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A$AP Rocky and Joey Bada$$ will headline a New York City tribute concert celebrating the life of A$AP Yams. The first ever “Yams Day” is scheduled for Jan. 18, the one-year anniversary of his death.
A human rights activist wants Nicki Minaj to cancel her upcoming concert in Angola, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The Queens rapper is billed to perform at the Show Unitel Boas Festas, Christmas festival this Saturday (Dec. 19).
The singer in a house band at New York City’s Cafe Wha says he worked on the A$AP Rocky song “Peso” and has yet to be paid. Kevin Andreas claims he penned the hook and sang vocals on the four-year-old track.
Kendrick Lamar is closing out 2015 on an even higher note, thanks to a huge honor from Rolling Stone. The coveted music publication named Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly the best album of the year.
Lil Wayne cans secretly lust after Christina Milian all he wants, she’s still done with him. At least that’s what one of Milian’s suspiciously obvious tweets claims.
The holidays seem to be the perfect time for mixtapes to keep flooding our ears. Thanksgiving brought respective projects from Lil Wayne and Erykah Badu and today (Nov. 27), Chris Brown joins the club.
Roc Nation has a new member on the squad, and he hails from up North. Jay Z’s signed 31-year-old Canadian rapper Belly to his record label.
What was supposed to be an “impromptu” music video shoot turned into a gun battle that left 16 injured in New Orleans Sunday (Nov. 22) afternoon. Hundreds were gathered at the Bunny Friend Park when the shooting occurred at around 6:15 p.m.
It would be safe to say that Spike Lee’s Chi-raq trailer isn’t what people were expecting. The reviews have been mixed, but Rhymefest thinks Lee “exploited” the people of his home city by making the film into an adaptation of Lysistrata, the Greek play where women withheld sex to end war.
Rich Homie Quan must be a big fan of Pablo Escobar, and random tattoos. The rapper got a portrait of Escoabar’s face inked on his forearm Tuesday (Nov. 4) to prove just how much he looks up him.
Rick Ross and Lira Galore are done being engaged after just two months. Reportedly, these two got in a huge fight and Galore moved her sh*t out of his mansion.
At the top of year, TLC launched a Kickstarter to raise money for a new album. They easily reached their goal but that album? Yeah, it never happened.