THE FACTS
Nelly is planning to develop an all-male version of The View.

THE SPIN
Considering he hasn’t had a hit in years it makes sense for Nelly to want to venture into television. No shade, but that’s where plenty of entertainers on decline go to find newfound relevance.

So what’s Nelly means of using TV to boost his status, deerty?

Well, at one point he mentioned a variety show, which let’s be honest would probably do as bad as Rosie O’Donnell’s show last year (I bet you don’t even remember it).

He’s also pitched around some other concepts, but his most recent is a talk show themed after ABC’s The View.

Here’s what Ashanti’s ex and St. Louis’ finest had to say about his pitch:

“Not sure if you’re familiar with the Ocean’s 7 Crew. It’s me, Jermaine Dupri, Trey Songz, Johnta Austin, Brian Michael Cox and Tyrone ‘International’ Davis. We’re working on kind of like the male version of ‘The View.’

We’re working on that. You ever seen that movie called ‘The Ugly Truth?’ You know how the guy had his show; well we’re working on that. I’m starting to do more now, but I wanted to do stuff that made sense to me. I had a lot of offers and a lot of things that probably could’ve been cool, but I turned it down because I felt I wasn’t ready yet.”

Yeah, someone tried this before. It was called The Other Half with Mario Lopez, Danny Bonaduce, and some TV doctor not named Phil.

But then again, folks have made Steve Harvey the love guru so if they sold this show on the premise of men yapping about relationships and “thoughts into how men think” I bet the celebrity attachment will help. Just put it on at night. No housewife is going to watch this during the day.

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THE FACTS
Jermaine Dupri expressed anger over a recent leak of a track he worked on with Usher.

THE SPIN
Jermaine Durpi was pissed after finding out a song called, “Foolin’ Around,” which he worked on with B.Cox for Usher surfaced online.

If you haven’t noticed, about an album’s worth of material from sessions for Usher’s upcoming new album have already leaked – most recently this track along with, “Little Freak” with Nicki Minaj.

Well, JD is mad, ya’ll, so he took to his site, Global 14 to let everyone know it Kanye style.

He wrote:

SOME KINDA WAY MY USHER RECORD “FOOLING AROUND” GOT LEAKED. IF YOU FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER YOU KNOW I DON’T CONDONE LEAKING RECORDS. SO BASICALLY I BEEN DOWN ABOUT IT ALL NIGHT, BUT I GUESS ONE POSITIVE IS I’VE BEEN RECEIVING MESSAGES LIKE THIS:

This record feels great. Hopefully this more what Usher does for his new album.

I miss this sound.   Now yall jus need to get one with MC and maybe these

M*thaf*ckas can start sellin some records again!  Classic JD/Bcox let’s go yall

know what this is

So I guess he’s at least happy people like the song?

If he want to hear the song, check out the link below:

If that doesn’t work (Sony Music is not playing), check out here.

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THE FACTS
Janet Jackson discussed longstanding baby rumors with Giant magazine.

THE SPIN
I adore Janet Jackson, but is it me or are all of her interviews the same?

As in she broke out when she dropped “Control,” she’s very private, she’s self-conscious about her weight, and she can’t wait to drop a new album.

Same thing happened in her Giant interview, although I will say she went a bit more in depth about that rumor that she had a baby and sent her off to live with Rebe twenty-something years ago.

Here’s what she told Giant about James Debarge even starting to buy into the hype:

On her former brother-in-law spreading rumors that she had a secret daughter with James DeBarge:

“I think he wanted to get attention, and it upsets me people seem to want me to have a baby I’ve never told anyone about. But I think James’ mother believes there’s a baby as well. He and I have actually talked about it. He said to me that his mother actually mentioned it to him so much, he had to ask me about it! Like, ‘You wouldn’t do that, would you?’ And I had to tell him, ‘If I’d had a baby, you would know.’ I would never keep a child from its father.

On starting a family with Jermaine Dupri:

“Jermaine made me feel less self-conscious about my body, my butt. I’ve never had anyone who looks at me and just loves me. He’s the only one I’ve ever even thought about having kids with. People offered to ‘help me out’ after my divorce [laughs], but now I would really love to experience motherhood.”

On her rumored blacklisting by MTV and VH1:

“If they want to come along and join the party, they can. If not, so be it.”

Gon’ Damita, let them know.

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