Freddie Gibbs and Madlib are back at it again. Last night, during his Red Bull Music Academy talk in New York City, Madlib revealed that he and Gibbs were already hard at work on a new album titled Bandana. The news comes as a welcome surprise to fans who had been wondering if the duo might ever link up again following the success of their last collaboration album Piñata, which debuted in 2014.
After 33 years of marriage and feasibly more ups and downs than 100 unions put together, Ozzy Osbourne and wife Sharon have decided to go their separate ways. According to E! News, “The couple mutually agreed that Ozzy would move out of the house temporarily.” Despite allegations to the contrary, the entertainment site is reporting that the split has nothing to do with Ozzy’s decades-long struggle with substance abuse.
One of the most heated debates currently happening in the music industry centers around the question, “What is music worth?” With the fall of physical album sales—previously a prime driver of revenue—and the rise of subscriber subsidized streaming content, the answer increasingly seems to be, “Not all that much.” Along the way, some artists have decided to skip out of this conversation entirely by dropping albums and mixtapes completely free for their fans to download. But this method carries with it another set of drawbacks that many artists haven’t anticipated.
After getting flak for watching Kobe Bryant’s last game on a tiny television, R. Kelly gets the last laugh at his Chicago Concert by stopping and watching highlights on a 50 ft. screen.
For now it’s just a possibility, but we may just see Bugs’ girlfriend Lola trying to “get the pipe” from J.R. Smith in Space Jam 2 if Warner Bros. producers can reach an agreement with his reps?.
The sequel to the ’90s cult classic was announced earlier this week and is set to star LeBron James, though he hasn’t yet signed a deal to make it official (and we’ve seen this deal fall through before).
One person who is officially attached is director Justin Lin, who has a resume that includes Fast and Furious’s 3-6 installments as well as Star Trek Beyond. Writer Andrew Dodge is also on board; he put together the script for the Jason Bateman comedy Bad Words, which hopefully signifies a much darker turn for the Looney Tunes universe.
In a string of tweets that seemed like a joke at first, Ja Rule laughed at anybody who has ever used the Crying Jordan meme on Twitter early Monday. He did so after citing a stat that he pulled directly from a parody site that indicated that MJ makes a profit off the meme.
The “stat” that Ja Rule read in the story, which is in quotes for obvious reasons, stated that Jordan gets $1 every time his blubbering face gets Photoshopped on to every single picture that’s ever existed. The story Ja Rule referenced, which appeared on a site called tmzcomedy.com, featured lines that made it seem like it was obviously fake. “Michael says while everybody is laugh at him crying. He’s laughing at everybody crying over bills and failed relationships,” one line read. Another, in all caps, read, “IT WAS EITHER PAY HIM OR TAKE THEM DOWN AND LET’S BE HONEST. THEM SH*TS WAY TOO FUNNY’—FACEBOOK CEO”. Ja Rule didn’t get the joke.
Earlier today, Rihanna announced a new international and U.S. college scholarship program that will help students earn a higher education. She is running the program through her Clara Lionel Foundation. She shared the news on Instagram.
The international program will assist citizens or natives of Brazil, Barbados, Cuba, Haiti, Grenada, Guyana, or Jamaica who plan to continue their education at a college in the United States, according to the scholarship’s website. The opportunity is available to students who are enrolled in a four-year college during the 2016-2017 school year, and scholarships will range from $5,000 to $50,000.
“To be able to give the gift of an education is actually an honor,” Rihanna said in a statement released to USA Today. “Higher education will help provide perspective, opportunities, and learning to a group of kids who really deserve it. I am thrilled to be able to do this.”
Music manager and founder of SB Projects Scooter Braun has worked with the biggest stars like Justin Bieber, Ariana Grande, and Karlie Kloss. In March, Billboard revealed that Braun has added Kanye West as one of his clients. During an interview with Charlie Rose, Braun spoke about discovering Bieber and managing his career, the making of Jack Ü’s “Where Are Ü Now,” and how that collaboration helped shape the sound of Purpose.
Coming off the news that his monster single “Panda” hit No. 1 on the charts, Desiigner is wasting little time in preparing his debut studio album and has enlisted frequent Kanye West collaborator Mike Dean to help him.
When an artist is responsible for creating masterpieces as expansive and genre-defining as either The Score or The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, that artist is typically afforded some leeway from fans when it comes to matters of punctuality at events. Last night, however, Lauryn Hill tested the patience of her fans when she hit the stage more than two hours past her scheduled start time at a concert in Atlanta, Georgia, performed for 30 minutes, and left.
Hill was scheduled to hit the stage promptly at 8 p.m. at the Chastain Park Ampitheatre, but she didn’t step out in front of the masses until sometime around 10:30 p.m. When she finally did perform, she was only allowed to make it through just a handful of songs before her mic was cut off after running into the venue’s enforced 11 p.m. curfew. She kept singing awhile regardless, took a few photos with fans in the front row, and then left the amphitheater.