It didn't take the Phoenix police very long to apprehend the man suspected of stealing a briefcase containing$3 million worth of jewelryfromDrakeandFuture'stour bus.
TMZ reports that Travion King was taken into custody at Arizona State University Wednesday, September 7, a day after the Tuesday theft at the Talking Stick Resort Arena.
King had previously been employed at the arena, but was not working on the night in question.
Police say King, who is described as a transient, was in possession of the briefcase and all of the jewelry when he was arrested. He's been charged with felony burglary.
Aswe previously reported, Drake and Future were in town for a concert. The bling belonged to Future the Prince, Drizzy's DJ.
Following his Season 4 Fashion Show on Wednesday, September 7, Kanye West closed the night out with a bang.
Yeezy took the stage at the following pop-up show at New York City's Highline Ballroom to announce that Tyga is the newest member of the G.O.O.D. Music family.
JR Wavey is a UK Rapper, Song writer born and raised in South London, After his break through hit song "MOB" back in 2008 he managed to get noticed by the lights of a famous American Rapper called Waka Flocka Flame from Brick Squad Monopoly and got himself co signed, few years later got a managing deal with Mack Drama label called "Brick Squad Mafia" and now has released his 4th mixtape "Goat Season" which is set to do really well.
Posted by Lisa Deez on September 7, 2016 at 5:04pm
Young hip-hop artist Seb Torgus has dropped the video for his latest single “SadBoy Anthem” which tells the story of a typical kid and how he went from the average joe who was lonely, to a music artist with a popular style and sound. Following him on a first person journey, Seb visually shows us that he is now living an exciting life on the sunny coast. Seb Torgus assures viewers that he’s been enjoying growing into a young man: from a “sad boy” to a cool kid living it up, making music, partying, and enjoying being in the moment, doing things his own way in his own time. The artist tells us that despite working hard and making money, he will not forget where he started. No longer a sad boy, Seb Torgus is celebrating his evolution with these amazing visual effects for this really hot single.
Hopsin pleaded guilty Wednesday, September 7, to assaulting a woman in Sydney, Australia.
MusicFeeds reports that the 31-year old Los Angeles rapper, born Marcus Hopson, was sentenced to a two-year good behavior bond.
LegaiAid describes what a good behavior bond is and what could happen if a person violates it.
The court may place you on a good behavior bond. A good behavior bond is a promise that you will not break the law for a period of time.
You will need to sign a document called a recognizance in which you accept that you have an obligation to be of good behavior for a period of time and will list an amount of money you must pay to the court if you break the law while under the good behavior bond.
If you break the law while you are on the good behavior bond you will have to pay an amount money ordered by the court and the court may issue a warrant for you to be arrested and brought back to the court for the original offence and given a different sentence.
Hopsin was also hit with aApprehended Violence Order (AVO), which is the U.S. equivalent of a restraining order, prohibiting from contacting the alleged victim for 12 months.
The "Ill Mind of Hopsin" rapper was originally arrested Sunday, September 4, after police responded to a disturbance call at a hotel in central Sydney.
The victim is described as a Sydney-based makeup artist. Hopsin's former girlfriend is also an Australian makeup artist, but it's not known if the incident involved her.
As we previously reported, following his arrest Hopsin posted a lengthy Instagram open letter calling his situation "bullshit" and expressed suicidal thoughts.
"I actually wanna literally die. Like literally. My funeral would be a blessing for me right now," he wrote at the time.
Earlier today, he made another Instagram post telling his fans that he was headed back to America and would have plenty to say through his music.
"I'll be releasing a new song in a few days. I'm currently writing it on my flight back home to America. I got a serious story to tell to world and I ain't holding back," he explained. "The media will sabotage the perception of any celebrity just by a title. When ur in my position, the people you loved and trusted the most will be the same ones who stab u and bring u down to your knees with no remorse...which is why I am in this situation im in right now. I've given you guys nothing but realness my whole career so don't expect anything other than that. So just to clear the air, Im still allowed into Australia and have no criminal convictions. The judge read right through the over exaggerated bullshit being thrown at me and worded it as "trivial". Ive done harm to nobody. I'm good. P.S. A nigga be feeling fresh as fuck in these suits haha."
A thief or thieves hauled off of king's ransom worth of jewelry off of the tour bus shared by Drake and Future Tuesday, September 6.
TMZ reports that the two were in Phoenix for a stop on Drake's "Summer Sixteen Tour." While they performed at the Talking Stick Resort Arena, security was breached and a suitcase containing 2 to 3 million dollars worth of bling was taken.
The items belonged to Future the Prince, Drizzy's DJ.
In video footage taken after the heist Drake is livid when he finds out what happened.
Police are combing through surveillance footage to to see if they can find any leads.
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Forbes has rolled out it's list of the world's highest paid hip hop acts for 2016.
To formulate our list, we consider pretax income from touring, record sales, streaming, publishing, merchandise sales, endorsements and other business ventures. Management, agent and attorney fees are not deducted. Earnings are calculated from June 2015 to June 2016 and based on data from Nielsen SoundScan, Pollstar, Bandsintown, the RIAA and from interviews with managers, lawyers, executives and a handful of the artists themselves.
Also through continuous encouragement from an old friend who thought Lil Ace had the voice, talent and sound that people would feel, Lil Ace was more determined than ever to pursue her career in music. While collaborating with another friend, Donovan Sims, they sat down and wrote the song “Don’t Hate”. Lil Ace came across a young and upcoming producer name Skelo who originally produced “Don’t Hate” in his basement studio. After great reviews, she reached out to Blake Wilson, and asked to perform in one of his shows. Her good friend Monique Aikens introduced her to Shaquille Brown who worked at Studio 707 in Lansing, MI. Shaquille gave “Don’t Hate” a professional sound and he produced Lil Aces’ other song “Laid Back”. Her 1st performance was at Mac’s Bar December 26th, 2015 in Lansing, MI. where she performed “Don’t Hate” and “Laid Back”. Soon to follow in February, 2016 Lil Ace was on the scene of Coast2Coast Live in ATL. Weeks after Lil Ace performed at Club Empire in Detroit, Michigan in front of a live crowd. Contact and/or Booking Info Wepushworldwide@gmail.com
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"Liner Notes" is a new YouTube series from Pitchfork. In their latest episode they take a look back at Jay Z's classic album, "The Blueprint," 15 years after it's release, his beefs at the time with Nas and Mobb Deep and the contributions of producers Kanye West and Just Blaze to the project.
Where do you rank "The Blueprint" among Hov's albums?
Check out the brand new trailer for "Collateral Beauty," in cinemas December 16.
Oscar winner David Frankel (“Dear Diary,” “The Devil Wears Prada”) directs the thought-provoking, ensemble drama “Collateral Beauty,” from New Line Cinema, Village Roadshow Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures.
Plot: When a successful New York advertising executive (Will Smith) experiences a deep personal tragedy and retreats from life entirely, his colleagues devise a drastic plan to force him to confront his grief in a surprising and profoundly human way.
“Collateral Beauty” features an all-star cast, including Will Smith (“Suicide Squad,” “Concussion”), Edward Norton (“Birdman or [The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance]”), Keira Knightley (“The Imitation Game”), Michael Peña (“The Martian”), Naomie Harris (“Spectre”), Jacob Latimore (“The Maze Runner”), with Oscar winners Kate Winslet (“The Reader,” “Steve Jobs”) and Helen Mirren (“The Queen,” “Trumbo”)
DJ Esco releases another visual off of his "Project E.T.: Esco Terrestrial." This Southside-produced song is titled "Married to the Game" featuring Future.
19-year old Brooklyn, New York native and 2016 XXL Freshman, Desiigner, gets an assist from his G.O.O.D. Music boss Kanye West for this "Timmy Turner" remix.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana rapper and BadAzz Syndicate leader, Boosie BadAzz, sits down with DJ Smallz to talk about coming to the realization that he has to protect his brand because of new corporate opportunities, not regretting the trials and tribulations he's gone through because they have made him the man he is today, camera phones exposing the police brutality that's been going on for years.
It’s been eight years and six months since Smoke D brought that undeniable underground sound made possible in part by himself as well as two trailblazing Southern rappers Bun-B and Pimp C, collectively known as UGK. And since touching down on free ground August 27, it’s evident that his homecoming has been a long-awaited welcome.
Within a month of being released from prison, he has received rave reviews online for his comeback single “When the Feds Pull Up” featuring Bukwild. Over a silky smooth interpolation of R. Kelly’s classic “When A Woman’s Fed Up” accented by piercing piano chords and acoustic guitar strums, Smoke honestly and unapologetically breaks down the possible consequences of living on the other side of the law. And with a highly anticipated mixtape and full-length album distributed via Trill Life Entertainment on the way, diehard fans across the nation celebrate the return of the trill.
“Judging from the internet response of my first leaked single, I definitely have an audience already in place,” saysSmoke D. “I’m bringing them back that underground sound that was there before and bringing in a better way and pick up where Pimp left off…I learned a lot from Pimp as far as coming up with that UGK sound,” Smoke admits. “I learned how to rap from him and how to produce.”
Born in Denver, Colorado and raised in Mississippi since he was six weeks old, Smoke D came up in the sleepy town of Crystal Springs, right outside the state’s capitol city Jackson. When he was 15, his mother packed up the young man and his six siblings and relocated to the faster-paced Capitol City. “Jackson was a lot different than Crystal Springs. There were a lot of gangs in Jackson so I got acclimated to the streets through gang activity,” he recalls. “It’s just another state with another ghetto. It’s a lot of poverty. It’s just a rat race. Even if you win the race, you’re still just a rat.” Despite all of his dirty dealings in the streets, Smoke managed to make it college. He had a friend from Crystal Springs who also attended Hinds Community College but pursued a rap career on the side. The friend invited Smoke to travel with him to Lansing, Mich. for his studio session. There, he rubbed elbows with such celebrated Flint rappers the Dayton Family.
It just so happened that the studio owner’s son wanted to record a song of his own but no one would help him. After getting the nod from his father, Smoke wrote a song with the kid called “The Pimp Mack Hustle.” Smoke only intended it to be a joke record and was mainly concerned with helping his friend’s career. When Smoke and his friend brought their music back to Mississippi, they circulated the tapes amongst their friends. One of those friends was a local club owner named Stokes who passed both tapes along to Bun and Pimp, who were performing at the club that night. “Out of the blue, I get a call from Stokes telling me to come to the club,” Smoke recalls. “I didn’t know what he wanted.” When Smoke arrived at the club, the owner told him to go out to the backdoor of the club. “When I got out back, it was a limo back there. So I got in the limo and it was three girls in the limo with Pimp and Bun,” Smoke remembers. “We were listening to the music and listened to the song I did with the little boy, and Pimp invited me to come to his house for two weeks. I ended up staying for two years.”
At the time, UGK had recently signed a major label deal with Jive Records and were recording their 1994 seminal Southern classic album Super Tight in New Orleans. They were working on a record entitled “Front Back Side to Side” and asked Smoke to get on the song. With menial promotions and virtually no airplay, Super Tight went gold and "Front, Back, & Side to Side" became a hit single for the Texas-based group. That one verse featuring Smoke's gritty lyrics established him as one of the up-and-coming voices in Southern hip-hop. Among true fans of Southern rap music, he was a legend in the making and hadn't even released his first record yet. The success of "Front, Back, & Side to Side" caused things to really take off for Smoke. He toured with UGK, and he and Pimp C worked on tracks that would be on Smoke's highly anticipated solo album, but before he could finish recording the album, his life took a tragic turn. Smoke had a run-in with the law that resulted in his serving a 10-year bid for manslaughter. “My life changed after that. I wanted to keep it real and still hang in the ghetto,” he admits. “I didn’t have guidance. I was doing whatever I felt like, going wherever the wind blew me… People who are from the same place where you are from resent you for trying to do better. Back then, I was too naive to understand that.” While locked up, Smoke recorded an audio message to let Pimp, Bun and the rest of the crew know that he was ok. Pimp chopped it up and put the audio as song intros on the next gold-selling album Ridin’ Dirty.
“While I was in the penitentiary, it put a lot more hype on me,” says Smoke. “That got me respect in the prison because I was trying to do something. God blessed me all the way.” As luck would have it, though, 10 days after Smoke got out of prison, Pimp was on his way to prison. “I got out expecting an easy road but it didn’t turn out that way,” he says. “I was really out there on my own, trying to avoid trouble. I waiting on Pimp…I was rap hustling and street hustling.” That street hustling gained him another round trip ticket to prison as Pimp was being released. “Before Pimp got out, I was back in trouble so when he was getting out, I was headed back in,” says Smoke. “By the time we got to reconnect again, he was found dead in California. I don’t know if it was God’s will for us not to coexist in the same space or something. I don’t know.” On his last sentence, Smoke faced a 20-year bid but got out on “good time” for participating in rehabilitation classes. Last year, prior to his release, several previously unreleased tracks from Smoke, Pimp C, Bun-B and Lil Boosie, among others, were released on Smoke D’s mixtape The Lost Files, hosted and mixed by DJ Big House.
“A whole lot of people know who I am but they don’t see my face,” says Smoke. “I’m not a person who’s always out. I stick to myself but now it’s time to use my talents to further my family and people I know and love.” And that’s exactly what he is set to do with his forthcoming mixtape and full-length album fueled by runaway single “When the Feds Pull Up.” “Before, I had this big house built as far as the music. But since I’ve been gone, the house done got old. So I’m in the process of rebuilding, reestablishing and bringing everything back up to date.”
Smiles Official is a talented aspiring artist who uses witty wordplay and clever rhetoric to write the music that has all the ladies of South Florida willing to “make them panties drop”. Embracing his rich Jamaican background, Official has always been a lover of both music and food with lots of soul. In junction with his deeply embedded cultural roots, Smiles also accredits a large part of his success today to the city that raised him, Cutler Ridge (Miami, FL).
Not only was he able to launch his rap career in Cutler Ridge but he was also recognized by his city for being a force on the football field and a bullet on the track. Ripe with raw talent, Smiles Official embodied all that is carpe diem, and he has been seizing every moment since.
All in all, his attention was persistently sought out by many and he was able to broaden his network more and more every year. Through his affiliation with Deuce Mob, his love for music found him a temporary line of business as a party DJ. It was apparent even from then that Smiles Official was destined to be discovered. His energy radiates through a crowd like a surge of power. When Smiles Official is on the mic, everyone feels good.
His life was at a high point, but little did he know, the sky is the limit. Upon returning to Miami during the Summer of 2008, Smiles Official was invited to take the stage at Club Tuckers. On this particular evening, the guest list was illustrious. Big Miami names such as Larry Dogg, Grind Mode and Piccalo were all in attendance, That night was a turning point in Official’s life; that night Smiles Official decided, “I’m not stopping until I make it, period.”
Smiles Official is an original talent with a unique sound, he calls it Mood Music, and the streets love it! In just a year’s time, Smiles Official was able to release several mixtapes, including the ladies favorite PDM: Panty Dropping Music. His performances have become commonplace at various reputable clubs in South Florida.
Smiles Official works closely with other Miami-based organizations and his current record label Streets Enterprise Entertainment, of which he is the Co-Founder. With the crowd of people who halfheartedly attempt to pursue a career in the Hip-Hop industry it is often difficult to tell the imposters from the real thing but you already know Smiles Official is as real as they come.
Kid Ink has stumbled across a female whose lady parts are good he would "Die in It." Listen to him rap about it over banging production from Murder Beatz.
Drake's love affair with the city of Houston continues as the rap superstar announces he will be opening a new club there in 2017 called "The Ballet."
"Tonight is a different take on how it should be done in Houston," he captioned an Instagram illustration of ballerina slippers. "Treat yourself don't cheat yourself. Where the women are on a pedestal and the surroundings are unforgettable. The Ballet pop up tonight for HAW. Grand opening early 2017."
Neighborhood Nipsey Hussle The Great links up with Alfred Trotter III for his latest release titled "Foundations of a Man." The track was produced by Mike and Keys.
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