The rumors about Michael Jackson and Christian Audigier collaborating together have been confirmed. You may be familiar with Christian Audigier as the designer behind the Ed Hardy brand. You can also find some items from the Christian Audigier jewelry line. Ed Hardy jewelry, along with his clothes and shoes, are quite popular. Well, apparently, the two were working on a few projects together, including a clothing line. I would have liked to see what crazy combination they could have come up with. What took Mike so long anyway? You’d think he would’ve been one of the first people to begin a line of clothes. Hopefully the two were close to the completion of the design, so that Audigier can still release a limited edition of the brand. Supposedly, Audigier will bring it out after all and it will be sold at a boutique called Kitson in Hollywood, California. Can you imagine the prices?

Christian Audigier and Michael Jackson

The two were also supposed to come out with other merchandise designs. There are other rumors that Christian Audigier will be leasing the Holmby Hills Mansion where Michael Jackson was living. Hubert Guez, CEO of Ed Hardy, is the owner of the property and will be renting it out to him for $100,000 a month (roughly $1.2 million a year…wow). Michael Jackson and Audigier seemed to be quite close; they were seen together at Mike’s 50th birthday bash and were seen together in February. Christian has shown a great deal of sadness over the King of Pop’s death.

On June 22nd, Rihanna will have to appear in court to testify against her ex-boyfriend, Chris Brown. She was given a subpoena that requires her to come in person for the court date. As we all already know, the 21 year old R&B singer got into a “quarrel” (if that’s what you want to call it) with Chris Brown, her then boyfriend. Chris released a video on youtube on May 26th, telling haters to back off. He then thanked his “true” fans and said that he wasn’t a monster.

Not sure about everyone else, but I can’t wait until all of this is over. I wonder what will happen to Chris Brown if/when he is found guilty. I know that the U.S. isn’t too lenient in domestic abuse cases, so we’ll have to see how that turns out. Then plus, he plead not guilty, so that will make it worse on his part if/when found guilty. Maybe he’ll be like the other celebrities who jut get a slap on the wrist — sorry for Michael Vick who seemed to be used as a “lesson” to teach the rich folk that they can’t get away with everything.

Well, I’ll definitely keep posts up on the Rihanna and Chirs Brown case. On my opinion, with all the evidence and photos that were taken, I don’t think he’ll walk away clean. If it’s not jail time, it’ll most definitely be fines and community service.

Yeah, you’ve heard of her. The new hip-hop sensation Keri Hilson is hitting the radio and video channels by storm. But many are already criticizing her ways of accomplishing this. Some even think that her fame will fizzle before it can even truly shine. A “lazy” album they call it. If you take a listen to her debut album, “In a Perfect World”, you will hear a lot of generic songs that were “over-produced” and actually hides her personality. Ms. Hilson claims the album is supposed to send a message for women empowerment, but is that what you hear? What you do hear is a lot of Timberland and a lot of reworked beats; you will notice that the song “How Does it Feel”, is a recycling of the Timberland production, “4 Minutes”. Then there is “Return the Favor”, which sounds similar to “The Way I Are”.

Keri Hilson’s top producers on this album are Timberland, of course, and Polow da Don — maker of “In this Club” by Usher and “Forever”. A lot of cliches were found in songs like “Make Love” and “Get Your Money Up”, but you can find some reasonable tracks like “Turnin’ Me On”, featuring Lil Wayne, “Change Me”, produced by Akon and “Slow Dance”, which was co-written with Justin Timberlake. The latter two are pretty decent songs — maybe because they didn’t feature the usual Timberland, who happens to have his voice in all or most of the songs, and Polow. She let a few others produce some of the other songs, as mentioned above, and they turned out to be more original and had a lot of personality.