Knowles will be joined by her Destiny's Child bandmates Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams, her sister Solange Knowles, and other musical guests including Jay-Z & Tyrese.

Fans who pre-order the forthcoming debut solo album by Beyonce Knowles online will receive a free download of a previously unreleased bonus track. Users completing orders for the Columbia set "Dangerously In Love," through the Sony Music Store site prior to its June 24 release date will receive a link to download the song "I Can't Take It No More." The album features guest appearances by the likes of Luther Vandross, Missy Elliott, Sean Paul, and Outkast's Big Boi.

It will hit stores June 24th.

At eleven at night they were still working and ODB's manager was starting to feel a little uneasy, "Pharrel, we only have seven minutes left," he said, "we need to wrap it up ASAP."

ODB smiled when he left the studio at eleven-twenty,"Now that's the way you make history. That's the shit that will rock the parties."

"One side of me is so happy that he's out and we're making music again," said Williams about ODB,"But, at the same time, I'm so mad that we didn't get a chance to sign him. Dirty is such a fuckin' star!"

dubcnn.com : So what exactly happened that one night in Vegas?
Can you describe the night in detail, step by step?

...I didn't see Suge, I saw Kurupt! And that was the first time seein' Kurupt in three months, and me and Kurupt at that time, we love each other, we good friends! And he's left the Dogg Pound to go be with Suge, and he hasn't talked to Snoop Dogg, these are all our best friends, which are my friends and his friends, but he hasn't talked to them , he hasn't talked to Daz. I talked to Daz yesterday he hasn't talked to Daz in 2 months. So when I see Kurupt that day, he's like "BAD AZZ!!!" huggin me, I'm huggin him like "WHASSUP!! HOW YOU BEEN NIGGA!" "I been alright, wassup?!?!" and we in the club! And then, the other homie Kurupt was wit, which is like his God brother goes "ay Bad Azz, you one of my best friends too, and the other side is we came with Death Row! And they in here!" and I'm like cool, where they at?" "They on the other side of the club" "Cool, I'ma just keep my eye out, I'm ready to go anyway, I ain't finna stick around too long" Kurupt already knows they wanna fuck me up, this is why I have beef wit him, cause he could have told me "Ay Bad Azz check this out, this ain't a good time for me and you to be talkin' cause if Suge and them see you they gone fuck you up, so get outta here right now before they see you" and I would have left and never would have got jumped. I talked to Kurupt all the way until Suge Knight walked up to me and bumped into me like he didn't see me, looked at me like "oh excuse me sir.. OH BAD AZZ!! Wassup!" and I'm like "wassup Suge.." "Yeah let me talk to you for a second.." and I don't know he's on some ra ra shit.. I walk off and go talk to him in the corner. Next thing I know, he says "You said fuck me? You told Ray J fuck me?" I'm like "Oh my god, you trippin! Yea I told Ray J fuck you, you should have told Ray J don't be throwin your name up! It was general, it wasn't personal, if he woulda said Mike Tyson at that time, I woulda said fuck mike tyson too! Cause he was talkin bout "Oh you scared of Death Row, you scared of Suge" and I ain't! Still, still to this day after they kicked my ass, I still ain't scared of them fuck them! But Ray J was like "Are you scared of me because I hang wit Suge and Deathrow?" and I'm like "Fuck you Ray J, Fuck Suge Knight AND Death Row" Now if you wanna talk to Snoop he might be scared or he might have some other feelings, but you'd have to talk to Snoop, and Ray J was talkin to me cause Snoop wasn't lettin him on his tour bus. We ran into Ray J outta town in Kentucky and it was like Ray J was outta town, didn't know Snoop was gonna be there, Snoop didn't know Ray J was gonna be there. And we all friends! But at this time, Snoop was cuttin all ties with people who hang with Death Row, like if you hang with Death Row, don't come around me. And everybody knows each other, in other words what Snoop was doin' was make the people that knew both of them choose! Choose sides, you can't rap with Snoop and Death Row. You either wanna rap wit Suge, make money wit Suge, or you wanna mess wit Snoop and get money wit Snoop. And if you mess wit Suge, we ain't fuckin wit you. And that's how we did it, and that's what happened. When we went in, and Suge had bumped into me and we talked, after that he was like "Yo you wanna fight one of my lil homies?!" but the whole time he already got it in for me, he's gonna get me fucked up anyway. So he's like "Yeah you wanna fight ONE of my lil homies" he calls like 5 guys over there and they all come surround me, one of them socked me in the face! I didn't even fall down or nothing, I turn, looked at them and walked outta the club, like "Fuck that!" So I walked out the club, Suge came and catch up to me, put his arm around me like "where you goin? you leavin so soon? we wanna talk to you, we not finished!" and I'm like "Man you trippin Suge, I'm by myself man, I don't have no win, it's like a giant squashin' a bug right now, gimme a pass, let me go, I ran into a fuckin spider web, let me out!" I was like, not pleadin' for my life, but on some gangsta shit like "look man, you won right now, don't get me right now. I'm by myself! Only thing you could do is kill me right now, don't kill me! Just gimme a pass, let me get outta here, I can't win right now, even if I fight one of you guys and I beat his ass, ya'll gone fuck me up, so I can't win. Just let me go!" And he got me fucked up, and I'll hate him forever! He told those guys "Fuck him up" and I swear to god I thought I never woulda made it out of that scene alive man, I pray to god that I'm here today and I'm alive right now and I can move around you know what I'm sayin? That I got my life, that I'm still here with my children and everything, and since that day, I knew that I would never fuck wit Kurupt again, FUCK him, you know? And when you talk to these other guys, and they have situations, he didn't watch them almost get beat to death. He didn't do nothin to help me!

For the entire interview be sure to check it out at: http://www.dubcnn.com/interviews/badazz/

LAS VEGAS – June 5 2003 – Lennox Lewis hosts “Fight Night,” a documentary and soundtrack of the urban Las Vegas’ underground scene. Lewis, the world-renowned heavyweight champion, teams up with Too Short, Yukmouth, Mitchy Slick, RBX and other hip-hop artists for this first ever fusion of hip-hop and boxing.

“Fight night in Las Vegas is one of the biggest nights in the world, when all eyes are on the TV screen, “ says Larry Jones, president of A.B.Y.S.S. Music Group. “I wanted to take that energy to the world, the energy of that night, when the fighter enters the MGM. ‘Fight Night’ is a way for that energy to come up out of Vegas.”

The soundtrack, which is in stores June 24, 2003, features some of the hottest MCs and hip-hop artists from both coasts along with guest rappers, Lenox Lewis and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. The soundtrack is a collection of handpicked urban tracks produced by Truth Born, Lenox’s younger brother.

“Fight Night” the DVD (in stores late July) is a documentary of life inside and outside of the boxing ring. It depicts the real Las Vegas, including scandalous after-parties, street life and candid interviews with Lewis. The “Fight Night” soundtrack is enhanced with a trailer for the DVD documentary.

We’re showing people what really goes down in Las Vegas in the urban scene,” says Blackju of A.B.Y.S.S. “In other cities the doors close at 2 a.m. We’re start getting dressed in midnight, we hit the club at 2 a.m. and we’re in full swing by 4 a.m. This city is going all day and night.”

Who: Heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis, along with Too Short, Yukmouth, Mitchy Slick, RBX and others.

What: Fight Night DVD Documentary and Soundtrack

When: Soundtrack in stores, June 24, 2003 ; DVD in stores late July

WHO: Hip-hop star Ludacris traded in his microphone for a hot set of wheels in the smash hit 2 Fast, 2 Furious and now he's making things even hotter as a Playboy.com Guest Celebrity Photographer.

WHAT: Ludacris might have driven hot rods in the high-octane sequel to The Fast and the Furious but that was nothing compared to the wild ride he recently took in Playboy's Chicago studio. The 25 year-old Atlanta native spent the day shooting Playboy model Krystal Tamburino, a woman who would get any guy's pistons pumping.

In addition, Ludacris participated in a "Dirty Dozen" interview for Playboy.com where he talks about everything from strip clubs and one-night stands to his love of older women.

Ludacris is one of several hip-hop stars to join the ranks of Playboy.com Guest Celebrity Photographer. Stars such as Nelly, Ja Rule, DMX and Xzibit have all gotten behind the camera for Playboy and their Guest Celebrity Photography features can be found on Playboy.com.

WHERE: Ludacris'sexy feature pictorial of Playboy model Krystal Tamburino is currently available exclusively on Playboy.com.

The producer behind some of Eminem and 50 Cent's biggest hits is in his studio now, working on music for the Will Smith/ Martin Lawrence action comedy, according to his spokesperson. Neither Dre's rep nor spokespeople for the film had any more information, including whether or not the score would be released as an album.

Featuring Nelly, Lenny Kravitz, Beyoncé Knowles and others, the soundtrack is due July 15, three days before the movie hits theaters.

Dre took a break from producing Ice Cube and Eve to score the movie. He's also working on his third album, which he claims will be his last.

"Bad Boys 2" is said to be action-packed, but it also finds Smith smitten with his partner's sister, played by Gabrielle Union.

Defendants in the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court, include Up In Smoke Tour headliner Dr. Dre; Magic Johnson, whose company helped produce the tour; AOL Time Warner, which distributed and marketed the DVD; Best Buy, which sold it; and
Panavision, which provided cameras for the concert staff.

The lawsuit alleges that a hidden camera and microphones were secretly used to intercept, eavesdrop and record, exchanges between city officials and tour organizers.

Up in Smoke was a major rap tour that came to Detroit and Auburn Hills in the summer of 2000. Officials in both cities threatened to punish tour organizers if they showed a sexually explicit video as part of the show. Detroit officials succeeded in keeping the video from being shown, but later paid Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Young $25,000 and apologized for infringing on his free speech rights.

The exchange between the city leaders and tour organizers in a back room at Joe Louis Arena became a bonus track on a DVD released after the tour.

"What would you do if somebody took your image and put it on a T-shirt or a product and started making millions of dollars off it without your consent?'' attorney Glenn Oliver told the Detroit Free Press for a Thursday story.

Herschel Fink, whose law firm also is being sued and represents Dr. Dre, called the charges "basically comic.''

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The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Kelly told Judge Vincent Gaughan that he was "one of the featured performers" for the show, which would've required him to be in the Big Apple on June 7 and
8. But, prosecutors say, they placed a call to the radio station hosting the concert and discovered that Kelly was not scheduled to appear.

"At the time [Kelly] presented his motion to the court, he was not scheduled to perform," Special Assistant State's Attorney Ellen Mandeltort tells the Sun-Times.

Prosecutors have routinely tried to ground Kelly, repeatedly asking that he be barred from leaving the state of Illinois since his indictment last year on 21 charges of child pornography stemming from an alleged videotaped sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl.