A group of music industry Presidents and CEO’s convened on Hotel Palomar in midtown Atlanta last weekend to celebrate a reunion of sorts.  L.A. Reid, Steve Bartels, Bu Thiam, Devyne Stephens, Young Jeezy, Usher Raymond, Dallas Austin and more music industry decision makers all joined each other for an evening of fine dining at the hotel’s Pacci Ristorante for the annual “Dinner With The President”.

Take a moment to take in all the movers and shakers in the room…

L.A. Reid (Pres/CEO Island Def Jam), Steve Bartels (Pres/Island Records) & Bu Thiam (CEO Convict Muzik)

Bu Thiam & Usher Raymond IV

Wow! Looky who Dallas Austin brought out…

It’s Lee “Big Poppa” Najjar (Kim Zolciak’s on again off again married boyfriend). I guess he’s about to be more on the scene since Kim has a hit record…

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Rocker Lenny Kravitz’s “Let Love Rule” tour hit Atlanta Wednesday evening for a showstopping performance at the Tabernacle. I heard that dayum near all of Atlanta joined him onstage as Lenny allowed Dallas Austin, Jermaine Dupri, Nelly and even the Goodie Mob to hit the mic and rock with him during the show. I bet it was amazing!

The afterparty was held at a new spot called The Gold Room Though the Gold Room, located in the former Gold Club building on Piedmont Road.

Gold Bar

It’s not open to the public yet, but the club has been hosting quite a few private parties for Atlanta insiders.  From the looks of the photos, Lenny Kravitz’ afterparty was just as hype as his concert at the Tabernacle. The rocker was again joined by Nelly, Dallas Austin, Jermaine Dupri and my boos the Goodie Mob.

Goodie Mob

Oh… and you know it wouldn’t have been a party without “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”’s Sheree Whitfield. I heard shes on the prowl looking for her next meal ticket just in case she’s booted from the show. (more…)

My sister in the spirit Crunktastically Fresh sent me over a slew of A-town pics yesterday while we were shootin the sh*t on Twitter. She knows how much I loves me some Twan and threw in Jane Fonda and Dallas Austin for the low low. This pic was captured a few years ago during Jane’s Atlanta premiere of Monster in law.  Some of y’all may be surprised to see Jane, a classic/cultured icon, throwing “gang signs” (as my mom calls it) but she totally reps the “A”…hell she dayum near got HALF of it in her divorce settlement from Ted! She owns this b*tch!

That’s how we get y’all. We send Big Boi over to schmooze…Dallas for the close and then “BAM!”  You’re throwing “A” signs everytime you see a camera! Love it…Feel it…Embrace it! Yeessssss

According to That B*tch and Gossip Jacker T-Boz has some hating “A”zz friends in Atlanta. One of em has even decided to hit up some random forum and put all her business on blast. In the post, the loose lipped friend made sure he/she dropped names of some of the “A”’s musical elite such as Dallas Austin, Rico Wade, Big Rube, Jermaine Dupri, Sleepy Brown and more to obviously add authenticity to her story.  We’ve all heard about T-Boz’s trials with her former hubby Mack 10, well this so-called friend of hers has dayum near written a tell-all book about Tionne’s life in Atlanta and her addiction to drama.

Now to be fair, all this could be made up bullsh*t and even if most of it’s true, we’ve all had our share of dumb mistakes with relationships. Lord knows I have…*sigh* But I decided to post it in it’s entirety simply because it was an interesting read and because I’ve been slacking on my pimpin…(insert side eye). Anywoo…anyone who grew up or lived here in the late 80’s will appreciate the time it took this fake “A”zz friend to compile all this data…Happy reading!

I’ve said this before that I went to high school with Tionne. It did not matter about her having sickle cell. She was always attracted to abusive men. She was supposed to graduate in 1988 from Campbell High School, in Fairburn, GA but she missed so many days from her hospitalizations that she graduated the next year from College Park High School. I found out later that the majority of her hospitalizations was due to her ex-boyfriend, Troy Long aka “Paco”, beating the crap out of her. It’s amazing how all of these kids ended up famous. Believe it or not, we went to school with a lot of the guys mentioned on this site. Dallas Austin transferred from Riverdale High School and went to Lakeshore High, along with Derek “Divine” Stevens.

It’s ironic how Tionne ended up in a group with Rozonda (Chili) because I remember, specifically going to a talent show at Mays High school to help Tionne find Rozonda. She wanted to whip her tail for sleeping with Troy Long.Patrick “Sleepy” Brown went to Therrell High School and he was in a dance group called “Guess”. Tionne and I met him at Jelly Beans skating rink. Tionne worked at LaMontae’s Beauty Supply on the corner of Headland and Delowe with Rico Wade. Patrick was introduced to Rico through Tionne and myself. They hooked up and started doing the music thing (funded by LaMontae who is now in prison for drugs). Rico ended up meeting Jermaine Dupree and at that time Jermaine was trying to start a girl singing group. Rico hooked Tionne up with Jermaine. Rozonda was not in the group at first. Rozonda replaced Sabrina, who went to prison for shoplifting. Tionne was a shoplifter as well between being a shampoo girl at Xcape hair salon. Tionne would go with Marie to client’s homes and met Pebbles. She complained about working with Jermaine Dupree and how he…

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Jermaine Dupri held his Grammy afterparty at Hyde in LA last night.  Queen Latifah & her brother (above), Big Boi, Dallas Austin, Jay-Z and more all came out to party as JD held it down on the ones & twos:

Heeeyyyy Twan! I see you boo

Dallas was rasing the roof… woop woop!

No comment on the lack of women of color in the building! Just kidding JD! Of course there were tons of parties to choose from last night. Check out a few flix from more Grammy celebrations below:

Rapper/Producer/Entrepreneur Lil Jon was spotted partying it up at the Universal/Motown party.

Keyshia Cole arrives to the GlobalGrind.com launch party.

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Photos via WireImage

The Grammy Nominee Reception (Atlanta Chapter) was held at the W Hotel on Thursday, January 29, 2009.  Big Boi, T.I., Drumma Boy, DJ Toomp, Dallas Austin and more were spotted at the affair. You know how they say, “it’s just an honor to be nominated” well this A-Town group are winners all the way!

Check out a few flix:

Janelle Monae & T.I.

Bangladesh

DJ Toomp & Maestro

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Just so y’all don’t get it twisted, Dallas Austin says he is “NOT working w/Kim…that was 4TV!!”  The super-producer also went to his MySpace blog to add:

…. THE “REAL” Housewife, Kim Zolciak, is NOT WORKING WITH ME –
WE ARE NOT DOING A SONG…
WE ARE NOT DOING AN ALBUM!!
*** JUST WANNA PUT THIS OUT THERE!!! ***

OK Dallas.  I think we got the point!