India Arie Says She Never Boycotted Spend Dat — So Why Did Lil Wayne Skip Maine for a White Party?
According to TMZ, Lil Wayne missed his Maine tour stop on Tuesday but appeared at Michael Rubin’s annual Fourth of July white party in the Hamptons the next night — while India Arie took to Threads and Instagram Live to clarify she never called for a boycott of Young Miami’s viral hit “Spend Dat.” In […]
Mo’Nique Speaks on Oprah’s Whitney Houston Story — and the Estate and Bodyguard Tell It Different
I knew it was coming — it was only a matter of time. After Oprah Winfrey told a story in Cannes claiming Whitney Houston was high and fell off the stage during her final Oprah Winfrey Show appearance, the pushback has been stacking up all week. In a recent KEMPIRE breakdown, the conversation pulled together […]
Big Tigger Ordered to Stay 200 Yards Away — and Jay-Z Just Dropped an HBO Doc on Top of His Stadium Run
Radio personality Big Tigger is speaking out again after a Fulton County judge granted his wife a temporary protective order in the domestic dispute that played out on their Ring camera last month. And on top of that, Jay-Z announced an eight-part HBO documentary with Rick Rubin while his Reasonable Doubt and Blueprint anniversary celebrations […]
Pat Houston Says Oprah Is “Repeating Myths” — and Nobody in That Audience Ever Broke the Story First
The Estate of Whitney E. Houston is pushing back hard after Oprah Winfrey told a story at Cannes about Whitney’s final Oprah Winfrey Show appearance — claiming Whitney had gone back on drugs, fell off the stage during a live performance, and that Oprah begged a studio full of people not to leak the footage. […]
Big Tigger Arrested After Ring Cam Fight — and His Apology Skipped His Wife Entirely
Breaking news landed right before Tuesday’s takeover live, which is why I always have to switch things up. According to Scott Flynn at WSBTV, longtime Atlanta radio host Darien Morgan — better known as Big Tigger — was arrested on battery and cruelty to children charges after a May domestic dispute with his wife, Alicia […]
Clive Davis Dead at 94 — and That Wendy Williams Interview About Whitney’s Body Upstairs Is Back
Clive Davis has died at 94, and while much of the music industry is celebrating a career that shaped generations of artists, a lot of other people are revisiting moments that never quite faded from public memory. In a recent KEMPIRE breakdown, the conversation moved from Davis’s legacy to a resurfaced Wendy Williams interview — […]
Michael Just Passed Bohemian Rhapsody — and Paris Jackson’s Estate Win Hits Different Now
Speaking of winners — the Knicks had New York losing its mind with fireworks and a championship parade on the way, but Michael Jackson is still setting records from beyond the grave. According to Deadline, the biopic Michael, starring Jaafar Jackson and directed by Antoine Fuqua, has officially become the highest-grossing musical biopic of all […]