CANDID PICS: JUDGE MATHIS, R&B SINGER MAXWELL, ACTOR JALEEL WHITE, JANET JACKSON & TRACEY EDMONDS.

Check out these rare candids of R&B singer Maxwell strolling through Greenwich Village in New York City on last week while Judge Gregory Mathis was spotted in Los Angeles shaking hand and talking with fans.

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Miss Janet Jackson was all smiles as she arrived at LAX airport over the weekend.

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Actor Jaleel White, who will be forever dubbed as Steve Urkel/Stephan Urkelle was spotted last Sunday (3.12.2008) looking utterly lost while trying to find his car in Santa Monica.

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Tracey Edmonds was lensed leaving the Villa Lounge in West Hollywood before hopping in the front seat of an SUV with an unidentified dude behind the wheel.

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SNOOP LOVE THE KIDS: RAPPER TO LAUNCH NEW URBAN BOOK LINE FOR YOUTHS & NEW CARTOON SERIES WITH HIS DAUGHTER.

The same man who has gone on record as saying only 'pretty women [singers] sell records' (i.e. Beyonce, Mary J. Blige and Keyshia Cole) has announced he is set to release an illustrated children's book series. The rapper-real name Calvin Broadus- is reportedly in the process of creating the Where's The Cheese series of urban books. Snoop is writing Where's The Cheese, which will be illustrated by his cousin Joe Cool, to help city youngsters cope with the problems that can arise in their environment. The series will focus on a character called Lil Mouse and her constant quest for cheese, reports AllHipHop.com. The website also claims an animated Where's The Cheese TV show is in development - which may be narrated by Snoop's daughter Cori 'Choc' Broadus.

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T.I. STRIPPED OF HIS GENERAL MOTORS ENDORSEMENT DEAL; MORE COULD FOLLOW.

'I like my beat down low/And my top let back/See me ride 24s/With my Impala wit that...'

Well, no more. While T.I. may continue to push his coveted Chevy Impala, he won't receive a direct deposit paycheck into his dwindling bank account for doing so. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, General Motors has severed ties with T.I. (real name Clifford Harris) in the wake of his conviction on federal gun charges. The endorsement deal, however, isn't his only cash cow to have fallen by the wayside as a result of his legal trouble. "GM had to back up off of me. There are films that I missed out on. Not speaking of, of course, shows. Tours. Tons of business. I’ve probably lost about $10 to $12 million dollars,” he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution when asked about the deal. Last month, T.I. pleaded guilty to illegal weapons charges in Atlanta. He was arrested in October while trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers.

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In his first sit-down interview since being arrested, T.I. tells AJC's Sonia Murray that his patience has grown since being on house arrest for months. "If I can sit at home all day and wait on people to bring me what I need... wait on getting permission to be able to do this and do that, it's not as serious as I used to make it sometimes. Sometimes it was like, 'If I don't get this right now I'm just going to lose it.' When you're going 350 miles per hour, it tends to be that way. But when you are stopped - halted, not slowed down, but halted - you figure, 'Well I could have just slowed down. I didn't have to be stopped.' I thought it was bad just to slow down. Now I see in me being stopped, I could have done this, been this, myself, instead of being forced to do it."

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