About b.r.

The Sound

Kanye West is doing a bit of everything. He’s set to executive produce Rihanna’s album, a new slave drama and some of Justin Bieber‘s new album. Now, add being a member of Diddy’s reformed Hitmen into that list. Diddy made the announcement through the above video’s caption. West is probably doing a bit too much; he basically admitted […]

The Sound

Wiz Khalifa‘s “See You Again” is No. 1 on the Billboard, and before that, he scored another big hit with “We Dem Boyz.” However, his signature song is always going to be “Black and Yellow.” His son Sebastian, in all his childhood innocence, knows this. Wiz Khalifa shared a cute moment in which he tried […]

Prime

After being in a coma since Jan. 31,  Cissy Houston says her granddaughter Bobbi Kristina Brown has been taken out of her medically induced coma. It’s an improvement, but the ordeal is expected to have lifelong repercussions. “I have just returned from visiting my granddaughter Bobbi Kristina in the hospital and while she is no longer in a medically […]

Cross Post Now

Things are weird when it comes to Cash Money and Rich Gang. Lil Wayne is pissed at Young Thug for planning to call his album mixtape Carter 6. Lil Wayne and Birdman still aren’t cool. And the duo of Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug split up. Amidst the icy relations, Rich Homie Quan decided to […]

Cross Post Now

It’s not great being Dame Dash right now. The former Roc-A-Fella CEO became Twitter’s laughing stalk thanks to the bizarre idealism he displayed during that Breakfast Club interview. His personal life has also been better. Dash’s ex-wife Rachel Roy has won sole and legal custody over their daughters: 15-year-old and 6-year-old Tallulah. Both sides made disparaging claims against each other. […]

Cross Post Now

Tiffany “New York” Pollard has been keeping on after her time as VH1’s queen of drama. She was on First Sunday — that movie with Ice Cube and Katt Williams — and appeared in an all-black rendition of The Vagina Monologues. Soon, she’ll be back on television thanks to a poorly done breast job. “It’s like one tit is […]

Word?

Popular artists will never honestly cop to being average in bed. If Drake, the bastion of millennial honesty, won’t do it, your favorite rapper probably won’t either. Bravado sells. But leave it to Reddit to expose the truth. There’s a Reddit thread entitled: “Girls who have slept with rock stars; How was it? What was your perception […]

The Sound

Drake season isn’t quite over yet. He’s releasing the physical edition of his surprise effort, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late on April 21. What makes this release worth a look — other than how you can touch and feel it — is that it will feature two bonus tracks. One of them is “My […]

The Sound

Good news, Lil Wayne fans. The Carter 6 won’t come out before the Tha Carter V. Young Thug decided to change the title of his upcoming album mixtape to Barter 6. Young Thug revealed on his Instagram that he was forced to change the name because he was threatened with a lawsuit. He didn’t name anyone, but Lil Wayne […]

Cross Post Now

With all the drama featured on their VH1 show, Harlem’s Black Ink Crew could at least rest on its renown as tattoo artists. Unfortunately for them, that reputation took a hit. Asabi Barner, a woman in her 30s, told PIX11 that a tattoo job at Black Ink left her disfigured. Barner wanted to cover a chestpiece tattoo she got […]

The Screen

Talk show hosts from hip-hop backgrounds haven’t been doing so well. Queen Latifah‘s show was cancelled in 2014, and MC Serch‘s didn’t make it out of the test run phase. But Warner Bros. isn’t deterred by the lack of success or a Deadline article. So come on down, Ice T: You’re the next hip-hop OG to get his […]

News

There are a lot of unfortunate NFL stories, and former NFL running back Lawrence Phillips is one of them. He’s currently serving 31 years in jail for attacking his ex-girlfriend and catching a felony hitting three teenagers with a car. The latest news on Phillips isn’t great either. The 39-year-old is suspected of killing his […]