Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 23, 2016 at 12:00pm
Orange Music Factory just scored a big legal victory against Cash Money Records.
OMF produced songs for former Cash Money artist Jay Sean, including "Down," "Fire," "Do You Remember" and "Lights Off," The production team sued because they allegedly weren't paid proper royalties for their work.
TMZ reports that the label's owners, Bryan "Birdman" Williamsand his brother Ronald "Slim" Williams,have been ordered to fork over$1.1 million. The judge in the case stipulated that the amount must be paid in full within 21 days.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 23, 2016 at 12:00pm
Damn, it feels good to hear some new Max B. Producer Dame Grease lays the foundation for this collaborative effort titled "Silver Surfer" featuring Wiz Khalifa, Joe Young and AlPac.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 23, 2016 at 11:25am
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Blunt smoke was in the air as Snoop Dogg a.k.a. Nemo Hoes welcomed Ty Dolla $ign to GGN News for it's latest episode.
Ty talked about his "Free TC" album, collaborating with E-40, love for hoverboards, helping his brother fight his murder case, co-writing "These Hoes Ain't Loyal," enjoying touring, his father being in Lakeside.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 23, 2016 at 10:28am
New York and New Jersey collide on this new collaboration between Vado and Monty titled "Fine." Is this a good combination? Let us know if you're digging the song in the comment section below.
DJ Cassidy teams up with Tinashe to remix Tom Tom Club's 1981 hit single titled "Genius of Love." Give it a listen up top and let us know if you think they did the original justice in the comment section below.
On Monday, February 22, Tip announced that he had joined Rihanna, Usher, Beyonce, Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, J. Cole and others as part owner of Hov's music streaming service, Tidal.
.@Tip announced his partnership with Roc Nation & Tidal tonight before performing the Jay z-sampling "Bring Em Out." pic.twitter.com/Kj6vjcFqsC
In addition, the Atlanta rapper inked a deal withRoc Nationto distribute his forthcoming 10th solo album titled"The Dime Trap."
"It does begin a new beginning for myself as an artist and Hustle Hang as a company. We have partnered with Roc Nation and I am part owner of Tidal," he told the crowd at his pop-up performance at Greenbriar Mall in Atlanta last night. You can stream the performance here http://tidal.com/us/tip.
On April 8, 2016 Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, DJ Yella and the late, great Eazy E, together known as N.W.A., will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
According to the Hall's Twitter page, Kendrick Lamar will have the honor of introducing the legendary group into their spot among music's elite.
"People were scared to talk about these kinds of tough situations, but because [Eazy] and the group took it upon themselves to talk about [these things], every artist is able to and they owe it to him," Kendrick told Rolling Stone in October 2015. "He's not only the birth of gangsta rap, but he's the birth of a whole legacy of being able to say what you want to say on a record and not being in fear of what others may think and not offending your own art and your own reflection."
Other 2016 inductees include Cheap Trick, Steve Miller, Chicago and Deep Purple.
The 31st Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, presented by Klipsch Audio, will be at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on Friday, April 8. HBO will broadcast the ceremony in spring 2016.
The rapper was at Justin's Bar and Grill in Miami on Sunday night, February 21, when she got into an argument with a male fan. Security intervened, but that didn't stop Trina from reaching out and putting her hand imprint on the fan's face.
If the police fail to protect Beyonce on her upcoming "Formation World Tour" in the wake of Super Bowl 50 performance criticism from Rudy Guiliani and Javier Oritz, the President of The Miami Fraternal Order Police, calling for law enforcement nationwide to boycott her shows, she won't have to worry.
During a fiery sermon in Detroit on Sunday, February 21, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan vowed to provide the singer with safekeeping from the Fruit of Islam.
"Guiliani said, 'On the greatest platform in the world, the Super Bowl.' She started talking that black stuff. And white folks were like, 'We don't know how to deal with that.' Well, you taught us everywhere we went about the Holocaust," Farrakhan said. "But we have sympathy for you. But when one of us shows independence ... look at how you're treating Beyonce now. You gon' picket? You're not gonna offer her police protection? But the FOI will."
As we previously reported, the firestorm around Beyonce's salute to the Black Panther Party during her performance at Super Bowl 50, has led to some saying she was anti-police.
“I thought that it was really outrageous she used it as a platform to attack police officers, who are the people who protect her and protect us and keep us alive,” Giuliani said on Fox News. “And what we should be doing, in the African-American community and in all communities, is build up respect for police officers and focus on the fact that when something does go wrong, OK, we’ll work on that.”
The singer's music video for the song"Formation,"in which she celebrates her heritage and tackles police brutality, has also drawn the ire of critics.
How do you feel about Farrakhan stepping in to offer protection to Beyonce from the Fruit of Islam?
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 22, 2016 at 11:23am
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Kim Kardashian remembered her father Robert Kardashian on what would have been his 72nd birthday when she posted a photo of his grandson, Saint West, on her website Monday, February 22.
"Today is my dad's birthday. I know there's nothing more in the world he would have wanted than to meet his grandchildren. So I wanted to share this pic of Saint with you all," she wrote. "I can't believe you would have been 72 today. So much has gone on in our lives since you've been gone, and I know you have been my guardian angel seeing everything unfold! I love you and miss you so much!"
The three-month old is Kim and Kanye West's second child.
The reality television star also posted happy birthday wishes to her father on Twitter.
The Breakfast Club crew of Angela Yee, DJ Envy and Charlamagne Tha God welcomed Toya Wright to the show for their latest interview.
Toya discussed her beef with with K. Michelle, new book "How to Lose a Husband," relationship with ex-husband Lil Wayne, separation from current husband Mickey “Memphitz” Wright, promoting positivity, her 17-year old daughter Reginae starting to date, being independent with her business and more.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — Authorities trying to piece together an hours-long weekend rampage that left six people dead in western Michigan said they are looking into a report that the suspect picked up at least one fare for a ride-hailing service between shootings.
Jason Dalton, a 45-year-old Uber driver and former insurance adjuster who police said had no criminal record, was arrested in connection with the shootings after a massive manhunt and was expected to be arraigned Monday. Authorities did not provide a motive for what they said was his targeting of victims with no apparent connection to him or to each other in the Saturday night shootings.
Jason Dalton’s Uber profile picture (left), Dalton’s car being towed away via Wood TV-8
"How do you go and tell the families of these victims that they weren't targeted for any reason other than they were there to be a target?" Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting said at a Sunday news conference.
Kalamazoo County Undersheriff Paul Matyas described a terrifying series of attacks that began about 6 p.m. Saturday outside the Meadows apartment complex on the eastern edge of Kalamazoo County, where a woman was shot multiple times. She was expected to survive.
A little more than four hours later and 15 miles away, a father and his 17-year-old son were fatally shot while looking at cars at a car dealership.
Fifteen minutes after that, five people were gunned down in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel restaurant, Matyas said. Four of them died.
"These are random murders," Matyas said.
Dalton was arrested without incident about 12:40 a.m. Sunday after a deputy spotted his vehicle driving through downtown Kalamazoo after leaving a bar parking lot, authorities said.
Matyas declined to disclose anything found in the vehicle except for a semi-automatic handgun.
By midday, authorities were investigating a Facebook post that indicated the suspect was driving for Uber during the manhunt and had taken at least one fare, Getting said.
A spokeswoman for Uber confirmed that Dalton was a driver for the company, but she declined to say whether he was driving Saturday night.
Matt Mellen said he was one of Jason Dalton's passengers on Saturday afternoon via WMMT 3
Uber prohibits both passengers and drivers from possessing guns of any kind in a vehicle. Anyone found to be in violation of the policy may be prohibited from using or driving for the service.
A man who knows Dalton said he was a married father of two who never showed any signs of violence.
Gary Pardo Jr., whose parents live across the street from Dalton in Kalamazoo Township, described him as a family man who seemed fixated on cars and often worked on them.
"He would go a month without mowing his lawn but was very meticulous with his cars," Pardo said, explaining that Dalton, at times, owned a Chevrolet Camaro and two Hummer SUVs.
Progressive Insurance confirmed that he once worked for the company before leaving in 2011.
Dalton was an insurance adjuster who did auto-body estimates and once taught an auto-body repair class at an area community college, said James Block, who has lived next door to him for 17 years.
"He loved to do things outside with his kids" like taking them for rides on his lawn tractor, Block said.
Dalton's wife and children were unhurt, authorities said.
The suspect was in contact with more than one person during the rampage, authorities said, but they would not elaborate. Prosecutors said they did not expect to charge anyone else.
Authorities were interviewing Dalton and reviewing his phone. They did not know if the handgun belonged to him, Getting said.
"This is every community's nightmare — when you have someone going around just randomly killing people, no rhyme, no reason," Getting said.
Tammy George said the woman who was shot outside the apartment building is her next-door neighbor. She and her family heard the gunfire, ran outside and saw the woman on the ground.
Four bullets flew into a closet of George's home, she said. Her son, James, was playing video games with two friends a few feet away from where the bullets pierced the wall.
"I checked out the back window and saw a car speeding off," said James George, 17.
On Sunday morning, Tammy George came outside to clean the parking lot.
"I was worried about the kids coming out and seeing their mom's blood," she said. "I cleaned it up. No kid should have to come out and see their parent's blood on the ground."
During a Sunday morning news conference, some law enforcement officials wiped teary eyes or got choked up. When the news conference ended, Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell and Department of Public Safety Chief Jeff Hadley embraced.
The four people killed outside the restaurant were identified as 62-year-old Mary Lou Nye of Baroda and 60-year-old Mary Jo Nye, 68-year-old Barbara Hawthorne and 74-year-old Dorothy Brown, all of Battle Creek.
The two victims killed at the car dealership were identified as Tyler Smith and his father, Richard, who was 53.
A 14-year-old girl wounded at the restaurant was hospitalized in critical condition.
Late Sunday night, mourners streamed into a Kalamazoo church for a prayer service intended to honor the victims and help residents cope.
With a population of about 75,000, Kalamazoo is about 160 miles west of Detroit. It is home to Western Michigan University and the headquarters of popular craft beer maker Bell's Brewery. The city also is known for the anonymously funded Kalamazoo Promise program, which has paid college tuition of students who graduate from Kalamazoo Public Schools for more than a decade.
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Associated Press writers Mike Householder and Tom Krisher in Kalamazoo and Don Babwin in Chicago contributed to this report.
George Clinton is a true music legend who has influenced too many R&B and hip hop artists to mention. Dr. Funkenstein and his bands Parliament and Funkadelic call on Ice Cube and Kendrick Lamar to help remix their single "Ain't That Funkin’ Kinda Hard On You?"
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