(AllHipHop News) Rapper Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian West are celebrating the birth of their third child.

The couple welcomed a baby girl into the world early Monday morning.

The baby girl, who weighed 7 pounds and 6 ounces, was delivered via a surrogate after Kim had problems attempting to conceive the child herself.

“Kanye and I are happy to announce the arrival of our healthy, beautiful baby girl. We are incredibly grateful to our surrogate who made our dreams come true with the greatest gift one could give and to our wonderful doctors and nurses for their special care,” Kim said in a blog post. “North and Saint are especially thrilled to welcome their baby sister,” Kim said in a new blog post on her website.

According to reports, the surrogate was paid $45,000 to deliver the newborn child for the West’s.

(AllHipHop News) Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is executive producing Crackle’s original scripted drama The Oath. A new trailer for the series hit the internet this week.

The show about gang culture stars Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Cory Hardrict (American Sniper), Katrina Law (Training Day), Arlen Escarpeta (The Magicians), J.J. Soria (Animal Kingdom) and Sean Bean (Game of Thrones). The rest of the cast includes Michael Malarkey, Eve Mauro, Kwame Patterson, Linda Purl, and Elisabeth Röhm.

Crackle is premiering The Oath on March 8. All ten episodes will be available for streaming on the free, ad-supported network on that date.

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(AllHipHop News) Jim Carrey took a break from using his Twitter feed to slam the Trump Administration to acknowledge Bruno Mars and Cardi B. The In Living Color alum thanked the two stars for paying homage to the sketch comedy series with their music video for “Finesse.”

“[Cardi B] and [Bruno Mars] Great song, beautiful memories. Really gave me a kick. Spank you kindly!” tweeted Carrey.

The Canadian-born comedian received love back from Cardi. The Bronx rhymer posted about the Twitter shout out on Instagram.

“Ommmmgggg. I love Jim Carey,” she wrote. “This makes [me] soo happy.”

In Living Color was created by Keenen Ivory Wayans and Damon Wayans. Members of the Wayans family also endorsed the “Finesse” video on social media.

Jennifer Lopez, who danced as a Fly Girl on the Fox series, also uploaded a throwback vid to IG following the YouTube release of “Finesse.” J-Lo’s clip collected over 4 million views.

(AllHipHop news) T.I. was the latest entertainer to take part in BET’s “Rate The Bars” digital series. Without knowing the author, the Atlanta native had to give his opinion on lyrics by Ludacris, Iggy Azalea, Young Dro, 2Pac, Jeezy, Trae Tha Truth, Boosie Badazz, and B.o.B.

After rating Luda’s “Southern Gangsta” 3/5, T.I. bashed lines from his own one-time protégé. “Switch” by Iggy earned a 2.5/5 because it just “rhymes and it’s talking about things.”

Fellow Hustle Gang affiliate Young Dro also received criticism from his label head. Tip said, “You can’t just throw around threats. There’s no real technique to it. I gotta give it a 2.”

T.I. was also asked to rate bars from one of his musical influences – Tupac Shakur. The “No Mediocre” performer was not impressed with the legend’s “Something Wicked” either.

“I give this a 1. I gave it a 1 because it’s ‘rat, cat, dog, fog, run, fun.’ I’m done,” offered Tip. When it came to his own record “Kingofdasouth,” T.I. gave himself a 3.5/5.

(AllHipHop News) The last year has seen the production or the announcement of several Tupac Shakur centered films and television programs. Another TV project featuring the late Hip Hop icon’s story will debut next month.

According to Billboard, BET’s Death Row Chronicles will begin airing on February 20 at 10 pm ET. The six-part docuseries will cover 2Pac, record label CEO Suge Knight, legendary producer Dr. Dre, rap superstar Snoop Dogg, and other figures connected to Death Row.

All Eyez on Me, the Pac biopic, opened in theaters in June 2017. The documentary Who Killed Tupac? ran on A&E last year as well.

Additionally, the murders of Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. are the subject of the upcoming scripted series Unsolved on USA. 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen has also been attached to an authorized documentary about Pac.

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(AllHipHop News) “We Could Be Free” is the closing track on Vic Mensa’s 2017 album The Autobiography. A politically-charged music video for the song was released on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2018.

Mensa spoke about “We Could Be Free” during an interview with Beats 1 Radio’s Zane Lowe. He broke down scenes from the visuals.

“At the beginning, you have this infant in the womb, a safe space you would think. But you’re hearing the turmoil outside and seeing how that affects the infant in the womb,” explained the Chicago-bred wordsmith.

Mensa went on to point out that footage from protests in Charlottesville, Palestine, and Standing Rock are projected behind him in the clip. Religion also played a big part in the imagery presented in the “We Could Be Free” music video.

“You have religion as a main source of division between people. I don’t think at its core that’s what religion was meant to be, but we juxtaposed those things in the video to show it doesn’t have to be that way,” said Vic.

(AllHipHop News) Director Ava Duvernay was honored with the Entertainer of the Year prize at the NAACP Image Awards on Monday night.

The “Selma” filmmaker, who is set to release her latest project “A Wrinkle in Time” in the spring, won the public vote for the award over the likes of “Black Panther’s” Chadwick Boseman, Bruno Mars, “Insecure” actress Issa Rae, Chance the Rapper, and Jay-Z.

During her acceptance speech, the “Queen Sugar” creator and producer gave a shout out to writers and directors such as Shonda Rhimes and Dee Rees, before adding, “I got four words for you – Ryan Coogler’s ‘Black Panther.’ It’s coming. Three weeks later, another hero takes the stage, a little black girl with glasses, she saves the universe from darkness that seems to be all around us. It’s called ‘A Wrinkle in Time.’ It’s a love letter that I’ve made for family and community and the best in ourselves.

“This is our time. We can say we were here when all this gorgeous art was happening, and that we supported it – that we lifted each other up, that we did as Dr. King said we would do: Live the dream. We’re the dream. Thank you so much.”

The televised ceremony, which honors outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in entertainment, was hosted by Anthony Anderson at the Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California on Monday, what would have been civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.’s 89th birthday.

Other winners included “Girls Trip,” which was named Outstanding Motion Picture, Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya, for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture, while Octavia Spencer won the female version for “Gifted.”

In the television categories, “black-ish” dominated, winning Outstanding Comedy Series and acting prizes for Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson.

“Power” was named Outstanding Drama Series and its lead actor Omari Hardwick won Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series, while Taraji P. Henson received the equivalent prize for “Empire.”

(AllHipHop News) Harlem emcee Dave East promised he would return with a sequel to his 2017 EP Paranoia: A True Story. The 15-track P2 arrived overnight.

East connected with T.I., Tory Lanez, Lloyd Banks, Marsha Ambrosius, Pimp Pimp P, Bino Rideaux, and Matt Patterson for his latest collection. A photo of the Def Jam artist and his daughter serves as the LP’s cover art.

The original Paranoia earned Dave East his highest charting project on the Billboard 200 to date. It opened at #9 with 26,000 units.

(AllHipHop News) Last week, Migos member Quavo hinted that the group’s Culture II was close to hitting stores and streaming services. An official release date for the project has now been announced.

Culture II is scheduled to drop January 26. The singles “Stir Fry” (produced by Pharrell Williams) and “Motorsport” (featuring Nicki Minaj and Cardi B) will appear on the LP.

“Stir Fry” also serves as the soundtrack for NBA on TNT‘s All-Star game ad. Behind-the-scenes footage from the shoot was also added to YouTube.

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(AllHipHop News) Jay-Z has filed documents to trademark animated character Jaybo from his video for the song “The Story Of O.J.”

The hip-hop star, real name Shawn Carter, worked with director Mark Romanek via Anonymous Content, and multimedia agency The Mill, to create the award-winning animated music video.

Jaybo draws on the character of “S####” from the 1899 children’s book “The Story of Little Black S####,” which was an object of accusations of racism in the mid-20th century, as well as other equally problematic minstrel animations, where many racist African-American stereotypes that continue to pervade modern culture originated from.

Jay’s critically acclaimed clip samples Nina Simone singing, “My skin is black,” and also features the 48-year-old rapping as images of cotton fields, burning crosses, slave ships and lynchings appear onscreen.

According to reports, S. Carter Enterprises is now planning to create products including T-shirts, sweaters, hats, blankets, pillows, dinnerware, mugs, cocktail shakers and thermal containers, featuring the controversial character.

Previously, Jay explained that the track was about the nature of success and seeing the bigger picture.

“‘The Story of O.J.’ is really a song about we as a culture, having a plan, how we’re gonna push this forward,” the rapper explained in an interview last year. “We all make money, and then we all lose money, as artists especially. But how, when you have some type of success, to transform that into something bigger.”

(AllHipHop News) Rapper Common is producing a documentary about adolescent boxers.

“They Fight” will center on young boxers and their formerly incarcerated coach in Washington, D.C. as they train to defend their national titles.

The project is inspired by Michael Minahan’s Washington Post article Fight, which tells the story of boxing coach Walt Manigan and his Lyfe Style Boxing program for youths in Washington D.C.’s dangerous Ward 8 neighborhood.

Bosses at Common’s Freedom Road company will produce the project and have teamed with officials at Argent Pictures on the film, which Andrew Renzi will direct.

The movie is currently in post-production.