By Ivory M. Jones, BET.com Staff
R B’s most dysfunctional couple is officially no more.
The 14-year marriage between Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown was finalized today. According to TMZ.com, the divorce was listed as “uncontested” with neither party walking away with spousal support.
Houston was awarded sole physical and legal custody of the couple’s 14-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina; Brown was granted “reasonable right of visitation.” During a court date earlier this month, a tearful Houston testified that Brown was undependable when it came to Bobbi Kristina. “If he says he’s going to come, sometimes he does.
Usually he doesn’t,” she said. As previously reported, the pop star filed for divorce from her former hubby in October, citing irreconcilable differences.
The Rev.
Al Sharpton announced that he will continue his war against hip-hop’s lyrics but from a much different position—in the boardroom. The fiery activist revealed plans to purchase stocks in several companies that promote hip-hop music so that he could voice his objections during shareholder meetings. Sharpton singled out Time Warner and Universal Music Group his National Action Network’s convention, which took place over the weekend New York City.
“Some of these stockholders have no idea that they own stock in a parent company that owns companies calling them bitches and ho’s,” he said. Sharpton also revealed plans to spearhead a women’s decency march in Midtown in May, targeting labels such as Sony,
Ghostface Killah and the estate of the late Tupac Shakur were both slapped with a $10 million lawsuit for allegedly sampling a 1976 song. Esther Williams filed the lawsuit in Washington D.
C. Federal Court, accusing both parties of sampling her song, “Last Night Changed It All,” without obtaining proper permission. The song was allegedly sampled on “Late Night,” a song that appeared on Tupac’s 2002 posthumous album Better Dayz.
Several years later, in 2004, Ghostface sampled the same song on “Last Night Skit,” an interlude that appeared on The Pretty Toney album.
Rick James may be gone, but not forgotten. The funkster’s autobiography, Memoirs of a Super Freak, hits shelves across the country on May 1.
James penned the account between 1993 and 1995 while serving a prison term. Meanwhile, Deeper Still, the album that the late singer was working on at the time of his 2004 death is slated to hit stores May 15 on Stone City Records. Though the album was initially intended as a two-disc album with over 20 new songs, James-produced album has been trimmed down to a single disc that includes 11 tracks.
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