According to Billboard… The third studio album from Nicki Manaj… “The Pinkprint” is now set to be released on December 15th. Manaj tweeted last month that the album would come out on November 24th.
This release is highly anticipated and I’m sure the multiplatinum entertainer… I would have said rapper… but i think she is far more than that in her already illustrious career… will provide us with some risqué self promotion.
Everyone has their reasons. And so does Mr. West… According to TMZ, Kanye West says “no thanks” to Planet Hollywood’s Axis Theater.
The details of the deal reportedly would have made Kanye Vegas’s highest-paid performer: three weeks, three shows per week, one $4.5 million paycheck. That’s $500,000 per show.
From Lil Bibby’s Free Crack 2… Jada and Bibby go in… this has been out since late August… but you’ll be hard pressed to find much better.
The Game is back on top with Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf… He is currently #1 on Billboard Rap Albums and R&B/Hip Hop albums charts. Funny, the album has received mixed reviews from music critics. Blood Moon is full of features from Lil Wayne, Ty $, Chris Brown, etc… too many to name… some of the recent buzz around The Game was whether he would reunite with 50 and G-Unit. Maybe that will happen… but for now… it seems as if he is relishing the early success of the album.
By now we have all seen the live freestyle performance by murda mook at the BET AWARDS. Just as his name states, Mook got on stage and murdered every rapper not named T.I. Whether they had a deal or not. Dropping bars calling out Drake to battle him and “putting his career in a wheelchair”, will we get to see a showdown with the hip hops version of Mayweather vs Pacquiao?
Amid all of the feuding with Snoop… and the eventual peace keeping tactics of T.I. (a mentor to Iggy and friend of Snoop)… the feud is over…
Iggy… however… is still piping hot… Black Widow ft. Rita Ora is #1 on Billboard’s hot rap songs… hot R&B/Hip Hop songs… and tops on R&B/Hip Hop digital songs… Big things to come from the Australian phenom…
Seems like Chief Keef will be making his own money his own way… again. Keef has been dropped according to several outlets. Keef took to Twitter to further explain:
Recently released from prison, Torrence Hatch, as they probably called him behind the walls… is changing his stage name… formerly known as Lil Boosie, he will now be known to the world as Boosie Badazz… image makeover?… not exactly… According to MTV news… he’s already been known by that moniker.
HIs upcoming album, Touchdown 2 Cause Hell, has been delayed a few times… but it’s coming… and the artist on it will forever be… Boosie Badazz…
The NFL makes a major move by placing a ban on Beats by Dre headphones… The recent ban is serious business… players wearing Beats during league related broadcast is an absolute no-no… see Colin Kaepernick’s $10,000 fine for wearing Beats in a post game press conference… well the reason… business… Welcome Bose to the NFL… they have become the exclusive provider of headsets for the NFL… This is nothing new for the NFL… see the Microsoft/NFL deal… like 400 mil to the NFL from Microsoft… yes the NFL are the true meaning of “pimps”… Now if they can only stop the their game announcers from calling the Microsoft product an iPad.
Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine reacted to the news of the ban… stating “What happened there, you have a tech company that’s culturally inept,” Iovine said. “There’s no one at the company that said, ‘If you ban these guys {Beats}, you’re going to look bad to the young people, and they’re going to look like superheroes even though they’re just pure capitalists—well they’re not pure capitalists, but they’re real capitalists and [they] sold that company to Apple—but you’re going to make them look like the underdog.”
Seems as if Iovine thinks this is not a good move for Bose… or just a great business deal for Beats…
This I found quite interesting… a radio station in Houston, TX deciding to change its format from all news to all Beyonce… but wait it gets even better… someone finally started thinking… hey, how long can I keep this radio station afloat with just Beyonce music… ok… my take would be… just add Destiny’s Child and Jay Z… well you would still be in trouble in say a month…
Well in comes the genius idea… according to Houston Press “A station ID gave way to an EKG flatline sound effect, then flipping-station static, then a montage that included Naughty By Nature’s “Hip Hop Hooray,” Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg’s “Nothin’ But a G Thang,” Lil Keke’s “Southside,” and finally landed on the Geto Boys’ “Mind Playin’ Tricks on Me.” The next song after that was Ice Cube’s “Check Yo Self,” which of course samples Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s “The Message.”… well you get the rest… the end of the Beyonce era.
Radio One announced its new permanent format, Boom 92.1 FM, a Classic Hip Hop station. It is the first major market throwback Hip Hop station of its kind in the country. “We couldn’t be more excited about bringing Classic Hip Hop back to listeners who grew up on the lyrics, beats and rhythm of this genre of music,” said Terri Thomas, Operations Manager, Radio One of Texas. Radio One research supports that Houston has an appetite for Classic Hip Hop. Backspin now has competition… In Houston…
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