Staples does not just declare about his appreciation for Ray J, he also tapped the singer/actor to appear in the second episode of The Vince Staples Show. “Sheet Music” includes an awkward scene where it seemed like Ray was serenading Vince.
In addition, the latest installment of the digital series features a cameo from fellow California rapper Simmie “Buddy” Sims III. Vince Staples is credited as a writer for the show with Calmatic serving as the director.
(AllHipHop News) Over the last few weeks,Kanye West consumedpop culture with his Jesus Is King album rollout. Ye’s take on Gospel is both an extension and a departure from his musical aesthetic.
Some of Kanye West fans attempted to credit the 42-year-old as an innovator for mixing Hip Hop and Gospel. However, artists like Lecrae have been the leading voices in the Christian rap space for decades.
Kanye West is cracking the culture code.@kanyewest’s new album #JesusIsKing is the epitome of fearless creativity and “dangerous, unapproved” ideas.
Leftists always try to silence those who are speaking truth. They’re waging a war on our family and culture.
Lecrae’s Gravity even won Best Gospel Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards. Billboard spoke to the Houston-born songwriter about West’s move toward Christ-based sound.
“Kanye is such a polarizing figure and his movements create ripple effects in culture, particularly music,” said Lecrae.
The Let The Trap Say Amen creator continued, “Traditionally Gospel is seen as singing. Those of us Christians who rap were removed from the Gospel charts on that technicality. His deeper impact is perhaps on the Christian rap community. There is a lot more intersectionality there.”
Unlike secular projects from West – such as College Dropout and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy – Jesus Is King is receiving mixed reactions from professional reviewers and lay listeners. The LP has a 56/100 critics score and a 5.8/10 user score on Metacritic.
“When a person trades misogyny, and self-glorification, for talking about Jesus on every track, that will guarantee scrutiny and disappointment. Lastly, people will have their subjective opinion on the music, and they are entitled to it,” offered Lecrae. “It sounds like a person who is excited about his new relationship with Jesus. I’m in support of that.”
(AllHipHop News) The HBO Max streaming service is set to launch in 2020. Several television veterans, such as Issa Rae, will produce programming for the platform.
According toDeadline, Rae will lead a half-hour series tentatively titled Rap Sh*t. The showwillfollow a Miami-based female rap group’s journey in the music industry.
HBO Max will also be home to series by Elizabeth Banks (Scrubs, 30 Rock) and Mindy Kaling (The Office, The Mindy Project). Kevin Reilly, chief content officer for HBO Max, stated, “These three incredible talents embody the distinct and diverse voices that will give flight to the quality HBO Max brand promise across all audiences.”
(AllHipHop News) Nineteen years ago, the Charlie’s Angels moviesoundtrack included “Independent Women” by Destiny’s Child. The song spent eleven weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 chart.
Another female trio collaborated for a new record off the upcoming remake of Charlie’s Angels. Pop performer Ariana Grande, R&B singer Normani, and Hip Hop artist Nicki Minaj teamed up for “Bad To You.”
Grande executive produced the 2019 Charlie’s Angels soundtrack. The album also features Kash Doll, Stefflon Don, Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey, Chaka Khan, Anitta, and more.
Charlie’s Angels stars Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska, Djimon Hounsou, and Patrick Stewart. Elizabeth Banks directed the action-comedy which is due out on November 15.
(AllHipHop News) Blink-182 has played down reports of feuds with their summer tour mate Lil Wayne, insisting they understood every time he missed a show or cut a performance short.
The rapper missed a handful of shows and even threatened to pull out of the U.S. tour in July but the punk trio never had a problem with their pal’s behavior, explaining there was a lot going on between gigs.
“We left in (the) middle of June and came back in the end of September,” bassist Mark Hoppus told KROQ’s Kevin & Bean Show. “There were three issues on the whole tour. One of them was (because) he could not even get to the venue, one he left because the cops were after him, and the one where he walked offstage because of a storm.”
Drummer Travis Barker adds, “Sometimes he would hit me and he’d be like, ‘Hey I’m about to let everyone else know I can’t make it to the show – this, this, and that’s going on’. But it’s usually to protect himself and his freedom – if you’re in a state and the cops start tailing you everywhere and you’re gonna get pinched for smoking weed, it’s just not worth it.”
(AllHipHop News) Rap star Wiz Khalifa takes his daddy duties seriously, which is why he decided to coach his son’s baseball team.
Rapper Wiz Khalifa has a sideline as a baseball coach.
The “See You Again” hitmaker has revealed he runs his son Sebastian’s Little League team.
“It’s super important,” Wiz told The Kelly Clarkson Show. “I love children and this is the most important time in his (Sebastian) life. Especially spending it with me, and having his friends and the relationships that they’re gonna build. Any hand that I can have in that, I’m trying to do it.”
Wiz, whose son is his kid from his marriage to ex-wife Amber Rose, admits none of the other parents recognized him at first when he introduced himself as the team’s coach.
“One of the (other) coaches actually came up to me… and he was like, ‘I was watching TV and I saw this interview with you on there and I was like, ‘What the heck is this Dodgers coach doing on TV?’ He didn’t even know I was a rapper.
“They had to tell him who I was, but it’s cool because I felt like maybe I’m doing such a good job as a coach that he didn’t even know I was a rapper.”
(AllHipHop News) Lawyers for Tracy Chapman are fed up with Nicki Minaj.
Chapman’s attorneys claim Nicki Minaj’s behavior is severely hindering their case as she attempts to sue the rapper for illegally sampling one of her songs.
Tracy Chapman’s lawyers claimed Nicki Minaj has been refusing to hand over the text messages she sent to Funkmaster Flex before, and after the leak of “Sorry.”
Tracy Chapman insists Nicki Minaj has been dragging her heels and ignoring requests for key information the singer has been seeking for months.
When Nicki finally complied with a court order, the rapper allegedly handed over one document.
Chapman’s legal team is asking a judge to force Nicki Minaj to hand over the text messages she sent to Funkmaster Flex about the leak of “Sorry.”
“Enough is enough. Maraj should not be permitted to continue to avoid her discovery obligations, and should be compelled to produce the documents,” Tracy Chapman’s lawyer said in a new motion a judge to make Nicki hand over the text messages.
At the center of this dispute is a tweet Funkmaster Flex sent out shortly before “Sorry” was leaked which read: “Nicki gave me something @NickiMinaj, featuring @Nas. Not on her album…”
During her deposition in September, Nicki claimed she had been in touch with Funkmaster Flex, real name Aston George Taylor.
The rapper said she sent Funk Flex a legal document he was supposed to sign stating that she nothing to do with the leak.
“I was talking to him about the document. And he advised me that he already made it clear that he — that he didn’t receive this song from me, and that he was going to state that on the document that we sent him,” Nicki Minaj explained.
“And…we mentioned the wording of ‘Nicki gave me something,’ and he said that he made that clear to everyone who had asked him already, that that’s his figure of speech,” Nicki said.
“I was, like, that’s not good for you to have put that in a tweet if I didn’t give you something. But he said he clarified it. So I don’t know if it was to Tracy Chapman’s legal team or to my legal team, but he said he clarified that wording,” Nicki Minaj said.
Nicki Minaj’s lawyers dismissed Tracy Chapman’s latest request for more documents, saying their client has been compliant the entire time.
“The Court should not be fooled by the false and inflammatory narrative Chapman offers in support of her motion, and should not allow it to color its evaluation of this motion,” Nicki’s lawyers said, claiming their the rapper has been compliant the entire time.
AllHipHop has confirmed Funkmaster Flex has already been subpoenaed and he supposed to be deposed on November 22nd.
(AllHipHop News) Swizz Beatz was left stunned when he discovered $700,000 worth of royalty checks in a shoebox in his house.
The producer, who is married to Alicia Keys, admitted during a chat on We TV’s “Untold Hip Hop Stories” that he mistook the payments for promotional material.
As a result,.Swizz kept them in a shoebox following his grandmother’s instructions.
“I thought the checks being sent to my house was Publishing Clearing House checks,” the star, real name Kasseem Dean, said. “In the hood, they’re sending you checks from everywhere. Like, every week you won a million dollars.
“My grandmother used to make me just save them in a shoebox. So, I had $700,000 in the shoebox. I never got royalty checks ever in my life before. Nobody told me. So I’m sitting here eating ramen noodles and I got $700,000 sitting in a shoebox?”
“I felt like my mixtapes were me flirting with my fans,” the “Hot Girl Summer” hitmaker said. “I never wanted to do an album ’cause I was like, ‘Oh, that feel like marriage. That’s a commitment.’ But now, I’m ready to settle down with an album.”
The rap star has played with alter egos in the past.
Her debut EP Tina Snow was inspired by Pimp C’s alias Tony Snow, and has similar confidence and an unapologetic sexual dominance, while Hot Girl Meg was the “college party girl” at the center of her latest mixtape, “Fever.”
Explaining Suga, she shared: “She’s besties with Tina Snow…it’s a big problem.”
(AllHipHop News) Kanye West got a lesson in birth control after he appeared to equate Plan B One-Stop, an emergency contraceptive pill, with the abortion pill.
In an interview with radio DJ Big Boy last Friday the Jesus Is King rapper denounced the Democratic Party and claimed that African Americans have historically been “brainwashed” into supporting the Democrats who have been instrumental in “taking the fathers out the homes, Plan B, lowering our votes, making us abort our children.”
However, the rapper’s outburst led to criticism that he was confusing Plan B One-Stop — an emergency contraception that helps prevent pregnancy — with medication that can abort an unwanted pregnancy.
On Wednesday, a spokesperson for Foundation Consumer Healthcare (FCH), the pharmaceutical firm that makes Plan B, responded to West’s comments, telling TMZ: “Plan B emergency contraception is a safe and effective backup option when used as directed after unprotected sex or birth control failure.
“Plan B helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by delaying ovulation. Plan B is not an abortion pill — it will not harm an existing pregnancy and it will not be effective if a woman is already pregnant.”
The company website also makes it clear the drug cannot be used to treat unwanted pregnancies.
Planned Parenthood also weighed in on the comments from the Jesus Walks rapper, with a spokesperson highlighting black women’s roles in advocating for abortion rights in the U.S. and better reproductive health care.
“As black women, we make our own decisions about our bodies and pregnancies, and want and deserve to have access to the best medical care available,” the spokesperson told TMZ. “Misinformation like this is meant to shame us and keep us from making our own health care decisions. Black women want and deserve support and access to the full range of reproductive health care, but this persistent lie is threatening our ability to obtain it.”
West has not clarified his position since the interview went viral.
(AllHipHop News) Nicki Minaj has managed to convince fans she’s pregnant after sharing and deleting a cryptic tweet.
The newlywed rapper sent her Twitter followers into a frenzy when she tweeted, “expecting a” – before quickly removing the post.
Nicki followed up the message with, “my bad y’all,” however the post didn’t go unnoticed, with fans convinced the star was hinting at something. One user shared a screenshot of the tweet and said, “Nicki’s having a baby,” while another responded, “album?”
Chile. The next Queen radio bout to be brazy chile. Omg 🤣 lemme book a date 🥴
However, the “Megatron” hitmaker went on to rectify the situation, later sharing: “expecting an official date/time for #QueenRadio in the morning.”
“Blogs rlly (really) reposting a typo that was up for 14 seconds chile (child). go to bed,” she added, addressing the speculation. “Even if it’s day time in your timezone. All of y’all just go to bed.”
Fans’ excitement comes after the 36-year-old musician exchanged vows with husband Kenneth Petty on October 21.
She shared a video on her Instagram page of matching “Mr and Mrs” mugs and “Bride and Groom” baseball caps confirming the news.
In the caption, Nicki revealed her new name as she wrote: “Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty 10•21•19.”
Last month, the Starships hitmaker “abruptly” tweeted she planned to retire from music to start a family with her beau, before backtracking on the claims.
(AllHipHop News) R. Kelly skipped a sexual assault court date in Chicago, Illinois on Wednesday blaming his absence on a toe infection.
The singer, who was arrested in July on separate federal counts in New York and Chicago, was due to attend a status hearing.
His lawyer, Steven Greenberg, told U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber his client is recovering from having a toenail removed as a result of the infection.
Greenberg claimed the 52-year-old, who has been fitted with a walking boot, was concerned someone would accidentally step on his injured foot if he was transported from his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center to the courthouse.
(AllHipHop News) The Hotties are well aware that Megan Thee Stallion is a huge fan of the horror genre. Meg turned her fandom into art by creating the Megan Thee Stallion P.I. in: Hottieween trilogy.
Native New Yorker Teyana “Spike Tee” Taylor directed the digital series. Fellow Harlem representative Dave East stars in the ode to campy horror classics and Blaxploitation heroines. Social media comedian Jay Cole is part of the cast as well.
The first Hottieween episode, “LOVE BITES,” was published on YouTube on October 29. Episode 2, “SUCK A NECK,” arrived on the platform the following day. The third and final episode will drop later today (October 31).
Meanwhile, Hot Girl Meg presently has three songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: “Hot Girl Summer” (#35), “Cash Sh*t” (#60), and “All Dat” (#70). The breakout artist also hinted that she was ready to release her debut studio album in 2020.
“I felt like my mixtapes were me flirting with my fans,” said Megan. “I never wanted to do an album ’cause I was like, ‘Oh, that feel like marriage. That’s a commitment.’ But now, I’m ready to settle down with an album.”
(AllHipHop Rumors) Tory Lanez has been relatively quiet, but I hear he is working on something. First of all, he’s been touring so he is not all that quiet, but he has been a media furor at all. On of the flip side, his cohort-in-crime Melii is doing quite a lot of media, including AllHipHop.
In the interview, she talks quite a lot about her relatively short impactful run in the music game, a bit about Meek Mill, Harlem and also Tory Lanez. Now, her career is being managed by Tory Lanez, creatively speaking. So, that led the interviewer to ask about them working together on a project together.
And, the answer is…they are working on it! I am glad to hear, because both of them can rap and both of them can sing. They have balance!
Here is the interview:
Do you think this will be something people will be into? I think so as long as they do a nice rollout. Personally, I say lead with another Tory project and jump right into this joint effort! BUT, I think it could also go the other way around…just drop it!
(AllHipHop News) John Legend took to Twitter to clarify some comments attributed to him. The R&B pianist was quoted discussing his longtime musical collaborator Kanye West.
“I’m not trying to disown Kanye because I still love him and love everything we’ve done together creatively,” Legend told Vanity Fairabout the G.O.O.D. Music founder. “But we were never the closest of friends.”
That revelation about their personal relationship made its way into headlines across the internet. Legend then posted a series of tweets explaining his statement about West.
I get why people want to make this a thing. But I was explaining to the reporter how I’ve seen people I love reacting to the deaths of their mothers. I was thinking specifically of my own mom, Chrissy’s mom and others. Then she asked me if I was referring to Kanye as well after Dr West died. And I told her I wasn’t really in a position to say because while Kanye [and I] have a long friendship and have a made a lot of great music, we weren’t close on the level of confiding in each other about grief. As I said then, I don’t want this to sound like I’m trying to disown him now that we’ve publicly and privately disagreed about politics, etc. It was just clarifying that I had no private knowledge that equipped me to speculate on his grieving process and how that related to mine.
Legend released his debut album, Get Lifted, via the G.O.O.D. Music label in 2004. The project included production by Kanye West. The two musicians also collaborated on records such as Legend’s “It’s Over,” West’s “Blame Game,” DJ Khaled’s “Grammy Family,” Slum Village’s “Selfish,” and Consequence’s “Whatever You Want.”
I get why people want to make this a thing. But I was explaining to the reporter how I've seen people I love reacting to the deaths of their mothers. I was thinking specifically of my own mom, Chrissy's mom and others. https://t.co/zbutvJ6MgU
Then she asked me if I was referring to Kanye as well after Dr West died. And I told her I wasn't really in a position to say because while Kanye have a long friendship and have a made a lot of great music, we weren't close on the level of confiding in each other about grief
As I said then, I don't want this to sound like I'm trying to disown him now that we've publicly and privately disagreed about politics, etc. It was just clarifying that I had no private knowledge that equipped me to speculate on his grieving process and how that related to mine
(AllHipHop News) Belcalis “Cardi B” Almánzar and Kiari “Offset” Cephus are on a mission to become a power couple in entertainment and business. Cardi has gone from being a hitmaking rapper to a budding fashion mogul, and her husband has shown an interest in digital media.
News broke this week that Offset is partnering with the Quibi streaming service to host the new car series Skrrt with Offset. Cardi celebrated Set’s latest venture on her Instagram page.
She wrote:
Daddy I’m so proud of you!!!! These past few months you been workin so hard and the work been paying of and showing! From Faze partnership to Caffeine Game live streaming to this show. I can’t wait for the premiere and for people to see your personality more and the hot ass cars! I’m so happy I’m so proud I can’t stop saying it! I wanna hug you a million times. You deserve it.
Both Belcalis and Kiari made Forbes magazine’s “Highest-Paid Hip Hop Acts” list for 2019. All three Migos members came in at #9 ($36 million). The then-26-year-old Cardi B was the youngest artist to be listed this year at #13 ($28 million).
(AllHipHop News) Fat Joe is one of the few rap stars that emerged in the 1990s that can still make it on the single charts in the 2010s. The man also known as Don Cartagena has been penning Billboard hits since 1993’s “Flow Joe.”
Apparently, Kanye West did not know Fat Joe wrote his own bars. L.A. Leakers caught up with the Bronx emcee, and they spoke about the 2012 song “Pride N Joy” featuring Kanye and Roscoe Dash.
“I sat down to do a record with Kanye West. We did the joint ‘Pride N Joy.’ And when I pulled out my paper and started writing he was like, ‘You write music?’ This was five years ago,” recalled Fat Joe. “He was like, ‘You rap?’ I was like, ‘What do you mean? We’re making a song together.'”
The Terror Squad frontman continued, “He said, ‘Oh, I just thought you were like a mafia don that they come give you different raps and you chose which one you’re gonna say.’ I’m like, ‘Get the f*ck out of here. I’ve been rapping my whole life. What the hell are you talking about? I never had no help.'”
“Yes” with Cardi B and Anuel AA is Fat Joe’s most recent single. The track is set to appear on Joey’s upcoming eleventh studio album titled Family Ties. His previous solo LP was 2010’s The Darkside Vol. 1. Fat Joe also partnered with Remy Ma for Plata O Plomo in 2017.
(AllHipHop News) Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown is a titan of the charts. Swae Lee and Post Malone’s “Sunflower” climbed to #1 on the Hot 100 in 2019, and the single’s video amassed more than 800 million YouTube views.
The Rae Sremmurd member also contributed vocals to a No. 1 record in 2018 when Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” reached the pinnacle of the Hot 100. However, Swae Lee seemed to feel a way about being left out of the music video which featured Scott and Drake.
“Someone said they didn’t see Swae Lee in the sicko mode video yea I noticed that too,” tweeted the Mississippi-raised crooner a year ago.
Even though Swae Lee earned two Grammy nominations for “Sicko Mode” (Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song), there are still listeners that are unaware of his involvement with the smash. DJ Whoo Kid recently asked Brown about not getting properly recognized for assisting Scott on the Astroworld track.
“Shout out to the boys,” said Swae, referring to Travis Scott and Drake. “I don’t really… The game is gonna do what it do. I just take everything, learn from it, note it. It’s a blessing to just be part of such big tracks.”
He continued, “At the end of the day, it’s a win-win situation. I don’t take nothing personally. Who knows what agenda they had for the song. I’m apart of the motherf*cker, so I ain’t tripping… I spoke my piece and left it at that.”
Swae Lee is not a stranger to big tracks. His writing credits also include Rae Sremmurd’s “Black Beatles,” Beyoncé’s “Formation,” French Montana’s “Unforgettable,” and other hits.
(AllHipHop News) Kodak Black found himself in even more trouble behind bars. The South Florida rapper was apparently involved in a fight in a Miami detention center that led to a guard being taken to the hospital to undergo surgery.
According to reports, Black (born Bill Kapri) got into a physical altercation with another inmate. The 22-year-old supposedly kicked the guard in the groin while he was trying to break up the brawl.
Kapri pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges in August, and sentencing is scheduled for November 13. Kodak reportedly faces eight to ten years in prison.
The Atlantic recording artist has been in and out of correctional facilities since he was a teenager. Throughout his life, Kodak has also been hit with robbery, battery, false imprisonment of a child, drug possession, weapon possession, and sexual assault charges in several states.
