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New Season Of ‘Empire’ Airs Wednesday With New Music Producers/Songwriters
Tamar Braxton Reveals Details Of Her Solo
Tribute Concert For Prince Set For October 13th In Minnesota
Timbaland is out; Rodney Jerkins and Ester Dean Are In
For two seasons, Timba- land provided the musical score for FOX’s “Empire,” but now, two other musical heavy- weights are moving in.
Timbo is stepping down as music supervising producer and Rodney Jerkins is step- ping in. Hitmaking songwriter Ester Dean is also stepping in to provide the lyrical con- tent.
Senior VP of A&R for Co- lumbia Records, Shawn Hol- iday, told Billboard, “Rodney is a dynamic, multi- format producer experienced in urban, rhythmic and pop. And Dean excels at writing big songs with catchy hooks.”
“We were happy to work with Timbaland during the first two seasons,” Holiday added.“But we wanted to take a different approach for season 3.
Tamar Braxton was abruptly fired from ‘The Real’ and is now being featured in her own talk show.
Tamar Braxton and her sis- ters attended an event called “New Thinking – New World Saturday” in Atlanta where she revealed the name of her up- coming talk show and its tenta- tive premiere time.
Braxton announced that her new talk show will be called the The Tamar Braxton Show and is slated to air in September 2017.
Tamar got the boot from day- time talk show The Real this summer after rumors and spec- ulation of bad blood between her co-hosts and her alleged diva attitude. Steve Harvey took Tamar under his wing and signed her to his production company to have her own show.
Ex-Basketball Wife Only Inviting 1 Castmate To Wedding
Former Basketball Wives star, Evelyn Lozada is marry- ing star baseball player, Carl Crawford.
Long gone are the days when Evelyn Lozada brought the drama on Basketball Wives.
The mom of two stopped by VH1 Live with Marc Lamont Hill and confirmed that she and fiance, MLB star Carl Craw- ford, have indeed set a wedding date. But it wouldn’t be Ev with- out a little shade thrown. When asked which of the Basketball Wives LA stars are not invited to her wedding, she admitted, “All of them except Shaunie (O’Neal).”
The tea spilling didn’t stop there. Marc asked Evelyn if she’d consider coming back to the show that made her famous, to which she replied, “Never say never. If they [no shade to the ladies] change half the cast, maybe I’ll make another ap- pearance.”
Prince will be honored by multiple artists.
turing Morris Hayes plus members of 3RDEYEGIRL.
Star Studded Line-Up Planned For African American Museum Opening
Mary J. Blige, Usher and Gladys Knight
Tupac Was Planning Feud
We dealt a lot with family drama in the first season through songs like ‘Good Enough’ when Lucious Lyon threw his son Jamal in the trash can. That was a very emotional music moment.
So we’re going for the same success with upcoming songs like ‘Mama,’ about Cookie being the backbone of the fam- ily, and a duet with Mariah Carey and Jussie Smol- lett,” he said.
Season 3 of ‘Empire’ airs Wednesday on FOX.
Lil Wayne’s qualms against Birdman grow and grow and now he is saying that his father figure blew $70 mil- lion that is unaccounted for, according to court documents obtained by TMZ.
The money reportedly came from Universal Music Group’s $100 million advance for Young Money’s distribution deal. According to Young Money’s contract with Cash Money, Weezy and the Bird- man were partners and were both responsible for the money. Wayne is claiming that the rap mogul spent $70 million on royalties, marketing and recording expenses, but never provided proof.
Baby has supposedly turned over 22,015 pages of documents to Tunechi’s
Money will divide a family: Lil Wayne and Birdman in better times.
team in the ongoing $51 mil- lion lawsuit that Wayne filed after claiming that the CEO was withholding the release of Tha Carter V. But none of those poor shredded up trees have any indication of where the $70 million went.
Talk Show
Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Luke James, Bilal, Mint Condi- tion, and others are among the artists who will honor Prince at his official tribute concert next month in St. Paul, Minnesota at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center in his hometown.
This is the highly-anticipated concert organized by the late musician’s family and estate.
The concert is being called
Prince: The Official Prince Trib- ute — A Celebration of Life and Music is set for Oct. 13th.
The lineup also includes Mor- ris Day & the Time, Judith Hill and Liv Warfield, the New Power Generation fea-
Lil Wayne Claims Birdman Spent
$70M; Now It’s Unaccounted For
Mary J. Blige, Usher, Gladys Knight and many others have been tapped to christen the opening of the Na- tional Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington. D.C.
ABC announced last Wednesday (Sept 14) the line- up of stars who will perform for “Taking the Stage – Changing America,” a two- hour TV special to be filmed on Sept 23 at Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Other stars to perform include Jamie Foxx, Christina
Aguilera, NeYo, Common, Dave Grohl with go-go band Trouble Funk, Patti Austin, Gary Clark Jr., The Howard Gospel Choir, and The Alvin Ailey Dancers.
Dignitaries, athletes, and artists will attend “Taking the Stage,” which will highlight and celebrate African Ameri- can contributions to the world. The special will air sometime during the 2016-2017 season on ABC. Quincy Jones is one of the executive-producers, along with Don Mischer.
Shortly before his death, Tupac Shakur was on the verge of creating a genre-shift- ing record, according to vet- eran actor Bokeem Woodbine.
The Emmy-nominated thes- pian, who also starred in ‘Pac’s “I Ain’t Mad at Cha” music video, says the late rap- per shared the details of the record while they were on set filming of the All Eyez on Me single.
He explained that the record, which Tupac in- formed him to keep secret, would have featured the No- torious B.I.G., Mobb Deep, and other East Coast- ers, and may have put an end to their beef.
“He had a plan to put every- body together on one record and just squash the beef,” Woodbine said in a new in- terview with The Fader. “He wanted to take the power away
Tupac and Biggie were once very good friends. Bokeem Woodbine was asked to keep the album secret.
from the labels that were ex- ploiting the situation. It an- gered him that they were profiting; he wanted to stop the cash flow. It wasn’t some- thing I was supposed to tell people about, you know what I’m saying? I honored that, and I just waited for that record to come out. But unfor- tunately, as you know, it never did.”
Ending Record With Biggie
Before He Was Murdered
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