A Church of God in Christ member claims he’s prayed the gay away, but others aren’t buying it.…

WONDERSOUNDS

Too many of hip-hop’s heroes have departed prematurely, but the cruelly arbitrary death of 19-year-old Derek McAllister, Jr., feels particularly tragic. As Speaker Knockerz, the rapper and producer eschewed a traditional path to forge a grassroots fanbase, unaided by gatekeepers or sponsorship. He was a…

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King Ray

"Cancel Her Like Nino"…

(CNN) -- Fifteen people, many of them teenagers and some as young as 11, were shot early Sunday morning at a Miami nightclub, Miami-Dade police reported.

Police spokeswoman Frederica Burden said the victims ranged in age from 11 to 25…

Rick Ross may be the king of Maybach Music, but now he's channeling the original king of rock in his new single "Elvis Presley Blvd." Today (Sept. 15), the "Thug Cry" rapper released his new single on the same say as he announced his new…

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Django Unchained star Daniele Watts was wrongfully detained as a result of more racial profiling.

Studio City police mistook Daniele and her husband…

LOS ANGELES — A billboard advertising Chris Brown’s next album overlooks the east side of the 1Oak…

The radio and DJ communities are in mourning for Michael Erickson, a legendary Bay Area personality who reportedly lost his battle with cancer on Aug. 18. He was 54.

Erickson's aspirations for life in the music business began in high school, when he fronted a nine-piece funk band. According to …

(CNN) -- Rapper Gucci Mane is headed to prison. He was sentenced Wednesday to three years and three months in federal prison on firearm charges.

The 34-year-old, whose real name is Radric Davis, pleaded guilty in May to a charge of…

Menlo Park, CA — Beginning October 1st, Facebook will be implementing a drug task force designed to arrest those who buy and sell narcotics while using the online social networking site. Facebook is calling the group the Facebook Drug Task Force, or FDTF, and will be monitoring all postings and messages created by its…

FERGUSON, Mo.--Missouri Governor Jay Nixon early Monday ordered the National Guard into Ferguson hours after police said escalating violence led to shootings, arrests, and "pre-planned" acts of aggression by protesters.…

CNN) -- Robin Williams -- who first made America laugh and eventually touched "every element of the human spirit" in a remarkable range of performances -- died at his Northern California home Monday, law enforcement officials said. Williams apparently took his own life, law enforcement officials said. He was 63.…

Uh-oh Instagram is in a lot of trouble…or are they?…

by @ediesedgwyck 

There might be something more interesting than a tennis ball in that FedEx package.

File that illicit drug revenue under “miscellaneous.”

That’s more or less the policy the shipping giant FedEx followed starting in the mid-aughts,…