Posted 5/23/13 3:45 pm EST by MTV News in Music News
By Henna Kathiya
Releasing an album and judging a reality show was never supposed to be easy. Kelly Rowland is juggling her workload to make her newly minted role as an “X Factor” judge work with her tour dates. The joint tour with The Dream was supposed to kick off this Friday (May 24) in Kansas City but now the tour will kick off May 25 in Little Rock, Arizona. Read More...
Posted 5/23/13 2:55 pm EST by MTV News in Music News
By Maurice Bobb
If all good things must come to an end, it stands to reason that all bad things must come to an end, too…eventually. There’s been numerous examples of the former, but for the latter, the most recent example is the ending of the incendiary beef between hip-hop stalwarts 50 Cent and Fat Joe, who stopped by "Rap Fix Live" Wednesday (May 22) to speak about how Chris Lighty’s untimely passing led to a truce between he and the G-Unit general. Read More...
Posted 5/23/13 2:07 pm EST by MTV News in Music News
By Sowmya Krishnamurthy
All eyes are on Soulja Boy...literally. The rapper's red Bentley was impounded by police after being snapped by a secret network of cameras in LA, shares TMZ. The news site reports that a motorcyclist T-boned a red Bentley in Hollywood and was seriously injured on January 9. The Bentley fled the scene. Read More...
Posted 5/23/13 12:38 pm EST by MTV News in Music News
By Maurice Bobb
Legal issues notwithstanding, life has to go on as planned, so it’s back to the music for Gucci Mane, who released his new LP, Trap House III, Thursday (May 23) on his Bandcamp page. Read More...
Posted 5/23/13 11:01 am EST by MTV News in Music News
By Maurice Bobb
There’s already fifty-leven remixes on the Internet of Rocko’s controversial yet catchy tune, "U.O.E.N.O.," so why not one more? This time around, Black Hippy put their stamp on the track and knocked it out of the park. Read More...
Posted 5/23/13 10:35 am EST by MTV News in Music News
By Maurice Bobb
Jay-Z’s becoming quite the collector of sports acronyms. First, his Roc Nation Sports signed Robinson Cano of the MLB, then it was Skylar Diggins of the WNBA and now, in his latest chess move, Hov has signed Geno Smith of the NFL. Read More...
Posted 5/22/13 9:42 pm EST by MTV News in Music News, RapFix Live
For Action Bronson, Logic, Travi$ Scott and Dizzy Wright it was their individual rhymes and unique styles which helped to build such dedicated fan bases. On Wednesday (May 22) the four XXL Freshmen closed "RapFix Live" with a unforgettable freestyle cypher while DJ Drama supplied the beats and French Montana, Fat Joe and Sway Calloway looked on.
Posted 5/22/13 6:08 pm EST by MTV News in Music News
By Maurice Bobb
If Atlanta rapper B.o.B. had his way, Sergio Garcia, the Spanish golfer who made racist comments about Tiger Woods at the European Tour’s gala awards dinner, would lose major endorsements for his transgressions, just like Rick Ross and Lil Wayne did for theirs. Read More...
Posted 5/22/13 5:40 pm EST by MTV News in Music News
Paris Hilton is finally taking her relationship with Cash Money Records to the next level. The hotel heiress has long been a musical cousin of the storied music label, releasing a song with Lil Wayne, “Last Night,” last year and appearing in videos for others like, “Tapout.” Now, the “Bling Ring” actress has reportedly signed with CMR and hopes to release her new “house music” album by summer. Read the full story at MTV News.
Posted 5/22/13 3:50 pm EST by MTV News in Music News, RapFix Live
On the last episode of "RapFix Live" we spoke with Juicy J about his upcoming Stay Trippy album and Mannie Fresh about his feelings on the upcoming Big Tymers album. This week we have French Montana, Fat Joe, DJ Drama and 2013 XXL Freshmen Action Bronson, Travi$ Scott, Dizzy Wright and Logic. You're not going to want to miss it. Read More...
