April 2016 Blog Posts (107)

It’s clear: Ciara wants no future friendship with her son's baby daddy.

The R&B singer refused to say hip-hop star Future's name while announcing the 2016 Billboard Best Rap nominees Monday on "Good Morning America."

Ciara, who is…

Twista, along with three other men, pleaded not guilty to a Class B misdemeanor possession of marijuana yesterday (April 11) according to the Chicago Tribune. TMZ reports that Twista’s legal representation is also looking into the possibility that profiling led to the initial arrest.

The Chicago rapper was arrested on March 24 while he was on his way to a performance…

Birdman has announced his first solo album in seven years. Ms. Gladys drops this June.

His last album was Priceless, and it came during a time when nearly everything was different for Baby. He was still very close with Wayne while also in the process of breaking Drake – hence “Money to Blow,” the album’s biggest single.

Fast forward to today, and relations seem…

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a “racist piece of s--t” for drastically slashing the sentence of his political pal’s son, said Snoop Dogg in a series of profanity-laden Instagram videos.

The rapper railed on California’s ex-Governator early Tuesday on the heels of 27-year-old Esteban Nunez, the son of ex-California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, walking…

50 Cent has a plan to satisfy some of the creditors in his bankruptcy case -- and it involves him forking over $23 million.

50 and his lawyers submitted their plan to a bankruptcy judge, and according to the docs ... he will pay the $23 mil over the next 5 years.

The money will be spread out over his many, many, many creditors. In the docs, he mentions…

The Weeknd leads the nominations for the 2016 Billboard Music Awards with 19 nods in 16 categories.

The finalists for nominations were revealed by the show's hosts, rap star Ludacris and pop-R&B diva Ciara, early Monday on “Good Morning America.”

The bounty of nods for the Weeknd, a first-time nominee, follows the breakout success of his blockbuster…

It’s just been announced that a Notorious B.I.G tour is in the works - a hologram tour that is.

According to Billboard, Los Angeles-based ARHT Media in partnership with ByStorm Entertainment - the company which handles Biggie’s estate - will create technology for a so-called “humangram” of the rapper born Christopher Wallace.

The hologram is set to appear…

Kanye West scores his seventh No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as his latest release, The Life of Pablo, arrives atop the list. The set earning 94,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 7, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 28,000 were in pure album sales -- the rest were in streaming equivalent albums.

The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most…

As one of the artists who helped invent the music that exploded out of South Bronx block parties and Boys Club dances, hip-hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa was already a New York legend in the late 1970s.

Ronald Savage was just a kid thrilled to be part of the burgeoning Bronx hip-hop scene when he met Bambaataa, whose 1982 hit “Planet Rock” helped turn rap into a global…

Music executive Lyor Cohen was rushed to the hospital yesterday, after having a near death experience.

The CEO of 300 Entertainment which is the home of artists such as Young Thug, Fetty Wap, and more shared the experience on Snapchat where Cohen said he suffered a pulmonary embolism. The executive claims that if he had waited four more hours he would've died. Below…

Furious Janet Jackson ticketholders no longer have a reason to “Scream.”

The Grammy winner confirmed Saturday that her “Unbreakable” world tour — which she abruptly tabled this week in favor of family planning — would resume next year, with existing tickets honored and refunds available.

“The Janet Jackson Unbreakable tour in North America will be postponed…

A woman charged with swiping a $30,000 watch from rapper DMX has accused him of sexual assault.

Cops responded at 6:44 a.m. Saturday to a report of DMX and the 25-year-old woman arguing in front of the Ayres Hotel in Costa Mesa, Calif., the Costa Mesa Police Department told the Daily News in a statement.

Police collared the woman for grand theft, after which…

Actor Will Smith boycotted the Oscars this year, but he had no problem gracing the MTV Movie Awards Saturday night to accept a special honor.

The music channel feted Smith with its The Generation Award, celebrating his nearly 25-year movie career.

"When I first heard MTV wanted to give me the award I thought that was code for the old ass dude award - hey…

The wait for Drake's highly anticipated next album is almost over.

The hip-hop superstar finally announced that "Views From the 6" will drop at the end of April — answering the prayers of rap fans who have been clamoring for its release for months.

"I'm happy to let you know that 'Views' is dropping April 29," Drake revealed Saturday at the beginning of…

Tidal, Jay Z’s music streaming service, recently announced that it had passed 3 million paying subscribers.

That number was helped by high-profile exclusives from Kanye West and Rihanna, both of whose albums have since made their way to other streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music. But the exclusive windows did their job: getting people to download…

They went straight outta Compton and right into the history books.

N.W.A. capped off a landmark year Friday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center with an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, becoming only the fifth rap group ever to receive the honor.

The induction comes just months after the NWA biopic, “Straight Outta Compton” earned $201…

SCURRY LIFE DVD Presents SCURRY LIFE GANG, the group consists of Sadaday, Hot Waterz, Txstyle & Phade Fozzy.

The new single and video (We Scurrying) is the second installment off the the forth coming mixtape entitled (The Bang Bang Theory) Available online 4/20…

Rick Ross should have been hustlin' a better lawyer when he tried to protect his hit song, because a judge just laughed him out of court.

Ross famously released the song, "Hustlin'" back in 2006. Enter LMFAO, which recorded "Party Rock Anthem" in 2011. Rick was furious, claiming it's a blatant ripoff, so he sued the group.…

The media mogul continues to expand his empire, this time landing a role in one of Hollywood’s longstanding films.

According to FACT Magazine, 50 Cent signed on to act in the Predator reboot. In an interview on DJ Enuff’s Sirius XM station, he shared that he’ll “be doing some new feature films and stuff like that too. I’ll do Predator.”

Directed by Shane…