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Sean (Diddy) Combs won a legal round Thursday in his bitter battle with the personal chef who says she was forced to serve the naked mogul “post-coital” cuisine.

A Los Angeles judge ruled chef Cindy Rueda signed a “plain vanilla arbitration agreement” when she took her job and must use private arbitration, not the courts, to pursue the sexual harassment lawsuit she…

Rapper DMX can hire "substance monitors" to keep him on the wagon while he's traveling for work, his lawyer said in a new filing.

DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, has been going back and forth with Manhattan Federal Judge Jed Rakoff for permission to travel for gigs.

Rakoff on Friday ordered Simmons, 46, to home detention because he tested positive for…

What comes to mind when you say the word "Venom"? What images does it invoke? Dualality of Man? Saint Vs. Sinner? Lyrical Lethality? Uncanny Adaptablity?

Venom has opened for several major label recording artists and has been featured in shows from Hollywood, Ca to…

Eazy-E founded Ruthless Records in 1986 as a platform for his upstart group, N.W.A. Now, more than 30 years later — and more than 20 years after the rapper’s death — his widow and son are battling over who controls the Ruthless name.

Tomica Woods-Wright, the widow, has owned the company since Eazy-E’s death. On Tuesday, she filed a federal trademark infringement suit…

Queen Latifah will be honored at Diddy’s fourth annual REVOLT music conference in October, where performers will include Lauryn Hill and 2 Chainz.

REVOLT announced Wednesday that the conference will take place Oct. 12-15 in Miami. Latifah will receive the Icon Award for her accomplishments in music, film and TV. She has won an Emmy, Golden Globe and Grammy…

Chris Brown relived the February 2009 night he assaulted Rihanna for his new documentary “Welcome to My Life.”

Brown, then just 19, confessed to punching and pushing the “Umbrella” singer, who was 20 at the time, into the window of the Lamborghini he was driving, saying, “I felt like a f–king monster.”

As he details, the pair were at a Clive Davis Grammy party…

A Tribe Called Quest penned an open letter published in the Los Angeles Times regarding their cancellations at Outside Lands over the weekend.

On Saturday (Aug. 11), fans were disheartened after the storied hip-hop group unexpectedly pulled out from their performance. Things only got worse the following day when ATCQ cancelled their show again. According to the group,…

LeBron James has not had a lot to say on Twitter about the President of the United States in the past six months.

That has changed in the past four days.

Tuesday, the normally evasive James left nothing to decode after Donald Trump spoke in Manhattan, where he condemned the “alt left,” too, for the attack this weekend that left one counter-protester dead at a…

Natalie Cole’s son Robert Yancy was found dead in his San Fernando Valley, Calif., apartment on Monday night.

He was 39 and Cole’s only child.

The death was attributed to natural causes.

Natalie’s twin sisters, Casey and Timolin, told Page Six: “We are saddened, completely heart broken beyond words at the death of our nephew. It’s an inexplicable…

Wu Wear is back on the streets.

Wu-Tang Clan's Robert Diggs (RZA) and Oliver Grant (Power) tell Billboard they’re bringing back the iconic hip-hop clothing line in partnership with Live Nation’s Merchandise division. Originally launched in 1995, Wu Wear was one of hip-hop’s first clothing lines and was sold at major retailers like Macy's and Bloomingdale's until being…

The Purple One now has a color named after him.

A new shade of purple honoring late rock legend Prince has been created by The Pantone Color Institute in collaboration with The Prince Estate.

The shade’s official name is the iconic symbol Prince changed his name to when he was “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince,” but fans can call it “Love Symbol #2” — which…

Legendary rapper MC Lyte married the man of her dreams over the weekend in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

“It was so beautiful and a fairytale,” Lyte, 46, told Essence of her nuptials with Marine Corp veteran John Wyche. “I got my king.”

Lyte, whose real name is Lana Moorer, met her husband on Match.com in 2016 after opening herself up to receive a “yummy hubby.”…

How’s this for a blessing?

Chance the Rapper’s surprise free concert in Chicago Saturday night featured a cameo from a very special guest: Barack Obama.

In a pre-recorded video message, the former commander-in-chief congratulated fellow Chicagoan Chance for serving as the Grand Marshal of the city’s 88th-annual Bud Billiken Parade, which is the largest and…

It must be tough to be humble when you’re so used to winning.

Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN.” returned to the top of the Billboard 200 chart Sunday, netting its fourth total week at No. 1 since the album dropped in May.

With four weeks at No. 1, “DAMN.” has spent the most time on top of the chart since the Weeknd’s “Starboy” notched five non-consecutive weeks in…

50 Cent’s hit show, Power, has simultaneously been a feather in the rapper’s cap and a point of contention between the Queens rap mogul and the Starz Network. Earlier this week, the Internet went nuts when the final three episodes of season four mysteriously made their way onto the World Wide Web. According to Fif, the network thinks he is the culprit.

Earlier today…