Everyone has been talking about the information researchers have found after wondering exactly how much money NBA stars make from sponsors. Researchers later found this quote from ESPN: “We’re basically saying that the value of one LeBron tweet is worth $140,000,. And with that, you will reach 23 million people. It would cost you five times more to reach that many people with a TV ad.”
Jay Electronica, yes, Jay Electronica last night decided to take shots at two of the biggest rap artist in the game right now, J. Cole and Drake, while performing in London. Jay has yet to produce a single album but he was up on the stage telling everyone that he is “the God of hip hop”. “You might be the 6 God, but I am the God.” Jay said and later on when Skepta was doing a song he chimed in again saying “I’m sorry but J. Cole ain’t got bars like this. I’m sorry, whoever your favorite rapper is, they all know that I’m the God.” We’ll see if any of the mentioned artist even put the effort into responding to this diss out of left field. Check out the video below.
DJ Mustard thinks that Iggy Azaleas song “Fancy” and Jidenna’s song “Classic Man” are blatant rip offs of his own sound. Now Iggy is actually getting royalties for Jidenna’s track because of how similar it sounded to her song and this of course rubbed Mustard the wrong way because he feels Iggy’s song copies his sound. Taking to twitter Mustard calls them out saying that Iggy and crew are like a person who steals a bike and then sells it. You really do have to admit when you hear “Fancy” you think right off the bat that it is a DJ Mustard produced track. Keep it locked right here to see how this situation pans out even though Mustard has deleted all of his tweets the internet doesn’t forget and we could get a response.
Action Bronson just can’t catch a break these days and is now being sued by a salsa group called El Gran Combo de Puerto Rica for using their music in two of his songs. The two songs are “Mofongo” and Tapas” and are used in Bronsons mixtapes but since the mixtapes are now on streaming services the salsa band saw it fit to sue. The group believes that Bronson is making money off of the two songs now and they want compensation. Keep it right here for any updates on this case.
Master P has announced that he will be traveling the states looking for talent to be in his upcoming biopic called “Ice Cream Man: King Of The South”. P will be going the independant route with this biopic so don’t expect something funded by a major movie studio like “Straight Outta Compton” was. You must be 18 years or older to audition and the release date is now set for Spring 2016.
It has recently been brought to TMZ’s attention that a modeling agency in L.A. had been using a video of Amber Rose to lure women to participate in a photo shoot which would eventually lead up to them being asked on dates by “rich men.” According to the report, one of the models had come forth with a police report which stated that the modeling company had tried to lure her to their prostitution ring. The women were showed a video of Amber, after being told that she was the most involved in the making of the company. The video of Amber Rose was said to be a live Facetime, when shown to the models, which would eventually have “bad connection.”
During a recent interview, Puffy Daddy expressed how he felt about the youth trying to be similar to Scarface. When asked about Diddy’s comments, Scareface agreed: “Yeah, I’m with him with that, I do not want to be a big ass kid in the sandbox,” ‘Face said. “I’m still trying to catch up with Dre. I’m still trying to catch up with Uncle Funky, George Clinton. I’m still trying to catch up with that. So for me to try to do something else, and I hadn’t caught with what my biggest influences was, I’m still trying to catch up with Marley. Let me catch up with that first, and then I’ll try to catch on to something else.”
Krayzie Bone, from Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony, made it clear that he doesn’t really believe that Eazy- E’s cause of death was AIDS: “It’s just ironic because I know people can live with HIV for years and look normal and look healthy,” Krayzie Bone adds, “but when you’re about to die from AIDS, full-blown AIDS, you’re gonna look like you’re gonna die from AIDS. I’ve seen people that die from AIDS and they look like they have AIDS. Eazy didn’t look like that at all when he passed away. At all.”
Dee Barnes was assaulted by Dr. Dre in 1991, the case was serious enough to take to court; however, it was not mentioned in the new film “Straight Outta Compton” which upset Dee Barnes:
“What should have been addressed is that it occurred. When I was sitting there in the theater, and the movie’s timeline skipped by my attack without a glance, I was like, ‘Uhhh, what happened?’ Like many of the women that knew and worked with N.W.A, I found myself a casualty of Straight Outta Compton’s revisionist history.”
The new critically acclaimed biopic “Straight Outta Compton” did amazingly well opening weekend bringing in $56.1 million in sales. The movie is getting great reviews and has made history as the biggest opening in August ever for a rated R film beating out the $45.1 million that “American Pie 2” made back in 2001. Also it was the best opening for a music biopic ever beating out both “Walk the Line”, and “8 Mile”. The biopic has already doubled its budget of $29 million and this makes everyone happy especially studio execs.
Another lawsuit is being put on Birdman and TMZ is now reporting that a producer is suing him for $200,000 for the work he had done on Lil Wayne’s albums and other artist on the Cash Money label. The producer by the name of DVLP tried to get his money from Birdman but as usual Birdman doesn’t pay up. DVLP had enough of Birdmans lies and took the legal route even showing texts from Birdman that read “You gone get tht 200k” and “Gettin yu paid homey all THT other shit savit.” Keep it right here for updates on this situation.
A lawsuit has sprung up against A$AP Rocky because he is the member of the A$AP mob with the most money. A woman by the name of Kryistina Clowes was at an A$AP Ferg show way back in 2013 and was injured pretty badly in the crowd who was mobbing. She says that Ferg crowd surfed and landed on top of her and she suffered a fractured vertebra and she also says that she never fully recovered from it. She gives the reason for suing Rocky is because all of their crew crowd surfs and she wants them all to be held responsible but we all know shes going after Rocky for a minimum of $75,000 because he has the most money out of the bunch. Keep it locked right here for updates.
Master P will be creating his own biopic about his life going from humble beginnings to a man with an estimated net worth of $350 million. The biopic will be called “Ice Cream Man: King of the South” and is said to be released in 2016. Master P co-wrote the script and will be directing and it is all being done in-house by No Limit Forever Films. Check out the trailer below.
Apparently, the release of “Straight Outta Compton” has cops in LA upset and worried. With all of the current hate and harm toward police officers, former LAPD officer Dennis Zine spoke up about the Film when asked by TMZ: “It’s a terrible time to release a movie like this. It adds fuel to the fire for hating cops.”
During an exclusive interview, Karrine Steffans mentions that Lil Wayne had Drake help with writing his songs: “Wayne told me that Drake had written some things, for him. I was in the studio with Wayne listening to something that Drake had written ’cause Wayne can’t write like that. And he’ll be honest about it. He only writes a certain way.”
“He was very honest, I don’t write that way. I don’t know how.’ So Drake was just kind of showing him how to take his ideas and turn them into a story, and to make that story come back around. And that’s a skill. That’s a storytelling skill. [Not] everybody can do that. There was a particular song that Drake had written or helped him write that would help him do that.”
