Inside The Bitter Fight Between Soulja Boy and a Buzzfeed Reporter Over Hoverboards
A battle between a Buzzfeed reporter and DeAndre Cortez Way, the rapper better known as Soulja Boy, is brewing over privacy, fraud, and, of course, hoverboards.
Who Cried It Best: Soulja Boy, Kanye West or Beyoncé?
Last night's BET Awards featured a 20+ minute extravaganza tribute to Whitney Houston that included Mariah Carey talking about herself (...and Whitney), Monica blowing the doors off the place with a cover of "I Love the Lord" (from The Preacher's Wife) and Chaka Khan reclaiming the song that Whitney once made her own,…
Riff Raff's Got a Record Deal: Making Sense of the Most Viral Human Being in Music
One night last week, Houston rapper/viral phenomenon Riff Raff was sitting in my living room in Brooklyn, eating a bag of Wise BBQ potato chips. The day before, he'd flown to Daytona Beach, Fla., to shoot a music video with 19-year-old viral rap ingénue Kitty Pryde, and now he was in New York to do photo shoots and…
Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively Are Having a Hot Blonde Catfight
Scarlett hates Blake for monopolizing Ryan Reynolds. Brad Pitt counsels a suicidal actor. Kourtney Kardashian isn't getting married. Tareq Salahi wants to canoodle Kate Gosselin. Friday gossip stands in a circle and chants "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
Demi Moore Still Wearing Her Wedding Ring and Other Beacons of Hope
Demi Moore wears her ring but walks alone. Soulja Boy ended up in jail last night. Nikki Reed's wedding dress has 100 diamond buttons. Emma Watson returns to college. Tuesday gossip speaks softly and carries precious gems.
Amy Winehouse Was Adopting a 10-Year-Old When She Died
This little girl says Amy Winehouse was trying to adopt her. Miley Cyrus gets a gay marriage tattoo. Kellan Lutz still has candy from 2003, and eats it regularly. Kim Kardashian's fans freak her out. Monday gossip pulls an Angelina.
Angelina Jolie Wants to Cross the Sahara on a Camel
Angelina Jolie is planning on abandoning her kids in the desert. Amy Winehouse's clothing is distributed. Casey Anthony's seeking treatment. And another grandkid of Queen Elizabeth II is getting married. Saturday gossip is here.
Who Gave Soulja Boy $55 Million?
Cartoonishly simplistic rhyme reciter Soulja Boy has allegedly purchased himself a $55 million G5 jet as a 21st birthday present. Ohh... did somebody give Soulja Boy $55 million, by accident?
The Wonderful World of Kreayshawn
Without a doubt, this year's earliest contender for song of the summer is "Gucci Gucci" by 21-year-old Oakland artist Kreayshawn. Though no one had heard of her a few months ago, she's now on pace to succeed Ke$ha as the foremost white female rapper in popular music.
The Old Person's Guide to 'Swag'
An unfamiliar word fills the air, befuddling the olds: "swag." But what does the slang term mean, and where does it come from? Best learn the meaning of "swag," old person, before you are sent off to the cultural death panel.
Five Theories Why Famous People Keep Showing up on Guys with iPhones
For all the straights people out there who don't know, Guys with iPhones is a website that houses thousand of pictures of men holding a phone and often wearing little else. How has it become a magnet for B-list nudes?
Happy Birthday
Model, DJ, and rock star spawn Alexandra Richards turns 23 today. Former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley is turning 66. Famed television exec (and NBC Sports chairman) Dick Ebersol is 62. Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, is 58. Alexis Arquette is turning 40. The rapper Soulja Boy is…
Cartoons Are the New Crunk
Kanye West is planning a puppet show, but he's been beaten to the punch—drowsy, dancing teenage rapper Soulja Boy has just launched an online cartoon show starring Alfonso Riberio. Hip hop is magic:
The Top Ten Feuds of 2008
Nothing says Christmas like two people screaming at each other. Gawker video guru Richard Blakeley compiled and ranked the ten very best of this contentious year.
YouTube goes live after all
On November 22nd, YouTube will host a two-hour event in San Francisco, "a celebration of the site's vast user communities." Looks like we can expect performances from Akon, Soulja Boy, will.i.am and a bunch of online video-powered Weblebrities. And it will be broadcast live over the Internet. So, it turns out that …
4chan hacker holds rapper Soulja Boy's MySpace account ransom
A miscreant from the sordid 4chan message-board community sent rapper and social media whiz-kid Soulja Boy a text message the other day, telling him to fork over $2,500 if he wanted control over his MySpace account back. "I sent him a text message back," says Soulja Boy in a clip below, " I said fuck you, bitch. Do…
Soulja Boy Proves Ice T Is Old
Latest rap star Soulja Boy and ancient rap star Ice T are fighting on YouTube. The 17-year-old who got famous on the Internet (over 60 million views for his music video "Crank That") is using the site to demonstrate how fresh he is, and how irrelevant Ice T (age 49) is. The fight started when Ice T said that Soulja…
Soulja Boy Mocks The Entire Idea Of Music In Real-Time
For every 500,000 views he gets, Soulja Boy is putting up a freestyle on YouTube. Sample lyrics by the creator of "Crank Dat" and "Yahhh": "I don't give a fuck I'm fresh, what you damn think?" I can see the history of music melting, Old Dirty Bastard is rolling blunts in his grave, and yet my ass is involuntarily …
'Times' Explains What Sidekicks Are And Why Yours Will Be Stolen
The T-Mobile Sidekick has become a favorite target of muggers and thieves throughout New York and the nation. In response, the NYPD has decided to harass teenagers and New York Times blogger Sewell Chan has decided to explain what a "Sidekick" is: "The Sidekick — sometimes encrusted with Swarovski crystal — has been a…
