*Aretha Franklin will be honored as the Recording Academy’s MusiCares Person of the Year during an all-star gala to feature musical salutes from Anthony Hamilton, Fantasia, Ledisi and John Legend, among others.
The ceremony will take place on Feb. 8 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, two days before the Grammy Awards, reports Daily Variety.
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All these years, and O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson is still the n***a you love to hate. That is, if you think a rapper who got started over twenty years ago cannot still be relevant in 2008. Cube has another stinging treatise directed at gangsta rap and Hip-Hop’s naysayers with “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It.†The songs video cements the audacity of rap scapegoats, with Cube dropping quotables like, “I’m trying to get me a Maybach, how you motherf***ers gonna tell me don’t say that, You the ones we learned it from, I heard n***a back in 1971.â€
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THE Broadway stage has seen celebrities come, and it has seen them go, but it may just have to get up off its doubts for Chaka Khan. This R&B and funk star begins performing as the sassy, fearless Sofia in “The Color Purple†on Jan. 9.
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