WORLD WRAP FEDERATION's Blog – August 2017 Archive (112)

Queen Latifah will be honored at Diddy’s fourth annual REVOLT music conference in October, where performers will include Lauryn Hill and 2 Chainz.

REVOLT announced Wednesday that the conference will take place Oct. 12-15 in Miami. Latifah will receive the Icon Award for her accomplishments in music, film and TV. She has won an Emmy, Golden Globe and Grammy…

Chris Brown relived the February 2009 night he assaulted Rihanna for his new documentary “Welcome to My Life.”

Brown, then just 19, confessed to punching and pushing the “Umbrella” singer, who was 20 at the time, into the window of the Lamborghini he was driving, saying, “I felt like a f–king monster.”

As he details, the pair were at a Clive Davis Grammy party…

A Tribe Called Quest penned an open letter published in the Los Angeles Times regarding their cancellations at Outside Lands over the weekend.

On Saturday (Aug. 11), fans were disheartened after the storied hip-hop group unexpectedly pulled out from their performance. Things only got worse the following day when ATCQ cancelled their show again. According to the group,…

LeBron James has not had a lot to say on Twitter about the President of the United States in the past six months.

That has changed in the past four days.

Tuesday, the normally evasive James left nothing to decode after Donald Trump spoke in Manhattan, where he condemned the “alt left,” too, for the attack this weekend that left one counter-protester dead at a…

Natalie Cole’s son Robert Yancy was found dead in his San Fernando Valley, Calif., apartment on Monday night.

He was 39 and Cole’s only child.

The death was attributed to natural causes.

Natalie’s twin sisters, Casey and Timolin, told Page Six: “We are saddened, completely heart broken beyond words at the death of our nephew. It’s an inexplicable…

Wu Wear is back on the streets.

Wu-Tang Clan's Robert Diggs (RZA) and Oliver Grant (Power) tell Billboard they’re bringing back the iconic hip-hop clothing line in partnership with Live Nation’s Merchandise division. Originally launched in 1995, Wu Wear was one of hip-hop’s first clothing lines and was sold at major retailers like Macy's and Bloomingdale's until being…

The Purple One now has a color named after him.

A new shade of purple honoring late rock legend Prince has been created by The Pantone Color Institute in collaboration with The Prince Estate.

The shade’s official name is the iconic symbol Prince changed his name to when he was “The Artist Formerly Known As Prince,” but fans can call it “Love Symbol #2” — which…

Legendary rapper MC Lyte married the man of her dreams over the weekend in Montego Bay, Jamaica.

“It was so beautiful and a fairytale,” Lyte, 46, told Essence of her nuptials with Marine Corp veteran John Wyche. “I got my king.”

Lyte, whose real name is Lana Moorer, met her husband on Match.com in 2016 after opening herself up to receive a “yummy hubby.”…

How’s this for a blessing?

Chance the Rapper’s surprise free concert in Chicago Saturday night featured a cameo from a very special guest: Barack Obama.

In a pre-recorded video message, the former commander-in-chief congratulated fellow Chicagoan Chance for serving as the Grand Marshal of the city’s 88th-annual Bud Billiken Parade, which is the largest and…

It must be tough to be humble when you’re so used to winning.

Kendrick Lamar’s “DAMN.” returned to the top of the Billboard 200 chart Sunday, netting its fourth total week at No. 1 since the album dropped in May.

With four weeks at No. 1, “DAMN.” has spent the most time on top of the chart since the Weeknd’s “Starboy” notched five non-consecutive weeks in…

50 Cent’s hit show, Power, has simultaneously been a feather in the rapper’s cap and a point of contention between the Queens rap mogul and the Starz Network. Earlier this week, the Internet went nuts when the final three episodes of season four mysteriously made their way onto the World Wide Web. According to Fif, the network thinks he is the culprit.

Earlier today…

Bruno Mars did a seven-figure solid for the city of Flint, Mich., during his show on Saturday night (Aug. 12) in suburban Detroit.

As he closed his main set with "Just The Way You Are" at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Mars told the crowd that he was donating $1 million to “our brothers and sisters in Flint, Michigan” to provide aid for the continuing wake of the city's…

Atlanta rapper Big Boi has given a puppy to a little girl who was paralyzed from the waist down after being shot while playing in a bounce house near the city earlier this year.

WSB-TV reports Big Boi, who’s one-half of the rap duo OutKast, presented Abriya Ellison on Thursday with the pup bred from his kennel business. Video shows Abriya cradling the dog, which she…

Once again, ex-Chicago Bulls superstar Scottie Pippen is trying to hand off his mansion in a swanky suburb north of Chicago.

Pippen just relisted the 10,500-square-foot home for $2,795,000 through a private network, according to the Chicago Tribune. The listing agent is Vikki Wolin of Coldwell Banker in Highland Park, Illinois.

Pippen initially listed the…

A woman is suing rappers Drake and Future after she was raped at one of their concerts.

The unnamed woman claims a man associated with the Nashville venue, Bridgestone Arena, told her he would take her backstage to meet with the stars, but instead violently attacked her and raped her, according to The Tennessean.

The 28-year-old woman is now suing the stars for…

A Georgia politician is pushing for a stepped-up criminal probe of R. Kelly in the wake of allegations the singer held women against their will in freaky sex cult.

Fulton County Chairman John Eaves said Friday he believes the district attorney should "advance" an investigation after Johns Creek Police reportedly turned over "key" evidence for review.

Eaves said…

The revelations emerged after DMX, whose legal name is Earl Simmons, showed up late for his own bail hearing at Manhattan Federal Court.

An angry Judge Jed Rakoff said the 46-year-old Simmons, who was dressed in a blue tie-dyed…

Rihanna has been accused of a photoshop fail in a saucy snap from her carnival outing – after fans pointed out she has an “extra thumb” in the pic.

The superstar posed wearing a barely-there showgirl get-up for the Instagram snap, but if you look closely she has an alien-like right hand, with two blue thumbnails, apparently due to an editing glitch.

One…

Kevin Hart just lost a fan.

One of his VIP guests, Jay Collins, filed a lawsuit against the 39-year-old comedian claiming his security guard beat him up and called him a “p---y” and a “b---h” backstage at his Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field event in Aug. 2015, according to documents obtained by TMZ.

Collins is asking for more than $50,000 in the suit, in…

Prosecutors are claiming Suge Knight tried to buy witnesses in his murder case — but one of the rap mogul's lawyers shot down the theory Thursday.

"I've never paid anyone, period, end of story," lawyer Matt Fletcher told the Daily News ahead of a court hearing on the matter.

"As far as I know, (witnesses) haven't been paid by anyone," he said. "I don't believe…