Drake has always been a magnet for attention. His strange journey has taken him from teen fame on Degrassi to blockbuster rap stardom. In 2024, his beef with Kendrick Lamar has blown up into one of the all-time biggest hip-hop beefs. They went from zero to 100 real quick, sending …
Read More »Sean Kingston Agrees to Florida Extradition to Face Fraud Charges Alongside Mother
Sean Kingston waived his right to fight extradition in a California court on Tuesday and agreed to be turned over to authorities in Broward County, Florida, where he is facing 10 charges related to fraud. According to the Associated Press, the rapper, whose real name is Kisean Anderson, did not …
Read More »Nick Carter's Lawyers Reject 'Outrageous' Assault Claims in 'Fallen Idols' Docuseries
Nick Carter rebuffed the sexual assault allegations leveled in the new docuseries Fallen Idols: Nick and Aaron Carter, with his lawyers calling the claims “outrageous,” the Los Angeles Times reports. The four-part Investigation Discovery series, which premiered earlier this week, features interviews with three women, Melissa Schulman, Shannon Ruth, and …
Read More »Sean Combs' Violence Against Women Goes Back to College, Classmates Say
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged violence toward women dates back to his days as a student at Howard University in the late 1980s, when the future hip-hop mogul purportedly attacked a girlfriend outside of her dorm, horrifying her classmates and friends, three sources claim to Rolling Stone. Combs allegedly screamed in …
Read More »Everything We Know About Sean Kingston's Fraud Charges
Within a few hours last week, Sean Kingston and his mother, Janice Turner, were arrested on fraud and theft charges, accused of bilking various retailers out of more than $1 million. Turner was arrested first on May 23 during a raid on Kingston’s rented mansion in South Florida. Not long …
Read More »Jon Anderson Is Playing Seventies Yes Classics Again — With a Band He Found on YouTube
In the summer of 2018, Richie Castellano and his buddies posted a remarkable cover of the 1972 Yes epic “Close to the Edge” to their YouTube channel and watched it rack up over half a million views. “I’m blown away by these comments,” he wrote in response to the outpouring …
Read More »Cher Wins Royalty Battle With Sonny Bono's Widow
Cher has won her yearslong copyright lawsuit against Sonny Bono’s widow over royalty payments from the Sonny & Cher catalog, a federal judge in the Central District of California ruled on Wednesday. The dispute tied to Cher’s suit goes back many years. When she and Bono settled their divorce in …
Read More »Sasami Embarks on an Epic Quest for Love on New Song 'Honeycrash'
With a guitar as “my sword and my steed,” Sasami puts it all on the line for love on her massive new song, “Honeycrash.” In a statement, the Los Angeles-based musician described “Honeycrash” as an attempt to “write a song with all the drama of a 19th-century classical opera, but …
Read More »Nathy Peluso Followed Her Instincts — And Advice From Fito Páez — to Make Her Most Revealing Album
Grasa, the second album by 29-year-old Argentine singer and rapper Nathy Peluso, kicks off with “Corleone,” a sumptuous, old-fashioned bolero. A snippet of John Barry’s dreamy 007 theme “From Russia With Love” morphs into the kind of feverish groove that would have made La Lupe proud. “This ambition is killing …
Read More »Dark Web Identity Thief Claims He Orchestrated Scheme to Sell Graceland
A dark web scammer has taken credit for trying to sell Elvis Presley’s Graceland home, The New York Times reports. The paper said it received two emails from a person who claimed to be the brains behind this scheme and other identity theft frauds. “We figure out how to steal. …
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