Category: News

Troy Ave recently made news for only selling 4,000 copies of his most recent album. Joey BadA$$ took to twitter with these words “Reminder: Joey Bada$$ sold 57,000+ albums in his first week, INDEPENDENTLY… At 20 years old… $10/album… 85% of shares, do the math….” sending subliminal shots Troy Aves way. Joey also added “That makes me the #1 Independent Hip Hop artist/brand in the world….” The 29 year old rapper Troy Ave must of took offense because he responded over twitter saying “NO single, NO party hosting’s NO real endorsements Reminder: NObody cares + u WORK for Sony Red / Cinematic Records #FakeIndependent” Keep it locked right here for any updates on this subliminal beef.

Young Thug will be releasing his upcoming mixtape called “Slime Season” on July 4^th which is the same day Lil Wayne will be dropping his “Free Weezy Album”. This seems to be a jab at Waynes highly anticipated free album release. But one thing is for certain the fans of the artist will be getting a lot of good music on July 4^th. Plus Wayne is known to push release dates back so at least we know there will be some music out on the 4^th.

Wiz Khalifa seems to finally be completely out of Amber Roses life. TMZ is reporting that they recently approached Amber and her entire upper left arm was wrapped up. Soon after a video surfaced from one of her friends showing her arm showing a sleeve tattoo of roses cover up her old Wiz face tattoo. So I guess all of the fans that hoped the two would eventually get back together can put the dream to rest. Check out the clip below.

Diddy was arrested for starting a fight with a UCLA assistant football coach. His son plays for the Bruins and TMZ is reporting that diddy was on the sideline watching as the couch gave his son a hard time verbally. Diddy decided to confront the couch a little while later which ended up with him in custody by campus police and he is now in campus jail. Keep it right here for updates on this situation.

Yesterday being Fathers Day, Kim Kardashian decided to announced via her instagram that Kanye and her will be having a baby boy. With the post was a throwback photo of Kanye holding North with this caption. “Precious moments like this when we were traveling on tour with you are what I live for. You’re such a good daddy to North & you will be the best daddy to our new son too!,”

The drama continues on the Young Money v. Cash Money situation with Lil Wayne taking every step he can to distance himself from Birdman and company. TMZ has got some more information from files in the lawsuit where Wayne says that Birdman and Cash Money have mismanaged Young Money and it’s biggest stars Drake, and Nicki Minaj and claims that it is so bad that the two might just up and leave Young Money all together. Keep it locked right here for updates on this lawsuit.

The rumor right now is that Gucci Mane is going to be released from prison on July 11^th. A reddit user by the name of DJ Bankhead says that he is close friends with people around Gucci and says that he will indeed be released then and was backed up by Mike WiLL Made It which makes it  a lot more believable. “#FREEGUCCI big dog coming home!!!” Mike Will tweeted out just this morning.

Taylor Swift penned an open letter to Apple Music on Sunday morning talking about how unhappy she was with the fact that artists wouldn’t be getting paid royalties during the three-month trial. We know that this incredible company has the money to pay artists, writers and producers for the 3 month trial period… even if it is free for the fans trying it out,” Soon after Eddy Cue of Apple took to twitter to tell all content creators big and small that Apple will be paying all artist royalties during the three month trial period. Apple is taking great strides to become the number one streaming service because even spotify has major critisim for underpaying all of its artist which is one of the reasons why Taylor Swift isn’t on Spotify.

Kanye West hung out with Outkast and 2 Chainz at a waffle house after his surprise performance at 107.9’s Birthday Bash 20. Fonzwoth Bentley brought Ye out saying in a tweet “I mean if my boy is gonna be in the A I had to take em to the Waffle House”. Both Andre 3000 and Big Boi where in attendence at one of their favorite spots in Atlanta along with 2 Chainz and CyHi The Prynce.

Meek Mills upcoming album “Dreams Worth More Than Money” is highly anticipated and Meek decided to share some more information about it while doing an interview with DJ Charlie Sloth. The likes of Drake, Nicki Minaj, Swizz Beatz, The Weeknd, Future, and Chris Brown will all be jammed packed into the upcoming album. There is still no release date for the album but we can guess with this much news coming out about the project now release is coming sooner then we may think.

50 Cent recently had an interview with Hot 93.7 and revealed some interesting information about his upcoming “Street King Immortal” album. 50 says that both Kendrick Lamar and Chris Brown will be featured on the upcoming album. This is huge and is something fans should be excited about because Kendrick is not known to mess up a feature.

De Rico, an R&B singer, is suing Justin Bieber and Usher for a whopping $10 million in damages for ripping off his song “Somebody to Love”. Rico claims that the track infringes on copyright by mean of “beat pattern, similar chords, lyrics, and time signature.” The suit was filed two years ago originally but was thrown out by the judge but was voted to return to a Judge Allen recently. “After listening to the Copeland song and the Bieber and Usher songs as wholes, we conclude that their choruses are similar enough and also significant enough that a reasonable jury could find the songs intrinsically similar,” Pamela Harris wrote who is a Circuit court judge. Keep it locked right here for updates on the lawsuit.

The Game spent some time with Louis Farrakhan on Wednesday who was one of the people who organized the first Million Man March in 1995. Game took to his instagram to announce that he would be one of the leaders at the 20^th Anniversay march this October. The last march brought 837 thousand people but the leaders hope that bringing in rappers and other artist that young people look up to will bring in more youth and they can truly hit one million marchers.

Vice is now reporting that a former LAPD detective, Russell Poole, believes that he knows who shot Tupac. The story goes like this “A jailhouse informant wrote a local crime reporter telling him that Malcolm Patton, his brother, and a Long Beach Crip named Donald Smith killed Tupac with assistance from Death Row security guard Reggie Wright, Jr. and Suge Knight’s wife. The crime reporter than passed along the information to Poole.” When speaking to Vice Poole had this to say  ”If this was Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra who got murdered, there would’ve been arrests a long time ago, this case can be solved, but needs police follow-up. There are clues sitting right in front of the police. It’s a travesty of justice.” Who knows if this story is true but is interesting.

Fans of Drake and his OVO apparel will be excited to know that the Toronto label has announced on their twitter that their summer 2015 collection will be dropping in their Toronto store on June 20^th and online on June 24. Fans in and around Toronto will be making the trip to cop some fresh new OVO brand clothing.