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50 Cent became the latest artist to show support for rising R&B hotshot Frank Ocean – who revealed he fell in love with a man in a note posted on his website almost two weeks ago – during a recent interview with MTV U.K. "Anyone that has an issue with Frank Ocean is an idiot," the rapper said. "I think Frank Ocean is a talented artist, I think he's created material that made me know his name, that impressed me, with things he said on a song like 'Novacane.'" While for 50 the quality of Ocean's music ultimately outweighs his sexual orientation, the New York-born MC did mention how close Ocean's open l... full article »

NEW YORK (AP) — Jennifer Lopez was part of the all-star cast that helped lead "Ice Age: Continental Drift" to the top of the box office over the weekend, and the entertainer is eager to focus even more attention on her once white-hot movie career. "I do miss doing films. I feel like the last two years with '(American) Idol,' I've really, really focused on, you know, my music. ... It was all kind of very synergistic, it worked really well together," said Lopez, whose movie hits include "Maid in Manhattan" and "Selena," and who was in "What to Expect When You're Expecting" earlier this year. "But (film) is somethin... full article »

Lauryn Hill took to her Tumblr account to post a lengthy response to the charges brought against her for failing to file tax returns. Read the full post below. “For the past several years, I have remained what others would consider underground.  I did this in order to build a community of people, like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.  Having put the lives and needs of other people before my own for multiple years, and having made hund... full article »

Rap mogul Jay-Z has announced his Made In America music festival and wants President Obama to join in. Jay-Z recently revealed plans for his own music festival, dubbed the Budweiser Made In America Music Festival, which will take place in Philadelphia in September and feature twenty hand-picked acts, as well as the man himself. Now Jay has told Rolling Stone that he wants the President to join in. He said 'I'm gonna give him a call and I'm gonna try to get him to perform ' do a little rendition of Al Green ' but I doubt it. I think that opens up the political season. He'll be so far into helping the world that h... full article »

(Cover) - EN Movies - Peter Berg says his biggest challenge while making Battleship was protecting Rihanna from being 'eaten by a shark'. The director of the sci-fi movie constantly worried that the pop beauty might come to harm on the set of the ocean-based film. In Battleship, Rihanna plays naval Petty Officer Raikes and had to film some of her scenes in the open sea. 'I honestly think it [my biggest challenge] was that Rihanna never got eaten by a shark. My fear was that I was going to be the director who was filming and Rihanna got eaten by a shark,' he told Collider.com. 'So I was very careful; when she ... full article »