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R&B singer Johnny Kemp died Thursday morning while vacationing in Jamaica. He was 55. Kemp, best known for his party song “Just Got Paid,” had arrived in Jamaica on a cruise ship. It’s not yet known if the singer was traveling with anyone else, but Jamaica police said his body was found floating in a beach at Montego Bay.

It’s not clear what led to Kemp’s death, and police are still investigating the incident. Kemp began his singing career at the age of 13, performing at nightclubs in the Bahamas before relocating to New York with the group Kinky Fox in 1979. Kemp released the song “Just Got Paid” in 1988, and it reached the No. 1 spot on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart. It was also No. 1 on the dance charts, and led to to Kemp receiving a Grammy nomination for Best R&B song in 1989.

The former boy band ‘NSYNC famously covered “Just Got Paid” for their 2000 album No Strings Attached. Kemp’s other hit songs include “Birthday Suit,” “Just Another Lover,” “Cover Girl,” and “Penthouse Lover.” Kemp also made an appearance on Keith Sweat’s 2007 concert DVD “Sweat Hotel Live,” along with Teddy Riley, Charlie Wilson, Silk and Jackie McGhee. Kemp is survived by his wife, Deidre, and two sons.

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Kanye West reveals in a new interview that he doesn’t “care about having a legacy,” because he would much rather focus on giving back. As Gossip Cop reported, the rapper made Time’s “100 Most Influential People” list for 2015, and gave the magazine a wide-ranging video interview in which he discussed his family, career, and how he always speaks the truth. Watch the video below.

“Every time I crash the Internet, it’s like this little drop of truth,” says West, adding, “Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.” West continues by saying, “I don’t care about having a legacy. I don’t care about being remembered,” because he feels “the most important thing to me is like, while I’m here, while we’re having fun, while we’re going to sleep and breathing oxygen, and living life and falling in love and having pain and having joy, it’s like, what can I do? What can I do with my voice?”

West explains, “What can we do for each other to make life easier, to make life deeper for our kids, you know, as they grow. We were born into a broken world and we’re like the clean-up crew.” The rapper tells the magazine that he doesn’t believe in competing against other people, again noting, “None of us will be remembered.”

He adds, “Our existence as a race, as humanity, period, is a blip, a millisecond of our life in the entire scope of the universe. All these walls that keep us from loving each other as like one family, as one race, you know… Racism, religion, you know, where we grew up, class, social, economics, all this… What makes us be so selfish, prideful? What makes us  be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to an entire legacy of a race?”

Further elaborating on his views, West states, “I think there’s school teachers that [have] the exact same mission as me. I think there’s police officers with the exact same mission as me. Just help: Just do everything you got, give everything you got.” Watch West’s Time interview below, and tell us what you think.

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Michael Buble apologized for sharing a photo on Instagram in which he commented on a woman’s butt. The singer, who was vacationing in Miami with his wife Luisana Lopilato, uploaded the image using hashtags like “#babygotback” and “#beautifulbum.” See the controversial photo below.

After being heavily criticized for posting the picture of the private citizen, Buble apologized on Facebook. He wrote, “Anyone who knows me would never misinterpret the message of the photo my wife took in Miami that seems to have caused unexpected rage by some people.” Buble continued, “I do not court controversy. But I realize that a photo that was meant to be complimentary and lighthearted has turned into a questionable issue. For the record, it hurts me deeply that anyone would think that I would disrespect women or be insulting to any human being.”

The singer went on to say that he regrets if anyone found the picture “offensive,” because that wasn’t his intention. “Women are to be celebrated, loved, respected, honored and revered. I’ve spent my life believing that and will continue to do so,” wrote Buble.

As Gossip Cop noted, the singer was attacked when he posted a photo of himself with a woman in the background wearing a tiny pair of shorts. He captioned the flick, “There was something about this photo Lu took that seemed worthy of Instagram. #myhumps #babygotback #hungryshots #onlyinmiami #picoftheday #beautifulbum.” Check out the photo below, and tell us what you think of Buble’s apology.

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