2012 BET Awards Deliver Big

The BET Awards were as star-studded as expected, with Nicki Minaj, D'Angelo, Rick Ross, Soulja Boy and a stirring tribute to Whitney Houston among the night's highlights. Host Samuel L. Jackson served as the perfect Master of Ceremonies for a night that saw the legendary actor and renowned movie director Spike Lee performing a raggedy version of Jay-Z and Kanye West's hit single "N***as In Paris" to kick off the festivities.

Famed soul singer/songwriter D'Angelo made a triumphant return to television, with Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, Beyonce and Jay-Z.

Usher and Chris Brown both took the stage for high-energy performances; and Monica, Brandy, Chaka Khan and Cissy Houston all paid tribute to the late pop superstar Whitney Houston. Rapper Soulja Boy was moved to tears during Cissy's heartfelt rendition of the Simon & Garfunkel classic "Bridge Over Troubled Water" in tribute to her late daughter. Legendary soul band Maze featuring Frankly Beverly were honored for a lifetime's body of work.

Jay-Z Reopens 40/40 Club

Hip hop mogul Jay-Z celebrated the reopening of his 40/40 Club in Manhattan last night (January 18), in what was the rapper's first public appearance since the birth of his daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, on January 7th. The popular sports bar unveiled its new renovations during a lavish, star-studded bash.

Ashanti, Russell Simmons, Irv Gotti, Wale, Spike Lee, Roots drummer ?uestlove and billionaire Warren Buffett were among the celebs on-hand for the reopening.

“We here at the reopening of the 40/40; we about to have a couple of drinks, a lot of beautiful women, New York City, the new joint – you already know.” Wale said. Ashanti also shared her excitement for the club's reopening. “Hov (Jay-Z) always has big parties, so I’m definitely looking forward to going inside and mingling and jingling,” she said.

Spike Lee Producing Horror Film

Filmmaker Spike Lee is executive producing a 'hip hop horror film,' called You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Kills You. Big Daddy Kane, Ed Lover and Doug E. Fresh are among those tapped to make appearances in the film, which stars James McDaniel, Nashawn Kearse and Michael K. Williams.

The story follows two New York City homicide detectives that end up in the “high-stakes world of the Hip-Hop industry.” Its set to premiere in Brooklyn next month.

“Shooting You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Kills You and having my mentor Spike Lee come on board as an Executive Producer was a dream come true for me - working with an amazing cast of actors and hip hop luminaries, such as Doug E. Fresh and Big Daddy Kane was an added bonus,” said Michael "Boogie" Pinckney, Managing Director at Black Noise Media, Inc. “Being that Spike and I are both from Brooklyn, it was only right that we premiere the film at Brooklyn’s very own Willifest, which was rated by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the Top 20 Coolest Film Festivals in the World in 2010.”

Spike Lee Returning To "Mookie"

Spike Lee is reprising his 'Mookie' character--the pizza delivery man at the center of Lee's epic 1989 film Do the Right Thing--in a new film called Red Hook Summer that has already begun production.

Do the Right Thing is arguably Spike's most acclaimed film and featured Public Enemy's classic anthem "Fight the Power."

Described as a story about an "adult from Atlanta who comes to spend the summer in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, NY," the film was announced by Lee via Twitter.

“Wake Up. I been up since 430am. On the way to the set of THE NEW SPIKE LEE JOINT.Today is 1st Day of Shooting. Awwwwwwwwwwww Sheeeeeeeeeeeeet.”

Lee has also been announced as director of an upcoming remake of the famous South Korean film Oldboy.

Clifton Powell Blasts Spike Lee

Veteran actor Clifton Powell had some harsh words for director Spike Lee. While being interviewed on The Russ Parr Show, Powell blasted Lee's criticisms of director Tyler Perry, and Lee's hiring practices.

"I don’t like Spike, for real," Powell said during the interview. "I’m just saying it publicly on the radio. Spike is a hater. He was doing all these movies, Sam and all these guys know he’s a hater. He kept all the money, there was lawsuits against him.[...]I’m from the streets and you gotta carry your people. We talk about what “The Man” does; Spike need to go sit his punk a– down, and stop talking about Tyler Perry."

"Tyler Perry was homeless about 10, 12 years ago and Spike wasn’t writing him no checks," he added. "I think it’s wrong, and I shouldn’t do this, but I don’t like Spike Lee because I don’t like his politics as it pertains to how he deals with African Americans. I’ve auditioned for Spike several times, he kept all of us waiting for hours. It was insulting. He’s made people fly across country, pay for themselves and come to auditions. Spike is the worst, and he needs to go sit his punk a** down. If you got a problem with it, Spike, I’m right here and I’ll beat your punk a**."

"He has never hired me," Powell continued. "I don’t really care, because I would never want to work with him.[...]Tyler has found his genre. The problem with being African-American in film as a producer, you have to be so worried about stepping on toes. We have just a few outlets in terms of the dimensions we are as a people. [...]We zero in because there are not enough dimensions of what we do.”

Tyler Perry: "Spike Lee Can Go To Hell"

Tyler Perry finally had enough of Spike Lee taking potshots at him. The directors have never seen eye-to-eye, and Lee has gone so far as to call Perry's work 'coonery.' Tyler finally fired back in a round of media interviews for Madea's Big Happy Family.

“I’m so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee. Spike can go straight to hell! I am sick of him talking about me. I am sick of him saying, ‘This is a coon, this is a buffoon.’ I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: ‘You vote by what you see’ — as if black people don’t know what they want to see."

“I am sick of him. He talked about Whoopi, he talked about Oprah, he talked about me, he talked about Clint Eastwood. Spike needs to shut the hell up!” Tyler added. “I don’t even understand it. There [are] so many people who walk around, and this is where the whole Spike Lee [issue] comes from — the negativity, ‘This is Stepin Fetchit,’ ‘This is coonery,’ ‘This is buffoonery’ — and they try to get people to get on this bandwagon with them, to get this mob mentality to come against what I’m doing.”

NBA Allstar Photo's Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye West, Drake, Rihanna, Justib Bieber, Lenny Kravitz, Spike Lee, Chris Tucker, Lil Wayne, Keri Hilson, Bruno Mars, Diddy, & Nick Cannon

Power Couple

Drizzy & RiRi

They Mad 

Ye Performing

lil justin, lenny, bruno, chris rock

All of the lights

Justin and Lenny

Ye and Don C

Beauty

Photos of celebrity's Knick/Heat Game Howard Stern, Spike Lee, Tracey Morgan, Swizz/AKeys & Ye + AKeys Born Day Bash W/Friends

Photos of celebrity's Knick/Heat Game Howard Stern, Tracey Morgan, Swizz/AKeys & Ye + AKeys Born Day Bash W/Friends

Chris Brown, Ciara, Fabolous, Spike Lee at New York Knicks Game

 Chris Brown, Ciara, Fabolous

cameras was out for the knicks as always and this time action was on Chris, CiCI, & Fab  fashion at its best Christian Louboutin, Jordans, Louie fresh jeans and jackets they was ready for the lights at the garden.