Posted 9/9/11 3:53 pm EST by MTV News in Interviews, Made U Look, Music News
Looks like Nicki Minaj wasn't the only Young Money artist hitting the streets of New York for the annual Fashion Week last night. Canadian sensation Drake was on hand to DJ a private event at the Versace boutique in front a small crowd that at one point included Nicki Minaj. Taking a page out of Kanye West's book, Drizzy excited the crowd when he previewed a new track off his upcoming Take Care album. Read More...
Posted 9/7/11 11:56 pm EST by MTV News in Interviews, Made U Look, Music News
Singer and mommy to be Beyoncé was spotted over the weekend on her birthday getaway flanked by hubby Jay-Z and her personal security in Croatia. Beyonce enlightened the paparazzi when she openly showed her pregnant belly, the second spotting since revealing her unborn child to the audience at the 2011 Video Music Awards. According singer The-Dream, Jay and B are beyond excited about their upcoming child.
"They're ecstatic, as well as they should be," The-Dream told Billboard. "I love it for them because they work so hard. To start a family after you've worked so hard is great. It's great for her to be at a certain place in their life where she can say, 'Okay, cool. I've killed it for this many years, but let me do this.'" Read More...
Posted 9/7/11 1:14 am EST by MTV News in Interviews, Made U Look, Music News
Queen Bee Lil Kim made a fashion statement this past Monday at close friend LisaRaye McCoy’s annual All-White Labor Day shindig. The Brooklyn rapper held court at Raye's New Jersey mansion decked out in an eye-catching all white fitted dress clutching a Fendi hand bag. Other partygoers at the star-studded event included female rapper Da Brat, Treach of Naughty By Nature, celebrity stylist Misa Brim-Hylton and others.
Posted 8/24/11 8:02 am EST by MTV News in Interviews, Made U Look, Music News, VMAs
Nothing can hold Lil Wayne down. Just a day after crashing a skateboard that resulted in nine stitches the Young Money star was out and about signing autographs for his fans sporting a bandage over his left eye. Weezy even took out the time to talk up his favorite NFL gridiron gang and current reigning Superbowl champs, the Green Bay Packers, whom he predicted would repeat this year. Read More...
Posted 7/26/11 1:25 am EST by MTV News in Interviews, Made U Look, Music News, Things That Aren't Hip-Hop ... But Are
This past Sunday R&B beauty Rihanna and one half of "The Throne" Kanye West appeared together onstage at Nassau Coliseum for the New York leg of Ri-Ri's LOUD tour. After chatting briefly backstage with the Rihanna and the Def Jam family, Kanye hit the stage to perform the smash songs, "All Of The Lights" and "Run This Town" joined by the singer.
Posted 7/25/11 1:37 pm EST by MTV News in Interviews, Made U Look, Music News
This past weekend Nicki Minaj took her talents to Jamaica where the Trinidad native headlined the annual concert in Montego Bay for the first time this past Saturday. Minaj electrified the crowd opening her show with the track "Romans Revenge" after hitting the stage just after 1 AM with the rest of her set including other monster records from her catalog including the single "Moment 4 Life" (sorry guys, no Drake spotting). Other performers for Sumfest included Jah Cure, Wayne Wonder and more. R. Kelly was also set to hit the stage but pulled out last moment after the singer had throat surgery.
Posted 7/12/11 1:44 pm EST by MTV News in Interviews, Made U Look, Music News
Happy belated birthday to Brooklyn's own Lil Kim who celebrated her 36th birthday yesterday. The Queen Bee has been making her rounds lately hitting a number of clubs including Atlanta's famed Velvet Room on Sunday nights where the venue held a welcome home party for recently freed rapper Gucci Mane and celebrities including boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. Read More...
Posted 6/28/11 7:27 pm EST by MTV News in Interviews, Made U Look, Music News
Rapper The Game and singer Chris Brown are bringing that California sunshine to the set of their new video. Starting today, Game reunites with director Bryan Barber on the new song "Pot o' Gold" featuring Chris Brown. The music video is a throwback to Game's earlier days, capturing the NWA era of South Central, Los Angeles. Reportedly "Pot of Gold" will be the next single off Game's upcoming "R.E.D." album after the song leaked to the internet last week. RapFix is currently on set of the shoot and in this candid shot from our "Made U Look" series Hurricane is seen throwing up the W in between breaks on a lawn backed by a bronze lowrider. And this is just the beginning of the shoot.
Stay tuned as we bring you more coverage from the video in the next couple of days.
Posted 6/24/11 6:57 pm EST by D.L. Chandler in Made U Look, Things That Aren't Hip-Hop ... But Are
Superstar rapper and producer Kanye West has been quite the fixture of late in Paris, which the fashion forward entertainer can easily claim as one of his favorite and most frequent getaways. This week at the Paris Fashion Week affair in the city some deem the fashion capital of the world, Mr. West was shown hobnobbing with other celebrities including NBA star guard of the Miami Heat Dwayne Wade. Read More...
Posted 6/20/11 4:36 pm EST by MTV News in Interviews, Made U Look, Music News
Call it a meeting of the millionaires. Rappers turned businessmen (well, at least for one) Jay-Z and Will Smith were caught talking it up yesterday at Battery Park in New York City while Smith took a break from shooting his film "Men In Black III." But don't expect to see a cameo from Hov in the flick in his NY Yankees snapback. The two men have a number of business dealings together including a venture to develop and produce films not to mention Smith's young daughter is currently signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation imprint.
