January 2012 Blog Posts (202)

Newly unsealed FBI documents portray Wu-Tang Clan members as more mobsters than musicians, linking the Staten Island rappers to guns, drugs and a pair of murders.

The eyebrow-raising portrait of the renowned nine-man rap crew emerges from the 93-page federal file on the late Russell Jones, better known as Ol’ Dirty Bastard.

According to an August 1999 report,…

Tyga gets animated on the comical cover for “Faded,” his new single featuring Lil Wayne. The song is set to hit digital retailers on January 24, while his current hit “Rack City” sits in the top 5 on iTunes.

Despite the single’s success, his Young Money album Careless World: Rise of the Last King has been pushed back from its January 24 release…

Nicki Minaj will be gracing the stage of the 2012 Grammy Awards with a performance, it was announced.

The self-proclaimed Harajuku Barbie has been nominated for four Grammy Awards this year, including Best New Artist, Best Rap Album (Pink Friday), and Best Rap Performance (“Moment 4 Life”). It will be Minaj's first time performing at the prestigious award…

According To Gatecrasher:

If you’re known by the company you keep, then these days you can call Terrence Howard presidential.

After the suave Hollywood actor recently screened his new movie, “Red Tails,” for former President George H.W. Bush, he’s due to watch it with President Obama at the White House on Thursday.

Howard, who stars in the movie about the…

The U.S. Marine Corps is investigating a shocking video that appears to show four Marines cracking wise while desecrating the bodies of three dead Taliban terrorists.

Dressed in full combat gear and holding rifles at their sides, the four men stand over the three corpses sprawled out near an overturned wheelbarrow. The warriors start urinating on…

Human rights groups are outraged over a video of tourists coercing women from India's Jarawa tribe to dance in exchange for food.

The undated video, shot in India's Andaman Islands, came to light when Britain's Observer newspaper posted it Saturday.

The footage shows young women from the endangered tribe hopping and clapping as a man…

Jay-Z and Beyoncé's baby is already a record-breaker: Backup gurgles on the rap lullaby "Glory" make her the youngest artist to hit the Billboard charts.

Blue Ivy Carter will be all of five days old when the single, which her father posted online Monday, debuts Thursday at No. 74 on Billboard's…

A three-year-old girl came face-to-face with a hungry lion in New Zealand's Wellington Zoo and lived to tell the tale.

The encounter, which was captured in a video uploaded to YouTube, took place last Wednesday morning right as Malik the lion was eating breakfast, according to the New Zealand Herald.

Sofia Walker is seen pressing her face…

Two 10-year-old boys in Houston are facing up to 40 years in prison for sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy aboard a school bus in August, police said.

A security video from Aug. 25 caught the two boys pulling their pants down and forcing the younger boy to perform sex acts on them, police told the Houston Chronicle.

All three boys are special needs children…

Radar Online reports (via Star magazine) that Khloe Kardashian is, in fact, not a Kardashian by birth. Robert Kardashian's ex-wives Jan Ashley and Ellen Kardashian have both come forward to say that their shared late husband harbored serious doubts that Khloe was his biological daughter. Jan stated, "Khloe is not his kid. He told me that after we got married," while Ellen…

Lindsay Lohan forgot to pay her 2009 income taxes — but the starlet won’t be assessing her nearly six-figure tax bill in public.

“Lindsay’s personal finances are her business and no one else’s,” her spokesman, Steve Honig, told the Daily News after news of LiLo’s fiscal woes broke Tuesday.

But documents filed in Los Angeles reveal the “Mean Girls” star owes…

Halle Berry rang in the New Year with a little bling on her ring finger.

The actress, 45, responded with a resounding "yes" to beau Olivier Martinez's holiday proposal, according to Us Weekly, and the two are now happily engaged.

Martinez, 46, reportedly popped the question with an emerald-and-diamond ring from Gurhan.

Berry has been spotted around town…

Guess that 72-day marriage wasn't the best idea ... Kim Kardashian won't be staring in another racy Sketchers commercial during the Superbowl - the shoe company dropped the sexed-up star for a dog. Yes, a dog. Kim Kardashian got replaced by a dog. Insert your own jokes here.....…

Ludacris recently spoke with Billboard and announced that he'll be releasing his eigth studio album, Ludaversal, in May of this year. Luda also went on to confirm one of the collabos that will appear on his new album, as well as what to expect.

"Usher is one person that I've already worked with and in terms of other artists, you can say that there's going to be a lot…

Small doses of pot won’t hurt your lungs like tobacco does, says a new 20-year-study.

Refuting claims that all marijuana use has a negative effect on respiratory health, researchers found that smoking two to three joints per month isn’t harmful.

“Tobacco takes you down that road toward breathlessness, but low to moderate levels of marijuana don’t,” said Dr.…

Rapper Tyga was locked up in Las Vegas this weekend ... after cops discovered the 22-year-old had an active warrant out for his arrest.

Law enforcement sources tells TMZ ... Tyga -- real name Michael Stevenson -- was initially flagged on a routine traffic violation ... but during the stop, cops discovered the warrant stemming from 4 other traffic…

Pantone has registered a color in 2007 called Jay-Z blue. The color was created during his deal with General Motors. The Denali is painted in the color. Damn the car! Do you know who you have to stab in the leg to get a PANTONE COLOR in your name?? Let me know and tell me their address.…

Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg will headline two weekends of concerts at The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

Organizers of the Indio, Calif., music festival on Monday announced a dizzying list of top musicians who are slated to perform over two long weekends, April 13-15 and April 20-22.

The six-day concert schedule marks the first time Coachella is to extend…

Kid has more adult problems ... the former Kid 'n Play rapper is once again a wanted man ... after blowing off a hearing stemming from his 2010 DUI arrest.

According to L.A. County Superior Court records ... a bench warrant was issued for the former "House Party" star on January 5, 2012 after he failed to show up for a progress hearing regarding the 2010…