Lil Durk is preparing to release his new album entitled "Remember My Name" on May 12th. Check out his new single featuring Jeremih, "Like Me." The track was produced by Vinylz and Boi-1da.
Young Thug continues to release new music. Here's two new tracks from Thugger. The London On Da Track-produced "Beat It" and "Halftime." Give both tunes a listen up top and below.
R&B star Ne-Yo linked up with McDonald’s for their imLovinIt24 campaign. The result is a new song entitled "Everyday with Love" featuring Sonna Rele. Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
After dropping the the audio for this heater a couple of weeks ago, former Wu Tang Clan affiliate Fes Taylor releases an official music video for "Don't Get Smoked" featuring his Nueliphe World partners in rhyme M Dolla $ign a.k.a. Mic Check, Hason and Morris Biggs. Download it here http://www.audiomack.com/song/paperchaserdotcom/dont-get-smoked
Music video shot and edited by Fes Taylor for Black Out City Films.
LAS VEGAS (Associated Press) — The first ticket has yet to be sold, but the richest fight in boxing history is getting richer by the day.
New estimates show Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s payoff for fighting Manny Pacquiao could easily be $180 million, up substantially from earlier predictions of $120 million. Pacquiao gets the short end of the purse, but even that is expected to be well over $100 million by the time everything is tallied up.
The money is staggering, though not exactly unexpected. Five years of waiting seem to have only piqued the public's demand for the one fight even casual fans of the sport want to see.
"For whatever it's worth, the buildup over these years has certainly enhanced the fight," promoter Bob Arum. "Everybody knows about it now, even people who don't follow boxing. Plus we have a good economy, unlike in 2009 when people were out of work and didn't have the money to spend."
Fans will certainly have to pay a price to see the May 2 welterweight title bout, especially those lucky enough to score a ticket inside the MGM Grand arena itself. Ticket prices there range from $1,500 in the upper deck to $7,500 at ringside — and only a small percentage of the tickets will actually be put on public sale.
Arum said Tuesday the gate at the MGM alone will be more than $72 million, obliterating the previous live gate record of $20 million in Nevada set by Mayweather's 2013 fight with Canelo Alvarez. Though the MGM will provide some tickets for its biggest gamblers, Arum said even the celebrities who can normally get free tickets to sit ringside will have to pay full fare for the fight — if they can get their hands on tickets at all.
Promoters announced a deal Tuesday with Sky Sports to televise the fight on pay-per-view in England and parts of Europe, part of another $35 million expected to come in from foreign rights. Add in another $10 million in sponsorships — Tecate beer will be the main sponsor — and the fight will gross more than $100 million before a single home in North America buys the pay-per-view.
Less certain is how many people will spend what is expected to be $100 or so for the pay-per-view in the U.S., but that could easily break records, too. Mayweather's 2007 fight with Oscar De La Hoya currently tops the charts with 2.44 million buys, but many think Mayweather-Pacquiao could do more than 3 million homes despite softness in the pay-per-view market in the last few years.
"That's the one element that's a mystery," Arum told The Associated Press. "It seems like it will break the record, but who really knows? Anyone who predicts the total pay-per-view is whistling in the dark."
Cable networks HBO and Showtime have yet to announce the pay-per-view price, saying they are still in negotiations with cable systems and satellite providers. Those negotiations are mostly about how the money will be divided between the broadcasters and the fight promoters, who historically have split revenues fairly equally.
With promoters holding the upper hand for this fight, though, that split could end up 65-35 in favor of the promotion. And if 3 million homes buy the fight at $100, that would mean about $200 million in revenue to Mayweather Promotions and Arum's Top Rank from pay-per-view alone.
Add in the other money and the two camps will have more than $300 million to divvy up. With Mayweather getting a 60-40 split, that would mean a purse of $180 million or more to Mayweather and $120 million or more to Pacquiao.
Both purses would dwarf the biggest ever in boxing, including the 2007 fight with Mayweather in which De La Hoya made a reported $52 million. Mayweather's biggest payday was against Alvarez, when he was guaranteed $41.5 million and may have made another $20 million off the pay-per-view sales.
"You get to this level where you're making nine figures in 36 minutes," Mayweather said at the fight press conference this month in Los Angeles, "and you have to be a winner."
Judging from the money on the table in this bout, it's hard to find a loser.
Fox is in a legal battle with record company Empire Distribution over the use of the name Empire for it's hit television series.
ED contacted Fox and demanded they stop using the name because it diminishes their brand. Especially because a "homophobic drug dealer prone to murdering his friends" is a lead character.
But here's the catch. ED would back off if Fox pays them $8 million outright or $5 million if some of their artists become regular cast members on Empire.
Fox is not giving in to the demands.TMZ reports that the network has filed a lawsuit against Empire Distribution, asking a judge to rule that ED's demands have no merit because the company is obscure.
Executives at Fox don't want this this to linger on into the second season of their show.
One thing Empire Distribution has going in it's favor is that the company was founded in 2010, five years before Empire debuted.
Here's another song off of Ludacris' forthcoming Ludaversal album which drops on March 31st. This !LLMIND-produced track is called "Charge It to the Rap Game."
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There was never anything wrong with Iggy Azalea's body if you asked most men, but one's own perception is what counts the most.
In a new interview with Vogue, the Australian rapper admits to undergoing breast augmentation.
It is slightly stunning, then, when I ask the rather routine question “What would you change about your body?” and she replies, popping a French fry in her mouth and not blinking an eye, “I did change something: Four months ago, I got bigger boobs! I’d thought about it my entire life.” She says she was sick of having to sew padding into her stage costumes and wanted to be able to wear lingerie without wiring. At first she resolved never to discuss this publicly; she didn’t want girls—so many of her fans are barely high school age—to feel bad about their own bodies. “But then,” she says, “I decided I wasn’t into secret-keeping.”
The Rapfest is back with the 8th installment of their exclusive cipher series, bringing it harder than ever before. This serves as the finale to The Rapfest’s 4-part collaborative sub-series with HipHopDX. In this cipher series, Jae Millz, Nems, and Murda Mook, fires up the Chicago produced beat.
Patti Labelle can still get her groove on. The 70-year old "Lady Marmalade" hit maker and her partner Artem Chigvintsev did their thing on Dancing with the Star's "My Jam Monday."
Patti know exactly what song she wanted to dance to.
"This week is My Jam Monday, so I've chosen In Da Club by 50 Cent," she said. "It was my 70th birthday. My friends figured they would play some quiet, decent 70-years young music. After three songs I said, 'Cut it, put on In Da Club.' When they put that on everybody moves."
Peter Jackson teams up with YG and Mazze for his new single entitled "Hold Up." The track was produced by Pam Singh Ramagarhia. Peter's new album, Since I Was 16, drops on March 31. Pre-order it now https://peterjackson1.bandcamp.com/releases.
Beautiful actress Angelina Jolie lost her mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer, so it's easy to understand her reasons for wanting to prevent herself from contracting the disease.
Jolie first had a double mastectomy a couple of years ago. Recently she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed after a small benign tumor was discovered on one of her ovaries.
In an op-ed piece with The New York Times, Angelina described her motivation to take preemptive measures.
I went through what I imagine thousands of other women have felt. I told myself to stay calm, to be strong, and that I had no reason to think I wouldn’t live to see my children grow up and to meet my grandchildren.
I called my husband in France, who was on a plane within hours. The beautiful thing about such moments in life is that there is so much clarity. You know what you live for and what matters. It is polarizing, and it is peaceful.
When it comes to her fans Nicki Minaj is down to get freaky. Ms. Minaj's The Pinkprint Tour hit Frankfurt, Germany over the weekend and the rapper had a great time with a female fan she brought onstage.
The fan grabbed two handfuls of Nicki's ass. Nicki returned the favor by fondling the fan's breasts.
"She wanted to get it poppin so I got it poppin right back. I'm not kidding. Tittieez on fleek," Nicki wrote on Twitter.
PARIS (Associated Press) — A passenger jet carrying 148 people crashed Tuesday in the French Alps as it flew from Barcelona to Duesseldorf, authorities said. As search-and-rescue teams raced to the remote region, France's president warned that no survivors were expected.
Eric Ciotti, the head of the regional council in southeast France, said the crash site was at Meolans-Revels, near the popular ski resort of Pra Loup.
The Germanwings Airbus A320 plane sent out a distress signal at 10:45 am local time then crashed in a mountainous zone at an altitude of about 2,000 meters (6,550 feet), said Pierre-Henry Brandet, the French Interior Ministry spokesman.
Brandet told BFM television that he expected "an extremely long and extremely difficult" search and rescue operation because of the area's remoteness.
Capt. Benoit Zeisser of the Digne-le-Bains police, said there were some clouds but the cloud ceiling was not low and there did not appear to be turbulence. He told the French network iTele he could not comment yet on the state of the debris site.
In a live briefing Tuesday, Hollande said it was probable that a number of the victims were German. He said the area of the crash was remote and it was not clear whether anyone on the ground had been injured by the crash.
"It's a tragedy on our soil," he said, adding he would be speaking with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Germanwings is a lower-cost unit of Lufthansa, Germany's biggest airline. It has been operating since 2002 — part of traditional national carriers' response from rising European budget carriers. It serves mainly European destinations.
The German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation said it was sending three people to France to join the investigation. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, the country's top security official, was among those headed to the crash site.
Grammy-nominated singer Elle Varner is putting the finishing touches on her sophomore album, 4 Letter Word.
During the SXSW music festival she sat down with Complex to talk about her collaboration with 50 Cent entitled "Birthday" and gave a sneak preview of the tune.
"His flow is so hooky that I can't get it out of my head." She's got nothing but respect for the veteran rapper: "I'm just so excited and so honored. Like, that's an f'in co-sign."