In support of her latest, chart-topping album, “I Am … Sasha Fierce,” Beyonce has announced her 2009 world tour dates in North America this summer. The trek starts at New York’s Madison Square Garden in June and wraps with a four-night residence at Encore at Wynn Las Vegas July 30-August 2.
Beyonce will be backed by [...]
Whitney Houston is countersuing her stepmother for $1.6 million.
The Grammy-winning singer claims Barbara Houston owes her the money for failing to make mortgage, tax, and condo association payments for the Fort Lee condominium where she has lived since 1987.
Her stepmother initiated the legal tussle last year when she claimed the 45-year-old singer, who issued the [...]
A makeup artist and a fashion stylist claim in coordinated lawsuits that they got ugly treatment from Queen Latifah when she cheated them out of $1 million.
Celebrity cosmetology consultant Roxanna Floyd says she lost $700,000 when the rapper-actress failed to pay her for work she did between July 2005 and February 2008.
In a separate lawsuit, [...]
The self-proclaimed King of the South will rise again. In about 366 days’ time.
As expected, T.I. was sentenced today to one year and one day in Georgia prison as part of his plea deal with prosecutors over a 2007 felony weapons charge.
“Today I would like to say thank-you to some, and apologize to all,” the [...]
DMX was barking up the wrong tree when it came to this business venture.
A Manhattan State Supreme Court judge has ordered the Year of the Dog emcee to fork over a $242,000 judgment to a fashion company for failing to fulfill a deal to hype a canine clothing line.
DMX, whose real name is Earl Simmons, [...]
Legendary hip-hopper Del the Funky Homosapien is back in London tonight, headlining a bill with plenty of L-town talent.
Emerging from California’s Bay Area as the teenage protege of his cousin of Ice Cube, Del starred with the Hieroglyphics in the 1990s and went on to other projects such as Deltron 3030.
His guest verses with Gorillaz, [...]
Tupac Shakur was killed in a drive-by as he rode in Suge Knight’s car more than a decade ago. Now the late rapper’s family is taking aim at Knight in court over some unreleased albums.
The late rapper’s estate, overseen by his mother Afeni Shakur and lawyers for Amaru Entertainment, is seeking a court order that [...]
TiVo hopes to widen its appeal with a more affordable model: the TiVo HD DVR for $299.99.
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A stylist who claims Jamie Foxx failed to pay for her services cannot expand her lawsuit against the actor to include allegations he mistreated her, a judge ruled Monday.
Top-selling rappers Ja Rule and Lil Wayne were arraigned on felony gun charges Monday following their separate arrests after a hip-hop concert at which both had performed.
A judge set high bails and bonds for the rappers and two other men, but the defendants were expected to be freed immediately, their bonds secured by Ja Rule’s [...]
Houston MC Lil Flip was arrested in his hometown on Saturday in connection with a credit card scam. According to the Houston Chronicle, the rapper is accused of purchasing a $671.00 Southwest Airlines ticket from Houston to Baltimore on June 8 over the phone about an hour before the flight was scheduled to take off. [...]
Rapper 50 Cent sued an Internet advertising company for $1 million Friday, claiming it illegally used his image in a game where the player pretends to shoot him.
The game, called “Shoot the Rapper,” shows 50 Cent walking back and forth in an ad across the top of a Web page while the viewer is encouraged [...]
Internet Radio music stations are seeing a slight reprieve from the higher fees to play music.
SoundExchange is the organization that collects the royalties for musicians and of course the record companies. On Monday, most stations continued playing music even as their representatives negotiated lower fees as the recording companies argued for a hike in the [...]
LONDON (AFP) - US pop maverick Prince on Sunday gave away about three million copies of his new album “Planet Earth” with British newspaper the Mail on Sunday, amid protests from music retailers.
The 10-track CD is reported to be worth about 250,000 pounds (369,000 euros, 508,000 dollars) to the diminutive musician from Minneapolis best known [...]
The Internet radio death watch continues. Late yesterday, a federal appeals court denied an emergency stay petition from webcasters, refusing to delay the arrival of massive royalty hikes that threaten to bring down online radio as we know it. The new royalty rates - which could mean a 300 per cent payment increase for large [...]
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