He said the following to CNN.
“I’m not going to be the 40-year-old rapper. I would not. That’s Jay. He’s doing it very well. Hats off, but I just don’t see that for me.”
“If I had the option to [be] Jay-Z [or] Will Smith, I think I’d go with Will,” he revealed. “I’m a Jay-Z fan. I have a lot of admiration and respect for Jay and his legacy. But I feel like Will, he gets to spend more time with his family. He gets to be home more and… Continue
KINGSVILLE, Texas - Police say a 1-year-old girl died after being left in a hot car in southern Texas for about 45 minutes. Kingsville Police Chief Ricardo Torres says the child's mother had just returned home from picking up her children when she mistakenly left the toddler in the family car Wednesday afternoon. Kingsville is about 140 miles southeast of San Antonio.
No charges have been filed, but the case has been turned over to… Continue
Isaiah Mustafa, a former NFL player and current Old Spice pitchman, has inked a talent deal with NBC, reports Variety. The deal will likely keep Mustafa in-house with the network, which will set him up to audition on several shows and, the industry mag says, possibly cast him in pilots down the road.
It's been a long road and a big career change for Mustafa to get to this point. From 1997-2000, he played professional football, with… Continue
Brian McKnight is the proud new father of a 14-year-old boy ... so says a Florida judge.
Miriam Lee filed paternity and child support docs in Orange County, FL last year alleging McKnight is the father of her son.
Brian never filed docs addressing her claim .. so the judge has ruled Brian's the daddy.
And now for the bad news -- the judge also decided Brian must fork over 14 years worth of child support ... which comes to a… Continue
Kanye West continues to inch his way back into the spotlight with a performance at the 2010 BET Awards.
The performance will be West’s first major performance at an awards show, since his infamous appearance alongside Taylor Swift, at the 2009 MTV VMA’s.
“While West received much backlash and criticism following the VMAs, BET decided to give the multifaceted performer a spot in music history during its 10 year anniversary special,” BET… Continue
A 7-year-old boy accused of being a spy was hanged by Taliban militants, according to published reports Thursday.
The child was allegedly put on trial by the militant group and later found guilty of working for Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai's government, reports the Daily Mail.
Karzai called the act a "crime against humanity."
"I don't think there's a crime bigger than that that even the most inhuman forces on earth can… Continue
A four-year-old girl was left physically beaten and emotionally scarred after a female lion in a Russian zoo pulled her into the cage and used her as a toy.
The child, who is now in a coma, seems to have been attacked while her grandmother was taking her picture next to the lion cage, London's Daily Mail reports.
She has been identified only by her given name, Nastya.
Witnesses say the lioness reached out from its cage and… Continue
EMBED-Ardi Rizal - The real SMOKING BABY !! - Watch more free videos And you thought you had a bad smoking habit.
Ardi Rizal isn't even out of diapers, but he already smokes around 40 cigarettes every day, according to Metro.co.uk.
A 14-year-old Bronx girl was stabbed to death after giving her mom a hard time about doing her chores, police and witnesses said Friday.
Ebonee Williams, known as Imani to her friends, was stabbed multiple times and died at Lincoln Hospital.
Police are questioning her mother's boyfriend - 35-year-old Christopher Ezell - in the murder.
The teen got into a heated argument late Thursday with her mother and Ezell over her… Continue
Miley Cyrus' dad is cool with his little girl's recently released "lap dance" video.
Billy Ray Cyrus says that the teen pop star, who was 16 when she was filmed grinding with a 44-year-old movie producer, Adam Shankman, was "having fun."
"It's what people her age do," Cyrus told TMZ.com about the video, which was shot during the wrap party for Cyrus' film, "The Last Song."
We may be seeing more of Shaquille O'Neal in NYC. We hear the mighty Cavalier has been dating former Sony Music exec Lisa Ellis. Insiders say Shaq set his sights on Ellis during his first separation from wife Shaunie. Now that the O'Neals are in divorce court again, Shaq and Ellis are said to have rekindled their thing. Ellis previously dated former Congressman Harold Ford. She's denied claims of a romance… Continue
A 14-year-old girl was repeatedly raped, drugged and beaten by two men for two horrifying weeks in a Brooklyn basement, prosecutors said.
Anthony King and Kevin Evans, both 24, were identified by the victim after she escaped from the Crown Heights basement on Tuesday, court records show.
Evans picked up the girl and a female friend, also 14, on April 27 and took them to New Jersey, where they used heroin, officials… Continue
For two weeks, Guerdwich Montimere told everyone at Permian High in Odessa, Texas, that the allegations were false - that he really was 16-year-old sophomore basketball star and Haitian orphan Jerry Joseph.
He said don't believe the rumors that he was much older, that he really was a youngster when he averaged more than 20 points over the last nine games of the season on the way to being named the District 2-5A Newcomer of the… Continue
Disgraced Giants great Lawrence Taylor, accused of raping a 16-year-old prostitute, has come up with a dubious defense strategy: I didn't touch her, I touched myself.
Team Taylor will acknowledge that he was in the Rockland County hotel room with the Bronx teen last week, but that he engaged in a "masturbatory act" and did not have actual intercourse with the girl, TMZ.com reported Tuesday.
Taylor's tactic appears to be an attempt to… Continue
The 16-year-old girl who was allegedly raped by Lawrence Taylor texted her uncle for help after the alleged sexual liaison with Taylor went down.
The girl told the New York Post in frightening detail about the events that led up to her alleged encounter with Taylor. According to the Post, when she initially refused to go with her pimp, Rasheed Davis, the girl says, "He hit me in the face, so I covered my face." She then crouched down to… Continue
A 15-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl were shot dead when a Bronx birthday party erupted in gunfire early Sunday, police said.
Another victim, a 20-year-old woman, took a bullet in the arm. She was in stable condition at St. Barnabas Hospital.
All three had attended a party at 1776 Weeks Ave., a five-story apartment building in Tremont, before the shots flew about 2 a.m.
The slain boy was identified by his devastated… Continue
NFL legend Lawrence Taylor has been arrested on suspicion of rape in New York, this according to police.
Officials have released a statement confirming 51-year-old Taylor was taken into custody by police after someone accused the Hall of Famer of committing rape early this morning at a Holiday Inn in Suffern, NY.
The Town of Ramapo Police Department is currently investigating the situation.