Her records are filled with intense moments of pain and joy, but when she is just sitting there without a microphone or spotlight in front of her, Mary J. Blige is cool and a lot of fun.
Put aside the glam and the sassy delivery and what emerges is a woman who enjoys a good chat and comes across as a deeply spiritual person. Call her the High Priestess of Hip Hop.
Eleven days ago, Blige embarked on a 17-concert fall trek that she… Continue
Watch out, Spider-Man. Tyra Banks is encroaching on your style.
The "America's Next Top Model" host wove her own tangled web and wore it as a mask Thursday to French Vogue's 90th Anniversary party in Paris.
Hours before Banks donned the stretchy, black criss-crossed material, the model and entrepreneur tweeted about her quest to find a suitable mask for the Fashion Week event.
Duct tape has a lot of uses, but this one is just horrific.
A young mother and her boyfriend were jailed after shocking photos surfaced of the mom's toddler taped to the wall.
Jayla Hamm, 18, held her 22-month-old son against a wall while her boyfriend, Corde Honea, 19, taped his wrists, legs and boy with neon green duct tape in… Continue
Just one week after a former hooker alleged she had several trysts with David Beckham, the soccer star is again at the center of affair rumors.
The difference this time, however, is the woman in question is denying the accusation.
Shery Shabani, a reported friend of Beckham and wife Victoria, is divorcing her husband who has accused her of cheating with the Brit, according to court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com.
A Staten Island couple who had just buried their 17-year-old son after a car accident were horrified to learn the medical examiner held onto his brain.
And the way they found out was even more gut-wrenching:The teen's schoolmates - including his girlfriend - spotted the organ floating in a jar during a field trip to the mortuary.
Now Andre and Korisha Shipley have gotten the go-ahead to sue the city - which is still claiming it did… Continue
LAS VEGAS - Bruno Mars, singer of the hit R&B song "Just the Way You Are," faces a felony cocaine charge stemming from his arrest after a performance at a Las Vegas nightclub last month. The Clark County district attorney's office filed a criminal complaint Friday alleging the rising singer-songwriter had 2.6 grams of cocaine when he was arrested Sept. 19 after being detained by a hotel security guard.
A longtime Bronx graffiti artist who claimed to have gone mainstream returned to his roots by tagging a subway car uptown, police said. Fernando Carlo - whose graffiti has covered trains, walls, and trucks since the late '70s - was busted this week. Police said Carlo, better known as Cope or Cope2, slipped into a subway yard at 207th St., using a train as his personal canvas.
A rare pink hippo was spotted along the banks of the Mara River in Kenya, much tot he delight of two photographers that captured the animal with their cameras. The pair of photographers shared their images with National Geographic and described their encounter with the rare pink hippo on their own blog.
The photographers - brothers who run a blog together, said: "Just as we started to tuck into our breakfast, we looked up and gawked, open-mouthed,… Continue
Mario -- the platinum-selling R&B singer -- was arrested in Baltimore this morning for allegedly assaulting his own mother in an apartment they share.
According to police, Mario's mother Shawntia Hardaway -- a former heroin addict -- told cops the former "Dancing with the Stars" contestant had been "throwing and damaging property" ... and pushed her around with his hands and forearms.
Cops say they found several broken items inside… Continue
Hip Hop's star of the moment cut a rare figure at Radio City last night.
Drake boasts a different character, sound and homeland than most of those so anointed.
Born in Toronto to a white Jewish mother and an African-American father - and first known for his acting on the Canadian TV show "Degrassi: The Next Generation" - Drake renders the old hip-hop mandate of hard-core "street cred" laughably… Continue
Well-played, MTV. Way to tease the climax of last week's episode and cap the hour just before we're about to see it…again. Last time it was the Sammi/J-Woww fight; this time it was Angelina laying a Rick James caliber five-star across the Situation's face. It's really impressive how you punked us twice with that, but rest assured: we will not be fooled again.
So here we are: Fight Night Round 2. Angelina, aka "The Dirty Hamster" vs. The Situation,… Continue
Tavata is twenty-six years old demented trans-woman who makes her living as a hair stylist in the Peruvian capital. She goes on Laura Bozzo's talk show to confront her cheating (married) boyfriend.. a man who wants nothing to do with Tavata now that she's in financial… Continue
The Teflon Don, aka Ricky Rozay on the cover of Urban Ink with his hand on Draya’s hip and his big fatty mcnasty bulging belly and breasts exposed.
One question ladies. How many of you would let Rick hit it?…
Rapper Paul Wall is never ever going to apologize to the guy he blasted with a microphone this past weekend ... because according to Paul, "He ain't my fan. I'm not worried about him."
We caught up with Paul in Calabasas yesterday, where he told us the reason he decked the bird-flipping concertgoer in San Antonio was because, "A**holes get outta line sometimes."
Paul Wall Fun Fact: Dude always "keeps an extra grill handy."
When Alicia Keys asks for a favor it’s hard to say no. Many of her music industry friends, including Beyonce, Usher, Whitney Houston, and Sade, said yes to lending their support to her 7th annual Keep A Child Alive Black Ball last night (September 30) in New York City. A glowing Alicia showed up with her husband, producer/rapper Swizz Beatz, and proudly showed off her massive baby bump while posing for… Continue