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Jill Scott Announces Summer Tour; Has ‘Mahogany’ Greeting Card Collection
Nicki Minaj Signs Modeling Contract
Mary J. Blige Announces Release Date Of 13th Studio Album
Mary J. Blige has an- nounced that her 13th studio album, Strength of a Woman, will arrive on April 28th. Along with the release date, the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul also revealed the set’s cover art, which we must say is very fitting as she is captured in royalty.
‘Strength of a Woman’ fol- lows Blige’s 2014 effort, The London Sessions, and is headed by the singles “Thick of It” and “U + Me (Love Les- son).” The set will also feature contributions from Hit-Boy, DJ Camper, Jazmine Sul- livan, and Kanye West, who appears on “Love Your- self.”
Judging from the singles released thus far, ‘Strength of
Cover of Mary J. Blige’s new album, ‘Strength Of A Woman’.
a Woman’ will highlight Blige’s rollercoaster divorce from her estranged husband, Kendu Isaacs.
Nicki signs with top modeling agency.
Nicki Minaj is now a proper model. The Queens rapper has signed a modeling contract with Wilhelmina.
As a singer, songwriter, ac- tress, and hip-hop queen, Nicki Minaj has spent her career juggling a multitude of roles, and her latest move brings her into yet another creative sphere—modeling.
Signing to Wilhelmina’s celebrity division, Minaj be- comes the latest star to add professional posing to her repertoire. By joining an agency, she opens up the door for even more opportunities.
Jill Scott will tour 25 cities beginning June 23rd.
Three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-song- writer Jill Scott has just an- nounced a new set of 2017 Summer tour dates.
After more than one year since the release of Scott’s fifth successful studio album, WOMAN, the R&B songstress gears up to hit the road – opening up her first show on June 23rd in Hampton, Vir- ginia at the Hampton Coli- seum.
Jill is set to perform music from her latest album, WOMAN, along with her clas- sic hits.
Recently, Jill introduced an exclusive new greeting card collection in partnership with Hallmark Mahogany. The collection is a series of greet- ing cards that feature design, editorial and sounds all in- spired by and created in like- ness of the Grammy Award-winning singer/song- writer.
Pharrell’s Childhood Story To Be Made Into Musical Called ‘Atlantis’
Fox is about to add another music-centered program to its television lineup.
After American Idol, Glee, Empire, and Star, the net- work is set to air Atlantis.
According to The Holly- wood Reporter, the project is inspired by record producer Pharrell Williams’ child- hood in Virginia Beach, Vir- ginia.
Atlantis is being described as a “Romeo and Juliet style story.”
Tony winner Michael Mayer (Flicka, Smash) is at- tached as a director with Martin Hynes (Toy Story 4, Curious George) on board as a writer.
The 10-time Grammy win- ner and 2-time Oscar nomi-
PHARRELL WILLIAMS
nee appeared as a coach on the music competition TV show The Voice.
Pharrell is also listed as a producer for the films Dope, Hidden Figures, and Rox- anne Roxanne.
Birdman’s Motion To Dismiss Lawsuit Denied
Drake’s ‘More Life’ To Spend 2nd Week In #1 Spot
More Life, the new “playlist” from Drake, opened at #1 on the Bill- board 200 album chart with 505,000 equivalent album units.
HitsDailyDouble predicts the project will spend a sec- ond week in the top spot.
On the traditional album sales side, Drizzy’s latest body of work is looking to sell between 45,000 – 50,000 units in week two.
The Toronto native is in a close race with Metallica, Ed Sheeran, Trey Songz, and the Beauty and the Beast soundtrack for #1 on the Top Album Sales chart.
Other Hip Hop albums looking to remain in the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 this week include Rick Ross’ Rather You Than Me (39 – 43K), Future’s FUTURE (36 – 40K), Migos’ Culture (34 – 38K), Post Malone’s Stoney (24 -27K), and Fu- ture’s HNDRXX (23 – 26K).
Drake Cancelled Show Due To Food Poison- ing; Crowd Throws Drinks
Drake’s cover..More Life
Drake postponed his show in Amsterdam, Netherlands Monday be- cause he got food poisoning after eating sushi.
Drizzy even had to get medical attention for the ill- ness and still wasn’t fit to perform on the Boy Meets World Tour stop.
The crowd was told the show was postponed after waiting for more than an hour for their beloved star and then proceeded to throw drinks onto the stage.
This is the third show he’s had to postpone in the city. The performance is resched- uled to take place Wednes- day, March 29.
Cash Money founder Bryan ‘Birdman’ Williams is facing an- other lawsuit.
Birdman, the Cash Money co-founder has to remain wor- ried about a $300,000 lawsuit regarding unpaid wages to an alleged former employee.
According to The Miami Herald, Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Rodney Smith recently tossed out Bryan William’s motion to have the suit from Javier Nuno dismissed.
Initially, a security guard working at Birdman’s Palm Is- land mansion received the pa- perwork from the process server and Birdman said the procedure wasn’t executed properly.
However, Smith apparently thought it was good enough.
Nuno said he “worked like a dog” and punched in upwards of 70 hours some weeks.
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