Groundbreaking rapper and Gang Starr co-founder Guru has passed away. After recovering from a stroke earlier this year, the jazz-influenced emcee behind hits like “DWYCK,” “Ex Girl To The Next Girl,” “Skillz,” and “Royalty” collapsed and died Monday after a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 43.
The rapper, whose real name is Keith Elam, had been suffering from cancer for over a year, according to MTV.com.
Music legend Teddy “The Velvet Teddy Bear” Pendergrass has died.
The ‘If You Don’t know Me By Now” hitmaker, who was paralyzed from the waist down from a car accident in 1982, passed away in his native Philadelphia after a battle with colon cancer this week.
“To all his fans who loved his music, thank you. He will live on through his music,” his son, Teddy Pendergrass II, said in a statement Thursday. Teddy II said his father died at a hospital in suburban Philly. The singer underwent colon cancer surgery eight months ago and had “a difficult recovery,” his son explained.
The soul singer shot to fame in the 1970s as lead singer of Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes. He later found solo success with bedroom classics like “Close The Door” and “Turn Off The Lights.” Teddy — who began singing in church at the age of 3 – was the first black male singer to record five consecutive multi-platinum albums in the US.
He didn’t tour for nearly 20 years after the car accident which left him paralyzed from the waist down. Teddy P was 59.
Music legend Little Richard is asking fans to pray for his speedy recovery after recently undergoing hip surgery at a Tennessee hospital.
Former Dru Hill star Sisqo has been pay child support for a nine-year-old boy he is believed to have fathered with a 14-year-old Swiss girl in 1999.
According to the mother, who’s black and lives in Switzerland, she and her friends met Sisqo during a Dru Hill concert in Zurich ten years ago.
“After the concert Sisqo was [standing] with his band at the bar, we went over and talked to them,” she said. “Then everything went very fast.”
After their one night stand, the teenager learned she was pregnant by the then-20-year-old “Thong Song” star.
Although no DNA tests were performed, a Zurich district court has determined that Sisqo is the “presumed father,” The Basler Zeitung Newspaper reported on Friday.
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LaBelle performed their latest singler “Superlover” live on The View Wednesday.
Jermaine Jackson has confirmed rumors that The Jackson 5 are getting back together.
The entire iconic band, including Michael Jackson, will tour beginning next year.
“This has been a long time coming for the Jackson family to get back together,” Jermaine told AAP on Wednesday.
“It is just the timing, so what we’ve been doing is working on the music and all the logistics.”
“It is going to be more like a family affair, Janet’s going to open and, of course, the original Jackson 5 … Michael, Randy and the whole family … we’re in the studio, we’re planning on being out there next year.”
A Los Angeles judge has sentenced the 80s crooner El Debarge to two years in state prison for a drug bust for crack cocaine earlier this month.
The “Time Will Reveal” singer will serve his sentence at the California State Prison at Lancaster.
“Lady Marmalade” hitmakers Labelle have reunited after 30 years.
Patti Labelle, Nona Hendryx, and Sarah Dash hit The TODAY Show to promote their new reunion album Back To Now.
Levi Stubbs, the original frontman of the ’60s-era Motown group The Four Tops’, died after a long illness at his home in Detroit on Friday. He was 72.
