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Samsung is reportedly taking a second look at Tidal, the music streaming service owned by Jay-Z. The Korean electronics giant has restarted acquisition talks with Tidal, according to a report by the New York Post.

The paper is also reporting that Tidal has been in talks with Google and Spotify about possible partnerships.

Tidal has been looking for various exit…

Hollywood still has progress to make, says actor-rapper-producer Ice Cube.

“It ain’t cool enough yet,” the Straight Outta Compton filmmaker said Feb. 19. “I mean, it’s still got gatekeepers. It’s got gatekeepers everywhere. Cool people still…

A 24-year-old woman was busted at Kennedy Airport trying to smuggle $10,000 worth of cocaine into the city — by hiding it in her vagina, officials said.

Shekira Thompson, a U.S. citizen born in Jamaica, was caught with a half-pound package of the white powder inserted into her private area on Sunday while returning from a trip to her birth…

Hip-hop producer AraabMuzik might have 9 lives — he was shot and wounded in Harlem Thursday night, his second such brush with death, police sources said.

AraabMuzik, born Abraham Orellana, 26, was recovering Friday at Harlem Hospital, where he underwent surgery after getting shot in the jaw and right arm. He was also grazed in the head.

A friend of his,…

Bobby Brown is once again seeking help for addiction, sources close to the “My Prerogative” singer tell Confidenti@l. This news comes two days after we exclusively revealed that Brown, 47, is going to be a dad for the seventh time.

“Bob is in rehab,” according to a Brown confidant who believed the singer was seeking help in California for cocaine and alcohol problems.…

The Lyons are about to meet the big bad wolf.

Rapper Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner will guest star of FOX's "Empire," the network announced Thursday.

The former "Pimp My Ride" host will play Leslie "Shyne" Johnson, a music executive who also moonlights as a drug kingpin and is "100 percent wolf and 100 percent gangster."

He apparently also has it out for family…

Diddy's daughters are joining the family business.

Rap and fashion mogul Sean (Diddy) Combs introduced a new affordable clothing line for young girls on Monday — and it's completely inspired by his three daughters Jessie, D'Lila and Chance.…

Rapper A$AP Rocky was reportedly attacked by a group of men in New Zealand yelling “f--- A$AP.”

The “L$D” rapper was roughed up by three men during an elevator dispute at Pullman Hotel in the city of Auckland on Wednesday afternoon (early Thursday morning in New Zealand), according to TMZ.

Punches were hurled when the men were told by the 27-year-old, who was…

That's not rain. London's just mopping up the sweat from Rihanna and Drake's wild performance last night.

Though she had to bail on the Grammys for health reasons, RiRi was able to cross the pond for last night's BRIT Awards. It was there that…

Prosecutors have dismissed rape charges against five Brooklyn teenagers accused of raping an 18-year-old woman last month at gunpoint after chasing off her father at a playground in Brownsville, officials said.

Not only did the woman recant her sexual assault allegations, but she told investigators there really was no gun, said Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson.

And to…

Is Bobby Brown expecting a new edition?

A source close to the “My Prerogative” singer tells Confidenti@l that Brown and his wife Alicia Etheredge are expecting their third child together. Etheredge, who has been married to Brown since 2012, just gave birth to their daughter Bohdi on July 11.

That delivery came the same month Brown’s 22-year old daughter…

The schizophrenic babysitter accused of sexually abusing and killing a 16-month-old boy made a videotaped confession in the little boy’s horrific death, sources said Wednesday.

Pill-popping Gloria Fields, 31, recounted her role in last Sunday’s death of Anthony Delgado after initially claiming the Staten Island toddler fell while playing in a park, sources…

Firefighters dousing a blaze in a Brooklyn apartment early Tuesday found a dead 2-year-old girl who had been left in the apartment by her stripper mother, who had gone out partying, police sources said.

Kaleenah Muldrow’s body was found hidden under a bed in the third-floor apartment shortly after the fire had torn through the top of the Monroe St. building in…

Penny for your thoughts, Fiddy.

Just days after a judge ordered bankrupt 50 Cent to explain his Instagram photos flashing stacks of cold, hard cash, the rapper defiantly posted another money shot.

“The KANAN Tape now playing, I'm Too Rich,” the “Hate It or Love It” rapper captioned a snap of himself Monday posing with towers of green, referencing his song…

Kanye West went off Tuesday night at 1 OAK, telling the crowd Amber Rose is a liar and "that bitch never stuck no fingers in my ass."

Kanye added, "I don't play like that."

And Kanye went on to call out Taylor Swift, insisting he specifically asked her if she was ok with the line, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. I made that bitch famous." He…

Model Amber Rose had a thorny retort to the suggestion that her image is why she’s “sexually assaulted constantly.”

The former stripper, who often shares racy snaps on social media, fired back at “It’s Not You, It’s Men” hosts Tyrese Gibson and Rev. Run after they implied her “energy” was to blame for unwanted groping.

“If I’m laying down with a man butt-naked,…

Hate it or love it, 50 Cent is going to have to explain all those Benjamins.

A judge has ordered the supposedly cash-strapped rapper to bankruptcy court to justify his many Instagram photos flaunting fat stacks of dough, CNN Money reported Friday.

“I’m concerned about allegations of nondisclosure and a lack of transparency in the case,” Judge Ann Nevins…

He's probably not so sick of love songs anymore.

R&B star Ne-Yo married his eight-month pregnant fiancée Crystal Renay on Saturday at a romantic ceremony overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

"We can't wait to start our life together," Ne-Yo told People magazine. "We're looking forward to just being each other's best…

Maybe he should call himself “Squeezus.”

Kanye West, who was charged with attacking a persistent paparazzo in 2013, was all smiles as he fielded questions at LAX Friday — and even broke up a shutterbug brawl with a hug.

After a fracas erupted between two hotheaded photographers vying for a shot of the rap mogul, Yeezus brokered peace by tenderly embracing one…