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Things got ludicrous at Ludacris’ show at the Hard Rock Atlantic City on Saturday.

The rapper stopped his performance midsong after an overzealous fan threw drinks at the stage. “It almost hit him. Selita Ebanks and Plaxico Burress were watching it unfold.”

Ludacris performed at the resort’s Daer nightclub. Also playing the hotel-casino’s opening weekend were…

Initial projections for Drake’s “Scorpion” called for the album to debut with 275-300,000 in pure US sales and 870-920,000 in total US units.

Those figures have since been downgraded.

Hits Daily Double now expects “Scorpion” to sell 150-160,000 pure US copies this week. With TEA (track sales/10) and SEA (track streams/1250 for paid services, track streams/3750…

Paramount Network has slotted July 30 at 10 p.m. for the premiere of “Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story.” The network also unveiled the full trailer for the six-part original docuseries, which recounts the life and legacy of Trayvon Martin, whose 2012 shooting death polarized the nation and gave rise to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Trayvon Martin was an…

It even happens to Beyoncé.

The challenge with high-tech concert production is, like all machinery, sometimes it malfunctions. And Saturday night, at the Warsaw stop of Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s “On the Run II” tour, a flying stage got stuck 20 feet in the air, forcing a rather undignified exit.

Stage techs were forced to go old-school to bring Beyoncé back down to…

Lee Daniels believes the only person to blame for Mo’Nique‘s career troubles is Mo’Nique.

The comedian, who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Daniels’ “Precious,” previously slammed the director, along with Tyler Perry and Oprah Winfrey, for allegedly blackballing her from Hollywood and paying her unfairly for her work on the film, an accusation all…

A shooting outside of a Toronto nightclub on Saturday (June 30) has claimed the life of 21-year-old rapper Smoke Dawg, a representative confirms to Billboard.

"Jahvante Smart, also known to many of his fans as Smoke Dawg, passed away on the evening of June 30, 2018. He was 21 years old," the statement reads. "Jahvante touched the lives of many fans not only in Toronto…

Rotimi Akinosho is returning to “Power” as ambitious kingpin Dre, who takes a leading role on the Starz series heading into Sunday night’s Season 5 premiere.

As the new season kicks off, Dre is preparing to take over the drug cartel in a power struggle with his former boss, James “Ghost” St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick), and his ex-friend Kanan (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson,…

The King’s next chapter will take place in Hollywood.

LeBron James is signing with the Lakers, Klutch Sports Group announced Sunday, agreeing to a four-year, $154 million deal.

The best player in basketball and three-time Finals MVP will try to resurrect Los Angeles, a massive victory for president of basketball operations Magic Johnson.

And a massive…

On his just-released double album, “Scorpion,” Drake responds to Pusha T’s claims on “The Story of Adidon” that Drake was hiding a son he fathered with former porn star Sophie Brussaux.

In “Scorpion,” Drake makes it clear: The kid is his.

On “Emotionless,” the fourth of 25 tracks, Drake comes clean, testifying alongside the gospel wailing of Mariah Carey from…

Murdered rapper XXXTentacion left his entire fortune to his mother and two brothers — even though he had a pregnant girlfriend, according to a report Friday.

The 20-year-old Florida hip-hop sensation — who was shot dead earlier this month — said in his will that he had no children, according to the entertainment website TMZ. He left all of his property to his mom and…

Sticks and stones may break Rihanna‘s bones, but chains and whips excite her.

The Barbadian singer and style icon has added to her Savage x Fenty lingerie line with a capsule of “Xcessories” that are, indeed, X-rated.

Highlights from Rihanna’s fetish-friendly range include fuzzy handcuffs, satin wrist restraints and a whip “small enough to fit in your handbag,”…

In a nod to Kanye West‘s recent release-five-albums-in-five-weeks work ethic, Chance the Rapper said he’s lining up new albums with both West and Childish Gambino in a new installment of Complex’s “Open Late with Peter Rosenberg.”

“What’s cool is Ye’s kind of got me in a mode of understanding your ability to multitask and work on different things,” Chance says in the…

Attorneys for Meek Mill are asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to remove a Philadelphia judge from his case days after she denied his new trial request.

In a filing late Wednesday, the rapper’s attorneys say Judge Genece Brinkley’s actions in court showed she had an opinion before hearing Mill’s request. It also says by requiring a hearing and strenuously…

With anticipating building for the release of Drake's fifth studio album Scorpion, Drizzy set the Internet ablaze on Thursday afternoon (June 28) when he unveiled the track-list for his forthcoming project on Instagram.

Scorpion will in fact be a double-album with the "A SIDE" carrying 12 tracks and the "B SIDE" clocked in at 13. The one glaring piece of information…

Sony Music Entertainment has inked a deal to distribute 35 previously released Prince albums, the label and the late musician’s estate said Wednesday.

Terms of the deal, coming 26 months after Prince’s death, were not disclosed — but sources pegged its value at $20 million to $30 million.

The Sony deal does not include “Purple Rain,” Prince’s best-selling…

Florida authorities identified a person of interest in the shooting of rapper XXXTentacion on Wednesday.

Broward County Sheriff’s Dept. detectives are looking to speak to Robert Allen, 22, to see what he knows about the June 18 killing outside a Deerfield Fla., luxury motorcycle dealership.

Cops released surveillance footage showing Allen standing outside RIVA…

It was a life of platinum records and an iron fist.

Joe Jackson died at 89 early Wednesday, TMZ reports.

The Jackson Family patriarch was suffering from terminal pancreatic cancer, the Daily Mail reported.

Jermaine Jackson told press last week that the family was having a difficult time visiting him or getting information about his condition.

“No…

Actor Terry Crews told lawmakers Tuesday that he declined a role in “Expendables 4” after being pressured by the project’s producer to drop a sexual assault lawsuit against his former talent agency.

“It was a project I had to turn down,” Crews told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Abusers protect abusers and this is one thing I had to decide whether I was going to…

A collaborator who works with Childish Gambino said the rapper did not plagiarize his hit song “This Is America” from another artist.

Childish Gambino, also known as actor Donald Glover, was accused of ripping off his hit song from New York-based rapper Jase Harley’s 2016 track “American Pharaoh.” A thread on Reddit compared the two songs, stating the “instrumental is…