XXL Presents Hip-Hop Soul Issue Release Party

Check out these photos. Saigon and D. Woods were also part of the event.

Larry Johnson’s History of Domestic Violence

Chiefs running back Larry Johnson was arrested and charged on Monday September 13, 2005 for domestic abuse in an altercation with his girlfriend at a bar an early Saturday morning, the Associated Press reports. Allegedly, Johnson’s girlfriend spotted him with another woman and confronted her, at which point Larry grabbed and shoved his girlfriend to the ground. According to the report, Johnson turned himself in, was cited for domestic abuse assault, posted bond, and was released. He was given a September 20 court date for the misdemeanor charge.

While this is unfortunately not all that uncommon, complicating matters is the fact that, according to the Kansas City Star, Johnson struck a deal with local prosecutors in February 2004 to avoid domestic violence charges over an incident in which he allegedly slapped a woman and threatened her with a handgun. Part of that deal was a two-year probation which this recent incident would presumably violate.

Julissa at Nike’s Air Force 1 25th Anniversary

 

 Nike Presented an All-Star 25th Anniversary Celebration of The Air Force 1 in Sport and Music on December 10th in New York City.  And for the Rocsi fans:

 

Julissa and Larry at Ed Lover’s Party

Julissa’s Dating Larry Johnson

NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 24: (EXCLSSIVE ACCESS)

NFL football player Larry Johnson of the Kansas City Chiefs kisses his girl friend Julissa Bermudez at his birthday dinner at Mr. Chow on November 24, 2006 in New York City. (Photo by Mat Szwajkos /Getty Images)

National Latino AIDS Awareness Day 2006

Here’s a video I found of Julissa promoting Latino AIDS Awareness Day.

All You’ve Got Now on DVD

The movie Julissa most recently played in, All You’ve Got, is now available on DVD.  Check it out.

Julissa’s Working On An Album

Julissa is working on an album with legendary producer Rodney Jerkins. The same guy behind hits from Michael Jackson to Danity Kane.

Pictures of the studio session can be found here
http://www.photoshelter.com/gallery-show/G0000mUlRiZjc6wY

Julissa On Vh1

Here’s a video I found on youtube of Julissa talking about Uno cards on best week ever or something like that. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3kT9Sl-zUQ

A Night Out With: Julissa Bermudez

A Song Before Dinner

Robert Caplin for The New York Times

By DOUGLAS CENTURY

Published: August 20, 2006

ON a recent Saturday in Midtown, Julissa Bermudez lounged on a brown leather sofa in the Sony Recording Studios, awaiting her moment with the maestro.

Ms. Bermudez, a 22-year-old former fashion model who is now the host of the youth affairs talk show “The Center” on BET every weekday, had an informal singing audition with Rodney Jerkins, the Midas-touch record producer.

While on-air chitchat about college applications and prom dresses has its moments, Ms. Bermudez — who was born in the Dominican Republic and was raised in Elmhurst, Queens — harbors slightly loftier show business dreams.

She had just returned from Los Angeles, hopscotching among meetings with talent managers and casting directors. She pulled a script from a black quilted Marc Jacobs bag. “It’s a Jack Black comedy called ‘Be Kind Rewind,’ ” she said, shrugging. “There’s a part called Cindy they want me to read for.”

This evening she’d landed every aspiring pop singer’s dream: a session with Mr. Jerkins, the New Jersey native who earned the nickname Super Producer with a litany of hits for Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige and Beyoncé.

Dressed in jeans and a pale-blue printed T-shirt, Ms. Bermudez hugged Mr. Jerkins, who wore a white shirt, sneakers and a blinding array of bling. She’d never planned to be a pop singer, she told him. “But everyone I met in L.A. kept asking me, ‘Do you sing?’ ” she said. “And I was like, if Paris Hilton is making records, I’m not going to tell them no.”

At Mr. Jerkins’s coaxing, she sang a verse or two of a Marc Anthony favorite. It was an untrained voice, to be sure, but Mr. Jerkins thought he heard something.

“You should do it,” he said. “But not big ballads. Your songs need to be light, fun, urban, reggaetón, some catchphrase stuff — that’s really where you need to be.” At 8:30 p.m., Ms. Bermudez’s best friend, Adrienne Bailon, a petite pop singer in the girl group 3LW and one of the stars of the “Cheetah Girls” films on the Disney Channel, arrived with a flourish.

“Oh, my God, you guys, I was in Jersey at the ghetto-est wedding ever!” she said.

The women met at a Grammy Awards afterparty a few years ago and immediately clicked, in part because of their working-class Latina backgrounds (Ms. Bailon is of Puerto Rican and Ecuadorean descent and grew up on the Lower East Side). “She’s the only girl in the industry I know who doesn’t act so ‘industry,’ ” Ms. Bermudez said. “We’re both totally ‘Holly-hood.’ ”

The women parted ways with Mr. Jerkins, and by 9:40, had arrived at the Chinatown Brasserie on Lafayette Street. Ms. Bermudez mentioned that she would be riding on a float in the Dominican Day Parade the next afternoon.

Ms. Bailon offered some tutelage in Disneyland Waving 101. “I got this from Cinderella,” she said. “They teach them to wave a certain way. It’s ‘Wash the window, wash the window, missed a spot.’ ”

Ms. Bermudez rolled her eyes. Too scripted. A big part of being “Holly-hood” was keeping it real. Her won-ton soup offered a case in point.

“You know the difference between your nice upscale Chinese restaurant and your round-the-way ghetto Chinese?” she asked. “The soup here is good but, to be honest, I miss that package of greasy fried noodles.”

At least her fortune cookie brought satisfaction.

“Check this out,” Ms. Bermudez said to Ms. Bailon. “ ‘You are a hop, skip and jump away from good luck. So hop away.’ ”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/fashion/20nite.html?ex=1313726400&en=893b30651668981e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss