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Lawsuit Filed Over Tupac Merchandise
The Isley Brothers And Santana Announce Release Of Joint Album
Santana (Carlos San- tana and Cindy Blackman Santana) and The Isley Brothers (Ronald and Ernie) announce the release of joint album Power Of Peace, a new studio album coming Friday, August 4th on Legacy Recordings, a division of Sony Music Entertain- ment.
Recorded in 2016, Power of
Peace sees Santana and
The Isleys collabing on cov-
ers of timeless soul, funk,
blues, rock, jazz and pop clas-
sics. Ron Isley, Carlos and Cindy Santana and Ernie Isley.
TLC Releases First Video In 14 Years
Two big-box clothing retail- ers are accused of ripping off images of Tupac Shakur for a new line of shirts.
Urban Outfitters and For- ever 21 have been slapped with a lawsuit by photographer Danny Clinch, who shot im- ages of Tupac Shakur for Rolling Stone in 90’s.
The legal issues started when
Amaru/AWA Merchandising
entered into an agreement with two companies, Bioworld Merchandising and Planet Productions, to use the photos on a line of T-shirts.
The photos and the T-shirts were eventually licensed to Urban Outfitters and Forever 21.
The problem is, Tupac’s company never had the origi- nal rights to license the photo- graph in the first place, according to Danny Clinch’s
Tupac Shakur
lawsuit.
Danny Clinch is seeking
over $600,000 in damages, and he is also asking the court to order the destruction of any infringing merchandise that may be left.
TLC’s Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas have re- leased a new music video for their single “Way Back”.
The LCR$-directed video is the group’s first visual accom- paniment for a single in 14 years. Their last video was 2003’s “Damaged” directed by Joseph Kahn.
“Way Back” also marks TLC’s first single in 15 years. The third original member of the iconic 90s-era girl group, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, passed away in 2002. Their
Moonlight Star To Appear In Irv Gotti’s BET Scripted Series, ‘Tales’
One of the stars in movie blockbuster ‘Moonlight’, Jharrel Jerome will participate in an episode of Tales.
Chili and T-Boz are finally rolling, with new video.
new album will debut on June 30.
Remy Ma May Be Beefing With Nicki Minaj, But Shows She Respects Other Femcees
Newly scripted series Tales found a home at BET, and will premiere this coming June 27. Spear- headed by Murder Inc. founder Irv Gotti, Tales delves into classic and contemporary hip-hop songs, through story-telling and lyri- cal play.
Ahead of its highly antici- pated debut, Moonlight’s Jharrel Jerome announces he’s been tapped to participate in the episode centered on a classic Slick Rick cut.
Tales is an anthology series which means every episode has a new cast and storyline.
Remy Ma performs with Queen Latifah and MC Lyte and got her fel- low female rappers to join her. Some of them included Lil Kim, Young M.A., and Cardi B.
Remy Ma made a statement at Hot 97’s Summer Jam 2017. The Bronx spitter used the concert to show love to the fe- male Hip Hop stars that came before her as well as the next
generation of femcees. During her set, Rem
brought out legends Lil Kim and Queen Latifah.
She also allowed newcomers
Young M.A. and Cardi B to run through music.
In addition, attendees at Summer Jam got to witness the return of MC Lyte, Rah Digga, The Lady Of Rage, and Monie Love.
The women were seen backstage conversing and tak- ing pictures together as well.
Besides uniting the ladies for that historic moment, Rem took more shots at her rival Nicki Minaj by performing the “Shether” diss track.
Her performance came just days after Nicki was heard throwing more shots at Remy Ma on a snippet of 2 Chainz’s “Realize.”
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