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Last week, DMX appeared in an emotional and slightly harrowing interview with Iyanla Vanzant for the season two premiere of her Iyanla: Fix My Life series, in which he spoke about a number of troubling subjects in his life, including his constant battle with drugs, his failed relationships and his children. However, Dark Man X isn’t [...]

The rumours about Twitter releasing a standalone music app have proven true, as the social network took to American morning TV show Good Morning America this week to unveil the app, aptly named Twitter #music. The brainchild of audio discovery service We Are Hunted, which was recently acquired by the company, the iOS app recommends [...]

British songstress Adele has been announced as number one on the young musicians rich list, with a fortune worth £30 million. Women have dominated the charts this year beating out the boys with only two male artists on the list this year. [...]

Eleven years after featuring in Mass Appeal magazine with mentor and Main Source veteran Large Professor, Nas has made a six-figure investment in Mass Appeal Media, the company behind the publication, which was recently re-launched as a quarterly magazine and online hub. [...]

Ever the business man Jay Z doesn’t back down when it comes to making money – now Mr Carter has launched Roc Nation Sports with the talent agency Creative Artist Agency, the first signee stepping up to the bat being Yankees player Robinson Cano. [...]

Hollywood actor Wesley Snipes has been released from prison after serving nearly 3 years for tax evasion. [...]

Influential American film critic Roger Ebert has died at the age of 70 following a long battle with cancer. Ebert, the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism passed away on Thursday afternoon at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, having announced a day earlier that he was going in for radiation treatment [...]

With autism affecting one in 88 children in the USA, rapper JFK and producer Statik Selektah team up to present the autism awareness short film, Shirley Ave. [...]

As the current poster child of G-Shock, BMX star Nigel Sylvester finds new ways to get the brand out to a wider audience – this time with the help of A$AP Mob rapper A$AP Ferg, whose single “Work” serves as a soundtrack to Sylvester’s impressive tricks. [...]

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author recognised as the father of modern African literature has died, aged 82. African papers first reported the news; with an unnamed source stating that his death followed a period of illness and a hospital stay. His British publisher Penguin Books later confirmed his passing and Simon Winder, the company’s publishing [...]