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Anthony Gets Fashion Assist From Brooklyn Stylist

Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

Khalilah Williams-Webb in her boutique, Shirley + Alice, in Brooklyn. She is the personal stylist for the Knicks' Carmelo Anthony.

John Legend Recalls Debuting on Lauryn Hill’s ‘Everything is Everything’

(WireImage)John Legendary has always kept company with extraordinary people.

The Grammy award winning singer, who kicked off Yahoo! On the Road with a concert in New York Friday, made his major recording debut on one of the biggest R&B/pop albums of 1998, Lauryn Hill’s “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” that has sold 19 million copies worldwide.
Legend, who then performed under his birth name John Stephens, played the piano on Hill’s top 40 hit, “Everything is Everything.”
Aside from Hill’s smoky vocals, it’s the piano that drives the song’s irresistible melody.
Legend met Hill through a mutual friend Tara Michel. Michel and Legend were in a choir together; he played piano. “[Tara] said, ‘You should come meet Lauryn. I’m going to sing background vocals on some of the record,’” Legend said about Michel, who had known Hill since they were children in New Jersey.
Upon meeting Hill, Legend auditioned for her, playing two songs. One was a cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Love’s in Need of Love Today” from his “Songs in the Key of Life” album, and the other was the song he wrote, “Too Late.”
Hill immediately offered him an opportunity. “Lauryn said, ‘Why don’t you play on this record we’re working on right now? And it was ‘Everything is Everything,’” Legend said.
Legend said it felt good having a hit song on the radio while he was still an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. “I went back to college and I was the man after that,” he said.
Six years after the release of “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” Legend debuted his first album, “Get Lifted,” that included the hits “Ordinary People” and “Used to Love U.”

Beyonce, Alicia, Solange, Nicki Minaj, Kerry, Tiger and more at MET 2013 ;ball

Another year, another Met Ball.  The biggest fashion red carpet & event of the year is currently underway at MoMA in NYC, and we’ve got the YBF celebs who took over the extremely fashionable red carpet.  Check out the risk takers who pulled off their looks fabulously, and those who tried….
Once again, for the second year in a row, Beyonce Knowles took over VOGUE’s 2013 “PUNK: Chaos To Couture” themed Met Ball tonight rocking an eye catching and sexy look from Givenchy Haute Couture.  After last year’s shutdown in the purple & black feather & sheer number, Bey, who is serving as this year’s honorary co-chair, switched it up with a strapless leather bodice and a printed gold and black skirt with a high slit that exposed matching boots, and came with matching gloves.

Gotta love it.

And she’s not the only risk taker who won.

We’re absolutely loving Alicia Keys’, LaLa’s, and Kerry Washington’s looks for the night.

Alicia kept her sexy edge in a leather cutout Jason Wu halter dress with a red sequined bottom half and the perfect touch of punk with Robert Lee Morris jewels, a Tonya Hawkes clutch and streak of red hair.