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Less than a week after hosting a lecture from California rapper Lil’ B, New York University continued its Hip-Hop lovefest last night (April 16) with an event called “Signs & Rhymes: Intersections of Deaf and Hip-Hop Cultures,” a unique concert headlined by SignMark, a deaf MC from Finland. [...]

Distressing news as music legend, Bobby Womack, has been hospitalized and is reportedly in the early stages of colon cancer. BET reported earlier that the 68 year old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee was taken to hospital struggling with a serious bout of pneumonia. Fellow musician and legend, Bootsy Collins, took to Twitter [...]

R&B singer Tamia recently sat down with the Huffington Post to speak about her new album Beautiful Surprise, how she maintains her marriage to athlete Grant Hill by being friends, her thoughts on VH1′s Basketball Wives, and her experiences dealing with autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis. [...]

The death of Amy Winehouse struck a chord with many in the world and has prompted a campaign to make drug education a compulsory part of the national curriculum in schools in the UK. An e-petition calling for this has been added to the government’s website to support the campaign that wants approved drugs education [...]

Linked to the death of 20 year old Claudia Aderotimi from East London, who died last year after receiving bottom enhancing injections in Philadelphia, Padge Victoria Windslowe [pictured above] has been arrested. [...]

Producer, singer and songwriter extraordinare Ryan Leslie has released a public service announcement in the form of a freestyle a the new cancer awareness initiative called LetsFCancer. In “Early Than Late” R Les reminisces over the ease he had having the sex talk with his parents and moves onto the subject of the importance of [...]

Just under two weeks ago we brought you images taken during 50 Cent‘s recent trip to Somalia, when the G-Unit capo, accompanied by ABC reporter Dan Harris, travelled to an impoverished region of the East African nation as part of his Street King initiative. [...]

Following the passing of Whitney Houston and reports that her sudden death was possibly due to ”a plethora of sedatives including Lorazepam, Valium, Xanax, and a sleeping medication that was found in her hotel room,” Grammy Award winning American singer Tony Bennett has called for the legalisation of drugs so users “didn’t feel the need to [...]

Legendary Bee Gees member, Robin Gibb, OBE has spoken to BBC Radio 2 to reveal that he’s making a ‘spectacular’ recovery after receiving treatment for a cancerous growth in his colon. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 for his role in the [...]

Earlier this month pop icon, actress and now author Janet Jackson stopped by Jay Leno‘s talk show to talk about her experiences of struggling with body image and low self-esteem that eventually inspired her to pen the New York Times best-selling book, True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself – watch below. [...]