As the Dip Set ramps up for their Interscope album, the collective will set out on a nine-city nationwide tour.
Harlem rap collective, The Diplomats, have been extremely visible since their 2010 reconciliation. In addition to moving their operation to Interscope, the group has recorded tracks with Dr. Dre and are reportedly putting the finishing touches on an album… Continue
A guy who appears in an upcoming Nicki Minaj video claims he was demoted from the lead role to a face in the background ... all for revealing top secret information about the project on Twitter.
The guy with the six-pack is Toyin Koyejo -- who claims he was punished for tweeting the title of the song featured in the music video. Apparently, Minaj had intended to keep… Continue
More than a dozen people were killed in a horrific crash early Saturday when a discount bus flipped on a Bronx highway and careened into a metal traffic pole, officials said.
The top of the World Wide bus, which was returning to the city from the Mohegan Sun casino, was sheared off when it hit the sign alongside the New England Thruway just after… Continue
A Brooklyn man accused of raping a woman he kept as a sex slave had a chilling list of penalties for her - including flogging and chaining her to a radiator - if she disobeyed his rules, prosecutors said Friday.
John Hopkins, 45, pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn court to a litany of charges after prosecutors detailed the graphic "master" and "slave" relationship he had… Continue
Diddy-Dirty Money took to the stage last night on “American Idol.” The gang performed their “Coming Home” single while singer/songwriter Skylar Grey played the keys.… Continue
Bow Wow is feeling a certain way about his status in the day.
“I feel like a lot of dudes who get recognition in the game, I’ve been doing it longer than them and I think people are stuck in the right now, that they forget about the past and that’s one thing that I don’t do,” Bow Wow said. “That’s a discredit to somebody’s past and especially their numbers, because… Continue
In Texas, a man is serving 35 years in prison for spitting at a police officer. In the state of Washington, a 19-year-old college student sits behind bars on first-degree assault charges for having unprotected sex with his girlfriend. A Georgia woman was sentenced to eight years in prison after consensual sex without a condom, while a Michigan man faced 10 years in prison on a… Continue
'Zombie ants' may sound like the title of an Ed Wood movie, but, according to National Geographic, they are quite real.
Oddly, there's nothing very zombie-like about the actual ants. It's only when a particular fungus takes over the ant's brain that things get weird.
Once the "stalk of the newfound fungus species Ophiocordyceps… Continue
The mummified remains of a woman gone missing for more than a decade were possibly kept in a Missouri home all those years by her elderly daughter.
The body, wrapped in a thin multi-colored curtain and plastic garbage bags, was discovered by a relative after the death of Gladys Jean Bergmeier last month.
Bergmeier, 75, was found dead on Feb. 7 in a… Continue
The feds have charged a member of a Queens-based robbery crew with cooking up a torture technique that had its victims in tears - from onions.
Erick Mejia is suspected in numerous heists of drug traffickers along the East Coast in which his crew posed as cops and sometimes stuffed a victim's head inside a bag of the pungent veggie.
As confusing as this may sound, Lebron James and Michael Jordan are being sued by Lebron Jordan.
According to TMZ.com, CEO of shoe company Lebron Jordan Inc., Aaron Fraser insists that "Lebron" and "Jordan" happen to be the names of his godsons and he has a right to the moniker that is amidst legal controversy.
When backlash and cease-and-desist letters… Continue
Cambridge, Maryland police are investigating a shooting that took place after a massive brawl between 50-60 people broke out during a concert featuring Meek Mill, who recently inked a deal with rapper Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group.
Meek, who hails from Philadelphia, was the headlining act at Governors Hall at Sailwinds Park in Cambridge on Sunday (March… Continue
Lady Gaga might seem like pop music's favorite gay icon these days, but OUT magazine has plenty of love for Britney Spears, too.
The singer graces the cover of the magazine's first-ever Ladies We Love issue and willingly answered the questions many fans have been dying to ask her for years.
Such as: "What women (living or dead) could make you think twice… Continue
A baby-crazed teen in Arizona has admitted attacking her nine-month-pregnant friend and trying to the cut the unborn child out of her womb, Arizona police said.
Firefighters nabbed Kassandra Toruga, 18, of Maricopa in her friend's home Feb. 16 with two big butcher's knives, scissors, diapers and a big bag of baby clothes, local police said.