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. |
Birdman To Release 16 Albums This Year
[caption id="attachment_4586" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Birdman Photo:VT Images"][/caption] Music Birdman has high hopes for 2012. During an interview m, the Cash Money Records CEO revealed that he’s looking to release 16 albums of different genres on YMCMB this year, including full-length LPs from Nicki Minaj, Bow Wow, Lil Twist and Limp Bizkit. “I think bringing Fred and Limp Bizkit to the team gives us a different look,” he said. “We dominate rap, but we’re also trying to grow in different areas; Pop, rock, gospel, country.” |
The-Dream To Drop “Kill The Lights” Single Today
[caption id="attachment_5593" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="The Dream Photo: MTV/ Images"][/caption] Music The-Dream is ready to take his show on the road. In preparation for his Love IV album, the singer/songwriter is getting ready to embark on a new tour, and on Thursday (February 23), he's planning to drop a new song to commemorate the run. The Kill the Lights Tour will begin March 11 in New York, and The-Dream is dropping his new single of the same name. "The name of the song is actually 'Kill the Lights,' featuring my artist Casha," he said on Wednesday's "RapFix Live." |
Whitney Houston Remembered by Kevin Costner
[caption id="attachment_6232" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Whitney Huston Kevin Costner Photo: Warner Bros."][/caption] News On Saturday afternoon (February 18), Whitney Houston was sent to rest by family and friends at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey, during a stirring funeral dubbed her Home-Going. While the pop diva's onetime leading man Bobby Brown reportedly left moments before the noon ceremony began, the pop diva's onscreen leading man Kevin Costner delivered a poignant eulogy in her honor. |
Whitney Houston Is Dead At The Age Of 48
[caption id="attachment_6226" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Whitney Huston Photo: G/Images"][/caption] News Whitney is DEAD! Musicians, many already in Los Angeles ahead of the Grammys on Sunday (tomorrow AEDT), lined up to pay tribute to the singer, who sold over 170 million records before descending into a very public battle with substance abuse."She was one of the greatest singers I ever heard," said veteran crooner Tony Bennett, on the red carpet at the Beverly Hills hotel, where Houston's body was found in her fourth floor room. |
Brandy And Monica Reunite
[caption id="attachment_6220" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Monica / Brandy Photo: Wire/Images"][/caption] News Grammy-winning duo Brandy and Monica, who joined together to propel their single “The Boy Is Mine” to the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 13 weeks, have reunited — and it sounds so good. Fourteen years after their best-selling hit, Monica and Brandy released “It All Belongs to Me” Monday through RCA Records. The reunion was not without the help of a little bit of love — super-producer-singer-songwriter Rico Love produced the song. |
Drake Sued By Ex-Girlfriend For Royalties
[caption id="attachment_2562" align="alignleft" width="281" caption="Drake Photo: Getty/Images"][/caption] News According to an exclusive story by The Hollywood Reporter, a woman claiming to be Drake’s ex-girlfriend and the inspiration for “Marvin’s Room” is suing the YMCMB rapper for co-writing royalties on the song. Ericka Lee, who is credited in the liner notes of “Marvin’s Room” as a vocalist under the name “Syren Lyric Muse,” believes she is entitled to a larger share of the song’s royalties. |