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Comedian Mike Epps re-created Drake’s “Hotline Bling” video and posted the snippet on his Instagram page. Epps did it for the OGs, the grown folk, and said that he’s playing Drake’s uncle in his takeoff. “You used to call me on my flip phone,” Epps wrote in the video’s caption, referencing the smartphone’s ancient predecessor.…

Jay Z is finally free of a copyright-infringement lawsuit that was brought against him and mega hip-hop producer Timbaland in 2007.  A Los Angeles judge dismissed Osama Ahmed Fahmy’s case, which claimed that Timbaland and Jay Z illegally sampled the flute notes in his uncle’s song for their hit “Big Pimpin,’ ” the Associated Press…

Every singer has the ability to put his or her style and sound onto any song. And Anthony Hamilton proved that Thursday with his version of Silentó’s “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae).” Otherwise known as “the song that won’t die.” I guess it’s our generation’s version of the Macarena. Hamilton posted the short clip on his…

Imagine having to sit in Thursday’s 10-hour Benghazi hearing before a House committee. Well, then imagine having to come up with jokes at the last minute for a nightly talk show the same day. But in the world of The Daily Show, anything is possible, and Trevor Noah definitely had a lot of ground to cover.…

It’s interesting to see how things work. Black students at American University have been complaining for months about racist posts being posted on the popular Yik Yak app used by many college students. Their complaints received a response in April from the school’s president, Neil Kerwin, in which he acknowledged that there is an issue but…

Abel Tesfaye, the Canadian singer who goes by the name the Weeknd, obviously has no problem with being treated like a black Chia Pet. The “Can’t Feel My Face” singer recently spoke about an encounter with Taylor Swift that caught him off guard. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Tesfaye recounted how, during the incident,…

Anthony Mackie is playing a campaign manager in his new film, Our Brand Is Crisis, but judging by his recent interview with the Daily Beast, he can go a few rounds on the Sunday-morning shows about politics and race.  Here are five interesting tidbits from the interview: 1. He has a bad case of dèjá vu…

The Democratic National Committee is vying for the seal of approval from two organizations that are both at the forefront of the Black Lives Matter movement. First, there’s the Black Lives Matter organization itself, which was started by Patrice Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi. And then there’s Campaign Zero, which has DeRay Mckesson and…

Janet Jackson didn’t mean to provoke Instagram to unleash the fury of God on folks posting video clips of her concert on Instagram. Yep, a few folks got their entire Instagram accounts suspended after posting lengthy clips of Jackson’s Unbreakable tour, Rolling Stone reports. Others had their concert photos involuntarily removed from their accounts by…

Editor’s note: This post contains social media messages that some may find offensive. Amber Rose is not a happy camper. She took one look at a blurb in GQ about the feature article she conducted with the magazine, and took to Instagram to give GQ’s editors a piece of her mind.  “Really @GQ??? I’m so much…