August 2014 Blog Posts (122)

STARZ Original Series and summer breakout hit “Power,” finished strong in its season finale and has averaged about 4 million viewers per week to-date, with strong viewership among White and African-American viewers – both male and female audiences (18-49).* The New York-based drama, which has resonated strongly with African-American viewers throughout its eight-episode…

Get ready for a night of Beyoncé history.

Queen Bey is set to perform at this year's MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. and will receive the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award, MTV announced Thursday.

Other stars that have taken home the prestigious moonman inspired by the late King of Pop include Jackson himself, Britney Spears,…

Former No. 1 NBA draft pick Greg Oden has been arrested in Indianapolis on battery charges alleging that he punched a woman in the face.

Police in the suburban community of Lawrence say the 26-year-old was arrested early Thursday on two preliminary counts of misdemeanor battery and remains jailed.

A police report says officers called to a home found a…

It's the battle of the femcees!

Nicki Minaj may be wearing the crown in the rap game these days, but the original Queen B, Lil' Kim, is still stating her claim to the throne.

Just two days after Minaj and Beyonce's collaborated "Flawless" remix was released, the Brooklyn born rapper covered the track with an in-your-face diss to her…

50 Cent's bodyguard allegedly attacked a man and his son in a shopping mall -- a man who was trying to film the rapper -- and now cops are conducting a criminal investigation.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... 50 and his son were at the Burbank Town Center Sunday when Lazzeri Frazier and his son saw 50 and thought it would be cool to shoot some cellphone…

As expected, Kanye West gave a sarcastic and spirited deposition in a lawsuit in which he's accused of beating a photographer and smashing his camera.

TMZ obtained excerpts from West's deposition, in which he swore under oath that "I'm the smartest celebrity you've ever f------ dealt with. I'm not Britney Spears ." …

Nicki Minaj is murdering the rap game. But she insists it's the entertainment industry that will kill you.

"The business kills so many people and we don't even realize it," the 31-year-old rapper told The Fader magazine's Fall Fashion Issue.…

Rihanna is now the devil ... so says Drake -- the guy she used to bang.



Drake is singing "Days of East" when a fiery 6 appears, followed by an image of Rihanna, followed…

Things got biteylicious at a California Beyonce show when a fan bit off part of another fan's finger during a scuffle, cops said.

Pasadena police said Roberto Alcaraz-Garnica, of San Diego, groped a woman and then chomped on her boyfriend's digit when he stepped in to defend her at a Beyonce-Jay Z show at the Rose Bowl on Saturday night, the local Star-News…

The gunman wanted for shooting and critically wounding a man in a Bronx bodega during a spat over a rap video shoot boldly opened fire at point-blank range in the crowded store, a new surveillance video shows.

The violence erupted after the two men - who…

“Baby Got Back” is back - via Nicki Minaj.

The big-behind rapper built her entire new “Anaconda” single - out Monday - around the beat, and a key rap sample, from the 1992 Sir-Mix-A-Lot classic.

The chorus swipes Mix-A-Lot’s original reading of…

YG’s concert in Edmonton was cut short after fans started to throw bottles on stage at the Compton rapper. The show only lasted 20 minutes and what caused the bottle throwing is unclear.…

So that’s what they were crafting in the studio. The just released Remy Ma hops on DJ Khaled’s “They Don’t Love You No More (Remix).”

Clearly, Remy has a whole lot of bars to get off her chest. Rapper, male and female, be warned.

Reports the New York Daily News:

“I’m ready to get back to being a positive member of society and sharing my musical…

Get ready to interpret ... because Beyonce now obtusely reveals what went down in that elevator ... and one interpretation goes directly to her marriage.

Beyonce dropped a remix for her song "Flawless" with Nicki Minaj Saturday night ... and early in…

Bronx rapper Remy Ma was released from a New York prison after serving a six-year sentence for assault, a source confirmed to Rolling Stone.

Ma — real name, Reminisce Smith — was convicted of intentional assault back in 2008 for shooting Makeda Barnes Joseph in a dispute over $3,000, but was able to have her initial sentence of eight years scaled back. Upon her…

Atlanta, GA- Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta cast member, Mimi Faust, has finally confessed that her alleged “leaked sex tape” featuring her boyfriend, Nikko Smith, was staged. Faust claims the sextape was filmed in a hotel downtown Atlanta with a professional film crew of about five. As most have already suspected, Faust claims the sextape was produced with the hopes of…

He’ll be enshrined — but not engaged.

New York Giants great and morning talk-show host Michael Strahan and his fiancée of five years, Nicole Murphy, called it quits Friday — a day before the former defensive end was to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The split was an amicable one as their busy careers doomed their seven-year love affair, the…

With great media fanfare, an American doctor infected with the Ebola virus landed in the U.S. and was whisked by ambulance to Emory University in Atlanta, where he is being treated in a special isolation unit.

Video of his arrival shows him emerging from the rear doors, wearing a hazardous material suit and headgear. He gingerly walks into the facility, aided by…

It all went down during Em's headlining gig at the end of the first day of the…