Featured Blog Posts – October 2018 Archive (112)

R&B singer Lil’ Mo is ready to put down the microphone and try a new career.

“Today has been one of those days,” the star told fans on Instagram Wednesday night. “I usually hold it all together. But when it’s so much going on inside it’s hard to suppress something you have been wanting to do. I’ve given 20 years plus to being Lil Mo. I’m going to give you all new…

Kanye West and Nicki Minaj are teaming up to take on body shaming and double standards.

The controversial pal of Donald Trump, 41, announced he recorded a song with Minaj, 35, for his upcoming album, “Yandhi,” in a TMZ interview posted to social media on Wednesday.

“Nicki just rapped on a song that we’re talking about dealing with, uh, body shaming,” he said.…

Tyler, the Creator escaped injury in an early morning crash that left his vehicle totaled.

The rapper, 27, crashed his Tesla Model X SUV into a parked vehicle near the UCLA campus in western Los Angeles early Thursday morning, reports TMZ.

Despite the collision being severe enough to total his vehicle and push the other SUV, a Honda CR-V, some 50 feet, Tyler…

Migos are being accused of ripping off another artist on their smash hit “Walk It Talk It.”

A lawsuit filed by Leander C. Pickett, who records under the name M.O.S., alleges that the rap trio of stole significant chunks of his 2008 song “Walk It Like I Talk It” for the popular single, reports TMZ.

According to court docs obtained by the website, Picket noticed…

Cardi B knows there’s a thin line between love and hate.

The “Bodak Yellow” rapper, 26, turned to her Instagram story to speak out about her new song, “Money,” leaking two days early. At first, Cardi was upset about the leak but ultimately decided to embrace it and aggressively promote the track while calling out Nicki Minaj’s fans, who are known as…

In a secret recording taken two years before he was killed in Florida, XXXTentacion admitted to “f—king up” his pregnant girlfriend and stabbing eight people, according to a new report.

The late rapper, who was shot dead. in Deerfield Beach, Florida in June, chats with friends about his disturbing life of crime in the chilling 27-minute tape obtained by online music…

Ice-T was busted Wednesday morning for blowing through a toll without paying at the George Washington Bridge as he was headed into the Big Apple, police and a report said.

The 60-year-old rapper-turned-actor, whose real name is Tracy Lauren Marrow, was nabbed at around 6:56 a.m. by Port Authority Police as he was approaching the bridge on the New Jersey side, TMZ…

Kid Cudi is working his way back to the top following a period of depression and a stint in rehab.

“I’m not battling any demons right now. Thank God,” Cudi told GQ in a new interview.

In October 2016, Cudi, 34, checked himself into rehab for “depression and suicidal urges.”

“Anxiety and depression have ruled my life for as long as I can remember and I…

Over the past 25 years, multiple women have accused singer R. Kelly of sexual, mental and physical abuse. The singer was charged with child pornography in 2000, and in recent years of holding women against their will in a “sex cult.” While Kelly was acquitted of the child-pornography charges and has never been convicted of any such crimes, the accusations…

In Cardi B‘s world, time is money.

The rap phenom, 26, dropped her new track “Money” on Tuesday along with the single’s appropriately extravagant artwork, which features a completely nude Cardi with dozens of golden watches piled high on both arms.

Rather than rocking a stack of real Rolexes, however, the musician’s dramatic look comes courtesy of some cheeky…

Tracy Chapman is going after Nicki Minaj in a fast car.

The famous singer is suing Minaj for copyright infringement over a leaked song titled “Sorry,” The Blast reported. Featuring Nas, the song was supposed to be part of Minaj’s new album, but she couldn’t clear the Chapman sample from her song “Baby Can I Hold You.”

According to court documents obtained by…

‘Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta’ star Spice shared a new Instagram pic with fans on Oct. 22, but her controversial makeover had some fans VERY upset.

“Nothing wrong with a fresh start” Spice, 36, said on Oct. 22 when sharing a new selfie of herself, but the comment may have been the understatement of the century. The Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star debuted an…

The city’s swankiest tweens lived it up over the weekend at dueling lavish bar mitzvahs, we hear.

Uptown, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick’s son Ryan was fêted at the Metropolitan Museum’s Temple of Dendur — the same setting as Vogue’s annual Met Gala — with music by Rich the Kid and DJ Irie.

An insider told us the performance by Kid probably cost “between…

Cassie has some thoughts after she and Diddy’s breakup made headlines.

The 32-year-old singer took to her Instagram story to post a telling message: “F–k these hoes.”

Her post comes only four days after it was reported that Diddy, whose…

The rapper Famous Dex allegedly pulled a gun on UC Irvine students after the concert he was playing at the university was canceled because of his stage diving.

In a video posted to social media, a man appearing to be Dex, whose real name is Dexter Gore Jr., can be seen waving a gun at a group of students who had surrounded his car following the canceled show on Friday…

A Philadelphia songwriter who claims he was cut out of profits and credit from song that was recorded by Usher in 2004 has been awarded more than $44 million in damages, according to The Associated Press and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The suit targeted the track’s other co-writers; Usher was not named in it.

The lawsuit stemmed from songwriter Daniel Marino’s work on…

Drake, who hauled in an estimated $94 million in 2017, according to the celebrity bean counters at Forbes, has solidified his property gossip status as an up-and-coming real estate baller, we first heard from real estate yenta Yolanda Yakketyyak, with the $4.5 million, off-market purchase of a remarkably unremarkable ranch style residence next door to his already sprawling,…

Tina Turner has finally opened up about the suicide of Craig Turner, her son.

The eight-time Grammy award-winner told BBC News on Friday that she can’t figure out what compelled her son to take his life because he had so much going for himself and had even found love.

“I still don’t know what took him to the edge because at that stage he had said to me that he…

Pop star Rihanna stands with former 49ers quarterback and social justice advocate Colin Kaepernick.

Before the NFL announced in September Maroon 5 as the Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show performers, the league approached Rihanna about the gig, according to US Weekly. Rihanna declined the opportunity to perform on one of the biggest stages in sports to show she supports…

One week after Iron Fist was canned and the same day that the long awaited third season of Daredevil launched, Netflix has canceled Luke Cage.

“Unfortunately, Marvel’s Luke Cage will not return for a third season,” Marvel and the streaming service said on Friday. “Everyone at Marvel Television and Netflix is grateful to the dedicated showrunner, writers, cast and crew…