Houston rapper Just Brittany sent out a barrage of tweets directed at Rihanna stating that she “jacked” her song on Rihanna’s new track “Bitch better Have My Money”. Just Brittany had a song called “Betta Have My Money” come out about nine months back which she thinks Rihanna stole. Though Just Brittany did delete her tweets the internet has preserved them and it will not be forgotten. Check out both songs below.
In an interview with FADER of course Jay Z was there to talk about his new business venture TIDAL. The interview got really interesting when Jay said that once an artist completes their contract with a major label they could potentially exclusively distribute their music through TIDAL. We asked about working with labels this is exactly how Jay responded “Well, we can’t exclude the major labels because they have contracts with the artists. But if you don’t have a contract as an independent artist, then you can do whatever you want and we would love to work with you… I’m on Tidal. I don’t have a record deal.” Jay Z was also asked about what would make people want to switch from Spotify to TIDAL and responded with “At some point they’ll be faced with that decision. Again — there will be other things. This isn’t just about music; it’s also about concert ticketing. It’s a holistic place where the artists will live in. You may be able to download a song for free, but you’re not getting into concerts for free. There are different things that we offer. It’s not just songs — we’re offering value.” So Jay seems to have a lot of faith in this brand new company and we’ll see if any of this really holds true.
It was announced on March 30th via Kean Universities twitter that Academy Award winning rap artist Common would be the graduation speaker this year. Just hours after the announcement, the university retracted their statement because of the concerns of law officials. The decision to have Common be speaker was “Strongly opposed” by the NJ police supposedly because of lyrics in a Common Track. The son was released 15 years ago and in it Common raps about Assata Shakur who was involved in the killing of a state trooper and wounding another. “While we respect his talent, Kean is pursuing other speaker options,” the spokeswoman for the university, Susan Kayne, said.
Snoop Dogg had a picture posted on his Instagram of a Texas public safety trooper which got the trooper in trouble. The troopers name is Billy Spears and he had posed with snoop in a harmless picture that was uploaded to Snoops Instagram. As a result of this Billy has to undergo counseling plus he has a disciplinary mark on his record with no luck of an appeal. It is said that the trooper is in trouble because of Snoops well-known criminal background. “While working a secondary employment job, Trooper Spears took a photo with a public figure who has a well-known criminal background including numerous drug charges, The public figure posted the photo on social media and it reflects poorly on the Agency.” Read the department’s statement on this matter. Check out the photo below.
The security guard that Rich Homie Quan allegedly attacked has come forward saying that the speedboat part of the story was not true but continues to say that Rich Homie did assault him. But Quan has not commented on the speedboat and says he is completely innocent releasing an officially statement on the matter. “With respect to the questions concerning the incident with the security guard, I am innocent of the accusations he has made against me. However, I am not at liberty to expand further at this time because the investigation into the events of that day is ongoing.” Keep it locked right here for more information on the situation.
The theatrical trailer for the much anticipated N.W.A Straight Outta Compton biopic has just released. This also came with movie posters of members Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren and DJ Yella. The movie is due to be released on August 14. Though Eazy-E passed way back in 1995 Ice Cube said this “Working on the movie, it’s like we’ve been engulfed in Eazy-E for the last seven years, so, it seems like he’s right here still.” Hopefully this move does well and does a great job at telling the story of N.W.A.
Tyga was at his LA Gear release party in Hollywood and was hit with legal papers out of nowhere. The server was acting as though he was a fan waiting for an autograph getting his pair of LA gear signed before whipping out the legal papers and serving Tyga. Check the video of the serving below.
Kevin Gates is known to have very wild antics but what happened while in Flint, Michigan on Sunday night was a little much. Footage actually surfaced from the show that shows Kevin Gates throw his arm at a woman who looked to be grabbing at him in the front row of his show. In the video at about 11 seconds Gates goes on the attack and security gets behind him and doesn’t pull him out of the scuffle until about 38 seconds in and then he continues performing as if nothing happened. But it doesn’t actually end there after everything seemed calm at about 1 minute 6 seconds in Gates takes another lunge at the woman but it didn’t go any further than that. Hopefully no contact was made to either of the women and things don’t escalate any further then this but only time will tell. Check the clip below of the incident thanks to TMZ.
It is well known that 50 Cent has had a beef with French Montana for quite some time now and he continued that beef yesterday over social media. 50 Cent yesterday posted a photo of him without a shirt on in a boxing stance on his Instagram and a fan commented “You should fuck french montana @50Cent” then 50 responded ““what the fuck you just say nothing nigga. I ain’t with all that crazy shit what the fuck you think I’m puffy.” He has deleted both of the posts but of course the internet never forgets anything.
In a sit down interview Jay Z talked about the new TIDAL streaming service. Jay talked about wanting to restore “fair trade in the music industry saying “Definitely. For someone like me, I can go on tour. But what about the people working on the record, the content creators and not just the artists? If they’re not being compensated properly, then I think we’ll lose some writers and producers and people like that who depend on fair trade. Some would probably have to take another job, and I think we’ll lose some great writers in the process. Is it fair? No. If you put in work, everyone else, you go to work you get paid. That’s fair trade. It’s what our country is built on.” Then Jay talks about what he wants out of the service “Artists come here and start making songs 18 minutes long, or whatever. I know this is going to sound crazy, but maybe they start attempting to make a “Like a Rolling Stone,” you know, a song that doesn’t have a recognizable hook, but is still considered one of the greatest songs of all time, the freedom that this platform will allow art to flourish here. And we’re encouraging people to put it in any format they like. It doesn’t have to be three minutes and 30 seconds. What if it’s a minute and 17, what if it’s 11; you know, just break format. What if it’s just four minutes of just music and then you start rapping?” Finally Jay talks about if there will be exclusive content on TIDAL from artists “Well, it’s up to the artist. You know, there’s a thing now, it’s called the album cycle. You put your single out, promote it, then another single — I think that now for an artist an album cycle doesn’t have to end. They’re on Instagram and Twitter and all these things, so we’re just talking about ways of extending that album cycle, and it could be anything. What if it’s a video offering tickets to the next concert, or what if it’s audio or video of the recording process? It could be anything. It could be them at home listening to songs that inspire them. Anything they want to offer, you know; just be as creative as possible, that’s the only charge, really. Make it look really good and make everyone that consumes it think, “Man, I got something really great.” Treat the people with respect; make it memorable.”
In an interview with USA Today Justin Bieber talks about his ups and downs and how it has been having cameras in his face all the time since he was 13 years old. But what was really interesting was what is coming up next for Bieber in the music world that he talked about a little bit. On his next album Bieber says that he will be working with two of the biggest producers in the music industry, Kanye West and founder of Def Jam Rick Rubin. Justin Bieber has not put out an album since 2012 but he is definitely taking it up a notch with the production on his next.
There hasn’t been much from Young Dro in the music scene for quite some time now with his last song coming out about a year ago. But he is in the news today because he was contacted by police on Sunday for some unrelated incident but that lead them to find out he had an outstanding warrant for his arrest and he was taken into custody on theft charges. Apparently Dro was wanted for “theft by conversion of leased or rented personal property for a February incident,” according to Atlanta Journal-Constitution which seems like a property scam. Keep it locked her for updates on this situation.
Drakes OVO label is very rapidly becoming more then that with all the ventures they are taking advantage of. The OVO clothing brand has become very popular and opened its first store in Toronto last year. Today they have announced that they will be opening their first OVO pop-up store in the United States which will be in the city of Los Angeles. This store will be in L.A. from April 4th until the 30th and store hours will be Mon. – Sat. 11am-7pm, and 12-6pm on Sunday. If you are close by the address is 112 ½ S. La Brea St., Los Angeles, CA 90036. Though this is just a temporary spot this can be OVO just testing the waters in preparation to open up another store and grow even further.
Launching a streaming service in 2015 can’t be the easiest thing to do with big competitors like Spotify, Beats, and Pandora already going strong. Well it turns out Jay Z is not the only one who owns a part of the TIDAL streaming service. Jay and other big names own a part of the company like Kanye West, Rihanna and Nicki Minaj, Modanna, Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Usher, Daft Punk and more . A lot of them have begun advertising the Tidal service by turning their twitter avatars to a blue color and tweeting out #TIDALforALL showing they fully support the new service and spreading this influence throughout of their huge fan bases. The site officially launched at 2 PM EST today and will cost you $19.99 a month for what is said to be hi-fidelity streaming or you can spend $9.99 for a standard audio quality. We will see if this service can survive with the rest of the big streaming services especially Spotify which seems to be leading the industry right now. Here is a link to the site check it out.
There has not been a De La Soul album since 2004 but that will change today. The old school group has announced that they are ready to record their first album in 11 years. They have launched a kickstarter campaign today wanting to raise $110,000 for the new album and have added some special offers for those who donate. If you were to donate a whopping $7,500 to their kickstarter you would get to appear on one of the skits on the new album. This album will feature 2 Chainz, Damon Albarn, David Byrne, and Little Dragon. If you are interested in helping De La Soul make their way back into the music scene check out their Kickstarter and back the project. Click here for a link to their page.
