(AllHipHop News) Rapper Peter Gunz is still infamous for his stint on “Love & Hip Hop New York.”
The “Deja Vu” rapper’s love triangle with Tara Wallace and Amina Butterfly drew huge ratings for the reality show.
And now, Peter Gunz is returning to the television as the first African-American host of the hit reality show “Cheaters.”
Peter Gunz will head up the weekly show, as the Cheaters Detective Agency catches people in the act of committing adultery or cheating on their partners.
“Cheaters,” which has been on the air for over 15 years, has been hosted by personas like Tommy Habeeb, Joey Greco, and Clark James Gable.
“Who better to help you catch a cheater than Peter? Don’t ask no questions just tune the f##k in,” Peter Gunz said.
Nicki Minaj just dropped a brand new video with pop star Meghan Trainor.
Nicki is getting Meghan Trainor some attention with the banging new single “Nice To Meet Ya,” which is taken from the singer’s third album, Treat Myself.
The new visuals are nod to the 1988 flick “Working Girl,” one of Meghan Trainor’s favorite films.
The first single from the Ignatius is titled “Kisses To The Sky,” as a tribute to his first three solo albums Kiss the Game Goodbye (2001),Kiss Of Death (2004), and The Last Kiss (2009).
Ignatius is Jadakiss’s first solo album in five years. His last effort, Top Five Dead Or Alive was a hit and debuted at #1 on the R&B hip-hop charts.
Check out the new video for “Kisses To The Sky,” which features Rick Ross and Emanny and pre-order the album here.
(AllHipHop News) An underground rapper from Houston’s love of the deadly drug lean could land him in prison for years.
According to the cops, rapper Psyco Sid was busted yesterday morning around 4:00 a.m. when he was stopped for a traffic violation.
The rapper, real name Sydney Wiley, was taken into custody because he had an open warrant for felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
When the cops searched his car, they found a gallon of liquid codeine, a handgun and a half-pound of marijuana.
Police are planning on filing charges against Psyco Sid once they test the cache of drugs found in his vehicle.
(AllHipHop News) Superstar producer DJ Khaled will kick off a new partnership with the Hard Rock brand for a new residency at two of their flagship locations.
Khaled will debut as the resident DJ at DAER Nightclub in Hollywood, Florida after the Kansas City Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49’ers during Super Bowl LIV on Sunday (February 2nd) at the Hard Rock Stadium.
“Kicking off my residency at the new DAER Nightclub in South Florida for the Big Game Weekend is going to be epic, and I look forward to making 2020 with Hard Rock an unforgettable year.”
DJ Khaled will also make seven more appearances, and hold down hosting duties for spot dates at Daer in Atlantic City in 2020 as part of his deal with Hard Rock.
The deal was executed by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, which handles the careers of dozens of superstar artists, including Rihanna, Alicia Keys, DJ Khaled, and Shakira, who will perform during this year’s Super Bowl halftime show with Jennifer Lopez.
“As a DJ first and foremost, producer, mogul, and entrepreneur – DJ Khaled has always been about the music and this partnership gives him another opportunity to connect with his fans,” said Michael Yormark, President of Roc Nation Sports International/Co-CEO of Roc Nation Unified.
On Saturday, (February 1st), DJ Martin Garrix will spin at DAER Dayclub on, while Lil Jon will host during the day, on Sunday, February 2nd, followed by DJ Khaled.
(AllHipHop News) Lizzo celebrated the life and legacy of late basketball star Kobe Bryant during her pre-Super Bowl concert on Thursday night.
The “Truth Hurts” hitmaker took the stage at the SiriusXM & Pandora Opening Drive Super Concert Series at The Fillmore Miami Beach in Florida, where she told the crowd, “I can’t be at the largest sporting event of the year without mentioning the tragic loss of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna.”
“We can’t be at this event and not think of them in our hearts and hold them up and honor them as sports fans, as music fans, as human beings.”
The Los Angeles Lakers player died alongside his teenage daughter Gianna and seven other victims in a helicopter crash on Sunday – hours before Lizzo took the stage and scooped three prizes at the 2020 Grammy Awards.
“We have an effect on each other,” the “Good As Hell” singer added. “We have to be good to each other. We don’t know what tomorrow holds. We don’t know if tomorrow’s promised. So, I want you all to just really dig down deep inside and be good to yourself, be good to your family.”
Lizzo performed for two hours, and brought out surprise guest Harry Styles to duet on closing track “Juice.”
Styles has performed the tune several times in his recent live shows.
She also recalled attending the big game as a teenager and watching Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake join forces onstage, noting: “(Now) I got a song with Justin Timberlake. And Janet Jackson likes my music. A lot can happen in a lifetime.”
The San Francisco 49ers take on the Kansas City Chiefs at the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Jennifer Lopez and Shakira will provide entertainment during the Halftime Show.
(AllHipHop News) R. Kelly’s ex-girlfriend Azriel Clary has accused the disgraced singer of “blackmailing” his sexual assault victims into keeping quiet.
However, after reuniting with her estranged family earlier this month, she spoke out against R. Kelly in an interview with Britain’s The Sun newspaper, alleging he “blackmailed his hundreds of victims into silence”.
“I think that there’s hundreds of victims out there. Robert has his live-in girlfriends, he has girlfriends in every city. He has flings in every city,” she said. “For the most part, he blackmails everyone,’ she continued. ‘He makes everyone do very degrading stuff, whether on film or writing it down, he makes them sign it.”
Azriel met the disgraced musician after his concert in Orlando, Florida in 2015, when the then-17-year-old was approached by his handler and given his number.
Sharing her knowledge of Kelly’s alleged manipulation, she added: “He has letters of people saying that they’ve stolen from him. He has letters from people saying that they’ve been molested or touched by their parents or their brothers or a family member.”
A lawyer for R. Kelly has said Azriel’s allegations are untrue.
(AllHipHop Rumors) So this is where we AT NOW? 2020 is something else – ALREADY! Damn, homies! I hope you all are staying focused on the dreams and goals you set for yourself! These people sure are entertaining! Recently, Diddy made a speech that was felt by a lot of people because he was chastising the Grammys. Here is what he said:
“The last few days, I’ve been conflicted. I’m being honored by the industry that I love, the family that I love, but there’s an elephant in the room, and it’s not just about the Grammys. There’s discrimination and injustice everywhere all the time. But there’s something I need to say to the Grammys. … I say this with love to the Grammys because you really need to know this. Every year, y’all be killing us, man. I’m talking about the pain. I’m speaking for all the artists here, producers, executives.”
“Truth be told, hip-hop has never been respected by the Grammys. Black music has never been respected by the Grammys—to the point that it should be. For years, we have allowed institutions that have never had our best interests at heart to judge us. And that stops right now. I’m officially starting the clock. You’ve got 365 days to get this s–t together.”
Sounds good to me! It was all facts. The post caused a domino affect! First of all, it was Sauce Money going at both Jay-Z and Diddy (read about that here). But now we have a bit of a bigger situation in Ma$e, who was Diddy’s left hand back in the day. Ma$e was a pop star that eventually left the game under duress to be a preacher! Remember that?
So, anyway – Mase is no longer preaching, but he is shining some light on his views about Diddy! Look at what he posted on the Gram!!
For those behind the firewall at their job, this is what he said:
@diddy I heard your #Grammy speech about how u are now for the artist and about how the artist must take back control. So I will be the first to take that initiative. Also, before we ask of other ethnicities to do us right we should do us as black people better. Especially the creators. I heard u loud and clear when u said that u are now for the artist and to that my response is if u want to see change you can make a change today by starting with yourself. Your past business practices knowingly has continued purposely starved your artist and been extremely unfair to the very same artist that helped u obtain that Icon Award on the iconic Badboy label. For example, u still got my publishing from 24 years ago in which u gave me $20k. Which makes me never want to work w/ u as any artist wouldn’t after u know someone is robbing you & tarnishing your name when u don’t want to comply w/ his horrendous business model. However, people would always ask what’s up w/ Mase? So I would be forced to still perform to not look crazy when I was getting peanuts and the robbery would continue. So many great moments and people lives in music were lost. But again, I rode with u in the face of death without flinching & u still wouldn’t do right. I never said anything because I wanted to wait until I was financially great so I can ensured that I was addressing this from a pure place and not out of spite. To add insult, u keep screaming black excellence and love but I know love isn’t free. So I offered u 2m in cash just a few days ago to sell me back my publishing(as his biggest artist alive) that always show u respect for u giving me an opportunity at 19 yrs old. Your response was if I can match what the EUROPEAN GUY OFFER him that would be the only way I can get it back. Or else I can wait until I’m 50 years old and it will revert back to me from when I was 19 years old. You bought it for about 20k & I offered you 2m in cash. This is not black excellence at all. When our own race is enslaving us. If it’s about us owning, it can’t be about us owning each other. No More Hiding Behind “Love”. U CHANGED? GIVE THE ARTIST BACK THEIR $$$. So they can take care of their families
He may not be preaching but this was a word and it is being shared and traded all over the internet! What do you think about this?
And to think…they were smiling and chilling as a unit!
I wonder how Diddy will respond. I personally would love to hear his thoughts on this.
(AllHipHop News) Meek Mill is to make his U.K. debut at London’s Wireless festival this year.
The rapper is to take to the stage on Sunday, July 5th at the Finsbury Park event, closing a weekend that also features A$AP Rocky and Skepta as main stage headliners on Friday and Saturday.
Others on the bill include DaBaby, Roddy Ricch, D-Block Europe, AJ Tracey, Lil Uzi Vert, Young Thug, Burna Boy, Playboi Carti, Doja Cat, Aitch, Koffee, City Girls, and Tiffany Calver & Friends.
However, organizers have once again come under fire for the lack of women on the bill, with only six of the 43 acts initially announced, female.
(AllHipHop News) Slain rapper XXXTentacion’s mother has reached a deal with his girlfriend over custody of their son.
According to court documents, Cleopatra Bernard and Jenesis Sanchez have ended their legal battle over little Gekyume Onfroy, who was born following his father’s murder.
XXX’s mom, Bernard, and his girlfriend were on good terms following his death in 2018, but their friendship ended after she gave birth in January 2019, and filed documents requesting the rapper’s DNA sample from the medical examiner.
Cleopatra fought the request but lost.
Jenesis also claimed she and XXX lived together and had “sexual relations” and although no one contested he was the baby’s father, she wanted the DNA to prove it.
All details of the settlement between Bernard and Sanchez are confidential.
(AllHipHop News) The ninth chapter in the billion-dollar Fast & Furious movie franchise is expected to hit North American theaters on May 22. F9’s cast will feature some high-profile celebrity cameos.
Cardi B is one of those A-list entertainers that shot scenes for the upcoming motion picture. The “Bodak Yellow” and “I Like It” chart-topper is also taking part in “The Road To F9 Concert & Trailer Drop” event.
Wiz Khalifa, Charlie Puth, Ozuna, and Fast & Furious actor Ludacris will perform at the Miami-set showcase as well. “The Road To F9” will stream live today (January 31) on The Fast Saga’s Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube pages beginning at 3 pm ET/12 pm PT.
F9 stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron, and John Cena. The action flick was directed by Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6).
Ted Lucas describes himself as a “real Miami boy raised up on that Luke Records.”
Immediately, the Miami native starts singing “get it get it, don’t stop get it get it.”
Born and raised in the city of Miami Gardens, home to the University of Miami who used to kick everybody’s butt in football.
Miami Gardens is where Ted’s culture was born, right in the heart of 305. He went on to create the independent music label Slip-N-Slide Records, home to Trick Daddy, Trina, Rick Ross, Plies, DJ Khaled, and Pitbull.
The well-respected imprint has sold over 25 million records and counting. For the past 15 years, Ted as continued to be a force to be reckoned with in the music business, leading up to this year’s Super Bowl LIV on February 2nd in Miami.
Now, his SuperFest Miami LIVE joins forces with Vewtopia Music Festival for creating a family-friendly festival for all those in town.
The fan village will highlight Miami’s culture, food, and music scene, concerts, a family carnival, and 14 hours of live performances and interactive experiences.
AllHipHop caught up with Ted Lucas who was in Miami directly across the street from Hard Rock Stadium, looking at the Super Bowl being prepared and put together.
He jokes about the rain in Los Angeles: “‘It Never Rains (In Southern California),’ that’s what Tony! Toni! Toné! told me.”
AllHipHop: What are your Super Bowl predictions this coming Sunday?
Ted Lucas: Because you’re [Shirley Ju] from the West Coast, I’ma go with the 49’ers. I think they’re a well-coached, well-put-together team. On offense or defense, they’re a pretty strong team. You want to come with your A-game. The other team is a great team as well, but they really need to come with their A team.
AllHipHop: We hear there’s some breaking business news with your SuperFest business. What’s going on?
Ted Lucas: We did a merge similar to as if Microsoft and Apple merged together. In the last 24 hours here in festivals, we put two festivals and put them together — and used the city of Miami Gardens. Ryan is my business partner, he’ll tell you.
Ryan Bert: My name’s Ryan Bert, the founder of VEW Live! We’re a concert promotional company across the country. I’m looking forward to working with Lucas on this amazing project we have going on here. Some of the biggest artists in the country: Chris Brown, Migos, Cardi B, Megan The Stallion, DaBaby, Nicky Jam just to name a few. Really excited.
Ted Lucas: He’s Vewtopia and I’m SuperFest. There was a merge today that took place. He was doing his festival at another location, I was doing mine at another location. Today, we could come together. Make a little noise today and let people know where they need to be when they come in town for the Super Bowl.
AllHipHop: That Superfest lineup is crazy!
Ted Lucas: Definitely. Ryan has a vision and idea on what he really wanted to do. He’s the one who came and said: “we need Chris Brown on Friday, Cardi B on Saturday.” He put two great amazing lineups together. Megan Thee Stallion and Gunna on Friday, Ty Dolla $ign on Friday. For Saturday, we end it with Cardi B, Migos, DaBaby, Nicky Jam, and Plies.
AllHipHop: What do you want people to know about your city Miami Gardens?
Ted Lucas: This is what I want people to understand: when you come to Miami for the Super Bowl, it’s bigger than South Beach. Everybody knows about South Beach. It’s a beautiful city called Miami Garden, and there’s a reason why they have the stadium in Miami Gardens. Because Miami Gardens is the home of the Super Bowl. It’s a beautiful city and it’s dead center. People who live in West Palm Beach or the tip of Miami, it’s the center place in Miami. A central location where everybody comes at. We have people from all over South Florida coming to one location. We want the tourists to come out and enjoy the festival, get a chance to experience the culture.
AllHipHop: What was it like growing up there?
Ted Lucas: Growing up here, it was a little rough. You hear the story from everyone: “it was rough, it was rough.” It definitely wasn’t easy growing up here. Our heroes were drug dealers, not going to lie to you. Those people who had the nice cars, they weren’t only eating bologna sandwiches. They were able to have good meals. They’d come back into the city and inspire people. Then you had guys making out our community playing football, so those were our two outs. When I was growing up, you were either going to be a pro-football player and if that didn’t work, you’re going to turn around and become a drug dealer.
The reason I’m here doing this festival in the streets of Miami Gardens is I want kids to know that there’s more to life than resorting to crime or putting all your eggs in one basket and going to play football. What we’re doing here now is we got these kids from all those local schools come by to see a black entrepreneur like Ryan and myself put this festival together. They would never imagine two young men came together to put a great festival together with a lineup like this.
AllHipHop: How has it changed from now to today?
Ted Lucas: When I was first growing up in this city, it wasn’t no nice streets. It wasn’t no nice palm trees, it was just a stadium and everybody was broke around the stadium. They gon’ put this nice stadium in the city, you go one block down and you’re in the projects. That’s how it was when I first grew up but now, the whole city is beautiful.
When my grandma first moved over there, she paid $15,000 for her house. But now grandma’s house is worth about $315,000, so that’s how much the property value has went up. It was a great investment. The property value went up because we got a beautiful mayor, Oliver Gilbert, and commissioner, Barbara Jordan, who understand a young man like me. Understand my vision and support me, allow me to come back and do something in my city to provide.
AllHipHop: How do events like Rolling Loud impact your business during the year?
Ted Lucas: Man, business is good. You get people from all around the world that come. Before it was just a stadium and it was good for 8 months when the football season was going on. When football season closed, you still have places like Rolling Loud who comes in and throws a 3-day festival. You see hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people walking up and down your street. Well, years ago they would’ve gotten in trouble trying to walk down the street. They would’ve gotten robbed, so they’re in a good nice beautiful environment. It’s safe, and they have a great time. We have one of the best urban festivals in the world, Jazz in the Garden. For us, SuperFest is just the home of festivals.
AllHipHop: What made you pivot from label to event production?
Ted Lucas: I started off with a concert, that’s what motivated me to do events like this. My first entry to the music business was a concert where I brought in that guy that people got a lot of problems with right now, because of what he did to a young lady. I brought that guy down here and did a concert with him. My first real concert with my partner and R.Kelly sold out the venue.
I was 19 years old and made $20,000 that night. I knew right then that taste was the best feeling I had, better than playing football. I never had a feeling like that. Scoring a touchdown was good but you’re 19 years old and you just made $20,000 dollars, legit. My grandma told me I had to go get a job, so that’s where my whole thing started from is doing the first concert with R. Kelly. Ryan says it’s a legal great business for young black men to get into. [chuckles]
AllHipHop: What’s the greatest lesson learned from the music industry?
Ted Lucas: Don’t never give up on your dream. Work just as hard as you did to make it, every day you get up. Because the day you get lazy, there’s somebody out there ready to take your spot. What it took to get on top, every day you get up, you have to do the same thing again. The day you lay in bed a little bit longer, somebody’s working to get that#1 spot.
AllHipHop: Top 5 dead or alive?
Ted Lucas: Biggie and Tupac, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, and Jay Z.
AllHipHop: How has the new streaming and social media era affected hip-hop?
Ted Lucas: I love the new streaming and the way it affected hip hop. You know why? I’m doing this interview with you right now right, there’s somebody in Japan streaming my record right now. There’s somebody in Germany streaming my record right now. When I get off work tonight at about 3 o’clock in the morning, I’ma go home, take a shower, and go to bed. You know what’s happening while I’m in bed, somebody’s streaming my record while I’m sleeping. There’s nothing better than that. It’s the new version of the stock market, but it never closes.
AllHipHop: What’s the latest with Slip-N-Slide?
Ted Lucas: Got a female artist by the name of Teenear, she has a beautiful record right now called “Need Your Love.” She’s going to be on SuperFest, and has a couple more appearances for the SuperBowl as well. Got a new young man called F$O Dinero, he has a great personality. When I looked at them, I see people I wanted to be a partner with. Because they aren’t just my artists, they’re really my business partners. I try to bless them, to be a blessing onto this family. I’m excited to be in business with him.
Another artist named Mike Smith, definitely got the down South swag about him. I’m excited about that. Plies got a record out right now called “Boss Friends” with him and DaBaby. Sebastian Mikael, he has a record called “Time.” When you get with your significant other, I want you to play that “Time” record and set the atmosphere right.
AllHipHop: Anything else you want to let us know?
Ted Lucas: Thank you for this opportunity. One thing: when people come in town for the Super Bowl, you got to come to the #1 festival of the year! Vewtopia with SuperFest in the city of Miami Gardens.
The “Fkn Around” single by Phony Ppl featuring Hot Girl Meg has been officially released. A lyric video for the record was published to YouTube on Friday morning.
Phony Ppl’s discography includes numerous independent projects such as WTF is Phonyland? and Yesterday’s Tomorrow. In 2018, the five-man Hip Hop/Soul collective released their mō’zā-ik studio album via 300 Entertainment.
Megan Thee Stallion is also signed to the Kevin Liles-led record label. She recently dropped the track “B.I.T.C.H.” which is expected to live on her forthcoming album tentatively titled Suga.
(AllHipHop News) Yesterday, news broke that Migos member Offset was taken into custody after law enforcement was tipped to a gun-related incident at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles. It appears officers detained the wrong person.
Offset spoke to the media once he was released from the police station. According to the 28-year-old rhymer, the situation was a case of mistaken identity.
“It’s good. We fixed it up. It ain’t nothing. It wasn’t me. It was the wrong man,” Offset told paparazzi. “I was treated fairly, no cap. They had to do that. Something happened. I don’t know. It wasn’t me though. I’m good.”
The FaZe Clan investor added, “I’m just mad it touched the media like that. I was upset because I ain’t do nothing. I didn’t know what was going on. I’m good though.”
This week, Offset also appeared on Fox Sports 1’s Skip and Shannon: Undisputed live from Miami, Florida. He talked about Migos’ upcoming Culture III album, Super Bowl LIV, the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Hawks point guard Trae Young, the tragic loss of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, and more.
(AllHipHop News) The Bronx’s A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie is planting his flag as the new rap ruler of New York City. He made that declaration with the new single “King Of My City.”
According to A Boogie’s social media accounts, “King Of My City” will appear on the upcoming Artist 2.0 album. The original Artist mixtape arrived in 2016 and earned a Gold plaque.
The Highbridge representative’s most recent studio album came out in 2018. Hoodie SZN spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified Platinum by the RIAA.
2017’s The Bigger Artist album also reached Platinum status. Over the last three years, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie hit Top 40 on the Hot 100 chart with “Swervin,” “Drowning,” and “Look Back At It.”
OVO Sound’s official Soundcloud page posted a Future and Drake track titled “Desires.” After the release, the rap stars’ names became two of the Top 10 trending topics on Twitter.
“Desires” and “Life Is Good” have led to more speculation from OVO and Freebandz fans that a sequel to 2015’s What A Time to Be Alive is on the way.
The original commercial mixtape debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 with 375,000 units. What A Time to Be Alivehostedsongs such as “Digital Dash” and “Jumpman.”
(AllHipHop News) The head of Young Money is back with his 13th studio album. Lil Wayne’s Funeral hit DSPs overnight.
Funeral features guest appearances by Big Sean, Lil Baby, Jay Rock, Adam Levine, 2 Chainz, Takeoff, The-Dream, Lil Twist, XXXTentacion, and O.T. Genasis.
Production for the 24-track project was provided by Mannie Fresh, Jahlil Beats, Mike Will Made-It, Cool & Dre, Murda Beatz, and more.
Funeral follows Wayne’s Tha Carter V from 2018. That LP debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 480,000 album-equivalent units.
