Kanye West in his Birthday Suit

In the February issue of Vibe magazine, Kanye West speaks about his desire to pose naked.

“I made a decision. I wanna make popular music, but I want less fans,” West said when asked if he was comfortable with fame. “I want the freedom of having less fans. It’s like the freedom of having less money. If you have less money, you have less responsibility. It’s like Björk. If she wanted to pose naked, you’d be like, ‘Oh, that’s Björk.’ But if I wanted to pose naked, people would draw all type of things into it. I definitely feel like, in the next however many years, if I work out for two months, that I’ll pose naked. I break every rule and mentality of hip-hop, of black culture, of American culture.”

Jill Scott is Pregnant

Jill Scott, 36, is expecting her first child, which is due April 25th.  She is engaged to drummer Lil John Roberts.  Scott said she discovered she was pregnant right before going to Botswana to film her new HBO series The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, based on the popular novels by Alexander McCall Smith, People magazine reported.

“The first trimester I spent in Botswana,” Scott told reporters at the Television Critics Association conference. “That was one of the biggest challenges of my life. First trimester! You’re sick every morning. It was seven hours time difference, the heat, the bugs, the 14 hour days.”

Lil Kim Slams ‘Notorious’ movie

Lil Kim said there were inaccuracies in “Notorious,” the biopic about slain rapper Biggie Smalls.

“I knew something was fishy about them having the writer call me. When I spoke to the writer I felt like he was trying to play me, so I wouldn’t give up anything,” Kim explained to Hip Hop Weekly. “I knew I wouldn’t have control of how I was depicted. I did correct the writer about Biggie’s nickname for me. He had written that Biggie called me Big Momma. Biggie never called me Big Momma. As a matter of fact, he didn’t even like that name for me. He used to call me Mookie.”

Lil Kim also said that she will not support the movie but may watch it on bootleg.

Notorious B.I.G.’s mom wants to speak to Lil Kim

Voletta Wallace, Biggie’s mom, said that after viewing the “Notorious” movie she co-produced, she would like to speak to Lil Kim.

“I need to ask more about this love relationship because I really didn’t like the way he treated her and I’m praying that that’s not it,” she told Essence.com.  “Only she can answer those questions. She’s a sweet girl and I didn’t think she deserved to be treated the way he treated her, if that’s the case.”

“Notorious,” the biopic about the slain rapper’s life, will open Friday, Jan. 16 in theaters.

R. Kelly’s Divorce Finalized

R. Kelly,42, and his wife of 11 years Andrea,35, are now officially divorced, People magazine reports.  The couple will share joint custody of their three children.

The Obamas come to Washington

Michelle and Barack Obama send their daughters Sasha and Malia off for their first day of school in Washington.  Aaah!

Katt Williams rips into Steve Harvey

Katt Williams ripped into Steve Harvey when they both performed at a New Year’s Eve double header comedy show in Detroit.  Check out the video:

Lil Kim is upset about Notorious B.I.G. movie

 

Lil Kim is upset about how her relationship with Notorious B.I.G. is being portrayed in an upcoming biopic.  She blames the deceased rapper’s wife, Faith Evans and his mother, Violetta Wallace.

“I’ve had enough and I’m about to expose them both… I’ve been quiet for a long time,” Lil Kim told Hip-hop Weekly.

Can’t we all get along? YES, we can

For the second time, an interracial couple in Great Britain gave birth to a set of Black and White twins.  Doctors said it is an extremely rare for this to occur once, not alone twice.

“I was blown away as the rest of them, you know,” father Dean Durrant told WPEC. “There’s no easy way to explain it all. I feel like I’m still in shocked myself, even though the first ones were seven years ago. It’s amazing but we love them just the same.”

 

African American college students who live with a white roommate have better grades, according to a study by Ohio State University and Virginia Commonwealth University.  The research, which studied African-American freshmen, also stated that it also helped them to adjust to a new environment.

Prince to release 3 new albums, Aaliyah movie planned

Prince will release three new albums this year, according to the Los Angeles Times.  The first CD tentatively titled, “MPLSOUND,” will feature “trippy, experimental poppy songs,” including a song with rapper Q-Tip.

Keisha Chante, a Canadian R&B singer, will portray Aaliyah in a biopic movie said BET.com.  It is scheduled to be released this year and will highlight the late singer’s life from childhood to her untimely death in a 2001 plane crash.

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