WEDNESDAY'S FAB R&B SCOOP ...

Alicia Keys is pictured on the July Issue of Vanity Fair alongside rapper Jay-Z. No, they are not doing a musical collaboration but they are on the cover because this issue will focus on the problem of AIDS in Africa:



The African-themed July issue of Vanity Fair is being guest edited by music superstar Bono, and it is carrying more than twice the number of advertising pages as the July 2006 issue. Bono and Vanity Fair editor in chief Graydon Carter plan to release the magazine with multiple numbers of covers - perhaps as many as 20, all shot by Annie Leibovitz. Sources say the covers will all reflect Africa and its supporters in some way.

I've had this bonus Rihanna track called Haunted for 2 few days now but it got lost on my comp so now that I've retrieved it here it is:



I posted Cry a couple of days ago which is a UK and Japanese bonus and here is ANOTHER Japanese bonus track from Good Girl Gone Bad called Haunted. And just like Cry, this is yet another nice track. Check it out. Rihanna's new album was released this week, and her album sales are predicted to go straight through the roof especially since she is breaking records with new track Umbrella. Somewhere behind a MacDonald's counter, Teairra Mari must be crying herself a river as she watches the little kiddies snacking on their happy meals bopping their heads to Umbrella.

And here is her Complex cover in HQ:


Hot!!! I posted the photoshoot to this yesterday.


Here are two new high quality pictures from the video shoot for R. Paedy's new single Same Girl featuring Usher. Unsurprisingly, the track is quickly climbing the charts and is the 2nd single from R. Paedy's latest LP Double Up:



Two of the biggest male stars in R&B have put aside their ego's to actually record and shoot a vid together. Still, I am waiting on that Rihanna and Beyonce collabo. You know that will be 10 times hotter.

Kelly Rowland was spotted out and about in the mean streets of London this week, doing promotion for her new album Miss Kelly:





Kelly even did a performance of her latest track Like This on UK Breakfast show GMTV which you can now watch over at That Grape Juice.

And here are some pictures of Kelly at the JAMN 94.5 FM - Summer Jam 2007 in which she performed:



Giddy up!!! OK OK I'm kidding. They ARE nice pics.

"I look like a Crackhead" singer Blu Cantrell was spotted at Rihanna's MTV Movie Awards Afterparty held in honour of Giant:



Hot mess as usual. And get a damn job or is she paid for putting in irrelevant appearances at gigs/parties when she's not doing shit? She can go back to stripping like she did in Blacktail just over 10 years ago. It's not like we aint seen the bush before anyway ....

R&B Crumbs

R&B artists on Bad Boy are supposedly bringing it this fall. B5 are scheduled to drop their new album 18th September 2007. Cassie is scheduled to drop her new album in October. And Danity Kane are expected to drop their new album in December. Check out this vid of Bad Boy plugging Cassie's and Danity Kane's upcoming new albums as well as future projects from other artists on Bad Boy:




Mario Winans and Cherri Dennis also got their plugs. If you can't see the emdedded player, CLICK HERE. Stay tuned!

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