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Jay-Z said kids are on their priority list. Looks like Beyonce has a different list.
Beyonce announces her plans for 2010, which includes a new album .
Of course she will tour after the new album is completed.
Hip Hop
Beyoncé Knowles
Jay-Z
Instead of Black men stepping up to the plate to provide for their families, nationally syndicated radio show host Rush Limbaugh said they would rather let the government do it.
Limbaugh said he was citing a news article which reports 34 percent of black males between 16-24 are unemployed. ...
Hip Hop
Black Rob
Looks like another Diddy reality-show created group is leaving their mentor.
Quanell, Willie, Brian and Mike–known better as Day 26–is under Atlantic Records while Diddy is taking Bad Boy Records to Interscope.
Day 26 says Diddy is family but the move to Atlantic is the best ...
Hip Hop
Diddy
Atlantic Records
Bad Boy Records
Dominic Carter, the former host of “Inside City Hall” on the NY1 network was convicted of assaulting his wife.
Carter was arrested last year after his wife, Marilyn, called 911 from their home in distress. She later recanted her story but the judge called her new statements on ...
Hip Hop
Is Barack Obama President or Jihad?
That’s the question pondered by a used car salesman in a Denver suburb who has placed a billboard advertisement on his business suggesting that the President of the United States is not an American citizen.
Jihad is a term used describe holy war. ...
Hip Hop
Barack Obama
A controversial graduation requirement from Lincoln University mandating all overweight students to take a health and fitness course is causing a serious debate between students, health officials and legal scholars.
Lincoln University, a historically Black university near ...
Hip Hop
Black Rob
50 Cent wants to remind people to practice safe sex. He just has to find another way to do it.
Plans for the creation of 50 Cent brand condoms have been tabled, for now.
From HipHopWired.com
According to 50, he wanted to create a campaign to replace “The Wrap It Up” campaign which has ...
Hip Hop
50 Cent
Buck 50
Terrence Howard wants to set the record straight with his exes.
In an interview with Redbook Magazine, Howard expressed regret for the ways he handled relationships and dating as a younger man. Howard said his views on women changed after becoming a father to two daughters.
Howard was ...
Hip Hop
Members of the Ku Klux Klan protested the University of Mississippi for barring a pep song that some consider insulting to minorities.
The banned pep song referred to “Dixie” and “The South Will Rise Again”
The protest took place during a nationally televised game ...
Hip Hop
The Game
Wesley Snipes will not go to prison quietly.
Snipes, who was convicted of federal tax evasion a year ago asked a federal appeals judge in Atlanta to review his conviction.
He was sentenced to three years in federal prison for failure to pay $2.7 million in back taxes.
Snipes, 47 is ...
Hip Hop
Crime Mob
Atlanta police are investigating a firebombing at the Grand Hustle Records office building in Atlanta. Someone threw two bottles filled with flammable fluids into the office . No one was hurt.
Grand Hustle is the label co-owned by rap star T.I. Jason Geter, the CEO of Grand Hustle Records ...
Hip Hop
Grand Hustle Records
T.I.
Three U.S Army soldiers, Dwayne Campell, Llewellyn Stamoulis and Romaine May were arrested with having more than 680 pounds of marijuana and $10,000 in cash during a traffic stop in Phoenix, AZ.
The soldiers have been charged with drug transportation, money laundering and conspiracy.
...
Hip Hop
AZ
During a reception held in Washington D.C to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his presidential campaign, Jesse Jackson told members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) that an African-American legislator who voted against the health care bill in Congress is doing a disservice to ...
Hip Hop
Janet Jackson
Black Rob
Jesse Jackson
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In addition to kidnapping charges, 29-year-old Mario Andrette
McNeill is also being charged with first degree murder...
and rape in connection to the death of young Shaniya Davis. Police have secured video surveillance from a North Carolina hotel showing McNeill carrying five-year-old ...
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Details Emerge from Shaniya Davis Murder
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In an effort to save money, Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, is proposing merging Jackson State University, Mississippi Valley State University and Alcorn State University into one school.
Will this work?
Hip Hop
Will Smith
Black Rob
Oprah Winfrey is preparing to close one phase of her life to focus on another.
It is expected that Winfrey, 55, will announce the end of the Oprah Winfrey Show this Friday. Insiders believe she will now focus on launching her own cable network (the Oprah Winfrey Network -OWN)
The ...
Hip Hop
Oprah Winfrey
Add Jermaine Durpi’s name to the list of entetrainers with tax issues.
Dupri allegedly owes the IRS and the State of Georgia more than $3 million in back taxes.
The state of Georgia filed a tax lien on Dupri for more than $135,ooo while the Federal government is seeking more than ...
Hip Hop
Jermaine Dupri
A 50-year-old man is in jail under a $1 million bond for allegedly setting his wife on fire after an argument.
According to media reports, Howard Stewart and his wife, 35-year-old Christina Lee, were involved in a heated argument after Lee’s 12-year-old daughter accused Stewart of ...
Hip Hop
Fire
Crime Mob
The father of a boy who accused Michael Jackson of molestation has committed suicide.
Evan Chandler was discovered in bed holding a handgun with a bullet lodged in his head. In 1993, Chandler son, Jordan accused Jackson of molestation at the Neverland Ranch.
Chandler was 65. His son has ...
Hip Hop
Janet Jackson
Michael Jackson
Trek Life
It was good while it lasted, Jermaine.
During a radio interview, Janet Jackson said while she and Dupri are close friends, they are no longer romantically linked.
Keep your head up JD
