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JIM JONES: NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF A&R AT KOCH RECORDS

Rapper Jim Jones is stepping back in to the corporate music world by becoming Vice President of A&R at Koch Records. Jim previously served as President of A&R at Warner Music but was later relieved of his duties due to poor performance. But don’t watch that! My Jim Jim has been given a second chance and this time I know he will flourish in this new role. Jim said in a released statement:   “It feels good to know that the hard work []

UK NEWS: PRINCE HARRY’S RACIST TERM SPARKS ANGER

Harry and Ahmed Raza Khan Oh dear, oh dear… the proverbial has hit the fan now! SMH Via BBC News Prince Harry’s racist remark about a Pakistani member of his army platoon has prompted widespread criticism. The prince issued an apology after the News of the World published a video diary in which he calls one of his then Sandhurst colleagues a “Paki”. Politicians and Muslim groups are among those to have condemned the prince’s remarks. Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg said the words []

UK NEWS: PRINCE HARRY APOLOGISES FOR RACIST REMARKS

Via BBC News Prince Harry apologises for using offensive language to describe an Asian member of his army platoon. The News of the World said it had a video of the army lieutenant calling a colleague a “Paki” while pretending to make a phonecall to the Queen. A statement from St James Palace said he did so three years ago as a nickname about a friend and without any malice. The video reportedly shows Harry while still an officer cadet at Sandhurst military []

NEW MUSIC: 50 CENT – ‘PLAY THIS ON THE RADIO’

Apparently ”Play This On The Radio’ is a ‘diss track’ aimed at Lil Wayne…. (YAWN) Yes ole Fiddy is back at it again, taking shots at his fellow artists, and will drop his forthcoming album ‘Before I Self Destruct’ sometime this year… provided it’s release doesn’t get pushed back to December 2011. Your thoughts please……

UK MUSIC NEWS: X FACTOR STARS SHORTCHANGED ON TOUR

  X Factor runners up JLS X Factor creator and entertainment mogul Simon Cowell is no fool! This news should not come as a surprise to any of us. Via The London Paper STARS of the X-Factor are being paid just as little as £100 each for performing on the live tour, it emerged today. Winner Alexandra Burke – currently number one in the singles charts – and other finalists are being paid £250 per concert. But biggest losers are four-piece outfit JLS who []

UK NEWS: CHANNEL FIVE AXE ‘TRISHA’ TALK SHOW

It’s the end of an era…… Via BBC News TV channel Five has confirmed that talk show host Trisha Goddard’s morning show will be dropped later in the year. The programme will close at the end of its current run, with the channel blaming the current economic climate for the “difficult decision”. Goddard, 51, has been with Five for four years, after making her name in the UK with a similar show on ITV1. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in March []

A FURIOUS NE-YO LETS RIP VIA HIS MYSPACE BLOG

Ne-Yo is fed up folks with all the false allegations and the jokes that are being made at his expense! In his new Myspace blog post the singer gets it all off his chest.   One rule of being a gentleman is to keep your cool and composure at all cost, but right about now I gotta loosen up this tie and take off this expensive suit jacket and talk to the people for a minute. The haters especially. Pardon my french, but what the f**k is []

QUOTE OF THE DAY: NE-YO

“Just chillin’ one day, I was like, ‘Is that… Jeezy?”I hit him up: ‘Yo, you probably shouldn’t walk around naked – I can see you.” (In a recent interview with People, R&B crooner Ne-Yo tells the magazine about the day he realised rapper Young Jeezy was a neighbour.) I wonder what Ne-Yo was doing with his hands while watching that sexy lump of nakedness?