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Latocha Of Xscape Releases New Single “I’m Yours” From Debut Solo LP

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The vocally gifted, powerhouse-singer, LaTocha of the multi-platinum selling group Xscape, continues to gift the world with new music from her solo debut with the release of the “I’m Yours.” The emotional and beautifully sung song is from her forthcoming debut album, The Invitation, being released on Good Friday, April 7th via Motown Gospel/ Capitol CMG in partnership with LaTocha’s Made Girl Music label. Listen HERE.

“This song is an affirmation of my heart belonging to God,” says LaTocha. “We all go through tough times, but this song is a reminder that no matter what we’re facing, we are never alone. We are his and he is ours.  I hope it ministers to everyone who hears it.”

“I’m Yours” is a follow up to LaTocha’s debut single, “Stay With Me,” which is currently in rotation at both Gospel and R&B radio and precedes her next single, “Afraid,” which is forthcoming with an official video. The song and video for “I’m Yours” are inspired by LaTocha’s real-life hardships and will be a do-not-miss.

LaTocha’s debut album The Invitation is available for pre-order and her new reality series The Queens of R&B, airs Sunday nights on Bravo.

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T-Pain Releases His Highly Anticipated Covers Album ‘On Top Of The Covers’

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Grammy Award-winning, multi-faceted artist and entrepreneur T-Pain has released his highly anticipated, long-awaited covers album On Top Of The Covers, out now via Nappy Boy Entertainment. PRESS HERE to listen. 

The album features an eclectic and unexpected mix of reimagined hits that all mean something special to T-Pain, done in his own style and showcasing his stunningly soulful and smooth natural, non-AutoTuned voice which shocked audiences when T-Pain won the first season of FOX’s The Masked Singer after previously delivering what was then the most-watched NPR Tiny Desk session of all time.

On Top Of The Covers features creative covers of Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna Come,” Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’,” Dr. Hook’s “Sharing The Night Together,” Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me,” Chris Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey,” Frank Sinatra’s “That’s Life” ft. NandoSTL (a Nappy Boy Entertainment artist), and Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs,” plus an interlude “Skrangs” (in K Major Sus). 

“Each one of these songs means something to me and helped me fall in love with music at different points in my life. I’m releasing this covers album from the view of what I hear when I listen to each song. I can’t wait to share with the world what I’ve been working on the past several years,” says T-Pain.

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Person Shot And Killed In NYC Smoke Shop “Robbery Gone Bad”

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According to several confirmed reports, a person was fatally shot during a robbery of a Queens smoke shop this past weekend.

The deadly shooting occurred inside the Plug Smoke Shop on Jamaica Avenue. Police responded to a call of shots fired and found the 20-year-old worker from the store shot in his chest.

Daryus Clarke was pronounced dead after being transported to Jamaica Medical Center.

Police are searching for a white Toyota with Florida license plates that may have been involved in the shooting.

“It’s the same story. They are getting robbed because they do a cash business, and they have drugs, it’s a two-for-one,” said one Queens officer.

This is the latest of a string of smoke shop shootings ever since marijuana retails sales were made legal to licensed businesses. Last month, a man was fatally shot at a Harlem smoke shop near the busy intersection at 125th Street and Fifth Avenue.

No arrests have been made in the Queens shooting as of yet.

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50 Cent Faces Mediation In $1B Lawsuit From Former Drug Kingpin Over ‘Power’

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About two years ago, a former drug lord by the name of Cory “Ghost” Holland Sr, filed a lawsuit against 50 Cent and producer Courtney, claiming that Starz Power series was made about his life story and now it’s being reported that 50 is now facing mediation in that lawsuit.

50’s attorneys allege that the one year statute of limitation is over, which weakens Holland’s lawsuit, but Holland, who’s self represented, says he mailed a copy of his CD to Kemp’s father in 2007, which details his life as a drug dealer who turned into a drug lord. Court docs also claim that Fif came to Holland’s house twice in 2021 to try to confront him about the lawsuit.

Mediation in the lawsuit is set to begin on May 9.

TheSource.com will update this story as more details develop.

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Rapper Casanova’s Sentencing Delayed Until June

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Brooklyn rapper Casanova, born Caswell Senior, is back in the news again this week awaiting sentencing for the ongoing Gorilla Stone Nation case.
Casanova is among the 18 individuals charged as members of the Untouchable Gorilla Stone gang in a comprehensive RICO case that emerged in December 2020.

The gang is accused of various crimes, including drug trafficking, violent assaults, and the murder of a 15-year-old boy in Upstate New York.

Initially, Casanova faced charges of racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to knowingly and intentionally manufacture, distribute, or dispense, or possess with intent to manufacture, distribute, or dispense, a controlled substance (crack cocaine, cocaine, and marijuana), and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

He initially pleaded not guilty, and the rapper asserted his innocence, arguing that his high-profile status and connections to specific individuals made him a target for the authorities.

In November of 2021, Cas was hit with another indictment that claimed Casanova and another Gorilla Stone member named Jarrett “Jayecee” Crisler shot a member of the Crips in front of the King of Diamonds strip club during a dispute over gang signs.

The rapper also admitted to being the shooter in a July 5, 2020, incident at a Florida party involving other gang members. During the altercation, Casanova fired at a rival over a gambling disagreement.

Additionally, the rapper acknowledged his involvement in a 2018 robbery in Manhattan that left a woman named Niya Rucker severely injured.

Rucker claimed that Gorilla Stone members attacked her, breaking her jaw, as she was restrained for recording the rapper during a meal.

Casanova also confessed to conspiring to traffic a minimum of 100 kilograms of marijuana and being a key figure in the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation.

He has now pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to conduct and participate in the affairs of a criminal enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity and one count of conspiracy to distribute over 100 kilograms of marijuana.

His new sentencing date is now scheduled for June 27, 2023, at 3:30 p.m. Casanova faces up to 60 years in prison.

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TLC Singer Chilli Addresses Boyfriend Mathew Lawrence’s Baby Talk

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Last week actor Mathew Lawrence raised eyebrows when he walked back claims that he was trying to have a baby with his girlfriend Chilli from TLC.

Apparently Matt wasn’t talking about having a baby with Chili specifically but was referring to a childhood pact he made with his older brother actor Joey Lawrence.

Matt told E! TV’s Adrienne Bailon and Justin Sylvester:

“It’s such an interesting story. Joe and I were commiserating about this plan that we had to have children together when we were growing up. And I missed the first go around and now he’s starting a new family and I was thinking, ‘Man, it’d be great if we could do it again, when I didn’t have the chance to raise a family together.’”

“So that’s what I meant by that. I didn’t mean to put any pressure on somebody I was dating or anything.”

Chilli responded on the “Ryan Cameron Uncensored” radio show Friday. The TLC member siply said “you never know” about whether she would want to have kids with the “Boy Meets World” actor.

“I would never say that [I’m done with families],” she added after bursting into a fit of nervous laughter.

The singer, 52, also made it clear that she wants to be married before starting a family. However, it sounds like that could be happening in the near future as well.

“I gotta be married for sure … and I’m not married, yet,” she said cheekily.

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[WATCH Mack 10 On Ice Cube: ‘I Ain’t Seen Him Or Talked To Him In Damn Near 20 Years’

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Rapper Mack 10 recently had an interview with Bootleg Kev, and revealed that he has neither seen nor spoken to Ice Cube, in almost 20 years.

When asked whether there is a possibility for a future reunion, he said, “I f*** with who f***with me, you dig? That’s where I’m at with it. If you f*** with me, I f*** with you. But if it’s f*** me, it’s f*** you. I ain’t seen him or talked to him in damn near 20 years, so there it is.”

Kev then brought up the classic Westside Connection collaboration to which Mack said he chooses not to “rock with” anyone who picks issues with him.

“It ain’t never been me, you know, with the hold-up,” he added. “It ain’t never been my personality or who I am with the hold-up of us doing something. … But I f*** with who f*** with me; it is what it is.”

When asked if he listened to Cube’s new supergroup Mount Westmore featuring Snoop Dogg, E-40 and Too Short. His response was, “Not really,” Mack replied. “I mean, I’ve heard bits and pieces of it, but not really. Westside Connection was a movement; it was a little different.”

Westside Connection broke up around 2005 following the fallout between Ice Cube and Mack 10. The two have never openly spoken about the cause of their fallout. However, in a VladTV interview in 2020, Mack seemed to suggest that it had something with Cube’s brother-in-law “f***[ing] my money up.”

He said, “It was just an unfortunate situation as far as what came out of all that. It ain’t like that just happened. … I went to Cube about four or five times before the conflict jumped off and told him to correct the situation. That’s the part that everybody leaves out.” He clarified that he and Cube only verbally argued over the ordeal.

Watch the interview below.

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TikTok Star Reveals Kanye West Flew Him Out And ‘Didn’t Want Him To Leave’

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According to a TikTok star Mufasa, if you hang out with Kanye—he just might not let you go home.

The TikTok sensation spoke with Daily Star and revealed that Kanye West flew him out to his infamous ranch.

The online star, who rose to fame with the “car dance” admitted that he “hung out with West a few times” and the hitmaker “didn’t want him to leave”

The TikTok star said: “Yeah, some celebs have reached out [to me]. One celebrity I got to hang out with was Kanye. He flew me out for a week to his ranch, we got to hang out and chat about many things.”

Mufasa continued: “He didn’t want me to leave but I had to fly out. It was my birthday weekend so I wanted to celebrate with my family and my team. We hung out a few times after that.”

The star – real name Jeff Obeng – then went on to explain what meeting the rap icon was like and how Kanye spends his day-to-day life.

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Obeng revealed: “We talked about everything but it wasn’t really what he said that put a battery in my back. It was more of what he was doing – one moment he would make clothes, then an hour later he made music and then he would have a board meeting all in the same space.”

“He made me realise I wasn’t working hard enough!”

When asked what Kanye himself was like, Mufasa simply said that “Kanye was Kanye” and praised his inspirational work ethic.

He gushed: “Kanye was very driven and it’s like you can’t tell him nothing. If he says he’s going to achieve something, he will get it done – one way or another.”

The viral star also admitted that he’s had “quite a handful of celebrities” reach out to him but in terms of music, he’s still waiting for the right collaboration to come about.

Obeng explained: “They ask me to do videos for them or with them all the time, but I’m trying to evolve from just doing skits. I’m doing different things now. I don’t want to be 80 years old dancing outside of a car!”

Mufasa’s new single “World Needs Love” is out now and the star hopes that his “good energy only” vibes will “bring the fun back into house music”.

Listen below.

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[WATCH] 6ix9ine Dodges A Beer Can Tossed At Him At Baseball Game

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On Friday, rapper 6ix9ine found himself dodging a beer can tossed at him while he taunted a crowd of fans at a ball game.  
Reporter Aram Leighton shared a video on his Twitter of 6ix9ine at the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals match-up between Mexico and Puerto Rico at LoanDepot Park in Miami, Fla. In the clip, the controversial rapper is waving the Mexico flag at people behind him who are booing at him.

Soon after, a beer can flies right by him nearly hitting him in his head. Some say you can see the man who allegedly threw the can in the video. 

According to Leighton, Puerto Rico fans weren’t feeling the Brooklyn rapper, taunting them with the Mexican flag at the game.

“6ix9ine is in the building and waving a Mexico flag. A Puerto Rico fan wasn’t having it and threw a beer can right by his head,” he tweeted.

What you also don’t see in the video is 6ix9ine reportedly being relocated to another area to avoid any more confrontation with fans.

Despite 6ix9ine’s disruption, Mexico defeated Puerto Rico 5-4 to reach the semifinals for the first time ever.
Do you think he will ever get to go out in public without any incident?

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[WATCH] New Series Documents Over 90 Murders In Hip Hop

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Hulu has released a series, Tone Death: Loss & Hip-Hop recanting the recent slew of murders in hip hop. 
I remember the pain I felt when my mom woke me up to tell me Biggie Smalls had passed away. I was 17-years old and felt like my world came crashing down. Hip hop raised me. I deemed the Notorious B.I.G. the greatest by my standards. He was capable of steering the hip hop community with his flow, style and presence. I rode the train for hours that day with Gimme The Loot and Everyday Struggle blasting through my headphones. This monumental tragedy in hip hop forever changed how I judged hip hop, and I was never the same again.
Fast forward to today and not much has changed. It seems like rappers are still being murdered at a rapid rate.

In the new Hulu series, the mothers of slain rappers and rapper G Herbo talk about grief, trauma and why gun violence deaths are so prevalent in the rap community.

Since Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.’s death, more than 90 rappers have been murdered. Rapper Pop Smoke’s mother revealed she’s never been angry at the teens who took her son’s life.

“I was never angry at the 14-year old or the 17 and 16-year old , I was never angry at them….I don’t hate them. I can’t hate that little boy. Because his mom didn’t raise him to go kill Pop Smoke. She was probably a mother having issues trying to raise a 14 year old boy.”
Watch the clip below.

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