May 2, 2024

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Kylie Jenner Plans To Move Out Before Her 18th Birthday

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Kris Jenner may have an empty nest sooner than she was expecting. The “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” matriarch recently saw off daughter Kendall, who moved into a nearly $1.4 million Los Angeles condo earlier this year. Now, Kylie Jenner, reveals she’s eyeing her own piece of prime real estate — away from her mom’s Calabasas crib.

In an interview with the U.K.’s Miss Vogue , (via E! News), Jenner revealed she missed her runway model sister “but I see her all the time … and I’ll start looking for my own place in six months.”

It seems unlikely 17-year-old Kylie will be rooming with her partner-in-crime, though, since Kendall famously shared that her baby sis is kind of well, a slob.

“She’s really dirty. She’s the messiest person ever and does not care,” Kendall told DuJour mag in a feature last month. “Literally she’ll sleep at my house for one night and I’ll go into the guest room and it’ll be trashed.”

No word on how mom Kris is handling this latest news since she reportedly cried herself to sleep when her runway regular teen first moved out.

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Taylor Swift Wrote ‘Bad Blood’ About A Female Musician And We’re Obsessed With Finding Out Who It Is

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While we’ve established that Taylor Swift will not be coming for any of her exes on her 1989 album, the “22″ star did admit to a lyrical lashing that has left us basically incapable of concentrating on anything else.

In a revealing new interview with Rolling Stone, Taylor tells the writer that a song titled “Bad Blood” — the “angriest” on 1989, the mag contends — is a collection of all of the shelved mental burns she thought of but never managed to lob at a certain female musician-turned-frenemy.

“For years, I was never sure if we were friends or not. She would come up to me at awards shows and say something and walk away, and I would think, ‘Are we friends, or did she just give me the harshest insult of my life?’ ” Swift recalled. Then last year, “She did something so horrible. I was like, ‘Oh, we’re just straight-up enemies.’

Related: Taylor Swift’s Rolling Stone Interview: The 7 Biggest Reveals

What’s more, Swift recounted that the beef wasn’t even about a boy — just business. And it was one feud she just couldn’t shake off. Taylor said the woman, whom she declined to identify, “tried to sabotage an entire arena tour. She tried to hire a bunch of people out from under me. And I’m surprisingly non-confrontational– you would not believe how much I hate conflict. So now I have to avoid her. It’s awkward, and I don’t like it.”

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Avicii Cancels All Tour Dates After New Health Issues

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It’s probably not how a superstar DJ wants to celebrate his 25th birthday, but on the day he hit the quarter-century mark (September 8), Avicii confirmed that he would cancel all of his scheduled performances, citing health concerns.

Reps for the Swedish DJ/producer confirmed to Billboard that the EDM phenom would hit pause on “all touring and promotional activities” as issues related to earlier surgeries continue to plague him.

Avicii (born Tim Bergling) underwent surgery to remove his gallbladder and appendix earlier this year. The sudden hospitalization forced him to miss Ultra as well as a string of shows beginning in April. “I’m sorry to postpone the shows this month,” he wrote at the time. “I sincerely rly wish I didn’t have to but unfortunately theres no going around it.” The Swede had been suffering from abdominal pain, nausea and fever. A year earlier, in March 2013, he was treated for acute pancreatitis in Australia over six days.

This past July, Avicii seemed to be happily focused on recording his next album, the follow-up to his 2013 smash True, telling Rolling Stone he had lined up an eclectic roster that included Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong and Coldplay’s Chris Martin for his sophomore record.

His latest health setback means Avicii will give up his headlining spot at TomorrowWorld in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia; that fest is scheduled for September 26 to 28. The “Wake Me Up” star will also sit out planned Las Vegas residencies at XS ...

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Suge Knight Shot Twice At West Hollywood Nightclub

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Suge Knight, the onetime Death Row Records CEO, was reportedly shot twice early Sunday morning (August 24) at a West Hollywood nightspot. The imposing former label boss apparently walked out of a 1 OAK pre-VMA party hosted by Chris Brown on his own but was led to an ambulance by police, according to TMZ.

Details are few but the site broke the news, reporting shots were fired around 1:30 a.m. PT at 1 OAK’s Los Angeles outpost on the Sunset Strip. In a 61-second video obtained by the website, a man resembling the exec (born Marion Knight Jr.) is seen being wheeled out on a stretcher by emergency workers; a number of police vehicles are on the scene. Knight’s family and sources close to TMZ seem to confirm his injuries were not fatal and that he was undergoing surgery in the pre-dawn hours.

At 9 p.m. PT on Saturday, Brown — an MTV VMA nominee at tonight’s show — posted a promo for the 1 OAK bash on his Instagram, adding the anticipatory caption, “We bout to turn the [fu-k] up!!!!”

There were other celebs spotted at the bash, including Black Eyed Peas star apl.de.ap and model Tyson Beckford, who seemed to confirm the news when he retweeted a TMZ staffer’s post about the incident that mentioned him by name.

Knight assumed the chief role at Death Row Records in the early 1990s, essentially co-founding the label with rapper The D.O.C. and Dr. Dre, after — legend has ...

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Suge Knight Shot Twice At West Hollywood Nightclub

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Suge Knight, the onetime Death Row Records CEO, was reportedly shot twice early Sunday morning (August 24) at a West Hollywood nightspot. The imposing former label boss apparently walked out of an unofficial, pre-VMA 1 OAK party hosted by Chris Brown on his own but was led to an ambulance by police, according to TMZ.

Details are few but the site broke the news, reporting that four shots were fired around 1:30 a.m. PT inside 1 OAK’s Los Angeles outpost on the Sunset Strip. In a 61-second video obtained by the website, a man resembling the exec (born Marion Knight Jr.) is seen being wheeled out on a stretcher by emergency workers; a number of police vehicles are on the scene. Knight’s family and sources close to TMZ seem to confirm his injuries were not fatal and that he was undergoing surgery in the pre-dawn hours.

At 9 p.m. PT on Saturday, Brown — an MTV VMA nominee at tonight’s show — posted a promo for the 1 OAK bash on his Instagram, adding the anticipatory caption, “We bout to turn the [fu-k] up!!!!”

There were other celebs spotted at the bash, including Black Eyed Peas star apl.de.ap and model Tyson Beckford, who seemed to confirm the news when he retweeted a TMZ staffer’s post about the incident that mentioned him by name.

Knight assumed the chief role at Death Row Records in the early 1990s, essentially co-founding the label with rapper The D.O.C. and Dr. Dre, after ...

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Why Your Reaction To Michael Brown’s Death May Depend On Your Race

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When J. Cole insisted on his searing tribute to Michael Brown that all that young black men “wanna do is break the chains off,” it resonated because it acknowledged that the shooting of an unarmed, African-American teen by a white police officer in a St. Louis suburb seemed to be rooted in race. But an eye-opening national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center last week proves that many Americans still aren’t convinced the color of Brown’s skin is at the heart of this case.

Over the course of four days, 1,000 adults from across the U.S. weighed in on the Brown shooting. The survey subjects were divided overall, but never more so than when blacks and whites addressed the same issues.

African-Americans were overwhelmingly eager to engage in a broad discussion about race in America, with most saying the Brown case had pushed the topic to the forefront.
The shooting in Ferguson raises important issues about race that merit discussion:
80% of blacks agree
37% of whites agree

But white Americans weren’t as quick to equate the Brown case with race. Nearly half thought the issue was being overblown.
The issue of race is getting more attention than it deserves:
47% of whites agree
18% of blacks agree

Protests in Ferguson Getty Images News/Scott Olson

Blacks More Likely than Whites to Say Brown’s Shooting Raises Racial Issues

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Zac Efron And Michelle Rodriguez Are A Good ‘Influence On Each Other’

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It’s not just that Zac Efron and Michelle Rodriguez are one of the more unexpected celebrity couples to hook up in recent memory — the ab-licious “High School Musical” grad and the feisty “Fast and the Furious” star are a study in opposites — but their awkward coupling is also apparently cause for concern in some corners of the Internet.

This week, the matter boiled to the level of “hot topics” when blogger Perez guested on Wendy Williams’ show. After sharing his theory on what drew the unlikely duo together in the first place — *clears throat*, summer fling — the gossip gangsta said that he was worried bad-girl Rodriguez would be a bad influence on fresh-from-rehab Efron.

Zac and Michelle were first spotted smooching over the Fourth of July wekend on a yacht in Sardinia. Their PDA-filled Italian adventure continued in the club, where the pair were again caught kissing. Their host, businessman Gianluca Vacchi, thinks we should be cheers-ing to the actors’ newfound dolce vita. In fact, he took to Instagram on Friday (July 11) to say that the daytime talk show segment had given him a good chuckle.

“Don’t be concerned, Z and Mich have a mutual healthy influence each other and they are very cute toghether,” Vacchi wrote alongside an clip from the “WW” show.

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Lil’ Kim’s Lil ‘Princess’ Royal Reign Makes Her Debut: See The Pic

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Maybe it’s because she celebrated a milestone birthday today (July 11), but Lil’ Kim was in a giving mood. On the afternoon of her 40th, the diminutive diva shared the first pic of her newborn “princess,” Royal Reign.

Born on June 9, the adorable rap scion was photographed while swathed in white blankets and a matching knit cap. A clearly emotional Kim first hashtagged her fan army by their various Killer Bee handles, thanking them for the born-day wishes, before gushing about her little bundle.

“On my Birthday I want to share something special with U all…. The greatest gift I have ever received. My princess, Royal !!!!! This is her first picture on the day she was born,” she wrote on her Instagram. “It was life changing and I want to share a small piece of my pride and joy with U.”

Royal Reign is Kim’s first child. The Bed-Stuy spitter and her boyfriend, New York-based rapper Mr. Papers, welcomed her into the world just over a month ago with a name only a Queen B could come up with.

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On The Run Tour: Here’s Beyonce And Jay Z’s Staggering Set List

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MIAMI GARDENS, Florida — Jay Z and Beyonce’s much-anticipated On the Run Tour finally kicked off on Wednesday night at Miami’s Sun Life Stadium, and the couple’s combined, decades-spanning set list is staggering to say the least. The hits just kept on coming. But what else would you expect from Mr. and Mrs. Carter?

1. “’03 Bonnie & Clyde”
2. “Upgrade U”
3. “Crazy in Love”
4. “Show Me What You Got”
5. “Diamonds are Forever”
6. “N—as” in Paris”
7. “Tom Ford”
8. “Run the World”
9. “Bow Down/I Been On”
10. “Flawless”
11. “Yonce”
12. “Dirt Off Your Shoulder”
13. “Big Pimpin’”
14. “Ring the Alarm”
15. “On to the Next One”
16. “Clique”
17. “Diva”
18. “Baby Boy”
19. “U Don’t Know”
20. “Ghost”/”Haunted”
21. “No Church in the Wild”
22. “Drunk in Love”
23. “Public Service Announcement”
24. “Why Don’t You Love Me”
25. “Holy Grail”
26. “Fuckwithmeyouknowigotit”
27. “Beach Is Better”
28. “Partition”
29. “99 Problems”
30. “If I Were a Boy”
31. “Ex Factor” (by Lauryn Hill)
32. “Song Cry”
33. “Resentment”
34. “Love on Top”
35. “Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
36. “I Just Wanna Love U (Give it 2 Me)”
37. “Single Ladies”
38. “Hard Knock Life”
39. “Pretty Hurts”
40. “Part II (On the Run)”
41. “Forever Young”
42. “Halo”
43. “Lift Off”

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On The Run Tour: Beyonce And Jay Z Take Their Couples’ Therapy On The Road

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MIAMI GARDENS, FloridaBeyonce and Jay Z launched their On the Run Tour here on a sticky Wednesday night, and while the spouses didn’t advertise any catchy tagline for their joint run, “the couple that tours together, stays together” occurred to me as rather fitting.

You see, Mr. and Mrs. Carter had come on a mission — “we celebratin’ love,” as Jay put it — and they offered up their own high-altitude union as a flaws-and-all prototype. Married since 2008 and together for more than a decade, hip-hop’s Bonnie & Clyde spent the better part of two hours at Sun Life Stadium (capacity: 76,000) demonstrating how to share a stage, egos aside.

They flirted, winked, kissed (yes, kissed!) and … took each other in. They toggled, repeatedly, and mostly seamlessly from one megastar catalog to the other and took fan-favorites in surprising new directions — ones that imbued them with pathos that hadn’t been there before. “Finally, you put my love on top,” sent chills when Bey wailed those words now. “Why Don’t You Love Me” similarly seemed to reopen old wounds.

At first, Bey’s showmanship and marathon-level energy seemed to threaten to cast a shadow over her husband, who frequently commanded the stage solo while Mrs. Carter was supported by a bevy of backup dancers and singers. But with each toss of the musical baton, Jay seemed to draw momentum from both the crowd and the “Crazy in Love” singer.

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