Katy Perry connects with Nicki Minaj on her new single titled "Swish Swish." This is off of Katy's forthcoming album, "Witness." Dropping on June 9. Pre-order it now katy.to/witness
Charlie Puth was the musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday, May 18th. He used the occasion to perform the single "Attention."
Stream Faith Evans and The Notorious B.I.G.'s new collaborative album titled "The King & I." Features includes Lil Cease, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, Lil Kim, Jadakiss, Styles P, Sheek Louch, Kevin McCall and more.
David Banner's highly anticipated "The God Box" album has finally arrived. Features include Raheen Devaughn, CeeLo Green, Big K.R.I.T, Black thought, WatchTheDuck, Trinidad James, Kap G and more.
1. Magnolia f. CeeLo Green & Raheen Devaughn 2. My Uzi f. Big K.R.I.T. 3. Who Want It f. Black Thought & WatchTheDuck 4. Elvis 5. Amy f. Trinidad James 6. August 7. Cleopatra Jones 8. Marry Me f. Rudy Currency 9. Judy Blare f. Devon Lewow 10. Traffic on Mars f. Kap G, WatchTheDuck, Tim Wise & Kenya Jori 11. Black Fist f. Tito Lo 12. Ak f. Raheem Devaughn & Big Rube 13. Burning Thumbs 14. Wisdom Selah (Outro) 15. Evil Knievel (Bonus Track)
Snoop Dogg comes through with his new album titled "Neva Left." He managed to lock down an all-star cast of feature artists, including K CAMP, Devin the Dude, Too $hort, Wiz Khalifa, Redman, Method Man, B-Real, Charlie Wilson, KRS One and more.
1. Neva Left 2. Moment I Feared (feat. Rick Rock) 3. Bacc In da Dayz (feat. Big Tray Deee) 4. Promise You This 5. Trash Bags (feat. K CAMP) 6. Swivel (feat. Stresmatic) 7. Go On (feat. October London) 8. Big Mouth 9. Toss It (feat. Too $hort & Nef The Pharaoh) 10. 420 (Blaze Up) [feat. Devin the Dude, Wiz Khalifa & DJ Battlecat) 11. Lavender (Nightfall Remix) [feat. BADBADNOTGOOD & KAYTRANADA] 12. Let Us Begin (feat. KRS-One) 13. Mount Kushmore (feat. Redman, Method Man & B-Real) 14. Vapors (DJ Battlecat Remix) [feat. Charlie Wilson & Teena Marie] 15. Still Here 16. Love Around the World (feat. Big Bub)
Blac Youngsta turns his beef with Young Dolph up another notch. In his new diss track titled "Birthday," Youngsta accuses Dolph of being a snitch, among other things.
Super producer Dame Grease recently sat down with 247HH to chop it up about the atmosphere in Los Angeles just prior to The Notorious B.I.G's murder, what it was like working with Diddy and more.
The Wayne County, Michigan Medical Examiner's Office has ruled Chris Cornell's death a suicide by hanging. He was 52-years old.
Cornell found fame as the lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. His body was found on the bathroom floor in his Detroit hotel room on Wednesday night, May 17, following a Soundgarden concert.
Vince Staples releases an official music video for his single titled "Big Fish" featuring Juicy J. check it out up top and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday acquitted a white Oklahoma police officer who says she fired out of fear last year when she killed an unarmed black man with his hands held above his head.
The family of Terence Crutcher burst into tears and expressed outrage after jurors found Tulsa officer Betty Jo Shelby not guilty of first-degree manslaughter in the Sept. 16 shooting. About 100 demonstrators later gathered outside the courthouse and some briefly blocked a main street.
“Let it be known that I believe in my heart that Betty Shelby got away with murder,” Crutcher’s father, the Rev. Joey Crutcher, said after the verdict was announced.
A lawyer for Shelby said the officer was “elated” that the jury found her not guilty.
“She’s ready to get back to her life,” defense attorney Shannon McMurray said.
Shelby looked stone-faced when the verdict was read, but Crutcher’s family was quickly ushered out of the courtroom sobbing and wailing.
At least four of the 12 jurors were crying as they left the courtroom and they did not look at either the family of Crutcher or Shelby. The jury comprised eight women and four men and included three African-Americans.
Shelby testified that she fired her weapon out of fear because she said Crutcher didn’t obey her commands to lie on the ground and appeared to reach inside his SUV for what she thought was a gun. Crutcher was unarmed.
Prosecutors told jurors that Shelby overreacted. They noted Crutcher had his hands in the air and wasn’t combative — part of which was confirmed by police video taken from a dashboard camera and helicopter that showed Crutcher walking away from Shelby, hands held above his head.
Shelby’s attorneys argued that in the two minutes before cameras began recording the encounter, Shelby repeatedly ordered Crutcher to stop walking away from her and get on the ground.
Shelby also said she feared Crutcher was under the influence of PCP, a powerful hallucinogenic known as Angel Dust that makes users erratic, unpredictable and combative.
An autopsy showed PCP was in Crutcher’s system, and police said they found a vial of it in his SUV.
Crutcher’s family said police attempted to “demonize” Crutcher over the drug possession to deflect attention from the fact officers didn’t find a gun inside his SUV.
The killing of 40-year-old Crutcher was among a spate of officer-involved shootings in recent years that helped galvanize the Black Lives Matter movement and prompted calls for more police accountability.
About 100 demonstrators gathered in a plaza outside the courthouse Wednesday evening to protest the verdict. They chanted: “No justice, no peace. No racist police.” A smaller group later briefly blocked a major downtown road but dispersed peacefully. Police kept a relatively low profile, standing about a block away.
Marq Lewis, organizer of the local civil rights group We The People Oklahoma, said the verdict was a blow to Tulsa’s black community.
“When is it going to stop — just officer-related shootings? When will the police change policy?” he asked.
Tulsa has a long history of troubled race relations dating back to a 1921 race riot that left about 300 black residents dead. In 2015, a poorly trained white volunteer deputy, Robert Bates, shot and killed a black man after Bates said he mistakenly reached for his gun rather than a Taser. The shooting led to the departure of the sheriff.
A Tulsa jury convicted the then-74-year-old Bates of second-degree manslaughter and he was sentenced to four years in prison.
Mayor G.T. Bynum said he respected the jury’s decision in the Shelby case and called for more resources to implement community policing in the city.
“This verdict does not alter the course on which we are adamantly set,” he said. “It does not change our recognition of the racial disparities that have afflicted Tulsa historically. It does not change our work to institute community policing measures that empower citizens to work side by side with police officers in making our community safer.”
Tulsa County District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler charged Shelby six days after Crutcher was killed. An affidavit accused her of “becoming emotionally involved to the point that she overreacted.”
Defense attorney McMurray argued that prosecutors rushed to charge Shelby for political reasons, fearing civil unrest like the angry street protests that erupted in Charlotte, North Carolina, after the fatal shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott four days after Crutcher was killed. But the reaction in Tulsa was more muted, with protests but no violence.
Boosie Badazz stopped by to chop it up with DJ Vlad in another classic interview. In this clip, Boosie and Vlad discuss the ins and outs of marriage and monogamy. Boosie does not personally believe in marriage, specifically in regards to giving up half his money for prenuptial agreements.
Lil Wayne and Universal Music Group are preparing to take legal action against Martin Shkreli.
Shkreli is a controversial business executive who somehow acquired a copy of Wayne's unreleased album, "Tha Carter V." To date, Shkreli has leaked 3 songs off of the long awaited project, including one featuring Kendrick Lamar.
UMG and Weezy are demanding Shkreli hand over his copy of the album and stop leaking songs from it. If not they will drag him into court.
The album's official release has been held up due to a business dispute between Wayne and Birdman, resulting in the "How to Love" rapper filing a $51 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against Cash Money Records.
"Tha Carter V" will eventually see the light of day, but when is anybody's guess.
(AP) Rocker Chris Cornell, who gained fame as the lead singer of the bands Soundgarden and later Audioslave, has died at age 52, according to his representative.
Cornell, who had been on tour, died Wednesday night in Detroit, Brian Bumbery said in a statement to The Associated Press. Cornell had performed a Detroit concert with Soundgarden that night.
Bumbery called the death “sudden and unexpected” and said his wife and family were shocked by it. The statement said the family would be working closely with the medical examiner to determine the cause and asked for privacy.
News of Cornell’s death prompted scores of tweets expressing sadness. Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry tweeted: “Very sad news about Chris Cornell today. A sad loss of a great talent to the world, his friends and family. Rest In Peace.”
Very sad news about Chris Cornell today. A sad loss of a great talent to the world, his friends and family. Rest In Peace. pic.twitter.com/BlgxE6cJLH
With his powerful, nearly four-octave vocal range, Cornell was one of the leading voices of the 1990s grunge movement with Soundgarden, which emerged as one of the biggest bands out of Seattle’s emerging music scene, joining the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.
Formed in 1984 by Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Hiro Yamamoto, Soundgarden’s third studio album, “Badmotorfinger,” in 1991 spawned popular singles “Jesus Christ Pose,” ″Rusty Cage” and “Outshined” that received regular play on alternative rock radio stations.
Cornell also collaborated with members of what would become Pearl Jam to form Temple of the Dog, which produced a self-titled album in 1991 in tribute to friend Andrew Wood, former frontman for Mother Love Bone.
Three years later, Soundgarden broke through on mainstream radio with the album “Superunknown,” which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Record in 1995. It included hit singles “Spoonman,” ″Fell on Black Days,” ″Black Hole Sun,” ″My Wave” and “The Day I Tried to Live.”
Soundgarden disbanded in 1997 due to tensions in the band, and Cornell pursued a solo career. In 2001, he joined Audioslave, a supergroup that included former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford. The band released three albums in six years and also performed at a concert billed as Cuba’s first outdoor rock concert by an American band, though some Cuban artists have disputed that claim.
Audioslave disbanded in 2007, but Cornell and Soundgarden reunited in 2012 and released the band’s sixth studio album, “King Animal” in 2012.
Cornell also released four solo studio albums and a solo live album. He also released the single “The Promise” in March on iTunes, with all proceeds going to the International Rescue Committee, a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development non-governmental organization.
In addition to his music, Cornell also became involved in philanthropy and started the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation to support children facing challenges, including homelessness, poverty, abuse and neglect.
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Associated Press writer Dennis Waszak in New York contributed to this report.
A$AP Rocky's sister went through a scary ordeal Tuesday, May 16, after walking into her brother's Hollywood Hills home while it was being robbed.
TMZ reports that three armed men got into the crib through an unlocked door. When Rocky's sister arrived, she was forced to lead them through the home while they scooped up $1 million worth of jewelry and other valuables.
A safe was also taken, but left on the sidewalk when the thieves fled the scene.
Rocky's sister was not harmed during the burglary.