Sex bomb Kaci Battaglia caused a stir last year with her club trash smash “Crazy Possessive” (“touch my man again and I’m a fuck you up!“), and now she’s back with another surefire classic, “Body Shots”, featuring Hip-Hop superstar Ludacris.

I’m assuming that Luda’s feature cost poor Kaci a pretty penny, because the dance diva has gone the Sasha Fierce route with this video and decided to keep things uber Low budget. So low, that she can’t even afford a proper set, and is forced to simply make do by looking pretty in front of a grey wall for three-and-a-half minutes. But hey, it’s Kaci, so it just makes me love this even more! She gets an A for effort, especially for emulating Christina Aguilera’s “Not Myself Tonight” video with a little leather-clad girl-on-girl action.

Kaci’s trashy charm makes “Body Shots” a bit of a winner, but if it wasn’t in her capable hands then it could easily be thrown into your pile of Z-Grade urban bangers and forgotten forever. Luckily, Kaci has learned a valuable lesson from her previous Billboard club chart success and has enlisted the likes of WaWa and Dave Aude to crank out some killer remixes of “Body Shots”, turning this trash into a genuine treasure.

Both “Body Shots” and “Crazy Possessive” will appear on Kaci’s forthcoming album Bring it On. You can check out the “Body Shots” video below, as well as two of the fabulous remixes under the cut.

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It’s taken months, but R&B singer Ciara has finally delivered a performance of her new single “Ride”, cranking out a raunchy rendition of the urban hit at the Hot 107.9 Birthday Bash in Atlanta.

Unfortunately, Ciara chose to sing live instead of focusing on some tight choreography, and well, you know how that goes. OK, there was some choreography, but it was just coochie poppin’ and grinding – AKA a Beyonce performance.

C’mon CiCi, give us some of those Janet-esque dance moves next time!

After causing an online frenzy with her controversial buzz track “You Got Me”, Ciara is back to business with the official music video to her raunchy new single”Ride”.

CiCi has clearly taken on board the feedback she received from fans who complained that she didn’t dance enough during the Fantasy Ride era, busting out every move in the book for the sexy Diane Martel directed “Ride”.

Ciara also takes another page from the book of her idol Janet by focusing on a simple yet highly choreographed video, reaffirming herself as one of the most skilled dancers in the game right now.

Oh, and if there was ever any questions over whether Ciara was going back to her urban roots, then this is the answer. The only person who could get more hood than this video is Queen Khia herself!

We now have out second official leak from Ciara’s upcoming fourth album with The-Dream assisted “Speechless” hitting the web not long ago.

The-Dream & Tricky production is a romantic, dreamy mid-tempo that still knocks pretty hard. Think of it “Ribbon” from Mariah Carey’s Memoirs album, but with Ciara’s style, and you’ve got “Speechless”.

Check it out below.

It’s a good day for CiCi fans, because not only have we got this new song “Speechless”, but we’ve also got a preview of the video for her new single “Ride” with Ludacris. You can’t see too much but you can hear the song playing in the background and it doesn’t disappoint.

“Ride” sounds like a sexy, breezy, urban summer jam and I love it!

Ciara has confirmed to Rap-Up that the first single from her upcoming fourth album will be titled “Ride” featuring rapper Ludacris.

The pair have already gotten down to business twice before in the past – first for Ciara’s top three hit “Oh” back in 2005, and then later on “High Price” from her Fantasy Ride album, which was actually originally intended to be the first single from the project before it leaked online early.

Producers on Ciara’s fourth album include The-Dream & Tricky, Darkchild and Bangladesh, but it’s currently unknown who will make the final cut.

Are you excited for new CiCi? Whenever Ciara and Luda get together it’s always something hot, so my expectations are high!

Filmed back in late February, BET’s annual Rip The Runway special finally aired on TV last night, featuring performances from all the hottest acts in urban music who currently have a new single out to flog.

Current it girl Nicki Minaj and Ludacris were there to perform their hit “My Chick Bad”, as well as Janelle Monae performing “Tightrope”, Estelle and Kardinal Offishall with “Freak”, Trina and a video version of Keri Hilson for “Million Dollar Girl”, and last but not least B.o.B. and the elusive Bruno Mars who performing their smash “Nothin’ On You”.

Oh and Roscoe Dash and Soulja Boy were there to, but I followed my gut instinct and decided not to post their performance. Trust me, you’ll thank me when you’re older.

Overall I’d say that the best performance of the night belonged to my faves Janelle Monae or B.o.B. (go figure), whilst the worst was probably Nicki Minaj who’s going to have to make a few alternations to her ‘wacky’ gimmick because stepping out on stage in Britney’s old crazy wig and yelling and thrashing all over the place does not equal a good performance.

Who are your picks for best and worst of the night?

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Meanie Ludacris may have given Shawnna the cold shoulder but he’s still down with every other femcee in the game, bringing out Miami’s finest Trina and former Crime Mob rapper Diamond to perform the official remix to his single “My Chick Bad” on BET’s 106 & Park today {via New Kidz}.

Everyone is so busy loving Trina, Nicki and Eve that my girl Diamond always gets overlooked, so I’m glad that she got this opportunity to perform because she outshone both Luda and Trina with her rapping and her on-stage energy. Get it Diamond!

If you liked the performance then you can pick up Luda’s new album Battle of the Sexes. According to HitsDoubleDaily it’ll knock Lady Antebellum off the top of the charts next week with around 120k, giving Luda the fourth No. 1 album of his career.

Mariah Carey reminds us that she has a new album coming out at the end of the month with the official remix to her song “Ribbon”.

The new version of the Memoirs… cut still has the same production from The-Dream & Tricky, but now Ludacris and The-Dream have both been tacked on with a quick cut and paste verse from the two.

I liked “Ribbon” better before, but Angels Advocate is a remix album so obviously she had to do something with the song.

Currently the lead single from Angels Advocate, “Up Out My Face Remix” featuring Nicki Minaj, is at #43 on the R&B/Hip-Hop charts after peaking at #39 last week.

What do you think the album will debut at when it’s released on March 30? I’m gonna predict somewhere around #30 or #40 with a steep drop in it’s second week.

After trading in Shawnna for Nicki Minaj rapper Ludacris has premiered the video for his latest single “My Chick Bad” from his new album Battle of the Sexes.

The video see’s Nicki doing an impression of slasher king Freddie Krueger (complete with the knife claws) whilst wearing a Britney-gone-bonkers pink wig. Nicki doesn’t lose her own flavor amongst all the craziness though, making sure sure to include the psychotic facial expressions of hers that have now become her trademark.

The Battle of the Sexes album was originally conceived as a joint album involving Shawnna, but Luda dropped her from the project after she signed with T-Pains Nappy Boy Ent and the rest is history.

Be on the lookout for the forthcoming “My Chick Bad” remix video soon, which features every single femcee that isn’t Shawnna such as Trina, Eve and my girl Diamond.

After successfully upping his target market from eleven-year-old tweens to fifteen-year-old girls, singer-songwriter Jesse McCartney has announced plans to return next year with a new R&B tinged album.

“It’s gonna be kind of a continuation of Departure, but maybe a little more R&B slightly. You’ll get the chance to hear what’s going on in my head right now and a little … more personal.”

“It’s a little bit more raw,” he explained. “But still rhythmic and upbeat. It’s still soulful. I’m still kind of writing it all out. I don’t want to give too much away.” [source]

The 22-year-old also confirmed that he plans to team up with rapper Ludacris again after they found success together with their hit single “How Do You Sleep”.

I don’t mind a little J-Mac here and there. Departure had some nice sugary sweet urban-pop, but it didn’t manage to take him all the way to adulthood. Right now he’s stuck somewhere between Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake circa 2002, so he really needs to make sure that this next album completes the transition for him.

LeToya was a guest on BET’s 106 & Park today to premiere the video for her new single “Regret”, which has is quickly becoming a huge sleeper hit, already reaching #78 on the Hot 100 and #8 on the Billboard R&B charts.

Considering that her label Capitol didn’t even want to shoot a video for “Regret” in the first place it comes as no surprise that this is the epitome of a recession video. As much as I hate to say this it was a little boring and plain, but things started to heat up towards the ending when LeToya confronted her buster ex-bf whilst hanging off the arm of the very sexy Ludacris.

I’m really proud of LeToya for getting this far when all the odds were stacked against her. The fans are the ones who have supported her and gotten “Regret” to blow up in the face of so much adversity, so let’s all get together again and make “Regret” #1 video on 106 & Park  and the #1 song on the R&B charts!

Video spotted @ TGJ

Here’s some new video footage of LeToya and Ludacris filming the video for their new hit single “Regret” which will premiere on BET next week.

They look so cute together and the video looks like it’s going to be great. LeToya was actin’ really sassy and she looks flawless. I think her and Luda should get together in real life.

Despite all the adversity “Regret” is becoming more popular by the day, leaping back into the Hot 100 this week at #91, whilst holding steady on the R&B charts and climbing up to #4 on the urban airplay chart.

In the meantime you can catch ya girl on the Mo’Nique show on November 6.

I’m so glad to see that despite everything LeToya is doing so well. She really deserves all her success and more.