So Jay-Z's people released a teaser for the forthcoming "Empire State Of Mind" video featuring Alicia Keys.
Check it out below:
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Music: Alicia Keys – “Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart”
October 29th, 2009 
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Tags: Rapper Shyne Officially Back Home In Belize
October 29th, 2009 ibhmagazine I know Diddy is somewhere breathing a sigh of relief as his former artist Shyne was deported back to his native Belize. Read more below:
Rapper Shyne was officially deported back to Belize on (October 28), he was taken directly from holding to the airport, where he flew to his home country.
According to local outlets, he arrived in Belize around 2:40 p.m. local time on Thursday (October 28), escorted by a U.S. Marshall following his deportation.
He was processed by local authorities at the airport, then was welcomed by his father Dean Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize, his mother Imeon Myvett and other members of his family, as well as fans.
Shyne's team told media that he would now like to be called Moses Michael Leviy to reflect his conversion to Judaism.
"Shyne is home. He wants to say how happy he is to be home and to be a free man," said the rapper's uncle, Michael Finnegan, current Minister of Housing. "He would love to have a conversation with the media, but because he was legally advised by Professor Ogletree, he must not speak to the media because he doesn't want to prejudice his situation with the US government or with the Belize government. So he asked me to ask you that he does not want to disrespect you the media, but please to understand what is going on."
Former NBA Baller Antoine Walker Is Flat Broke
October 29th, 2009 ibhmagazine Former NBA star Antoine Walker is broke and is $4 million in debt and facing charges for writing bad checks:
In 12 years, Antoine Walker made more than $110 million playing professional basketball moderately well. Take away taxes, throw in some Adidas endorsement money and a “NBA Live 99″ cover, and he’s left with, what… … $60-to-65 million???
Whatever the details, it was a big chunk of change, which, amazingly, wasn’t enough. During the last several months, the once multi-millionaire athlete has been pursued by multiple financial institutions for unpaid debts. In fact, “Employee No. 8″ owes more than $4 million to his creditors and is facing felony check fraud charges in Las Vegas. All of this at the age of 33. Wild.
Living at the Bishops Forest condominium complex in Waltham during the Celtics season, Walker turned the pavement surrounding his home into a virtual luxury car lot — two Bentleys, two Mercedes, a Range Rover, a Cadillac Escalade, a bright red Hummer. Often, the vehicles were tricked out with custom paint jobs, rims, and sound systems at considerable added expense. He also collected top-line watches — Rolexes and diamond-encrusted Cartiers.”
“[Walker] liked to move in an outsized entourage; his mother estimates that, during his playing days, he was supporting 70 friends and family members in one way or another. And speaking of his mother, he built her a mansion in the Chicago suburbs, complete with an indoor pool, 10 bathrooms, and a full-size basketball court.
This is just sad. Some people just can't handle their finances.
Mo’Nique – The “Precious” Interview
October 29th, 2009 Kam Williams 
Mo’Nique Imes was born on December 11, 1967 in Baltimore which is where she started her showbiz career as a stand-up comedienne on a dare a couple of decades ago. From there, she gained visibility and immense popularity with performances on “Showtime at the Apollo,” HBO’s “Def Comedy Jam,” “Apollo Comedy Hour” HBO’s “Snaps,” BET’s “Comic View,” The Montreal Comedy Festival and Uptown Comedy Club.
Her big break arrived in 1999 when she landed a starring role on the television series, “The Parkers.” During the show’s five-year run, Mo’Nique earned numerous awards, including four NCAAP Image Awards as the Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series. Her film credits include Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, Two Can Play That Game, Hair Show, Three Strikes, Baby Boy, Beerfest, Phat Girlz, Soul Plane, Irish Jam, Domino and Shadowboxer.
As a voluptuous role model for Rubenesque females Mo-Nique wrote the best-selling book “Skinny Women Are Evil,” as well as an equally-funny follow-up entitled “Skinny Cooks Can’t Be Trusted.” She also created, produced and emceed “Mo’Nique’s F.A.T. Chance,” America’s first, full-figured, reality beauty pageant. Struck by the skyrocketing number of women behind bars, she brought her act to a prison to tape a comedy special called “I Coulda Been Your Cellmate” which aired on TV before later being released on DVD. Then, she delved further into the issue as the host of “Mo’Nique: Behind Bars” for the Oxygen television network.
Here, she talks about “The Mo’Nique Show,” her new late-night talk
show on BET, and about her Oscar-worthy performance in Precious, Lee Daniels’
eagerly-anticipated screen adaptation of Sapphire’s novel, “Push.”
Kam Williams: Hi Mo’Nique, thanks so much for the time.
Mo’Nique: Hey Kam! Thank you, baby!
KW: Congratulations on the new TV show.
M: Thank you!
KW: How would you describe the format? How are you dividing the time among monologues, interviews, and musical and other performances?
M: I can’t give you those numbers, baby, because the show is so unpredictable. We’re just having a great time.
KW: What interested you in doing a talk show?
M: Well, I’ve always wanted to do a talk show. That was the whole focus from the very beginning. First, I thought it’d be like Oprah Winfrey, but the comedienne in me wouldn’t let me do that. So, when my husband [Sidney Hicks] and I spoke with Loretha Jones [BET’s President of Programming], we said, “We want to do late-night. We want to have a party.”
KW: Speaking of partying, you were recently spotted in Manhattan partying at Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson’s Sugar Bar with Lee Daniels, Andre’ Leon Talley and some other folks. Did you have fun?
M: I had a blast, Kam. When you go to the Sugar Bar, the kid in you truly comes out.
KW: When you mentioned Oprah, it reminded me that I told my readers I’d be interviewing you. And one of them, Laz Lyles, was wondering how much it means to you to have Oprah personally get behind the film in such a strong way.
M: It was a pleasure. She’s a powerhouse. She’s Oprah Winfrey. You know what that means. So, when she said, “I dig this,” I was very appreciative of it.
KW: Attorney Bernadette Beekman asks, how do you do it? You’re already a mother, actress, author and comedienne, and now adding late night TV host. So, she wants to know how you keep sane and healthy and how you manage to juggle everything.
M: There is a great group of people that surrounds me, starting with my husband, who is my business partner and executive producer of the talk show. With our assistants and our staff in our home, we have a great team. So please believe me, I’d love to say, “Oh honey, I’m a superwoman!” But I’m so far from being a superwoman. It’s all the people who surround us are what make Mo’Nique work.
KW: Laz also asks, was it hard for you not to take you character home with you at the end of the day when you were shooting Precious?
