“Dreams are wild, but they’re wild enough to come true.”

As reported on Concrete Loop:

15 year-old Long Island, NY native-Leanna Archer, is now raking in over $100,000 from her natural hair care product line, Leanna’s Inc. She took her grandmother’s secret formula and now makes natural, hair products.

“The idea came to me when I received tons of compliments about my hair and I knew it was thanks to my homemade products,” said Leanna. ”I had nothing to lose, because I figured that if it didn’t work out I still had my whole life ahead of me.”

There has been some speculation Love & Hip-Hop wouldn’t return to the air because Chrissy Lampkin (fiance of rapper Jim Jones) and Emily Bustamante (mother of rapper Fabolous’ child) recently quit the show. Executive Producer Mona Scott-Young says the original incarnation of scripted reality show will continue with the focus on Yandy, Kimbella, and Olivia. The details have not been finalized, but we’re those three will sign on the dotted line when it’s necessary.

I have of late put a moratorium on my watching of trash television, but I must admit Love and Hip Hop was the one lone holdout.  My favorite…

Bobby Brown has finally set a date and location for his wedding. Brown will marry Alicia Etheridge on June 15th in Honolulu, Hawaii. This also happens to be the weekend he will perform with New Edition in the same place. Brown is said to be flying out a few of their family members to witness the couple’s wedding ceremony.

Brown and Etheridge have been engaged since 2010 and have a child together. This will be the first marriage for Etheridge and Bobby’s second. He was famously married to Whitney Houston who passed away in February.

No word on whether Bobbi Kristina…

What’s amazing is this is Mary’s twelfth time covering Essence, and for once the story isn’t focusing on Mary’s tumultuous past but on the love she has for self and how that shines through in her personal style.

“I was never really able to look at myself in the mirror until I began to hear God telling me I was beautiful,” Mary said. “Suddenly, other people started telling me I was beautiful, too, because I had started believing it…”

That beauty shows through in Mary’s personality and her work ethic, according to Essence.

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She’s from the Bay and obviously she does not play!  She being Usher Raymond’s ex-wife Tameka Foster Raymond.

Usher and Tameka have been going through a bitter legal fight over custody of their two young boys — a fight that came to a head in a Georgia courtroom this past week.

Tameka took the stand and, as you can see in this video, was questioned by Usher’s attorney about a verbal threat towards the singer —  the former Mrs. Raymond allegedly said “I will kill you both,” referring to Usher and his current girlfriend.

Foster went back and forth with her answer before coughing…

Nobody’s ever lost by betting on  Floyd Mayweather Jr., well nobody except TLC’s Chilli and her attempt at a relationship with the pugilist. Saturday night betters for a Mayweather victory were collecting their winnings with a smile.

Mayweather used his much lauded speed and accuracy to win a unanimous decision over a game Miguel Cotto in one of  the champion’s toughest fights yet.

Mayweather dominated late, rocking Cotto in the 12th round to pull out a win and remain unbeaten in 43 fights. But it wasn’t easy, with Mayweather getting his nose bloodied and Cotto fighting until the final bell.

Two judges scored the fight…

Adam Yauch, who performed under the stage name MCA, is dead, according to reports from Global Grind and TMZ.

The cause of death is currently unknown. In July 2009, the 47-year-old member of the Beastie Boys announced that he would be receiving treatment for a cancerous tumor in his salivary gland, and that, as a result, the group would cancel some future shows and push back the release of a new album.

In 2011 it was erroneously reported that Yauch had beaten the disease. On the band’s website he wrote:

“Hello My Friends While I’m…

I have a group of friends that go to the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans every year.  They have been trying to get me to “come with” for years.  For some reason I have always either been working or some other emergency has taken place.  With the announcement of Grammy award- winning crooner D’Angelo  being added to the bill I don’t care what happens I will be there!

Also performing will be the sexy Trey Songz who makes his second EMF appearance in  two years (he last appeared in 2010), D’Angelo’s performance will mark his  highly-anticipated return to the stage…

Singer Bobby Brown sat down yesterday (5/2) with The Today Show’s Matt Lauer in the first interview Brown has given since the death of his famous wife Whitney Houston.  In Part 1 of that interview (below) Bobby talks of the love that they shared for each other and denied ever introducing Whitney to hard core drugs.  Part 2 airs today (5/3) on The Today Show:

After four seasons of arguments, tears and drama on VH1′s Basketball Wives, it appears that at least a faction of watchers are tired of the foolywang broadcast Monday nights at 8.  The main culprit of the new found shade for the show is being directed toward cast member Evelyn Lozada.

A petition has popped up online, calling people to boycott Evelyn’s new spin-off show, Chad & Ev which will also air on VH1.

Television personality/lawyer Star Jones is also in on the boycotting bandwagon, gathering up everyone she knows to put an end to the embarrassing episodes…