Amanda Bynes has been acting a little erratic lately, and that's putting it nicely. But when she aimed one of her increasingly odd Twitter insults at Rihanna on Saturday, the singer knew just how to shut. it. down.
For reasons known only to Bynes she tweeted, "@rihanna Chris Brown beat you because you're not pretty enough." The tweet was followed up with another, "no one wants to be your lover so you [tell] everyone and their mother that I almost named my new dog Rihanna." The tweets were soon deleted, but didn't escape Rihanna's notice. Her response is priceless.
Tweet has just premiered the first single off her upcoming EP "Simply Tweet EP", the song is titled "Enough" which is a soulful ballad that showcases her sultry vocals and beautiful harmonies. She sings about letting go of a bad relationship and making peace with it and not dwelling on it anymore.
Last week, Tweet held a live UStream chat for her Fans where she gave the fans a preview of unreleased music. After the singer gave them a sample of "Proceed," fans begin to send tons of tweets on Twitter requesting the release of the full song. To show her appreciation, Tweet has decided to release the track.
Tweet continues her #TweetTuesdays with the release of “Face To Face,” another soulful jam that finds the Southern Hummingbird singing about finding love after pain.
As promised Soulstress and self proclaimed Southern Hummingbird treats us to a preview of what's to come on her upcoming album 'Simply Tweet'.
This week she brings 'Trouble', where Tweet uses her soft, melodic, jazz- inspired vocals to pull us in..I can not wait for the remainder of her material and album!! This will indeed be a hit!
Even Maxwell cosigned for her via Twitter:
If you missed #TweetTuesdays last week check out the single HERE.
The self proclaimed Southern Hummingbird kicked off her newly instated “Tweet Tuesdays” with the release of a cover of Aretha Franklin’s 1972 soul classic, “Daydreaming.”
The music released during “Tweet Tuesdays” will not be featured on her upcoming third album, Simply Tweet
Rihanna has announced the title of her new single as 'Cheers (Drink To That), the sixth single to be taken from her latest album 'Loud.'
She sure does know how to milk an album for all it's worth.
The Bajan songstress revealed the news via a tweet to celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, writing: "@PerezHilton hey boo, ur fav song is the brand new #LOUD single "CHEERS" to u being an A&R #RihannaNavy."
'Cheers' samples pop singer Avril Lavigne and was co-written by Rihanna and other writers including Jermaine Jackson. The new single was produced by The Runners who also worked on her previous ballad 'California King Bed.'
Kelly Rowland's already sizzling summer is about to get even hotter with the release of her highly-anticipated third solo album on Tuesday. And one day before "Here I Am" comes out, she'll be at Billboard.com for a Live Q&A on Monday, July 25 at 4:30pm ET answering fan tweets and chatting about the album live on camera.
We're sure you've got tons of burning questions for her about everything from working with Nelly, Lil Wayne, Big Sean and others on the album to her huge single, "Motivation," which already hit No. 1 on our R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
Tweet all of your burning questions for Kelly to @billboarddotcomusing hashtag #bbKelly. Then be sure to check out Billboard.com Monday to watch their Live Q&A with Kelly, hosted by Billboard.com in partnership with Ustream.
Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, and their son Egypt headed into a waiting car in NYC a few days ago. Swizz held on tight to his 10-month-old after he and Alicia shared a hand-holding stroll as a couple earlier in the day.
Ciara Harris prepares to depart LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) while wearing a tropical dress.
Actress Jennifer Aniston is honored with a Hand and Footprint Ceremony outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre on July 7, 2011 in Hollywood, California.
Kelly Rowland caused a sense while hosting the popular Saturdays with The 400 event at Cameo Nightclub in Miami, FL. Wearing a black and white striped shirt and black skirt, our fave kept the party going into the early hours of Sunday.
Lady Gaga arrives at Nevermind Nightclub on July 11, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. Lady Gaga fans gathered outside two Sydney nightclubs in hopes to catch a glimpse of the singer after she sent a cryptic tweet suggesting her she'd be stopping by the venues. Lady Gaga arrives at Nevermind Nightclub on July 11, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. Lady Gaga fans gathered outside two Sydney nightclubs in hopes to catch a glimpse of the singer after she sent a cryptic tweet suggesting her she'd be stopping by the venues.
In Breezy’s defense, the tweet that started it all was a compliment Brown paid to Ocean saying,“I fuck wit Frank Ocean! Reminds me of a young James Fauntleroy or Kevin Cossum.” Clearly it was seen as a diss by Ocean who replied, “i fucks wit chris brown, reminds me of a young sisqo or iketurner,” Ocean went on to say, “i just dont like underhanded comments. thats all im saying.”
That’s all that was needed to ignite Brown’s short fuse. Should Chris be going back to anger management classes?!?! I never understood this whole twitter beef thing. Between Rihanna & Chris Brown maybe these slight anger issues played a part in why the two could not keep their relationship solid. Watch the shameful drama unravel below.
Brown tweets:
Ocean responds:
Brown shoots back:
Tyler the Creator, who was also in on the beef, goes back and forth with Brown as well:
Burress pleaded guilty in August 2009 to attempted criminal possession of a weapon and was sentenced to two years in prison. He was released about three months early for good behavior.
Burress will be on parole for two years. He has to get and keep a job, undergo substance abuse testing, obey any curfew established by his Florida parole officer, support his family and undergo any anger counseling or other conditions required by his parole officer.
It didn't take long for friends and former teammates to transmit their good wishes.
In response to a tweet that said: 'Just In!. Plaxico Burress Just Released from Jail!'' former Giants star Michael Strahan responded: ''About time!!''
Despite the intensity of the NBA finals, even LeBron James took a moment to tweet: ''Welcome home Plaxico! Best of luck in the near future both on and off the field. 17 Jersey coming to a city near u.''
''I just want to thank God for bringing me through one of the most trying times in my life,'' Burress said in a brief exchange with reporters outside Oneida Correctional Facility in central New York. ''It's a beautiful day. It's a beautiful day to be reunited with my family. I want to go home and spend some quality time with them.
''I'd like to thank everybody for their prayers and words of encouragement,'' Burress said as the fog-shrouded morning gave way to brilliant sunshine. ''I'd like to thank all my fans all around the world for the thousands of letters, for their unwavering support. As far as football is concerned, if and when everything gets settled, when they get back on the field, I'll be ready.''
Tweet roared onto the music scene in 2002. Listeners had already gotten some sense of the singer, songwriter and musician’s might on Missy Elliott’s “Take Away” (a single on Elliott’s 2001 CD “Miss E…So Addictive”); and if they were really paying attention, the Ja Rule single “X” from his 2001 CD “Pain Is Love.” But still, all of the sweetness of “Take Away” could have in no way prepared audiences for the bold, hypnotic, sensuality of Tweet’s first single “Oops (Oh My)” — the No. 1 R&B/Hip-Hop hit everybody had formulated their own “real story” about. And everybody — on a crowded dance floor or alone in their room — loved.
Then there was the slinkier follow-up single “Call Me,” a Top 10 R&B/Hip-Hop single made even bigger with the accompanying Verizon commercial and the bonus about Tweet’s platinum selling debut CD Southern Hummingbird — a Top 5 charter on both Billboard’s pop and R&B/Hip-Hop album chart — was it was one of those rare R&B records that was deep with single-worthy album selections like “Smoking Cigarettes,” “Motel,” and “Boogie 2nite.”
Her 2005 follow-up It’s Me Again charged back onto the scene with the single “Turn Da Lights Off” and a Top 5 album. Again, there were other album selections with single potential like vocal showcases “My Man,” “Where Do We Go From Here,” “I’m Done” and the gently beautiful reworking of TV’s “Taxi” theme, “Cab Ride.” And yet while it reached the No. 2 position on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop album chart, and the top 20 of the pop album listings, “It’s Me Again” wound up being more of a critical favorite than a commercial success.
And Tweet, for a moment, was silenced.
“They just didn’t promote it well,” Tweet says of her second record label, “and so I asked to be let off the label. It just wasn’t working and I didn’t feel they were interested, so I decided I wasn’t going to do this thing anymore. I wasn’t going to sing. I wasn’t going to do music. I was so tired of the music business. Tired of the music industry.”
With that, Tweet went back to being full-time mom to her teenage daughter Tashawna, whom she introduced on the “It’s Me Again” single “Two of Us.” But it wasn’t long before she got the call. Violator Management co-owner and president Mona Scott, via John Monopoly, was on the line with an offer from long-respected music veteran Jheryl Busbyfor an independent deal with his Umbrella Recordings. She would own her own masters and everything. “It was a good deal,” Tweet says. “And I decided, ‘Hey, why not?’ Because music was still in my heart and as hard as I tried, I couldn’t escape it.”
She titled her third release Love, Tweet because “it’s a ‘Thank You’ to my fans that never left me, who are still there on MySpace, Twitter and Facebook, checking for new developments, and coming up to me on the streets saying ‘We’re still supporting you! Come on, we’re waiting for you!’ So it’s just a love note to my fans saying ‘Thank you’ for all of the love and support.”
Of course it wouldn’t be a note from Tweet of “Oops” fame if it weren’t a bit shocking. Be it the first release from Love, Tweet titled “Good Bye My Dear,” with fellow Atlantan and two-time Grammy-winning rapper T.I., or the first official single “Anymore,” produced by Novel (Joss Stone).
“‘Good Bye My Dear’ is something that people wouldn’t really expect for me to do,” Tweet concurs. “It’s has an Atlanta sound, which I like. Marz [the producer] called me one night and asked me to come by the studio, Grand Hustle, and the song just happened. I always wanted to work with T.I. and didn’t know how soon it would be. But the opportunity came about and I went for it!”
“Anymore,” on the other hand, “will put you in the mind of an OutKast meets Tweet kind of record. And it’s another shocker. With this album I did maybe half Tweet records, and then I took it outside of my realm.”
There’s also “Love Again,”(on ITunes) produced by Charlie BeReal and Craig Brockman which she describes as “Mary J. ‘What’s the 411’ in a very Tweet way.” “Love Again” is about “being confused about love and wondering if you want to go there again,” states Tweet. And then there’s the acoustic record “Alone,” produced by Tweet, Nisan Stewart, Charlie BeReal and Craig Brockman reminiscent of her own “Motel” from Southern Hummingbird. “‘Alone’ talks about being faithful to a person and putting all of this time in and still feeling like you’re by yourself. True story -- that happened to me.”
“I put together a lot of records I think everyone will enjoy: My Tweet fans, and also the people who really didn’t know me,” Tweet continues. “I’m introducing myself to them with an album I’m proud of.”
Sounds like the world should step back— and prepare for Tweet’s roar again.
Keke Wyatt takes a look in the “Mirror” on her soul-stirring duet with Kelly Price and Tweet from her new album Unbelievable! (June 14). The songbirds sing about falling back into a bad relationship over the guitar-laced melody. “We were so close to getting over him/ Now you’re tellin’ me we’re going back again,” sings a conflicted Keke. “How could you betray me and take my heart back through that door?” asks Tweet. Listen as they reflect on their heartache.
It's great to hear these ladies are back to making music again!! check out the dope R&B track below.
R&B singers Keke Wyatt, Faith Evans, Nicci Gilbert from Brownstone, Syleena Johnson, Tweet, Kelly Price, and AngieStone. Wyatt descibed the show to YouKnowIGotSoul.com as “Basically going into our lives and showing that we’re not only singers of R&B, we’re also mothers and we lead lives like regular women do.”
The show is said to be a combination of Real Housewives of Atlanta meets Basketball Wives meets Love & Hip Hop. It’s still in its development stages. WHY ARE THEY MAKING ALL THESE RELAITY SHOWS?? WHY???? FEEDBACK??
(Photos from Twitter)
