August 2013 Blog Posts (63)

In order to shield "Blurred Lines," the hottest hit of the summer, Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and Clifford Harris, Jr. are going to court.

A lawsuit was filed Thursday in California federal court by the trio against Marvin…

What you don't know about the floods from last Thursday is that there was no Disaster Declarations from any government agency so the people in Parkwood are just A$$ Out!

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40-year-old Cornell Poyser, an assistant manager at T.J. Maxx, was caught with over $130,000 in merchandise from the popular retail store.  Poyser, who owns his own small shop, Excade Boutique, in Brooklyn, New York, was selling the stolen goods from T.J. Maxx at his store. He was selling the designer handbags and dresses at much cheaper prices than retail prices. For example,…

Kendrick Lamar calls out a lot of big names in his verse on Big Sean's "Control" and now one unlikely one has responded.

Former Los Angeles Lakers and Chicago Bulls head coach Phil Jackson is name-checked in the track, with Lamar rapping, "If Phil Jackson came back, still no coaching me."

The line sent the Zen Master to Twitter to drop some knowledge on…

Pimp C might be gone, but his music will live on forever -- including some unreleased material that his UGK partner Juicy J is looking to release.

Juicy tweeted, "I'm producing the new Pimp C album [of] unreleased material. It's gon' be a movie!" It'll be the second posthumous release from Pimp C, following 2011's Still Pimping.

Since Pimp C's death,…

Soulja Boy didn't get to fly the friendly skies the other night after being booted from an American Airlines flight before it left Miami for Brazil.

According to TMZ, the trouble started after he repeatedly ignored flight attendants' requests to sit down as the plane was preparing for takeoff. An attendant explained that Soulja would get the boot if…

If your parents are Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, known for having paparazzi on their backs all the time, chances they'll to protect you by any means necessary -- and that's exactly what daddy Kanye is doing.

Kanye dropped $2 million on two Dartz Prombron armored SUVs from Europe. The vehicles usually cost about $400,000 each, but Kanye has modified them for…

Good news for Usher -- his son Usher Raymond the Fifth is out of the hospital following that frightening pool accident last week.

As you'll recall, the five-year-old got his arm caught in a pool drain trying to retrieve a toy and nearly drowned. He was saved by two sound engineers who were installing some A/V equipment near the pool. He still has a large…

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AP) — Dwayne Jones was relentlessly teased in high school for being effeminate until he dropped out. His father not only kicked him out of the house at the age of 14 but also helped jeering neighbors push the youngster from the rough Jamaican slum where he grew up.

By age 16, the teenager was dead — beaten, stabbed, shot and run over by a car…

A gospel singer who says God delivered him from being gay was removed from a concert lineup at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial after a request from Washington’s mayor.

The Washington Post reports singer Donnie McClurkin was scheduled to perform at the concert Saturday evening to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. Several gay rights…

Today (Friday) would have been Whitney Houston's 50th birthday, and her sister-in-law, business partner and best friend Pat Houston tells omg! Insider that her family is celebrating it "with peace, love and happiness" at a private dinner at home in Georgia. She says that was one of the diva's favorite ways to celebrate her birthday.

Although Pat Houston calls…

Four former Vanderbilt University football players were charged Friday in the rape of an unconscious student in a Gillette Hall dormitory room in a case police described as “unsettling.”

Brandon Vandenburg, 20, from California; Brandon Eric Banks, 19, from Maryland; JaBorian “Tip” McKenzie, 18 from Mississippi and Cory Batey, 19, of Nashville, were charged with five…

Beyonce's colorist is speaking out on the singer's new cut, saying that the short look reflects Bey's self-confidence."I think she was just feeling empowered, like a strong woman, and she said she's been feeling it for a long time," Rita Hazan tells Us Weekly. "She didn't want to hide behind her hair in real life."

Hazan loves what Bey's cut represents.…

On Sunday, he was denied service at Houston's restaurant in Pasadena, California because of his tattoos. According to a tweet from The Game, one of the managers at the restaurant told him his tattoos were threatening to other dinners at the restaurant.

The Game tweeted, "NEVER eating @Houston's restaurants as long as I live!…

Chris Brown allegedly suffered a seizure of some sort while recording in a Los Angeles studio last night. According to TMZ, the L.A. City Fire Dept. rushed to the Record Plant early this AM after receiving a call that the singer had suffered a seizure. When the EMTs arrived, Brown said he was fine and refused to be taken to the hospital.

While details still are…

Judge John J. Goger denied Tameka Raymond’s request for primary custody of her two sons with singer Usher Raymond.  After the judge gave his decision, Tameka and Usher hugged in open court. Tameka filed for an emergency hearing on Tuesday after one of her sons nearly drowned on Monday. Both Usher and Tameka took the stand saying the other was unfit to raise their 2 children, Usher Raymond V and Naviyd Ely Raymond, 4. But after hearing from…

A woman who was temporarily put in charge of her friend's children accidentally let one of them drown while she was busy checking Facebook on her phone.

Dallas County investigators say Kariasa Thomas took the four children, aged 3-7, to the swimming pool in her apartment complex, and was joined by her 16-year-old daughter and legally blind husband.

Though the…

If we had a dollar for every time an artist "retired" we'd be Oprah rich. Chris Brown is the latest to threaten us with his possible retirement. Will Brown fall on the list of entertainers that claim to be calling it quits but never leave? Here are some celebs who've retired but never left.

•Lil Wayne - After the Carter V, Wayne said it was over for his rap…