• Kanye West was probably so calm at the BET Awards last night because he had already gotten all of his aggression out on his blog. [KWBlog]

• In South Africa, the Chinese are now black. [Racialicious]

• Ruben Studdard has a lot of friends. [People]

• Eva Pigford got a job! It still won't inspire me to start calling her Eva Marcille. [BV]

• Wearing sagging pants can be dangerous… when you live in a Florida apartment complex with an angry, armed crackhead. [TSG]

In Angie Stone's new song with Betty Wright called "Baby," she sings about a relationship that went south because her significant other started to feel like he was too good for her. I wonder where she got that idea from?

The video takes Stone's D'Angelo drama and twists it into a whole dramatic hero storyline involving Eva Pigford as a movie star and Mike Epps as an unlikely hero.

D'Angelo isn't looking like anybody's prize.
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It all seems more than a little excessive to me, but Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes, Will Smith, and Jada Pinkett all thought it was necessary to throw David and Victoria Beckham a lavish, star-studded "Welcome to America" party yesterday at the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary gallery in LA. Take a look at the pictures after the jump — Will and Jada obviously invited a lot of their friends.

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I'm shocked and amazed at the lack of major fashion don'ts last night, considering the crowd. Even Lil' Kim, while I wouldn't have chosen that outfit/makeup/hair necessarily, could have done much, much worse. I'm not saying there weren't some questionable wardrobe and hair choices — I'm talking to Keyshia Cole and Vivica Fox specifically, here — but in general things were looking pretty good. More red carpet pics than you can handle after the jump.

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