The outrage directed at Donald Sterling hasn’t subsided just because the NBA decided to ban the Los Angeles Clippers owner for life. Everyone from fans to media have taken aim at the 81-year-old, and now a few rappers are getting involved.

On Tuesday (April 29), both Plies and Cassidy fired lyrical shots at Sterling, who has been embroiled in controversy since Saturday, when a tape of him making racist remarks was released online.

Plies doesn’t pull any punches. His track, titled “Donald Sterling: Racist Muthaf–ka,” spends its entire two minutes and 42 seconds laying into its subject.

“Said you made us mutherf–kas? Nah, we made you,” he raps at one point, referencing one of the many discriminatory statements that Sterling had made on the tapes.

Later, he takes a broader brush to wonder what this latest incident means for society as a whole: “They say the world that we live in is a beautiful place/ How the f–k that is case if you still judged off race?”

This isn’t the first time that the Florida rapper has used his musical platform to speak on a hot-button current event with racial overtones. In April 2012, he released the song “We Are Trayvon,” shortly after the shooting death of the 17-year-old.

Philly native Cassidy also weighed in on the recent events, using a portion of his “Move That Dope” remix to voice his anger:

“The Clippers owner Donald Sterling should get the hell smacked/ How the man don’t like n—as when most of the Clippers the ...

By Maurice Bobb

It’s official: Gwen Stefani is taking her talents to “The Voice.”

The No Doubt singer took to Instagram to confirm the news on Tuesday (April 29).

Stefani will sit in the big red chair vacated by Christina Aguilera, who announced back in February that she’d be taking time off from the show to focus on her second pregnancy.

The blonde diva will join fellow newcomer Pharrell Williams (filling in for Cee Lo Green) as coaches for season seven of NBC’s juggernaut reality singing competition alongside confirmed returning veterans Blake Shelton and Adam Levine.

The announcement comes less than two weeks after The Hollywood Reporter, the two newbies will introduce themselves on the live May 5 telecast by way of performances. Skateboard P will perform his latest single from G I R L, “Come Get It Bae,” and Stefani will bless viewers with “Hollaback Girl,” which, not so coincidentally, was produced by the man known for wearing the big hats.

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Somewhere in between sold-out shows in Lima, Peru, and Santiago, Chile, the guys of One Direction managed to take some time out of the South American leg of their Where We Are Tour to get a bit of a history lesson.

Or, at least Harry Styles and Liam Payne did. The two hit up the 600-year-old Inca city of Machu Picchu on Monday. The guys are down south to kick off their latest worldwide tour, which all started with a fireworks-filled affair in Bogota, Colombia on Saturday night.

Wait! What are those cameras doing there?

Judging from his rather lackadaisical scowl, it seems as though Harry hadn’t quite gotten the magnificence of the historic structure.

Liam, on the other hand, was absolutely, unequivocally feeling it — so much that he had a sort of Leo in “Titanic” moment next to a pile of rocks.

Next up, the guys are set to bring the Where We Are mayhem to Chile, where they perform at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago.

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Game is still sorting out a label situation for his next solo album, but he’s focusing on something else, too.

“I’m working on a joint album with Ed Sheeran that we trying to drop probably end of the year, beginning of 2015,” Game told MTV News this week. “That is gonna be crazy.”

The genre-crossing relationship may seem a bit curious at first thought, but it began from a place of mutual respect. “It happened with a tweet,” the Los Angeles rapper explained. “He tweeted something about Jesus Piece, I responded, we exchanged numbers on the DM, and then we got in the studio. We were just planning to record one song; we ended up doing like seven.”

Back in January, Sheeran told MTV News that the two had in fact worked on 11 songs together. Whatever the exact number is, the chemistry was strong enough that the two wanted to turn it into a full project.

“Ed came up with the idea to start working on a joint album, and we started doing it,” Game said. “That was like in five hours. We was just going. He was on that guitar. Acoustically, he’s a genius, man, so when he does that, what comes out of me is songs like ‘Dreams’ and ‘Hate It or Love It’ and ‘My Life.’ The songs that we got, they’re real songs. And I can’t wait for people to hear ‘em.”

Since they first got up, the two have become fast friends. In November, Sheeran attended ...

Twenty years after Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home, police have unveiled a previously unreleased note from the scene, addressed to his wife Courtney Love.

In the note obtained by CBS— which was found in Cobain’s wallet and written on stationery from the Phoenix Hotel — is what appears to be a rather sardonic play on traditional marriage vows, written for Love, his wife of two years.

“Do you Kurt Cobain take Courtney Michelle Love to be your lawful shredded wife,” he wrote. “even when she’s a bitch with zits and siphoning all (your) money for doping and whoring…”

Last month, two decades after Cobain’s death, Seattle police decided to review the case — but did not reopen it or re-investigate it. There have been several conspiracy theories surrounding his suicide — even a book published in 1999 titled Who Killed Kurt Cobain?: The Mysterious Death of an Icon — and it was those lingering questions and “a lot of media interest” that led cold case detective Mike Ciesynski to take another look.

The detective didn’t discover anything new in the case, but he explained that “there were so many conspiracy theories out there, it was good judgment on their behalf to hold to this.”

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At this point in Rihanna’s career, there’s a good chance that your mom, dentist, high school physics teacher and, hell, probably even your pet fish have already seen the pop star in various states of sexy undress (thanks to Instagram and many, many magazine covers), but Rih Rih really took it all off for her new Lui cover spread. Rihanna appears topless ‒ actually topless, unless you count a nipple ring as cover up ‒ on the cover of the French magazine’s new issue.

The image was so racy that she was forced to remove it from Instagram, but that didn’t stop her from heading over to Twitter and sharing all of the uncensored photos again. So, in honor of Rihanna completely shedding clothes on the top half, we’re taking a look back at some of her best boob-baring moments of 2014.

Vogue Brasil
Rih was clearly thrilled about landing her Vogue cover feature, sharing multiple shots on Instagram when she finally got the greenlight. The “hands over boobs” shot was our favorite, though.

Courtside At The Barclays Center
Rih and her BFF Melissa Forde were courtside at the Barclays Center to catch the Brooklyn Nets vs. the Toronto Raptors earlier this week. In addition to judging whoever was in her direct line of vision at the moment, Rih also put her nipple ring on display with a sheer white shirt and no bra.

4/20 Celebration
Rihanna celebrated one of her favorite holidays on April 20 ‒ no, not Easter ‒ ...

It seems that once upon a time Nick Jonas was crushing on Rita Ora — and she kind of crushed him, apparently. Well, at least that’s the case according to a song he wrote back in 2013.

As part of a slew of songs last year that never manifested into an album, Jonas penned one particularly cutting track for him and his bros titled “What Do I Mean To You,” in which he bemoans a woman named Rita’s lack of interest in him.

“No need for water, Rita, you got the wine / Searching for diamonds, when I gave you the time / Keys to an open door, don’t need a lock / Stains on a dirty floor, you don’t see a spot,” he wails.

Heavy, man.

On a recent edition of “Watch What Happens Live,” Ora said that she and Jonas never had any sort of romantic entanglement — but did suspect that the song was about her.

“I never dated him,” she said. “I actually met Nick through a friend and it was a very weird situation because we were close, but it never went to that level, and then I read the lyric and I kind of messaged him and was like, ‘I have no idea where this came from. If you want to talk about it, call me.’”

“He was like, ‘You know what, I just obviously didn’t put out how I felt across to you properly.’ And it was one of those situations,” she added. “He ...

By Kat Rosenfield

Today, in the most upsetting news to come out of King’s Landing since Joffrey Baratheon chopped off Ned Stark’s head: yet another beloved “Game of Thrones” character has made his last appearance this season.

We’re talking, of course, about Ser Pounce, the impetuous cat who interrupted Margaery Tyrell’s secret nighttime tryst with the pre-pubescent Prince Tommen in the show’s most recent episode. According to Vulture, an HBO representative has confirmed that the scene was Ser Pounce’s first and last moment of screen time for the foreseeable future.

Which, let’s be honest, is obviously unacceptable. And with this season not even half over, it is time to dispatch a strongly-worded letter to HBO demanding that Ser Pounce be not just included in future episodes, but given a credit in the title sequence and featured in at least one episode that deals exclusively with his cat adventures in Westeros.

Oh, and we have some ideas about that, too.

Road trip! Let Ser Pounce ride off on horseback to join Brienne and Podrick in the search for Sansa Stark… and make a new friend in the process.

Or, he could go to the Wall, suit up for battle, and get ready to fight the Wildling armies!

Not to mention, after the way he leaped in between the seductive Margaery and the wide-eyed Tommen, this cat’s obvious talent for stopping sexual predators could be put to good use just about anywhere in rapist-ridden Westeros.

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