November 2017 Blog Posts (180)

For months, Cam'ron has tantalized fans about his forthcoming mixtape, The Program. Finally, on Thursday (Nov. 9), the Harlem MC turned the tide and unveiled the his elusive mixtape.

The 15-track project consists of a multitude of producers ranging from Just Blaze -- who appears on "Kiss Myself" -- AraabMuzik, Dollavision, ADM, REK, JB Music and more. Despite not…

Cardi B's breakthrough year keeps getting bigger, and now the rapper has earned a historic first on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: She becomes the first woman to chart her first three entries on the list in the top 10 simultaneously.

On the Nov. 18-dated chart, the Bronx native's former six-week No. 1, "Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)," holds at No. 2, while…

Common says dating activist and CNN correspondent Angela Rye is making him more politically engaged.

“I feel like I have a lot more work to do . . . I feel like I have to be more intelligent with the work and strategize more,” the rapper said at the Root 100 gala at Guastavino’s, where Rye was honored Thursday.

“I have to listen more and go out and do more…

Tyrese Gibson has apologized for his “complete” meltdown and blamed the incident on prescription drugs.

“I want you guys to know that to this day I don’t drink, smoke or on any level do I do drugs,” he said in a long Instagram rant on Saturday. “Because of this high stress and very traumatic experience I was advised then ultimately connected with multiple therapist[s]…

Eminem returned Friday, and he did so with one of music’s biggest names: Beyoncé. The song will likely appear on the rapper’s forthcoming ninth album, which has been long rumored.

“Walk on Water” opens with an elegiac piano line and Beyoncé’s crystalline vocals, as she sings, “I walk on water, but I ain’t no Jesus / I walk on water, but only when it freezes.”…

Budding rap producer Ramsay Tha Great was sentenced to 10 years in prison for pimping four women in Orange County, Calif. for close to a year. On Tuesday (Nov. 7) the producer, whose birth name is Brandon Christopher Ramsay, pleaded guilty to four felony counts of pimping, in addition to counts of pandering, human trafficking, and assault with a firearm.

Ramsay, a…

The Juice got loose at a Las Vegas hotel — getting booted after a scuffle at the bar late Wednesday, according to a report.

TMZ reports that O.J. Simpson got kicked out of the Cosmopolitan Hotel for good after allegedly getting boozed up and becoming unruly.

Staffers at the hotel told the website Simpson — who has been hitting up bars since his release from…

Benny Medina, best known for managing Jennifer Lopez and Will Smith, has been accused of attempting to rape “Sordid Lives” actor Jason Dottley in 2008.

Dottley opens up to The Advocate about meeting Medina at a bar in LA with fellow actor T. Ashanti Mozelle and going back to his mansion with him.

While Mozelle was in the pool, Dottley claims that Medina offered…

Nicki Minaj’s brother Jelani Maraj has been found guilty of raping an 11-year-old girl at his home in Baldwin, New York.

The Long Island newspaper Newsday reports that jurors convicted Maraj, 38, in Nassau County Court on Thursday, November 9, on a felony charge of predatory sexual assault on a child and endangering the welfare of a child. Maraj reportedly showed no…

Amid Tyrese and ex-wife Norma Gibson’s bitter custody battle, a source close to Norma told Page Six on Thursday that he was granted four recent visits with a third-party monitor, who is a clinical psychologist, but that he “disappeared” before two of them.

Two additional monitored visits are scheduled for this weekend, the source said, but Tyrese Instagrammed this…

Fox is singing in a new era with some big-name stars on its latest vocal competition series.

Diddy and DJ Khaled will make up half of the network's newest show "The Four," TMZ reported. Their names were originally floated as potential fits on the series late last month by the gossip website.

Fox is reportedly planning to fill out the remainder of its…

Tia Mowry is pregnant with her second child.

The “Sister, Sister” actress announced the news with a sweet Instagram post of her 6-year-old son Cree and her husband Cory Hardrict kissing her growing belly.

Mowry, 39, captioned the pic with four heart emojis.

Her twin sister, Tamera, posted on social media, “Yaaaay! I’m going to be an auntie again.…

Tia Mowry is pregnant with her second child.

The “Sister, Sister” actress announced the news with a sweet Instagram post of her 6-year-old son Cree and her husband Cory Hardrict kissing her growing belly.

Mowry, 39, captioned the pic with four heart emojis.

Her twin sister, Tamera, posted on social media, “Yaaaay! I’m going to be an auntie again.…

Tamar Braxton is refusing to shoot scenes with her own mother, Evelyn, on their long-running WE tv reality show “Braxton Family Values,” because the matriarch spoke out about Tamar’s divorce from her manager and husband, Vincent Herbert.

“Tamar is not speaking to her mother right now after [Evelyn] told [paparazzi] cameras Vince needs to keep his hands off of her. She…