Jay Z responds to rumors of $5m lawsuit for not paying royalties

Yesterday (Feb. 29) there were rumours that Jay Z's streaming service Tidal was facing a lawsuit. John Emanuele, of the band The American Dollar, and Yesh Music, LLC. alleged that the company did not live up to their side of their contractual promise thereby suing him with a $5 million class-action lawsuit. However, Jay Z's Tidal released the following statement, dismissing the allegations:

"TIDAL is up to date on all royalties for the rights to the music stated in Yesh Music, LLC and John Emanuele’s claim and they are misinformed as to who, if anyone, owes royalty payments to them. As Yesh Music, LLC admits in their claim, TIDAL has the rights to the Master Recordings through its distributor Tunecore and have paid Tunecore in full for such exploitations. Their dispute appears to be over the mechanical licenses, which we are also up to date on payments via Harry Fox Agency our administrator of mechanical royalties".

"The entire catalogue in question streamed fewer than 13,000 times on TIDAL and its predecessor over the past year. We have now removed all music associated with Yesh Music, LLC and John Emanuele from the service. This is the first we have heard of this dispute and Yesh Music, LLC should be engaging Harry Fox Agency if they believe they are owed the royalties claimed. They especially should not be naming S Carter Enterprises, LLC, which has nothing to do with Tidal. This claim serves as nothing other than a perfect example of why America needs Tort reform."

Black people did win an Oscar, Leo DiCaprio is one of us- Jamie Foxx

Fellow Oscar winner, Jamie Foxx said even though a black person didn't win an Oscar on Sunday, Leo DiCaprio is the next best thing because he is an honorary black person.
He gave Chris Rock props on hosting, he said he 'nailed' and officially declared Best Actor winner "honorary black dude"!
During an interview with TMZ while he walked at LAX airport, Jamie Foxx said:

Come on over Leo, Leo is the closest thing to Tyrone that you can get". Foxx continued, "He is an honorary black man". "In Titanic he drowned, you know black dudes don't swim in the ocean".

He also said Leo has a pass to play a black dude in a movie.

Former Westlife member Shane Filan fulfil's final wish of terminally ill fan by meeting her hours before death

Former Westlife member, Shane Filan fulfilled the dying wish of a terminally ill fan who launched an online campaign to meet him - few hours before she passed away.

23 year old Emma Clayson,was given only three months to live last November after her skin cancer had spread to her other organs. One of the things she had on her bucket list was to meet Shane before she died.

Her 21 year old sister Becky, launched an online campaign to help Emma fulfil her dying wish to meet Shane and the appeal went viral.

Fortunately, Shane saw the appeal and travelled from Ireland last Friday and surprised Emma at her home in Great Billing, Northampton.

The star spent an hour with Emma before signing autographs and giving her CDs and Westlife posters.

Emma sadly passed away on the following day, Saturday morning, just 18 hours after her surprise visit, the Irish Mirror reported.

Emma’s mum Mandy, 45, said:

“Shane was wonderful. He sat with Emma and held her hand and chatted away like a member of the family.

“Emma had a huge smile on her face. It was the loveliest afternoon for her. She has always been a huge Westlife fan.

“She went to both their farewell concerts and even flew over to Dublin to see them without telling us. I only found out she’d gone when I found the tickets in her bag.

Tyrese slams Chris Rock for mocking Jada Pinkett at the Oscars

Tyrese Gibson took a shot at Chris Rock for calling out Jada Pinkett at Sunday's Oscar awards. He admitted he didn't watch the award show but still chewed out Chris Rock 

One Direction's Liam Payne spotted with his £260K Lamborghini

The One Direction star who recently confirmed his relationship with Cheryl Fernandez-Versini was spotted as he made a trip to his local supermarket in his £260K Lamborghini. More pics after the cut

Comedian Katt Williams comes hard on Kevin Hart

Kevin Hart is a box office/comedy king so the hate is expected from his colleagues who have been there longer and not as relevant. Comedian Katt Williams read Kevin Hart for filth at a show in Atlanta...kinda saying Kevin is successful because he compromised. Yeah, right Katt!

In video that surfaced on SnapChat Katt says, 

“I’ve already proven that if the best they got in comedy is Kevin Hart then...[No] don’t boo a black man working hard, baby. Even if that n****’s a puppet, it’s not his fault. We don’t get mad. Just because I’m better than some black dudes doesn’t mean I’m better than no black dudes. I’m saying if you want to be mad at Kermit The Frog, don’t be mad at Kermit The Frog. Be mad at Jim Henson. Don’t say, ‘F*ck Donald Duck” when you really mean, ‘F*ck Walt Disney.’

“I don’t care nothing that happens to Kevin [Hart], I just wish him the best. I just know that that’s somebody’s hand stuck up that baby, you understand. Oh, we’re a puppet show, boo boo. Please believe it. You’re looking at the only n**** that ain’t.”

“So, since I’ve already officially proven to myself that I really am who Richard Pryor passed his torch to, and that I was able to do it without letting a man s**k my d**k, or s**king a man’s d**k. I walked in with a virgin a**h**e, I walked out with a virgin a**h**e. I got the same soul today that I had when I did Pimp Chronicles all the way to the end of Pimp Chronicles.”

Anna Banner shares a cute photo of her daughter Sophia

MBGN 2013/Beauty queen, Anna Ebiere Banner, shared this adorable photo of her makeup free face kissing her daughter with music superstar Flavour.

Omotola meets Beyonce's mum, Tina Knowles and her husband

Actress Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde pictured with Beyonce's mother, Tina Knowles and her husband, Richard Lawson at the 5th Gospel Goes to Hollywood Luncheon held in Los Angeles last week Friday February 26th.

Ice Prince celebrates son's 4th birthday in school

Rapper, Ice Prince, celebrated his son, Jamal's 4th birthday in school today. Happy birthday to him. 

Jennifer Hudson shaves off her hair...see what she looks like now

The 34 year old mother of one unveiled a shaved head as she was pictured heading to her Broadway play in New York City on Sunday. 

BRed shows off wads of cash on Instagram

Seen!

Rihanna teams up with Puma to create her own fashion line

She shared images on her Instagram page...

Actress Mercy Johnson Okojie shares photos with her Children

Mercy shared these photos on her twitter handle. She and her family are currently in London enroute Nigeria. 

aitlyn Jenner says she is looking for that 'special guy'

Caitlyn Jenner in a preview clip for I Am Cait released yesterday said she would be open to dating a 'special guy'. Jenner who used to be a man has admitted that she is interested in dating men but wants someone who will treat her right.

Speaking on an upcoming episode of I Am Cait, 'she said:

'To be honest, if I was in a relationship with a guy, I would enjoy being treated like that. Opening doors for you, doing all what you would think is the traditional stuff in a guy and a girl relationship.

His ex wife, Kris Jenner, recently admitted that she finds it confusing that Caitlyn wants to date men saying that hearing that her former husband might be interested in romantic relationships with men was surprising at first but she just wants her to be happy.

Tonto Dikeh gets diamond watch and necklace from her husband as push present

Push present is the gift you get from your partner after you've given birth. The actress shared her present and wrote "Thanks to my Olowo Ori Mi (MRX),Love you so much..And my Beautiful Aunty Nike(Aka woman with a golden heart) for helping with the pick out of my PushPresent.."

Kylie Jenner recreates childhood photo with sister, Kendall

Kylie Jenner shared this lovely photo of herself and Kendall Jenner when they were little kids.

Meet the world's youngest billionaire, a 19-year-old horse rider

Alexandra Andresen is the world’s youngest billionaire. Heir to a family fortune built on tobacco, she debuts among the 2016 World’s Billionaires thanks to her stake in investment company Ferd that FORBES values at $1.2 billion.

Fresh out of high school, Alexandra is one of the most promising horseback riders in Norway, collecting trophies from competitions across Europe.

Equally wealthy is her sister, 20 year old Katharina, who is enrolled at Amsterdam University College where she is a freshman studying social science.

The sisters each own 42.2 percent of the private company and have for a while.  Ferd is a holding company with diverse interests spanning private equity holdings, real estate, security investments and a hedge fund.

Saraki's CCT trial to resume March 11th

The trial of Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, will resume on March 11th, a day after the initial date of resumption which was March 10th. According to a statement released by the spokesperson of the Tribunal, the shift in date came after Saraki's lead counsel, Kanu Agabi SAN, asked that the date be shifted due to his engagement in other courts on March 10th.‎  Saraki is being tried on a 13-count charge for alleged corruption and false declaration of assets while he was governor of Kwara state.

Idris Elba's secret second ex-wife revealed, lady speaks of painful break up

Idris Elba was married to Kim Norgaard for four years (from 1999 - 2003) and they share a teenage daughter together, but what people don't really know is that Idris secretly got married again back in 2006 to lawyer Sonya Hamlin

From The Sun

Idris Elba’s secret second wife is today revealed as a US lawyer who ended the marriage after just four months. Sonya Hamlin, now 44, claimed she was drunk when she and the Luther star wed at a Vegas chapel.

The pair had a whirlwind romance and a friend said: “It’s a heartbreak story. She cared about him and when they broke up it tore her up.”

Idris, 43, had just finished his role as Stringer Bell in The Wire in 2005 when they were introduced by his manager, a college pal of Sonya.

According to the sources Idris and Sonya broke up over whether or not to have children and his desire to move to L.A. 

According to Sonya they called it quits after only four months after saying “I do!” because he wanted to focus on his acting career in L.A., while she was comfy making a solid career for herself as a successful lawyer on the east coast. Elba and Hamlin had been living together in Maryland for a few weeks after he wrapped filming on The Wire. A source tells UK’s The Sun about the wild night they tied the knot in Las Vegas.

“I remember Idris. They were both very nice, not intoxicated or nothing crazy like that. They arrived at 5-6pm,” a source at the chapel says. “I recognised him because my brother’s a fan of The Wire. They were having a lot of fun. The person checking them in was joking about them marrying in Vegas and Idris was giving it back.”

The marriage lasted only two months before Hamlin filed for divorce. The Sun reports how the split was triggered by constant fighting over Idris wanting to live in Los Angeles.

“One of the reasons it ended was her practice was doing well here but Idris wanted to be in LA,” another source adds. “At some point he had a choice between being a husband or a heartbreaker. He chose his career over her.”

Sonya’s mother, Betty Hamlin, recalls her daughter’s heartbreak after she and Idris called it quits. “It was a very painful relationship.” Another friend adds, “It’s a heartbreak story. She cared about him and when they broke up it tore her up.”

Khloe Kardashian steps out braless

Khloe Kardashian was spotted braless while out and about in the Van Nuys neighbourhood of Los Angeles on Tuesday wearing a black and a pair of jeans but no bra.