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Jermaine Dupri and Queen Latifah Are Producing a Lifetime Reality Show to Find the Next Child Hip-Hop Superstar
If there’s one thing Jermaine Dupri knows—besides writing amazing, timeless R&B songs—it’s how to mold the careers of young hip-hop and R&B stars. Just take a look at the careers of Kriss Kross, Xscape, Bow Wow and TLC (yep, it was Dupri who advised T-Boz to sing in her lower-range octave). He’s putting those star-making…
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Watch: Will Smith Confirms 2016 Tour With DJ Jazzy Jeff
“Yeah, me and Jeff are going out,” Will Smith responded, when Ellen DeGeneres asked him if it was true that he and his longtime DJ were going out on tour. During an interview on Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Smith explained that scheduling conflicts back in the day—mainly because of his hit TV sitcom, The…
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Sexual Women Can’t Win: Amber Rose Says She Was Called a Slut When She Was a Virgin and When She Was Married
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. That’s the mantra Amber Rose is on now when she thinks about the slut-shaming that goes on in popular discourse today. She says she’s disgusted at how sexual women—that is, women who seem to enjoy sex and have, well, sexual careers—are dragged through the mud at every…
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Tidal Leaps Into Original Programming; Plus, a #TBT Clip of Jay Z Making The Black Album
All the moves that Jay Z’s music-streaming service, Tidal, is making have got me reminiscing about another pivotal moment in his career. First with the former: According to the Hollywood Reporter, Tidal is going to start streaming its own original programming. It ordered a stand-up-comedy show called No Small Talk that’s going to be hosted…
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Zoe Saldana Slams the ‘Bigots’ and ‘Hicks’ Who Are Being Hypocritical About the Immigration Debate
Zoe Saldana can’t wrap her mind around Americans who are xenophobic, who are being extra critical of and discriminatory against America’s immigrants. Why? Well, in an interview with Latina magazine, Saldana made sure she reminded folks that not so long ago, their ancestors were also immigrants—given that the only indigenous Americans are Native Americans. “The…
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Watch: Surveillance Video of Serena Williams Chasing Down the Man Who Took Her Cellphone
On Wednesday we told you about the Facebook post that Serena Williams put up, telling people how she chased down a man who had taken her cellphone at a restaurant. She was eating Chinese food with a friend when a man loitered by her table and then swiped her phone. Williams ran through the restaurant,…
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Watch: Spike Lee’s New Chi-raq Trailer
The trailer for Spike Lee’s latest movie, Chi-raq, is out. The film is having a limited released Dec. 4 and then rolling out on Amazon Instant Video thereafter, Variety reports. The film, however, has already garnered controversy because folks with strong connections to Chicago feel that Lee is capitalizing on the perception that Chicago is…
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Serena Williams Describes How She Ran Up on a Guy Who Stole Her Phone and Took It Back
In a post on her Facebook page, Serena Williams gave a riveting account of how she ran after a guy who snatched her cellphone and got it back. There the tennis icon was at a restaurant, minding her own business, eating some delicious Chinese food with a friend. Then, all of a sudden, her intuition…
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K. Michelle Wants Her Old Butt Back Because the Fake One Is Affecting Her Bottom Line
K. Michelle is known for her feisty personality on reality TV, clawing her way to a respectable R&B career, clapping back at haters on social media, feuding with a celebrity or two, and last, but certainly not least, cosmetically enhancing her derriere. And let me tell you, her behind is practically an entity unto itself.…
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Pat Houston Says She Filed a Restraining Order Against Nick Gordon to Show Bobbi Kristina That She Didn’t Have to ‘Be Afraid’
Pat Houston is coming forward for the first time ever since Bobbi Kristina Brown died in July to talk about the death of her late niece; Bobbi Kristina’s mom, Whitney Houston; and Bobbi Kristina’s boyfriend Nick Gordon. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Pat Houston said that even though it appeared that both Bobbi Kristina…
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