French Montana, during a Billboard interview, admits to dating Khloe to build up his fan base. Reality star Khloe later responds to the interview with a tweet stating, “It’s amusing to me that Y’all think I don’t see it. I was the first one to see it. I just don’t care”.
Kid Ink sued after his dog attacked the pizza delivery man. Pizza delivery man, Garnik Nazarian, claims the dog bit his arms, legs, face and other parts of his body. According to the lawsuit, Nazarian’s injuries are so bad; he won’t be able to deliver pizzas for a long time to come. So, in addition to medical bills and pain and suffering, he wants lost profits (TMZ).
When asked about his current relationship with Atlantic Records, Lupe Fiasco said “I can’t wait to get off. Even with that said, I’m coming with the biggest records of my career over the next two albums just to set myself up for that post- Atlantic Records career. I’ve had a very interesting run for various reasons. I don’t even think about it anymore. I just go ahead. I rock with my homies at the label who are my homies…but that executive level don’t f*** with your boy too heavy. And it’s good, it is what it is
Although Earl Sweatshirt has claimed to not have seen Taylor Swifts new video “Shake it Off”, he finds that having twerking women as Swift dances among them has already been done by other artists and criticized. After posting a tweet saying claiming Swift’s video to be “inherently offensive and ultimately harmful”, Earl states that the video “is perpetuating black stereotypes to the same demographic of white girls who hide their prejudice by proclaiming their love of the culture.”
There have been reports that the duo has been seen in the studio together. A NY post article had a secretive quote from a source saying they were working on a track called “Piss on My Grave” Plus that Kanye was in attendance at Paul’s recent show in the Dodger Stadium. Another tabloid call The Sun said a source close to Kanye said “Kanye and Paul have known each other for a long time but have become more friendly lately. There’s every chance they’ll head into the studio together.” So all of this should really be taken with a grain of salt but if this information is true Kanyes next project could be something special.
Meek Mill going to remain In Jail until at least October 11th as talked about in a story on nbcphiladelphia.com. After going before a judge today (August 18) Meek Mill asked to be released from jail so that he could return to his career to support his son and others in his family. But the judge then instead ordered the rapper to take anger management and parenting classes. This whole jail stay stemmed from Meek posing with a gun in a music video while he was on probation which he has been on for the last five years. He was then sentenced to three-to-six months in jail.
Rapper T.I. has just landed a role in Marvel’s film “Ant-Man”. This film will add to the rapper growing film and television credit which includes “Amerian Gangster”,” Identity Thief”, “ATL”, and Reality TV. Other cast members of the film includes Paul Rudd as the title character, Michael Douglas plays his mentor, Evangeline Lily plays Michael daughter and Corey Stoll as the Yellow Jacket the arch nemesis of Ant-Man.
VH1 has added another Love & Hip Hop show to their line-up. Love & Hip Hop Hollywood will add to the already existing Love & Hip Hop Atlanta and New York. The cast members for the Hollywood show includes Ray J, Soulja Boy and Omarion. Lil Fizz , Omarion former B2K member will also make an appearance on the show. Female cast includes actress Teairre Marie, Nikki Mudarris, radio deejay Yesi Ortiz and club promoter Sincere will make an appearance on the show.
The rapper Nelly decided to come out and talk publicly about the death of Michal Brown. Nelly talked with TMZ telling them “I understand the frustration, but we have to strategize before we overreact…We don’t get no do-over on sh*t like this, so we have to do it right the first time.” He also added “Ain’t nothing happen no different that hasn’t been happening…At the end of the day, we should have waited to strategize first and take all the right steps to organize.”
T.I. shared similar thoughts with TMZ saying “We needed to play chess instead of checkers. We should have waited to see if justice was going to be served first…We shouldn’t have played our strongest hand first.”
Nelly was also saying that he wants to do something productive, so he will be opening a scholarship fund in the name of Michael Brown. The first celebs that are pledging $15,000 a year in college tuition to teens chosen by the brown family are Nelly, Kevin Hart, T.I., and Al Jefferson.
Nicki Minaj is being sued by IMP Entertainment for 50,000 after allegedly flaking out on her duties. IMP is suing her for showing up at their event late and leaving early. In 2011 they hired Minaj to host and NBA All Star weekend event that was an hour long. IMP claimed MInaj showed up 90 minutes late and left 30 minutes early. The lawsuit read that she was so late “defeated the entire purpose” of her hosting the event.
LL Cool J career has span almost 3 decades, he released his first album “Radio” in 1985 and now he has a new album “G.O.A.T. 2”. LL said in his career “I’ve done two types of album, cultural albums and then the ones that people will always like.” The people connect with my cultural albums, as it connects with the street.” This new album of LL is gritty and he said this album is mainly for the niggas, this one is not for the ladies, the album is about real stories. Several artist has joined LL on this album artist such as Maino, Raewkon, Uncle Murda and many others.
Last week as the film crew for the NWA movie “Straight Outta Of Compton” were setting up there was a drive by shooting. None of the film crew were injured but one civilian was shot but survive. Apparently a few local drove by the filming location threw up gang signs to a passing car, which result in the car passengers returning and opening fire on them. Authorities do not know if the incident is gang related, the shooting is still under investigation.
