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When it comes to love, some could argue that it's rare to find instances of women breaking the hearts of their male counterparts--especially when both parties involved are A-List celebrities. Nonetheless, that seems to be the case with rapper Drake and pop princess Rihanna.
In a recent interview with the New York Times, he admitted that he was briefly involved with the 'Te Amo' songstress shortly after her breakup with Chris Brown and said he was shocked to discover that she was using him for publicity.
"I was a pawn," Drake told the paper.
Rihanna apparently asked the budding rapper to pen her a song for her album which was later never released.
"She was doing exactly what I've done to so many women throughout my life, which is show them quality time, then disappear," Drake said. "I was like, wow, this feels terrible."
Drake references the short-lived romance on a track titled 'Fireworks,' off of his highly anticipated album 'Thank Me Later':
"Who could have predicted/ Lucky Strike would have you stuck with me/ Damn, I kept my wits about me, luckily/ What happened between us that night, it always seems to trouble me/ Now all of a sudden, these gossip rags want to cover me."
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Odetta Holmes
"The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement" was a singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter and activist.
December 31 1930 - December 2 2008.
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Bernie Mac
Comedian, Actor
Oct. 5, 1957 - Aug. 9, 2008.
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Isaac Hayes
Singer, songwriter, record producer, composer and actor.
August 20, 1942 - August 10, 2008
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Miriam Makeba, "Mama Africa"
South African folk singer and anti-apartheid activist.
March 4, 1932 - November 10, 2008.
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Jennifer Hudson's 57-year-old mother, Darnell Donerson, brother, Jason, and 7-year-old nephew, Julian King, were killed in 2008.
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Shakir Stewart
The Island Def Jam executive who became head of the legendary rap label following Jay-Z's departure, killed himself on Nov. 1. He was 34 years old.
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George Carlin
Stand-up comedian, actor and author.
May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008
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Madelyn Dunham
Barack Obama's grandmother
October 26, 1922 - Nov 3, 2008.
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Levi Stubbs
Oct. 17: The iconic lead singer, second from left, who gave voice to Four Tops classics like "Reach Out I'll Be There" and "Baby I Need Your Loving" died at 72 from complications of cancer and a stroke. Abdul Fakir, far left, is now the sole living member of the original quartet.
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Dee Dee Warwick
Oct. 18: The soul songstress died after months of declining health. Warwick, the sister of soul legend Dionne, also achieved a great deal of success, both as a solo artist as well as with her sister.
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Halle and Gabriel to Give It Another Try
The National Enquirer is reporting that there's a reunion in the works for Halle Berry and ex-beau Gabriel Aubry. Sources say the couple is reconciling to avoid a nasty custody battle over their two year-old daughter Nahla.
"At first it was a practical decision for Halle," a close pal told The Enquirer. "But things quickly heated up and got emotional. Now they're back together and giving their love a second try."
Halle, 43 and Gabriel, 34, began dating back in 2005. News of the couple's breakup surfaced back in April, with rumors of a custody battle soon after. Although the couple never wed, the two began negotiating a custody and financial agreement soon after the split. It wasn't until Gabriel insisted on taking Nahla full time this summer--while Halle filmed her latest project 'Dark Tide,' in South Africa--that she began to "rethink the split."
The couple is allegedly undergoing couple's counseling and Gabriel is now accompanying the 'Monster's Ball' actress to South Africa to help out with Nahla and work on their relationship. "Now they're in counseling, and they're putting their hearts and souls into working through their issues," says a source.
Common is Officially a Bachelor
Although news has been swirling about rapper Common and tennis superstar Serena Williams calling it quits, neither had officially confirmed the breakup--until now.
The 'Just Wright' star recently admitted during a FOX interview for Chicago's 3rd annual 'Stay in School' event, that he is indeed flying solo these days. "I am single. I am a single man, definitely." Despite the ugly breakup rumors, the Chicago rapper says he's still on good terms with Serena.
Check out the interview below where Common dishes at the 5:42 mark.
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By: Cecil Jones on 6/11/2010 4:46PM
Success can really change a relationship. It makes a person unforgiving, unwilling to compromise, paranoid, deceitful and those around are never quite good enough. How do you expect to have successful relationships last if two can't trust or love anyone but themselves or their image? The heart wants what it wants and all we see are "Expensive Booty Calls." Ego can swell larger than any penis and a man can be the woman sometimes too.
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By: Gail on 6/11/2010 6:28PM
oh really
bill?..... you mean simple one-word names like........ASSHOLE?.....JERK?.....JEALOUS?..... OBSESSIVE?........because that's what you are bill.......you are most definitely jealous of us Black people......and you're obsessed with us too.......i think you secretly wish you were Black........don'tcha bill????....lol.....you are always on our blogs spewing your racist hate....hmmmm....maybe some Black woman hurt your little black heart????......lol......now you're just full of hate huh????........oh and bill by the way....you white folk have a few simple one-word names too........MADONNA, CHER, BONO, ELVIS, EMINEM, JEWEL...just to name a few...........NOW GO SOMEWHERE ELSE AND SPEW YOUR HATE YOU PIECE OF S**T!!!!!!......WITH YOUR TIGHTY WHITIES AND YOUR TINY PACKAGE.....lmaoooooooooo!!!!!!!
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By: Cassandra-Marie on 6/11/2010 9:05PM
I really wish we would get off the colour issue when it comes to dating and relationships. After all, isn't it about who loves us best, and treats us with respect, will nuture and cherish us?
As for the whole Rihanna, Drake issue, so what, if she did what he said she did. For so long men have been using women, and then moving on, leaving them to mend their broken hearts and pick up the pieces, or marrying the bosses daughter to get your hands on the business and get to the top faster. It seems that when women do it, they like to cry "foul". Well now that women have come into their own, I say, kudos to you, drop it, dip it, get yours and move on.
As for "Bill" and is ignorant comment, do we really need to respond to him? Because, I think if we do, we are stooping to his obvious ignorant level. Hope he never needs heart surgery, because the person that perfected the technique so we can have open heart surgery was a black man. Guess the white man's brain wasn't big enough to figure out so small a problem.
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By: BillSchrier on 6/12/2010 2:04AM
Black Invention MYTHS: First Successful Heart Surgery (another case of Negroes fantasizing they invented something a white really did):
"Dr. Daniel Hale Williams in 1893? No!
Dr. Williams repaired a wound not in the heart muscle itself, but in the sac surrounding it, the pericardium. This operation was not the first of its type: Henry Dalton of St. Louis performed a nearly identical operation two years earlier, with the patient fully recovering. Decades before that, the Spaniard Francisco Romero carried out the first successful pericardial surgery of any type, incising the pericardium to drain fluid compressing the heart.
Surgery on the actual human heart muscle, and not just the pericardium, was first successfully accomplished by Ludwig Rehn of Germany when he repaired a wounded right ventricle in 1896. More than 50 years later came surgery on the open heart, pioneered by John Lewis, C. Walton Lillehei (often called the "father of open heart surgery") and John Gibbon (who invented the heart-lung machine)."
http://www33.brinkster.com/iiiii/inventions/
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By: Mai on 6/11/2010 10:00PM
bill schier...You have the audacity to talk about smell when you people smell like sour dung? You are the only people that get head lice and most of you sleep with animals. If there are some "blacks" that marry you or date , you say that we are dying to get with you right? Well what's up with the white women that run after black men whether the man is wealthy or piss-poor? White's have always sneaked around after black women and black men so you need to stop trying to switch it around. You are most likely one of those poor, flat-ass, lil pee-pee rednecks that lost your woman to a black man or all of your women to black men hhahahahaha u dumb creep!
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By: kai on 6/11/2010 10:21PM
POOR POOR BILL SCHRIER,
THIS BLOGGER REALLY IS A PATHETIC CREATURE ISN'T HE! SOME BLACK WOMAN THAT HE WAS DATING WIPED THE BOTTOM OF HER SHOES ON HIM AND HE'S HAVING A HARD TIME ACCEPTING THE FACT THAT ITS OVER AND HE NEEDS TO GET OVER IT AND GET A LIFE! JUST PITY HIM.
HE'S NOTHING MORE THAN A SICK DOG WHO CAN'T SEEM TO FIND A LIFE FOR HIMSELF, AS A RESULT AOL BLACK VOICES HAS BECOME HIS LIFE, HIS SOLE EXISTENCE!
QUITE PATHETIC ACTUALLY. JUST FEEL SORRY FOR THIS SICK CREATURE THATS ALL ONE CAN DO!
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By: Ann on 6/12/2010 10:04AM
don't u guys forget, are u smarter than a fifth grader can't spell either but they are smart. lol These two women get on my neveres, they just fakes. They can't get alone with no one. They do not know how to use their stuff right, just try look pretty and nasty. Men sure leave them alone. Beautiful on the skin. They not pretty at all to me, not hater either.
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