Quincy Jones is not a fan of the new Michael Jackson Xscape album; in fact, he believes the album only came out because there’s still money left in the Michael Jackson brand. During an interview on the Canadian radio show Q with Jian Ghomeshi, the producer extraordinaire, who worked on several of Jackson’s biggest hits…

While the NBA is still reeling from embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist rant that was caught on tape, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban may have added some more fuel to the fire. Speaking at the annual GrowCo conference, a startup-meets-successful-company-representatives gathering on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn., the outspoken Cuban warned the audience…

Mike Myers will forever be the guy next to Kanye West when the enigmatic rapper decided to make an impromptu change during a 2005 Hurricane Katrina telethon. That is when West went off-script and called out President George W. Bush with the infamous “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” comment. In the upcoming issue…

A 14-year-old Bronx, N.Y., boy underwent emergency surgery to remove shards of glass from his chest, lungs and heart after his mother says police handcuffed her son and then slammed his head through a plate-glass window for mouthing off. In a New York Daily News exclusive, Cherita Payne says her son Javier has no prior…

A lawsuit filed on behalf of eight former NFL players alleges that that league was so profit driven that it illegally administered narcotics and painkillers to mask severe injuries, the Associated Press reports. Those players are now claiming that the risky treatments have resulted in pricey and painful medical complications. According to AP, which got…

Controversy over a high school senior, the periodic table, the 1999 hit “Back That Azz Up” by rapper Juvenile, and a Georgia high school yearbook reached a head Tuesday after a student used periodic elements to spell out a funny message in her yearbook quote. Paris Gray, the senior class vice president at Mundy’s Mill…

The Oakland, Calif., teen who made national headlines after he was accepted to several of the nation’s top colleges is reaping all of the rewards from his success. Akintunde Ahmad, who will be attending Yale University in the fall, has already done the newspaper circuit and was a guest on Ellen DeGeneres’ show last month,…

Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who was involved in a domestic dispute that included video footage of Rice dragging an unconscious woman from an elevator, will avoid jail time as long as he completes a pretrial intervention program, ESPN reports. Rice was accepted into the program Tuesday, and as long Rice attends the program…

Two men whose pants were sagging low enough to show their boxers were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after a security guard at a South Carolina Waffle House told them to pull their pants up or leave the restaurant. According to the Smoking Gun, Andrew Gehring and Donovan Johnson, both 22, became belligerent and…

The divorce proceedings involving owner Donald Sterling and the Los Angeles Clippers were officially set in motion Monday when the NBA charged the embattled owner with “damaging the league and its teams with his racist comments,” the Associated Press reports.  Sterling has less than 10 days to respond to charges and then a hearing will…