FABO HAS AN ALBUM OUT THIS WEEK

After his Houston office and storage unit were searched, and law enforcement officials announced that they believe Murray administered the lethal dose of propofol to Jackson, his Las Vegas home is now being raided by Federal agents.
"They're searching Dr. Murray's residence and office. They're executing a search warrant. They're continuing to look for records and other aspects of the investigation. They're just looking for any information they need to help [in the investigation]," a law enforcement source tells PEOPLE.
Murray has yet to be indicted on any charges, but police are seeking a third interview with the doctor.

CICI COVERS ESTELLE

METHOD AND REDMAN REACT TO KELIS GETTING 55K/MONTH FROM NAS

YA GIRL CICI GETTING SERIOUS HOLLYWOOD TREATMENT

Rock n Republic invited Ci for a photo op to shop for free at it's LA store last week. And offer that she gladly accepted and came through in her jeep. In addition, Holly Robinson Pete invited Ci to her charity event. She twitted about how she kicked it with Magic Johnson and Samuel Jackson at the event.

CIARA GONE HOLLYWOOD --- BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY CHECK OUT THE BODYGAURD?

Does the bodygaurd ride in the passenger side. But there are pics of him following her in another car though

SWIZZ AND ALICIA AT WHITNEY'S LISTENING PARTY

CIARA AND KIM K AT "ORPHANS" PREMIER HOLDING HANDS ON RED CARPET

towards the end of the video

I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF

JAY TALKS NEW SINGLE WITH RIHANNA AND DENIES BLOCKING CHRIS BROWN FROM BET

KELIS HAS NAS'S BABY BOY AND REFUSE TO LET HIM IN

Nas is currently celebrating the birth of his son, although sources close to the rapper told AllHipHop.com that he was not allowed to witness the event

CIARA DUSTS OFF NY SOCIALITES

Ciara has been busy with the Do Something 101 campaign. Each Staples store across the country has teamed with a local organization that helps kids in need. All summer you can donate new school supplies at any Staples store and DoSomething.org will get them to the kids who need them most for back to school.

In other news, on Saturday Ciara was suppose to host Social Life Magazine’s event held at the magazine’s estate in Water Mill, NY. (She’s the mag’s cover girl this month.) This did not sit well with NY socialites and sparked serious outrage. On Monday representative Devorah Rose made a statement:

" I mean, it's not a big deal whatsoever," Ms. Rose said. "Ciara is a really big superstar and she has a very hectic schedule, and she has several different management companies that handle her as well as a press company, and basically ....she got an opportunity to go into the recording studio with Justin Timberlake and sometimes in a list of priorities, attending an event and recording an event is going to trump that. That said, we usually have all of the cover girls come out, but when you're dealing with an international star, it's handled a little differently...She made time out of her schedule to do this cover, she wore a gorgeous Oscar De La Renta vintage dress. I think it's pathetic and sad that people have to focus on things as frivolous as events. They should focus on the work that we put into it, the article, the fact that she took time out of her schedule, the quality of the photos, how amazing the magazine looks. I mean, I think it's really, really sad and I just don't understand why people can't just focus on the integrity and the beauty of the magazine. "

VICK IS OUT TO TERRORIZE YOUR DOGS

MAD LIKE BECKHAM

CHRIS BROWN APOLOGIZES

DOES JOE BUDDEN'S HAVE THE GAME'S MENTAL ILLNESS?

This wanna be recording artist who was dropped by def jam (of all places) apparently talked ish about method man. Yet another rapper who starts unnecessary beef only to apologize later. And will probably start it again only to apologize a month later.

DIDDY CASSIE AND THE THIRD/FOURTH WHEELS

lol @ diddy going to central park to play his "new music" which features the other broads other than Cassie

CIARA DANCE COMPANY PROMO

Find more videos like this on ThisIs50.com : IF IT'S HOT IT'S HERE!

Cici talks about her dance company which serves as an agent for dancers. Dancers signed to her company have been booked for gigs on tour with Lil Wayne, 50 cent, Tpain and Neyo, as well as several video ads. Check Ci and her dancers out while they have fun in the studio. Once again I jacked this from 50's blog.

NEW 50 "FUNNY HOW TIME FLIES"

This guy is making videos for his mixtape songs and all. Way too much money and way too much time. Ciara need to pay her man some attention

THE ULTIMATE PRANK

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STRIPPER GETS A HAIR FULL

WHO IS KIYAH WRIGHT

Multiple Emmy Award winner Kiyah Wright got her biggest break after meeting Puffy aka P. Diddy or Sean John Combs (both frequented DC where she worked). Through puffy she worked with Mary J and Faith Evans. Fastforward years later she is the hair stylist behind Tyra's talk show, Jennifer Hudson's Vogue cover, and all of Ciara's changing looks from candids to all of her music videos and including the most recent blog craz of Ciara's new dooo (see ciara pics below)








Cici channeling her inner Halle Berry. Offcourse it's a custom designed wig.

jacked from thisis50.com

CIARA AT SCREAM FEST

IS NEYO HAVING A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

NENE DOES WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW

RAP UP BEHIND THE SCENES WITH CIARA

THE NEW HOUSE OF DEREON

OLE BOY'S TELEPROMPTER FAILED HIM

KIM AND REGGIE BUSH LAND IN SOUTH AFRICA

Why is Reggie running away?

JAYZ/CIARA SHOW IN ATL CANCELLED

Jay-Z and Ciara show in the Atl was indeed canceled. Rumors began about why. Some say Ciara was sick, Jay couldn't land because of the rain etc etc. However, the truth is the concert was at an outside venue and due to lightening it was cancelled. Blogger Freddyo was backstage and got some pics of Cici who was there and prepared to perform even though she was indeed recovering from the flu. He noted that Jay Z was also there and ready to go but it was the venue that cancelled for security reasons.

As for rescheduling, Jay may come back when his album drops but Ciara is prepping a tour with Britney and an international tour so she may not be back with Jay. Jay called up ATL radio the next day to explain everything. Listen below.




Listen to Jay Z Here

DOWNLOW BRO EXPOSED?

Terrell Carter, an actor from Tyler Perry’s plays, ex boyfriend got pissed and released all the pics of him.


This is video of him in a play that was video tape on Saturday in the ATL… he talked about the pass 5 days and all the media he has been getting.



source

TI RERELEASES ALBUM FROM JAIL

Atlantic is set to rerelease TI's latest album with new cuts from Mary J as first single (video below), Ciara and The-Dream. Out August 18

JAY Z AND CIARA IN CONCERT IN CHICAGO

Got a love a performer who can go from a pop audience and then the hardcore hip hop audience and rock both equally.


Here Jigga mentioned Game, Dame, Jaz in freestyle/diss. See Game's response below where he goes in on "old azz jigga" and his "chick that's been around the block"

GAME DISS JAY Z AND BEYONCE

Is he trying to say Beyonce's a ho? More importantly how the heck do people know this dude in Madrid? It's all your fault 50.

IT'S OFFICIAL, AN STD AIN'T THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WITH A JUMP OFF

THE YOUNG GIRL CIARA

Ci is currently on tour in the US with Jay z and has been since the top of this month. The tour wraps next week. Thereafter she is doing a month tour with Britney in the US.

She was caught taking a quick trip back home to LA in between concerts.

CRAZY MJ TRIBUTE IN STOCKHOLM

CIARA CAMPAIGNS FOR EXPRESS

New Beyonce Video

PRINCE AND MJ AT A JAMES BROWN CONCERT

IN CASE THE LAST 150 TIMES WEREN'T ENOUGH

FIREWORKS GONE WRONG

STARS CONTINUE TO GIVE MJ HIS PROPS

PROOF WAYNE KNOCKED UP LAUREN LONDON?

IT'S THE KID

New 50!

PUFFY vs> HATERS

A QUINCY JONES BLOG

Like the world, last week I was devastated by the news that Michael Jackson had suddenly left the room. This blessed artist commanded the stage with the grace of an antelope, shattered recording industry records and broke down cultural boundaries around the world, yet remained the gentlest of souls.
Michael Jackson was a different kind of entertainer. A man-child in many ways, he was beyond professional and dedicated. Evoking Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr. and James Brown all at once, he’d work for hours, perfecting every kick, gesture and movement so that they came together precisely the way they were intended to. Together we shared the ’80s, achieving heights that I can humbly say may never be reached again and reshaped the music business forever.
For some reason I have had the honor of meeting young performers when they reach the age of 12. There was Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Tevin Campbell and, of course, Michael Jackson. I was fully aware of Michael and impressed by the achievemen ts that he’d reached with the Jackson Five, but it never crossed my mind that we would eventually work together. But as is always the case, divinity interceded into the process.
In 1978, Sidney Lumet pulled me kicking and screaming into doing the music for “The Wiz,” and in hindsight I’m so glad he did. As the scarecrow, Michael dove into the filming of “The Wiz” with everything that he had, not only learning his lines but those of everyone in the cast. Prior to filming, Michael and I were working at my home and he asked if I could help find him a producer to work with him on his first solo album from Epic.
At rehearsals with the cast, during the part where the scarecrow is pulling proverbs from his stuffing, Michael kept saying “So-Crates” instead of “Socrates.” After about the third time, I pulled him aside and told him the correct pronunciation. He looked at me with these big wide eyes and said, “Really?” and it was at that moment that I said, “Michael, I’d like to produce your album.”
It was that wonderment that I saw in his eyes that locked me in. I knew that we could go into completely unexplored territory, a place that as a jazz musician gave me goose bumps.
I pulled my “A-team” crew together, anchored by Rod Temperton, one of the best songwriters who has ever lived, and we embarked on making “Off the Wall.” I simply loved working with Michael. He was so shy he’d sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat there with my hands over my eyes with the lights off. We tried all kinds of tricks that I’d learned over the years to help him with his artistic growth, like dropping keys just a minor third to give him flexibility and a more mature range in the upper and lower registers, and more than a few tempo changes.
I also tried to steer him to songs with more depth, some of them about real relationships — we weren’t going to make it with ballads to rodents (i.e. “Ben”). And Seth Riggs, a leading vocal coach, gave him vigorous warm-up exercises to expand his top and bottom range by at least a fourth, which I desperately needed to get the vocal drama going. We approached that record like we were going into battle. “Off the Wa ll” would sell 10 million copies.
Anyone who tells you that they knew a record was going to be a big hit is a flat-out liar. We had no idea “Off the Wall” was going to be as successful as it was, but we were thrilled. Michael had moved from the realm of bubble-gum pop and planted his flag square in the heart of the musical pulse of the ’80s, but what came next, I don’t think any of us were ready for.
The ‘Thriller’ saga
The drama surrounding “Thriller” seemed to never end. As we were recording the album, Steven Spielberg asked me to do a storybook song with Michael for “E.T.” We were already behind schedule on “Thriller,” but great, no problem. The movie was a big hit, we loved Steven, and so, off to work we went with Rod Temperton and Marilyn and Alan Bergman writing the song. Naturally, of course, this would evolve into Steven wanting us to do an “E.T.” album.
Four months to complete “Thriller,” already behind schedule, no problem. Off to work we went. In any event, it all worked out . . . Michael and I won Grammys for the album, and it became a collector’s item.
With two months to get “Thriller” done, we dug in and really hit it. Michael, Rod, the great engineer Bruce Swedien and I had all spent so much time together by now that we had a shorthand, so moving quickly wasn’t a problem. I told Michael that we needed a black rock ‘n’ roll tune — a black “My Sharona” — and a begging tune for the album. He came back with “Beat It” and Rod came back with “The Lady in My Life.”
Rod also brought in “Thriller” and Michael sang his heart out on it. At one point during the session the right speaker burst into flames, which none of us had ever seen before. How’s that for a sign?
We finished the album at 9 a.m. the morning we needed to deliver the reference copy. We had three studios going all night long. Michael in one putting final touches on “Billie Jean,” Bruce in another, and Eddie Van Halen, who I brought in, in yet another recording his parts for “Beat It.”
We all gathered in Studio A to listen to the test pressing with this enormous anticipation. This was it, the eagerly anticipated fo llow-up to “Off the Wall.” And it sounded . . . terrible. After all of that great work we were doing, it wasn’t there. There was total silence in the studio, and one by one we walked across the hall for some alone time. We’d put too much material on the record. Michael was in tears.
We took two days off, and in the next eight days, we set about reshaping the album, mixing just one song a day. Rod cut a verse from “The Lady in My Life,” and we shortened the long, long intro to “Billie Jean,” something Michael hated to do because he said the intro “made him want to dance.”
MTV breakthrough
We delivered the album and watched “Billie Jean” — thanks to Michael’s debut performance of the moonwalk on the 25th anniversary of Motown special — “Beat It” and “Thriller” just explode, fueled in part by heavy video rotation on MTV. Prior to “Billie Jean,” MTV wasn’t playing videos with black artists. “Billie Jean,” “Beat It” and “Thriller” took us straight to the stratosphere. After those three videos, virtually every video on MTV was trying to emulate their style.
Michael, the music and MTV all went to the mountaintop. It was the perfect convergence of forces. In the music business, every decade you have a phenomenon. In the ’40s you had Sinatra, in the ’50s Elvis, in the ’60s the Beatles, in the ’70s the innovation of Dolby, despite the best efforts of Stevie Wonder and Elton John. In the ’80s you had Michael Jackson. For everyone from 8 to 80, he was the biggest entertainer on the planet. Followed up with “Bad” and the collective on “We Are the World,” we all made history together. We owned the ’80s and our souls would be connected forever.
Shortly after “Thriller” came out and simply chewed up everything in its way, I went to see Count Basie at the Palladium with Benny Carter and Ed Eckstine. Basie was like a father to me, having kind of adopted me when I was 13, and he wasn’t in the greatest shape. He was in a wheelchair and when he saw me, he said with a sense of pride, “Man, [what] you and Michael did, me and Duke would never even dream about nothin’ that big. We wouldn’t even dare to dream about it.” You can’t imagine how proud I felt, hearing that from one of my idols, not realizing that it would be the last time that I’d see him alive.
There will be a lot written about what came next in Mich ael’s life, but for me all of that is just noise. I promise you in 50, 75, 100 years, what will be remembered is the music. It’s no accident that almost three decades later, no matter where I go in the world, in every club and karaoke bar, like clockwork, you hear “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” “Wanna Be Starting Something,” “Rock With You” and “Thriller.”
In every language on the planet, from prison yards in the Philippines [Updated at 7:30 p.m.: An earlier version of this blog post incorrectly said the prison yards were in Thailand.] to Thrilltheworld.com, that will be the beautiful, grand legacy of Michael Jackson.
–Quincy Jones

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