Danity Kane & Day26 Upcoming Dates

Day26 is scheduled for a five city national tour in the coming weeks.

July 23, 2008 Cleveland,, House of Blues
July 24, 2008 Columbus, Newport Music Hall
July 25, 2008 Detroit, The Fillmore
July 26, 2008 St. Paul, The Myth
July 27, 2008 St. Louis, The Pageant

Danity Kane will also be performing at WKTU-FM's "Beatstock" Aug. 23rd and 24th.

The Record reports,

Tickets for WKTU-FM's (103.5) "Beatstock" Aug. 23 at Nikon at Jones Beach, Wantagh, N.Y., and Aug. 24 at PNC Bank Arts Center are still available through Ticketmaster. The performance lineup includes Pussycat Dolls, Danity Kane and Chris Willis.

Diddy and Cassie End Their Relationship

Cassie has ended her relationship with Diddy, Cassie confirmed telling Us Magazine. Though, the two were still spotted together in NYC. Cassie is just the latest, whom's been rumored with Diddy.

omg Yahoo! reports,

"I will confirm that rumor," the 21-year-old told reporters who asked her to confirm split rumors at DJ Cassidy's birthday at Cipriani 23rd Street.

Though Cassie tells Us she's not seeing anyone special "right now," a party source spotted Diddy and Cassie "slipping out" together after the soiree ended.

Gorilla Zoe's Sophomore Album Due Out In Sept.

Looks like Block Entertainment's Gorilla Zoe is set to release his sophomore album Don't Feed Da Animals, due out September 23rd. The album will also feature, single "On the Corner" featuring Sean Kingston.

According to Zoe, Don't Feed Da Animals is collectively "a huge album, filled with life experiences, thoughts and feelings-real and uncut."

Diddy Encourages You To Drive Safely

Checkout Diddy's PSA featuring Ciroc vodka in E!'s Drive Safe Campaign.



Diddy encourages drivers to get a designated driver when drinking. Drivers can text "Drive Safe" to 37373 from their wireless devices to receive taxi contact information in their area.

Checkout behind-the-scenes at E! Online.

Diddy Hangs With Will Smith

Diddy made an appearance at Will Smith's latest movie premiere "Hancock". Smith and Combs both caught together with their sons, Combs praised Smith by proclaiming, "Will Smith is my hero!"

Cassie's Upcoming Album Should Surprise Fans

Diddy is apparently feeling the upcoming Cassie album, he says fans are in for a surprise.

Combs telling Billboard.com

"That's going to really, really catch people off guard," he says. "There's a huge [cry] out there for a younger Britney Spears, a younger Janet Jackson. Those two great artists have paved the way. She has a single out called 'Official Girl' and Danja produced it, and it is a smash."

While time will only tell.. The long awaited album is due out in September.

LA Times Retracts Tupac-Diddy Story

It looks like LA Times has finally removed the story on the paper's website linking Diddy to Tupac's murder. The LA Times has already publicly apologized for the story, now it appears the paper has finally retracted the story. In a statement on the Times website, they publicly retracted because the article "relied heavily on information that the Times no longer believes to be credible."

MTV.com

"The Times has since concluded that the FBI reports were fabricated and that some of the other sources relied on — including the person Philips previously believed to be the 'confidential source' cited in the FBI reports — do not support major elements of the story," the paper explained in the retraction. Along with retracting the front-page Web story from March 17 and a shorter version that appeared in the actual paper on March 19, the Times also retracted the text of two online chats that Philips participated in on March 18 and March 25, and comments from the Times' Soundboard blog from March 21

It's good The Times finally taken the steps to retract this bogus story.

Bad Boy's Newest Artist Janelle Monae

Diddy unveiled the latest Bad Boy Records artist Janelle Monae, Thursday night at New York's Blender Theater. Diddy is excited about Monae, the latest Bad Boy addition is sure to enhance the talent roster.

Billboard.com

"I've been blessed with artists like Jodeci, Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J.
Blige in the past, but this artist right here ... you've just got to see it to believe it. I don't know if you ever felt the Holy Ghost, but that's the only feeling you're going to feel tonight," said an excited Combs as he introduced Monae before a full house.

"This is possibly the most important signing of my career," Combs continued. "I thank God for blessing me with an artist like Janelle Monae. Now, are y'all ready to go to church?"

Monae first EP, "Metropolis Suite," will be released in June and her debut album, "Metropolis," is set to be released September.

Diddy "Hurt" By LA Times Story

Sean "Diddy" Combs recently talked to MTV News about the story that appeared in the LA Times. The story linked Combs and Biggie Smalls to Tupac Shakur's death stating both, Combs and Biggie had prior knowledge to the murder. In the first public comments since the story, Combs told MTV News.

MTV.com

"I've been through so much; hip-hop has been through so much; Biggie's, Tupac's [families] have been through so much," Combs told MTV News.

"To rehash the lies and just rumors like that, I didn't understand where that was coming from. I knew that I would never -- me and Biggie would never be involved, or even have any knowledge of that. Because if we have knowledge of something, we the type of people that's gonna warn somebody, we're gonna tell somebody. It just really hurt."

"Just knowing how people in this day and age, what they read online and what they see in the papers, they just take it as fact," Diddy explained. "It's like, come on, I been working so hard to rise above all of this stuff, and to see it now trying to pull me back down.

"[But] I stayed focused," he continued. "I was still. My grandmother told me, 'Be still.' No matter what it feels like, be still. And I was still and then the truth came out the way it was to come out. I didn't jump up and down about it. I let them give the apology and let people go back to the things they need to be focusing on about me, which is the #1 albums I'm dropping with Danity Kane and Day26, #1 fragrances, Janelle Monae, making this black history. And that's what it's about. But it's important to really deal with things however they come at you. And I've always done that my whole life and just always told the truth."

Related:
LA Times Sorry About Tupac-Combs Story
Diddy-Tupac Murder Link - All A Big Lie
LA Times Writer Defends Story
Combs Denies Tupac Link
Puffy Connection to Tupac's Death?

Combs Talks About Single Parent Upbringing

So ladies? Is there something to Sean "Diddy" Combs being a single bachelor? Looks like there might be. Combs said, he "doesn't know marriage works."

Combs recently told a paper

"I don't know how marriage works. If you're raised by a married couple, you see how they interact; their good days, their bad days, how they work through things - you see the love. I wasn't brought up like that and I still don't know to do it. I never saw (my parents') relationship up-close, so every time I've been in a relationship I haven't known what to do and that's really scared me."

Nonetheless that would be understandable. And, plus when you have so many fine looking ladies around, commitment comes a little harder.