(AllHipHop News) Lupe Fiasco has openly expressed his affiliation with convicted drug dealer Charles “Chilly” Patton but is vehemently denying he is hiding millions of dollars in drug money from Patton’s estranged wife.
Taking to his personal Twitter account, Lupe does not fully refute Patton’s wife’s claims but clarifies a few key details misconstrued by the media:
Drumma Boy, music artist and producer to the stars, brought Memphis to Hollywood with the launch of his new urban clothing line “Fresh Phamily” at a star-studded rooftop party Sunday. Celebrity guests including Cee Lo Green, VH1 Basketball Wives LA star Brooke Bailey, Dollphace, Dance-Model Tokyo and surprise internationally acclaimed DJ Chuckie, partied poolside at Drai’s located inside of the W Hotel in Hollywood. DJ Fingaz kept the packed house dancing until last call at the red carpet event.
Moreno champagne sponsored the affair popped over 70 bottles at the plush Drumma Boy “Fresh Phamily launch. 250 guest received poolside gift bags including snapbacks, tank tops and fitted t-shirts for men and women, gifted by bikini-clad beauties. Adding “fashion entrepreneur” to his resume, Drumma Boy continues to climb the musical charts with his new Lil Wayne produced track “Still Got The Rock” on “Dedication 5” also released this Monday. Find out even more about Fresh Phamily at www.FreshPhamily.com and www.Twitter.com/FreshPhamily.
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(AllHipHop News) Dunkin’ Donuts faced an onslaught of negative criticism over their recent advertisement featuring a woman in blackface.
After the Human Rights Watch and thousands of consumers attacked the campaign, the chief communications officer for Dunkin’ Brands, Karen Raskopf issued an apology to the New York Daily News:
On behalf of our Thailand franchise and our company, we apologize for any offense it caused. We are working with our franchaisee to immediately pull the television spot and to change the campaign
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While Raskopf expressed the sorrowful sentiments of Dunkin Donuts, Dunkin Donut’s Thailand CEO Nadim Salhani expressed his own outrage over the racist accusations to Bangkok Post:
It’s absolutely ridiculous. We’re not allowed to use black to promote our doughnuts? I don’t get it. What’s the big fuss? What if the product was white and I painted someone white, would that be racist?
(AllHipHop News) T.I. denied entry into the United Kingdom even though he was slated to perform with Lady Gaga in London over the weekend.
The pair were to be a major feature at the iTunes Music Festival, but Tip hit a snag that Gaga told the crowd while she was on stage.
Gaga’s new song, “Jewels & Drugs,” features T.I. Too $hort and Twista, but Tip’s portion was played in a video from the stage.
Onstage, Gaga yelled, “From across the pond, T.I.! They wouldn’t let him into the country, poor thing.”
T.I. managed to rap his verse.
The exact reason why he was not allowed into the country was not publicly disclosed.
T.I. did experience a victory as his most recent album Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head was recently certified gold. It was released December of 2012.
Wale still showing the gifts from his last album The Gifted with the video for his collaboration with Juicy J and Nicki Minaj, “Clappers”.
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