Featured Blog Posts – October 2019 Archive (99)

DMX has canceled his upcoming slate of concerts in order to return to rehab, the rapper announced Saturday.

“In his ongoing commitment to putting family and sobriety first, DMX has checked himself into a rehab facility,” DMX’s Instagram told fans. “He apologizes for his cancelled shows and thanks his fans for their continued support.”

Tracy Chapman’s copyright infringement lawsuit against Nicki Minaj is moving forward after the two reportedly failed to reach an agreement during a recent court-ordered mediation.

Chapman is accusing Minaj of unlawfully sampling her song “Baby Can I Hold You” for the track “Sorry.” Minaj reportedly confirmed in court documents that the song never made it to her album…

Organizers of Rolling Loud, a hip-hop festival taking place in New York this weekend, say they have dropped five rappers from the lineup at the request of police.

The New York Times reports that the performers were removed from the Rolling Loud festival after a New York Police Department official sent the organizers a letter citing safety concerns if the rappers took…

Rihanna famously hails from Barbados. She stays plugged into Bajan politics, has an official ambassador position, and goes home every year to serve looks at the Crop Over festival.

Who wouldn't want to have Rihanna as their countrywoman? Indeed, apropos of nothing, Jamaican Twitter has launched a campaign to steal Rihanna's nationality.

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Ja Rule has a theory about jail and the mentality that he now carries over into his life outside bars.

“One of the reasons I do work out [is that], when you go to jail, you get a jail mentality. So you come out with that same thinking [as] in jail. Your mentality is, you make your whole body a weapon. There’s nothing to do so, you work the f–k out. But the theory of…

A paternity case has been filed naming Flavor Flav as the father of a newborn baby boy, and the woman who filed it is a member of his management team.

According to legal documents filed in LA County Courts, Kate Gammell claims Flav is the father of her beautiful 2-month baby boy, Jordan.…

A $107 million judgment against Marion "Suge" Knight and Death Row Records, which was awarded back in 2005, has been voided by a judge.

In a shocking turn of events, a judge just voided the massive payout after a woman named Lydia Harris filed a motion in the case citing issues with the legality of how her lawyers actually won the massive case against Suge Knight and…

A man charged with selling rapper Mac Miller the drugs that killed him last year pleaded not guilty Thursday (Oct. 10) in federal court in Los Angeles.

Cameron Pettit stood alongside his attorney and spoke only to answer a judge’s questions as he entered the plea.

Prosecutor allege that Pettit, 28, of West Hollywood, sold Miller cocaine and pills that…

A Manhattan federal court judge Thursday shaved two years off the sentence of a former Tekashi 6ix9ine associate because the man was stabbed nine times while behind bars — after he renounced his association with the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.

“You have now been on both sides of violence,” Manhattan federal court Judge Paul Engelmayer told Roland “Ro…

Get ready for some fresher “Prince.”

Will Smith, currently starring in the new action film “Gemini Man,” is revisiting his “Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” roots and working on a reboot of the 1990-96 NBC series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Westbrook Inc., a new media company founded by Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, is developing a “spinoff” of the…

Tekashi 6ix9ine, who believes he’ll be out of jail in 2020 after rolling on associates in the Nine Trey Bloods gang, is already putting his next album together.

“It looks like he will be making music right away when he comes home,” said a music insider. “He already contacted a young NYC producer, and someone purchased two beats for him.”

Tekashi, who will be…

A Nipsey Hussle biography is in the works, according to Complex (Oct. 8). The book takes a deep dive into the life of the late Nipsey Hussle, who was murdered outside his Marathon Clothing store in Los Angeles earlier this March, and will be written by VIBE founding editor Rob Kenner.

The Marathon Don’t Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle is slated to release…

Kevin Hart has returned to work following his life-threatening car crash just last month.

E! News reports the comedian has begun work on the marketing campaign for the upcoming “Jumanji” sequel alongside co-stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Danny DeVito and Danny Glover, all of whom were “happy to see him.” The three actors reportedly reduced their work schedules to…

Rihanna is kneeling with Colin Kaepernick.

The singer says she turned down an invitation to headline the Super Bowl LIII halftime show in solidarity with the former 49ers quarterback.

“I couldn’t dare do that,” the pop superstar, 31, told Vogue. “I just couldn’t be a sellout. I couldn’t be an enabler.…

Lil Kim's got "No Time" for PETA protestors, especially when they try to get up in her face.

The iconic rapper was outside the Build Studio on Tuesday in New York City when she was bulldozed by a few members of the animal organization who are not happy with her love of fur.

The most vocal protestor wore a hat and held a poster reading "Lil Kim Animal…

Jay-Z is hosting a blackjack tournament with a $100,000 buy-in as part of his Shawn Carter Foundation gala the weekend of Nov. 15, we hear.

The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla., is putting up a $500,000 jackpot for the winner, and attendees can also chip in another $40,000 for a package that gets them VIP access for the weekend.

The…

Drake's dad Dennis Graham was on Power 106’s Nick Cannon Mornings recently, and during their conversation, Cannon asked what it was like to have Drake share negative aspects about their relationship in his songs. Graham responded, “I had a conversation with Drake about that. I have always been with Drake. I talk to him if not every day, every other day. We really got into a…

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson thinks it will make for great TV, and so will the legal dramas of other celebrities, including himself: the rapper-actor-entrepreneur has inked a deal for a scripted docuseries on such subjects called “A Moment in Time” that will be produced by him through his production company G-Unit Film & Television, a rep confirms to Variety…