Chris Brown and Rihanna appear to be a couple again if recent photos are any indication. This news really shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has been keeping up with the two in recent months. The only surprise is that haven't publicly admitted that they have rekindled the romance that came to a screeching halt in 2009 after Brown assaulted Riri.
In the latest public display of affection Rihanna tweeted a pic of her straddling Brown last night in Frankfurt, Germany after his concert there.
The two also celebrated Thanksgiving in Berlin together. Rihanna later tweeted a shirtless photo of Brown in bed, followed by her own topless photo.
“As far as our personal life, I think people just got to give it a chance — or not even give it a chance, but shut the hell up. It’s me. At the end of the day, whatever opinion they have ain’t going to change nothing I’m doing," Brown told Big Boy's Neighborhood earlier this month.
“To the world, I feel like there’s no closure,” Rihanna told Vogue recently. “There’s some obsession that’s continued even throughout when we weren’t friends or couldn’t be friends at all. Hated each other. The world hasn’t let go. They haven’t seen any progress in our friendship, because they don’t see anything, really, besides the song.”
Nicki Minaj isn't having her best week. First Steven Tyler criticized her skills as a judge on American Idol, which caused a big uproar. Then the sales figures for Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - The Re-Up came in at less than 35,000 for the first week.
Then yesterday, Hot 97 program directorEbro said Peter Rosenberg ended her career when he criticized her earlier this year for going pop with records like "Starships."
Ebro says he got a call from the Young Money star yesterday regarding his comments. Among other things she called him a fake cornball and told him to never play her music again.
Should Nicki be trying to patch things up with with program directors instead of chewing them out?
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 30, 2012 at 12:06pm
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Wiz Khalifa releases the third vlog from his 2050 Tour. Wiz and the rest of his Taylor Gang take over a movie theater for a screening on Argo, travel to Vancouver, B.C. for a show and interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette, celebrate President Obama's reelection, play a show in Seattle and more.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 30, 2012 at 12:00pm
Tyga releases his new 187 mixtape. There are a total of 9 songs on the tape and no features. Download it below.
Tracklist:
1. F %kn Crack 2. Im Different 3. Young & Gettin It 4. Clique F %kn Problem 5. Love T-Raww 6. Luv Dem 7. All Gold Everything 8. Swimming Pools 9. 95 Like Dat
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 30, 2012 at 11:00am
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Steven Tyler has apologized for a comment he made that got Nicki Minaj all bent of of shape.
As we previously reported, Nicki got upset when Tyler questioned her credibility as a judge on American Idol.
"You just have to give your opinion. It wasn't hard for me, but I would imagine it's hard for some people, and they need a manager to say 'Shut the f*ck up, and just give them your opinion,' " Tyler said. "These kids, they just got out of a car from the Midwest somewhere and they're in New York City, they're scared to death; you're not going to get the best [out of them]. ... If it was Bob Dylan, Nicki Minaj would have had him sent to the cornfield! Whereas, if it was Bob Dylan with us, we would have brought the best of him out, as we did with Phillip Phillips. Just saying."
Nicki took the "cornfield" comment as being racist and called Tyler out via Twitter.
"Steven Tyler said I would have sent Bob Dylan to a cornfield??? Steven, you haven't seen me judge one single solitary contestant yet," she wrote.That's a racist comment. You assume that I wouldn't have liked Bob Dylan??? why? black? rapper? what? go f*ck yourself and worry about yourself babe."
Yesterdaythe Aerosmith singer apologized and said he wasn't a racist.
"I apologize if it was taken wrong, Nicki," the rock-and-roll Hall of Famer said on Canadian entertainment program "eTalk." "I am the farthest from- what did she say I was?- a racist. … I was just saying that if Bob Dylan came on the show, he would've been thrown off, so maybe I spoke out of turn. But a racist I am not, Nicki."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on November 30, 2012 at 10:24am
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50 Cent's interview with Big Boy's Neighborhood continues to uncover things that have until now been hidden from the public.
It's no secret that 50 and French Montana are in the middle of a conflict. French now has a close affiliation with Rick Ross' camp. 50 reveals that during his beef with Ross, it was French Montana who provided him with the footage of DJ Khaled's mother's house and where she worked.
50 Cent "A Psychic Told Me" [Footage of DJ Khaled's moms house and workplace shot by French Montana]
"I don't even know if you can call [French Montana] a new artist because you haven't heard a song with him by himself. He's a guy that they put on a record with two or three other guys that already established themselves to sell you something," 50 said. "You only gotta get away with listening to him for a whole 30 seconds, 40 seconds then his verse is off. Then it goes to somebody that has really worked to get there. What is the state of Interscope if he's the biggest artist there? You got an artist that doesn't even have an established sales history. You can't fake the general public pretend or fake them into liking him. They haven't decided they like him yet."
50 then talks about French providing him with film footage during the Ross beef.
"When I got into it with Rick Ross and Khaled. When that happened I didn't know who Rick Ross was so I had to take a look. So I usually do my homework. I'll find somebody who knows somebody that can give me some information. And Frenchie they got me the tape. They got me the tape of [Khaled's[ mother house, where his mom work at. The other cribs, studios. I have all of it. Where they were staying in Atlanta. All of them locations because I ain't taking no L's you can trust me. If you do something we gonna do it live. I'm not even gonna hide it," explained Fif.
The G-Unit mogul talks about why he dissed The Game and Young Buck on "My Life." 50 says he has no malice towards Game and he thinks Buck's career is over. He also talks about why "New Day" ended up being both his song and Alicia Keys.
50 Cent explains how French Montana sold DJ Khaled out
50 Cent tells Big Boy why he dissed Game on "My Life"
50 Cent tells Big Boy why Alicia Keys forced him to push out "New Day"
Former Floetry singer Marsha Ambrosius releases a smooth new single "Cold World." The Diplo and Picard Brothers-produced song will appear on Marsha's upcoming 2013 album Friends & Lovers.
Nas was the musical guest on the Conan O'Brien show yesterday. He brought R&B singer Anthony Hamilton along with him and the two performed "World's An Addiction."
The song is off of Nas' latest album Life Is Good.
It's good to see Eve back on the scene. She will be releasing her fourth studio album titled Lip Lock in 2013. The Philly emcee stopped by MTV's RapFix Live earlier this week and was very open about a lot of topics including her relationship with Stevie J and the leaked sex tape.
"It definitely didn't [help me]. By the way when that happened sex tapes weren't hot like that and I got the FBI involved," Eve said. "So that's not something I even wanted to happen. However it got out, it did get out. I don't know who did it, I'm not putting any names out there. I respect my mother and my family. And that's not something I'm OK with and it hurt my heart."
Eve's first big break in the music business came courtesy of Dr. Dre's Aftermath label. Unfortunately things didn't work out there and she eventually moved on.
"Aftermath was my first home, with Dr. Dre. But me and Dre just couldn't get along," she explained. "I'm a strong chick and I don't like being told what to do. I don't care if you're the best at what you do. Dre just knows how to push your buttons, but I just have to say every time he pushed my buttons, he got the best out of me. So he knew what he was doin'. It's just communication wise we just couldn't get it. I can't remember exactly what record, but he made me say one word over, like 45 times. I swear to God; I'm not lying. He wouldn't let me out of the studio. I kicked the mic down and threw a bottle at the glass, and after I did all that, I said it the right way and he let me out."
There was also a reunion with Ruff Ryders partner in rhyme Sheek Louch and Eve spit a short freestyle.
Eve speaks on leaked sex tape with Stevie J
Eve speaks on why things didn't work with Dr. Dre's Aftermath label.
Joe Budden was in Oakland, California last night to perform at The New Parish, but before hitting the stage he had a fan escorted out for Tweeting a photo of the audience and saying it was dead in the club.
Prior to that Paige S had Tweeted a photo of of the anti-sleep medication NoDoz.
Apparently Joe saw the Tweets and had the young woman booted from the venue by security.
Paige later went on Twitter and detailed what happened.
"So Joe Budden kicked me out of his concert lmao. Swag," she wrote. "For my NoDoz comment."
Budden also addressed the situation via Twitter earlier today. His only regret is that he can't kick Paige out again.
R&B Newcomer DEZ releases his Real Talk mixtape today which includes a special feature with rapper Ma$e A few years ago, Dezmond Armstead was just a high school freshman in Virginia playing on the varsity basketball team; a young man who had hoped his basketball talents would get the attention of the high school girls. “I thought, I’m definitely going to get noticed,” Dez reminisces, “but it didn’t work out that way.”
He soon realized that his voice was his greatest strength and eventually garnered the attention he wanted, along with a slew of requests of popular R&B songs from the 80s and early 90s. Inspired by Usher and Bobby Brown, Dez was ready to put his talent to the test and moved to Los Angeles after high school to see what he was made of. He later met the production duo, The Movement and they began to talk about their love for classic R&B. After a few studio sessions and completed tracks the musical chemistry was undeniable.
The Movement, who are known for making breakout double-platinum hits like Justin Bieber’s “One Time” and Jesse McCartney’s “Leavin” recount those first few days with Dez. “Having seen successful acts at the very beginning stages of their careers, we were immediately convinced about Dez’s ability. After the first song We Ride, we knew we were onto something special.”
The team set out to build an organic campaign online to grow his fan base and after releasing a cover of Beyonce’s, “I Miss You” and Drake’s “HYFR,” Dez began to put together the elements for what would soon be his mixtape. “So my journey begins, Real Talk is the movement. Real life, real love, real pain, that real R&B.” says Dez.
Tracklist: 1) REAL TALK (intro)
2) WANNA LOVE YOU
3) CAN'T GET ENOUGH ft. MA$E
4) NEVER LEAVE ME LONELY
5) BOOMERANG (interlude)
6) AIN'T FUCKIN WITH YOU
7) THE SOUND
8) HALFWAY NIGGA
9) LOST ONE
10) UNDERNEATH ME
11) WE RIDE
12) REALITY CHECK
13) HYFUR (bonus track)
14) MISS YOU (bonus track)
Kanye West is now officially a part of his girlfriend Kim Kardashian's divorce case from Kris Humphries.
Humphries' attorney Marshall Waller made the Louis Vuitton Don sit for a deposition Wednesday in a case that seems to be getting messier by the day.
“Ms. Kardashian is now handcuffed to Kris Humphries," says Kardashian attorney Laura Wasser. "These delays are forcing her to be married. She wants to dissolve her marriage so she can move on with her life. I don’t think Kris has a case, it’s a fishing expedition.”
According to TMZ, Waller and Humphries are now asking about the prenup Kris signed, which gives him nothing. Waller has yet to depose Kardashian.
Waller told the judge on Wednesday that “All she has to do is agree to an annulment.” However, he did notify the judge that the witnesses he wanted to depose were making it difficult for him because “these people are hard to locate.”
Humphries is also demanding that Kardashian return the $750,000, 20.5 carat Lorraine Schwartz diamond ring. So far Kardashian has refused to do so.
Kardashian has been trying to get divorced for over a year and a half after seperating from Humpries 72 days into the marriage.
Million of people have been wondering what exactly happened that caused the rift between 50 Cent and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Everyone saw the Twitter war of words between the two and 50's announcement that there was no longer a Money Team or TMT Promotions, which was supposed to be a joint venture between Floyd and 50.
50 instead has moved on to form the boxing promotion company SMS Promotions that has its own stable of fighters.
50 sat down with Big Boy's Neighborhood recently and doesn't pull any punches while breaking down the source of the problems between him and Floyd.
"As he was actually going in to jail he asked me to help him with Mayweather Promotions," 50 said. "As I took a look I realized there is no Mayweather Promotions. There's no LLC, no [Corporate] seal, it's not incorporated. It's just a name. You see technically Floyd is a Golden Boy [Promotions] fighter. He fights on every Golden Boy card. They do all the footwork. So, when he says help him with Mayweather Promotions and it's not there I go 'OK I know what he means.' He wants me to put it together for him. I do TMT Promotions, I get it all the way together. Sign the actual fighters. We had acquisitions of [Yuriorkis] Gamboa, I had to negotiate a release, it was $1.2 million. Andre Dirrell, IBF Champion Billy Dib and WBA Champion Celestino Caballero."
50 goes on to explain that after he signed the fighters trouble soon started.
"I brought [the fighters] over while Floyd was incarcerated. When he comes home there's the 'let's get Floyd back in pocket campaign' that goes on on where it's $300,000 chains being bought, buying him a new Lamborghini, all these new things. And I'm sitting there going 'yo, when you gonna give me the money?' It ain't no pressure there but when is he gonna say I'm gonna give you the other half. Why I gotta ask you for it? When he finally does bring up the actual situation he acted like he didn't know anything, like "Ahh I didn't tell y'all to do that. I didn't tell you to do that.' And I'm looking at him him and he looked me in my face saying he didn't tell me to do that."
50 says the war of words on Twitter was real, but he decided to put a stop to it.
"That's not Floyd. Floyd don't Tweet. That's not him on instagram. He's got somebody next to him," 50 explained. "You see everyone around him is co-dependent. So they're gonna roll with whatever he says regardless. They tell him what to say. As soon as he gets confused he says, 'OK Five, call Al [Haymon]. Let's say this, if you have a person that's advising you that's a Harvard graduate. They would advise you to have an accountant, with the kind of money that Floyd actually has. That's not in place. If you had a person that's a Harvard graduate you would have maybe business managers at Merrill Lynch or Goldman Sachs. That's not in place. I don't mind telling the truth in situations like this. He's my brother, I love him. My big beef with him right now is [his son] broke his arm and he ain't call me. This will pass. I didn't come to you saying I'm going to be a boxing promoter. I'm around it and I do enjoy it before I even met Floyd. It's entertaining and exciting for me and I know I can do things that's innovative with the actual sport."
50 clarified that there is no real beef with Floyd, but he doesn't want to be backed into a corner.
"It's not beef...Floyd, he ain't that man. I'm telling you man if they push me I'll mess up in front of everybody," 50 said. "I have that capability to just go there because it's just the way I'm brought up. I never ran from anything because I didn't have anybody to go to. Where I'm going? Home to get me? Ain't nobody there."
The G-Unit boss admitted that he and Floyd have had physical altercations before.
"I won every time," he said jokingly, before turning serious. "Twice we got into it. It was more like out of reflex though. He punched me."
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