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Megachurch pastor Joel Osteen and Kanye West want to take their holy act to other cities next year. West brought his Sunday Service collective to Osteen’s Lakewood church last month for events that included a conversation with the famed pastor and a performance from the rapper’s’ gospel choir. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER AND INSTAGRAM  The pair will come together once […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia judge denied rapper Meek Mill’s petition for a new trial in his decade-old drug and gun convictions Monday despite support for the request by the district attorney’s office. Mill’s attorneys had asked for a new trial based on credibility issues with former Philadelphia police officer Reginald Graham, who was the […]

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Rapper Meek Mill walked out of prison Tuesday after Pennsylvania’s highest court ordered him freed while he appeals decade-old gun and drug convictions. Following a five-month campaign by his supporters to get him out, the state Supreme Court directed a Philadelphia judge who had jailed him to immediately issue an order releasing […]

We all know about our favorite singing competition shows like American Idol, The Voice and America’s Got Talent but there’s a new show on the block with a completely new format sure to have you watching. Fox has a new show called The Four: Battle For Stardom that features four aspiring artists who battle it out to keep their seats. Alexis Boyd […]

With an executive producer hand in the Spike documentary series on Kalief Browder and the upcoming project on Trayvon Martin, Jay-Z is calling on more producers, filmmakers and activists to turn a creative eye toward addressing socially issues that can spark activism. The rap mogul shared his call to action in a guest column for The Hollywood […]

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Drake is canceling the rest of his summer tour because of an ongoing ankle injury. A spokeswoman for the rapper-actor says doctors have advised him to nix the three remaining dates of his Summer Sixteen Tour “to allow him time to recuperate his ankle injury.” The newly canceled stops include Toronto […]

PHOENIX (AP) — “Hotline Bling” rapper Drake saw the safe return of millions of dollars’ worth of actual bling stolen from his tour bus. Phoenix police recovered a reported $3 million worth of jewelry that was taken from a tour bus being used by the musician and DJ Future the Prince while they were performing […]

It's been a fantastic year for music across all genres.

In the wake of the massive success of the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton Universal, the studio behind “Compton,” is in the early stages of developing a pic about Def Jam Recordings, and they have their eyes on a couple of big names to star in the project. Deadline reports that Universal is working to develop […]

She’s the woman you love to hate, but Karrine Steffans is laughing all the way to the bank. Her explosive tell-all book, Confessions of a Video Vixen, released in 2005, sent shockwaves throughout the hip hop industry and beyond. Since then, she’s written three New York Times bestselling books, Confessions of a Video Vixen, The Vixen Diaries, […]