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Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks attribute Eminem’s chart-topping success to his fan base. By Shaheem Reid Eminem Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage His reign at the top is not short like leprechauns, but long like scowling giants: Eminem is enjoying his fifth week with the top-selling album in the country. Wednesday, on the set of Lloyd Banks’ “Any Girl” video, G-Unit members Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo said the key to Em’s success is simple and obvious: He has a very loyal fanbase .
Celebrity offenders are ‘not a good situation,’ Fox News legal analyst Kimberly Guilfoyle says. By Gil Kaufman Lindsay Lohan Photo: Mark Ralston/ Getty Images Though she was initially sentenced to 90 days in jail for probation violations, troubled actress Lindsay Lohan could be released from lockup within the week, after serving less than one-fifth of her original term. That’s pretty typical, according to Fox News legal analyst Kimberly Guilfoyle, who told MTV News that chronic overcrowding in the Los Angeles County jail system has turned it into a “revolving door” for high-profile, low-level offenders like Lohan, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie.
California state investigators will not file charges against seven other doctors who treated the late star. By Mawuse Ziegbe Michael Jackson Photo: Getty Images Seven doctors who treated the late Michael Jackson will not be charged in the singer’s death
After debuting songs at Facebook office, Yeezy heads to Twitter for another a capella show on same day he tweeted for the first time. By Mawuse Ziegbe Kanye West performing at Twitter’s headquarters Photo: Jillian West (@jillyface) When people get into the social-networking thing, they typically set up a Facebook page, get a Twitter account and start blasting out inane status updates
‘I love to see this petition. It brought me to tears a couple of times,’ Lupe tells Mixtape Daily
MC, who spent a year in prison, says, ‘My heart goes out to Lindsay Lohan.’ By Kyle Anderson, with reporting by Sway Calloway and Jayson Rodriguez Foxy Brown and her lawyer Salvatore E. Strazzullo Photo: MTV News Lindsay Lohan’s jail sentence is already close to its conclusion, but the effects of her incarceration are still being felt. The recently-jailed actress received a show of support from a New York tanning salon on Tuesday, and Foxy Brown (herself a former inmate who spent a year at Rikers Island) also gave Lohan a shout-out when she visited the MTV News office on Tuesday.
‘I read De Niro’s interviews during ‘Raging Bull,’ Christian Bale’s during ‘The Machinist,’ the rapper reveals on ‘The View’ of preparing for movie role. By Jayson Rodriguez 50 Cent appears on “The View” on Wednesday Photo: ABC Much was made about 50 Cent’s dramatic weight loss earlier this year for an acting role that required the muscle-bound rap star to lose more than 50 pounds
‘If my name was Keisha Brown and not Foxy Brown, I would have been let go,’ the MC tells MTV News of latest arrest.
After initially shunning micro-blogging site, rap superstar amasses more than 50,000 followers in a few hours; tweets LP won’t be Good Ass Job. By Mawuse Ziegbe Kanye West Photo: Dominique Charriau/WireImage Kanye West is going to have to learn to keep his opinions to 140 characters or less. The hip-hop superstar has finally joined Twitter with the handle @kanyewest , after initially resisting the social-networking website that counts luminaries such as Oprah and President Barack Obama among its micro-bloggers
‘I think it’s so rare that an artist comes along in our generation that has a loyal following no matter what — Eminem has it,’ Drake says. By Shaheem Reid Drake Photo: Michael Caulfield/ WireImage Drake knows a thing or two about having a loyal fanbase: His following propelled him to a #1 album in June with Thank Me Later