Featured Blog Posts – June 2020 Archive (71)

Singer August Alsina claims he had a love affair with Jada Pinkett Smith — after her husband, Will Smith, allegedly gave the relationship his blessing.

While reps for Pinkett say Alsina’s claims are “absolutely not true,” he has opened up on the alleged affair in an interview with “The Breakfast Club’s” Angela Yee.

He claims, “I actually sat down with…

Monyetta Shaw has announced her new engagement — but she’s keeping her fiancé private.

Shaw, who has two children with Ne-Yo, posted a pic of the mystery man’s hand on Instagram alongside her own new bling.

Shaw told The Post in 2016…

She forgot about Dre.

Dr. Dre’s wife, Nicole Young (represented by Samantha Spector), filed for divorce on Monday after 24 years of marriage, Page Six can confirm. The now-estranged couple shares two adult children together, 23-year-old son Truice and 19-year-old daughter Truly.

Dre, 55, and Young, 50, married in 1996. There’s no prenuptial agreement in…

Blac Chyna probably won’t be seeing that $70,000 she wanted from her landlord.

On Friday, a California judge denied the 32-year-old’s request for thousands of dollars in damages and ruled she must pay landlord Michael Kremerman, according to court documents obtained by Page Six. The judge also denied Chyna a hearing in regard to the decision.

“The judge…

Anthony Mackie has played Falcon seven times in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starting with 2014’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” In an interview for Variety‘s Actors on Actors issue, Mackie talked to Daveed Diggs about the need for more diversity in Disney’s Marvel movies.

The conversation started out with both actors talking about their most recent…

Legendary emcee and actor Big Daddy Kane has taken it back to his Golden Era roots, creating music relative to the social climate as done by all creative greats. Teaming up with another Golden Era terror, Public Enemy’s Chuck D, King Asiatic Nobody’s Equal takes it up a notch by exposing today’s injustices and magnifying #45’s presidential inadequacies.

With…

Snoop Dogg began trending Saturday after releasing footage of a studio session with Kanye West, whom the West Coast rapper once said was “brainwashed” by President Donald Trump.

The clip features Snoop, West and producer Dr. Dre, who’s currently working on his own version of Kanye’s last album, “Jesus Is King.” While Dre escaped criticism, Snoop was immediately…

Reggae star Nardo Ranks is beefing with Jamaican dancehall artist HoodCelebrityy over allegedly stolen lyrics.

HoodCelebrityy, whose real name is Tina Pinnock, 28, of The Bronx, “pirated and extracted significant phrasing” from Ranks’ 1992 hit “Them A Bleach” and inserted them into her “Run Di Road,” the Manhattan federal court complaint alleges.…

Kanye West is bringing his fashions to the Gap.

The “Closed on Sunday” singer, 43, confirmed a collaboration between his Yeezy brand and apparel mainstay the Gap in a surprise social media return on Friday.

“YEEZY AND GAP FORM PARTNERSHIP #WESTDAYEVER,” he tweeted along with a Gap logo with the letters “YZY.”

The Yeezy Gap apparel line is set to…

Nicki Minaj is trying to convince Kanye West to release a collaboration that they did together — by asking her fans to bug his wife Kim Kardashian online.

Minaj recorded “New Body” with West for his album “Yandhi,” but when mercurial West released the album as the gospel-tinged “Jesus Is King” in October, the track seemed consigned to the scrap heap.

In…

Mike Tyson has no doubt that Jamie Foxx will do a “great job” portraying the 53-year-old boxer in a forthcoming biopic but advised caution ahead.

“I’m very grateful. I’m very excited about it,” Tyson recently said in an interview with Charlie Mack, according to the Sun. “I’m gonna sit down and tell him the truth and he’s gonna have to learn to process…

Rapper Huey has been killed in a double shooting in his hometown of St. Louis, according to reports. He was 32.

The “Pop, Lock & Drop It” star — real name Lawrence Franks Jr. — was shot at least once at about 11 p.m. Thursday while in a front yard, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Huey — who had a teenage daughter — was pronounced dead after…

The “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” star accused of scamming millions out of the government’s coronavirus loan program has now also been charged with running a $5 million Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said.

Maurice “Mo” Fayne — who appeared in the reality-TV show’s eighth season — was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury for lying to get a $3,725,500 Paycheck…

Ne-Yo and his wife, Crystal Smith, were able to repair their relationship during quarantine after a brief separation earlier this year.

“The whole quarantine thing was kind of a blessing,” the singer said on CBS’ “The Talk” on Tuesday, adding that he was able to spend more time with his family and really “lock back in” with his wife and kids.

“Before the…

Janelle Monáe did not have an easy time filming the upcoming movie “Antebellum.”

The horror film follows author Veronica Henley (Monáe), who speaks out against systemic racism, but then finds herself living as a slave on a plantation in the South.

“I brought all of my ancestors home with me,” the 34-year-old performer told the Hollywood…

Bill Cosby’s wife said she’s “very, very pleased” with an appeals court’s decision to review his sexual assault conviction — and suggested the #MeToo movement that landed her husband behind bars was driven by racism.

Camille Cosby, in her first interview in six years, spoke to ABC News a day after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to review two aspects of…

The father of tennis powerhouses Serena and Venus Williams cut a deal to be portrayed in the upcoming “King Richard” biopic by actor Will Smith after he’d already sold his life rights to someone else, according to a new lawsuit.

A Los Angeles state court lawsuit filed on Tuesday claims that the Warner Bros.’ highly anticipated film about the life of Richard…

A panel of judges with the U.S Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta denied Kodak Black appeal of his 46-month sentence for making false statements to acquire a firearm, according to court documents filed June 16. The Pompano Beach rapper was convicted of the federal gun charge in 2019.

Black, 23, a stage name adopted by Bill Kapri, argued that his…

Bill Cosby will be allowed to appeal his 2018 sexual assault conviction, a court ruled Tuesday.

In a surprise decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court agreed to review two aspects of the case that put the disgraced funnyman behind bars.

Cosby, 82, is serving a three- to 10-year sentence after a jury found him guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting…