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Mary J. Blige's financial troubles continue. According to TMZ, the singer owes the State of New Jersey over $900,000 is back taxes. The exact number is actually 901,769.65, but who's counting, right? MJB defaulted on a bank loan of $2...

Emerging Brooklyn rapper Kampane was found dead Tuesday morning (Aug. 17) in Paramus, N.J., multiple sources have reported. According to the New York Post, the 33-year-old MC had been shot once and badly burned -- to the point that identification was delayed...

Rihanna curses, a lot. During her Loud tour stop, at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J. Thursday night (July 21), the fiery-haired hotbox, who was accompanied by opener J. Cole spitting cuts like 'In the Morning' and 'Blow Up,' let out more than one expletive as she addressed the crowd...

Two teenagers were charged Monday (June 6) in the beating death of Trenton, N.J.-based aspiring rapper Kamau "Legacy" Keita. David S. Armfield Jr., 19, and Marquis McRae, 19, both of Paterson, N.J., are facing homicide charges for reportedly stomping and kicking Keita to death in the early morning hours of May 28...

Promoters for the multi-day Bamboozle Festival in New Jersey have just announced one of the more eclectic, puzzling lineups to grace American stages in recent years. Recently-freed rapper Lil Wayne leads the way in his first announced festival appearance since leaving Rikers Island, but he'll also join a bill with metal godfathers Motley Crue, Wiz Khalifa, Insane Clown Posse, Big K...

Lil Wayne has been involved in his fair share of drug busts, most recently a 2008 incident where Arizona police retrieved Ecstasy, marijuana, cocaine and a firearm from the rapper's tour bus. Although the rapper has been keeping a relatively low profile since his release from prison in November for a separate gun charge, Wayne's name came up during a huge New Jersey drug bust this week... Read Mor