I warned you guys I was a true fan of Ms. Fox "Boogie" Brown...
Saturday, August 30, 2008
How Did We Miss Jodeci’s JoJo Passing Out On Stage!!!???
This is some crazy footage of K-Ci and JoJo of R&B group Jodeci giving what we’ll call an interesting performance in Australia. Anyhow, after the two get into the routine JoJo just passes out mid song laying face first on the ground….while K-Ci watches him and continues to sing. We did not laugh while watching this video because the group is alleging it was a medical problem and not the stuff backstage that caused this incident…
What do YOU think???
Happy Birthday Michael Jackson - The Big 50!
Happy 50th Birthday Mr. Michael Jackson…. ENJOY
The King of Pop was born August 29th 1958
OPRAH TALKS OBAMA
Pictured backstage moments after....
Here’s what the media queen who can actually be credited with getting Obama off to a running start had to say after Barack’s speech to accept the Democratic nomination last night, “I cried my eyelashes off. I think it’s the most powerful thing I have ever experienced…He’s not an African-American candidate. He’s a candidate for Americans.”
We agree 100% Oprah!
Friday, August 29, 2008
A Message from Foxy...
Over the weekend, my longtime love and best friend Spragga Benz lost his 15 yr. Old son to a tragic killing in Kingston, Jamaica.Carlyle, who played a "Young Spragga" in his movie Shottas was beloved by the entire Jamaican community, and adored by his father.
As we mourn the loss of Carlyle, I ask that u send your deepest condolences to Spragga Benz, his children and family.
Love,
F.B.
McCain taps Alaska governor for VP
DAYTON, Ohio - John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a conservative who shares his maverick streak, as his vice presidential running mate on Friday in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National Convention.At a raucous rally in the swing state of Ohio, McCain said he made his pick after looking for a political partner "who can best help me shake up Washington and make it start working again for the people who are counting on us."
McCain said that Palin was "exactly who I need. She's exactly who this country needs to help us fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second."
Palin thus became the first woman named to a spot on a Republican ticket. "I am honored," she said as she stood by a beaming McCain in her first few seconds in the national spotlight.
In a fast-developing presidential campaign, McCain made his selection six days after his Democratic rival Barack Obama, named Sen. Joseph Biden of delaware, as his running mate.
The contrast between the two announcements was remarkable — Obama picked an older running mate, and a man whom he said at the outset was qualified to be president.
McCain chose Palin, a generation younger than he is, and a governor less than two years, and made no such claim about her readiness to sit in the Oval Office.
Suge Knight Posts $19,000 Bail After Allegedly Assaulting Girlfriend
According to confirmed reports Marion “Suge” Knight was arrested on Wednesday on assault and drug charges after he was accused of beating his girlfriend and pulling out a folding knife near the Las Vegas Strip. Cops arrived on the scene shortly after witnesses say the woman grabbed the wheel while Suge was driving causing a minor accident only to find him on top the woman with a knife in his hand hitting hitting her. To top it off Suge was searched and found with Ecstasy and hydrocodone when cops pulled him from his Escalade. The Las Vegas strip has not been good to Suge Knight…
ON KATRINA'S 3RD ANNIVERSAR, ANOTHER STORM BREWS
NEW ORLEANS - The solemn ceremonies for the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Friday for the most part were blown away by Tropical Storm Gustav, which threatens to become a hurricane and poses the biggest threat to New Orleans since the killer 2005 storm.
An early morning symbolic burial service in honor of the unclaimed bodies left behind by Katrina, and a bell ringing service scheduled for 9:38 a.m. CDT — when the first levee broke inundating the city — were the only events that remained on what would have been a day of remembrance of the devastating storm.
Instead, preparations were under way in the event Gustav struck early next week. The National Guard was scheduled to begin convoying into New Orleans on Friday, while some nursing homes and hospitals planned to start moving patients further inland and the state began moving 9,000 inmates from coastal lockups.
An evacuation order for New Orleans was likely, Mayor Ray Nagin said, but not before Saturday Meanwhile, residents of areas further south could be told to leave starting Friday, Gov. Bobby Jindal said.
Federal, state and local officials expressed confidence that plans put in place since Katrina would protect residents.
"Ladies and gentlmen, in my estimation, I think we're ready for this threat," Nagin told a news conference Thursday.
The state activated 3,000 Guardsmen on Wednesday, another 2,000 on Thursday, Jindal said. Jindal said he has ordered 1,500 of them to be in New Orleans Friday.
The new troops would beef up the 360 Guardsmen who have been in the city since Katrina helping to police the city.
And as far away as New York City, ambulance companies were preparing to send trucks and crews down to the Gulf Coast. Citywide Mobile Response Corp. spokesman Isaac Newman said his company was dispatching five ambulances along with 15 crew members early Friday from its headquarters in the Bronx.
Projections showed Gustav arriving early next week as a Category 3 storm, with winds of 111 mph or greater, anywhere from the Florida Panhandle to eastern Texas. But forecasts are extremely tentative several days out, and the storm could change course and strength.
Mississippi and Louisiana also were beginning preparations to switch interstate lanes so that all traffic would flow north, in the direction an evacuation would follow.
A problem could be the Louisiana State University football game scheduled for Saturday afternoon in Baton Rouge.
Gov. Jindal said he's not planning to have LSU call off its football team's home opener against Appalachian State. The 92,000-seat Tiger Stadium is sold out and thousands of tailgaters will fill the parking lots around it. But Jindal acknowledged that could change because the of the interference with contraflow.
Nagin said people still living in the small trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Katrina should take immediate steps to plan evacuations.
"Travel trailers are unsafe during heavy winds," Nagin said. "I want all of our citizens to make certain they have a plan for leaving the trailers when advised to do so."
If an evacuation is ordered, the city will also put a curfew in place, Nagin said. Anyone who ignores the evacuation order and is on the streets after curfew will be arrested, he said.
The city said it is prepared to move 30,000 residents in an evacuation; estimates put the city's current population between 310,000 to 340,000 people. There were about 454,000 here before Katrina hit. Unlike Katrina, there will be no massive shelter at the Superdome, in fact, no shelter at all was planned for the city.
The city planned to use city buses to pick up people unable to leave on their own and ferry them to a staging area where they would be moved to shelters in northern Louisiana.
The first 150 of 700 buses to move residents inland arrived at a staging area near New Orleans on Thursday, and officials in Mississippi were trying to decide when to move Katrina-battered residents along the coast who were still living in temporary homes, including trailers vulnerable to high wind.
The planning for a potential evacuation is part of a massive outline drafted after Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore three years ago, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans and stranding thousands who couldn't get out in time. Officials expressed confidence those blueprints made them ready for Gustav.
"What you're going to see is the product of three years of planning, training and exercising at all levels of government, starting with the local and the state level and leading up to the federal level," U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told ABC's "Good Morning America" Friday from New Orleans. "So we're clearly better prepared."
During Hurricane Katrina, Jindal said more than 1 million people were evacuated. But, he said, if the state needs to evacuate residents in both southwest and southeast Louisiana the number could be twice that.
Jindal stressed that is just an estimate because a lot depends on the storm's track and intensity and officials hoped to know more early Friday.
Governors in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas pre-declared states of emergency in an attempt to build a foundation for federal assistance. Federal officials said resources and personnel to provide post-storm aid were pouring into the Gulf Coast states from other parts of the country Thursday.
Batteries, bottled water, and other storm supplies were selling briskly, and people were filling up at gas stations, worried of spikes in prices and a lack of supply later in the weekend.
Melissa Clark, who lives in neighboring Jefferson Parish, said she's leaving Friday with her family to stay with friends in Clinton, Miss. — evacuation order or not. Her husband, who works in maintenance at a nearby hospital, will stay behind.
"I'm not taking any chances this time," the 35-year-old mother of three teenagers said as she waited fifth in line at a Wal-Mart gas station Thursday.
Not everyone made the same plans. In Alabama, many tourists and residents were taking a wait-and-see attitude, more focused on the Labor Day weekend ahead.
"We plan to sit in a bar and watch the whole thing," joked Greg Lee, a tourist from Clarksville, Tenn. He was grocery shopping with family members, stocking up on cold drinks and planning to stay through the holiday at their beach house at Fort Morgan, down a beach road from Gulf Shores.
An early morning symbolic burial service in honor of the unclaimed bodies left behind by Katrina, and a bell ringing service scheduled for 9:38 a.m. CDT — when the first levee broke inundating the city — were the only events that remained on what would have been a day of remembrance of the devastating storm.
Instead, preparations were under way in the event Gustav struck early next week. The National Guard was scheduled to begin convoying into New Orleans on Friday, while some nursing homes and hospitals planned to start moving patients further inland and the state began moving 9,000 inmates from coastal lockups.
An evacuation order for New Orleans was likely, Mayor Ray Nagin said, but not before Saturday Meanwhile, residents of areas further south could be told to leave starting Friday, Gov. Bobby Jindal said.
Federal, state and local officials expressed confidence that plans put in place since Katrina would protect residents.
"Ladies and gentlmen, in my estimation, I think we're ready for this threat," Nagin told a news conference Thursday.
The state activated 3,000 Guardsmen on Wednesday, another 2,000 on Thursday, Jindal said. Jindal said he has ordered 1,500 of them to be in New Orleans Friday.
The new troops would beef up the 360 Guardsmen who have been in the city since Katrina helping to police the city.
And as far away as New York City, ambulance companies were preparing to send trucks and crews down to the Gulf Coast. Citywide Mobile Response Corp. spokesman Isaac Newman said his company was dispatching five ambulances along with 15 crew members early Friday from its headquarters in the Bronx.
Projections showed Gustav arriving early next week as a Category 3 storm, with winds of 111 mph or greater, anywhere from the Florida Panhandle to eastern Texas. But forecasts are extremely tentative several days out, and the storm could change course and strength.
Mississippi and Louisiana also were beginning preparations to switch interstate lanes so that all traffic would flow north, in the direction an evacuation would follow.
A problem could be the Louisiana State University football game scheduled for Saturday afternoon in Baton Rouge.
Gov. Jindal said he's not planning to have LSU call off its football team's home opener against Appalachian State. The 92,000-seat Tiger Stadium is sold out and thousands of tailgaters will fill the parking lots around it. But Jindal acknowledged that could change because the of the interference with contraflow.
Nagin said people still living in the small trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Katrina should take immediate steps to plan evacuations.
"Travel trailers are unsafe during heavy winds," Nagin said. "I want all of our citizens to make certain they have a plan for leaving the trailers when advised to do so."
If an evacuation is ordered, the city will also put a curfew in place, Nagin said. Anyone who ignores the evacuation order and is on the streets after curfew will be arrested, he said.
The city said it is prepared to move 30,000 residents in an evacuation; estimates put the city's current population between 310,000 to 340,000 people. There were about 454,000 here before Katrina hit. Unlike Katrina, there will be no massive shelter at the Superdome, in fact, no shelter at all was planned for the city.
The city planned to use city buses to pick up people unable to leave on their own and ferry them to a staging area where they would be moved to shelters in northern Louisiana.
The first 150 of 700 buses to move residents inland arrived at a staging area near New Orleans on Thursday, and officials in Mississippi were trying to decide when to move Katrina-battered residents along the coast who were still living in temporary homes, including trailers vulnerable to high wind.
The planning for a potential evacuation is part of a massive outline drafted after Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore three years ago, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans and stranding thousands who couldn't get out in time. Officials expressed confidence those blueprints made them ready for Gustav.
"What you're going to see is the product of three years of planning, training and exercising at all levels of government, starting with the local and the state level and leading up to the federal level," U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told ABC's "Good Morning America" Friday from New Orleans. "So we're clearly better prepared."
During Hurricane Katrina, Jindal said more than 1 million people were evacuated. But, he said, if the state needs to evacuate residents in both southwest and southeast Louisiana the number could be twice that.
Jindal stressed that is just an estimate because a lot depends on the storm's track and intensity and officials hoped to know more early Friday.
Governors in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas pre-declared states of emergency in an attempt to build a foundation for federal assistance. Federal officials said resources and personnel to provide post-storm aid were pouring into the Gulf Coast states from other parts of the country Thursday.
Batteries, bottled water, and other storm supplies were selling briskly, and people were filling up at gas stations, worried of spikes in prices and a lack of supply later in the weekend.
Melissa Clark, who lives in neighboring Jefferson Parish, said she's leaving Friday with her family to stay with friends in Clinton, Miss. — evacuation order or not. Her husband, who works in maintenance at a nearby hospital, will stay behind.
"I'm not taking any chances this time," the 35-year-old mother of three teenagers said as she waited fifth in line at a Wal-Mart gas station Thursday.
Not everyone made the same plans. In Alabama, many tourists and residents were taking a wait-and-see attitude, more focused on the Labor Day weekend ahead.
"We plan to sit in a bar and watch the whole thing," joked Greg Lee, a tourist from Clarksville, Tenn. He was grocery shopping with family members, stocking up on cold drinks and planning to stay through the holiday at their beach house at Fort Morgan, down a beach road from Gulf Shores.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
PROJECT RUNWAY WATCH PARTY FOR KORTO
For all of you interested come out and show your support. I know I will be there. If I get pictures I will definitely post them. So keep it locked right here!
R.I.P. CARLTON "CARLYLE" GRANT, JR.
Spragga Benz (Father of Carlton "Carlyle" Grant, Jr.,
Spragga Benz and long time love Foxy Brown
Spragga Benz (Victim's Father)Carlton Grant, son of deejay Spragga Benz, was to spend the brief remainder of the summer holidays with his family, including his father in England, and was set to leave yesterday.
Scores of demonstrating residents yesterday staged a small protest just in front the Kingston central police station to challenge what they was the cold-blooded murder of Carlton Grant, the son of dancehall artiste Spragga Benz.
The mourning residents, most of whom are from communities within central Kingston, tied their heads with thin pieces of black cloth as a signal of their displeasure. "Jus like how God did visit ova Sodom, a suh him a go visit ova da station deh," an obviously irate woman said.
Fatal shooting
According to the residents, Carlton was known by many within their communities and surely will be missed. His fatal shooting they expressed yesterday, was a sure act of murder.
In explaining their claims, one resident who begged for anonymity told THE STAR that a housemate of hers happened to witness the incident. As she related the story, the woman got upset when THE STAR asked if she was a witness. "Suh why yu haffi ask mi dat?, Yu nuh hear mi a tell yu wha gwaan?," she asked with a look of disgust on her face.
Alleged witness
Another resident at that point took over the conversation and continued to explain what the alleged witness had recounted. "Di man seh hi see when di police dem shoot Carl-I (Carlton) ... Him seh him go ova deh to dem and seh offica a weh unnu kill di yute fah and di police tell him seh dem find a gun pon him...Di man seh him ask di police suh weh di gun den and di police go inna him owna waist and tek out a gun and seh see it ya".
That recount the protesting residents say, is a sure sign that the youngster was murdered in cold blood. "If dem did find gun pon him dem nuh woulda use piece a stick and lif it up or supm? Dem too wicked," another resident added.
The Constabulary Communication Network reported that at 11:50 p.m. on Saturday, a police party signalled two men to stop while they rode their bicycles along Church Street in downtown, Kingston. The men allegedly pulled guns and fired at the police after which the fire was returned.
Grant was reportedly found suffering from gunshot wounds and taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. A 45 semi-automatic pistol was said to be taken from him.
Our deepest condolescences are extended to the family & friends of Carlton "Carlyle" Grant, Jr.,.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Remembering Aaliyah Dana Haugton
We lost Aaliyah Dana Haugton on August 25th, 2001… but we will never forget her beauty, talent and impact she left on society.
NICKI MINAJ - THE NEW KID ON THE BLOCK
Nicki Minaj - Keys Under Palm Trees
Nicki Minaj - Big Bidness Featuring Ransom
Nicki Minaj - Slumber Party Featurings Gucci Mane
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