“3 decades and I’m still going strong!”

I t was a night of firsts for Jay-Z on Monday evening when the Brooklyn MC took the stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall for the first time. The swanky crowd filled the Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall for the first of two benefit concerts, which joined Jay’s Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation with the [...]

B randy and Monica have been locked up in the recording studio cooking up the sequel to their 1998 hit The Boy Is Mine called It All Belongs to Me and now the wait is finally over, we have the single here for your listening pleasure! It All Belongs to Me, written and produced [...]

W hitney Houston and Ray-J were spotted having dinner at Sunset Plaza in West Hollywood Friday night. Just when you think the two had fallen out of touch, here they come again! In previous years the two were constantly seen together, holding hands and looking closer than “just friends” to everyone. However, [...]

R oland Martin, a commentator for CNN, sent out a controversial tweet during the Super Bowl that resulted in GLAAD (Gay Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) demanding his removal from the news network. It all started with a tweet Roland sent after David Beckham’s H&M commercial aired during the Super Bowl: “If a dude at [...]

B iggie’s daughter, T’yanna Wallace, will be featured in the March issue of XXL Magazine celebrating the 15th year anniversary of the Hip-Hop legend Notorious B.I.G’s death. In the issue, we get a glimpse of 18-year-old daughter T’yanna all grown up! The last we saw of the teen was two years ago at her [...]

O scar nominee Viola Davis is one of the most electrifying actresses of her generation. She covers the February 2012 issue of LA Times Magazine with a photo shoot that shows a dramatic different side of Viola. We actually thought the pictures were mislabeled when we first saw them. Viola goes for a close-cropped [...]

T rey Songz is featured in the latest issue of VMAN magazine. Trey is a ferocious overachiever: rapper, producer, singer-songwriter, and actor — and he makes it all look easy. On the eve of the drop of his new record, Chapter 5, and the launch of his Anticipation 2our, the 27-year-old phenom speaks with [...]

K erry Washington is bringing it, on the cover of the March issue of Essence Magazine. Kerry will star in ABC’s greatly anticipated show Scandal (which debuts next month). She will become the only Black actress to lead a drama based on a real-life black woman — high-profile crisis management adviser Judy Smith — [...]

T he producers of “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” True Entertainment, have announced they’re partnering with the TLC network to produce a new Atlanta-based reality show called “Preacher Wives.” The show will follow the “First Ladies” of Atlanta area churches as they play out their roles in the congregation and at home. The press release [...]

“And if they try to break us down — don’t let that effect us, no baby!
You just got to let my love, ADORN you……..”

A thletes and celebrities have landed in Indianapolis to watch the New York Giants face off against the New England Patriots at Super Bowl XLVI. Indianapolis is in the heart of “flyover country,” where many celebrities have never before dared to venture. Indianapolis has been transformed, the community has poured hundreds of millions of [...]

T he 13th Annual Super Bowl Gospel Celebration held Friday at Clowes Memorial Hall, was a spectacularly spiritual evening. Hosted by Rev. Run and CeCe Winans, the highlight of the evening was Fantasia’s performance. Other performers include Hezekiah Walker, Wess Morgan, Natalie Grant, plus the award winning Salvation and Deliverance Church Choir. Donnie McClurkin [...]

N ick Cannon has confirmed that he is set to direct his first feature film. He will begin working on a movie project with Lionsgate in the spring that he described as today’s version of House Party. “I’m taking a lot of the young hip-hop acts of today and putting them in a movie [...]

A bitter war of words has broken out between Tracy Morgan, star of 30 Rock and his estranged mother, Alicia Warden. Tracy’s mother is about to lose her house — and she says her multimillionaire son won’t help her. Alicia Warden, who lives in northeast Ohio, says she owes less than $25,000 on her [...]

W hitney Houston, Bobby Brown and their daughter Bobbi Kristina dined at Crustacean in Beverly Hills last night, and despite their turbulent relationship, which ended after 14 years, the pair appear to be getting along just fine these days. The trio seemed in great spirits as they left the trendy Beverly Hills eatery after [...]

W illow Smith won’t be whipping her hair back and forth anytime soon, the 11-year-old decided to shave off all her hair! With the new year in full swing and Willow’s debut album Knees & Elbows due out this spring, we’re guessing Willow wanted to make a few changes before making her official album [...]

J ustin Combs’ dream got a little bit sweeter! Son of rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs signed his National Letter of Intent to play football at UCLA next season with his famous father, mother and plenty of family by his side. The 5-foot-9, 170-pound Justin, an excellent cornerback, called himself blessed to be able [...]

V H1 will be paying homage to the women who have made their mark in the music industry, with a week long celebration. “It’s time to recognize the women who changed music history with the premiere of VH1’s “100 Greatest Women in Music.” Covering the past 20 years of music, the list will honor [...]

D on Cornelius, the man who created the empire “Soul Train” was found dead in his Sherman Oaks, CA home early this morning and law enforcement sources say it appears he committed suicide, he was 75. A person called the police from Mr. Cornelius’s home on Mulholland Drive in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood just [...]