Tameka wants it to be perfectly clear that the video for Usher’s latest single “Trading Places” is strictly entertainment.

A risque portrayal of seductive role reversal, the video shows the 29-year-old singer in compromising positions with a lithe, lightly dressed video vixen who unabashedly woman-handles a boxer-clad Usher.

Although little is left to the imagination, Foster Raymond, who is expecting the couple’s second child, stands by her man. “My husband is a consummate artist and entertainer,” Foster, 37, told ESSENCE.com.

“This video is strictly entertainment and was made for his fans. I am clear that he is a sexy man and looks amazing in this clip. I support my husband in his endeavors.”
It’s been alleged that the video had to undergo several edits before being deemed appropriate for television. Most can’t recall Usher ever appearing so sexually aggressive on-screen during his bachelor days. [source]

Usher, please spend a little more time with your wife. You know, take her out to dinner and a movie or something she can stop surfing blogs in her free time.

Nas is standing by his wife Kelis despite rumors of Wendy Williams having a sex tape of Mrs. Milkshake getting banged by another man and divorce talk. Here’s the skinny via Miss Info:

Nas jumped on stage at the end of N.E.R.D.’s set, and performed songs off his untitled album, before going into his classics. Then he started “If I Ruled the World,” and said, “Give it up for my wife, Kelis!”

Kelis then sang Lauryn Hill’s hook and when the song was over, the couple shared a kiss and Nas went on to give his wife props, saying “I’m her biggest fan,” and even firing shots at her “imposters.”

I know I’m late on this but I couldn’t turn down an opportunity to post The Bawse looking all sexy at Flo Rida’s birthday party last night.

“I never tried to hide my past. I put my name inside my cds. My company has my SS#. I could’ve put a company name… I done been up and I done been down and that’s what makes me what I am. I never ratted on a nigga. I never prosecuted a nigga. I never locked up a nigga, that’s first and foremost. I always felt that me being the nigga that I am, I never owed a nigga an explanation… When I’m making my music and I’m talking about blow, it’s because I did it. When I say that I’m rich off cocaine, it’s because i did it. Those are the street principals that apply.”

- - Rick Ross finally admits to his correctional officer past but will he ever dish on the 11 herbs and spices in his tittay gravy recipe?

I’m like 100th person to post this touching statement from Beyaki today but if Baby Daniel had a plastic fork to your neck you would get to copying and pasting too.

Now bust it, creole:

“I wanted to address my servants and faithful followers fans about my upcoming album.

I have worked on this album for close to one year. I have taken the time so I can create my sound. Something that says who I am at this stage in my life. I have poured my heart and soul into it. It is my baby. It is the most time I have spent on any project since my first records as a member of Destiny’s Child when I was 15 years old. I have recorded over 70 songs and have created a sound that reveals all of me. I am in a different place right now and I wanted people to see the many sides of me. The music is upbeat for the dance, fun side and it is reflective, passionate and serious for the personal side. I have taken risks here. I am not afraid and my music will explain it all. There is no label or tag on my sound. It’s me and I am so excited to share it with the world on November 18.”

Love,

Beyoncé

Quotes + Flicks via Real Gossip 101

TINA ON BEYONCE: “People said, ‘You looked better than Beyoncé.’ Well, that’s not possible. It’s nice that young people hold me up as a model. Beyoncé is elegant and is handling her career well. A lot of new stars go overboard on sex. They’re half-naked up there. My dresses were a bit short, but I stayed respectable.”

TINA ON ARETHA: “Aretha has always been like that. We’ve always accepted that from her. She’s the queen of soul, and I’m the queen of rock ‘n’ roll. *snaps finger* There were so many kings and queens there that night. Her ego must be so big to think she was the only one. That’s how queens are!”

TINA ON IKE’S DEATH: “It meant nothing to me. He had been dead to me for 20 years. When I left, I really left. It was a bad dream, and when you spend 16 years in a certain lifestyle, you never want to think about it again. My life then was much worse. It couldn’t have gotten lower. And since then, every part of my life has been a high point.”

TINA ON HER YOUTHFUL APPEARANCE AND ENERGY: “I look better than I did at times in the past.. Part of it may be luck of the draw. It could be good genes, but then again, as I look at my family, I have to say I’m the only one that got them.”

“I think, at this point, I’d rather just be quiet about things such as that but I definitely want to make it clear that I was going in to do something artistic, and I was upset that when I saw the photos, everything was gone. . . It’s very, very upsetting and somewhat misleading.”

“I walked into the Vibe photo shoot very excited about making an artistic expression. And when I saw the photos, I was a little bothered because the photos appear as if I was nude, and I wasn’t nude. I reached out to [Danyel Smith] — I sent her a letter — and I was a little upset, too, in the fact that she didn’t respond to me, and that happened prior to me reading her quote on the Internet.”

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I’ve said it once I will say it a milli times, MySpace is the devil’s playground for bored momofukas.

Over the weekend blog block was hot with the gossip that some random chick claimed that Tiny allegedly sent her a message full of expletives and wonderful one liners ["so in other words when Tip was grinding and laying it on me and came all up in this pussy he released what he wanted me to be blessed with"] defending her position in Clifford’s heart and bedroom.

Oh behave! We all know Wonder Piglet is a classy woman! She may dye her hair with Kool-Aid but she would never cyber beef with someone. She drinks her RC Cola out of a mason jar not a red Solo cup.

Here’s what Tiny had to say about the ordeal to Necole Bitchie:

I just want to clear this up. That was not me. That didn’t come from me. I would never say anything like that to anybody. That sh*t is crazy. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone and I’m not going to disrespect my family to do that. For one crazy person. I’m not even a computer person like that for me to be going back and forth fussing with one girl about my relationship. I don’t have to do that. People talk about my relationship every day. That don’t bother me none.

All that about s*ckin d*ck and jump offs. I don’t know nothing about a jump off so clearly that wouldn’t even be cool. I have a 12 year old daughter that be reading that kind’ve stuff so that’s not something that I would do just for someone to write down and say that I said that. I don’t feel like I have to prove anything to anyone about me and my relationship so I just want people to know that I did not say that.

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“There was one that took a shit and didn’t wipe her fucking ass. I wake up smelling shit. I go into the bathroom to take a piss and see big-ass logs of shit, but no toilet tissue in there. See, paper’s supposed to be the last thing. Paper goes on top of the shit. But I saw shit and no paper.”

- - Cousin Earl tells a groupie horror story in Complex magazine