Today, Winners Circle Entertainment artist, Sleepy Hallow announces his new 13-date BOY MEETS WORLD North American tour, kicking off in Hartford, CT, and hitting major cities such as Los Angeles, New York and more. To purchase tour tickets, starting Friday, January 26 at 12:00pm EST, you can visit: https://stillsleep.com/tour/
Sleepy Hallow released his album of the same name,Boy Meets World, in the Fall of 2023 via Winners Circle Entertainment/RCA Records. It featured the hit single and music video “A N X I E T Y” featuring Doechii, anddirected by Nimi Hendrix; it made its broadcast premiere on MTV Live, MTVU, Yo! MTV and BET Jams. While most drill rappers sample classic R&B songs to grasp a sense of nostalgia, Sleepy Hallow prefers obscure tracks that he finds at random and this can be seen throughout his discography.
The tour will find Sleepy performing some of his most introspective tracks, where he’s opened up about his mental health, the hardship he has faced in the past year crafting and releasing the album. Concert-goers can expect to hear previously released RIAA Certified Gold single “Die Young” featuring 347aidan as well as “Pain Talk” featuring Lil TJay, “Good Girls Ain’t No Fun,” “GBG” featuring Marshmello and “For You” featuring TaTa.
A mainstay in the drill rap scene, Sleepy has accumulated multiple RIAA Certifications. His hit single “2055” has gone double Platinum, his “Deep End Freestyle” ft. Foushee is Platinum. Sleepy’s “Molly” ft. Sheff G, “Breaking Bad” ft. Sheff G, and the Still Sleep? album have all gone Gold.
Birdman is not a fan of last year’s Hip Hop 50 celebrations. In conversation with his new partner, Jalen Rose, Birdman stated the south was not complimented enough.
“I don’t respect that shit about what they doing in Hip Hop and I never will respect it ’cause the South paved a big wave of keeping Hip Hop alive,” Birdman said. “And I don’t think they compliment us enough.”
If you are not rolling with Birdman’s opinion, he had a swift message: “Fuck who don’t like it.”
Former WWE employee Janel Grant is suing Vince McMahon for sex trafficking and assault. Grant states she was the hush money employee in the 2022 investigation of McMahon.
Also named in the suit were WWE and former executive and wrestler John Laurinaitis. Laurinaitis, known as Johnny Ace in the wrestling world, was accused of sexual assault. The company is accused of covering the crimes in a false investigation.
Grant revealed she signed a nondisclosure agreement in 2022 that agreed to pay her $3 million not to provide details of her dealings with McMahon. After $1 million, McMahon stopped making payments and now the suit is to obtain financial damages.
According to The Wall Street Journal, McMahon pressured Grant into sexual acts to advance her role in the company. McMahon met Grant in their condo building after the latter parents had died. McMahon lived in the penthouse. McMahon created the “administrator-coordinator” position, which became the ire of other employees as she had a low level of work while others had “overflowing inboxes.”
McMahon is accused of using sex toys with Grant that he named after wrestlers that led to bruising and bleeding. He also passed nude pictures of Grant across the production team. In addition, Grant stated she was locked in a room by McMahon and another executive who took turns sexually assaulting her. Naming Laurinaitis, Grant stated he and McMahon restrained her and told her, “No means yes” and “Take it, bitch.” McMahon also locked her in his locker room and forced himself on her at a massage table.
McMahon also allegedly used nude images of Grant in contract negotiations with Brock Lesnar. Lesnar reportedly told Vince he liked the images, and Vince told Grant, “Part of the deal was f—ing U.” After an exchange of phone numbers, Lesnar allegedly asked Grant to send a video of herself urinating.
The arrangement was supposed to end once Vince’s wife, Linda McMahon, found out. Instead, after enacting the NDA, McMahon forced oral sex on Grant and then attempted to traffic her to a WWE Star in March 2022.
McMahon temporarily stepped down in the summer of 2022, returning to orchestrate a sale of the company to Endeavor, merging with UFC to become TKO Group Holdings. McMahon currently serves as an executive and member of the Board of Directors.
TKO Group Holdings released a statement to Variety:
“Mr. McMahon does not control TKO nor does he oversee the day-to-day operations of WWE. While this matter predates our TKO executive team’s tenure at the company, we take Ms. Grant’s horrific allegations very seriously and are addressing this matter internally.”
A spokesperson for McMahon shared a statement to Deadline:
“This lawsuit is replete with lies, obscene made-up instances that never occurred, and a vindictive distortion of the truth. He will vigorously defend himself.”
Grant’s lawyer, Ann Callis, also served a response:
“Today’s complaint seeks to hold accountable two WWE executives who sexually assaulted and trafficked Plaintiff Janel Grant, as well as the organization that facilitated or turned a blind eye to the abuse and then swept it under the rug. She is an incredibly private and courageous person who has suffered deeply at the hands of Mr. McMahon and Mr. Laurinaitis. Ms. Grant hopes that her lawsuit will prevent other women from being victimized. The organization is well aware of Mr. McMahon’s history of depraved behavior, and it’s time that they take responsibility for the misconduct of its leadership.”
In July 2023, Vince McMahon was served a federal grand jury subpoena as law enforcement agents executed a search warrant on his home.
According to ESPN, McMahon was on medical leave following a major spinal surgery. No charges have been brought against McMahon.
The wrestling giant states the company received legal demands for documents regarding the investigation.
“WWE has cooperated throughout and fully understands and respects the government’s need for a complete process,” the company said in a statement.
According to Cageside Seats, a special committee of members of the company’s Board of Directors conducted an internal investigation into a hush-money scandal with McMahon. In their second quarter 2023 financial earnings reveal, WWE announced expenses related to the investigation cost a combined $12.4 million.
McMahon released a statement to CNBC:
“In 2022, WWE formed a special committee to review allegations of misconduct against me. That review was concluded in November 2022 following an extensive investigation. Throughout this experience, I have always denied any intentional wrongdoing and continue to do so. I am confident that the government’s investigation will be resolved without any findings of wrongdoing. I am focused on completing the recovery process from my recent spinal surgery and on closing our transaction with Endeavor, which will create one of the preeminent global sports and entertainment brands.”
Following a hearing today in the Delaware Court of Chancery, Chancellor Kathaleen St. J. McCormick ruled in favor of the current Managers of Prince Legacy, LLC, ordering that L. Londell McMillan and Charles Spicer shall continue as managing members of the company during the pendency of their lawsuit against certain members of the company who attempted to amend the LLC agreement and insert themselves as managers.
Prince Legacy LLC was established by McMillan, Spicer, and several of Prince’s heirs and beneficiaries at the closing of Prince’s Estate in 2022 to own and manage the 50% share of Prince’s assets received from the Estate by the remaining family and friends. As widely reported, other heirs and family members Tyka Nelson, Omarr Nelson, and Alfred Jackson sold their interests to Primary Wave’s Prince OAT Holdings, LLC during the probate proceeding. Prince Legacy was created to protect its members from third-party interests seeking to gain control over Prince’s assets. Prince Legacy and Prince OAT Holdings own and co-manage Prince’s assets, as ordered by the Probate Court in 2022.
After the Estate closed, and in violation of the company’s LLC agreement, Sharon Nelson allegedly attempted to sell part of her member interests and began making unreasonable demands that the managers and members deemed not in the best interest of the company and Prince’s legacy. McMillan and Spicer, two longtime friends of Prince and Prince’s nephew Johnny Nelson, eventually filed a lawsuit earlier this month against the actions of other members of Prince Legacy LLC – Sharon Nelson, Norrine Nelson, Breanna Nelson, and Allen Nelson. The plaintiffs’ lawsuit alleges that these other Prince Legacy members wrongfully attempted to amend the company’s LLC agreement to make it easier for them to sell out their interests and to remove McMillan and Spicer as managers of the company and appoint themselves in their place.
The lawyers for Defendants Sharon, Norrine, Breanna, and Allen, who did not attend the hearing, opposed the Status Quo Order and argued that Defendants should now serve as co-managers of Prince’s valuable and complex estate, a proposition that McMillan and Spicer argued would cause irreparable harm to the company during a time where Prince Legacy is having substantial success. Chancellor McCormick rejected these arguments and issued the Status Quo Order, keeping McMillan and Spicer in charge of Prince Legacy pending a further ruling on the validity of the amendment. In doing so, she found that Plaintiffs had made a sufficient showing on the requirements for issuing the Status Quo Order – namely, that Plaintiffs had stated sufficient legal claims under Delaware law, that Delaware law favors the status quo, and that the balance of the equities weighed in favor of keeping McMillan and Spicer in control of the Company. Chancellor McCormick also rejected the Defendant’s argument that the Plaintiffs’ legal claims lack proper jurisdiction in the Delaware courts.
Should the lawsuit proceed in the Court of Chancery, McMillan and Spicer will remain as Managers of Prince Legacy, ensuring the continued stability of Prince Legacy.
*Disclosure: McMillan is also Chairman of The Source and Source Digital, Inc., the company that owns and operates www.thesource.com. McMillan was also Prince’s lawyer, manager, and partner for over a decade in the 1990s and 2000s and was responsible for ending Prince’s contract in his legendary dispute with Warner Brothers Records.
Kodak Black will remain behind bars for at least another month. According to AllHipHop, documents reveal the rapper’s case needs more time for review by Judge Jose E. Martinez.
Martinez is reviewing whether Kodak Black’s supervised release should be revoked. The next hearing for the case will be Feb. 21.
Earlier this week, Black’s attorney, Bradford Cohen, asked to dismiss charges of possession of oxycodone, citing the rapper had a prescription. Black was charged in Dec. 2023 after an officer searched his car during a traffic stop, finding cocaine, but opted for oxycodone possession.
After the initial arrest, Black hit Instagram to provide a first-hand account on what happened.
“I was on lean, asleep in front of my family house, that’s it,” Black said.
In the same Instagram Live, Black admitted to using methamphetamine and Percocets. In response to cocaine he said, “I ain’t no baser. I ain’t no junkie.”
Kodak Black Admits To Doing Meth and Perks, But Never Cocaine: “I Ain’t No Baser. I Ain’t No Junkie, B*tch.” pic.twitter.com/HYCE87wvQn
A clip of Young Thug and his girlfriend, Mariah the Scientist, from a jail phone call has leaked online. In response to the leak, Drake questioned it as “some form of jail misconduct” in DJ Akademiks’ IG comments before hitting his page and calling out Judge Ural Glanville.
“This gotta be some form of jail misconduct,” Drake wrote. “You gonna drag this talented man then not be able to control your employees using his personal business for their own gain?”
Hitting his Instagram stories, The Boy continued: “Shit is disgraceful… is this a criminal case or Atlanta social media promo Ural Glanville?”
Drake posts a story supporting Young Thug, has some words for whoever released the jail call between Mariah and Thug, and calls out Judge Glanville pic.twitter.com/XZeBRt1tXk
On this date at the turn of the millennium, Ghostface Killah of the legendary Wu-Tang Clan released his second full-length album, Supreme Clientele. This album was the anticipated four-year follow-up to his critically acclaimed Iron Man debut. According to critics, this album has been ranked as Ghost’s best.
RZA oversaw the album’s production, including tracks from the Beatnuts’ Juju and in-house production from Inspectah Deck and DJ Allah Mathematics. Mainstream songs such as “Apollo Kids” and “Cherchez La Ghost” helped the album reach gold within two months of its release.
Salute to Ghost, RZA, and the entire WTC for contributing to this Hip-Hop classic!
On this date in 2000, neo-soul pioneer D’Angelo dropped his second full-length studio album, Voodoo, to follow up on the epic 1995 Brown Sugar LP.
Recording sessions for the album took place from 1998 to 1999 at Electric Lady Studios in New York City, featuring an extensive line-up of musicians associated with the Soulquarians musical collective. Produced primarily by D’Angelo, Voodoo also features production from the legendary DJ Premier and neo-soul mainstay Raphael Saadiq. The album features lyrical themes regarding relationships, sexuality, growth, and fatherhood.
With the armor of heavy promotion and an anticipated release, the album was released to commercial and critical success. It debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200, selling 320,000 copies in its first week, and spent 33 weeks on the chart. It was promoted with five singles, including the hit single “Untitled (How Does It Feel),” whose music video garnered D’Angelo mainstream attention and controversy. Upon its release, Voodoo received general acclaim from music critics and earned D’Angelo several accolades. It was named one of the year’s best albums by numerous publications.
Salute to D’Angelo and everyone who took part in creating this timeless masterpiece!
Megan Thee Stallion has released a new teaser clip for her forthcoming single, “Hiss,” where she puts the world on notice.
“I just want to kick this shit off by saying fuck y’all,” Thee Stallion says in the club. “I ain’t gotta clear my name on a muthafuckin’ thing. Every time I get mentioned, one of y’all bitch ass niggas get 24 hours of attention. I’m finna get this shit off my chest and lay it to rest. Let’s go!”
Megan Thee Stallion is set to release her latest single, “Hiss,” on Jan. 26 under Hot Girl Productions. This announcement follows her Nov. 2023 release of “Cobra” and its accompanying music video.
Fresh from a guest appearance on Saturday Night Live, Megan showcased her versatility by joining forces with Reneé Rapp to perform “Not My Fault” from the Mean Girls soundtrack. Megan also made a cameo in an acclaimed film, showcasing her expanding presence across various entertainment realms.
As anticipation builds for “Hiss,” fans can expect another chart-topping hit from the Houston native, known for her musical prowess, entrepreneurial ventures, and philanthropic efforts. Stay tuned for the release as Megan Thee Stallion continues to make waves in the music industry.
