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...