October 2014 Blog Posts (198)

While there were certainly a number of great albums you need to have from this year, 2014 will mark the first year since its inception in 1976 that no artist’s album will be certified as platinum from sales. The award is given by the RIAA to mark one million units sold, and with only a few weeks remaining in the year, no album is even…

Ever wonder why a cancer patient can see life vividly even during treatment and many of us cannot.

Why we spend our valuable days chasing after things that in the end will not make one bit of difference in our happiness.

It’s good to be…

Democrats may not have as much support at the polls as they anticipated in this midterm election because the state of Georgia has misplaced thousands of voter registration applications.

Somehow, Al-Jazeera reports, that Georgia officials have seemingly misplaced…

Last year the annual Pumpkin Festival in Keene, New Hampshire set a record for 30,581 lit jack-o'lanterns. This year it made news when it was marred by a riot for no apparent reason.

Police shot tear gas and pepper spray at thousands of college-age rioters who…

Bobby Shmurda's mother says that, despite what the rapper might think, he is getting paid for his live shows. Leslie Pollard, who also acts as Shmurda's manager, says the problem is that her son just doesn't understand how business works.

“He’s new to the…

After all the lies and heartache, DMX must still have a lot of love for his ex-wife.

The Yonkers, New York rapper recently coughed up a big pile of cash to keep his ex-wife Tashera from losing the house he bought her to foreclosure. The Jasmine Brand reports that X was 1,403 days in default on a…

Snoop Dogg – 43 years old

Omar Gooding - 38 years old

Sanaa Lathan - 43 years old

Trey Parker - 45 years…

BOX-OFFICE REPORT   

1. Fury - $23.5 million

2. Gone Girl - $17.8 million

3. The Book of Life - $17 million

4. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - $12 million

5. The Best of Me - $10.2 million

Fury rolled over the competition at the weekend box office. The World War 2 drama, starring…

Ladies, join us for a pretty cool night of Football, Drinks, Fun, and the Men are always out kicking it at Monday Night Football.  

Bring your girls and come kick it with us :-)…

Pharrell Williams is on the cover of the November issue of Ebony Magazine and from an early look, it seems like he has taken a dive into the pool of delusion that Kanye West has happily been swimming in for the past couple of years.

Pharrell—a member of the "new black" population that no other…

Aaliyah's music continues to live on. Legacy Recordings has announced plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of her debut offering, Age Ain't Nothing but a Number, with a special, limited edition release.

A two-LP vinyl edition of the album will be released for the Record Store Day "Black Friday" event…

Are Tyga and Blac Chyna back together?

The ex-stripper posted and then quickly deleted a selfie of herself and the rapper looking rather cuddly on Instagram. The caption read "by the way he said I'm not missin no meals" -- a reference to Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda".…

K. Michelle and Keyshia Cole are going to be touring together -- and Black Twitter can't wait.

K. Michelle made the announcement on Twitter, in a post wishing Cole a happy birthday, writing, "Can't wait to hit the road with u in Jan and give the ladies a REAL…

Everyone deals with pain differently. 

Amber Rose Instagrammed a picture of herself the other day with the caption, "Single, but not quite ready to mingle yet" -- but apparently Wiz Khalifa is. Last night (Wednesday), TMZ cause the Pittsburgh rapper leaving an L.A. club with several women. He…

Eminem – 42 years old

Alan Jackson- 56 years old

Ziggy Marley- 46 years old

Wyclef…

Ten years ago, The Wire’s third season opened with the destruction of the Franklin Terrace Towers, a collection of high-rise buildings that served as a central location for the Barksdale Organization’s drug operation. Their demolition signaled aggressive change for those immediately affected, but also for…

The Ebola crisis has gotten President Obama's full attention. On Wednesday he canceled his Thursday travel plans, for the second consecutive day, so he continue to work in the White House on the government's answer to the virus.

The president was set to go to Rhode Island Thursday for a speech and stop…

Not everyone is excited for Ozone magazine founder Julia Beverly's biography of the late Pimp C. His widow, Chinara Butler, is trying to keep it from ever getting published.

Beverly says she's been working on the book, titled Sweet Jones: Pimp C's Trill Life Story, for four years, with the blessing of…

So Erykah Badu is just out on the street in Times Square (What Up NYC)!  Guess how much money she made.  The amount is just CLASSIC!

Photo via…

After almost two days of Internet bashing and name calling, the beef is over. Thanks to Iggy Azalea's relationship with T.I.. Snoop Dogg has apologized to the Aussie rapper.

On Monday the West Coast legend posted a picture on Instagram mocking Iggy's makeup-less features. Iggy responded by calling him…