Ja Rule is finding out the hard way that the internet has no mercy. The New York rapper is trending worldwide after tweeting that Michael Jordan gets paid every time his infamous crying meme gets posted.
"This why I love America while we all laughing at the Jordan crying face he gets a 1$ every time it gets post. Jokes on us!!!" Ja wrote on Monday, May 9th.
What's bananas is that he got the idea that you could get paid for getting photoshopped from a website called TMZComedy.
Ja quickly deleted the tweet, but it was too late. Check out a sample of the hilarious reactions below.
Ja Rule tweeting fake news stories like he's your uncle who just figured out facebook
Nipsey Hussle delivers more new music to kick off the week. He links up with G. Perico for "Basic Instinct." The track was produced by Mars & Mike + Keys. Give it a listen up top.
In 1988, the Beastie Boys parted ways with Def Jam after releasing their debut album, Licensed to Ill, and Russell Simmons revealed to VladTV that the parting was due to the Beastie Boys not getting along. He explained that they were young at the time, and he added that Rick Rubin thought the rappers were being placated and not being made to work properly.
During the conversation Russell also revealed that "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" wasn't the label's choice for the Beastie Boys' first single, as he explained that the radio took it and made it a huge hit.
To hear more about what Russell had to say on the situation, hit the video above.
Lord Jamar digs into bullying, in particularly the online bullying following singer Kehlani's attempted suicide after her ex-boyfriend, PartyNextDoor posted a photo of them in bed together when fans assumed she was still with Kyrie Irving. Later, Irving revealed that she wasn't with the basketball player, and from the immediate backlash on social media and numerous amounts of negative comments, the singer said she attempted to take her own life. With many campaigns to prevent bullying, the Brand Nubian rapper believes bullying may be needed sometimes, almost as "rites of passage" in some circumstances.
Nardwuar the Human Serviette recently interviewed Drake and his producer Noah "40" Shebib.
Topics included The Notorious B.I.G, Kool G. Rap, Timmy Thomas video messages Drake and thanks him for sampling his song "Why Can't We Live Together" on "Hotline Bling," Drizzy expresses his appreciation for Vybz Kartel, speaks on almost getting arrested with Mavado in Jamaica for cursing onstage, working with Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, loving Mac Dre,Three Six Mafia much more.
Over the weekend Alicia Keys was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live. Watch below as she delivers outstanding performances of the songs "In Common" and "Hallelujah."
Birdman a.k.a. Stunna and Jacquees release the title track off of their forthcoming "Lost At Sea" mixtape. Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
It appears that a boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor could actually happen.
Last week there was a report published The Sun that said a fight between the two was imminent. It was generally dismissed as a rumor by most, but Floyd has confirmed the bout is a possibility.
"It's possible...it was a name that was shot at me," Floyd told Fighhype following the Amir Khan/ Canelo Alvarez fight in Vegas Saturday, May 7. "The rumors that y'all been hearing is the rumors that I started. It may not be a rumor. Keep y'all fingers crossed. It may be a boxer versus an MMA fighter."
Floyd added that it would take at least $100 million to get him to come out of retirement. A win would up his record to 50-0, breaking the record he shares with Rocky Marciano for the most victories without a loss.
On Sunday morning, May 8, McGregor shared what could be a poster for the match on his Twitter page.
Conor is under contract with theUFC. He can't fight outside of the organization without their blessing.
UFC President Dana White dismissed the Sun report as being "completely fiction, this is like bottom-feeder ... stuff."
"We're his promoter. We'd have to make the fight," White told the Los Angeles Times on Friday.
At the end of the day this will come down to how much money could be generated. The UFC could possibly work out a deal with Mayweather Promotions that would allow the bout to take place.
Mystic Mac is 19-3 as a professional mixed martial artist. The 27-year old reportedly has a boxing background dating back to when he was 12 and incorporates it into his mma training.
Most experts don't believe McGregor has a chance to beat Mayweather in a boxing match. Check out commentary from Max Kellerman and Adrien Broner below and let us know your thoughts on the potential fight.
Remo The Hitmaker and New Wave Music present Jaz Graham's Happy Mothers Day to all of the hard working moms across America.
Watch below as the singer covers Celine Dion's"Because You Loved Me."
Jaz's new single titled "Waiting For" is available now on iTunes. Keep an eye out for her upcoming EP, "Introducing Jaz Graham,' which will be released in June. Produced by Remo The Hitmaker
Follow team New Wave Music @newwavemusicinc @remothehitmaker @iamjazgraham @bhindthelenstv @a1.five
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Canelo Alvarez got on his knees to check on Amir Khan after knocking him unconscious with a big right hand in the sixth round of their title fight.
"I invited him to come into the ring," Alvarez said. "Right now I will put the gloves on again."
It's a fight both Golovkin and boxing fans have been waiting for to happen, though the weight could be an issue. Alvarez wants the bout to be less than the 160-pound middleweight limit, while Golovkin, who holds his own piece of the middleweight crown, vows to fight at his best weight.
"I am old school," Golovkin said just before the fight. "Middleweight is 160. I respect the sport of boxing."
Against Khan, Alvarez needed only one big right hand to turn a close fight into a smashing knockout that left the British challenger out cold on his back in the middle of the ring.
Struggling with Khan's speed, Alvarez unleashed a long right hand that send Khan backward on the canvas, where referee Kenny Bayless didn't even bother to count him out at 2:37 of the sixth round.
Alvarez retained his piece of the middleweight title, but it was not without some nervous moments for his fans who packed the new T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip. Khan was more than holding his own in a tactical fight when the right hand suddenly ended it.
"People have known me only for my power," Alvarez said. "I have many more qualities in the ring and I showed that. I think people saw more of me."
Khan, a 6-1 underdog, had vowed to use his speed to confound Alvarez and his plan seemed to be working. He fought in spurts, landing combinations and seemingly frustrating Alvarez with his movement.
But a right hand that came out of nowhere landed flush against Khan's chin, and he was out before he hit the canvas.
"I was getting in the ring with a big guy," Khan said. "Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the end."
Khan was taken to the hospital after the fight, but promoter Oscar De La Hoya said he appeared to be fine and that the move was precautionary. Khan's head snapped back when he hit the canvas and he appeared out for several minutes before being revived.
Alvarez was making the first defense of the WBC title he won from Miguel Cotto in November, though the fight was fought at a catch weight of 155 pounds. The WBC has said it will take the title from Alvarez if he does not begin talks for a fight with Golovkin within 15 days.
"I don't fear anyone," Alvarez said. "We don't come to play in this sport."
Khan, for one, believes it's a fight that has to happen, and soon.
"I think it's time that Canelo steps in the ring with Triple G," Khan said.
A pro-Alvarez crowd of 16,540 filled the new arena on the Las Vegas Strip for his first fight on the Mexican holiday weekend that Floyd Mayweather Jr. usually fought on. They came expecting to see Alvarez (47-1-1, 33 knockouts) put on a show, though he had trouble with Khan's speed and movement in the early rounds.
Alvarez chased after Khan (31-4) from the first round on, trying to cut the ring off and corner him on the ropes. He was largely unsuccessful, and Khan answered with combinations to the head, though they seemed to have little effect on the red-haired Mexican champion.
Alvarez was up on two ringside judges' scorecards when the fight ended, while Khan was leading by one point on the third. Ringside punch stats showed Khan landing 48 of 166 punches to 64 of 170 for Alvarez.
Khan, who spent years unsuccessfully chasing bouts with Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao, had to put on weight for Alvarez but was still the smaller fighter.
"I'm a natural 147-pounder and this challenge came and it was hard to turn down," Khan said. "My natural weight is 147 and I will probably go back down to that."
Khan's trainer, Virgil Hunter, joined in the chorus of those who want to see Alvarez and Golovkin fight soon.
"He's got to stop hiding behind the flag and fight the fight that we all want to see," Hunter said of Alvarez.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Donald Trump will go to trial in a class-action lawsuit against him and his now-defunct Trump University after the presidential election but before the inauguration, setting the stage for a president-elect to take the witness stand if he wins the White House.
U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel on Friday scheduled trial for Nov. 28 in the suit that alleges people who paid up to $35,000 for real estate seminars got defrauded. The likely Republican nominee planned to attend most, if not all, of the trial and would testify, Trump attorney Daniel Petrocelli said.
"He has very, very strong feelings about this case," Petrocelli told reporters.
Petrocelli asked for a trial after Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, but the judge raised concerns about distractions if Trump wins the election. The attorney said the period between the election and swearing-in is extremely hectic for a president-elect but that it was preferable to holding a trial during the campaign.
The lawsuit is one of three that accuse Trump University of fleecing students with unfulfilled promises to teach secrets of success in real estate.
The San Diego suit says Trump University, which no longer operates and was not accredited as a school, gave seminars and classes across the country that were like infomercials, constantly pressuring students to buy more and, in the end, failing to deliver.
Trump, who appears on a list of defense witnesses for the trial, has repeatedly pointed to a 98 percent satisfaction rate on internal surveys. But the lawsuit says students were asked to rate the product when they believed they still had more instruction to come and were reluctant to openly criticize their teachers on surveys that were not anonymous.
Curiel, a judicial appointee of President Barack Obama, has been eager to get to trial and had planned for it this summer before Trump's surge in the primaries. The case was filed in 2010, making it the second-oldest on his docket.
Still, he expressed concern about a trial during the campaign, partly out of concern for jurors' safety.
"Will they be able to stay clear of the media frenzy?" he asked. "Ultimately that's my Number 1 concern."
Since the early 1980s, Trump personally has been sued at least 150 times in federal court, records show. Only a handful of those cases are pending, with the ones involving Trump University — two in California and one in New York — being the most significant.
Trump has railed against the judge in the San Diego case, calling him hostile and suggesting his positions may be the result of Trump's stance on border security. The likely GOP nominee has noted Curiel's ethnicity.
Trump said of the judge at an Arkansas rally in February: "I believe he happens to be Spanish, which is fine. He's Hispanic — which is fine."
Petrocelli said he would not ask for the judge to be removed from the case, despite Trump's views.
"He's got very strong views about everything and he expressed his own views," Petrocelli said.
Jury selection may begin shortly before Nov. 28, and the trial was expected to last a month or longer, the judge said.
G-Unit emcee Kidd Kidd drops a new freestyle over the instrumental to A$AP Ferg and Future's "New Level." His "Rapper's Worst Nightmare II" project drops on Friday, May 13th.
Get ready for some new bangers on Friday, May 13, courtesy of G-Unit's lyrical assassin, Kidd Kidd. The New Orleans native will release "Rapper's Worst Nightmare II," the follow up to his 2015 project.
J Dilla is widely regarded as one of the greatest hip-hop producers of all time, having supplied timeless soundbeds for the likes of A Tribe Called Quest, Slum Village, The Pharcyde,Busta Rhymes, Common, De La Soul, The Roots, D’Angelo,Erykah Babu, Madlib, and many more. In 2005, rumors began circulating about an album called Jay Love Japan, a J Dilla solo project inspired by one of Jay Dee's favorite locations to visit on tour. After Dilla's untimely death in early 2006, the album became a lost classic shrouded in mystery, with only unofficial bootlegs and promo versions available. An official CD version was eventually released in 2008, but quickly went out of print.
Now, the album is finally receiving the official release it always deserved. Just in time for Mother's Day, J Dilla's mother Ma Dukes and her label Vintage Vibez Music Group are proud to present official vinyl and CD versions of Jay Love Japan. This 11-track collection of Dilla instrumentals and vocal tracks features appearances from Blu, Miguel, J*Davey, Ta'Raach, Exile,Baatin, and more, making it the perfect snapshot of late-period J Dilla brilliance.
This limited-edition collection is available on CD, vinyl, or deluxe edition. Deluxe edition includes the album on CD + vinyl, plus an exclusive Jay Love Japan T-shirt and a bonus 7" flexi-disc. Bonus 7" is exclusive and not available through any other retailers.
01. Can’t You See 02. Sun in My Face (feat. Blu & Miguel)
03. In the Streets
04. Oh Oh
05. Say It (feat. Ta’Raach & Exile)
06. Lucy
07. First Time (feat. Baatin & The Ruckazoid)
08. Red Light (feat. J*Davey)
09. Outro
10. Yesterday
11. Believe in God
12. The Look
(WSB-TV) A deadly disease is rampant in Metro Atlanta, and scientists are calling it an epidemic.
Channel 2's Dave Huddleston spoke with researchers and doctors who said Atlanta is the epicenter of that epidemic, comparing some neighborhoods to developing African countries.
J.R. Watson is a towering man, and the only hair on his head is a handle-bar mustache.
Just by looking at him, you'd never know he has AIDS. He recalled the moment he found out he was positive 20 years ago.
He contracted HIV from a woman he was dating. He told Huddleston his story hoping to keep young people from making a potentially lethal mistake.
"All it took was that one time with that wrong person to change your life forever," Watson said. "It doesn't matter who you are, just because you live in a nice neighborhood, just because you're alive outside of Atlanta."
"I sat there and literally cried like a baby for 30 to 45 minutes," Watson told Huddleston.
IMPACT IN ATLANTA
But if you live in the capitol city, AIDS research officials said the number of people effected is staggering.
"Downtown Atlanta is as bad as Zimbabwe or Harare or Durban," said Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of Emory University's Center for AIDS Research.
Del Rio said the disease shifted from one that mainly affected gay men and drug users in the late '80s to a disease that now affects just about every population, but in particular African-Americans with limited access to health care.
"Don't have food on your table, have kids to take care of and somebody says you have HIV, that's just another, that's just another problem that you have," del Rio said.
GRANT MONEY IN FULTON COUNTY
Another problem was a lack of leadership and mismanagement in Fulton County.
A 2015 Fulton County internal audit of their HIV Prevention Program cited poor management after the county squandered millions of CDC grant dollars meant for HIV programs.
Ultimately the county had to return millions to the CDC.
"Well it certainly was a bruised eye," said Fulton County Chairman John Eaves.
The County Commission asked for audits of the embattled Health Department and demanded changes in procedures.
"I did meet with city officials directly and assured them that processes were in place and make sure going forward monies would be better accounted for," Eaves said.
CDC STUDY
A recent study released by the CDC shows why that funding is so critical.
If you live in the southeast, you're more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than any other part of the country and in Georgia the risk of diagnosis leaps to one in 51.
"We should not be having an epidemic of that proportion in a country like ours," del Rio said. "This is not Africa, we have resources."
Fulton County now has a new public health director and HIV programs like mobile testing units are more visible around the city. The van travels to ZIP codes with the highest number of HIV cases.
Channel 2 was there when the testing unit was by Grady Hospital. They tested more than 30 people, and two came back HIV positive.
But fortunately for Watson, HIV is no longer an automatic death sentence -- if you receive treatment.
With access to antivirals he is looking forward to living a long life. His diagnosis didn't get in the way of him finding love and he is now married.
"I fall in love with her every day and that's no lie," Watson said. "That's no exaggeration."
(WSB-TV) A deadly disease is rampant in Metro Atlanta, and scientists are calling it an epidemic.
Channel 2's Dave Huddleston spoke with researchers and doctors who said Atlanta is the epicenter of that epidemic, comparing some neighborhoods to developing African countries.
J.R. Watson is a towering man, and the only hair on his head is a handle-bar mustache.
Just by looking at him, you'd never know he has AIDS. He recalled the moment he found out he was positive 20 years ago.
He contracted HIV from a woman he was dating. He told Huddleston his story hoping to keep young people from making a potentially lethal mistake.
"All it took was that one time with that wrong person to change your life forever," Watson said. "It doesn't matter who you are, just because you live in a nice neighborhood, just because you're alive outside of Atlanta."
"I sat there and literally cried like a baby for 30 to 45 minutes," Watson told Huddleston.
IMPACT IN ATLANTA
But if you live in the capitol city, AIDS research officials said the number of people effected is staggering.
"Downtown Atlanta is as bad as Zimbabwe or Harare or Durban," said Dr. Carlos del Rio, co-director of Emory University's Center for AIDS Research.
Del Rio said the disease shifted from one that mainly affected gay men and drug users in the late '80s to a disease that now affects just about every population, but in particular African-Americans with limited access to health care.
"Don't have food on your table, have kids to take care of and somebody says you have HIV, that's just another, that's just another problem that you have," del Rio said.
GRANT MONEY IN FULTON COUNTY
Another problem was a lack of leadership and mismanagement in Fulton County.
A 2015 Fulton County internal audit of their HIV Prevention Program cited poor management after the county squandered millions of CDC grant dollars meant for HIV programs.
Ultimately the county had to return millions to the CDC.
"Well it certainly was a bruised eye," said Fulton County Chairman John Eaves.
The County Commission asked for audits of the embattled Health Department and demanded changes in procedures.
"I did meet with city officials directly and assured them that processes were in place and make sure going forward monies would be better accounted for," Eaves said.
CDC STUDY
A recent study released by the CDC shows why that funding is so critical.
If you live in the southeast, you're more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than any other part of the country and in Georgia the risk of diagnosis leaps to one in 51.
"We should not be having an epidemic of that proportion in a country like ours," del Rio said. "This is not Africa, we have resources."
Fulton County now has a new public health director and HIV programs like mobile testing units are more visible around the city. The van travels to ZIP codes with the highest number of HIV cases.
Channel 2 was there when the testing unit was by Grady Hospital. They tested more than 30 people, and two came back HIV positive.
But fortunately for Watson, HIV is no longer an automatic death sentence -- if you receive treatment.
With access to antivirals he is looking forward to living a long life. His diagnosis didn't get in the way of him finding love and he is now married.
"I fall in love with her every day and that's no lie," Watson said. "That's no exaggeration."
With his forthcoming album titled "Ca-$" getting ready to drop on May 20th, Ca$his, decides to release one more track off of it. Check out the "Break a Bag" (G-Mix) featuring Young Buck, Project Pat, Goldie Gold, Flip Major and SulleeJ. Produced by Rikanatti, Punisher and Glyph.