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Look who we have here! Beyonce & Jay-Z were spotted dining at Nello’s Restaurant on the upper eastside. Word is, they spent $1200 on lunch (including a bottle of Dom Perignon) and left a $500 tip for the service. Do the math, folks…that tip was over 40% of the total cost of the meal. That’s the business, especially considering the way some folks go down to ATL and “ball” yet skip out on meals or get cheap with the strippers.

Photos: Bauer-Griffin

This aerial shot of a bangin’ a*s $10mil home was posted on Ri Fenty TV on Youtube and is allegedly Rihanna’s new digs. Uh, Ri-Ri…you ain’t ballin’, are you? Can I get a room there and call it my weekend vacation spot? I’m just sayin’…

Shouts to VaunTV

Well ain’t that a blessing? Christina Milian better hur’up and get on that 18 year plan. This could (eventually) mean a bigger payout than the one Kelis is requesting from Nas:

“I wanna Thank everyone at Island Records/DefJam for their faith in me and making me Executive Vice President of Island Records. Thank you to my team..my manager Mark Stewart & my attorney Aaron Rosenberg for getting this 1st step of a goal accomplished. Thanks to Judy. Thank you to my partner Tricky Stewart and the RadioKilla & RedZone Staff. LA Reid, Karen Kwak, Steve Bartels, Joe Barino. Steve Gotlieb and Thank you, Universal Chairman, Doug Morris. I look forward to the challenge of rebuilding music for not only Island Records, But for Universal Records as a whole. Today I’m humbled and blessed. Terius “The-Dream”

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ION= In Other News…

An American widow sold her husband’s burial crypt directly on top of film legend Marilyn Monroe’s final resting place for $4.6 million on Monday, through online auctioneer eBay Inc.

Elsie Poncher has said she was selling the crypt in a small, celebrity-heavy cemetery in Los Angeles to pay off her mortgage.

The auction opened earlier this month at $500,000 and attracted 21 bids before closing on Monday. eBay did not say who submitted the winning bid.

“We are currently working with the seller and the high bidder to finalize the sale and will be happy to report more of the details once the sale has been completed,” it said in a statement.

Poncher’s husband, Richard Poncher, bought the crypt from baseball star Joe DiMaggio, Monroe’s ex-husband, as the famous couple was divorcing in 1954. Continue…

Click HERE to see the now closed auction for yourself!

Lisa Wu-Hartwell was the ONE Real Housewife that I really thought had everything together. I had high hopes for miss lady but with every turn, there seems to be more leaks as to why none of these heffas are really balling. What’s REALLY good? According to TMZ:

Hartwell and her husband, former Oakland Raiders linebacker Edgerton Hartwell, were booted from their multi-million dollar Georgia mansion last week — after the bank foreclosed on the place and sold it shortly after.

Hartwell’s rep tells us the couple was in talks with the lender to restructure the loan because the home had lost value — but that failed. They originally bought the place for $2.9 mil back in 2007 — but the bank only got $1.9 mil when they resold it this month.

Shouts to Nicole for the linkage

Soulja Boy is off his period! A couple days ago, I posted a rant done by Soulja Boy, where he refers to white folks as ‘crackaz’ and basically says that ‘da man’ made him into something that he’s not. He recently took to Global Grind to recant some of his frustrations and further explain exactly what he meant. Let ME find out that the code on the streets is to complain about being rich. Well hell, SB, if it’s really that bad, I’ll gladly let you work my 10-hour a day job so you can get back to being ‘you.’ I’m only doing it ‘cuz I care…don’t judge!

A lot of people talking about what I twittered the other night…so I want to address it, now that I have had some time to do some thinking. At 18 years, having grown up in the Mississippi Delta, I never thought my life would take me to where I am now. All I wanted to do was make music. All I thought I loved was music. I would die for that motherfuckin music. But, once I got a record deal and all these people around me trying to tell me who to be, what to do and how to do it, I realized that I wasn’t making music any more for the love. I got into this weird place where I began making music for the money. And I was making a lot of money…more money than I could ever imagine. And with that money, of course, I could buy a lot of things…but to be honest, you can only drive that brand new phantom around the corner oh so many times… and when you are done driving, it really don’t mean sh*t. I thought money was gonna bring me happiness. And that is the farthest thing from the truth. Money f*cks you up.

I know I might sound crazy, because a lot of you who are reading are probably like, I wish I had this ni**a’s money. But, the truth is that money got me twisted. All I want to do is go back to making music for the love of it. The accolades and the awards are for everyone else. The music is for me. The music is my happiness. So, of course I am struggling in my mind right now…cause I wanna get back to place where I woke up, thinking about what I was gonna write that day. Where I went to sleep ready to dream about what I was gonna write the next day.

I know my fans. And I know they will understand this. This ain’t got nothing to do with y’all. Oh yeah… sorry to all my white peeps out there. I’m not racist But I guess time will heal all wounds…

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WHOA! So after reading reports that Kanye West spent some coins on vintage clothing at Deliciously Vintage in Chicago, I was HOPING that somebody, somewhere would release some pics of what it was exactly that he bought.

Again, I’m more of a fashionovice than a fashionista. I keeps it real simple and plain. On ANY given day, you can find me in some well fitted jeans (they don’t have to be name brand for me to rock them), a cute fitted tee and some heels…hair in a ponytail. And? But I know “cute” when I see cute…and IMO, this ain’t it. Yea, it’s vintage. Right, I get it. But word? If Kanye is looking for a personal shopper, he needs to message as quickly as possible. I clearly would’ve taken that $5k, headed straight to my local Thrift Store & pocketed saved him at least $4,950. iKid

What do you guys think? Oh and feel free to comment about vintage clothing. I’m not knocking it at all but I am curious if you have more information about it.

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