January 2016 Blog Posts (105)

Adele isn’t just a powerhouse vocalist — she can rap too!

The Grammy winner showed off her skills when she joined James Corden for his latest installment of Carpool Karaoke on Wednesday’s “The Late Late Show.”

Corden filmed the segment with Adele in London over the holidays, and while the two belted out some of her greatest hits including “Hello” and “Someone…

Jeb Bush is in dire need of some keys to success.

Ahead of Thursday night's presidential debate, Jimmy Kimmel asked DJ Khaled to film a motivational message for Bush — who is still struggling to gain traction in an ever-crowded GOP field.

Khaled is quickly becoming famous on snapchat for sharing rambling, often incoherent words of inspiration with his…

Iconic rap group Run DMC will be honored as one of the acts receiving the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award next month.

"I just got a call from the Grammys!! They shocked me!! We're the first rappers to get this award!! Shocked! Grateful!. God is good!!!," tweeted Joseph "Reverend Run" Simmons — who formed the group in 1982 with fellow Hollis, Queens natives Darryl…

The national nightmare continues as recent reports that Gucci Mane will be released from prison in March of this year been refuted. On January 4, Gucci’s 1017 Records made the announcement on Instagram that the incarcerated MC would be free in March. But in another Instagram post from January 9, the label went back on the claim writing, “So Gucci Mane NOT release [sic] on…

Ex-NFL star Lawrence Phillips is dead -- and officials are investigating his death as a suicide after he was found in his prison cell.

Philips was found at 12:05 AM Wednesday when staff conducted a routine security check and noticed Lawrence was unresponsive.

Officials say he was transported to an outside hospital where he was pronounced deceased at 1:27 AM.…

President Obama delivered his final State of the Union Address Tuesday night (Jan. 12), but before he declared the U.S. “the most powerful nation on Earth, period,” he was preceded by another Washington D.C. act, Wale.

The performance was Wale’s third visit to the White House, having last joined First Lady Michelle Obama in July of 2015 to help college-bound teens.…

Brooklyn has been perfecting their Milly Rock moves for quite a while now. But the dance finally blew up and took over 2015 thanks to 2 Milly’s track by the same name. In the time since its release, there have been several remixes and covers floating around the internet, but today 2 Milly delivers an official remix to keep fans rockin’ into the new year.

For the…

Fans of 50 Cent’s Power can mark their calendars; the rapper turned actor has announced when the hit Starz series will return. “Back to New York to work on the TV show people seem to like, POWER returns in June,” 50 wrote on Instagram on Monday (Jan. 11) below a photo of a jet.…

All eyes are on the new Tupac Shakur biopic this week.

"The Walking Dead" star Danai Gurira, who plays "Michonne" on the post-apocalyptic series, has signed on to play the late West Coast rapper's mother Afeni Shakur in "All Eyez on Me," according to Deadline Hollywood.

Gurira — whose signature brown-hued dreadlocks are just a temporary look for the AMC zombie…

Taraji P. Henson won Best Actress in a TV Drama at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards yesterday (January 10) for her role as Cookie Lyon on the Fox series Empire, according to NBC.

Henson handed out chocolate chip cookies on her way to the stage to accept the award.…

Meek Mill really doesn't tweet much these days, but he's still as active as ever on Instagram. While the majority of his posts are positive, he does sometimes send out some shots on the 'gram when he finds it's necessary. This morning must have been one of those times, as Meek's latest post seems to be a shot towards his rap peer Drake. The post is simply a quote that reads,…

Spotify, the Swedish streaming company that boasts twice as many paid subscribers as Apple Music, has been hit with another major lawsuit. The latest, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on behalf of the artist Melissa Ferrick, is seeking class-action status for artists whose work has not been properly licensed by the company. It asks for more than $200 million to be…

Rock icon David Bowie died Sunday following a long battle with cancer just days after celebrating his 69th birthday and his latest album, “Blackstar.”

“Very sorry and sad to say it's true," Bowie's son, Duncan Jones, tweeted, confirming the rock star’s death. "I'll be offline for awhile. Love to all.”

The reality of Bowie’s death shocked fans who read a brief…

Call her evil or unbelievable, Nicki Minaj bites her tongue for no one. And today, she set her sights on reality show star Farrah Abraham.

Earlier, Ms. Minaj was apparently chilling out maxing, relaxing all cooling during some off time and decided to take in some reality TV, specifically Teen Mom. She didn’t like what she saw from character Farrah Abraham and decided…

A rapper was handcuffed moments after he walked out of a Georgia Wells Fargo bank with nearly a quarter-million dollars of his own money.

Sam Benson, who goes by the stage name Blac Youngsta, says he’s a millionaire and he definitely had enough socked away to withdraw $200,000 to buy a new luxury sedan.

He and his entourage stopped by a Wells Fargo Friday…

Actor Sean Penn did what the Mexican authorities never could — find Joaquin (El Chapo) Guzman.

But the notorious drug lord’s willingness to chat with Penn for a story in Rolling Stone magazine ultimately led to his capture — and sparked an investigation into the Hollywood actor, a Mexican law enforcement official said Saturday.

The surreal revelations came a…

Former basketball star Lamar Odom left an L.A. hospital Wednesday and was moved to a private rehab facility set up by his estranged wife Khloe Kardashian, according to reports.

Odom had been receiving treatment at the Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles since shortly after he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel on Oct. 13.

The 36-year-old retired Lakers…

Rapper Tyga cheated on Kylie Jenner with Brazilian model Annalu Cardoso, the model claims.

Cardoso, 23, confirmed to Us Weekly that she and Tyga, 26, hooked up when the reality star was not around.

"Tyga is very careful and waits until Kylie is out of the country," a source tells Us.

It appears that Cardoso and Tyga's relationship has…

Yeezus rises!

The rapper announced Friday on Twitter that his hotly-anticipated album “Swish” will come out Feb. 11.

Earlier in the day, West began building buzz for the release of his eighth studio album with his “G.O.O.D Fridays” series.

According to a tweet from his wife Kim Kardashian, the rap star will be releasing a new song every Friday in…

Fetty Wap has taken his beef with his reportedly unborn child’s mother, Love and Hip Hop: Hollywood’s Masika Kalysha, up another notch. The “Again” rapper, who infamously blasted the reality star on Twitter last month after she said that she was pregnant with his baby, sat down with The Shade Room to discuss Kalysha’s pregnancy and the child’s paternity. According to the…