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TMZ has learned Beyonce's parents -- Mathew Knowles and Tina Knowles -- are no longer getting divorced ... at least for now. A trial was supposed to take place yesterday in Harris County, Texas, but nobody showed up, so the judge dismissed the case. It's unclear if Tina and Mathew have reconciled ... or just forgot to show up, but we're guessing since they both were lawyered up they didn't just forget to show ... rather, they made a conscious decision to drop the divorce. As we first reported, Tina filed for divorce in November of '09 -- one month after Mathew was hit with a paternity suit by Alexsandra Wright. A DNA test later proved the kid was indeed Mathew's

WTF! Rihanna Loud *** by Sal Cinquemani on November 12, 2010 Jump to Comments (0) or Add Your Own After comparing last year's Rated R to Janet Jackson's The Velvet Rope, Eric Henderson ended his review of the album by expressing hopes that Rihanna wouldn't follow up with something like All for You. At first glance, it appears that his fears were justified: Like Janet's last hit album, Loud is a decided step away from its über-personal, melodrama-drenched predecessor. While that may disappoint critics like Eric and I, however, it's probably smart business. Lead single "Only Girl (In the World)" finds New York production duo Stargate co-opting David Guetta's inexplicably popular Eurotrash sound pretty effectively, but that song eschews the subtle West Indian flavor with which Rihanna and company have smartly imbued the rest of the album. The singer hasn't embraced—or exploited, depending on how you want to look at it—her Caribbean roots this much since her debut, and after hearing the entire album, her "loud" red hair and floral-pattern dresses make that much more sense. That's not to say there aren't traces of the R-rated Rihanna here. The album opens with an ode to S&M that would make various parts of Janet's body perk up, and the inclusion of a new version of "Love the Way You Lie" shows that Rihanna isn't completely ready to put her much-publicized bout with domestic abuse behind her. The album's biggest highlight is "Man Down," a full-fledged reggae tune co-written by fellow Barbadan Shontelle Layne about a woman who shoots a man (her abusive boyfriend? Her abusive pimp? Or maybe she's simply the abuser). Either way, Rihanna sounds surprisingly agile in this genre and it's one of her finest, most confident vocal performances to date. In the end, Loud really isn't Rihanna's All for You, but like Janet, Rihanna has always had trouble fitting into one genre (she has largely flip-flopped between dance, pop, and R&B, crossing over in a big way but meeting resistance in the urban market—a problem Janet would no doubt encounter if she were starting out today too), and for better or worse, Rihanna continues to stylistically branch out on Loud. "California King Bed" is a slushy acoustic ballad whose clever metaphor is all but suffocated beneath the song's cheesy production choices, and the same producers fill "Cheers (Drink to That)" with a sample of Avril Lavigne's yelp, an odd choice consdering Rihanna has contributed at least a couple more famous vocal tics of her own to the pop lexicon. http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/rihanna-loud/2312

Last night at the New York Public Library, Jay-Z and noted scholar Cornel West talked for two hours about the rapper’s new memoir, Decoded. Their free-wheeling discussion began with Jay-Z’s life and lyrics and expanded to touch on issues of history, culture, and race in America. They were joined on stage by the Library’s Paul Holdengräber, an eager, earnest fellow with a strong Belgian accent who confessed his relative ignorance of rap before reading Decoded. Holdengräber’s presence felt slightly awkward at times, but it tied into one of Jay-Z’s chief aims with Decoded: explaining the significance of his words, and of hip-hop as a whole, to outsiders who might not otherwise understand. “It’s a conversation between worlds,” Jay told me as we sat in another opulent chamber of the Library a few minutes before the talk began. “Because at the end of the day, we’re all the same, when you take away the titles of who we are. We all have the same emotions, the same feelings. We’ve got so much more in common than we don’t.” Jay-Z first announced that he was working on a memoir around the time of 2003′s The Black Album, but he ultimately chose not to publish that early attempt at laying out his life in book form. He sees Decoded as a project of another kind entirely. “This book [is] much more than just an autobiography,” he said. “It’s basically about music and about the power of words — rap as poetry. Then it told the story of a generation of kids. It gave a voice to what we were feeling, emotions we were going through. So it was much more important than just a story about me.” In writing Decoded, he hoped to make a case for the literary value of all rap lyrics, not just his own. “We’re talking about something that was dismissed as a fad,” he said. “That’s how rap started: ‘Oh, it’s just another fad. It’ll be gone.’ So it’s terribly misunderstood. The same people who thought rap was a fad need to really understand what we’re saying and get into the deeper meanings of what we’re talking about.” With Decoded finally in stores today, Jay-Z isn’t sure if he’ll go on to pen more books. “I had an idea, and the execution was better than the idea,” he reflected. “That never really happens. When I sat down and looked through this book and read it, I was like, ‘Oh, this is powerful.’ So it’s going to take me a second to get over that one.” Of course, if he ever does decide to write Decoded 2, he’ll have lots of material to work with. “I have seven million thousand songs,” he said with a laugh. “So yeah, there’s more… I think every piece of art is up for decoding and judging and listening to and prodding and poking into. It’s all on the table.”

imma get it A- Details Release Date: Nov 16, 2010; Writer: Jay-Z; Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction; Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Decoded by Jay-Z | Jay-Z Decoded by Jay-Z Despite the career he has made out of rapping in the first person, Jay-Z is known for prizing privacy. His new book Decoded may not erase that reputation — look elsewhere for gossip — but it is nonetheless Shawn Carter’s most honest airing of the experiences he drew on to create the mythic figure of Jay-Z. The portrait that emerges is threefold. Jay-Z The Hustler He dealt crack cocaine in his teens. Some critics have mistaken his references to this as somehow glorifying it. Here he expands on the nuances that have always existed in his lyrics — the desperation that drove him to crime and the paranoia and shame that followed. Jay-Z The Star Decoded doesn’t linger on his rise to the top, but the scenes he recounts along the way are fascinating, whether he’s recalling a bull session with Bono or acknowledging former business partner Damon Dash in surprisingly magnanimous terms. Jay-Z The Artist The memoir’s chief theme is Jay-Z’s obsession with words. Annotated lyric sheets unpack allusions that even the most attentive listeners might have missed. He situates his work in the English canon, comparing his chosen form to the sonnet and crediting favorite authors (''Shout-out to Alfred, Lord Tennyson''). After reading Decoded, you won’t doubt for a second that he deserves the same level of respect as any of those great scribes. A–

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whatever whenever u bring ur lil yella ass up here im good this weekend or whenever

so now u dont want to conversate?

hmm sure u will u didnt download that mess did it leak? lol omg missy bf got her flowers, a teddy bear and a charm bracelet from juicy coutour she wanted. hes a sweet kid size 13 feet omg! these kids now a days r big

well what u wanna talk about? riri? did you get her cd yet

:lmao: well i dont see u full of conversation either mr the problem is no one is ever here

well i saw u in here and u sure didnt bump it just start some shit talk about sex that always works

morning

forget u and raggedy ann

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happy belated b day to you both

no wonder i didnt know whats up boo boo how was ur weekend?

one more day for what

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where did u hear this other than from the voices in ur head

morning happy friday!!!!!

man i walked by the tv yesterday when i got home and all i saw was some chick doing janet i said to my daughter WTF is she doing. she was like calm down mom!!!. tha'ts keri paying homage to other artist on her video. I was like she better be before she get fucked up :lmao:

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