Chris Brown will not serve jail time in connection with the February 8altercation with Rihanna that left his former girlfriend's face bloodied andbruised.

The incident is no longer alleged as Brown pleaded guilty Monday in LosAngeles Superior Court, the Associated Press reports. Instead of beginning thescheduled preliminary hearing, Brown admitted to one count of felony assault.

Because of Brown's plea, Rihanna did not have to testify, even though shewas on hand to do so.

While there have been rumors that Brown and Rihanna were maintaining arelationship, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg issued Rihannaa stay-away order.

This order requires that Rihanna and Brown stay 50 yards apart. They areallowed to come within 10 yards of each other when attending an industry event.The judge imposed this order even though Rihanna had not requested it.

On August 5, Brown will be sentenced to five years of supervised probationand six months of community labor, according to his

Grammy award winning pop singer Usher Raymond IV filed for divorce from his wife Tameka Foster, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

After days of speculation of an impending legal separation, the split was confirmed when the petition was filed Friday in Fulton County Superior Court.

The couple that would have celebrated its second wedding anniversary in September is scheduled for a July 15 hearing before Judge Bensonetta Tipton Lane.

Raymond and Foster have two sons. Usher Raymond V is 1 1/2-years-old and Naviyd Ely Raymond is 6-months-old. Foster, who was previously married, has three additional children from that union.

Unfortunately, the couple's marriage was met with scrutiny from the start. Rumors claimed that Foster left her previous husband to be with Raymond. Raymond's mother and manager reportedly did not approve of the marriage. And blogs dogged Foster, 38, arguing that she was too old for Usher, 30, and was not got a good match for him.

Raymond and Foster made

It's been a good minute since a rap song sent the massesabuzz. So props to Jay-Z for setting this one off with "Death Of Auto-Tune."

People can't stop talking about the track released last weekthat slams the computer enhanced hip-hop vocals currently dominating thecharts. We've all been complaining, saying that the genre full of copy catemcees is lacking originality. Auto-Tune forerunner T-Pain even dissed unnamedand unauthorized adopters of his style on last year's comedic "Karaoke."

Jay-Z rhymes that people are "T-Pain'ing" too much and addsthat he has had enough of hip-hop's ringtone obsessed era.

Apparently, T-Pain doesn't take offense to Jigga's brashcriticism that portrays Auto-Tune as the downfall of hip-hop. Jay-Z received anunannounced visit from Pain during his own surprise visit to Hot 97's SummerJam concert Sunday in New York.In the midst of performing his instant classic, Pain walked onto the stage andstood alongside Jay as he rapped.

While I'm glad to know T-Pain's

Seems like former Destiny's Child member Kelly Rowland had a plan all along. In January she and D.C. manager and Beyonce's dad Matthew Knowles announced that his company would no longer represent her (blog). Not long afterwards, it was reported that she ended her ties with Columbia Records.

No record label and no high powered manager felt like a risky move. But I still thought Kelly could be okay if she made the right strategic decisions. Well, she seems to be doing that.

Today, Yahoo! Music premieres her first music video independent of Knowles and Columbia Records. Kelly who has found much more success as a solo artist internationally than in the US, has teamed with French DJ David Guetta as the lead vocalist on his track "When Love Takes Over."

The pop dance track is No. 2 this week on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart and sounds completely different than anything she has done with Destiny's Child. Even though many popular dance tracks are sung by faceless talents, I think