DOUBLE TROUBLE: J-Lo going on tour with Skeletor and THE TWINS??

JENNIFER LOPEZ and MARC ANTHONY's baby twins are set to visit Europe this summer (08) with their proud parents. Is J-Lo and Skeletor crazy? El paparazzi crazyo la cante!!! Anthony has revealed his newborn children Max and Emme will join him and his wife when he tours Spain in June (08). The Spanish paps will come at them like flies on a dead body! There are some things you just gotta leave at home!

In a press conference with the Spanish media last week, the singer said that "family and (his) laptop" were the only things he couldn't live without during this tour, which begins on 21 June (08). And Anthony insists he's more than justified in taking Lopez and their twins on the road with him: "When I perform in Spain... they will inspire me." And he won't be making big demands backstage: "I just need toys for the kids."

Fantasia serves as the Grand Mashall of local parade.

Remember that Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival I reported at my single moms blog that Fantasia will be the Grand Marshall? Well here are the pictures. Fantasia was the main attraction at the VA Apple Blossom Festival this weekend. Beside her is her girl and that huge bodyguard of sorts! He's bigger than Jay-Z's!

BOX OFFICE JITTERS: Mimi to re-ignite her movie career.

MARIAH CAREY leaped at the chance to reignite her movie career in Independent film TENNESSEE - so she could exorcise the demons of 2001 flop GLITTER. The movie was a critical and commercial failure, and acting offers dried up for Carey. Seven years on the star returns to the big screen, playing a waitress in Tennessee, after producer Lee Daniels offered to help her find her way back in Hollywood.

She says, "It was cool for Lee Daniels to take a chance on me because obviously, you know, not everybody was going to do that." The film - about two men on a journey to find their estranged father, in a bid to save their younger brother from leukemia - will premiere on Saturday (26Apr08) at New York's Tribeca Film Festival.

Coming this FRIDAY: It's finally the end of the month HipHop Celebrity Feature......DJ TOOMP!

Coming this FRIDAY: GET READY! There was no notice and DJ Toomp the highly talented American record Producer based in Atlanta granted me an interview and sat with me for a whole hour. He was here 3 weeks ago working on Ludacris's new album. BTW, Chris Bridges (Luda) is filming a movie here in Toronto too as you know this is the new "Hollywood."

Toomp, His Manager/partner, the hip-hop veteran Bernard Parks Jr was with him. You know they own NZone Entertainment. Stay tuned for my complete interview in text, video and audio of the 4-time Grammy award winning Producer who has produced the likes of Jay-Z, Kanye West, A track in E=MC2 on Mariah's album, Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, 8Ball and MJG and of course T.I! Read DJ Toomp's Bio here.

Jay-Z and Mary J Blige do Tavis Smiley show.

Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige promoted their “Heart of the City” Tour on Tavis Smiley’s PBS talk show on Thursday.

Will Smith's MTV Online launched!

A free music video website, backed by movie star WILL SMITH, launched on Wednesday (16Apr08). The I Am Legend star is one of the financial backers of PluggedIn.com, which boasts 10,000 high-quality promos and live performances from top artists. The new site is backed by three of the leading music giants, Universal Music Group, EMI Music and Sony Music. Check it out!

Anyone Remember Fansworth Bentley, the Outkast protegee?

Here he is as he looks today. Singer/songwriter Farnsworth Bentley and Sharae Nikai Robinson attend the First Annual 'Sick' Artist Event held at Les Deux on April 14, 2008 in Hollywood California. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images)

Diddy's mama spotted out on the town!

Janice Combs was out for a night of festivities in NYC last night wearing a large satin frock at the Dress For Success Worldwide Gala red carpet. That outfit is strange. Diddy could buy his mama something hotter than this! At least the dress matched the carpet.

Mariah Carey: My lifestyle isn't extravagant.

MiMi tells British media Mirror newspapers that she flies with her dog by private jet, refuses to use public transport and has no fewer than 11 bodyguards. Extravagant? Not according to Mariah Carey. The notorious diva insists her lifestyle is no different to the average person's. She tells Orange World: "I sit in hotel rooms with a bunch of humidifiers watching pay-per-view." Now, where did we put our humidifiers? More on the pampered pooch Jack Jr at my blogger pal Kym William's Celebrity Dog Watcher. Tinkerbell, BTW is Paris Hilton's dog if you didn't know.

90's R&B Girls SWV blew off the roof Friday night in Toronto!

Me, Coco, Leelee and Taj all looking sweet

The main birthday boy, DJ Skimpy

DJ Kid Kutts (Other birthday boy) in purple with SWV, DJ Skimpy and Flow 93.5FM's DJ Starting from Scratch.

Skimpy and the ladies SWV

Canada's DJ Shock aka "Perfect Storm"

Canada's "Mr Carribean."

Gail Phillips, Manager for R&B groups "Untitled" and Ray Robinson
Gail is also the Artist relations Director for the Urban Music Association of Canada. (UMAC)

Sweetz is the hairdresser to the stars and anyone else who wants a great hair do.


I told you that my girls Coco, Lele and Taj of SWV were gonna be in town to celebrate DJ Skimpy and Kid Kutt's birthdays. They gave us all the songs in their hey days like "Right here" "Anything" "Weak" and more. Even the track they collaborated with Diddy. Today they have gained more weight, become moms and were so tired after the show. Coco came in 3 hours later than the others so I had to cancel the interview and just do the stage concert and photo ops.

Canadian Super Rapper Kardinal Offishall

However I'm giving you tons of pictures with several Toronto celebrities including Kardinal Offishall who told me about how he's been working in the U.S with Akon and other stars on his new album. Kardinal will release his follow-up to Fire and Glory with his first album on Konvict Muzik entitled Not 4 Sale. Akon will executive produce the album, which will be Kardinal's second worldwide release, scheduled for release in 2008 and they both just shot a video yesterday in Miami. He told me he really liked working with Akon.

Canadian R&B Star Ray Robinson

R&B singer Ray Robinson whom I interviewed also told me that the urban categories need to be more prominent in the Juno award categories. As you know there is only one R&B category and rap too. Canada has to start giving respect to it's own artists. The local media, the fans and even the labels and record company executives in the States. The audio is very bad because of the club noise but I will still show you. The entire concert is also coming on Daily Motion and YouTube. Give me till Monday. It was a blast!

Diddy: 'I don't know how marriage works'

Sean 'Diddy' Combs can never see himself settling down - because he lacked good married role models when he was young. The Bad Boy Records boss has dated a string of beauties throughout his meteoric career - including Jennifer Lopez and model/actress Kim Porter, and had rumoured flings with Sienna Miller and Cameron Diaz. But the father of six doesn't understand the ethics of married life and blames his single-parent upbringing with mum Janice, who was left to raise two kids after Combs' father Melvin was shot dead in New York.

He says: "I don't know how marriage works. If you're raised by a married couple, you see how they interact; their good days, their bad days, how they work through things - you see the love.
"I wasn't brought up like that and I still don't know to do it. I never saw (my parents') relationship up-close, so every time I've been in a relationship I haven't known what to do and that's really scared me."

The hip-hop star broke off his relationship with Porter just months after she gave birth to their twin daughters Jessie James and D'Lila Star in December 2006. Diddy's father was gunned down on the streets when he was just three years old!

Our Fav hip-hop couple T.I and Tiny step out on the town last night!

T.I started his community service yesterday in four Atlanta schools and after talking to kids about the dangers of drugs and guns, he and Tiny stepped out to an industry event by Derek Blanks called Alter Ego: A Pictorial Exhibition last night in Atlanta. Derek is a celebrity photographer. Contrary to reports that he is under house arrest for a year, the conditions are not that strict. He can actual go out with permission to industry events and must adhere to all court imposed conditions. My darling Tiny is just radiantly glowing in her 6th month of pregnancy.

ThatNewish has photos off the set of the Notorius BIG movie!

One of our sponsored links Thatnewish.Com has full movie set pictures of Jamal Woolard playing Biggie on the set of this upcoming Christopher Wallace movie. Doesn't she make a good Faith Evans? Check them out here.

CELEBRITY BLOGGER SHOWTIME "MR. TALK OF THE TOWN" APPEARS ON MTV WITH FAT JOE.

Celebrity blogger Showtime "Mr. Talk of the Town" from WWW.THATOTT.COM
recently appeared on the MTV game show "Hood Fab" and competed in a battle of Hip Hop knowledge against Fat Joe. Click HERE to see Showtime and Fat Joe battle it out in a game of Hood Fab in Miami. You can also check out what Fat Joe had to say about losing the game of Hood Fab by clicking HERE.

Rapper Wyclef Jean asks Haitians to give up crime!

In a radio ad sponsored by the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Grammy Award-winning musician Wyclef Jean is asking his fellow citizens to give up crime and work to improve the country. Geez, in this article, it's like everyone over there is some bad guy! That's W up there with his cute baby gal.

Mos Def to play Chuck Berry in Cadillac Records.

US rapper and actor Mos Def is to play Chuck Berry in a new film about the legendary record label Chess Records. Cadillac Records, written and directed by Darnell Martin, is set in the 1950s and will follow the lives of Leonard Chess, the man who founded Chess Records, and some of its famous artists. This is the same movie Beyonce plays Etta James in.

Nelly wants to collaborate with Bruce Springsteen!

Nelly was mum on what a duet with Springsteen would've sounded like, but the "Hot In Herre" rapper is hopeful he'll be able to work with the "Born to Run" rock and roller later this year. There's Nelly at 9 yrs old I believe.

Jackie gave me this one. The late Jackie Donahue, his sister who fought a real brave battle with leukemia. God bless her soul! We miss you sister!

K-Ci and Jojo fomerly of JODECI spotted in Tanzania

You'll be surprised where American hip-hop stars have fans. When we took Beyonce and Jay to the village, even she was surprised. The kids just loved Bey. That's why I was shocked to see Mary J Blige being the only one who missed the trip. A Promoter on the trip told me he called her and told her they were all having a blast in Nigeria. He said she was scared of coming to Africa! Something I wanna ask her when she comes here to Toronto on the Heart of the City tour with Jay. That was the Independence Day music festival in 2006 back home with Ciara, Busta, En Vogue, Snoop, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Missy Elliott and a ton on Nigerian hip-hop acts. 2007 had Diddy, John Legend, Rihanna, Kelly Rowland and more.

Chilling Snoop Dogg: Vaccuming and smoking medicated pot!

You heard Snoop 2 nites ago on Conan......Rap legend SNOOP DOGG stays calm by smoking marijuana and vacuuming his home. The laid-back star insists the two hobbies are the reason for his permanently laid-back demeanour. He tells talk show host Conan O'Brien, "If I had a vacuum in my hotel, I'd be vacuuming. I find it relaxing. I like to be clean. "(And) I'm medicated. Not Aspirin, vegetation.... greenery." Above was Snoop's 2007 Xmas visit and not Wednesday night's.

Snoop's People wants HipHossip to TELL YOU to go Ego Trippin this MONDAY!

I received this e-mail 11:58am (PST) yesterday the 7th from Angela Blau of Three-Forty Communications. Thanks Angela! I will be egotrippin gurl. Toronto is in the midst of a 3 day blizzard as we speak and I'm off from the regular newsroom Monday! LOL!

Hi, Kemi,

Since Hip Hossip has featured a ton of Snoop content this month alone, I wanted to let you know about an upcoming Snoop Dogg event. On Monday, March 10th at 6pm PST/9pm EST, fans will be able to listen to Snoop’s new album Ego Trippin online at snoopdogg.com before it drops in stores.

Simultaneously, meebo (an online chat service) will be hosting an online listening party in the official meebo chat room on the site. There, Snoop fans can meet up to discuss the new album or anything else!

Please feel free to contact me with any questions!

WHAT: Snoop Dogg Online Listening Party

WHERE: www.Snoopdogg.com

WHEN: Monday, March 10th 6pm PST/9pm EST