Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Chris Brown has been nominated for five prizes at the Soul Train Awards.

The Next 2 You singer is up for Best Male R&B/Soul Artist, Album of the Year for F.A.M.E., Best Hip-Hop Song of the Year for Look at Me Now (featuring Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne), Song of the Year for She Ain’t You and Best Dance Performance for the same track.

Chris faces tough competition in the Best Male R&B/Soul Artist category in which he is up against Trey Songz, Cee Lo Green, R. Kelly, Eric Benet and Miguel.

LONDON — Soul diva Amy Winehouse died with empty vodka bottles in her room and lethal amounts of alcohol in her blood — more than five times the British drunk driving limit — a British coroner ruled Wednesday.

Coroner Suzanne Greenaway gave a verdict of “death by misadventure,” saying the singer died of accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after weeks of abstinence.

“The unintended consequence of such potentially fatal levels (of alcohol) was her sudden and unexpected death,” Greenaway said.

KINGSTON, JAMAICA — One of Jamaica’s most popular deejays now has a second murder charge against him.

Police say 35-year-old dancehall star Vybz Kartel was charged late Monday in the August slaying of a Jamaican man nicknamed “Lizard.”

Earlier this month, police accused the rapper of conspiring with others to kill a 27-year-old music promoter who was gunned down on a street corner.

Assistant Police Commissioner Ealan Powell tells the Jamaica Gleaner that Kartel is being investigated “in connection with a number of murders, shootings and gunrunning.”

Waka Flocka is expanding his Brick Squad Monopoly imprint to the west side and getting none other than Suge Knight to help handle his west coast business.

The Round of Applause rapper recently revealed that he was utilizing the expertise of the former Death Row CEO to help with his Cali presence saying, “You gotta really start pulling in people in the game who know the game. Suge is not the only one. I’ma start snatching in the real ones. Suge helped me get a good movie deal. Now I need to get on the TV screen. Ain’t nothing wrong with f*ckin’ with some Gs. I f*ck with Master P too. They’re just good for information, homie. He’s helping me oversee the company. I’m not trying to be ‘Pac, I’m not trying to be Death Row. I’m Brick Squad Monopoly. My mother is still my manager. I ain’t changing sh*t. It is what it is. But it’s like having Jordan and Kobe. Why not play with both?”

Oakland, California rap legend Too $hort has been hit with a lawsuit by a woman who claims he grabbed her breasts during a concert.

The incident allegedly took place in March, during a concert that Too $hort held at Yoshi’s Jazz Club in San Francisco.

The 41-year-old woman, Kenya Winston, claims that Too $hort made vulgar comments to her while performing. He then allegedly reached off the stage and grabbed her breasts during the concert.

According to the San Francisco Gate, Winston filed a police report against Too $hort four days after the concert, but police declined to press charges.

Halle Berry’s ex, Gabriel Aubry, called her a “ghetto n-word” during an argument according to court papers.

Berry and Aubry are currently in court for a custody battle over their three-year-old daughter, Nahla.

The U.K. Daily Mail reports: He screamed that she was a ‘’ghetto n****r’’ and threw a chair against the wall,’ the witness is quoted as saying. ‘Halle was shaken and sobbing.’

Gabriel hated that Nahla was mixed race,’ a colleague of Halle’s claimed according to The Star. ‘He never wanted her hair to be braided, and he always said that Nahla was white.

Shonda Rhimes, the woman who brought us Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice, is at it again.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the award-winning writer just sold another show to ABC. The show is being billed as an hour-long drama that is part soap opera and part conspiracy thriller.

The show, titled The Circle, is about “ten friends, adopted as children by a billionaire philanthropist, who begin to question their past when one of their own is murdered.”

Director John Singleton is suing Paramount Pictures and MTV Films for failing to follow through on their promise to two of his films.

According to the lawsuit, Singleton claims he allowed Paramount to distribute Hustle & Flow in 2005 for $9 million, a fraction of what he could have made.

The tradeoff, according to the lawsuit, is that Paramount agreed to finance two more Singleton films in the future. The only stipulation was that the budgets would not exceed $3.5 million.

NEW YORK — Tyler Perry has gotten plenty of criticism from some who feel his popular movies don’t reflect well on the black community. But Al Sharpton says Perry’s critics are “proper Negroes” who don’t understand regular black folk.

Sharpton’s National Action Network honored the filmmaker Wednesday night in New York City at its second annual Triumph Awards with its Chairman’s Award.

Sharpton lauded the creator of movies including Madea’s Family Reunion and Why Did I Get Married, saying he “never lost his authenticity.”

Perry said he was grateful for the honor, and chastised those who have criticized his characters as stereotypes. He said he has the “ear of the people” and his critics need to stop running from “our parents and our grandparents and our uncles.”