R&B singer Keyshia Cole has been chosen for the prestigious honor of having her very own VH1 Unplugged Session. Keyshia performed in total six songs; 3 from her debut “The Way It Is” which were - Love, I Should Have Cheated and I Thought You Had My Back - and 3 songs from her new album “Just Like You” that were - Let It Go, I Remember and Got To Get My Heart Back. Click here watch the performances.

Keyshia Cole makes her return to reality television next week, back for a second season of her BET hit show “Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is.”

Following on the heels of the successful release of her second album Just Like You, Keyshia is back on the small screen. In the new season “Keyshia Cole 2: The Way it Is” reunites audiences with Keyshia’s poignant struggle to balance her family crises with her budding career as an R&B star.

This time around, cameras capture Cole as she works to complete and release her sophomore CD Just Like You while also sharing the wealth with her mother, recently released from prison, and her sister Neffie, whose battles with alcohol fueled much of the drama behind the show’s first season.

The platinum success of Cole’s debut album has provided a better life for her and her family, but after the singer invites her mother and sister to live in her Atlanta mansion the two find Keyshia’s rules too hard to live by. With the rigors of her career pulling at her, Keyshia is faced with more difficult choices.

In related news, VH1 has their own plans for the Bay Area native. Keyshia Cole has been selected for “VH1 Unplugged,” performing hits from her debut as well as new songs from Just Like You.

[View Keyshia's Unplugged Performance Here]

“Keyshia Cole 2: The Way It Is” premieres Tuesday, October 30 at 10:30 p.m. on BET.

Keyshia will be performing on the David Letterman Show on November 7th, 2007. She is rumored to be performing “Let It Go” with guest apperances by Missy Elliott and Lil’ Kim. Let’s hope there’s a little interview squeezed in there!

Check your local TV times/locations at TvGuide.com!

EDIT: I added photos from the Velvet Room last weekend. Click here to view the photos!

Jill Scott is a free-spirited singer known for laid-back musings on life, and Keyshia Cole is a bold vocalist regarded for her brash attitude and soured-love songs. Both women receive praise for an appealing realness not often associated with contemporary R&B. But, as it turns out, being labeled a down-to-earth Everywoman can be just as confining as the binding clothing that is the uniform of less genuine songstresses.

The Internet is teeming with gossip about Scott and Cole and how personal change has affected their work. Scott, who recently released “The Real Thing: Words and Sounds, Vol. 3,” is going through a divorce and testing new hairstyles, but fans apparently miss her old hair and songs about her husband — you know, “the real Jill.” Meanwhile, Cole, whose breakout sophomore effort, “Just Like You,” dropped late last month, is branding herself a more mature artist — but some prefer her (allegedly) flipping on (alleged) ex-boyfriend Young Jeezy and otherwise immersing herself in the sort of drama that pleases the producers of her reality show.

Scott, usually a contented romantic, has new material about haters (”Hate on Me”) and liquor-soaked love affairs (”Crown Royal”) in the hard knocks-schooled style of Cole. And Cole is exploring Scott’s oeuvre by gushing about stable love (”Heaven Sent”) and the effort required to maintain it (”Work It Out”). But their respective fans should hold off on arranging an old-fashioned CD swap.

Stripped of preconceived notions about Scott and Cole, “The Real Thing” and “Just Like You” both gorgeously capture a particular point in each woman’s life. To hear the scrappy Cole reveal vulnerability and the normally upbeat Scott confess disillusionment is as real as it gets.

Scott’s “How It Make You Feel” is, on the surface, a divorce-inspired track about saying goodbye to a man, but then the Philly singer advances the song with a broad stroke, imagining that all of black womankind follows her out the door. The Scott Storch-produced “Epiphany” breezily examines the shallowness of a new physical relationship, but ends with appropriate abruptness and leaves Scott to wonder, “Why do I feel so empty?”

Cole, whose strong vocals and hostility have been a bit “Scary J. Blige” in the past, reveals herself to be a grown woman searching for perspective on bad relationships with “I Remember.” She displays similar growth on “Was It Worth It?,” a look at infidelity completely opposite from “I Should Have Cheated,” from her 2005 debut “The Way It Is.”

Yet, despite all of the upheaval documented on both discs, Scott and Cole include songs offering assurance that they haven’t changed all that much and are still just regular folks. On the title track, “Just Like You,” Cole acknowledges that she’s trying to figure out who she is, but knows she’s still plain old Keyshia. Scott follows suit, proclaiming herself to be an Average Jill on “Wanna Be Loved.” Perhaps the singers felt the need to mollify fans concerned by so much change, but both tracks feel forced — it’s hard to project a stagnant commoner when both have so clearly evolved into something new and extraordinary.

Keyshia Cole is scheduled to perform at 1st Mariner Arena on Nov. 24, and at Verizon Center on Nov. 25.

DOWNLOAD THESE: Scott: “Crown Royal,” “How It Make You Feel,” “Wanna Be Loved”; Cole: “I Remember,” “Work It Out,” “Was It Worth It?” (Amazon.com)

Sorry for the lack of updates… More coming soon!

Sorry for the lack of updates with the site. Regular updates should continue as usual for now. Anyway, here are some new pics from Keyshia Cole’s spread from GIANT Magazine. And thanks to thisissick at the Keyshia Cole Forums, for the scans.
GIANT Magazine Photo Outtakes
GIANT Magazine Scans

To no one’s surprise, R. Kelly won’t be in court this holiday season. Instead, the multi-platinum selling R&B dynamo will be taking his show on the road and bumping and grinding in cities across the country.

And get this: the self-proclaimed “Pied Piper” taking some of the hottest young R&B chart-toppers out on a cross-country trek.

Hip-Hop Soul princess Keyshia Cole, du jour songwriter/crooner Ne-Yo breakout newcomer J. Holiday will all support Kelly for his “Double Up” tour, which kicks off Nov. 14 in Columbus, Georgia. The near 40-city tour, presented by the Atlanta-based concert promotion firm Rowe Entertainment Inc., helmed by industry veteran Leonard Rowe, will make stops in New York, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Miami, Los Angeles and Kelly’s hometown of Chicago.

Confirmed tour dates are listed below:
Nov 14 Columbus, GA Columbus Civic Center
Nov 15 Atlanta Phillips Arena
Nov 16 Greensboro Greensboro Coliseum
Nov 17 Birmingham BJCC
Nov 18 Charlotte Bobcat Arena
Nov 21 Philadelphia Wachovia Center
Nov 22 Newark Prudential Center
Nov 23 New York Nassau Coliseum
Nov 24 Baltimore 1st Mariner
Nov 25 Washington DC Verizon Center
Nov 29 Little Rock Alltel Arena
Nov 30 New Orleans New Orleans Arena
Dec 1 Dallas American Airlines Arena
Dec 2 Houston Toyota Center
Dec 6 Minneapolis Target Center
Dec 7 Kansas City Sprint Center
Dec 8 Indianapolis Conseco Fieldhouse
Dec 9 Memphis Fed Ex Forum
Dec 13 Las Vegas Mandalay Bay
Dec 14 Los Angeles Staples Center
Dec 15 Oakland Oakland Arena (Oracle)
Dec 16 Sacramento ARCO Arena
Dec 20 Chicago United Center
Dec 21 Chicago United Center
Dec 22 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
Dec 23 Detroit Joe Louis Arena
Dec 27 Charleston North Charleston Coliseum
Dec 28 Orlando Amway
Dec 29 Columbia Colonial Center
Dec 30 Jacksonville Veteran Memorial
Dec 31 Miami American Airlines Arena
Jan 4 Cleveland Wolstein Center
Jan 5 Louisville Kentucky Expo Center
Jan 6 St Louis Scottrade
Jan 9 Savannah Savannah Civic Center
Jan 10 Greenville Bi-Lo Center
Jan 11 Richmond Richmond Coliseum
Jan 13 Hampton Hampton Coliseum

(AOL Black Voices)

Keyshia Cole keeps it 100% real at all times, though some may say “too real.” Cole expresses growth and maturity in her newest project with the sophomore release Just Like You. Leaving a place of hurt, this project is themed around retrospective thoughts and lessons learned. With a smash single on the radio and a new label on the rise, Cole appears to have it together. But from recent media flare-ups, she reveals her intolerance for constant accusations of her alleged relationship with a famed Atlanta rapper and jabs at the wavering future of her BET reality series. Is Cole really satisfied with her current fan base with no desire to reach new prospects? Since our first feel of Cole in 2004, her rawness and candor was recognized. Cole’s refusal to submit by tap out to the haggling of press may, in fact, help old and new fans understand the ups and downs of her career and lifestyle – ultimately allowing a deeper and more personal connection between Cole and her supporters. But on the flipside of things, will her attitude come across as disgruntled to audiences and stagger her anticipated super celebrity? Does she need to learn how to turn up the charm and turn down the emotions to stay in the game? Cole will only have it one way: live and direct. We were fortunate enough to build with Ms. Cole in an intimate roundtable discussion. Read on how about her new project and her bone to pick with AllHipHop! Read the full interview here.

“Keyshia will be on The Tyra Banks Show on October 24th, 2007 at 5:00pm. So be sure to check that out.”

Keyshia Cole did a shoot for Jason Campbell on August 22, 2007 for MTV. She looks really pretty. Click on thumbs below to see the photos.

I will be adding videos of Hip Hop Honors sometimes soon. BTW, Keyshia looked and sounded great!

Keyshia performed at the ‘VH1 Hip Hop Honors’, which will air on VH1 tomorrow at 10pm/9 Central. So be sure to tune in. I added a few photos from the event, click on the thumbs to view.