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Nas And Lauryn Hill Reunite For Fall Tour
St. Petersburg Native Will
Morris Chestnut’s ‘Rosewood’ Cancelled
Morris Chestnut and cast of ‘Rosewood.’
FOX has given Rosewood the axe after two seasons.
The Morris Chestnut crime drama was moved to Thursdays where it struggled being away from Empire. It was then bumped to Friday in its second season.
Rosewood, from Temple Hill and 20th Century Fox TV, was created by Todd Harthan. It starred Chest- nut as Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr., a charis- matic, pathologist recruited by Miami’s homicide depart- ment and partnered with tough Detective Annalise Villa (Ortiz). Lorraine Toussaint, Gabrielle Den- nis, Anna Konkle, Domenick Lombardozzi, and Eddie Cibrian co- starred.
New York Street Named After Big Pun Closer To Reality
The late rapper, Big Pun died in 2000 from a heart at- tack and respiratory failure.
A group of community members in New York City have their sights set on the im- mortalization of another Hip Hop icon.
The Bronx’s News 12 reports that a group of residents in the borough want to rename 163rd Street after the late Christo- pher Lee Rios better known by his stage name Big Pun (short for Big Punisher).
Big Pun emerged from the underground hip hop scene in The Bronx in the early 1990s. He was the first Latino rapper to have an album certified plat- inum as a solo act.
New York has several streets named after rappers, including Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor Way in Queens, Robert “PH” Diaz Way in Brooklyn, and Hip Hop Boulevard in the Bronx.
Packer And Gabrielle Union
Team Up For Movie ‘Breaking In’
This may be one of the most sought-after tickets going this fall!
As Nas finishes up his new album, he finds time to hit the road with Lauryn Hill as they announce a North Amer- ican trek together.
Kicking off in Chicago on Sept. 7th, the trek will span a little over a month and will wrap in Vancouver on Oct. 11th. The untitled tour will also feature comedian Han- nibal Buress and reggae star Chronixx on selected tour stops.
The two collaborated on the 1996 hip-hop classic “If I
Being Mary Jane star Gabrielle Union is teaming up once again with producer and BMJ executive producer, St. Petersburg native and FAMU grad, Will Packer on an upcoming feature — Breaking In, according to Deadline.
Union will star in and produce the drama which centers on a woman who fights to protect the ones she loves during a home inva- sion.
Breaking In marks Union’s fourth outing as a producer. Packer is gearing up for the release of the all fe- male-led comedy film Girl’s
GABRIELLE UNION AND WILL PACKER
Trip, which arrives in the- aters on July 21.
Union recently starred in and was an exec producer on Will Packer Productions’ hol- iday film Almost Christmas, and also co-starred opposite Jamie Foxx in Sleepless.
NAS AND LAURYN HILL Ruled The World” and Nas
celebrated Hill’s birthday last week.
The two stops in Florida listed so far are: Sept. 22 – Miami, FL @ Bayfront Park Amphitheater and Sept. 23 – Jacksonville, FL @ Daily’s Place.
Social Media Picks Lifetime’s
T. I. And Kevin Hart Collaborating On Comedy Series For Showtime
Michael Jackson Story
After six seasons in the world of reality television, T.I. has graduated to a scripted project. Kevin Hart and Tip are collaborating on a music-based comedy series for Showtime called, The Stu- dio.
The comedian and rapper will executive produce the show through Lionsgate TV. They’re also expected to make guest appearances.
The series, penned by
Everybody Hates Chris
writer Aeysha Carr, follows the day-to-day life and night- time shenanigans of working
‘Searching For Neverland’ Apart
On Monday (May 29), Lifetime aired, Searching for Neverland, a two-hour film chronicling the last three years of Michael Jack- son’s life (as told through the eyes of his two body- guards).
Prior to its Memorial Day debut, Searching for Never- land, hit a music roadblock. Jackson’s estate called the film “unauthorized,” and re- fused to license its owner- ship of MJ’s music catalog, along with “images, video and film.”
Since Lifetime has dealt with similar restrictions be- fore, they worked around the issue with help from Bobby Brown’s “My Prerogative.” In the end, Searching for Neverland, scored 2 million viewers, earning Lifetime it’s second-highest ratings for an
Lifetime aired ‘Searching for Neverland’ on Memorial Day.
original movie in 2017.
But the Twitter reactions may be more entertaining than the film itself. Social media picked the film apart, starting with the actor play-
ing Jackson.
Navi — a professional MJ
impersonator who was born in Trinidad and moved to the U.K. — couldn’t quite shake his British accent.
T.I. AND KEVIN HART
in a recording studio.
It’s unclear when the show
will debut, but this isn’t the first time that the 37-year-old comedian and Atlanta rapper have worked together.
Drake And Ludacris’ 7-Year Beef Is OFFICIALLY Over
When VIEWS won Top Billboard 200 Album at the Billboard Music Awards, Drake used his acceptance speech to send a message of peace to Ludacris.
“Ludacris, we haven’t always seen eye to eye, but I’ve always been a big fan of yours and I got a lot of love for you. I want to let you know that face to face, while I’m still here.”
It was a moment of rec- onciliation for the two rap- pers whose beef started way back in 2010, but Ludacris has since confirmed that the feud had actually already been over for a while.
Speaking to the NY Daily News, Luda said: “Yeah, everything is good. We had a conversation before he even did that.”
DRAKE AND LUDACRIS
The contention began years ago when Drake seemed to call out Luda for stealing flows, an accusation that Luda appeared to re- spond to on “Bada Boom.”
Now it seems as though the men are more likely to do a track together than write about each other passive-ag- gressively.
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