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Yvette Wilson, the stand-up comedian and actress best known for her co-starring roles in American TV shows Moesha and The Parkers, has died Thursday of cervical cancer. She was 48. [...]

The situation between music superstars Chris Brown and Drake has been a dramatic one since the June 13th nightclub fracas that left Brown with a large gash on his chin as a result of being struck by a thrown bottle, and it has now graduated from simple blog fodder to an actual legal issue. [...]

Yesterday, we reported that Chris Brown and Drake, along with their entourages, got in to an all-out brawl at New York club W.i.P that left Brown with a gash on his chin requiring 16 stitches and injured other club patrons. Both artists have now released statements about their involvement as more details about the night’s [...]

While Kanye West continues to make the rounds in Europe on his Watch The Throne tour with Jay-Z, thieves broke into his L.A. home Wednesday, TMZ reports. [...]

Shellie Zimmerman, the wife of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman, was arrested Tuesday on one count of perjury. She posted a $1000 bond and has since been released. [...]

We reported earlier today that Lauryn Hill faces up to three years in jail on three counts of alleged tax evasion, and now the Grammy-winning singer and MC has taken to her Tumblr to address the issue and explain the circumstances leading to her actions. [...]

Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been charged with failure to pay taxes on $1.6 million (£1.04m) in income earned over the three-year span between 2005-2007. She faces a maximum penalty of three years in jail and a $300,000 (£194,000) fine. [...]

Police in Sandy Springs, GA, a suburb north of Atlanta, are seeking two suspects in the Thursday evening shooting of 19-year-old Melvin Vernell, III, also known as “Lil’ Phat,” an artist on Louisiana-based rap label Trill Entertainment. [...]

Synonymous with politically-charged and socially-outspoken lyrical content, Lupe Fiasco has made the obvious step into journalism on a number of occassions in his career, perhaps most notably when he butt heads over the Obama regime with notorious Fox reporter Bill O’Reilly last year. Getting his feet a little more wet, Lupe opts out of the [...]

As a close friend of Beyonce and Jay-Z, Gwyneth Paltrow was amongst many celebs who attended the Watch The Throne concert in Paris recently. After tweeting a picture of herself, The-Dream and Jay’s right-hand man Ty Ty on stage with the caption “Ni**as in paris for real,” the actress finds herself embroiled in a heated [...]