Lil' Kim, big trouble?
NEW YORK (Lil Kim Fans Website) - Kimberly Jones, aka Lil' Kim, surrendered to authorities yesterday on charges of conspiracy to commit perjury, making false statements and obstructing justice, but the famous rapper maintains her innocence. The 29-year-old star was released on $500,000 bail Wednesday ...
| Lil' Kim charged
NEW YORK (Lil Kim Fans Website) - Kimberly Jones, better known as rapper Lil' Kim, was charged today with conspiracy to commit perjury, making false statements and obstructing justice. The charges come in connection with a 2001 shooting that left one man injured. Police claim Kim has refused to reveal ...
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Jay-Z and Beyonce's royal invite
NEW YORK (Beyonce Fans Website) - Beyonce and Jay-Z may be used to the royal treatment, but they'll be getting a taste of the real thing when they dine with Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace next month. The Prince has extended an invitation to the couple as a thank-you for their participation in the ...
| 'Let's Get Retarded' by BEP is the NBA 2004 play-offs theme song!
NEW YORK (NBA Official Website) - The NBA has enlisted none other than the Black Eyed Peas to provide the theme song for the 2004 play-offs. The track is a remake of the song, "Let's Get Retarded" from the group's "Elephunk" album. However, the song has been given a more sensitive makeover as "Let's ...
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Beanie Sigel likely facing prison time
PHILADELPHIA (Philadelphia Daily News) - Rapper Beanie Sigel will likely call prison home after a scheduled guilty plea this week. Sigel, whose real name is Dwight Grant, will plead guilty to federal drug and weapons charges at a hearing Tuesday, his lawyer told the Philadelphia Daily News. The 30-year-old ...
| Eminem's moon
LONDON, UK (Eminem Fans Website) - Controversy appears to have followed Eminem and his D12 crew on their European tour. While in London, the group was reportedly turned away from several posh hotels due to their over-the-top demands, which included an entire floor for their entourage of over thirty ...
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Diana Ross spared return to jail
NEW YORK (Motown Fans Website) - It seems Diana Ross's courtroom saga may finally be over. The 59-year-old singer, has escaped returning to jail again on drink driving charges, after a judge ruled she had already completed her two-day sentence. Lawyers in Tucson, Arizona, were fighting to have the veteran ...
| Busta Rhymes will headline 'Traxion' show this weekend
LOS ANGELES (LLC M2 announcement) - Southern California-based modifiedmarketing LLC (M2) today announced that world-renown hip-hop star Busta Rhymes will be the headline performer at the Rockford Fosgate main stage at Lone Star Park on Saturday April 10th 2004. The event, called TRAXION, will also host ...
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Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown try to get real
NEW YORK (Whitney Houston Fans Website) - Bobby Brown and his tumultuous life might be coming to the small screen. The 35-year-old singer - who has been jailed twice just this year - is trying to sell a show about himself to a network. Brown's production company, B2 Entertainment, has been following ...
| Usher sells a million albums in a week!
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts) - According to reports, Usher has scored the best opening sales week ever for a male R&B artist and the best debut week of 2004 with his new album Confessions. The album debuts at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 with sales of 1.1mil copies in the US to give the singer his first chart-topping ...
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The Roots will release their new album 'Tipping Point' due June 2004
NEW YORK (Roots Fans Website) - Less than two years after the groundbreaking Phrenology, the legendary Roots have just finished The Tipping Point and plan to release it this June. While The Roots usually tour for close to three years between albums, the Philadelphia band has already completed the follow ...
| Whitney returns on stage again
NEW YORK (Alicia Keys Fans Website) - Whitney Houston has made her first appearance since checking into and then out of rehab. The troubled singer took in Beyonce, Alicia Keys and Missy Elliott's "Ladies First" tour when it made a stop in Atlanta on Sunday night. But there was no chance for Whitney ...
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Janet could be marrying again?
LOS ANGELES (Janet Jackson Fans Website) - Janet Jackson could soon be walking down the aisle for the third time. The singer's boyfriend, hip-hop mogul, Jermaine Dupri expressed his love for Jackson last week on a syndicated Los Angles radio show proclaiming, "I want to marry her. I'm not going to mess ...
| Michael Jackson search for evidence continues
LOS ANGELES (Michael Jackson Fans Website) - As the grand jury testimony in the Michael Jackson sex abuse case begins today, the search for evidence is continuing. The presiding judge released carefully edited search warrants that show a continuing investigation into the singer's bank accounts, storage ...
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Brandy collaborates with Kanye West in 'Talk About Our Love'
NEW YORK (Brandy Official Website) - Atlantic Records has announced the return of Brandy with the release of "Talk About Our Love," the first single from her eagerly awaited new album. Produced and co-written by Kanye West, who is also featured on the track, the single is shipping to radio in early ...
| Bobby is free
NEW YORK (Whitney Fans Website) - Even though he claimed he had no job and no income - after spending a night in the slammer, Bobby Brown has come up with the US$63,500 in child support payments he owed the mother of two of his children. It was unclear who paid the support payment that led to the singer's ...
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Bobby back behind bars
NEW YORK (Whitney Houston Fans Website) - Just days after being released early from jail to attend a family court hearing, Bobby Brown has been sent back to the slammer. On Wednesday - after arriving four hours late for the hearing - the R&B singer was ordered by the judge to be jailed for 90 days or ...
| 'Detox' destroyed?
NEW YORK (Dr Dre Fans Website) - Dr. Dre's highly anticipated follow-up to his two "Chronic" discs may never see the light of day. The unreleased disc was to be entitled "Detox", and was described by one of Dre's collaborators as "the most musically advanced Hip-Hop album ever." However, reports have ...
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Busta Rhymes gets six months probation
NEW YORK (NY RnB magazine) - Popular rapper Busta Rhymes has received six months probation. Rhymes pleaded no contest to a charge that he assaulted a woman at a concert in Fall River, Massachusetts back in December of 2002. According to a police report, the charismatic hip-hop star grabbed Celine Gigurre ...
| Aretha Franklin hospitalised
NEW YORK (Aretha Franklin Fans Website) - Soul singer Aretha Franklin has been admitted to hospital for unspecified treatment, her spokesperson Gwendolyn Quinn said on Tuesday. Quinn did not say where the singer was hospitalised. Franklin, who turns 62 on March 25, made her first recording at the age ...
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