Kanye Hit With $500,000 Lawsuit Over Sample
| [caption id="attachment_3043" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Kanye West Photo:Getty images"]  [/caption]Lawsuit Hip-Hop star Kanye West is the subject of a lawsuit over an illegal sample contained on a 2006 mixtape. Robert Poindexter filed a lawsuit against Kanye West in the United States District Court of Southern New York, on March 27. Kanye is being sued over the song “Girls Girls Girls (Remix)” on the mixtape “Freshmen Adjustment 2,......... |
Rihanna & Chris Brown Set For Onstage Reunion?
| [caption id="attachment_6418" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Chris & Rihanna Photo:Getty Images"]  [/caption]News Rihanna and Chris Brown are reportedly planning to reunite on stage for a performance at Supafest in Brisbane, Australia. The former couple, who ended their romance in 2009 after Brown infamously assaulted the Barbadian babe before a pre-Grammy Awards party, are rumoured to be in talks for a surprise duet at the event in April after teaming up on two songs together. |
Drake Private Party Shut Down
| [caption id="attachment_6411" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Drake Photo:Getty Images"]  [/caption]News According to a recent report, Drake is allegedly responsible for an incident that shut an Oklahoma City nightclub down earlier this month. TMZ is reporting that the YMCMB emcee is being asked to pay for what resulted in an arrest at Dollhouse Lounge in Oklahoma City. Drake allegedly requested a private party at the club on March 1. However, according to a letter from the owner to Drake's manager, marijuana smoke caused the event to be shut down. |
The Game’s Last Album With Interscope
| [caption id="attachment_4161" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="The Game Photo:Getty Images"]  [/caption]News Game only has one LP left on his Interscope contract, and after he drops the follow-up to 2011's The R.E.D. Album, the platinum-selling Compton rapper will contemplate his musical independence. "That seems like a really, really good move where I can capitalize off of all the finances being made off of my music for once. But, I don't know, I kinda like having a lot of help, a lot of assistance from a big label," .... |
Snoop Dogg’s Next Album
| [caption id="attachment_6400" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Snoopy Dogg Photo:Getty Images"]  [/caption]Music Maybe murder isn't the case after all? Eleven solo albums into his career, Snoop Dogg insists that fans have yet to see the real him, but on his next album, he hopes to change all of that. "It's a project where it's more about the element of surprise, but at the same time it'll be talked about in due time," Snoop told News this weekend at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas. "It's special; it's a real special project to me because it's like the reincarnation and the birth of me becoming who I really am." |
Drake Is Experiencing A Bit Of Growing Pains
| [caption id="attachment_2562" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Drake Photo:Getty Images"]  [/caption]News It seems as if Drake is experiencing a bit of growing pains. On his 2009 Trey Songz-assisted single "Successful," the then-burgeoning star rapped about his yearn for the spotlight, and now that he has it, he's having a bit of difficulty adjusting, he tells GQ Magazine. "I'm trying to find the same feelings that I had for women when I had very little going on, which is tough. |
Coolio Arrested For Traffic Violations And Locked
| [caption id="attachment_6355" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Rapper Coolio Photo: Getty Images"]  [/caption]News Rapper Coolio, real name Artis Leon Ivey Jr., is seen in a booking photo March 9, 2012, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Coolio was arrested for two outstanding misdemeanor warrants for traffic violations after the car he was riding in was pulled over during a routine traffic stop. It's the same place that his son Grtis is incarcerated for allegedly robbing someone at gunpoint. |
Jah Rule Begins Prison Sentence
| [caption id="attachment_3558" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Jah Rule Photo: Mark Mainz/Getty Images"]  [/caption]News Ja Rule fans may have enjoyed last week's radio interview from behind bars on Sirius XM, but the Department of Corrections did not. Last week, on his birthday (February 29) Ja called into Renada Romain's Ear Candy Morningsshow on Hip Hop Nation and spoke on his current incarceration, his Pray For the Day charity and his new Pain is Love 2, but on Tuesday (March 6), the multiplatinum rap star faced a disciplinary hearing over the phone interview. |
Chris Brown’s Fortune Dropping May 8
| [caption id="attachment_6293" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Chris Brown Photo: RFix"]  [/caption]Music Fresh off his Grammy win for Best R&B album, Chris Brown announced Thursday (March 1) that his next album, Fortune, will be released May 8. Fans have been waiting for album news since Brown dropped the single "Turn Up the Music" in January followed by a music video the next month, which racked up more than 8 million views in its first week. |
Rick Ross Announces European Tour
| [caption id="attachment_6293" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Rick Ross Photo: Maybach Music"]  [/caption]Tour The Maybach Music head might want to consider spending significant time on the road. In promotion of his latest mixtape and all things MMG, the Bawse is hitting up Europe for his 14-date Rich Forever Tour, which begins in Lille, France, on March 21. Rozay will not only be performing songs from his respected rap catalog, but also debuting new music from his upcoming God Forgives, I Don't album. By the time Ross wraps things up April 4, he will have run through Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Holland and London. |
