JoJo returns with “We Get By”, the first release from her upcoming mixtape Agápē (love regardless of circumstance). JoJo recorded the song with a group of her friends known as The Backpackkids (a group of artists/musicians consisting of Austin Brown, Scott Bruzenak, & Tommy Parker), who all got together to create what they call genre-less music. Agápē is a labor of love from the heart without limits or boundaries, and is due to be released for free this December.
Po’ lil tink tink … Katt Williams Arrested For Battery Via TMZ reports : Comedian Katt Williams was arrested by police in Oakland last night … in connection with a fight at a club … TMZ has learned. Katt was arrested outside Kimball’s Carnival in East Oakland around 3 AM. The details surrounding the alleged battery are unclear. Sources tell us … Katt was brought to a police station for questioning. He has not yet been released. Williams is no stranger to the police — he was detained in L.A. back in October after allegedly pulling a gun on actor Faizon Love. He was released from custody without charges. Cops in Atlanta had also issued an arrest warrant for Katt back in 2010 over an alleged battery at a 4 Seasons Hotel. Multiple sources tell us … the alleged battery took place at a hotel near the club … and law enforcement is investigating allegations that Katt hit someone over the head with a bottle. That little man is causing nothing but big problems.
Dammit, and he’s still alive??? Aurora Dark Knight Shooter James Holmes Tries To Commit Suicide In Jail According to TMZ reports : James Holmes — the shooter in the Aurora movie theater massacre — was hospitalized after several “half-hearted” suicide attempts … this according to law enforcement. According to cops, Holmes ran headfirst into a jail cell wall on Tuesday … and while he sustained injuries … they were not life-threatening. Holmes also reportedly stood on the bed in his cell and fell backwards … in an apparent attempt to crack his skull open. He failed. Holmes — who killed 12 people and injured 58 more during his July 20 shooting rampage — has since been released from the hospital. Awwww, jail life is pretty tough huh azzhole? Google where your major arteries are so you’ll be better prepared next time. We’re sure the victims’ families back in Colorado won’t miss him if he’s successful one day. Image via AP
Dammit, and he’s still alive??? Aurora Dark Knight Shooter James Holmes Tries To Commit Suicide In Jail According to TMZ reports : James Holmes — the shooter in the Aurora movie theater massacre — was hospitalized after several “half-hearted” suicide attempts … this according to law enforcement. According to cops, Holmes ran headfirst into a jail cell wall on Tuesday … and while he sustained injuries … they were not life-threatening. Holmes also reportedly stood on the bed in his cell and fell backwards … in an apparent attempt to crack his skull open. He failed. Holmes — who killed 12 people and injured 58 more during his July 20 shooting rampage — has since been released from the hospital. Awwww, jail life is pretty tough huh azzhole? Google where your major arteries are so you’ll be better prepared next time. We’re sure the victims’ families back in Colorado won’t miss him if he’s successful one day. Image via AP
This is not magically delicious… Man Finds Bat In Cereal Via Metro UK : The hungry German man’s start to the day was completely ruined when he discovered the dead bat in his bowl of cereal at his home in Stuttgart. He was left feeling more horrified than hungry when he realised the mummified mammal was not a Halloween themed toy. The incident was reported to health officials who are attempting to establish how the errant bat managed to fly into the box of corn flakes. They believe the bat may have flown into the plastic packaging by mistake and suffocated to death. Scientists are investigating whether the bat had flown into the box of Mini-Zimties cereal at the factory or after they had been opened. Food safety official Jorg Sturmer said: ‘I have never seen anything like it. This really is an unusual case.’ We would have gone bat isht! CEN
Who’s the tortoise and who’s the hare?? Rihanna And Karrueche Are Rumored To Be Competing To Chris Brown’s Baby Via Star (print version) He’s abusive and unfaithful, but apparently he’s also irresistible! In the latest sad development in the Chris Brown/Rihanna/Karrueche Tran love triangle, Star leasrns that the two women are still competing for the “Turn Up the Music” singer, 23, and are now using their wombs as leverage. “Both Rihanna and Karrueche are trying to get pregnant because they think it’s the only way to make Chris commit to one of them for good,” a source tells Star, adding that the ladies believe “the woman who has his baby will be calling the shots.” But why fight over a guy like Chris? For Karrueche, 24, it’s plain old desperation: “Karrueche has no carreer and no money, and she is desperate to hand on to Chris,” says the source. “Without him, she’s a broke nobody. If getting pregnant is what it takes to keep him, so be it.” For RiRi, also 24, her motication seems to be pure brinkmanship. “She says Chris is the only man she has ever loved and that she always planned on having kids with him somedaym” says the informant. “She’s willing to make that happen a lot sooner if it gets karrueche out of his life. Ladies, if he’s such a bad boyfriend, will he be a better daddy? Image via WENN
Beyonce can’t dance away from a $100 million lawsuit this time around… Gaming Company Sues Beyonce Beyonce is performing at the Super Bowl halftime show next year, and there’s also a good chance she’ll appear in a New York court soon after for a potential jury trial . Via Hollywood Reporter : According to Gate Five Gaming, it had developed a technology that was better than the motion-driven video games on the market, that would track a far wider range of body movements than Nintendo’s Wii, and the game technology was presented to representatives for top-selling artists including Lady Gaga and the Black Eyed Peas, who purportedly expressed interest. Ultimately, the company signed a deal with Beyonce, but the contract had a termination clause requiring certain financing by a certain date or else the singer could back out. Gate Five alleges that it spent $6.7 million on the game and had a financier lined up to provide $19.2 million in financing when Beyonce exercised her termination rights, “the hundreds of millions of dollars in profits that Gate Five could have realized if she had honored the Agreement,” according to the lawsuit. According to the ruling, issues of fact remain as to whether Beyonce intended to forgo her right to terminate the licensing agreement. The appeals court points to the record showing that she never objected to the loan as it was closing. This lawsuit has been going on for a over a year. BeyBey might want to think about settling because putting folks out of work and flaking out of work is definitely not a good look for her public image.
Robyn, Robyn, Robyn, think about the kids… Via E! News Are rugrats in Rihanna’s future? While chatting it up with Ellen DeGeneres on her show (airing today), the singer was asked if she might want kids someday. “Yes, eventually. I mean, absolutely,” Rihanna said. “Would you do it alone or do you want to wait until you’re in a relationship or married?” DeGeneres inquired. “I mean, I would prefer to have a full family,” the Barbadian beauty replied, adding: “I’m pretty sure I could handle it if I had to on my own, but that’s not what I’m striving for.” And while Rihanna confirmed there’s no potential baby daddy at the moment, she did share with DeGeneres what her perfect date would be. “My favorite thing to do would just be to stay on the couch and watch TV or in bed and watch TV,” Rihanna revealed. What do you think about Rihanna’s comments? Could she be leaving the door open for her younger fans to interpret marriage as an option?
Nobody saw this clusterf*ck coming!?!? In what may go down as one of Georgia’s dumbest laws, a new immigration check on medical licenses was meant to weed out ‘illegal’ health care workers in the industry. It’s backfired only a week after it was put in place. According to NPR : Hundreds of health care workers in Georgia are losing their licenses to practice because of a problem created by a new immigration law in the state. The law requires everyone — no matter where they were born — to prove their citizenship or legal residency to renew their professional licenses. With too few state workers to process the extra paperwork, licenses for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals are expiring. Lisa Durden with the secretary of state’s office says renewing a license used to be a straightforward process and most applications whizzed through. Now, they crawl. Enactment of the law coincided with budget cuts that reduced the office staff by 40 percent. Kelly Farr, Georgia’s deputy secretary of state, says 600 nurses alone have fallen through the cracks. “There’s nothing more frustrating than getting that call from the desperate nurse, knowing … she’s being slowed down because we literally don’t have enough people to click the approve button,” Farr said. While the secretary of state handles licensing of nurses, pharmacists, and veterinarians, Georgia’s medical board is in charge of doctors, physician assistants and even acupuncturists. It’s the same story there. Director LaSharn Hughes says she sent 41,000 letters of notification out on a recent Thursday. “And by Monday, we’d burned up a fax machine,” Hughes said. “We didn’t have the staff. We didn’t have the equipment.” Phones go unanswered. Paperwork piles up. And processing delays, coupled with confusion over the new rules, mean lots of expired licenses. Hughes estimates about 1,300 doctors and other medical practitioners have lost their legal ability to work. Some didn’t submit the required paperwork. Others are stuck in the backlog of applications that haven’t been processed yet. Donald Palmisano Jr. executive director of the Medical Association of Georgia, says the law fixes a problem that never existed — at least not among doctors. “We’re not aware of any undocumented immigrants that are physicians,” Palmisano said. Even D.A. King, an outspoken activist and critic of illegal immigration who helped write the law, agrees. King says the law protects Georgia jobs, but even he believes some parts of the legislation need fixing. A bill that addressed some of the law’s shortcomings died in the last legislative session. “I am not only outraged, but sincerely disappointed and puzzled that our repair legislation was not allowed a vote,” King says. Legislative sponsors of the law didn’t respond to interview requests. Neither did Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal. For now, state licensing offices will keep plowing through the mail containing copies of passports and birth certificates, then checking them against a list of acceptable documents. But that’s where the vetting ends, confirms Kelly Farr and Lisa Durden of the secretary of state’s office. The law says nothing about making sure the documents are genuine. “We really don’t have a way to do that,” says Durden. State officials say the new document requirements haven’t uncovered any undocumented immigrants. Instead, officials say they hope the process itself may discourage people in the country illegally from trying to get licenses in the first place. Good to know all of the illegal practitioners and registered nurses will be caught now! Images via WABE
It’s the weapon of choice for folks who toke on that green yahmean . LLS. Only a weeks past since that icky-sticky even got legalized in Washington state and this woman’s proving some people can’t handle tokin’ that isht legally. SMH. According to kirotv : Police are looking for a 28-year-old woman accused of beating her boyfriend with a marijuana bong. Authorities said the attack happened after a heated argument in Bellingham Sunday morning. The man suffered a cut to his head from the 8-inch-tall glass water pipe. The Bellingham Herald said officers believe the couple had been drinking. The woman fled after the attack and remains at large. We’ll go ahead and assume it was the alcohol that pushed this chick to her breaking point and not the mellow mood-inducing mary jane! Images via shutterstock
