Brown Sista

Rihanna’s single Umbrella made it’s worldwide debut this afternoon at 5pm. on her Official Website .The song features Jay-Z and is the first single from her June 5th. release Good Girl Gone Bad.Because I am not a Rihanna fan I don’t really know what to make of this song.I really can’t tell you whether her fans will like it not.It sounds nothing like any of the songs on her first two discs and it very beat heavy.It sound very much like a 1980’s rap record if you ask me.I can’t see this song flying up the charts as several of her previous singles did.It’s not that catchy, the lyrics are mediocre, Rihanna’s voice is weak and the production sounds cheap.In other words- it’s a hit.
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Poor Beyonce just can’t seem to catch a break these days.Forced to answer accusations that her new single ((Ring The Alarm)) is a direct response to Rihanna and rumors that she is too close to Jay-Z, Beyonce sent off a letter to Vibe.com explaining just why “Ring The Alarm” was chosen as the next single.Funny thing is, Beyonce never mentions the relationship between Jay and Rihanna, which is what the original Vibe article was all about.
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She’s famous for her fabulous figure - but after shedding two stone for a film role, Beyonce Knowles is desperate to get her Bootylicious curves back.
The 24-year-old singer admits to starving herself for months to drop from her normal size 12 to a scrawny size 8 for her latest movie Dreamgirls.
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Two years ago, she was just another Bajan girl with a dream. Now 18-year-old singer Rihanna is poised to become pop’s next superstar.

Eighteen-year-old Rihanna is lying on the backyard lawn of a private bungalow at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California, her arm artfully propping up her head. As a dozen or so people buzz in and out of her personal space, measuring the light, pushing a strand of hair from her forehead, touching up her lipstick, she remains joyful and completely unfazed, even though there’s a camera less than twelve inches from her face.

“Gorgeous, Rihanna!” coos the photographer while the pop sensation locks glances with her friend Dara, who’s watching from the patio. First, she crosses one of her penetrating, cat-shaped eyes, then the other, then both. Over the next several hours, she will have her hair reshaped into a tousled cascade of locks, sip Coca-Cola and nibble on potato chips and chicken wings (hot sauce on the side), all while chatting on the phone (which chirps with her own “Break It Off” or Beyoncé’s “Check on It” ringtone). Even though she has the number one song on the Billboard 100 chart (“SOS”), plus a sex-soaked video running in heavy rotation on MTV (“Unfaithful”), Rihanna is still just a playful, goofy teenager.
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Don’t act like you forgot; 1998 wasn’t that long ago. Before “Survivor” was saturating radios and Jay-Z had the “hottest chick in the game wearing his chain,” Destiny’s Child was four young, beautiful girls by the names of Beyonce, Kelly, Letoya and LeTavia. Singles like “No, No, No Pt. 2” and “Bills, Bills, Bills” were topping the charts with their alluring beats and catchy hooks, while adepty-harmonized vocals from the quartet pushed earned them multi-platinum record sales and a stronghold as one of the premier female groups of the era. But behind the scenes, the group wasn’t so melodious—Letoya and Latavia had disagreements with manager Matthew Knowles, and the two were eventually ousted from the group.
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Beyonce was in Los Angeles over the weekend choosing the members of her all-female touring band as rumors of a possible split with boyfriend Jay-Z began surfacing on the Internet.

After simultaneous nationwide auditions were held in four different cities, Beyonce and her dad/manager Mathew Knowles made their final selections at Sony Studios Saturday. The pair helped to select the nine lucky women who will perform with the singer to promote the Sept. 5 release of her new album, “B-Day.”

“I wanted to get together a group of fierce, talented, hungry, beautiful women and form an all-girl band,” she told MTV after the band was picked. “I’m all about female empowerment. I’m all about pushing the envelope. I know it’s my responsibility to do something different. I said, ‘I want a band, I want something different.’ I had worldwide auditions; people flew in from Atlanta, Houston, Israel, all over the world.”
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“I got a mean idea, so look for it,” JD says about planned duet on Jackson’s 20 Years Old.
Earlier this month, Jermaine Dupri demonstrated he’s a true showman by bringing out Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson during his set at the Summer Jam radio festival in New Jersey. Now, Dupri is thinking about how to pull the ultimate trump card and get

In April, Carey hinted that she was very open to the collaboration (see “Mariah Down To Work With Janet; Eve’s Loss Is Busta’s Gain”). “He never talked to me about that, but if Jermaine has a concept, we should go and write something,” she told MTV Radio. “I love Janet. I’ve been a big fan of Janet since ‘Con-tro-ol!’ ”
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