Featured Blog Posts – August 2015 Archive (135)

The world's most recognizable rapper appeared to finally join Instagram on Saturday – only to quit the site just 14 hours later.

An account allegedly run by Jay Z shared a pair of photos of the hip-hop mogul alongside Michael Jackson over the weekend, celebrating what would have been the King of Pop's 57th birthday.

"Happy Birthday to the King!" the photo…

Even by the envelope-pushing standards of MTV VMA fashions, Amber Rose and Blac Chyna turned heads on the red carpet Sunday night.

The models showed off body-hugging, nude-colored outfits emblazoned with smutty words, including "whore," "slut" and "b---."

"They call us sluts and whores all the time, so we just embrace it. I have slut written across my…

Kanye for President, bro.

What started as an opportunity for Kanye West to mend fences with Taylor Swift after their infamous run in at the 2009 VMAs ended up as bizarre, rambling campaign speech.

"As you have probably guessed, I have decided to run for president in 2020," he concluded to much applause - and laughter - making it unclear whether or not he was…

Put all the faux feminism and spurious niceties away: Nicki Minaj is as fake -- and as nasty -- as they come, slamming Miley Cyrus (who we also never jump to defend for the most part) for simply making a passing comment about how Nicki's just not that nice.

If you missed the 2015 VMAs last night, you missed dumb people doing dumb things while wearing dumb…

Kanye West is turning back the clock.

The polarizing rapper plans to perform his groundbreaking 2008 electropop and R&B album "808s & Heartbreak" in full next month at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, according to Complex.

Yeezy hasn't actually confirmed the throwback concert yet, but Ticketmaster has already posted a Sept. 25 listing for the show,…

Young Dro has not only royally pissed off a stripper, she says he set her up and got her arrested for weed and an illegal gun.

According to a police report, Dro was in a city near Atlanta in February when he went to a stripper friend and asked to borrow her Cadillac. She agreed, with one condition ... that he pick her up after her shift at the Pink Pony.

Dro…

MTV has announced that Nicki Minaj will open Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards.

Minaj herself teased the announcement on social media Thursday with an image of a sonogram showing a VMA Moonman statuette, a sly reference to recent rumors that she was pregnant.

(She has since deleted the post, but the image was also included in the network press release.)…

A little soccer showboating never hurt anyone - unless they play female futsal in Brazil.

Monique, a skillfull playmaker for club Montenegro, learned this the painful way in a recent amateur league game by taking a vicious kick to the face by Venezia defender Leandra, who nearly decapitated her opponent out of frustration.

The arrestable offense came after…

Tidal, the music-streaming platform co-owned by Jay Z and a cohort of top-tier music stars, appears to have upset the wrong beast.

Apple reportedly warned the platform that it could face a multimillion dollar lawsuit because rapper Drake, an Apple Music artist, was set to appear at a charity event in New Orleans that was live-streamed on Tidal Friday…

Lil Wayne must have been in a nostalgic mood on Friday night. Tunechi hit the stage at Lil WeezyAna Fest, his first annual homecoming concert in Louisiana to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and brought out a piece of Louisiana history for the show.

Juvenile, Turk and producer Mannie Fresh — who, along with Wayne, formed the seminal hip hop…

VH1 has greenlit another spinoff from its successful “Love & Hip Hop” franchise, which will be toplined by reality personalities Stevie and Joseline from “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.”

The cable net has also picked up a second season of “K.Michelle: My Life,” which is set to premiere in winter 2016.

The untitled “Stevie & Joseline” series will follow…

Kylie Jenner and Tyga are in hot water for ignoring California’s drought.

The couple were cited for water waste at their respective homes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

An investigation conducted by the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District found that the “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star and her rapper beau were among the locals violating water…

Spike Lee will soon have his first Oscar - and it only took 35 films and 30 years of directing, writing, acting and producing to get it.

The academy announced that Lee, and actresses Gena Rowlands and Debbie Reynolds, will receive honorary golden statues at the annual Governors Awards ceremony in Hollywood on Nov. 14.

Lee has been at odds with the…

Reality show judge Joe Brown is stepping over to the wrong side of the justice system — for a few days.

The TV arbitrator turned himself in Thursday to serve a five-day sentence in a Memphis jail for a contempt of court charge dating back more than a year, WMC reported.

Brown, 68, was charged and very briefly jailed after losing his temper in front of a…

DRUG ADDICTION, sex abuse, threesomes. Do these sound like common subjects for songs by someone hyped as the next King of Pop?

Maybe not. But they might well be perfect topics for a star out to rewrite that role.

True to its title,…

Chart-topping songstress Alicia Keys and her husband Swizz Beatz are looking to sell their massive 32-room New Jersey compound, once home to Eddie Murphy, for a cool $14.9 million.

The couple is reportedly offloading the property because it’s not big enough. They plan to build an even larger one nearby.

The 25,000-square-foot house sits on a private…

YouTube founder Chad Hurley will reportedly be cutting a big check to Kanye West and Kim Kardashian for secretly filming their ballpark engagement ceremony.

Hurley has agreed to pay the celeb couple $440,000 in settlement cash to close the books on a lawsuit connected to a leaked video of their lavish engagement at San Francisco's AT&T Park in 2013.

News of…

A disgruntled Tyga is showing his claws.

The "Rack City" rapper is suing his landlord for a breach of contract, claiming he failed to uphold his side of a high-end property agreement, according to People.

Tyga's lawyers stated in a series of court papers that the rapper put down the agreed-upon $200,000 towards the purchase of an $8 million Calabasas, Calif.,…

With one of his coasting-at-the-end performances in the 200 meters on Thursday, Justin Gatlin still couldn’t get close as the Jamaican won a record 10th gold medal at the world championships.

Looking left and failing to see any red from Gatlin’s jersey, Bolt lifted both arms and punched his thumbs into his chest to show once again he is the greatest sprinter of…