Category: Music News

50 Cent has revealed he once turned down an incredibly lucrative record deal because of the label’s connection to former Murder Inc. executive Irv Gotti. In a recent interview, the G-Unit head honcho revisited his decision to pass on a $1.3 million offer from Universal Music Group as a strategic business move to keep Gotti …

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Gunna‘s plans to distribute $100K in gift cards at an Atlanta-area charity event in partnership with Goodr have been halted due to security concerns. On Saturday (December 17), the City of South Fulton Police Department posted an information release to its Facebook page announcing the cancellation of the event. “As we had been working with …

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2Pac’s stepfather Dr. Mutulu Shakur has been released from prison a little over one month after being granted parole due to a terminal cancer diagnosis. According to Dr. Shakur’s website, the former Black Liberation Army leader walked out of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility outside of New York City on Friday morning (December 18). He …

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Tory Lanez’s attorneys have called their first witness, an expert who testified that his DNA was not found in the gun used to shoot Megan Thee Stallion. On Friday (December 16) Forensic scientist Marc Scott Taylor told the court that Tory Lanez’s DNA was not found on the magazine of the gun, and that tests done …

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Young Thug‘s lawyer has issued a statement as YSL artists Lil Duke and SlimeLife Shawty became the latest to accept plea deals in the crew’s ongoing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations case. The two up-and-coming rappers became the third and fourth defendants arrested under the sweeping YSL indictment in May to be released this week …

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