Like every time the Grammy's come on, someone who made an impact in the music industry passed away. I mean we are reminded about the tragic death of Whitney Houston. She died on February 11, 2012. Now one of the greatest jazz musicians in the world passed away.
Al Jarreau, the voice behind several hits and the winner of seven Grammy Awards passed away early Sunday morning at the age of 76.
On his official website, the news was confirmed. He died in Los Angeles. He was hospitalized for exhaustion and it forced him off his tour. He would cancel his tour dates and semi-retire from touring.
He death was preceded with family and friends present.
He was a product of Milwaukee. He sang for fun growing up and didn't pursue a music career. He decided to jump into show business when he graduated from college.
Before his death, he apologized to his fans.
"With complete sorrow, Al Jarreau must retire from touring. He is thankful for his 50 years traveling the world in ministry through music --- and for everyone who shared this with him --- his faithful audience, the dedicated musicians and so many other who have supported his effort."
He is survived by his wife Susan and their son, Ryan.
Our late thread is dedicated to Al Jarreau and we mourn his loss.
Pharrell Williams and Helen Lasichanh welcome triplets to the family.
Mega producer and reality television star Pharrell Williams and his wife welcome triplets to the family. The couple have a son, Rocket who is eight years old.
Helen Lasichanh had given Pharrell the best gift in the world. The former "The Voice" coach confirms to Vanity Fair that he and Helen are "happy and healthy!"
Pharrell and Helen got married in October 2013. In September 2016, the couple confirmed a pregnancy when she stepped out showing a baby bump.
Right now, Pharrell is up for an Academy Award for his "Hidden Figures" soundtrack. He was nominated previously for "Happy".
The queen of pop and R&B confirms she is pregnant. This time she is expecting twins.
On her official Instagram page, Beyonce announced that she is proud to be carrying two new additions to her family.
"We have been blessed two times," said Beyonce.
Beyonce known also as Queen Bey is married to RocNation media mogul and rapper Jay-Z.
They have a daughter named Blue Ivy.
The world reacts to the news of pop music's biggest star with joy and the trolls of course dog on her for being a vehement supporter of Hillary Clinton and Black Lives Matter.
Chrisette Michele faces a backlash for going to the fuhrer's inaugural.
Motown artist Chrisette Michele is facing a backlash for her performance for the fuhrer.
She didn't perform for Donald J. Trump. However she did perform at the inaugural balls.
Many of her family and friends have disowned her and her fans are calling for a boycott of her music because she decided to perform on the grounds of unity.
The singer lost her spot with director Spike Lee. He nixed the idea of using her songs on his Netflix series.
Of course, many also threw death threats her way.
The singer even said that Trump ignored her after the performance.
"Originally I was supposed to perform directly after his first speech, and I had done that with Barack Obama before, so I was used to that kind of experience. And the woman who organized the event came and told me, 'Now you're going to go first and he's going to go after you'. I looked her in the eye and said, 'My family has disowned me. If you decide to Google me, you'll see that America is writing about me in their newspapers. I'm the black poster child for discord right now, and he's not going to shake my hand?' So no, I didn't get to meet him."
Michele said that the Women's March is an example of the power that drives her to sing. She supports the march.
Well one face I don't have to look forward to seeing is the aging Black conservative agitator who once was a man's fantasy girl. The political agitator and actress Stacey Dash got fired out the cannon.
Dash, George Will, Cal Thomas and Ed Roĺlins were loaded into a cannon and fired out of it.
The folks over at the Trump supporting Fox News Channel decided that these agitators will not have their contracts renewed. Their services are no longer needed at Fox.
Dash, 50 caused a great deal of controversy during her three years at the network. She had said some foul shit about Jay-Z, Beyonce, former president Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Prince, Jesse Williams, Jada Pinkett Smith and Colin Kaepernick.
She was a huge supporter of the fuhrer.
They hired a white extremist named Nigel Farage as a contributor to the network.
Black Twitter is enjoying every moment of this. They say that karma came a bit this beeyotch in the ass.
Remember former Fox president Roger Ailes said that she was the "black girl"
Dash was best known for being in the movie and television series Clueless. Also had a role in Mo' Money and was a video vixen in Rick Ross, Kanye West and The Game music videos.
Dash is officially a washed up celebrity for those who didn't know. And her politics are like Sarah Palin, tired and played out.
I didn't watch the Dick Clark's Rockin New Year's on ABC. I enjoy the antics of Ryan Seacrest, Jenny McCarthy and Fergie. But sometimes, I just get tired of watching celebrities and couples making out at the stroke of midnight. I get tired of staying up to celebrate another year of being single, having lack of trust towards people and the disgust of the fuhrer coming to power in less than 18 days.
And I happened to miss the entertainment scandal of 2017.
Mariah Carey had another "break-break down."
The junk food media criticized her performance at the Rockin New Years as terrible.
Accusations of lip-syncing surround her and she claimed that ABC and Dick Clark Productions sabotaged her.
Dick Clark Productions slammed the accusation as absurd.
The New York Times report that the performance was a trainwreck. Malfunctions left her at a loss vocally during her hit song, "Emotions," struggling to reach notes and to sync the lyrics and music.
The trouble continued when she gave up on another her best known numbers, "We Belong Together," while a recording of the song continued to play, a confirmation that she had been lip-syncing.
This comes as no surprise that in July 2001, Carey had a nervous breakdown and was nearly suicidal.
The Family Struggle. The King of the South is losing his Queen.
Clifford "T.I." Harris and Tameka "Tiny" Cottle-Harris are splitting up. Harris, 36 and Cottle-Harris, 41 have been together for years but married for six. The relationship was a part of this junk food media obsession with reality television. They had two reality shows together.
T.I. is a rapper and business mogul. He released nine albums and is known by many in Atlanta either as T.I.P. and the King of The South. T.I. signed a deal with Roc Nation to distribute his album through Tidal.
T.I. created Grand Hustle (known Hustle Gang) and has signed acts like Travis $cott, B.o.B and Young Dro. He also has a publishing deal with Australian rapper/model Iggy Azalea.
Tiny is a singer, reality television star and socialite. She was a part of the 1990s group Xscape. The group was apart of the golden years of hip-hop and R&B. They signed onto So So Def Recordings and released three albums on the label.
Tiny wants custody of the younger two sons and daughter.
Both entertainers had run ins with the law. T.I. famously became an icon of hip-hop while he served a three year bid in the iron college. He beaten a 20 year bid in the federal time out for being a felon under disability. The Feds came to his suburban Atlanta home four hours before he was supposed to perform at the BET Hip-Hop Awards. He said that moment almost "killed him".
He cut a deal to stay out of federal time out. He took a few in the iron college and remained on in-house for the next five years. He would get married to Tiny in 2010 after he got out of the halfway.
Tiny has been arrested for having more than an ounce in the ride and allegations of rock and snow.
T.I. also has done community work, done acting, started a charity for troubled youth and film company. He also was known to help preventing two men from committing suicide.
T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle is still on the air despite the two are ending the marriage.
Could it be a publicity stunt or another attempt at trying to "shock and awe" the fans?
Tiny already threw the papers in the face of the rapper.
In court documents, she revealed their "marriage is irretrievably broken with no hope of reconciliation." which means that she's at the end of her rope. --- More on the alleged guy in the bottom.
Hollywood Life also reported that Tiny had enough. "Tiny is no Mother Theresa, but she dealt with T.I.'s crap for way too long," a source close to the former pair tells the gossip site.
T.I. and Floyd Mayweather are feuding over the allegations of Tiny having an affair with the boxer. Mayweather claims that T.I. is the one cheating and he knows the women.
"She stayed longer because of the five kids, but T.I. took her for granted and just thought she would always be there and she didn't want to be stuck in that rut forever."
Tiny wants custody of the younger children: King C'Andre, Major Philant and Heiress Diana.
She also requested for properties acquired during the marriage be split equally, but wants T.I. to be held responsible for the debts acquired during the relationship due to his "high earning ability."
The couple does have four other children. Both are from other relationships.
T.I. hasn't commented on the divorce.
Tiny was rumored to be in a relationship with semi-retired boxer and media mogul Floyd Mayweather. T.I. hate this guy with a passion.
The two squared off in 2014 and recently. Let it be known, that Floyd Mayweather is reactionary as a boxer and does flex a 95 mph right hook. T.I. can swing 85 mph left hook.
Conservative outrage will continue to linger even when Fuhrer Donald J. Trump takes over. As the transition team prepares for the inaugural balls, they finding hard to get some major talent to show up.
With the fuhrer grabbing the world by the pussy, many actors and singers are distancing themselves from the balls. Of course, the conservatives are bemoaning about it.
Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, Beyonce, Garth Brooks, Elton John, Andrea Bocelli and other mainstream A-listers turned down a request to perform at the ball.
Even some B-list performers are cancelling and bailing out at the last minute.
The Radio City Rockettes are scheduled to perform and Broadway isn't happy about this.
Matter of fact, some of the Rockettes aren't happy about it as well. One of them voiced frustration that she's obligated to perform.
Jackie Evancho and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are confirmed performers. DJ Chris Styles of SiriusXM's hip-hop/R&B station The Heat will deejay at one event. He hasn't confirmed any changes yet.
Fuhrer Trump vents off to social media.
The so-called "A" list celebrities are all wanting tixs to the inauguration, but look what they did for Hillary, NOTHING. I want the PEOPLE!
Is Nicki seeing Zoovier? The rumor is Fetty Wap and Nicki Minaj are dating.
The rumor going around the internet, singer/rapper Nicki Minaj is dating New Jersey rapper Fetty Wap. This came a few days after we just reported that the Pink Friday rapper dropped Meeky Mouse!
Meek Mill a Philadelphia rapper was roundly criticized for not standing up to Nicki's labelmate Drake during the "Great Pop Music Feud of 2015".
Hollywood Life reports that Nicki and Fetty apparently have a "close relationship" and fans are freaking out over the news.
Mediatakeout also have reported that the two may have developed a romance while working on a project.
All of this is rumor.
I don't want to get your hopes up over the possibility that a Roman Zoovier relationship being true.
Anyway peep out Fetty Wap's new single for our Late Thread.
Divas take a photo op. The fuhrer and bitch boi Kanye West meet.
The meeting of two minds. One is a controversial rapper/producer/reality television star/bitch boi who married a controversial reality star who got famous off a sex tape. The other is a controversial billionaire racist/sexist/pussy grabbing/immature reality television star who will be the first Fuhrer of The United States.
After being spotted donning a shade of blonde, Kanye West emerges from his mental breakdown even more nuttier. West and wife Kim Kardashian have suffered setbacks. Wifey was robbed of her jewels and tied up in the bathroom while vacationing in Paris. She has taken a break from reality television and social media.
West had a bipolar breakdown. He was in Los Angeles getting treatment. When he left the hospital he hopped on a plane and headed to the second White House in Manhattan to meet with fuhrer in waiting Donald J. Trump.
The guy who went off script by saying "George Bush doesn't care about Black people" is buddying with the guy who once demanded President Barack Obama show his birth certificate.
Trump is in a honeymoon period. He hasn't gotten used to the responsibilities of being in charge of a country with 330 million people. About 1/2 of the country hates him and his Christian extremist partner Mike Pence.
This photo op on Tuesday gives the impression that he's desperately trying to reach out to Black voters.
West even teased the idea that he could be the next fuhrer in eight years. We all know that Trump is likely going to win reelection based on how weak and spineless the Democrats are.
I mean he pulled at least 10 percent or more of the vote.
I didn't vote for him.
I didn't buy Kanye West's album or even wasted time downloading it.
John Legend who supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was not happy about the photo op.
West had went after former mentor Jay-Z at a concert and bashed Queen Bey.
Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny and Brittany O'Grady star in Fox's STAR. The Lee Daniels drama is greenlight for eight episodes and it features Queen Latifah and Lenny Kravitz.
Fox greenlights a new Lee Daniels drama called Star. It features the newcomers Jude Demorest, Ryan Destiny and Brittany O'Grady as three young women who want to become singers no matter the price.
Lee Daniels and co-producer Tom Donaghy wrote this drama about a tale of the music business and how it's not all easy for the gifted.
Three newcomers who auditioned for the roles.
Star played by Demorest is a street smart woman who was brought up through the foster care system and decides to take control of her destiny. Star gets in touch with her sister Simone (played by O'Grady) and her best friend from social media Alexandra (played by Destiny) and they take a roadtrip to Atlanta to become superstars.
It also features rapper/singer/actress Queen Latifah as Carlotta Brown, the owner of an Atlanta beauty salon who becomes a surrogate mother to the three young women. She's highly religious and doesn't approve of their musical ambitions.
The series is a backdoor pilot from the hit musical drama Empire.
The series will air during the Empire break and if its a success, we'll see more of Star.
The official premiere will be on January 4th. Are you looking to be the next STAR?
We already put one of them inside the White House.
Although E! Network says that production will resume shortly, I won't be surprised. The main attraction is probably leaving the show and it will lead to collapse of a longtime favorite junk food media show.
E! Network may eventually announce the news that Keeping Up With The Kardashians will be cancelled after Season 12. The news isn't hardly a surprise but given how this was a dominate force in the junk food media, it's a cautionary tale of what happens when the cameras are focused on your daily life.
In October, Kim Kardashian West was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. This happened a few hours after she posted on social media her plans, her property and her lackluster of knowledge to the area.
The robbers made off with over $10 million in property and tied the reality television agitator up and sacked her in the bathroom.
Since the robbery, she fired her bodyguard and publicist for the incident. She had not posted on social media since October 2nd and hasn't made any public appearances. Even on her birthday.
Her husband, rapper/producer/bitch boi Kanye West isn't doing any better. His album The Life of Pablo wasn't his masterpiece. He had a huge fallout with many in the rap community.
West has praised the controversial billionaire/racist/sexist/pussy grabbing/immature/reality television manchild who is about to your next president.
West has attacked Wiz Khalifa, Amber Rose, Jay-Z, Queen Bey, President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Kid Cudi and his fans before he had a nervous breakdown.
West postponed his concert tour while he is being treated.
When I tuned into SiriusXM's The Groove, one familiar voice was often a fixture on the 24/7 classic R&B and Funk station. It was Colonel Abrams. Tonight we learned that he passed away at the age of 67.
We'll do a Late Thread in honor of Colonel Abrams.
SoulTracks.com says that it was nearly a year ago that they reported that Abrams was suffering badly from diabetes and was financially strapped by the illness.
The Detroit-born, Manhattan raised singer began playing both piano and guitar while still quite young. By the mid 1970s he became part of the band Heavy Impact. But it was nearly a decade later that Abrams really made a name for himself with the big hit “Music Is the Answer.” It began a string of dance hits that capitalized on the electronic sounds that were popular in the mid 80s, and included “The Truth,” “Over and Over,” “I’m Not Gonna Let You,” and his biggest song, the dancelicious international hit, “Trapped.”
Soul Tracks Also writes that Abrams continued to chart on the Dance and R&B charts into the mid-90s, and performed around the world into the new century. He also formed his own Colonel Records and released music sporadically through the early part of this decade.
Unfortunately and tragically, by December of 2015, Abrams was quite ill and homeless, and his friends began a crowdfunding campaign to help him pay for his medical treatments.
Steve Harvey will host a reboot of It's Showtime at The Apollo.
The comedian/game show host/media mogul Steve Harvey hasn't stopped the success. The Original King of Comedy is a busy man. He's taking the title from the disgraced Black everyman Bill Cosby.
Harvey is heading back to hosting duties for special run It's Showtime at The Apollo.
It's a special event on Fox and it's set air on December 5 at 8pm. It will air another hour special in early 2017.
Steve Harvey is the host of Family Feud (and ABC's Celebrity Family Feud). Family Feud is the game show in which two families compete in a series of questions for big prizes. He has hosted the show for six years and still the host. He tapes the shows in Atlanta.
He is the host of Steve Harvey, a daytime syndicated talk show. The show is on many CW and Fox affiliates. He tapes his syndicated show in Chicago.
He is the host of The Steve Harvey Morning Show which is heard on many radio stations across the country. He does his show live from Chicago. He occasionally heads to Atlanta to his radio show when he is doing Family Feud. He has a home in both Chicago and Atlanta.
He is the host of Little Big Shots on NBC. He team up with Ellen DeGeneres to make a youth talent show. It's been greenlight for another season in the summer.
He is the host of Miss Universe pageant. This is the most prestige beauty pageant. He will continue hosting duties until 2019. The next one will be hosted by the Philippines. The pageant was sponsored by the controversial billionaire/racist/sexist/pussy grabbing/reality television star who will be your next president.
Steve Harvey is the author of wildly popular books Act Like a Lady and Think Like a Man. The books were greenlighted into a motion picture.
The movie Think Like a Man became a successful movie and sequel. A third sequel is in the works.
Will Kiki Sheppard and the Sandman return to give Steve a hand?
The stress of publicity has both Kanye West and wife Kim Kardashian West going to the medical ward. I guess Kid Cudi isn't the only one suffering from suicidal thoughts.
Yeezy may have dabbled with the snow and spazzed out. His publicist denies that he's drugging.
They publicly said that he's "bipolar" and he's just real "sensitive" on the ordeals of his wife.
The controversial rapper/producer/bitch boi Kanye West had a nervous breakdown after he attacked Jay-Z and Queen Bey for not being on his side. He also told fans in Sacramento that he didn't vote but he would be willing to give the fuhrer a chance.
West canceled the shows after he had to be rushed to the hospital for undisclosed reasons.
After all, his wife was jacked up in Paris and hasn't been on social media since. I read that she was going to have a comeback ceremony. I guess that was scrapped.
There's trouble in West Kardashian and I am assuming that Yeezy might want out.
Who knows what's going on in the mind of Kanye West?
I believe he was robbed of his brain cells and they're holding ransom to them.
In the late thread, we'll pay tribute to soul singer Sharon Jones. We just learned she died of pancreatic cancer. Jones was the leader of the soul group The Dap Kings.
The band announced the tragic news tonight.
Sharon Jones passed away. She was the lead singer of The Dap-Kings.
Jones was born in North Augusta, South Carolina and was the youngest of six children. Her parent gave her motivation. As she was a regular at the church, Sharon would enter talent shows and try out for bands as a background vocalist. While she was dreaming of being a singer, she spent days watching the interns at Rikers Island and being an armored car guard for money loads.
Sharon would get her break in the 1990s. In 1996, she would got a chance to break into the music scene with her 2002 debut Dap Dipping with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.
She was nominated for a Grammy in 2014. Sharon and her group's last album Give the People What They Want was a critically acclaimed album.
Throwback of the night. It's a song from then Motown act Horace Brown.
The song "One for the Money". His hit from the mid-90s.
When you're down, get yourself up! Don't let this controversial billionaire/racist/sexist/reality television star winning the election bring you down. Let your anger turn into activism. I mean let it be known that you're American and you want your country back!
You don't tolerate racism, bigotry and hate.
Now Republicans will experience the wrath of progressives and Democrats who are fucking tired of obstruction towards President Barack Obama.
I warn the Democrats. Don't go soft on the incoming president. Treat him and his family like they've did the Obamas.
Find out where Republicans are holding town halls. Make sure you get your facts together and then shout them down like the Tea Party did to the Democrats.
Make your voice great again. Get out there and protest the Republicans and their standard-bearer.
"One for the Money. Two for the show. Three to get ready! Here we go!"
Here's one of my favorite songs from The Gap Band.
It's the single "Party Train".
Don't be discourage about the Donald Trump victory. Celebrate that now it's Republicans who will face the wrath of progressives seething with vengeance.
I feel the need to give you some honest listening while we are dealing with the disaster that's coming to Washington, DC in January. I will do my best to give you my honest take on the issues in my community, my country and of course the corrupt Donald Trump ass kissing junk food media.
I want to be the fierce opposition to the reality television star who is slated to become the 45th President of the United States.
I want to make sure that we're spreading the honest discussion about how to take back Congress and the 2020 presidency. Right now I have no suitable candidate from the Democratic Party capable of stopping Trump.
It's gonna be a tough 4 or 8 years of dealing with the oldest living president. He represents the party of White people and old farts.
The Democratic Party nominated Barack Obama twice. He became the first African American president. He managed to serve two terms as the President of the United States. Now, he's passing the baton to his predecessor.
Today, could be a historical moment in history. The Democratic Party nominated the first woman to represent their party. And today Hillary Clinton could become the first woman president.
In Philadelphia, the president, Clinton and Jon Bon Jovi came together for a rally. They had her husband former president Bill Clinton, daughter Chelsea, First Lady Michelle Obama and the Boss himself Bruce Springsteen aid their rally.
Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen together with Hillary Clinton.
Clinton very upbeat after the FBI distraction. The FBI found no wrongdoing in the Clinton server.
Clinton was nominated in Philadelphia after a brutal primary fight against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). He was the most formidable challenger she ever had. He forced Clinton to take a hard left stance on most issues and is facing increased pressure to keep her word.
Donald Trump and his allies are hoping to pull an upset against Clinton.
