Photographed with director Bill T. Jones, the prom queen and king rubbed shoulders with the homecoming queen and king of the school from across town at the post-theater reception of Fela! in New York City on Thursday night.

Produced by Jay-Z, Roots drummer Ahmir ‘Questlove’ Thompson, Stephen Hendel, and Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, the hit broadway musical about Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti received 11 Tony Award nominations earlier this month. Now that’s something worth clinking your champagne flutes to.

After waking up out my self inflicted diabetic coma I had to follow up to that last depressing entry with a positive example of parenting. I still mean what I said about Ricky Martin, though.

Jermaine Dupri’s daughter Shaniah Mauldin is making me feel like a straight up old trout right about now. I remember when she was a cute little girl walking hand in hand with her daddy. She’s really blossoming into a pretty young lady. I’m interested in seeing what type of moves she makes in the years to come. Her family has an incredible work ethic out of this world, so I’m sure she is inspired in one way or another by that.

Jennifer Hudson flashed her smile and ring finger [I still can't with Punk] at photographers while departing from LAX on Tuesday. She has been announced as the first female voice behind “One Shining Moment,” the song used as the theme for the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship. Good for her!

Meagan Good’s appearance at Glee’s Golden Globe nomination party is a major step up from the usual distraught, drunk pussy stance the paparazzi usually catch her in when she goes out. She should have a baby with Lil’ Wayne this year to really get her career going.

The stars were shining bright on Wednesday night as celebrities gathered at the 2010 People’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles. Mariah Carey stumbled walked away with a statue for favorite R&B artist while the kids from Glee snagged Favorite New TV Comedy honors. Click here for the full list of winners.

Queen Latifah was a fat kid in the candy shop on Saturday night.

Held at the New York Times Center, the Black Girls Rock Awards honors African-American women making strides in arts and entertainment. Janelle Monáe, Mary J. Blige, Salt-N-Pepa’s Spinderella and “#1 Soul Brother” winner Anthony Hamilton were among the honorees at the  fund raising event for the Black Girls Rock organization founded by celebrity DJ Beverly Bond.

Check out 20 + flicks of Naomi Campbell, Raven Symone, Andre Harrell [and his lovely pank gums] and others from the evening after the jump!

The killer bees at my second home HoneyMag.com was able to snag Solange for her first photo shoot  post-big chop to talk about motherhood, dating rumors and upcoming album. Let basement baby be great.

Honey: Let’s just start with the question that’s on everyone’s minds: the big chop. We fell in love with the cut right away. We wanted to shoot you before the cut, but we were really excited when we saw it because we could really get fashion-y.

I guess you just go through different phases in your life. I was pretty much at the point where I needed the change and I needed to focus my energy on more productive arenas. I was putting too much into my appearance and I needed to make this about growth and going to the next stage of my life. I felt like I was being distracted by something as simple as hair. I’ve always been really fearless about change. I’ve cut my hair the same way when I was 16 and again when I was 18. This was my third time.

I saw a picture. That was really cool. I didn’t know you had done it three times.

Yeah, the picture that I supposedly Photo-shopped (laughs). A friend of mine was like ‘People are so stupid. I read somewhere that it was recent and you Photo-shopped the color.’ I was like ‘Yeah, because it’s that crucial.’

Because you have nothing better to do, right?

One thing that’s kind of been confusing me is that I keep hearing people say ‘Oh, great you’re going natural.’ Does that mean weave-free or does that mean perm-free? Because I haven’t had a perm since I was 13. It’s interesting how much hair plays a role in your life and character and schedule. I remember when I was 13 I went through my ‘I-am-Miss-Natural, incense-burning, Bob Marley-playing, only-vintage-shop-wearing Solange.’ So of course that included cutting my perm off, being a Vegan. I didn’t quite understand yet that my hair did not define me. Then I remember being 16 and being like ‘Okay, I can still be smart and I can still have the same beliefs that I have, but I did not have to have red Rasta braids. I can do that with straight hair. I can do that with a ‘fro. I can do that with a weave down to my butt.’ That was when I first cut my hair off. When I was 18 I got a hot flash because I was pregnant with [Julez] and I was like ‘It’s hot as hell so I’m cutting this shit off.’ But this time it was definitely more so about the growth and the energy and the time I was spending. It was about to be summer, and I didn’t want to have to worry about swimming or going to the park with my son or how hair was going to fit into my life. It was too much.

Photography by Angela Boatwright
Hair by Nikki Nelms
Make Up by Jackie Gomez of The Artist Loft
Styling by Charles Wade

The longer I maintain this website the more I realize that I am rapidly approaching my mid 20’s. It feels like it was only yesterday that I was washing the X’s off my hands in the club’s bathroom  to get my underage drink on but I digress.  Romeo Miller and Corde Broadus were among the younger faces at the UNCF  Tribute To Lionel Richie event on Saturday. Master P and Snoop Dogg may have questionable skills when it comes to rhyming but their sperm have produced two handsome young men that I wouldn’t mind having in my stable one day.

Lil’ Mama take note, this is how a well behaved young man conducts himself in public. More flicks of Romeo after the jump.

According to Wikipedia, Solange is a French name taken from Saint Solange, who is a locally-venerated Christian Saint. The saint was the patron of the traditional Province of Berry. Fast forward to modern days and Solange Knowles is fucking royalty.

In France of course.

Here is the wig crypt’s holiness at the BCBG Max Azria show in New York City on Wednesday night. Sporting her shortly cropped cute cut, she posed for pictures with some of the show goers, including that chick that threw shade at her sister earlier this year in a “track that wasn’t supposed to be released.” Looking fresh faced and happy, Solange is set to take the world by storm. If she can just log off of Twitter. Watch out now!

If you think magical camels didn’t exist, guess again. In a new Rhapsody commercial, Jay-Z recreates all of his solo album covers faster than a speeding creole. The desert-roaming Ungulate appears to be gearing up for a big push for his already leaked Blueprint 3 album. So gather up your pennies and sell your old lace fronts on eBay to purchase his new LP cause maintaining a household that buys tons of lip balm and Zattarian’s by the truckload ain’t cheap.