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Rihanna attends Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinals of the 2013 NBA Playoffs between the Miami Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks at American Airlines Arena on April 21, 2013 in Miami, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)

Rihanna breaks pop records but is she music royalty?

Veronica Miller
OPINION - Love her or hate her, Rihanna certainly knows how drop a good pop single...
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Rihanna performing on stage during her "Diamonds" World Tour at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, file)

Rihanna earns Billboard record for most no. 1 pop songs

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT - Rihanna is known for releasing chart-topping singles and her latest song 'Stay' has broken new records for the artist...
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Tracy Morgan poses in the media center for Super Bowl XLVII at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on February 1, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Scott Halleran/Getty Images)

Tracy Morgan to host Billboard Music Awards

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NEW YORK (AP) - Billboard announced Wednesday that the 44-year-old will host the awards show on May 19 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas...
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Why rapper Macklemore’s indie rise is a simple white lie

Rap Rehab
RAP REHAB - In the music industry what sounds like a great story is often just great fiction...
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Rihanna attends her 'Unapologetic' record release fan meet and greet at Best Buy Theater on November 20, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images)

Rihanna's 'Unapologetic' becomes her first no. 1 album

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theGRIO REPORT - In the wake of the controversy swirling around her 777 tour, pop star Rihanna finally has some good news: her new album Unapologetic is her first to top the Billboard charts...
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Controversial billboard labels MLK a Republican

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT -'Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. VOTE REPUBLICAN!' the controversial billboard reads from above Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Dallas, Texas...
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Rapper Missy Elliott attends the 10th anniversary party at TAO on October 16, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

Missy Elliott on Aaliyah posthumous album: 'We have not been contacted'

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Missy Elliott's longtime manager, Mona Scott-Young released a statement to Billboard saying she has not been contacted to work on Aaliyah's posthumous album.
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This image provided by KVVU-TV shows a billboard with a mannequin dangling from a hangman's noose near The Strip in Las Vegas. Authorities said calls began coming in early Wednesday Aug. 8, 2012, from drivers worried the dummy along Interstate 15 near was a real person. A Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman said the sign is a publicity stunt done in bad taste. A woman who answered the phone at Lamar Advertising Co. says the sign was not authorized and was being removed. (AP Photo/KVVU, Peter Dawson)

Billboard with dummy on noose shocks Vegas drivers

Michelle Rindels, Associated Press
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Even by Las Vegas standards, it was a shocking billboard: A mannequin dangling on a hangman's noose below a black sign with the ominous words 'Dying for Work'...
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Billboard links Obama to alleged killer

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An anti-Obama advocacy group based in Idaho has decided to co-opt the image of the infamous Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes in order to attack the president...
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Nas attends Moet Rose Lounge Presents Nas' Life Is Good at Bagatelle on July 17, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images for Moet Rose)

Nas's 'Life is Good' debuts at number one

Melissa Noel
theGRIO REPORT - Hip-hop veteran Nas now has six number albums under his belt. His tenth studio album Life is Good debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart this week...
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