Featured Blog Posts – October 2018 Archive (112)

Cardi B matches Iggy Azalea for the most career weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 among female rappers, as both MCs have now spent seven weeks at the chart's summit in their careers.

As previously reported, Maroon 5's "Girls Like You," featuring Cardi B, logs a third week at No. 1 (on the chart dated Oct. 13). Cardi B previously led for a week in July with "I…

Chance the Rapper continues to inch away from Kanye West.

During an appearance on “The Joe Budden Podcast,” the rapper, 25, admitted he’s not sure if “Good Ass Job,” an album he and West, 41, were planning to collaborate on, will ever even come out.

“I had talked to Ye when I was in Wyoming about making this project happen. He was like, ‘Yeah, we’ll do a…

If a swear jar existed in Amber Rose‘s home, it would be pretty full.

“I let my son curse in the house because it’s a form of expression,” Rose told Us Weekly over the weekend. “I tell him when it’s appropriate and not to say it at school. That’s it.”

Speaking to the magazine at her annual SlutWalk, where she wore a wedding dress, the mom of 5-year-old…

When Eli Manning goes low, Lil Wayne goes higher. And, uh, higher.

A day after the Giants quarterback spoke about the rapper for perhaps the first time in his life, a bothered Lil Wayne, enormous blunt in hand, released a series of Instagram videos in which he was incredulous he was on the receiving end of a shot from one of his favorite quarterbacks.

The…

Rick Ross has reportedly settled a massive debt with the IRS. According to court documents obtained by The Blast, the Department of Treasury recently filed a Certificate of Release of Federal Tax Lien against Ross.

Consequently, Rozay was forced to pay a total of $4,617,370.86, which settled a 2012 tax bill he’d left unpaid for over a year.

The IRS hit Ross…

The artwork for Cam’ron’s latest mixtape is getting him sued.

Photographer Eli Reed has sued the rapper for using a photo from his book “Black in America” as the cover for 2017’s “The Program,” according to Harlem Patch.

Reed alleges that neither Cam nor his representatives ever approached him about using the picture of a group of young black boys playing on a…

12 Injured After Lil Wayne " A3C " Performance In Atlanta Turned Into Mayhem When Someone Yelled "They Shooting".…

Comedian Katt Williams has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a hired driver during an argument about taking him and his dog from the Portland, Oregon, airport to a performance in the city.

Williams is in jail Sunday. He had come to Portland to perform in Nick Cannon's "Wild 'N Out" comedy improv show Friday night.

Port of Portland police say the town car…

Nicki Minaj‘s stylist is accusing the rapper of committing a major fashion faux pas — by stiffing him on over $73,000 in payments for his services, according to a new lawsuit.

Maher Jridi — who dressed Minaj for her “Regret in Your Tears” music video — says he developed what he “believed was a friendship” with the singer over the past year.

Instead she “created…

Kanye West's Twitter and Instagram accounts no longer exist. The rapper's social media presence has apparently vanished as of Saturday (Oct. 6).

It isn't the first time West has deleted his social media accounts without warning. He stayed off of Twitter for nearly a year, making his return this past April, and recently went back to Instagram as well.

Tina Turner has revealed that she underwent a kidney transplant with an organ donated by her husband.

The 78-year-old singer says in an upcoming autobiography that she has suffered from kidney disease, and by 2016 her kidneys were at “20 percent and plunging rapidly.”

She says her husband, Erwin Bach, “shocked me by saying that he wanted to give me one of his…

R. Kelly‘s ex-wife believes all of his accusers because she says abuse at his hands is something they all have in common.

“You cannot not speak when someone’s life and what they’ve been through is parallel to yours,” Andrea Kelly said on “The View” on Thursday. “I wanted to bring validity to these women’s stories.”

Andrea, 44, and the singer, 51, were married…

Chance the Rapper has pledged $1 million to mental health services in Chicago, ABC 7 Chicago reports. He announced the news during his second annual summit for his nonprofit SocialWorks on Thursday, which he streamed live via Twitter.

To start, six different mental wellness providers will receive $100,000 grants in Cook County, Illinois. Chance called the new…

While the world was feverishly dissecting Drake’s lyrics, the “Scorpion” rapper was busy building a fashion empire.

The 31-year-old musician’s OVO (October’s Very Own) brand is likely to hit $50 million in sales this year, according to Business of Fashion. The streetwear label sells T-shirts, hoodies, sweatpants and accessories adorned with the star’s signature owl…

Nicki Minaj found a new way to turn her feud with Cardi B into cold, hard cash.

On Thursday night, the 35-year-old pop star released a capsule collection of merchandise plastered with the phrase “Nicki stopped my bag.”

The collection includes an array of T-shirts, jackets and backpacks, all featuring the quote alongside “QSA: Queen Security Administration,”…

A federal judge has issued an arrest warrant for The Game, holding him in contempt of court for failing to appear for a hearing in his sexual assault case.

The rapper lost a sexual assault lawsuit nearly two years ago to Priscilla Rainey, a contestant on his VH1 reality show “She’s Got Game” and was ordered to pay her $7 million. Game claims he is trying to get his…

Juice WRLD celebrates his first No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart as “Lucid Dreams” climbs 3-1 on the list dated Oct. 6. The track makes an identical move to also crown the Hot Rap Songs chart for the first time.

“Dreams” advances as it retakes the No. 1 position on the R&B/Hip-Hop Streaming Songs chart and (all-genre Streaming Songs chart) for…

Suge Knight was sentenced Thursday to 28 years behind bars for running over and killing a man in 2015 – as the victim’s daughter excoriated the troubled rap mogul as “a disgusting, selfish disgrace to the human species.”

The 53-year-old co-founder of Death Row Records, whose real name is Marion Knight, showed no emotion as the family of victim Terry Carter took turns…

Alpo's Son Popperazzi Po allegedly robbed the CFO of Don Q's label for his High Bridge chain then flaunts it on Instagram.

The chain reportedly belongs to Baby Dubai of HBTL pictured below.…