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Elle Magazine is celebrating it's 25th anniversary with its October issue by profiling 25 "game-changing" women who are also in their twenties. Gabourey Sidibe and Atlanta's own Janelle Monae made the cut, and Sidibe even scored one of the four different covers.

Swizz Beatz' ex-wife Mashonda sat down with Sister 2 Sister Magazine and blasted Alicia Keys for asking Kasseem Jr. to call her "mommy." Click here for the excerpts.

Things are starting to getting uglier by the minute between Dwight Howard and his baby mama “Basketball Wives’” Royce Reed. Royce recently called the cops on Dwight after he picked up their son from daycare outside of their agreed schedule.

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Check me out every weekday at 10:35am for your Midday Motivation. Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland. Learn to be what you are and not what everyone else wants you to be because true peace comes from being yourself.

Gucci Mane's new song "Gucci Time" has been burning up the airwaves and clubs, and now the Atlanta rapper has dropped the video! Check it out here!

The King has returned to Atlanta. Just days after being arrested with wife Tiny for alleged drug possession, T.I. turned up at an Atlanta area nightclub over the weekend and hit the stage with Nelly. Peep the video here!

When Monica cast Shannon Brown and Maino in her "Love All Over Me" video, she sent the rumor mills to work. She and the L.A. Lakers player were recently spotted vacationing in Cabo.

Usher has announced dates for his fall "OMG Tour." The Atlanta singer will be hitting the road at stops across America from November 10 to December 18, stopping at Philips Arena on December 5. While it hasn't been confirmed, we're hearing that Trey Songz and Nicki Minaj will be joining Usher on the road.

Twitter had an interesting chain of events last night. Soulja Boy and his die hard fans tried to go in on Fabolous after a war of words developed between the two. Click here for details!

It seems like Soulja Boy's cocaine habit may not be a figment of Kat Stacks' twisted imagination after all. Respected hip-hop journalist, Hot 97 on-air personality, and blogger Miss Info claims to have spoken to someone in Soulja Boy's camp who confirmed that his "pretty boy swag" is definitely enhanced by that powder.

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Check me out every weekday at 10:35am for your Midday Motivation. Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather. Keep reading for more of today’s message here.

Whoever thought that C. Breezy was hated throughout the world by women, is sadly mistaken.This weekend Chris Brown made an appearance at a club in ATL, where several groupies fans packed into the trunk of his SUV.