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Barely a year out from the release of his Def Jam artist debut, the-Dream returns Dec. 16 with his sophomore set, “Love vs. Money.” “In the beginning I was just having fun. I didn’t want people thinking too hard, I just wanted them to gravitate toward my lyrics,” the-Dream tells Billboard.com. “But this time my [...]
Hip-hop performer and entrepreneur Jay-Z and Norwegian songwriting/production duo Stargate have joined forces under the StarRoc banner, which will encompass a record label and music publishing company under Jay-Z’s Roc Nation venture with Live Nation.
According to the principals, “the focus is to find new talent and develop artists through mutually beneficial global partnerships which include [...]
R&B star R. Kelly has broken his silence about his recent acquittal on child pornography charges, saying he was betrayed by close associates but hopes to move on with his life.
“If it has had any impact, I would hope it would be a positive impact and I can move on with my life,” Kelly [...]
Because of some backstage machinations, Ne-Yo is a little bit richer.
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Ne-Yo went to court in December, [...]
A jury acquitted R&B star R. Kelly of child pornography charges on Friday, finding he did not make an explicit videotape showing him having sex with an underage girl who called him “godfather.”
Kelly, whose given name is Robert, cried and repeatedly whispered “thank you Jesus” after each not guilty finding was announced in the [...]
R&B star R. Kelly‘s child pornography trial went to the jury on Thursday with prosecutors calling him a sexual predator and his attorneys saying he is wrongly accused and possibly the victim of an extortion plot.
In closing arguments to the 12-person jury, Cook County Prosecutor Robert Heilingoetter said Kelly preyed on young girls and [...]
Defense attorneys have rested their case in the child pornography trial of R&B singer R. Kelly in Chicago.
The singer looked relaxed as defense attorney Ed Genson rested the case without calling any witnesses for the day.
Jurors sat in court for just several minutes before Judge Vincent Gaughan (GAWN) sent them home for the day. [...]
A forensic expert testified Thursday at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial that a fingernail-sized mark seen on the lower back of the man in the sex tape at the center of the case was not a mole but video distortion.
Video analysis expert Charles Palm testified for the defense that the black mark appears — [...]
A Chicago Sun-Times reporter isn’t going to answer questions at R. Kelly’s child pornography trial.
Jim DeRogatis (day-roh-GAH’-tus) cited an Illinois law that governs reporters’ rights and the First and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution in refusing to answer questions Wednesday.
DeRogatis read the statement more than a dozen times in response to questions, including [...]
Prosecutors rested their case in R. Kelly’s child pornography trial after a day of sensational testimony about alleged trysts, extortion plots and a duffel bag full of sex tapes.
Star prosecution witness Lisa Van Allen cried on the witness stand, pausing to regain her composure, as she described several alleged three-way sexual encounters with the R&B [...]
It was R. Kelly’s own attorney who raised the issue at the start of the R&B superstar’s child pornography trial: If you don’t see a fingernail-sized mole on the lower back of the man in the sex tape at the center of the case, then that man isn’t Kelly.
Jurors last week watched a 4-by-4 [...]
A prosecution witness used images of a lower back mole on Thursday to link R. Kelly to a sex tape at the center of the R&B star’s child pornography trial.
The potentially damaging testimony came a week after the singer’s own attorneys brought up the mole in their opening statements. A defense attorney argued then that [...]
George Daniels, the husband of R. Kelly’s former publicist Regina Daniels, claimed on Los Angeles radio station KJLH this week that R. Kelly “crossed the line” with his daughter.
In 2007, Regina Daniels released a statement announcing her resignation from her post as R. Kelly’s publicist. “My resignation was effective as of August 28, 2007. Throughout [...]
R. Kelly is going to have to wait even longer for his day in court.
Five years after being charged with child pornography, the R&B star’s trial had been set to start on September 17. But a Cook County judge has postponed it because the lead prosecutor had a baby recently.
Kelly was charged in 2002 and [...]
With their collaborative album Face Off due out this December, SOHH caught up with rap heart throb Bow Wow and R&B sensation Omarion to address the inevitable comparisons to R. Kelly and Jay-Z’s Best of Both Worlds project.The partnership between hip-hop and R&B is nothing new, but when it comes to rapper/singer joint ventures there [...]
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