CHICAGO — That's not a wall, that's a television! R. Kelly's crib is that huge. On Monday night, the singer opened his doors to MTV News, friends and a few other media outlets to unveil Untitled. The LP is now scheduled for an October 13 release, and his Ladies Make Some Noise tour begins on October 8.
Kelly welcomed everyone into his living room, which is the size of your average lounge. It has a log-cabin theme with a movie-screen-size… Continue
Rick Ross says he'd pick getting props for a hot 16 over almost any other form of pleasure. He's at such a creative space right now, he gets a rush throwing songs out almost as soon as they're recorded.
"Aw, man. It's better than sex when you go create something that's actually dope and turn around [and put it right out]," he said about feeding the Internet and the streets with mixtape material. "That's like one of my favorite kicks. It's online… Continue
Nene Leakes may have called her autobiography "Never Make the Same Mistake Twice," but she doesn't think her most controversial job was a mistake at all.
"Yes, I was a stripper - let the judgments ensue," the "Real Housewife of Atlanta" announces in the outrageous book. "I'm not ashamed."
The sassy Leakes adds that while she may have taken her clothes off for money back in the day, her past has no reflection on her present incarnation… Continue
There’s growing tension between R&B singer Estelle (the chick who sang American Boy with Kanye West) and Rihanna. It all started a few weeks ago when Rihanna and Jay Z’s new song Run This Town first came out.
MediaTakeOut.com discovered that Estelle re-tweeted a post made by one of her fans that said, "Estelle would have smashed the hook. Rihanna just doesn't do it for me."
And there’s more. Now – in this month’s issue of Women’s… Continue
Here’s what Pepa had to say about it in a recent interview:
"I thought Will was really cute and we would hang out a lot on the road. He liked to take care of me and never let me spend a dime. He was that kind of guy, real generous.
I remember when they won their first award, he asked me to go out with him afterward. He was so excited. We were walking along the street getting ready to grab something to eat, and he just gave this… Continue
Beyoncé has been taking more fashion/beauty risks lately -- a trait we 300% support -- and the mega-star is known for looking glam and polished every time she steps out.
But we're not sure about these curly bangs. On the one hand, she's out enjoying a leisurely lunch with her husband (um, Jay-Z) and shouldn't be expected to be "done" all the time. If she wants to let her hair go au naturale over the weekend, she has every right.
The Notorious B.I.G. didn't live to see his baby girl turn 16, but T'yanna Wallace made sure he was there for her Sweet Sixteen party last night.
Dolled up in a pink dress and Nikes to match, the hip-hop princess wore a button over her heart emblazoned with her slain father's face.
"I needed to have him here with me," she said, standing outside of Taj, an upscale lounge in the Flatiron District.
Extraterrestrials invaded the hearts, minds and wallets of earthbound movie fans over the weekend, making "District 9" the top winner at the box office.
The sci-fi tale of space aliens living in apartheid-like squalor beamed in $37 million in ticket sales, thanks in part to a catchy marketing campaign that included bus ads warning that seats are for humans only.
"Everybody was like, 'What is this?' There was a big question mark in… Continue
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