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Percy Sledge Dies
Drake Announces ‘Jungle Tour’
Future will be on tour again with Drake.
Drake has announced that he is heading out on a six-date tour featuring Future.
For the “Jungle Tour,” the 6 God is heading to Houston on May 24th and then passing through Detroit, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto and then wraps up in New York at the Governor’s Ball on June 5th.
The “Honest” rapper also accompanied Drizzy on his “Would You Like A Tour?” in 2013 after the two called a truce after Future was kicked off the tour for making com- ments about Drake’s Noth- ing Was The Same album.
Pharrell Becomes Style Director For Woolworths
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Pharrell has yet another day job. Besides being a coach on NBC’s The Voice and hav- ing a partnership with adidas, he has been appointed as the style director of sustainabil- ity-focused projects in South Africa, BBC reports.
“Williams is a global icon for social cohesion, advance- ment through education and environmental awareness,” said Ian Moir, the CEO of Woolworths, at a press confer- ence in Johannesburg.
For one of the sustainabil- ity-focused projects, students will have the chance to partic- ipate in a t-shirt design com- petition where they will use recycled plastic waste for the designs. Pharrell will then pick his favorites to be sold in Woolworths stores. In Sep- tember, the Grammy-award winner will also host a concert where South African students will be chosen to sing with him.
Skateboard P is also col- laborating with MySchool to raise $100,000 for South African schools.
‘Furious 7" Tops $800 Million Globally In Less Than 2 Weeks
Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker and Lu- dacris in “Furious 7.”
Soul singer Percy Sledge, who is best known for his hit “When A Man Loves A Woman,” died Tues- day morning (Apr.14) of liver failure, according to pub- lished reports. The 74-year- old was receiving hospice care in Baton Rouge, LA.
Sledge was working as a nurse when he first recorded his 1966 song “When A Man Loves A Woman” that would eventually grow into a smash hit and land in the no.1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
He continued to tour dur- ing the ’70s and was recog- nized when Bette Midler covered his first hit in 1979 and again when Michael Bolton re-recorded it in
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1983. Sledge was inducted into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.
He later released an album, The Gospel of Percy Sledge, in 2013. According to BBC, Sledge had surgery for his liver cancer in 2014 and later resumed touring.
Sledge is survived by his wife and children.
“Furious 7" shot past the $800 million mark globally after less than two weeks in theaters.
Its performance essen- tially insures that it will be- come the first film in the “Fast and Furious” franchise and the first Universal Pic- tures release in history to top $1 billion.
“Furious 7" easily topped foreign box office charts, picking up $195 million from 22,000 locations across 66 territories. Its international total stands at $548 million through Sunday. Domesti- cally, “Furious 7" earned $60.6 million, besting all
comers, and bringing its Stateside total to $252.5 mil- lion.
'Furious 7' Soundtrack Speeds To No. 1 On Billboard 200 Chart
The Furious 7 soundtrack album drives to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, as the multi-artist compilation jumps 2-1 in its fourth week on the chart (dated April 25).
The set moved 111,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 12 (up 51 percent), according to Nielsen Music.
Other Man That Suge Knight Ran Over Won’t ‘Snitch’
CLE SLOAN
The other man that was injured in Suge Knight’s fatal hit-and-run refused to identify him as the man who ran him over, ABC reports.
“I will not be used to send Suge Knight to prison,” Cle “Bone” Sloan said at a pre- liminary hearing Monday (Apr.13).
Sloan, who is advising the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton, said he only took the stand because he was subpoenaed. He claims that he does not want to be a “snitch.”
“Every day, I tried to for-
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get it,” he said. “I just know, I screwed up, and Terry’s dead.”
Sloan suffered fractured ankles, a shoulder injury, a cut on his head and two torn ligaments in his knees in the hit-and-run that left Terry Carter dead.
The judge is trying to de- termine whether there is enough evidence to take Knight to trial for murder, attempted murder and hit- and-run charges. The former CEO is facing life in prison and is being held on $25 mil- lion bail.
Nelly Fallout: Concert At College Cancelled
A Nelly concert sched- uled for next week at Mis- souri State University has been canceled days after he was arrested in Tennessee on suspicion of drug possession.
Missouri State officials announced the cancellation Tuesday in a statement but did not give a reason. The rapper was scheduled to per- form in Springfield on April 23.
Nelly, whose real name is Cornell Hayes, was ar- rested Saturday by the Ten- nessee Highway Patrol. The patrol said in a news release that investigators found five rocks that tested positive for methamphetamine, a small amount of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and numerous handguns on the rapper’s bus.
His attorney, Scott Rosenblum, said in a state- ment that Nelly will “not be associated with the contra- band” once the facts come out.
Nelly gave a statement saying, “I feel the need to take responsibility for my choices in needing to be more aware of all the people I associate
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with and allow onto my pro- perty. While my instinct of course, is to be accessible to my friends, fans and acquain- tances, the last thing I would want to do is compromise the respect and admiration of my friends, family and fans.”
According to reports, up to 20 other people had access to Nelly’s tour bus. That number apparently included individuals Nelly was not fa- miliar with.
Some of the people that Nelly does include in his inner circle are returning to BET next month. Season two of the reality series Nel- lyville begins May 5. The show documents Nelly and his family.
Nelly was released from Putnam County Jail on $10,000 bond.
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