Earlier this week, an ad popped up on Snapchat asking users would they “rather slap Rihanna or punch Chris Brown.” While the advertisement only appears on the platform in the U.S., it was quickly captured and posted by various people on Twitter, questioning the content and the tasteless manner to spread domestic violence awareness. The ad was soon removed and Snapchat issued an apology to Rihanna. “The advert was reviewed and approved in error, as it violates our advertising guidelines. We immediately removed the ad last weekend, once we became aware. We are sorry that this happened,” said a spokesperson for the company.

On Thursday morning (Mar. 15), Rihanna responded with a message posted to her Instagram story. “I’d love to call it ignorance, but I know you ain’t that dumb!” said RiRi wrote. “This isn’t about my personal feelings, cause I don’t have much of them…but all the women, children and men that have been victims of DV in the past and especially the ones who haven’t made it out yet…you let us down! Shame on you. Throw the whole app-oligy away.”

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Migos member Offset caused a stir on social media this week after the release of YFN Lucci’s “Boss Life” music video. While the song came out last year right before the Christmas holidays, it wasn’t until its accompanying visual dropped online that listeners caught an offensive lyric in the song. Offset, who is featured on the track, rapped the line “I cannot vibe with queers.” The Atlanta hitmaker soon faced backlash over the line and on Thursday (Jan. 18), Offset issued an apology.

“I didn’t write the line about gay people,” says Offset in a statement posted on his Instagram. “I have said before since these issues before that I got love for all people. My passion for fashion has lead me to a lot of gay people around me who I have mad respect for and we are very cool so I’m not in a place where I’m hating like that,” he later continued. “I M S O R R Y, I A P O L O G I Z E, I’m offended I offended anybody.”

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Khalid will serve as supporting act on phase one of Travi$ Scott’s upcoming “Birds Eye View” tour, running from March to July. The El Paso musician, who made his late-night television debut last month on The Tonight Show, appeared on The Ellen Show this week.

Serving as his daytime TV debut, the singer performed his hit song “Location” with help from a live band. Watch it below and get Khalid’s American Teen LP here.

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Talk about the Internet goin’ nuts. Last night, Kim Kardashian finally got fed up of Taylor Swift and exposed her “fake ass” (her husband’s words, not ours) by presenting cold, hard, Snapchat evidence of that phone call between Kanye West and Taylor Swift.

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After facing criticism for omitting certain aspects of his life in the N.W.A. movie Straight Outta Compton, Dr. Dre is coming out and apologizing to the females who he is accused of abusing in the past. In a statement to the New York Times, Dre blamed the fact he had no structure in his life at the time, but vows to have changed for his family and does not excuse his actions.

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We’ve seen how Kanye West deals with incompetent DJs, but it’s nothing compared to the wrath of Lil Wayne. Just seven songs into last night’s set at Nova Southern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL, Weezy threw the mic at the DJ and stormed off stage after he spun O.T. Genasis’ “Coco” instead of Wayne’s remix. Even Big Kap had it easier than this dude!

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Back when Janice Dickinson, the polarizing plasticized 70’s-80’s supermodel and America’s Next Top Model judge, wrote her autobiography No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel in 2002, she allegedly included a story about being raped by Bill Cosby. In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Dickinson both restates the Cosby rape allegation, but also claims that the legendary comedian and his legal team pressured her publisher HarperCollins to remove the story from the book’s first draft. Instead, a less detailed story, stopping short of rape accusations but still creepy, was included. (Read that version here on Vice)

Here’s what Janice Dickinson is now telling ET about her encounter in Lake Tahoe in 1982, when she accepted an invitation from Cosby to meet up to discuss a possible acting job…she claims that after dinner, she accepted a glass of red wine, and a pill to help her with cramps. And then…

“The next morning I woke up, and I wasn’t wearing my pajamas, and I remember before I passed out that I had been sexually assaulted by this man,” she tells ET. “… Before I woke up in the morning, the last thing I remember was Bill Cosby in a patchwork robe, dropping his robe and getting on top of me. And I remember a lot of pain. The next morning I remember waking up with my pajamas off and there was se–n in between my legs.“

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BET is in hot water again. On Monday afternoon’s airing of 106 & Park, special guest host Karrueche Tran gave a recap on Sunday night’s MTV VMAs during a segment called “Top Six Things Blue Ivy Thought About the VMAs.” Reading off a teleprompter, the No. 1 “thought” turned out to be a classless joke directed at Beyoncé and Jay Z’s daughter, Blue Ivy.

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Donald Sterling’s disgustingly racist remarks continue to spark outrage in and outside of the basketball — and rightly so. Many interesting stories are developing from “Sterlinggate,” including reactions from the Clippers players, the strong possibility of Magic Johnson buying the franchise from Sterling, and an extended tape of Sterling’s racist rant. Hit the jump for the latest developments.

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Yesterday TMZ obtained audio of a conversation between L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his girlfriend V. Stiviano, and his comments were truly appalling. The 80-year-old Sterling scolded his much younger girlfriend (who is black and Mexican) for posting pictures of herself with black guys (including Lakers legend Magic Johnson) on Instagram, and told her “not to bring them to my games.”

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