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Carson Daly ruffled a few feathers Wednesday morning after making a joke on his radio show related to the recent incident on a Las Vegas-bound JetBlue flight where the pilot had a “meltdown” and had to be restrained by passengers. [...]

Back in January, news broke that an American concert promoter and his son had been kidnapped in Africa, allegedly due to Nas‘ failure to perform at a highly anticipated and heavily promoted New Year’s show. Nas had been tight-lipped about the situation until Wednesday (March 28), when he appeared on MTV’s RapFix Live and discussed [...]

Filmmaker Spike Lee is under fire for retweeting what he apparently thought was the address of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who shot and killed unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last month. Many are accusing Lee of attempting to fan the flames of the already sensitive issue. Complicating the matter even further is the fact that [...]

Following reports that Curren$y was filing a $1.5 million lawsuit against his former BluRoc boss Damon Dash for unlawful distribution of his music, Dash responded to the matter, claiming he had the right to release the albums in question and is surprised by the rapper’s motions. According to the original TMZ report, the dispute emerged [...]

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 [...]

Four of the New York City police officers who gunned down groom-to-be Sean Bell on the eve of his wedding day have been fired from the force, the New York Daily News reports. [...]

Italian film student Simona Bonomo has won an out of court settlement following being stopped whilst filming buildings in Paddington, west London under anti-terrorist legislation. She was later arrested, held in a cell for five hours and fined £80 for causing “harassment, alarm and distress.” After a dismissal of her complaint, the Met Police has been forced [...]

Weeks after the death of R&B legend Whitney Houston, her official cause of death has now been announced. The LA Coroners’ officer has confirmed the toxicology report carried out on the 48 year old singer’s body has determined the cause of her death as “drowning and effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use.” [...]

Following the frenzy on Tuesday night when Earl Sweatshirt made his live debut at Odd Future‘s New York show, spirits were always going to be high in the Golf Wang camp. So much so, that the group’s show at House of Blues in Boston last night was shut down by police due to unconfirmed reports [...]

Following the brutal murders of Jennifer Hudson’s mother, brother and nephew in 2008, William Balfour – who has recently been charged for the murders – will go on to stand trial in Chicago, Illinois next month. The Grammy award winning songstress, faces a tough time ahead but Hudson’s fiancé, wrestler and reality TV star David Otunga, told [...]