Your money needs laundering. A new study found that almost all the bank notes in circulation in this country are contaminated with cocaine.
An average of about 85% of US greenbacks had traces of the drug - up 20% since the same team did a similar study two years ago.
"To my surprise, we're finding more and more cocaine in banknotes," said Dr. Yuegang Zuo, who led the researchers at the University of Massachusetts.
The Best Hip-Hop Video category for this year's MTV Video Music Awards is stacked with heavy-hitters like Jay-Z and an impressive upstart in Asher Roth. But Flo Rida is just looking forward to being in the building September 13.
The rapper was nominated for his clip "Right Round," alongside Jay's "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)", Roth's "I Love College," Kanye West's "Love Lockdown" and Eminem's "We Made You."
Diddy's been promising a full-on return to music for a while, and the hip-hop entrepreneur appears to be making his comeback the right way, by hyping the release of his upcoming Last Train to Paris album with a mixtape that dropped on Saturday.
Diddy announced the tape — produced by famed Chicago remixer Felix Da Housecat (Britney Spears, Ciara, Madonna) and released on Saturday — with a tweet in which he bragged, "Lectro Black is my dance music… Continue
Bow Wow took to UStream and Twitter on Sunday night to make the big announcement he'd been teasing his fans with for some time: "It's official, I'm a Cash Money Millionaire," he told his thousands of viewers and followers.
The rapper had parted ways with his longtime label, Columbia Records, earlier this year. In previous Twitter dispatches, he explained he was deciding between two recording options: T.I.'s Grand Hustle camp through Atlantic… Continue
A civet is eating coffee during the production of Civet coffee, the world's most expensive coffee in Bondowoso in East Java, near Surabaya, Indonesia. The coffee, also known as Kopi Luwak, is produced by the civet (a small squirrel-like arboreal mammal) which eats the coffee berries or red coffee cherries, the beans inside which pass through its digestive tract, expelling them undigested as feces. The faeces are then cleaned, dried and lightly roasted… Continue
Brazilian police are investigating a TV crime-show host, Wallace Souza, on suspicion of commissioning killings to boost his ratings and prove his claim that Brazil's Amazon region is awash in violent crime.
Souza's lawyer, Francisco Balieiro, said his client is innocent and the charges are an attempt by his political enemies to disgrace him.
Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo reports from Sao… Continue
In the wake of Paula Abdul's departure from "American Idol" earlier this month, Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham and Katy Perry announced they'd sit at the judges' table alongside Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson and Kara DioGuardi during auditions. Now, the latest star to wear the judge hat this season will be Mary J. Blige.
People.com reported on Friday (August 14) that the Grammy-winning R&B singer will be a guest judge when the crew heads… Continue
IRVINE, California — 50 Cent came to the concert in full costume on Friday night (August 14) to show love to his young homie Soulja Boy Tell'em during a Young Money Presents: The America's Most Wanted Music Festival tour stop. Fif surprised fans during Soulja Boy's set, hitting the stage in his killer clown outfit from the "OK Alright" video. Fif took off his eerie mask and performed his latest single with Soulja, taking Tony Yayo's place for the night as high-energy… Continue
According to Kim Zolciak, NeNe’s been cheating on her husband with NFL player.
This rumor came to light during a televised interview of NeNe. About half way into the interview, Kim called in and dropped the bomb. Here’s a piece of the drama.
Kim: My house is paid for, I still have my cars. They weren’t repo’d in the Home Depot parking lot.
NeNe: Close your legs to married men. Go back to the trailer park [you] trashy
Every potential NBA draftee wants to look their best on draft night, but a jewelry company in L.A. claims Memphis Grizzlies star O.J. Mayo wore a ton of ice he never paid for.
According to a lawsuit filed Thursday, O.J. asked Prime Mountings to make a series of jewelry items, some of which he intended to wear to the NBA Draft. Prime says O.J. took the items promising to pay when he signed his first NBA contract -- and also promised he would "be… Continue
A note to former "American Gladiators" star Titan for the next time he decides to bet on a women's MMA fight -- never bet against a girl whose nickname is "Cyborg."
Cris "Cyborg" Santos took care of business last night, scoring a first round TKO over hottie Gina Carano. Titan had told us he was laying a $500 wager on Carano -- his former "Gladiators"… Continue
Michael Jackson's body is in deep freeze at a Hollywood cemetery while his family continues to fight over where to bury him, it was reported Saturday.
The singer's devoted mom, Katherine Jackson, has frequently visited the pop icon's remains at Forest Lawn in Hollywood Hills, TMZ.com reported.
Jackson's body was taken to Forest Lawn after his autopsy - but the whereabouts of the coffin became a mystery after it left a memorial service… Continue
CANTON, Massachusetts — An arrest warrant has been issued for Bobby Brown after he failed to appear in a Massachusetts court on a contempt complaint.
Judge Christina Harms ordered Brown arrested the next time the singer is in Massachusetts. He failed to appear at a June 29 hearing.
Register of Probate Patrick McDermott said Friday that by June, Brown had fallen $45,000 behind in child support payments for the two teenage children he… Continue
Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.
Dylan was in Long Branch, about a two-hour drive south of New York City, on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp that was to play at a baseball stadium in nearby Lakewood.
A 24-year-old police officer apparently was unaware of who… Continue
Is this guy high or something?
A Brooklyn performance artist's latest act is fake "candy crack" drug deals - riling neighborhood activists who don't think illegal narcotics are a laughing matter.
Every other Saturday night, Nate Hill delivers $1 bags of "crack" - really crystallized sugar - to anyone in Williamsburg and Greenpoint who calls in an order.
Dressed in a white tuxedo and a white dolphin headpiece, he shows up… Continue
There was spattered blood and holes from shotgun pellets in the door, but Charles (Gus) Augusto was back in business Friday, a day after blasting two would-be robbers to death and wounding two more.
Sitting in his Harlem store, the 72-year-old businessman said he wished he hadn't been forced to pull the trigger, but added, "I had no choice."
"I would have been happy if they'd all run out the door," he told the Daily News. "I'm sick to… Continue
"Third Watch" star Nia Long shows how to beat the morning commute...by riding the rails in the buff!
Of her decision to join the PETA "I'd rather go naked than wear fur" campaign, Long says, "When I became a mother I started to really understand the importance of all living creatures in a way that I didn't ever think about before."