Kenny Smoov's Blog – February 2013 Archive (125)

Ex-NFL QB Vince Young once had a $26 million guaranteed contract to play for the Tennessee Titans. He also had a Reebok deal and some more endorsements and money.

Tons of money to last a lifetime right? Wrong!

Vince Young…

President Obama brought his agenda back to the basics in the first State of the Union address of his second term, with a stripped-down economic prescription that bore the scars of four years marked by frustration.

But where he’s best-positioned to define his presidency is where he…

A group of Indiana students are rallying for a separate prom that excludes homosexual students, WTWO reports. The students, their parents, teachers, and others believe gays should be banned from the Sullivan High School prom next Sunday at the Sullivan First Christian Church. “We don’t agree with [homosexuality] and it’s offensive to us,” said Diana Medley, a special…

Two men have been charged in the shooting death of a 15-year-old honors student who danced for President Obama during his Inauguration last month. The two men in custody, Michael Ward, 18, and Kenneth Williams, 20, are violent gang members who mistook Hadiya Pendleton’s group of friends for members of a rival gang, the Chicago Tribune reports. Police took Ward and…

One of our top moments of the century is a recent one. Zora Ball (pictured), age 7, has the distinction of becoming the youngest person to develop a mobile game app. Ball, a first-grader at Harambee Institute of Science and Technology Charter School in Philadelphia, built the game using a programming language called “Bootstrap” that teaches kids age 12 to 16 how to grasp complex math. The prodigious student unveiled her game last December at an expo for the Bootstrap program at the…

Lil' Mama has landed a gig that she hopes will revive her career -- which has been in the toilet ever since she crashed Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’s “Empire State of Mind” performance during MTV’s 2009 Video Music Awards. Legendary rapper MC Lyte revealed during the Vibe Image Awards earlier this month that Mama will be playing Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes in that upcoming TLC bio-pic. Lyte says, “I’m gonna put a little bit of my concentration and focus on helping to uplift a sister who is…

Was Lil Wayne stirring up trouble at the Miami Heat vs. LA Lakers game last night? According to his tweets, he was thrown out of the game for rooting for the Lakers: "So I’m @ da Heat…

There are a lot of things that we still don’t know about Beyonce.

Although she’s very personable, kind and…

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 Last Night, there were so many fierce moments on the red carpet as celebs arrived at the 2013 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. J. Lo, Kelly Rowland, Ashanti, Solange and Alicia Keys showed off some skin while Beyonce and…

Phylicia Rashad, who played lovable matriarch Clair Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” for eight seasons, has turned her nose on attention-loving reality show moms. On Tuesday’s “The Steve Harvey Show,” she snubbed the likes of Kardashian momager Kris Jenner, “Honey Boo Boo”’s Mama June and the ladies of…

A NJ family and community is left grieving this morning after a host of witnesses who happened to be passing by watched as a 22-year-old fashion student committed suicide by leaping to her death from the George Washington Bridge on the afternoon of her birthday.

via NY…

Actress Kerry Washington is currently starring in one of the most talked about roles on television each and every week, as she portrays White House crisis manager Olivia Pope on Scandal, however it was a role she would have walked away from.

In the recent issue of Ebony…

Via CBS News:

A 7-year-old boy alerted a teacher Thursday after finding a loaded gun in his backpack at a Philadelphia elementary school, police said. Officials at Universal Samuel Daroff Charter School told police that the boy was putting a folder in his bag…

A mother was robbed at gunpoint during a home invasion in south Nashville on Sunday night.

Police said the mother and her four children had just gotten to their home on Wharton Drive around 11 p.m. when two men wearing ski masks and carrying guns approached the mother outside.…

A Detroit man used a unique defense to explain why he should not be facing charges. The man performed a freestyle rap to explain his case in open court.

A Detroit CBS…

  Fans are taking aim at Kim Kardashian after she posted an Instagram photo of a diamond-encrusted gun -- calling her a hypocrite since last month she supported the Sandy Hook Promise, a pledge to work for gun-control solutions. Kim must have realized…

    An African-American family from San Diego is suing Disneyland after their children were allegedly given the cold shoulder by the White Rabbit character from Alice in Wonderland because of the color of their skin. According to Jason and Annelia Black, the actor in the White Rabbit costume was impatient with their children and refused to touch them, but when some…

Amy Winehouse fans who thought they wouldn't get anymore new music from the songstress need to thank Nas -- he did you guys a favor. Nas and Amy Winehouse’s “Cherry Wine" is the nomination to watch for in the Best Rap/Sung Collaboration category for this year's Grammy Awards -- especially since Amy was awarded a posthumous Grammy last year. Looks like Jay-Z, Kanye, Frank Ocean &…