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Meet hot producer Rich Harrison’s sizzling new girl-group Richgirl. The band’s new single, 24, features Bun B [listen here] and the girls are working on their debut album.

Read on to find out Richgirl’s favorite artists, movies and influences.

Favorite Musical Artists

Kim Burell
Brandy
Beyoncé
Chaka Khan
Stevie Wonder
Kevin Cossom
Bobby Caldwell
Donnie Hathaway
Eric Clapton
Bilal

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Influential Groups
En Vogue
TLC
Destiny’s Child
The Supremes

Favorite Movies
Anchorman
The Haunting
The Little Mermaid
The Love Jones
Team America
Pretty Woman
Dirty Dancing

Favorite TV Shows
Making the Band
Family Guy
The Simpsons
America’s Next Top Model
Man vs Wild
Kimora Lee: Life In The Fab Lane
Maury Povich

Inspirational Women
Sarah Jessica Parker
Halle Berry
Mothers/Sisters
Oprah
Tyra Banks

Inspirational Men
Barack Obama
Fathers/Brothers
Brad Pitt
Denzel Washington
Will Smith

Find out more about Richgirl at their MySpace page.

Richgirl – Introduction to Richgirl

Lady GaGa could have been a Pussycat Doll
“Their style is not mine fashion-wise…it wasn’t right for me”

Lady GaGa turned down an offer to join the Pussycat Dolls, the chart-topping Just Dance songstress has revealed.

“I was writing tracks for them at the time but I had my vibe and my own style,” the Daily Star quotes GaGa as saying.

Their last proper concert was in New York in 2003, but they reunited for … Springroove 09 Extra shows are April 1 at Nagoya Club Diamond

The duo’s Springroove set will reportedly include 17 songs and a tribute performance to Left Eye. Whether a simple cash grab, a way to promote their upcoming solo efforts or an honest desire to honor Left Eye likely matters not to the thousands who will go bananas for each nostalgic TLC hit from the 1990s. R&B vocalist Craig David, soul singer John Legend and Osaka-born reggae-pop artist Pushim are also scheduled to appear.
Springroove’s biggest draw is headliner T-Boz and Chilli from TLC, the popular female group. T-Boz and Chilli have gigged sporadically
Springroove 09 is April 4 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba (1 p.m.; ¥11,000; [043] 296-0001). Springroove 09 Extra shows are April 1 at Nagoya Club Diamond Hall (7 p.m.; ¥7,500; [052] 265-2666); April 2, 3 at Namba Hatch, Osaka (7 p.m.; ¥7,500-¥8,500; [06] 4397-0572); April 5 at Zepp Osaka (5 p.m.; ¥8,000-¥9,000; [06] 4703-7760). For more info, check www.springroove.com.

Ain’t No Nigga Like..Dame Dash
Hip-Hop Chronicles: A Blog by Russell Simmons

Sitting in the audience last night inside the crowded 37 Street Arts Theater in Manhattan Off Broadway, I witnessed another great Damon Dash contribution, one that takes hip-hop culture to another significant level of accomplishment.

Sony Entertainment and Damon Dash produced, “Hip-Hop Monologues: the Life and the Mind of Jim Jones.” It was a fantastic show that portrays the evolution of hip-hop through the life Jim Jones.

I have to say, Damon Dash is a hip-hop genius who should never be underestimated. I have watched Dame’s growth, development and entrepreneurship over the years–not from a distance but from first hand observation. He was one of the creative forces behind Roc-a-fella Records, the architect of Rocawear Fashions, he’s made significant culturally relevant films with Dash Films and made other creative cultural installments through Dash Enterprises.

On another great note… He’s the only husband beside one other that I know, who spent a small fortune developing a major talent and women’s brand by supporting his women to the hilt!!

In our early days, Lyor Cohen and I used to shout at Damon and he would shout back. Then we would hug and go handle our business. That was our way of communicating. Eventually, Lyor got old and I did more yoga and we both stopped shouting so much. Dame eventually made a few bad choices and a few things went sour. We know haters love a man who’s been hot to catch a lil cold. Hate spreads. But like Tony Montana in “Scarface” said, “two qualudes ….. And they gonna love him again.”

So haters, it really doesn’t matter about your blogs from the sidelines. Dame’s gonna help heat the economy again!! If he got hit by a truck today remember this, Dame’s a giver by nature. That’s why he has already received so much. He was the biz leader, architect and one of the creative forces that built Rocafella Records into an empire. I remember that it was Damon who came on my office after we signed Jay-Z to be on the “Nutty Professor” soundtrack with a bag of cash ready to put his money where his mouth was . But the record “Ain’t No n*gga” didn’t need his cash. It was a masterpiece and so was his artist, Jay-Z the greatest rapper of all time.

I saw countless displays of vision and faith all the way up to and beyond his struggle to convince everyone (no one believed) of the artistry in Kanye West. In this business, in order to be successful you have to have both business sense and great creative instincts (The latter is intuitive and cannot be learned). Damon has once again proven that he is a great innovator with amazing vision.

Now, he is helping Jim Jones in a powerful manner that combines their collective experiences–from being born and raised in Harlem. They’ve taken that culture to Broadway theaters with a live hip-hop band, dance routines, multimedia use and the dynamics of theatrical stage presentation to show the struggles of life through the lens of hip-hop.

I have 2 responses:
1) Respect Dame’s gangster.
2) Go see the play immediately.

-Russell Simmons

The true story, according to the rapper , is simple.

“Myself, I’m a pothead,” he said on the set of a video shoot for his new album, “Blackout 2,” with Redman. “It’s no secret. Everyone knows that. I go on the road and forget everything else. Sure, [the tax department] sent letters to my house saying, ‘We need this money.’ They started sending them in 2002.

Here it is, 2009, and I never paid this s— because I don’t think like that!”

“I could have easily just written them a check for whatever amount, but no — I waited until they knocked on this door and were like, ‘We got your truck and we outta here,’ ” he laughed.

“Now I’m thinking we’ve gotta get our truck back, which means I have to get all my paperwork together,” the rapper continued. “That means days of going through mail, ’cause I got mail like woah.

I’ve found checks from 2005 that have never been opened yet. And we’re talking a significant amount of money! But I never opened [the tax department’s] letters … so this is how the tax man came to Meth’s house and took his truck. Not because I was broke! I got plenty of money!”

When we referenced the famous Afroman song “Because I Got High,” Method Man just laughed.
“Exactly!” he said. “Because I got high, I forgot to pay. It was stupid. I’m an idiot for that.”

Pimpthisbum.com!

A website created by Kevin & Sean Dolan called Pimpthisbum.com is creating buzz with the newly considered method of helping the homeless including one Tim Edwards. It is a new age indeed

Andy Murray and Venus Williams stopped traffic to play an impromptu game of tennis on top of two cars in Miami on Miamis Ocean Drive to promote the Sony Ericsson Open which begins this week.

Obama legalization of marijuana will improve the economy. His answer: it won’t.
I think the war on drugs has been a failure, and I think we need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws,” he said during a debate at Northwestern University. “But I’m not somebody who believes in legalization of marijuana.”
work for decrim in the meantime for the sake of the 830,000 Americans arrested on cannabis charges each year

A local lawmaker is promoting the idea of legalizing marijuana as the answer to the state’s money problems. This comes after DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, and reiterating a position made by the White House following DEA raids in California. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters that ending federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries “is now American policy

In the category of budget, for example, the seven most highly rated questions were all marijuana-related.

And in the green jobs and energy category, the most popular question was: “Will you consider decriminalizing the recreational/medical use of marijuana(hemp) so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and a multibillion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?”

75% of the cartels earnings are from illegal marijuana sales.
I am with Wanda Sykes in saying “put my money in weed

Outside South Beach Studios

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Ashanti has a ritual that she follows to get ready for warmer weather. “I rearrange my closet,” she tells OK! as she slips in and out of a dazzling rainbow of fashions at NYC’s Bowery Hotel and its Gemma restaurant.

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Missouri player stuns the crowd with a heave that may not have happened in most arenas
When freshman Marcus Denman swished one from three-quarters court at the halftime buzzer to put his team up by 13, it sure looked like Missouri’s night. And when Mizzou later made it a 24-point lead,