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I've always been a nosy person and nothing has changed - I now want to see what you're up to when you listen to me on 1Xtra on Friday Nights!

You could be getting ready to go out - I wanna see what you're wearing on a friday night!
You could be doing the ironing - I wanna see you with your ironing pile and ironing board!
You could be having a front-room rave - I wanna see it!!

If you've got a camera phone, it's all about texting your picture messages to 88111 - we promise to put all (decent) pictures into our Friday Night Flex gallery here

A couple of weeks ago, I announced on here that Justin Timberlake has started a new record label called "Tennman Records" with Eminem, 50 Cent & Dr Dre's boss and head honcho of Interscope Records Jimmy Iovine. Well Justin's just signed his first artist: Internet phenomenon and singer/songwriter Esmee Denters. Who? Well, she's 18, from Holland and up until 9 months ago, wasn't singing. She decided to start doing little videos on her webcam of her covering various songs from artists such as Beyonce, Alanis Morissette and others. Here's her last YouTube post:

Is she the real deal or has Justin made a mistake?

My first blog "prediciton for the future" is East London's Tia Jean. The person behind the current 1Xtra Record Of The Week ("Walk Away") She passed by the show today while I'm covering for Ace & Vis from 4-7pm and we chatted about how she got her start in the game, the big things she has planned for the future and what she's doing right now.

Definitely keep your eye out for this girl and check her myspace: www.myspace.com/tiajeanmusic - tell 'em MistaJam sent you!!

There's a lot of talk about R.Kelly around 1Xtra towers at the moment. The month of June is 1Xtra Loves R&B month and as part of it, Ronnie "Eastenders" Herel caught up with the man himself at the Chocolate Factory studios for his first UK Radio interview for 10 years. Feeling inspired, I had a look on tinternet and found this:

MAD Tv parody of R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet. Hilarious. Also as funny is the fact that R is releasing chapters 13-24 of Trapped In The Closet on DVD soon too...

Props to for the pic!

Ladies love him, girls adore him, men rate him. His new album London Town is on it's way and just in case you haven't checked them yet, here are the videos from Kano's recent 1Xtra EXCLUSIVE gig at the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio Theatre. Performing new tracks from 'London Town' with a live band? You definitely need to check these out!!

Buss It Up
P's & Q's
and the new single London Town

Check out the mini site - photos, link to listen live and all that good stuff here.

Gutted I was ill and couldn't make it :-(

WOW!

You seen the story about Timbaland being arrested on 1X's Entertainment News site? Well, the story doesn't seem to be so cut and dried. This from

"Music producer Timbaland was busted by German cops on Sunday who said he and members of his posse sent a bar patron to the hospital.

TMZ obtained photos taken in Cologne, Germany, where Timbaland and his friends allegedly attacked a man outside Hotel Intercontinental late Sunday night after a Justin Timberlake concert. The argument allegedly started when a man named Robert F became visibly upset over his girlfriend talking to Timbaland. According to German reports, Timbaland then attacked the patron, "Robert F," after Robert called him the N word. The fight then moved moved from the lobby bar to the street in front of the hotel.

Timbaland and two others allegedly beat up Robert, which sent him to the hospital by ambulance, and sent Timba to the slammer. Timbaland was released on 750 € (about $1,000) bail early Monday morning. According to cops, the matter is still under investigation."

This whole situation reminds me of NORE's Nothin with the added N word action. Good job Timbaland isn't in the Big Brother house or the whole thing could have ended differently...

Who over-reacted?

The World's Greatest Deejay (yeah, I said it!) has released a series of vlogs to the net to promote his new album. This is part 2 of 6 and shows Jazzy Jeff in my home town, shopping at the Victoria Centre.

Notts stand up! Have a look at ep 1 to see Jazzy Jeff in action. The man's a legend!

So I'm covering for Ace & Vis this week from 4-7pm on 1Xtra and today, Hans Tyme sent me an email out of the blue comparing BB8 contestant Shabnam to Lil Fame from MOP. Well...

I opened this out to you on the text and email, and here are the comparisons you came up with:

Shabnam and RedRum

Shabnam and Lil Fame

Shabnam and Lassie

Shabnam and Pob

and finally Shabnam and a Hamster

You are cruel...but the RedRum one is very on point. What do you think?

Well, well, well. Over the recent weeks Kieran Richardson has been in the papers - not because of usual Premiership footballer antics, but instead because of his cousin Charley being in the Big Brother house. Well, it seems that he's been getting some good advice about how to handle the extra press interest from his new girlfriend - Kelly Rowland!

She's allegedly declared him the 'love of her life' and the pair have been dating for a few months ever since they met backstage at one of Ms Kelly's concerts. He even apparently chartered a special flight to take him to Cannes to spend some time with her. No wonder she's been back and forth to the UK over the past few months!

The only downside I can see to this is that it's given Charley another claim to fame...

This has no relevance to anything other than it's very impressive. I've never been able to do a Rubiks cube. This 6 year old can solve it in 37 seconds...

Have any of you got any hidden (impressive) skills?

You'd think after the Shilpa Shetty affair, people going into the Big Brother house would know better than to draw for racial comments but one of the current bunch of idiots housemates obviously missed that memo. Last night, Emily (the posh airhead one who thinks of Pete Doherty as her ideal man which speaks volumes in itself) decided to call Charley a n**ger.

Here's extracts from the official Channel 4 statement:

"Contestant Emily Parr was removed from the Big Brother House in the early hours of this morning after using a racially offensive word to a fellow housemate. Emily was with Charley and Nicky in the garden of the Big Brother House at approximately 8.30pm last night when she was heard to say "Are you pushing it out you ni**er?" to Charley.

Emily immediately made clear that she had not intended to offend and that the comment had been meant as a joke. In discussing what she had said, Charley and Nicky agreed that they were not personally offended, although both did express shock at the language she had used. In the ensuing discussion, Emily acknowledged that she should have been more careful with her words. The comment was not screened as part of the 'as live' streaming on E4 and was immediately reported up to senior production staff at Brighter Pictures, the Endemol UK subsidiary that produces the show. In consultation with senior executives at Channel 4 the decision was taken to remove Emily from the House on the grounds that she had broken the rules governing contestant behaviour.

The House Rules given to all contestants clearly state:

Big Brother will intervene and take appropriate action if housemates behave in a way that Big Brother considers is unacceptable. Unacceptable behaviour includes: behaving in a way that could cause serious offence to either their fellow housemates or members of the viewing public including serious offence based on the grounds of race. Housemates who act in a way that is seriously unacceptable will be evicted.

Emily was called to the Diary Room at approximately 03.30am to be informed of the decision and was removed from the House immediately without further contact with other contestants. The remaining housemates were informed of Big Brother's decision at approximately 9.30am. Emily was one of two housemates nominated for eviction this week and as a result the latest eviction vote has been suspended. Angela Jain, who heads the Big Brother commissioning team at Channel 4, said: "I think people watching the show tonight will agree that Emily spoke carelessly rather than maliciously - certainly Charley and Nicky, the two housemates most directly involved in the conversation with her,seem to accept that she did. She understands why her involvement in Big Brother has had to come an end and she very much regrets what she said."

"In the wake of Celebrity Big Brother we must consider the potential offence to viewers regardless of Emily's intentions and her housemates' response. The word ni**er is clearly racially offensive and there was no justification for its use. We have removed Emily from the house to once again make it clear to all housemates and the viewers at home that such behaviour won't be tolerated."

I know the debate has been raging on for a while now about Hip Hop glorifying the use of the N word amongst others but this is the first high profile incident in the UK and I'm sure that somewhere along the line, someone will try and use Hip Hop as a scapegoat. In this case, I want to hear your thoughts - is HipHop to blame here? Has Emily thought that she can use that word because she hears it being thrown about in music?

**UPDATE** - No new news but think this is quite apt:

I'm back modder suckers! No kidney infection could out your boy! Thanks to all those who have sent get well messages (all 2 of you) - I'm back at 80% but the 20 will follow!

Been listening to Dizzee and Wiley's albums. Both are really strong but Dizzee's edges it out for me. Very diverse, very creative. Wiley's album is fire but if you listen to 1Xtra or have the Tunnel Vision CDs, you've probably heard most of the tracks. Either way, go and cop both of them.

Dizzee's making some power moves in the Hip Hop world. One of the tracks on Maths & English features everyone's favourite southern rappers UGK whose new single features everyones other favourite southern rappers Outkast. The video is crazy - set at Andre 3000's wedding, check it here:

I'm sure I've been to one of those...