Rihanna’s legal team wants no part of this story about how a press guy named Jonathan Hay created the rumors about Rihanna and Jay Z having an affair behind Beyoncé’s back. Hay was reportedly interviewed by the author of an unauthorized Beyoncé biography that’s been the talk of the town lately. In the book, Hay…

The gift of ShondaLand keeps on giving. According to Variety, Kerry Washington and her Scandal co-star Katie Lowes (who plays Quinn Perkins) are executive-producing a ShondaLand series that’s in development at ABC. Look at Shonda Rhimes keeping her actresses working—and behind the camera, too, where folks say the real money is.  The untitled show is a…

Somebody on Twitter had Cher on her bully, yo.  On Monday the icon tweeted about how appalled she was by the video of the South Carolina student who was picked up, tossed and dragged by a school official. The incident was caught on tape and went viral. People from all walks of life are disgusted…

First she’s answering questions during an interview (something she hasn’t done in nearly two years), and now Beyoncé will be appearing on Spike TV’s Lip Sync Battle to compete against actor Channing Tatum. Beyoncé seems to be coming out of her self-imposed exile. Yep, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Beyoncé will be showing off her…

Lionel Richie was apparently tickled by a short video that combines his “Hello” video with Adele’s new video for her single by the same name. Their songs were released more than 20 years apart, but some of the visuals from both videos are similar. In the video, an Instagram user edited the snippet in such…

Bobby Shmurda wants to forewarn young people who are running around engaging in illegal behavior about what they’ll likely face if caught.  Shmurda called into New York City’s Hot 97 radio station from jail and talked about how the criminal-justice system has little tolerance for young adults like himself.  “All y’all little kids running around…

Jimmy Kimmel shot a spoof of Spike Lee’s iconic Do the Right Thing, a film that captured the heart and soul of late-1980s Brooklyn, N.Y. But Kimmel’s spoof, “Do the Right Thing 2: Do the White Thing,” captures the heart and soul of Brooklyn today. A gentrified Brooklyn, that is, complete with hipsters and “green” concerns. …

Video of Pharrell Williams’ deposition for the “Blurred Lines” lawsuit trial was released Saturday by the Hollywood Reporter. Williams is clearly peeved during the exchange, especially since he and Robin Thicke maintained that they didn’t illegally infringe upon Marvin Gaye’s song “Got to Give It Up” when they created “Blurred Lines.” Williams and Thicke lost the…

Not only are the feds investigating the RushCard, but five users of the prepaid debit card filed a class action lawsuit in New York on Friday against Russell Simmons’ company and its partners, the Daily Mail reports. The suit claims fraud because thousands of users were not able to withdraw money from their accounts for…

When video snippets of Hillary Clinton being grilled at a congressional hearing about the 2012 militant attack in Benghazi, Libya, appeared on my Facebook and Twitter news feeds, I immediately thought that it was an old story that had resurfaced. But oh no, it was, in fact, new news. The presidential candidate was in the…