Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Nicki Minaj continues to expand her brand partnering with OPI Nail Lacquer to start a collection of exotic colored finger nail polish.

The collection comes with half a dozen colors named after tracks on Minaj’s debut album Pink Friday including, “Metal 4 Life,” “Pink Friday,” “Save Me,” “Fly,” “Did It On Em,” and “Super Bass.”

The set is due in stores in 2012.

PHILADELPHIA — In the end, the scene looked straight out of an ultimate Broadway encore. One and two owners on the stage turned into seven, eight, nine, all single file and holding enough personalized 76ers jerseys to fill a few racks at the merchandise store.

All that was missing was a bow.

Among the lengthy list of new owners and investors include co-managing owner David Blitzer, former NBA player agent and Sacramento Kings executive Jason Levien, GSI Commerace CEO Michael Rubin, real estate investors, film producers, and Hollywood power couple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.

DETROIT – Cirque du Soleil’s new show is based on the music of Michael Jackson.

“Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour” made its U.S. debut Saturday night at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, only a handful of miles away from the old Motown Records headquarters where Jackson got his start as a member of The Jackson 5.

As previous shows have done with the music of The Beatles and Elvis Presley, the two-hour Jackson-themed performance is designed to give audience members the flair and showmanship of Cirque coupled with the flair and showmanship of the late artist in concert.

ATLANTA – The late soul legend James Brown has been inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

Brown’s daughter, Deanna Brown Thomas, accepted the honor for him at an awards ceremony on Saturday in Atlanta.

Brown died in December 2006 at age 73. He purchased WRDW-AM in Augusta, Ga., in the late 1960s, where he had shined shoes as a boy. He also operated or owned radio stations in Atlanta, Baltimore and Knoxville, Tenn.

The “Godfather of Soul” was among several honorees to receive their award posthumously. Other awardees include Ernie Harwell, the legendary voice of the Detroit Tigers, who died last year and Ben Porter, a Macon radio station owner who got his radio start in south Georgia as “Jack the Bellboy.” Porter also died in 2010.

The Georgia Hall of Fame was established in 2007.

DeAndre Cortez Way a.k.a Soulja Boy was arrested Tuesday morning for drug possession.

The rapper was reportedly taken into custody by Temple Police Department officers in Temple, GA at 3:15 AM He is currently still being held in Carroll County Jail.

Law enforcement sources say Soulja was in a car with 4 other men, which was originally pulled over for a traffic violation. Police report that they found a”substantial amount” of marijuana and cash inside the vehicle” and Soulja and the 4 other men were all arrested.

Guns were also found in the vehicle although it’s unclear if any of them had the proper licenses to be in possession of the firearms.

A source reports that around $70,000 worth of drugs and cash were found.

Waka Flocka was forced to cancel a concert in Toronto, Canada after he was denied entry into the country, according to a report by RumorFix.com.

No official reason has been given for the “Round of Applause” rapper’s denial. However, at least two rappers have been turned away attempting to enter our northern border to do shows.

In April, rapper, Game, was denied access by customs agents because of his record and reported via his Twitter account that he had to spend two weeks in detainment.

The same month, Canadian authorities threatened to deny Lil Wayne entry based on his criminal record and the rapper was forced to cancel two Canadian stops on his I Am Music II tour.

Waka reportedly spent the night in Detroit, Michigan instead and is scheduled to perform at Club Underground in Tampa, Florida on Saturday.

MIAMI — Rapper Rick Ross was reportedly hospitalized in Alabama on Friday night after suffering a medical incident aboard a Memphis, Tenn. plane, the second time in six hours that a plane carrying the performer had to be diverted because of concerns about his health.

Ross was scheduled to appear at a University of Memphis basketball event on Friday night, and had even tweeted “Memphis here I come” after a medical scare hours earlier had prompted a Delta Air Lines plane to return to Florida so that Ross could be taken to the hospital.

But the 34-year-old Ross never made his scheduled appearance at an event called “Memphis Madness” on Friday night.

Memphis coach Josh Pastner told the crowd on Friday evening that a private jet carrying Ross made an unscheduled landing in Birmingham after the singer had another medical problem.

“On his way to Memphis,” Pastner said, “he had to make another emergency landing, in Birmingham. He got really sick again, and they had to rush him to the emergency room.” Ross suffered a second medical seizure and had been hospitalized.

LOS ANGELES – Stand-up concert film Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain continued its extraordinary box-office run this weekend, passing $7 million in revenue since its September 9 release.

The R-rated film, from Codeblack, a distributor of content targeting mostly African-American audiences, debuted explosively on September 9, grossing more than $1.9 million for its opening weekend at only 98 locations.

Playing 188 locations this weekend, its sixth in release, Laugh at My Pain grossed $276,000, bringing its domestic total to nearly $7.4 million.

Featuring documentary-style footage of comedian Hart on stage, as well as at home in Philadelphia and goofing a bit in a send-up skit of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, Laugh at My Pain was produced for only around $750,000.

It is, by far, the most successful film this year for any release that never went out wider than 300 theaters.

DMX says he has finally kicked the drug addictions that kept him behind bars for years — and he has his children to thank.

X said, coke was his greatest demon after his latest prison release in July — “Everyone was taking advantage of me with my finances, trying to put me in the direction to fail. I have 10 kids. I have to drive them in the right direction, so I let the cocaine go.”

The rapper — real name Earl Simmons — says God also helped him through … telling us, “I am on a spiritual road to do right in my life. I am leaving out all negativity and going to stay on the right road to positive.”