Puff Daddy brought out the Bad Boy family Friday, May 20, for the NBC Today Show concert series..
He teamed up with The Lox, Lil Kim, Mase, 112, French Montana and Busta Rhymes to perform fan favorite hits including, "All About the Benjamins," "Pass the Courvoisier 2," "I'll Be Missing You," "Bad Boy For Life," "Feel So Good" and more.
Montana of 300 drops off his new album titled "Fire in the Church". Features include Jalyn Sanders, Kevin Gates, Savage, Talley of 300 and more. You can listen to the full project up top via Spotify. It's available for purchase now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/fire-in-the-church/id1109449099
Fire in the Church Tracklist:
01 Heat Stroke 02 Land of the Dark (feat. Jalyn Sanders) 03 Wifin You 04 Mf’s Mad, Pt. 2 (feat. Talley of 300) 05 Fighting Demons, Dropping Jewels 06 Wts Now 07 Fge Cypher, Pt. 2 (feat. Talley of 300, Savage, J Real & No Fatigue) 08 Goonies (feat. Kevin Gates) 09 Don’t Trick Off 10 Robo Op 11 Down Here (feat. Shabba Wolf) 12 Bad as Hell (feat. Talley of 300 & Jalyn Sanders) 13 No Smoke (feat. Talley of 300) 14 Daddy Used to Be the Plug 15 Who I Am (feat. Talley of 300 & Jalyn Sanders) 16 Angel With an Uzi 17 Bang Bang (feat. J Real, Talley of 300, Savage & No Fatigue) 18 Here Now (feat. Tabrielle)
As promised Ca$his delivers his new album titled "Ca-$." Features include K. Young, Project Pat, Flip Major, Young Buck, Joe Moses and more. Stream it up top and grab a copy from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ca-$/id1104655984
Check out the trailer for the Nas-executive produced drama, The Land.
Plot: Teenage buddies Cisco, Boobie, Junior, and Patty Cake skateboard the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, dreaming of getting discovered by a sponsor and skating their way out of poverty. That is until the boys discover a bag full of pills in the back of a stolen car. Cisco’s entrepreneurial instincts take over, and in a flash their lives get better. But no one counted on having to come face to face with the cold, calculating, and notorious drug queenpin, “Momma,” who runs the toughest gang in town.
Director Steven Caple Jr. makes an auspicious debut with this atmospheric film filled with pitch-perfect performances by an ensemble cast, including newcomer Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Erykah Badu, Machine Gun Kelly, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Linda Emond, who is bone chilling as Momma. More than a crime drama, THE LAND is a beautifully rendered story about friendship, values, and what it means for disaffected youth to come of age on the streets of Cleveland.
It will be released on July 26 in movie theaters and VOD.
Joey Purp is preparing to release his new album titled "iiiDrops" on May 27. He's unveiled the cover art and tracklist for it. Chance the Rapper, Vic Mensa, Mick Jenkins and more offer contributions.
Check out "Girls @" featuring Chance the Rapper up top.
iiiDrops tracklist:
1. "Morning Sex" (Prod. OddCouple)
2. "Girls @" feat. Chance the Rapper (Prod. Knox Fortune)
Ariana Grande's highly anticipated "Dangerous Woman" has finally. The diminutive songbird secured features from Lil Wayne, Future, Macy Gray and Nicki Minaj for the project. Listen up top via Spotify and head over to iTunes to purchase a copy https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/dangerous-woman/id1091145606
Dangerous Woman Tracklist:
[03:22] 01. Moonlight [03:56] 02. Dangerous Woman [02:59] 03. Be Alright [04:04] 04. Into You [03:46] 05. Side To Side (feat. Nicki Minaj) [03:43] 06. Let Me Love You (feat. Lil Wayne) [03:34] 07. Greedy [03:49] 08. Leave Me Lonely (feat. Macy Gray) [03:14] 09. Everyday (feat. Future) [03:46] 10. Sometimes [02:58] 11. I Don’t Care [03:46] 12. Bad Decisions [04:20] 13. Touch It [04:59] 14. Knew Better / Forever Boy [03:20] 15. Thinking Bout You [03:31] 16. Focus [iTunes Bonus Track]
Havoc of Mobb Deep and frequent collaborator, producer The Alchemist, have teamed up to bring fans "The Silent Partner" album. Features include Cormega, Method Man and Prodigy. Stream it up top via Spotify and grab yourself a copy from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-silent-partner/id1095760832
The Silent Partner Tracklist:
01. Impose my Will 02. Maintain (Fuck How You Feel) 03. Out The Frame 04. Seize Power 05. Never Trust a Soul 06. The Gun Holds a Drum (feat. Prodigy) 07. Smooth Ride Music 08. Buck 50’s & Bullet Wounds (feat. Method Man) 09. Just Being Me 10. Throw in the Towel 11. Hear Me Now (feat. Cormega)
"Fall Back" is the latest audio release from Scottdale, Pennsylvania artist Izzy Strange and it's full of complex rhyme schemes, sing-song melodies and a superb guest verse from Living Legends great, Eligh. Listen as both emcees touch on the subject of conflict and our modern day fixation of technology and social media.The beat features a variety of drum patterns and surreal instrumentation as presented by the Netherfriends.
Izzy also contracts Nate Fox, who is mostly know for his work with Chance The Rapper's The Social Experiment collective, to mix the song. Fox was a key player to Strange's debut album, "Dinner With My Enemies". Word has it that Izzy has a few loose singles up his sleeves he plans on dropping throughput the year with some solid guest features. This of course all leads up to his sophomore album release entitled "A Good Day 2 B The Bad Guy".
The loose single can be streamed and purchased below:
Portland artist and Eark Gang representative, EJ has been a making name for himself independently releasing music videos and street singles over the last year plus. With over 80K YouTube views before his first blog post, it’s easy to say EJ has the ear of the streets, Kirby Street to be exact. The latest from EJ is the new mixtape, Eark Over Everything – 12 tracks deep from radio ready singles, to the block anthem “I’m So Kirby,” to the slowed down ladies joint, Stuntin On Em. If you’re a fan of Nipsey Hussle, YG, Mozzy, or just need a new artist to bang for the summer, be sure to check out Portland’s EJ. Also be on the look out for new music from soon from Mikey Vegaz ad Fli Boi Moe.
King of the Dot releases official video of Daylyt battling The Saurus from their "Back to Basics 4" event. Watch these two go bar-for-bar and let us know who you think walked away victorious.
Philadelphia rapper Ar-Ab is the latest artist to sign with Cash Money Records. The ink is barely dry on the deal that was consummated at Birdman's Miami mansion earlier this week.
Big congratulations goes out to AR. A lot labels didn't want to give a real street cat a chance. Now Birdman has put the Original Block Hustlaz boss in a position to do his thing on a major scale.
It was just a couple weeks ago that PARTYNEXTDOOR was at the hospital bedside of the suicidal love of his life, Kehlani, following the Kyrie Irving cheating scandal.
And Tyga was sporting that Kylie Jenner tattoo on his arm.
That's all in the past now because PND and Kylie have apparently moved on with each other.
TMZ spotted the rumored new couple leaving the TCL Theatre in Hollywood after catching Russell Simmon's All Def Comedy Live Wednesday, May 18.
This would explain the pic above that PND posted on Instagram a week ago.
Irving is probably somewhere having a good laugh at all of this and glad Khelani's out of his life.
50 Cent is the star of a new ad for Hostelworld, the world's leading hostel-focused online booking platform.
In the clip he gives viewers a tour of a hostel in Barcelona while hilariously spoofing MTV Cribs.
“We are so happy to have converted 50 Cent into a hosteller – he’s found the best way to live like a millionaire without having to part with crazy amounts of money in the process,” said Hostelworld chief marketing officer Otto Rosenberger. “We look forward to welcoming the rest of the world’s music elite at our hostels very soon.”
Cypress Hill emcee B-Real, Chuck D of Public Enemy and Rage Against the Machine members, guitarist Tom Morello, bassist Tim Commerford and drummer Brad Wilk have teamed up to form a supergroup called Prophets of Rage.
RATM and Public Enemy have always been known for the politically charged lyrics in their songs. Combined with B-Real, I can see no way how this newly formed band will bring anything other than music for the ages.
Chuck D (left) and Tom Morello
The group's website is up. There's a countdown clock that indicates something big is forthcoming in a week and 4 days. http://prophetsofrage.com/.
One year after her son's murder, Chinx's mom is still searching for answers, and is wondering why his Coke Boys' boss French Montana and Diddy won't reach out to her.
"P. Diddy and French Montana need to come out and see me," she said at a memorial being held for Chinx at the site in Queens, New York where he died. "They ain't said nothing to me since my child's been dead. Even when my child was dead they wouldn't say nothing to me. I'm Lionel's mother, I need answers. They disrespected me all the way."
She added that at her son's funeral she did have a brief exchange with French.
"At the funeral (the) only thing French said to me ... I asked French why did y'all do that to my child? He said 'Because he wouldn't listen.' And I told French you're not his father, but I am his mother. That's what I said to French and there were no more words after that."
Some have speculated that the"Dope House"rapper's death and the 2007 murder of hisRiot Squadpartner,Stack Bundles, are somehow connected. Chinx's mom agrees.
"Stack Bundles and Lionel's (murders) are connected," she said. "I'm telling y'all, it's connected. What's done in the dark will always come to the light"
CAIRO (AP) — An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete early Thursday morning, Egyptian and Greek officials said.
Greek defense minister Panos Kammenos said EgyptAir flight 804 made abrupt turns and suddenly lost altitude just before vanishing from radar at around 2.45 a.m. Egyptian time.
Kammenos said the aircraft was 10-15 miles inside the Egyptian FIR and at an altitude of 37,000 feet. "It turned 90 degrees left and then a 360 degree turn toward the right, dropping from 38,000 to 15,000 feet and then it was lost at about 10,000 feet," he said.
Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said it was too early to say whether a technical problem or a terror attack caused the plane to crash. "We cannot rule anything out," he told reporters at Cairo airport.
EgyptAir said the Airbus A320 vanished 10 miles (16 kilometers) after it entered Egyptian airspace, around 280 kilometers (175 miles) off Egypt's coastline north of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Their account fits closely with an account from Konstantinos Lintzerakos, director of Greece Civil Aviation Authority.
The airline said the Egyptian military had received an emergency signal from the aircraft, an apparent reference to an Emergency Locator Transmitter, or ELT, a battery powered device designed to automatically give out a signal in the event of a sudden loss of altitude or impact.
The Egyptian military denied it had received a distress call and Egypt's state-run daily Al-Ahram quoted an airport official as saying the pilot did not send one. The newspaper did not identify the official.
The absence of a distress call suggests that whatever sent the aircraft plummeting into the Mediterranean was both sudden and brief.
Exploring the possibility that a terror attack brought down the aircraft, Egyptian security officials said they were running background checks on the passengers to see if any of them had links to extremists.
In Paris, the city's prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into the incident. "No hypothesis is favored or ruled out at this stage," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
All Egyptian officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
of the disappearance of EGYPTAIR flight MS804 and the company confirms that the reason of disappearance hasn't been yet confirmed.
The head of Greece's air traffic controllers association, Serafeim Petrou, told The Associated Press that everything was operating normally prior to the plane's disappearance from radar.
Egyptian military aircraft and navy ships were taking part in a search operation off Egypt's Mediterranean coast to locate the debris of the plane, which was carrying 56 passengers, including one child and two babies, and 10 crew members. The pilot had more than 6,000 flight hours.
Greece also joined the search and rescue operation, officials at the Hellenic National Defense General Staff said.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault offered to send military planes and boats to join the Egyptian search for wreckage.
"We are at the disposition of the Egyptian authorities with our military capacities, with our planes, our boats to help in the search for this plane," he said. He spoke after French President Francois Hollande held an emergency meeting at the Elysee Palace.
Later, the French military said a Falcon surveillance jet monitoring the Mediterranean for migrants had been diverted to help search for the EgyptAir plane. Military spokesman Col. Gilles Jaron told The Associated Press that the jet is joining the Egypt-led search effort, and the French navy may send another plane and a ship to the zone.
Hollande spoke with Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on the phone and agreed to "closely cooperate to establish as soon as possible the circumstances" surrounding the incident, according to a statement issued in Paris.
In Cairo, el-Sissi convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council, the country's highest security body. The council includes the prime minister and the defense, foreign and interior ministers, in addition to the chiefs of the intelligence agencies.
Those on board, according to EgyptAir, included 15 French passengers, 30 Egyptians, two Iraqis, one Briton, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi, one Sudanese, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Belgian, one Algerian and one Canadian. Ayrault confirmed that 15 French citizens were on board.
Around 15 relatives of passengers on board the missing flight arrived at Cairo airport Thursday morning. Airport authorities brought doctors to the scene after several distressed family members collapsed.
In Paris, relatives of passengers on the EgyptAir flight started arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside the French capital, where their loved ones were last seen alive.
A man and a woman, identified by airport staff as relatives of the flight's passengers, sat at an information desk near the EgyptAir counter at Charles de Gaulle Airport's Terminal 1. The woman was sobbing, holding her face in a handkerchief. The pair were led away by police and airport staff and did not speak to gathered journalists.
The Airbus A320 is a widely used twin-engine, single-aisle plane that operates on short and medium-haul routes. Nearly 4,000 A320s are currently in use around the world. The ubiquity of the A320 means the plane has been involved in several accidents over the years. The last deadly crash involving the plane was Germanwings Flight 9525, in which all 150 onboard died when one of the pilots intentionally crashed it in the French Alps.
Airbus said the aircraft was delivered to EgyptAir in 2003 and had logged 48,000 flight hours before it "was lost" over the Mediterranean. The European plane-maker said in a statement Thursday that it had engines made by Swiss-based engine consortium IAE, and had the serial number 2088.
An EgyptAir plane was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus in March. A man who admitted to the hijacking and is described by Cypriot authorities as "psychologically unstable" is in custody in Cyprus.
The incident renewed security concerns at Egyptian airports after a Russian passenger plane crashed in Sinai last October, killing all 224 people on board. Moscow said it was brought down by an explosive device, and a local branch of the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for planting it.
In 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic near the Massachusetts island of Nantucket, killing all 217 people aboard. U.S. investigators filed a final report that concluded its co-pilot switched off the autopilot and pointed the Boeing 767 downward. Egyptian officials rejected the notion of suicide altogether, insisting some mechanical reason caused the crash.
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Gatopoulos reported from Athens and Charlton from Paris. Associated press reporters Raphael Satter, Sylvie Corbet and Sylvie Crobet contributed to this report from Paris.
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