After months of speculation, it looks like Kendall Jenner and A$AP Rocky are definitely full-on dating. A source has come forward to confirm the pairing to Us Weekly, telling the magazine, “It’s the real deal.”
The pair have been spotted together on multiple occasions since February, when he attended her PacSun launch in New York City and first sparked rumors of a hook-up. They were together in Paris during Menswear Fashion Week in June before grabbing dinner together. In July, Jenner was spotted cheering on Rocky during his set at NYC’s Panorama Festival. Afterwards, they went out for dinner at Blue Ribbon Brasserie. The model even brought him around her family for Kylie’s 19th birthday party at the Nice Guy in Hollywood, and the two reportedly left together.
Theophilus London was reportedly arrested in New York City on Monday night following an alleged altercation with a cab driver—and he live tweeted the whole experience.
London claims the incident started after he became frustrated with the cab driver for refusing to give him change for a $100 bill at the end of a ride. After arguing with the cab driver over the change, London allegedly smashed the cab driver’s cell phone, which eventually led to his arrest. But the action didn’t stop there. According to London, he was able to keep his own cell phone after he was arrested, which allowed him to send out a series of hilarious tweets from behind bars, including his observation that “a nigga too sexy for jail breh.” He also noted that his jail cell was filled with “pee smells and cigarette butts,” and after the ordeal was over, he posted a video of him saying goodbye to police officers.
Tyga could be facing arrest after reportedly failing to show up to court today. TMZ reports that the rapper didn’t show up to his scheduled court appearance stemming from a $480,000 lawsuit against him. An LA Times article reported that Tyga owes the money to his former Malibu landlord, who evicted him for failing to pay rent and leaving the rented mansion a mess.
“The master bedroom had been outfitted with a stripper’s pole and the home’s intercom system was disconnected. The hardwood floors, gate opener and glass-tiled shower were damaged,” reports the Times. The landlord claimed that Tyga “leased a house that he wanted to use as his primary residence, then he completely trashed it.”
Comedian Eric André is not known for being subtle or wholesome in his work, and rapper T.I. found out the hard way when he had to sit through a recent raunchy episode of his Adult Swim show.
The season four premiere of The Eric André Show features a fairly high number of dicks in its 11-minute timespan, even by the standards of the comedian, who is known for his gratuitous nudity. André starts by suggesting some nonsensical rap songs to T.I. and tries to freestyle before a prosthetic penis breaks through his desk. From this moment on, T.I. shifts back and forth between being deeply unimpressed and extremely uncomfortable as the antics get increasingly crazy. After minutes of pranks, a half-nude man wearing only a shirt walks out. At that point, T.I. finally quits.
“I’m gone,” he said. “I’m out this bitch.”
André admits he is known for “torturing his guests” for no reason and discussed it on a recent episode of Hot Ones on Complex, saying many celebrities have not taken it well. He said Lauren Conrad and T.I. are two of the guests who were the most upset by the end of his show.
“[T.I.] walked out two or three times during the interview and I had to keep seducing him back into [it],” André said, adding that he kept repeating “we’re almost done,” to help get T.I. back on set.
“It is a lie; I’m a sociopath,” he said. “We were like an hour and a half from being done, because we shoot each interview for like an hour and a half, then we whittle it down to the best three or four minutes, so it’s pretty torturous, it’s hell for everyone. ”
Shad Moss—better known as Bow Wow—has announced his retirement from rap over the weekend.
In the beginning of August, Moss embarked on a tour in Australia, stopping in cities such as Canberra, Newcastle, and Melbourne. After performing at a club called Alumbra, Moss shared photos on social media with a message to his fans. At 29 years old, he is hanging up the mic for good.
This shouldn’t come as much of a surpise. Moss has struggled with his relevancy in hip-hop since exploding on the scene as Lil’ Bow Wow in the early 2000s, when he earned several platinum and gold albums alongside his mentor Jermaine Dupri. Bow Wow’s adult career had a few recognizable moments like when he made Face Off with Omarion and signed to Cash Money in 2009. Outside of music, he’s made a career in television with gigs like hosting BET’s now defunct 106 & Park and playing a top hacker named Brody “Baby Face” Nelson on CSI: Cyber.
Since then, he’s attempted several times to spark interest in his music again, recently leaving his situation with Cash Money and reportedly signing a management deal with Bad Boy Records. This decision was supported by a collaboration with Dupri (“WYA (Where You At?)”) and new music (“All I Know”) that were released last year.
“Me and Jermaine, we are just at point where we just work,” he said of their chemistry to BET.com. “We just work. If it’s hot, we putting it out and we going with it. We just riding the wave. If we gotta put out one, we will. We ain’t hesitant to do that, but we ain’t in a rush to do it neither. We want to have some fun with the music. Get out here, put these records out for the people and go out here and do what we gotta do. And build this ship up. That’s when we want to do.”
Some fans were perplexed by the announcement, saying that he was technically already “retired” from rap.
We may need a further explanation from Bow by what he exactly means by “retirement.” On Saturday, he posted on Instagram that his final album would be called Nylth, which would be executive produced by Snoop Dogg and himself. Maybe he means retiring after the movie of the same name and the soundtrack comes out?
Kanye West has overthrown the King of Pop. According to Billboard, the multi-hyphenate rapper recently scored his 40th Top 40 hit on the Hot 100 charts, surpassing Michael Jackson and Frankie Vallie, who each had 39. It’s huge milestone for West, and he has ScHoolboy Q to thank for it.
Q’s “That Part” jumped from No. 42 to No. 40 on this week’s Hot 100 charts. And because West was featured on the Blank Face single, he’s jumped into the top 10 male artists for most Top 40 hits. Other rappers such as Jay Z, Drake, and Lil Wayne are also included in the list, but none have been able to beat out the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, who has twice as many hits as West. You can check out how the top 10 rank below:
80 – Elvis Presley
69 – Lil Wayne
57 – Elton John
53 – Drake
46 – Stevie Wonder
45 – Jay Z
44 – James Brown
>42 – Chris Brown
41 – Marvin Gaye
40 – Kanye West
Pix 11 NY reports that Troy Ave will be bringing a lawsuit against Irving Plaza and its parent company Live Nation over the May shooting backstage at a T.I. concert. In the reported lawsuit, Troy alleges that the venue’s lax security policies allowed a gun into the building. He believes that the company is at fault for not having stricter measures in place to stop people from bringing weapons inside, and says that these policies directly led to the shooting he was involved in.
DJ Quik took to Twitter early Monday morning to express his anger with YG over 2013 business dealings. “Y’all had me engineer and record ‘My Nigga’ for YG and did not give me credit,” Quik said in a tweet directed at YG’s management company, before adding, “My lawyer has you [in] his sights.” Quik then went on to confront YG directly, telling him to “be safe on the block I invented” and demanding YG send him his “engineering credits for stemming and recording vocals on your platinum song.” He also demanded a Platinum plaque for his work on “My Nigga,” which peaked at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 2013 and was eventually certified Platinum by the RIAA.
For the most part, Kanye West’s extended Kardashian/Jenner family are supportive of his adidas deal, wearing the sneakers regularly and blasting them out on social media whenever a new release is around the corner. If there’s an exception to that it’s Kylie Jenner, who announced a deal with Puma in February.
West has been vocal with his thoughts on the deal since it was announced, even claiming in a series of tweets that he was going to have Jenner give the money she got from the brand back and cancel the deal. In the latest episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, West further airs out his grievances with the endorsement.
“It’s like if I made a show Sunday night, and didn’t tell any of you all about it, but I did a couple shows with y’all, just two shows with y’all first,” West said, according to a recap at Us magazine. “So people saw me and were all, ‘Ah, he’s cool on camera.’ And somebody offered me a deal, and I, like, did it and didn’t tell none of y’all, and brought all my, like, whatever cool friends. Now it’s like Jay Z, Beyonce was all on the show.”
While Jenner’s allegiance no doubt lies with Puma for the duration of her deal, she can actually still wear West’s adidas Yeezy sneakers, per a report from TMZ.
R. Kelly is currently blowing up Twitter over his latest, very controversial, reported relationship with a teenager. Yes, the man that has faced numerous sexual assault cases throughout his career is now rumored to be dating a 19-year-old girl by the name of Halle Calhoun. They were spotted out together over the weekend at Gold Room in Atlanta, Ga.
To put this in perspective, let’s remember that R. Kelly is now 49 years old. That means that Calhoun wasn’t even born yet when his hit single, “I Believe I Can Fly” topped the charts.