Urban radio talent Tre Black, a veteran on-air personality whose career spanned multiple stations on both coasts, has died. Black died Sunday of a massive heart attack in Detroit. He was only 41. The radio jock spun records in several markets throughout his career, including New Orleans (KNOU), Los Angeles (KKBT “The [...]

A 2008 civil lawsuit filed against Florida rapper, Plies, is gaining some national attention as the plaintiffs made a move to include the rapper’s brother and his label, Big Gates Records in the suit. The lawsuit stems from a 2006 dispute in a Gainesville, Florida nightclub which erupted into gunfire leaving five clubgoers with [...]

The other day after pictures of Lil Wayne, Nivea and their son Neal leaving a New York city hotel hit the internet and Wayne’s ex-wife [and original baby mama] Antonia Carter started tweeting about unrequited love. Can’t you just picture Toya sitting under a lamp like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction listening Nivea’s [...]

All you gotta do is dress up like a hooker and stand on the corner of Horatio and Greenwich in West Village. Um yeah, cause that’s where D’Angelo got arrested for soliciting a hooker last week. Too bad the hooker turned out to be a fake. D’Angelo was arrested around 2:30am after [...]

Suge Knight has been foreclosed on, repo’d, auctioned off and knocked out. And now the IRS has placed a lien against him and I have one question: Where the hell they think he’s going to get $6,578,696.31 from? The IRS filed this lien against Suge’s 1996 tax return and refiled it this past [...]

Two time Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist MC Lyte and sought-after comedienne Loni Love (Chelsea Lately Show) are taking to the airwaves with the premiere of the new, nationally syndicated weekly radio show, Café Mocha, scheduled to launch February 2010. Café Mocha, the brainchild of award-winning media veteran Sheila Eldridge, will be syndicated by Superadio Networks, [...]

You know Katt Williams gave up comedy for a rap career right? Yeah well, he’s free-styling now and… uhhh… well… he might wanna stick to comedy. What you think?

The Jackson family suspects the children’s nanny Grace Rwaramba is the one who called DFCS about the stun gun incident from within their Encino home. She’s also suspected of spilling information to a tabloid website. Our Jackson family source tells us that ‘Grace is trying to get custody of Michael’s kids while trying to [...]

Whitney Houston took time out on the Adelaide stop of her Australian concert tour to sing to happy birthday to her daughter Bobbi Kristina. But don’t click the link below expecting a miracle. Whitney sounds the same as she has the whole tour. Not good

This ain’t nice so don’t keep reading it if you’re sensitive. This was jacked from a random message board: There’s a lot of sadness going around about Guru’s cardiac arrest, but a lot of people don’t know he is a severe woman beater, on Ike Turners level. He used to be married [...]

Chris Brown wanted to clean up his image so he figured what better way than to use some school kids to help him do it. Chris is one of several celebrities who’ve agreed to read to children at Sisulu-Walker Charter School’s annual “Family Read Night” in Harlem. That’s what’s up Chris. Hope [...]

The King of the South is officially back. According to his record label, Atlantic, rapper T.I. will release his first post-incarceration single ‘I’m Back’ next Monday (March 8). The label teased a “major announcement” via Tip’s Twitter page earlier this week. His website also shows a picture of the single’s artwork. Since stepping out [...]

R&B singer Keyshia Cole and her fiancé Cleveland Cavaliers player Daniel “Boobie” Gibson are celebrating the birth of their son this week. After a series of false baby tweets from Cole’s estranged relatives, Cole’s publicist told Us Weekly on Wednesday (March 3) that they “are proud to announce the birth of their beautiful baby boy, [...]

When Jay-Z was on Jonathan Ross’ show a couple weeks ago, the British host asked him about being BFF with President Barack Obama. Hov responded that he knew Obama liked his music, but that he hadn’t had the opportunity to visit the White House yet due to a heavy travel schedule. [...]

It seems that DMX can’t get any of his half-baked eccentric events to go off lately. First, there was that whole thing where he was planning to participate in an MMA fight with musician/bruiser Eric Martinez in Birmingham, Ala. The rapper pulled out of the event and got sued by Thunder [...]

Score one for the super moms. Jacinda Carter, Aliyah Najm and H. Loraine Smith, mothers of Lil Wayne, T-Pain and Ne-Yo respectively, have been presented with the first annual ‘Queens in Our Communities’ award. The honor cites their work empowering women across the United States and an award ceremony is taking place this [...]

Kids will be kids and Lord knows boys will fight their brothers. Same holds true with the Jackson kids. Michael’s son Blanket is not the only one to suffer Jaafar’s wrath. After being accused of trying stun his 8 year old cousin Blanket with a taser gun last week, now video leaks [...]

Gucci Mane protege’ Wacka Flocka Flame can’t seem to stay out of trouble. Last week Flame was shopping where all the Atlanta hoodstars go to get their sneakers, a spot called Walter’s. Slick Pulla, part of Young Jeezy’s USDA [United Streets Dopeboys of America] crew showed up at Walter’s at the same [...]

Police in Gary, Indiana were called to the scene of a concert headlined by Waka Flocka Flame Friday after a fight broke out leaving 8 people shot and injured. As previously reported, Waka got into a fight of his own Thursday at a popular Atlanta clothing store with members of Young Jeezy’s entourage that [...]

Diddy is in Paris kicking off the promo tour for his Last Stop in Paris cd and Cassie is there too. While there’s lots of pictures of both of them in the same place at the same time, there’s not one of them together because Diddy has so much respect for Kim [...]