The Show: 9-15-09/2 Murdered In East Nashville/Kanye on Leno/Whitney on Oprah/Jay Z Coming To Nashville/Patrick Swayze Passes On

TWO MURDERED IN EAST NASHVILLE LAST NIGHT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Two people were dead Tuesday morning after gunfire erupted during an argument in east Nashville.

Police said just before 1 a.m. they received calls about yelling and gunshots fired in the area of North 2nd Street. When officers arrived on the scene, they found one victim shot in the chest in the front of the house. He was taken to Vanderbilt where he died.

A second gunshot victim showed up to Skyline soon after; he also died. Police believe the two shootings are related, but no arrests have been made.

KANYE WEST APOLOGIZES ON JAY LENO LAST NIGHT

Just in case you missed it, Kanye apologized on Jay Leno last night. Check out the clip!!

I WAS WONDERING ABOUT THAT...?

If you were wondering why Lil' Mama appeared on stage at Sunday's V-M-As during Alicia Keys' performance with Jay-Z, so was he. The rapper's reps have issued a statement saying they have no idea how the America's Best Dance Crew judge got on stage during their duet on "Empire State of Mind." Hova was visibly miffed and could be heard saying, "You're gonna T-Pain me now, huh?" referring to an incident when T-Pain crashed a stage while he was performing "D-O-A." Fabolous weighed in on the incident by calling Lil' Mama a "crazy M-F." He writes on Twitter, "Lil' Mama is fresh off hangin' out wit Maia Campbell."

WHITNEY HOUSTON ON OPRAH WINFREY...WOW!

In her hotly anticipated sit down with Oprah Winfrey yesterday, Whitney Houston revealed her emotional problems started before she and Bobby Brown got married. Life in the spotlight had taken its toll on the Grammy-winning singer by the time she recorded the soundtrack to The Bodyguard, the 1992 film she starred in with Kevin Costner. Houston explained, "My life became the world's. My privacy, my business, and I was like, 'That's not fair.' I just wanted to be normal. I had no normal 20s. I had no normal 30s." Houston also discussed the specifics of her drug use, admitting she used to roll marijuana joints laced with cocaine. She also talked at length about her marriage to Brown. While part of the reason she stayed in the marriage so long was to prove critics wrong, she truly was in love with him when they married. "He let me be myself," she remembered. But she also says the fact that she was a bigger star lead to feelings of jealousy on Brown's part. Part two of the interview airs on today's Oprah!!

Steve Mcnair's Assets Worth about $10 Million

Mechelle McNair (Steve's Widow), filed an inventory last week of McNair's assets following his July death. He did not leave a will. In addition to his Jefferson Street restaurant, Gridiron9, which has been closed since his death, McNair was involved with two corporations bearing his name. He was president of a Texas-based for-profit company called Air McNair Inc. that was worth roughly $120,000, and the sole stockholder of McNair Farms Inc., a cattle farm business in Mississippi worth about $1.2 million. The majority of McNair's assets — roughly $16.9 million — were in stocks and bonds.

JAY Z COMING TO NASHVILLE

Superstar rapper Jay-Z is headed to Vanderbilt University's Memorial Gymnasium on Nov. 13.

The rapper's keeping a high profile at the moment — he released his new album, The Blueprint 3, on Sept. 8, performed to close Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards and was booked as a guest for the first The Jay Leno Show episode Monday night. Music industry publication Billboard tipped on Thurs.,
Sept. 10 that Blueprint was on course to land as the rapper's 11th No. 1 album
on the Billboard 200 with this week's charts.

"Vanderbilt is excited about the opportunity to present one of the pioneers of rap," director of student campus events Dwayne Elliott said in a statement about the show.

More information about the Vanderbilt show — set for 8 p.m. and presented by Vanderbilt Programming Board Music Group and Vanderbilt Athletics and booked by MAC Presents — is available at http://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/vpb. Ticket information was not yet available.

WE REMEMBER PATRICK SWAYZE. GONE AT AGE 57

Patrick Swayze, the trained dancer who sashayed into movie history by teaching Jennifer Grey some hot moves in Dirty Dancing, died yesterday of pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

A statement released by his publicist yesterday read, "Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months." No further details were provided.