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A troubled city high school has finally heard the sound of music coming from a recording studio donated by Drake after a monthslong search for a teacher to run it.

The Grammy-winning rapper gave $75,000 to help create the space at Strawberry Mansion High School, district officials said. Drake, a 28-year-old Toronto native, has said he was deeply affected by a…

The Maroon 5 and Nicki Minaj collaboration is sweet!

With lyrics like, "Up down, inside / Water park it, slip slide," the Queens-born rapper laced the band's remix for "Sugar."

Maroon's hit song has already landed the No. 3 spot on the Hot 100 chart. Now, they spice things up a bit by adding the hip hop vixen to the third single off their fifth studio album,…

Nick Cannon is either justified in his lawsuit against ex Mariah Carey or he's simply "a sadly desperate man."

The "America's Got Talent" host claims he never authorized the $9 million sale of their Los Angeles home and believes their business manager, Michael Kane, was dealing exclusively with the singer's team, leaving Cannon completely out of the deal,…

Suge Knight was legally justified in pointing his truck at Terry Carter, running him over and killing him ... so claims Suge's lawyer.

Attorney Matt Fletcher says he'll present a George Zimmerman-type defense in Suge's murder trial, claiming his client had a legal right to stand his ground and ultimately do in Mr. Carter.

Fletcher points to a California jury…

Sean Kingston just bought some expensive jewelry ... against his will. Let's just say it's a court-ordered purchase.

Sean skated off with $226k worth of jewelry from 2008-2013 but never paid a dime ... this according to Avi Da Jeweler who filed a lawsuit against Sean.

The singer's rep told us last August ... Sean coughed up more than $300k and had the…

When you're 50 Cent, you can make everything in your life into a mogul. That houseplant? It's a mogul. Oh, the dog? Mogul. And, well, you know his own son is a mogul too.

"He's got a [modeling] deal now with Kidz Safe," 50 Cent said during an interview with Angie Martinez on Power 105.1. "It's an audio company. They paid him a big payment too: $700,000."

Yes,…

A video was posted on Twitter Sunday evening (March 8)—a day after President Obama’s speech at Selma, Ala. and same day as the 50th anniversary of “Blood Sunday”—of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity brothers of the University of Oklahoma singing a racist song about never letting black people pledge (see below).

Since the release, SAE has closed its chapter at the…

Madonna, Rihanna and Sam Smith will perform at the second annual iHeartRadio Music Awards this month.

Iggy Azalea, Florida Georgia Line, Jason Aldean and Meghan Trainor will also hit the stage on March 29 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, iHeartMedia announced Monday. Jamie Foxx will host the awards show.

Azalea and Smith are the top nominees, with five…

TMZ has obtained the video of Suge Knight running over 2 men, killing one. It is gruesome, revealing and it will absolutely become the centerpiece of his murder trial.

Suge drove to a Tam's Burgers in Compton where Dr. Dre was filming footage connected with the NWA biopic, "Straight Outta Compton." Suge had been kicked out of another location shoot 20 minutes earlier,…

Taraji P. Henson figures she knows at least one good reason why Fox’s “Empire” has become TV’s biggest breakout hit of 2015.

Henson, who co-stars in the Wednesday night drama as the unfiltered, outspoken and altogether unforgettable Cookie Lyon, suggests it’s the same reason the 2014-2015 season’s other biggest drama hit is ABC’s “How to Get Away With Murder”…

Jets running back Chris Johnson was shot in the shoulder in a drive-by shooting that left another person dead early Sunday morning, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s office in Orlando, Fla. Johnson is expected to be OK, according to a source.

Johnson was in a Jeep with two other men around 4:09 a.m. when another car pulled up next to them at a red light…

Six people were stabbed during a rolling brawl at a Migos concert in Albany where another was beaten and robbed inside a bathroom, authorities said.

Albany police learned of the Friday night violence as victims as young as 16 called 911 from the concert, at home or later checked in overnight at local emergency rooms with stab wounds.

The stabbing victims…

Get ready, Kendrick Lamar fans: The rapper’s new album will drop in a matter of weeks.

The Grammy-winning rapper took to Twitter to announce that his follow-up to “good kid, m.A.A.d. city” will be released March 23.

Lamar made the reveal by linking to an iTunes page that contains only a few details about the new album: It will have 16 tracks including his most…

Chris Brown is headed for family court, where his baby mama is now in danger of raking in a lot less in child support because of her big mouth.

Sources connected with Brown tell TMZ ... the singer didn't know he was the father of 9-month-old Royalty until last month, when Nia Guzman dropped the news. We're told Chris quickly made a deal with her where he would pay…

It looks like people really can't get enough of Kanye West.

A bag of air from an unspecified Yeezus concert went up for sale on eBay and had $60,000 worth of bids.

The plastic bag labeled "Air from Kanye show" had 90…

Off Rozay’s Hood Billionaire album, out now.

Jay Z does not appear on the video.…

Even when we think that Jay-Z’s takeover is never ending, not everyone is so interested

In January, Jay-Z made headlines after he put a big bid of $56 million on the European streaming service Aspiro. As the rival streaming service to Spotify, they believed that with an American star such as Jay on board, it would be seen as basically global…

The Young Money artist finally opens up about the YMCMB conflict that has been going on for the last couple weeks.

Nicki Minaj says she loves both Birdman and Lil Wayne.

She says the beef between her mentor Lil Wayne and CEO Bryan “Baby” Williams aka Birdman will come to an end soon. Nicki Minaj stopped by BBC Radio to explain her standpoint on the…

Singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams lied about how they crafted the 2013 hit “Blurred Lines” and should be financially punished for using music by Marvin Gaye, a lawyer for the late singer’s family told a jury Thursday.

An attorney for Williams and Thicke, however, said his clients did nothing wrong in evoking the feeling of Gaye’s music, and determining…

The troubled boyfriend of comatose Bobbi Kristina Brown was on his way to rehab Thursday after a dangerous drinking binge and surprise intervention involving his mom and Dr. Phil.

“Hopefully he’s in rehab right now. He got in car from the hotel with his mom,” a well-placed source told The News.

“Things got really bad with him,” the source said, referring to…