Apparently that beautiful smile that RiRi graces fans and the paps with is all a flippin’ front! RiRi claims that she is sick of her showbiz lifestyle because she hates having to pretend to be a “bubbly person” all the damn time. The Bajan beauty admits that she is always forced to put on a happy face when she’s on the road, even when she is feeling tired and miserable. According to her it often makes her feel much worse.

She says, “I love what I do but, yes, this stuff does start to take its toll on you. Sometimes you get really miserable and on the edge, but people don’t know why you’re acting like that. You always want to be kind to people, so you’re forced to be a bubbly person, but, to be honest, sometimes I’d just like to sit in a corner by myself and be quiet.”

Rumors of Usher wanting to pimp out his infant son by trying to sell his photos done made him tight. Unlike J.Lo and Christina Aguilera, Usher refuses to sell baby pictures of his child to a magazine for some extra cash even if he stands to gain a whopping $6 million like J. Lo! He tells PageSix:

“In no way would I ever pimp out my child for money. I am livid that people talk about my child. What makes you a man more than being a father to your child? I recognize I gave anonymity away when I became an artist, but to have people try to paint a horrible picture of what’s so beautiful - it’s obvious someone is trying to stop something so beautiful…I am livid that people talk about my child,” Usher told us. In fact, he has posed - for free - with his son for an “incredible” Father’s Day cover for Essence magazine.

Usher sets the record straight for all the hater’s who can’t stand Maneka. Oops…I meant to say Tameka

“I stand by her as a man loving my wife and being there for my child . . . Opinions are like [bleep]holes. Everybody’s got one. What I will say is, this is my wife and I would hope that [people] would respect my wife and my marriage and who I have chosen to spend my life with.”

Well, at least he’s thinking with his right head cuz he definitely f’d up when he used the other one when deciding to shack up with Tameka. Urssh, you damn right everybody’s got an opinion on ya wife…mine is SHORTY IS A GOLD DIGGIN’ MAN! Nonetheless, big ups on being the only celeb opting not to cash in on parenthood. 

In a recent interview with MTV, Young Jeezy discusses how he got on Usher’s current No. 1 hit single “Love in This Club”. According to Jeezy, he didn’t think twice about getting on the track despite the song’s content, but he was a lil’ bit worried about his image. Apparently, I didn’t get the memo; but Gangsta’s don’t dance nor f*ck in public.

“It was a twist, because it was talking about making love in the club. I’m a G. I don’t do stuff like that. How are people gonna look at me when I step outside [the box]? So I just did me on the song. I don’t get a chance to talk to the ladies a lot. If I had a chance to talk to them, that’s what I would say: ‘I’m what you want; I’m what you need.’ … At the same time, I never thought it would be the type of record it was, [that] everybody would respect it the way it was. Me and Ush talked about it [being] crazy. You could put those two type of elements together and still make sense. It ain’t taking nothing away from nobody.”

Jeezy on the first time he heard the completed record.

“I’mma tell you the craziest shit. The same night they leaked the record, or however it got out, I’m in [Atlanta strip club] Platinum 21. I might have heard the song 15 times. Keep in mind, I don’t have a copy of the song. I’m sitting in the corner like, ‘Damn!’ I’m in the strip club, they playing the song, and everybody loved it. Just to see it, it was like you can do records like that and still be you.”

Jeezy is definitely killin’ the game right now! Everyone from The Dream to Mimi are hookin’ up with him to add that slow, southern flow that he’s infamous for. Jeezy is cool and everything, but imma need him to learn how to speak proper ENGLISH. LMAO!

He says, “All of this young energy is great for the industry. Chris is the guy who dances and sings, which is a lot like I do and did as a young artist as well. If time serves us correctly, and artists are continuing to better themselves, then hopefully he’ll follow the same path that I did.”

Being dubbed as John Legends protégé and constantly being compared to Lauryn Hill U.K. sensation Estelle proves that she is comfortable in her own skin. Shorty has collaborated with Kanye, Swizz Beatz, Wyclef Jean, Will.i.am, Mark Ronson, Cee-lo and Jack Splash to come up with her highly anticipated album Shine which drops tomorrow, April 29th. In a recent interview with StarPulse, Estelle discusses her new album, her love for American boys, and her sense of fashion.

So, what do you think of American boys?
I like them a lot.

Do you really? What do you like about them?
They are great to look at.

How are they different from British boys?
The only difference is that they talk too much [laughs].

And British boys don’t?
American boys get to a point of wanting to debate you. Its like, ‘get to the point, what did you want again?’

So you are saying British boys are more upfront than American boys?
British boys get to the point without being rude, but American boys feel like they have to use game. The games need to stop.

That’s true. American boys do tend to follow all these rules in dating. Like the 3 day rule before calling and all that stuff.
Yeah, it’s too much.

Do you think that you can be an ‘American’ girl?
I don’t think I’ll ever be an ‘American’girl, being from London. But, I’m sure I’ll find an American boy somehow. I’ve been getting a lot of offers. I think it’s because of the song.

She ain’t never lie about the game American boys be spittin’. I’ve been a victim of it a couple times. SMH…

Bitches better beware! After serving eight months of her year-long sentence for probation violations, crazy ass Foxy Brown was released from Rikers Island last Friday. She spoke to MTV calling from a white Bentley about the new Foxy, her experience in the pen and why she didn’t deserve to be locked up.

“The hardest part was people’s perceptions of me,” she said. “I had officers who were wonderful and the inmates showed me — you’d think Barack [Obama] was in the building when I walked through. They showed so much love, it was so incredible. But I had situations with officers who, you know, only went by what they read on [the New York Post’s gossip column] Page Six. And then they would get to know me and say, ‘Oh my God, she’s so sweet and she’s so nice.’ At the end of the day, they’re like, ‘We really love you,’ and it was a great experience.”

Foxy on “Inga” coming out.

“While I was incarcerated, I was Inga. There was no Christian Louboutin boots; there was no Fendi bags. It was just me. I had no nails on. It was just literally me in the flesh. I guess that was the hardest part, just even with Foxy trying to find Inga. If you really, really, really look at the situation. I did not deserve a sentence that harsh. I really didn’t.”

Eight months and Inga hasn’t changed a bit…I give her month before she commences on her weave snatchin’ rant.  Check out more pics of Foxy leaving Rikers Island.

Remember the controversial comments Alicia Keys made in an interview with Blender magazine? Well, they got Fifty bitchin’! Although Alicia accuses the magazine of “misrepresenting” the comments she made and that her remarks were printed out of context…Fifty ain’t buying it!

“I don’t like Alicia Keys no more though … the same reason why I said that I don’t like Oprah Winfrey. I’m prejudice(d). I don’t like people who don’t like me. If you don’t like the content that I write because of my experiences; I am being who I am when I am writing it. I fall into that ‘label’ as far as you considering artists creating ‘Gangsta music,’ we fall into that. If she don’t like that, (then) I don’t like that classical music s— she be doing. At some point she’s playing some s— that don’t relate to me. … We listen to it and try to figure out why people actually enjoy it. I am trying to enjoy it. That statement changes my perception of Alicia Keys totally. But the magazine is standing behind it, which means they probably have a tape of her in conversation saying it. It’s just not really a bright comment anyway.”

Fiddy does believe hip-hop as an art form is often misjudged.

“I think hip-hop is so competitive, that the competitive nature, the art form makes it a competition. I don’t think that a lot of people who judge hip-hop actually enjoy it as an art form. They aren’t into it enough to understand what they are listening to and they just hear disrespectful lyrics going back and forth and just say ‘oh they’re fighting’ … so it’s got to be negative if it’s fighting. To just make reference to what hip-hop was from the very beginning was just two artists battling. Battling turned into beefing after Biggie and Tupac passed because unfortunately that turned into real incidents in the street.”

Kanye blames his mom for his infatuation with chicks who have tig ‘ole bitties because she spent “too long” breastfeeding him as a baby. He admits to having a special place in his heart for chicks with big boobies and insists that his fetish had to from his childhood.Kanye tells New York magazine,

“I have liked big tits ever since I was a kid. I was breastfed for too long I think.”

LMAO! @ “It messed me up”. This has got the be the funniest line I’ve ever heard Kanye say aside from him bitchin’ when he didn’t win a Moon Man at the MTV Music Awards last year. And for the last time if this doesn’t prove ‘Ye is straight, I dunno what does.