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Mos Def Announces 2 New Projects In December
Long Awaited Music From Motown Artist Kevin Ross Out This Week
KEVIN ROSS
Motown R&B artist Kevin Ross’ long-awaited EP, Long Song Away, hits stores next Friday, December 9. The four- song EP combines classic soul with contemporary R&B. The EP also features Kevin’s debut single “Be Great“ with rapper Chaz French, and a remix of the song featuring R&B phenom BJ The Chicago Kid.
One of today’s rising R&B singers, Kevin has toured with Maxwell and Ne-Yo, and recently performed on TV One’s spoken word and music series, “Lexus Verses and Flow.” His upcoming album, “The Awakening,” is slated for a March 2017 release.
Kehlani Headed On World Tour In 2017
KEHLANI
Kehlani keeps dishing out musical goodies as she readies the launch of her much-antic- ipated debut studio album, SWEETSEXYSAVAGE.
The latest announcement from the Bay Area R&B artist is her first headlining world tour, set to start in 2017. The upcoming ‘SWEETSEXYSAV- AGE’ trek will make stops in a number of major U.S. cities in- cluding Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Toronto and more.
Mariah And New Boyfriend All Smiles At Reality Show Premiere
Mos Def made a huge an- nouncement at Art Basel in Miami on Saturday (Dec. 3). Making his first public ap- pearance in the states since the passport drama in South Africa, the Brooklyn-born MC announced that he’s dropping two new albums which in- cludes a project with Man- nie Fresh.
The new albums titled,
Negus In Natural Person and As Promised (the project with Fresh) will be debuted later in the month.
“I will be premiering my new album[s] at the Apollo Theater Dec. 20 and Dec. 21,” revealed the artists formerly known as Mos Def before playing two “special” new songs.
MOS DEF AKA YASIIN BEY
The new projects along with the forthcoming Dec. 99th album brings Bey’s running total to three albums before he retires from rap all together.
Mariah Carey goes from one extreme to another. Reveals romance with her dancer, Brian Tanaka.
Mariah Carey looked ab-
solutely smitten with dancer Bryan Tanaka as they at- tended her reality show view- ing party on Sunday.
The 46-year-old singer and her boytoy, 33, were pictured sharing sweet smiles at each other as they posed for pic- tures at Catch in New York as they celebrated the start of the diva’s new docu-series, “Mariah’s World.” Mariah and Brian recently went public with their new ro- mance, two months after her split from billionaire fiancé James Packer.
Netflix: Luke Cage Gets Season 2
Evelyn Lozado Co-Hosts This Week On ‘The Real’
Since the firing of Tamar Braxton, producers of the daytime talk show, ‘The Real’ have been trying to find a replacement that fits. This week it’s Evelyn Lozado.
Christmas has arrived early for Luke Cage. In a 18-sec- ond video teaser posted to Twitter Sunday, (Dec. 4) fans learned their favorite Harlem residing, bulletproof Black man will continue to kick ass for a Second Season.
It’s great news for fans of both Mike Colter who plays Cage and the show, but no sur- prise as viewers have been sali- vating for the show long before it streamed on Netflix. Show creator Cheo Hodari Coker also took to Twitter to cele- brate the good news. As Vari- ety reports, this makes Luke
Mike Colter aka Luke Cage.
Cage the third Marvel series to receive a (well-deserved) second chance.
Monday, December 5, on “The Real,” television per- sonality and author, Evelyn Lozada kicks off her guest co-hosting appearance. The reality star candidly opens up about struggling to have a baby and wishing she froze her eggs. She also an-
nounces her highly antici- pated return to VH1’s “Bas- ketball Wives LA” and explains how she will be bringing “substance and depth” back to the hit show. Until then, watch Evelyn keep it real all week long on “The Real!”
Live Nation: Jeremih Fired From Tour With PARTYNEXTDOOR
Usage Of Medication
Kanye West’s Breakdown
Jeremih will have to find a new stage for his (or his ru- mored body double’s) rants now that he’s been cut from the Summer’s Over Tour. The “Oui” singer was scheduled for four more shows opening for Toronto’s PAR- TYNEXTDOOR after the two performed across North Amer- ica throughout November.
Concert production company Live Nation released this state- ment about Jeremih getting bounced from the lineup.
“Live Nation’s top priority is helping artists and performers create great shows for their fans. With this in mind, we’ve decided it’s best for the Sum- mer’s Over Tour to continue without Jeremih, effective im- mediately. After multiple inci- dents we are left with no other choice.”
The “multiple incidents” mentioned in the statement in-
Jeremih’s antics of throwing the mic, ranting onstage and not showing up for shows have gotten him fired.
clude in Chicago on November 29 and then allegedly skipping a concert in Houston days later.
In Dallas on December 2, the singer went at PND even more directly on stage.
Kanye West has been pretty candid about his psy- chological issues in his music, rapping about taking anti-de- pressants —Lexapro, and about his visits to his psychi- atrist.
A source revealed that West’s erratic pattern of tak- ing his medication led to the most recent episode that caused him to first cancel his Saint Pablo Tour, then to be hospitalized for more than a week at UCLA’s Medical Cen- ter in Los Angeles, where doc- tors were able to stabilize him.
TMZ says the changes in medication came after his wife, Kim Kardashian- West, was robbed in Paris in October.
The “Ultralight Beam” mu- sician is currently receiving outpatient care but reportedly not in the home he shares with his wife and their two children: three-year-old
Kanye West has been re- leased from the hospital and is receiving treatment at a rental home in L.A.
North and one-year-old Saint.
Another source spoke about the situation with the family, saying that Kim is worried about the kids being around their dad.
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