15 Stories on Pharrell Williams
Chester French is giving its music away.
The rapper Common wants to take hip-hop in a new direction, he says, and he has an unsuspecting ally -- President-elect Barack Obama.
Common's "Universal Mind Control" is set to hit store shelves Tuesday, but the rapper has a lot more than an eighth album release on his horizon.
The racecar driver says "maybe" he and Ingrid Vandebosch will have more kids
The hip-hop star calls the current VMA nominee "super-talented"
The expatriate tells PEOPLE she'll be in the French capital "for about a year"
The actress will debut her album on the American Idol host's radio show
The singer premieres Hard Candy on MySpace days before its official launch
The pop star wears a championship belt in the suggestive new artwork
The funeral for Donda West was held Tuesday in Spencer, Okla., drawing her tearful son Kanye and music stars Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Anita Baker.
Chester French is giving its music away.
The rapper Common wants to take hip-hop in a new direction, he says, and he has an unsuspecting ally -- President-elect Barack Obama.
Common's "Universal Mind Control" is set to hit store shelves Tuesday, but the rapper has a lot more than an eighth album release on his horizon.
The racecar driver says "maybe" he and Ingrid Vandebosch will have more kids
The hip-hop star calls the current VMA nominee "super-talented"
The expatriate tells PEOPLE she'll be in the French capital "for about a year"
The actress will debut her album on the American Idol host's radio show
The singer premieres Hard Candy on MySpace days before its official launch
The pop star wears a championship belt in the suggestive new artwork
The funeral for Donda West was held Tuesday in Spencer, Okla., drawing her tearful son Kanye and music stars Jay-Z, Beyoncé and Anita Baker.
While the problems between Britney Spears and Kevin Federline play out in the courts, it appears the pop star plans to expose – very publicly – some of the frustration she felt in her former marriage.
Las Vegas will become the center of the entertainment world this weekend as
the MTV Music Awards take over the Palms Casino Resort.
Eric Dane, Rachel Bilson and other scorching celebs tell us what they think is sexy.
After a recent Apple campaign portrayed PC users as dweebs, Hewlett-Packard fought back with a series of ads in which Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, and snowboarder Shaun White lent the company’s PCs so...
Pharrell Williams' debut solo album opens where most of his previous work with N.E.R.D. and the Neptunes left off: in the bedroom.
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