March 2016 Blog Posts (123)

Move over Stacey Dash.

Reclusive rap star Foxy Brown said Tuesday that she is back in the studio, but her next release could be a tribute to Donald Trump.

Brown, a lifelong Democrat, who said she loves Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, said she is giving a big shout out to the billionaire presidential frontrunner because she is impressed with his…

Don’t call it a comeback. He hasn't musically been here for years but now he's ready for his 14th album.

Rapper LL Cool J took to Twitter on Monday night in a confusing rant, in which he revealed he’s dropping a new album moments after writing he was retiring from the business.

“Today I’m officially coming out of retirement. And starting a new album,” he…

50 Cent was out looking for a new, fancy, expensive car Monday ... but the rapper was in no position to deal.

50 popped into Bev Hills Mercedes and left without even kicking a tire. As you know, he's in bankruptcy and just revealed in court docs the whole "I own a mansion in South Africa" thing was all just an image-building lie.…

Mariah Carey's brother claims that she’s nobody's "hero."

Morgan Carey called his younger sister an "evil witch" who refuses to pay for her dying sister's hospital bills, The Sun reports.

Alison, 54, who is HIV-positive, needs brain and spinal surgery, he revealed in a recent interview with the British tabloid.…

Third time a charm?

Ashanti superfan Devar Hurd, 37, is about to stand trial a third time on charges he stalked the R&B singer.

Jury selection in Hurd’s 2013 case started Monday morning in Manhattan Supreme Court.

He was tried before on the current charges twice — the first ending in a mistrial because a juror grew ill during…

Kendrick Lamar’s surprise Untitled Unmastered project debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, earning 178,000 equivalent album units in the week ending March 10, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 142,000 were in pure album sales.

The set was released without advance notice on March 4 and gives Lamar his second chart-topping set in less than a year,…

Rihanna will be honored at BET’s “Black Girls Rock!” awards.

The singer will receive the Rock Star Award at the annual event honoring black women, BET announced Monday.

“Black Girls Rock!” will tape April 1 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey. The show will air April 5 on BET.

Tracee Ellis Ross, star of ABC’s “black-ish,” will…

Chicago police officers could be heard saying “Typical f---ing n-----s” and “Black lives matter, my a--” in a dispatch recording that surfaced Monday.

The exchange happened Saturday morning over the city police department’s public radio feed for Morgan Park and other Far South Side neighborhoods, DNAinfo reported.

The slurs appeared to come from a couple of…

There's nothing funny about this breakfast brawl.

“Chappelle's Show” star Donnell Rawlings was caught on video fighting two unidentifiable men early Sunday in front of a Philadelphia restaurant, TMZ.com reported.

The comedian was having breakfast at Little Pete’s when he walked mid-meal to have a cigarette.

He told the gossip website the waitress…

Centric TV show enlisted Lisa Raye as the latest appearance on their Being series, and the actress finally came clean about her rift with Stacey Dash during the taping of Single Ladies. In a short promo clip for the episode, Raye takes credit for Dash’s exit from the previously popular VH1 show, noting that it was an example of learning to be a “boss.”

“In Hollywood,…

Over the years of his presidency, Barack Obama has proved that he is somewhat of a hip-hop head on numerous occasions. Yesterday (March 12), Potus was at a fundraiser event for the Democratic National Committee in Austin, TX, where he revealed he is a fan of J. Cole.

In footage captured from the Commander In Chief’s speech, he gives props to the North Carolina rapper.…

Lil Wayne has had some wild groupie encounters in the past. Like the time his tour bus was shot at by a persistent female fan. Weezy recently detailed another story-worthy fan encounter while being interviewed on ESPN’s Highly Questionable, and this one…

Puff Daddy was the guest on the most recent episode of DJ Khaled’s Beats 1 show We The Best Radio, and talked about his upcoming album No Way Out 2, the Notorious B.I.G., and an upcoming Bad Boy Entertainment reunion tour.

No dates for the tour have been announced yet, but Puff is expected to make a formal announcement next week. He called the event “the family…

Singer John Legend branded Donald Trump “racist” in a heated online spat with the bellicose buffoon’s eldest son Friday, citing the GOP front-runner’s racially charged rhetoric and hate group endorsements.

The clash began after 38-year-old Donald Trump Jr., a loyal stumper for his divisive dad, ridiculed the droves of protesters who prompted Trump to cancel a Chicago…

LiL' Kim reveals some personal stories of Notorious B. I. G. on Hot 97.…

Frequent jail visitor Katt Williams faced a fresh set of charges Friday — as he suggested his spate of recent arrests had to do with the color of his skin.

“If you’re a white celebrity, then they say it’s swatting, and they don’t let it happen,” he told local news station WSB-TV after walking out of Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Ga., seeming to imply his arrests were…

Halle Berry, who as the character Jinx Johnson famously strolled out of the sea to join forces with James Bond in 2002’s Die Another Day, is about to step into another super-spy franchise. The actress is in talks to play a CIA head opposite Taron Egerton in Kingsman 2, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

Director Matthew Vaughn is currently assembling the…

All she wants is for fans to stay plugged into her life.

Pop icon Mariah Carey will reportedly make her reality TV debut with a show around her Las Vegas residency, US Magazine reported.

The show, which is rumored to be called “Mariah’s Squad” will chronicle the behind-the-scene’s life of the singer as she performs for “Mariah #1 to Infinity,” according to the…

50 Cent says the Secret Service is now asking him about the wads of “prop” money that drew questions from the judge in his Connecticut bankruptcy case.

The rapper, whose name is Curtis Jackson III, went to court this week to answer for Instagram photos he posted showing stacks of cash. His lawyers say the bills were props.…

Rapper Papoose — who recently starred in a televised wedding with trouble-making "Conceited" diva Remy Ma — was in court Friday to support one of his new in-laws.

The 38-year-old "Love and Hip Hop" cast member, whose real name is Shamele Mackie, shied away from chatting as he left Manhattan Criminal Court, where he accompanied a woman as she posted $1,000 cash bail…