Hip-Hop Artists Are Hiding Homo Secrets
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Hip-hop's heavyweights are hiding some scandalous secrets. That's the down low from Terrance Dean,...
LA Times Apologizes For Story On Rapper
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Times has apologized for an article on the 1994 assault on rapper Tupac Shakur that was based on apparently phony documents.The newspaper's editor and the writer apologized in a story on the paper's Web site late Wednesday for the article that...
T.I. To Enter Plea In Weapons Case
ATLANTA (AP) -- Rapper T.I. was expected to plead guilty Thursday to federal weapons charges and will face prison time, according to two people familiar with his case.The 27-year-old singer, whose real name is Clifford Harris, was expected to be sentenced to 1,500 hours of community...
LA Times Investigates Shakur Documents
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The editor of the Los Angeles Times says an internal investigation will be done concerning the authenticity of documents cited by the newspaper that implicate associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs in a 1994 assault on Tupac Shakur.The investigation was disclosed...
Bon Jovi Guitarist Suspected Of DUI
LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Bon Jovi lead guitarist Richie Sambora has been arrested in Laguna Beach, Calif., for investigation of driving under the influence of alcohol.Sgt. Jason Kravetz says Sambora was arrested just before 11 p.m. Tuesday. Three females, including two minors, were in...
Busta Rhymes Gets 3 Years' Probation
NEW YORK (AP) -- A judge sentenced Busta Rhymes to three years' probation Tuesday for assaulting his former driver and a fan, and warned the rapper to stay out of trouble.
Rapper The Game Is Released From Jail
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Game is back in play. Los Angeles County sheriff's records show that the rapper was released from jail just before midnight on Sunday after serving just eight days of a 60 day sentence.The 28-year-old entertainer -- whose real name is Jayceon Taylor -- turned...
Spears' Father Gets $2,500 Per Week
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Being Britney Spears' father is now a paying gig -- through most of the summer, at least.
BBC: Hells Angels Sought To Kill Jagger
LONDON (AP) -- Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger escaped an assassination plot hatched in 1969 by the Hells Angels, a new British Broadcasting Corp. documentary has claimed.A program to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday says the rock star was the target of the plot following a...
Kid Rock Pleads Not Guilty To Battery
ATLANTA (AP) -- Kid Rock has pleaded not guilty to a charge of battery from a fight at a Waffle House in Atlanta.Robert James Ritchie, better known as the musician Kid Rock, was not present for the plea. His attorney, Darryl Cohen, waived an arraignment hearing and entered the plea on...
Blind Guitarist Jeff Healey Dies At 41
TORONTO (AP) -- Blind rock and jazz musician Jeff Healey has died after a lifelong battle against cancer. He was 41.
Crowes To Maxim: Say Sorry To The Band
NEW YORK (AP) -- Maxim has apologized to its readers, but the Black Crowes are still waiting for the magazine to say sorry to the band for publishing a negative review of their new CD without listening to the full album."It comes as no...
Jim Morrison's Brother-In-Law Opens `Doors' With New Book
SAN DIEGO (Wireless Flash) -- Jim Morrison may remain mysterious and misunderstood, but one author is using his family ties to tell the singer's true tale.
The Black Crowes Attack Maxim Mag Review
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Black Crowes are lashing out at Maxim magazine for reviewing the band's new album _ apparently without actually hearing it first.The review, published in Maxim's March issue, gives the Crowes' "Warpaint"...
Shakira's Bra Nets $3,000 For Charity
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Ever paid $3,000 for a bra?{image_971}That's what one fan forked over for one of
Joe Jackson Loves Music, Defends Smoking
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Joe Jackson defends smoking, hates politics and loves music.
Appeals Court Upholds Isley's Sentence
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An appellate court has upheld Ronald Isley's 37-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion.
The Game Pleads No Contest to Gun Charge
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- It's game over for The Game.{image_962}The rapper was sentenced Monday to 60 days in jail after...
Man Sets Station Ablaze Over Music Picks
AUSTIN (AP) -- A volunteer at a community radio station set fire to the station because he was upset that his song selections for an overnight Internet broadcast were changed, police said.Paul Webster Feinstein, 24, has been charged with second-degree felony arson for the Jan. 5 fire that...
Music Industry Weighs Giving Away Music
CANNES, France (AP) -- After years of fighting the Wild West of freely downloaded music, the mainstream music industry welcomed a former desperado to their annual schmoozefest Monday, highlighting the difficulty of their search for a solution to plunging CD sales.And that solution might...
Felony Charges Filed Against Lil Wayne
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) -- The Yuma County Attorney's Office filed felony drug and weapons charges Friday against Lil Wayne.{image_842}The 25-year-old rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was charged in justice court in Wellton, Ariz., with one...
Lil Wayne Booked On Drug Charges in Yuma
PHOENIX (AP) -- Lil Wayne was booked Wednesday in Yuma on three felony drug charges.The 25-year-old rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was being held at the Yuma County Sheriff's jail, said Capt. Eben...
Britney Spears Attends Deposition
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Britney Spears showed up.The pop star went to a deposition Monday in her dispute with ex-husband Kevin Federline over the custody of their two boys, according to published reports.Spears drove to the office of Federline's attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan, with...
Judge Wants More Info On Foxy's Ear Woes
NEW YORK (AP) -- A judge wants more information before she decides whether to let Foxy Brown get out of jail and go to California for repair of an electronic ear implant.
4 Paparazzi Arrested For Chasing Britney
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Four paparazzi have been arrested for reckless driving while chasing Britney Spears' car in the San Fernando Valley.Los Angeles police Lt....
Judge Orders DMX To Pay $1.5 Million
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) -- DMX has been ordered to pay $1.5 million to the mother of his child after the rapper-actor failed to appear in court to defend himself against allegations of defamation.
Stipe Dismissed As Potential Juror
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- R.E.M. lead singer Michael Stipe was among more than a dozen potential jurors dismissed at the beginning of the trial for a man accused of sneaking into a middle school and trying to sexually assault a girl.Stipe told Clarke County Superior Court Judge Lawton Stephens...
Police Impound Britney Spears' Car
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Britney Spears' car was impounded after police found it abandoned on the street.Police said Spears was driving Monday night when she had a flat tire on Sunset Boulevard sometime before 8 p.m."She left it unattended and it was blocking traffic, so it was...
Singer's Family Names Wines For Songs
LINDALE, Texas (AP) -- How about a sip of Kerosene?{image_645} That's one of the wines being marketed by
Paparazzi Scramble After Britney Spears
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Paparazzi sprinted after Britney Spears on Thursday as the troubled pop princess left a building where ex-husband Kevin Federline's attorney has offices.The scramble by photographers came a day after Spears' lawyers filed a motion in court asking to be relieved...
