Featured Blog Posts – January 2015 Archive (117)

Kanye West was among the recipients of the BET Honors awards this year, as the network presented him with a Visionary Award. Selected for his “extraordinary contributions across the arts,” Yeezy joined Usher and Phylicia Rashad as the night's honorees. At the show's taping last night (Jan. 24), Mr. West was introduced by an unlikely presenter: Damon Dash.…

Chris Brown is now at the center of a new criminal investigation ... but this time he's the victim.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... when Chris was jailed for leaving rehab back in April and taken across the country to Washington D.C. for his hearing on assault charges, one of his first stops was San Bernardino County Jail.

Chris was only there for a day or…

Although he's not out of the woods yet, Bobby Shmurda's making headway in his current legal situation. After being indicted on a variety of charges last year, REVOLT reports that the Brooklyn rapper, born Ackquille Pollard, has been cleared of one of his charges.

"Brooklyn D.A. office announced that the gun case in Brooklyn will be dismissed in about two weeks,"…

Birdman and Lil Wayne have officially declared war ... settlement talks have broken down and Wayne will now sue his mentor, claiming among other things Birdman owes him $8 million.

The 2 titans tried coming to terms this week but it wasn't meant to be. Now Wayne will ask a judge to declare him free of Cash Money and Birdman's control. Wayne says Birdman has…

The cash-rich and often bizarre world of boxer Floyd 'Money' Mayweather Jr. is today exposed by his former executive assistant.

Tasha Robinson-White worked for Mayweather, 37, for 12 years operating within his inner circle as the boxer's 'right hand' woman - and has now written a tell-all book about her extraordinary career.

In an exclusive interview…

CeeLo Green is back with new music – with a TV twist.

The Grammy winner dropped a nine-song album online Wednesday titled “TV on the Radio,” first reported by Billboard.

The album features Green performing over popular TV theme songs such as “Taxi” “Family Ties” and “Knight Rider.”

The former “Voice” judge surprised fans with the new project,…

Mike Epps got a lesson in racism -- the comic actor got blasted on social media for posting a photo of a black man whipping white slaves.

Epps posted the pic on Instagram and Facebook late Thursday night -- and the cotton field scene also included an image of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. floating above ... and smiling. Epps captioned the image, "I am so proud of you…

TLC members Chilli “Rozonda” Thomas and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins are thankful and humbled their Kickstarter campaign to fund the recording of their fifth album surpassed its $150,000 goal in just four days.

"We feel highly favored and blessed and loved," Chilli tells Yahoo Music about the crowd-sourcing initiative that launched Monday. "It makes us feel good that…

Chris Brown & Plies got into it when Plies took it upon himself to call Chris Brown a f*ck n!gg@ for spilling his guts on twitter when he was mad at Karrueche.

Here's what he said:…

Don’t call it a comeback. LL Cool J has been hosting the Grammys for years.

For the fourth time, the Queens-born rapper will emcee the event when it takes place on Sunday February 8th.

At the same time, the Grammys has announced more performers for its 57th annual installment. Country star Miranda Lambert, R&B hottie Usher, “Happy” man Pharrell and…

Wearing his trademark clock necklace, Flavor Flav pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges stemming from a traffic stop last year while he was driving to his mother's funeral.

"I don't like the circumstances, but I like the attention," he said while surrounded by a throng of reporters and fans snapping pictures with their cellphones as he waited to be summoned to…

Drake's dad is making a return to music, but he'll be doing it without his famous son ... because Drizzy was just too busy to hit the studio with his pops.

Dennis Graham put out the word on Instagram ... he was looking for a "classy" female rapper for a new song -- and in his words, "ghetto style" rappers need not apply.

Well, Graham tells TMZ he found his…

Kevin Hart has played a businessman, a security guard and even a boxing promoter, but one role you might never see him take on is a gay character.

In a recent interview with "The Breakfast Club" on Power 105.1, Hart said he just wasn't comfortable portraying a homosexual character on screen.…

Boxing superstar Jermain Taylor -- the WBC middleweight champ -- released a disturbing new video in which he essentially apologizes for firing a gun during an MLK parade in Arkansas.

The footage is shot while Taylor is taking a bath -- and he addresses the incident in which he was charged with 5 counts of assault for allegedly squeezing out two shots during an…

One sings about being "Happy," the other croons about being sad: Pharrell and Sam Smith will perform at the Grammys next month.

The Recording Academy announced Wednesday that Usher and Miranda Lambert also will take the stage at the Feb. 8 show in Los Angeles. Common and John Legend will perform their Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated song, "Glory," from the movie…

When Amber Rose said "I Do" to Wiz Khalifa, one important thing was missing. A majority of her family wasn't in attendance.

It certainly wasn't because they weren't invited or welcomed. Instead, the reason behind their absence may be because of their views on African Americans.

In a personal new interview for the Oprah Winfrey Network, the supermodel…

While 50 Cent was proclaiming the new Fox series Empire borrowed marketing strategies from his own Starz program Power, another Queens native was seeing 50’s show as a ripoff as well. Curtis “The Snake Charmer” Scoon jumped on Twitter to claim that the G-Unit boss stole the Power concept from a show he had been developing since 2008.

Scoon accuses 50 and producer…

R&B star August Alsina has never heard of the phrase "Don't kick a man while he's down" ... because that's exactly what he tried to do during a brawl after a show to promote non-violence. Whoops.

The show was called State Of Emergency 2 and it went down Saturday night at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis. Proceeds from the show went to the Put Down the Pistol…