Young Thug has hinted at his engagement over Instagram posting a pic of two rings with the caption “Will U” and another with him kissing his girl with the caption “4LIFE”. But the engagement was finally confirmed when Young Thug was asked by AllHipHop at the listening session for Barter 6. Young Thug was not very talkative about the subject though and simply answered “yes” when asked about it. Check out the clip below.
Lil Wayne had done a performance in Atlanta’s Compound nightclub on Saturday night and shots were fired at his two tour buses. As reported by TMZ the shooting had occurred at around 3:30 AM, as the tour buses were at the venue. Sources have confirmed that rapper Lil Twist and Hood were aboard one of the buses when this all went down but it is unknown whether Wayne was traveling with them. Reports from the police say that the buses fled the scene after the shots were fired and they called police once they got to their hotel. This investigation is currently ongoing but we will keep you up to date on anything that happens.
The beef between Young Thug and Lil Wayne is starting to influences fans of both artists. During Young Thugs most recent show in Baton Rouge, Louisiana Thug was heckled and booed by people in the crowd. There is footage of the incident as well were you can hear people in the audience yelling out “Weezy” and “Holly Grove” along with insults directed at Young Thug. But Young Thug said “I still love you” to all the hecklers showing only positivity about the whole situation.
Jay Z has taken to twitter in defense of the TIDAL streaming service that just launched a few weeks back. Jay was on twitter trying to silence all of the people that just stopped believing in TIDAL. “Stream of consciousness coming in 5, 4, 3, 2,…#TidalFacts” Jay Z started out his tweets with. Then he said “Tidal is doing just fine. We have over 770,000 subs. We have been in business less than one month. #TidalFacts” Jay Z is clearly in this for the long haul and mentions that Spotify took 9 years to reach the success it has today. Will this help the new streaming services cause? Only time will tell but keep it locked right here for any updates.
Tyga and Kylie Jenner have yet to say they are officially dating each other for obvious reasons. The two dodge all questions about the subject saying they are “just friends” but yesterday Tyga was spotted with a fairly large tattoo on his arm that said “Kylie”. Sources tell TMZ that he got the tattoo to prove his commitment to Kylie. Check out the photo of the tattoo below.
It is well known that Diddy has been a big earner in the hip-hop community for many years now but he is definitely putting a lot of money on the line for the upcoming Mayweather v. Pacquiao fight. In a brand new Instagram video Diddy and his business partner for AquaHydrate, Mark Wahlberg, have decided to make a $250,000 bet on this big fight. Diddy has his money on Mayweather while Mark has his on Pacquiao.
As of April 21st Dame Dash had lost primary custody of his two daughters to Rachel Ray, his ex-wife, who claimed Dash was unfit to raise the children. There has been no word on the situation from Dame but it seems in his silence he was readying a lawsuit for $2.5 million. TMZ is reporting Dame is suing his ex-wife for unlawful business conduct that involved two previous fashion companies the two had started together. Dame is claiming that she had a “breach of Contract” plus “Interfering with cash distributions due to him.” Keep it locked right here for more information on this ongoing lawsuit.
Waka Flocka Flame says he has not been into the studio for nine months to work on Flockaveli 2 while talking with MTV. Waka also talked about how his upcoming album will be more EDM focused and he is not being held down to any genre anymore. When asked about the beef with Gucci Mane Waka says that he is now “in a good place” and “I’d say [from a] business point of view, it’ll never happen. Just because a snake’s frozen right now, when it thaws out don’t mean it ain’t gonna bite you.” But then Waka ends by saying “It’s under the rug, man Fuck it. It is what it is.” So it’s not exactly very clear but hopefully this beef is over at least for now.
Chance the rapper once again cancels tour dates because of an illness. A year back Chance cancelled a few shows because he had symptoms of tonsillitis and the flu. Now he is taking some more shows this year because of a sickness. There are no specifics as to what exactly the illness is this time around but his rep took to twitter and said a few of his shows will be rescheduled but they give no exact number. Hopefully Chance gets well soon and can keep giving his fans great music and performances.
The beef between 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather has been ongoing for quite some time when 50 said Floyd owned him money for business ventures he cashed into with him without the ventures ever coming to fruition. Ever since this 50 has been taking shots at Floyd whenever he could poking fun at his reading abilities and his ex being with Nelly. But this also ended today when 50 and Floyd got together and took a picture together that was posted to Instagram with the caption “The original Money Team.” Plus he also plugged the big Mayweather v Pacquiao fight on May 2nd which only shows us that 50 is back on Mayweathers good side just in time for the big event.
Common is known to show his acting chops in plenty of roles and of course has roles lined up at this time but now he is said to be in the highly anticipated upcoming DC comics’ movie “Suicide Squad”. The role he will have has not be revealed yet but some other huge stars already have roles in this film including Jared Leto playing the Joker, Will Smith playing Deadshot, and Margot Robbie playing Harley Quinn. This is a great movie to really show off acting abilities since comic movies have really been pushing it in recent years.
Russell Wilson was at a Mariners game recently and had a beautiful woman by his side that happened to be the singer Ciara. With Russell Wilson being one of the very few lucky athletes who was chosen to attend this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner Wilson has made Ciara his date to the event. There is no word on an official relationship between the two but it sure does look that way with all the time they are spending together. Wonder what Future is thinking about all this either way it’s good for Ciara and Russell Wilson.
Frank Ocean was born with the name Christopher Edwin Breaux and he tried to get his name legally changed to Frank Ocean bank in November. The judge denied him though because he had unpaid tickets and had a suspended driver’s license. But all of that must have been fixed because today Frank Ocean was granted his name change. Franks upcoming album comes out in July and is called BOYSDONTCRY though nothing is confirmed yet but details are sure to come out soon enough.
Just over three weeks ago the TIDAL steaming service launched with a bunch of big name musician putting their face by the brand and showing support all over social media. Just last week the CEO of TIDAL was fired a long with some employees and now it seems as though support is fading already. Billboard is reporting that the TIDAL app has now fallen out of the app stores top 750 apps and it is in position 45 in the music app category. Plus to add to this all Kanye West, one of the biggest co-signs of the streaming service, has deleted his tweet that showed support to the service. This could be the end of TIDAL and it only just started.
In a new 20 minute interview Chicago’s own Vic Mensa talked all about his new Roc Nation deal. In this interview Mensa gets into his signing but also talks about working with Kanye West, his new single “U Mad”, his Roc-A-Fella tattoo, performing at Coachella, friendship with Chance the rapper and plenty more. Im working on a new project called Traffic that’s coming soon. It’s like stories of my life- a lot of my most personal moments- most vulnerable moments. And Im really excited for the people to hear the music. There’s vibes like “U Mad’, a lot more introspective shit… just a lot of textures” Vic Says at the 18:26 mark. Check the interview below.
