Jay-Z has achieved his first number one album in the UK with his new record Magna Carta Holy Grail.

Liam Gallagher does not even have his brother Noel’s phone number, the Beady Eye singer has revealed.

Kanye West has been accused of ignorance and stupidity after the rapper mocked Parkinson’s disease sufferers on his new album.

Blown away by a hip-hop superstar’s brutal beats

Unless you had your ear way down on the ground the 20-year-old performer Chance the Rapper has emerged right out of the blue.

This wasn't an environment where intelligence counted

Pregnant women try to avoid blue cheese, caffeine and pâté. They might also pass on having blood injected into their faces. Not so for Kim Kardashian.

Justin Timberlake was happy to show the Saturday Night Live audience a few things this weekend.

Given many of the pop cultural reference points of RZA and his Wu-Tang Clan, it's little surprise that the former has chosen kung-fu action B-movie style for his debut as a film-maker.

The past few decades have seen sports shoes become our first choice in footwear. Now, a new exhibition aims to put names to famous laces. Simon Usborne takes a sneak peek

Some songs just work in trailers. Think of Where the Wild Things Are soundtracked solely by Arcade Fire's "Wake Up", or Trent Reznor's take on Led Zep's "Immigrant Song" for David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

It's not the first time a musician has been pelted with something while performing on stage and it certainly won't be the last. But even Cher Lloyd's biggest detractors must have felt sorry for the singer after a bottle of urine was thrown at her while she performed at the V Festival in Hylands Park, Chelmsford this weekend. The former X Factor contestant was only on her second song when she was hit, causing her to flee the stage. Being a festival with four main arenas, it's a shame the unhappy reveller didn't, you know, just go and watch something else.

Ice-T's celluloid rap sheet includes such esoteric capers as Urban Menace – a notorious horror flick that starred Snoop Dogg as a psychopathic priest. But his latest cinematic venture is more cerebral: directing a documentary about the history of hip-hop.

Frank Ocean says he feels like a free man: The acclaimed singer has revealed on his website that his first love was a man.