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Jimmy Henchman was formerly the CEO of Czar Entertainment. Henchman was initially given a prison sentence for ordering the murder of a G-Unity affiliate named Lodi Mack back in 2007. This was after Henchman’s son was assaulted by Tony Yayo. Jimmy got a life sentence in 2013 for drug trafficking charges but since prosecutors finally put together that Henchman was the guy who sent hitmen out to kill members of G-Unit they got him another life sentence added onto his original one.  So as of yesterday’s Jimmy will be serving two life sentences.

As we reported before Jay Z has purchased the company Aspiro who owned two music streaming TIDAL and WiMP, for $56 million. Jay has decided that he will turn TIDAL and WiMP into one singular company known simply as TIDAL which will offer both video and audio streaming. The streaming will be a hi-fi experience offering a quality that Spotify, Rdio, and BeatsMusic have still yet to implement into their services which can attract a lot of people who want the very best quality streaming experience. We will keep you up to date on any further information on what Jay does with his new company.

Rich Homie Quan tried to use his rapper status to get into Club LIV in Miami this past weekend. But when that did not work for him he decided to get physical with the security. Early Monday morning Quan and crew tried getting through Club LIV’s VIP entrance but the security told them that the club was at capacity so he had to wait in the front of the club in line like everyone else. That is when Quan tried to use his status to gain entry by saying “I'm Rich Homie Quan and I'm a rich millionaire, (expletive). I'm coming through these doors. I'm with Flo Rida." The security guard says that Quan punched him twice in the face followed by his crew joining in. Right after the fight Quan and crew ran across the street and escaped via speedboat. With Miami Beach police currently investigating the incident they hope to get ahold of the rapper for questioning and possibly get him a battery charge.

In an interview with VIBE T-Pain talked about features on his upcoming mixtape. With features like OG Maco, Bun B, Big K.R.I.T., and most surprising of all Aaliyah. Tons of people have sampled parts of Aaliyah songs to add to their own music but T-Pain has allegedly got his hands on never before heard vocals from Aaliyah. T-Pain says that he has had the Aaliyah track in his inventory for years now but finally feels it is time for the world to hear it on his upcoming song “Girlfriend” which will be on his album The Iron Way.

Earl Sweatshirt is not very happy with his management at Sony Music lately. The album he just released, “I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside”, on the 23^rd only came out a week after it was announced. That same day Earl took to twitter and expressed how he felt about Sony saying “I WOULD LIKE TO PERSONALLY THANK @SonyMusicGlobal 4 FUCKING UP THE ROLL OUT PROCESS OF MY SHIT. SOMEONE GOTS 2 PAY 4 THEIR MISTAKES !" The day after his music video for his song “Grief” released which was another mistake made by Sony. Earl told NPR Music "I've never been behind myself this much. So for them to not treat as importantly as I was treating it was just like — I couldn't help but to feel a little disrespected, you know?" Hopefully things get straightened out with Earl and Sony and there are no more misunderstandings in the future so Earls fans can get the most out of his content.

T.I. had an interview with HHS87 promoting the new movie “Get Hard” where he revealed that the next album in his trilogy album project will be called Traps Open. The reasoning T.I. gives for the name is simply that the album is going to be “unapologetically gangsta” with a heavy trap sound. There is no word about how far along the album is into production but T.I. didn’t mention any features that will be album just yet which doesn’t give us much to go on but T.I. fans can start getting excited for some new music in the near future.

TMZ is reporting that rap artist Lil Twist has been charged with six felonies, which came from a break-in at Kyle Massey’s apartment. The charges on Lil Twist are criminal threats, burglary, grand theft, battery and 2 counts of assault with a deadly weapon. This incident happened back in November when Twist and crew were hanging out at Massey’s house until they were kicked out but broke back in later beating up Chris Massey, pantsing and stealing his phone and wallet. If Lil Twist is convicted on all counts he could face up to 25 years in prison which is a very long time for someone who is only 22 years old.

It is estimated that about 2,500 of Kendrick Lamar’s fans came out to Compton for his album signing on Saturday that happened in the local Best Buy store. This was Kendrick’s first public appearance in his hometown since his album dropped and people came through. When talking with ABC7 Kendrick said “It feels good to be back in my city, to go out here and see these kids still motivated by my music and by my dreams and aspirations.” Kendrick continued to praise his fans by adding "I wanna say thank you. Thank you for believing in me since day one. I've been doing my thing on the underground scene for years, you know, proud to be putting out any albums. These the same people that have been rocking with me so I want to say thank you for believing in me and I believe in you the same, so as long as we believe in each other, I will continue to do this music."

Timbaland’s new artist Tink is only 19 years old and is already becoming one of hip-hop’s most looked at young artist. During the Fader SXSW showcase, Timbaland told the crowd that he finding and working with Tink was meant to be. Timbaland did a DJ set before bringing out Tink and having these words to say about her "I don’t touch any of my sister’s records. I don’t touch Baby Girl’s records—you know that’s Aaliyah, She [Aaliyah] spoke to me in my sleep and said, 'She's the one.'" So Timbaland no more than ever believe that Tink is the next big hip-hop artist but as always only time will tell if this is true.

Though the online streetwear distribution company Karmaloop has had a lot of success in recent years they are rumored to be going bankrupt and it could happen this week. The NY Post reported on this first stating that the company tried it’s hardest to prevent filing Chapter 11. The Chief Executive of Karmaloop, Greg Selkoe, met with investors trying to work out the debts but if nothing works out Karmaloops could be facing “$100 million in writedowns on debt and equity”. In a recent interview Dame Dash spoke about him and Kanye wanting to purchase Karmaloop saying that they will be acquired very soon. This is not official as of yet but Karmaloops made sure to tweet out the Dame Dash interview with the caption “Kanyeloop” and we will keep you up to date on any new information as it becomes known.

As previously reported the United Kingdom’s Glastonbury festival has been the subject of a lot of internet controversy for giving Kanye West a headlining act. People even got a petition up to nearly 100,000 signatures trying to stop Kanye from performing. But yesterday the festivals organizer Emily Eavis had a letter published to The Guardian that was in response to the petition. Emily right from the jump dismisses the Kanye haters saying "We think the story this year should not be: 'Why is Kanye coming?' but: 'How amazing is it that Kanye is coming?'” adding that he is a "music legend, always interesting, never boring." Eavis ends it with this "Those [headlining] acts have never have been limited to rock and never will be." It is a great thing that this letter was published and shows that Glastonbury will not back away from their commitments because of the vocal minority on the internet.

After 6 years Chris Brown is finally off of probation for the 2009 case he had for assaulting Rihanna. TMZ is reporting that Judge James R. Brandlin has signed off on Brown’s release from probation yesterday after he completed all of the terms. The terms were anger management and domestic violence counseling, rehab, and 1000 hours of community service. Brown took to twitter and posted “IM OFF PROBATION!!!!!! Thank the Lord!!!!!!!” Good for Chris Brown he has been struggling with probation for a very long time.

Drake is a well know fan of basketball and a huge supporter and collaborator of his home team the Toronto Raptors. Drake tweeted out last night a link to a countdown of the release of his very own redesign of the Raptors’ logo in collaboration with Mitchell & Ness. This tweet from Drake actually sent so many people to the countdown site that it crashed which is pretty impressive. As of now we are about 5 days out from the release of the brand new logo.

Remember a few weeks back Rick Ross and Bill Murray got together in the studio after they had met at a college basketball game. Well Jimmy Kimmel had Bill Murray on his show last night on his SXSW special and Jimmy asked what Bill was doing with Ross. Bill Explained that he wanted Rick Ross to sing a song for his upcoming “Christmas show” and they had begun recording but apparently never finished because Murray’s people have been trying to get in touch with Ross since with no luck.

At a SXSW keynote this year Snoop Dogg was a speaker and was interviewed by his manager Ted Chung. During the back and forth conversation Snoop had revealed that he is working on a series for HBO. The show will be a collaboration between Snoop, Allen Hughes, and Rodney Barnes. Allen Hughes was the director of “Menace II Society” and Rodney Barnes was a writer on the animated show “The Boondocks”. The show is said to take place in a 1980s Los Angeles and will be centered on a family facing the backlash of Reaganomics. Much of the show will be inspired by Snoops own childhood which Snoop describes as an incremental change from “having fun and playing football to selling drugs and shooting at each other” When talking about the opportunity he has Snoop said This is like a dream come true, to tell a story in the right way on the right network." HBO has been on fire lately with their television shows so hopefully Snoop Doggs show adds to the greatness.