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Nicki Minaj postpones ’Pink Friday 2′: It will come out on a day “very special to me and the Barbz”

Mike Coppola/Getty Images for MTV Nicki Minaj hopped on Instagram with a “major, monumental” update for fans who anxiously await her next album, Pink Friday 2.  After teeing up the announcement as “the biggest gift I’ve ever given humanity thus far,” Nicki revealed she’s pushing the album back from November 17 to December 8. The new date, one that…

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From rapper to politician: ‘The Honorable: Shyne’ doc to chronicle the former Bad Boy rapper’s life

Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET Moses Michael Levi Barrow, known in the music world as Shyne, will soon have his life on full display in the upcoming biopic The Honorable: Shyne. The former artist, who was signed to Diddy‘s Bad Boy record label, transitioned from hardcore rap genius to politician more than 10 years ago. Barrow, a native of Belize,…

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Richard Roundtree, ‘Shaft’ star, dead at 81

Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Richard Roundtree, best known for playing the titular character in the groundbreaking Shaft franchise, passed away Tuesday, October 24, at age 81. His longtime manager, Patrick McMinn, confirmed to ABC News Roundtree died following a brief battle with pancreatic cancer. He said Roundtree’s family was at his bedside. Roundtree’s career spanned five decades, but it was…

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Rick Ross joins the chat, says he’s taking the dinner with Jay-Z over $500,000

Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TIDAL After Jay-Z put an end to the viral dinner with Jay or a half a million bucks debate, telling fans he’d advise taking the money, Rick Ross weighed in with a differing opinion.  “I’ma take the dinner. And I’ma tell you why,” Ross said in video posted to his Instagram Live, later shared by The Shade Room.  The…

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Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali + Ethan Hawke face an apocalyptic cyber attack in ‘Leave the World Behind’

Netflix/JoJo Whilden Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail again tackles the dangers of technology, taking on an apocalyptic cyber attack with Oscar winners Mahershala Ali and Julia Roberts, in the trailer for Netflix’s Leave the World Behind. If those are not enough famous names, the movie was executive produced by two Hollywood newcomers: Barack and Michelle…

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Wax figures gone wrong: Amid The Rock statue controversy, Lil Wayne says his is all wrong too

Phil Ellsworth / ESPN Images Seems like the wax museums just can’t get it right. While fans were condemning The Grévin Museum’s much too lightskin wax figure of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, another superstar disapproved his statue.  Lil Wayne said that his recently viral wax figure at the Hollywood Wax Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, looks nothing like him.  “Sorry wax museum but dat s*** ain’t me!”…

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Busta Rhymes taps Swizz Beatz, Timbaland & Pharrell Williams as EPs on new album ’Blockbusta’

Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET Busta Rhymes is back.  The hip-hop legend has announced his upcoming album, Blockbusta.  The new project, expected out Friday, November 24, is executive produced by Busta and fellow music greats Swizz Beatz, Pharrell Williams and Timbaland.  In a video statement shared with press, Busta and the three producers discussed the importance of their collaboration.  After Swizz Beats humbly introduces himself as…