Rock-star status, rap-star swagger. That's the treatment for Lil Wayne's video for "Get a Life," which premiered Sunday (May 30) on MTV2 and MTV Jams as part of Lil Tunechi Weekend. The clip is the latest visual from Lil Wayne's Miami marathon session earlier this year, during which he shot four videos in one weekend, including "Da Da Da," Knockout" and "Runnin'."
Like the "Da Da Da" clip, the video for "Get a Life" finds Lil Wayne jamming with rock band ¡Mayday! on top… Continue
Pop queen Céline Dion is pregnant with twins after a long struggle to conceive and less than a year after having a tragic miscarriage.
The 42-year-old Canadian super star, who has a 9-year-old son, is 14 weeks' pregnant, her husband said Sunday.
"She was hoping for one baby and the news that we are having two is a double blessing," Dion's husband, René Angelil, told People magazine.
The singer and her 68-year-old husband are… Continue
A California judge upheld charges of murder against a mixed martial arts fighter on Friday after the man allegedly cut the victim's heart out of his chest.
Mixed martial arts fighter Jarrod Wyatt, 26, was reportedly under the influence of psychedelic drugs when witnesses said he and his sparring partner, Taylor Powell, became preoccupied with the notion that the end of the world was near and that there would be a final struggle between God and the devil, the Times-Standard… Continue
A Marine Corps helicopter touching down for a Memorial Day demonstration on Staten Island sent tree branches flying into the stunned crowd, injuring at least 10 people.
As the Osprey dipped toward the ground at Cloves Lakes Park Preserve, wind whipped up by the helicopter's rotor broke up two mid-sized trees and sent some 30 branches flying, Deputy Fire Chief Roger Sakowich said.
Yolanda Maiurrno, 80, of Staten Island, was thwacked in the ankle by a… Continue
Alicia Keys and beau Swizz Beatz are blissed out with news they're going to be parents. "I'm super-excited," Swizz tells us from St. Tropez. "People are calling me from Dubai and Japan. We haven't set a wedding date, but we will. We're just letting everything flow." Meanwhile, he's made peace with ex-wife Mashonda. Her lawyer, Bernard Clair, confirms that she's now received Swizz's check for $334,000 in child… Continue
A tipsy partygoer's head was impaled by a fence after he fell from a balcony at a Chelsea party early Saturday - and his family is overjoyed he survived.
Nicholas Blossom, 21, was causing a ruckus outside on the third-floor balcony on Sixth Ave. near W. 26th St. when the cops were called around 4 a.m., sources said.
As cops arrived, Blossom - of Williamsburg, Brooklyn - tripped and fell off the balcony, only to land a floor below with… Continue
Celebrity Rehab is all set to add another star to its cast -- "Bone Thugs-N-Harmony" rapper Bizzy Bone. We're told Bizzy - real name Byron McCane -- wants to seek treatment for an addiction to marijuana and alcohol.
As we've previously reported, the producers behind the VH1reality show starring Dr. Drew have been on a mission to lock down a cast -- and fast ... or else the show could be in danger.
Janet Jackson is seriously considering taking her "nasty" act on the road.
Following the overwhelmingly positive reaction to her "American Idol" finale performance, the pop star is “seriously entertaining” going on tour, TMZ reports.
Jackson, who has toured only once since 2002, was “blown away” by viewer responses to her appearance on the Fox show Wednesday.
The 44-year-old singer received a standing… Continue
You're at the front lines shooting Nazis before they shoot you. Or you're a futuristic gladiator in a death match with robots.
Either way, you're playing a video game - and you may be improving your vision and other brain functions, according to research presented Thursday at a New York University conference on games as a learning tool.
"People that play these fast-paced games have better vision, better attention and better cognition,"… Continue
NEW YORK - Ke$ha's former managers say the pop star squeezed them out of her career under pressure from hit songwriter Dr. Luke, but her lawyer said Friday she simply exercised her rights to fire the managers when they didn't perform.
Ke$ha, who had the No. 1 song in the country with "TiK ToK" earlier this year, signed up with ex-managers DAS Communications Inc. when she was an up-and-comer in 2006. Their agreement called for her to pay the New… Continue
This one is classic. Beyonce is being sued by a guy who claims his daily routine was turned upside down by a film crew shooting a Beyonce music video for "Why Don't You Love Me." Philip Markowitz alleges in a lawsuit obtained by TMZ ...his peace and quiet was shattered the morning of March 26, 2010, when the film crew "invaded his neighborhood" ... waking him out of a peaceful sleep at 7 AM.
That nightmare was followed by a series of… Continue
Indonesian lawmakers, following Sharia law, decided to ban women from wearing tight pants, with authorities issuing out over 20,000 long skirts throughout the province of Aceh. While we're all for freedom of expression, we think the tight pants ban in Indonesia should be extended to include some of hip hop's culprits: Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Drake, Soulja Boy - we're talking to you guys. And to justify the laws, we came up with a few reasons for the… Continue
By now, you may have read the rather lengthy New York Times Magazine feature on M.I.A. (and if you haven't, well, here it is). If you're like us, there were probably more than a few passages that made you go, "Wait, what?"
Journalist Lynn Hirschberg pulled no punches while profiling M.I.A. — debunking her claims that she hasn't seen her father in years, contacting the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum to balance out her version of the country's war… Continue