Stevie Wonder has not performed at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 35 years, and has never headlined the event. Organizers want to change that this year. if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object(); window.yzq_d['vy5DBtGDJHE-']=’&U=13b7i90gb%2fN%3dvy5DBtGDJHE-%2fC%3d640720.12155024.12594901.2896325%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d5186338′; Wonder was scheduled to headline the second weekend of the 2008 Jazz Fest along with Billy Joel, Sheryl Crow and Louisiana [...]

Rap music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight has been named by police as a member of a notorious gang in a crime-plagued suburb of Los Angeles. if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object(); window.yzq_d['58uHFdGDJHE-']=’&U=13bs4c15b%2fN%3d58uHFdGDJHE-%2fC%3d640720.12155024.12594901.2896325%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d5186338′; Knight, best known as the co-founder of the rap label Death Row Records, was one of some 200 people named as members of the Mob [...]

Rap star Missy Elliott has popped up here and there in the past few years (namely, in a Doritos ad campaign), but there hasn’t been much in the way of new music from her since 2005’s “The Cookbook.”
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Now the wait is over, in the form of the new [...]

At the end of last summer, the church-going world was in shock when they heard that Bishop Thomas Weeks III allegedly choked and kicked his wife Prophetess Juanita Bynum in a hotel parking lot. Both had their share of followers and seemed to be partaking in the perfect marital union. Everyone wondered what happened?
To date, [...]

Grammy-nominated rapper Busta Rhymes pleaded guilty on Wednesday to assault, two driving infractions and weapons possession, avoiding a trial and the yearlong prison sentence recommended by prosecutors. if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object(); window.yzq_d['TnpDCNGDJHE-']=’&U=13b9fgqoq%2fN%3dTnpDCNGDJHE-%2fC%3d619213.12054947.12500278.1442997%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d4919452′; Busta Rhymes, 35, whose real name is Trevor Smith, had initially pleaded innocent to all the charges and was scheduled to go on [...]

In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based videogame “Rock Band,” players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million additional songs made available after the game’s initial distribution.
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Activision, meanwhile, said it has sold more than 5 million new songs via download for “Guitar [...]

This weekend is the first weekend of Sundance and MediaTakeOut.com has learned that celebrity couples will be out IN FULL FORCE. According to one of our sources inside 50 Cent’s camp, he and Ciara will be spending the weekend together in a romantic cabin outside of the main strip. So keep an eye out for [...]

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   You Can’t Fade Me - Ice Cube
   Po Pimp - Do Or Die
   Foe Life - Mack 10
   T.R.O.Y. - Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
   Feel Me Flow - Naughty By Nature
Low - Flo Rida
   Apologize - Timbaland
   Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill) [REMIX] - Wyclef
Sensual Seduction - Snoop Dogg
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