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Member Of Gladys Knight & The Pips, William Guest Dies
William Guest of Gladys Knight And The Pips died on Christ- mas Eve.
Gucci Mane
Star Wars: The Force
Sad news for the soul music community... William Guest, a member of Gladys Knight And The Pips has passed away at age 74.
Guest’s sister-in-law, Dhyana Ziegler, said he died last Thursday in Detroit of con- gestive heart failure.
Guest performed through- out the lifespan of the Grammy-winning group from 1953 to 1989. He performed background vocals on hits such as “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and “Midnight
Train to Georgia.”
Gladys Knight and the Pips were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Apollo Hall of Fame in 2006.
After the group ended, Guest and another member, the late Edward Patten, formed a production company. Guest later served as CEO of Crew Records. He released his autobiography “Midnight Train From Georgia: A Pips Journey” in 2013 with Ziegler.
Gucci Mane mixtape cover.
It’s a mystery how Gucci Mane still manages to drop mixtapes while he’s still locked up. The favored Atlanta rapper is supposed to be out of jail soon, he even made a post on IG that he would be out a bit earlier. However, Guwop man- aged to announce his mixtape East Atlanta Santa 2 would drop around the Holidays. Now, even though it’s later than originally announced, Gucci’s mixtape is finally here. East At- lanta Santa 2 features appear- ances from Post Malone, Young Thug, OG Maco, Waka Flocka, and a plethora of other artists.
Tank Speaks On TGT And Beef Between Tyrese And Ginuwine
TGT (Tyrese, Ginuwine and Tank)
R&B fans had to watch as supergroup TGT imploded on Instagram earlier this month. Tyrese announced the trio was done by suggesting he was moving on with only Tank. Third member Ginuwine fired back by calling Tyrese’s digital breakup a “p*ssy move.”
Tank was asked what went down between Tyrese and Ginuwine, and the “You Don’t Know” crooner did not take sides in the feud.
“What you see is the result of grown men having a conversa- tion. A little bit of it spilled over into the internet which is not cool,” stated Tank. “But it is what it is at this point.”
Tank later added that he is not focused on sustaining TGT at the moment. The Milwau- kee-born performer is currently prepping his next solo album Sex, Love & Pain II scheduled for release on January 22.
Harrison Ford and Chew- bacca.
weekend ever, the showbiz bible reported.
That record was held by Jurassic World with the $106 million that it nabbed in June.
Total gross was $1 billion.
Drops
Awakens Grosses $40M
Holiday Mixtape
On Christmas Day Alone
From Jail
The Disney tale set in a galaxy far, far away has raked in the biggest Christmas Day gross of all time with an esti- mated $40 million on Friday. according to Variety.
The much anticipated movie powered ahead of the previous record holder, Sherlock Holmes, which pulled in $24.6 million in 2009. Now the seventh edition of the iconic space franchise is on track to take in $140 million for its second weekend in re- lease, which will beat the record for biggest second
Will Smith Makes Cover Of Sports Illustrated Ahead Of Movie ‘Concussion’
Will Smith’s cover on Sports Illustrated featured him ahead of the Christmas Day release of the movie Con- cussion.
In the movie, Smith plays Dr. Bennet Omalu, who helped discover CTE and linked it to football-specific head trauma after performing autopsies on deceased Steelers players. The movie chronicles Omalu’s struggle against the NFL as he fought for the league to take notice of the danger he believed the sport presented to players’ brains.
Ben Reiter’s story on Smith and his role in the
Will Smith on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
movie discusses the questions the film raises about the NFL’s handling of concussions and how the game's future could be altered by an acceptance of Omalu’s discovery.
Drake, Kendrick Lamar And Future Top
Hip Hop Sales In 2015
Drake, Kendrick Lamar and Future
Janet Jackson Postpones World Tour To Have Surgery
After 2014 saw no Hip Hop albums cross the platinum selling mark, this year in- cluded several rap LPs that put up nice numbers. New releases from Drake, Future, Kendrick Lamar, and Dr. Dre pushed over 400,000 units with five others crossing the 200,000 mark.
While they were released in late 2014, this year J. Cole’s 2014 Forest Hills Drive (1,072,000) earned a platinum plaque and Nicki Minaj’s The Pinkprint (672,000) earned a gold plaque. Drake’s If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late is the only 2015 Hip Hop album to go platinum.]
Check out the ten best-sell- ing new Hip Hop albums of 2015.
1. Drake – If You’re Read- ing This It’s Too Late (1,121,000)
2. Kendrick Lamar – To
Pimp A Butterfly (755,000)
3. Drake & Future – What A Time To Be Alive (494,000)
4. Dr. Dre – Compton (481,000)
5. Meek Mill – Dreams Worth More Than Money (371,000)
6. Big Sean – Dark Sky Paradise (341,000)
7. Future – DS2 (312,000)
8. A$AP Rocky – At.Long.Last.ASAP (230,000)
9. Fetty Wap – Fetty Wap (222,000)
10. Wale – The Album About Nothing (178,000)
Earlier this year, Janet Jackson announced she’d be reentering the spotlight with the Unbreakable World Tour, which would see her traversing the globe for more than 70 con- certs.
Unfortunately, the tour has since been fraught with multi- ple complications and setbacks. A few months after Jackson, 49, kicked off the tour in Canada in August, her doctor put her on vocal rest, forcing her to reschedule multiple shows.
And, because that’s the way love goes, she did. One of the concerts—originally planned for October 25 at Denver’s Pepsi Center—was rescheduled for January 9, kicking off the 2016 leg of Jackson’s tour. Alas, it was again not meant to be: On Christmas Eve, Jack- son announced via social media that she’d have to post- pone the entire tour due to a mysterious medical ailment.
“I need you to know, I
Janet Jackson performing Sleep during one of her con- cert stops.
learned today, from my doctors that I must have surgery soon,” wrote Jackson. “It breaks my heart to tell you that I am forced to postpone the Un- breakable Tour until the spring.” Jackson didn’t spec- ify why she needed surgery—or whether the procedure is at all related to her earlier vocal rest—but she did ask fans to “please pray for me, my family and our entire company during this difficult time.”
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