Subject: Jennifer Hudson

• Dream a Little Dream

  December 26, 2006

• Turning the Screw: Bun B and Q-Tip Team Up, Jennifer Hudson, Ludacris, T-Pain, G-Unit, MF Doom, Cypress Hill and More

  October 27, 2008

• Turning the Screw: T-Pain & Friends, Pimp C, Asher Roth, Kanye vs. Colbert, Q-Tip, Suge Knight, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Young Jeezy, Paul Wall and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies.   Single of the Week: "Chopped and Screwed" Lil' O, T-Pain and Ludacris Wire To Wire Matt Sonzala et al. paid tribute to the late Pimp C last week on KPFT's "Damage Control." If you didn't hear it, download it here. As Mr. Sonzala is fond of saying, "It went down, mayne." Arrest warrant issued for DMX. In related ne

  December 8, 2008

• Turning the Screw: Dustin Prestige, Lupe Fiasco, Katy Perry/Travis McCoy, Dr. Dre, DJ AM, Lil' Kim, Damon Dash/Jay-Z, Talib Kweli and More

  Welcome back to Turning the Screw, Rocks Off's weekly rap post. It probably won't rhyme, at least most of the time. E-mail tips to introducingliston@gmail.com. Thanks, homies. Single of the Week: "Funny Valentine," Dustin Prestige Wire To Wire Lupe Fiasco, whom you'll remember recently announced his retirement, is rumored to be putting out rock music as British-accented Percival Fats, lead singer of Japanese Cartoon. (Listen here; it's actually pretty good.) The band denies such claims, s

  January 5, 2009

• 25 Super Bowl Memes You'll Be Sick Of

  It's Super Bowl week. The game is on Sunday, but by the time kickoff rolls around we're going to be so sick of the hype that nobody is going to care about the game. The memes have started coalescing, so here's a little primer for every storyline that you will be sick of come Thursday evening once NBC's pregame coverage starts following the end of 30 Rock. 1. Did you know that Kurt Warner is a Born-Again Christian? Be prepared to hear a lot about this one. 2. Did you know that Kurt Warner

  January 27, 2009

• Super Bowl XLIII Recap

  So I suppose I should say a little something about the Super Bowl. But before I do, I'd like to make an appeal to all future Super Bowl organizers. Please, no more American Idol rejects (or winners) for the anthem. Please. When Jennifer Hudson hit the 10 minute mark on that song yesterday, I decided to take out the trash. I came back five minutes later and she was still singing the damn thing. The song shouldn't take more than a minute and a half. Tops. And the last original version of

  February 2, 2009

• Super Bowl XLIII Recap

  So I suppose I should say a little something about the Super Bowl. But before I do, I'd like to make an appeal to all future Super Bowl organizers. Please, no more American Idol rejects (or winners) for the anthem. Please. When Jennifer Hudson hit the 10 minute mark on that song yesterday, I decided to take out the trash. I came back five minutes later and she was still singing the damn thing. The song shouldn't take more than a minute and a half. Tops. And the last original version of

  February 2, 2009

• 25 Super Bowl Memes You'll Be Sick Of

  It's Super Bowl week. The game is on Sunday, but by the time kickoff rolls around we're going to be so sick of the hype that nobody is going to care about the game. The memes have started coalescing, so here's a little primer for every storyline that you will be sick of come Thursday evening once NBC's pregame coverage starts following the end of 30 Rock. 1. Did you know that Kurt Warner is a Born-Again Christian? Be prepared to hear a lot about this one. 2. Did you know that Kurt Warner

  January 27, 2009

• Industrial Icon Martin Atkins Knows From Touring

  Road Warrior

  March 19, 2009

• Mack, Turkeys and Beaver's

  What a Turkey

  December 11, 2008

• The Secret Life of Bees Is All Honey, No Sting

  Buzz Kill

  October 16, 2008

• Cheap Sex and the City: The Movie

  May 29, 2008

• Idol Beat: The Top Seven Results

  Michael Becker/ Fox Bottom Feeding: Lil Rounds and Matt Giraud will likely be right back here next week.At the beginning of Wednesday's American Idol, I was pretty sure that whoever the week's lowest vote-getter was - Lil Rounds or Matt Giraud - would go home. No save for them. So when Simon Cowell announced that despite the fact that low-man-on-the-totem pole Giraud wasn't improving and had no prayer of winning Season 8 - then went and saved his bacon anyway - I was totally floored; didn

  April 16, 2009

• Irreplaceable? Not So Much

  Beyoncé needs a new bodyguard

  July 12, 2007

• Crisis in Suburbia

  May 3, 2007

• Idol Chatter

  Opening day for America's fourth national sport is upon us

  January 18, 2007

• Robin Thicke, Jennifer Hudson

  May 7, 2009

• Got Live If You Want It

  Our Spring/Summer concert preview, part deux

  April 30, 2009

• This Week In Beyonce: B Acts... Like What?

  Rocks Off can't argue with the fact that Beyonce Knowles is a stone-cold fox when she gets on the microphone and belts out a song, dripping in glitter and wearing a barely-there outfit. Her voice is at once menacing and thundering, but also femininely fragile. Plus she has to be super-cool behind the scenes for Jay-Z to call her his girl, because we are pretty sure he doesn't dig on crazy women as much as we do. But sweet baby Jesus, she can't read lines or emote into a camera unless she's filmi

  July 1, 2009

• Beyonce Scheduled to Perform at Michael Jackson Memorial

  Daniel Kramer ABC News is reporting that Beyonce, who sang tributes to Michael Jackson at her Toyota Center concert and at New Orleans' Essence Music Festival over the weekend, will perform at Jackson's funeral in Los Angeles this afternoon. Also expected to attend are Justin Timberlake, P Diddy, Smokey Robinson, Akon and Jennifer Hudson, while previously confirmed guests include Motown Records' Berry Gordy, Stevie Wonder, Mariah Carey and Usher. "You're talking about the A-list of all A-lists,"

  July 7, 2009

• More From Michael's Memorial: Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, John Mayer

  More MJ memorial tweets from L.A. Weekly: "Just got tingles as they roll his casket in. Chorus singing We. Are Going to see the King" "Tears in staples for latifah reading Maya. Lots of sniffles.""Jennifer Hudson just blew mariah off the stage.""Maybe john Mayer will do Your Body Is a Wonderland. Lots of people tweeting from Houston too: @joeyguerra, @danjoyce, @breakfastontour, @dominiquemusic and of course @hprocksoff.

  July 7, 2009

• A Few Final Thoughts, Tweets on Michael's Memorial

  Courtesy L.A. Weekly Well, Michael Jackson's funeral is over, and according to L.A. Weekly, the crowds in downtown L.A. are filing toward various overpasses to catch a glimpse of Jackson's hearse as the funeral procession winds its way toward the cemetery. Rocks Off doesn't want to use the word "anticlimactic," but the funeral seemed unexpectedly low-key. There were a few over-the-top moments - the Rev. Al Sharpton, Houston congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, the children's choir - but mostly it s

  July 7, 2009