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But we want to hear from you. We’ve collected a sweet 16 of Black romance movies for you to vote on and tell us which is #1. Is it Boomerang? Why Did I Get Married? Love & Basketball? Well...CLICK HERE TO VOTE and tell us!

Each week the tournament will face off the survivors until YOU pick a winner in the finals. May the best movie win!

If you need a refresher, here are some of our favorite clips from the competing movies:

Boomerang

Love Jones

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Poetic Justice

Brown Sugar

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“I’ve performed before with a different type of crowd at the Best Buy Theater during Smokers Club  but with this type of crowd….They’ll boo you. Quick,” he says recalling the show the next day. “And that’s what they kept telling me. If you didn’t get booed then it was a success.”

Well, Marcus didn’t get booed. In fact, the show went really well. Bringing out hometown hero Paul Wall didn’t hurt, but Marcus held his own. As it turns out, weird is the new black. Or purple.

“In my eyes, it was amazing. Just to come up to New York and see a packed out house and never performed in front of that type of crowd. So I go out and they start rockin’ out with me, even if they weren’t super rockin’ I could tell I had their attention.”

The former High School point guard is aware that he’s in a whole new game now, but he’s ready to play. His remix of ASAP Rocky’s “Purple Swag” is a defiant reclamation of his hometown’s hip-hop legacy. Being influenced by his city is fine, but he’s got a firm grip on the Houston torch and isn’t letting it go to just anybody. Check the video to “We Wrong” featuring Slim Thug for proof.

“There a lot of legends out from Houston…you got Scarface, Bun B, Slim Thug and all them and they made a name for themselves and made an image for Houston that you can’t let down,” he says. “Can’t let the people down.”

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However, in an interview with TheUrbandaily last year the “Bones” actor revealed that he was a vegetarian, and that his girlfriend Omarosa was great at hooking up vegan meals for him.

“This woman is fantastic and she can cook like a chef, ” he said. “And I’m a vegetarian so it’s hard to please my stomach, but she can go down there and whip it up.”

So all that muscle is sustained by vegetables? Wow. But as the great RZA once said, “an Ox is strong as f*ck and all he eats is grass.”

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The event is being sponsored by United Airlines and hosted by CNN journalist, Soledad O’Brien with a guest list that includes the legendary Dionne Warwick, Paul Shaffer, Boys II Men, BeBe Winans and Motown’s own, Martha Reeves.

“This is a tribute to the great iconic music of Motown felt and known the world over, crossed cultural lines and spans generations,” Mr. Chew told TheUrbandaily.com. “It’s very befitting that we bring this music that is part of the American fabric to an iconic venue like Carnegie Hall.”

Chew explained that after holding a tribute to Motown on “American Idol” the reality set in that many of the legends of Black music are passing away. And after speaking with Motown founder Berry Gordy that night, Chew felt it was time to “give them their roses while they can smell them” so to speak, and what better time than Black History Month?

“A lot of the young artists that I encounter, Motown is in your blood stream whether you realize it or not,” said Chew. “When you rattle of the names of the artists and the songs everyone realizes how much this is part of the experience. Stevie Wonder alone…everyone has performed a Stevie Wonder song at some point. Artists are standing on the shoulders of these giants.”

The night will also include tributes to the late Nick Ashford, who Chew says was, “very close to me” and the recently departed Don Cornelius.

“His contribution to not only Black music and R&B and the support he gave the Motown artists can not be overstated,” Chew said of the Soul Train founder. “So he will be part of our tribute.”

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“Fighter pilots were a combination of mathematician, scientist, athletes and great leaders, that’s why [we] rose to the top,” explains Dr. Brown. “In a single engine plane you didn’t have anybody with you at the time. You didn’t have any computers to do it, so you had to use your eyes, your hands and your feet. That’s what we did.”

Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. was the former squadron commander of the 100th Fighter Squadron of the 332nd Fighter Group. He graduated from the Tuskegee Flight School on March 12, 1944  and was one of fifteen pilots who shot down the advanced German Me-262 jet fighter. He was also one of the lead consultants on the film.

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“The type of music I do, you have no choice but to be a real gentleman,” says the Baltimore native with all the confidence of someone twice his age. “Just do things the right way. There’s a right way to do things and a wrong way to do things. And being disrespectful is not cool. You gotta be more suave about it. I wanna bring this young soul back.”

CJ’s debut album Cold Summer promises to make good on his word. The lead single “So Fresh” was a flirtatious Salaam Remi produced track that thumbs its nose at the age of passive Facebook pokes and revisits a time when a man told a woman how he felt.
“I had a lot of fun making that song actually,” remembers CJ. “Salaam played a sample for me from a movie called “Doom”. I loved the sample. So I asked him to put the track together, he did that. He left me the track, I wrote all the lyrics, did the hooks, did everything. We sent it over to Nas after that. Nas loved the record, so he jumped on it, sent it back to me and that was pretty much what it was.”

“So Fresh”

The album’s title track is more personal, chronicling the moments before you change your relationship status to “it’s complicated.”

“Cold Summer is basically about me going through a situation with my daughters mother,” CJ confesses. “We were in a long term relationship and she decided to leave me, the 3rd of July, I would never forget the day. So it was a really, really, really cold Summer for me. So I felt like the only way for me to really get through was to just write about it, talk about it.”

“Cold Summer”

But new fans shouldn’t fret. There is plenty of mood-setting music on this album to go around for those in a more romantic state of mind.
“I think my album is really sexy, it’s for the ladies,” says CJ. “It’s definitely for the fellas too but it’s [also] for the fellas to grab their ladies real close and have a little intimate time with them. I feel like you can put on my music and you’ll get the job done for sure.”

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“No, I do not have HIV, I do not have AIDS,” she begins.”But the real reason I’m making this video is not only to clear the rumor, but to let you know that not only is it disrespectful to me, but to people who do have it and know people who have it. It is something that is very serious and deadly.”

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But we are going to keep our…err.. heads up. She is still going to be around for us to ogle in some capacity, so we have some fun suggestions on what she can do with her free time.

1) Kindle Fire Spokeswoman
Sales of Amazon’s newest e-reader have been pretty good, but imagine if they got their chocolate flavored name-a-like to push the product? Valentine’s Day is coming up and a TV spot featuring Jada with the tagline “rekindle the fire in your relationship” would kill during the Super Bowl. Jada could even offer a one-month subscription to her site as an enticement. Lord knows once they’ve seen what she has they’ll keep coming back.

2) Singer

Ok, you’re saying, “she doesn’t sing” But seriously. If Kim Kardashian and Amber Rose can strap on a vocoder and hit the recording booth why couldn’t Jada Fire? And her name is the perfect pop star moniker. Get David Guetta on the phone and get it poppin.

3) TV

Reality TV is the De facto programming choice on networks and even Seymour Butts had a reality show about his life in the adult business. Who wouldn’t tune in to see how a retired porn star fills her time and takes her career in new places? Again, if Snooki can command an audience doing pretty much nothing, Jada could invite a few of her friends over to play Words With Friends and get folks to tune in.

4) Instructor/Lecturer

All of Jada’s fans know that she has a unique skill and talent that we don’t have to spell out here, but imagine if she gave lessons? Women could sign up or men could buy them for their ladies–or just watch. Imagine the hilarious scene in Old School with Andy Dick teaching BJs, except this would actually be sexy.

If that’s too intense she could go on the lecture circuit talking about her career and why she left the porn business. Why do one interview when you could get paid to do dozens in front of a crowd? If Karrine Steffans can work a podium Jada can.

5) Politician

Several adult stars have run for public office and one has even succeeded. Mimi Miyagi, born Melody Damayo, ran for Nevada Governor in 2006 and Ilona Staller, aka “La Cicciolina,” was elected to the Italian parliament in 1987.  I know of a few local politicians I wouldn’t mind kicking out and the campaign posters alone would  be collectors items. Not to mention that millions of men have already pulled a lever in her honor.

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Muhsinah is smarter than you. Well, at least your favorite singer.  The alumnus of Howard University had the beautiful audacity to name one of her recent projects Oscillations: Sine and Triangle.

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“I was in recording school and I wanted to be an engineer,” she says with a smile. “I was learning the inner workings of audio. ‘Oscillation’ is just another word for wave. There’s different kinds of waves; sine waves, triangle waves, sawtooth waves…I am a nerd to the core. I didn’t want to be a singer, I was just recording myself to learn the Pro Tools program, but the songs got really good.”

The D.C. native went on to record with The Foreign Exchange (“Daykeeper,” “House of Cards”) and Common (“Changes”), and has recently released a new double EP, the more modestly titled Gone.

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The prolific Virgo was born in Brooklyn Jewish Hospital on September 14, 1973. According to his father, Olu Dara, a young Nas cut his musical chops on the streets of BK.

“I thought that he would become a great trumpeter because he was playing to audiences in the streets of Brooklyn when he was three or four,” he told The Source magazine in an August 2004 cover story. “He used to draw a lot of crowds [on Eastern Parkway]. It was fascinating to me. But his lip was becoming distorted so I made him quit. I remember him being very disappointed when I told him to stop playing.”

Needless to say Nas has done ok without the trumpet. But maybe it’s something he’ll pass it down to his son, Knight.

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“We would be at the Spelman computer lab, me and my homeboy Chris. Spelman always had the better computers because they had the Cosbys funding them,” says the Morehouse and Georgia Tech alumnus of his humble beatmaking beginnings.

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“I didn’t have a laptop so I had Fruity Loops on a 100MB ZIP disk. I had to install it each time. I’d bang away for a few hours and then delete the program from the computer. It was a demo and with the demo you could export the project but you couldn’t save it. So when I made my beats I had to finish ‘em up, bruh. I had to finish the beat or I’d never hear it again. Low budget? I’ve been there.”

Thanks to that kind of hustle Wyldfyer now holds the distinction of being the only producer (thus far) to have had Jay-Z and Nas on the same track–twice. He programmed the slaps for Ludacris’ “I Do It For Hip-Hop” featuring Nas and Jay-Z and the aforementioned “Black Republicans.”

“God is my manager, bruh,” he says. “Me and NO ID were joking around one time cuz he did “Success” and we were saying ‘we’re the only ones that had Nas/Jay-Z collabos.’  I don’t know what made Luda get Nas and Jay-Z so that was just a blessing.”

Currently Wyldfyer is at work submitting tracks for the next Nas album and is sitting on some unreleased Biggie vocals that could make his career if he wanted to.  He submitted two remixes to the Biggie Duets album that weren’t used, but he still has the acapellas.

“It didn’t make the album so it would be an unreleased Biggie song that no one’s ever heard,” says. “It’s the slow flow Biggie. It might just be a verse, which is probably why [Puff] didn’t put it out. But I’m not that thirsty to put it out there and ruin my career.”

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The rapper formerly known as Sense had a strict three-hour-a-day studying regimen, but his mind was still on rapping. In his book One Day It’ll All Make Sense, he wrote that he recorded “A Penny For My Thoughts” while in school by listening to beats that producer NO ID would leave on his outgoing answering machine message. “I’d call in and compose my raps like that.”

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..It was a dance show and he[Don Cornelius] was very excited about it. He had everything in place, the only thing missing was a theme song. When he came to us he called Gamble, they communicated and he flew into Philadelphia. He talked about the concept…we didn’t have any ideas but I said me and Gamble will come up with something quick. We always rise to the occasion when it comes to a song.

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[But] we went into the studio the first night and nothing really clicked. So Don Cornelius got a little nervous and I said, “Don’t worry. We don’t force creativity. Let’s come back tomorrow.” It was on a Friday,  I’ll never forget it.  The next day Saturday me and Gamble went back into the studio with the musicians and we grooved all day with that “dun dun dunnununua.” He was very happy. Everything turned out great. The MFSB orchestra and Three Degrees put it out as “T.S.O.P (The Sound Of Philadelphia) and it went #1. Their album and the single were #1 at the same time. Plus his show was red hot. So it was win-win for everybody.

Don Cornelius coming up with that Black concept show to expose Black R&B artists was right on time.

While Gamble & Huff’s theme song is the most recognized, it was not the first or only theme  song “Soul Train” would have. Take a look at the list of Soul Train’s opening theme songs.

Soul Train used various original and current music for theme songs during its run, including:

1971-1973: “SoulTrain (Hot Potato)” by King Curtis (Curtis Ousley) and later redone by the Rimshots as “Soul Train, Parts 1&2″. [The original 1962 version Curtis recorded 9 years before the show was named "Hot Potatoes (Piping Hot)"]

1973-1975: “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)“, composed by Gamble and Huff and recorded by Philadelphia soul studio group MFSB with vocals by the Three Degrees. Released as a single, this song became a pop and R&B radio hit in 1974 and the show’s best-known theme.

1975-1976: “Soul Train ’75″ by the Soul Train Gang, which was later released as a single for the newly formed Soul Train Records

1976-1978: “Soul Train ’76 (Get on Board)”, also by the Soul Train Gang

1978-1980: “Soul Train Theme ’79″, produced by the Hollywood Disco Jazz Band with vocals by the Waters
1980-1983: “Up on Soul Train”, first by the Waters and later by the Whispers, whose version appears in their 1980 album Imagination.
1983-1987: “Soul Train’s a Comin’” by R&B artist O’Bryan^[18]
1987-1989: “TSOP ’87″, a remake of the original “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)”, composed and produced by George Duke
1989-1993: “TSOP ’89″, a remixed version of “TSOP ’87″, also by George Duke
1993-1999: “Soul Train ’93″ (Know You Like to Dance)” by the hip-hop group Naughty by Nature with a saxophone solo by Everette Harp
1999-2006: “TSOP 2000″, with rap vocals by hip hop artist Samson and music by Dr. Freeze, and again featuring an Everette Harp saxophone solo. However, a portion of “Know You Like to Dance” was still used in the show’s second-half opening segment during this period.

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TheUrbandaily.com has gathered reactions from those who benefited from the work and life of Mr. Cornelius.

Karyn White - I first met Mr. Cornelius as a young 17-year-old background singer for O’Brien who Don Cornelius was managing and executive producing, not only did he give me my start in the professional music business he was also very generous to me as a mentor and father figure in the music business. He could be stern and very intimidating but he was also very giving & loving. I just saw him last week so I am obviously, shaken, shocked & hurt by this news, may God bless Don Cornelius & bring comfort to his family.

DJ Green Lantern:

“Man, R.I.P. Don Cornelius …one of the great ones ..watch that 2 hr Soul train documentary when u get a chance..serious”

Freddie Foxxx

“Powerful, to introduce the world to a greater amount of Black Music. Don Cornelius was that dude. He made it happen. Without question.”

Ice T

Soul Train was the radio station of Black America for years. Don Cornelius is an idol. There will never be another one of him in television. God bless him. Don is a G. Respect.

9th Wonder

My God…..rest in peace Don Cornelius…

DJ Jazzy Jeff

RIP Don Cornelius…Thank You for all you have done for us…

MYA

Condolences to the family, friends+ associates of Don Cornelius. So grateful4 his decades of innovative contribution to black music. R.I.P.

Oddisee…

Robert Glasper
R.I.P. DON CORNELIUS……..He is the reason I’m able to do what I do..the reason ALL of us Black people are able to do what we do..

Nikki D

Thank you Don Cornelius, for my 1st National TV appearance, on The SOOOOUUULLL TRAIN!! The hippest trip in America! Salute & RIP!

Jay King - My first time on television was because of Don Cornelius, Soul Train meant you had arrived and here I was standing next to the man who I had watched on television for all these years who brought the biggest stars in urban music to my living room. I was young and full of piss and vinegar but in Don’s presence I was wowed!!! And nervous, he was so cool and he saw my nervousness and said a few words in his cool voice, that seemed to say “be cool youngster” and we got on with the show….. I had the honor & pleasure of seeing Mr. Cornelius in the flesh last week and I want to thank you sir for all that you’ve done, now go rest in peace, you are already missed

Hinton Battle

I am deeply sadden to hear of this tragic news. Don Cornelius was such an integral part of my life. Watching the show as a child and then having the opportunity to be invited to perform on his show made my dreams come true. He has always been an inspiration and a pillar in the community and he will be greatly missed. My deepest condolences to the family and God bless.

Queens MC Nyemiah Supreme knows about putting in work. The former dancer and personal assistant to Juelz Santana got her first major look on Jim Jones track, “Everybody Jones” from his album Capo and has since dropped her own mixtape, “Bad.” But her road stardom started running errands for the Dipset crew.

“It was rough,” she told TheUrbanDaily.com.”But I learned a lot as an artist, about what you should and shouldn’t do.”  Watch the clip to find out if she thinks her old boss is really a terrorist.

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The Arkansas-born California native was once the lead singer of the group Tower Of Power and has had much success as a solo artist. Now, thanks to Young Jeezy, a newer generation of music fans are being exposed to his music.

On TM103  Young producer M-16 samples Williams “Let’s Talk It Over” for Jeezy’s latest hit “I Do,” The original song was released as a single in 1979 on MCA Records.

“I thought it was going to be my follow-up to ‘Cause I love you’ and I was trying to do a similar song,” says Williams of the track. “But we ended up doing it a little faster than I wanted to at the end. So I couldn’t get my talking on. It’s a good song, I always felt it was kind of wasted and here it is all these years later and Jeezy found it. It’s exciting to see what touches people. It’s gotta be thirty years later and they found it. Their version has a lot of nice strings. They got me humming in the back. I love it.”

“I Do, I Do”

So with two of his songs anchoring hip-hop hits is there anything else he feels could get the sample treatment?

“I always wondered why nobody ever sampled ‘Choosing You’,” he says. “Especially the New York rappers.  ‘Choosing You’ was  a #1 hit in New York on WBLS. It’s an uptempo song with the strings. I think Ray Parker, Jr. is playing on it and the guys from Lakeside are signing and playing on it.”

“Choosing You”

In addition to his considerable catalog from the 60s and 70s,  Williams has been recording new music as well. He released an album in 2009 called Unfinished Business with the hilarious “Sorry I Didn’t Know That Was Your Momma”, which he says is based on a true story.

“I was at a club one night with the band and I was walking around on a break and I saw this table of ladies,” he begins. “I walk over and holla and you see they look like a certain age. But one of the girls at the table said ‘hey don’t be talkin like that to my momma.’ It’s interesting because momma had the little tattoo, the nose ring, earring, tongue ring…They dress like Beyonce and want you to treat ‘em like Eartha Kitt.”

With stories like that it’s easy to see why Lenny Williams will have more music coming in 2012. In the meantime hit him up on Twitter @LennyWilliams

The D.C native’s affinity for hip-hop and fearless approach to sensitive topics made him an instant hit. Whether it was “The Racial Draft” where Tiger Woods became Black or the classic Charlie Murphy’s Truth Hollywood Stories with the late Rick James Chappelle took made sketch comedy feel like oral history. In fact, mere phrases from the show (“I’m Rick James, bitch!” ) have become ubiquitous, embedding themselves into the American lexicon.

Add performances from some of hip-hops best like Kanye West, Erykah Badu and Snoop and Chappelle’s Show was must-see TV. Sales of season 1 and 2 on DVD made it one of the most successful of all time, beating out The Simpsons in 2005.

Unfortunately, Chappelle would take his talents back to Ohio and Season 3 never officially materialized. Fans still pine away for the return of Chappelle to TV and Chris Rock recently hinted that the two may tour together.  In any respect we need him back.

“He was the new generation Eddie Murphy,” says DJ Rob Flow, who walked away with a jar or Pomade and a pack of Newports after winning the “I Know Black People” contest on Chappelle. “Every generation has a black comedian that expresses a particular type of angle on the culture. In ’70s we had Richard Pryor. ’80s we had Eddie Murphy. He was definitely a part of hip-hop culture and he loved conscious artists. He was important to the culture for that.  He ended up really pushing the racial lines and that’s what freaked everybody out. It got really popular and he realized white people aren’t laughing with us.  That’s my theory. I think that’s why he left. But he needs to come back and finish the thought. Get white people to laugh with us, not at us.”

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The Toronto native performed at the 2012 NHL All-Star game bringing the total of number of brothers in the arena to 2.5.

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Today friends and family said their final good-byes to R&B legend Etta James. The iconic soul singer was laid to rest in Los Angeles after losing a battle with leukemia on January 20th. She was sent off in grand style with performances from artists like Christina Aguilera.

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But one highlight of the night was seeing cousins Jarrett Jack (Hornets) and Chris Duhon (Magic) pose with their 102-year-old great grandfather Edward, who came out to cheer them on.

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3.)   I Am 4 Real (Produced by DJ Corbett)
4.)   Hungry (Produced by Sire)
5.)   Yeah Yeah (Produced by  Shuko)
6.)   Bring Me Down Pt. 3 ½ Feat. Joe Budden (Produced by Just Blaze & DJ Corbett)
7.)   Say Yes Again (Produced by Quiet)
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9.)   Women Are The New Dogs Feat. Jovan Dais (Produced by Red Spyda)
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11.)  When Did You Get Hot (Produced by Brain)
12.)   Moscato Flow
13.)   CutDaBullshit, CutDaBullshit (Produced by Green Lantern)
14.)   Another Man Down Feat. Lil Fame (Produced by DJ Corbett)
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Nicki Minaj takes her eccentric style to new heights in the video to “Stupid Hoe.” You won’t be seeing the NSFW vid on your local TV network any time soon because Nicki wanted to keep it raw like sushi for her Barbies.

“Can’t premiere on a network b/c its important that my art is not tampered with, or compromised prior to you viewing it for the 1st time,” she Tweeted.

Her fans will have to enjoy this clip for now, because Minaj also announced that she is pushing back her sophomore album to April. Pink Friday:Roman Reloaded was originally slated for a February release.

Let us know what you think of it in the comments.

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