Just last month it is said that Bobby Shmurda, who is awaiting trial for many charges, got with three crip members in prison fighting two blood members in a fistfight. The fight was broken up with mace says the prison guard. The trail for Shmurda will begin on June 25th and if convicted of all his charges he faces up to 25 years in prison so he really shouldn’t be making any enemies.
The Billboard Music Awards were last night in Vegas and Iggy Azalea got three awards. Iggy won two out of three main Hip Hop awards. She won Top Rap Artist beating out J. Cole, Drake, Nicki Minaj, and Rae Sremmurd. Iggy also won Top Rap Song for her song “Fancy”. But J. Cole won did win Top Rap Album which is well deserved.
The TIDAL streaming service is still getting exclusivity to some pretty big artists content with the latest being from Nicki Minaj and Beyonce. Beyonce and Nicki Minaj have dropped the video for “Feeling Myself”, a Hit Boy-produced track on Nicki’s The Pinkprint album, exclusively on TIDAL. It will only be exclusive to title for a short amount of time but diehard fans of the two artist may fork up the cash just to watch the video early. Will this change anything for TIDAL? Probably not they will have to get a lot more exclusives for a long amount of time.
At around 4am this morning the Queens rapper, Lionel “Chinx” Pickens, was shot while in the passenger seat of his car while driving to Briarwood, Queens. His management team for the Coke Boys rapper has released this statement. “It is with a heavy heart that The Legion Media Group and 4 Kings Management announce the passing of Lionel ‘Chinx’ Pickens this morning. He was 31. Few details are available about his passing but his management confirmed his passing this morning. The rapper from Queens, New York was a member of French Montana’s Coke Boys. Chinx’s dedication, humor, and vision will always be remembered: ‘Chinx was one of the most talented, dedicated, and determined rappers this industry had to offer,’ says publicist Chanel Rae, ‘Furthermore, he was a friend.'” Police are reporting that Chinx and another victim were driving in Chinx’s Porshce on Queens Boulevard and another vehicle pulled up and opened fire on them. There is no motive at this time and the man that was driving Chinx car is in critical condition. Keep it right here for any updates and thoughs and prayers to Chinx friends and family from HHNS.
A protester named dream hampton who is also a filmmaker, writer, and social critic has used social media to defent Jay Z and Beyonce from the people saying that they remain quiet during the protests in Ferguson and now Baltimore. She has repordely contacted the couple while she was on the frontlines of the protests and was wires “tens of thousands” from them to cover bail costs. Hampton also added that they donated huge sums of cash to the “Black Lives Matter” foundation. It is good to see one of the most powerful couples in the world take part in events that are for the people.
Jay Z had an exclusive “B-Sides” concert for TIDAL users in NYC. Jay performed some rare songs from his catelog and even spit a freestyle taking shots at YouTube and Spotify and even Apple. Check out the lyrics from the freestyle in their entirity below thanks to Billboard. “I don’t need no middlemen to talk to my n—-s / I understand if you don’t understand I figure my n—-a / That’s where we differ / I take what’s mine you accept what they give you / I get you/ I don’t take no checks / I take my respect / Pharrell even told me “Go with the best bet” / Jimmy Iovine offered the safety net / Google came around with a crazy check / I feel like YouTube is the culp-a-rit /. N—-s pay you a tenth of what you supposed to get / You know n—a die for equal pay, right? You know what i’m worth / I ain’t your slave right / You know i aint shucking and jivin’ and high fivin’ / You know this ain’t back in the days right / But i can’t tell by the way they kill Freddie Gray right / Shot down / Mike Brown / Like the way they did Tray right? / Y’all gone’ keep choking’ n—-s / we gon’ turn style / I ain’t your token n—a / You know i came in this game independent right / Tidal / My own label / same difference / Oh n—-s is skeptical of they own shit / You bought nine iPhones and Steve Jobs is rich / Phil Knight worth trillions you still bought those kicks / Spotify’s nine billion and they ain’t say shit / ‘Lucyyy you got some splainin’ to do’ / The only one they hatin’ on look the same as you / That’s cool / I know they tryin’ to bamboozle you / Spending billions on meryin’ to confusin you / I had to tell myself “Hov, get used to it” / It’s politics as usual.” Also check out the video of the freestyle below also.
A well known hip-hop photographer, Armen Djerrahian, has opened a lawsuit on Rick Ross for using photographs that he had taken without permission. TMZ reports that Armen is suing Rick Ross for a photo of Jay z he had taken way back in 2003 that was recently used in Rosses “Movin Bass” video. Armen wants all profits made using they photo and wants to block any further use of the photo without his permission. Hopefully Ross gets this all sorted out quickly.
OG Maco has become one of the newest artists out of Atlanta to achieve success with his hit single “U Guessed It”. Maco has been putting out a constant flow of music for his fans and now he has moved further in his music career by signing to a major label. This was all confirmed from a tweet sent out by Maco himself saying “Deal complete. I just signed major.” And “And now that I’m worth a nice check, Ima need some peace from whatever woman trippin on me.” Then Maco added “No more free music or free features for anyone.” Hopefully this whole signing to a major doesn’t all go to his head and he keeps an element of himself down to earth. Check out OG Maco’s music video for his hit song “U Guessed It” below.
Tmz is is reporting that Tyga has neighbors that are becoming more and more frustrated with the amount of parties he throws. The fines have built up to a whopping $10,000 for disturbing the neighborhood with the amount of house parties he has. Since Tyga is renting the landlord is the person who is actually getting most of the negativity. Though Tyga has been banned from common areas of his housing development which isn’t great for his reputation in that community.
Seems like everyone is getting their own tv shows these days with Lil Kim just yesterday announcing that she would be having her own tv show. Today Amber Rose showed what looked like a tv set on her Instagram which could very well be a talk show or even a reality tv show of hers. Amber captioned the photo with “Muva just givin u trolls something else to hate on #HoesBeWinning.”
Dom Kennedy fans have been waiting anxiously for a new album from the artist. It has been an entire two years since Doms last project “Get Home safely” came out and he has not been making much music since. But today Dom has announced a new self-titled album that is going to be dropping on June 2nd. Dom showed artwork and the title announcement via Instagram. Check out the album artwork below.
Bill O’Reilly was recently talking about the decline of Christianity in the youth and he boldly suggested that Hip-Hip was the reason for the decline. “The rap industry, for example, often glorifies depraved behavior, That sinks into the minds of some young people – the group that is most likely to reject religion” But of course Bill did not acknowledge huge artist in Hip-Hop who speak positivity and have Christianity incorporated into their music like Kanye and Kendrick Lamar.
In a video released recently Lil Kim announced a new reality show of hers called “The Queen Bee”. Kim used the tag line “It’s time for the black Kardashian” when talking about the new reality show. Kim also talked about her other big plans like working with Fabolous in the studio and also working with Diddy in the future. So it seems like Lil Kim has some big plans for her future and hopefully she finds success in her ventures. Check out the video below.
After a year of marriage Kanye West and Kim have decided to renew their wedding vows in the city of Paris, France. The two will be saying “I do” again in France later on this month right in front of the Eiffel Tower. US Weekly is reporting that Kanye will be renting out the whole Eiffel Tower and restaurant for the whole event.
50 Cents new project “Street King Immortal” is finally going to arrive after many delays. 50 called into the radio station 93.7 which is based in Hartford, Connecticut. He talked about getting ready to release the first single off of his long awaited solo album. “You gon’ get somethin’ from me memorial weekend Imma come out with a single probably off of a Street King Immortal…. And maybe June 2, Ill release the single.” 50 Cent fans should start getting excited for this new project because it is highly anticipated.
