The newly released biopic Straight Outta Compton is a huge success in the box office keeping the top spot for the second week in a row even with newly much anticipated contenders showing up. The movie is set to break the $100 million mark which is another record broken for the film. With the movies success a ton of other old school rap stars are looking to make biopics which could either be great or a bargain bin mess.
Chris Browns next album is expected to be coming soon enough and he has just let everyone know the albums official title via twitter. Browns new album will be called “ROYALTY” and it will the the seventh studio album from him. This album could be out before the end of the year by the way things are shaping up and fans should be getting pretty excited to hear some new tracks from Chris.
T.I. has not been paying his taxes and Daily Mail is now reporting that the IRS has filed two liens against him for $4.5 million. The first was for $1,397,283.47 back in 2012 for unpaid taxes and the second was for $3,173,476.39 in 2013. Though T.I. seems to have it all together for 2014 lets hope that he gets all of that taken care of before he gets into anymore trouble with Uncle Sam.
It is well known that Dr. Dre has a hit movie out right now but some wonder why the movie didn’t show Dr. Dre’s harsher side. Dr. Dre in his past has assualted women and one was even originally in the script but was given the axe. So Dr. Dre has now issued a statement about the his assaults on women saying “Twenty-five years ago I was a young man drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life. However, none of this is an excuse for what I did. I’ve been married for 19 years and every day I’m working to be a better man for my family, seeking guidance along the way. I’m doing everything I can so I never resemble that man again. I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives.” Hopefully this shows the women that he is changed and gives everyone involved a little closer in the matter.
The biopic “Straight Outta Compton” has been very successful and people are already talking about a sequel. Daz Dillinger from Dogg Pound says that a sequel to “Straight Outta Compton” is going to be coming. TMZ reports when speaking with Dillinger that the sequel will primarily follow Tupac, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Warren G, Kurupt, and Daz himself. The title of the biopic is said to be “Dogg Pound 4 Life” but Dr. Dre and Ice Cube will not be involved in the production side of things with this one but have gave a stamp of approval.
The promotional group called Conexts is now suing Rick Ross for $55,000 plus damages because he did not promote their Super Bowl party enough as required by their agreement. This group was to throw their party on January 30 at the Scottsdale Mall Amphitheater and TMZ reports that Ross was supposed to make a post about the event once a day for two weeks. Ross only posted once and the event was eventually cancelled because of a lack of ticket sales. Ross was paid the $55,000 up front and was to be paid another $55,000 afterwards but either way they are coming for their $55,000 now.
Waka Flocka Flame was filming a music video for his song “Workin” and just as Waka and crew are singing the line “We’re the young’ns going crazy shooting cops.” The police show up in force because of calls from neighbors. The cops could not do anything to them though because Waka had all the required permits to shoot the music video in the location they were in. So no arrests were made and the recording was allowed to continue after the music was turned down.
There had been rumors that Iggy Azalea had been spending her time using drugs. Recently she heard of the rumors and decided to end them by Tweeting to the public. “Just landed in australia and I am dying with laughter because nicks just showed me an article that says im a heroin addict. WHAT?! LOL.”
“could be injecting heroin into my hands…. OR could just be scratches from @AleHerself’s evil cat that attacked me the other week.”
Ice Cube tells interviewers how N.W.A. had an impact on rappers such as Eminem: “That opened up a door for artists like Eminem, for people to produce things like South Park, where it’s raw and edgy.”
After Dee Barnes was caught complaining about how the assault scenario was completely dropped from the final project of “Straight Outta Compton”, LA Times was able to obtain the original script:
‘In the scene, the fictional Dre’ “eyes glazed, drunk, with an edge of nastiness, contempt” (per noted from the script) spots Barnes at the party and approaches her.
“Saw that [expletive] you did with Cube. Really had you under his spell, huh? Ate up everything he said. Let him diss us. Sell us out.”
“I just let him tell his story,” Barnes’ character retorts, “That’s what I do. It’s my job.”
“I thought we were cool, you and me,” Dre fires back. “But you don’t give a [expletive]. You just wanna laugh at N.W.A, make us all look like fools.”
The conversation escalates, Barnes throws her drink in Dre’s face before he attacks her “flinging her around like a rag-doll, while she screams, cries, begs for him to stop.”
Everyone has been talking about the information researchers have found after wondering exactly how much money NBA stars make from sponsors. Researchers later found this quote from ESPN: “We’re basically saying that the value of one LeBron tweet is worth $140,000,. And with that, you will reach 23 million people. It would cost you five times more to reach that many people with a TV ad.”
Jay Electronica, yes, Jay Electronica last night decided to take shots at two of the biggest rap artist in the game right now, J. Cole and Drake, while performing in London. Jay has yet to produce a single album but he was up on the stage telling everyone that he is “the God of hip hop”. “You might be the 6 God, but I am the God.” Jay said and later on when Skepta was doing a song he chimed in again saying “I’m sorry but J. Cole ain’t got bars like this. I’m sorry, whoever your favorite rapper is, they all know that I’m the God.” We’ll see if any of the mentioned artist even put the effort into responding to this diss out of left field. Check out the video below.
DJ Mustard thinks that Iggy Azaleas song “Fancy” and Jidenna’s song “Classic Man” are blatant rip offs of his own sound. Now Iggy is actually getting royalties for Jidenna’s track because of how similar it sounded to her song and this of course rubbed Mustard the wrong way because he feels Iggy’s song copies his sound. Taking to twitter Mustard calls them out saying that Iggy and crew are like a person who steals a bike and then sells it. You really do have to admit when you hear “Fancy” you think right off the bat that it is a DJ Mustard produced track. Keep it locked right here to see how this situation pans out even though Mustard has deleted all of his tweets the internet doesn’t forget and we could get a response.
Action Bronson just can’t catch a break these days and is now being sued by a salsa group called El Gran Combo de Puerto Rica for using their music in two of his songs. The two songs are “Mofongo” and Tapas” and are used in Bronsons mixtapes but since the mixtapes are now on streaming services the salsa band saw it fit to sue. The group believes that Bronson is making money off of the two songs now and they want compensation. Keep it right here for any updates on this case.
Master P has announced that he will be traveling the states looking for talent to be in his upcoming biopic called “Ice Cream Man: King Of The South”. P will be going the independant route with this biopic so don’t expect something funded by a major movie studio like “Straight Outta Compton” was. You must be 18 years or older to audition and the release date is now set for Spring 2016.
