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5-16-2008
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Charles Barkley Says He'll Pay $400,000 Gambling Debt : |
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Charles Barkley acknowledged he owes a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino and promised Thursday to repay it after a prosecutor said the retired NBA star faced criminal charges...
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5-16-2008
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Rihanna tops U.S. singles chart for third time : |
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - R&B singer Rihanna's "Take a Bow" soared 52 places to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart Thursday, the second-biggest jump to the top in the chart's 50-year history...
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5-16-2008
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R. Kelly jury complete as sides argue racial makeup : |
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CHICAGO - Jury selection was completed at R. Kelly's child pornography trial Thursday amid contentious exchanges between prosecutors and defense attorneys, who accused each other of trying to stack the panel along racial lines...
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5-16-2008
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‘Black Art’ draws new collectors, better prices: |
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NEW YORK (NNPA) — Landscapes are the images that come to mind in the work of artist Richard Mayhew. The New York-born expressionist credits that to his part African American, part Native American roots...
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5-16-2008
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More 'House of Payne' on the Way : |
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TBS has given Tyler Perry the green light for 26 more episodes of “House of Payne” on top of the 100 they already committed to and have been airing since last summer. The show regularly draws 2 million-plus viewers a week...
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5-16-2008
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Alicia Keys Gives WNBA An Assist: |
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It has yet to be determined if Alicia Keys has a nice jump shot, but the Grammy Award-winning singer is about to join the WNBA for a full season...
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5-16-2008
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VIDEO:Countdown ToThe Carter 3 (Weesy): |
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Counting down to The Carter 3 release, industry insiders revisit The Block Is Hot, Weezy's ascencion with the Hot Boys and bling bling's cultural significance...
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5-16-2008
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DMX Arrives Late To Court, Pleads Not Guilty To Drug and Animal Abuse Charges: |
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Here we go again. DMX showed up late for a court hearing today in his drug and animal cruelty cases, but a judge overlooked the lapse as the rapper plead not guilty to charges, according to the Associated Press.Last week, the former Ruff Ryders star was arrested twice and indicted on a number of counts...
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5-15-2008
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50 Cent's $300M Deal with News Corp : |
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As the saying goes, the rich just get richer. 50 Cent, the man who made a reported $200 million from his deal with Vitamin Water, is now said to be in negotiations with the Rupert Murdoch founded News Corp for a reported $300 million...
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5-15-2008
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Latrell Sprewell's Minnesota Home Foreclosed: |
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A Milwaukee area home belonging to former NBA player Latrell Sprewell was foreclosed on yesterday, when the basketball star failed to show up in court to contest the action brought by a bank that held his mortgage...
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5-15-2008
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Barry Bonds indictment revised by prosecutors : |
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Barry Bonds, baseball's home run king, is now charged with 14 counts of lying and one count of obstruction in a revised indictment filed Tuesday. Bonds, a 43-year-old unsigned free agent, was indicted last Nov. 15 by a San Francisco grand jury on four charges of perjury...
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5-15-2008
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'Rape Dat Ho' Video Causes Outrage at Memphis High School : |
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Parents in the Memphis, Tennessee area are in an uproar, following the emergence of a disturbing dance video allegedly recorded by Mitchell High School students.
Local CBS affiliate News Channel 3 (WREG-TV) has launched an investigation into a video which appeared on YouTube approximately one month...
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5-15-2008
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Blacks to outnumber whites in Brazil: |
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Blacks will outnumber whites in Brazil this year for the first time since slavery was abolished, but the income gap between the two groups may take another 50 years to bridge, according to a government study released Tuesday...
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5-15-2008
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Edwards endorses Obama, praises Clinton: |
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards endorsed Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday at a campaign event in Grand Rapids, Michigan...
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5-15-2008
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Blood Preps Solo Album, Wants To Be A Role Model: |
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Bloodraw’s nobody’s sidekick. Fresh off USDA’s Cold Summer, on which he teamed up with Young Jeezy and Slick Pulla for a full-length album, the Panama City, Florida rapper is prepping his solo debut, My Life: The True Testimony, due June 17, on Da Snowman’s Corporate Thugz imprint through Def Jam...
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5-15-2008
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T.I. First Rapper To Be Revealed On MTV's Hottest MCs List: |
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T.I. has been named the 10th Hottest MC in the game right now, according to MTV News. The network kicked off their 2008 edition of their roundtable discussion “Hottest MCs” by teasing the number 10 spot online...
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5-15-2008
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SOUNDCHECK: Outasight "Something To Talk About": |
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Yonkers rapper Outasight boasts, "there ain't another dude like me out there." Can he Show & Prove? You be the judge...
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5-14-2008
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Rapper Remy Ma gets 8 years for shooting friend : |
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Grammy-nominated rapper Remy Ma was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for shooting and wounding an acquaintance after discovering money was missing from her purse after a night out in Manhattan...
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5-14-2008
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LeBron yells at mom to sit down after hard foul: |
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Gloria James doesn't like to see her little boy get beat up.
LeBron James yells at mom Gloria to sit down Monday night. See more highlights from the incident and the playoffs. So when she saw Paul Pierce drag LeBron James into the crowd on a drive to the basket, Gloria jumped up to his defense...
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5-14-2008
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Radio One to Hustle Ads for AllHipHop.com: |
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Broadcasting company Radio One has struck a deal to sell ads on hip-hop news site AllHipHop.com. The agreement spans five years and gives Interactive One, Radio One's digital division, exclusive access to AllHipHop's ad inventory...
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5-14-2008
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R&B Queens: Blige, Keys and Scott : |
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Rounding up three multiplatinum, Grammy-winning chart-toppers is no small feat, especially when they’re stationed in different cities and different time zones. Did we mention that one of them was on tour (Mary), one had just come off tour (Jill), and the other was between tours (Alicia)...
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5-14-2008
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Obama Campaign Workers Stung by Racist Incidents : |
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In the factory town of Muncie, Ind., in the days before the state's primary, Danielle Ross and her cohorts were soliciting support for Barack Obama at malls, on street corners and in a Wal-Mart parking lot, and they ran into "a horrible response," as Ross put it — anti-black sentiment that none of them had anticipated...
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5-14-2008
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Obama T-Shirt Sparks Protests at Georgia Restaurant: |
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ATLANTA (myfoxatlanta.com) — A t-shirt for sale at a Marietta restaurant is causing quite a stir among those who believe it is racially offensive...
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5-14-2008
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MUSIC:Lil' Wayne ft. Kanye West "Lollipop" remix: |
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Kanyezee refuses to get murdered "like everybody else" on this official Weezy remix...
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5-14-2008
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Nate Dogg "Alive And Well" Says Manager: |
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Crooner Nate Dogg is alive and well, according to his manager. The former Death Row artist’s MySpace page was hacked into over the weekend and a post was made saying Nate Dogg had passed. The singer suffered a stroke late last year and has been recovering in private since...
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5-14-2008
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VIDEO: G-Unit "I Like The Way She Do It": |
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Before the terminating starts, the Unit spend a litte time complimenting the ladies...
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5-13-2008
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Man Who Slugged suge Knight Speaks : |
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The brawler, who owns a barbershop in L.A., tells us he was playfully arguing with a friend outside the club about money when Suge, who's also friends with the man, misunderstood and thought...
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