Apparently 50 Cent has returned to court to tell the judge that his boxing company isn’t broke anymore.
According to TheJasmineBrand, 50 wants his Chapter 11 bankruptcy dismissed as he has settled his debt issues with major creditors in the case. 50’s boxing company, SMS Promotions, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year stating it had between $100k – 600k in debt, and court documents in the case reported their liabilities to be over 2.3 million and and only $644,903 in assets.
Apparently 50 wants to completely dismiss the case as he no longer needs the bankruptcy protection.
(AllHipHop News) A pair of nine-year-olds caused an uproar in London, after they decided to play an explicative song by Meek Mill during a block of children’s programming.
The radio station Beta Bangla was broadcasting their “Children’s Hour” program which is hosted by the two children.
When the station manager took a prayer break, the kids decided to field requests and reportedly settled on a track by Meek Mill.
Some offended listeners called and reported the station to Ofcom, the U.K.’s equivalent of the FCC. An investigation was launched into Beta Bangla and found they breached three rules relating to broadcasting obscene material.
“We encouraged them to take requests so they can get more listeners and interact with more people in the community,” Beta Bangla Founder Golam Chowdhury told the U.K.’s Standard. “They were just excited to be called. The guy who was managing the program was on a break, he went for a prayer for five to eight minutes and during this period it happened. He didn’t even know that this song had been played until we received a letter from Ofcom.”
As a result, Beta Bangla has tightened up the rules and processes during the children’s hour.
All we know is yall better put some repeck on Birdman’s name! Supposedly Birdman and the legendary Toni Braxton may be dating. Allegedly Birdman and Toni may have been an item for some time now. Well, people really started to wonder when Birdman was spotted at Toni’s recent Grammy Park performance in Brooklyn. Sources say Birdman was all over Toni. Hmmmm I don’t know about this one. ??
(AllHipHop News) Being a performer on stage can be dangerous, and rapper Ja Rule apparently takes his safety very serious.
The rapper was performing at Pool After Dark in Atlantic City last week, when someone threw a beer can from the crowd and hit him in the head.
TMZ.com uncovered footage of the incident, which features Ja Rule stopping the show mid-performance.
Ja offered anyone in the crowd $1,000 to produce the person who threw the beer can at him. Someone was pointed out and Ja Rule reaches into the crowd and smacks a guy.
(AllHipHop News) A Missouri man has filed documents petitioning to be determined as late icon Prince’s biological son.
On Friday (May 6), Judge Kevin Eide, who is overseeing ruling on the Kiss star’s estate, issued an order to allow authorities to test the singer’s blood for potential DNA matches.
Judge Eide recognized there may be some claims from people insisting they are the rightful heirs to Prince’s fortune, so he gave Bremer Trust officials, who are administrating the estate, permission to have samples of Prince’s blood transferred from the Midwest Medical Examiner’s office to DNA Diagnostics Center of Fairfield, Ohio, for testing.
On Monday (May 9), Carlin Q. Williams of Kansas City, Missouri, filed documents in Prince’s home state of Minnesota requesting a DNA test as well as a petition to be determined as the legend’s “sole surviving legal heir.”
According to documents obtained by Entertainment Tonight, Williams’ mother, Marsha Henson, gave a statement saying she had unprotected sex with Prince in July 1976 in Kansas City and conceived her son that day.
Since Prince left no will, the hitmaker’s assets, which TMZ.com reports is valued at less than $150 million, will be split evenly between his heirs – who have been listed as Tyka Nelson, Alfred Jackson, John R. Nelson, Norrine Nelson, Sharon Nelson, and Omarr Baker.
No one addressed the official value of Prince’s estate in court, but the property he owned in his native Minnesota alone, including the Paisley Park studios in Chanhassen where he died, is worth an estimated $27 million.
(AllHipHop News) Makonnen has decided to quit making music.
The singer/rapper took to Twitter over the weekend to explain the reasons why he was retiring, despite having such success in a very short period of time.
“Tired of singing and crying in the booth making all these songs for u that’ll you will never hear, I had to let it go,” he tweeted. “Nobody makes music anymore, nobody truly locks in for a real session.”
He then suggested his new music was so hot that he would put other entertainers in retirement.
“If I could release music how I wanted I wouldn’t retire, but then if did that, so many would have to to just retire, so ill accept retire,” he said with some grammatical errors.
Makonnen may be seeking a new recording home, as he was signed to Drake’s OVO Sounds once, but defected to Warner Brothers.
(AllHipHop News) Aesop Rock is making it clear what side he stands on when it comes to LGBT rights.
The rapper, who just released his album The Impossible Kid, is currently on a nationwide tour to support his first album in four years.
On the outing, he has two dates in North Carolina, which is at the center of a battle with the Department of Justice over gender equality.
The Rhymesayers Entertainment emcee will donate the proceeds of his show at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro on June 29 and another at in Charlotte.
“All proceeds from the Carrboro and Charlotte, North Carolina stops of the Impossible Kid tour will be donated to Equality NC – a statewide, non-profit organization dedicated to securing equal rights and justice for LGBT North Carolinians. The discriminatory HB2 law is shameful,” Aesop Rock told AllHipHop.com in a statement.
It’s also known as “the bathroom bill” because it bans people from using restrooms that do not match with their biological sex as opposed to the gender they identify with.
Dozens of performers have scrapped their shows in North Carolina, while numerous businesses have left or canceled plans for expansion in the state.
“We felt that cancelling the show outright would not represent our fanbase who also stand against such injustices, and hope that by contributing to the fight locally we can do our small part in a much larger mission,” Aesop Rock said of his reasoning for the performance.
Yesterday (May 9), Loretta Lynch and the DOJ filed a lawsuit against the state of North Carolina, claiming HP to violates the Civil Rights Act.
To support Aesop Rock’s cause and donate visit http://equalitync.org. The Impossible Kid is in stores now.
Check Aesop Rock’s full tour schedule below:
5/10 – Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst
5/12 – Los Angeles, CA – The Novo
5/13 – Solana Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern
5/15 – Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
5/16 – Tucson, AZ – Club Congress
5/18 – Las Vegas, NV – Fremont Country Club
5/20 – Albuquerque, NM – Sunshine Theater
5/21 – Durango, CO – Animas City Theatre
5/23 – Denver, CO – Cervantes
5/24 – Ft Collins, CO – Aggie Theatre
6/2- Madison, WI – Majestic Theatre
6/3 – Chicago, IL – Metro
6/4 – Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme
6/6 – Pontiac, MI – The Crofoot
6/7 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop
6/8 – Columbus, OH – A&R Music Bar
6/10 – Pittsburgh, PA – Rex Theater
6/11 – Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
6/13 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza
6/15 – Portland, ME – Port City Music Hall
6/16 – Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
6/17 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club
6/27 – Richmond, VA – The National
6/28 – Washington, DC – 930 Club
6/29 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle
7/2 – Knoxville, TN – The International
7/3 – Atlanta, GA – The Loft
7/5 – Orlando, FL – The Social
7/6 – Ft Lauderdale, FL – Revolution
7/8 – St Petersburg, FL – State Theatre
7/10 – Pensacola, FL – Vinyl Music Hall
7/11 – Baton Rouge, LA – Varsity Theatre
7/13 – San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
7/14 – Dallas, TX – Trees
We hate to say it, but seeing as hip hop stars Wiz Khalifa, Soulja Boy, Rick Ross, The Game, Lil Wayne and retired professional boxer Mike Tyson have been sporting face tattoos with maximum emphasis on style and minimum emphasis on drama for awhile, is it yet another case of famous white boy did it second?
Well if it is, don’t go telling that to pop star Justin Bieber’s people because this morning it has been trending like new money on social media that the star of “What Do You Mean?” fame has gotten himself a tiny tattoo of a crosson his face right next to his right eye.
While Bieber himself is staying mum about it, JonBoy, the tattoo artist who did the honors on May 6th at a tattoo parlor in NYC, wasn’t shy at all when he spoke to Us Weekly about exactly what this new bit of face art does mean to the star – and it would seem to center on religious fervour versus traditional Bieber Fever.
“Justin came in last night and decided on a small cross near the corner of his eye,” JonBoy stated on the subject, adding: “it represents his journey in finding purpose with God.”
Well that’s not what we were expecting… to be sure.
Well, what do we have here? I have exclusive word that there is another Hip-Hop biopic on the way. Guess who? Well do you know who this is:
Probably not, but if you do, you are an OG or well-educated in Hip-Hop. Roxanne Shante is one of the pioneering rappers in rap music. She was known to beef, and battle wit other rappers and dropped some classic joints. I am hearing that she definitely has a movie on the way, and not a documentary either. A movie in the same vein as “Straight Outta Compton” and others.
That’s about it for now. What do you think of the possibility of this being a movie?
Fun fact: Roxanne Shante encouraged Nas to keep rapping when he was a very young dude. They are both from Queensbridge.
(AllHipHop News) Is Nicki Minaj’s ex-boyfriend ready to jump into the reality TV world? Safaree Samuels is reportedly the newest cast member of VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.
TMZ reports Safaree is dating LHHH star Nikki Mudarris. The two were seen holding hands while exiting L.A. sushi spot Katsuya. Neither S.B. nor Miss Nikki Baby addressed whether they were officially dating, but they both shared loving statements on Twitter within hours of each other.
Sometimes you have to wonder are people making this Beyonce and Jay Z ‘Lemonade’ “scandal” bigger than what it is. It seems like everyone is falling for it, just like Bey-Z might have expected.
According to Radar Online, Jay Z is going over-the-top to win back Beyonce’s affection! A source close to the couple told them that Jay has something special planned once Bey returns home to L.A. from her ‘Formation’ tour.
Apparently Jay Z has redecorated their entire Bel Air mansion and filled it with romantic gifts to show Bey how much he loves her. An alleged cousin of Beyonce has been claiming that the couple has been having issues, and ‘Lemonade’ was an attempt at working through those issues. Do you think Jay & B are really having problems?
In that perplexing duality that we have come to know and accept from FOX, while we don’t exactly vibe on that ultra conservative news bent they’ve got going on, a lot of their non news related episodic shows ( insert here “Empire,” airing Wednesdays at 9:00/8:00 central) actually have something that we can see getting excited about – or at least checking out to see if it is worth a second viewing. To that end, tonight, May 17th airing at 9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT is the premiere of the pilot episode of FOX television’s new dating show “Coupled“ from executive producer Mark Burnett ( “Survivor,” “The Voice,” “The Apprentice,” and “Shark Tank”) and hosted by Terrence “J” Jenkins (“106 & Park” and “E! News”).
While most dating shows are about one rose allowing one “special” couple that slim to none chance of hitting the love jackpot via national television exposure, “Coupled” is a little more liberal and forgiving when it comes to how many folks and what kind of folks get to give it the good old college try when it comes to successful relationships. Starting with 12 single professional women from a mix of divergent racial and ethnic backgrounds living on a beautiful Caribbean Island, the show flies in eligible men via helicopter, with the aim being to allow the women to be the ones who decide which men stay and which men get the boot back to the mainland. Eligible men who have been chosen to stay by one or more of the eligible women then get to then choose which interested women will accompany them one on one across the island at a luxury villa to discover whether initial chemistry can bloom into compatibility. In short, the rules have been set in such a way that allows the capacity for every woman on the island to find the “right” man.
Considering that today’s first episode is flying in one African American male digital ad executive pitching himself as the real deal to not one but three young professional African American women among the twelve sitting “Coupled” island dwellers, and this could be something a bit different from all of the others in this mainstream reality genre. You’ll have to tune in to see how music and a stated affinity for freestyle rapping figure into this episode in a way that is up for debate as to whether it’s simply unexpected or destined for immediate filing in the “corny” bin.
“Coupled” premieres tonight, May 17 at 9:00-10:00 pm ET/PT on FOX.
Uh oh. Amber Rose is in a legal fight to win the exclusive right to trademark her name. Amber, like her bestie, Blac Chyna has filed legal documents to trademark her name so she can make some serious money off of it.
Well the problem is up-and-coming country star Amber Rose Kelly also wants rights to the name, and has since filed docs as well. Amber Rose Kelly is saying she’s the famous one as she is an award-nominated former child actor, singer, songwriter, recording artist, model and photographer. She claims the Amber Rose we know is nothing more than an ex-stripper. Ouch. Who do you think should have the rights to the name?
Amber Rose goes shopping at the Beverly Center with a posse of men wearing ‘MUVA’ sweatshirts from her eponymous apparel brand
Featuring: Amber Rose
Where: Los Angeles, California, United States
When: 06 May 2016
Credit: WENN.com
Amber Rose goes shopping at the Beverly Center with a posse of men wearing ‘MUVA’ sweatshirts from her eponymous apparel brand
Featuring: Amber Rose
Where: Los Angeles, California, United States
When: 06 May 2016
Credit: WENN.com
Amber Rose goes shopping at the Beverly Center with a posse of men wearing ‘MUVA’ sweatshirts from her eponymous apparel brand
Featuring: Amber Rose
Where: Los Angeles, California, United States
When: 06 May 2016
Credit: WENN.com
Amber Rose goes shopping at the Beverly Center with a posse of men wearing ‘MUVA’ sweatshirts from her eponymous apparel brand
Featuring: Amber Rose
Where: Los Angeles, California, United States
When: 06 May 2016
Credit: WENN.com
(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop band The Roots will hit the stage with a variety of rappers and singers at this year’s BET Experience at L.A. LIVE.
The Roots, Kodak Black and MadeinTYO are the latest artists to be announced as performers during the four-day event.
Previously announced acts that will be showcased include Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Fetty Wap, A$AP Ferg, Ty Dolla $ign, Mike Epps, Katt Williams, Bryson Tiller, Usher, Torey Lanez and others.
Tickets will go on-sale beginning on May 13 at BETExperience.com. The full schedule is below:
BET EXPERIENCE AT STAPLES CENTER SCHEDULE:
THURSDAY, June 23, 2016
7:30 p.m.: Katt Williams and Mike Epps
Rap legend Big Hutch aka Cold 187um is back with some help from Too $hort and E-40. This new single is taken from Cold 187um’s new upcoming album The Black Godfather.
Desiigner was chopping’ bricks like Jackie Chan!!!! The dude got shot at 14 and a bunch of other stuff! This white gentleman dug deep and got all the info on the dude that sounds a lot like Future. BUT, Desiigner’s energy is off the chain. I don’t know if you care, but I have to admit, I watched the entire thing. Check out where future came from and where he may be going. The “Panda” rapper is more interesting than I expected.
(AllHipHop News) Rihanna is further proving why she should be crowned the “Queen of the Hot 100.” The Roc Nation singer already racked up 14 #1 singles, passed the Beatles for the second-most total weeks spent at #1, and became the only artist in history to have a #1 single on seven consecutive studio albums.
This week Rihanna earned her 28th Hot 100 Top 10 record when the Calvin Harris collaboration “This Is What We Came For” landed at #9. Those 28 Top 10’s puts RiRi in a fourth place tie on the all-time list with the legendary Stevie Wonder.
The “Work” performer was previously tied with Mariah Carey, Elton John, and Janet Jackson with 27. Rihanna now only trails Madonna (38), the Beatles (34), and Michael Jackson (29). Elvis Presley collected 36 #1 singles when combining both Hot 100 and pre-Hot 100 songs.
Rihanna will likely catch MJ in the coming weeks. Her Anti single “Needed Me” hit a new Hot 100 high at 13. The Grammy winner also sits at #6 with “Work” and #76 with “Kiss It Better” as well as #52 as a guest on Drake’s “Too Good.”
