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On Saturday, Jason Derulo and his entourage got kicked off a Southwest Airlines flight departing from Reno, Nev., and headed to Los Angeles.  As is often the case with these kinds of disputes, there are two versions circulating that describe what caused the altercation.  A source told People magazine that Derulo and his crew were upset…

Straight Outta Compton was a box-office hit over the weekend, but there may be a few gems involving Eazy-E about which many people may not be familiar. Eazy-E—the mastermind behind N.W.A—was instrumental in putting together the rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Here’s another gem: The financial deal Eazy-E orchestrated that pissed off his N.W.A group members…

While I was standing in line at my local grocery store, in front of me stood a tall and burly black man. In front of him was a woman using a gift card to pay for groceries and attempting not to go over the $100 on the card. The cashier referred to both people by…

The pure irony of Mike Epps’ being busted on Twitter goes back to some of Epps’ own jokes about his wife taking his cellphone away and going through it. So no one knows why Epps tried to sneak into the direct messages of some random woman on Twitter. Epps tweeted a woman after she complained…

Just as season 2 of Empire is about to kick into gear, Terrence Howard is dealing with some real-life drama, which came to a head during court proceedings Monday. Howard’s second marriage, to Michelle Ghent, in January 2010 lasted only 13 months, but Ghent is attempting to get a judge to grant her spousal support,…

Earlier this month, TMZ caught up with Tracy Morgan and asked about his return to comedy, and the comedian put the celebrity-gossip site in check. “I never left,” replied Morgan. And he’ll prove that when he returns to the stage that gave him his start. On Oct. 17, Morgan is returning to host Saturday Night…

Apparently anything goes when it comes to comedy on Hulu, especially if it’s comedy written by white people. And it doesn’t matter if the subject of a joke is a 3-year-old and R. Kelly. Hulu recently premiered a new comedy produced by Saturday Night Live alum Amy Poehler called Difficult People, starring and created by…

Rihanna was befuddled (purely befuddled, it seems) to find that NBA player Matt Barnes thinks the two of them have something romantic going on, or are headed in that direction.  It all started when Barnes was interviewed by a TMZ cameraman and said that he thinks his and Rihanna’s relationship has “passed the crush stage.” …

Today is the deadline for the signing of a peace deal between South Sudan’s current president, Salva Kiir, and an opposition leader, Riek Machar, or else the country faces the possibiilty of economic sanctions, the BBC explains.  Miami Heat player Luol Deng—a South Sudanese native who came to the U.S. to attend high school—posted three…

Hollywood number crunchers who make film projections are licking their wounds this Monday morning.  Straight Outta Compton—the biopic chronicling the rise of the hip-hop group N.W.A—opened this weekend and is on track to pull in $57 million, an exceptionally good number for a release weekend, Variety explains. That’s more than three times what another major film…