Wildest Rumors About Music Stars

Sometimes the gossip is more entertaining than the music.

Wildest Rumors About Music Stars - What’s one thing music fiends such as ourselves like almost as much as music? Crazy music rumors. Here, BET.com takes a look at 10 of the wildest music rumors we've heard over the years.  (Photos from left: Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Larry Busacca/Getty Images for NARAS, Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

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Wildest Rumors About Music Stars - What’s one thing music fiends such as ourselves like almost as much as music? Crazy music rumors. Here, BET.com takes a look at 10 of the wildest music rumors we've heard over the years. (Photos from left: Kevin Winter/Getty Images, Larry Busacca/Getty Images for NARAS, Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

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Jay-Z's Secret Love Child - Back in 2007 and then again in 2011, rumors surfaced that the God MC fathered a son in secret with a Trinidadian video model named Shenelle Scott. Jay insisted the reports were untrue. (Photo: Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

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Beyoncé and Kelly — Sisters? - Gossips had a field day with Kelly’s backstory with the Knowles family. Beyoncé's father, Matthew, who managed Destiny’s Child, became her legal guardian but many have speculated that Kelly was actually his child — and years later he did indeed have a child out of wedlock. (Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImages)

Ciara Is a Man? - Ciara has long endured bizarro rumors that she’s really a man. We’re pretty sure Bow Wow, Future and 50 Cent would beg to differ.  (Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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Ciara Is a Man? - Ciara has long endured bizarro rumors that she’s really a man. We’re pretty sure Bow Wow, Future and 50 Cent would beg to differ.  (Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Suge Knight Killed Tupac and Biggie - Leaked investigative reports, books and plenty of rumours — the unsubstantiated reports that Suge killed both of these late, great legends have had plenty of fuel over the years. (Photos from left: Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for LMVH, Courtesy Everett Collection)

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Suge Knight Killed Tupac and Biggie - Leaked investigative reports, books and plenty of rumours — the unsubstantiated reports that Suge killed both of these late, great legends have had plenty of fuel over the years. (Photos from left: Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images, Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for LMVH, Courtesy Everett Collection)

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Erick Sermon: November 25 - The EPMD rapper turns 43.(Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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Erick Sermon Jumped Out of a Window - In 2001, everyone said “huh?” when reports that Erick Sermon had jumped out of a third floor window (no Ron Browz) circulated. Some speculated he tried to commit suicide; others said he was trying to escape a husband who discovered the Green-Eyed Bandit sleeping with his wife. Erick denied the whole thing altogether.  (Photo: Jason Kempin/Getty Images)

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T.I. Snitched - T.I. seemed to be facing football numbers when he was caught with major artillery by the feds in 2007. When he only served a year, rumors started flying that he had snitched. No definitive proof ever emerged, and Tip refuted the claims.  (Photo: Craig Bromley/Getty Images for GREY GOOSE)

Jay-Z Is Down With the Illuminati - Jay-Z’s become so rich and powerful that conspiracy-minded folks are insisting he’s a member of legendary satanic secret society the Illuminati. Some even say that his daughter Blue Ivy’s name is an anagram of "Eulb Yvi," claiming that it means “Lucifer’s daughter” in Latin. It doesn’t. (Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

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Jay-Z Is Down With the Illuminati - Jay-Z’s become so rich and powerful that conspiracy-minded folks are insisting he’s a member of legendary satanic secret society the Illuminati. Some even say that his daughter Blue Ivy’s name is an anagram of "Eulb Yvi," claiming that it means “Lucifer’s daughter” in Latin. It doesn’t. (Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage)

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Tupac Is Alive in Cuba - Fans of Tupac made him hip hop’s version of Elvis, refusing to believe he’s dead. The most persistent rumor? That he’s camping out in Cuba, where his exiled step-aunt, former Black Panther Assata Shakur, also resides.(Photo: Death Row Records)

Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill is usually strumming her pain through music, but in this case, the former Fugee used blogs to pour her heart out. Hill has written several open letters, but the one that really got people's attention was her diatribe against the government and the policies she blames for her financial problems. "I am fighting for economic freedom," she explained in her rant.  (Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

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Lauryn Hill Is Racist - In 1996, reports swirled that Lauryn Hill said, "I would rather die than have a white person buy one of my albums," in an MTV interview. MTV later stated that the interview in question never even took place. (Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

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Janet Jackson Has a Child - In the 2000s, tabloids had a feeding frenzy with whispers that Janet Jackson had a child in secret with first husband James Debarge in the '80s.(Photo: Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images)