May 2015 Blog Posts (141)

Azealia Banks, the provocative hip-hop artist who made her debut last year with the album Broke With Expensive Taste, has just landed her first starring role in a feature film. She’ll play the title character in Coco, a drama for Lionsgate and Codeblack Films that will be directed by Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA. She stars with Common, Jill Scott, Lucien Laviscount, Lorraine Toussaint…

More advertisers are sending the message loud and clear to TLC ... they don't want ANYTHING to do with "19 Kids and Counting."

Jimmy Dean, Pure Leaf Iced Tea, Ace Hardware, David's Bridal, ConAgra Foods, Party City and Behr have all just announced they've removed their ad campaigns from the show and CVS, H&R Block, Ricola and Keurig all say they have no…

The widow of slain rapper Chinx wore white while many of the mourners filing into a Queens cathedral to say farewell Tuesday were clad in black.

But all around the Greater Allen A.M.E Cathedral of New York the dominant color was blue — NYPD blue.…

Rapper 50 Cent dodged a defamation trial in New York State court Tuesday by filing a bankruptcy petition in federal court and asking the feds to remove the case from state jurisdiction.

Lawyers for the Queens-born rapper, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, gave no inclination that he was going to file the bankruptcy claim in Connecticut, where he has a…

Taylor Swift won't be shaking this off.

The Grammy Award-winning singer made her debut Tuesday on Forbes' annual list of the world's 100 Most Powerful Women.

Swift, who scored a monster hit with "Shake It Off," was ranked 64th and — at age 25 — she was the youngest ever to make the venerable list.

"The bona fide, cross-genre global megastar has not only…

Young Thug may have some explaining to do. See this old Tweet from before Thugger was famous has resurfaced and it looks like the Atlanta rapper went beyond just calling his boys “lover” and “bae”.

Now even though he calls his male friends by terms straight guys would only use to describe a female and admitting to wearing women’s clothing, Thug has insisted he’s not…

Lil Wayne and the IRS have something in common -- they both wanted millions from Birdman -- but only one of 'em got the Cash Money honcho to cough up the dough, and Weezy's not the one smiling.

The music mogul was slapped with two federal tax liens - - one in December 2014, the other in February 2015 -- for refusing to pay a total of $1,942,400.58 in back…

Akron has created the Akon Lighting Africa initiative in hopes of giving light to 600 million Africans that lack electricity. The singer announced the “Solar Academy” earlier this week.

The Senegalese-American singer will open the institute in Bamako and then allow African engineers and business people the ability to harness solar power.

“We have the sun and…

Chris Brown had a meltdown Sunday after Tyson Beckford dared to post a pic of himself with Karrueche Tran, but Tyson made it clear, he's not scared one bit.

It started Sunday when Chris saw the pic, then posted a flurry of tweets, saying among…

Looks like Will Smith may no longer be the only costumed crusader in the family.

Sixteen-year-old Jaden Smith has been cast to play the electricity-wielding teen hero Static Shock in an upcoming Web series — at least according to actor Tyler James Williams.

When asked if he would be interested in playing a young black super hero by an interviewer at this…

Chris Brown is at war with his baby mama, who claims he's stopped paying the measly $2,500 a month in child support, and now she's gunning for 6 times that.

Multiple sources connected with the couple tell TMZ, Chris has been paying baby Royalty's mom, Nia Guzman, the $2,500, but the gravy train stopped in March. TMZ sources say he stopped paying because Nia demanded…

Rapper Juicy J was rushed to the hospital Saturday night before his scheduled show at The Fillmore in San Francisco.

The "Low" rapper tweeted an apology to his fans later that night, explaining he went to the hospital for shortness of breath.

A few hours later, Juicy J shared a photo of himself in Saint Francis Memorial Hospital on Instagram. He wrote that he…

Althea Eaton and Benzino's non-stop drama cost them their "Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta" gigs -- but it also helped them score $200k to appear on "Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars."

Sources close to the show tell TMZ that the powder keg…

Kevin Durant was in Los Angeles, which is good news for Los Angeles — and its Lakers.

Unfortunately for Durant, while he was in LA, he got caught by TMZ, whose reporter badgered him and followed him to his car. Even more unfortunate was what apparently fell out of Durant’s car — a medical prescription bottle.

It wasn’t clear what, exactly, was in the bottle…

Man gets into a shootout while talking on his phone. Who was he shooting at tho!? The Tube Man………

A harrowing new documentary on Amy Winehouse won’t be released until July 3. But the singer’s father has already condemned it as “unbalanced” and “misleading.”

Now we know why he feels that way.

“Amy,” which was screened in New York Wednesday after a debut at Cannes, repeatedly portrays Mitch Winehouse, now 64, as an absent father and, later, an enabler in his…

A harrowing new documentary on Amy Winehouse won’t be released until July 3. But the singer’s father has already condemned it as “unbalanced” and “misleading.”

Now we know why he feels that way.

“Amy,” which was screened in New York Wednesday after a debut at Cannes, repeatedly portrays Mitch Winehouse, now 64, as an absent father and, later, an enabler in his…

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Mariah Carey says she doesn't owe a penny to the nanny who's suing her for forcing her to work 100 hour weeks with no overtime.

Simonette DaCosta said she worked for Carey and her now estranged hubby Nick Cannon from October of 2013 to February of 2014.

"Plaintiff was on duty during all hours of each 24-hour day with no…