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OAKLAND, Calif. — A hail of gunfire along an Oakland street has left eight people wounded, including a 1-year-old boy who authorities say was taken to the city’s Children’s Hospital in critical condition. The gunfire broke out Monday evening in a liquor store parking lot after a crowd had gathered, police said. The victims were […]

Good girls love bad boys.  We’ve seen it a million times.  It usually ends with tragic, and sometimes comedic endings.  The Daily Beast recently did a profile of good girls and the thugs they couldn’t let go of. “After splitting with husband Marc Anthony earlier this year, Jennifer Lopez may have found love again with […]

It is hard to believe, but MediaTakeOut.com reports that Rihanna is running low on cash. RELATED: Rihanna Shows Softer Side In Family Home Video How a superstar like Rihanna can generate more than 100 million Youtube hits for one song, yet not have enough money to keep her home is a surprise indeed. We learned […]

Fresh-out-of-jail rapper T.I. has already managed to violate his intellectual parole,  angering a lot of folks with his latest remarks in the December issue of VIBE Magazine that some are calling homophobic: “Man, I will say this, the funniest joke I ever heard Tracy say during a stand-up was, ‘C’mon man, I think gay people […]

It was a powerful night of Hip-Hop, R&B at the music for the 2011 Soul Train Awards. A lot of love and emotion could be seen in the building. There was a moving Heavy D tribute put on by Doug E. Fresh, Goodie M.O.B., Naughty By Nature, Whodini, Big Daddy Kane and Kurtis Blow. The […]

@Questlove is one of our favorite folks to follow on “The Twitters.” But we notice that the normally loquacious Roots drummer has fallen loudly silent on his timeline since Fallon himself apologized to Bachmann for The Roots’ selection of the 1985 Fishbone song “Lyin’ A** B*tch” as her walk-on music. Read this piece here about […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A festive mood prevailed Thursday as the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade made its way through the crowded streets of Manhattan beneath brilliant sunshine. A jetpack-wearing monkey and a freakish creation from filmmaker Tim Burton are two of the big new balloons that were making their inaugural appearances. Paul Frank’s Julius […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — GOP Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann received an apology from an NBC executive after an off-color song was played during her appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s “Late Night,” her spokeswoman said late Wednesday. The Minnesota congresswoman received a personal letter from NBC’s vice president for late night programming, Doug Vaughan, a day […]

LOS ANGELES — Kim Kardashian, Blair Underwood and other celebrities served up a Thanksgiving day meal to the homeless in Los Angeles.

After somebody edited rapper, Too Short’s WikiPedia page to say that he died of a heart attack, rumors of Too Short, real name Todd Shaw’s death quickly spread over the the internet. After the rumor spread via Twitter, Too Short himself cleared them up on his Twitter account. Stop calling my phone. I’m not dead. […]

After The Roots played a song by the punk rock group, Fishbone called “Lyin Ass Bitch” during Michelle Bachmann’s introduction on NBC’s “The Jimmy Fallon Show,” Michelle Bachmann has accused NBC of sexism. Bachmann also accused NBC of having a double standard for conservative women. The Roots also played “Crooklyn Part 2” featuring rapper Chubb […]

Popular singers, Cee-Lo Green and Mary J. Blige will perform at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade tomorrow. Cee-Lo Green started with the rap group Goodie Mob and achieved mainstream success with the his collaboration with deejay, Danger Mouse, Gnarls Barkley, and the hit Crazy” and later with his own song “F—You” Mary J. Blige has been […]