When a photograph of Chris Brown’s latest album adorned with a sticker that read “WARNING: Do Not Buy This Album! This Man Beats Women” made its way around the internet last week, many an internet user chuckled at the prankster’s attempt at saying what many were thinking.

In a statement sent to HuffPost Entertainment, HMV says it was not behind the sticker. “Someone went into one of our stores and put the stickers on,” HMV representative Gennaro Castaldo told The Huffington Post in a statement. “We spotted and removed them quickly but before we could do so the person circulated a photo to media.”

But in a recent twist, HMV says the sticker may have helped promote Fortune, Brown’s album. A representative of the company tells NME: “I guess they got their point across pretty effectively – with widespread coverage around the world, though, by the same token, quite a few more people now know there’s a new Chris Brown album out.”

Whoops.

Wait, Nicki Minaj is a Romney supporter? I did not see this one coming:

Young Money rapper Nicki Minaj is again at the center of another controversy.

In a song “Mercy” off Lil Wayne’s new mixtape Dedication 4, Nicki Minaj raps “I’m a Republican voting for Mitt Romney, you lazy b–ches is f—ing up the economy.”

This line has not gone down well with both fans of Nicki Minaj and President Obama.

Since the news broke Nicki Minaj has been a trending topic on Twitter, with thousands of angry fans tweeting their disbelief.

Earlier this year Nicki Minaj vented on Twitter to President Obama after actress Yvette Wilson died from cancer:

“What’s sad is that when Yvette was bringing home the bacon, the gov’t was probably taking millions. On her deathbed though, #Nowheretobefound,” she wrote on Twitter. “That should be a God given right! Even with Obama Care, too much involved. Just give FREE health care to all. @BarackObama what can we do?”

“@BarackObama I wouldn’t mind the millions they took if it was going to healthcare. Why should a poor person struggle to pay for MEDS sir?” Nicki Minaj added.

Why is it that such a far-fetched story sounds almost plausible when Scientology is involved?

Scientology’s first pick was Tehran-born actress Nazanin Boniadi (probably best known as Nora on How I Met Your Mother). After heavy preparations and auditing in October 2004, Boniadi met Cruise secretly in New York in November, going skating and spending the night together. But Cruise was almost immediately annoyed with Boniadi, complaining she didn’t gush enough love to him. But her biggest infraction was being rude to Miscavige—she repeatedly asked him to repeat himself, a big no-no in communications-obsessed Scientology. Scientology officials told Boniadi her relationship with Cruise was over in January, and she was sent to the group’s Celebrity Center in Florida, where after spilling details of the saga, she was punished by scrubbing toilets with a toothbrush and digging ditches in the middle of the night. Of course, Scientology denies the whole thing. (Note: Mark Rathbun, famous anti-Scientology crusader, says that the Vanity Fair piece was written without Boniadi’s involvement, and the actress has made no comments on her Twitter page).

So sad.

Michael Clarke Duncan, the hulking, prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in “The Green Mile” and such other box office hits as “Armageddon,” ”Planet of the Apes” and “Kung Fu Panda,” is dead at age 54.

Clarke died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, said his fiancée, Reverend Omarosa Manigault, in a statement released by publicist Joy Fehily.

The muscular, 6-foot-4 Duncan, a former bodyguard who turned to acting in his 30s, “suffered a myocardial infarction on July 13 and never fully recovered,” the statement said. “Manigault is grateful for all of your prayers and asks for privacy at this time. Celebrations of his life, both private and public, will be announced at a later date.”