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Janet Jackson is back.

Jackson sounds like she has not missed a beat in her first new single in seven years, a mellow, sultry R&B track called "No Sleeep."

The 49-year-old pop empress tweeted a link to the song early Monday, along with a dedication to "My Love."

"You're missing me / I'm missing you / Whenever we meet / We ain't gonna get no sleep,"…

There is a little Kanye West on the way.

Kim Kardashian shared an adorable photo on Instagram of her daughter, North West, sitting on her rap star dad's lap as he read to her, with a sweet Father's Day message that revealed they were expecting a little boy on Sunday.

"Precious moments like this when we were traveling on tour with you are what I live for," she…

Lil Wayne is on the attack, claiming Birdman and company are so incompetent, Nicki Minaj and Drake are about to bail.

Lil Wayne filed new docs in his bitter lawsuit trying to oust Birdman from Young Money, the label that signed Nicki and Drake.

Wayne says Birdman and Cash Money have grossly mismanaged the company by stiffing lots of people who are owed…

Taylor Swift's got bad blood with Apple.

The pop star vowed to keep her multiplatinum-selling album "1989" — which sold 1.3 million copies in its first week of sales — off Apple Music, the company's new streaming service, due to artists not being paid during the service's three-month trial period.

"I'm not sure you know that Apple Music will not be paying…

"Umbrella" songwriter, entrepreneur and R&B singer Terius Nash, aka The-Dream, 37, calls major labels "evil" and carries only cash. The artist expounded to Billboard about race and and the music industry -- and how there are firmly entrenched double standards.

You recently formed a record label, Contra-Paris, through Capitol. Why start a label in this…

Hip hop mogul Russell Simmons has ripped Mayor de Blasio as a “punk” and “b---h” for not pushing harder for police reforms.

“Our police commissioner is bullying our punk mayor that we worked so hard to put in office," Simmons said during a Thursday radio appearance on Hot 97’s "Ebro in the Morning" show.

"He knows his kids are at risk. He knows that if a…

A 59-year-old California woman has been charged with murder for allegedly bashing in her boyfriend's head with cans of peas, carrots and chicken broth, prosecutors said.

Linda Clarene Jackson was arrested at her home in Lake Los Angeles, where her boyfriend, David Ruiz, also 59, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's…

Taraji P. Henson wants fans to know she's one tough cookie.

The “Empire” star revealed Friday on Instagram that she has been hospitalized, but made sure to reassure fans that she was fine and getting some much needed rest.

“God has a…

Claudia Jordan learned the hard way not to mess with Nene Leakes … because she's been fired.

Producers gave her the ax this week … and she didn’t see it coming.

Jordan got a lot of face time last season by standing up to the show’s O.G. Nene Leakes. Fact is ... Kenya Moore also mouthed off to Nene, but she's earned her stripes over time.

The new…

Friends of Miley Cyrus say she’s dating Victoria’s Secret Angel Stella Maxwell, Confidenti@l has learned.

Pals refer to the “Wrecking Ball” singer and the gorgeous New Zealander as “a couple” and a spy who has spent time with the pair says they have the easy affection of people who have been dating for months.

“They hold hands and hug and are very…

On Tuesday, June 16, Tyga posted his track “Pleazer” on SoundCloud and the Internet is very uncomfortable. In the track, 17-year-old Kylie Jenner’s older boyfriend, 25, raps about “Kardashian p—y” and how he’s “‘bout to catch a felony for it.”

“Tyga's song Pleazer makes me worry about the world,” one commenter wrote on Twitter, while another added: “Nothing says…

Justin Bieber and Usher might want to consult Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams for some legal advice.

The music stars were ordered by a U.S. appeals court Thursday to face a $10 million lawsuit alleging copyright violation for the 2010 single “Somebody to Love.”

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., voted 3-0 to revive a 2013 lawsuit by…

Nicki Minaj was running through her ex Safaree Samuels' head -- over and over and over -- as he got ripped to shreds over their breakup in a rap battle on "Wild 'N Out."

For some bizarre reason Safaree subjected himself to the EPIC humiliation on Nick Cannon's show ... going head-to-head with Chico ... and it was barely a competition.

Sure, he got in like…

After making everyone wait for months (going on years) for Tha Carter V, the best Lil Wayne can do at this point after the trial with Cash Money is settled is release a side-album. The effort is called the Free Weezy Album and as he told people in concert, it will be released on the 4th of July. It’s been a long time coming for Weezy, who has battled with beef at his label…

Taraji P. Henson possessed the winning mentality of Cookie Lyons way before the show "Empire."

The 44-year-old actress was crowned homecoming queen at Oxon Hill High School in Maryland when she was a student there in the late '80s.

"I really didn't think I was gonna win," she said in the July cover story for Allure magazine when they showed her a photo of…

Lamar Odom's best friend Jamie Sangouthai died from a flesh-eating disease caused by shooting up with dirty needles, a coroner found.

Sangouthai, 37, succumbed to the disease necrotizing fasciitis on Sunday a few days after he visited a Los Angeles hospital with an infection in his arm, US Weekly reports.

The flesh-eating bacteria is known to become…

Chris Brown appears to be healing his aching post-Karrueche Tran heart with some "B--ches N Marijuana."

His latest music video with Tyga off their "Fan of a Fan the Album" collaboration dropped Wednesday and features Schoolboy Q along with a slew of strippers and a whole lot of weed.

From the very start of the video, Tyga is seen lying in between two women he…

Cynthia Bailey doesn't think video of her husband kissing another woman is evidence of cheating ... seriously.

Hubby Peter Thomas had some 'splainin' to do after video surfaced of him smooching a chick in a Charlotte, N.C. bar. Peter has the standard response ... she's just a friend.

Cynthia was vague, acknowledging the video is embarrassing to her but…

On the surface, “A Genius Leaves The Hood: The Unauthorized Story of Jay Z” chronicles how hip-hop’s most successful rapper of the past two decades reached the top but at its core, the film attempts to divulge the savvy and cunning business acumen…