Trinidad James is a different breed of cat when it comes to his music, clothing and jewelry. When the Def Jam emcee decided he wanted a diamond Nefertiti pendant, he called on jeweler to the stars, Ben Baller, to make that happen.
Macklemore, Ryan Lewis and Bruno Mars joined in on the festivities at BBCRadio 1's Big Weekend at Ebrington Square in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Check out their performances below.
Soulja Boy shows no signs of slowing down his grind. The SODMG boss releases a new free EP titled Cuban Link for Memorial Day. The project contains five new tracks. Stream and download below.
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Nipsey Hussle always delivers quality music. The West Coast rapper has dropped several hot tracks recently. He calls on producer Bink for an assist on his latest release, "Respect Ya Passion."
Chief Keef is claiming racism played a big part in his arrest last week. The 17-year old Chicago rapper was taken into police custody last Monday at the LeMeridan Hotel near Atlanta and charged with disorderly conduct.
A security guard had gone to Keef's room to investigate a water leak when he smelled marijuana and called the police.
Sosa gave TMZ a different account of the incident, although he doesn't deny getting high.
"So me and my homie Tray Savage was in the hotel room chillin' when some fat ass security guard started knocking on the door talking about he needed to fix a water leak, So his a$$ walked in and started looking around at us and immediately gave me the racist look then started talking sh*t to me. I told him, 'I thought you wanted to fix a water leak?' Which he obviously lied 'cause there was no water leaking. Then he immediately started talking sh*t to us. He told me that he was going to call the police on me so I called him a bitch. He kept saying how the police about to be on their way to lock me up so I blew smoke in his face and pulled out 30 racks and said I got the bond money -- there is more where this come from. [He was] racist from the moment he walked in the room. The way he looked at us was a racist look."
The security guard says he was just doing his job when he called 911 because smoking weed and possessing is a crime.
The LAPD is investigating whether Chris Brown left the scene of a fender bender last week without giving his proper information to the other driver. If he did, what would have been a routine car accident with no injuries would now be considered a hit-and-run.
Brown and girlfriend Karrueche Tran were riding in Los Angeles on Tuesday May 21st, when Brown rear ended another vehicle. According to TMZ, the singer gave the other driver false insurance information and refused to give her his driver's license number.
Chris is on probation for assaulting Rihanna in 2009. If the police find that he broke the law by leaving the scene of an accident without fully disclosing all of the information required by law, his probation could be violated. As a result Chris could be sentenced to up to four years in prison.
The wheels have completely come off of the Amanda Bynes train. The former Nickelodeon star has been acting out in a variety of bizarre ways recently. From getting a DUI in 2012, reportedly talking to herself at the gym she works out at, posting strange pics and videos on Twitter, tweeting lewd messages to Drake, donning crazy wigs and getting arrested this week after throwing a bong out of her NYC apartment window and being in possession of weed.
Amanda Bynes in court this week
Today the troubled actress decided to add Rihanna to her list of people to annoy for no apparent reason by sending her several disturbing tweets. One of which referenced Riri being assaulted by Chris Brown.
Rihanna responded with a witty comeback.
That reply seemed to really anger Amanda. She sent out one more tweet which Rihanna didn't bother responding to.
Is this Amanda Bynes madness ever going to end? Or is this just the beginning?
2 Chainz was missing in action when Rihanna released her all-star remix of "Pour It Up." Here's a new version with Tity Boi's verse added along with Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, T.I. and Juicy J.
Masspike Miles drops off fresh new visuals for his song, "Flatline." The singer gets an assist from Taylor Gang boss Wiz Khalifa on this one. This track can be found on Masspike's mixtape, Skky Miles 2: Cozmic Cloudz.
In February of 2012, we reported that rapper Tim Dog had died citing a Billboard report that stated he passed away at age 46 following a seizure and complications from diabetes.
Now it seems that Tim Dog, real name Timothy Blair, may have faked his death to get out of paying back debts to people he scammed out of money. Most notably Esther Pilgrim of Southaven, Mississippi.
Esther Pilgrim
Tim and Esther met on an online dating site in 2007. Tim visited her home and convinced her to give him $32,000 for an album that he never recorded.
Pilgrim reported the incident to police and Tim was arrested for fraud. After a plea deal the charge was reduced to grand larceny. In August 2011, Tim was sentenced to 14 days in jail and five years on probation. He was also ordered to pay Pilgrim $19,000 in restitution.
When Tim was reported dead, Pilgrim became suspicious and started to do some digging. She couldn't find a death certificate, where he died or where he was buried. After that Pilgrim, convinced that Tim had faked his death to avoid paying her back went to the prosecutor in Tim's grand larceny case, who also didn't believe the death story.
The Desoto County DA’s Office, filed a petition with a judge on May 21st To have Tim Dog’s probation revoked.
Steven Jubera
“I need proof,” Hernando Prosecutor Steven Jubera told Channel 3. “I need a death certificate showing that’s he’s dead because as far as I’m concerned, he’s alive. At the bare minimum he would get arrested and sit in jail until his court hearing."
One of Tim's closest friends is Ced Gee of The Ultramagnetic MC's. Ced told Channel 3 that he refused to attend Tim's funeral because his family couldn't produce a death certificate. He now believes the funeral never happened.
“I believe he was so angry that he had to pay me back,” said Pilgrim. "This is amusing to him."
Tim is best known for his 1991 diss track "F*ck Compton."
Rapper "Tim Dog" Accused of Faking Death To Avoid Paying Debts
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Iggy Azalea made her presence felt on the second day of BBCRadio 1's Big Weekend at Ebrington Square in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Watch the Island Def Jam emcee performing her song, "Work."
Begin the countdown for Cain Velasquez-Junior dos Santos III.
Both heavyweights prevailed with knockouts at UFC 160 — Velasquez over Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva in the main event, and dos Santos over Mark Hunt in the co-main —inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night.
White called the rematch “a no-brainer” and added he’d expect to happen before December.
“That makes sense, definitely,” Velasquez said.
Added dos Santos: “My next fight will be for the title and that’s what I want. I believe so much I can stay on top of the division for a long time.”
Velasquez — who reclaimed the title with a decision over dos Santos in December — needed all of 81 seconds to defend the belt for the first time in his career.
He set up a devastating, overhand right with a quick left jab. Silva crumpled and the referee stepped in to stop the bout shortly thereafter.
Silva --- who lost by a first-round TKO to Velasquez on the same holiday weekend last year --- felt referee Mario Yamasaki erred in two ways late in the short fight. First, he didn’t penalize Velasquez for what he said were multiple illegal blows to the back of the neck. Second, Yamasaki halted the fight too fast.
“The same thing that applies to athletes who do something wrong or illegal should also apply to referees,” Silva said through an interpreter. “They, too, should be penalized.”
Velasquez said he connected with Silva’s ear, so his punches were legal.
Dos Santos held up his end of the deal with a third-round KO of Hunt in a crowd-pleasing slugfest in the co-main event. The bout earned each a $50,000 the Fight of the Night bonus.
Most of the dos Santos-Hunt match was fought toe-to-toe and in a brief stretch went to the ground. Boos rattled around the arena.
“When the fans were booing I (wasn't) thinking (to) take it easy,” dos Santos said.
Dos Santos knocked down Hunt with an overhand right in the first round similar to what allowed him to claim the heavyweight belt the first time he fought Velasquez. But unlike in the Velasquez bout, Hunt bounced right back up.
“If there’s ever a trilogy, that’s it right there,” UFC president Dana White said. “If you look at the way both fights went: Junior destroys (Velasquez) in the first fight, Cain destroys him in the second fight. I can’t wait to see the third fight.”
Hunt had dos Santos in a bit of trouble in the second round against the cage after a left hook, but dos Santos persevered and entered the third round in the lead. Dos Santos didn’t coast as he leveled an overhand left to the face of Hunt, whose nose had already been bloodied by constant jabs.
Dos Santos finished Hunt with 42 seconds left in the third round with a spinning kick.
“I had never had the confidence to try a spinning kick like that before in a fight,” dos Santos said. “When I did it and it worked, it was amazing!"
Hunt was transported to an area hospital. White said he didn’t have an update on Hunt’s condition.
TJ Grant used one straight, right punch against Gray Maynard to vault him into a title shot against lightweight champ Benson Henderson. (White said the fight would happen afterward.) Grant stumbled Maynard with the first-round strike. Grant pounced and landed several more punches before the fight was stopped.
“This is like a dream come true, but the dream isn’t over yet,” said Grant, who earned the KO of the Night bonus. “There is still work to do. I knew if I left it all out there, the fans would love it. I wasn’t necessarily looking for the knockout. I was just looking to connect to the face."
White said last month that the winner of the bout would become the No. 1 contender.
There’s no guaranteed title shot for light heavyweight Glover Teixeira, but he remained unstoppable. He used a guillotine choke to submit James Te Huna in the first round as Teixeira ran his winning streak to 19 fights.
But it seemed that Teixeira --- who earned the Submission of the Night bonus --- was more excited about meeting boxing legend Mike Tyson, who was seated cageside.
“I saw him today and yesterday (at the weigh-in),” a beaming Teixeira said in the post-fight broadcast interview. “I watched all of his highlights before I came (out) here.”
Donald Cerrone dominated K.J. Noons — who was making his UFC debut — en route to a unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 30-26). One judge gave Cerrone a 10-8 advantage in the third round.
“I was kind of in a scramble mode at first and strayed away from my game plan,” Cerrone said. “(Coach) Greg (Jackson) got me back on track after that first round. I just hope I gave a good performance for the fans. That kid is tough.”
The final two fights on the undercard broadcast on FX were decided by close — if not controversial — decisions.
Dennis Bermudez, a 3-1 favorite in his featherweight fight against Max Holloway, won by split decision 29-28, 28-29, 29-28. Holloway pushed the action for much of the fight and was the more accurate striker, according to FightMetric.com.
“I feel sometimes I get lucky,” Bermudez said. “I don’t know why I have to take a punch sometimes to come alive in a fight. I’ve trained hard and my striking coach wants me to drop the guys I’m working with and not just let them up. I think that attitude came through in this fight.” Mike Pyle won by the same score in his welterweight bout against Rick Story.
Pyle appeared to be all but done as the clock ticked down in the first round. Story landed a left cross square to the chin of Pyle, who fell to the mat and managed to wait out the clock.
Pyle began his rally in the second round, using his elbows and fists to soften a tiring Story. Pyle also was solid on the ground, where a good portion of the rest of the match was fought.
“I should have never let it go to judges,” Pyle said. “I'm not happy with my performance. I got hit too much in the first round, but I feel I did get more technically sound as the fight went on. Can’t wait to get back out there.”
Also on the undercard, Khabib Nurmagomedov — who was fined 20 percent of his purse for missing weight on Friday — landed a record 21 takedowns in a unanimous victory (30-27 on all cards) over Abel Trujillo. Sean Sherk (16 in a five-found fight) previously had the overall record, while Luigi Fioravanti (13) had the three-round mark.
Ultimate Fighter Season 16 winner Colton Smith fell in his first fight since the TUF Finale as TUF Smashes winner Robert Whittaker earned a third-round TKO.
In the opening fight of the night, Jeremy Stephens brutalized Estevan Payan in ways that can only be explained by checking out the fight gallery.
Bonuses of $50,000 each went to Junior dos Santos and Mark Hunt for Fight of the Night, Glover Teixeira for submission of the Night and T.J. Grant for Knockout of the Night. UFC president Dana White was going to award Knockout of the Night to dos Santos, but boxing legend Mike Tyson intervened and White decided not to argue.
At the post-fight press conference, White also announced the retirement of UFC stalwart Forrest Griffin. Griffin will stay with the UFC in a yet-to-be-determined capacity.
After getting his first two takedown attempts stuffed, Velasquez sent "Bigfoot" to the canvas with a massive right. The heavyweight champion jumped all over the Brazilian, firing off heavy punches from back side mount until referee Mario Yamasaki stepped in to save Silva 81 seconds into the fight.
Junior dos Santos def. Mark Hunt
JDS looked awesome at UFC 160, surprisingly electing to spend the majority of their bout trading blows with Hunt. He hurt the "Super Samoan" with an overhand right early in the first round, and he came close to ending the fight again in the second round when he decided to take Hunt down and work in some ground-n-pound.
Even though he had two rounds in the bag going into the third round, dos Santos continued to push the pace, finally putting Hunt away with a spinning back kick with only 42 seconds left in the fight.
With his victory against Hunt, Junior is now the number one contender in the UFC's heavyweight division.
Glover Teixeira def. James Te Huna
Teixeira made quick work out of Te Huna at UFC 160, softening the Australian up with strikes before putting him on his back. He locked in a guillotine choke as James tried to work his way back up, forcing the tap at 2:38 of round one.
T.J. Grant def. Gray Maynard
Maynard went headhunting early in their UFC 160 encounter and Grant made him pay for his reckless aggression. T.J. sent Maynard to the canvas with a straight right, and he followed up with a barrage of punches and knees until referee Chris Tognoni called an end to the contest at the 2:07 mark of the first round.
With the win, T.J is now the number one contender in the UFC's lightweight division.
Donald Cerrone def. K.J. Noons
As expected, Cerrone and K.J. came out swinging at UFC 160, with both men landing their share of decent strikes. However, Cerrone was able to connect a bit more as the fight progressed and he mixed in a few takedowns as well. "Cowboy" kept Noons on his back for the majority of the final round, turning the Strikeforce import's face into a bloody mess.
The Octagon-side judges scored the fight 30-27, 30-26, and 30-27, all in favor of Cerrone.
Undercard:
Mike Pyle def. Rick Story (split decision)
Dennis Bermudez def. Max Holloway (split decision)
Robert Whittaker def. Colton Smith (TKO, round three)
Khabib Nurmagomedov def. Abel Trujillo (unanimous decision)
Stephen Thompson def. Nah-Shon Burrell (unanimous decision)
George Roop def. Brian Bowles (TKO, round two)
Jeremy Stephens def. Estevan Payan (unanimous decision)
UFC 160 highlights
Junior Dos Santos Speaks On Knocking Hunt With Spinning Heel Kick
Velasquez Looks To Defend Title Against JDS In Mexico
Dana White: Cain vs JDS III "A No-Brainer"
UFC 160: Velasquez vs Bigfoot II Recap
Glover Teixeira Talks About Meeting Mike Tyson. Welcomes Fight With Jon Jones
Donald Cerrone's Grandma Inspires Him To UFC 160 Victory
TJ Grant Aims For Title Fight In Canada
Dana White and Fighters Talk About Cain Velasquez vs. Junior dos Santos UFC Trilogy
For most men one beautiful woman will suffice. Chris Brown has the enviable task of trying to decide between two. After hooking back up with superstar singer Rihanna, then breaking it off, Breezy has reportedly gotten back together with ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran.
TMZ reports the couple are living together again. Tran was smart enough to keep her own apartment just in case things fall apart again, but has moved most of her belongings into Chris' Hollywood Hills, California crib.
Whether Rihanna will sneak back into the picture is anybody's guess. If I were a betting man I'd probably put money on it though.
With his Tuff Love project recently hitting iTunes, Ty Nitty continues to provide new heat for the streets. The Love and Loyalty Records CEO gets a hot new track from Young Ab Beats for his latest official music video, "Losers N Lames."
British singer Jessie J is gearing up to release her sophomore album later in the year. She calls on fellow Brit, Dizzee Rascal and reaches across the pond to enlist the help of G.O.O.D. Music emcee Big Sean for her new single, "Wild."
Kendrick Lamar hit the stage on the second day of BBCRadio 1's Big Weekend at Ebrington Square in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Check out K. Dot's performance of "Swimming Pools (Drank)."