Legendary status for the late rapper Tupac Amuru Shakur.
He will be inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, becoming the sixth hip-hop artist to be inducted to the museum of music legends.
Run D.M.C., Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and N.W.A. have sealed the deal.
The organization released in 2017 the list on Tuesday saying that Tupac Shakur, Joan Baez, Electric Light Orchestra, Journey, Pearl Jam and Yes will join the legends of music.
In April, the induction ceremony.
This was Tupac's first year of eligibility to be inducted. In order to be eligible, artists and bands, "must have released its first single or album at least 25 years prior to the year of nomination."
Tupac Shakur died in September 1996 after he and Marion "Big Suge" Knight were ambushed in Las Vegas after leaving a Mike Tyson boxing match.
Eminem celebrates his birthday. Rumor on the street is Slim Shady is working on a new album.
Today rapper Slim Shady celebrates his birthday. The word on the street is that Marshall Bruce Mathers III, known as Eminem is working on a new album and its coming out this year.
The album titled ROOTS is coming and I anticipate that Em will drop a bomb on 'em.
The rumors have been spreading across the internet. Em is teaming up with his longtime producer Dr. Dre to release a 12 track album with features from Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and Skylar Gray.
The rumored album isn't leaking. Eminem signed a deal with APPLE Music and it's top secret.
Eminem is the founder of Shady Records. The label is home to Yelawolf, D12, and the Slaughterhouse.
Slaughterhouse is a rap group that features Joe Budden, Joell Ortiz, Kxng Crooked (formerly known as Crooked I) and Royce Da 5'9".
Eminem is a signed act to Aftermath Entertainment.
When Haitian American rapper/singer Wyclef Jean said to the junk food media he envisions rapper Young Thug as Tupac Shakur, I was totally shocked. I am surprised that the Atlanta rapper was given the mantle of being associated with 'Pac.
Young Thug is a rising talent, no question. He's affiliated with the domestic terrorist group The Bloods.
He's made his big break by releasing the hit singles "Stoner", "Danny Glover" and "Loaded" off the mixtape titled Stoner. He collaborates with Gucci Mane, Future, T.I., Young Dolph, Usher and Rae Sremmurd. He's an in demand rapper.
But he's no Tupac...
NOPE. NADA. NO WAY.
Young Thug's mixtape Jeffery is out and the rapper wanted to get a reggae influence. Jean appears on the album's final song. Speaking to Pigeons & Planes, the 46-year old rapper says he's found new respect for Thugger.
The rapper will appear on Wyclef Jean's album J'ouvert.
Thugger shows some love to the Haitians. Thugger named his child after the impoverished country.
"Sometimes you don't realize who you are affecting," explained Wyclef. "But he's from a project, I'm from a similar background. And he has natural love for Haiti, understanding the history of Haiti. Haiti is the first Black republic. He reminds me of a modern Tupac, in a sense---- in a revolutionary sense."
That drew a lot of attention.
People were pissed that a former rival of the late rapper would dare compare a newcomer to a complex but prolific rapper such as Tupac Shakur.
Any thoughts to the matter?
Does Young Thug have 'Pac in him?
Mind you that rapper Ja Rule was roundly mocked by 50 Cent and Eminem for trying to create himself as the legendary rapper.
Listen to the full mixtape. Purchase No my name is, Jeffrey on iTunes or your local record retailer.
Watch the video of The Breakfast Club give their thoughts.
Jerry Heller, the co-founder of Ruthless Records and the manager of famed hip-hop group N.W.A., passed away.
Jerry Heller, the man who helped bring the N.W.A. into the mainstream passed away. Heller was the manager of the group and was one of the reasons for the breakup. Heller passed away at the age of 75 in Thousand Oaks, California.
He died of a heart attack and his family confirmed it was a fatal car accident.
Heller met Eazy E and helped him form Ruthless Records. The label was responsible for pushing out the hits. It also gave the West Coast a voice. It dealt with oppression, police brutality and America's treatment of Black America. Critics said that the music was promoting violence and sexism.
The group dismissed this. They were saying that these issues are a part of Black urban life. They were expressing their freedom of speech.
The N.W.A. was composed of Ice Cube, MC Ren, DJ Yella, Arabian Prince, Dr. Dre, and Eazy E.
Arabian Prince would leave the group before it would become a mainstream act.
The group was one of the earliest and most significant members of hip-hop. The group is by far one of the most controversial. They couldn't get radio play because of their songs, but the group managed to pull sell 10 million units.
Things got worse for the group when Ice Cube accused Heller of mismanaging their money.
The world's most dangerous group.
The group would eventually breakup in 1991. Dr. Dre would leave Ruthless to start up the Death Row label with Marion "Big Suge" Knight.
Dr. Dre and Ice Cube would bash Heller and Eazy E for selling out their music. Eazy E said that Jerry was a "gangsta for life" and he wouldn't want to be around them "marks" Dre and Cube.
Eazy E would record a few more EP and his full length album under Ruthless. Around 1995, Eazy was getting ill. He was diagnoses with complications from AIDS. He passed away from the deadly disease.
The critically acclaimed Straight Outta Compton movie portrayed Heller as a bad person. He would sue the F. Gary Gary and NBCUniversal for slander. He would blame the movie for him having trouble trying to secure acts.
The album Straight Outta Compton marked the beginning of gangsta rap. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.
You got to give up to the city of Compton. Without the N.W.A., you wouldn't have gangsta rap.
Ruthless Records also was responsible for bring Bone Thugs-N-Harmony to the label. The Cleveland based group composed of Krayzie, Layzie, Wish, Bizzy and Flesh Bone.
Beyonce managed to win the night at the MTV VMA's. Her performance was praised by the fans and the media critics.
She even brought the "Mothers of the Movement" to the VMAs.
Queen Bey walked the red carpet with several of the women featured in the "Lemonade" visual album -- mothers of gun violence victims among them. Midway through the show, Serena Williams introduced Beyoncé for an unexpected performance of several of her "Lemonade" hits. The album scored Beyoncé eight Moon Man trophies -- including Video of the Year for "Formation."
Of course her performance was criticized by that dirtbag Rudy Giuliani.
Giuliani, a former New York City mayor and failed presidential candidate is a resident critic of Jay-Z, and Beyonce. He believes they're pandering anti-White and anti-cop rhetoric.
Giuliani is a former drag queen and three time divorced politico/pundit.
Today would mark the 15 years since the world lost a R&B singer Aaliyah.
On August 25, 2001, the hip-hop community lost an iconic R&B singer. Aaliyah Dana Haughton was killed in a fatal plane crash. After finishing a music video shoot her single "Rock The Boat", the singer, her publicist, two members of Blackground Records, and her body man passed away in a ill-fated flight leaving the Bahamas.
Aaliyah's death came unexpected. She released her self-titled album that year and was promoting her movie Romeo Must Die. She was heading back to Los Angeles for a role for the horror Queen of the Damned.
Aaliyah released her first album at the age of 16. Age Ain't Nothing But A Number was produced by R. Kelly, the controversial R&B singer who had an alleged relationship with her at the age of 15.
R. Kelly produced her album and helped her gain mainstream success. R. Kelly had married Aaliyah for a brief moment but it was annulled after allegations of the singer's history.
Aaliyah teamed up with Virginia producer Timbaland and began a great working relationship.
One in a Million became a classic. With Timbaland and Missy Elliott on the album, they produced six singles and gave Aaliyah a four quadruple platinum album.
It also helped her gain success a model, actress and cultural icon.
Her death came unexpected. I mean a few weeks later we would have the worst tragedy to ever happen in our country.
Benzino is a notorious figure in the hip-hop community. He is blacklisted by most record companies. He still makes music and parties like a 20 year old. Mind you he's 52 year old.
Washed up rapper Benzino is hoping to save grace. A dangerous figure is no longer on the streets. His nephew Gai Scott was sent to the iron college after he filled his uncle with lead.
A couple years ago, Benzino was heading to the funeral for his mother who passed away. The shooter approached the vehicle. The two got into a heated argument and then the shooting.
Benzino was shot three times and he survived the shooting.
We just found out that the shooter will be pressing plates for the next ten years.
Benzino used this shooting as fodder for the role on a reality television show. He was dating video vixen Althea Heart a co-star on the Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta.
Gai Scott the nephew of Benzino shot him during a dispute at a funeral. Scott was a member of Benzino's rap posse.
The two got into a heated fight with Stevie J and Joseline. VH-1 decided to fire Benzino and Althea out the cannon after this.
Since that altercation, many networks didn't want much to do with him.
Benzino decided to father a child with Althea. Now they had planned on getting married but his temper and the code of the streets kept this relationship on the rocks. They ended up on Marriage Boot Camp to repair their relationship. It didn't work.
Now they're not together and he's still trying to stay relevant.
Since his cannon firing from Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta, Benzino has taken his talents to Black owned TV One. He is now on TV One's The Next 15. It's basically a reality show that deals with entertainers who are struggling to stay in the limelight.
Benzino is most famous for his feud with Eminem. At one time, he used The Source Magazine as a weapon against the rapper. Benzino was co owner of the magazine with Dave Mays, a Harvard educated White man.
Mays, Jon Scheter, James Bernard and Ed Young founded the magazine in 1988.
They had a bitter fallout when Mays wanted to give Benzino an opportunity to grow by selflessly promoting his terrible ideas. Mays and Benzino nearly destroyed The Source in this war with Eminem. The shareholders fired the two out the cannon in 2006.
Benzino and Mays would create Hip Hop Weekly, a New York Post style gossip rag.
Benzino is a one hit wonder. His only song, Rock The Party was the only single to make it in Billboard's top ten hits of the week.
Here's Would You, a single off Benzino's Redemption album. The album features guest vocals from actress LisaRaye McCoy. The actress/model tried a hand at rapping. She was promoted at one time to host The Source Magazine's: All Access television show on UPN.
Drake is riding high on the success of Views. The album is three times platinum and possibly one of the best selling albums of the year. He is also confirming another album release. The album The 6'ers is a collaboration with Gucci Mane. The two will release their album in September.
One feud that was allegedly brewing was the one with Eminem. That rumor was quickly put to bed.
Drake had enough of the bullshit rumors. He singled out Hot 97 and specifically Ebro and DJ Funkmaster Flex for starting rumors about a possible feud with Slim Shady.
Ebro was making claims that Eminem was cooking up a single aimed at Drake. Funk Flex tried to push the Meek Mill feud by releasing "Wanna Know". The song was released and it was panned by the hip-hop community.
It all started from a feud between Shady Records artist Joe Budden of Slaughterhouse going after Drake for having a ghostwriter. Drake tapped him in 4pm and Calabasas and No Shopping with French Montana.
Drake said that he's "not a one hit wonder, the fans know all his stuff!" That was a dig at Joe Budden's one hit wonder "Pump it Up" off his self-titled album on his old label Def Jam.
The rapper performed at Joe Louis Arena yesterday and he decided to pay homage to the Detroit legend. Guess what Drizzy done? He brought Em out to help him perform.
He said that's one of the greatest before he bowed to him. It confirms that the two aren't beefing.
Later Eminem released on his official Instagram a picture with Drake.
In other news, 50 Cent is releasing his long awaited album Street King Immortal this week. The album was supposed to be released on Shady Records and Aftermath Entertainment. It was shelved after 50 got into a heated feud with Interscope boss Jimmy Iovine.
Iovine had to fire 50 out the cannon after he threatened to leak songs without authorization.
Champagne Papi confirms that his collaboration album with Guwop is a go. The album is coming out in September.
Fresh out the feds, Radric Davis known as the Gucci Mane is hungry for music. He released Everybody's Looking on Atlantic and it was a success.
The Gucci Mane and Drake project will be titled The 6'ers. It will be released through APPLE Music and it will feature production from Mike Will Made It, Zaytoven, and Noah "40" Shebib.
It's sort of a sequel to the platinum album What A Time To Be Alive. That was Drake first collaboration album with Atlanta's codeine obsessed rapper Future.
Drake is riding high as the king of hip-hop. He dethroned Eminem. His album Views surpassed The Marshall Mathers LP in weeks on the Billboard top selling albums.
Drake is engaged in a feud now with Slaughterhouse rapper Joe Budden. He will address Budden on this album.
This will come as no surprise that Drake said it best, "Gucci gets out, you know it's a problem".
The Game and 50 Cent settle the longest hip-hop feud in American history.
The long feud between two of the biggest egos in hip-hop finally came to an end. The Unit's 50 Cent has squashed his feud with Game. The Game was the fifth member of the Unit and in 2005, he was booted out the group after he complained about 50 and Dr. Dre's handling of his debut album The Documentary.
50 said that Game refused to follow their feud with Fat Joe, Nas, Jadakiss, and Ja Rule. Game said that 50 was jealous of him getting the beats from Dre. 50 was pissed that Jimmy Iovine and Dre pushed his album The Massacre (previous St. Valentine's Day Massacre) into March.
Both 50 and Game had traded shots online and in the studio. Game released the infamous 300 Bars song going after 50, Tony Yayo, Lloyd Banks, and Young Buck. He was booted off Aftermath and sent to Geffen Records.
50 Cent and The Unit would move from Aftermath and Shady to Caroline Records. Each act now is working on trying to regain their glory.
Many fans were urging 50 to drop the feud with Game. At the time, 50 said Game isn't going to ever be back in the Unit.
Now spotted at a strip club in Los Angeles, Game worked out his differences with 50 and the two are now on speaking terms. As for being a member of the group, we don't know.
Hopefully Game and 50 don't let their egos ruin this moment in history.
Game was spotted in Dubai with Lloyd Banks. It fueled speculations that the Unit was working on their differences with Game.
Marion "Big Suge" Knight is facing a murder charge for running over two men at a burger joint near the filming location of the Straight Outta Compton movie. Knight who was former CEO of Death Row Records is a notorious individual. He has ties to the domestic terrorist group The Bloods. He dons the red like it's nothing. He was instrumental in helping Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur obtain multiplatinum albums.
But Big Suge stuck to the g-code and now that code will place his ass in the lockup for the rest of his LIFE.
The LAPD was hoping that Big Suge would slip up. They didn't expect this quickly.
TMZ obtained the gruesome video of Big Suge's Red F150 running over two men.
A jailhouse songbird slammed the LAPD and county prosecutor. He tells the junk food media that he was deliberately placed near
Daniel Timms who was songbird said that prosecutors were coaching him to get Big Suge to show no remorse or say things that could land a conviction.
Now this could be used as defense in the murder trial.
Knowing that Suge has nothing to lose, it's best for him to use this an advantage.
This was one of the many incidents that plagued the controversial media mogul. He and Katt Williams still have to deal with the assault charge for breaking a fan's camera.
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson was busted in St. Kitts and Nevis for being himself. The media mogul was cursing in the island nation. It's illegal to cuss in the country.
50 Cent needs to get a travel pamphlet when he travels outside the United States. He certainly has no clue about the laws in foreign nations. He's lucky he's not in Saudi Arabia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates or North Korea with the blow.
The rapper would be flogged or shot by state executioners.
50 Cent was reportedly arrested in the Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
He dropped "M-fer" on the stage after performing his greatest hits. According to TMZ, Curtis "Money Blowing" Jackson was warned not to use profanity in the nation. He was told by the custom agents.
While in the nation, he performed around 40,000 people. When the DJ told 50 that he couldn't use the vulgar version of his songs, he said "fuck it". Then when onstage he uttered the word and it got him a night in lockup and a hefty U.S. fine. He sung his hit song, P.I.M.P.
He was booked and spent a night in the lockup. He will appear in court on the charge and be forced to spend a little of his earnings from the concert.
50 had to lose his passport and travel documents. They want his ass in the courtroom.
One of 50's roadies was also arrested after he shouted at the law and called them a bunch of....well he's got to lose his travel documents as well.
50 Cent is innocent until proven guilty. I don't know the laws in St. Kitts and Nevis, but I am guessing it's going to be at least a year in the iron college.
Looks like DJ Khaled got "another one" on the deck. It's a surprise collaboration on deck and it's gonna be a banger. Jay-Z and Future are going to be on a single together.
What?
Future getting into the studio with Jay-Z. It's the end of the world as we know it.
Atlanta's codeine obsessed trap rapper is working with the Jiggaman.
Future's producer Southside (Sizzle) of 808 Mafia spilled the beans on Shade45 over the weekend.
In an interview with DJ Whoo Kid of the Whoolywood Shuffle, Southside said that Khaled tapped him, Jake One and G-Coup to produce the "untitled" single. It will be released on Apple Music soon.
We the best...!
Khaled has a history of bringing huge names together, so the fact that he is involved makes the Future-Jay-Z pairing more believable. As does the fact that Jay-Z is now Khaled’s manager. This is not the first time Southside has offered a juicy bit of insider information re: Future. In November, he mentioned that Future was sitting on six albums and three mixtapes. (Fewtch has blessed the streets with one album and one mixtape since then.)
Southside mentions the Future-Jay-Z-Khaled single at the 3:30 mark below. The whole 20-minute interview is worth a listen — the Atlanta producer discusses his role in Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo, how he and Waka Flocka changed the sonic landscape of hip hop, the time Kanye told him he was the future of music, and more.
Once again, if you are to get any singles or videos from Drake, Future, DJ Khaled, Eminem, Young Thug, Dr. Dre, and Wiz Khalifa you might have to purchase the singles from APPLE Music.
And of course if you get singles or videos from Jay-Z, Rihanna, Beyonce, Kanye West and Lil' Wayne you might have to purchase the singles from TIDAL.
Jay-Z steps out of semi-retirement to rap a verse on Fat Joe and Remy Ma's smash hit All The Way Up. He does a subliminal shot at his wifey Queen Bey.
The jigga man is back in the studio and he's responding to the rumors of alleged cheating. He was singled out in the Lemonade album from his wife Beyonce (Queen Bey).
Jay-Z goes into the studio and rips a verse on Fat Joe's All The Way Up.
On the song, Jay-Z raps "You know you made it when the fact your marriage made it is worth millions/Lemonade is a popular drink and it still is/Survival of the lit-est/ N****s who really up vs. n****s up in your business."
Jay-Z also pays homage to the late superstar Prince who, prior to his death, had a deal with the music mogul to stream his music on TIDAL.
"Prince left his masters where they safe and sound/We never gonna let the elevator take him down," Jay-Z raps.
The remix to All The Way Up is exclusively on TIDAL. You will have register with the website in order to see videos or singles from Jay-Z, Lil' Wayne, Beyonce, Fabolous, Rihanna and Big Sean.
The single All The Way is by Fat Joe, Remy Ma, Infared and French Montana. The remix features Jay-Z.
Joey Crack's second summer smash... The last hit of the summer was Lean Back. Fat Joe and Remy Ma created a hit in 2004 and people were "lean back, lean back". Now they're together again and they're "all the way up!"
Ludacris and Ciara announced the nominees for the Billboard Music Awards. What A Time To Be Alive was Drake and that other guy Ciara's feuding with album.
Ciara Harris and Nayvadius DeMun Wilborn (aka Future) are at tonight's Billboard Music Awards.
The FutureHIVE hasn't calm down. Future enjoyed another number one album. His surprise album EVOL is platinum and he's on tour with Drake for the "Summer Sixteen". The rapper is also addressing a feud with a rapper named Desiigner.
Desiigner, who I've dubbed Fake Future has a hit called Panda and it's confusing some folks. Some people are saying that's Future.
Future isn't happy about this. He aimed some barbs at the New York rapper who recently signed to Kanye West's GOOD Music label. He believes that this rapper is biting his trademark flow.
Now that's just a minor issue compared to his feud with the ex. The Ciara and Future fallout is blowing up the webs. The feud between the rapper and pop singer has been one of the most talked about issues in the hip-hop community.
Ciara was once engaged to Future. They dated for a few years. She has a son with the rapper. He is the father of four other children. I also disclose that one of my closest cousins had a child with the rapper when he still an underground act. Future and Ciara were the hip-hop couple.
I guess Ciara ignored the cries of the ex-girls and baby mamas. They warned her that Future hasn't cut up his player's card. That card was being maxed out.
Ciara and Future would soon have a nasty fallout. Their son, Future (Nayvadius Zahir Wilburn, Jr.) is the middle of a bitter custody battle.
Ciara was hoping to secure full-time custody of their boy. Future fought that one in children's court.
He ended up getting joint custody of their son. Future and Ciara are in court fighting each other over defamation of character. Future is also urging the judge to lower the child support. He saying that Ciara's fiance Russell Wilson has enough money to take care of them.
My son gives me the power.
Ciara is hosting the Billboard Music Awards with Ludacris this year.
When the rapper's name was announced, Ciara threw shade on it and Luda had to cover for her. Being a nominee for top rap act, Future is competing against Drake, Silento, Wiz Khalifa and Fetty Wap.
Ludacris had collaborated with both acts in the past. This is his second go around at the Billboard Awards.
You can watch it on ABC right now! I don't watch award shows. They bore me and I don't give two about the celebrities spending a few hours showing themselves off.
Note if you want to hear music or videos from Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Young Thug, Future, Dr. Dre and Eminem, you will have to enroll in Apple Music.
When 50 Cent came to Dayton to promote his Effin Vodka, he took a flight out of Cincinnati.
The rapper was at the Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport in Erlanger, Kentucky.
He shares some of his daily routine on social media and his fans love it.
The rapper whipped out a camera and started filming a worker. He decided to rim on the worker.
The rapper was dumping on a worker by accused him of being high. He said that airport worker Andrew Farrell looks like he's high and retarded. He publicly humiliated the worker on social media.
He was unaware that the worker was autistic.
The capo of The Unit now faces a national backlash from the junk food media for his childish behavior. He managed to get his vodka pulled off the shelves of liquor stores.
He also got tongue lashed by those in the entertainment community for being such an ass.
50 Cent was using his iPhone to mock a Cincinnati airport worker.
50 admits that he's an idiot and released a press statement telling the public he was sorry for acting a fool at the airport. He wrote the apology to Andrew saying it wasn't his intentions to insult a man doing his job.
Farrell said that 50's actions were ignorant and he wants the rapper to meet him at a center for autistic children. So far, no word on 50 making any other appearance since the controversy.
At the local Arrow Spirits and Wine, the owner decided that he's not going to be associated with the rapper's products after he posted that on social media. He thanked 50 for coming to Dayton to give autographs to the shoppers but he doesn't want that reputation to hang on his store.
Who is the most dumbest rapper?
So as you see above, a poll. I added a few new entities to this poll. After all, last poll clearly went to Tyga as being the most dumbest rapper.
Afeni Shakur, the mother of the late rapper Tupac Shakur passed away today. The mother who inspired her son for greatness was found dead in her Marin County, California home.
The family confirmed that she passed away from an apparent heart attack.
Shakur was an activist and motivational speaker. She urged rappers to put aside their differences for the sake of the Black community. There was a brutal hip-hop war between the West coast and the East coast. It led to the deaths of her son and his longtime rival the Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls).
Her name became famous in the 1995 Tupac Shakur single "Dear Mama" off the Me Against the World album.
Afeni Shakur sued Death Row for all of Tupac's music and licensing fees. She was awarded a cache of unreleased music, movie reels and poems from the rapper who many saw as a poetic but yet troubled soul.
Shakur led the fight to get a museum in her son's honor.
The queen of a pride. Afeni Shakur fought to have her son Tupac Shakur's legacy preserved.
Afeni Shakur (born Alice Faye Williams) was an American music businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist and Black Panther. She acted as her own criminal defense attorney after being accused of taking part in numerous bombings as a member of the Panthers.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Afeni Shakur. The legacy of Tupac Shakur will forever be etched in music history. Afeni, a beautiful woman in the fight for equality in America.
Afeni Shakur you will be missed by me and S. Baldwin.
According to the junk food media, Prince was feeling extremely ill when he was finishing up a tour.
Prince Rogers Nelson passed away today. World News Today send our condolences to the family of this wonderful icon of pop/rock and R&B.
Prince was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and actor and has been a major figure in popular music for over three decades. Prince is renowned as an innovator and is widely known for his eclectic work, flamboyant stage presence, and wide vocal range. He is widely regarded as the pioneer of Minneapolis sound. His music combines rock, R&B, soul, funk, hip hop, disco, psychedelia, jazz, and pop.
Prince was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and developed an interest in music at an early age, writing his first song at age seven. After recording songs with his cousin's band 94 East, 19-year-old Prince recorded several unsuccessful demo tapes before releasing his debut album For You in 1978, under the guidance of manager Owen Husney. His 1979 album Prince went platinum due to the success of the singles "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" and "I Wanna Be Your Lover". His next three records—Dirty Mind (1980), Controversy (1981), and 1999 (1982)—continued his success, showcasing Prince's trademark of prominently sexual lyrics and incorporation of elements of funk, dance, and rock music. In 1984, he began referring to his backup band as The Revolution and released Purple Rain, which served as the soundtrack to his film debut of the same name. A prolific songwriter, Prince in the 1980s wrote songs for and produced work by many other acts, often under pseudonyms.
After releasing the albums Around the World in a Day (1985) and Parade (1986), The Revolution disbanded and Prince released the critically acclaimed double album Sign "O" the Times (1987) as a solo artist. He released three more solo albums before debuting The New Power Generation band in 1991. He changed his stage name in 1993 to an unpronounceable symbol (), also known as the "Love Symbol". He then began releasing new albums at a faster pace to remove himself from contractual obligations to Warner Bros.; he released five records between 1994 and 1996 before signing with Arista Records in 1998. In 2000, he began referring to himself as "Prince" again. He has released 15 albums since then, including his latest, HITnRUN Phase One, which was first released exclusively on the Tidal streaming service on September 7, 2015 before being released on CD on September 15, 2015 by NPG Records.
Prince has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.
He has won seven Grammy Awards,a Golden Globe, and an Academy Award.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, the first year of his eligibility.
Rolling Stone has ranked Prince at number 27 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
Heaven's gift was a Prince. He leaves behind a son.
Atlanta rapper Bankroll Fresh was killed in a senseless shooting.
The hip-hop community mourns the loss of Atlanta rapper Bankroll Fresh (also known as Yung Fresh). He was a rapper from the area who started his label Street Money entertainment. Known as Trentavious White, the rapper was associated with 2 Chainz, Gucci Mane, Waka Flocka Flame and Young Scooter.
He scored a hit with his single "Hot Boy" off the Life of a Hot Boy mixtape. Then he would release the follow-up Life of a Hot Boy 2 and Bankroll Fresh (the Mixtape).
Bankroll Fresh self titled mixtape was released on DatPiff.
While working on another mixtape, Bankroll Fresh got ambushed by unknown assailants outside the Street Execs Studio on Friday.
2 Chainz, Future, Juicy J, Waka Flocka Flame and numerous other Atlanta based entertainers came out with sympathies and demands for justice.
Witnesses were concerned about the studio and the possible outbreak of violence. Some people were complaining that the music was loud into the night and they seen an increase of criminal activity around the neighborhood.
Police told CNN affiliate WSB-TV that they collected more than 50 shell casings inside and outside the studio. A motive for his killing is unknown.
CNN has reached out to Street Execs Studios and the Underwood Hills Neighborhood Association for comment.
World News Today send our condolences to the family of Bankroll Fresh. We also send our condolences to country gospel musician Joey Feek. She passed away of cancer.
Talent god. Kendrick Lamar releases "untitled unmastered" on iTunes today.
Grammy award winning rapper/actor Kendrick Lamar shocks his fans by releasing his new album, "untitled unmastered" on iTunes this evening.
The fifth album from Kendrick Lamar is carried through Top Dawg Entertainment/Aftermath Reocrsd and Interscope Records.
The album cover is just plain as day.
He signed a deal with Apple Music to release his music exclusively.
Spotify release the tracklist. The album is a EP. Kendrick's untitled unmastered. was unexpectedly released on the iTunes store this evening The album spans 34 minutes and features eight untitled tracks, each dated with a specific day, month, and year. These dates indicate that the songs were written and recorded at various points in 2013, 2014, and 2016.
The rapper who follows the political theater of this year election will spare no one on this album.
Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith is proud of Kendrick Lamar. He says that his talent has opened doors to many and his work is "classic".
He hinted that Kendrick Lamar is back in the studio preparing for another masterpiece.
He had an opportunity to meet President Barack Obama at the White House. The president made note of his favorite rappers of modern time. He choose Kendrick Lamar over Drake and J. Cole.
He said that "How Much a Dollar Cost" from the five time Grammy Award winning album To Pimp a Butterfly.
Drake and J. Cole answered the president in orderly fashion.
Congratulations to Kendrick Lamar on his success. World News Today wishes him well on his career to greatness.
