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On the day Prince was found collapsed in an elevator at Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minn., on April 21, an unknown man made a frantic phone call to 911. He said that he was at Prince’s house and didn’t know the exact address. But what people didn’t know, until Wednesday, was the identity of the…

His name is Shamsideen Shariyf Ali Bey and he’s the former head of Shaka Zulu Security and former bodyguard for Afrika Bambaataa. Now he’s speaking out about the allegations of molestation that Bambaataa has recently denied. In a recent interview with Troi Torain, the radio host who originally broke the story about Ronald Savage’s allegations of molestation by Bambaataa, Bey…

50 Cent’s legal woes are starting to pile up … again. The family of the boy he bullied in a Cincinnati airport say they want the rapper to donate $1 million to a GoFundMe or they’ll file a lawsuit. 50 Cent filmed Andrew Farrell while he was working at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and mocked…

Stevie Wonder literally did his best to hold back tears last week during a CNN interview about the death of his longtime friend Prince. You could hear the pain in his voice as he was remembering Prince’s musical genius and his life. And even last weekend, while in New Orleans for the Jazz Fest, Wonder…

Viral dances come and go. First it was the Whip/Nae Nae, then it was something else, and now it’s the Running Man Challenge.  “I woke up and these guys—the Maryland basketball players—they did it,” said Vincent. Kevin Vincent and Jeremiah Hall, of Hillside, N.J, appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and explained how the dance…

Over the weekend, 50 Cent took to his Instagram account to complain about today’s youths while traveling through the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. “This new generation is crazy. It’s crazy,” 50 Cent said in the video. To show an example of laziness, he then turned the camera onto a young man working at the airport.…

The 2016 Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, and Hamilton made history with 16 nominations. Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the musical, received three individual nominations, for best book, best original score and best lead actor. Not to be overlooked are other nominees, including Shuffle Along, with 10 nominations, one of them best musical; and Danai Gurira’s Eclipsed,…

Monday night’s fashion prom, otherwise known as the Met Gala (or the Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, officially), brought out the stars in their best (and worst) costume attire. This year’s theme was “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,” which basically meant, “Let’s wrap ourselves in shiny clothes…

Tupac Shakur’s mother, Afeni Shakur, has died at the age of 69. According to the New York Daily News, Afeni Shakur died Monday in Sausalito, Calif., after being rushed to the hospital for possible cardiac arrest. In her early days, Afeni Shakur was active in the Black Panther movement and gave birth to the future…

Sean “Diddy” Combs recently announced his retirement from music, and in an interview with Cigar Aficionado magazine, he clearly seems to want to go out with a bang. “I’m going to put out my last album and devote 100 percent of my time to doing films. I want to stop at a great place,” Combs said. “And…