Very recently at the Aqua Night Club in Jacksonville, Florida Lil Wayne was having a concert. Wayne was telling the crowd that he has two separate albums on the way and that he is still not rocking with Cash Money. Baller Alert managed to get video of Wayne saying “Free Weezy Album coming soon. Carter V coming soon. Fuck Cash Money.” Everyone in attendance of course cheered him on after he made the statement. Check out the clip below.
Wale has opened up in a new interview with MTV talking about his girlfriend’s miscarriage and how that leads him into a depression. “You’ve got it in your mind and for that joint to be snatched away like that, it just took me on a downward spiral. I felt alone and nothing could take the feeling away.” Wale said adding that drugs got into the mix too “For about three months I just was blacked out. I was just not right at all. For three months, I was just going through the motions. I’d be out in public and I’d have sunglasses on, and I’d just be in another universe.” Wale also talks about the negatives in the industry and how criticisms almost defeat him. Check out the full interview below.
Kanye West and Dame Dash have been doing a lot of business together these days but seems like someone wasn’t happy with their recent short film “Loisaidas”. TMZ is reporting that a two-man latin music group that goes by the name “Loisaidas” filed a lawsuit against Ye and Dame saying that they stole their name. The group has been using the name since 2008 and believes the movie tarnishes the name by promoting drug sales, violence, and murder. They want the judge to stop the production of the film and give them compensation for damages. Check out the trailer for the film short below.
Kendrick Lamar has proposed to his girlfriend of many years, Whitney Alford. When on the Power 105.1, the Breakfast Club, radio show. Though Kendrick likes to keep his relationship quiet and out of the media when asked about it on the radio show he had this to say. “I’m loyal to the soil. At the end of the day you want to always have real people around you period. Everybody that’s been around me has been down since day one and I can’t change that. I don’t change for nobody. I always show respect when respect is being given and people that’s been by your side, you supposed to honor that. That’s how you stand up.” Check out the interview down below.
Rapper Ra Diggs has been found to be guilty on 21 charges giving him a 12 life sentence term plus an added 105 years. Some of his charges stemmed from the murder of three people and multiple counts of drug trafficking. Today he was given his huge sentence for his actions and the judge added in the 105 years because he said Ra Diggs(Ronald Herron) displayed a “complete lack of remorse” for what he did. Here is a quote from Herron just before he was sentenced “You guys sit here and continue to paint this picture that I’m the devil incarnate, the scourge of righteousness — it’s all crap. Even the most dim prosecutor could have secured a conviction under this atmosphere of guilt they built. They did all but point a big, red arrow of guilty up on that projection screen.” Apparently Herron was high in the ranks of the bloods gang, Murderous Mad Dawgs, who controlled the cocaine and heroin markets in the Gowanus and Wyckoff Houses in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Houston rapper Just Brittany sent out a barrage of tweets directed at Rihanna stating that she “jacked” her song on Rihanna’s new track “Bitch better Have My Money”. Just Brittany had a song called “Betta Have My Money” come out about nine months back which she thinks Rihanna stole. Though Just Brittany did delete her tweets the internet has preserved them and it will not be forgotten. Check out both songs below.
In an interview with FADER of course Jay Z was there to talk about his new business venture TIDAL. The interview got really interesting when Jay said that once an artist completes their contract with a major label they could potentially exclusively distribute their music through TIDAL. We asked about working with labels this is exactly how Jay responded “Well, we can’t exclude the major labels because they have contracts with the artists. But if you don’t have a contract as an independent artist, then you can do whatever you want and we would love to work with you… I’m on Tidal. I don’t have a record deal.” Jay Z was also asked about what would make people want to switch from Spotify to TIDAL and responded with “At some point they’ll be faced with that decision. Again — there will be other things. This isn’t just about music; it’s also about concert ticketing. It’s a holistic place where the artists will live in. You may be able to download a song for free, but you’re not getting into concerts for free. There are different things that we offer. It’s not just songs — we’re offering value.” So Jay seems to have a lot of faith in this brand new company and we’ll see if any of this really holds true.
It was announced on March 30th via Kean Universities twitter that Academy Award winning rap artist Common would be the graduation speaker this year. Just hours after the announcement, the university retracted their statement because of the concerns of law officials. The decision to have Common be speaker was “Strongly opposed” by the NJ police supposedly because of lyrics in a Common Track. The son was released 15 years ago and in it Common raps about Assata Shakur who was involved in the killing of a state trooper and wounding another. “While we respect his talent, Kean is pursuing other speaker options,” the spokeswoman for the university, Susan Kayne, said.
Snoop Dogg had a picture posted on his Instagram of a Texas public safety trooper which got the trooper in trouble. The troopers name is Billy Spears and he had posed with snoop in a harmless picture that was uploaded to Snoops Instagram. As a result of this Billy has to undergo counseling plus he has a disciplinary mark on his record with no luck of an appeal. It is said that the trooper is in trouble because of Snoops well-known criminal background. “While working a secondary employment job, Trooper Spears took a photo with a public figure who has a well-known criminal background including numerous drug charges, The public figure posted the photo on social media and it reflects poorly on the Agency.” Read the department’s statement on this matter. Check out the photo below.
The security guard that Rich Homie Quan allegedly attacked has come forward saying that the speedboat part of the story was not true but continues to say that Rich Homie did assault him. But Quan has not commented on the speedboat and says he is completely innocent releasing an officially statement on the matter. “With respect to the questions concerning the incident with the security guard, I am innocent of the accusations he has made against me. However, I am not at liberty to expand further at this time because the investigation into the events of that day is ongoing.” Keep it locked right here for more information on the situation.
The theatrical trailer for the much anticipated N.W.A Straight Outta Compton biopic has just released. This also came with movie posters of members Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren and DJ Yella. The movie is due to be released on August 14. Though Eazy-E passed way back in 1995 Ice Cube said this “Working on the movie, it’s like we’ve been engulfed in Eazy-E for the last seven years, so, it seems like he’s right here still.” Hopefully this move does well and does a great job at telling the story of N.W.A.
Tyga was at his LA Gear release party in Hollywood and was hit with legal papers out of nowhere. The server was acting as though he was a fan waiting for an autograph getting his pair of LA gear signed before whipping out the legal papers and serving Tyga. Check the video of the serving below.
Kevin Gates is known to have very wild antics but what happened while in Flint, Michigan on Sunday night was a little much. Footage actually surfaced from the show that shows Kevin Gates throw his arm at a woman who looked to be grabbing at him in the front row of his show. In the video at about 11 seconds Gates goes on the attack and security gets behind him and doesn’t pull him out of the scuffle until about 38 seconds in and then he continues performing as if nothing happened. But it doesn’t actually end there after everything seemed calm at about 1 minute 6 seconds in Gates takes another lunge at the woman but it didn’t go any further than that. Hopefully no contact was made to either of the women and things don’t escalate any further then this but only time will tell. Check the clip below of the incident thanks to TMZ.
It is well known that 50 Cent has had a beef with French Montana for quite some time now and he continued that beef yesterday over social media. 50 Cent yesterday posted a photo of him without a shirt on in a boxing stance on his Instagram and a fan commented “You should fuck french montana @50Cent” then 50 responded ““what the fuck you just say nothing nigga. I ain’t with all that crazy shit what the fuck you think I’m puffy.” He has deleted both of the posts but of course the internet never forgets anything.
In a sit down interview Jay Z talked about the new TIDAL streaming service. Jay talked about wanting to restore “fair trade in the music industry saying “Definitely. For someone like me, I can go on tour. But what about the people working on the record, the content creators and not just the artists? If they’re not being compensated properly, then I think we’ll lose some writers and producers and people like that who depend on fair trade. Some would probably have to take another job, and I think we’ll lose some great writers in the process. Is it fair? No. If you put in work, everyone else, you go to work you get paid. That’s fair trade. It’s what our country is built on.” Then Jay talks about what he wants out of the service “Artists come here and start making songs 18 minutes long, or whatever. I know this is going to sound crazy, but maybe they start attempting to make a “Like a Rolling Stone,” you know, a song that doesn’t have a recognizable hook, but is still considered one of the greatest songs of all time, the freedom that this platform will allow art to flourish here. And we’re encouraging people to put it in any format they like. It doesn’t have to be three minutes and 30 seconds. What if it’s a minute and 17, what if it’s 11; you know, just break format. What if it’s just four minutes of just music and then you start rapping?” Finally Jay talks about if there will be exclusive content on TIDAL from artists “Well, it’s up to the artist. You know, there’s a thing now, it’s called the album cycle. You put your single out, promote it, then another single — I think that now for an artist an album cycle doesn’t have to end. They’re on Instagram and Twitter and all these things, so we’re just talking about ways of extending that album cycle, and it could be anything. What if it’s a video offering tickets to the next concert, or what if it’s audio or video of the recording process? It could be anything. It could be them at home listening to songs that inspire them. Anything they want to offer, you know; just be as creative as possible, that’s the only charge, really. Make it look really good and make everyone that consumes it think, “Man, I got something really great.” Treat the people with respect; make it memorable.”
