Mike Beck, a member of Fat Joe's K.A.R. collective, has reportedly passed.
While details are still sketchy, word is, the New York rapper was gunned down in Brooklyn late Friday (October 30), in a botched robbery attempt.
But, the death was confirmed by fellow rapper, N.O.R.E., who posted a message on his Twitter page (@Noreaga).
"Rest in peace. He was a real dude, Mike Beck. I did records for him n he ate in my crib, n drank… Continue
Hair's the ultimate way to show Yankees pride.
Forget replica jerseys and baseball caps - die-hard Bombers boosters wear their team's logo on their noggin.
Hairdos sporting the iconic interlocking NY are all the rage among the faithful during the Yanks' World Series run.
"It's good luck," said Tom McBride, 38, who was spotted with the cutting-edge haircut during the public broadcast of Game 4 in Yankee… Continue
Chris Brown released the album cover for his forthcoming Graffiti album (due December 15) on Monday (November 2). The singer tweeted the image on Monday afternoon, just as images from his "Crawl" music video were released.
On the cover, Brown is decked out in all black wearing a blazer, turtleneck, sunglasses and army boots and holding an electric guitar one shoulder and a can of spray paint in the other hand — which actually looks like a… Continue
Nas may be loaded, but it makes no difference. He's just filed legal papers asking the judge in his divorce case with Kelis to block her from getting spousal support.
In the papers, filed by his lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan, Nas is also asking for joint custody of their two-month-old boy.
Kelis is asking for $72,728 a month -- which means they are now exactly $72,728… Continue
NFL on CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz made one really bad call -- with a 29-year-old woman -- and now it will cost him nearly a million bucks a year for the rest of his life.
A Connecticut judge ordered the famous announcer to pay his ex-wife $864,000-a-year in alimony -- and the only way out is death ... or if his ex-wife remarries.
The judge's decision comes in light of Nantz's admission that he began dating a 29-year-old woman before he… Continue
The songbird has granted her first interviews since the February assault by then-boyfriend Chris Brown in a pair of appearances on "Good Morning America" and "20-20" this week.
"Now, for the very first time, Rihanna tells HER story," teases the ABC promo over shots of sultry singer performing on stage.
While the "Break It Off" singer has chosen to lie low in the wake of the incident,… Continue
Talk about a premature promotion.
A Philadelphia newspaper Monday ran an advertisement by Macy's applauding the Phillies for a phantom World Series victory and promoting a 2009 championship T-shirt.
In the ad world equivalent of the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline, the bungled banner in The Philadelphia Inquirer said "Congratulations Phillies! Back-to-back Champs."
Underneath, a shirt celebrating the Phils as the 2009 World… Continue
Cleveland Police were scrambling to identify the bodies of six women found in various stages of decomposition inside a convicted rapist's house of horrors over the weekend.
In a scenario ripped from "The Silence of the Lambs," Ohio ex-con Anthony Sowell allegedly strangled a series of women in his three-story house over a period of months - or even years.
Rotting bodies were found in upstairs bedrooms, the living room, a crawl space, a shallow grave in the… Continue
50 Cents stops by Hot 937 and talks to the On-Air Idiots about what rappers he would love to punch in the face, how Khalid is throwing bricks, and shows us what he would do to Def Jam if he was in charge by throwing things all over the… Continue
Two gunmen wearing masks like the killer in the horror movie "Scream" shot and killed a suspected gang member in broad daylight on a Brooklyn street Sunday, police said.
The masked gunmen shot the victim twice in the face as he walked along Clara St. in Kensington around 11:30 a.m., police sources said.
A flurry of shots rang out on the quiet block and then a black car sped away from the scene, witnesses told cops.
According to the streets, video model Miss Dade County, rapper Bow Wow's on-again-off-again girlfriend is pregnant. Word is that she went to Atlanta this weekend to visit Bow Wow and "discuss the issue"
Well you knew that it couldn't last forever. MediaTakeOut.com learned that Kanye West finally ended things with his stripper-turned-model girlfriend Amber Rose.
What happened, you ask?? Well according to one of Kanye's buddies, Ye is "focusing 100% of his time towards music . . . and he doesn't need any distractions."
Oooo Kay!! Wonder who Amber's got her eye on… Continue
Rapper 50 Cent has a new album coming out on November 23rd and word is that he’s about to get some major buzz going.
We just spoke to someone close to the Unit who says that former Jay Z pal Beanie Siegel is going out on the road with 50 as he does his promo.
For those of you who’ve been living under a rock, Beanie released a diss track on Friday going hard against Jay Z.
And according to our snitch, he’s gonna be dropping… Continue
A blackface Halloween costume has left one Long Island teen with a lot of egg on his face.
Commack High School senior Dean Jeziorkowski was ordered to leave school Friday after he turned up dressed as the black Aunt Jemima character.
Jeziorkowski, 17, refused to back down over the brouhaha, and his family refused to comment yesterday.
Fellow student Danny Cuevas, 16, who was out trick-or-treating in Jeziorkowski's… Continue
Madonna struck a provocative pose in an advertisement for luxury designer Louis Vuitton. Considering the singer's controversial past photographic exploits ('Erotica' anyone?), the ad is hardly shocking, but the material girl sure seems to know how to showcase a hand bag. Madonna was personally picked by designer Marc Jacobs to headline the campaign, hitting newsstands near… Continue
OK, so we’ve stayed out of the fray regarding posting pictures of Kanye’s new girlfriend, Amber Rose. But reading this juicy tidbit this morning about how Amber left her GIRLFRIEND OF TWO YEARS IN THE BRONX to galavant with Kanye…I mean…Really? LOL! This is some off-E.Lynn Harris stuff.
“But we’re told those rumors you’ve been hearing about Amber being a lesbian are true. Our source who used to… Continue
It seems in this day and age most rappers are losing all accountability and individuality. Nicki Minaj says she is not like Lil Kim or any other rapper:
Pop the top and watch her unintelligent and fake @ss talk in circles.
Nicki Minaj says she does not want to be compared to any other female rappers, yet she took the picture up top and redid a Lil Kim and Biggie song,… Continue