Thursday, July 15, 2010
Jay-Z Teams With Alicia Keys To Raise HIV/AIDS Awareness
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Rapper Jay-Z will headline Alicia Keys’ annual Black Ball charity event this September at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York.
Jay-Z will be joined by Alicia Keys and Sade during the event, which will raise funds for Keys’ charity Keep A Child Alive.
The organization has been holding the Black Ball fundraiser since 2005.
The charity event has raised over $10 million dollars since its inception.
Keep a Child Alive is a non-profit dedicated to providing life-saving anti-retroviral treatment, care and support services to children and families whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India.
DMX’S Wife Prepares Book, Finds Author
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DMX’s wife Tahera Simmons is preparing the release of her book about life with the megastar and has found her co-author.
Tashera enlisted Aliya S. King, an author that has written books for “American Gangster” Frank Lucas and Faith Evans. King also recently released a book called “Platinum” which chronicles the lives of rappers and their wives.
One character in the book resembles Tashera. “I’m all up in there (the book),” Tashera joked with King at an book release party on Monday.
“When I first met Aliya, I was in a state where I was trapped and she was the first person that kind of opened me up. She started asking me questions about what it was like to be in the light of a super star, rap star.”
King wrote a story for VIBE magazine that chronicled the lives of Hip-Hop artists’ wives and it provided the ground work for the book.
Tashera Simmons said that King later came to her with the book and told her it was a fictitious tale that mirrored the real life accounts of these women and their men.
That is when the pair decided to join forces.
“I told her I am working on my book, “Strength of a Woman” and she told me to read (“Platinum”) and tell me what you think. It touched me. She’s writing my book now."
"Strength of a Woman" does not have a release date.
DMX was released from an Arizona prison facility July 6, 2010 after serving four out of six months for violating drug probation. He has already started working with Swizz Beatz on new music
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