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You wanna know what grinds my gears, lack of privacy. Where does it say that a man, famous or infamous, can't hose down the sugar walls of a socialite in front of his mini-DV camera, from the privacy of his own bedroom, without it resurfacing at the Crenshaw Swap Meet?
Well... it says so in the Handbook of Things Not To Do if you are a celebrity in the era of YouTube (or XTube.com in this case), TMZ, or blogs like this one.
I think it's in Chapter 2.
Anyways.... Vivid Entertainment spent $1 Million on the sex tape of Kim Kardashian and Ray J.
From the press release found at kimksuperstar.com:
"We are comfortable that we have the legal right to distribute this video, despite what others may say," says Mr. Hirsch, Vivid's co-chairman.
"I've seen the video and it's really great. It has over 30-minutes of explicit sex that fans of erotica will find very appealing featuring two young and glamorous high profile celebrities. Apparently, the video was shot by Ray J about three years ago when he and Kim were in a relationship. The production is crystal clear and viewers will definitely get their money's worth. If either Kim or Ray J would like to discuss the video with us we would be happy to do so."
DAMN!
Ok so I get it. This is business. But $1 Million for a sex tape by two D- list celebrities.... Survey says.... NO THANKS!
At the top of the fuckin' website they had to explain to the general public just who Kim Kardashian and Ray J were.
She's the Daughter of O.J. Simpson's Lawyer Robert Kardashian, the Stepdaughter of Olympic Gold Medallist Bruce Jenner and the Best Friend of Paris Hilton; He's a Best-Selling Indie Hip Hop Recording Artist Who Has Been Linked with Lil'Kim and Most Recently Whitney Houston.
I know Sonja Norwood 'bout done lost her mind with all the drama she's had to deal with these past few weeks.
*hi fives Ray J*
Jawn Murray has all the details on the tape, Ray J and the real reason he is "fooling around" with Nippy. Click here to listen.
Ya Heard speaks on Complex magazine being pissed now, 'cause Kim K is on their latest cover. I ain't mad.
Tags:
* Brandy
* Kim Kardashian
* Ray J
* Whitney Houston
Posted by SOHH Soul Man on February 7, 2007 3:29 PM | Permalink
Dupri Doing It Big, Ray J Mans Up.... and the SOHH Soulful Top 5
Thursday. 2.8.07 8:55 pm
Congrats to Jermaine Dupri. Dude was just named President of Island Urban Music.
Y'all know what this is...
As previously reported by SOHH, Dupri recently stepped down from his position as president of urban music at Virgin, apparently after the lackluster sales of Janet Jackson's latest release 20 Y.O., which Dupri co-executive produced.
But while you were wondering why Ray J and Kim were so damn adamant about there not being a sex tape, when they clearly used up at least a dozen tapes over the course of this filming, we were making note of R. Kelly's antics to avoid his child pornography trial and compiling our
Break out the Pepto Bismal. "Irreplaceable" has remained the number song in the country for 10 straight weeks.
I definitely don't have anything against lil mama and her success. Y'all know that. It's just that when any song has that long of a run it gets nauseating.
To left, to the left.
But it's like one of them gruesome car accidents. You kinda can't look away.
The AEC/ASCAP luncheon at the Beverly Hilton honored Sheryl Lee Ralph, Chris Brown and Common.
Londell McMillian did the damn thing as usual having Shaun Robinson host the event.
I was on the red carpet trying to get my interview thang on... you know... try to see how the shit is done and try to get some face time with these celebrity peeps.
It's a hard thing y'all. I mean, I just lil ole Soulman. I was slapped on the carpet right in between Access Hollywood and Entertainment Weekly. It was like WTF? I wasn't getting any love, lol. Eurweb was up on the piece near me too.
Ciara was coming down the carpet and everyone wanted a piece of her. Me too. Her publicist was pulling her down the carpet and into the event that had already began. I had connected eyes with CiCi and asked if she had a moment for SOHH.com.
Her publicist was like sorry we don't have time, but CiCi insisted that she at least give a brother a few seconds to get a question in.
She even waited til my videographer fumbled and and stirred about trying to get his digital camera set for her to pose for stills.
Those of you familiar know that was pretty generous when you aren't like MTV News or some shit like that.
SHOUT OUT TO CIARA! Her fuckin' with me on the red carpet made a few peeps pay attention which got Soulman quite a few other hook ups that day. Good looking out.
I also wanna show love to Jimmy Cozier, who showed a lot of love to SOHH.com this weekend in L.A.
Rodney Jerkins was there. He confirmed that HE IS NOT ON BRANDY's NEW ALBUM!
Common was there. He showed love to SOHH.com.
Byron Cage and his wife Sonya should love as well.
These events are a trip, 'cause you'd be surprised how many people come in, walk the red carpet, pose for photos and walk right out never even bothering to go into the event.
Toni Braxton went from filing a $10 Million lawsuit against Barry Hankerson, to re-filing her lawsuit at the state level to settling her case with Hankerson and Blackground Records altogether. http://www.sohh.com/articles/article.php/10813
All to find out what we suspected all along.
IT WAS KERI'S FAULT!!!!!!
According to the New York Daily News, Barry Hankerson blamed all Toni's woes on her overbearing Mint Condition husband Keri Lewis.
"It was a terrible experience for us," Hankerson told us of working with the singer on his label Blackground Records. "We had to work through her husband to get things done, and it was really tough for us."
"She was with the best hitmakers in the world, but she infused another person in the mix," continued Hankerson. "Look at the back of the albums. All of a sudden you start seeing this new name. You couldn't get to Toni or offer her a song."
Braxton's rep replied: "[Hankerson's] continuing to blame Toni's husband for everything except Hurricane Katrina is both untrue and unfounded."
Now how many of you didn't guess that a lot of this had to do with her husband. Ever since she let him touch her music, she's been damaged goods. Note the decline in sales from when he first showed up... right around The Heat.
Toni and Keri seem happy and committed in their marriage and God bless that, however since everyone feels like Whitney Houston's My Love Is Your Love was so hip hop influenced because of Bobby Brown and now that they've separated she's consorting with music royalty again and not just Cherelle.... should Toni wait til she gets divorced to record again?
Is that what it will take to get another good album out of her? Yea yea she's never been horrible... but the quality of the music went down hill after Secrets. Say whatcha will.
Daily Hip-Hop News:SOHH Soulful: John Legend "Gets Lifted" With Corinne Bailey Rae On Nat'l Tour
Monday. 2.19.07 2:00 am
Friday - February 16, 2007 by Kevin R. Scott
John Legend
John Legend will kick off his North American tour this April with Corinne Bailey Rae as his opening act.
Members of Legend's fan club (The Legend Network) have the opportunity for pre-sale priority seating as well as registration for meet and greets, concert ticket upgrades and keys to the Legend Network store. Membership also includes an unreleased live CD and access to the official site
In related news, Legend recently won two more Grammys last weekend; one for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and another for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group w/ Vocals for his cover of Sly & The Family Stone's "Family Affair" with Joss Stone and Van Hunt. In 2005 Legend received 3 Grammys including Best R&B Album for Get Lifted, Best New Artist and Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for "Ordinary People."
Upcoming Tour Dates:
04/03 Irvine, CA Bren Events Center
04/04 San Diego, CA Bayside Amphitheatre
04/06 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre
04/07 Berkeley, CA Greek Theater-U.C./Berkeley
04/10 Denver, CO Wells Fargo Theatre
04/12 Minneapolis, MN Orpheum Theater
04/13 Chicago, IL Chicago Theatre
04/14 Detroit, MI Fox Theater
04/16 Akron, OH Akron Civic Auditoriu
04/17 Toronto, ONT. Hummingbird Centre for Performing Arts
04/19 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre
04/20 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
04/22 Newark, NJ New Jersey Performing Arts Center
04/23 New York, NY Theater At Madison Square Garden
04/25 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun
04/26 Upper Darby, PA Tower Theater
04/28 Columbia, MD Merriweather Post Pavilion
04/29 Norfolk, VA Chrysler Hall
05/01 Orlando, FL Hard Rock Live
05/02 Hollywood, FL Seminole Hard Rock Casino
05/04 Atlanta, GA Chastain Park Amphitheater
05/05 New Orleans, LA New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival*
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