Chris Brown’s “Deuces” Hits No. 1 on Billboard Charts
| AP | Chris Brown is saying bye bye to his recent slump. | The 21-year-old musician’s latest single, the goodbye groove “Deuces,” made the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s R&B/Hi...

Chris Brown's "Deuces" Hits No. 1 on Billboard Charts
Chris Brown is saying bye bye to his recent slump. | The 21-year-old musician’s latest single, the goodbye groove “Deuces,” made the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop s...

Chris Brown's music career back on track with 'Deuces,' which is No. 1 on the ...
| NEW YORK - Chris Brown is back to a familiar place — the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. | The 21-year-old's latest song, the goodbye groove "Deuces," hit the top spot of Billboard's R&B/...

Jure Pukl: EARchitecture
| (Session Work) 3 | The young Slovenian saxist Jure Pukl's latest album (made in New York with locals including the celebrated drummer Marcus Gilmore) is hooked into a taut, hip-hop-influenced contem...

After the Party: Music and the Black Panthers
| Musicians don't often end up on FBI watch lists, but the Last Poets did, thanks to their links with the Black Panthers. Dorian Lynskey looks back at a time when pop and politics collided as never be...

Chris Brown returns to No. 1 spot with 'Deuces'
| NEW YORK – Chris Brown is back to a familiar place — the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. | The 21-year-old's latest song, the goodbye groove "Deuces," hit the top spot of Billboard's...

Chris Brown returns to No. 1 spot with 'Deuces'
Stuart Ramson, file FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2010 file photo, Chris Brown models at Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief - Haiti fashion benefit, shown during Fashion Week in New York. "factbox" --> Mor...

Chris Brown returns to No. 1 spot with 'Deuces'
Chris Brown is back to a familiar place — the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. | The 21-year-old's latest song, the goodbye groove "Deuces," hit the top spot of Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop so...

Rapper T.I. comeback could be derailed with arrest
After finishing a sentence for weapons charges earlier this year, T.I. was poised to have the comeback of the fall. | The multiplatinum rapper starred in the nation's No. 1 movie, recently married his...

Chris Brown returns to No. 1 spot with 'Deuces'
| NEW YORK -- Chris Brown is back to a familiar place - the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. | The 21-year-old's latest song, the goodbye groove "Deuces," hit the top spot of Billboard's R&B/Hip-Ho...

Chris Brown returns to No. 1 spot with 'Deuces'
| The Associated Press | NEW YORK - Chris Brown is back to a familiar place , the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. | The 21-year-old's latest song, the goodbye groove "Deuces," hit the top spot of ...

Rapper T.I. comeback could be derailed with arrest
| NEKESA MUMBI MOODY | The Associated Press | After finishing a sentence for weapons charges earlier this year, T.I. was poised to have the comeback of the fall. | The multiplatinum rapper starred in ...

Carrie Underwood: Why do the CMAs keep snubbing her for Entertainer of the Year?
| /span>The 2010 CMA Awards nominations came out yesterday, and despite nine well-deserved nominations for Miranda Lambert, including Entertainer of the Year, most of the chatter was about the blonde...

Jay-Z Will Not Replace Mathew Knowles as Beyonce's Manager
| Jay-Z may be Beyonc�'s husband, but the hip-hop heavyweight will not be managing the pop star anytime soon. According to a statement posted by the singer's management website, Music World Entertainm...

The Big Gigs
STATE FAIR | Three heavenly singers -- bluegrass/folk thrush Sara Watkins as well as the soulful sister sirens Jevetta and Jearlyn Steele -- will join Garrison Keillor for his seventh consecutive &quo...

Gems from Gene Simmons
| Gene Simmons is enamored with numbers. The mouthpiece of Kiss will tell you that his band has sold more than 100 million albums and earned 24 gold records and that his reality TV series, "Gene ...

Dan Newton won't be squeeze-boxed in
| An easy way to spot a veteran State Fair performer is the number of fair-related one-liners they try out on the crowd between songs. Dan Newton and his group Café Accordion Orchestra seemed t...

Big Boi's 'You Ain't No DJ' video: Watch the fun clip here
| “You Ain’t No DJ” is one of the finest moments on Big Boi‘s fine-moment-filled Sir Lucious Left Foot. This one’s got it all: a metallic rattlesnake beat crafted by Andr...

Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose tries Dublin's patience, sends fans home after bottles hit stage
| DUBLIN - Axl Rose, it seems, needs a little more patience — and a much louder alarm clock. | The 48-year-old singer of U.S. hard-rock band Guns N' Roses irritated thousands of his Dublin fans ...

T.I. Has Long History Of Trouble With The Law
| T.I.'s brilliant career has seen its fair share of interruptions, primarily due to legal troubles that have forced the rapper to take time away from the stage in order to sit behind bars. | On Wedne...

Eminem And Jay-Z: By The Numbers
| Cincinnati Bengals wide-receiving duo Chad Ochocinco and Terrell Owens refer to themselves as the Batman and Robin of the NFL, but in the hip-hop world, Jay-Z and Eminem are more like the Batman and...

Leela James: New Soul From An Old Soul
| On first listen, Leela James' "Tell Me You Love Me" sounds like it could have been recorded in the '70s, but it's actually a cut from her latest album, released earlier this year. James' heart lies ...

Chris Brown is number 1 again with 'Deuces'
| Chris Brown’s single “Deuces” tops Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip Hop charts. | The critics’ predictions that Chris Brown had managed to redeem himself after putting on an emotional Michael J...

Rapper T.I., wife arrested on drug charges during West Hollywood traffic stop
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested along with his wife on suspicion of possessing methamphetamines, five months after the hip-hop star finished a prison stint ...

Justin Bieber Is 'A Two Face,' Says Chelsea Handler
| Though 2010 MTV Video Music Awards host Chelsea Handler likes to joke that she will have no idea who anybody is when she plays the ringmaster of the biggest party of the year on September 12, she ha...

Hurts: Happiness
| Hurts have the backstory and the image down pat, but the songs just don't stick, says Alexis Petridis 2 Hurts | Anyone concerned about the veracity of information found on the internet might lo...

Diddy Sued by Ex-Employee for Age Bias
| A New York woman has sued , saying he fired her because of her age two decades after she helped launch his career. | Fifty-one-year-old Francesca Spero filed the age discrimination lawsuit Wednesday...

Q & A with Killah Priest
| Born Walter Reed, Killah Priest is a 15-year Hip-Hop veteran who is most famous for being an affiliate of the Wu-Tang Clan. Much like the Wu-Tang Clan, Priest's lyrics are full of street stories, sp...

Award-Winning Producer-Rapper RZA Joins All-Star Crew of Turntable Legends in DJ Hero® 2
    Hip Hop Music Icon and Founder of The Wu-Tang Clan to Provide Likeness and Two Exclusive Mixes to 2010's Best Soundtrack in Entertainment | , Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Award winning produc...

T.I. And Wife Arrested For Drugs Possession
| Rapper T.I. and his wife were arrested in Los Angeles on Wednesday night on suspicion of possessing marijuana. | The pair's car was pulled over by cops in West Hollywood and officers became suspicio...

NY Ex-employee, 51, Accuses 'Diddy' Of Age Bias
| A New York woman has sued , saying he fired her because of her age two decades after she helped launch his career. | Fifty-one-year-old Francesca Spero filed the age discrimination lawsuit Wednesday...