Jill
Scott returns to the studio to record new album
 Neo-soul
singer Jill Scott is back in the
studio to record music. After taking more than a year off and getting
married in the process, the Philadelphia native has learn more about
singing and enrolled in music classes in her hometown of Philadelphia.
"I'm starting
to write again for this new project, which is probably going to be
two albums at once," Scott said backstage at the Shortlist concert.
"It's starting to come fast. It's a lot of information, a lot
of songs at once, but I'm ready to rock and roll." "It's
a lot of classical influences, strings and drums and lots of percussion,"
she said. "I've been learning more about my voice. I've been
listing to [Qawwali singer] Nusrat Fateh
Ali Khan and opera starKathleen
Battle. I want to see how far this voice of mine can go.
I'm checking out Rakim and just
paying attention to those kinds of artists that really have it, that
can really tell a story through their voice."
Now Scott will
channel that energy into the follow-up to her Grammy-nominated Who
Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds
Vol. 1 and the double-disc Experience:
Jill Scott, which included 10 new tracks. There's no title
or release date for the project yet, but Scott said to expect something
by spring or summer 2003.
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J-Lo
to announce engagement to Afflect
 Is
she or isn't she inquiring fans want to know? No less than 3 months
out of her old marriage has ended rumor has it that that singer/actress
Jennifer Lopez is at it again
planning to marry current flame - Oscar winner and actor
Ben Afflect. The rumor mill got some added fuel to
the fire after she made an appearance on MTV's
TRL where host Carson Daly asked
her whether or not she and Affleck are to be married, her slyly
response was "I think everyone will know soon enough."
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magazine Entertainment Tonight
is reporting that a "source" close the couple revealed
that the engagement's already a done deal. Needless to say, reps
for the couple are keeping a tight lip. Lopez
married restaurateur Ojani Noa
in 1997, then choreographer-dancer Cris
Judd in 2001. Both marriages ended in less than a year.
Diane
Sawyer's Primetime
interview with the baby-got-back Lopez will air Wednesday at 10
p.m. ET.
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Bobby
Brown is arrested again
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 Singer
Bobby Brown was arrested
on last Thursday in Atlanta for speeding, driving without a valid
license and possession of marijuana. Brown was driving his black
Cadillac SUV on Peachtree Road in the Tony Buckhead area of Atlanta
at around 2:35 in the morning. Police clocked him doing 52 miles
per hour in a 35 mph zone and arrested the singer not only for
speeding, but, upon further inspection, for driving without a
valid license and possession of less than an ounce of gangja,
according to police reports.
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Brown
posted his $1,300 bail and was released... directly into the hands
of Atlanta's neighboring DeKalb County authorities. Brown
had failed to appear in DeKalb County Court after a 1997 arrest
for similar offenses: DUI, speeding and other offenses. Brown quickly
posted a $10,000 bond and was released.
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- Eminem's
movie debut tops box office
 He's
topped the rap charts as a rapper and now he tops the box office as
an actor. Eminem who's given name
is Marshall Mathers
debut flick '8
Mile' literally blew away the competition this past weekend
taking in an estimated $54.4 million more than doubling the take of
2nd place finisher 'Santa Clause - 2'
with $24.8 million.
The
movie which is loosely based on the rappers life before hitting it
big in his native Detroit (although he said it's more fiction than
fact) also
stars Oscar winner Kim Basinger as
his mother, Britany Murphy as
his girlfriend and Mekhi Phifer as
a rap entrepreneur who gives him the heads up.
Also topping the
album charts is the soundtrack to the movie a feat that was only accomplished
by Jennifer Lopez last year with
her movie 'The Wedding Planner'
and her J-Lo album.
Here is the Top
10
1. 8 Mile, $54.4
million
2. The Santa Clause 2, $24.8 million
3. The Ring, $16 million
4. I Spy, $9 million
5. Jackass: The Movie, $7.2 million
6. My Big Fat Greek Wedding, $5.7 million
7. Sweet Home Alabama, $3.8 million
8. Ghost Ship, $3.1 million
9. Femme Fatale, $2.8 million
10. Punch-Drunk Love, $2.6 million
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