Usher Dead? Nope!

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The Twitterverse was at it again spreading rumors that yet another celeb had died. This time the dead celeb was singer Usher. But the singer took action immediately tweeting pics to his followers during what looked like a kick boxing session to prove he was still alive, fit, and well.

Listen: Frank Ocean 'Thinking About U'

Frank Ocean - Thinking Bout You (edit) by sbtrkt

Mary J. Blige Fronts Paper Magazine

A veteran in the game, Mary J. Blige is still in demand and still sells magazines when she is on the cover. Her latest fronting is Paper Magazine and she looks amazing.

Back in1992, Andre Harrell, then CEO of Uptown Records, told me that he had a new female singer from Yonkers who was going to become a superstar. Her cover of Anita Baker's "Caught Up in the Rapture," recorded at a local mall, had landed in his hands and Harrell's intern at the time, a young producer by the name of Sean Combs, had requested to take on this project. I was the newly-appointed associate editor of the newly-launched music magazine VIBE, and Uptown's publicist Lisa Cambridge gushed to me that this young artist's style was "glam meets hip-hop meets rock 'n' roll." And the hair... she promised it would be like nothing I'd ever seen before. So she sent over a cassette tape with "What's the 411?" written in Sharpie across the front. As soon as I pressed play and heard "Real Love," with those textured, beautiful and imperfect vocals, I was turned out. Her sound was both deeply powerful and eerily familiar.

[Paper]

Listen: Usher And David Guetta Collab on 'Without You'

David Guetta laid the track and Usher topped it off with his vocals. Take a listen.

Video: Frank Ocean - Novacane

FRANK OCEAN "Novacane" from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

Kelly Rowland: The Breakout

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She's been known as Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child. Beyonce's adopted sister, the dark skinned one. But for years since the group split, Kelly Rowland has been clawing her way out of that box, but more so, out of the Knowles family shadow and the shadow of their bread and butter, Beyonce. It wasn't easy being managed by the father of one of the world's biggest solo female pop stars. Many craved a Kelly Rowland solo effort and when it did come, it was overshadowed some say deliberately by the Beyonce machine. Kelly's performances at award shows would be topped by a performance by Beyonce and her solo efforts would only get a lite shove instead of a full shove by the same power that pushed her "sister" and fellow former Destiny's Childer Beyonce.

Beyonce '4' Cover Art Release

Beyonce and Columbia Records is testing the waters before the release of her much anticipated album '4' hits stores on June 28 by releasing the cover art. It's simple and sexy and we love it. Columbia put out a press release talking up the album and the meaning behind it all. Wonder if she got the whole concept for the name of the album from Lenny Kravitz?

Beyonce: I'm Attracted to Songs That Will Become a Dinner Conversation

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Have you ever sat with your family for dinner and the topic of conversation was Bootylicious, Single Ladies (Put a ring on it), Run The World? If so then R&B/Pop star Beyonce has accomplished her goal. In a recent sit down with Billboard magazine the singer says that she is attracted to songs that will become dinner conversation. As a prelude to the Billboard Music Awards which air on May 22nd, The Millennium Award recipient discusses her hot career & much anticipated new CD as well as what power means to her as a woman. 


[Billboard]