LL Cool J’s wife Simone Smith has officially launched her Simone I Smith jewelry line. Yesterday the Smith matriarch was spotted at Bloomingdales in Century City, California where she held a trunk show and invited a slew of her celebrity friends. Read more

Music

It has been said that Lloyd Banks had fallen off since his debut album “Hunger For More” but if you let the streets tell it, some would say he is the nicest rapper on G-Unit. Currently Lloyd Banks has two singles, “Start It Up” & “I Don’t Deserve You” off his latest album release “Hunger […]

Soulja Boy Gives Production To 50 Cent The musical relationship between rappers 50 Cent and Soulja Boy continues to flourish as SB recently revealed to RapUp.comthat he has submitted production for Fif’s upcoming album and feels optimistic that he will get a placement. Read more

Glam

Temporary Lip Tattoos? This may be the strangest fashion trend we’ve seen in a long time. Yes, even weirder than the knee jewelry. Violent Lips is a temporary lip tattoo line that offers vitamin-enhanced applications for your lips in prints and patterns ranging from glitter and polka dots to fishnets and rainbow stripes. It’s totally […]

Lauryn Hill honored her father-in-law, the late Bob Marley, on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” last night. Wednesday, May 11, marked the 30th anniversary of his death. Lauryn, who is married and has five children with Marley’s son Rohan, sang Bob’s classics “Chances Are” and “Could You Be Loved.” THIS is the Lauryn that we […]

Music

North Carolina rapper  Caktuz drops his new long video Still N The Hood: A Short Massacre with indie singer TreZure Empire. The gritty video was shot on location in New York and North Carolina, and includes a violently-disturbing montage of footage from a long lost race riot known as the “Greensboro Masacre.” The Greensboro massacre […]

WTF

Bin Laden Planned To Kill Barack Obama U.S. officials have found documents that reveal Osama bin Laden was plotting to assassinate President Obama. According to reports by ABC News: U.S. officials are analyzing one million pages of data from the trove found in Osama bin Laden’s compound during the raid that killed him, and say they have learned […]

Health

Everyone has their theory on how to lose weight and be healthy.  We all have tried some sort of diet or made an attempt to test out a new way to living… right?  The debate of meat vs no meat will continue to grace the eyes and ears of many who are interested on what’s […]

Friday the 13th is supposed to be a day we fear because of tales we’ve been told throughout our childhoods. While mainstream America stays on edge, we’ve found a reason to celebrate this particular Friday the 13th. Today is the day Stevie Wonder was brought into the world. Since gaining fame in the early sixties, […]

Glam

Does your hair look dull? Would you like your hair to have incredible shine? The kind that can be noticed from across the room? Well here’s the key to having shiny, healthy hair: The most important thing you can do to help hair your shine is to prevent damage. This helps keep your hair’s natural […]

Music

BOSTON – According to reports on Twitter and on Boston Hip Hop forums Boston Emcee, Akrobartik has had a heart attack and is in a coma. Akrobatik, real name Jared Bridgeman is from the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and has had his music featured on “The Wire” and the video game “NBA Live” and has […]

The ladies of “Love & Hip Hop” taped their reunion show this week in New York with radio DJ Angie Martinez playing host. Jim Jones even made an appearance, with his mother in tow, of course. According to The Loop 21, Emily and Fabolous have officially split, but we’ll wait to hear it from her […]