Two years ago today, the music industry lost the talented rapper-actor Heavy D. His hip-hop recording career began in 1987 with his group Heavy D & the Boyz and on his first album he released the hit single “The Overweight Lover’s in the House.” Another one of his breakthrough hits came in 1991 with a […]

A new season of the award-winning show “UnSung” kicks off tonight at 8p.m. featuring Heavy D. I caught up with producer, songwriter, DJ Eddie F, he remembers Heavy D as a kind-hearted, talented person who gave the guys from the neighborhood jobs when he toured and never compromised his integrity. DJ Eddie F interview

Will Smith has come a long way since his rapping days and his start on The Fresh Prince of Bel-air. I had the pleasure of meeting him at a Columbia records bowling party in Palm Springs, CA when he released the album Big Willie Style. He’s one of most humble and coolest on the planet. […]

It seems like only yesterday that fans learned of the untimely death of Dwight Arrington Myers, better known as Heavy D. Today, he would have celebrated his 46th birthday. Heavy D died much too young and so suddenly, one can’t help but feel an enormous void his death left in the hip hop community. Heavy […]

Taking a page from the song “Parents Just Don’t Understand” or do they? For his 15th birthday, actor Jaden Smith wants his independence from parents Will and Jada Smith. Jaden doesn’t have his driver’s license, but he is ready to buy his own home. In order for Jaden to really separate himself from his parents […]

Comedian-actor Chris Tucker, will host the 2013 BET awards June 30th at the Nokia Theater LA Live. Tucker has taken his career to another level after his supporting role in the Oscar-nominated film “Silver Linings Playbook,” which starred Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. This year’s BET awards will be part of a three-day event taking […]

Born Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence, named after Martin Luther King Jr. and President John F. Kennedy. His careers spans over 20 years as an actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, and stand up comedian. Martin’s film credits include Bad Boys, Blue Streak, and Big Momma’s House. He starred in numerous film roles and his very own […]

“The Undershepherd” the highly acclaimed award-winning movie will make its broadcast TV premiere, Saturday March 30 at 8p on TV One on TWC channel 330. Nationally syndicated radio DJ Russ Parr, wrote and directed this astounding movie. The movie takes on the black church and pastors who use their power for personal gain rather than […]

I’m a firm believer that when one door closes another door opens. Former Private Practice actor Taye Diggs has a new gig as the lead in “Murder In The First”. The TNT drama is the work of NYPD Blue co-creator Steven Bochco, and is a murder mystery set in contemporary San Francisco. Diggs team up […]

Derek Luke is the latest addition to CBS’s drama pilot “Second Sight”. Based on the British series, “Second Sight,” is a Gothic psychological thriller about Tanner (Jason Lee), the lead detective with the New Orleans Police Department who is hiding the fact that he has an ocular disorder that causes him to have horrifying hallucinations. […]

Eddie Murphy is back with his Beverly Hills Cop co-star Judge Reinhold. The two actors will reprise their roles from the 80s action film and have signed on for cameos in the pilot for the new Beverly Hills Cop television show. Eddie Murphy will take on his role as Axel Foley, the junk talking detective, […]

The rules of the game in Hollywood are ever-changing. Musician-actor Lenny Kravitz is out and actor Jesse L. Martin is back in the Marvin Gaye biopic “Sexual Healing.” The highly anticipated project has gone through all sorts of developmental chaos. Gaye’s son, Marvin Gaye III voiced his objections to the project slamming it as “shameful. […]