Kobe Bryant has agreed to play in Italy during the NBA lockout, according to reports.
Sources close to the Lakers' superstar say that Bryant will head overseas to play for Virtus Bologna next week if owners and players can't reach a deal over the weekend.
The two sides will go into today's negotiating session in Manhattan - which Bryant intends to… Continue
Sylvia Robinson, who flipped the switch that started turning rap music from a New York street phenomenon into the country's dominant pop music sound, died Thursday morning at Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus.
She was 75 and reportedly suffered from congestive heart failure.
Robinson may be best known to many music and movie fans for the 1957… Continue
VH1 is being sued by a professional photographer for using his pictures in a N.W.A. documentary without permission.
The lawsuit filed by photographer Howard Rosenberg cites VH1, Viacom and Viacom International, as well as Creature Films for copyright infringement in the 2008 VH1 documentary "N.W.A.: The World's Most Dangerous Group."
Amber Rose is ride or die for her man (husband?) Wiz Khalifa! She made that plain and clear in a recent interview on Hot 97. The interviewer asked her several questions surrounding Kanye and for the most part she kept things clean and cool. However, when he asked her about what she thought would happen if a fight were to take place between Kanye and Wiz,… Continue
Five severed heads were found in bags in a wooden crate near an elementary school in Acapulco on Tuesday, Mexican police said.
The heads were reportedly accompanied by notes threatening three local drug traffickers.
All five heads appeared to be of men, authorities said. Five headless bodies were discovered near a burned-out vehicle on Monday, but it is not… Continue
The nightmare is over for Stacey Dash ... a judge has finally granted her divorce from actor Emmanuel Xuereb -- the man she claims beat her up on multiple occasions.
Dash -- arguably hotter than another famous 45-year-old filed for divorce in January 2010 ... the same day she filed for a restraining order against the guy.
Rapper Jim Jones dropped $20,000 at a NYC nightclub last weekend -- buying 32 bottles of champagne ... and after that, dude hooked up his server with a PHAT ASS tip.
The "We Fly High" rapper took over Greenhouse on Saturday night to throw a little birthday shindig for a good friend ... and apparently, money was no object.
Now that Beyonce is pregnant, the 30-year-old singer says her sense of smell isn't what it used to be.
While promoting her Pulse fragrance on ET Canada, Knowles admitted that her 41-year-old husband Jay-Z's signature scent has recently become a turnoff.
"I smell everything," she said. "If it smells bad, I smell it. My husband's fragrance, his one that I always… Continue
50 Cent is at it again! He's sending shots out to Lil Wayne and The Game. Here's a sampling of the lyrics.
“Acting like a white boy bored,
Now you want to jump a flight of stairs on a skateboard
n***a, why the f**k is your pants so tight,
You trying to show n***as your ass your alternative life.”
Lil Wayne is the latest story for an issue of VIBE magazine now that he's gracing their Oct/Nov cover.
In it we see him talk about the competition in the rap game---or rather the lack thereof.
“There's no competition [with any artists]. Music isn't about competition no more. All the gangster rappers are happy, all the skateboard rappers are happy, all the… Continue
A Brooklyn jury awarded $1 million Wednesday - then took it back from a woman suing an NYPD sergeant and a cop for failing to protect her informant son, who was murdered.
The bizarre verdict in Brooklyn Federal Court found no one responsible for Anthony Velez's killing in Brownsville - but the jury acknowledged the city "had a duty to protect" him.
The 31-year-old rapper made a low-key exit from an Atlanta halfway house early Thursday morning, the Daily News has learned.
"He was released very early this morning," lawyer Steve Sadow confirmed to the News. "His sentence ended today with the Bureau of Prisons. This was his release date."
Three toughs pulled off a choreographed plan to pass a gun between them like a hot potato before one of them opened fire at a teen outside a Brooklyn McDonald's - and all of it was caught on camera.
The chilling surveillance video, released by police Wednesday night, shows the artful rubout bid that nearly ended the life of Tyquan Sewall, 18, in… Continue
Arizona cops have arrested a troubled teen who, on YouTube, threatened to shoot up his former school and kill himself.
In comments posted beneath a video by indie rockers Foster the People, the 14-year-old said he was going to go on "a killing spree" at Phoenix's Wigwam Creek Middle School.
Maricopa County police found a sawed-off shotgun at the teen's… Continue
Hip-hop artist Petey Pablo has been sentenced in North Carolina to almost three years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing a stolen firearm.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says the 38-year-old rapper was sentenced Monday to 35 months behind bars in U.S. District Court in New Bern. Pablo's real name is Moses Barrett, and he's from Wake Forest,… Continue
Reebok got handed some sole-killing news by the Federal Trade Commission – fork over $25 million in refunds.
The sneaker company got spanked for claiming its EasyTone and RunTone sneakers toned leg and buttock muscles, claims that the FTC ruled were backed by bogus science.
The FTC said that Reebok should never have claimed in its print and television ads… Continue
Ex-Dodger Milton Bradley was busted for felony assault -- after allegedly swinging a baseball bat at his wife yesterday.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ -- Bradley's wife called 911 yesterday around 2pm from their home in Los Angeles -- and told police Milton was chasing her and swinging at her ... batting cage style.
A JetBlue passenger had good reason to appear nervous when his luggage was selected for examination at Kennedy Airport - he was carrying handwritten notes titled, "Confession of the Mule," authorities said.
Jose Acosta arrived Monday from St. Lucia on Flight 880 and was questioned by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspector.
Not everyone is a fan of Rihanna's - or her wardrobe! An Irish farmer halted the production of her sexy new music video for 'We Found Love' on Sept. 27 because he was offended by her raunchy outfit: a bikini made of a bandana and low-slung baggy jeans.
Alan Graham, 61, who owns the land in Bangor, east of Belfast, on which she was shooting, reportedly drove his tractor… Continue