December 2011 Blog Posts (251)

Rihanna is closing out the year with some extra zeroes in her bank account. The pop superstar’s “LOUD” tour was among the top 10 tours of the year, grossing a whopping $90 million.

The international trek, which wrapped before Christmas, lands at No. 7 on Pollstar’s Top 25 Worldwide Tours of 2011. The “We Found Love” singer played 99 shows in 78 cities and averaged $75…

One lucky lady got to feel like the only girl in the world when she took the stage with R&B singer Drake at Hollywood's Saddle Ranch this week.

International student Dalal, aka "Dee," was shocked when her request for a karaoke partner brought Drake to the stage.

"I was up there with the mike and the first beats of 'Only Girl in the…

Jay-Z gambled with his employees' health and safety -- this according to a new lawsuit filed against the rapper ... by the Workers Compensation Board of New York.

According to the suit, obtained by TMZ, Jay-Z failed to pay workers' compensation insurance for three months in 2009 -- and sources close to the situation tells TMZ, the insurance was supposed to cover…

Jamie Foxx and Tyler Perry are being sued for $1 million each by a prisoner -- who claims the duo jacked his idea for a groan-worthy new comedy ... starring Foxx, Perry, and Martin Lawrence ... all dressed as women.

In case you haven't heard ... the project is called "Skank Robbers" -- a wacky action comedy about two lady bank robbers ... with Lawrence's Sheneneh…

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For the price of $5,000 CDN, you too can be part of Drake’s crew. The Young Money rapper has released a limited edition luxury jacket sporting his October’s Very Own branding. Bundle up this winter with the Chilliwack coat, a collaboration with Canada Goose, featuring a buffalo leather exterior, silk-lined interior, removable arctic fox fur trim, and 24-karat gold-plated…

Curtis keeps rolling out new videos and here’s the most recent for his Jahlil Beats-produced cut.The Big 10 is available now.

WATCH ON YOUTUBE…

Seems like the latest trend is getting a tat of your favorite artist. And recently, D12′s Bizarre took his love for Minaj a step further and inked Barbie’s face on his arm. The stupid sh!t people do!…

After seven days in stores, Young Jeezy’s TM103 Hustlerz Ambition lands at #3 on Billboard with 232,938 units sold. That's, that > …

According to gatecrasher:

Kimora Lee Simmons approves of her ex's new flame.

A source in St. Barth tells us that the feisty fashion designer and her husband, two-time Oscar nominated actor Djimon Hounsou, were hanging out with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and his date, Australian actress Melissa George, at the BBQ that producer Lawrence Bender and…

The original Aunt Vivian on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” says Will Smith is a royal pain — so she'll never join a reunion for the hit sitcom.

Actress Janet Hubert told TMZ.com that she missed a recent reunion dinner because she still blames Smith for her ouster from the 1990s NBC show.

"There will never be a reunion ... as I will never do anything with an…

This sh!t is so wrong in so many ways!

A Clinton Hill director’s video poking fun at black women has become a YouTube sensation - and made many female viewers angry about the skit.

Elijah Griffin’s “S--t Black Girls Say”…

2011 was a busy year for Cee-Lo and from the looks of it, 2012 will be just as hectic. In a feature from the NY Times, its revealed that Cee-Lo will be part of a UK reality show and a string of Las Vegas shows dubbed “Loberace”.

More television is on its way. Backstage at the last night of “The Voice” last June, he signed a contract with Mr. Burnett for a reality show…

Maybach Music raises hell over Jay-Z and Kanye West’s “No Church in the Wild” instrumental. In anticipation of their upcoming projects, Ricky Rozay and Meek Mill spit their own fiery verses on the Watch the Throne cut. The Bawse is readying his new mixtape Rich Forever and studio album God Forgives, I Don’t, while Meek is set to drop his debut in the new year.…

Rick Ross graces one of the covers of the year end issue of The Source Magazine as its Man of the Year. Rozay's year was full of highs and lows. While his Maybach Music Group's music was a staple on the charts and built anticipation for his forthcoming God Forgive I Don't album, back in October he suffered a pair of seizures while traveling. On his health, the Bawse told The…

Atlanta police have just arrested Vinson Hardimon, also known as rapper Yung Vito, for the murder of Mario Denzel Hamilton, also known as rapper Slim Dunkin.

Slim Dunkin's mother plead for his killer to turn himself in at her son's burial.…

Pharmaceutical companies are cooking up a prescription painkiller that’s far more powerful than Vicodin, the Associated Press reports.

Treatment for prescription painkiller abuse has skyrocketed 430% over the last ten years, federal statistics show, and addiction experts and drug control advocates are concerned the proposed mega-dose opiate will make things…

A guy who claims he got hit in the stomach with a microphone during the taping of an episode "Making the Band" back in 2008 is suing Diddy, MTV, and everyone involved with the event that day ... and we mean EVERYONE.

Kevin Faraday claims he was in the crowd at the Hammerstein Ballroom that day when a guy ran on stage between acts, grabbed the mic, and (somehow) hit…

Ryan Leslie stacks his paper in the opulent video for “Good Girl,” the third release in a series of 10 videos making up his Les Is More visual album. The singer-producer flaunts his lavish lifestyle, popping champagne with models in Las Vegas and riding through the desert in a Bentley. “Let’s have a toast to my enemies/ And to my haters, you bastards, you…