Looks like Halle is a proud mama.  While she was out shopping in Beverly Hills yesterday, she showed off her own personal stash of pics of Baby Nahla Aubrey-Berry to folks in the store:   She and Nahla's father Gabriel have made it quite clear that they will not be selling baby pics to the tabloids for money.  But Jessica and Cash Warren said the same thing and they're now $1.5 million richer thanks to a "change of heart".  Time will tell...   More pics when you read the rest...

  Check out Ne-Yo's brand new track "Miss Independent" that's not even slated to hit urban radio until July 28th: [audio:missindependent.mp3]   His album Year of the Gentleman hits shelves soon and it's shaping up to be a hot one once again.      

Kanye West was spotted leaving his West Village apartment today being Chatty McChatty on the cell and getting into his awaiting SUV:

Thanks to all you fabulous ones for being patient as TheYBF.com went through some seriously major upgrades and server switchovers these past few days. I decided to try to work around the server maintenance instead of bringing the site down for days and things weren't running perfectly during that time. Growing and expanding is fab but quite stressful at the same time. So even though posts got erased yesterday (I'm still bitter) and the site kept giving error messages earlier yesterday (as well as during peak traffic times the past few weeks), everything is solved and back up and running now.

Mama 'Retha was spotted outside the Ritz Carlton New York today:

And we can see her pearls this time.  Nice.  

And here's some excerpts from Solo's, Keri's, and Teyana's Summer '08 Rap-Up cover:   SOLANGE KNOWLES On being in Beyoncé’s shadow: “At this point, it’s starting to hurt me more than helpme because my family is sort of known as the new age Huxtables. We’re the clean-cutgirls. But I got married at 17, had a kid at 17. Ever since I was younger, I alwaysconsidered myself to be into more artistic things than [Beyoncé]. People just hear the[Knowles] name and they just put a stamp on it automatically.” On meeting Barack Obama: “I had all these questions I wanted to ask him and I got sostar-struck. I’ve never been like that about someone. I was stuttering and my question came out all wrong.”   The rest of the excerpts and Nelly's cover and excerpts when you read the rest...

The Carters were spotted at Jay's after show party at Club Indochine this weekend in Zurich, Switzerland:

He was there to do a concert and of course the Mrs. is never far behind. Cute laid back look for Beyonce too...even though I still side eye that damn knit beret everytime she rocks it. In other gossip news, Sean Carter allegedly ordered some watermelons up to his suite while he was perfoming in Nigeria this weekend as well. But he wanted them in the shape of Beyonce's lady lumps: It seems that Jay-Z can't get over his 'bootylicious' wife Beyonce Knowles, as the rapper requested for a watermelon carved in shape of Beyonce's bust. The 38-year-old star, made the request while performing at the Africa Rising gig in Nigeria. The fruit was displayed in his 2,500 pounds-a-night hotel suite. "One giant watermelon was split in two and ornately carved into a mould of Beyonce's boobs. Two cherries were used as nipples," Mirror quoted a source as saying. Meanwhile, the rapper recently threw a dinner party in Paris to treat the entourage that helped him make his Glastonbury gig last month so "historic". Sources have revealed that the singer spent more than 10,000 dollars for the dinner at posh eaterie L''Avenue near the Champs-Elysees. Hilarious.

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Pics of Ne-Yo and others partying it up this weekend when you read the rest...

Naomi Campbell and Tyson Beckford brought their Supermodel fabulousness to Nigeria this weekend for the ThisDay Africa Rising Festival and visited Lagos Island Maternity Hospital

And Chris Brown and other folks performed for the crowd.   More pics when you read the rest...