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The NYU Tisch School of the Arts has named Pharrell their artist-in-residence for 2015. Other members in hip-hop who have recieved this are Swizz Beatz and Ryan Leslie. “Our students and faculty will have the unique opportunity to be in conversation with an artist whose work is an inspiration and widespread, Pharrell has demonstrated a commitment to education in communities across the country. He’s dedicated to raising awareness to climate change, and he has taken ‘happiness’ from the stage and screen to people around the world through his work with the United Nations.” The dean, Allyson Green, said in her statement. Pharrell will begin on Oct. 26^th at 7PM at New York City’s very own Town Hall.

Lil Wayne has nothing but legal issues in his life these days and now he even has his lawyers suing him. Wayne just last month lost a lawsuit with a private jet company called Signature Group and he had to pay $2 million in unpaid bills. Lil Wayne has not paid up and his lawyers from that case are now suing the rapper for $80,000 because he is said to have never paid them their legal fees. This just adds to Waynes stack of lawsuits he has to deal with which includes the one from last week involving a cease and desist letter for his sextape someone had leaked and his huge $51 million lawsuit with Birdman still raging onward. Keep it locked right here for updates on all these cases as they become available.

The doctors have let Lamar Odom's friends and family know that he will in fact survive his very near death ordeal though some damage that has come to his body will be permanent. Lamar has many months of rehabilitation ahead of him before he can start to have a normal life again but at least he has his life. Odom is still on dialysis because of his kidney failure and tests are still be ran to see if he has any damage to his brain that can have long-term effects on him. Khloe Kardashian has said she will remain by his side the whole time which is through months of rehab and therapy.

Fabolous is going to have a pretty busy last two and a half months of the year because he has two projects coming out this year. Loso’s Way 2 will not be coming out in 2015 though which is what the fans have really been waiting for but Fab has more up his sleave then just that. First fans will be getting his Summertime Shootout mixtape that is slated to drop very soon and after that on Christmas Day there will be another project of his and TIDAL actually tweeted that out which leads us to believe that It will may be TIDAL exclusive. Keep it right here for updates on all Fabs upcoming projects.

YG’s sophomore album called “Still Krazy” should be dropping sometime in the near future but in other news from the rapper he has went and got himself a huge head tattoo. YG has went and got the very top of his head tatted up and the tat is religious being an image of Virgin Mary with the words “No weapon formed against me shall prosper” circled around it. Check out the image below.

L.A. Reid worked at Def Jam for seven years and in that time he worked with some huge names in the music industry. One of his many accomplishments he takes credit for is reviving Mariah Carey’s career when it was not in such a great place which lead to her very successful comeback album titled “The Emancipation of Mimi”. Reid was on the Rap Radar just this week and talked about all of that and brought up something pretty amazing. Mariah gave Reid some great advice in suggesting that he hire Jay Z on as the president of Def Jam. Jay was the president of Def Jam from 2004 until 2008 and made Rihanna’s successful career what it is today in the process.

Well known rapper from Louisiana, Kevin Gates, got married on Saturday to the mother of his two children, Dreka Haynes. The wedding was well documented on Kevins Instagram account and all came with captions from him that range from normal to a little out there. Good for Kevin Gates for finally taking the next step with the woman he has been with for such a long time hopefully they make everything work smoothly despite Kevins wild antics.

Drakes single “Hotline Bling” that came out in the middle of the Summer with his diss tracks has been a huge hit lately staying way on top of the charts. Drake just today revealed that he will be dropping the much anticipated music video for the single on October 19^th and fans should be pretty hyped. This is the first video we get from Drake in a long time and hopefully it is a good one. Keep it right here for updates on any more music or videos from Drake.

Halloween may just be the best time for new music this year with the rumored Drake album coming out around then and the Migos and Young Thug dropping a mixtape on the 31^st. The track will be called “Migos Thuggin” and they announced it’s release date just today on Instagram with the artwork which you can check out below. Offset of the Migos is still locked up so he most likely wont be around for the release but with all the club bangers Thug and Migos make it is still going to have fans Halloween parties of to a great start.

Some big names will be headlining Okeechobee fest in Florida. It will be going down on March 4-6 with huge performances from Kendrick Lamar, Fetty Wap, Miguel, Future, Big Grams, and more. Next year will be the first year for this festival so the organizers wanted to keep it pretty intimate with only 80 performers. So any fans of hip-hop that reside in Florida should definitely check this festival out.

As everyone should know by now Lamar Odom has been in a coma after he got to a Las Vegas hospital yesterday. Today is is being reported that Odom actually opened his eyes and was able to communicate a little bit. The former LA Laker player was asked if he wanted to see his kids and replied yes according to witnesses but we have no word on if he spoke the words or just nodded. This is a great sign showing that things just might be turning around and his body could be getting better but he is not out of the woods yet the fight for his life rages on.

PReign has took it upon himself to call out Tory Lanez over Instagram but soon after deleted his own post. But since the internet is the internet it was saved and Preign said this “Hey!! Kid with all the beads on. Behave yourself before I really have to remind people your from Brampton. N*ggaz let this rap shit gas them," This all came about because Lanez tweeted out “This whole calling Toronto the ‘6’ thing.. It’s not cool bro” though he said in the next tweet that he supports everything out of Toronto. Reign has close ties with Drake and they are both from Toronto so that is why he decided to get involved.

Rihanna will be a guest star on NBC’s show “The Voice” next week. The episode will be airing on October 26^th and Rihanna will be giving helping out contestants with fashion tips and vocal tips. This comes just as Rihanna is about to release a new album called “Anti” so it is genius timing and will more then likely get a lot more people checking out her project.

As previously reported on Jay Z and Timbaland have been in a lawsuit for their hit single “Big Pimpin” for many years now and it is just now coming close to an end. The trial is about copyright infringement over the song and they are being sued by the heirs of Baligh Hamdi who was an Egyptian composer who made the song “khosara Khosa” which was sampled in the track. Jay was asked a ton of questions about what lead up to the creation of the track and he even brought out the original cd showing that they gave credit where it was due. The trial continues on so keep it right here for updates on the situation.

Childish Gambino a.k.a. Donald Glover has really made a name for himself in the rap game though he did start out doing television. Next year Gambino will have a comedy show airing on FX and it will be about cousins trying to get into the rap game in Atlanta. Childish will be a main writer and director as well as being a big role in the show. He will play Earnest who is a man who returns to Atlanta to manage his cousins rap career. Keep it right here for updates on this show that is already sounding pretty interesting.