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If you’re thinking about getting on stage at a Wyclef Jean concert, be sure to weigh yourself before going and see to it that you weigh under 200 lbs. The former Fugees member asked for 30 girls to shake it with him on stage at a Super Bowl weekend performance at 944 Village in Scottsdale, Arizona but announced that there was a weight limit for anyone who decides to climb up there to join him. Wyclef finished his performance with a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Mind you, the caliber of that rendition was far from Jimi Hendrix’s caliber.

They’ve been out of the scene for a good while but it looks like Pharrell and the rest of the boys of NERD are ready to get back in it. And just as they did when they first hit the music scene, their sound is very different from what’s on the radio right now. If you can think about Digable Planets, the 90s, live bands, instruments, sexy, funky, funk and fun, then you’ve got it.

They have a new single out called ‘Everyone Nose’ and it could very well be the theme song for Lindsay Lohan – yes, pre and post-rehab Lindsay.

Brandy has been deposed in the civil case which stemmed from that fatal car accident back in December 2006. The R&B singer was spotted when she was dropped off at her lawyer’s office on Thursday in a gold Range Rover. It looks like she’s not that far away from trouble yet.

Just last month, in a long-awaited decision, the LA City Attorney decided to not file criminal charges against the singer whose car struck the vehicle of Awatef Aboudihaj on December 30, 2006. Aboudihaj, a mother of two, died the next day. Her husband is suing Brandy for an undisclosed amount.

Amy Winehouse just entered rehab a week ago but the Grammy Awards ceremony where she’s scheduled to perform is already next weekend. Her dad Mitch says that he doesn’t want his daughter to attend, which is understandable really. The concerned father said “I’m not sure the Grammy’s are going to happen. I don’t want her to go – I think it might be a bit too soon for her. She’s not well – that’s why she’s in rehab. But she’s doing OK. She is getting good treatment.”

As much as I’d like to see her win some awards, I’d rather hear that she’s healthy and on the straight and narrow.

Word is that Britney Spears is being placed in a detoxification program to eliminate any drugs from her system. Doctors are currently trying to figure out what meds she might have been taking and then see which ones might best help her with what they believe is bipolar disorder.
Detox is a common practice before trying to find a possible medication regime for such a disorder.