ALICA KEYS BLACK BALL...BEYONCE TO PERFORM

The Black Ball event is raising funds for Keys’ Keep a Child Alive foundation, which provides assistance to children and families living with HIV/AIDS in Africa and India. So far, Keys has raised over $14 million for her cause since 2004.

Also being feted is world-music singer Angelique Kidjo for her ongoing philanthropic endeavors. ‘The View’ co-host and comedian Whoopi Goldberg is the host of the festivities, which take place in New York on Nov. 1. “[Carole King has] blazed the trail for women in the music industry,” says Keys about the veteran songwriter in a press release.

We also think Ms. B has paved a few roads for women in the music industry as well, but we are not hating on Ms. Keys. “Women will be rocking the house this year,” she adds. True, indeed.

Beyonce and Oprah have many things in common besides their philanthropic efforts. The two divas are among Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women in the World. You add Keys to the mix and you certainly will have a powerful trifecta rocking the Black Ball event in November.

Most recently, Beyonce raised $4 million at a fundraiser for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. Her and hubby Jay-Z were photographed in a deep conversation with POTUS. 

It’s unclear what the couple were discussing with the prez. Maybe Obama was giving Hova some tips on how to improve his rhymes. We keed! We keed!

SMOKING WEED & DRINKING ALCOHOL LADY GA GA GAINS 25 POUNDS AND IT'S SHOWING

Smoking weed and eating good has Ga Ga body ...gone..gone, just like everybody else she too has body issues.  Like Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga is wearing clothes that she's now too fat to be wearing and she's getting on stage and performing like a crammed sausage in a bondage suit and a meat corset.

Lady Gaga has been dating Taylor Kinney for a year now and they seem to be really happy together. Relationships sometimes  make people fat. That's what I think this is. Kim Kardashian's sex diet doesn't work for everyone!

Lady Gaga's weight gain in the past didn't last very long. Within days she slimmed herself down. I think we can expect that that will happen again. So unhealthy.

“I’m dieting right now, because I gained, like, 25 pounds,” Gaga told radio host Elvis Duran when she called into his show just before she hit the road. “And you know I really don’t feel bad about it, not even for a second. I have to be on such a strict diet constantly. It’s hard because it’s a quite vigorous show, so I tend to bulk up, get muscular, and I really don’t like that. So I’m trying to find a new balance.”

But until she stop doing below Exhibit A...smoking weed on stage, weight is gong to be the least of her problems.

REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA KIM ZOLCIAK INTRODUCES NEW BABY BOY

“Real Housewives of Atlanta” and “Don’t Be Tardy for the Wedding” star Kim Zolciak is proudly showing off her new baby boy Kash Kade with the world. Kim and the family are in the current issue of Life & Style showing off newborn Ka$h Kade.

Things in Kim's life have really changed at a fast speed. After she met Kroy, they had their first son in May 2011 and were married in November 2011. Now Kash Kade joins his brother K.J., 15 months, and sisters Brielle, 15, and Ariana, 9, from previous relationships.

Kim says that being a mom is something that comes natural for her. "There's nothing else in the world like it. I'm just at peace. I was never out there searching for something, but there was always kind of a missing piece, and I have it all now. I literally have everything." 

Even though her family keeps getting bigger, Kim admits that she's not necessarily done having kids. "Kroy wants a football team!" she said. "He'd have me pregnant forever. I couldn't say no -- or keep my hands off my husband." 

Things are looking up for the Zolciak/Biermann family. Kim tweeted the other day how they were all getting ready to move into their new house (the one they were having built while living in the house featured on last season of RHOA). 

Not to mention, it looks like it hasn't taken her long to shed the baby weight judging by this photo she posted to her Twitter earlier this month

NENE LEAKES SHOWS OFF PIC OF GRAND DAUGHTER & MIGHT BE LEAVING RHOA

Doing it so big that she might have to move on from a show that put her on the map, and we don't blame her.  I have to say this is sad yet great news all in one. The homie NeNe Leakes reportedly may be getting too big for reality television.

Eurweb reports Leaks career has skyrocketed from being a co-star of a multi-personality drama filled show, to scoring multiple roles in legitimate, talent-needed shows. Beyond that, she’s working on hosting her own talk show.

“I can’t continue to be a housewife,” she said in a recent interview with the New York Post. “At some point, I have to back out.” NeNe is reportedly on top of the world, starring in two scripted comedies, “The New Normal” and “Glee.”

Real Housewives Cast visit Ne Ne on the Set over the weekend. 

“Just the thought of me being a ‘Housewife,’ [TV execs] would probably say, ‘Hmmm. We may not want to use her.’ Jus the whole persona of being a housewife: the cattiness and the bitchiness and the fighting, people see you as that is who you are,” she reasoned.

Not to mention NeNe shoes with shoe dazzle at $39.95 which are very cute, has stamped her as a bonafide celebrities and the rest of the cast,can only hope to catch up. 

She also tweeted a photos of her grand-baby girl…. Adorable.  We have to give Ne Ne props for staying loyal to BRAVO, because clearly she doesn't need RHOA anymore.

Video: Kanye West Presents G.O.O.D. Music “Cruel Summer” DETAILS

The album aims to capture the current moment. “This isn’t the beginning of the conversation, this isn’t the end of the conversation. It’s our offering as a collective of a sonic snapshot of what’s happening right now, 2012.”

“We take it really serious that we make the best product we can, but also we’re light with it too,” said ‘Ye. “We just wanna have fun and commune and festivalize—I’m not sure if that’s currently a word but it will be afterwards.”

While Big Sean, Pusha T, Common, and Teyana Taylor have been making the press rounds to promote Cruel Summer, G.O.O.D. Music chief Kanye West has shied away from interviews. But he’s finally speaking about the project in a video posted on his YouTube channel. Yeezy explained how the compilation came together and what it was like to work with so many different people.  Peep Video Below:

BOO GAZING: CELEBS OUT: JENNIFER HUDSON, KIM KARDASHIAN, PINK & MORE

Solange Knowles arrives at the President Barack Obama Fundraiser at the 40/40 Club in NYC. We are all about a natural do, but walking in looking like Don Kings daughter is whole other thing. Not to mention this is what you wear to a fundraiser for the President?

Actress Taraji P. Henson attends the Sundance Institute Alumni Event At IFP week at the Empire Hotel in NYC.

Selita Ebanks attends the New Yorkers For Children 2012 Fall Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in NYC

Jennifer Hudson attends Hearst's 125th anniversary celebration and private screening of the new documentary Citizen Hearst at Hearst Tower in NYC.

Missy Elliott and T.I. visit the SiriusXM Studio in New York City.

Kim Kardashian leaving her South Beach hotel in Miami Beach, love her outfit if she was in NYC and not the beach.  To hot for all that ish!

Singer Pink, aka Alecia Moore, performs at Rockefeller Center as part of NBC's Toyota Concert Series on the 'Today' show, wearing killer Christian Louboutin key hole mary jane shoes.

Shoes run about $945.00

Wyclef Jean signs copies of his book 'Purpose' at Barnes & Noble on 5th Avenue, NYC.

Actress Whoopi Goldberg receives an Honorary Patronage from TCD in Dublin, Ireland.

Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown filming an upcoming reality TV show while on vacation in Waimae, Hawaii on September 18, 2012. Bobbi Kristina's father Bobby Brown is suppose to be arriving anytime now to enjoy the vacation and film the reality show with the couple.

Virgin Angela Simmons enjoys her 25th birthday on the beach wearing a bikini in Miami.

NBA DERRICK ROSE UNVEILS NEW CLOTHING LINE BY ADIDAS

Last week, Adidas threw a party in Chicago on Thursday to unveil 23 year old Derrick Rose's new apparel line. SB Nation Chicago's.  Rose was the man of the hour in an elaborate adidas production showcasing his new signature apparel line for his chief endorser.

Derrick Rose wasn't only speaking candidly on-stage, he also hung on the walls, played on the television screens and was name-dropped in the accompanying hip-hop music blaring through the building.

There's really no way of overstating just how big D.rose image was at an event like this. Adidas has a good one, and they know it. A video mashup of his commercials and top highlights played while a DJ spun cuts off "Cruel Summer" People drank complementary bottles of SmartWater as the speakers repeated "your chick, she's so thirsty". 

Derrick's brother Reggie and his mom Brenda were there also.  Derrick has always spoke to the importance of those who raised and protected him, and would at this event, but his frantic travel and rehab schedule almost makes you wonder if this is what counts as a Rose family reunion this time of year. If so, at least they did it big.

Rose was joined on stage by two men, a designer who resembled Dr. Tobias Funke and the VP of adidas basketball who had the posture of man worth more money than everyone reading this story combined. 

They lobbed softball questions at Derrick as he spoke about his new clothing line and not much else. I don't think the Bulls were mentioned more than once during the 40 minute event, though Rose did touch upon his rehab in Los Angeles. Spoiler alert: Derrick Rose says he's getting stronger everyday and just wants to win a championship. Front page stuff, right there.

VIDEO: GIULIANA & BILL SEASON 6 SNEAK PEEK.. MEET THERE SURROGATE

Bill and Giuliana Rancic recently welcomed a baby via surrogate, and they've kept the woman's identity a secret -- until now. In a clip released ...

In a clip released by Style to promote the season premiere of couple's reality show, Giuliana & Bill, the surrogate is revealed to be a woman named Delphine. She is seen accompanying the couple as they tour the Denver hospital where she would give birth to their son, named Edward Duke, on Aug. 29.

Bill (the original Celebrity Apprentice) tweeted: "The 'Duke' has landed! ... I feel blessed beyond words...We did it!"

Giuliana & Bill premieres at 8 p.m. Oct. 2 on Style. Watch the preview clip below.

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NEW MUSIC BRANDY PAINT THIS HOUSE & NO SUCH THING AS TOO ATE (SNIPPET)

Ramped up her promo tour, Brandy previewed two sultry new songs off her upcoming album Two Eleven, due October 16. “No Such Thing As Too Late,” which Brandy wants as her third single, was written by Rico Love and produced by Jim Jonsin.

“It’s a ballad, but it has a knock to it,” the R&B singer told Rap-Up.com. “Rico Love put his foot in this song. He put his heart and soul into it.”

The second track, “Paint This House,” was also written by Rico Love. “It’s about intimacy,” said Brandy.

Listen to 30-second snippets of both below.

BOO GAZING: CELEBS OUT: OPRAH, HALLE BERRY, MARIAH, KATIE HOLMES & MORE

George Lopez and Eva Longoria attend the 2012 NCLR Alma Awards.

Christina Aguilera attends the NCLR ALMA Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium.

Tiered show girl American Idol Judge Nicki Minaji arriving for taping the New York auditions at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, with some killer boots.

Selita Ebanks and Terrence J. attend the Old Navy Rockstar Fashion Show at Bryant Park in NYC

Super cute Mariah Carey and little Moroccan and Monroe enjoy bonding time in the pool.

Oprah Winfrey takes a break from running OWN for a new gig – and a new 'do – on the New Orleans set of The Butler.

Now that's a winning pose! Rapper two quarters shows off his latest accessory, courtesy of Olympic gold medalist Conor Dwyer, during the premiere of End of Watch in Los Angeles.

Halle Berry still has what it takes while looking stunning in a blue bikini top and denim shorts while out with friends in Malibu.  This is how you are suppose to look at 46.

 Loved up Reality stars Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick go for a quick stroll outside their hotel in Miami. The couple were followed by their reality camera crew the whole time so the world could keep up with this Kardashian.

Tyra Banks jogging on the Westside Highway in New York City.

Former Mr. Cruise Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise out and about enjoying a walk in downtown New York, would never think this was a multi-millionaire.

SINGING A NEW SONG..THE VOICE SEASON 4 NEW JUDGES USHER & SHAKRIA

“The Voice” is singing a new tune. NBC’s singing competition has hired Usher and Shakira to fill in for Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green next season.

The R&B superstar and Colombian bombshell will coach on the spring edition of the series, while Green and Aguilera take breaks to focus on their careers. Both are expected to return to the show next fall.

“Having award-winning artists as coaches means they need to be able to tour,” said executive producer Mark Burnett (via EW). “Whether in the red chair or on tour, our coaches have their chairs for life. This is exactly why, after three seasons, we needed to allow them to rotate out so they can get on the road amongst their fans. Meanwhile, we’re incredibly excited to have singular artists like Usher and Shakira joining the fold.”

Aguilera will spend her time promoting her upcoming album Lotus. “Since this year NBC and ‘The Voice’ have decided to tape back-to-back seasons, requiring a full-year commitment, it is important for me to take season four off, allowing me to support my music that my fans have been waiting for—with the release of my new album Lotus on November 13,” she said.

Cee Lo Green is preparing a Christmas album, Cee Lo’s Magic Moment, as well as a Vegas show. “I’m highly enthusiastic about focusing my undivided attention on my additional endeavors and interests like my upcoming solo album, new Goodie Mob album, Las Vegas residency Loberace, new memoir, and new NBC comedy,” said the “Forget You” singer. 

“It’s great to also give a host of other talent the chance to experience what a joy it is to be part of what is truly the best show of them all, ‘The Voice’! I will return for season five and will be watching season four. NBC is home and as far as Usher and Shakira are concerned—’mi casa su casa’.”