THEIR PRIVATE LOVE CANAL

Chris Brown & Rihanna Are Throwing Oblique Shade At Each Other

TOXIC LOVERS RIHANNA AND CHRIS BROWN are having trouble containing their poisonous feelings for each other. The two pop stars, who renewed their controversial love four years after he assaulted her have been throwing opague vective over what the Daily Mail speculates is contempt over cheating.

Riri got the ball rolling when she posted an oblique message on Instagram Friday saying, “If I drop all my hoes for you and we still don’t work out you owe me some hoes.”

REIGNING & UPSTARTS

2013 Billboard Music Nominees: One Year You’re In, The Next You’re Out

By Jacob Wittich

LAST YEAR’S BILLBOARD MUSIC AWARDS nominees included nods to usual suspects such as Adele, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry for their domination of pop music charts.

But 2013 BBMAs recognizes a new round of superstar artists vying for the Billboard throne. Taylor Swift, Maroon 5 and Fun. lead 2013’s potential winners, snaring nominations in a total of 11 categories. And both Psy and Baauer crash the party for their epic “booty poppin” hits, Gangnam Style and Harlem Shake respectively, earning nods as Top Streaming Artists.

STRIKING A POSE

Reasons For Rihanna Being Late: Traffic, Celebrity, BPT

By Elizabeth C.

WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE A CONFLUENCE OF CIRCUMSTANCES that caused Rihanna to be four and a half hours late Friday to a “Thank you” suburban Chicago high school rally.

RiRi was due at Barrington High School at 1pm to thank the popular kids for their winning entry in the singer’s Shine Bright Like A Diamond video contest, which highlighted how the town’s Buffys and Biffs’ collective wealth contributed to its extraordinary community service. The superstar performed Friday night at Chicago’s United Center.

But there were literal and figurative obstacles that caused RiRi to have to push back her appointment to 2pm — and then to finally roll in about 5:30pm.

BITE-SIZED TIDBITS

Whack Wednesday: Taylor Swift’s Sentence, Rihanna’s Fashion Crime & IKEA’s Food Sensations

By Miz J

TINA FEY AND AMY POEHLER make fun of stuff and things. That’s just the way it is. But apparently Taylor “Butthurt” Swift didn’t get the memo, because, in an interview with Vanity Fair, she referred to the comedic duo’s fairly mild joke about her at the Golden Globes, saying, “You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people. Because she said to me she had heard a quote that she loved, that said, ‘There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.’”

DON’T GO BREAKING HIS HEART

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Elton John Extends A Forgiving Hand To Chris Brown

By Jacob Wittich

REMEBER WHEN CHRIS BROWN AND his crew jumped Frank Ocean and an anti-gay slur was reportedly thrown at Ocean? Well fast-forward a few weeks and now the rumored homophobic Brown is posing with the openly gay Elton John for a few Instagram shots.

The musicians mingled at Elton’s annual AIDS Foundation Ball after the 2013 Oscars, unveiling the two stars’ close friendship. Chris even suggested that Elton helped him to get through some of the frenzy following the infamous 2009 assault on Rihanna.

“I met Elton about a year ago,” Brown told the New York Post, “and he’s been a good friend to me.”

‘NOT A MONSTER’

Chris Brown Calls Rihanna Assault His ‘Deepest Regret’

By Jacob Wittich

POP’S BIGGEST PARIAH CHRIS BROWN ADMITS THAT hitting Rihanna is the “deepest regret” of his life.

“That night was the deepest regret of my life, the biggest mistake,” Brown told the Daily Mirror during Elton John’s Aids Foundation Oscars party Sunday. “But she loves me –- what can I say? I’m forgiven …but yes, I worked hard for it.”

BESOTTED

Amber Rose Craves Jack & A Cheesesteak After Baby Bash’s Arrival

By Elizabeth C.

DA REAL AMBER ROSE WASTED NO TIME tweeting a photo of her baby daddy Wiz Khalifa holding their new wee one, Sebastian ‘The Bash’ Taylor Thomaz. Amber Rose gave birth to the couple’s first son on Thursday.

“Best daddy ever…. Up with the baby so Muva can go back to sleep :-)’,” Rose tweeted along with a photo of Wiz looking dumbstruck at baby “Bash,” who was bundled up tightly in a white blanket.

FROM DOWN ON HIGH

Is Breezy’s Career on Hova’s Hit List?

By Jacob Wittich

WHAT’S IT TO JAY-Z?

Media Takeout is reporting that the Hip-Hop impresario is the reason Frank Ocean wants to press charges against Chris Brown for throwing a punch at him Sunday night at an L.A. recording studio.

RAP SHEET

Chris Brown & Frank Throw Down; Rick Ross Escapes Drive-By

By Elizabeth C.

CHRIS BROWN AND FRANK OCEAN THREW DOWN OVER THE WEEKEND, ostensibly over a parking spot, but we know it’s more about ego.

TMZ first reported that the two hip hop stars exchanged blows Sunday night at Westlake Studio in L.A. Sources told the online tab that Ocean started the fight when he blocked Brown from leaving. “Frank said, ‘This is my studio, this is my parking spot,” TMZ reports. Which if true, we’ve gotta ask: then why not let Brown just walk out the door?

DUH

Well That Was Anticlimatic: Cassadee Pope Bags ‘The Voice’

By Elizabeth C.

EVEN HER GLISTENING WHITE TEETH SEEMED A SIGN: The talented and oh-so-marketable Cassadee Pope would win The Voice.

So there she was, on Tuesday night, looking spitshined and ready-packaged, when the inevitable was announced. Talk about anti-climatic.