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Young Thug To Get His Own Wine
Young Thug is joining the likes of Rick Ross and G Herbo to pair up with liquor brand Belaire, and will debut with a new line of rosé.
In an interview with Vogue, Thugger announced his partnership with the Euro- pean retailer and their plans to launch Belaire Luxe Rosé. “I’ve been friends with Brett Berish [CEO of Sov- ereign Brands for Luc Be- laire] for a while, and we’ve been talking about doing something together for a cou- ple years and then we finally linked up," the Atlanta rapper explains. He also shouted out
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Belaire for supporting the hip-hop culture since Rozay became their first rap ambas-
sador in 2015.
"As a businessman, I took
a look at the fact that I was drinking other people’s stuff who really don’t care nothing about us and never cared to support us," the Slime Lan- guage rhymer adds. Accord- ing to the brand, Belaire Luxe Rosé is a blend of Syrah, Grenache, and Cinsault grapes mixed with oak-aged Syrah and is expected to be sold in a crystal bottle.
In promotion of the French sparkling wine blend, Thugger tapped Ross and DJ Khaled for a comical commercial.
Aretha Franklin’s Partner And Sons Fight For Her $80M
Aretha Franklin and two of her sons.
Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin broke her fans’ hearts when she died on Thursday, August 16, inside her Detroit home after years of battling cancer.
But now, hours after her death, a source has learned the late singer’s partner and sons will fight for her $80 million fortune!
The pair got engaged in 2012 but Franklin’s sons quickly became worried that the man in their mother’s life would want to steal their hefty inheritance.
Franklin soon called off their wedding, but continued
her relationship with Wilk- erson.
“Aretha finally listened to her boys,” a source told the ENQUIRER.
The superstar was a mo- ther to sons Clarence, 63, Edward, 61, Ted White, Jr., 54, and Kecalf Cun- ningham, 48.
“Her sons have all been in- volved in her career,” a family insider told Radar, who added they’ll fight tooth and nail to keep their mother’s money in the family.
But a source close to Wilkerson told Radar he believes it’s only fair he re- ceive a portion of her estate.
Wyclef Jean Receives Key To The City Of Brooklyn
Though Wyclef Jean has been rather mum on the music end in 2018, the tremendous strides he's made over the course of his nearly 30-year career have not gone unnoticed.
Brooklyn Borough Presi- dent Eric L. Adams awarded Wyclef his key to the city on behalf of the bor- ough and its 2.6 million resi- dents last Thursday (Aug. 16). Brooklyn is one of the many stomping grounds the Haitian-born rapper grew up in as a child. After relocating
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to New Jersey in his teens, Wyclef went on to form the legendary Fugees collective and has since won multiple
awards for their musical ef- forts, as well as his own solo projects and business ven- tures.
Shortly after receiving the award at the annual Wingate Concert Series, the revered hip-hop artist made a state- ment to the press. “I accept this key for the forgotten. If you can make it in Brooklyn, you can make it anywhere.” His wife and daughter, Claudinette and Angelina Jean, were also in atten- dance as he accepted the hon- orary key.
Date Set For Aretha Franklin's Funeral In Detroit
‘Respect’ Didn’t Pay Aretha Franklin Much Due To Copyright Law
It was Aretha Franklin’s first No. 1 hit, the cry of em- powerment that has defined her for generations: “Re- spect.”
But for the roughly 7 mil- lion times the song has been played on American radio stations, she was paid noth- ing.
When Franklin died Thursday at age 76, fans cele- brated the song all over again as a theme for the women’s rights movement. But in the music industry, “Respect” has also played a symbolic role in a long fight over copyright is- sues that, advocates say, have deprived artists like Franklin of fair royalty pay- ments.
Under an aspect of copy- right law that has long irked the record business, Ameri- can radio stations pay only the writers and publishers of a song, not the artists who perform them. “Respect” was written by Otis Redding, who sang it as a man’s de- mand for recognition from his wife. Franklin turned
A sign in memory of Aretha Franklin is displayed at Cobo Cen- ter in Detroit on Thursday.
the song upside down — or right-side up — and took it to heights Redding never dreamed of.
But every time the song is played on the radio, Red- ding’s estate — he died in a 1967 plane crash — has been paid. Franklin never was.
Efforts to change the law go back decades, with “Re- spect” often held up by the music industry as Exhibit A for why it was unfair. But broadcasters, a powerful lob- bying group, have success- fully argued that performers already benefit from the pro- motion they receive from radio play.
“Some recordings more clearly highlight the inequity of the laws, and ‘Respect’ is one of the best examples,” said Mitch Glazier, presi- dent of the Recording Indus- try Association of America, a trade group representing the major labels.
In recent years, “Respect” has also become a battle song in a fight over digital rights. Laws passed in the 1990s let performing artists collect royalties from internet and satellite radio, but songs were exempt if they were recorded before a change in federal copyright law took effect in 1972.
Aretha Franklin and a memorial that has been set up in her honor.
Aretha Franklin’s fu- neral will be held on 31 Au- gust in her home town of Detroit, her publicist has said.
The late singer’s represen- tative, Gwendolyn Quinn, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying that the fu- neral at the city’s Greater Grace Temple would be lim- ited to her family and friends.
Franklin will be laid to rest at Woodlawn Cemetery, where her father, the preacher, Rev. C. L. Frank- lin, her sisters, Carolyn and Erma, her brother, Cecil and nephew, Thomas are also buried.
The singer, 76, who was known as the Queen of Soul, died of pancreatic can- cer on Thursday.
During a career that spanned seven decades, she
became known for songs such as Respect, I Say A Lit- tle Prayer and Chain Of Fools.
Barack Obama, his wife, Michelle and the singers Sir Elton John and Sir Paul McCartney were among those to pay tribute to Franklin.
In a joint statement, the Obamas said: “Through her compositions and unmatched musicianship, Aretha helped define the American experience.
Franklin performed at President Obama’s inau- guration in 2009.“In her voice, we could feel our his- tory, all of it and in every shade, our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemp- tion and our hard-won re- spect.”
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