Both USA Today and ABC News report two people were injured during show featuring performances by T.I., Jeezy, Yo Gotti and others. The shots occurred at approximately 7:00 pm in a venue within the N.C. Music Factory complex in Charlotte, NC. “Two people injured with gunshot wounds,” Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Captain J.D. Thomas told USA […]
With previous song titles like “Sell My Dope” and “25 To Life,” you can somewhat be forgiven if you incorrectly assumed Yo Gotti’s upcoming album, The Art Of Hustle, was about whipping work with the aid of some baking soda and Pyrex cookware. Gotti has been perfecting his hustle since he was under the tutelage […]
The only place more random than a Kanye West album for Michael Bolton to appear on may be Genius.com. The annotation site allows fans, musicians, and scholars to interpret various works, with musicians often gaining the most prominence for explaining their lyrics or how particular songs came about. In Bolton’s case, Kanye West sampled Bolton’s […]
T.I. is a busy man. He’s still working singles from his Paperwork album, promoting the upcoming films Get Hard and Ant Man, and preparing for a new season of T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle. Somewhere in there he’s also making time for his AKOO fashion line. The latter brought Tip to the AKOO Style Lounge, […]
Some 30 years after late actor/comedians Richard Pryor and John Candy starred in the comedy reboot of Brewster’s Millions, The Five Heartbeats co-writer and director, Robert Townsend has been helmed for an update. The 1902 novel was reformatted into a play in 1906, and been adapted for the big screen ten times, including the Pryor […]
Chicago Bulls point guard and former NBA Most Valuable Player Derrick Rose was one month shy of his seventh birthday when Tupac Shakur died in 1996. But the fact that Rose was in elementary while Shakur was arguably at the height of his career doesn’t seem to have stopped Rose from learning and appreciating Tupac’s […]
As The Diplomats began their Pledge Of Allegiance Tour with Funkmaster Flex, Cam’ron got close to the people at a slightly smaller venue. The Harlem rapper took to a Five Guys restaurant in Times Square and briefly manned the register. REVOLT was on hand to capture the event, as Cam offered to take legendary DJ […]
On its way past 11 million viewers, Fox’s Empire hasn’t exactly shirked controversy. So far, viewers have seen an openly homosexual lead character come to grips with his father’s homophobia, a business at least in part funded by illegal drug money, some adultery, and a gangland-style execution all intertwined in various plot lines. On the […]
Approximately nine weeks after giving birth to the latest addition to their family, Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz used Instagram as their preferred medium to provide an update. The couple, who have been married since 2010, welcomed their son, Genesis Ali Dean via both of their accounts with the caption, “Blessings.” It was a family […]
According to most industry estimates, including the site BoxOfficeMojo.com, Will Smith’s 2013 father/son Sci-Fi vehicle After Earth had a domestic gross of $60 million, which left it as a commercial failure with production costs eclipsing $130 million. After an Esquire magazine interview in which Smith called After Earth “the most painful failure in my career,” […]
Padge-Victoria Windslowe is currently on trial for the 2011 death of Claudia Aderotimi. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Aderotimi died after Windslowe allegedly injected silicone into her buttocks as part of an unsanctioned beauty enhancement regimen. While Aderotimi and at least one other client had toxic results from their alleged visits with Windslowe, the woman […]
The insensitive remarks Fashion Police contributor Giuliana Rancic made about Zendaya Coleman’s dreadlock extensions during the Oscars may still be causing fallout at the E! network. In a brief statement Friday afternoon, E! announced Kelly Osbourne will be leaving the show to pursue other opportunities. After Coleman took offense to Rancic saying her faux-locks made […]