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Snoop Dogg Debuted New Album Friday
David Banner Sets Record Straight About Standoff At D.C. Restaurant
David Banner appeared on the Rickey Smiley Show to talk about the incident.
Rapper, activist and actor David Banner was in the headlines recently after he was arrested in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. Sitting down with The Rickey Smiley Show, Banner shared details on the shocking arrest and much more in a revealing interview.
The early reports on Ban- ner’s arrest on June 12 at the Ozio Restaurant & Lounge venue were said to be because of a stand-off between him and a bouncer who refused to let a member of his team inside. Ac- cording to Banner, it wasn’t a dispute over club entry at all.
“It was never about getting into a club,” said Banner to host HeadKrack. “I can buy a club. I was out with my friend, Andre, he’s he’s a doctor.”
Banner says that he was at Ozio with his friends to cele- brate a birthday. Just as his group was ready to enter, they were denied entry by a bouncer due to the size of their party, which Banner says was about six in total. Without making a fuss, Banner says he followed the bouncer’s instructions, but leaned in to speak with another Black security person saying that it looked suspect that a white woman was running com- mand of the security team with a club that serves mostly Black patrons.
The rapper adds that the woman came over and screamed at him, and he vocally retaliated which prompted the bouncer from before to confront him. Banner claims that while he did use profanity at the woman and bouncer, he didn’t threaten them and maintained they both disrespected him and his party.
Banner did confirm that “he got hype” and threw money and his credit cards at the bouncer and unnamed woman, after which local police stepped in to quell the situation.
Kid Cudi is all about break- ing boundaries and so is Phar- rell, so it only makes sense the two of them were cooking up something special together.
This news comes courtesy of Cudi's Twitter feed.
"Got some magic from Phar- rell lastnite. New collabs, new energy, new frequency," he says.
He also addresses his forth- coming album, Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin', saying that he will announce the project's drop date soon.
Cudi has also said he's preparing to drop a second album this year.
Snoop Dogg fans can re- joice, as the legend debuted his COOLAID album a few days ahead of its July 1 release.
Uncle Snoop shares his 14th solo LP via Apple Music, complete with 20 new songs, including Wednesday reveals “Legend” and the title track “Coolaid.” Wiz Khalifa, E- 40, Too $hort, and Jeremih are among the guest artists. As if that weren’t enough, the Doggfather waxes poetic over production from the late J Dilla, Just Blaze, Swizz Beatz, Nottz, and many more.
The cover of Snoop Dogg’s new album ‘COOLAID’.
Kid Cudi and Pharrell
After the mixed reviews of his alternative album, Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven, Scott Mes- cudi is reportedly getting back into rap with his upcoming projects.
Lil Wayne’s Prison Memoir To Be Released Soon
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Lil Wayne’s long-delayed prison memoir is finally being released. Titled Gone Til No- vember, the 176-page book is due in stores in October.
Reports Billboard:
The rapper’s autobiography was first publicized in early 2012, and was scheduled for re- lease in November of that year through Grand Central Pub- lishing, a division of Hachette Book Group.
Penguin has described the 176-page book as a “deeply per- sonal and revealing account of his time spent incarcerated on Rikers Island for eight months in 2010.”
Wayne’s journals detail his thoughts and feelings, the peo- ple he met, his plans, his fam- ily, his children, his past and
Suicidal In New Book
Talks About Being
LILL WAYNE
his future.
Is it too soon to speculate
that the book is being released because Weezy could use the cash?
Darryl “DMC” McDaniels of iconic Hip-Hop group Run- DMC has many layers to his life and he’s revealing more of them in his new book Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide.
DMC has been very open about his life post-rap. In 2004 he allowed VH1’s cameras to follow him as he sought to meet his biological mother for the first time. Ironically, he discov- ered that he was adopted when he began talking to his parents while writing a first draft of his memoir. Fast-forward to now DMC has picked up the pen again to finish what he started. The final result is his memoir Ten Ways Not To Commit Sui- cide.
He sat down with PEOPLE Magazine to talk about some of the events discussed in the book. He reveals that he was a
Darryl DMC McDaniels of Run DMC.
shy kid and started drinking young to boost his confidence and that the drinking acceler- ated as he became famous from being in Run-DMC.
Kid Cudi Says He Is Collaborating With Pharrell
Marc Lamont Hill Is VH1’s New Late Night Host
Marc Lamont Hill Is VH1’s New Late Night Host
Apple In Discussions To Buy Jay Z’s Tidal App
VH1 is entering the late- night talk show market and Marc Lamont Hill is their guy. The popular politics and entertainment commentator is the host of VH1 Live.
The CNN commentator will anchor the weekly series, called VH1 Live. The show, produced by Embassy Row (Watch What Happens Live, Talking Dead), will deliver pop culture spin on entertain- ment news and gossip. The se- ries debuts Sunday, July 17 at 10 p.m.
The deal keeps Hill in the Viacom fold after serving as a BET News host. The VH1 show
will see the Ivy League edu- cated host infuse his opinions and wit with what’s billed as a “raw street savvy ” approach to the subject matter.
Hill entered much of Amer- ica’s consciousness as being the only young Black male to be a talking head on Fox News.
Some of you may still re- member him from that time he got into one of the first Twitter wars ever when he had a back and forth with Slim Thug.
Marc Lamont Hill is a regular on HipHop- Wired.com’s Black Twitter 100.
Mogul Jay Z is in discussion with Tidal.
If you can’t beat ’em, buy ’em. Apple is in discussions with Tidal about acquiring its music streaming app, which offers ex- clusives and early releases from big artists like Beyonce and Kanye West. The Wall Street Journal reports that the talks are still early and might not end in a deal, but Apple wants those exclusives to bolster its Apple Music streaming app that’s cur- rently in hard-fought competi- tion with Spotify.
Apple has been pushing to score exclusives of its own, like the release of Drake’s most re-
cent album. But Tidal has been winning on that front. Rapper Jay Z bought Tidal for $56 mil- lion in March 2015, then re- vamped it with a set of landmark partnerships with some of the biggest names in music, including venture as co- owners: Alicia Keys, Calvin Harris, Arcade fire, Chris Martin from Coldplay, Bey- once, Daft Punk, Jack White, J. Cole, Jason Aldean, Kanye West, Dead- mau5, Madonna, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna and Usher.
If Apple does buy Tidal, it could be good for listeners, who are facing a balkanized music catalog divided between the dif- ferent streaming apps. To listen to the new Drake and the new Kanye, you’d need two almost entirely redundant $10 per month subscriptions. If Spotify gets serious about exclusives thanks to the hire of former Lady Gaga manager and tech investor Troy Carter, things could get even worse.
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