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While at a Migos concert in Albany, NY six people were stabbed. It is being reported that Albany police first arrived at the scene at 12:50 AM and found two victims right away who were rushed to the hospital. Soon after that two more victims showed up at the hospital with the last two found by the police were not hospitalized with all six having non-life threatening injuries which is great to hear. There are no suspects yet but there is video of the concert showing violence break out and people scatter.

Iggy Azalea has not been having the best time on social media lately. She recently quit twitter because of all the hate she was receiving on the site but now she has decided to quit using Instagram too. “I don’t care about being relevant. I just want to live my life and deserve for whatever I do in the privacy of my own property not to be on a blog. That’s just human decency and if it’s hard for you to understand then you have a warped sense of reality. I’m not here for yall, don’t want or need you to talk about me and would be wildly happy if being irrelevant meant being able to check the mail in the morning without seeing a photographer hiding out in a car across the street. Peace!” Iggy said in a statement to her fans. Though she is done with social media for now Iggy is hard at work on her next album.

An app called Drizzy has just got into the iPhones app store. The app allows you to tap into Drake lyrics across all of his albums and send out your favorite Drake one-liners. The app also has its own lyrics section categories like feels, hustle, hate, ex’s, and more. It will be interesting to see if other rap artists get their own keyboard apps like this.

Kendrick Lamar took to social media today to post a link to iTunes that lead us fans/followers to his upcoming albums iTunes store page. The title of the album as of this moment is [Untitled] which we can assume will be changed to the official title at a later date. The page also shows us the official release date of March 23^rd with the ability for all to pre-order it now. The art for the album is simply black and this is all the information that we have about the album at this time with most tracks not being named yet besides the single that Kendrick released a few weeks back “Blacker the Berry”. Fans of Kendrick have reason to get excited now with a release date that only puts the album a few weeks out the anticipation is very high.

Cole has just announced that he will be joining the packed SXSW show schedule. Cole will have his own show called “Dreamville Takeover” artist featured will be Bas, Cozz, Omen, and plenty more all headlined by J. Cole himself. This will take place on Saturday, March 21^st at Austin’s Moody Theater. The SXSW website states that doors for the show will open around 6:00PM with performances starting up an hour later at 7:00PM. This show is guaranteed to be something special with the critical acclaim J. Coles last two albums have got the amount of good music is going to be off the charts.

Rapper Charles Hamilton as most know took a bit of a step back from hip-hop for the last few years. This step back happened after her was dropped from Interscope back in 2010. In his first interview since 2012 Hamilton has opened up speaking to Billboard talking about the rough time he was having away from the music. Charles Hamilton even said he “wanted to commit career suicide, physical suicide, spiritual suicide.” At only 27 years old Hamilton said he was suffering with an undiagnosed bipolar disorder. “I just didn’t trust anybody. I didn’t leave my house, I just made music all the time. I was fighting depression — I shut myself in.” Hamilton added but he received a lot of support getting him back on track with the music and already he has shared two previously unreleased albums and has signed with Republic Records. Hopefully Charles keeps up this momentum and creates more great music for his ever growing fan base that has been with him since day one.

When talking with Complex Madonna about her upcoming album “Rebel Hearts” she revealed some surprising information. Madonna said while working on her album Kanye contacted her to work on some tracks for her album and ended up working on four tracks. “He ended up only working on four songs, and then we wrote another song together, which is going to be on his record.” Madonna said when asked about the songs Kanye worked on. It is also worth noting that Madonna also said that she will be working with Drake sometime in the future so she is all over the rap scene. These are some very interesting collaboration’s that fans on all sides can’t wait to hear.

The movie ATL was released back in 2006 and had a sort of cult following. The movie was directed by Christopher Robinson who is a well-known music video director. Fans of the film are getting a treat in the form of a sequel to the film. T.I. has given some info about the upcoming project as well as a screen cap that confirmed Robinson as the director once again. With it looking like most everyone from the original ATL will be reprising their roles. We will keep you up to date on any more information as the film gets into production.

#ATL2 Get Ready

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While in Tucson,  Arizona doing a show things got physical between Travi$ Scott and his fans.  Scott is known for stage diving at all of his shows so while he was amongst the crowd a fight broke out between him and a fan.  Both sides were trading punches and reports are saying that it all started when a fan attempted to snatch Scott’s chain. The video of the event is down below with some shaky camera work it is hard to make out exactly what is going on but you can try your best.

Last October Juvenile returned to Cash Money by signing a deal with them but just a few months later Lil Wayne and Birdman started to see turmoil in their relationship. Now Wayne is suing Birdman and a clean resolution doesn’t seem anywhere near. This of course means a lot of artist are caught up in the middle of this so when Hot New Hip Hop sat down the long-time member of Cash Money, Juvenile, they had to get his thoughts on the situation. When asked if the situation between Wayne and Birdman was hurting him in anyway he said “Is the relationship hurting me with what’s going on between Wayne and Baby? A little bit in the sense of I wish it wasn’t happening, I wish this wasn’t going on, that’s what really hurts me.” Juvenile continued “But yeah, me being back with Cash Money one of the things was to work with Drake, Nicki Minaj and people like that, who wouldn’t wanna be able to do that? And there’s really no bad blood me with no side. I really feel like when it’s family you stay outta it. I think it’s something they gotta resolve. As far as the business, as far as me, with Cash Money, I feel it’s great though.” So it sounds like most artist caught in between just want things resolved peacefully so everyone can get back to work as usual.

Kanye West is once again the target of leaked track list hoax with a track list circulating the internet that is said to be from his upcoming album “So Help Me God”. The track list began its rounds yesterday in the form of a picture seemingly from Def Jam. Though this fake was done very well so these people creating them are getting much better at it but Def Jam has come out and confirmed that it is absolutely a hoax.

 

Chris Browns long time on again off again girlfriend Karrueche Tran may officially calling it quits with the singer now. Taking to twitter today Karrueche tweeted out “Listen. One can only take so much. The best of luck to Chris and his family. No baby drama for me”. This is because as previously posted Chris Brown has a nine-month old baby girl with a former model that everyone is just finding out about. This seems to be the last straw for Karrueche but only time will tell and Chris has not responded to any of this yet but we will keep you up to date on any new information that comes out.

Kanye West had a surprise concert at KOKO in London, England that went through a catalogue of hit from Ye. Kanye brought out guest to get on the stage with him including Big Sean, CyHi Pynce, Raekwon, and Vic Mensa. Kanye performed his big hits “All Day” and “Wolves” then gave Vic Mensa some help doing one of his new songs off his upcoming album. Below is a video of the “All Day” performance thanks to some fans in the crowd.

 

 

A Chicago rapper by the name of Hollywood Holt has just signed a deal with G.O.O.D. Music. Holt made it known via twitter and instagram that he was signed to the label. Holt has been affiliated with G.O.O.D. music since their SXSW showcase last year which he was a part of. You can check out the video of his announcement below as well as some music so you could get a sense of who is joining the G.O.O.D. Music roster.

A few months back we got news that Jay Z had put in a bid for a music streaming service by a company named Aspiro. But now reports are that Aspiro is close to rejecting the deal from Project Panther Bidco which is a subsidiary of Jay Z’s own Shawn Carter Enterprises. It is being said that the reason the $56 million may be rejected is because of the minority shareholders who control up to 10 percent of Aspiro. The main concert from these shareholders is the fact that Project Panther Bidco has not be upfront with their “ plans for international expansion”. They now have until march 11 to decide if they want to accept or deny any offers.