Lowdown for Monday July 6, 2009 Michael Jackson fans will find out today via e-mail if they were the chosen ones to attend the King of Pop’s memorial service. About 1.6 million people registered online over the weekend to get one of the tickets. I hear in the first hour after the tickets details were announced, the website got more than 500 million hits.
And anybody thinking they can bootleg the tickets to go to Michael Jackson’s memorial service, forget about it. Organizers designed a wristband that...
Lowdown for Thursday July 2nd Ok, let me give you the latest on Michael Jackson. His will has been filed in a Los Angeles court and it mentions just about everybody but his ex wife, Deborah Rowe. Debbie, you gets nothing!! His mom, of course, gets guardianship of his three kids and Diana Ross will serve as an alternate.
His estate is worth more than $500 million—the bulk of that is in a music catalogue. Speaking of Michael’s music, he’s still ruling the world. He currently has the top nine...read more...
Lowdown for Wednesday, July 1st The King of Pop hasn’t been dead a week, and let the crazy stories begin. First, “The Sun” is reporting there are already people claiming that Michael faked his death and is still alive. There’s even a website dedicated to the conspiracy—www.michaeljacksonsightings.com.
Another site claims that MJ had been planning his fake death for a year and a half and is hiding in Eastern Europe. Ok!! Enough of that. On to the for real, for real…read more...
LOWDOWN FOR WEDNESDAY JUNE 30, 2009 In case you didn’t notice, Chris Brown wasn’t at the BET Awards. The word is Jay-Z still has a bad taste in his mouth with Chris and him beating up Rihanna so he told BET execs that he and Beyonce would pull out of the show if Chris was allowed to perform. Now nobody was tripping when Don Cornelius with his wife-beating booty presented the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Speaking of the BET Awards, the network is taking a beating for letting Lil’ Wayne perform his very...read more...
LOWDOWN for Monday June 29, 2009 Beyonce was the BIG winner last night at the BET Awards in Los Angeles. B took Best Female R&B Artist and Video of the Year for “Single Ladies” home!! Ne-Yo won Best Male R&B Artist and Lil Wayne took the trophy for Best Rap Artist. Show host Jamie Foxx also took home an award for Best New Collaboration for “Blame It” with T-Pain. The show was dedicated to the fallen icon Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson’s personal physician who was by the...read more...
LOWDOWN for Friday June 26, 2009 Michael Jackson died yesterday afternoon from cardiac arrest at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
He was 50. Jackson went into cardiac arrest at the home he was renting with his three children in Los Angeles at about 1:00pm. In a statement made by his brother Jermaine last night, his personal physician was apparently with him at the time. Paramedics responded and rushed him to UCLA Medical...read more...
Lowdown for June 25, 2009 Chris Brown has people talking again. A new track he’s recorded, “It’s Not My Fault,” hit the internet yesterday. So ya’ll know people are assuming that it’s about Ri Ri, but the song could have been inspired by any of Breezy’s other chicks!!!
Speaking of a new track…Big Boi from Outkast is at work on a new solo album called Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Big Boi says that Chico Dusty was his father’s...read more...
Uh-oh, R. Kelly caught up in another scandal—this one in Africa. TMZ.com says an unidentified woman is accusing R of helping her con more than 50 people out of millions of dollars. The woman would supposedly trick people into investing in a R Kelly concert in Africa that would never happen. She would then deposit the money into R’s account. The woman’s facing more than 60 counts of fraud and authorities want to...read more...
LOWDOWN FOR TUESDAY JUNE 23, 2009 ‘Yeah, I did it—I beat up Rihanna.’ Words from Chris Brown while in court yesterday for his preliminary hearing. Chris copped a guilty plea. So now he’s a convicted felon. He won’t have to do jail time for his crime, but he did get five years probation, 180 days of community service, will have to take a domestic violence class. He and Rihanna will have to stay at least 50 yards apart except at entertainment industry events where it’s only 10 yards. The judge...more...
Lowdown for Monday June 22, 2009 It goes down today in an LA courtroom when Rihanna testifies against her ex-boo Chris Brown! The preliminary hearing will be closed to the public and the media wont’ even be allowed to even enter the courtroom. Of course is in court to answer to felony charges he beat down Rihanna back in February.
Speaking of Rihanna, you know she’s been seen a lot lately his with Canadian rapper Drake who says they’re just friends. Anyway, Drake is expected to announce this week...
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