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The Seattle Times recently gave an excellent review of Kanye West’s newly launched ‘Glow in the Dark’ tour. Now, the LA Times is following suit by stroking the rapper’s ego some more. Who needs awards when you have reviews like this? Esteemed critic Anne Powers reviewed Kanye’s concert saying “An apocalyptic space opera…a show that [...]

Rihanna and Chris Brown are taking their “friendship” up to a higher level as they shared a romantic weekend in Jamaica together. The R&B superstar couple got in the pool after a leisurely lunch at the Hilton Kingston Hotel. Someone spied the pair kissing and playfully splashing around. The 20-year old Rihanna and the [...]

There have been many guys linked to Rihanna but all of them have been shot down as rumors – except for one. It seems that the rumors about the Barbados singer and her other duet partner, Chris Brown, are making sweet music together in real life, are true. The pair said to be dating [...]

I can now tell you just why R Kelly did not show for a court date in Chicago earlier this week. And no, it’s because he was sick like Britney Spears. He was actually left of the side of a Utah highway without a ride after his tour bus got stopped by the police.Police sources [...]

I’m not sure if it’s a steering wheel or the Mercedes Benz emblem, but either way, that’s just whacked! Apparently, hip hop artists Akon and Ludacris have so much money in their hands that even their camels have some bling going on.The two stars were photographed just outside of Dubai to promoted their first Middle [...]

Hip-hop mogul Marc Ecko spent $750,000 on baseball star Barry Bonds’ most prized possession - his record-breaking 756th home run ball. But Ecko will not be keeping the sports memorabilia for him, opting to allow his fans to decide what he’ll do with the piece of baseball history - in an online vote. What the [...]

Rapper Eve plans to celebrate the removal of her alcohol monitoring ankle bracelet in style - with a cocktail. The hip-hop star was ordered to wear the SCRAM (Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring) last month after striking a plea agreement for her DUI arrest in April. Oh yeah, ankle bracelets or not she cannot [...]

Kanye West has not been the same for a while. First, the rapper with the immensely large ego wrote a song which puts Jay-Z on a pedestal, now he’s saying really nice things about his white rival Justin Timberlake.
In the October issue of XXL magazine, Kanye says that “My biggest inspiration and biggest competition is [...]

It may be one of the Hamptons’ hotter invites, but Diddy’s Labor Day party won’t light up the night quite as much as he envisioned.
East Hampton Town officials have turned down the hip-hop mogul’s plans for a $100,000 fireworks show over East Hampton’s Northwest Harbor on Sept. 2, out of concern that the spectacle could [...]

Kanye West has been arrogant and sexually confident since he was 12, according to his mother. Donda West has written Raising Kanye - Life Lessons From The Mother of A Hip-Hop Superstar, about her experiences with the rapper. Sexually confident at the age of 12, he might have had penis enlargement at the age of [...]

Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and other counts Sunday in the shooting of a woman in a trendy Manhattan neighborhood.
At the rapper’s arraignment, a judge granted the prosecution’s request for bail to be set at $250,000. Remy Ma was jailed while the judge reviewed her bail offer.
Police found a woman [...]

Master P, one of rap’s biggest names has now vowed to clean up the image of the hip-hop industry by forming a label with 100% clean lyrics. Why? At the height of the Don Imus racism issue, Oprah and several other celebrities have turned the blame on the rap industry due to its offensive [...]

There’s a formal debate going on in Chicago about a subject that people have been arguing about for years. Why they needed a formal panel to talk about it is anyone’s guess. But there it is. The panel discussion “Does Hip-Hop Music Hate Women” had over 400 people in attendance. I [...]

Lil’ Romeo has skills, not just in hip-hop, but also on the b-ball court. Yessir, soon he will be Romeo Miller, the newest member of the USC Men’s Basketball team. He is a Beverly Hills High School junior right now, but he’s evidently talented enough to be signing a contract with the [...]