What the heck is going on these days! We hear that Flo Rida, real name Tramar Dillard, was promoting his album in Lexington, Kentucky when an eye witness called Animal Control authorities and claimed they saw two men step of Flo Rida’s tour bus and kill a rabbit. Local Police were on a hunt to find Flo Rida to take him in for questioning. Flo spoke x-clusively to allhiphop and denied the whole ordeal. It did sound a bit bogus, don’t you think? “While no one in my party was in any way involved in any incident, the media report that I saw was sickening,” Flo Rida told AllHipHop.com exclusively. “As an animal lover, I would never want to see cruelty inflicted upon them.” Flo’s album R.O.O.T.S comes out March 31st.

Sometimes I think artist deliberately have these bogus stories leaked to stir up controversary in the media to boost up their album sales. Don’t you realize there is always some type of “publicity” stunt before an artist album drops. For example, the Keri Hilson leak to “Turnin’ me on” remix where she was supposedly dissing Beyonce. That whole “beef” went down right before her album dropped which made her relevent.
Hmmmm…

Rumors began to spread on the web earlier this week that rap sensation Flo Rider dropped Chris Brown from his upcoming album R.O.O.T.S because of the alleged violent incident involving Rihanna. However, Flo wanted to clear the air and said it had nothing to do with it.

According to US magazine Flo dropped the song from his album because of a failure to resolve business issues between him and Brown prior to finishing the CD. Flo says “This was way before me ever hearing anything about [Brown allegedly beating Rihanna],” adding, “I had been done with this record.”

Flo is definitely rising to the top. He is currently leading the Billboard Hot 100 with his new single “Right Round,” which recently broke the one-week digital sales record. He also says that the song with Chris Brown could have been a record breaker too, but it’s cool, he is satisfied with the success of his other songs. R.O.O.T.S hits shelves on April 7th.

Check out Flo Rida’s new hit single called “Shone”. The track features Pleasure P, former member of Pretty Ricky. Tell us what you think about it.

Shone (Action) (Feat. Pleasure P.) – Flo-Rida

AVN (Adult Video News) announced today that rap sensation Flo Rida will be performing at the 2009 AVN Adult Movie Awards on January 10, 2009 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The Grammy(TM)-nominated artist will open the show which is now in its 26th year. The 2009 event will be co-hosted by two of the biggest stars in the adult film industry, Belladonna and Jenna Haze.

“We’re extremely pleased that Flo Rida will be performing at this year’s show,” said Paul Fishbein, president of AVN Publications. “Since we started the Awards in 1983, the goal has been to make it as exciting and entertaining as any of the mainstream Hollywood awards shows; I think with adding a performance by Flo Rida to the mix you can see that we’re making good on our vision.”

Go Ahead Flo Rida…

Check out this new joint from Flo Rida called “Ms. Hangover” which in on his album “Mail on Sunday”…Love this record! Do you?

Rappers T.I., Lil Wayne, and Flo Rida lead the pack of nominees for the MTV Best Male Video award to be handed out September 7 in Los Angeles at the 2008 VMA’s. As for categories in R&B, Usher and Chris have been nominated for the award.

Miami is really taking over the music industry. Check out the July ‘08 cover of XXL featuring The Princess of Miami, Trina, Flo-Rida, Rick Ross, and of course, DJ Khaled.

Editor’s sidenote: Why Rick Ross? Why?

The Roots’ seventh group album, Rising Down, debuts at the top spot of Billboard’s ‘Top Rap Albums Chart’ this week with scans of 53,900 copies in its opening week. Go Ahead Roots! The album features appearances from Common, Dice Raw and Saigon. Debuting at No. 2 is Lil Mama with her first solo effort titled V.Y.P. (Voice Of The Young People).  The set sold 18,600 discs in its first go-around. Rick Ross is right behind her sitting at No. 3.  Trilla reeled in 18,300 units this week.  After 9 weeks on the chart, the album has sold 484,000 copies. No. 5 spot  is Flo Rida. Mail On Sunday shells off 12,800 discs in its 7th week on the charts.  To date, the album has sold 214,000 copies. Snoop Dogg slips two spots to No. 6.  Ego Trippin’ bags up 10,100 units this week.  So far, the album has sold a total of 301,400. Holding down the No. 7 spot is Trina.  8,100 folks picked up Still Da Baddest this week, pushing the album’s total sales to 95,300. Go Trina!

The 2008 National Hip Hop Team Vote Launch took place yesterday at Temple University Liacouras Center Arena in Philadelphia, PA. Check out what celebs showed up for this important event:

Ciara looking Fab!

Gorilla Zoe

Flo Rida

Ciara

Yesterday Danity Kane and Flo Rida stopped by MTV’s TRL to promote their new albums that dropped yesterday.

Danity Kane’s anticipated sophomore album, Welcome to the Dollhouse, hit stores yesterday…Dollhouse’s first single,  is “Damaged”. The video can be seen on my blog.
myspace.com/danitykane

Flo Rida’s official album “Mail on Sunday” in stores now.
www.myspace.com/officialflo

Rapper Flo Rida and Ne-Yo’s (fake) baby’s mom singer Jesse White are dating. The two have been spotted in London and in Vegas…

Can I say groupie?

Old pic of Neyo and his baby mother…

Flo Rida decided to remix the chart-topping single “Low” featuring rocker Travis Barker. The remix will hit radio soon. Can’t wait, I love Barker! Flo Rida tells us, “I’m definitely loving Travis Barker and Kid Rock. I actually got a remix with Travis Barker to the ‘Low’ record.” Flo Rida’s debut album, “Mail on Sunday”, is due on March 18th.