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Kanye West has a bone to pick with the media, which is nothing new. After his recent demands, which included making everyone stand up during his concert and wanting proof that people were indeed disabled, he’s calling himself a target. During Monday night’s performance in Brisbane, Australia, West went on yet another rant: What I…

Since being released in March 2013, Robin Thicke’s song “Blurred Lines” has been mired in controversy, not only because of the lyrics that some people perceive as being “rapey” but also because of the allegations that the song is a blatant rip-off of Marvin Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.” Thicke, along with Pharrell Williams and…

Maybe there’s something about the name “Ray” when it comes to the NFL. Way before the Ray Rice domestic-assault incident, there was another Ray making headlines. On Jan. 31, 2000, right after a Super Bowl XXXIV party in Atlanta, Baltimore Ravens star Ray Lewis was involved in a fight that resulted in the stabbing deaths…

Somewhere along the way, Kanye West has not only lost his sense of humor—he’s also lost compassion. But that’s assuming he ever had any to begin with. Over the weekend, Mr. Kardashian showed just how much of an egomaniac he can be, and his targets were disabled concert attendees. During a show at the Qantas…

Before Aubrey Graham was the popular rapper who now goes by the name “Drake,” he played a high school student who used a wheelchair on the teen soap opera Degrassi. Drake’s version of “starting from the bottom” wasn’t quite actually the bottom. He was Jimmy Brooks, a high school basketball player who became known as…

Michael Che is making Saturday Night Live history: The comedian and Daily Show contributor will become SNL’s first black anchor for its “Weekend Update” segment. According to the New York Times, Che will join Colin Jost when he replaces Cecily Strong at the news desk. “Michael is a strong writer, and he’s really funny,” Lorne Michaels, SNL’s…

Editor’s note: According to Marge Feinberg, deputy press secretary of New York City Public Schools, Nicki Minaj wanted to flim her visit and planned to bring a TV crew.  “We do not allow reality TV to be filmed on school property,” Feinberg wrote in a statement. “For documentaries, any visit to a public school must be…

Paul George of the Indiana Pacers is backpedaling after posting tweets about Ray Rice’s assault on his wife, Janay Rice. In typical tweet-and-delete fashion, the inflammatory tweets soon disappeared after George received backlash, but of course they were preserved through the power of screenshots. George eventually apologized for his misguided tweets: Let me apologize to…

Stevie Wonder is coming to several cities this fall with the Songs in the Key of Life Performance Tour. Wonder announced his tour during a press conference Wednesday at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The long-awaited tour will kick off Nov. 6 at New York’s Madison Square Garden and conclude on Dec. 5 at…

Ray Rice is blaming his recent domestic-assault issues on alcohol and, according to a TMZ report, has sworn off the hard stuff. Sources tell TMZ that Rice is no longer consuming hard liquor since the elevator incident in which he knocked out his then-fiancee, Janay Palmer.   On top of swearing off liquor, sources say,…