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As if Azealia Banks needed to be on any more peoples bad sides she has not decided to compare the gay community to the KKK. Soon after the video of her cursing out the flight attendant and calling him a “Fucking Faggot” got out she has had the gay community on her ever since. Banks tried to cover for what she said by saying that she is bisexual and her brother is trans. But after still getting a ton of hate she decided to take to her twitter and give the world another one of her rants calling the gay community “like the gay white KKK’s. Get them some pink hoods and unicorns and let them rally down rodeo drive”. Of course this set people off and the cycle with Banks continues.

Drake never seems to stop putting out the hits for his fans and he has now today got his 100^th entry onto the Hot 100 charts which is really impressive. The last seven or so songs to put him at 100 tracks were all on the recently released mixtape/album by both Drake and Future “What A Time To Be Alive”. Drake still hasn’t achieved a solo number one hit but he still hasn’t got to that point yet but with all of these hits he will get their eventually.

Birdman seems to be having a hard time accepting what he and Lil Wayne s relationship has become. Lil Wayne just recently had a birthday turning just 33 years old and Birdman being the father he wants us to believe he is decided to wish Wayne a happy birthday. Their $51 million lawsuit still rages on but Birdman does not seem to be phased by it too much still calling Wayne his son. Keep it locked right here for updates on this relationship and lawsuit.

During a show in Louisiana, August Alsina had invited a very lucky fan of his onto the stage during his performance and she had know idea how touchy feely August would get. Footage surfaced online showing August feeling all over his fan as he did a song touching her chest and she did not look very comfortable with the whole situation which did not go over well with social media. You can look at the video of it below.

Fetty Wap is currently in the hospital after being involved in a horrific motorcycle accident. According to TMZ, witnesses saw Fetty Wap trying to pass another vehicle while on his motorcycle; however, there was another car on the opposite side that Wap did not see which caused the collision. Wap’s DJ, DJ Louie Styles updated the public on his current condition via Twitter:

“God bless, he’s ok,”

“wap is Gucci everybody thank you for your prayers,”

 

Former hip hop artist, Frost, spoke out to the public about how Easy-E’s death actually happened: “No girl has ever come forward saying she got the AIDS virus from Eazy. I’m gonna tell you what happened with Eazy getting AIDS and I believe this to this day. I don’t care if you guys got it on film, you can tell the world. They gave him tainted needles, acupuncture needles that tainted him and gave it to him – someone, I won’t say the name because it’s the devil’s name – I was told even from the last conversation not to even talk to that man. Not only that, I think they really had a strong hold on giving him tainted needles with the AIDS virus in them through acupuncture because how else can someone else die that fast from AIDS? Have you even heard of someone dying in two weeks of AIDS, bro?”

During a recent podcast, Lyor Cohen expressed his love for rapper Kanye West: “Kanye, I mean, you’re talking about a marketing, sonic, creative genius that will be considered one of our great American authors, writers, cultural ambassadors. He’s just beautiful and important and thank him everyday. When we wake up, we should say thank God we have f*cking Kanye in our lives. You may not have a job if it wasn’t for Kanye. Who knows?”

Jhalil Beats, while interviewed, was asked about the beef that had happened between Meek Mill and Drake: “I don’t think it’s over. I know Meek Mill. This is the first real beef in the social media age. Two top artists. Meek is coming off a number one album. Drake been accomplishing so much.” Jhalil was then later questioned about the trouble he was in after sampling the Undertaker’s theme song:

“I just thought sampling something like that would be a movie. It was like the entrance. It came from left field. I don’t think people would even imagine him coming back to a beat like that. I knew it would throw people off.”

Bow Wow is all over the place these days after first he was with Young Money/Cash Money for the longest time but was not getting any music made and no money coming in so he left and now he has signed with another big label. Bow Wow made sure to share this news on his Instagram yesterday showing a picture of him with Diddy and French Montana because he is now signed to Diddy and Bad Boy. Only time will tell if this is a better fit that actually gets his music out to his fans but who knows Bad Boy is pretty hit or miss.

The brand new mixtape/album “What A Time To Be Alive” has done great numbers in its first week. The album sold a whopping 339,538 units in the opening week with streams being added that number is 378,630 and that is without the album even streaming on spotify. This has landed the two the number one spot Billboard 200 which is amazing for a album that was pretty much a surprise.

 

Rich Homie Quan a couple days ago decided it would be a great idea to make a video of himself holding his baby son while smoking weed. Well this did not go over well with Child services because the rapper was soon after being investigated by them. Quan decided to apologize after getting tons of backlash and the apology is for his son and he says  “I regret that I chose to continue to smoke once Royal jumped in my lap,” Hopefully Quan has truly learned the error of his ways and is not just saying this because he was caught doing it.

 

DMX today was released from prison after he had been sentenced to six months behind bars back in July because of missed child support payments. He got out three months early because his attorney has actually conviced the court that he was never aware of the child support payments. A hearing is scheduled for a future date when the court will decide if DMX is telling the truth or not so it looks like he is not out of the woods yet. Keep it locked right here for any updates.

A Tribe Called Quest is a fundamental group in hip-hop and with their debut album way back in 1990 called People’s Instinctive Travels And The Paths of Rhythm they did big things. To honor this album on its 25^th anniversary they will be re-releasing it in full on November 13^th . In a press release Q-tip had this to say “I had this album in my head for years before I did it, looking at it overall, to see the thoughts of a 16-year-old gain any kind of acknowledgement makes me feel like I have arrived … But to see it in this incarnation … I’m humbled.” The re-release was mastered by Bob Power who actually engineered their first three albums and it features remixes by some artist that have been inspired by the group. Ali Shaheed Muhammad shared these words about this re-release. “This album means a lot, It was the beginning of our careers; the beginning of our imprint; the beginning of seeing life the way we saw it, and being able to put it down in words and music.” If you want to hear hip-hop at its very best make sure to buy this re-release and support A Tribe Called Quest.

Kanye West sat down for a talk with Vanity Fair where he talked about his running for president announcement and his upcoming album “SWISH”. Ye was first asked about the song he premiered at his show during New York Fashion Week called “Fade” and this is what he had to say about it. “We had a couple options and I just thought it sounded good against the people. For the 40 theaters across the globe, for the kids that all went to see it in theaters, I thought they’d be happy to hear some new music. I’ve been doing that [making a new album] too. That’s like a sonic landscape, a two-year painting. That song I played has been a year and a half in the making and it may be still a year from being complete. But it was to let people get a glimpse at the painting.” Something that everyone had noticed about this quote is that it seems like his album could still be a year away. Then Ye was asked if he still was going to run for president in 2020 and he responded “Oh, definitely, and then as soon as I said that, it was like, “Wait a second, we would really be into that, because actually if you think about it, he’s extremely thoughtful. Every time he’s ever gotten in trouble, he was really jumping in front of a bullet for someone else. He’s probably the most honest celebrity that we have.” I didn’t approach that because I thought it would be fun. It wasn’t like, Oh, let’s go rent some jet skis in Hawaii. No, the exact opposite. I sit in clubs and I’m like, Wow, I’ve got five years before I go and run for office and I’ve got a lot of research to do, I’ve got a lot of growing up to do.” So it seems Kanye is in fact serious about running though fans may be a little upset that his album might not be coming out for some time.

50 Cent is not slowing down in the music and is actually releasing a whole mixtape before his album called “Street King Immortal” drops. This is interesting and makes sense because we still don’t have a release date for the album so for all we know it could be coming out in 2016 giving plenty of room for a mixtape. 50 also managed to share some new music with the fans in a live stream he did on an app called Hangwith so things are looking good for 50 on the music side of things. Check out the 15 minute video below if you want the update from 50 himself.