(AllHipHop News) Chicago rhymer Famous Dex is viewed as problematic by some detractors. While he has acknowledged he made mistakes in his past, Dexter is trying to move forward with his music career.

The Dex Meets Dexter album hit the internet on 4/6. That date is very important to the Rich Forever representative for other reasons because his mother passed away on April in 2013.

DJ Smallz sat down with the 24-year-old to talk about his debut studio LP. There was also a moment where Dex teared up while discussing his mom dying from stage IV breast cancer.

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“My mom was always a happy person,” said FD. “When she was going through chemo, she told us to be strong and to be happy and when she do go, stay happy.”

When asked if he had advice for someone else that lost a parent, Dexter offered, “Just stay focused. Keep continuing doing what you gotta do. Because when you lose somebody so close to you people go crazy. They lose it. I had to go right. I had little sisters and brothers under me. I had to do what I had to do.”

(AllHipHop News) Odd Future may not be officially running together as a collective any longer, but the OFWGKTA-associated band known as The Internet is back with a new video. The musicians reassembled to release the groovy “Roll (Burbank Funk).”

The last few years have seen members of the group take time to work on individual projects. The Internet’s most recent studio album was Ego Death in 2015.

“Ego death is a current thing within my friend circle. It’s part of the psychedelic experience, trans meditation and ego death. You’re at your true creative form when you don’t allow things to affect you. You let go of worry,” Matt Martians told AllHipHop at the time.

Syd added, “When you’re not worried about what it’s going to sound like to other people, when you’re completely vulnerable, that’s when you are the most creative. I don’t think there is really a void when there’s an absence of ego. Maybe there it is, but I think it allows more space for life, for stuff that really matters.”

Last year, Steve Lacy spoke to Beats 1 Radio about the next album by The Internet. The guitarist/vocalist said, “I’m just thinking about the change component. I know off of Ego Death to where I am now, it’s been a dramatic shift. It’s not the same as it was when that came out. I feel like this is on a higher echelon than Ego Death. I love Ego Death, that was a great record, but I know this one is a step up.”

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(AllHipHop News) J. Cole’s KOD is already on pace to be a major commercial success. The Hip Hop virtuoso is set to move more than 380,000 units in the album’s first week of release.

That sales triumph may get a lift with a deluxe edition of the LP. Cole did a rare Q&A with his Twitter followers, and he addressed the history and future of his 5th full length.

“First version of album was done in 2 weeks. Final version of KOD that got released took 6 months total,” replied the Dreamville Records head. He later posted, “KOD deluxe will be album in its original 2 week form. Plus couple extra scenes that didn’t make final cut.”

Kids On Drugs/King Overdosed/Kill Our Demons ends with the much-talked-about track “1985 (Intro to The Fall Off).” There was speculation that the song was the foreword to yet another project. J. Cole gave some credence to The Fall Off arriving soon by tweeting, “Workin on it.”

(AllHipHop News) Winning the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Music has apparently introduced Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN to a brand new audience. The album’s sales jumped 236% (11,000 copies) in the week since the history-making achievement.

Lamar became the first non-classical/non-jazz musician to win a Pulitzer. DAMN also won five Grammy Awards, and it’s up for Top Billboard 200 Album, Top Selling Album, and Top Rap Album at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards.

Additionally, K. Dot’s fourth studio LP has sold over 1 million copies and earned more than 3 million equivalent album units. DAMN has not fallen out of the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 chart since its release on April 14, 2017.

(AllHipHop News) One of the standout tweets during Kanye West’s recent Twitter explosion was directed at former president Barack Obama. The Chicago native took issue with what he saw as Obama’s lack of help for their hometown.

Some critics called out Kanye for blasting Obama for supposedly not helping Chicago without providing examples of his own recent efforts to assist the residents there. According to TMZ, Mr. West has a plan for the Windy City.

G.O.O.D. Music affiliate Malik Yusef is reportedly working with Kanye as well as other prominent Chicago natives Common, Chance The Rapper, Vic Mensa, and Don C to launch Donda Social. The organization’s mission is to visit impoverished areas of Chicago and work with local citizens to come up with political and financial solutions for problems those people are facing.

The celebrities said to be involved in Donda Social have a history of doing philanthropic work in Chicago. For example, Chance has his Social Works nonprofit and Mensa recently launched his SaveMoneySaveLife nonprofit.

(AllHipHop News) Members of Slaughterhouse publicly acknowledged the four-man Hip Hop group has disbanded. Joe Budden announced he was retired from rapping, KXNG Crooked stated he was no longer part of the group, and Royce Da 5’9” co-signed the disbandment.

AllHipHop caught up with Royce and his PRhyme partner DJ Premier for an interview. The conversation included the Detroit native providing more insight into the state of Slaughterhouse.

“When we started talking about doing the second album on Shady [Records], we got in there with producers – J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, Illmind, araabMUZIK, Just Blaze. We started working and we did a body of work, but we still felt like we needed more,” Royce told AHH’s Chuck Creekmur. “But then after that, Joe was doing Love & Hip Hop, Joell [Ortiz], started doing some other sh-t, Crooked started doing some other sh-t. Me and [Premier] did PRhyme. Since then we haven’t been able to catch each other at a time where we all wanted to give it 100% at the same time.”

He continues, “I just look at it like, Slaughterhouse is something that we knew there was a time limit to it. We knew it because we were all solo artists before. I feel like we stretched it longer than any other group that ever tried to do what we tried to do… If we never do anything again, I’m happy with what we did.”

Royce Da 5’9” is preparing to release his own Book Of Ryan album on May 4. He is also joining DJ Premier for the “PRhyme 2 Tour” beginning May 30.

(AllHipHop News) Miami rapper Pitbull is really looking to motivate his fans, with his upcoming tour.

Pitbull, born Armando Pérez, will be heading out on the road with legendary motivational speaker Tony Robbins.

“I’m just being a revolutionary to wake everybody else,” Pitbull said of the tour. “Music brings everybody together.”

According to Pitbull, he’s idolized Tony Robbins since he was 10 years old thanks to his mother.

Pitbull’s motivational speaking tour with Tony Robbins will kick off sometime in 2019.

(AllHipHop News) Dr. Dre already has a $40 million mansion, but that just is not enough for the billionaire rap mogul.

According to reports, Dre recently used one of his companies to purchase a $4.9 million piece of real estate in Calabasas, California.

There is no word yet as to what Dre is planning to do with the property, which comes with six bedrooms, six bathrooms, an in-ground pool, a private movie theater, tennis courts and other amenities.

If Dre stays in his newest mansion, he will be neighbors with celebrities like Justin Bieber and members of The Kardashian clan.

Dre has been flipping real estate for a minute now. In 2013, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian tried to buy an $11 million plot of land from Dre, but he ended up selling the plot to another purchaser for $32 million.

Dre then copped his $40 million mega-mansion from Tom Brady in 2017.

Earlier this month, Dre’s protege Kendrick Lamar scooped up a $2.5 million piece of real estate in Calabasas, as an investment property.

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(AllHipHop News) Kanye West’s former creative designer Virgil Abloh has managed to snag a deal Kanye and could not get done.

The Off-White founder has been tapped to create a new line of furniture for IKEA.

According to reports, Virgil will design an exclusive furniture capsule collection for IKEA which will land in stores this year.

The deal is the latest power move from Virgil Abloh, who recently became the first African-American creative designer for Louis Vuitton.

In March of 2016, Kanye West was spotted touring IKEA’s headquarters in Älmhult, Sweden and publicly stated his desire to design furniture for the company.

Unfortunately, IKEA rejected Kayne’s proposal to design for the company, with a rep stating Ikea was “flattered by Kanye West’s high interest” but they had no intention on collaborating with the rap star.

IKEA will broadcast a live Q&A with Virgil Abloh regarding the new collection on April 30.

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(AllHipHop News) Ice Cube will return to the big screen in the upcoming controversial thriller, “Excessive Force.”

The entire plot of the movie has yet to be revealed, but reports say the movie centers around the Cleveland Police Department racism and political corruption.

The rap star will also serve as executive producer of the flick through his CubeVision production company, which his produced hit movies like “Friday,” “Barbershop,” “Ride Along,” “Straight Outta Compton” and the cult classic, “Janky Promoters” amongst others.

“Excessive Force” is scheduled to go into production this fall, and will be directed by Carl Franklin, who has shot TV shows like “Ray Donavan,” and “13 Reasons Why.”

(AllHipHop News) R&B star Ne-Yo wants to move into filNe-Yommaking and has started penning a movie script.

In addition to his career as a recording artist, Ne-Yo has a number of acting credits to his name and played himself in hit 2017 comedy “Girls Trip.”

Now, Ne-Yo has revealed that he wants to move behind the camera by directing and writing and has already begun to realize his ambition by starting work on a film script.

“I want to get more into the TV and film space, maybe not in front of the camera,” he said. “I want to direct and write. I have started writing a movie.”

However, Ne-Yo did not reveal his movie’s subject matter and confessed that he’s not quite got the hang of screenwriting yet – as he has found it requires very different skills to telling a story in a short pop song.

“I’m not totally confident how good it is yet, as I’m still learning,” the 38-year-old explained. “There’s a major difference with writing a story in three minutes versus a story you spend an hour to two watching – there’s a lot more detail.”

And if things don’t pan out for the soul star in Hollywood, he can always fall back on his music career. He will soon release Good Man, a new track that is dedicated to the #MeToo anti-sexual harassment campaign and features artists Stefflon Don and Bebe Rexha.

Talking about how the movement has inspired him, he added, “It’s time for me to put a spotlight back on what chivalrous values are and why we’ve lost them and what they’re supposed to be.”

Good Man is set to be released on June 8.

(AllHipHop News) Fans of Tupac Shakur will be able to make a fashion statement with his lyrics, thanks to a new partnership between his Estate and clothing company Bravado.

The Estate of Tupac Shakur just launched the “Tupac Poetry Collection” of merchandise featuring verses from the late artist’s poems.

The lyrics selected for the limited edition capsule collection launches just in time for National Poetry Month, which kicks off on May 1.

Pieces in the collection range in price, from $30-$200.

A launch event for the “Tupac Poetry Collection” will take place at the VFILES in Manhattan on April 26, where a special edition of the in-store event “Pass the Aux: will feature a number of emerging artists.

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(AllHipHop News) Cardi B could be facing a huge legal battle during her pregnancy, thanks to her former manager.

Klenord “Shaft” Raphael filed a $10 million lawsuit against Cardi, claiming he discovered her only to be screwed out of his portions of her earnings.

To complicate the matters, Shaft claims it was his team of writers and producers who gave Cardi her big hit “Bodak Yellow.”

Shaft also claims Cardi’s fiancee Offset has been threatening him through text messages after Cardi claimed her former manager had been robbing her.

“U better stop play acting like u don’t know u taking her s##t from her u a snake,” Offset allegedly texted to Shaft. “U can’t hide from me n##ga and u not bout to play my WIFE.”

Despite the threats, Shaft’s lawsuit maintains he helped develop Cardi’s career and her public image and instead of being grateful, Cardi B gave him the boot.

(AllHipHop News) Queens, New York rap star Nas is heading to Los Angeles as a headliner for the 6th Annual BET Experience at LA. Live.

Nas will headline the four-day event, which will include performances from Nipsey Hussle, LL Cool J, Ludacris, Chris Brown, Rae Sremmurd, Kamaiyah, Playboi Carti, SZA, A$AP Ferg and others.

In addition to the performances, the 6th Annual BET Experience will feature interactive activations, ticketed events and a Celebrity Dodgeball and Basketball game.

BET Experience at L.A. Live will take place from June 21-24 at The Staples Center.

(AllHipHop News) Bill Cosby was found guilty on sexual assault after his retrial in Norristown, Pa on Thursday.

The jury found Bill Cosby guilty of sexually assaulting and drugging a woman 14 years ago at him home. The conviction essentially the nail in the coffin for an entertainer that was once regarded as “America’s Dad.” The conviction is also the culmination of scores of accusations from women who claim Cosby assaulted them as well.

Cosby was found guilty of penetration with lack of consent, penetration while unconscious and penetration after administering an intoxicant. Andrea Constand, a one-time Temple University employee, was one of Cosby’s mentees whens she was at the school.

Cosby now faces 10 years in state prison, where the convictions will run concurrent. he had mentored.

According to The New York Times, Kevin R. Steele, the Montgomery County district attorney, has requested that Cosby’s $1 million bail be revoked, insinuating that the entertainer was a flight risk. In response, Cosby yelled, “He doesn’t have a plane, you a######.”

The judge allowed him to be released on bail, but his passport was taken.

Bill Cosby has yet to be sentenced.

(AllHipHop News) Rap veteran DMX has officially begun his one-year sentence for tax fraud.

The rapper, real name Earl Simmons, was sentenced to 12 months behind bars in March after striking a plea deal with prosecutors and pleading guilty to just one count of tax fraud, instead of the 14 federal charges he initially faced upon his arrest last summer.

The hip-hop star was expected to serve his punishment at Danbury Federal Correctional Facility in Connecticut, the same prison which inspired the hit Netflix series “Orange is the New Black,” but he was instead moved to Federal Correctional Institution Hazelton in West Virginia at the last minute from his holding cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.

His lawyer tells said DMX is still happy with the change of location, even though it is further away from his family in New York, as the facility has a reputation for its treatment programs for addicts.

The 47-year-old, who has battled drug demons in the past, will also have the opportunity to take part in various training programs and arts and crafts classes while behind bars.

The news emerges a day after DMX’s attorney, Murray Richman, revealed his client has been inundated with offers for movie roles and publishing deals to chronicle his road to redemption.

“(DMX) looks great, is very happy, and overall, is doing remarkably well,” he said.

(AllHipHop News) Rapper J. Cole is adamant any MC offended by a diss track on his new album only feels slighted because “the shoe fits.”

The “Lights Please” hitmaker stirred controversy in the hip-hop world last week following the release of his new project K.O.D., which featured the song “1985 (Intro to the Fall-Off).”

On the tune, Cole appears to throw shots at the new wave of young hip-hop artists, spitting, “Everybody talkin’ like they know somethin’ these days/N##gas actin’ woke, but they broke, umm/I respect the struggle but you all frontin’ these days…”

Many fans speculated the pointed words were aimed at rising rappers like Lil Pump and Smokepurpp, who are known for glorifying drug use on song, with the latter even leading a concert crowd in Atlanta, Georgia to chant, “F##k J. Cole” at a recent show.

However, Cole insists the lyrics aren’t calling out any one artist – but if any star takes issue with the track, it’s likely he’s referring to them.

“It’s really a ‘shoe fits’ situation – several people can wear that shoe,” he shrugged in a rare interview.

“Why you yelling at your show?” he continued. “You must feel attacked in some kind of way, must feel offended, and if you feel offended, then that means something rings true, something struck a chord. That’s cool with me. That’s all I ever want to do.”

(AllHipHop News) Meek Mill is determined to live up to his responsibilities following his release from jail on Tuesday, insisting he’s going to shine a light on prison reform.

The rapper is out on bail after lawmakers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania overturned a judge’s decision to keep him locked up for violating his probation linked to a crime he committed over a decade ago, when he was 19, but in his first post-jail TV interview, he insists he doesn’t feel like a free man.

“I believe God is my first lawyer,” the rap star told newsman Lester Holt on Wednesday, explaining he plans to use his time as a headline grabber to help others who he feels are wrongly imprisoned.

“There’s a lot of light being shed on my situation,” he adds. “I’ve got a lot of important people depending on me… I’m talking about the men that’s depending on me (that are) going through the same think I’m going through.”

Meek will return to court in June, to find out if his probation can be dismissed after it emerged the police officer who arrested him had been named as part of a local corruption scandal – he was accused of lying under oath to put the rapper behind bars.

Judge Genece Brinkley was asked to toss the MC’s initial 2008 conviction by prosecutors, but she refused.

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