With Dr. Dre not having come out with any new music in a very long time it may come as a surprise to some that he is named the Highest Paid Musician of 2014 by Forbes. Thanks for the most part to him selling Beats to Apple for a huge $3 billion which made Dre hip hops first billionaire. He has made more money this year, $630 million, then Beyonce , Paul McCartney, One Direction, and Beiber combined.
Yung Berg is a rapper who has recently been fired from Love and Hip Hop: Hollywood for attacking his girlfriend and having it come out that he owes over $86,000 in child support. Hot 97 is now reporting that Ray J’s manager by the name of Cash Jones has called Berg out as being gay over instagram. Jones says he caught Yung Berg in the studio with a male teenager doing “out of line” things.
NBC 10 Philadelphia is reporting that rapper Beanie Sigel is in critical condition after getting through surgery. Sigel is heavily sedated and is still not able to speak with police. Updates are coming in that he was not shot outside of his house he was at the house of his brother-in-law a 22 year –old Umar Salahuddin and the brother-in-law has not been cooperating with the police at all only making it harder to really know what happened.
Next year on February 23rd BET will be having its annual BET Honors awards. They announced today that Kanye West will be receiving the “Visionary Award” With Usher, John W. Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, and Dr. Johnetta B. Cole also receiving awards in business, theater, art, music, and technology. The BET site has this written about Kanye West “Kanye West will be honored for his extraordinary contributions across the arts, including roles as a record producer, rapper, filmmaker and fashion designer. He’s a multifaceted trailblazer and pioneer whose accomplishments are all marked by his unique and forward-thinking approach.”
Just yesterday it was reported that Diddy and Drake got into a fight at Club Liv in Miami for Khaled’s birthday. Today we have learned from TMZ that the conversation was about a Boi-1da beat that the producer sent to both Drake and Diddy. Diddy sat on the beat for months and Drake decided to record over it and give it to the people. This made Diddy angry and he finally decided to act on his anger when he finally saw Drake at Khaleds party. The specific Boi-1da song is unknown but it could of only been either “6 God”, “How Bout Now”, or the older “0 To 100” which were all very well received by Drakes fans. Keep it locked for more information on this situation as it comes to light.
An L.A. rapper by the name of Earl Hayes, who was a close friend of Floyd Mayweather, and his wife , Vh1 star Stephanie Moseley from “Hit The Floor”, were found dead. Neighbors heard gunshots and a womans screams. Tmz had this to report “Sources connected with Hayes tell us … around 2 years ago he separated from Stephanie because of what he says was her affair with Trey Songz. They got back together but, as one friend put it, “He was crushed and never got over it.” We’re told he frequently brought up Songz.” This is very sad news and we will keep you up to date if any more news comes out about the situation.
J. Cole is projected to have the highest selling record of 2014 in hip-hop. With hardly any promo and no features on the album you would not usually expect the numbers it looks like J. Cole is going to pull. Coles “2014 Forest Hill Drive” officially dropped today and is projected to sell 240,000-270,000 this week which puts his album well above the album that was holding top spot in hip-hop all year, Rick Rosses “Mastermind” from way back in March which sold 179,000 copies. The thing is even if the numbers are true J. Cole still wouldn’t be hitting his sales numbers that he hit with his previous album Born Sinner.
Reports are circulating of a physical confrontation between Diddy and Drake. A few people are saying that Diddy slapped Drake including DJ Sam Sneak and Charlamange Tha God over twitter. Another big outlet talking about the incident is MTV with some sources saying it was about Cassie and others saying it wasn’t it is unclear what really went down as of right now. The two were at DJ Khaled’s birthday party when this all happened and we will keep you updated with further details as they come along.
The updates on Kendricks upcoming album have been scarce and the fans are getting desperate for any bit of information. Today a tracklist is making its way around the internet and is allegedly the tracklist of K.dots next album. The photo is very poor quality but you can make out the names of most every track with the right TDE, Interscope, and Aftermath logos at the bottom it is either a good fake or can actually be legit. Features include Dr. Dre, Jay Rock, Ron Isley, and Pete Rock which keeps features small which is always good with a Kendrick album because he has a lot to say. We will let you know as more information arises about this leak if it is even an actual leak.
MMG leader Rick Ross has showed his displeasure with Timbalands logo for his Mosley Music Group that looks very similar to the logo for Maybach Music Group. MMG took to twitter posting a snapshot of Timbalands logo with the caption “Does Super Producer @Timbaland wanna be us? Lol where Magoo @MissyElliot @ElliotWilson @rickrozay” Then Ross himself of his own twitter posted “@Timbaland #WhereMagoo” keep it locked for more information on this matter.
The Australian rapper has the most hip-hop grammy nominations this year. T.I. in an interview with L.A. Leakers he shows that he is proud of his artist but he knows most other hip-hop artist won’t be. “Congratulations to Iggy for those four Grammy nominations… I appreciate being a part of—Just being able to contribute. I know she works extremely hard. She works extremely hard and she has an incredible vision for what it is that she wants to see herself. We all proud of her. Regardless of whatever anybody else got to say. We proud of her.”
Chris Brown and Plies have been battling things out via Twitter in regards to Chris Brown’s remarks regarding Karrueche Tran. Plies was the first one to call out Chris Brown on the situation; Chris Brown was quick to respond.
Plies tweeted: “If U Tell A Female Business Just When U Get Mad U A Fuck N*gga”
Chris Brown was quick to reply with “@plies If no one listens to your music anymore your career is dead blood”
Both Lil Wayne and Tiger have expressed their recent issues with Young Money, Tyga has made it clear that he will be releasing his album regardless: “The album is done so like I’m going to put it out independently, I’m just getting out [of] my deal right now,” Tyga said when asked about his label situation. “I feel like as an artist what we do creatively should never be imprisoned and at the end of the day we do it to bring it to the fans. It’s not a selfish thing it’s just not fair to the fans. You’ve got millions of people who want your music and they don’t understand the behind the scenes politics. I’m dropping regardless. I’m paying for my own videos and everything so I ain’t waiting on nobody. Everything come to the light so you got to treat people the way you want to be treated at the end of the day.”
Rolling Stone has recently named Kanye’s 808’s & Heartbreak Album the most ground breaking of all time: “Kanye West’s Auto-Tune-heavy, emotionally naked fourth album came after a brutal year during which his mother died and his engagement broke up,” the famed music-based magazine wrote. “But the album’s cavernous sound and exposed-soul lyrics confused even those who had been aware of West’s recent trials. Its core aesthetic was like nothing in Hip Hop: freshly butchered feelings enumerated in detail, but masked by digital processing; beds of spare synths used to balance a mix of singing and rapping. However, over time it served as a new template for up-and-comers in Hip Hop and R&B. Drake cited West as his budding sound’s ‘most influential person’ when he was hustling mixtapes, while artists like Future further tweaked the idea of using Auto-Tune as a way to convey emotions that evoke too much feeling when spoken of explicitly.”
Young Thug discussed, during an interview, how he transitioned into rap after getting into trouble as a kid: “Anyone can rap if you’ve got brains, so I just went with it. I was in the streets at eight, nine years old. I was going to school so my dad and mom would keep buying me clothes, but when I got out I did what I wanted to do – fighting, all kinds of shit.”
