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Donald Sterling Refutes Alzheimer's Disease Claims, Suing The NBA For $1 Billion

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) Donald Sterling wants the world to know two things: 1. he does not have Alzheimer’s disease and 2. He is not going anywehere. Earlier today, reports surfaced that Donald Sterling and his legal team are planning on suing the NBA for $1 billion.

Shelly Sterling became the sole trustee of the family trust that owned the Los Angeles Clippers after two neurologists deemed Donald Sterling mentally unfit to be a trustee by the family trust’s standards. As the sole trustee, Mrs. Sterling sold the Los Angeles Clippers to ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Yahoo! Sports’ writer Adrian Wojnarowski reports that Sterling’s lawyer, Max Blecker, has confirmed that the former Clippers owner plans to sue the NBA:

According to TMZ, the neurologists’ results found that not only had Sterling suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, but has had the disease for the past five years. Blecker dismissed the medical reports as”grossly exaggerated” in an email to ESPN, but did admit to CNN that the reports revealed “modest mental impairment.”

Following the sale, one of Sterling’s other attorneys informed The Los Angeles Times that “there can be no sale without Donald’s signature.”

Dr. Dre Named "Wealthiest Hip Hop Artist" After Apple/Beats by Dre Deal

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) Close but no $1 billion cigar. Three weeks after Dr. Dre proclaimed himself Hip Hop’s first billinoaire in a cell phone video with Tyrese, his wealth is being reported at over $200 million short following the $3 billion sale of Beats by Dre.

Speculation of Dr. Dre becoming Hip Hop’s first billionaire artist/producer surfaced once rumors of the eventual Beats by Dre sale surfaced less than a month ago. However, Billionaire.com reports Dr. Dre’s overall networth at being at $790 million.

The details of the sale were not made public, however Forbes speculated a similar wealth total for Dre and assumed Dr. Dre’s payout would be half-cash and the rest in Apple stocks. Since Apple CEO Tim Cook has revealed that both Dre and Iovine will have roles at Apple, stock options exchange seems likely. In addition, Dr. Dre and Jimmy Ionvine only own 25% each of Beats and after taxes, the $3 billion payout turns Dre’s payout to roughly $240 million.

Maxwell Explains How His Cousin's Death Changed His New Album, Questioning Career + MORE

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Alternatives
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(AllHipHop News) Maxwell is ready to return after his highly successful fourth album Blacksummer’snight was released in 2009. In a recent interview, Maxwell spoke on how vocal surgery delayed his album, questions he had about continuing his career and more.

In 2012, Maxwell planned to perform his entire discography back-to-back during shows in Los Angeles, Atlanta and Newark, New Jersey. Maxwell had to cancel the entire tour due to vocal injuries and admits to thinking the injury could be the end of his career:

You know, you always think about it. I thought to myself, “Damn.” But luckily my doctor, Dr. Jimmy Morales, who works with so many people — from rappers to public speakers, it’s insane who he’s involved with — he assured me that it was not major, that it was something you must deal with now. It’s better to deal with it now and cancel these dates, which, you know, even when I canceled the dates, I paid my entire staff — the musicians, the crew, everything. Literally out of my own pocket because everyone has families, so I didn’t want them to be restricted because of the experience I was going through. So, I took care of them, and I think it was good karma in itself. [It] kind of helped with the healing process, so, you know, I was back in motion.

Maxwell stated that his cousin died of an enlarged heart and a heart attack earlier this year, forcing him to delay recording his upcoming album even more. According to Maxwell, his cousin’s death made him come to terms with a phenomena that has characterized artists during sadness:

Being an artist, it’s like, “Damn, why do I need to have f##### up things happen for things to sound so nice for people?” It’s weird. It’s so weird, bro. I don’t even get it. I take it as it comes and I go, “This is what you’re here to do. You’re here to take on your life and what you go through — mostly the worst part of it — and make it into something nice so people feel that they can relate and they can overcome certain experiences.” So that’s what I’m doing now.

Maxwell is set to embark on a 40-date summer tour starting June 14th.

 

Common Ft. Vince Staples "Kingdom"

By: Scooby Wilson (@mcscoobins) Updated Category: Headlines
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Common releases the first single  ‘Kingdom’ produced by NoID and featuring Vince Staples for his upcoming studio album ‘Nobodys Smiling’. The video is already shot and directed by Hype Williams.

Take a look at the video trailer:

Aretha Franklin Awarded Honorary Degree From Harvard University (VIDEO)

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) Harvard University gave one of the greatest singers in recorded music’s history more than just her respect, they gave her a degree. Less than three weeks after Howard University awarded Sean “P. Diddy” Combs with an honorary degree, Harvard University has done the same for Aretha Franklin.

Yesterday at the 2014 Harvard University Commencement Ceremony (May 29th) Franklin was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Arts and was one of multiple recipients of honorary degrees from the institution with former President George H. W. Bush and Michael Bloomberg joining Franklin and others. Franklin never attended college.

Last week, news spread that Aretha Franklin’s upcoming album will feature collaborations with Babyface and Andre 3000 on her forthcoming album. She will headline the Blue Note Jazz Festival in New York City next month.

Check out her perform the National Anthem at the 2014 Harvard University Commencement Ceremony below:

Kanye West “Black Bruce Wayne” (Snippet)

By: Steve Raze (@SteveRaze) Updated Category: Headlines
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With the explosion of superhero movies, why not make your self the Black version of Batman! Yeezy has been very busy getting married to Kim and raising North West but, it looks like he is getting back to the music.

Here is a sneak peak of Kanye’s 7th studio album, and the word is a lucky fan paid $500 to get this 30 second snippet. Well let’s take a listen and see If Ye still has that platinum touch.

Ab-Soul Explains What Delayed His Album, Meaning of "These Days" + MORE

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) After two years, Ab-Soul is finally making his rounds in the press to promote his upcoming new album These Days. In a recent interview with Life+Times, the outspoken TDE lyricist reveals what delayed his album, the meaning behind the title These Days and more.

Ab-Soul says he recorded the majority of the album at Mac Miller’s studio and had his album months after Schoolboy Q revealed his Oxymoron release date in December of 2013. According to Soul, the delay on the release of his album was due to Top Dawg Entertainment’s album release schedule:

I turned the album in at the beginning of the year and Schoolboy Q had just gotten a release date for his album, so we had decided to push my album back in order to let Q’s project breathe and to also let Isaiah Rashad run, let SZA run and to keep building the anticipation for my album.

Prior to completing These Days, Soul voiced his displeasure at an October 2013 XXL cover of the Black Hippy crew that was titled “Kendrick Lamar and Black Hippy”. This has caused rumors to circulate of Soul’s dissatisfaction in the group, rumors he insinuates are not totally wrong:

Everybody doesn’t speak English. The world is a big place, man. I can only be me. I can’t really expect everybody to be on board 100 percent with what I’m doing without them ever even having a conversation with me. They don’t even know me for real. With that said, I enjoy it. I like to hear what someone from the outside who’s looking in would say, because a lot of the time they are right.

Ab-Soul and Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Dagneroo Kipawaa revealed the These Days album title on his personal Twtiter account last month. The title is meant to encompass the current times as Soul views them:

Originally, I didn’t want a super conceptual title. I didn’t want to freak anybody out. A lot of people do like that concept-driven perspective and that’s cool, but I just wanted to loosen up a bit. I wanted to make the overall concept broader. I wanted it to be like a time capsule to represent where I’ve been between my last project and this one.

There is no word on These Days release date. Earlier this month, Kipawaa informed fans on his personal Twitter account that they would be able to choose the release date for These Days out of four possible dates: June 3rd, June 10th, June 17th or June 24th. Ab-Soul will be headlining the afterparty for

Check out the full interview here.

Mixtape Download: Rocko – Poet

By: Steve Raze (@SteveRaze) Updated Category: MOBILE
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Southern hip hop tycoon Rocko (“U.O.E.N.O.”) surprises fans with a new project in honor of Maya Angelou‘s memory.

The “Poet” EP is 8 tracks in length, featuring a more socially conscious approach from the rapper and a collaboration with lyrical hip hop great, Nas.

Pharrell: It's Impossible For A Man To Be A Feminist (VIDEO)

By: Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) The majority of Pharrell’s historic 2013 run and his recent 2014 G I R L album has been the empowerment of women. However, in a recent interview, Pharrell explains how as much as he supports women, it is impossible for him or any man to be a feminist.

During his interview with the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 News, Pharrell . According to Pharrell, his association with feminism has an inherent limit that he, and no other man, can change:

I’ve been asked, am I a feminist? I don’t think it’s possible for me to be that…I’m a man. It makes sense up until a certain point. But what I do is—I do support feminists. I do think there’s injustices. There are inequalities that need to be addressed.

The Pharrell-assisted Robin Thicke hit “Blurred Lines” has been criticized in the media for “r####” lyrics and was banned by more than 20 university unions around Britain. When interviewer Krishnan Guru-Murthy mentioned the sexual connotation of the song’s “I know you want it” lyric, Pharrell referred back to the song’s overarching concept for salvation:

Okay cool. But does that make it off-limits for me to use in a song, especially when the overarching context is that there are good women who also have bad thoughts? If a good woman can have sexual thoughts, is it wrong for a man to have a correct guess that a woman might want something?

Check out the full interview below:

Troy Ave: 50 Cent Calling Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks My Hypemen Was Wack

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AlHipHop News) Troy Ave is one of the hottest rappers coming out of NYC at the moment. The Brooklyn born rhyme spitter’s 2013 project New York City: The Album was received positively by critics and helped him land a spot on XXL’s 2014 Freshmen cover.

[ALSO CHECK OUT: XXL Freshmen 2014 Troy Ave Freestyle]

Troy’s debut album also created a lot comparisons to fellow New Yorker 50 Cent. The G-Unit leader admitted that he saw a lot of himself in Troy and wanted to see him succeed, but there was another comment made by 50 that Troy did not take as a compliment.

In an interview with Hot 97 in April, 50 referred to his former G-Unit partners Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks as Troy Ave’s “hypemen.” While he claimed the statement was not a “shot” at Yayo and Banks, some people did see it as disrespectful to essentially label the veteran rappers as a new artist’s sidekicks.

[ALSO READ: 50 Cent Calls Tony Yayo & Lloyd Banks Troy Ave’s Hypemen (VIDEOS)]

Apparently, Troy agrees. He responded to 50’s hypemen comment during an interview with the Breakfast Club.

“I think that was wack. That’s they personal issues. I don’t really be having an opinion on other people’s personal issues,” said Troy. “I think it was wack. I wouldn’t have said that about my people, but I don’t know what they got going on. Lloyd Banks is definitely in my new video, and I don’t feel like they were hypemen. I felt like they were doing what you were supposed to do.”

Troy goes on to add that no one would  have called established rappers from other regions hypemen for supporting young rappers out of their area. It was that lack of unity that he says was the problem with New York Hip Hop.

“They ain’t gonna call T.I. or Young Jeezy a hypeman if they get on whoever record coming up,” argues Troy. “That what’s wrong with New York Hip Hop, or what was wrong with it. That’s why I had to come through and restore the feeling.”

[ALSO CHECK OUT: Troy Ave – “My Grind”]

Watch Troy Ave’s interview below.

SOLD: The L.A. Clippers Have A New Owner

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(AllHipHop News) The former CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer has seemingly become the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Ballmer has submitted a $2 billion offer to buy the team, a record bid for an NBA team.

The the business man’s bid bested Oprah Winfrey, David Geffen, Larry Ellison and others looking to purchase the basketball franchise.

Only the $2.1 billion Magic Johnson and The Guggenheim Partners paid for the Los Angeles Dodgers tops Ballmer’s offer.

Donald Sterling recently signed a letter to give him wife authorization to field offers for the team and she has accepted this bid, reports the Los Angeles Times. Sterling, who was decimated in the court of public opinion for racist comments, has to agree for the sale to be finalized. Previously, he has vowed not to sell at all.

Ballmer lives in Seattle, but has promised to keep The Clippers in Los Angeles. He is worth $20 billion.

Kanye West & Kim Kardashian Set Instagram Record

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY) Updated Category: Headlines
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(AllHipHop News) The most talked about wedding of the year also produced the most liked Instagram photo of all time. According to People, the pic of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian sealing their marriage with kiss has received more likes on the social media site than any other picture.

The pic was uploaded to Kardashian’s IG account on Tuesday and has since garnered over 1.95 million likes. The previous record holder was another celebrity couple. Justin Bieber posted a picture of him and Selena Gomez five months ago that racked up 1.82 million likes.

In case you’re wondering, the most liked Facebook picture in history – with over 4 million “thumbs up” – is the photo of President Barack Obama hugging his wife Michelle after his 2012 election victory. That snapshot was also the most tweeted pictured on Twitter until Ellen DeGeneres’ super celebrity selfie from this year’s Academy Awards totaled 3.4 million retweets.