Cash Money wasn’t messing around when they announced they’d signed 17-year-old YouTube-fuelled pop star Austin Mahone last week—over the weekend, they announced they’d gone further and signed a huge partnership with Mahone’s label Chase Records, which will see the two joining forces to put out the teenager’s debut album in the fourth quarter of the… Continue
Justin Bieber is adamant he did NOT drop the N-word on a new song ... despite multiple reports to the contrary ... and his camp tells TMZ the whole thing was a cruel hoax.
Justin's camp tells TMZ ... someone went to YouTube and created a fake account which looked very similar to Bieber's REAL YouTube account.
We've known that Jay Z would have to sell his part-ownership stake in the Brooklyn Nets since April, when Yahoo Sports NBA columnist Adrian Wojnarowski reported that the rapper and mogul had decided to expand the Roc Nation Sports management concern he co-created with the powerful Creative Artists Agency into representing NBA players like three-time scoring champion Kevin… Continue
NBA star Steve Nash scored a huge legal victory over his ex-wife -- blocking her from moving their kids to L.A. -- and then promptly agreed, for some strange reason, to let the fam come to Cali after all ... TMZ has learned.
As we first reported, the Los Angeles Lakers point guard has been battling his ex, Alejandra Nash, for months over her desire to move their 3…
Miguel -- the singer behind the hit "Adorn" -- has been charged with 2 counts of drunk driving stemming from his August 15 arrest in L.A. ... TMZ has learned.
We broke the story ... the 27-year-old was initially stopped for excessively dark tint on the windows of his 2013 BMW X6 ... and during the stop, cops suspected Miguel had been drinking.
Kanye West has reportedly seen a huge boost in his bank balance with reports claiming the rapper was flown to Kazakhstan over the weekend and paid $3 million to perform at a wedding.
The ‘New Slaves’ rapper is said to have left girlfriend Kim Kardashian and their daughter North at home in Los Angeles to head over to Europe where he was invited to perform at the… Continue
Rapper Mack Maine WILL be charged with sexual battery and assault for allegedly groping a female and then punching her female friend on Lil Wayne's tour bus last week ... officials tell TMZ.
Maine has been accused of inviting the alleged victims onto Wayne's tour bus following a concert in OKC last week. While on the bus, one woman claims Maine stuck his hand down…
If your life got flipped, turned upside down, then take a minute, just sit right here—but sorry, you can't move in with Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith.
A report surfaced last week claiming that the couple's 25,000-square-foot Calabasas, Calif., was listed for sale at $42 million, but publicist Karynne Tencer told the Daily News Monday, Sept. 2, this "is false. Their… Continue
Eminem's new single "Berzerk" is selling like crazy. Industry sources forecast that the hip-hop star's new single may sell upwards of 350,000 to 375,000 downloads by the end of the tracking week on Sunday, Sept. 1
That should guarantee a high entry on both the Digital Songs chart and the Billboard Hot 100 chart next week. The latter list's top 10 will be revealed on… Continue
A Tennessee woman had to be taken to the hospital Tuesday after she allegedly stole $5,000 from her boyfriend and stored the cash in an unusual hiding spot.
According to a police report, Bobby Gulley was under the suspicion that his girlfriend, 43-year-old Christie Black of Bulls Gap, was stealing from him. He told police he "set a trap" for the woman by placing one… Continue
Whoa, man — a popular Manhattan-based marijuana magazine is trying whack a weed rival.
In a federal lawsuit, High Times magazine is charging that NW Harvest Fest is bogarting its Cannabis Cup trademark.
The suit says NW Harvest Fest is holding a Cannabis Cup competition in Bow, Washington this upcoming weekend - the same time High Times is holding its own… Continue
Lupe Fiasco is in cahoots with a convicted drug kingpin -- hiding millions of dollars from the drug lord's estranged wife to screw her in the divorce ... this according to a new lawsuit.
Fiasco is a big-time rapper ... who's being sued by the estranged wife of convicted drug kingpin Charles Patton, who's currently serving a 44-year prison sentence for running a…
Don't expect to see Bill Cosby twerking when he performs in the New York area Saturday. The 76-year-old funnyman known for family-friendly humor doesn’t pay much attention to entertainers who aim to shock, but he still appreciates a heartfelt speech.
“What is ‘pushing the envelope’?” Cosby kidded about Miley Cyrus’ VMA performance earlier in the week.
Riddle us this, why don’t the powers that be at Warner Bros. show a little love to Justin Timberlake?
The “Mirrors” singer and occasional actor revealed he wants to be cast in the upcoming “Man of Steal” sequel -- as the nefarious Riddler to Ben Affleck’s Batman.
"I ain't playin' Robin. I have no aspiration to ever be a superhero in a movie,” Timberlake… Continue
PHILADELPHIA -- Beyonce closed the first day of her husband Jay-Z's second annual music festival with a 90-minute set that featured hits like "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)" and "Crazy In Love."
Beyonce was the headline performer Saturday at the "Budweiser Made In America" festival in Philadelphia on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway that included 50,000… Continue
A 1-year-old Brooklyn boy was killed by a bullet that had his father’s name on it, police sources said.
Antiq Hennis was nestled in his stroller Sunday night, just inches from his parents, when the shot pierced his head just a block from the family’s Riverdale Ave. home, cops and witnesses said.
The child’s father — the intended target, according to law… Continue
Showtime has landed the TV rights to "Made In America," the Ron Howard film of Jay Z's megaconcert last year in Philadelphia.
Jay Z produced and headlined the concert, which also featured Kanye West, Pearl Jam, Jill Scott, Gary Clark Jr., D'Angelo, Dirty Projectors, The Hives, Janelle Monáe, Odd Future, Rita Ora, Passion Pit, Run-D.M.C., Santigold and Mike…
Chief Keef is swimming in cash but he's not handing any of it over to his landlord ... who claims the rap prodigy owes almost $10k in back rent.
Georghe Simoniak-Sas filed a lawsuit against Keef -- real name Keith Cozart -- and Keef's uncle. In docs, Georghe says Keef hasn't coughed up rent for the months of July or August ($4,700 /month) on the Illinois mansion he's… Continue
Sean Kingston has settled up with the 22-year-old girl who accused the singer and his former bodyguards of gang rape back in 2010, sources close to Kingston tell TMZ.
Sources tell TMZ, Kingston settled NOT because he's admitting guilt, but because his upcoming tour and new album release will prevent him from focusing his energies on a messy civil… Continue