The Kid's News Desk

-Those silly people at the Recording Academy anounced the first string of performers and presenters for the 47th Annual GRAMMY Awards. With this first batch I can tell it's going to be a pretty good show. The performers includ drunken Irishmen U2, the non-idiot type of Americans called Green Day, a guitar playing hay packer named Tim McGraw, and the oh so soulful and talented Hell's Kitchen native Alicia Keys. The first three presenters announced were Ellen DeGeneres, John Travolta, and double nominee Christina Milian. The latter two will probably be promoting their new movie Be Cool and Ellen is sure to make us laugh being the smart and funny woman that she is. The show will be boradcast live on February 13th, at 8:00PM on CBS. Hosted by Queen Latifah.

-Fat Joe pushes his album back to April 26, 2005 and he also changes his title from the quite original and sort of "thought provoking" Things Of That Nature to straight up wack All Or Nothing. Yes, let's just backslide. The first single is "So Much More" and the follow up track will be "Get It Poppin" featuring Nelly. Also be on the look out for a single he did with Jennifer Lopez called "Hold You Down" which she did for her Rebirth album due on March 1st. The cut will now, of course, appear on his new solo effort also. Read more here.

-Usher, Kanye West, and Alicia Keys all pick up nominations for the 36th NAACP Image Awards. What I am happy about is that they finally have some good movies to pick from for Outstanding Motion Picture. Collateral, Ray, Hotel Rowanda, Man On Fire, and Fahrenheit 9/11. Only at the NAACP Image Awards could movies like Deliver Us From Eva, The Brother, The Wood, and other shameless and pointless backsliding junk recieve praise. Read more here.

-In other Usher news he is reportedly mad at Jennifer Lopez for the "Get Right" track and he is saying that he better get a portion of the publishing rights. Ha! She is too smart for that one. She's been doing this since as far back as I can remember. First off, it all depends on the deal he had with Rich Harrison. Some producers can take a song away if the artist doesn't use it depending on the deal they settled on. He probably leased it to him. It's not her fault. Secondly he didn't write anything on either song so what exactly is he looking for. Usher isn't creative he just singing and dances and pretends to write songs. Let me tell you something about singer songwriters if they haven't wrote something for other people a la Alicia Keys, Christina Milian, and Ashanti, then they probably just take credit for other people's songs. Usher? Songwriter? Laughable. Thief has a better ring to it. There are some exceptions to this rule though.

-Andre 3000 will be voicing the charcter of a crow in the live-action version of Charlotte's Web. You can catch 3000 next in Be Cool.