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Kandi Burruss denies she’s leaving “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” shares video from So So Def concert

Paras Griffin/Getty ImagesAfter performing Sunday night with Xscape at the So So Def 25^th anniversary concert in A-T-L, Kandi Burruss is denying rumors that she’s leaving Real Housewives of Atlanta.

The Grammy winner commented on Instagram, “There is a false advertisement running around on Facebook saying that I’m quitting RHOA & starting a new beauty cream company. THIS IS FALSE!!!!!” She says contrary to the rumor, she is not associated with Donna Beale Beauty Cream.

Burruss also shared a video of Xscape performing the song “Tonight” from their 1993 debut album, Hummin’ Comin’ at ‘Cha, at the concert. She commented, “’Tonight’ is one of my favorite #Xscape songs to perform. Each member has a moment to showcase their voice & the harmony is so dope. I loved the umbrellas! Great show ladies!”

She also posted photos with the three other members of Xscape, commenting, “Another epic night with my girls @officialxscape! Thanks @jermainedupri for putting together a memorable celebration for our #25yrs in this business! The whole Atlanta came out to support & the love from family & friends made it a special night! #SoSoDef25″

The concert, led by So So Def CEO Jermaine Dupri, also featured Ludacris, Omarion, Monica,Jagged Edge, Da Brat, Anthony Hamilton, Bow Wow, Bone Crusher, Youngbloodz, Dem Franchize Boyz, J-Kwon and Jacques, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Snoop Dogg celebrates 47th birthday on stage in Chicago

It Is Done CommunicationsChance the Rapper, Tamar Braxton and Eric Benet were among the stars celebrating Snoop Dogg’s 47^th birthday on stage Saturday in Chicago.

Snoop was starring in his touring stage musical, Redemption of a Dogg, and at the end of Saturday’s first show at the Arie Crown Theater, the cast surprised him with a birthday cake, according to Rolling Out.com

Chance the Rapper was a special guest star in the show, joining regular cast members Braxton, Benet, Omar Gooding, Demetria McKinney, and Latoya London. They led the crown in singing “Happy Birthday” to the “Gin and Juice” rapper.

The Redemption of a Dogg tour kicked off October 5 in Houston, and will run through March 3 in New York City.

In other Snoop news, his first cookbook, From Crook to Cook, will be published Tuesday. In addition to his special gin and juice cocktails, the cookbook will feature 50 recipes for a variety of dishes, including baked mac & cheese, fried bologna sandwiches with chips, soft flour tacos, easy orange chicken, Lobster Thermidor, and filet mignon.

Songwriter awarded $44 million in lawsuit over Usher’s 2004 song “Bad Girl”

Randy Shropshire/Getty Images for Sony Music and The Estate of Michael JacksonA Philadelphia court has awarded songwriter Daniel Marino $44 million in damages for not receiving credit for co-writing “Bad Girl” from Usher’s 2004 album, Confessions.

Marino sued one of the song’s co-writers, William Guice, and Destro Music Productions owner Dante Barton. Destro Music produced the song with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Guice was ordered to pay $27 million, and Barton was ordered to pay $7 million, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Marino filed a civil suit alleging fraud and breach of contract, claiming that he worked with Guice and Barton to create and record a song titled “Club Girl,” which was renamed “Bad Girl.” He also claimed they had a contract to split credit and royalties for the song, but that Guice and Barton made a secret deal to cut him out of the profits.

Usher’s Confessions sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and earned a Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album.

Ella Mai announces The Debut Tour

Jonathan MannionElla Mai wraps up her concert dates with Bruno Mars this week, but that won’t be the end of live performances for the “Boo’d Up” singer: Monday, she announced The Debut Tour, starting in 2019.

The 23-year-old singer will kick off the European leg of the trek January 8 in Birmingham, England. She’ll perform 11 shows in Europe, and will begin the North American leg February 12 in Vancouver, Canada, followed by her first show in the United States on February 14 in Seattle. The tour wraps up March 28 in San Antonio, TX.

Mai’s self-titled album debuted this week at number five on the Billboard 200. Her breakthrough single, “Boo’d Up,” has been certified four times platinum, and her follow-up single, “Trip,” is certified gold.

The singer from London performs her final show with Mars Friday in Los Angeles, the same day tickets go on sale for her tour at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.com

Here are Ella Mai’s The Debut Tour North American dates:

2/12 — Vancouver, BC, Commodore Ballroom
2/14 — Seattle, WA, Showbox SoDo
2/15 — Portland, OR, Crystal Ballroom
2/17 — Sacramento, CA, Ace of Spades
2/19 — Oakland, CA, Fox Theater
2/20 — Santa Cruz, CA, The Catalyst
2/22 — Phoenix, AZ, The Marquee
2/23 — Las Vegas, NV, House of Blues
2/25 — Denver, CO, Ogden Theatre
2/27 — Lawrence, KS, The Granada
2/28 — Minneapolis, MN, Varsity Theater
3/ 2 — Detroit, MI, St. Andrew’s Hall
3/3 — Chicago, IL, Concord Music Hall
3/5 — Cleveland, OH, House of Blues
3/6 — Toronto, ON, The Danforth
3/7 — Montreal, QC, Club Soda
3/9 — Boston, MA , Royale
3/11 — Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Steel
3/13 — Philadelphia, PA, Theatre of Living Arts
3/15 — Silver Spring, MD, The Fillmore Silver Spring
3/16 — Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Sound Stage
3/19 — Atlanta, GA, Tabernacle
3/20 — Orlando, FL, The Plaza Live
3/21 — Fort Lauderdale, FL, Revolution Live
3/24 — Houston, TX, House of Blues
3/26 — Dallas, TX, House of Blues
3/27 — Austin, TX, Emo’s
3/28 — San Antonio, TX, The Aztec Theatre

“Caution”: Mariah Carey tour ahead

Courtesy Live Nation EntertainmentMariah Carey fans will want to exercise Caution next year: The diva is hitting the road in support of her new album.

Mariah’s new album Caution comes out November 16, and the Caution World Tour will get underway February 27 in Dallas, TX. The North American leg of the tour, billed as her “most intimate” one yet, is currently set to wrap up April 6 in Bethlehem, PA.

Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday via LiveNation.com. Citi card members can buy tickets tomorrow starting at 10 a.m. local time. Anyone who buys tickets online will also get a digital or physical copy of the new album.

Members of Mariah’s fan community, Honey B. Fly, will also get access to tickets tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time. If you buy a “Honey B. Fly Live Pass” today via MariahCarey.com, you’ll get access to the pre-sale, as well as a free membership.

Caution is now available for pre-order, and if you do so, you’ll get instant downloads of the previously released tracks “The Distance,” “With You” and “GTFO.”

Here are Mariah’s tour dates:

2/27 — Dallas, TX, The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
3/1 — Houston, TX, Smart Financial Centre at Sugar Land
3/2 — Biloxi, MS, Beau Rivage Theatre
3/5 — Atlanta, GA, Fox Theatre
3/6 — Louisville, KY, The Louisville Palace presented by Cricket Wireless
3/8 — Detroit, MI, Fox Theatre
3/9 — Indianapolis, IN, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre
3/11 — Chicago, IL, The Chicago Theatre
3/13 — Minneapolis, MN, State Theatre
3/15 — Milwaukee, WI, Miller High Life Theatre
3/16 — St Louis, MO, Stifel Theatre
3/18 — Pittsburgh, PA, Benedum Center
3/20 — Toronto, ON, Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
3/21 — Orillia, ON, Casino Rama Resort
3/23 — Buffalo, NY, Shea’s Performing Arts Center
3/25 — New York, NY, Radio City Music Hall
3/28 — Boston, MA, Boch Center Wang Theatre
3/30 — Atlantic City, NJ, Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena
3/31 — Washington, DC, The Theater at MGM National Harbor
4/3 — Philadelphia, PA, Metropolitan Opera House
4/5 — Wallingford, CT, Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre
4/6 — Bethlehem, PA, Sands Bethlehem Event Center

Ex-NFL player Rae Carruth released after nearly 20 years in prison over girlfriend's murder

iStock/Thinkstock(CLINTON, North Carolina) — Ex-NFL player Rae Carruth was released from prison Monday morning after spending nearly two decades behind bars on charges stemming from the murder of his pregnant girlfriend.

Carruth, a former wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers, was sentenced to 18 to 24 years in 2001 after a jury found him guilty of conspiring to murder Cherica Adams.

“I’m excited about just being out of here. I’m nervous just about how I’ll be received by the public,” Carruth said in an phone interview with ABC affiliate WSOC-TV on Sunday. “I still have to work. I still have to live. I have to exist out there and it just seems like there is so much hate and negativity toward me. I’m actually some what frightened.”

Prosecutors said Carruth hired Van Brett Watkins and Michael Kennedy to kill Adams in November 1999, when she was eight months pregnant.

Adams, 24, was following Carruth in a separate vehicle after a movie when Watkins and Kennedy pulled up beside her. Prosecutors said Carruth used his vehicle to block Adams’ car while Watkins opened fire on her.

She died four weeks after the shooting. Her son, Chancellor Lee Adams, was born via a cesarean section and had severe injuries.

Chancellor Lee Adams, now 18, has been living with his maternal grandmother, Saundra Adams, and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Carruth said he hopes to “make things right” with both of them once he’s released.

“I’ve apologized to Ms. Adams for the loss of her daughter and taken responsibility for what happened,” Carruth said. “I don’t want to harm Ms. Adams. I guess, honestly, I just want to truly be forgiven.”

Saundra Adams told the Charlotte Observer earlier this year that she would “leave the door open” for a potential relationship with Carruth.

“I’ve forgiven Rae already, but to have any type of relationship with him, there does have to be some repentance,” Adams said in February. “And I think this opens the door. But I can say definitively he’s not ever going to have custody of Chancellor.

“Chancellor will be raised either by me, or, after I’m gone, by someone else who loves him and who knows him. He will never be raised by a stranger — someone he doesn’t know and who tried to kill him.”

Carruth, a 1997 first-round draft pick, was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, discharging a firearm into occupied property and attempting to destroy an unborn child, court records show. He’s set to be released from Sampson Correctional Institution in Clinton, North Carolina, later today.

Watkins, who plead guilty to second-degree murder, was sentenced to a minimum of 40 years in prison. Kennedy, who drove the car, was released in 2011.

Marsha Ambrosius recalls the bold move she made to meet the man who became her husband

Dez BillupsMarsha Ambrosius says she is happier now than she’s ever been because of the love of her husband, Dez Billups, and their daughter, Nyla. Their baby, whose name is also the title of the singer’s new album, was born in 2016, and one year later, Marsha and Dez were married.

Ambrosius says her album, Nyla, reflects both “the love for my daughter and the absolute lust it took to create the initial conversation with the man who is now my husband.” The nine-time Grammy nominee first met Dez during the 2015 Floetry reunion tour in Cleveland when he was working as a roadie.

She tells ABC Radio. “I was just going to be as forthcoming as I’ve always been and decide to ask him out on a date. Well, not a date. Just to go get something to eat and he obliged and we’ve haven’t been apart since.”

The two went out to a fast-food restaurant, she recalls, where they “walked through the drive thru and sat there outside on a couple of park benches and a little table.”

Then, she tells ABC Radio, they “just talked about love, and life, and our dreams, and goals, aspirations, our faith, spirituality. Just you name it. Putting everything on the table and we’ve haven’t been apart since July 15 of 2015.”

Now over three years later, Marsha and Dez are still together, on and off the road. She’s opening Maxwell’s 50 Intimate Nights tour, and their next show is Saturday in Huntsville, Alabama. The tour wraps December 9 in New York City.

Scoreboard roundup — 10/20/18

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Saturday’s sports events:

NATIONAL LEAGUE
L.A. Dodgers 5, Milwaukee 1

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Toronto 117, Washington 113
Indiana 132, Brooklyn 112
Philadelphia 116, Orlando 115
Boston 103, N.Y. Knicks 101
Detroit 118, Chicago 116
Charlotte 113, Miami 112
Dallas 140, Minnesota 136
Denver 119, Phoenix 91
Portland 121, San Antonio 108
Houston 124, L.A. Lakers 115

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Colorado 3, Carolina 1
Philadelphia 5, New Jersey 2
Buffalo 5, L.A. Kings 1
Winnipeg 5, Arizona 3
St. Louis 4, Toronto 1
Chicago 4, Columbus 1
OT Ottawa 4, Montreal 3
OT Detroit 4, Florida 3
OT Minnesota 5, Tampa Bay 4
Nashville 3, Edmonton 0
OT Vancouver 2, Boston 1
Vegas 3, Anaheim 1
San Jose 4, N.Y. Islanders 1

TOP 25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
(1) Alabama 58, Tennessee 21
Purdue 49, (2) Ohio St. 20
(3) Clemson 41, (16) NC State 7
(5) LSU 19, (22) Mississippi St. 3
(6) Michigan 21, (24) Michigan St. 7
(9) Oklahoma 52, TCU 27
(10) UCF 37, East Carolina 10
(25) Washington St. 34, (12) Oregon 20
(14) Kentucky 14, Vanderbilt 7
(15) Washington 27, Colorado 13
(18) Penn St. 33, Indiana 28
(19) Iowa 23, Maryland 0
OT Temple 24, (20) Cincinnati 17
(21) South Florida 38, UConn 30
(23) Wisconsin 49, Illinois 20

Scoreboard roundup — 10/19/18

iStock/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Friday’s sports events:

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Milwaukee 7, L.A. Dodgers 2

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Charlotte 120, Orlando 88
Brooklyn 107, N.Y. Knicks 105
Minnesota 131, Cleveland 123
Toronto 113, Boston 101
New Orleans 149, Sacramento 129
Memphis 131, Atlanta 117
Milwaukee 118, Indiana 101
Golden State 124, Utah 123
L.A. Clippers 108, Oklahoma City 92

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
SO Florida 6, Washington 5
Minnesota 3, Dallas 1
Nashville 5, Calgary 3

LeToya Luckett recalls the moment she was fired from Destiny's Child, dishes on reuniting with Beyonce

Jim Smeal/WireImageIt’s been nearly two decades since LeToya Luckett was let go from Destiny’s Child. And in an advance clip from an upcoming episode of T.I. & Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle, Luckett says even though it “hurt,” she has no hard feelings.

“Management made a decision,” she explained to T.I. & Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle co-star Toya Wright. “There was nothing at the time that I could do about it. Did it hurt? Absolutely. Because we were friends. I went to school with these girls.”

She continues, “Beyoncé and LaTavia [Roberson] had been in the group the longest. Then LaTavia went to school. Met Kelly [Rowland]. And then Beyoncé showed up at my school one day as the new beautiful girl with this new beautiful voice. It was just so cool to experience something like that at such a young age. But that decision was made…we were sisters.”

However, the Greenleaf star has officially put the past behind her — she reunited with Bey last month during her On The Run II tour stop in Arlington, Texas.

“That was such an awesome moment. There was so much joy in that room,” Luckett tells Essence, revealing that Bey even gave her some parenting advice for her the upcoming birth of her child.

“She went into straight mommy mode as far like ‘Oh my god. What’s she doing? Is she doing this, is she doing that?,” Luckett says. “And I was showing them my sonogram pictures and everything. She was just so excited. We’re both very, very happy, and you could feel the love in the room. There wasn’t a lot of people in the room. It felt like it was just us, chatting it up.”

T.I. & Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle premieres on Monday, October 22, at 9 p.m. ET.

T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle