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Pop quiz–name a Black filmmaker with a major studio distribution deal in their back pocket.  If Tyler Perry is the only name you came up…

In an interview with Los Angeles radio station 93.5 KDAY, former Death Row Records head honcho Suge Knight threatened rapper Rick Ross and questioned if Tupac was really dead. “Nobody seen Tupac dead,” Knight said. “Maybe the question is . . . Pac’s not really dead . . . Pac’s somewhere else.” In the same […]

L.A. Lakers forward Metta World Peace, aka Ron Artest, was ejected from Sunday’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder for throwing an elbow at James Harden. The hit following a dunk by Artest was ruled a “flagrant 2″ foul and Harden was sent back to the locker room for concussion tests. He was cleared to […]

When it comes to rap music, nobody is ever satisfied. When Nicki Minaj dropped her initial buzz singles, she had fans so divided you would…

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Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…

Trina Braxton recently sat down with 365voice.com to discuss the fate of “Braxton Family Values” and the status of her marriage with (cheating) husband, Gabe. Do you think that Reality Shows ruin relationships? Here are a few excerpts from the interview: We all got to watch your relationship with Gabe play out and I’m sure […]

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Think Like A Man is the number one movie in America, but before it became official, the movie’s producer, Will Packer, called in to Hot 107.9 over the weekend and spoke to Jazzy McBee and Beestroh about the film. As we previously reported, our own Jazzy McBee won a small role in the film after […]

Someone please tell Cuba Gooding Jr. that he needs to control his excitement. During a recent appearance on GMA, Cuba was “in the moment” and grabbed a random kid in the crowd and started tossing him in the air leaving host, Robin Roberts mortified! If I was this kid’s parent, I might’ve punched Cuba in […]

The Queen of Hip-Pop is doing some “soul searching.” First, her sophomore album, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded didn’t sell as many albums as expected (even though the album came in at #1, sales in its second week plunged by 70%). Then, she shut down her twitter page leaving 11 million + fans in the cold. […]

Chris Brown has found love, and its NOT with Rihanna. Karrueche Tran has stood by Chris Brown’s side through Rihanna’s subliminal shoots at her and she admits, she is “head over heels.” During a recent trip to Australia, she tweeted a romantic photo of herself and Chris Brown on a beach. These two seem to […]

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Fears are educated into us and can be educated out – Karl Augustus Menninger Sometimes we are “taught” to be afraid of things that really aren’t that “scary.”  The truth is, fear is nothing more than an illusion. The more you are consumed with fearful thoughts, the more likely you’ll attract the thing you fear into […]