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Jay-Z "Drives" in 2007 with a New Hustle

2007-04-05T17:52:00.000-07:00

Jay-Z continues his takeover of the corporate world by lunging into the auto market. Hov has teamed up with the world's leading automaker, General Motors, to usher in a concept...

Jay-Z "Drives" in 2007 with a New Hustle

Jermaine Dupri Promises Mariah, Janet Duet On New Album

2006-10-22T19:11:00.000-07:00

When I did Usher's My Way album, the last record I created was 'You Make Me Wanna....' Bow Wow's next album is on Dupri's to-do list, as are records from 3LW, JoJo, Ludacris, Young Jeezy, Frankie J, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Nelly, Usher ("We gonna start on his record at the end of the year") and Mariah Carey once she gets off tour.

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Jermaine Dupri Promises Mariah, Janet Duet On New Album

Justin's hanky-panky must end!

2006-10-10T08:47:00.000-07:00

Dear Justin Timberlake,
I?m going to be quick and to-the-point about this: Lose the mankerchief. I don?t care if you?re wearing it like a bank robber from Ye Olde West, or a luxury-yacht owner from Boca Raton, it?s got to stop. Seriously. The only person who can successfully rock a mankerchief is George Hamilton, and that?s because he?s nearly 70, and is deeply tanned. So unless you?re secretly trying to win a spot on Season 4 of Dancing With the Stars (where you and Usher will stage an epic battle that'll make Lopez-Lawrence look like a grade-school talent show), keep those unsavory squares of cloth in your pocket. Unless you feel a really big sneeze coming on. Thank you. (And thanks to Dlisted for the heads up.)
-Michael Slezak

Justin's hanky-panky must end!

I Can't Work Out What Yr So Bitter About

2006-07-16T11:43:00.000-07:00

This could be long game thinking -- obviously there's a decent market for artists like Lady Sov, M.I.A., and The Streets, and if those artists don't score massive hits of their own in the short term, they make help usher in another wave of artists in the not-far-off-future who might score a really big hit on the foundation of a growing subculture.

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I Can't Work Out What Yr So Bitter About

Usher Hoofs It To Broadway

2006-07-14T18:54:00.000-07:00

Forget molding himself after Michael Jackson. Usher's latest career move is more in line with Richard Gere.
The five-time Grammy winner is set to make his Broadway debut, signing on to play slickly conniving lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running musical "Chicago" for a nearly six-week run beginning this August.

Usher Hoofs It To Broadway

Media Post-It Tim Arango Is Looking For A TV Gig

2006-06-22T21:57:00.000-07:00

And just because Arango is a News Corp. peon doesn't mean Fox News is letting its revolving door usher in a TV nobody.

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Media Post-It Tim Arango Is Looking For A TV Gig

Nibbly Things: Is Lindsay Lohan Insecure?

2006-06-21T19:41:00.000-07:00

Page Six reports that Lohan's bodyguard has been known to usher away young beauties who sit at her banquette, even if they're with her friends.

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Nibbly Things: Is Lindsay Lohan Insecure?

Nibbly Things: Bruce Willis Allegedly Assaults Paparazzo

2006-06-15T16:59:00.000-07:00

Brendan Fraser (who could actually lose a few pounds as well) is now said to be set for the role. [ Page Six ] Lloyd Grove doesn't seem to like Keith Olbermann that much. [ Lowdown ] Usher may be back with stylist-turned-girlfriend, Tameka Foster?

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Nibbly Things: Bruce Willis Allegedly Assaults Paparazzo

Article : In Brief: Usher, Mayer

2006-05-16T22:55:00.001-07:00

In Brief: Usher, Mayer
USHER's US Records will make its debut next month with the release
of the soundtrack for In the Mix , a movie in which Usher
stars as a DJ who saves a mafia...

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In Brief: Usher, Mayer

Article : In Brief: Usher, Kelly

2006-05-16T22:55:00.000-07:00

In Brief: Usher, Kelly
USHER will headline the Project Restart concert to aid Hurricane
Katrina and Hurricane Rita victims. The show will take place in the
singer's hometown of Atlanta on October 9th. Proceeds from the
benefit will go to the Project Restart Objective, a charity that is
providing temporary housing for those who lost their homes in the
storms . . . R. KELLY will release Trapped in the
Closet...

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In Brief: Usher, Kelly

Usher

2006-03-26T08:45:00.000-08:00

About Usher

Usher Raymond IV (born October 14, 1978), known commonly as Usher , is an Americansinger, dancer, songwriter and actor. He has been a popular R&B performer since the mid-late 1990s. By the 2000s, Raymond was among the most popular performers in his genre and achieved significant sales and chart success from his albums and singles.

After a moderately noticed self-titled debut, Raymond stormed the charts with his enormously successful 1997 sophomore album, My Way, which featured the hit singles: "You Make Me Wanna", "Nice and Slow", and the title track. Its follow-up, 8701, included hits such as "U Remind Me", "U Got It Bad", and "U Don't Have to Call". Usher won a Grammy Award for "Best Male R&B Vocal" in the Grammy Awards of 2001 for "U Remind Me" off his 8701 album. His 2004 album Confessions sold 1.1 million copies in the United States in its first week of release, selling the greatest number of records in one week for any R&B artist, and has topped the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic. The first single from the album "Yeah!" featuring Ludacris and Lil Jon has topped the US Billboard Hot 100, European, Australian, World, US and World R&B charts, World Adult, Norwegian, Swiss, Dutch and the UK charts in 2004, it also reached number 2 in Canada and number 3 in Italy. Confessions shipped 9 million copies making it the best selling CD in the United States for the year 2004.