The top-earning celebrity of 2013 doesn't even have a pulse.
Forbes released a list of the top-earning dead celebrities for this year, and the No.1 earner on the list, Michael Jackson, raked in a whopping $160 million from June 2012 to June 2013. Jackson easily trounced the No. 1 earner still living, Madonna, who earned only $125 million.
Young Scooter showed a ton of promise last year when his mixtape grind spawned "Colombia," the most notable single of his career, which in turned spawned an all-star remix with Rick Ross and Birdman. All seemed to be going well for the Atlanta rapper until his career was briefly derailed when he was booked on probation violation charges on April 8.
For XXL’s October/November issue, we featured the West Coast juggernaut TDE on our cover. With Kendrick Lamar leading the pack, his homies Ab-Soul, ScHoolboy Q and Jay Rock were right by his side representing Black Hippy.
Hours after the TDE cover hit the Internet, Soul tweeted that he wasn’t really feeling the cover. “If y’all keep printing “Kendrick… Continue
Curtis (50 Cent) Jackson nearly shed a tear in an attempt to land a role in the 2007 film “American Gangster,” a far cry from the hard-core rapper the world is used to seeing.
In the audition tape revealed by Defamer, Jackson can be seen acting out a few scenes for the part that “12 Years A Slave” star Chiwetel Ejiofor landed.
Former "Jersey Shore" star Pauly DelVecchio is a dad to a baby daughter, TMZ reported.
The reality star has fathered a child, who is reportedly a few months old, with a 26-year-old New Jersey girl he met in Las Vegas while deejaying last year.
The mother, who the gossip site said is currently residing in the Garden State,… Continue
A mysterious Brooklyn ganja-giver committed random acts of kind kindness this week. Gawker reports that earlier this week a man found a poster with the message, “THESE ARE TOUGH TIMES. TAKE THIS WEED” taped to a subway wall in Brooklyn. And there was actually weed attached!…
Vanilla feels he broke sampling barriers and pushed rap into the mainstream in a recent interview with XXLmag.com.
"Sampling barriers, I broke down, they made a spectacle out of it and it made it okay for Puff Daddy and everybody else to go make music. They figured it out. There was nobody before me that I could use as a guideline. [i] took rap mainstream. I had the… Continue
A Tennessee husband and wife rented out their four daughters as sex performers in porn videos, authorities said.
Ronnie Lee McCall, 61, and Connie McCall, 40, face federal sex crime charges in a case a local prosecutor described as one of the “worst” cases he’d seen in 20 years, WATE reported.
The couple, strung out on so-called bath salts, forced the… Continue
A New Hampshire woman was sentenced to nine to 30 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to brutally torturing her 18-year-old son and burning off his nipples with a lighter.
Christine Gelineau, 53, of Concord, is also accused of torching her son’s penis to the point of permanent nerve damage, stabbing him with a pen and forcing him to eat worms,…
A healthcare underwear company has designed a range of briefs and boxers which use chemical warfare technology to filter unwanted gas.
The hi-tech pants, created by Shreddies Ltd. based in Leicestershire, England, feature a highly absorptive carbon cloth back panel which traps and neutralizes flatulence odors.
Sweet Yeezus! Kanye West swooped into San Francisco Monday night and proposed to Kim Kardashian on her 33rd birthday, E! News reported early Tuesday morning.
The rapper, 36, popped the question to the mother of his child at AT&T Park, which was rented out for Kardashian’s big day, the site reported.
Having received future mother-in-law Kris… Continue
Justin Bieber may have awed fans while performing in San Juan Saturday, but airport security wasn't fazed by his super stardom.
When the 19-year-old pop star attempted to leave the island after his concert at Coliseo de Puerto Rico, he was subjected to a "random search" by the airport's law enforcement, reports TMZ.
Rihanna brought a little more instability to the Middle East.
The “Diamonds” singer was booted from the famed Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi over the weekend after posing for some photos that were racy by the standards of the holy site.
Though she covered up — by her standards — in a head-to-toe black form-fitting outfit, complete with a…
A grand jury in Lincoln County, S.D. has returned an indictment of murder in the second degree for Joseph Patterson, the man believed to have beaten a two-year-old boy to death.
Patterson allegedly assaulted and murdered Tyrese Robert Ruffin, the toddler son of Minnesota Vikings tailback Adrian Peterson. Patterson was originally charged with two felonies for… Continue
The L.A. County D.A. will CLEAR CeeLo Green of charges he sexually assaulted a woman by allegedly slipping a drug in her drink. CeeLo will, however, be charged with the felony of furnishing ecstasy ... law enforcement sources tell TMZ.
TMZ sources say the D.A. will officially REJECT the sexual assault case this morning. A woman had claimed she and CeeLo went to…
Kanye West kicked off his 'Yeezus' tour in Seattle, WA on Saturday and as always, left people talking. The show, which reportedly started two hours late due to an equipment truck being stolen, lasted two hours. Ye' performed material from his six-album discography, including live debuts of "Yeezus" cuts ("Hold My Liquor," "I'm In It" and "Guilt…
Nas to possibly take part in "Illmatic" anniversary concert in 2014, reveals plans to release a repackaged version of the album.
With Nas’ eleventh studio album, Life Is Good, now well over a year behind him, the Queens rapper is currently at work crafting his next LP. While speaking with the Huffington Post, Nas spoke on the process of creating his next project and… Continue
The basketball player-turned-tight end experiment has worked out pretty well for some NFL teams — Drew Brees and Philip Rivers seem to enjoy throwing to Jimmy Graham and Antonio Gates, respectively — so whenever LeBron James mentions his love of football, general managers must let their minds wander and dream about having a 6-8, 250-pound tight end at their… Continue