• K Camp Hosts Listening Party for New Mixtape 'One Way'

    This weekend saw new music from Atlanta-based rapper K Camp, as a result of a visit to a SSUR store for a listening party and barbecue in West Hollywood.The listening party yielded previews of five new tracks in promotion of his forthcoming mixtape "One Way." The listening party featured more than 200 guests such as family, friends and record label executives as well as Ty Dolla $ign and Cozz.The event also featured DJ sourMILK of the L.A. Leakers providing entertainment for guests, while the store featured complimentary drinks and a BBQ.The director of urban promotions for Interscope Records, Garrett Williams, introduced K Camp to the crowd and discussed that the artist wanted to put something out for his supporters prior to the release of his highly anticipated debut album being released.

  • Is Amal Clooney Sick of George's Friends Already?

    We have heard right from the start that Amal Clooney was totally different from any of the other cookie-cutter women whom George Clooney was usually linked to. Most of his relationships over the last two decades seemed to have an 18-month expiration date, and while the ladies may have been hot, they brought little else to the table. Amal, to put it simply, does not need him. She has a career, money in the bank and an established circle of friends that existed before she met George. That means she is less inclined to put up with anything his previous women might have.Let's face it: As long as George was paying for luxurious trips, all of those other women probably did not complain about much of anything. Amal, on the other hand, is different. She knew George likes to have the guys around a lot, but she is reportedly beginning to get a little tired of always entertaining his motley Hollywood crew. According to a few sources, Amal prefers to align herself with fellow lawyers, scientists and doctors, so having to sit through too many evenings with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill is not her idea of fun.

  • Kid Cudi Responds to Kendrick Lamar's Ferguson Views, Starts Twitter Beef with Lupe Fiasco

    Kendrick Lamar's recent remarks on the murder of Michael Brown started a few beefs with the likes of Azealia Banks and Lupe Fiasco. The rapper said the problem is part of a bigger issue that starts with African-American communities. Kid Cudi shared his opinion on the statement before Fiasco took issue with his tweets, starting a sub-beef of sorts, "Vibe" notes."I wish somebody would look in our neighborhood knowing that it's already a situation, mentally, where it's f--ked up. What happened to [Michael Brown] should've never happened. Never. But when we don't have respect for ourselves, how do we expect them to respect us? It starts from within. Don't start with just a rally, don't start from looting — it starts from within," Lamar told "Billboard."Cudi's rant started yesterday, Jan. 10, and Fiasco interrupted soon after."Dear black artists, dont talk down on the black community like you are Gods gift to n---az everywhere. If you wanna help, inspire, uplift, don't point the blame and talk down," he tweeted.

  • CNN Insiders Ticked That 'New Day' Co-Anchor Kate Bolduan Was Replaced Permanently While on Maternity Leave

    Jeff Zucker, CNN's head honcho, has ruffled some feathers over at the cable news network not only for replacing a familiar morning face, but by doing it in a shady way. "New Day's" Kate Bolduan has been on maternity leave since September, and not only has she been moved from that prime co-anchoring spot, but Zucker did it on a day when it would be buried beneath the real drama unfolding in Paris.According to a report by the "New York Post," Bolduan will be permanently replaced by Alisyn Camerota, who has been filling in for her during her maternity leave. Apparently, Zucker feels that Camerota is a better fit beside fellow co-anchors Chris Cuomo and Michaela Pereira. Bolduan has not been completely fired from CNN, though, as she will now co-host "@This Hour" at 11 a.m., but that is hardly the gig Bolduan was expecting to return to.CNN insiders are said to be ticked off at the way Zucker has handled things. Replacing an anchor in a key time slot is generally considered news, so the fact that it came out literally in the middle of the hostage situations that were unfolding in Paris is no coincidence. Instead, it is considered a shady move intended to hide the fact that Bolduan was cut from the morning news show while on leave and tending to her new daughter.

  • Lady Antebellum's Charles Kelley Has a Wardrobe Malfunction at People's Choice Awards [WATCH]

    Charles Kelley of Lady Antebellum hit the red carpet for the People's Choice Awards Wednesday, Jan. 7, with the rest of the group. Unfortunately for the singer, he had to deal with a bit of a wardrobe malfunction. Kelley split his expensive pants before the ceremony, later joking about it during a pre-show interview.The musician managed to rip a sizable hole in his Dolce & Gabbana pants by simply sitting down in a car. E!'s Giuliana Rancic noticed the rip, Taste of Country notes, and proceeded to ask Kelley about it."Is it true you have a hole in your pants?" she says in the video below as Hilary Scott and Dave Haywood laugh about the whole situation."It might be a little racy for TV," Kelley responds, showing off the tear. "This is when you know your pants are too tight — when you sit in a car and your pants go 'rip.'"Lady A scored the Favorite Country Group honor at the show. They also performed "Freestyle" from their latest effort "747."

  • Ray Stevens Defends 'Ahab the Arab' Song Many Call Racist

    Ray Stevens is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative, but he has long maintained his 1962 country hit "Ahab the Arab" is not a political statement. In fact, he has defended the song several times over the years, and he has recently been forced to do so again. The 75-year-old was asked by Nashville Gab if he still gets criticism."Yeah, only from screaming liberal idiots," he replied, via The Boot. "You know, some guy on MSNBC called me a racist; I doubt if he'd ever heard the song."Stevens explained how the song, about a young Arabian man with a camel named Clyde who secretly courts one of the sultan's women, came to be."When I was a kid, my mom gave me a book called 'Arabian Nights,' and I wrote the song just from information I learned outta that book," he said. "You know, the book talked about Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves and 'Open sesame' and, you know, all the fun stuff that is in that book. And so I thought, I'll write a [song] about this guy, and he's messing around with one of the sultan's girls in the harem. There's nothing racist about it."Here is a sampling of the lyrics:"And he'd say "[alleged Arabic content] "Which is Arabic for, 'Stop, Clyde! "Clyde would say "[alleged Arabic content] "Which is camel for, 'What the heck did he say anyway?'"Stevens sat down with Fox News's Bill O'Reilly in 2010 to discuss the tune. Here was part of the transcript, according to ThinkProgress:

  • Foo Fighters Invite Alice Cooper, Slash, Jack Black and More Onstage for 32-Song LA Forum Set

    The Foo Fighters wanted to celebrate Dave Grohl's 46th birthday in style, and they certainly accomplished that Saturday night, Jan. 10, at the Los Angeles Forum. The boys invited Slash, David Lee Roth, Jack Black, Perry Farrell, Paul Stanley and more onto the stage during an action-packed setlist, with Alice Cooper making an appearance for covers of "School's Out" and "I'm Eighteen."Check out the latter appearance below:

  • Spoon 'Austin City Limits' Gig Now Available for Streaming [WATCH]

    Spoon had never taken a four-year break between albums before the gap between 2010's "Transference" and 2014's "They Want My Soul." Singer Britt Daniel and Co. recently taped an "Austin City Limits" gig that proved the group is back in the groove, but Daniel also explained why Spoon was gone for so long."When we finished that last tour in November of 2011 — it was at some festival in Germany — we kind of just said, 'Well, that's the last show for awhile, and who knows what's going to happen,'" Daniel told "Entertainment Weekly." "And we were all a little ground down at that point. It had just been too long that we were touring that record. So we went our separate ways without really saying anything."After a few months of "getting a girlfriend" and lying low, Daniel decided to found the Divine Fits with Dan Boeckner. That project kept him going until Spoon were ready to record again last winter.Now, they have — another — critically acclaimed album and appear to be back in the flow of things."I really feel like you can hear that variety on the record, and I feel like it ended up being a good thing," Daniel said. "The second batch [of] songs are a bit wilder. I think they're kind of wilder songs, to begin with, but the recordings of them are a little more out there, and I think that the record needed that."You can check out their recent ACL performance below:

  • Lenny Kravitz Joins Katy Perry Super Bowl Halftime Performance as 'Special Guest'

    Last year, Bruno Mars got the Red Hot Chili Peppers to join his Super Bowl halftime performance. There was really no need for the addition, from an aesthetic point of view, because Mars killed it on his own — but the NFL and Fox decided they needed to appeal to an older audience. This year, Katy Perry was expected to have enough firepower to perform her own gig, but the "Teenage Dream" singer just announced she is adding Lenny Kravitz to the show."My first special guest is going to be an incredible rock & roll icon, a guitar god," Perry told NBC's Willie Geist in an interview set to air Monday, Jan. 12, on "The Today Show," via "Rolling Stone."E! reports the 30-year-old singer was pumped about the addition of Kravitz, an international sensation with two U.S. mainstream rock No. 1 hits — "Are You Gonna Go My Way" and "Fly Away" — under his belt.

  • Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Had a Civil Service in the States Long Before Their French Wedding

    Is it really surprising to learn that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were actually legally married long before they formally swapped vows last August in France? The actress recently decided to come clean and admit that she and Pitt called a justice of the peace and signed on the dotted lines to make their 10-year union a legally binding situation before they even considered planning a French celebration.According to a source at "Us Weekly," as far back as last March Jolie was telling one of its reporters that she was already married and now it sounds like she may have been telling the truth even then. None of this is really surprising because, according to French law, in order to marry legally in that country you need to be a permanent, full-time resident of whatever part of the country you are choosing to marry in. While Jolie and Pitt have fabulous property in France, their main home is in the U.S., so they needed to be legally married here first in order to even have a French wedding.What is interesting is how for years Jolie really downplayed the importance of another marriage and, when it came time to go ahead and marry Pitt, she made it sound like she was doing it for the kids. But if they really were married for months before their August ceremony, then maybe it really was more important to Jolie and Pitt than they originally let on. It is interesting because this is one of those A-list couples that proves that if a celebrity really wants to keep things private, they can. There are always ways to get around the paparazzi in order to have normal life events — even for people like Jolie and Pitt!

  • Kim Kardashian Claims That She 'Bought' Her Sister Kourtney a Career

    Kim and Kourtney Kardashian do not always get along. Anyone who has tuned in to an episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" has likely seen them clash, mainly because, at root, the sisters are two different people. Kim is all about fame and looking the part while Kourtney is more an earth mother who she tends to back away from fame in favor of her kids. The trailer for the new season of the reality show dropped, and in it Kim is being more disrespectful than ever to her big sister.During one exchange caught on camera, Kim claims she is not buying Kourtney shoes because "I bought her a f--king career!"Leave it to Kim to think her sister's success is because of her help, right? If you think back to when we first started to pay attention to this family seven to eight years ago, it was Kourtney who was entrenched in running their Dash stores. While Kim has just wanted to look good, Kourtney has always actually worked in order to succeed, so for her to try and say she bought her sister's career is ridiculous.There is probably a lot more going on between these two than they actually allow the cameras to see. We recently learned that Kim was struggling to get pregnant with baby No. 2 and she was resenting the fact that her sister just had a third child with her loser baby daddy Scott Disick.Plus, Kourtney does not respect her sister's parenting style. She has insinuated about how ridiculous it is to take a 9-month-old baby to fashion week shows and use North West like an accessory to her outfits whenever she parades her around.

  • Tyler, The Creator Cries on Eric Andre Show [WATCH]

    Tyler, The Creator is not known for keeping his thoughts and emotions to himself. His appearance on the Eric Andre Show reveals a very real side of the rapper — a side that shamelessly is able to cry real human tears during an interview.
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