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New York State Awards $3.5M Grant Towards
Chance The Rapper To Headline 2020 NBA All-Star Halftime Show In Chicago
Universal Hip Hop Museum
CHICAGO, IL – Chance the Rapper will return home as the headlining performer for this year’s Chicago-set NBA All-Star halftime show.
Chicago news station WGN9 reports that fellow Chi- Town rapper Common will also perform. According to the outlet, Common will speak about what basketball means to the city before announcing the All-Star rosters, while Chance and some “guests” will perform a medley of hits.
Chance The Rapper’s younger brother, Taylor Bennett, will also perform at the Rising Stars game on Feb-
BRONX, NY – The State of New York has reportedly made a hefty donation toward making the Universal Hip Hop Museum (UHHM) a real- ity. According to The New York Post, Governor An- drew Cuomo announced on Thursday (December 19) the state awarded a $3.5 million grant to the cause.
The museum’s director, Rocky Bucano, explained the museum will celebrate the four elements of Hip Hop cul- ture: breaking, graffiti, DJing and MCing.
“The museum is part of the renaissance of the Bronx,” Bucano said. “The Bronx is coming back, but the museum will be of the people and for the people.”
The UHHM will occupy 50,000 square feet in the res-
KHRIS MIDDLETON AND CHANCE THE RAPPER
KURTIS BLOW
idential and retail project by L+M Development Partners called Bronx Point, which is located north of the 145th Street bridge along the Harlem River in the Bronx.
ruary 14. He and Chance are set to partner with the NBA
and Chicago Bulls, serving as 2020 All-Star ambassadors.
Jay-Z Outdid Himself With This $2.2 Million Patek Philippe
Drake Debuts New Look, Finally Gets His Ears Pierced For Real
The Patek Philippe Grand- master Chime 6300G on Jay- Z’s wrist is a very special watch. Made out of white gold, sporting a reversible case with a black dial on one side and white on the other, it cost $2.2 million when it was first re- leased in 2016. It was only the second evolution of Patek’s Grandmaster Chime, one of the most souped-up watches in the world: it has 20 complica- tions, including the ability to delightfully chirp out the time every quarter-hour (known as a Grande Sonnerie); tell the wearer what phase the moon is
JAY-Z, DIDDY AND JAY-Z’S WATCH
in; and keep the exact date all the way until the year 2100.
The latest Grandmaster Chime, known as the 6300A, is
the only one of its kind in exis- tence and set the world record for an amount paid for a time- piece by a mile in November.
Meek Mill Hosts Holiday Toy Drive For Over 3,500 Philly Kids
Drake has completed his fly-boy look with something folks thought he would've had done years ago ... getting his ears pierced.
Otniel Pichardo, who's the owner of Atlanta Ink -- a tattoo and piercing studio in the ATL -- tells reporters ... Drake's team called up their
shop Friday night out of the blue and requested Otniel and the crew come to Drake's hotel in Buckhead, Atlanta for a personal session. Apparently, the rapper's camp did a quick Google search of the best piercers in the area, and Atlanta Ink came up close to the top in the results.
MEEK MILL AND THE DREAMCHASERS
DRAKE AND OTNIEL
Meek Mill and the DreamChasers hosted their second annual holiday toy giveaway in the rapper's North Philadelphia neighborhood Saturday.
The event, hosted at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Recre- ation Center, provided toys to over 3,500 kids in need. The Dreamchasers rapper—along with the Sixers' Trey Burke, Philly rapper Shawn Smith, heavyweight boxer Darmani Rock, and dirt biker Chino
Braxton—handed out bikes, video games, art kits, board games and much more. He also raffled off 10 Xboxes and
tickets to 76ers games. Meek partnered with PUMA, Activi- sion, GoPuff, and Docuvault for the event.
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