Congratulations to Nicki Minaj for breaking the record for most Billboard Top 100 Songs in a year by a female rapper. This is huge considering she hasn’t even released an album yet. To date, Nicki has had 11 Top 100 Singles…that might be more than your favorite rapper has had in his/her entire career…and that’s just her first full year out in the public eye.
Nicki has more to celebrate. She has also been… Continue
Tony Yayo sits down with Ms. Drama to talk about his upcoming album (via EMI) and the digital promotion that G-Unit has been focusing on. Yayo expresses that G-Unit is not about beefs and they haven't made any money off of it. He also talks about the criticism of being on the G-Unit roster and compares the team to the Lakers: Yayo as Derek Fischer, Banks as Lamar Odom, and 50 as the Kobe Bryant of the Hip-Hop game. On the note of Haiti, Yayo expresses his support for Wyclef… Continue
Coney Island basketball star Lance Stephenson - a second-round Indiana Pacers pick in the June NBA draft - was busted Sunday for pushing his girlfriend down a flight of stairs, cops said.
Stephenson, 19, a legendary player at Brooklyn's Abraham Lincoln High School, roughed up Jasmine Williams, 21, in the stairwell of her Brooklyn apartment building about 5 a.m., according to police.
The 6-foot-5 rookie point guard's blows sent Williams… Continue
Looks like Snooki is setting another trend: the pint-size Jersey Shore star and creator of the "Poof" is no longer the only cast member to be arrested this summer.
Ronald "Ronnie" Ortiz, 24, was taken into custody by police on Sunday for outstanding warrants, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports.
Picked up at the Jersey Shore cast's house by cops in an unmarked squad car, Ortiz was arrested calmly and without handcuffs.
The Boston medical student who preyed on Craigslist escorts and murdered a Manhattan model last year was found dead in prison Sunday - an apparent suicide on what would have been his first wedding anniversary.
Philip Markoff, 24, was found dead Sunday morning in his Nashua St. Jail cell in Boston, where he was awaiting his March murder trial.
He may have died Saturday, the exact anniversary of his canceled wedding.
A pair of armed robbers dressed in black burst into a Diamond District store yesterday afternoon, tied up the owner and his son and swiped $66,000 in loot, cops said.
The robbers, who wore black clothing, black hats and dark sunglasses, fled the W. 47th St. jeweler, Namat Inc., shortly before 2 p.m. with a haul estimated at $29,000 in cash and $37,000 in jewels, cops said.
The owner and his son, who were bound with phone cords and cable… Continue
Miami Heat star Udonis Haslem was arrested in Miami this afternoon after police found marijuana in his car.
Haslem was pulled over by Florida Highway Patrol officers for, we're told by sources, having tinted windows. We're told there were three other guys in the car with Haslem.
According to sources, officers searched the car three times for drugs -- an initial search and then a search with drug dogs yielded nothing. We're told when… Continue
TMZ has obtained video of Tila Tequila being pelted by objects as she tried to "perform" on stage at the Gathering of the Juggalos this weekend.
In the video, Tila can be heard screaming "I ain't going nowhere!" as she tries to sing on stage -- but that didn't stop the crowd from continuing to hurl objects at her. At one point, comedian Tom Green comes on stage to try and diffuse the situation. It didn't work.
By the end of the performance, Tila is "singing"… Continue
A teenager plummeted to his death after he lost his footing on the roof of a Bronx building early Saturday, cops said.
The body of Kevin Mejia, 19, was discovered by a super in the rear of an apartment building on University Ave. in Kingsbridge Heights at about 7:15 a.m., after an apparent fall from the top of the six-story structure, police said.
Mejia, who was found lying faceup on a concrete stairwell, was pronounced dead at the… Continue
An off-road race in California went off the tracks Saturday night, when a truck plowed through a crowd, killing eight people and injuring a dozen others.
The California 200, part of a series held in Soggy Dry Lake near the city of Lucerne Valley in the Mojave Desert, became a nightmare for race fans as dust and darkness masked the tragic accident.
"There was dust everywhere, people screaming, people running," David Conklin, a… Continue
Drunken drivers won't breathe as easily starting Sunday.
The second part of a tough new state law takes effect, forcing anyone with a DWI conviction to get a device installed in their car that requires them to pass a breathalyzer test to start the engine.
"This is another measure to stop an epidemic in New York State - to stop drunk driving," said state Sen. Charles Fuschillo (R-L.I.), a sponsor of the law. "It takes away judicial… Continue
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Hip-hop artist and presidential candidate Wyclef Jean says that if he is elected he will work to change Haiti's constitution to allow dual citizenship and give Haitians living abroad the right to vote.
The former Fugees frontman said Haitians abroad "should have the right to vote in their country," especially since they send billions in remittances to family members.
Currently, Haitians who emigrate can only hold… Continue
A new song by Fantasia leaked called Lucky. She's singing about getting it in with a "taken" man. The song is hot but the coincidence circumstances around it....are… Continue