Nelly TV
NEW YORK (FOX Tv) - If you just can't get enough of Nelly, you're about to get more. The rapper has teamed up with Marshall Faulk, a running back for Missouri's St Louis Rams, for an as yet untitled reality show on Fox. The half-hour pilot episode follows the duo around St Louis while they hang out ...
| Beyonce will release new matterial
NEW YORK (Destiny's Child Fans Website) - If you already thought Beyonce Knowles was a busy woman, check this out. The Destiny's Child star is going solo once again. Hot on the heels of her top selling solo debut, Beyonce will release a second solo album in February featuring tracks that didn't make ...
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Hip-hop idol
NEW YORK (Interscope Rec.) - Following the immense success of recent talent search programs, Interscope Records will produce a six-part television series entitled "The Next" documenting a cross-country search for a superstar rapper. Along with untested talent, the show will also feature established ...
| Granny sues Shady
LOS ANGELES (Eminem Fans Website) - Harlene Stein, a 70-year-old California woman, has sued Eminem and Dr. Dre for allegedly illegally sampling her late husband's music. The grandmother of five claims that her husband's composition - a 24-second instrumental film soundtrack interlude entitled "Pigs ...
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P. Diddy faces cigar suit
NEW YORK (Moore & Blend press release) - A cigar maker has filed a lawsuit against Sean "P.Diddy" Combs over a brief interlude in the intro to the "Shake Ya Tail Feather" video. Moore & Bode Cigars claims that a three-second-long segment of the video reveals its "secret process", and says that the footage ...
| Sisqo in shooting incident
NEW YORK (NY RnB magazine) - R&B singer Sisqo was charged by police on Saturday after allegedly firing three shots at a car parked outside a neighbour's home. Police reportedly found empty shell casings at Sisqo's home when they came to investigate. Sisqo denies firing any shots. He has been charged ...
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Is R. Kelly feeling like misunderstood?
NEW YORK (Blender magazine) - R. Kelly has said and done some questionable things since his arrest on child pornography charges last year, but this is one for the books. In a recent Blender magazine interview the R&B star says that people say things about him without knowing the facts. "They can criticize ...
| Chingy centre of riot
NEW YORK (Chingy Fans Website) - A Philadelphia mall had to be evacuated after a Chingy performance on Friday. A crowd of over 2000 fans, mainly teenaged girls, rushed the rapper as he tried to leave the stage. Chingy's face was hit and scratched, his rings were pulled off his fingers, and money was ...
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Eve debuts in TV series
NEW YORK (UPN) - Grammy-winning rapper and actress Eve - who has held her own on the big screen in Barbershop and XXX - debuts as the star of her own sitcom when UPN premieres Eve Monday (September 15), at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. In the series, Eve portrays Shelly Williams, an up-and-coming fashion designer ...
| 50 Cent in shooting incident
NEW YORK (50 Cent Fans Website) - 50 Cent and members of his entourage are at the centre of an investigation into a shooting incident at a New Jersey hotel earlier this week. On Tuesday morning, several shots were fired in the parking lot of a Jersey City hotel where the rapper and about a dozen companions ...
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Shady invite
NEW YORK (Eminem Fans Website) - Three lucky fans will be invited to visit Eminem in the studio when he records his next album. Three "Golden Tickets" will be randomly inserted in the first 500,000 copies of Obie Trice's upcoming "Cheers" album. The bearers of these tickets will be given an all-expense ...
| 50 Cent sued
NEW YORK (50 Cent Fans Website) - 50 Cent has been sued a limousine driver who claims that he was roughed up by the rapper's security guards earlier this year. Following a Mobile, Alabama show in March, 50 Cent's bodyguards allegedly attacked the driver and took over control of his vehicle, which was ...
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P. Diddy tops 'Fortune' entertainer list
NEW YORK (Fortune magazine's '40 under 40' list) - Hip-hop's Sean "P. Diddy" Combs is still at the top of his game. He's the richest entertainer on Fortune magazine's first annual 40 Under 40 list, which is made up of 40 people in music, books, movies, videogames and TV who've become multi-millionaires ...
| Bobby Brown free again
NEW YORK (Whitney Houston Fans Website) - Bobby Brown was released from jail early on Friday for good behavior. The singer was initially sentenced to 14 days for violating his probation for a 1996 drunk-driving conviction, but was released after serving five days, during which time he was reportedly ...
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Beyonce Knowles wants fans to forget her 'bootylicious bum'
NEW YORK (Destiny's Child Fans Website) - Beyonce Knowles says she wants to be known for her talent rather than her "bootylicious" behind. The Destiny's Child star has also vowed never to pose nude. She recently walked out of a photoshoot with celebrity snapper David LaChapelle after he asked her to ...
| Bobby Brown behind bars
ATLANTA, Georgia (W. Houston Fans Website) - Bobby Brown, who has already been behind bars for five days, will serve nine more days in jail. A Georgia judge imposed the sentence yesterday, ruling that the singer failed to meet conditions of his probation on an earlier drunk driving charge. The jail ...
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Aaliyah released the new single 'Don't Know What To Tell Ya'
NEW YORK (Blackground Records press release) - Fans of deceased R&B singer and actress, Aaliyah, honored the fallen star on Monday (August 25) with a prayer service and candlelight vigil at Ferncliff cemetery in Westchester county, New York. The event marked the second anniversary of the singer's tragic ...
| Mystikal was cleared from copyright lawsuit
NEW YORK (Mystikal Fans Website) - New Orleans-based rapper Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Tyler, was cleared by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals of copyright infringement on August 20. The rapper and his label, Jive Zomba Recording, were hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit by Emanation ...
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Bobby Brown arrested again
NEW YORK (RnB Magazine) - Last week's public issue of the warrant for Bobby Brown's arrested paid off over the weekend. Atlanta police were tipped off that Brown and wife Whitney Houston were dining at a seafood restaurant in the suburb of Alpharetta Friday night. The R&B star was peacefully escorted ...
| Nelly pimps his juice
NEW YORK (Nelly Fans Website) - Riding on the success of his hit single "Pimp Juice", Nelly has now launched his very own brand of energy drink named, you guessed it, "Pimp Juice". The bright green drink, made with ten percent apple juice, contains vitamins, taurine and guarane. It also "mixes perfectly ...
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