Turns out superproducer Pharrell Williams’ hat wasn’t just a fashion faux pas but was actually a nod to hip-hop history. While the rest of us were on Twitter laughing at the images of his oversized real-life re-creation of the Arby’s insignia, photoshopped atop the heads of some of our favorite celebrities, the folks over at…

This year’s 56th Annual Grammy Awards show was filled with head-scratchers, from Pharrell’s hat to a mass wedding officiated by Queen Latifiah to robots winning best album and song and then being unable to deliver an acceptance speech because they are nonverbal futuristic machines. The biggest head-scratcher of them all was a Compton, Calif.-raised rapper,…

On Saturday morning, instead of heading off to Dunkin’ Donuts where he was supposed to open the store, Darion Marcus Aguilar, 19, whom neighbors describe as a quiet, skinny teenager who loved skateboarding, got in a cab with a pump-action, pistol-grip Mossberg 12-gauge shotgun hidden from sight and a backpack filled with homemade explosives and…

The Department of Justice is being asked to join a family’s fight for truth regarding the mysterious disappearance and death of Alfred Wright, CNN reports. The 28-year-old Jasper, Texas, father disappeared last November. After the police called off their search, Wright’s family took up the cause, launching their own search team. His family found his…

The father of R&B singer Mary J. Blige is in critical condition after being stabbed in the neck after what police have called a domestic dispute with a former girlfriend. Police said that they were called to Thomas Blige’s Battle Creek, Michigan apartment around 6:58 a.m. Thursday. They found Blige in his apartment with three…

Shonda Rhimes, the Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal creator, used her social media platform to blast Fox News host Mike Huckabee over comments made at a Republican National Committee winter conference Thursday afternoon. The former Arkansas governor slammed insurance-covered contraception, the Wrap reports. “Our party stands for the recognition of the equality of women and the…

Former NFL quarterback Vince Young’s life was supposed to be golden. He was the man at the University of Texas who led the Longhorns to a national championship with a game-winning nine-yard TD run on fourth down. He was a first-round pick by the Tennessee Titans in 2006, and he reportedly signed a five-year deal…

Where is Lil Za when Justin Bieber needs him? On Thursday the controversial crooner of top 40 pop ballads was arrested in Miami Beach for drag racing with his yellow Lamborghini and failing a sobriety test earlier that day, the Associated Press reports. The 19-year-old singer’s arrest was confirmed in a tweet from the Miami…

An Ohio couple charged with abandoning the 9-year-old son they adopted and raised since infancy and then allegedly returned to children’s services, saying that the child was displaying aggressive behavior, now hope to be reunited with him, the Associated Press reports. Authorities allege that Cleveland and Lisa Cox left the boy with children’s services after…

Speaking out for the first time since his mic-dropping rant after the Seattle Seahawks’ win over the San Francisco 49ers, Richard Sherman said he believes that “thug” is not-so-coded language for the n-word. “The only reason it bothers me is it seems like it’s an accepted way of calling someone the n-word nowadays. It’s like…