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#BRUHNews: Fans Are Concerned After Photos Of Famous Dex Looking Strung Out Surface
Source: @JustInMyView / R1 Digital One Rap’s rising stars might need an intervention. All signs are pointing to Famous Dex having issues with controlled substances. As seen on HipHopDX the man born Dexter Tiewon Gore Jr. is not looking too healthy. On Sunday, December 20 a photo of him looking very haggard and visibly under the influence went viral. A twitter user @NinoTheBoxer posted the startling visual on the social media platform with a very sharp caption. “Bruh these rappers need to chill on the drugs got damn , I damn near gave famous dex some change , and I bet his homies ain’t saying sh*t” he wrote. Bruh these rappers need to chill on the drugs got damn , I damn near gave famous dex some change , and I bet his homies ain’t saying shit pic.twitter.com/Js0QlYBzHT — Rayshaun Thomas (@...
Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself: Mulatto Confirms Name Change Is Coming
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty It seems that Mulatto has been taking notes from feedback over her name, so much so she’s agreed to change it. During an interview with The Shaderoom, the “Queen of Da Souf” has publicly declared that she is changing her name after being dragged online and after critics began labeled a “colorist” over it’s origin. “I’m not a colorist, but the internet gon’ do what they do, I can’t convince people that already don’t like me otherwise so I’m not gonna have a stroke about it,” Mulatto said. “That’s why I’m doing my little part on the back end like learning about today, and talk about the name change and stuff like that, to also dead it on my end because I feel like that kinda contributes to that.” In regards to what her new stage name will be, the 21-year old ATL...
Steve Aoki Announces Forthcoming Collaboration With Aloe Blacc
Steve Aoki has announced his latest high-profile collaborator, the Grammy Award-nominated singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc. Perhaps best known for his timeless work on Avicii‘s “Wake Me Up,” Aloe Blacc has crossed over into the dance music space with flying colors in recent years. He has appeared on tracks by David Guetta and MORTEN (“Never Be Alone”), Mesto (“Don’t Worry”), and Aeroplane and Purple Disco Machine (“Counting On Me”), among others. The renowned R&B, soul and pop artist again featured on an Avicii song in April 2019, when the track “SOS” was released. The single ultimately appeared on Avicii’s posthumous third studio album, Tim. Aoki announced the upcoming collaboration on T...
Flux Pavilion Launches New Fan Activation Site “Flux Needs Your WAV”
Flux Pavilion has launched a new fan activation site, “Flux Needs Your WAV.” The new website will allow fans to record answers to funny—and sometimes weird—prompts, which Flux will bring to life in upcoming songs and livestreams. Fans should prepare for questions like, “Can you remix your Grandma’s favorite song?” or “How many times have you peed today?” or one of 2020’s most mystifying questions, “How do you pronounce Elon Musk and Grimes’ baby’s name?” Flux Needs Your Wav This isn’t the first time he’s incorporated his fans in the release of his music. You might remember that just last year he reached out to fans and asked them to submit vocal samples. Flux Pavilion is currently gearing up for the de...
Serial Swindler Sean Kingston Charged With Grand Theft, Flaunts Expensive Jewelry On Instagram In Response
Source: Judy Eddy/WENN.com / WENN Sean Kingston is in deep trouble, once again, for not paying his jewelry tab. Now the songwriter is in legal trouble that could potentially land him in jail. Bossip reports an arrest warrant was issued after he was officially charged with grand theft on Friday (Dec. 18). Court documents reveal that jewelry was delivered to Kingston’s home, but he never bothered to pay the goods when the bill arrived. Cops aren’t actively looking for the “Suicidal” singer, but if he gets pulled over he could end up in behind a cop car. Bail has been set at $45,000 and, if convicted, he could face three years behind bars. In response to the charges, Kingston posted videos on his Instagram Stories showing off an iced-out watch, ...
E-40 & Too $hort Put The World On Town Bidness In Their Verzuz Battle
Source: Verzuz / Getty Saturday was all about Town Bidness on Saturday night as Verzuz took its breakout streaming platform west to showcase two of the Bay Area’s legendary titans for the final battle of 2020. Too $hort and E-40 took to the Verzuz Ciroc-branded virtual stage that showcased low riders, liquor bottles, and Oakland and Vallejo street signs to big up their oft-times overlooked soil and respective legacies in front of the millions tuned in. Billed as Legends of the Bay, Uncle Earl & $hort Dogg spent more than three hours going back and forth going way past the customary 20 rounds to run through their litany of Bay Area classics. Too Short laced us with old school staples such as ‘Freaky Tales’, Gangsters & Strippers and ‘I’m A Player’ and more contemporary hits like “Sh...
Wack 100 Gets Into Bloody Fight With Two White Men After They Allegedly Call Him A Racial Slur
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty A burger run quickly turned into a volatile situation for Wack 100. The music executive came to blows with a pair of guys who were supposedly talking spicy to him. racially. As seen on TMZ Blueface’s manager got into a show down during a recent visit to Primo Burgers in Lancaster, California. According to the celebrity gossip site two unidentified men were burning rubber behind him in the drive through. Naturally that caused Wack to address them for the fear that their vehicle would spin out of control and crash into his. Allegedly they responded by saying “Mind your f***ing business n***er.” This quickly turned into a tense back and forth that led to a fist fight. In a video captured from the scene the very vocal online personality is seen squaring up wit...
Method Man Talks Wu-Tang, ‘Power’ & The MCU With Jemele Hill
Source: Getty Images / Getty Aside from spawning countless classic albums, creating music icons, and making the culture a multi-billion dollar business, Hip-Hop’s golden era of the 90’s also produced a gang of rappers turned entrepreneurs who to this day continue to make bank. One of those Hip-Hop knuckleheads turned professional entertainer is Wu-Tang’s own Method Man who went from ripping mics to, well, everything else. From becoming a respectable actor to having his own podcast on comic books, Johnny Blaze has branched out to other fields of entertainment outside of rap music over the years and has made quite a career for himself outside of the booth. In the latest podcast episode of Spotify’s Jemele Hill Is Unbothered, the Ticalian Stallion opens up about his life’s work from the 90’s ...
Celebrate Frank Zappa’s Birthday With New Tribute Beer ‘Why Does It Hurt When IPA?’
Duckfoot co-founder, Matt DelVecchio, a Zappa fan from childhood, is a longtime friend of Zappa Plays Zappa touring musician Pete Griffin, who made the intro to the family and launched the beer-making process. “Our new friends (but they feel like old friends) at Duck Foot Brewing Co are making a delicious new brew using the Zappa hop,” Ahmet Zappa said in a press statement. “Stay home, be safe and enjoy Why Does It Hurt When IPA? responsibly. All the Zappa Trust proceeds from this batch will go to support the music community in need. Music is the Best!” “We are so beyond thrilled to be making a beer for one of our favorite musicians of all time,” Delvecchio added. You can now order Why Does It Hurt W...
The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony
Congress looks to provide relief to U.S. citizens and small businesses, but the omnibus bill includes some legislative priorities for the entertainment industry as well. Providing relief via direct assistance and loans to struggling individuals and businesses hit hard by COVID-19 has been a priority for federal lawmakers this past month. But a gigantic spending bill has also become the opportunity to smuggle in some other line items, including those of special interest to the entertainment community. Perhaps most surprising, according to the text of the bill being circulated, illegal streaming for commercial profit could become a felony. It’s been less than two weeks since Sen. Thom Tillis released his proposal to increase the penalties for those who would dare stream unlicensed work...
Cardi B Co-Signs “WAP” Parody Encouraging Mask Wearing
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz While many a conservative and Cardi B hater have condemned her smash single “W.A.P” for its sexually suggestive content, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has decided to use its popularity to promote a simple yet life-fitsaving message: wear a mask. Parodying the Card and Megan Thee Stallion collaboration and renaming it “Wear a Mask Please,” John Hopkins University tapped Birdi Jay to drop some of the strugglest bars you’ll ever hear but with the noblest of intentions. Encouraging listeners to protect themselves and others by covering their gangsta grills, Birdi gets right to the point right out the gate “spitting,” “I said safe and chic/seven days a week/wear a mask, please/make that Covid curve weak!” [embedded content] Thou...
Teyana Taylor Reportedly Down To Play Dionne The Singer AKA Dionne Warwick Onscreen
Source: 2020 Billboard Women In Music / Getty Dionne Warwick has become something of a renewed personality via social media as a result of her hilarious tweets and pop culture inquisitiveness. It appears that the legendary singer really knows her stuff because it’s being reported she connected with Teyana Taylor in hopes of getting the New York talent to play her in a docuseries. Last week, Ms. Warwick posted a video via Twitter asking her legion of fans if they’d watch a docuseries centered on her life [of course we would!] but in the caption of the tweet, she made it clear that Taylor’s her choice as the lead. TMZ is reporting that Warwick and Taylor hopped on the phone recently to kick around the idea and Taylor, by the account of the sources close to the story, say it could very well b...
