denied all rumors that the two would become one in a lavish wedding ceremony over the weekend during Jigga’s four-day Caribbean birthday soiree. The party is still going on, so there’s no telling if this denial was just a fake-’em-out move to throw paparazzi off the trail or if they really aren’t tying the knot.
Eddie Murphy and Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown may soon be turning up on the Maury show. Days after Eddie questioned the paternity of Ms. Brown’s unborn baby in an interview on Dutch TV, Scary went on record to say that Eddie is the father of her love child. But the drama doesn’t end there for Mel. Turns out that she learned that she was kicked to the curb by Eddie (who has moved on to Babyface’s ex, Tracey Edmonds) when she returned home to Los Angeles last week and this interview and news surfaced. Ouch. Eddie could have at least told Scary that she was “to the left, to the left” in a text message or something. Now that we think about it, bump Maury—this sounds like some Jerry Springer type madness.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Usher Back In the Studio, Jay-Z Falls Off
R&B heartthrob Usher has been sitting on the sidelines for a minute since the breakout success of Confessions in 2004. But next year will more than likely find him back on top of the charts with the release of a new CD. Ersher is currently in the lab and working on his latest R&B takeover with Jermaine Dupri, Robin Thicke, and Jay-Z. The first single from the new album is scheduled to make the booty's go clap next summer.
Hush, Hush, Pass: Jay-Z and Beyoncé to Marry This Weekend?, Whitney Hooks Up With a Konvict, Damon Wayans Banned For Using the N-Word
Tags: Beyonce, DJ Premier, Jay-Z, Whitney Houston
According to rumors, Jay-Z and Beyoncé should have been married by this time, but those previous reports proved to be false. However, gossip folks are at it again, claiming that Jayoncé is set to marry this weekend during Jay's four-day birthday party that Bey is throwing him in the Caribbean. We'll see next week if these two make it official after being crazy in love for four years.
Whitney Houston's comeback project sounds like it is going to be a star-studded affair. It was previously reported that DJ Premier would be lending his talents to the diva's disc and now Akon is on board to work with Whit on some uptempo numbers. Hopefully that doesn't mean there will be a "Smack That Pt. 2."
Hush, Hush, Pass: Beyoncé in Her Thirties?, Eddie Murphy And Scary Spice Baby Drama, Will Smith Makes A Deal
Tags: Beyonce, Eddie Murphy
Jay-Z's real age is a running joke in hip hop and now his boo Beyoncé's b'day is coming into question. MediaTakeOut.com is reporting that the singer may be 32 years old and not 25. Apparently someone faxed them Bey's "official" birth record that shows her date of birth as being on September 4, 1974 and not that same day in 1981, as it's been widely reported. Let VC find out that Beyoncé is going to be included on the next VHI I Love the 70's special.
We all know that Eddie Murphy is one fertile dude as seen by his six children with ex wife Nicole, but there's one bun in someone's oven that has him questioning whether he is the father or not. After a whirlwhind romance with Melanie "Scary Spice" B., the two recently called it quits but not before Mel got preggers. However, now Murphy is putting it out there that he's waiting for a paternity test before he claims another dependent. May we suggest that Mel and Eddie settle this on the Maury show.
