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Common’s Next Project Deals With Historical
Jay Z Offers
Snoop Settles Dispute With Pabst Brewing Company
Issues Of Black Community
Solution
Looks like Snoop Dogg and Pabst Brewing Company have settled their dispute just three weeks before trial was set to begin on Halloween, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Common is no stranger to controversy. Dubbed a “con- scious” rapper early in his ca- reer, the Southside Chicago native has used his hip-hop platform to discuss meaty is- sues within the Black commu- nity.
He often rapped about living in marginalized communities, touching on everything from abortion and misogyny to eco- nomic and racial inequality.
In his latest work, Black America Again, due in Novem- ber, he continues this ap- proach, raising questions about some of the many issues that have historically plagued the black community — while simultaneously offering up possible solutions as to how we can combat them.
The Grammy award winning
To Police
Common dubbed the ‘con- scious’ rapper is no stranger to controversial rap songs.
rapper attended FAMU on scholarship for 2 years major- ing in business administration.
The consummate business- man, Snoop Dogg gets settle- ment before trial with Pabst Brewing Company.
so he was never paid out his share from the company selling to Blue Ribbon. Although the amount agreed to was not dis- closed, if Snoop was to get 10%, then he would have been entitled to $70M.
Brutality
Snoop signed a three-year endorsement deal with Pabst Brewing Company to be a brand ambassador for Blast by Colt 45, a new fruity-malt liquor beverage the company had launched.
Snoop’s attorney Alex Weingarten says Snoop should have received 10% of the selling price should Pabst be sold prior to January 2016, in line with the phantom equity clause within the agreement. Pabst was sold to Blue Ribbon Intermediate Holdings for $700 million in 2014 triggering the phantom equity clause.
Pabst avoided paying Snoop
Kim Kardashian Blames Herself For Paris Robbery, Doesn’t Want Kanye West
JAY Z
To Jay Z, telling the Kalief Browder story is about more than one young man. The rap mogul says that the life of the teenager who was held at Rik- ers Island for three years with- out trial is the one of a “modern day prophet.”
In a press conference held Thursday (October 6) in New York about his Spike do- cuseries, Time: The Kalief Browder Story, Jay Z offers his solution to stopping police brutality in light of Browder’s fight for justice and that of so many who lost their lives at the hands of police, including Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and Terence Crutcher this summer.
“When you have compassion for what someone goes through — we’re all looking for a short embrace at the time,” he said, according to The FADER‘s re- porter who was in attendance.
“Judgement is the enemy of compassion. When you are able to identify that...we’re all not perfect, we may make mis- takes. All of us, every single one of us. When you have compas- sion for what someone’s going through and their plight, my personal belief, having the camera on someone creates more distrust. When we have an exchange and it has to be recorded, something’s wrong there, something’s broken. A camera can’t fix a relationship between a person that’s hired to protect and serve and soci- ety. There has to be a relation- ship. There has to be respect on both sides.”
No Surprise: Dr. Dre Plans
To Sue Sony Over Biopic Featuring Him As A Brutal Abuser
Biopic about Michel’le Toussaint (center) airs Friday on Life- time. It features the abuse she endured at the hands of Suge Knight (left) and Dr. Dre (right).
To Replace Her $4.5M Ring
Kim Kardashian is blam- ing herself for the Paris rob- bery that stripped her of $10 million worth of jewels.
The reality TV star is dis- traught over the likelihood the thieves took notice after she flaunted her $4.5 million en- gagement ring from husband Kanye West on social media, People reported.
"Kim's in shock and blam- ing herself. She's tearing her- self up that she Snapchatted the ring so much and wore it all the time," a source close to the family told People.
"[Kanye] says he wants everything to go back to nor- mal and for the incident to not affect their lives," the source told People.
In an interview with author- ities on Tuesday, Kar- dashian allegedly told police that the hotel concierge was
tied up beside her, People re- ported.
The 35-year-old said the concierge was very calm throughout the robbery, de- spite being held at gunpoint. She also asked the man if they were going to die, to which he replied, "I don't know."
Kardashian was tied up, held at gunpoint and locked in a bathroom early Monday morning while staying at the swanky No Name Hotel in Paris during Fashion Week.
Thieves made off with an es- timated $10 million in jewelry, while the star was bound and begging for her life in the bath- tub.
After speaking with French authorities, Kardashian quickly left the country and re- turned to New York to be with West and the couple's two children, North and Saint.
On October 15, Lifetime, Sony Pictures and former Ruthless Records singer Michel’le Tou- ssaint are poised the shock the world with the made-for-TV film, Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel’le.
The biopic chronicles the R&B Divas: Los Angeles cast mem- ber’s relationships with both Dr. Dre and Suge Knight throughout the late 80s-to- early-90s as their legend (and notoriety) grew just as big as Hip Hop culture itself.
Early screenings of the film reveal much of the focal point is on Michel’le’s physical, verbal and mentally abusive relation- ship with Dr. Dre and eventu- ally Suge Knight as well. The scenes are shocking and brutal; Dre (played by actor Curtis Hamilton) goes through rage- filled drunken stupors where he attacks his fiancée with closed fists, pulls a gun on her and even tries to sleep with her right after he got married to his cur- rent wife, Nicole.
During the screening, held in West Hollywood, producer Leslie Greif revealed that the idea for the biopic came after all mentions of Michel’le were omitted from 2015’s box office blockbuster, Straight Outta Compton a.k.a. the N.W.A
biopic.
In the present day, Dr. Dre
presents himself as a staunch family and businessman with plenty of credibility to his em- pire, so naturally news of the upcoming film hasn’t exactly garnered any excitement out of him. On the contrary, according to a cease-and-desist letter, the 51-year-old Apple Music execu- tive is planning to sue Sony Pic- tures if the movie airs as planned.
The contents of the letter ref- erence how Michel’le never sought medical treatment or filed a police report during the course of their relationship, that also produced their son, Mar- cel in 1991. Over the summer, Suge Knight’s legal counsel also threatened similar action as he awaits trial for murder stem- ming from a hit-and-run inci- dent before the N.W.A film was released.
Last year, a week into Straight Outta Compton‘s run in the- aters, outrage ensued over the lack of Dre’s past allegations of domestic violence, prompting him to issue out a public apol- ogy.
The real question is, if you are innocent of the allegations, why apologize?
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