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It's not enough to be a movie star and a singer. Taryn Manning learned early on that she also needs to be a business woman to keep afloat financially -- and to earn enough to keep doing what she enjoys. Here's her guide to saving money and boosting her income.

For many rap and hip-hop artists, behind all the trash talk and posturing, it's all about business. Forbes recently released its Hip Hop Cash Kings list, and the 20 big names on it racked up a total of about $300 million, despite the weak economy and the Internet revolution that is killing the CD business.

Hip-hop pays well, very well, at least for Jay-Z. Forbes reports Jay-Z racked up $63 million in the past year -- owing about $22 million in federal and state taxes, a sum greater than the total earnings of every rapper and hip-hop mogul besides second-ranked Diddy.

Remember Schoolhouse Rock!? Meet Flocabulary, a program that teaches science, Shakespeare, SAT words and ancient civilization through hip-hop. The music, developed by producers who have worked with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige, is the reason students take it seriously -- it's used in more than...

By now, you may have heard that yesterday morning, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough accidentally used the F-word on the air. He was just talking, and threw out an expression that involved the word, and he didn't even realize he had used the word until about 30 seconds later, when it was pointed out to...