JAY Z - inside "Magna Carta Holy Grail"

Jay-Z has surprised fans by revealing details of a 12th studio album, Magna Carta Holy Grail, due for release in less than three weeks' time.

Jay-Z made the announcement during an advert break of the NBA Finals. In a three-minute promo video featuring Rick Rubin, Pharrell Williams and Timbaland, he says: "The album is about this duality of how do you navigate your way through this whole thing, through success and through failures, and remain yourself?"

The hip-hop singer won't be worrying to much about sales. According to the album's website, Samsung has already snapped up a million copies of the record to give away free to the first one million Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 2 owners who download a special app. The app goes on sale from 24 June.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung paid $5 for each album download, which means Jay-Z will be the first artist to have a platinum album before it's been released.

Robin Thicke "Blurred Lines" parody - #Cougars by Fitzy and Wippa

Robin Thicke "Blurred Lines" parody - #Cougars by Fitzy and Wippa

R. Kelly - Trapped in the Closet - 27

Defecating midgets are hardly a Broadway staple, but R&B star R Kellyhas raised just such a possibility after announcing that he hoped to adapt his cult 'hip-hopera' Trapped in the Closet for the stage.

Launching the newest instalment of the sung-through soap opera – an increasingly improbable tale triggered by an adulterous one-night stand – the singer-songwriter said that he had received an offer to take it to Broadway, and might even star in it himself.

"To transform it into a Broadway version, that's what I'm working on," said the 45-year-old, real name Robert Sylvester Kelly. Although he gave little away, a spokesperson for the singer told the New York Times that a stage version is "a very real possibility we are exploring".

Trapped in the Closet started life as part of Kelly's album TP.3 Reloaded, but a filmed version of 12 episodes was released on DVD in 2005, with a further 10 episodes released two years later. The series follows Sylvester, played by Kelly, through a series of sexual misdemeanours that spin out of his control, after he's forced to hide in the eponymous closet when a lover's husband unexpectedly returns home.

At the launch on 19 November, Kelly announced that he has written a further 85 episodes, the next batch of which will premiere on the American television channel IFC. "The chapters that are coming – the show, we call it – is going to exceed every chapter that you have ever seen," he said.

That is quite a claim: previous episodes have involved a pimp with a severe stutter, an asthmatic midget and an awful lot of hiding in cupboards. Each chapter ends with a cliffhanger.

"I'm just having a lot of fun," Kelly continued. "I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all day and think of stuff to do and this is just something stupid I've done that's been successful for me."

R. Kelly - Trapped in the Closet - 26

Defecating midgets are hardly a Broadway staple, but R&B star R Kellyhas raised just such a possibility after announcing that he hoped to adapt his cult 'hip-hopera' Trapped in the Closet for the stage.

Launching the newest instalment of the sung-through soap opera – an increasingly improbable tale triggered by an adulterous one-night stand – the singer-songwriter said that he had received an offer to take it to Broadway, and might even star in it himself.

"To transform it into a Broadway version, that's what I'm working on," said the 45-year-old, real name Robert Sylvester Kelly. Although he gave little away, a spokesperson for the singer told the New York Times that a stage version is "a very real possibility we are exploring".

Trapped in the Closet started life as part of Kelly's album TP.3 Reloaded, but a filmed version of 12 episodes was released on DVD in 2005, with a further 10 episodes released two years later. The series follows Sylvester, played by Kelly, through a series of sexual misdemeanours that spin out of his control, after he's forced to hide in the eponymous closet when a lover's husband unexpectedly returns home.

At the launch on 19 November, Kelly announced that he has written a further 85 episodes, the next batch of which will premiere on the American television channel IFC. "The chapters that are coming – the show, we call it – is going to exceed every chapter that you have ever seen," he said.

That is quite a claim: previous episodes have involved a pimp with a severe stutter, an asthmatic midget and an awful lot of hiding in cupboards. Each chapter ends with a cliffhanger.

"I'm just having a lot of fun," Kelly continued. "I don't have a job, so I sit in the studio all day and think of stuff to do and this is just something stupid I've done that's been successful for me."

More episodes coming tomorrow...

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines ft. T.I., Pharrell

Kanye West - The best of West Rants. [VIDEO]

Kanye West - The best of West Rants.

Kim Kardashian - Gives Birth to Baby Girl

Kim Kardashian has given birth to a baby girl ... TMZ has learned.

Source close to KK tell TMZ ... it was a NATURAL CHILD BIRTH.  She started having contractions Friday night and went into full labor early Saturday AM.

Our sources tell us the baby and Kim are both in good health. We're told Kim delivered the baby at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center this morning ... 5 weeks early.

Our sources say BF Kanye West was there for the entire thing -- in the delivery room by Kim's side. We're told Kanye cancelled his appearance at his own record release party last night when Kim told him she was feeling "a little off."

It is the first child for Kim and Kanye.

Watch this space for EXCLUSIVE photos.

Craig David - Has he taken training TOO FAR???

He may have had a song about different flavours of ice cream.

But it looks as though Craig David has not had a high-fat treat for quite some time, as he has shared a personal snap of his well worked-out physique with fans.

The 32-year-old British RnB singer wants to help his fans achieve their weight loss goals and admitted that even he struggles to keep off excess weight from time to time.

Body confident: Craig David shared his most inspiring self-portrait with his fans via Instagram yesterday

Craig displayed an image of himself on Instagram showing off maximum muscle and extremely low body fat.

Standing in just a pair of black shorts, the singer's body is rippling, almost straining, with muscle and he looks incredibly lean - but his face is gaunt.

However in an open letter to fans, he reveals that he does occasionally binge on junk food, and keeps his photograph to remind him of his goals and to help him keep his bad eating habits in check.

'One of the best ways to help yourself stay focused throughout those days when you feel a little weak or lost is to put little reminders around you to help bring you back to the present moment and focus you before you do something you'll look back on and regret,' the singer said via an extended Instagram message.

'In this case when I'm training hard and about to start my cutting phase where calories are reduced and I know there will be moments where I'll wanna eat every chocolate bar in my cupboard or especially when travelling on planes back and forth from Miami to Europe all the time,' he went on.

Pretty fit: Craig outshone boxer David Haye when they hit the beach together in 2011 as, even then, he was in brilliant shape

'I just go to this photo on my phone...under the folder "Stay Focused" which reminds me instantly to get back on track and in this case reminds me how good it feels when I achieve my goal and don't listen to my "old inner weakness" voice trying to remind me of how I used to be!

'Trust me it works!!! All I hear inside when I see this photo is..... Stop being weak and fix up...you've done it before, you can do it again! Booom!

'This quickly throws me back on course and on to completing my goal.

'This is one of the photos for my fitness goals, but I have the same reminders in picture form for motivating me in the studio with my music, making time for my friends when it's easy to get caught up in work and pictures of things that really matter to me in my life.

Forget the flavours: Craig doesn't look like he ever eats much ice-cream despite singing a song that made reference to the chilled dessert

'All designed to focus me back in to the present moment. You should do the same if it helps you stay on course to achieving your goals and btw the photo can be of anything that just shifts your attention back in line with where it should be...

'Believe you've already achieved it and it will manifest!'

Fitness fanatic Craig hardly has much to be worried about as he has become more famous for his incredible beach body than for his music in recent years.

The star even put British boxer David Haye to shame when the pair were spotted together on a beach in 2011.

While he appears to have taken his fitness regime to an extreme,  he is hoping to inspire others to reach their own body goals.

Looking fuller in the face, Craig David is seen here in 2001

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Supergirl

After a power source for the community of Krypton survivors is accidentally whisked to earth, Kara-El, cousin to Superman and niece to Jor-El, chooses to go to earth to find it, and bring it back. 

Upon her arrival, she becomes just as powerful and Super as her cousin, but encounters dangerous battles and unexpected obstacles. 

When a mean spirited woman who practices rituals of the occult takes the power source for herself, and uses it to cause destruction and attempt zenith human status.

Man of Steel

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. 

As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind. 

"Man of Steel," the latest iteration of the Superman series, lands on the big screen on Friday with the hopes that the dark, action-heavy film can revive the classic comic book superhero as a Hollywood franchise.
But director Zack Snyder, who is best known for 2007 action film "300" and 2009 superhero flick "Watchmen," told Reuters that it was a delicate balance staying faithful to Superman's story without retreading earlier film and television versions.


Man of Steel - Official Trailer 3 [HD]