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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.

A whopping 69% of rap artist who are murdered never have their case solved. The big ones that everyone knows about is Tupac and Biggie who’s cases were never solved but just this year five rappers were murdered and none had justice served. XXL had done a study and came up with that fact that out of 52 rap artist murders 36 of them remain unsolved. That means if you are a rapper there is a 69% chance that if you are murdered it will never be solved. This is a shocking number because the national clearence rate is 64.1% and rapper homicides is only at 31% clearence rate. Hopefully this number goes up eventually but it really shows you what the justice system thinks of rap artists.

The Games beef with Young Thug has been going on for quite some time now which all started with Game jumping in on the Young Thug and Lil Wayne beef. This beef doesn’t really make sense but it is going so we will see what becomes of it and it is only heating up more since The Game has his album “The Documentary 2” out and is doing a bunch of interviews which are getting him to speak on the current beef. Most recently was an interview he did with LA 92.3 with Big Boy and he was asked to name three rappers he felt are wack MCs. Game said right off the bat with no hesitation that Young Thug is the leader of the wack MCs. No word back from Young Thug yet but it is sure to come so keep it locked for any updates.

Ludacris is well known for his acting in the Fast and Furious franchise but it looks like he will taking to the production side of things very soon. Luda is going to be executive producing a drama on CBS that centers around Atlantas gang culture. The show will be called “The Down Beat” and will be co-exec produced by both Ludacris, Ryan Seacrest, and Nina Wass. The show has you follow a former businessman as he trys to get young men out of the gang life through a local high schools marching band. This sounds very interesting like the movie Drumline with real world gang life thrown in hopefully it ends up doing well but keep it locked for any updates.

Lamar Odom has been airlifted to a hospital in Vegas because he was found unconscious at a place called Dennis Hof’s Love Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada. It is being reported that the former Lakers player got to the ranch on Saturday and had been partying with girls for a few days and TMZ reports that he had been taking an herbal substitute for Viagra during his whole stay. Girls got to his room late in the afternoon to find Odom unconscious and the manager was called who phoned the police. As of right now Lamars ex Khloe Kardashian is at his bed side a long with his father and various other members of the family. Lamar is in a coma and isn’t breathing on his own at this time so keep it right here for any updates on the situation.

It has come out that Trey Songz owes the IRS a whopping $750,000. This is because Trey did not pay his taxes back in 2013 for some reason and the the IRS came at him hard with a tax lien in Miami just last month. His people have not released a statement about the situation yet but that is a large sum of money so it will come up in his next interview most likely but until then keep it right here for any updates.

2 Chainz met his brand new baby boy today and his name is Halo. In an Instagram post from the rapper we get a picture of Chainz holding his brand new baby boy with the caption “He’s here and I’m thankful”. 2 Chainz already has two daughters named Heaven and Harmony so his family seems to keep growing. As of right now no new music to report about but that is completely understandable.

After being bashed for the following sexist comments: “Not to be sexist, but I can’t vote for the leader of the free world to be a woman,” he said. “Just because every other position that exists, I think a woman could do well. Every other position. But the president, I just know that women make rash decisions emotionally and later they make very permanent cemented decisions and then later, it’s kinda like, it didn’t happen or they didn’t mean for it to happen. I sure would hate to just set off a nuke.”

T.I. has decided to apologize to the public for his remarks: “My comments about women running for president were unequivocally insensitive and wrong,” he wrote. “I sincerely apologize to everyone I offended.”

Chrissy Teigan has done a great job of updating her life with her fans and many others, just yesterday (October 12, 2015) Teigan posted a picture via instagram of her and John Legend announcing “their” pregnancy: “John and I are so happy to announce that we are pregnant. As many of you know, we’ve been trying to have a baby for a while now. It hasn’t been easy, but we kept trying because we can’t wait to bring our first child into the world and grow our family. We’re so excited that it’s finally happening. Thank you for all your love and well wishes. I look forward to all the belly touching!”

It is no secret that Kanye West hopes to become President during the year 2020, Hilary Clinton had a few things to say about the matter herself: “I’ve told Kanye that I think he might want to wait. Cause I’ll be running for re-election. I might want to give him some additional experience so he’s got, on all the other things he’s done on his resume, he’s got some kind of envoy role or something he could point to… I would not rule out anybody for Vice President”.

Jason Russell Jump’s case has been reopened October 9th, 2015 after ending in the year 2012. Jump has been charged with second-degree murder, after killing his disabled landlord. In Hilo District Court, October 9th, Jason Jump stated that he should not be blamed for his crime. After being evaluated by Dr. Duke Wagner, Dr. Wagner testified that Jump said the following: “put Jay Z in prison for the murder of James Johns and put other Illuminati who’ve been attacking [Jump] in prison, too.”

Chance The Rapper just had a great concert on Saturday night during the Austin City Limits. Chance threw in a brand new song for the fans and even hinted at a new mixtape being on the way. Chance’s last mixtape Acid Rap is critically acclaimed and fans can not wait for the follow up though they would really like a debut album from the artist. Acid Rap came out in 2013 so a brand new project big or small is welcome at this time. Keep it locked for updates and check out the clip below of the new song.

Dr. Dre during his Beats 1 radio show had Snoop Dogg on as a guest just last night. The two talked about old times but what was really interesting was Dre talking about things he wants to do in the future. Dre actually wants to take his show live to Europe with huge names like Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar. “This is one of the things that I dreamed about doing. I want to call it Beats & Rhymes. I want it to be me and Snoop. I want it to be Eminem. I want it to be Kendrick Lamar. Do a tour over in Europe and call it Beats & Rhymes and take our full production over there and take our full stage over there and really go over there and show Europe the same amount of love that they been showing me throughout my entire career. So, that’s my dream. Hopefully we can make that happen.” Hopefully Dre gets this figured out and it eventually leads to one being put on in America.

Future and Drakes latest mixtape/album “What a Time to Be Alive” has been wildly successful. It seems that Future has decided to celebrate the success by buying himself and Drake FBGOVO rings that are actually diamond-encrusted. This is appropriate because he said in one song on the mixtape that he needs some really big rings for his team and these rings are massive as you can see in the post below.

Big rings from my brother @future. Champion Sound OVOFBG. 💎💎💎

A video posted by champagnepapi (@champagnepapi) on Oct 11, 2015 at 10:04pm PDT