*The New York Post’s Page Six notes the strategic mind of Kanye West when it comes to promoting his fiancee’s new dress line. According to the column, he “spent 30 minutes being photographed with his girl [Alexis Phifer] on the red carpet before entering Ne-Yo's album-release party at Marc Ecko's showroom - but his date kept her coat on. West coaxed her back to the carpet and begged photogs to re-snap her, sans jacket.
An insider told Page Six, ‘She was wearing a dress from her Ghita label, and Kanye wanted her to show it off.’”
*Ludacris is still hot over losing his promotional deal with Pepsi over protests launched by conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly. The soft-drink company fired him in 2005 after the right wing Fox News Channel host complained he was "vulgar" and attacked Pepsi as "immoral" for using him in their ads.
He tells the New York Daily News: "(I was fired) just for what I was saying on records. (And replaced by Ozzy Osbourne), a man who bit the head off an animal onstage and who has an MTV show where you have to bleep out every other word. Life is unfair.
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* Mathew Knowles’ Music World Music has announced the launch of the next installment of their children's music series "Kid's Rap Radio, Volume 3" and the debut of "Kid's Rap, Latino." Each release will feature child-friendly lyrics and arrangements of popular rap and hip-hop singles geared toward children ages 2 through 10. Kid's Rap Radio, Volume 3" will release on Oct.
2 and includes versions of top charting hits "Walk It Out" and "This Is Why I'm Hot." "Kid's Rap, Latino" will debut in stores and online on Aug. 7.
The release includes all Spanish-rapped versions of "Kid's Rap Volume 1's" track listing. Hot titles include "Back Then," "Wait (The Whisper Song)," and "Go DJ."
*As part of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival’s efforts toward rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, R B singer John Legend washed clothes as part of a free mobile laundry service for families still living in federally issued trailers in hard-hit St.
Bernard Parish. Not all trailers that hurricane-affected families live in come equipped with washers and dryers. Today (5/07), singer Joss Stone is scheduled to work with Habitat for Humanity and the Internet-based travel company Travelocity to promote volunteer work in New Orleans.
A number of Jazz Fest performers, including Norah Jones, also have recorded or committed to record Fats Domino songs for a tribute benefiting the Tipitina's Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to providing the city's public schools with instruments and helping artists recover from the hurricane.
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