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Legendary rapper MC Lyte married the man of her dreams over the weekend in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

“It was so beautiful and a fairytale,” Lyte, 46, told Essence of her nuptials with Marine Corp veteran John Wyche. “I got my king.”

Lyte, whose real name is Lana Moorer, met her husband on Match.com in 2016 after opening herself up to receive a “yummy hubby.”…

How’s this for a blessing?

Chance the Rapper’s surprise free concert in Chicago Saturday night featured a cameo from a very special guest: Barack Obama.

In a pre-recorded video message, the former commander-in-chief congratulated fellow Chicagoan Chance for serving as the Grand Marshal of the city’s 88th-annual Bud Billiken Parade, which is the largest and…

It must be tough to be humble when you’re so used to winning.

Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN.” returned to the top of the Billboard 200 chart Sunday, netting its fourth total week at No. 1 since the album dropped in May.

With four weeks at No. 1, “DAMN.” has spent the most time on top of the chart since the Weeknd’s “Starboy” notched five non-consecutive weeks in…

50 Cent’s hit show, Power, has simultaneously been a feather in the rapper’s cap and a point of contention between the Queens rap mogul and the Starz Network. Earlier this week, the Internet went nuts when the final three episodes of season four mysteriously made their way onto the World Wide Web. According to Fif, the network thinks he is the culprit.

Earlier today…

Bruno Mars did a seven-figure solid for the city of Flint, Mich., during his show on Saturday night (Aug. 12) in suburban Detroit.

As he closed his main set with "Just The Way You Are" at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Mars told the crowd that he was donating $1 million to “our brothers and sisters in Flint, Michigan” to provide aid for the continuing wake of the city's…

Atlanta rapper Big Boi has given a puppy to a little girl who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while playing in a bounce house near the city earlier this year.

WSB-TV reports Big Boi, who’s one-half of the rap duo OutKast, presented Abriya Ellison on Thursday with the pup bred from his kennel business. Video shows Abriya cradling the dog, which she…

Once again, ex-Chicago Bulls superstar Scottie Pippen is trying to hand off his mansion in a swanky suburb north of Chicago.

Pippen just relisted the 10,500-square-foot home for $2,795,000 through a private network, according to the Chicago Tribune. The listing agent is Vikki Wolin of Coldwell Banker in Highland Park, Illinois.

Pippen initially listed the…

A woman is suing rappers Drake and Future after she was raped at one of their concerts.

The unnamed woman claims a man associated with the Nashville venue, Bridgestone Arena, told her he would take her backstage to meet with the stars, but instead violently attacked her and raped her, according to The Tennessean.

The 28-year-old woman is now suing the stars for…

A Georgia politician is pushing for a stepped-up criminal probe of R. Kelly in the wake of allegations the singer held women against their will in freaky sex cult.

Fulton County Chairman John Eaves said Friday he believes the district attorney should "advance" an investigation after Johns Creek Police reportedly turned over "key" evidence for review.

Eaves said…

The revelations emerged after DMX, whose legal name is Earl Simmons, showed up late for his own bail hearing at Manhattan Federal Court.

An angry Judge Jed Rakoff said the 46-year-old Simmons, who was dressed in a blue tie-dyed…

Rihanna has been accused of a photoshop fail in a saucy snap from her carnival outing – after fans pointed out she has an “extra thumb” in the pic.

The superstar posed wearing a barely-there showgirl get-up for the Instagram snap, but if you look closely she has an alien-like right hand, with two blue thumbnails, apparently due to an editing glitch.

One…

Kevin Hart just lost a fan.

One of his VIP guests, Jay Collins, filed a lawsuit against the 39-year-old comedian claiming his security guard beat him up and called him a “p---y” and a “b---h” backstage at his Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field event in Aug. 2015, according to documents obtained by TMZ.

Collins is asking for more than $50,000 in the suit, in…

Prosecutors are claiming Suge Knight tried to buy witnesses in his murder case — but one of the rap mogul's lawyers shot down the theory Thursday.

"I've never paid anyone, period, end of story," lawyer Matt Fletcher told the Daily News ahead of a court hearing on the matter.

"As far as I know, (witnesses) haven't been paid by anyone," he said. "I don't believe…

Rapper DMX might have violated his bail conditions "in numerous respects" less than a month after his release post-arrest, a new court filing states.

DMX, whose legal name is Earl Simmons, pleaded not guilty on July 14 to evading $1.7 million in income taxes.

The magistrate judge presiding over Simmons's first court appearance granted the "Party Up (Up in…

Six-time NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire has been slapped with a lawsuit by Miami-based beauty Quynn Lovett, who alleges he fathered her daughter last year, the Daily Mail first reported Wednesday.

Stoudemire, 34, who has four children with his…

Amber Rose adores Wiz Khalifa, but the same can’t be said about his mother. Amber’s feuding with Katie Wimbush-Polk and reportedly wants a restraining order against her ex-mother-in-law!

Yes, it’s a bit cliché for someone to hate his/her mother-in-law, but this is a feud on a whole other level. Amber Rose, 33, and Katie Wimbush-Polk, the mother of Amber’s ex, Wiz…

Controversial “Real Housewives of Atlanta” cast member Phaedra Parks is selling her home in Atlanta’s Chastain neighborhood for $1.5 million.

The home — one of three that Parks owns — is approximately 4,500 square feet. It includes four bedrooms, four baths and two half-baths. Each of the three bedrooms on the second floor has its own attached bathroom, as does the…

Less than a month from today, A&E will finally premiere Biggie: The Life of the Notorious B.I.G. Set to include never-before-seen archival footage, interviews with Christopher Wallace’s widow Faith Evans, mother Voletta Wallace, Lil Cease and other members of Junior Mafia, the Malloy Brothers-directed picture has the full approval of the late rap icon’s…

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Investigators are searching for a man who shot and killed a local rapper across from an Atlanta police precinct.

The shooting happened shortly before 9:30 p.m. Sunday on Hosea L. Williams Drive, outside the Urban Pie pizza restaurant.

Officers said they found a man dead after being shot several times. Atlanta police said they responded to a report of 10 to 25…