Students at Ethiopia’s top religious college have been holding a hunger strike since Sunday, following Beyonce’s recent meeting with their patriarch, Abune Paulos. The singer and the patriarch met before she performed as part of celebrations of the country’s millennium. Student Daniel Techale said 30 of his friends had been hospitalized after the hunger strike and accused Beyonce of “provok[ing] the whole situation” while blasting the patriarch of “practically a nonreligious act. It’s unacceptable, or inappropriate, to say the least.”

AllHipHop.com snatched this shot of Rihanna tapping into her lesbo side by massaging another female’s chest.

Diddy will not face criminal charges for his role in a fight over a woman at NYC’s The Box Nightclub last month. Read the rest of this entry »

VH1 Soul has partnered with Vibe to honor Hip-Hop and R&B Soul in ’07 with “VH1 Soul Presents: Vibe Awards Special.” The show, hosted by Eve, premieres on VH1 Soul on Wednesday, November 14 at 9 p.m. EST and will feature appearance by Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, Ne-Yo, Rihanna, Robin Thicke, Shop Boyz, Timbaland, Fabolous, T-Pain,
Wyclef Jean, Rodney Jerkins, Dallas Austin, Farnsworth Bentley, DJ Clue, Andre Harrell, Kay Slay, Keyshia Cole, Alicia Keys, Nelly, Common, Snoop Dogg, Big Boi, and Q-Tip. Check out the list of recipitents: Read the rest of this entry »

Common is planning to ditch his music career for Hollywood, because he feels he will be more successful as an actor than he will ever be as a rapper. He told Vibe Magazine: “I need a new fulfillment as an artist. I feel like I can become a bigger actor than I am a rapper. “It’s scary thinking, ‘Damn, if I don’t sell no records, what am I going to do?’ When you haven’t made multimillions in this game, you got to think about what you want to be doing when you’re 50 or 60. I found an art that I really love and it’s infinite.”