Singer and actor Rotimi was the latest guest on Snoop Dogg a.k.a. Nemo Hoes' GGN News.
The G-Unit Records recording artists talks about his Nigerian background, how he landed a role on "Power," his Vibe cover, "Summer Bangerz" EP, his parents, 50 Cent's faith in him.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 21, 2016 at 12:13pm
Kanye Westhas pulled the plug on the rest of his"Saint Pablo Tour." The trek was scheduled to run through New Year's Eve, but the rapper needs to rest.
According to TMZ, West's work schedule and concern for his wife, Kim Kardashian, following her robbery at gunpoint in Paris last month has drained him.
"He's just exhausted. He's been working around the clock on fashion design, both his own line and the Adidas line," a source close to the rapper told the website.
The announcement comes on the heels of the"All of the Lights" hit maker's strange behavior within the last week.
During a show in San Jose Thursday, November 17, the rapper was booed as he ranted about his support for Donald Trump.
Two days later he cut his show short in Sacramento after only three songs, following a long diatribe about Beyonce, Jay Z, Drake, DJ Khaled, MTV and radio station programmers.
Finally, on Sunday, November 20, West abruptly cancelled a show in Los Angeles three hours before it was set to begin.
Ticket holders for the remaining shows “will be fully refunded at point of purchase,” a rep told Pitchfork.
The list of affected shows are below.
11-22 Fresno, CA - Save Mart Center 11-23 Anaheim, CA - Honda Center
11-26 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
11-28 Denver, CO - Pepsi Center
12-01 San Antonio, TX - AT&T Center
12-02 Houston, TX - Toyota Center
12-04 Fort Lauderdale, FL - BB&T Center
12-06 Orlando, FL - Amway Center
12-08 Atlanta, GA - Philips Arena
12-09 Columbia, SC - Colonial Life Arena
12-11 Albany, NY - The Times Union Center
12-13 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
12-15 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
12-16 Newark, NJ - Prudential Center
12-18 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre
12-20 Louisville, KY - KFC Yum! Center
12-22 Auburn Hills, MI - The Palace of Auburn Hills
12-27 Washington, DC - Verizon Center
12-28 Boston, MA - TD Garden
12-30 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center
12-31 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 21, 2016 at 11:19am
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Young Lito kicks off the week by releasing an official music video for his song, "One Man Army." This is off of the Brooklyn rapper's new project titled "In Due Time," available now on iTunes: http://ow.ly/zA8V306nXPz
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 21, 2016 at 10:47am
Future Hendrix is back with a couple of new songs. Both "Ain't Tryin" and "Poppin Tags" premiered on OVO Sound Radio. Give them a listen up top and below.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 21, 2016 at 10:00am
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Drake has plenty of reasons to celebrate following the 2016 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 20, 2016 in Los Angeles.
The Canadian rapper lead the pack with 13 nominations heading into the night. He left with trophies for Favorite Artist - Rap/Hip Hop, Favorite Album - Rap/Hip Hop for "Views" and Favorite Song - Rap/Hip Hop for "Hotline Bling."
“For our genre, I just like to keep things exciting,” Drake said while accepting the award for Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist. "Shout out to everybody's that's doing the same thing.More Lifeis coming soon and More chune for your head top, so watch how you speak my name, ya know?”
Justin Bieber was another big winner. He walked away with four awards, including Favorite Male Artist Pop/Rock.
Check out the full winner's list below.
ARTIST OF THE YEAR Adele Beyoncé Justin Bieber Drake Selena Gomez Ariana Grande -- WINNER Rihanna Twenty One Pilots Carrie Underwood The Weeknd
NEW ARTIST OF THE YEAR UN-LEASHED BY T-MOBILE Alessia Cara The Chainsmokers DNCE Shawn Mendes ZAYN -- WINNER
COLLABORATION OF THE YEAR The Chainsmokers Featuring Daya, “Don’t Let Me Down” Drake Featuring Wizkid & Kyla, “One Dance” Fifth Harmony Featuring Ty Dolla $ign, “Work From Home” -- WINNER Rihanna Featuring Drake, “Work” Meghan Trainor Featuring John Legend, “Like I’m Gonna Lose You”
TOUR OF THE YEAR Beyoncé -- WINNER Madonna Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
VIDEO OF THE YEAR Justin Bieber “Sorry” -- WINNER Desiigner “Panda” Rihanna Featuring Drake “Work”
FAVORITE MALE ARTIST – POP/ROCK Justin Bieber -- WINNER Drake The Weeknd
Birdman has pulled the plug on contract negotiations with Lil Wayne ... at least for now.
TMZ reports that the two were close to reaching a settlement on Wayne's $51 million breach-of-contract lawsuit, until Weezy declared his allegiance to Roc-A-Fella Records during a concert in Los Angeles last weekend.
At this point, Wayne is saying fuck Cash Money for life. This Roc-A-Fella shout-out was random tho: pic.twitter.com/DiJoo7zJWC
Aswe reported at the time, Wayne changed the lyrics in the chorus of the song "I'm Me" from "I'm a motherfucking Cash Money Millionaire" to "I'm a motherfucking Roc-A-Fella millionaire."
Birdman, who is said to have issues withJay Z,felt disrespected and decided to halt settlement talks with his "son."
Wayne filed the lawsuit in January of this year against Baby and Cash Money Records.
The suit claims that Cash Money violated the deal in three ways.
1. Not paying Wayne an $8 million advance when he began recording Tha Carter V in December 2013.
2. Failing to pay Wayne an additional $2 million upon completion of the album a year later.
Kanye West's bizarre rant in Sacramento during a concert on Saturday, November 19, has everyone talking, including other celebrities.
Snoop Dogg posted a video on his Instagram account questioning the G.O.O.D. Music CEO's sanity.
"This nigga crazy," Snoop says in the clip. "Have y'all heard this nigga? This nigga onstage .... this nigga crazier than the shit I got on my head. That nigga crazy. I can't believe he still talking. He picked the wrong night to vent like that. Them Sacramento niggas ain't feeling that shit. You should have had a bunch of weird motherfuckers like you in there when you was talking that weird ass shit. that's just my thought. I smoke weed. Weed don't make you do that. What the fuck is he on?"
As we previously reported, West launched into a lengthy diatribe about MTV, Jay Z, Beyonce, Drake, DJ Khaled, the radio industry and more before waslking off the stage after only performing three songs.
"I am putting my career, my life, my public well-standing at risk when I talk to y'all like this," he said during the rant.. "This is a moment in the matrix, bro. The vibes is back. Motherfuckers might feel a way about this tonight. Beyonce, I was hurt 'cause I heard that you said you wouldn’t perform unless you won Video of the Year over me and [Drake's] Hotline Bling. Now, don't go trying to diss Beyonce ... she is great. Taylor Swift is great. We are all great people," he continued. "We are all equal. But sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win. Fuck winning! Fuck looking cool! Fuck being cool! Fuck all that! I've been sent here to give y'all my truth, at the risk of my own life. Even at the risk of my own success. My own career. Jay Z, call me. You still ain't called me. Jay Z, I know you got killers. Please don’t sent them at my head."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 20, 2016 at 10:00am
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sergey Kovalev kept coming, and Andre Ward never stopped battling. With the crowd roaring in approval, they put on a fight that lived up to its advance billing.
In the end, Ward won a narrow decision Saturday night to take Kovalev's light heavyweight titles in a battle between two unbeaten boxers.
Ward survived a second-round knockdown and relentless pressure from Kovalev, doing just enough to win by a point on all three ringside scorecards. He remained unbeaten in his last 20 years in the ring, but it wasn't without some moments of worry.
"This was a beautiful thing. We did it baby," Ward said. "I'm a five-time world champion in two different weight classes. Man, it's amazing."
All three ringside judges had Ward winning 114-113. The Associated Press had Kovalev ahead 116-111.
"It was a fight of my life," Kovalev said. "I am disappointed in the judges' decision. He got maybe a few rounds, I agree with that. I kept control. I lost maybe three rounds the whole fight."
Ward won all of the last six rounds on two scorecards, and five of six on a third. He won the final round on two of the scorecards.
Kovalev knocked down Ward in the second round and chased him around the ring much of the early part of the fight. But Ward dug deep and managed to land some good punches of his own in a fight that built to a climax in the later rounds.
The crowd of 13,310 at the T-Mobile Arena was on its feet in the late rounds as the two fighters went after each other, neither giving an inch. In the end, the judges favored Ward's counter punching against the aggressive style of Kovalev.
"We were a little careless with that knockdown in the second round," said Ward's trainer, Virgil Hunter. "But we landed the cleaner punches"
Both fighters were unbeaten with almost identical records. Ward was 30-0 with 15 knockouts and Kovalev was 30-0-1 with 26 knockouts.
It was a classic boxer versus puncher battle, and it looked like the puncher would prevail as Kovalev won the early rounds. But Ward kept punching and landed some good shots of his own in the middle rounds, and there were plenty of close rounds that could have gone either way.
"I knew it was going to be a tough fight — it was the 1st time in my career I was dropped," Ward said. "He did everything I expected him to do. He started to fight like I expected."
Kovalev's promoter, Kathy Duva, said she would use the rematch clause in the contract for a second fight.
"He won the first six rounds so I don't know how he could lose a decision," Duva said. "I'm happy we had a great fight. Boxing needed a great fight.
The fight was billed as a matchup of U.S. and Russian fighters, with the 2004 Olympic gold medalist Ward against a Russian who lives mostly in the Los Angeles area. It was a classic matchup of puncher versus boxer, and for the early part of the fight the puncher was winning.
Kovalev flashed his power early, hitting Ward with a left hand midway through the first round that briefly wobbled Ward's legs. Ward grabbed and held on and finished the round jabbing at the Russian, but the tone of the fight was set early.
Midway through the second round, both fighters threw right hands but it was Kovalev's that landed flush to the side of Ward's head, putting him on the canvas. He got up quickly and smiles as if not hurt but needed all of his supreme defensive skills to make it out of the round.
Ward seemed unwilling to go inside after that, moving backward and trying to land jabs to control the action. But he abandoned the style that had served him so well over the years and fought moving backward, throwing only one punch at a time, as Kovalev constantly pressed the attack.
Ward did have some moments, including the seventh round when he landed a good left that snapped Kovalev's head back.
Ward earned $5 million, while Kovalev was paid $2 million plus a percentage of pay-per-view.
On the undercard, two-time Olympic gold medalist Claressa Shields made her pro debut a successful one, winning a decision over Franchon Crews in a four-round super middleweight fight.
Shields came back from a slow first round to land the bigger punches in an entertaining fight. Both women, fighting without headgear for the first time, traded punches freely but Shields won all over four rounds on the scorecards of the three ringside judges.
Shields, who became the first American woman to win a gold medal in the 2012 Olympics and added another in Rio in August, had vowed to be impressive in her first pro fight. And she wasn't shy about trading punches with Franchon, a Baltimore fighter who lost to her during the Olympic trials in 2012.
Kanye West left fans in Sacramento baffled and angry Saturday, November 19, after shutting down his concert there following just three songs and a bizarre rant about Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Jay Z, MTV, DJ Khaled, Drake and the radio industry.
"I am putting my career, my life, my public well-standing at risk when I talk to y'all like this," the "Jesus Walks" hit maker barked. "This is a moment in the matrix, bro. The vibes is back. Motherfuckers might feel a way about this tonight. Beyonce, I was hurt 'cause I heard that you said you wouldn’t perform unless you won Video of the Year over me and [Drake's]Hotline Bling. Now, don't go trying to diss Beyonce ... she is great. Taylor Swift is great. We are all great people," he continued. "We are all equal. But sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win. Fuck winning! Fuck looking cool! Fuck being cool! Fuck all that! I've been sent here to give y'all my truth, at the risk of my own life. Even at the risk of my own success. My own career. Jay Z, call me. You still ain't called me. Jay Z, I know you got killers. Please don’t sent them at my head."
"Press, get ready to write your passive-aggressive, LeBron James racist comments. Season 4 racist comments. Get ready to have a field day, press, because the show’s over," West said as he dropped the hot mic and exited.
Last night's diatribefollowed one in San Jose on Thursday, November 17. There, the21-time Grammy Award-winningartist was booed as he talked about his support forDonald Trumpand told black people to "stop focusing on racism."
As far as the rift between West and Jay Z, theG.O.O.D. Music CEOgave us a glimpse into the conflict during an October concert in Seattle.
West was upset that Hov called him instead of visiting in person after his wife, Kim Kardashian, was robbed in Paris.
"He called me after the robbery to say 'How you feeling?' West said at the time. "You wanna know how I'm feeling? Come by the house. Bring the kids by the house. Like we brothers, and sit down."
Never a label to run shy of material, Cypha Den Music debuts another new song titled "CannonHands". The song features Milwaukee emcee Tiayamo Denku, Madison lyricist Knowshun and production from the man down under himself, Dcypha. Harp strings, Boom Bap drum sequencing and crazy cuts are the backbone of the single as the dual edged pair eradicate any adversaries that stand in their way. Listen and download "CannonHands" below.
Fetty Wap follows up the release of "Shit I Like," with two more new songs to cap off the week. Check out "Shorty" and "Blue Band Weirdo" up top and below.
On "Wednesday Morning," Macklemore raps about waking up the day after Donald Trump has won the presidential election. The Seattle native says he has no plans to head for the border and "when they build walls we build bridges."