As we draw closer to the August release date of Lil Wayne's new album 'Tha Carter IV' lawsuits keep pouring in from producers wanting to get paid for their work on it's predecessor, 'Tha Carter III.'
Just within the last week, Wayne has been sued twice. First by producer David Kirkwood, who claims he's owed $1.5 million, then the production team of Play-N-Skillz sued him for $1.5 million for producing the hit song "Got Money."
"A Milli" producer Bangladesh sued Weezy for $500,000 last May, and in March of this year Darius ‘Deezle' Harrison sued the rapper for $20 million for his production work on the album.
Add Jim Jonson's accusation that he was never paid for his work on "Lollipop" and you have five producers who are still looking to get paid three years later.
Signeo USA, the company that produces Ludacris' Soul by Ludacris headphones has fired off a lawsuit at their rivals over at Beats By Dr Dre.
While details are kind of sketchy, AllHipHop reports that the lawsuit, which was filed on June 2nd in The United States District Court for the Northern District of California, names Beat Electronics LLC. LLC is owned by Dr Dre and produces his high end headphones . Also Monster Cable, a home theater cables manufacturing company was also named in the suit.
The Beats by Dr. Dre brand has done well since they hit the market. Dre most recently designed a BBDD sound system for the new Chrysler 2012 300S.
01. Intro
02. Another One
03. Black Roses
04. Dark Fantasy Freestyle
05. Flexin
06. Hip Hop Back (Free Agent)
07. I’m On One Freestyle
08. I Don’t Know How To Act
09. Knock Em Down ft. Waka Flocka
10. Kush Freestyle
11. Make It Move
12. Mr. Miagi
13. Pain Killers
14. So Appalled Freestyle
15. U Know How I Do It
16. 6″7″ Freestyle
Now that ink has dried on the reportedly hefty signing bonus she received from Columbia Records, the hard work begins. For Kreashawn her job is clear. Convince the rap world she and her White Girl Mob can be taken seriously.
Her youtube hit "Gucci Gucci" got people's attention. But it's a recent tweet with her using the N-word that has people talking.
“People are actin so funny omg lol… I got 200k views… not 200k dollars…WTF YOU WANT FROM A N*GGA?! DMX VOICE." she wrote on twitter.
The 21-year old, real name Natassia Zolot, defends her use of the word. Saying she is a product of her environment, having grown up in East Oakland, in an area called "murder dubs."
"Personally in my songs I don't use it at all. If I'm freestyling and I said it, that's just for that point in time. she told the OC Times "Any songs I'm writing I don't use it. But like I said in Oakland, Asian people will call Mexicans that. A Mexican will call a black dude that. A white person will call an Asian that. Everyone calls each other that. I feel like that word is used in the low income community more than anything. I can see if I was some rich crazy trick and I was just saying this because it's hip-hop. No, I was raised around this. Me and my sisters were all raised around this. People call me that. But personally I'm not flaunting it around. I don't say it in my music because of how, if I'm putting myself out there to the world there are going to be a lot of people who don't like it."
I guess "growing up around it" would explain why Kreayshawn's sister V-Nasty of the White Girl Mob uses the word almost every other sentence in videos we've seen of her freestyling.
Lebron James is not having a good series so far in the NBA Finals. His team is down 3 games to 2 in the best of 7 series with the Dallas Mavericks. To make matters worse, he's had to deal with crazy rumors that his girlfriend and mother of his two kids, Savannah Brinson slept with fellow NBA star Rashard Lewis recently causing his bad play on the court.
The rumor mill begin to spit out so many wild stories, Lewis finally decided to call Houston radio station 97.9 The Box to flatly deny the allegations that were started initially by Box personality. Nnete.
"I can most definitely tell you that those rumors are 100% false. They're not true. I don't know how it came up." Lewis said. "I think if anything they need to let the man play. He's trying to win a championship and the media putting all this negative stuff out about him aint gonna do anything. but mess with his head."
Lebron had a triple double is last night's losing effort for the Heat, but again he did not carry the team on his back down the stretch. Some would argue that he shouldn't have to carry a team that already features talents like Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade.
Fair or not though, it's Lebron who will take the brunt of the criticism if his team loses.
Check out the first official video from Drewtradition's upcoming album, Carry On Tradition. "High Enough" features Chace Infinite, Ryu, and Ras Kass.
Carry On Tradition features appearances by B-Real, Freddie Gibbs, Apathy, Young De, El Prez, Planet Asia, Sick Jacken, Krondon, Davinci, Tristate, Damani, and more! The album will release this summer.
After a few false starts, Kelly Rowland is finally ready to release her album. The singer’s oft-delayed project is coming sooner than you think.The Destiny’s Child diva has settled on a July 26 release date for her third solo album Here I Am, Universal Motown exclusively confirms to Rap-Up.com. The new date comes as her Lil Wayne-assisted single “Motivation” continues to soar, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.The album features contributions from Rico Love, Tricky Stewart, Dr. Luke, Stargate, Salaam Remi, Jim Jonsin, RedOne, Ester Dean, and more. Kelly was recently announced as a judge for Britain’s “X Factor,” which is currently taping in London.
Stars will be out in abundance to perform at the 2Pac 40th Birthday Concert Celebration. The event will be held June 16 in Atlanta at Atlanta Symphony Hall.
2Pac's mom, Afeni Shakur and comedian Mike Epps will host the event, while Erykah Badu will headline.
Other acts on the bill include Meek Mill, 8-Ball and MJG, Roy Ayers, Bun B, Too $hort and many more.
All proceeds from the event will benefit the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation for the Arts.
Lil Wayne's first unplugged concert airs Sunday on MTV.
The network released a preview of the concert showing Wayne performing "Money On My Mind." The song originally appears on the 2005 album 'Tha Carter II.'
To catch the rest of the show tune in Sunday June 12, at 9 P.M. eastern.
Rapper Lupe Fiasco has never been one to bite his tongue as far as his political views are concerned. He's gone into even deeper water now by labeling President Obama a terrorist, during an interview with CBS News’ “What’s Trending.”
"In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. " he said. "For me, I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. The root cause of the terrorism is the stuff that you as a government allow to happen and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it’s easy for us because it’s really just some oil, which we can really get on our own.”
The rapper also said he sees voting as a waste of time.
"I don’t get involved in the political process because it’s meaningless, to be honest. First of all I’m a real big believer if I’m gonna vouch for someone, then I’m gonna stand behind everything that they do. That’s just how I am as a human being. So politicians aren’t gonna do that because I don’t want you to bomb some village in the middle of nowhere.”
Check out the full interview below and let us know what think of Lupe's comments.