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Ice Cube Gets Allen Iverson To Join BIG3 League As Player/Coach
Former NBA superstar, Allen Iverson and Ice Cube.
Drake Drops $100K For
Chris Brown And Soulja Boy Fight Moved To Dubai?
Chris Brown Vs. Soulja Boy in Dubai. Soulja Boy has stayed in the media with his numerous beefs. Now it’s gone to a new level.
Gift For J Lo
Ice Cube adds another star to his BIG3 basketball league as Allen Iverson jumps on as a player and coach, The Vertical reports.
The 11-time All Star also shared the news on his Insta- gram account, posing with Ice Cube for a photo and promising big things.
When I got the call, it was a no-brainer,” Iverson said in the official press conference, which the rapper streamed on Facebook Live. “It’s Ice Cube. It’s O’Shea. You don’t turn that down. That’s suc- cess looking you right into
your eyes. I just wanted to be apartofitandIhopeme being a part of it makes it a success like everything that he’s been doing in his life.”
The Answer will serve as a head coach for one of the eight teams in the three-on- three league and will play as well.
Other players announced as part of BIG3 include Chauncey Billups, Kenyon Martin and Jer- maine O’Neal. Former Los Angeles Laker star Gary Payton has signed on as a coach.
Fans and social media trolls feel the relationship between the two is fake.
According to E! News, the Canadian superstar just dropped $100,000 on a plat- inum and diamond Tiffany Victoria necklace for J-Lo.
Despite the IG photos of the couple booed up, and Drizzy’s lavish gift, the inter- net remains skeptical of the relationship between the two musicians.
Fans aren’t the only ones leery of the romance between Drake and Jenny From The Block.
At the top of this year, an in- sider revealed to Page Six that the relationship between the two is just a ploy to sell records.
“This relationship is fake, it is just a publicity stunt to pub- licize their record together,” the source said. “If Jennifer and Drake were really dating, they’d be way more private about it.”
Chris Brown and Soulja Boy are ready to take their beef into the boxing ring, and they’re headed to Dubai to do
it. Originally, the plan was to hold the fight in Las Vegas, but they ran into a few snags be- cause of rules and regulations that would have prevented the fight from happening, includ- ing a mandatory drug test for amateurs who want to fight.
So, the two of them are tak- ing their show overseas. Their first choice of locations is
Dubai, and they plan to put the whole thing on Pay-Per-View.
After all, even though these two really do dislike each other and honestly want to knock each other senseless, they can both agree on one thing: they’d love to make plenty of money off of the whole thing.
Both of them have talked about making this a charity event, and it’s expected to rake in millions of dollars, but some of that, of course, will go to the participants.
Rick Ross ‘Buying Back The Block’ In His Hometown
Rick Ross standing in front of the Checkers franchise he now owns.
Judge Throws Out Infringement Lawsuit By Syl Johnson Against Eric B And Rakim
Eric B And Rakim were sued by Syl Johnson
Before Rick Ross was “The Boss,” he was posted up at a local car wash at 13 years old, making a mere $30 per day for every 12-hour shift he religiously worked.
Since then, the 40-year-old Maybach Music Group mogul has secured several Wingstop locations across the nation and also recently final- ized a deal with Checkers restaurant franchise.
In a nearly four-minute video from UPROXX, the Miami-bred rapper and en- trepreneur recalls playing
high school football, in addi- tion to clarifying why he de- cided to buy into Checkers. All of this in the spirit of his “Buy Back the Block” single.
“What made me come back and buy Checkers, I had a lot of reasons,” he explains in the video. “Providing jobs, invest- ing back into the community, staying in touch with where you’re from. We can come back and say that a piece of this is ours. Carol City, the city of Miami, is going to be proud.”
Hip-Hop group Eric B. and Rakim and Universal Music Group have emerged victorious in a copyright in- fringement/forgery lawsuit lodged by soul musician Syl Johnson.
Syl Johnson filed a law- suit against the group in May of 2015, claiming they stole his 1968 track “I Feel An Urge” and used it illegally in their classic hip-hop single “Juice (Know The Ledge).”
The legal action was part of a pair of lawsuits in which Syl claimed record labels like Universal, La Face, Sony Music and Warner Music had cheated him out of his royal- ties for the samples which he said have appeared on over 300 records and in video games, movies, DVD’s and other formats.
Syl claimed someone had forged his name on a 2015 settlement agreement, which
SYL JOHNSON
would have allowed him to continue sueing a number of artists who have sampled “I Feel An Urge” and his other single, “Different Strokes.”
The younger crowd may know Johnson from his ap- pearances on Reality TV with his estranged daughter, singer, and R&B Divas ATL, Syleena.
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