What should have been a joyous night for Juvenile ended up with the New Orleans rapper in handcuffs.
Juve and Lil Wayne took the stage together at Liv nightclub in Miami following years of hard feelings after their group The Hot Boys broke up.
TMZ reports that things were fine until around 7 A.M. this morning. That's when Juvenile, real name Terius Gray, got into a brawl that started inside the club then spilled outside.
The Miami Beach Police Department were called and told by club security that the people involved in the fight were "creating a threat to life and property as well as the overall safety of the patrons inside."
Juve was arrested and booked at a nearby station on disorderly conduct charges. He is still in custody.
D Block's Sheek Louch and Wu Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah are teaming up for a hip hop head's dream album. The two veteran MCs will be releasing Wu Block on October 9th. The album boats features from Masta Killa, Jadakiss, Styles P, Method Man, Raekwon, GZA and more.
Tyga releases the third installment of his Well Done mixtape series. The Young Money rapper gets assists from Honey Cocaine, 2 Chainz, Future, Kirko Bangz and more.
Tracklist:
1. No Luck 2. Do My Dance (Feat. 2 Chainz) 3. Wish 4. Ayye Bitch 5. Designer 6. Diced Pineapples 7. Ready To Fuck 8. Riot (Feat. Honey Cocaine) 9. King Company (Feat. Honey Cocaine) 10. Ratchet (Feat. Joe Moses) 11. Girls & Guitars (Feat. Kirko Bangz) 12. Get Her Tho (Feat. D-Lo) 13. Splatter 14. Switch Lanes 15. Out This Bitch (Feat. Kirko Bangz) 16. I Remember ( Feat. Future)
Rihanna opened up in a way she never has before during her interview with Oprah Winfrey, which was aired last night.
She was asked about the status of her relationship with Chris Brownand didn't hold back.
"We've been working on our friendship again now we're very, very close friends," Riri said. "We built a trust again and that's it. We love each other and we probably always will. And that's not anything we're gonna try to change. That's not something you can ever shut off if you've ever been in love."
The singer denied currently seeing Brown.
"He's in a relationship of his. I'm single, but we have maintained a very close relationship ever since the restraining order's been dropped" she continued. "We've just worked on it little by little. And it's not been easy."
Rihanna admitted to seeing Brown recently in St Tropez, but insists nothing happened. Although she admitted it's difficult seeing him face to face.
"It's awkward because I still love him," she admitted. "My stomach drops. I have to maintain this poker face and not let it get to the outer part of me. I think he was the love of my life."
Trae Tha Truth recruits an all star cast of Houston MCs for his single "I'm From Texas." Paul Wall, Z-Ro, Slim Thug and Kirko Bangz all lend a hand on this one. The track will appear on Trae's upcoming mixtape Tha Blackprint.
Chad Johnson's ex-college sweetheart whom he was convicted of slapping in 2000 wants to sit down with his estranged wife Evelyn Lozada according to TMZ.
According to the report, the ex thinks she and Lozada can help each other find closure. The former girlfriend has tried to reach out to Lozada via Twitter and Facebook, but so far hasn't had any luck contacting her.
The former girlfriend may be having trouble reaching Lozada because TMZ is reporting that Chad's wife has gone into hiding. Pulling the plug on all public appearances.
In 2000 Johnson slapped his then girlfriend when he accused her of cheating on him. He pleaded no contest and the court found him guilty of domestic battery.
He was sentenced to three years probation, ordered to complete 30 days of graffiti removal work with CalTrans and was required to complete a 12 month batterer's counseling program and ordered to stay 100 yards away from the victim.
Below is a copy of Johnson's certificate of completion from a domestic violence batterers' treatment program back in 2002
A status report issued at the time Chad was cooperative and appeared to make good progress, but "struggled initially with accepting the need to make lifestyle changes as well as minimizing his past behavior."
The report says Chad eventually came to terms with his problems -- and his "risk to re-offend appears low."
Radaronline reports that Chad is desperately trying win his wife back, but it's not working.
"Chad has been tearfully calling and texting Ev, pouring his heart out to her and telling how sorry he is and how he has never loved anyone before as he loves her. But, it's just too little too late.
"Evelyn will not tolerate being cheated on and being physically attacked and she has washed her hands of Chad for good. She was desperately in love with him and ignored a lot of warning signs along the way, but now that she has finally woken up, she will not be taking any steps back and will not go back to him.
"Despite Chad's pleas for a second chance and his assurances that he will undergo counseling, Ev is sticking to her guns. It is over between her and Chad. For good. Period."
One of the women Chad was reportedly cheating on Lozada with was Beverly Shiner (pictured below).
According to Shiner she met Chad on Twitter and proceeded to have a four month affair with the ex-NFL player despite knowing he was engaged.
Shiner says Johnson did little to hide the fact that he was having an affair. Claiming he texted her once while he watched the Super Bowl with Evelyn and his kids to tell her that he missed her.
The affair finally came to a head in the beginning of May, Shiner claims, when after spending a passionate night together, Beverly was heading back over and he didn't reply to her texts or calls.
"He had asked me to come over so I drove there and knocked on his door and he didn’t answer even though I could hear his X Box playing. Then I texted him the next day and he didn’t apologize," she told Radar.
"I got upset and told him, 'You are not the guy I thought you were,’ to which he replied that he had been sleeping and warned me, 'You’re overstepping your boundaries a little bit. I’m not your man, keep your comments to yourself.’"
Azealia Banks fans are going to have to wait a little longer for the release of her debut album Broke with Expensive Taste. Banks announced that the album will be released next year on February 12, 2013
In the meantime you can pick up Banks' previous releases, the 1991 EP and her Fantasea mixtape
J. Cole was one of the featured performers on the first day of the Rock The Bells two day festival in San Bernardino, California on Saturday. The Roc Nation MC took the opportunity to debut a brand new song "I'm A Fool."
Never before seen footage has just been released of a deadly police shooting that happened on July 1st.
49-year old Milton Hall, whose family says was mentally ill got into a confrontation with Saginaw, Michigan police outside of a shut-down Chinese restaurant.
Hall is holding a knife and is directed by police to put the knife down.
"I aint putting sh*t down," Hall can be heard saying on the video tape. He also tells the cops to let their police dog come at him.
"Let him go. Let the motherf*cking dog go," he says. "My name is Milton Hall and I just called 911. My name is Milton and I'm p*ssed off!"
Shortly afterwards Hall takes several steps towards the officers and shots ring out. In total 46 shots were fired at Hall by six police officers according to the New York Daily News.
"I'm stunned that six human beings would stand in front of one human being and fire 46 shots," victim Milton Hall’s mother, Jewel, told CNN. "It appeared to be a firing squad dressed in police uniforms. There was another way. They did not have to kill him. He was not violent. He was not a murderer. He was not a criminal."
Jewel said her son received social security benefits for his mental illness, but "He knew his rights."
"Everybody knew him. The police knew him well," she said. "So that's another question: they know him, so why? Why did they kill him?"
Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael Thomas disagreed with Hall's mother. He told CNN that Hall had been “threatening to assault police,” and Gerald Cliff, the town’s police chief, said Hall was "known to be an assaultive person."
Saginaw City Councilman Norman Braddock has said that the Hall investigation needs to be prioritized.
"I can see what people are traumatized at, looking at something like that," Braddock said after watching the video. "We need answers."
"The attorney general office, as we understand, has joined in the investigation with the Saginaw County Prosecutor, now, still today, as we speak, we don't know what the outcome of that state police investigation report is," Gary Loster, spokesperson for the Concerned Citizens group told WNEM.
"Was it justifiable or was it not? Simply keep the investigation transparent and keep the people aware of what's going on," said Loster.
Bishop Lamont gets assists from Mecca and Black Milk on "Phat Gold Dookie Rope." The song is the second single off of his mixtape The Layover, dropping in September.
Bishop will follow that project up with the release of his album The Reformation.
After the success of his Careless World: Rise of the Last King album, Tyga isn't wasting any time getting to work on it's follow up. After his Rock The Bells performance on Saturday, The Young Money rapper announced that the title of his new album is Hotel California.
No release date information available yet on the album, but you can grab Tyga's Well Done 3mixtape when it's released tonight at midnight.
The Rock Bells Festival is currently underway in San Bernardino, California. Today is the first of two-day festival in the city.
Acts like Naughty By Nature, Common, DMX, Eve, Kid Cudi, J. Cole, Jadakiss, Tyga, 2 Chainz, Prodigy, Curren$y, El-P, Dipset, Yelawolf, Future, Kendrick Lamar with Black Hippy and more are taking their turns rocking the crowd.
*UPDATE* 8-19-2012
Day two has started in San Bernardino.
Nas, Pusha T, Wiz Khalifa, Ice Cube, E-40, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DJ Quik, Big Daddy Kane, Salt-N-Peppa, Machine Gun Kelly and more will be taking the stage
Beyonce releases her new video for "I Was Here." The clip was filmed earlier this month in front of a live audience at the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York.
She told CNN's Anderson Cooper she wanted to leave her mark on the world with this song.
"It says, 'I want to leave my footprints in the sands of time. And it basically is all of our dreams, I think. And that’s leaving our mark on the world. I feel like we all want to know that our life meant something. We all have our purpose, and we all have our strengths...it feels so wonderful to do something for someone else. And I think for the U.N. to want to include the whole world was something important, and I feel like that’s what I represent.'"
Beyoncé is donating the proceeds of the track to World Humanitarian Day on 19 August,
Jada Pinkett-Smith was one of Tupac Shakur's closest friends. Many people believe the two may have been romantically linked, but Jada denies they ever hooked up.
"We knew us being together in a romantic way would destroy everything because we were both fire," Jada told the COCO, Foolish and Mr. Chase radio show on WJLB in Detroit in a 2010 interview. "We would burn everything up! So we knew in order to preserve our relationship there was no way we could ever add romance to it cause we probably would've killed each other!"
Nevertheless it's obvious that Jada loved Tupac, even if it was only as a close friend. Jada's daughter Willow picked up on her mom's feelings for Pac and penned a letter to him.
Tupac is the 11-year old's favorite rapper and like many she believes he is still alive. In the undated letter posted to her Instagram account she asks him to come back so she and her mom can be happy.
"Dear Tupac, I know you are alive some place. I think that my mommy really misses you. Can you please come back so mommy and me can be happy! I wish you were here... I really do!" - Love, Willow
Azealia Banks recently showed that she is not all about beefing and is willing to admit when she is wrong. The Harlem rapper had a falling out with Oakland newcomer Kreayshawn, but has since patched things up.
The beef started back in January when Kreayshawn retweeted a Pornhub link which repeated a line from Azealia's breakout hit song "212."
"Have you guys heard @AzealiaBank's "212"? I guess that cunt gettin' eaten'," read the tweet.
Unhappy that her song was associated with a porn site Azealia lashed out at Kreayshawn.
Realizing she had made a mistake, Azealia apologized to Kreashawn on Twitter August 5th.
"@KREAYSHAWN I apologize for coming down on you so hard earlier this year,” Azealia tweeted. “I missunderstood that pornhub rt. I can be really defensive sometimes. I’m just naturally rude. LMFAOO it’s a NY thing… I can’t help it.”
Kreayshawn accepted her apology. “It’s all G! I fux with you[r] music above all!” she wrote. “You have those fire barz gurlll!”
In a new interview with MTV, Kreayshawn talked about the past beef and said that Azealia had initially apologized to her in private back in April.
"We had some shows in Japan together and we had a chance to watch each other perform," Kreay told MTV News. "I've always been a fan, and she hit me up and said, 'I really like your live show.' That was back in April, but no one even noticed that."
Kreay said they ran into each other again more recently at a show in L.A. and squashed their differences for good.
"I went to her Mermaid Ball show in LA because a lot of my homegirls were performing," Kreayshawn said. "She ended up hitting me up a couple of weeks after and said, 'I really wanna publicly apologize,' and I [thought that was] really dope. I think it's cool because there's so many girls looking up to everyone that all the beef tears our fans apart," the rapper continued. People feel like, 'I have to be this person's fan and hate on this person.' So I think it shows that you can forgive people, you can apologize to people, you can realize you're wrong and it shows camaraderie for all girls. It's for girl power."
The two have even discussed a possible collaboration. Kreayshawn's debut album Something 'Bout Kreay is due on September 18th.
Iggy Azalea releases a joint she's had in the vault for a minute. "Burgundy Sh*t" only features one verse from the Grand Hustle rapper over a super smooth beat, but it suffices.
U.S. Olympic gold medal swimmer might have trouble with his plans to trademark the phrase "Jeah" because Compton rapper MC Eiht claims he coined the phrase back in 1988.
Lochte is already selling "Jeah" sunglasses on his website for $14.99. You can cop a signed pair for $100. He is also selling t-shirts with the catch phrase on them.
The swimmer says he got the phrase from Young Jeezy. Taking the Snowman's oft-used expression "Cheah," and making it his own by dropping the "ch" for a "j."
Eiht told TMZ he finds Lochte's use of the word offensive and disrespectful.
"Why try and trademark something his a$$ didn’t even create? I am mad that he isn’t giving me proper recognition for taking my saying. He is just disrespectful."
Eiht goes on to say that this isn't about money. It's an issue of "respect and the truth."
He plans on sending a cease and desist letter urging Lochte to stop using his phrase.
Lochte's manager told TMZ, "Ryan has been using JEAH for years. This is the first I have heard of this claim by MC Eiht."
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