Hip-hop mogul Ice Cube is facing some heat right now. Reports are a former colleague has stepped forward and claimed the award-winning rap star and actor owes him royalties for uncompensated work. Ice Cube’s Ex Producer Sues L.A. producer Sir Jinx has accused the West Coast icon of hiding dues he deserves related to music […]
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The career of Asian Doll has been at a standstill over the past few years. She inked a deal with Gucci Mane’s 1017 imprint that didn’t go as planned and in the past few years, she became more of a trending topic due to antics rather than music. However, it looks like she’s planning on changing that in the near future now that she’s enlisted a brand new manager with a familiar client.
Asian Doll announced that Stacia Mac, Polo G’s mom and manager, will now be serving as her manager. Asian took to Instagram where she shared the news alongside a photo of herself and Mac.
“Lastnight We Laughed, Cried & Celebrated New Beginnings,” Doll wrote alongside a photo of Mac. “I’m Happy To Announce My Manager @stacia.mac A Strong Black Beautiful Queen & She Got Big Plans I’m Thankful, Greatful & Excited For The Future. Thanks to my girls too for believing in the blue print love y’all 4L.”
Mac slid in the comment section where she confirmed her new duties as Asian Doll’s manager. “Love you queen!! I’m honored to partner with you on your journey. Now let’s shake some shit up,” she wrote
With a new manager by her side, there’s no doubt that Asian Doll is now positioned to do some big things in the months ahead. Peep Asian Doll’s post below.
Roddy Ricch is coming off of an incredibly fruitful evening at the Billboard Music Awards where he won best rap song and top streaming song for his efforts of DaBaby’s “Rockstar.” Without releasing much music in 2020, he ended up being a dominant forces on the charts in his ascent to stardom. However, fans are still waiting for the release of his follow-up to Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial. The rapper’s been teasing its release over the past few months, and even debuted a new single titled, “Heartless” at the Grammys.
Thankfully, the campaign for his forthcoming album could be underway next month. The summer is around the corner and the Compton rapper is readying a brand new single with Mustard in the coming weeks. The rapper took to Twitter where he announced his new single, “Late @ Night” with Mustard will be arriving on June 4th. Roddy previously teased the record a few months back with an unreleased version of the record currently circulating on the Internet.
Roddy previously told Complex that he’ll be offering fans a better glimpse into his world on his forthcoming album. “I’m going to bring fans into my world more,” he said of the project. “I’m learning the balance. Like, OK, I’m not on Instagram, so I feel like I’ve got to bring them into my life more so they can feel me a little more.”
On Friday, Roddy Ricch teamed up with Lil Wayne and Birdman for “STUNNAMAN.”
New York photographer Aimos is releasing his iconic photograph of the late XXXTentacion as an NFT that will be sold at auction on May 25th. X uploaded the portrait to his Instagram in 2018.
The highly-coveted NFT will be released on the Blockparty marketplace.
“NFTs are a very exciting new medium for photographers,” Aimos said. “We now can create additional resources for young photographers and for those who aren’t as well-informed, and moving forward, we’re creating a system to give artists more opportunities. The end goal would be for photographers to be able to handle their business and to not be afraid of the threat of copyright or credit. NFTs solve this issue, and I’m thrilled to start this off by releasing my work on Blockparty.”
A portion of the proceeds from the auction will support #HalfTheStory, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve young people’s relationship with social media, through advocacy, education, and providing access to resources. It also supports the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
NFT’s have seen a boom in popularity in recent months with rap mogul Jay-Z recently making a massive $19 million investment into the movement. A series of unreleased XXXTentacion songs from SoundCloud have also been made into NFTs.
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One of hip hop’s most well-known couples has been under fire since January when allegations of years of sexual abuse and forced drug use emerged. We’ve kept you up to date with the newest updates from accusers and defenders of the couple.
Rumors began to manifest into real-life consequences more women and men began to come forward, reaching over a dozen supposed victims. As the claims began to hold more weight, the couple’s show, T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle, was suspended in February.
T.I. and Tiny have denied that there is any truth to the accusations and are continuing to keep a cool exterior. Despite the LAPD launching an official investigation into the validity of the accusers’ stories last week, T.I and Tiny seem to be unbothered by the very serious accusations.
On Sunday, T.I. shared a selfie video Tiny took and shared on her own page, with the caption “Date night vibes. S/O @suetsai for the hoodies…DOPE!! Idk who needs to hear this but. #WhatItsComeTo ..Link in bio” encouraging fans to listen to his new song directly addressing the allegations and maintaining his and his wife’s innocence.
In the video, the couple posed in matching hoodies that read “The World Is Yours” while sharing a meal at a seaside restaurant in Malibu. The sound was replaced with a clip from the song, hinting that while the couple is enjoying their life, the lyrics directly capture how they are feeling about the situation.
Stay tuned for the latest developments.
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Charlamagne Tha God found himself receiving some heavy backlash in the past few days following comments that he made on Kwame Brown’s family. The controversial radio host attempted to come to Kwame Brown’s defense by sharing information on the former NBA star’s family on a nationally syndicated radio show. Kwame went off on Charlamagne on social media before Funk Flex and Kevin Hunter piled on.
Charlamagne went on The Breakfast Club this morning where he issued an apology to Kwame Brown and his family for “unintentionally triggering trauma.” “I want to apologize to Kwame Brown and Kwame Brown’s family. I want to apologize to his father Bill Brown and the family of Bill Brown,” he said after giving himself Donkey Of The Day. “Last week on the radio, in my attempt to defend a Charleston, South Carolina brother like myself, I revealed too much information about that man’s family.”
“Some things just don’t need to be said on the radio and they definitely don’t need to be said by me. When I look back on the way I communicated that, I communicated it all wrong,” he said. “And I unintentionally triggered trauma in a lot of folks I grew up with who I genuinely love. I’m sure I caused a lot of pain for not only Kwame Brown, but his family, especially his family in my hometown of Moncks Corner, South Carolina. You know how I know? Because I spoke to them.”
Check out Charlamagne’s apology below.
LeBron James launched The Shop in 2016, offering a unique take on your average talk show. James, alongside Maverick Carter, invites some of the biggest names in sports, entertainment, and beyond for in-depth candid conversations about everything under the sun.
This week, they’ll be unveiling the latest season of the series with some special guests helping to kick things off on the right now. According to Variety, Jay-Z will be joining Lebron James and Maverick Carter, along with Bad Bunny, WNBA star Nneka Ogwumike, and Paul Rivera. In the episode, James and Carter, along with their guests, will discuss performing on stage, parenthood, and WrestleMania. Promo photos were shared on the official Uninterrupted Instagram page.
Of course, Jay-Z rarely does press but he has been making the rounds in recent times in the wake of his numerous business deals which include the launch of his own cannabis brand, Monogram, the sale of TIDAL to Square Inc., and his partnership with LVMH Moët Hennessy for Ace Of Spades.
Last year, The Shop on HBO featured a few legendary guests such as the late Chadwick Boseman, as well as Barack Obama. Other guests that appeared in the past include Travis Scott, Meek Mill, Drake, Roddy Ricch, 2 Chainz, Nas, and more.
The new episode of The Shop debuts on HBO Max on May 28th at 9:30 p.m.
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Ibrahim “IB” Hamad, longtime manager for J. Cole, detailed the infamous fight between Cole and Diddy, during a new interview on the Say Less podcast.
“The Puff story… I just remember hearing about it and laughing,” he said during the interview. “Cause I was there.”
He continued: “I’m not gonna go into detail, but it’s definitely not what people are saying. It was definitely not like he was defending Kendrick or something. It wasn’t like, ‘Don’t talk to Kendrick like that!’ Kendrick was there, Top was there, Jay was there, Beyoncé was there. Me and Cole. You know, grown men… Got a little heated. All I remember is, me and Jay looking at each other like, ‘Oh, these n***as ‘bout to fight.’ And then just being like, ‘Oh no this is ‘bout to happen.’ I’ll leave it at that.”
Cole references the showdown “Let Go My Hand” off of his new album, The Offseason.
“You wanna know the funny part?” IB continued. “That was a VMA party, everyone was there. Angela Yee was literally at the table. I fuck with Yee, but she got Rumor Report and shit. Walking out of there I’m like, ‘Oh this about to be baaad.’ But for some reason no one had a camera out, a couple people was talking about it, but you know.”
Check out the interview below.
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J. Cole’s new album The Off-Season may have had an unconventional rollout, but it looks to have had some pretty results for the North Carolina rapper-turned-ballplayer on this week’s Billboard charts. Not only did the album land at No. 1 on the album chart with the biggest streaming week yet in 2021, but songs from the new album also dominated all but one of the top five on the streaming chart, while the Hot 100’s top 10 contains all four of those entries from the new album.
The four songs that made both charts are “My Life” featuring 21 Savage and Morray (who sings Pharoahe Monch’s chorus from Styles P’s 2002 single “The Life”), “Amari,” the only song to be released with its own video, “Pride Is The Devil” which features streaming favorite du jour Lil Baby, and album intro “95 South,” which contains uncredited appearances from turn-of-the-millennium pioneers Cam’ron and Lil Jon. While these songs occupy spots 2-5 on the streaming chart — with Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” taking the top spot — they came in at Nos. 2, 5, 7, and 8 on the Hot 100, respectively.
This week’s most-streamed songs:
1. @Olivia_Rodrigo Good 4 U
2. @JColeNC, @21savage & @morrayda1 https://t.co/Yu8bjtrCMb
3. @JColeNC amari
4. @JColeNC & @lilbaby4PF https://t.co/mbMiC7GAir.the.devil
5. @JColeNC 95.south— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) May 24, 2021
The #Hot100 top 10 (chart dated May 29, 2021)
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) May 24, 2021
During the album’s eccentric launch, J. Cole released the album’s “Interlude” as a standalone single, shared a documentary detailing its creation, covered Slam magazine, and joined the newly formed Basketball Africa League, playing his first game for the Rwanda Patriots against the Nigeria Rivers Hoopers just one day after the album’s release. Also, some fun facts:
This is the first time in history that five songs debut in the top 10 of the #Hot100 in a single week.
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) May 24, 2021
Every artist to debut four songs in the top 10 of the #Hot100 in the same week:@JuiceWorlddd @LilTunechi @Drake @JColeNC
— billboard charts (@billboardcharts) May 24, 2021
Check out the Billboard tweets above and listen to The Off-Season here.
J. Cole’s The Offseason dominated the streaming charts in its debut week, securing four of the top five positions for most streamed songs.
While Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U” landed the number one spot, Cole’s “My Life” featuring 21 Savage and Morray, “Amari,” “Pride Is The Devil,” featuring Lil Baby, and “95 South,” rounded out the top five. As for where the songs landed on the Hot 100 chart as a whole, Cole’s songs ranked 2, 5, 7, and 8, respectively.
“This is the first time in history that five songs debut in the top 10 of the #Hot100 in a single week,” Billboard announced on Twitter, Monday. The outlet also confirmed that Drake, Juice WRLD, and Lil Wayne are the only other artists to have four songs debut in the top 10.
The Off-Season as a whole debuted at the top of the Billboard 200 with 282,000 equivalent units sold, making it the biggest rap album of 2021.
In response to the album’s popularity, Cole tweeted out a thank you from Rwanda, where he is currently playing in the Basketball Africa League.
“Sending a thank you from Rwanda! #1 album, I appreciate the love, i heard the noise from out here. the off-season means keep pushing yourself, I will do the same,” Cole said.
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