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Apple’s iPhone 6 may be an entire farm of cash cows, but reportedly two music services underneath the same company logo can’t occupy the same space at the same time. It’s against the law of physics.
Longtime Hip-Hop magazine XXL has been sold. The publication was purchased from Harris Publications by Townsquare Media, which announced it was shuttering the mag.
T.I. and Jeezy closed out the annual hustle and bustle of the BET Hip-Hop Awards with an intimate cookout to celebrate their birthdays–the former’s is September 25, while the latter’s is September 28–in their native Atlanta.
The BET Hip-Hop Awards went down this past weekend, so of course Jeezy had to put on for his city. That included the “Seen It All” rapper drinking from a ridiculously large (the 6-Litre Methuselah Bottle) of Moet & Chandon champagne on Saturday (September 20) night.
So yeah, Apple just won. The company sold over 10 million of its iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus models since Friday (Sept. 19).
The cyphers are among the most anticipated moments of the BET Hip-Hop Awards, and this year should be no different. Hip-Hop Wired spoke to one of its many 2014 participants, Snow Tha Product, about being a part of the cypher during her first year attending the awards show.
ISIS, or ISIL, has been ravaging areas of Iraq and Syria in its ongoing reign of terror framed as a holy war. Adding to the violence the Islamist extremists have already enacted, there are reports that thousands of women in the region are being raped in order to populate territories the group has seized.
After this season, Kenan Thompson is officially throwing in the towel on his long-running Saturday Night Live gig. Thompson, 36, joined the sketch comedy in 2003 and has been on the show longer than any other Black cast member.
Staple streetwear brand Black Scale tips its hat to the legendary Motown movement birthed in Detroit with a proper capsule collection.