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The members of hit rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony are feeling some type of way about the amount if respect hip-hop pays their mentor Eazy-E. Bone Thugs believe the fact Eazy E died of AIDS has something to do with the lack of props hip-hop gives Eazy-E.

Bizzy Bone told TMZ, “Some people seem like they are afraid to commemorate him due to how he died. But Bone never once has — nor will stop — commemorating him.”

Many remember Eazy-E as the founding member of pioneering rap crew N.W.A. and fathering seven children with six different women. Eazy discovered Bone Thugs in 1995. the group also believes hip-hop is still in place where it subscribes to AIDS being a “gay disease” and Eazy-E unfairly gets that label despite contracting it through unprotected heterosexual intercourse. Krayzie Bone thinks hip-hop believes dying of AIDS is an inferior death than getting shot like Big and Pac. “They died being known as gangsta heroes. Eazy died from a disease … so many look at that differently,” he commented.

In effort to honor Eazy-E’s memory and contribution to our culture, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony will perform “Foe Tha Love of $,” which features a verse from Eazy-E, during the Rock the Bells Tour. Eazy-E will appear on stage as a hologram through the September and October run of the tour.

Layzie Bone added, “The success Eazy left to the rap game is enormous and can’t be topped by anyone. We are going to make sure we have the stage full of Eazy love.”

Say hello to Jennifer Lopez-Noa-Judd-Muniz-Smart! Recent reports suggest that Jennifer Lopez is getting married for the fourth time!

According to The Huffington Post, when Jennifer was asked about her relationship with backup dancer Casper Smart, she said that she would love to have him as Husband #4! “I like [marriage]. I like the idea of it; I always have. As a girl you never really give up on that fairytale completely. It’s a sweet relationship. It’s kind; it’s healthy,” she said.

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But what most don’t know is that she’s come a long way and has dealt with issues of her own, including abusive relationships and skin disease.

“I’ve always had it, since I was a young girl,” she offers about her struggles with vitiligo. “It’s not as bad as others because everybody has it differently, but I’ve certainly had mine diagnosed. That’s why I tan. People say, ‘You bleach your skin!’ But I tan just so I can have a better tone on my skin, boo!…But when you get diagnosed with a skin disorder, it’s hard. It does weigh on your self-esteem. It really does. But I’m done defending that. I’m not bleaching my skin and if I was bleaching my skin and I felt like saying so, I would, but for the record, I am not.”

There you have it. Tamar is not getting whiter by bleaching.

As far as her past relationships, the singer has come a long way to find the man who loves her for real.

“I haven’t always been vocal about my feelings, especially in a relationship. Now, I make sure that I’m very vocal about my feelings, everybody knows how I feel. Sometimes it’s over the top and most of the time it’s ‘Team Too-Much,’” she laughs, “But I have to do a lot. (I was) a shy person who had self-esteem issues trying to figure it out — now, I’ve gotten over my hangovers. You say, I’m comfortable and confident, it took a long time to get there. Maybe like a year or so before Braxton Family Values, I wasn’t that person. I was faking it til I make it, pretty much. I didn’t feel like I was beautiful. I didn’t feel like I deserved things. I didn’t feel like I could stand in a room and speak or even sing and have people who wanted to listen.” Tamar credits her husband with helping her get over somes of these issues.

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He also cited his uncle Michael Jackson as the person who supported and consoled him through the incident, he wrote, “My uncle was a support system for me and my mom. He wrote a letter to her that many have seen already, u just didn’t know what it was about.”

Taj began tweeting about his molestation to counter Wade Robson‘s claims against his uncle, tweeting, “That is how I KNOW Wade is lying. Because I AM a survivor.”

Adding, “I was sexually abuse. By an uncle on my mom’s side of the family when I was a kid.”

He also used twitter to blast Robson for the allegations, writing, “I will not sit back and let someone flat out lie about my uncle. PERIOD,” followed by, “What people will $ay and do for money and to $tay relevant is $ickening. De$perate times call for De$perate mea$ures. #Money.”

He ended, his damning tweets, writing:

“I hate that Wade made me do this, this way. But since my uncle Michael is no longer here to defend himself. I will. Make no mistake. Since my uncle Michael is no longer here to defend himself. I WILL. Even if that means friendships.”

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Wendy Williams has never shied away from giving her opinion, so why should she start now? While on “Watch What Happens Live” with Andy Cohen Wendy received a question about what kind of mom she thought Kim Kardashian would make?

Says Wendy,

“What kind of mom will Kim Kardashian be? A single Mom!”

Oops! Take a look at what she had to say in the video below!

Is Wendy a mean girl for speaking it and meaning it and then owning it? Well, we guess that is up to the viewer. But to be honest, at least she says it and doesn’t run away from what she says. You won’t see her giving fake apologies or pandering to anyone after her words find controversy.

That said, what she is surmising about Kim Kardashian, isn’t exactly something that other people aren’t saying too, she’s just bold enough to say it publicly!

“I don’t think she should come back,” Kandi recently told “The Gossip Game” star Ms. Drama.

Though Kandi and Kim are in the middle of a legal battle over the rights to music Kandi produced for the “Tardy for the Party” singer, that apparently has nothing to do with her preferring Kim stay gone.

“The reason why is because she wasn’t trying to participate in anything anymore. We were very serious in what we were saying about coming places and always trying to stay 30 minutes to an hour and leaving, and always having an excuse,” Kandi said.

“To be doing a show with people, you have to participate. You have to engage,” said Kandi who was initially worried when Kim left.

“Our ratings actually went up,” said Kandi.

But about the others on the show, Kandi said she likes the arrangement and wants everyone to come back.

“I wanted everybody to stay, just because I feel like we had a great season,” said Kandi who revealed, “It’s still a whole bunch going on…that’ll be interesting to watch for the next season.”

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“It’s safe to say she isn’t coming back to Idol,” an insider tells Us, adding that the rapper will be focusing on her next album, touring, and endorsements. “She’s okay with it. She had a great time but was only going to do one season anyway.”

Minaj, 30, joined the FOX series in 2012, alongside fellow new judges Keith Urban and Mariah Carey, with whom she has an ongoing feud. The two divas frequently clashed both on and off the air, sometimes taking their rivalry to Twitter. After one particularly heated disagreement on the May 1 episode of Idol, Minaj slammed the “Touch My Body” singer as “insecure” and “bitter.”

The beautiful actress has scooped up another. Unlike her last one, that crazy Caribbean politician, Premier Michael Misick, this one’s a man of the cloth.

Rumors sparked back in 2011 that she was dating romantic notable preacher, Bishop Noel Jones. And according to Jawn Murray’s AlwaysAList.com and William McCray’s ObnoxiousTV, the rumors are true.

(Is LisaRaye ’bout to be a first lady all over again?)

And since the bishop, whose sister is singer/actress/model Grace Jones, has confirmed his presence on upcoming Oxygen reality show, “Pastors of LA,” the relationship will definitely be a public affair.

“I was really surprised that they were so open about their relationship. I heard the rumors that they had been dating, but all doubt was removed watching this show,” a source says.

But there’s more.

The reality show will give us a glimpse at the type of tug of war Jones, 63,and LisaRaye, 46, go through, especially because LisaRaye don’t play conservative, so to speak.

“He basically told her that he wasn’t sure she was ‘Godly enough’ for his world, and she in turn told him he may not be ‘worldly enough’ for hers,” recalled the screening guest.

Besides the interesting interactions between the two love birds, the show also follows pastors Bishop Clarence McClendon, Pastor Wayne Chaney, Bishop Ron Gibson, Pastor Jay Haizlip, and gospel singer Deitrick Haddon, who was the pastor of a Detroit church until he split from his wife and moved to L.A.

“Pastors of L.A.” premieres on Oxygen this fall.

And oh yeah, we wish LisaRaye and Noel the best in their relationship journey.

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The fallout behind Lil Wayne‘s controversial lyrics where he referenced the heinous death of Emmett Till continues. After Mountain Dew dropped him as their celebrity spokesperson, Weezy’s collaborator Future has come out in defense of the rapper. Future gave his opinion about the Lil Wayne lyric which appears on his song “Karate Chop (Remix)” on Big Boy In The Neighborhood radio show. Instead of keeping his answer politically correct, Future put his foot in his mouth by saying Lil Wayne’s disrespectful reference brought some positive attention to the Emmett Till incident. Read his comments below:

“We did the song with great intentions. I never thought it was going to get so much attention. But I think, overall, with the whole situation, he did bring light, in a positive way, to what happened. Even though they might thought it was negative, he brought positive energy to the situation because a lot of people don’t know, my dad didn’t even know who Emmett was. He’s thinking I’m talking about Emmitt Smith. … He raised awareness to people who didn’t even know who Emmett Till is to young kids who didn’t even know what happened to him. … After Lil Wayne brought light to it, they had to go and do their research.”

Yes, Future really did say that. After reading his statement concerning the lyrics, one tends to wonder if Ciara’s goodies make men go all the way stupid after a taste because I’ve never heard such foolishness since Kobe Bryant tried to rap. However, Future isn’t the only rapper to defend Weezy’s distasteful rhymes. Atlanta rapper T.I. also defended Weezy. He said:

“Endorsements come from corporations. Corporations, that’s outside dollars. You know what I’m saying? That’s money that you would not normally be making if you were not associated with this brand. So if you’re going to be associated with this brand, you’re going to have to be associated with this brand and have them, you know, be associated with pride in whatever it is you do. So, it’s kind of like you got to be mindful of the things you say if you choose to take in money from outside sources. But me knowing [Lil Wayne], I know [he] ain’t mean no harm in what he said. He was just kicking flav. You got to really be in our life and of our lifestyle to understand how we can kinda unplug and — be on our own sh*t sometimes.”

I can understand where Tip is coming from because he is just defending the character of his friend. While what Lil Wayne said was deplorable, T.I. believes it was just a really bad decision. Future, on the other hand, seems not to get it. I’m calling for Future to have a seat. All in favor, share this post.

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The 34-year-old star of “Avatar” and “Star Trek” plays pianist, singer and activist Nina Simone in the forthcoming biopic “Nina.”

Her casting drew criticism from some, who argued that Saldana bears little resemblance to the singer, who died in 2003 aged 70.

Musician India.Arie said “they should have chosen someone who looks like Nina Simone,” and an online petition for a boycott of the film attracted more than 10,000 signatures.

But Saldana said she feels strongly that she’s right to play Simone, an immense, irascible talent who made an indelible mark on both music and the civil rights movement with songs including “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” and “Mississippi Goddam.”

“The Nina Simone story needed to be told, and I’m really blessed that I did it,” said Saldana, a New Yorker of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent.

“I’m human. I wish I was made of steel and so certain things wouldn’t affect me,” Saldana said at a recent London event to promote “Star Trek Into Darkness,” in which she plays multilingual communications officer Lt. Uhura.

“So it did affect me but I couldn’t let that deter me from doing what I needed to do.

“Just like everybody else I feel very strongly about Nina Simone, and that (this) was a story that needed to be told.

“I do believe that if everybody had more information about how this all came to be, it might help,” she added. “But then again, I’m not here to get the acceptance of people. I’m here to be an artist first.”

“Star Trek Into Darkness,” the second film in J.J. Abrams’ rebooted series, sees Uhura play a bigger role in the action, to Saldana’s delight. She even got to do a scene in Klingon.