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Drake has had huge success with his latest album “Views” and now it looks like he is going to keep the hype going on television. Saturday Night Live has posted on its upcoming hosts and musical guest for the next couple weeks and we Drake will be host as well as musical guest on May 14 which is going to be great. The last time Drake hosted he did a great job so we can expect some great sketches from this time as well. Plus we are probably going to get a couple new tracks off the album performed live for the first time so look out for that on the 14^th.

Anyone who has listened to Beyonce’s latest album “Lemonade” knows she touched on some real issues like what sounded like her husband Jay-Z cheating on her. Now it looks like this was all apart of their plan because word is Jay is going to put out a response album giving his side of the story. This would be Jays first album since 2013 but it sure would get sales just so fans can get more information.

A former chauffeur of Busta Rhymes is now suing him. The chauffeurs name is David Jones and he is suing Busta because he allegedly was not being paid. Jones is looking to get $236,064 in damages plus legal fees out of Busta Rhymes. Jones was his driver from 2014 until 2016 and he was fired when he forgot to wash the car that was to be used that day. No word from Busta yet but keep it locked right here for any updates.

Just last month Janet Jackson decided to postpone her tour and now today we officially know the reason why. Janet and her husband are starting a family together and thanks to Entertainment Tonight it is official that Janet is indeed pregnant at 50 years of age.

Drake is well known to be one of the biggest if not the biggest artist in hip-hop today but now Forbes has done the math and put him in their top 5 wealthiest hip-hop artist. This list is made up of the usual suspects with Diddy in the top spot with $750 million followed by Dr. Dre($710 million), Jay Z($610 million), Birdman ($110 million) and then Drake in the fifth spot with $60 million. Drake has sure come a long was from “25 sitting on 25 mill” at just 29 now in just 4 years he has added another $35 million to that.

Kanye West has called into the Steve Harvey morning show today for an interview and he gave the people some great new information. When talking about his most recent album “The Life of Pablo” Ye says “You know my tour game is strong. My tour game is unprecedented. So we’re going to go out in September I believe, and we’re just working on some of the ideas right now. But as I said before, I’m trying to literally inspire these kids the way Disney inspired me when I saw the original “Star Wars”.

50 Cent has done the right thing and actually apologized to the autistic teen who he harassed while he was doing his job at the airport. 50 put out a statement via NY Post today saying “While the incident at the airport resulted from an unfortunate misunderstanding, I am truly sorry for offending the young man… It was certainly not my intent to insult him or the disability community, which is a source of great strength in America. I have apologized personally to him and his family.” Hopefully this is a lesson to 50 and it cuts back on his clowning of people he doesn’t know.

Afeni Shakur, the mother of Tupac Shakur has passed away just last night of an apparent cardiac arrest. Many people will remember the song Tupac made about his mother called “Dear Mama” She has managed Pacs estate since he passed away back in 1996 and it is said to actually bring in a whopping $900,000 a year.

Drake’s latest album seems to be heading down the same path as his others with sales of 741,000 in the US and 80,000 in Canada. The really amazing thing is that he reached these album scale numbers in just two days of having his album out. What is even more crazy is that fact that the album is estimated to sell a huge 1.2 million in the first week which just shows that Drake really is on top of the game right now.

50 Cent is seeing a ton of backlash after he recorded a 19-year-old named Andrew Farrell and made fun of how he looked. 50 in the video seemed to think that the man was just on drugs but he wasn’t and after this event the local news station actually interviewed his father and he had this to say. “It hurts to watch that, it’s painful. You come up and you start talking to a kid you know nothing about. That’s not fair. That’s a slap in the face, here’s a guy who people look up to, and he’s going to act like that?” And now the family is asking for a public apology and hopefully they get it. Check out the video clip below.

DJ Khaleds has been on a steep incline ever since he began Snapchatting and now he and his longtime girlfriend are taking a huge step together and have their first child on the way. Khaled is 40 and his girlfriend named Nicole Tuck is 39 and is actually 3 month pregnant. Khaled lives with Tuck but he doesn’t share anything about his relationship ever so many people didn’t know he had a girlfriend. So it will be interesting to see if this baby makes Khaled start involving Tuck in his social media presence.

Kanye West has just had his criminal record wiped clean of the only thing on it which was his battery on a member of the paparazzi. This went down way back in 2013 when he grabbed the man and the man claimed to have injuries from it. This all lead to Kanye having 24 months of probation along with 250 community service hours. Now the judge has said that Ye has completed all tasks he was required to do and has removed the case from his record.

Fans of De La Soul are a little disappointed today because their upcoming album “And the Anonymous Nobody” was set to drop on April 29 but it has now been pushed back. As you may remember this album was on Kickstarter so the fans put all their money together to make this album happen so of course they would be a little upset but the good news is it is still coming this year. The new release date is set to be August 26. But they didn’t leave the fans without anything for the few months they must wait they dropped an EP called “For Your Pain & Suffering” with four fresh tracks on it.

 

SchoolBoy Q’s next album is officially complete and Q made sure to hop on his Snapchat and send a clip to the fans of him and his crew celebrating the completion of his album. That isn’t all though Q later got on Twitter and said that the album can drop at any time. Now with the promise from Top Dawg that the album would be out before Summer we could really get this album in the next couple days or weeks which of course has all the fans hyped up.

@groovyq turned his album in and took his boys on vacation

A video posted by XXL (@xxl) on Apr 28, 2016 at 5:18pm PDT

Gucci Mane has just dropped a 36 trick album called “Meal Ticket” and he is still locked up in prison until September. This project is huge and it is a culmination of his projects Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, and Dessert which all make up Meal Ticket. Some features he has on the album are people like Quavo, Rich the Kid, iLoveMakonnen, and Young Scooter. Any fan of Gucci should definitely pick this huge project up to support Gucci who will finally be out of prison in a few months and plans on going on tour right afterwards.