Bobby Brown arrested... yet again

 

Singer Bobby Brown just can't seem to get a break from the law. Earlier in the year he was arrested for driving under the influence and last Friday he was arrested again...this time while eating dinner with his wife Whitney Houston at a seafood restaurant in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta.

He was arrested this time for a drunk-driving offence that happened 7 years ago. He served eight days in jail on the charge and was ordered to serve an additional two years probation.

He was taken without incident from the Atlantic Seafood Company after an anonymous tip notified the police of his presence, according to the restaurant's manager, Grey Maples.

"The police came in and we asked them to do us a favor and let Mr. Brown come outside and not make a scene in the restaurant," Maples said. "The officers then followed me in and I asked [Brown] to come with me and he was real cooperative." Maples said Houston left at the same time.

Brown, 34, was transported to DeKalb County jail and booked. He will remain in jail until Wednesday morning, when he will face a state court judge.

Source: MTV.com

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Mary J. Blige's 'Love & Life' hit stores tomorrow

Mary J. Blige releases her 7th album (her 4th in as many years) tomorrow. The album called 'Love and Life' was produced by Sean P. Diddy Combs, the producer who's responsible for getting Mary's career off the ground with her first 2 albums more than a decade ago and now the two reunite after more than a 7 year riff between them to record the album

 

But that's not the only reunion on the album though — Method Man whom Mary first collaborated with on his track 'You're all I need (to get by) 'is featured on the lead off single 'Love @ 1st Sight' and there's also new collaborations this record with 50 Cent on 'Let Me Be the 1' and Eve on 'Not Today'.

Source: MTV.com

 

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DJ Mark Ronson brings you 'The Fuzz'

 

DJ Mark Ronson, the platter-spinner of choice at bashes ranging from P. Diddy’s birthday party to the White House Correspondents dinner, makes over $5000 an hour for his skills on the wheels of steel. But he’s still not used to hearing his name being


shouted by the guests he’s invited to help drive his debut disc, Here Comes the Fuzz.

“It’s weird,” says the 28-year-old. “I was like, ‘I’m making this record, playing the instruments and doing the beats, but how am I going to get my identity on it?’ On the first song we did, ‘On the Run,’ Mos Def was like, ‘What do you think about this for the beginning? “Streets responding/ Mos and Mark Ronson.”’ I’m like, ‘Dude, go with it!’ But by the time we got to the last few songs I was telling people not to worry about putting my name in. I didn’t want people to listen to the album and think I’m some egocentric assh*le.”

You could understand Ronson having a big head. Stepson to Foreigner’s Mick Jones, he grew up in a five-story mansion on Central Park West designed by Stanford White and paid for with the money from “I Want to Know What Love Is.” He taught his friend Sean Lennon to play guitar, hung out with David Bowie, and got engaged to Quincy Jones’ daughter.

While the Ronsons became omnipresent members of the Manhattan social whirl - sister Samantha also DJs and sister Charlotte is a fashion designer - Mark began spinning in downtown dives like Den of Thieves. His talent for mixing the familiar but unexpected - shifting from Joan Jett & the Blackhearts into Stevie Wonder into Jay-Z - shot him into residencies at the high-falutin’ nightspots Life and Centro-fly. He remixed for Moby and Outkast and produced songs for Sean Paul, Macy Gray and his pal Jimmy Fallon.

For Here Comes the Fuzz, Ronson has gotten RSVPs from a guest list starrier than some of the parties he’s rocked. Among the people keeping the “Mark Ronson” shout outs to a minimum are Sean Paul, Q-Tip, M.O.P., and Ghostface Killah and Nate Dogg, who grace the rowdy first single “Ooh Wee.” Even Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo gets past the velvet rope to sing the rocking “I Suck.” For Ronson, however, it’s about music not personalities. He gets downright reverent discussing the virtues of Ghostface’s flow: “He puts so much emotion into what he does. You can hear it when he says lines like, ‘I do what I do to get that spinach.’” It’s like he’s crying on the track sometimes.” Ronson, too, gets emotional about music. He took VH1 on a tour of the five records that have rocked his world the hardest.

Source: VH1.com

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'American Idol' winner debut to drop Nov 11th

 

American Idol" winner Ruben Studdard is working with two American icons on his debut album.

R&B star R. Kelly wrote and will produce an inspirational song called "Send Me an Angel" for the Birmingham, Alabama, crooner, and Missy Elliott,


who "loves Ruben," according to her spokesperson, is working on material for the project as well.

The album, titled Soulful, has been pushed back from October to a November 11 release.

"I've been touring nonstop and haven't had the chance to make my album the way I want to," Studdard said in a statement. "In order to work with the best of the best ... I need time to vibe with them so that I can put out the best album possible."

Studdard has already recorded a collaboration with Fat Joe (see "Fat Joe, 'Idol' Ruben Studdard Team Up To Say 'Can I Get Your Attention?' "), and has been in studios with producers Harold Lilly (Monica, Deborah Cox) and Static (Jay-Z).

Work on the project is expected to increase heavily after August 31, the last date of the American Idols Live Tour (see "Ruben Studdard Confronted By Rabid Claymates At Tour Stop").

Studdard is tangled up in a lawsuit surrounding the 205 jerseys he wore on "American Idol" (see " '205' Jersey Makers Say They Secretly Paid Ruben Studdard"), but it is not expected to interfere with the release. His lawyer did not return calls on Thursday (August 21).

In the meantime, the contest's runner-up, Clay Aiken, is putting together his self-titled album, due October 14. Steve Mac (Nick Carter), Clif Magness (Avril Lavigne), Steve Morales (Christina Aguilera), Rick Nowels (Dido) and Desmond Child (Cher) are working on the project (see "Clay Aiken's 'Night' Video Says 'This Is The Soul' ").

Aiken has also been booked to perform "This Is the Night" at the Miss America pageant on September 20, which will air live on ABC.