Prince to Recieve Lifetime Acheivment award

Pop star Prince is to receive a lifetime achievement honour at the Black Entertainment TV (BET) awards later this month.

"Prince is dynamic. Prince is genius. Prince is music," said BET president of programming, Stephen G Hill.

The BET awards are celebrating their 10th anniversary in Los Angeles on 27 June. This year's show will be hosted by Queen Latifah.

Prince has 10 platinum albums and 30 Top 40 singles to his name.

This year's BET awards ceremony will include performances from Kanye West, Diddy and Dirty Money and Ludacris.
Bieber nomination

Nominees include Rihanna, Beyonce, Chris Brown, Usher, Maxwell, Jay-Z and the Black-Eyed Peas.

Jay-Z leads the charge with five nods, while his wife Beyonce has picked up four.

Alicia Keys and Melanie Fiona also have four nominations apiece.

There was also recognition for teenage Canadian star Justin Bieber, who is in the running for best new artist.

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Prince 'owes more than $500k in taxes'

Prince reportedly owes around $506,000 in taxes.

Carver County tax records show the ‘Purple Rain’ singer – real name Prince Rogers Nelson – and his companies PRN Music Corp. and Paisley Park Enterprises Inc. owe the combined sum in delinquent property taxes to the state of Minnesota for 2009.

PRN Music Corp. – which is based in the musician’s Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, which is located west of Minneapolis – alone owes more than $227,000 in taxes to the state and other government bodies.

Prince, 51, now has until April 21 to file an objection to the sum he and his businesses are alleged to owe, if he does not "a court judgment will be entered against the properties for the unpaid tax, penalty, interest, and costs”, according to local newspaper the Chaska Herald.

However, he has until now and May 2013 to pay off the sum until any forfeiture process could start against Prince's listed properties.

According to Laurie Engelen, taxpayer services manager for Carver County, the pop legend was late in paying taxes on his studio in 2006 and 2008, and on a piece of land he owns in 2008, but eventually settled the matter.

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