Rihanna New Album "Rated R"

Check out the long-awaited cover for Rihanna’s new album Rated R. Her new single “Russian Roulette” debuted only a week ago and has entered the Billboard Pop chart this week at #

Monica "Still Standing" Premiere

In the fast-moving world of R&B, three years feels like 20 – kind of like dog years. Monica, the Atlanta-base singer whose star shined brightest in the late 1990s, has stayed under the radar the past four years raising her two kids. So what better way to get back on the scene than a reality show?

“Monica: Still Standing” debuts Oct. 27th on BET at 10 p.m. after the BET Hip Hop Awards.

“I think it gives people an in-depth look how hard it is to stay relevant in the music business and balancing family life,” she said in a phone interview last week. “A lot of people aren’t comfortable baring their souls. I am. I’m a work in progress. I’m going through things every day just like everybody else.”’

Monica has ridden a roller coaster of a life, packed with highs and lows. Highs include breaking it big with a quintuple platinum debut album at the age of 15 and taking home a Grammy three years later.

But life took a left turn in 2000 when she saw her boyfriend commit suicide in front of her. She followed that with a rocky relationship with rapper C-Murder. And she didn’t meet eye to eye with her label over her last album in 2006, her least successful to date.

“I’ve learned to rely on faith,” she said, “how to depend on things within and stop looking at worldly possessions as real success and find out who Monica really is. That’s what the show reflects. “Still Standing” is executive produced by James DuBose, who has also done a string of other Atlanta-based BET shows, including “Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is,” the spinoff “Frankie & Neffe” and “Tiny & Toya. Monica, in fact, is friends with Cole and said her experience with DuBose through Cole’s show convinced her to do her own. Unlike many other reality shows, she said nothing was staged. There is no manufactured drama, as often is the case on Bravo’s “Real Housewives of Atlanta. I respect ‘Housewives,’ “ she said. “But my show is the complete opposite. It really is. It’s about love and God.” She said she may have a chance to talk to 100 kids at a group home. A TV show allows her to reach hundreds of thousands.

Keeping Up With Ca'Mari

Hey there soooo i'm at little Italy last night first time ii didn't pictures but at the same time it was the first time waiters has ever just stood by my table until ii finished a drink...finished a meal anything of that sort I'm not use to that kind of shit... personally ii didn't like it ii like my space and when ii need you ii will flag you down LOL....

Anywho ii hit the gym this morning so my arms are pretty sore ii managed to take before pictures so ii will see how much of a change is going on think ii may do this every month moving on umm yeah catch me on twitter http://www.twitter.com/_EONFLUX ii changed my name LOL alright ttyal

-Ca'Mari

Keeping Up With Ca'Mari

hey reader's *smiling hard* so yeah ii didn't get the intern (boowhoo) not to upset because you know maybe it wasn't where ii was suppose to be and i'm okay with that. So moving on guess who is now working on new music????

Me Me Me Me Me Me

yeah ii know so random but ii got a call from my little cousin saying that this local talented producer wants to work with me on a couple of tracks ... who am ii to deny anyway ii listened to some of his tracks wasn't impressed but some of you may know how ii am ii can work with people to make them better although ii won't be writing to any of his material ii was inspired to get back to doing music yayyy me.

Okay so i'm pretty sure that you all know that Christina Milian and The Dream (yeah ii know) but she is now pregnant by him LOL oh wow so this is what I'm thinking Christina Milian has always been a [user] is that the right word (who cares) okay so being on a regular record label didn't work so she signed to Myspace Records lol (low of the lowest) HA but none the less smart free publicist hahaha but okay so even that wasn't going anywhere so she starts to date The Dream (yes ii knoooooow) who else could she mess around with that can guarantee her a hit after hit (although ii haven't heard anything new) and for that reason she gets pregnant by him to be guaranteed money now if he ever leaves (Whew!!!!) hahaha Scandal