Young Jeezy graces XXL Magazine’s 12th Anniversary (September) issue.
Jeezy and Foxy Brown posed for split anniversary covers for last year. In the cover story, Mr. 17.5 discusses his upcoming album, his feuds with DJ Drama and Gucci Mane and taking it back to the trap.
Additionally, in celebration of its 12th year, XXL spoke to 50 Cent, Juvenile, Nelly, Fat Joe, Common, Damon Dash and Baby, among others, about their favorite XXL… Continue
Jay-Z's new song from his upcoming album "The Blueprint 3" is reportedly planned to be debuted this coming Friday, July 24. Tentatively titled "Run This Town", the song is said to have the rap mogul teaming up with Rihanna and Kanye West.
The speculation of the release date and working title for Jay-Z's new track came from Hot 106. "JUST GOT WORD: New Jay-Z single coming this Friday called Run This Town with Kanye West and Rihanna!" so the site… Continue
After making a duet with Justin Timberlake in single "Love Sex Magic", Ciara will return to recording booth with the former member of boyband NSYNC. Spilling the beans to public was Devorah Rose, the editor of Social Life Magazine where Ciara is currently being featured on its cover.
"Ciara is a really big superstar and she has a very hectic schedule, and she has several different management companies that handle her as well as a press company,… Continue
A father was frantically calling 911 to report his missing newborn when he spotted the baby, bleeding from the mouth and clutched in the mouth of a family dog who had carried him from his crib to the heavily wooded backyard.
Four-day-old Alexander James Smith was rushed to the emergency room at University of Kentucky Hospital in Lexington, where he was listed in critical condition Tuesday with two collapsed lungs, a skull fracture, broken ribs… Continue
SYDNEY — A man whose relatives say had been sniffing gasoline burst into flames after a police officer Tasered him as he ran at officials carrying a container of fuel, police said Tuesday.
The man, identified by his family as 36-year-old Ronald Mitchell, was in critical condition at a Perth hospital in Western Australia state following Monday's incident in Warburton, an Aboriginal community 950 miles (1,540 kilometers) northeast of… Continue
There's a damn good reason Kelis is skipping out on today's scheduled court date to fight Nas for child support and baby and prenatal expenses -- she's giving birth right now!!!
TMZ has learned the singer is currently in labor, about to deliver a brand new baby boy.
We also know rapper Nas -- the baby daddy -- is definitely not by her side.
The two were scheduled to battle over expenses. She says he's paid nothing. Nas… Continue
Chris Brown tells his fans how sorry he is over the Rihanna assault. He says he wanted to apologize earlier but couldn't on the advice of his… Continue
Last week reports surfaced that the music masterminds had broken up, however Pop Tarts has learned that there is still a chance for reconciliation between the two.
“Jermaine has decided to take a step back and cool things off but they aren’t totally broken up,” said an insider, adding that keeping his distance from the press and Jackson family is his way of dealing with death and tragedy.
We’re told Jackson and Dupri’s romance turned… Continue
The doctor who attempted to revive Jimi Hendrix on the night that the guitarist died believes that it is “plausible” that he was murdered.
John Bannister said that medical evidence was consistent with claims in a book that Hendrix was killed on the orders of his manager, Mike Jeffery.
James “Tappy” Wright, a former road manager who worked for Jeffery, writes in his new memoir, Rock Roadie, that in the early hours of September 18, 1970,… Continue
Harry Potter has returned with some princely returns at the box office.
The new big-screen adventure "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" took in $79.5 million domestically over opening weekend and $159.7 million since debuting last Wednesday.
That's the second-highest start ever for a movie premiering on Wednesday, trailing the $200 million five-day opening for last month's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
LOS ANGELES — Sony Corp.'s movie studio has bid $50 million to acquire the worldwide distribution rights to a film based on rehearsal footage for Michael Jackson's "This Is It" comeback concert series.
That's according to a person familiar with the bid.
The person says the bid came after several studios, including Paramount, Universal, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., were shown footage starting early last week. The person spoke on… Continue
MUMBAI (AFP) – Indian astrologers are predicting violence and turmoil across the world as a result of this week's total solar eclipse, which the superstitious and religious view as a sign of potential doom.
But astronomers, scientists and secularists are trying to play down claims of evil portent in connection with Wednesday's natural spectacle, when the moon will come between the Earth and the sun, completely obscuring the sun.
At home inside the same Bronx housing project where Sonia Sotomayor grew up, one of her biggest supporters was growing frustrated.
Sotomayor had just been asked another stinging question, prompting little Jheosafaf Ortega, 11, to wave her hands in disgust.
“They won't rattle her,” Jheosafaf said from the floor of her apartment inside the Bronxdale Houses, her gaze still fixed on the… Continue
Jeffrey Alba's Bronx heroin mills had air circulators because the odor was so strong and there was a white dust fog. The windows were sealed up and lists of orders to be filled were taped to the walls.
The workers used tiny spoons to allot a half a grain of heroin for each glassine envelope - that's nearly 30,000 times for every kilo - working in shifts around the clock.
When authorities raided a fancy Riverdale building over the… Continue
Warning: Smog lowers kids' IQs, even before they're born.
The five-year-old children of city mothers who regularly breathed in car- and truck-polluted air when they were pregnant scored significantly lower on IQ tests than kids with less exposure, a study released Monday found.
The 249 moms tested -- all from the South Bronx and upper Manhattan -- wore backpack air monitors for 48 hours during the last few months of… Continue
Thousands of voyeurs got a lesson in karma over the weekend when they tried to download naked footage of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews - but got a computer virus instead.
Video of the pretty and popular sports reporter undressing in a hotel room hit the web last week. It was taken through the door's peephole and shows the 31-year-old stark naked.
Now hackers are taking advantage of the much-Googled download. Many links that claim to have… Continue