Success has been great for Queens, New York rapper LL Cool J.
The “NCIS: Los Angeles” star was spotted flossing out in Beverly Hills, California with his usual Hip-Hop swag.
LL, who created the #1 charting Hip-Hop cruising anthem “The Boomin System” back in 1990, hit the streets of Beverly Hills to remind folks he’s not slouching.
On a side note, LL was out rolling in Beverly Hills because he was a surprise guest at an event for a trauma search event hosted by the Ulmer Institute. LL mingled with prominent members of the African-American and Jewish communities to share information on trauma relief.
“I’m from New York maybe it’s not fair for me to talk about that because it’s real naturally normal to me to have Jewish friends, it’s just part of it. My grandfather was from the Bronx, he came home with gefilte fish every week. I mean, I didn’t like it, no disrespect, but I loved him, it wasn’t my thing, but I always had great Jewish friends.
“They’ve been good to me, they’ve been good to me in my life too, even my agents, and that kind of seems stereotypical but I’m even talking about non-executive types, like Rick, who was a producer and Lyor Cohen who was a concert promoter and my friends Mark and Eugene, in New York, who own restaurants, creative guys, just always been there, it’s natural.”
(AllHipHop News) Bobby Shmurda’s chances of being released from prison just got worse.
Yesterday (May 20), another member of his affiliated crew, GS9, was sentenced to 53 years in prison following the murder of a 19-year old in February 2013.
According to New York Daily News, Alex Cranden, also known as “A-Rod” in GS9, participated in the murder of a rival gang member in February, following a plethora of shootings and other violent cases in East Flatbush in a two-year period.
Crandon did make an attempt to make a plea for leniency.
Unfortunately, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Abraham dismissed it, claiming that the gang member gave up his opportunity to have another shot at a good life.
Crandon was sentenced to 53 years in prison for multiple charges including conspiracy murder, and attempted murder.
(AllHipHop News) T.I. is leaving no stones unturned, as he makes the rounds promoting his upcoming album The Dime Trap.
T.I. has been plugging his new single “Dope” featuring Aaliyah and Marsha Ambrosia over a track produced by Dr. Dre.
Over the past week, the rapper has been on a promotional run of commercial radio promoting his music, the “Family Hustle” reality show and his role as the slave “Cyrus” in The History Channel’s upcoming remake of the classic movie “Roots.”
Last night (May 20), T.I. aka “The King of The South,” took some time out to hit the stage at 5Church.
NASCAR Pro-drivers like Bubba Wallace and Kevin Karvick watched the “King of the South” go through a medley of hits that included “Bring Em Out” and “Whatever You Like.”
The event was part of New Era’s launch party for NASCAR All-Star weekend.
Check out some flicks of T.I.:
“CHARLOTTE, NC – MAY 20: Bubba Wallace poses for a portrait during the “New Era Cap Celebrates NASCAR All-Star Weekend” event on May 20, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
“CHARLOTTE, NC – MAY 20: Singer Matt Stillwell and driver Kevin Harvick pose for a portrait during the “New Era Cap Celebrates NASCAR All-Star Weekend” event on May 20, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images for New Era Cap)”
“CHARLOTTE, NC – MAY 20: Rapper T.I. performs during the “New Era Cap Celebrates NASCAR All-Star Weekend” event on May 20, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images for New Era Cap)”
“CHARLOTTE, NC – MAY 20: Rapper T.I. performs during the “New Era Cap Celebrates NASCAR All-Star Weekend” event on May 20, 2016 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images for New Era Cap)”
(AllHipHop News) Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams paid homage to revered rapper Biggie Smalls just recently, by officially making May 21st “Christopher ‘The Notorious BIG’ Wallace Day.”
Today officially honors the Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn native, who was gunned down in an unsolved drive-by shooting in March of 1997.
Borough President Eric Adams said Biggie is very deserving of the accolades.
“Brooklyn salutes one of our own, who has never been forgotten as long as his music plays,” Adams remarked. “On his birthday, his energy will remain and continue to inspire people throughout not only the borough of Brooklyn but Biggie put Brooklyn on the map.”
Biggie’s daughter T’yanna Wallace and Lil Cease were present at the ceremony, where loved ones shared memories of the rapper’s dominance of the airwaves in New York and worldwide.
The distinctive day comes on the heels of the opening show of Diddy’s “Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour” at the Barclays Center.
The tour started last night (May 20) and featured some acts from most of Bad Boy’s fabled roster.
In addition to Diddy, French Montana, Faith Evans, Lil Kim, Nas and Jay Z hit the stage for the first show of “The Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour.”
(AllHipHop News) TDE is rather masterful at promoting to the masses with mystery.
Earlier this month, the social media world was whipped into mass hysteria by a Instagram post from Top Dawg, the CEO of TDE. Top Dawg hinted at the addition of a new artist to the West coast label.
Then, TDE acts like Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, SZA and Ab Soul posted riddles to their Twitter accounts posing the question —@skiiiwalker??
Last night (May 20), the label confirmed the newest edition to TDE is indeed none other than Lance Skiiiwalker.
Skiiiwalker’s style is described as similar to ODB by many and TDE president Dave Free has high expectations for the artist as well.
“Lance Skiiiwalker is going to be such a breakthrough artist for this generation. He challenges the traditional format of today’s music, adding another layer to TDE’s unique roster,” said the TDE president of the Chi-town native that has already been featured on a handful of tracks from the crew.
Skiiiwalker was featured on the track “90059,” “Money Trees Duece,” and “Telegram” from Jay Rocks latest project 90059 and also collaborated with ScHoolboy Q on “His & Her Friend,” along with being featured on Kendrick Lamar’s “Untitled 04.”
Skiiiwalker is currently looking to turn heads with his debut project entitled Introverted Intuition.
Show some love to the new TDE fam by checking out some of his music below.
(AllHipHop News) A producer who worked with Kanye west on his song “New Slaves,” is suing the rapper because he wasn’t paid enough, according to reports.
According to TMZ.com, Kanye received permission to use a sample from Gabor Presser, a composer from Hungaria did a deal with Kanye so he could use the well-known musician’s work.
The problem is, the rapper was supposed to follow up and drill down on some of the terms of the agreement, but he never did.
Instead, Kanye released “New Slaves” on his 2013 album Yeezus, and now he is facing a $2.5 million lawsuit.
(AllHipHop News) Fat Joe may have had some regrets when he recently revealed that Biggie’s legendary track “I Got A Story To Tell” was about former NY Knicks star Anthony Mason.
But, Hip-Hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has showed him some support by echoing the same sentiments.
On an interview with The Breakfast Club, Diddy, who had a very well publicized business and friendship with Biggie before his untimely death in 1997, provided further confirmation on the subject of the track.
“With this tour you’ll be able to hear those stories come out. This is the time to tell all those stories. We’re actually shooting a documentary, so all of that is coming out. That story’s true I can confirm that. I can confirm that with love.”
A great mystery in Hip-Hop finally being revealed has even caused a bit of controversy in the sports world as well.
Former NBA star Charles Oakley criticized Fat Joe while talking to TMZ.com stating “you don’t talk about a guy after he’s deceased, definitely disrespectful.”
Oakley went on to state that he had a close relationship with Mason and the two even played together as they both helped the Knicks reach the 1994 NBA Finals.
Fat Joe may be getting pretty deep into politics! Rosario Dawson is calling on more Latinos and Latino millennials to get involved in the election as Fuse and Voto Latino are looking for two aspiring Latino journalists to cover the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. According to the Huffinton Post, Fat Joe along with America Ferrera, Rosie Perez, and Angie Martinez will join Dawson in the search to find the Latino journalists through the “Crash the Parties” initiative. It’s nice to see Fat Joe getting involved in an initiative that will galvanize young Latinos to get involved in covering politics and addressing issues that affect their community.
Fat Joe has also had an eventful week as he sent the Hip Hop world into a frenzy when he stopped by ESPN’s Highly Questionable, and revealed that Anthony Mason was the person the Notorious B.I.G. was rapping about on his song “I Got A Story To Tell.” He has since expressed regret about sharing this detail saying, that maybe it wasn’t his place to reveal what he thought was public knowledge.
Kim Kardashian recently had a pregnancy scare and decided to Snap Chat her way through finding out the results. Kim was so nervous that she purchased pregnancy tests from Clearblue, E.P.T., and First Response. Although Kim K has stated in the past that pregnancy is not for her, a grinning Kanye West told Ellen that the couple may have more children in the future. Kim Said,
“I’m legit in the airplane bathroom and I’m going to take a pregnancy test because I’m having a little bit of a scare. So, no big deal.”
Well the results of Kim’s Clearblue pregnancy test read “not pregnant.” Kim expressed during her last pregnancy that both times around she experienced a lot of issues. Even though Kim may not want to have anymore children, it seems like Kanye may be trying to get her regardless. What do you think they would name their third child?
In watching “The Nice Guys,” starring Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe and newcomer Angourie Rice, there is no question that Los Angeles, circa 1970 is a huge part of this new movie from Warner Bros. Pictures that opens nationwide in theaters this Friday, May 20, 2016.
Nevertheless, in speaking candidly to Ryan Gosling about what appealed to him most about doing this action comedy alongside co-star Russell Crowe, the era was not a draw for Gosling.
“The seventies just seemed dirty and not in an interesting way,” shared Gosling on the era. “The 70s wasn’t the draw, but it was fun to do,” stated Gosling, a self identified child and proponent of the 80s.
However if the seventies weren’t of particular interest to Gosling, who is better known along with Crowe for his dramatic roles, it was the ability to flex comedic muscles that his fans and others might not expect him to be eager to showcase.
“I read it as an opportunity to really do a lot of physical comedy and take it to a broad place.” stated Gosling of his method, which in his opinion could dovetail nicely with director Shane Black’s original vision for the movie as a different sort of comedy specifically due to the unusual casting of Gosling and Crowe. ”
(Shane Black) cast us not because he thought we were funny, but because he thought it would be funny to have two guys that are so serious be in something so silly,” stated Gosling, continuing, “so even if Russell and I didn’t have the rapport that we have, I think it still would have worked on that level… we had a good time making it.”
As for the specific time on set that Gosling knew that he and Russell Crowe would actually have that comedic rapport, as is often way of good comedic chemistry, it came from the most unlikely and unglamourous of circumstances:
“One of our first scenes together was that bathroom stall scene, ” recounted Gosling. “I went early to set to figure out the door gag and I smelt smoke and I looked and Russell was (there) smoking. He was very seriously telling me how he thought the door could bounce better, and we were very seriously having this conversation as I had my pants around my ankles in a bathroom stall,” remembered Gosling, concluding: “I thought it was going to work.”
“The Nice Guys” from Warner Bros. Pictures, starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley and Kim Basinger opens nationwide in theaters on Friday, May 20, 2016.
In a game of Smash or Pass, Angela Yee let it be known which rappers she would smash or pass on. Yee said Common could be her baby daddy because he doesn’t have any kids and she would scam Idris Elba and Floyd Mayweather out of their money.
As if it wasn’t a lot already going on in the segment, things went even further. Angela said Drake and friends could run a train on her, she’d let Eminem cream pie her, and she would have to suck off 50 Cent. Well fellas….. shoot your shot.
(AllHipHop News) West Coast icon Snoop Dogg partnered with AOL for the new 9-part docu-series Coach Snoop. The entire first season is now available for streaming. Watch Snoop mentor young athletes and create opportunities for them to compete at the highest level of youth football.
Check out the latest music from rapper Hockaday and Kazi Jones. The track is an ode to their favorite basketball player, Allen Iverson, on the belated anniversary of the epic practice rant. AI is the very reason Hockaday is a life long Sixers fan.
The Bane of Fear by Hockaday and Kazi Jones will further push that message on July 22, 2016, when the project is released. Visit www.lordhockaday.com for more details.
(AllHipHop News) After using Run The Jewels’ music to serve as the soundtrack for the Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet web series, Marvel has combined the Hip Hop group and the comic book franchise once again. The sold-out Black Panther #2 will be reissued with a RTJ inspired cover.
Other acts featured in the superheros/rap stars crossover artwork included Kendrick Lamar, Raekwon, Mobb Deep, Lupe Fiasco, Lauryn Hill, J. Cole, Nas, Missy Elliott, Future, and many more.
Many wonder how anyone could support Donald Trump, especially minority voters. A few black Trump supporters were asked on CNN how could they possibly vote and support Donald Trump. The interviewer wanted to know in particular how could black voters vote for Donald Trump, the man that we’ve all heard will do nothing for people of color in this country. One of the supporters said,
“He’s kind of got a Hip Hop swagger to him, and I think people like that. He’s all about money and entrepreneurship. There were a lot of people before he was a candidate who are black American and famous and they loved him. I think that there are a lot of people in the closet who also love him. Job competition and job scarcity issues like that he’s actually addressing those issues. That’s going to help black Americans.”
(AllHipHop News) Chance The Rapper continues to put up impressive numbers online, with the latest release of his mixtape Coloring Book.
The rapper’s third mixtape is supposed to land in the Top 10 next week, even though the mixtape is not for sale.
On the social media side, Chance’s album is putting up impressive numbers as well.
According to data Twitter shared with AllHipHop.com, there have been over 1.4 million Tweets about Chance since last Thursday, when Coloring Book was released.
Fans aren’t just Tweeting about Chance and Coloring Book either. They are sharing the song titles, as well as lyrics from the Chicago rapper’s mixtape.
1. “when the praises go up”
2. “we don’t do the same drugs”
3. “blessings keep falling in my lap”
4. “Kanye’s best prodigy”
5. “believe in the kingdom”
6. “don’t believe in kings”
7. “no twitter in heaven”
(AllHipHop News) Many questioned the validity of a tweet of rapper Soulja Boy and his claim that he struck a $400 million deal.
But it turns out the 25-year-old rapper was tweeting the truth on May 1.
Soulja Boy has a five-year, $400 million deal with World Poker Fund Holdings (WPFH).
Under the agreement, World Poker Fund will utilize Soulja Boy’s 15 million plus followers to promote the different assets the World Poker Fund controls online, including CelebrityWorld.com.
WPFH also has plans to use World Poker Fund to promote their forthcoming gaming platform, which will target over 3 billion plus global travelers who fly with any of the larger airlines.
$400 million deal confirmed. I still they think they low balled me though. I was thinking 2 or 3 billion..
“I invest in things I understand. I enjoy music, and of course gaming. Being an influencer is a form of currency,” Soulja Boy told AllHipHop.com in a statement. “Having portfolio diversification is critical if you want to be an effective brand ambassador. With regards to World Poker Fund, I believe in its strategy, its team, the vision, and management’s ability to target its financial goals.”
Matthew Bird, a spokesman for World Poker Fund, declared that the deal exhibited the changing nature of marketing and advertising.
“The world of marketing is changing, today’s biggest influencers are not brands, but individuals who create content that drive loyalty and brand sentiment. We no longer are fed content from major news networks — we seek it out and consume it by individual influencers that enrich our lifestyles. Soulja Boy represents the best of the best and we are already seeing the impact from his presence.”
The AMA conversation included the Purple Haze album creator addressing the classic interview with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, the proposed joint project Federal Reserve with A-Trak, and his favorite albums.
Check out a portion of Cam’ron’s “Ask Me Anything” below. Read his full AMA here.
(AllHipHop News) It’s that time of year again. The BET network is set to broadcast its annual awards show celebrating excellence in music, movies/TV, and sports.
Canadian superstar Drake earned the most 2016 BET Award nominations. The OVO leader received nine nods including “Best Male Hip Hop Artist,” “Video of the Year,” and “Best Collaboration.”
Beyoncé and Rihanna follow Drizzy with five nominations each. The two chart-topping singers will be competing for the “Best Female R&B/Pop Artist,” “Video of the Year,” “Best Collaboration,” “Coca-Cola Viewers’ Choice Award,” and “Centric Award” trophies.
Other multi-category nominees include newcomer Bryson Tiller, Chris Brown, and Future. Both Tiller and Brown are up for four awards including “Best Male R&B/Pop Artist.” Future garnered four nods as well, two of those being for “Best Male Hip Hop Artist” and “Best Group” (with Drake).
“These nominees represent depth and diversity in achievement over the past year and we look forward to recognizing them next month,” said Stephen Hill, BET’s President of Programming. “This show will be innovative and special; in addition to celebrating the best in entertainment, we’ll also spend time throughout the show remembering Prince as only BET can. You can count on memorable performances and moments in honor of a true legend.”
The 2016 BET Awards will air on Sunday, June 26 at 8 pm ET live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
