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Uncle Sam wants Tyga to pay up.

The “Rack City” rapper owes nearly $1 million in back taxes, The Blast reported. Tyga is accused of refusing to pay his taxes from 2011 through 2016, according to documents filed by The State of California Franchise Tax Board.

The grand total of his debt is $890,183.57.

Tyga is no stranger to owing people money. Over the…

Tuesday brought us two Kanyes.

The first was a man who opened up about his mental health, his family, and his art in a nearly-two hour interview with radio host Charlamagne Tha God.

The second was a Kanye who appeared at the TMZ headquarters where he had this to say:

"When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... For 400 years? That sounds like a…

Flame-throwing comic Michelle Wolf won’t back down from her controversial White House Correspondents’ Association performance, defiantly saying Monday she was never sought to “cater to the room.”

Wolf stunned the black-tie crowd crowd with a barrage of harsh barbs at White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Vice President Mike Pence, the mainstream…

Russell Simmons, who has been accused of sexual misconduct, says he isn’t mad at himself.

“The reason I haven’t been angry about my personal situation is because [I’m] listening to dialogue around the #MeToo movement and looking beyond my own scenario,” the rap mogul shared on Instagram Tuesday.

Simmons, 60, has been accused of rape by several women including…

The waiter who Katt Williams allegedly attacked with a salt shaker back in 2016 is suing him.

Kevin Oliveira claims that the comedian attacked him while he was working at Spondivits restaurant just south of Atlanta in April of that year after he asked Williams and his friend to wait for a table, according to new legal documents obtained by The Blast.

Oliveira…

Blac Chyna is pregnant with her 18-year-old rapper boyfriend YBN Almighty Jay’s baby.

Jay says the pair met on Christian Mingle in an interview with No Jumper in March and comments on the possibility of having a baby. “I don’t wear condoms. . . I would not want to f–k a bitch I did not want to get pregnant,” he says. “If Chyna got pregnant, I would keep that s–t like…

Kanye West made a bold choice for his upcoming album cover.

On Saturday the 40-year-old rapper, who’s been incessantly tweeting the last few weeks, shared that he will place plastic surgeon Jan Adams on the cover of his album due out in June.

West’s mother, Donda, died in November 2007 from complications after undergoing plastic surgery performed by Adams. She…

Post Malone's sophomore album beerbongs & bentleys has been out for a single day, and it's already set new records on national and global levels for Spotify.

The streaming service congratulated the rapper on his achievement, noting that the first-day streaming numbers have the "Rockstar" singer securing the top spot in that race thanks to the 78,744,748 times the…

J. Cole’s new album, KOD, which is already on course for a No. 1 debut on the Billboard 200 chart, is also set to secure 2018’s biggest streaming week for an album.

According to industry forecasters, the effort could see its songs generate perhaps 320 million on-demand audio streams in the week ending April 26. That would give it not just the biggest week of 2018, but…

Rapper Rick Ross man­aged to take the stage at B.B. King’s despite a medical emergency.

Ross had fans waiting an hour because he was having “seizures” and “trouble breathing” backstage.

“His team had to get a masseuse to massage him for an hour to relax his body,” a source said.

Ross has a history of seizures.

He was found in March unresponsive at…

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Platinum-selling rapper J. Cole is honoring his home state by launching a music festival in North Carolina this September.

Dreamville Records and ScoreMore Shows announced Friday that the inaugural Dreamville Festival will debut Sept. 15 in Raleigh at Dorothea Dix Park.

Cole, who was born on a military base in Germany, was raised in Fayetteville, North…

Bill Cosby will be sentenced within 75 days — and in the meantime, he must undergo a “sexually violent predator assessment,” a judge ordered Friday.

Judge Steven O’Neill issued the order a day after the disgraced comedian was found guilty of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.

He also put Cosby on house arrest inside his Philadelphia home while…

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Cardi B is the subject of a $10 million lawsuit brought Thursday (April 26) in U.S. district court by her former manager Klenord "Shaft" Raphael and his KSR Group and Worldstar Management companies, according to court documents reviewed by Billboard.

In the suit, Raphael, who began working with Cardi in 2015, alleges that he "conceived, arranged and orchestrated" her…

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Gloria Carter will be honored for her bravery.

Jay-Z’s mom, who came out as a lesbian on his 2017 “4:44” album, will be given the New York GLAAD Media Award’s Special Recognition Award during its annual reception on May 5, reports Billboard.

Carter delivered a spoken word poem on the song “Smile,” in which she discussed hiding her sexuality for years before…

Mom-to-be Cardi B is going on hiatus.

The “Invasion of Privacy” rapper announced on Instagram late Wednesday that this weekend’s Broccoli Fest in Washington, DC, will be her last performance until her baby arrives.

“Shorty keep growing. I be looking like I be moving and everything, but in reality, a bitch barely can breathe,” she said in her social media…

Janelle Monae confirmed longstanding rumors about her sexuality.

“Being a queer black woman in America, someone who has been in relationships with both men and women — I consider myself to be a free-ass motherf—ker,” she told Rolling Stone in a revealing interview.

The songstress, 32, whose latest album, “Dirty Computer,” comes out Friday, said she initially…

Rap royalty Lil’ Kim is finally out from underneath the mansion in Alpine, NJ, that’s provided her with years of trouble, litigation and drama after falling into foreclosure in 2010.

Now the sprawling home is up for auction. Starting bid on the Queen Bee’s former estate? A measly $100.

Which is a pretty steep discount, considering the home was most…