Eric R. Danton has a quick interview with Janelle Monae for CTnow. There are a couple of interesting tidbits in it, though, including Monae saying that it took her 1 year, 9 months, 18 days, 9 hours, 4 minutes and 3 seconds to finish her album, "The ArchAndroid."

Diddy appeared on "Lopez Tonight" last night to announce that Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning" had gone gold. He also performed a quick verse from "It's All About the Benjamins." check out the full clip below.


Via Ann Oldenburg.

Following a trio of teasers, here is a behind the scenes feature from the shoot for Jeremy Greene's "Fire Proof" music video, directed by Rage and filmed in Maine.

On Jeremy Greene's MySpace, you can check out a full list of his 2009 through winter 2010 tour dates. He'll be hitting a lot of venues. If you're in the U.S., chances are he'll hit one within an hour or so of you.

For the second consecutive year, I've partnered with BlogWorld & New Media Expo to promote the event on the iFroggy Network.

I have attended and spoke at the conference for the last two years and I believe it to be one of the most beneficial blogging, social and new media based conferences that exists today. I'm glad to be back this year to attend and speak once again as the event moves to Mandalay Bay (where I hope to be staying).

If you create content online or market yourself online in any way, the event is definitely worth checking out, whether you are a blogger, podcaster, online writer, digital or new media person at a label or marketing company, an artist or just someone who wants to improve their efforts online through social and new media.

As part of our partnership, they have provided me with a coupon code that will get you 20% off of any BlogWorld & New Media Expo pass. Through September 16, this will include the already discounted rates. But, the code will be good right up until the start of the conference. The code to use is IFROGGYVIP.

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Following the teaser that I posted yesterday, Jeremy Greene has released two additional clips from his "Fire Proof" music video. Check them out below.

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Here are Bad Boy's positions on the most recent Billboard U.S. album and single charts, released today. Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning" falls slightly on the majority of charts, while Janelle Monae's "The ArchAndroid" holds firm.

Albums

The Billboard 200

140. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae (down from 139).

Top Current Albums

126. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae (unchanged).

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

28. "The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III" by Janelle Monae (up from 30).

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CassieVerse.org has photos of the four cassie-featured shirts that will be released by Diamond Supply Co., along with a skateboard deck. They will all feature photographs shot by Estevan Oriol. I confirmed this story with Nick Tershay of Diamond Supply Co.

He also said that the shirts are due for an August 28 release.

On tonight's episode of "Lopez Tonight," hosted by George Lopez, Diddy stopped by to announce that Dirty Money's "Hello Good Morning" has gone gold and that, accordingly, they would have a "gold party" on "Lopez Tonight" next week when Dirty Money is scheduled to appear and perform.

Gold indicates that 500,000 copies have been sold. The single has not yet been certified as gold by the RIAA, according to their searchable database, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't sold 500,000 units. The database is not always up to date, either.

When he announced this, the crowd booed and Diddy asked for a mic and performed his opening verse on "It's All About the Benjamins."

Update: Photos and a release date are now available.

According to reports by Baller Status, Swag Syndicate and iRockChucks.com, photographer Estevan Oriol shot Cassie for some sort of collaboration with Diamond Supply Co.

From the pictures that have been put out, they speculate that a t-shirt and skateboard will be released. Swag Syndicate says that, according to Diamond Supply Co. founder Nick Tershay, the shirt will be released in August.

Thanks CassieArmy for the tip.