Tensions over tickets have reached a boiling point at a Brooklyn precinct where officers are considering a day-long summons boycott.
"We've talked about it," said one police source familiar with the possible slowdown in the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant. "Nobody feels this is right, asking us to write summonses just to meet a quota."
Believe it or not, superstar wrestler Hulk Hogan has had some rap songs in the past, and here he channels his inner Biggie to help promote DefJam’s “RapStar.”
Accompanied by his daughter Brooke on the hook, Hogan gets gangsta and spits some lines from Biggie’s classic… Continue
Here is what blogger Sandra Rose is saying. "Friday night my spies tell me that Gucci and Waka almost came to blows at a pre Hip Hop Awards party in Atlanta thrown by Alex Gidewon and Belvedere Vodka at ESSO nightclub. My spies couldn’t hear what the argument was about, but they say the former friends are at war again. The shouting match started when Gucci and his crew entered the VIP inside Club ESSO where Waka and his peeps were chillin’. Words were… Continue
Melyssa Ford had plenty to say recently on the subject of Essence Magazine and a few of their editorial decisions — particularly their decision to use Naomi Campbell as one of the 40th anniversary cover models.
In a recent interview with VIBE Magazine Melyssa admitted she hasn’t been feeling Essence too tough lately, and didn’t hesitate to say why:
Right now Essence has on the cover, three of the most gorgeous black men ever created on… Continue
Kelly Rowland is half-naked with a splash of soft porn in the upcoming issue of Complex magazine. According to Kelly, she used to have a problem allowing a man to treat her like a lady…
Complex: Has being in Europe so much changed your taste in men?
Kelly Rowland: Oh no, honey. For me, it’s just about a very confident guy and someone who I can have fun with.
Complex: How confident? Does it matter who’s dominant in the… Continue
An NYPD cop whose wife called 911 for help against a gang of thugs says he was brutally beaten by baton-wielding fellow officers who stormed his Queens home.
Larry Jackson suffered a broken right hand and multiple bruises from kicks and billy-club blows he said he got from the men in blue called to his home when a gunman menaced guests at his daughter's birthday party.
"To get my butt beat like that was unnecessary," said the six-year… Continue
Montana Fishburne has given the reasons for her foray into porn. "I've watched how successful Kim Kardashian became and I think a lot of it was due to the release of her sex tape by Vivid. I'm hoping the same magic will work for me. I'm impatient about getting well-known and having more opportunities and this seemed like a great way to get started on it." This girl is about to get the shock of her… Continue
"I addressed it on my album. It’s not a broken heart, it’s just for me, I’m in such a confident position that I’m almost numb to feeling small. It’s been so long since a woman has made me feel small and that’s a real emotion. When you want to be a part of a woman’s life and you are nervous, all of these things that maybe I was when I was 15 or 16, it’s just been a while since I felt like that.
"I really looked at it as paying homage to her for… Continue
- If, as Francis Bacon Sr. once said, "The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery," then Beyoncé Knowles and her public-relations team are artists, indeed. The pop diva is again the subject of speculation that she is pregnant, and she and husband Jay-Z's absence from the post-Tony party for the Jay-Z co-produced musical "Fela!" has fueled the chatter. The pure-platinum couple made it to the Tonys, but skipped the raucous soiree at Hudson Terrace,… Continue
Lil' Kim's recent harsh comments about up-and-coming femcee Nicki Minaj are nothing new when it comes to hip-hop. The Queen Bee has lashed out against the Young Money Barbie onstage and in interviews, accusing the Lil Wayne protégé of jacking Kim's style without giving proper respect.
From Jay-Z and Nas' years-long iciness to 50 Cent's sharp-edged comments about well, everybody, verbal jabs off and on wax are arguably as much of an element of… Continue
One of music's all-time great lyrical masters, Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace would have been 38 years old on Friday (May 21) had he lived. Biggie has been gone 13 years, but everyone who loved him still celebrates his memory. Junior M.A.F.I.A. member Lil' Cease told MTV News that he wants to make Biggie look down smiling by setting up a major reconciliation. "If I could give Big a gift for his 38th birthday, it would be to bring the… Continue
I know Shyne fans are going to freaking out, but…here it is!
"Wayne is a trooper. Wayne is doing great. It was a personal visit, so I don't want to get into the details of that. We're just counting down the days of him getting out. He's somebody that has been there for me over the years numerous times. I live in New York. It wouldn't have been right if I didn't go see him and check on his health and well-being. But the status of where that's at,… Continue
Rima Fakih, Miss Michigan, was crowned Miss USA 2010 on Sunday night, becoming the first Arab-American to win the beauty pageant.
Fakih, 24, a former New Yorker who was raised in Dearborn, Mich., beat out 50 other contestants, including runner-up Miss Oklahoma, for the grand prize.
When asked on stage how she felt about the big win, the petite brunette… Continue
Being behind bars hasn't stopped Gucci from making moves on the business side. He's followed in Nicki Minaj's footsteps and fired his manager, Debrah Antney, who is also the CEO of So Icey Entertainment and the mother of Waka Flocka Flame. He's also parted ways with his booking agent, Johnnie Cabbell, who had some problems earlier this year when he was accused of booking and receiving money for shows Gucci wouldn't be able to make. Gucci is now managed… Continue
Former Bad Boy rap star Black Rob has been released from prison, after seven years of incarceration on a grand larceny charge.
Black Rob is best known for his hit single “Whoa,” taken from his platinum-selling 1999 album Life Story.
According to Black Rob, his fame followed him behind bars, where some inmates acted like “groupies” upon seeing the rapper.
"You had people in there man who felt like groupies every time they said… Continue
I don’t fuck with him… and you can print that.
This guy just seems to be full of interesting press bits. When VIBE asked him if he’d be reuniting with Lil Wayne on Carter 4, Bangladesh revealed that he had yet to be paid for his work on Carter 3:
“It’s [Wayne and Baby's] responsibility to pay [me] because all the money from album sales goes to Cash Money. I get checks from Sony for Beyoncé, checks from different labels for different… Continue
YUMA, Ariz. -- An Arizona judge issued a bench warrant Tuesday for Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Wayne after he failed to appear for a hearing on drug and weapons charges because he is serving jail time in New York.
A Yuma County Superior Court judge issued the warrant after the entertainer, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, failed to appear in court for a final trial management conference.
Lil Wayne was shipped off to jail Monday, with his lawyer saying he wanted to hang tough at Rikers Island by doing his time with the general population.
And he'll get his wish.
Even though defense lawyer Stacey Richman initially claimed that city officials were forcing the rapper into protective custody, it turns out he's going into a regular cellblock.
Correction Department spokesman Stephen Morello… Continue