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Will Smith And Martin Lawrence Begin Work On ‘Bad Boys 3’
Three weeks after the launch, Soulja Boy’s Soul- jaGame console and hand- helds have been pulled from his online store, in spite of his claim that he inked deals with game publishers.
Prior to pulling the plug on the products, the rapper bragged online that his con- soles come pre-loaded with thousands of games from companies like Nintendo, Sony, Square and Bandai, techcrunch.com re- ports.
But the devices are no longer available on his web- site. What caused him to pull the systems is unknown, but Soulja Boy acknowledged inatweet:“Ihadtobossup,I didn’t have a choice.”
SOULJA BOY
A week prior, he report- edly said in a since-deleted post that his consoles were “legit” and here to stay for the long run.
“For anyone who thinks that Nintendo is going to sue me you’re retarded,” he tweeted. “Nothings going to
happen everything is legit. My console isn’t going any- where trust me.”
As noted by Page Six, news of the consoles being pulled didn’t come as a sur- prise for many gamers. One Twitter user posted, “It was- n’t even his console. Its a Chi- nese knockoff that he bought wholesale.”
“Of course, given Nin- tendo’s history, it seems un- likely that a deal was struck to license titles to what ap- pears to amount to a re- branded emulator,” TechCrunch writes.
GamesRadar reported that the SouljaGame con- soles appeared to be similar to the previously released de- vices from Abernic.
MARTIN LAWRENCE AND WILL SMITH
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have finally begun work on the third Bad Boys film. Following years of rumors and discussion, Smith revealed production has started on the long- awaited follow-up to 2003’s Bad Boys II.
Will Smith hopped on In- stagram to share the good news, posting a picture of a
stack of scripts labeled Bad Boys For Lif3.
“Day 1,” Smith wrote. “I’ll keep you posted.”
Lawrence confirmed his co-star’s announcement by posting a throwback photo of the Bad Boys leading men on Instagram.
“Let’s get to work! #team- martymar #badboysforlife #hustlehard,” he wrote.
Toni Braxton Money Woes Come To Light After Split From Birdman
Soulja Boy Mysteriously Pulling Gaming Console Weeks After Launch
50 Cent Teases ‘Power’ Prequel Based in 1980s New York City
For Power fans who think they’ve seen the end of Kanan Stark, think again!
Show co-creator 50 Cent has released the first teaser for a prequel to the popular street series, tenta- tively titled TGE (The Golden Era).
“Power prequel TGE (The Golden Era) you already know what time I’m on,” the executive producer wrote. “South Side (Big Owen) #le- cheminduroi The return of young Kanan STARZ.”
“The prequel is my spin- off, because I get to come back. I’m dead,” said Fif in an interview with Business Insider. “It gives a chance to
50 Cent (Kanan) and Omari Hardwick (Ghost) of ‘Power’.
show the world where all of these characters grew, so you can see the defining moments develop, the imperfections that people are attracted to at the moment. It’s exciting, man.”
The MC has is also excited
to introduce the world to his highly anticipated BMF se- ries, based on the notorious Black Mafia Family drug or- ganization.
These are just two of the upcoming projects that helped secure 50 his $150 million development deal with Starz.
“The investment we made alongside of Curtis is be- cause it’s of a creative force, a creative businessman and we’re going to get a lot out of this business that we created together,” said Starz CEO Chris Albrecht. “Because there’s obviously a lot of con- sumers attracted to that brand. ”
A breakup and now an issue with personal income taxes.
Those are two major chal- lenges that Toni Braxton is dealing with in the new year, after it was reported that she owes a whole bunch of money to the federal government. The news comes days after her engagement with Bird- man was called off as well.
According to The Blast, the Internal Revenue Service filed a tax lien against Brax- ton on December 4 and said she owed $340,252.99 in back taxes. And in the same week, the site reported, the state of California slapped her with a tax lien for another $116,154.65. All together the singer has to cough up a whopping $456,407.63.
At this point, California and the IRS have told Brax- ton if she doesn’t pay the tax debt quickly they will begin to seize her property.
This is the second tax lien
TONI BRAXTON
the “Un-break My Heart” singer faced in the past year. In March of 2018, the IRS and state of California said she owed back taxes in the amount of $780,808.29.
Plus, the Maryland native filed for bankruptcy in 1996 when her career was still pretty hot and did the same in 2010. In 2014 a judge re- moved much of Braxton’s debt, after she missed a string of shows because of health is- sues related to her lupus con- dition.
Eminem Sold More Albums Than Any Other Artist In 2018
BuzzAngle Music’s annual year-end music report has re- vealed Eminem sold more albums than any other artist in 2018.
According to the data, Slim Shady is at the top of the list with a pure album sales total of 755,027 units. Roughly half of those num- bers are attributed to Kamikaze, Em’s 10th stu- dio album.
South Korean boy band BTS landed in the No. 2 spot with 603,307 total units, while country star Chris Stapleton settled in at No. 3 with 577,287.
Em also ranked at No. 4 in the Total Consumption cate-
EMINEM
gory, trailing behind Drake (No. 1), Post Malone (No. 2) and XXXTENTACION (No. 4).
The Detroit-bred rap be- hemoth succeeded in the streaming category as well.
With more than 2.5 billion streams, he reached the No. 4 spot.
Kamikaze was streamed over 760 million times and debuted at No. 1 on the Bill- board 200 chart following last August’s release.
It also kicked off the highly publicized beef be- tween Em and Machine Gun Kelly. As a result, MGK fired off the “Rap Devil” diss track and Em re- taliated with “Killshot.” The latter marked YouTube’s biggest Hip Hop video debut in the platform’s history.
Kamikaze was ranked at No. 19 on HipHopDX’s Best Albums of 2018 list.
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