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Usher Is NOT Dead, He's At The Happiest Place On Earth!


Posted on Apr 10, 2012 @ 12:30PM - Add a comment

By Amber Goodhand - Radar News Editor

You know your celebrity status has reached a new plateau when a death hoax in your honor emerges.

Hip hop superstar Usher reportedly died in a car crash, but RadarOnline.com has learned the 33-year-old is alive and well, and even spent the weekend with his children at the happiest place on Earth — Disneyland!

You know your celebrity status has reached a new plateau when a death hoax in your honor emerges.

Hip hop superstar Usher reportedly died in a car crash, but RadarOnline.com has learned the 33-year-old is alive and well, and even spent the weekend with his children at the happiest place on Earth — Disneyland!

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Jilted Ex-Lover Sues Hip Hop Star Drake, Accuses Him Of Stealing Hit Song


Posted on Feb 03, 2012 @ 11:00AM - Add a comment

By Jen Heger - Radar Legal Editor

Hip-hop/rap superstar Drake, is being sued by an ex-girlfriend for breach of fiduciary duties over a song the jilted lover she says she helped him write, RadarOnline.com is exclusively reporting.

The court docs, obtained exclusively by RadarOnline.com, allege that Drake and Ericka Lee dated from 2010-2011, and during that time: "They traded poems, song lyrics and discussed untertaking creative projects together. Lee candidly shared her life story and creative ideas with Drake and trusted him as a confidant, lover and friend."

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Rapper Pitbull Settles Paternity Suit


Posted on Sep 11, 2011 @ 09:30AM - 5 comments

By Radar Staff

Hopefully rapper Pitbull didn't have to live up to his song title, Give Me Everything, when he settled a paternity suit in Miami last week.

The SoBe-based hip hop artist was sued by Barbara Alba, with whom he has a nine-year-old daughter.  Pitbull, real name Armando Perez, had been paying Alba $3,000 a month without any formal court order, The Miami Herald reports.

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Alba sued because she wanted to increase the amount, and she and her baby daddy came to terms.

"Pitbull is a gentleman," Alba's attorney Jason Setchen told The Herald.  "This was resolved amicably."

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Ashley Judd Clarifies Controversial Hip-Hop Statements


Posted on Apr 11, 2011 @ 02:25PM - 9 comments

Ashley Judd, after coming under fire last week for comments she made in her new book All That Is Bitter & Sweet, has taken to urban website Global Grind "to express [her] gratitude for a chance to learn, to be corrected where [she] was wrong, to make amends, and hold firm and strong on the original intention and context of the points [she] made, with a commitment to try to do so less clumsily and with more sensitivity in the future.

Ashley Judd, after coming under fire last week for comments she made in her new book All That Is Bitter & Sweet, has taken to urban website Global Grind "to express [her] gratitude for a chance to learn, to be corrected where [she] was wrong, to make amends, and hold firm and strong on the original intention and context of the points [she] made, with a commitment to try to do so less clumsily and with more sensitivity in the future.

As RadarOnline.com reported, Judd's comments about the genre  -- calling hip-hop a “rape culture” -- raised eyebrows, as she slammed the likes of P. Diddy and Snoop Dogg for their "abusive lyrics and depictions of girls and women as ho's".

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Hip Hop Artist Ludacris Gives Young Rappers A Shot At Stardom


Posted on Apr 08, 2011 @ 04:20AM - Add a comment

Rapper Ludacris has found a way to give back to his peeps by giving some of America's young unrecognized talent a shot at stardom.

In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, the rap mogul says he likes to make a difference by helping those those budding musicians.

Rapper Ludacris has found a way to give back to his peeps by giving some of America's young unrecognized talent a shot at stardom.

In an exclusive interview with RadarOnline.com, the rap mogul says he likes to make a difference by helping those those budding musicians.

"I remember being an up and coming artist and it wasn't easy, I wish there were opportunities like this one when I started out," Ludacris told us.

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EXCLUSIVE: Spencer Pratt's Next Big Career Move - Out On A Wing!


Posted on Mar 01, 2011 @ 06:00AM - 2 comments

Spencer Pratt's next big career move, becoming the new KFC spokesperson, has been placed on the back fryer, while the fast food giant and the reality TV star iron out some legal disputes.

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Spencer Pratt's next big career move, becoming the new KFC spokesperson, has been placed on the back fryer, while the fast food giant and the reality TV star iron out some legal disputes.

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RadarOnline.com can exclusively report that it was all systems go for Spencer as KFC moved forward with their plans to use his music track Ain't No Thang But A Chicken Wing, as part of an upcoming ad campaign, but now a major spanner has been thrown in the works.

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EXCLUSIVE: Spencer Pratt -- From Bad Boy Rapper To Animal Rights Crusader?


Posted on Feb 01, 2011 @ 05:49AM - Add a comment

Aspiring rapper Spencer Pratt was planning to pitch a song he wrote and performed about chicken wings to fast food chain KFC.

But, the former reality TV star shelved the idea after listening to the finished product -- unfortunately however, not before the song was leaked all over the internet.

EXCLUSIVE: PETA Reach Out To Spencer Pratt To Join Their Anti-KFC Campaign

Aspiring rapper Spencer Pratt was planning to pitch a song he wrote and performed about chicken wings to fast food chain KFC.

But, the former reality TV star shelved the idea after listening to the finished product -- unfortunately however, not before the song was leaked all over the internet.

EXCLUSIVE: PETA Reach Out To Spencer Pratt To Join Their Anti-KFC Campaign

Always quick to spot a red hot promotional opportunity, animal rights group PETA heard about Pratt's aborted attempt to become a rapping KFC spokesperson and challenged the 27-year-old to cross over to the other side, by recording an anti-KFC rap instead.

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EXPENSIVE RAP: Nas Owes $6.4 Million In Taxes


Posted on Jan 26, 2011 @ 12:45PM - Add a comment

Money problems are growing for hip hop star Nas, who now owes $6.46 million in taxes.

The IRS dropped a $2.58 million tax lien on him in 2009 and things got worse, RadarOnline.com confirmed. In February, 2010 the debt grew and then he was hit with a new bill this month.

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Money problems are growing for hip hop star Nas, who now owes $6.46 million in taxes.

The IRS dropped a $2.58 million tax lien on him in 2009 and things got worse, RadarOnline.com confirmed. In February, 2010 the debt grew and then he was hit with a new bill this month.

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RADAR: T.I.'s Slick Street Style


Posted on Aug 17, 2010 @ 07:59PM - Add a comment

After repeated trips down the red carpet in cool threads and slick suits, rapper T.I. has become as well known for his smart dressing as he is for his music.

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The hip hop fashionista pulled out all the stops on Monday when he was spotted in New York City in three totally different - but equally stylish - outfits in just one day!

After repeated trips down the red carpet in cool threads and slick suits, rapper T.I. has become as well known for his smart dressing as he is for his music.

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The hip hop fashionista pulled out all the stops on Monday when he was spotted in New York City in three totally different - but equally stylish - outfits in just one day!

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T.I., who has his own clothing line called AKOO, says his biggest style influences are, "Puff and Jay (Z). Puff has an all-around style, upscale, urban, and classic. I can say that for both. They just have a different way of doing it," he recently told Complex magazine.

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But don't expect him to be a slave to flash-in-the-pan trends, "I'm not going to do red jeans. No green jeans. I don't do Vans and that's the style right now. I don't want to show my socks when I'm wearing jeans," he explained.

Check the gallery of T.I.'s latest hot looks in our style gallery.

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