October 2015 Blog Posts (128)

Jaden Smith wants to make a “social impact” by vanishing from the spotlight.

“No one will know where I am in 10 years,” the 17-year-old declared in the November issue of GQ.

The son of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith revealed to the magazine that he has been planning on pulling a disappearing act since the age of 13.

“It'll be kind of like Banksy,” he…

After renewing his comedy career with appearances on "Saturday Night Live" and at the Emmy Awards, Tracy Morgan will embark on a nationwide stand-up tour this winter.

The "Tracy Morgan: Picking up the Pieces" tour is set to begin Feb. 5 at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, Indiana, it was announced Tuesday.

Morgan was in a coma for two weeks following a June…

Lil Wayne got dissed by Diddy's posse in Miami, and it came thiiis close to blowing up into a replay of Drake and Chris Brown's infamous bloody nightclub battle.

This time the drama went down in LIV Nightclub at the Fontainebleau Hotel on Sunday night. TMZ sources in the club say Wayne walked over to say hello to Diddy, who was in a VIP booth next to the…

A machete-wielding man screaming at drivers late at night on a California street was struck by two cars — but he bounded back after each hit-and-run.

A witness recorded video of the armed man waving his weapon as speeding cars along Oakland's International Boulevard and inadvertently caught both times he was hit.

Police arrested the man after his 3 a.m.…

For some seriously silly cha-cha moves set to a low-key breakup anthem, give Drake a call.

The Toronto rapper dropped the music video Monday night for his smash hit "Hotline Bling," which has him bobbing, thrusting and prancing around a room in what fans have called a corny pseudo-salsa.

The video, which debuted on Apple Music, opens with a shot of phone-sex…

Things are about to get “Happy” at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

Grammy-winning singer, rapper and producer Pharrell Williams has been named artist in residence at the prestigious arts school.

The residency will kick off with a career retrospective at Town Hall in midtown Manhattan on Oct. 26. The event will be moderated by NYU music professor…

Lil Wayne’s legal fees continue to mount up. About a month ago, Lil Wayne lost a lawsuit and was ordered by the court to pay $2 million to Signature Group, a company that leases private jets, for unpaid utility bills.

Now, Weezy is being sued by the lawyers who represented him in the lawsuit with Signature. According to TMZ, the lawyer firm Garbett, Allen and Roza,…

Oprah is getting with the program — Weight Watchers.

The billionaire media mogul is taking a 10% stake in the company, which boasts it has helped A-listers like Jennifer Hudson and Jessica Simpson slim down, for about $43.2 million.

Weight Watchers can now use Oprah Winfrey’s name, image, likeness and endorsement for its programs, products and services —…

While Kanye West is apparently creeping on a come up for the 2020 election, he’s playing his cards right for the time being. According to Buzzfeed, West recently donated money to the campaign of democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The amount of ‘Ye’s donation was not disclosed, but he was among other celebrities such as Matt Damon, Tom Hanks and Jessica Alba who also broke…

Live from New York, it's a miraculous comeback!

An emotional Tracy Morgan returned to "Saturday Night Live" for the first time since cheating death in a devastating wreck on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed his mentor and fellow comedian James "Jimmy Mack" McNair and left Morgan in a coma for eight days.

"People are wondering, can he speak? does he have 100%…

After teasing fans by announcing an upcoming mixtape a few days ago, 50 takes the next step by letting people get a look at the cover art for the project. Fif recently took to Instagram to show off the art work for his forthcoming mixtape, The Kanan Tape. The cover is a black-and-white drawing of the Queens rap mogul rocking a pulled down skully. A piece of white tape at the…

Jay Z recently announced he will be having a huge concert dubbed Tidal X: 1020 Festival at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn to commemorate Tidal reaching 1 million subscribers. Could Apple Music’s own Drake be performing at the event? A tweet from Tidal’s official Twitter page says so. According to the tweet, Drake will be performing alongside Tidal artists like Beyonce and…

It was like stealing candy with a baby.

A group of armed Argentine robbers brought a baby along when they stuck up a clothing shop, surveillance video showed.

The three thieves swiped about $5,200 worth of stock when they raided the Buenos Aires-area store, owner Marcelo Taraborrelli told EFE news agency. One woman in the trio carried a baby with her and set…

Lil Wayne is on a mission to make his sex tape disappear ... now with the help of his legal guns.

Wayne's attorneys fired off a cease and desist letter -- obtained by TMZ -- to Hollywood Street Kings ... an urban blog that's been posting clips.…

Dr. Dre is being sued by a housekeeper who claims her job — and its eye-popping $1,870 per week salary — was unfairly scrubbed.

Raquel Sagustume sued the rap mogul in Los Angeles this week claiming she was bullied by other household staff during a 13-month stint that ended in February.

Sagustume said the other staffers — two female cousins — felt threatened by…

Ex-NBA and reality star Lamar Odom was breathing on his own, speaking aloud and flashing a thumbs-up sign Friday after emerging from a four-day coma.

“Hey, baby,” the former Los Angeles Lakers star told estranged wife Khloe Kardashian after opening his eyes to see her alongside his hospital bed, according to E! News.

Kardashian rushed to the Las Vegas medical…

The young Bronx mom arrested for dropping her 6-month-old baby girl out a sixth-floor window had asked loved ones for help, but got none, she said as she was escorted to court Friday morning.

“I spoke to you and you didn’t listen!” Tenisha Fearon, clad in sweatpants and a Gap athletic sweatshirt, told her godmother Louella Hatch, 76, outside of the 46th Precinct…

It's a blast from hip hop music's past.

On the heels of its 25th anniversary, Pharrell Williams has remixed A Tribe Called Quest's '90s hit song, "Bonita Applebum," which debuted on Rolling Stone.

The tune about a young man's affection…