In the fame game, it is almost expected that a big time entertainer will be accused of stepping out on their wives and girlfriends at least once. Add social media and its snitching ways to the mix, and you have a recipe for public relations disasters.
Every year, people all over the world vow to dust off their gym memberships, and finally replace that keg with a six-pack. Where some have succeeded, many more have failed. There’s not one person on earth that wouldn’t kill for a year-round beach body, and that includes rappers.
It’s been an interesting 28 days in the rap game. As if it weren’t awkward enough that Black History Month just happens to fall on the shortest month in the year, the reindeer games of some of your favorite rap stars over the last 28 days has done little to make the situation better.
While artists like Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, and Nas saw flourishing record sales in 2o12, by releasing damn good albums (the aforementioned made our Wired 25: The Top 25 Albums Of 2012 list), a host of rappers weren’t fortunate enough to enter the same winner’s circle. This year a notable amount of Hip-Hop’s well-marketed and name […]
Ja Rule is getting out of prison early next year. Murder Inc’s main man has been locked up for the past year and a half stemming from a weapon’ possession charge, but his freedom is only a few months away.
Not all Hip-Hop artists can keep it as 100 as they claim when faced with the opportunity of giving the police a little more information than the G-code allows (which is none).
Drake is a funny (and clearly delusional) guy. October’s Very Own foolishly believes that he is the first rapper to “successfully” mix rapping with singing. His words caused an instantaneous stir in the online atmosphere with commenters hitting up both our Twitter and Facebook pages giving tons of examples of reputable artists who not only […]
Making $80 mil off Reebok wasn’t enough to stop Curtis from making music. 50 Cent drops the second leak, “You Will Never Take My Crown,” from his 5: Murder By Numbers album, which will be dropping tomorrow (July 6th) gratis if all goes to plan. This joint is definitely “aggressive content” type Curtis.
Ja Rule may be having an amazing time in jail, but he still has an album to promote. Pain Is Love 2 dropped, just in case you didn’t know, and here is an in studio video of “Superstar.” The Queens rappers provides some insight into the motivation behind the tune, saying, “This is about the […]
Ja Rule drops a new visual off of his latest release Pain Is Love 2, with “F**k Fame.” Ja’s new album is in stores today (Feb. 28th). Check the in studio video. http://cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com/storage/js/sb.html5.js MORE ON HIP-HOP WIRED! • The Top 10 Hip-Hop Sneakers Of All-Time • Who Is James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond? • Jeremy […]
Ja Rule releases his latest video, “Believe,” off his upcoming album Pain is Love 2, which drops Feb. 28th. — Photo: The Boom Box
With its February 28th release date approaching quickly, we have the artwork and tracklist for Ja Rule’s latest studio album Pain is Love 2. Surprisingly, the 13 track album doesn’t have any major featured artists on it at all. Continue on for the artwork for PIL2.
