• Michelle Williams isn't getting any play on BET because her album isn't urban enough. [SR]

• Meanwhile, Kelly Rowland encouraging kids to have an open dialog about safe sex and HIV/AIDS. [CL]

• Black men unite against R. Kelly and his ilk. [WAOD]

• Young Jeezy was arrested yesterday, but not for selling coke. [AHH]

• That rumor about Diddy and Tracey Edmonds is supposedly true. Whatever — I can't keep up with either of them. [Bossip]

• For some reason, Kelly Rowland just can't understand why Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson landed the role in the Sex and the City movie that she tried out for. Incidentally, the role was created because, according to Sarah Jessica Parker, "African-American women and women of color have been a big part of our audience for a long time (and) we really haven't been responsible to them." True words. [SB]

• Star Jones has now resorted to hosting Bad Girls Club reunion specials. At least she's good at it. [Jezebel]

• Whitney Houston was cleared of all drug charges stemming from that one time she tried to bring three joints on a plane in Hawaii. [SP]

• New music from Michael Jackson! Sadly, there's no way to make old music from Michael Jackson new again. [Bossip]

• Ashanti made some ill-advised makeup choices at the premiere of the new Indiana Jones. [C&D]

• Sean Patrick Thomas still gets press? Congrats on the baby, SPT. [People]

• It just gets worse and worse with DMX. [Bossip]

• Jennifer Hudson goes back to her singing roots. [SB]

• Ashanti says a little something (emphasis on little) about her relationship with Irv Gotti and Ja Rule. [Str8NYC]

• Kelly Rowland's writing a children's book. Is this what you do when you can't sell records? [EUR]

Ten years ago, did I think that the already-unreasonable amount of love I felt for Destiny's Child would concentrate itself on Beyonce and grow into what it is today? Probably. Did I imagine that Kelly Rowland would be having such a hard time making something happen ten years after DC's debut? Probably not, but only because I didn't think about it. Good news for Kelly, though: she's decided to try the Michelle Williams route (because the Beyonce route didn't work) and had asked Mathew Knowles to find something for her on Broadway. Let's hope this works out for her.

• Bill Cosby and Hugh Hefner bond over jazz. And nothing else, I'm sure. [AP]

• Everyone OJ Simpson comes in contact with writes a book. That says a lot about the both Simpson and the company he keeps. [TMZ]

• Ladies, if any of you have friends who subscribe to "Baller Alert," please sit them down and give them a good talking to. [NB]

• The internet is buzzing with Kelly-Rowland-posing-in-Playboy-rumors. Since the internet is also buzzing with Kelly-Rowland-got-implants-rumors, I'm happy that Miss Kelly will be putting her new boobs to good use. In the fictional rumor world, at least. [C&D]

• Mystikal, who's been locked up for sexual battery since 2003, was just denied parole. I barely remember who that is. [RWS]

This story about Beyonce and six bodyguards coming to the aid of Kelly Rowland when she couldn't hit a particular high not in the studio sound fishy, but sweet if it's true! From Page Six:

WHEN Kelly Rowland can't hit a high note, she calls in the big guns. The former Destiny's Child member recently recorded a song in New York with Gym Class Heroes front man Travis McCoy, but struggled to hit one high note. So she called up her best pal Beyoncé, who showed up within the hour with six armed bodyguards in tow. She gave Rowland tips and coached her until she got it.

• A judge in Maryland is in trouble for calling three black public defenders "The Supremes" and telling a defendant that he needed to find an "experienced male attorney." [HM]*

• LL, Missy, and Busta know that the Super Bowl is all about the commercials. [XXL]

• There are more black homicide victims in Missouri than in any other state. [KCS]

• Gross, Kelly! [PH]

• Montel Williams is going off the air. Can't even pretend to care. [TVW]

*Thanks Khia!

Leave it to Kelly Rowland to wear her fishnet stocking/butt-baring bustier costume for the one audience that is probably not going to appreciate her assets. The singer stripped down to the skimpy ensemble as part of a "raunchy [I find this highly unlikely -- Lauren]" performance for at a London gay club. More after the jump.

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Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, and Jay-Z were an excessively smiley trio at the Versace show in Milan this weekend. Later, Beyonce and Jay-Z hit up Emporio Armani (of course) and a Versace after-party, where, rumor has it, our (okay, my) favorite pop star gave her man a public lap dance. Who doesn't love it when Beyonce let's loose?

The lap dance didn't get snapped by photogs, unfortunately, but check out more photos from the shows after the jump.

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Everyone thinks it, but Kelly Rowland rarely gets asked outright whether she wishes she had Beyonce's level of fame and success. The answer? Probably something Mathew Knowles told her to say.

Do you wish you were as famous as Beyonce?
God creates different people for a reason. Everyone will have a different and unique journey and my journey will be different from Beyonce's and her journey will be different from Michelle's and Michelle's will be different from everyone else's. I don't think about it or worry that I'm not doing this or achieving that – people do that for me!

• Kelly Rowland's still having trouble finding success sans Beyonce. [C&D]

• It's not just the women he's sexually harassed who want Isiah Thomas fired from the Knicks. [MSNBC]

• Queen Latifah will star in a new Jenny Craig campaign that focuses on a healthy lifestyle instead of losing a lot of weight. [People]

• White supremacists want a piece of the Jena pie. [MSNBC]

• Congrats to my cousin, who not only watched his son being born in Illinois via satellite from Iraq, but also made the local paper. [DH]

• Attending holiday toy giveaways sponsored by black organizations = not racist. [AP]

• Is I Am Legend just a bunch of Barack Obama propaganda disguised as a blockbuster? [FN]

• Wal-Mart's supporting more minority- and women-owned businesses. [BE]

• There's not much I can say about the new show Clash of the Choirs except that I'm thankful Kelly Rowland's getting some work. [MG]

• And today's VPT (very poor taste) Award goes to Extra TV, TMZ, and many others.

Look! Kelly Rowland made another video, this time for her single "Work." She looks pretty. You probably won't be seeing this much on tv or hearing this much on the radio, so…get your fill now.