Shane Sparks Pleads No Contest to Child Molestation Charges

America's Best Dance Crew judge and choreographer Shane Sparks has pleaded no contest to child molestation charges and will serve 270 days in jail...

Rihanna Named Cultural Ambassador for Barbados

After bringing international attention to Barbados' Crop Over celebration [click here if you missed that], Rihanna has been signed to a three year deal to promote the island exclusively by the Barbados Tourism Authority...

Scareface Finally Released From Jail

 
Houston rapper Scarface was finally released from jail after spending nearly a year on lockdown for falling behind on child support [click here if you missed that]...

Jennifer Hudson Blows Smoke

In the latest issue of Self Magazine Jennifer Hudson says she was motivated to lose weight after she got pregnant and nobody noticed...

Fantasia on Bed Rest

Fantasia Barrino canceled her appearance at the Bronner Brothers International Hair Show in Atlanta on Saturday after she was ordered on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy.

Also heard Fantasia lost that role in the Mahalia Jackson movie after telling producers she was knocked up.

Where's Otis?

Otis, the first single off Jay-Z & Kanye West's cd 'Watch the Throne', drops to #36 in its 4th week on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

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Game Apologizes for Twitter Prank

 
Over the weekend Game got in trouble after the phone number for the Los Angeles sheriffs department found its way onto Game's Twitter timeline [click here if you missed that]. Game apologizes for the mistake, explains how it a happened and no charges against him will be filed...

Delonte West Applies for a Job at Home Depot

From the looks of Delonte West's Twitter timeline the root box LeBron James put on him is finally staring to kick in...

Luther Campbell Caught Up in Booster Probe

Luther Campbell's name is being thrown around the University of Miami booster scandal...

Swizz Beatz Lands a Deal with Lotus

Swizz Beatz, who was just named global creative director for Reebok [click here if you missed that], just took on a similar position with Lotus...

Foxy Brown Ready for War

 
Remember last year at the height of the Lil Kim / Nicki Minaj rap war when Lil Kim released that diss track 'Black Friday' that had that one line directed at Foxy Brown [click here if you missed that]? And remember how Foxy swore her revenge and vowed to put out her own diss track but the night she was supposed to debut the song at a club in Brooklyn she was M.I.A [click here if you missed that]? Yeah well Fox finally got around to putting on a club date so I guess the war is back on...?

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Who's Coming Back and Who's Not

Shaunie O'Neal's Basketball Wives has been given the go ahead for a season 4 but Meeka Claxton is not coming back and probably not Royce either...

The Numbers are In

The official Soundscan numbers for 'Watch the Throne' are in and while impressive, fell short of some expectations...