MTV sat down with Ashanti and interviewed her for their webcasts on the First Ladies in pop culture. They took Ashanti back on a lot her 1st “firsts”. I thought it was a pretty good interview check it out above.

Janet Jackson is back on tour for the first time in seven years! The new “Rock Withchu” Tour tickets sales will go on sale for the public June 7th. The pre-sale tickets are already being purchased on the official Janet Fanclub site. This will definitely be the best tour of the year! GET YOUR TICKETS [...]

Rapper T.I. can now add a MTV Reality Series to his Resume. According to Drewreports.com T.I. has signed on with MTV to film a reality show with eight-episodes following him as he performs more than 1,000 hours of community service before serving his one-year prison sentence sometime next spring. The untitled series has [...]

Xzibit recently suffered the loss of his newborn son due to complications stemming from a premature birth, and the rapper opened up to the public via his MySpace blog a couple of days ago:
Monday, May 26, 2008
ITS 4:32AM AND I HAVE SOME BAD NEWS……..
AS you all know, I shared with you the announcment of my [...]

Ray J and his entourage were thrown out the Hyatt in Washington, D.C. after hotel security found drugs in the singer’s room. According to reports, Ray J and a group of friends returned to hotel room after a party Saturday night, and after being bothered with noise, other hotel guests called security. When they arrived, [...]

This weekend Joshua Packwood will officially be the first white valedictorian to graduate from the historically black, all male Morehouse College in the school’s 141-year history.
Joshua grew up in a poor area of Missouri, where he says he found himself gravitating to the black community at a young age.His mother’s second marriage to a black [...]

What was the most controversial album title in hip hop history has been changed. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that a representative for Def Jam has confirmed to them that Nas has made a decision to change the title of his new album from N*gger to Nas.

MTV’s Hottest MCs In The Game aired last night and the list and debate went on hard. They listed many of the best rappers in the game as of now, although I don’t necesarily like how they situated these numbers. They put T.I. at number 10! They obviously don’t keep up with the rap game [...]

Rapper T.I. and longtime girlfriend Tameka “Tiny” Cottle welcomed their second son together after midnight Friday morning. The little tike’s name is Major Harris, and he weighed in at 5 pounds, 15 ounces. Major is the 5th child for Clifford, and the 2nd wtih Tameka. The two already have a 3-year-old together, King Harris.
So uhm, [...]

(Photos: TMZ) The knock-out heard ’round the world! Hip-hops version of Deebo (from Friday) got what was coming to him over the weekend outside of a nightclub in Los Angeles. Former Deathrow records CEO Suge Knight got into a little altercation with some guy at Shag nightclub Saturday night over some money. A spy from [...]

“Throughout this unfortunate case, I was advised from my attorney to stay silent but now I want you all to see me for me and what I’ve gone through,” said Remy as tears fell. “Reporters and newspapers have called me a ‘hardcore rapper,’ a ‘hip-hop harlot’ — Remy Ma is just a music industry name. [...]

Remy Ma’s wedding was called off yesterday when her fiancée Papoose showed up to the jail with none other than … a handcuff key!
“A wedding was scheduled today and a visitor to that wedding service was found to be in possession of jail contraband so the wedding was canceled,” a corrections official told NY Daily [...]

According to MTV.com, Beyoncé crashed Jay-Z solo set @ the Madison Square Garden. I couldn’t help but just laugh when I heard this. Here’s the excerpt from MTV News:
During Jay-Z’s solo set, he has a part where he shows off. Jay literally sits in the DJ booth and pushes buttons to cue up instrumentals of [...]

I was just browsing some blogs online when I happen to come across Kanye’s latest entry, from his blog, which appears to be a retort to Entertainment Weekly’s tour write-up for Glow In The Dark; they gave it a B+ and apparently it looks like Kanye had some erhm … “colorful” choice of words in [...]

How about Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey really got married! I didn’t post this “breaking news” story until I could round up as many credible sources as I could. I’m tired of these celebrities pulling these publicity stunts just to see what type of reaction they can get out of the media. I didn’t even [...]

Recently everyone has been reporting that NBA star Dwyane Wade and Star Jones were a couple. Dwyane felt the need to address rumor and set the record straight Thursday during a guest appearance on “Inside The NBA“
“Star is an unbelievable woman. We have a great, great relationship. As friends. We’re friends, just like a lot [...]

In an attempt to raise money for the organization “Divest for Darfur” and awareness of the ongoing genocide in Darfur Danish artist Nadia Plesner created this image of a young African boy holding a Louis Vuitton handbag in one hand and a small chihuahua in the other. Apparently Louis Vuitton was not too fond [...]

Who featuring who and who? Lol, exactly. I tried my damnedest to avoid this video, but I finally decided to sit down and watch it. I saw it posted on several of my favorite blogs, and RODOL’d from the comments, but I never took the time to peep the vid for myself.
Above all, I must [...]

(Photo: Getty Images) THE NEW YORK TIMES // STORY BY MICHAEL WILSON » Three detectives were found not guilty Friday on all charges in the shooting death of Sean Bell, who died in a hail of 50 police bullets

SEAN BELL, HIS FIANCEE NICOLE, AND THEIR DAUGHTER
outside a club in Jamaica, Queens, in November 2006. The [...]

(Photo: Getty Images) 45-year-old Wesley Snipes was sentenced to 3 years in prison today by U.S. District Judge William Terrell Hodges. The actor has to serve time behind bars because he failed to file his tax returns, reports People.
“I’m very sorry for my mistakes and errors. I apologize to my family, the court and the [...]