Kim Osorio's Blog

I’m just sayin’.  She’s good as a rapper, but I’m not sure if I buy the whole 18-yr old thing.  

I went to the usual every other tuesday night industry spot, R&B Live. It was Bad Boy night, and it was hella crowded. Here are some flicks.

Diddy introduced his MTB4 boys. He said it was their first New York performance. They need more practice.

Here’s a better shot of all of them. Please don’t test me on their names.

…and right after the show, Cheri Dennis was going scuba diving…

…I don’t know where they found Jeff Redd. He sang two classics. Do you know he is the one who gave Mary J.’s demo to Puff and that’s how she got signed. Crazy…. He still contractually signed to Uptown Records….just kidding

all types of executives was in the crowd. Someone ask this man what he did with the real Kevin Liles.

and then Naughty By Nature performed. It was a weird twist of events, but it was fun. Treach was not happy with y’all industry folks. He said play his new record. Well, not in those words.

Janelle Monae. This girl was just weird. She could sing though.

No, Aretha was not there (but Denzel came last time). I just felt like showing this picture of her and asking for captions.

Can Jay-Z ever ever take a good picture. What is the problem? Why does he consistenly let the camera beat him out in their ongoing feud. Go here to see more of these atrocious photos.

After I posted my blog yesterday, I found this picture of Eminem on one of my favorite whitepeoplesites (www.perezhilton.com). It appears that Em has put on some lbs. I mean, I put on a few myself over the past year, but then again, I had a baby. What’s his excuse? Maybe he started DJing. (anyone notice how fat hip hop DJs are? the good ones, at least).

I remember when Eminem used to make headlines. Nowadays, he gets rushed to the hospital and it takes two weeks before it gets reported. TMZ is reporting (today) that, over the holidays, Eminem was rushed to the hospital. Now, dude can’t be in that much hiding that no one noticed. I mean, didn’t someone at the hospital care enough to leak it to the press. And considering that I was in Detroit this past weekend and no one even mentioned this in conversation or on the radio, I would say that his stock must have dropped considerably. The TMZ report stated that Em was rushed to a Detroit-area hospital and was treated for a serious heart condition and severe pneumonia, but I’m not sure if I believe that. Still, according to TMZ, his publicist released a statement saying that he was under a doctor’s care for pneumonia over the holidays and has since been recovering at home. Hmmm…

Anyway, I was more interested in hearing how his weight has “ballooned to over 200lbs,” as they put it. That is not the first time I heard that (an inside source told me that he had put on 40lbs), and that’s what I’d like to find out more about. I don’t know about anyone else, but if Eminem is the next candidate for Celebrity Fit Club, I will sure as heck wanna see that.

Yes, sorry I’ve been gone so long. Look, it was the holidays and I had stuff to do. Speaking of which, damn Jay-Z for announcing his official resignation the day before Christmas. Shit! His news busted up my shopping schedule. In any event, now that I’m back, I did an official list of who should be Def Jam’s next president on BET.com. But I figured I’d give you the unedited version.

1. IRV GOTTI – I mean, seriously, he was probably a better choice than Jay-Z was in the first place. I.G. has the history with Def Jam and has a pretty good meter for what’s hot. Who has brought more hits (as an executive…not an artist) to the label in recent years? He has shown that he can spot new talent (ex. Lloyd) and break both R&B and hip-hop acts. Irv has the celebrity status that they were looking for by hiring Jay-Z to be the figurehead. I’m not taking anything away from Jay, who gets his money, but I just want Jay to stop soaking up too much of the music industry’s budget with his dual roles. Anyway, the Irv Gotti thing is probably a moot point because he already has a deal with another label (is it Motown??…look, I don’t even know these days). Only I need him to not make Ja Rule’s seventeenth album the first release on the schedule.

2. JERMAINE DUPRI - Wouldn’t this make everyone at IDJ’s life easier? What is his title there now anyway? Wasn’t it a slight to Jay when J.D. was hired? People on the inside claimed they co-existed well, but I don’t believe that for a minute. But I’m kinda leary of anyone at that level who would accept the position alongside Jay when they themselves had a better track record as an executive. Unless the plan was always for him to takeover. If so, good move, J.D., good move. Now get Janet’s career in check.

3. DIDDY – Who wouldn’t want to come to work to drink Ciroc Vodka all day? Only, they may start to get queezy from smelling too much cologne. Maybe a new big label would revive Diddy’s musical career and Bad Boy label. Bad Boy is hip-hop and I really can’t take another Making Da Band without that hip-hop element. Diddy would make a good president too, but then I’m sure the label would have to downsize to afford him. All Diddy really needs is two assistants and a computer to upload video to Youtube.

4. CHUCK D - It’s about time that we start considering the veterans who we know have no other motive but to preserve the culture. This would be an interesting move on Def Jam’s part and guess what, it would probably costs nothing less than a honest decent salary. Hell, they may be able to give some jobs back to people.

5. NAS – For argument’s sake, it’d be interesting to see what Nas would do as president. I’m thinking smoke breaks every half hour and company retreats to the motherland. Okay, kidding.

6. JIM JONES – Okay, now that I’ve started joking around, I’m going to go full speed ahead with it. Jim Jones would fire the whole office and have his goons running the label, and it might make for some interesting office fights.

7. LL COOL J – He had issues with Jay-Z being President, so what do you think would happen if he took over. It would be 1988 all over again, that’s what. Not that that’s a bad thing, at least EPMD could get into awards shows. Then if LL’s album flopped this time, he couldn’t blame anyone but his damn self. LOL.

8. KEVIN LILES – Would a skinny Kevin Liles be able to come back and run Def Jam? His new skinny self seems so R&B-ish. Hip-hoppers are fat and unhealthy. Look at all the good hip-hop DJs.

I’m gonna keep adding, but I gotta take a break…

–KIM O.