Estelle’s ES Magazine Diane von Furstenberg Marisa Dress

Estelle is ES Magazine’s latest cover girl and she looks totally glam rocking a $1600 Diane von Furstenberg Marisa Dress: Her fiery sequin-covered woven silk dress is straight off the runway and boasts a sexy open back. Work Estelle!

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Photos: Rihanna x Rolling Stone

Rihanna is looking extra sexy in these Rolling Stone outtakes

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Paula Patton In GQ Magazine

The bombshell that is Robin Thicke’s wife flaunts her killer body in the upcoming January issue of GQ magazine. Inside, she talks about her kick ass role in the upcoming film Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and what it’s like to be Alan Thicke’s daughter-in-law.

On playing a female spy in Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
I was doing physical stunts, feet in the mud, fingernails full of dirt, shooting and fighting for my life.

On Robin’s parents
Canadians are a lot like us, actually. I’ve figured out how to blend in.

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R’el Dade by Nicholas Routzen for Cosmopolitan US January 2012

R’el Dade by Nicholas Routzen for Cosmopolitan US January 2012 . Snapshot is a section showcasing ad campaigns, pictures, and editorials featuring men and women of color. No words, just an image. Enjoy..and discuss! Source: Beauty is Diverse

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Photo: Yasmin Warsame by Andrew Soule for Flare Magazine January 2012

Yasmin Warsame by Andrew Soule for Flare Magazine January 2012. Snapshot is a section showcasing ad campaigns, pictures, and editorials featuring men and women of color. No words, just an image. Enjoy..and discuss! Source: BeautyIsDiverse

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Vivica A. Fox Covers Real Health

Actress Vivica A. Fox sparkles on the latest issue of Real Health magazine. Inside, she dishes on how she keeps herself in shape and her exercise regimen.

Although some women have a fear of becoming older and losing their good looks, Vivica reveals that she’s looking forward to aging gracefully

I’ve always wanted to be older-to be very honest-because with age comes wisdom, or it should be. My role models are beautiful women, such as Sophia Loren, Pam Grier, Tina Turner and Diana Ross, who all look better the older they get.

I don’t have a problem with aging whatsoever. I have accepted that I’m not a 20-year-old. But if you take care of yourself, you should be able to age gracefully and still always look good. Getting older doesn’t automatically mean you lose your looks.

There’s a third life, when you’ve discharged your responsibilities to family and you have an opportunity to discover things about yourself. This can be a really wonderful and productive phase of life people can look forward to and enjoy.

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Kendall Jenner Covers TeenPROM's 2012 Issue

Kendall Jenner graces the cover of TeenPROM's 2012 issue.

Set to hit newsstands December 27, the 16-year-old E! reality star chatted with the magazine about her style, modeling career, and more.

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Melanie Fiona for YRB Magazine

Melanie Fiona for YRB Magazine. Snapshot is a section showcasing ad campaigns, pictures, and editorials featuring men and women of color. No words, just an image. Enjoy..and discuss!

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J.Cole Talks Joint Project With YRB Magazine

The Grammy Nominated J.Cole is the next up to cover YRB‘s latest magazine issue. In the cover story, Cole discusses numerous things such as the success of his album, Jay-Z, the joint album he has with Kendrick Lamar and much more. Below is the excerpt where Cole is discussing the project with Kendrick Lamar in detail. View the full interview here.

Another project that he’s keeping quiet on is his joint studio album with Kendrick Lamar, which originated as a mixtape. Though the two haven’t hit the studio since laying down cuts including K. Dot’s “HiiiPoWeR,” Cole spoke with the Compton rapper about flying him out to London to spend a week recording their collaborative LP. “At the end of the day, you’re dealing with two solo artists who are on the move all the time,” he explains. “At some point, you’ve got to connect. I think it will happen.”

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GQ’s Rookie Of The Year: Frank Ocean

Frank Ocean just keeps winning. From being one of the few features on the incredible Watch The Throne album to penning a song or two for Beyonce’s “4” album.. The success keeps coming for the R&B side of the Odd Future gang. Above he is this years Rookie Of The Year in GQ’s Men of the Year Magazine Issue.
After the jump, you can view Frank hitting the stage in New York for the first time ever at the Bowery Ballroom. He does a Watch The Throne Medley as well as performing “Acura Integurl“. Now all we need is another album or mixtape full of new music from Mr. Ocean. It’s been awhile since Nostalgia Ultra.

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T.I. Speaks On Tiny Not Taking A Drug Charge For Him

T.I. on people criticizing Tiny for not taking the drug charge

“I’ma tell you, 50 Cent and anybody else, we not gonn’a have no discussion about what my ole lady should’a, would’a, couda done for anything as it pertains to me,” begins his rant. “We ain’t gonn’a do that. I’m the only one in my family that’s gonna take a lick when it pertains to the legal system. Since me, none of my other family members have seen a jail cell. Nobody. I’m the last one. The buck stops here. I feel that a person that stands behind [his woman for a criminal charge] is a coward anyway.”

VIBE: I doubt she would have gotten any time.
T.I.: She wasn’t gonna catch it period, ’cause I’m there. That wasn’t even a consideration. Even if she asked me to I would’ve been like, “Nah, you trippin’. “

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Wale & Rick Ross Cover Billboard Magazine

The latest issue of Billboard features an in-depth look at the partnership of Rick Ross and Wale, hip-hop’s latest odd couple who joined forces on Maybach Music Group and have created a buzz online, on the radio, and on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Read the full story of Rick Ross’ rise to prominence on Billboard.com, and check Billboard.com on Monday (Nov. 28) to learn how Wale went from written-off to white-hot, all thanks to some sky-high “Ambition.”

I guess with Rick ross dealing with his past seizures, a photo shoot was something that couldn’t be done. The cover mage is the same photos from the XXL MMG October Issue.

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Magazine Spread: Malcolm-Jamal Warner & Tracee Ellis Ross Cover The December 2011 Issue Of "UPSCALE"

In the latest issue of UPSCALE Magazine, veteran sitcom stars Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Tracee Ellis Ross dished about their new sitcom "Reed Between The Lines" and their hectic lives as stars AND producers of the show. Here are the highlights:


On their connection

TER: ...the first moment with him was so palpable. What I experienced was a side of myself, Tracee, that I had never experienced before...doing scenes with Malcolm does not feel like acting.

MW: if you're going to be joined at the hip, you want it to be with someone who shares the same vision and shares the same kind of integrity and values..it's probably one of the best non-physical love affairs that I've ever had.

On their dual roles as leads and producers of Reed Between The Lines

MW: There's just so much energy we put into the show as actors and producers that it's hard to focus, at least this first season, on anything but the show.

TER: My life is moving at 100 miles an hour. My job is to take it one deep breath and slow step at a time... TER

On Girlfriends and her character, Joan

TER: I just loved that character. I'm so proud of what we did, and yet, I had such a peace when we were finished...

On Comparisons to Cosby

MJW: None of us is Bill Cosby, so we're not trying to recreate Cosby. What we are trying to recreate is the universality and the timelessness.

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J. Cole X RESPECT Magazine

It’s a cole, cole world. J. Cole makes the cover for RESPECT magazine, hitting stands next week on November 29th. He’s proven to be the best at his craft so it’s time everyone start showing him a lot of respect. His debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story is in stores now.

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50 Cent Covers All Five Issues Of XXL Magazine

XXL’s double, year-end December/January 2012 issue features five special covers celebrating the 5 Faces of 50 Cent in honor of the superstar’s fifth album and an EP coming this January.

2012 marks 10 years since Fif took over the mixtape game with the release of 50 Cent is the Future. Over the past decade, the superstar rapper has expanded his brand further than the average hip-hop artist and the different covers honor the five hats 50 juggles: The rapper, the actor, the businessman, the philanthropist and the bad guy, the latter cover which he shares with good friend and current Welterweight Boxing Champion Floyd Mayweather.

In the cover story, 50 analyzes the current music climate: “I don’t see what I fell in love with,” he says. “So now I gotta make music that reflects what N.W.A made. I have to make music that has the moments that Nas had. I have to make music that has what Biggie offered.” He also discusses his currently untitled fifth solo album: “For me, I’m still up against what I’ve done,” he says. “So in order to top it, I know it’s a difficult task. You know, I see the bloggers. My audience hasn’t grown with me. They keep saying, “Aw, man, I want the old 50!” ’Cause those people, it would take them on a safari. I was bringing them close enough to the animals, without being able to get hurt. I was taking them into my neighborhood, where you can very well get your ass killed.”

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Drake Covers December&January Complex Magazine

The man of the hour, Drake is more than likely going to be all over the place with the release of his sophomore album Take Care hitting stores tomorrow. Above he is featured on the cover of next months Complex Magazine. In this issue, Drake speaks and comments on everything to his fame and what he fears. A few excerpts from the magazine are below. Be sure to get Take Care tomorrow and go and get this magazine when it hits newsstands.

They nitpick at everything,” he says, shaking his head. “I can’t do anything. All they want me to do is dress so they can make fun of me. Otherwise, it’s hard for them. I don’t give people many reasons to dislike me. They have to find shit. They’re like, ‘Aw man, sweaters! He wears sweaters too much.’ Like, what?

Drake on his fears: Dying, before I accomplish all this,” he says as the waiter arrives. “That’s it. My father taught me: ‘Don’t fear any man. Don’t ever fear another person.’ I don’t get myself mixed up with stupid shit. I get a lot of love. I don’t feel tension. I stand 6’2″. By no means am I the most threatening guy in the rap game, but there are very few people who will come up and say that shit to me in person. It’s always all smiles. That’s one thing I do not fear, anyone in this game. Nobody. Especially none of these guys that are paid to talk shit.
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Jay-Z Covers GQ’s “Men Of The Year” Issue

Jay says that even songs like “Niggas in Paris”—the one with the Blades of Glory samples and the crazy-consumptive What’s Gucci, my nigga? What’s Louis, my killa? hook—or “Otis,” where Kanye actually refers to what they’re doing as “luxury rap,” effectively handing detractors a stick to beat the record with, come from a humble place. “It’s not, like, ‘We’re here! We’re balling harder than everybody,’ ” he says. “It’s like, ‘I’m shocked that we’re here.’ Still being amazed, still not being jaded. Having so much fun and then stopping and saying, ‘What are we doing here? How did we get here?’ ”

The key line, Jay says, is the one that goes If you escaped what I escaped, you’d be in Paris getting fucked up too.

“I’ve known so many people that didn’t make it,” he says. “Most people can look at a picture of the kids they grew up with and it’s like, ‘Oh yeah—Adam went away to Harvard.’ This is a whole different conversation.”

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Estelle Gets Dolled Up For PYNK

The British songstress Estelle is covering the latest issue of PYNK magazine, the sister magazine to the quarterly publication, Bleu. Inside she opens up about her love life, the past and her career. Check out an excerpt below:

On refocusing her life and career
I got back on the same page with my head and my heart. I just didn’t enjoy the music anymore so I turned everything around and started really paying attention to myself instead of listening to what everyone else was telling me [the album] should be. It just got real ridiculous for a while.

On moving past the pain
Every time I’d go in and record something that was really emotionally charged after one of these changing moments — those are the records that everybody loved. So I was like, ‘You might want to keep doing that. It’s going to hurt you but just keep going.’ And I did. And it hurt like hell. And a lot of people were probably hurt in the process, but oh well. They probably needed to go anyway. These were things that went with the process of me having to change my life around for the better. I definitely went through it.

On her current relationship status
I’m dating. I’m having fun. I don’t think I want to be in a relationship just yet. I’m enjoying my absolute freedom and having fun looking at the boys. There are some good ones out there. I like cute ones — black, white, whatever — with kind eyes and a kind spirit. I like men who are about something, who have a whole career to themselves. Guys who don’t really have too many issues – or at least deal with their issues. Not the ones who drift around looking for someone to take care of them… I’ve had a couple of those and they’re not fun.

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Video: Wale wants his 5 mics

Wale had a photo shoot for The Source for his 5 mics campaign. Does he deserve it?

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Theophilus London’s 70s Style Featured In GQ and Black Book

Since the 2009 release of the 24-year-old Brooklyn MC’s This Charming Mixtape, Theophilus London’s eccentric street style and unique sound has gained him respect in the fashion community and landed him features in publications like Elle, Complex, V-Man and Vogue Italia. Now the hipster rapper, born in Trinidad and Tobago, is managed by Next Models and is featured in this month’s issues of both Black Book and GQ magazines.

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