Jay-Z is now worth a jaw-dropping $2.5 billion following the sale of his alcohol brand. The updated ranking from Friday makes Hov the 1,203rd richest person in the world. Jay sold his 50% stake of his D’USSÉ cognac back to its parent company Bacardi for a reported $750 million after a court battle and still retains sizeable ownership in the brand. Billboard…

The Weeknd's “Die for You,” featuring Ariana Grande, has hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The leap happened from the No. 6 slot. the song “Die for You,” dropped on XO/Republic Records, received 81.1 million radio airplay audience impressions (up less than 1%), 32.4 million streaming (up 181%), and 14,000 sales (up 1,170%), between February 24 and March 2.…

Tiffany & Co. and Nike officially announced their collaboration on the Nike x Tiffany & Co. Air Force 1 1837s. The shoe is being produced in honor of the 40th anniversary of Nike’s Air Force 1 and was teased over the weekend in a New York Times print ad of a Nike shoe box in Tiffany’s signature robin egg blue. The ad read “A Legendary Pair.” Shortly…

Donnell Russel was sentenced to a year in jail, which he will serve concurrently with the 20-month sentence he was handed down for threatening one of R. Kelly’s alleged victims. Russell tol the judge that he was not “a horrible person”, but that he’s just made some “bad decisions” as the manager of the troubled crooner. Russell is schduled to begin serving…

Por La Cultura Mixtape: Volume 1 is released by the NFL in collaboration with NEON16 and features performances by Will.I.Am, Anthony Ramos, El Alfa, Yandel, Snow Tha Product, Trueno, and others. The mixtape includes unique songs that celebrate the game’s sounds in fresh, contemporary ways while capturing the energy and flavor of Latino…

Nicki Minaj's father, Robert Maraj, in a hit-and-run was just sentenced to time behind bars. Charles Polevich was ordered to serve 1 year in jail Wednesday after pleading guilty to two felony charges leaving the scene of an incident without reporting and tampering with physical evidence. On top of that, his driver's license…

Prosecutors have hit Duane Brown with a criminal charge stemming from his arrest at LAX last weekend and now, the NFL star could be facing up to 1 year behind bars if he's convicted the five-time Pro Bowler who most recently played for the Seattle Sea Hawks was busted in LAX airport in L.A. on July 9 after authorities said he tried to go…

Mass Appeal will release DJ Premier: Hip Hop 50 Volume 1, the first EP from Hip Hop 50: The Soundtrack. The five-track project, produced by the legendary DJ Premier, will honor the sounds of one of Hip Hop’s most active producers and feature brand-new, original music from Nas, Lil Wayne, Run The Jewels, Joey Bada$$, Remy Ma, Rapsody, and…

Nicki Minaj's Husband Kenneth Petty will be doing time for failing to register as a sex offender in California, A federal judge sentenced the 44-year-old on Wednesday, giving him 1 year of home detention, 3 years probation and a $55,000 fine. Petty entered a guilty plea back in September 2021. prosecutors inside the U.S. Attorney’s Office had argued home…

Vic Mensa's pleading guilty to possession of a controlled substance, but he won't do any time behind bars after striking a deal with prosecutors Kendra Glover, a rep for the Loudoun County Commonwealth's Attorney, says Mensa pled guilty to one count of possession of a Schedule III controlled substance, which is a Class 1 misdemeanor. as part…

Travis was leaving his event Thursday night at TAO in Hollywood, and, as usual, a group of fans were waiting outside to greet him and hoping to snap some pics or get an autograph. The rapper hopped in his car and decided to swing by the crowd before taking off rolling down his window, and shocking the hell out of them by handing out a pair of laced-up…

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  Travis Scott's latest Nike collab won't be hitting the shelves anytime soon the Swoosh has decided to postpone the "Air Max 1 x Cactus Jack" release due to the Astroworld festival tragedy. The Baroque Brown kicks were slated to go live…

Adam "Pacman" Jones will be back behind bars again he's just been sentenced to jail for his role in a huge bar fight earlier this year. the former NFL star was at Clutch OTR in Cincinnati, Ohio on Feb. 15 when law enforcement claims the dude snapped on venue staffers. Authorities say Jones got into a wild brawl with the establishment's employees claiming the…

Kanye West officially has his 10th No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Ye’s latest album, DONDA, hits the top of the charts with the biggest week for any album in 2021.

DONDA’s 309,000 equivalent album units for the week ending Sept. 2 blew past Olivia Rodrigo’s Sour, which came in at 295,000 units. Kanye West joins an esteemed list…

The Toronto rapper joined forces with upcoming streaming service Emmersive Entertainment to exclusively release one million copies of his WHEN IT’S DARK album.

The project is a 7-track NFT album that features a seven art piece collection streaming exclusively via the E-NFT platform and app.

The 29-year-old shared the news on…

Pop Smoke’s legacy lives on.

The late rapper’s posthumous debut, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon, has spent the most weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart since M.C. Hammer’s Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt Em in 1990.

With 18 weeks in charge, Shoot for the Stars passes Eminem’s Recovery, which topped the chart for 16 weeks, and…

Youngboy Never Broke Again continues his streak of debuting at or near the top of the album chart, as “38 Baby 2,” his third album in eight months, bows at No. 1 with 63,000 album units.

His previous collection, “Still Flexin, Still Steppin,” debuted at No. 2 in February — and would have come in on top, if not for BTS then blocking its path — preceded by a No.…

Rihanna has announced her first “visual autobiography,” “Rihanna,” a 504-page book containing more than 1,000 photos documenting the pop star and her life (many of them never-before-seen). It will be published by Phaidon.

“From her childhood in Barbados to her worldwide tours, from quintessential fashion moments to private time with friends and family, the book…

DaBaby scores his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart as Kirk opens in the top slot.

The set, which is the hip-hop artist’s second studio effort, starts with 145,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 3, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, just 8,000 were in album sales, as the set was powered largely by streaming…