Nas’ new song featuring the late Amy Winehouse has surfaced. The track, “Cherry Wine,” premiered on BBC’s Radio 1 on Tuesday night. Produced by Amy’s longtime collaborator Salaam Remi, “Cherry Wine” will appear on the rapper’s tenth studio album, Life is Good , which is slated for a July 17 release. Take a listen below and see what you think … Nas – Cherry Wine (Ft. Amy Winehouse) Nas and Winehouse previously collaborated on “Like Smoke,” which appeared on the British chanteuse’s posthumous album Lioness: Hidden Treasures . Remi said that Winehouse “left something beyond her years. Her body of work will inspire an unborn generation. I’m blessed to be part of that process.” She was found dead at age 27 at her home in Camden in July 2011. Amy Winehouse’s cause of death was determined to be severe alcohol poisoning.
Club track is second release from singer’s upcoming Looking for Myself. By John Mitchell Usher’s “Scream” cover art Photo: RCA With nine #1s, Usher is easily one of the most reliable hitmakers in the game, and he may have just found his next smash hit. The R&B superstar released his latest single, ” Scream ,” on Thursday (April 26), and it has chart-topper written all over it. The Max Martin-produced banger finds Usher in familiar territory, singing the virtues of living for the moment — just as he did on 2010’s “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love,” which was also helmed by Martin. With a pounding beat and a massive, swelling hook, the song returns Usher to the club after his recent foray into slow-jam territory with “Climax,” the Diplo-produced first single from his forthcoming Looking for Myself. “I see you over there, so hypnotic Thinking ’bout what I do to that body/ I get you like ooh baby baby,” Ush sings. “Got no drink in my hand/ But I’m wasted/ Getting drunk off the thought of you naked/ I get you like ooh baby baby.” In addition to his own new album, Usher also recently hit the studio with David Guetta to record a follow-up to their hugely successful collaboration “Without You.” Usher made a surprise appearance during Guetta’s set at Coachella on April 14. “These are really big records that we’re working on right now,” Guetta told The Hollywood Reporter of his new track with Ush. “It’s really crazy.” Head to our Newsroom blog to see why it’s time for an Usher greatest-hits album. Looking for Myself is set for release on June 12 and is expected to be released in both standard and deluxe editions. The album is Usher’s follow-up to his 2010 smash Raymond v. Raymond, which produced the massive singles “OMG” and “There Goes My Baby.” For his new record, Usher returned to work with many of his Raymond collaborators, including Rico Love and Jim Jonsin, as well as Diplo, Martin and Salaam Remi, who is best known for his work with Nas and the late Amy Winehouse. Are you excited about Usher’s new album? Let us know in the comments below! Related Artists Usher
I need to book a flight to NYC fast! Tupac’s life and music is the inspiration behind a new musical that will begin casting soon in New York City. “Holler If Ya Hear Me,” a project being directed by Broadway director Kenny Leon , will feature the late rapper’s songs and is being described as an “American musical inspired by and featuring the music Tupac Shakur.”Leon previously discussed the project late in 2011. “A long time ago, maybe eight or nine years ago, I’ve been talking about that with Tupac’s mother, Afeni, and so we’ve become fans of each other and she sort of entrusted me with her son’s music” Leon said. “The idea was always to make a musical inspired by his music and not to do an autobiographical approach to his life or anything like that. And because I always thought that Tupac was a prophet and I thought if everybody could hear his words and hear his stories, they would see what I see.”
Soul songstress Mary J. Blige candidly spoke about not only her feelings about Whitney Houston’s death, but about her own former drug demons as she sat in for Whoopie Goldberg on Tuesday’s ABC-TV’s talk show ‘The View.’ Blige, who is known for not holding her tongue when it comes to speaking her mind, reflected on the recent passing of Houston, who had been a great influence in her life. Blige admitted that she never attends funerals because she was traumatized by them as a child but felt compelled to go to Houston’s because they were so close: “This was really sad because Whitney was everything to women like us,” she lamented. Blige even divulged a conversation that she had with Houston about how important she was to the world. “I got a chance to express to [Whitney] what I felt about her and how I didn’t like seeing her like that.” Blige was referring to Houston’s much publicized battles with drug addiction. The 41-year-old singer, songwriter has in the past, discussed in detail her struggles with cocaine and alcohol. Blige told her co-hosts, Barbara Walters , Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Joy Behar , how she almost died from her drug habit. The actress and fragrance entrepreneur who admitted, “I’ve never done crack,” said her self-destructive lifestyle was formed by the role models she had as a child. “In my family, as a child, all we saw was people getting drunk.” Rehab was not an option for Blige, who instead says that she gave her life to God to help get her off drugs and liquor because she almost died. She pleaded with God because “He is real in my life,” she said. RELATED: Whitney Houston Celebrated At Funeral [PHOTOS & VIDEO] Mary J. Blige Talks Infamous Nightclub Fight With Hubby On “Wendy” [VIDEO] Mary J Blige Talks “My Life II” On Chelsea Lately Mary J. Blige Discusses Heavy D’s Passing, “My Life II” [EXCLUSIVE] Mary J. Blige: “What Happened To Amy Winehouse, Could’ve Been Me”
So I don’t have the rights to show you the picture of Katy Perry in this ill advised granny panty under a see through dress outfit that I can only assume she came up with herself…since she has the worst fucking style imaginable…..but based on her sloppy from the waist down body…..she’s gotta Kim Kardashian the shit and hide it, strap it down, with all her fucking power….not flaunt it as a billboard explaining why Russell Brand divorced her..I mean there is only so much sloppy ass a dude can take before he has to divorce a bitch….but since this is Katy Perry we’re talking about….it is safe to assume there is so much more depth to why a man would leave her…from her being a talentless cunt who probably thinks she has talent…to her annoying voice….to her bad skin…she’s just not marriage materian unless you’re a K-Fed…but even K-Fed got himself Britney….a leaps and bounds above this trash in terms of pretty much everything… Katy Perry is a hack….Let’s hope someone pranked her with this….and Here’s the seriously ill-advised outfit that clearly her ass has no business wearing…. TO SEE THE ACTUAL HORRIBLE ASS CHEEK PICS FOLLOW THIS LINK Here are the rest of her Interview Photoshoot…That I previously posted …..I hate to admit she looks better than she’s ever looked….but that could just be my Amy Winehouse Dead or Alive fetish talking… Here’s some nipple tassles on a back up model – you know to make this scene seem more authentic…
Adele’s middle finger wasn’t the only entertaining moment of the 2012 BRIT Awards (though it’s our personal favorite). The awards show, held at the O2 Arena in London, featured many great performances — as well as tributes to departed music icons Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse. Coldplay, Bruno Mars, Florence + The Machine and Adele … More » Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Idolator Discovery Date : 21/02/2012 21:10 Number of articles : 2
Designer Jean Paul Gaultier paid homage to Amy Winehouse’s unique style at his Paris runway show earlier this week. Imitation is the highest form of flattery, right? Wrong, if you’re the late singer’s father, Mitch Winehouse. “We don’t support the Jean Paul Galtier [sic] collection. It is in poor taste,” the elder Winehouse tweeted, incensed at his daughter’s image being used to sell clothes. “The family was upset to see those pictures. They were a total shock,” he told The Sun . “We’re still grieving, and we’ve had a difficult week with the six-month anniversary of Amy’s death.” Mitch said Gaultier’s show portrayed “a view of Amy when she was not at her best, [glamorizing] some of the more upsetting times in her life.” Mitch felt it inappropriate to try and cash in on his daughter’s legacy. “To see her image lifted wholesale to sell clothes was a wrench we were not expecting or consulted on. We’re proud of her influence on fashion but find black veils on models, smoking cigarettes with a barbershop quartet singing her music in bad taste.” He wasn’t the only harsh critic of the celebrity fashion designer. Kelly Osbourne, a close friend of Amy Winehouse , also Tweeted in response: “Although @JPGaultier was paying homage to my friend and icon to the world, I found it to be lucratively selfish and distasteful. Exploitation=evil.” [Photo: WENN.com]
Singer’s death at age 27 and the comeback that never was is our #10 Newsmaker of the year. By Gil Kaufman Amy Winehouse Photo: Getty Images If I had gone to journalism school, I’m sure one of the first things they would have taught me was to remain objective in my reporting and not get too emotionally involved in the subjects I cover. But, just like the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Aaliyah and Sublime’s Brad Nowell, I cared more than was probably professionally prudent when I found out that Amy Winehouse had died . I didn’t personally know Winehouse, had never interviewed her and had only seen her perform a few times. But something about her titanic talent spoke to me, almost as much as the fascination I (and all of us, I suspect) had about her madcap, edge-of-a-knife life. We love reading (and writing) about the chaos of star’s lives because it allows us to live vicariously through the insanity they reap from the safety and security of our by-comparison tame lives. We shook our heads when she had that disastrous show in Belgrade in June, fearing that it meant we would have to wait even longer for her forever-gestating follow-up to her 2006 breakthrough second album, Back to Black. The news Winehouse had made since her 2008 Back to Black Grammy triumph was mostly bad — arrests, drug possession, punch-ups, divorce, rehab, canceled shows — but her pugnacious attitude and promise kept us interested. I was pulling for her because I know all too well from experience how this one usually ends. There was a part of me that couldn’t wait for Winehouse to defy the critics and stage a triumphant comeback that would surprise and delight us all over again. Once she passed, though, we paid tribute the only way we know how, with essays about her importance to music , shout-outs from contemporary acolytes like Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj and the cast of “Glee” ), a look back at her career highlights on MTV and as much information as we could give you about the details of her death. (That enduring interest in Winehouse’s legacy became the #10 Top Newsmaker of 2011 .) We wondered if there would be more music from the singer who’d only managed two studio albums before her death , measured her influence beyond “Rehab” and dug up every bit of tape we had to shed more light on her creative process . Because I wondered it myself, we also asked experts if sudden fame had crushed the fragile, troubled singer. And we told you everything we could about the VMA tribute to her featuring Bruno Mars and Russell Brand . Once her cause of death was revealed, the first question that needed to be answered was, “how is that even possible?” And when details were revealed about her first posthumous album , Lioness: Hidden Treasures, we spoke to everyone we could about the tracks , fearing it might be the last we’d hear from this suddenly silenced voice. We were as sad as you were, but we kept it together to bring you the news. Well, almost. In a Newsroom post, I reminisced about the first time I saw Winehouse perform, at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, in March 2007. I dug through the tens of thousands of pictures in my iPhoto folder to find the series of shots I’d snapped of her from just a few feet away at her Stateside debut. I remembered how blown away I was by the enormous, tear-stained sound coming from this tiny woman. I wrote about how I sometimes reveled in reporting on her bad behavior. But mostly, I admitted that like a lot of you, I’m just sad we won’t have Amy around anymore. How did Amy Winehouse’s death affect you? Share your thoughts below. MTV continues our Best of 2011 coverage by looking back at the biggest pop-culture stories of the year. As we count down the newsmakers that mattered to you most, also check out our Best Artists , Best Songs , Best MTV Live Performances and Best EDM Artists of 2011. Related Videos Amy Winehouse Remembered Related Artists Amy Winehouse
MTV News remembers ‘Jackass’ daredevil Ryan Dunn, Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr and Cali Swag District’s M-Bone, among others. By Tami Katzoff Nate Dogg Photo: Mark Sullivan/ WireImage This year we lost some of our brightest stars: artists that spanned the genres of rock, hip-hop and pop, as well as TV and film. They were at different stages in their careers — some just starting to rise, others already legends — but all left a distinct mark on pop culture, and their deaths affected us deeply. Beloved hip-hop icons Nate Dogg and Heavy D influenced the generations of artists who followed them. Nate (born Nathaniel Hale) died at age 41 after suffering several health setbacks related to a stroke. One of the key players in the birth of the West Coast G-Funk sound, the crooner’s silky smooth vocals touched classic tracks from Snoop Dogg and Warren G to 50 Cent and Ludacris. Fun-loving Heavy D, a major force in the New Jack Swing era, had hits with songs like “We Found Love” and “Nuttin’ But Love,” but he had also branched out into film and theater. He was 44 when he died this past fall. Photos: The celebrities gone too soon in 2011. We lost Mike Starr , former bassist for the groundbreaking Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains. Like Amy Winehouse, who also died this year at the age of 27, Starr’s talent was often overshadowed by dependency on alcohol and drugs. Gun violence claimed the life of 22-year-old Montae Talbert, the Cali Swag District dancer otherwise known as M-Bone . And Australian actor Andy Whitfield , who got his big break when he was cast as the lead in the Starz TV series “Spartacus: Blood and Sand,” was 39 when he succumbed to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Finally, the MTV family mourned the death of “Jackass” daredevil and “Viva La Bam” star Ryan Dunn . The 34-year-old died on a rural Pennsylvania road along with his 30-year-old passenger, Zachary Hartwell, when their car slammed into a guardrail and caught fire. Share your memories of those we lost this year in the comments below. MTV continues our Best of 2011 coverage by looking back at the biggest pop-culture stories of the year. As we count down the newsmakers that mattered to you most, also check out our Best Artists , Best Songs , Best MTV Live Performances and Best EDM Artists of 2011. Related Videos Remembering Nate Dogg Remembering Heavy D Remembering Ryan Dunn Related Photos In Memoriam: Stars We Lost In 2011
‘I wanted to make hip-hop that I felt right now and the way that I’ve known it in my years to sound,’ rapper says. By Jocelyn Vena Common Photo: MTV News With the Maya Angelou controversy over his song “The Dreamer” cleared up, Common can now drop his newest release, The Dreamer/The Believer , with a clear conscience. The rapper’s latest effort hits the streets on Tuesday. “That’s very special to me, man. I’m excited, man. This is like one of the favorite, one of my favorite albums that I ever been a part of,” he told MTV News on the red carpet at “VH1 Divas,” where he was on hand to introduce the Amy Winehouse tribute . “And I feel like it has that music that we want to hear. So it’s produced by No I.D. and it’s some great music. “I wanted to make hip-hop music. I wanted to make hip-hop that I felt right now and the way that I’ve known it in my years to sound,” he continued. “So it just was about, like, let’s make some real good hip-hop music and make it a great piece of art, so when people hear the album, they can have the complete package of everything.” In addition to releasing new music, Common is also knee-deep into the season of his AMC drama “Hell on Wheels,” in which he plays former slave Elam Ferguson, who is struggling with his identity shortly after the Civil War. “I’m supercharged about that also,” he said. “We’ve been doing really well. Everybody that has been supporting it, thank you very much. And those that haven’t seen it, you got to check it out.” Much like in his music, the show is about storytelling and taking fans on an emotional journey. “It’s a great story about the building of the Transcontinental Railroad, but it’s more about the relationships of the people who were there to build this dream, you know, from freed men, from black freed men, to the Irishmen to Confederates to Union soldiers to the whores of the town and how these lives mesh.” Balancing his acting and musical careers is sometimes a struggle, but it’s a struggle that Common is willing to make. “Once I really got into the acting world, I definitely had to balance it,” he explained. “I love acting — I love it for real and I love music too. I got to give them both attention. I can’t neglect either one. It’s a little easier working on the album, but they both mean a lot to me.” Related Artists Common
