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Rae Sremmurd’s Slim Jxmmi To Give $50,000 In Scholarship Money To 5 Students; Touring With Wiz Khalifa
Nicki Minaj Shooting New Film With Tina Fey; To Appear Together On ‘SNL’ Saturday
Graduation season may be underway, but Rae Srem- murd’s Slim Jxmmi is plan- ning to set some current college students with a nice check to put towards their edu- cation. The rapper recently an- nounced his Jxm Scholarship, which will award $10K to 5 lucky students.
In total, Slim Jxmmi will be giving away $50,000. While it’s unclear how Slim Jxmmi and his team will determine the winners, he mentioned in a video that he shared on Insta- gram on Sunday (May 13), that he will select the five students in July 2018.
In other news, Rae Srem-
Sim Jxmmi and Swae Lee of Rae Sremmurd and Wiz Khalifa.
murd and Wiz Khalifa have announced a co-headlining tour.
The Dazed & Blazed Sum- mer 2018 Amphitheater Tour kicks off on July 21 in Detroit.
Wiz and Rae Sremmurd will be joined at various stops by Lil Skies and O.T. Gena- sis.
The tour will come to Tampa on August 16.
Nicki Minaj and Tina Fey to team up on ‘SNL’ Saturday, and shooting new movie together.
Nicki Minaj has a lot more planned outside of just music in 2018. In an Instagram post from Tuesday (May 15), she said she’ll start shooting a new film titled Get Ya Life Ugly with Tina Fey after Sat- urday.
So far, there aren’t any de- tails regarding the plot, release
date or actual existence of the film.
NBC had announced that Minaj and Fey are set to close out Saturday Night Live‘s 43rd season on Saturday (May 19).
This will be Fey’s sixth time hosting and Minaj’s third time as the musical guest.
Women’s Group Calling For Spotify To Remove Chris Brown, Nelly, Eminem And Others Music
Bill Cosby To Be Sentenced In September
Presently under house ar- rest after being found guilty last month by a Pennsylvania jury on three counts of aggra- vated indecent assault, Bill Cosby learned Wednesday when he’ll discover whether he is going to be sentenced to prison.
Having presided over the actor’s first trial last year and last month’s retrial for the 2004 sexual assault against former Temple University em- ployee Andrea Constand, Judge Steven O’Neill an-
Bill Cosby, 80, will be sen- tenced in September.
nounced Tuesday that Cosby will face sentencing over two days in September.
Nelly, Chris Brown, Eminem, and Steven Tyler are on list created by Shaunna Thomas of Ultra- Violet.
The women’s rights orga- nization UltraViolet penned a letter to Spotify’sCEO Daniel Ek applauding the company for taking steps to scrub abusers from its platform, following last week’s announcement that R. Kelly, XXXTenta- cion, Tay-K, and others would be removed from offi- cial playlists.
The organization, founded in 2012, is also calling on Spotify to go one step fur- ther and remove other no- table artists responsible for known or alleged abuse. The list includes Chris Brown, The Red Hot Chili Pep- pers, Nelly, Eminem, Don Henley, Steven Tyler, and 6ix9ine.
UltraViolet’s executive di-
rector Shaunna Thomas hopes that Spotify’s expan- sion of its hate content and hateful conduct policy will permeate onto other stream- ing platforms. “We publish this as an open letter be- cause we hope other plat- forms like iTunes, Google Play Music, and Pandora will continue to follow your lead,” she wrote.
Questlove To Curate Tribute Tour In Honor Of Prince
The Prince Estate has greenlit a tribute tour in honor of the late music icon titled 4U: A Symphonic Cele- bration Of Prince.
Curated by The Roots’ drummer Questlove, the set will be performed by the Wolf Trap Orchestra with addi- tional contributions from a live band and several vocal- ists.
They will reimagine a mix- ture of Prince’s classic songs and deeper cuts pulled from his expansive catalog.
According to the tour web- site, “4U will present the music of Prince like never before, with a full orchestra ...
Prince and Questlove of The Roots.
highlighting many of his greatest hits alongside lesser known gems.”
Questlove is a well- known fan of The Purple One and upon the singer’s
2016 death, Quest wrote a detailed Instagram post out- lining what made Prince Hip Hop.
The tour will come to Tampa on October 5th.
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