Happy Tuesday! Here's our compendium of pop-culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the Columbus Day weekend.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 10/11/11

It seems like every year, the MTV Video Music Awards is obligated to play host to some kind of event guaranteed to make headlines the next day: the Britney/Christina/Madonna kiss, the Kanye interruption, the meat dress.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/29/11

Until recently, Ryan Leslie's reputation has been as a producer on songs for the likes of Beyoncé and working with the support of heavy hitters like Sean Combs and Tommy Mottola.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 06/13/11

Happy Monday! Here's our compendium of pop-culture news you may have missed while you were doing more important things over the weekend.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/25/11

Bey's newly leaked single, tentatively titled "Girls (Who Run the World)" picks up with the girl-power motif that seems to resonate most strongly with her core audience, and proudly touts a somewhat cheesy—but potentially highly addictive—"Who'll run the world? Girls!" chorus.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 04/19/11

Legendary music video and film director Hype Williams is the man behind the music video for almost every ass-shaking hip-hop megahit of the last two decades—starting in 1991 with BWP's "We Want Money," and continuing right up through this year, with Lil Wayne's video for "6 Foot 7 Foot," which premiered earlier this month.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/29/11

Lil Wayne has been hustling practically since he was born. As eight-year-old Dwayne Carter, he left raps on Bryan "Baby" Williams' answering machine until Williams signed him to Cash Money Records. Herewith, a playlist of some other past, present, and future young stars who skip homework for hip-hop.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 03/28/11

Put down your apron and take your pumps out of the kitchen.  ARTICLE PUBLISHED: 08/04/10