Keyshia Cole Hosts Top 11 Countdown

In celebration of her new album, ‘Just Like You,’ Keyshia Cole is hosting our Top 11 Show this week!

In addition to rocking a hot blond ‘do, the leather-clad singer takes us through the 11 hottest videos right now, according to you. She also talks about the continuation of her BET reality show, ‘Startime,’ working with Kanye West, and why making a music video is such hard work.

Click here for the Top 11 Countdown!

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Only a little after a months release of Keyshia Cole’s “Just Like You”, she has been certified gold as of November 1, 2007 selling approximately 504,700 copies in the U.S.

If you don’t have Keyshia’s CD “Just Like You”, get it now! In stores everywhere!

Keyshia is on this month’s cover of DUB Magazine. She looks absolutely gorgeous!

Be sure to pick up your copy of DUB, on newstands now!

Almost no TV show, “reality” or otherwise, can survive with only a lead character, no matter how famous that character is.

So what makes R&B singer Keyshia Cole’s BET show more compelling as it enters its second season is that Cole’s mother creates as much dramatic tension as the star herself.

Cole’s mother, Frankie, spent the first season in jail, finishing up a three-year sentence on drug charges. Now Frankie’s out, and while she’s saying the right things, nothing about her life suggests we’re guaranteed a “happily ever after” ending.

Cole, for now, has moved her mother into her Atlanta mansion and is trying to provide the material and emotional support for her to stay clean and sober.

This includes a “no visitors” rule that also applies to her sister Neffie, who has a drinking problem.

Neffie doesn’t like the rule, friction develops, and Cole asks a therapist if she can help her family without debilitating herself.

“Reality” shows live for these kinds of soap-opera scenarios, of course, but this one feels a little more genuine than most.

One long scene has Cole reclining on a couch, asking for a cup of tea and telling her manager not to cancel a couple of magazine photo shoots, just reschedule them. She looks genuinely worn down.

But the greatest dramatic promise here may lie with Frankie, whose life feels as if it’s still up for grabs. She says the right things - about how she has to work to regain the love and trust of people in her life - but one imagines all addicts say that.

The question is whether she will follow through. That battle, the stakes of which go way beyond its TV entertainment value, is a major reason “Keyshia Cole 2,” will be worth return visits.

Fans flocked to BET for the return of the network’s top-rated and critically acclaimed docu-drama KEYSHIA COLE: THE WAY IT IS, now BET’s #1 Returning Series Premiere Performance in BET history and its #1 Original Series Premiere this season. Tuesday’s show scored a 1.41 rating, with 1.24 million households and 1.49 million total viewers tuning in, according to Nielsen Media Research.

As the #1 KEYSHIA COLE telecast in BET history, the premiere of the second season of KEYSHIA COLE: THE WAY IT IS builds on the momentum of the show’s top-rated first season. Tuesday’s show is also among the highest-rated series premieres ever in BET history.

This season, R&B songstress Keyshia Cole is back and more compelling than ever, as she attempts to deal with all of her family drama while putting the finishing touches on her new CD, Just Like You. KEYSHIA COLE: THE WAY IT IS airs on BET on Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT.

Congratz Keyshia! We’ve very proud of you!

Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is 2 premiers every Tuesday on BET @ 10:30 PM. Leave your comments on the first episode of the new season here.

You can’t miss VIBE’s December 2007 issue, which officially hits stands November 12. Featuring “Hell’s Angel,” an intimate Keyshia Cole cover story written by Cole’s fellow Oakland native, VIBE Editor-in-Chief Danyel Smith - with a gang of even more stunning photos inside, trust. Keyshia intimately discusses growing up hard in Oakland, only to become an icon. “Now I’ve overcome everything,” she tells Smith, “And I’m looking in the mirror, only to figure out who I am.”

Vibe Magazine hits newsstands November 12th, so be sure to pick this copy up!

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