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Jay Z Has Changed His Name To JAY-Z
Prodigy Of Mobb Deep Is Dead At 42
Dave Chappelle Will Host Rihanna’s Diamond Ball; Kendrick Lamar To Perform
The rapper, whose real name is Shawn Carter, has brought back the hyphen which he dropped after 2013's Magna Carta Holy Grail album, and his whole name is now in ALL CAPs.
JAY-Z is due to release his new album 4:44 on 30 June.
A representative for his Roc Nation label confirmed the change to Pitchfork.
Jay Z Bails Out Jailed Men Before Father’s Day
To celebrate the Father’s Day holiday Jay Z linked up with Time magazine, to write an opt-ed piece detailing his plans expose the “exploitative bail industry.”
Jay Z said he became acutely aware of the problem as he did research for his doc- umentary “Time: The Kalief
JAY-Z
Browder Story.”
Jay Z said that this Fa- ther’s Day, he donated money to organizations like South- erners on New Ground and Color of Change, to help bail out hundreds of incarcerated fathers.
Albert Johnson aka Prodigy was taken off on a stretcher soon after his performance on Saturday.
Hip Hop just took a major blow after learning the one and only Prodigy of Mobb Deep was found dead in Las Vegas, according to multiple sources.
The veteran MC was 42. He had reportedly suffered from health problems for years, in- cluding Sickle Cell Anemia. Prodigy was the other half of Mobb Deep with Havoc.
Prodigy was in Vegas over the weekend performing on The Art of Rap Tour alongside Ghostface Killah, Onyx, KRS-One and the festival’s founder, Ice-T. Mobb Deep performed on Saturday night (June 17).
Dave Chappelle will host Rihanna’s black tie ball in September.
Dave Chappelle has been hired to host Ri- hanna’s third annual Dia- mond Ball on Sept. 14 at Cipriani Wall Street in New York, with Kendrick Lamar set to take the stage.
The annual black-tie fundraising gala raises money
for the Clara Lionel Founda- tion, an education, health and emergency response organi- zation founded in 2012 by the singer (born Robyn Fenty), in honor of her grandparents, Clara and Lionel Braith- waite.
DJ Khaled Keeps Expanding His Brand; Teams With Beats By Dre
DJ Khaled is getting back into the headphone game again. On Tuesday night, the We The Best mogul took to Instagram to announce his new partnership with Beats By Dre, and reveal his up- coming limited edition line of headphones.
The news comes just a week or so after finding out about his exclusive collab with Jordan Brand & his up- coming Jordan 3 sneakers.
DJ Khaled will have limited edition of headphones, and also will have a Jordan brand of sneakers.
RHOA Star Kenya Moore Shares Wedding Photos
NBC Allows ‘The Carmichael Show’ To Do N-Word Episode; Sitcom May Be Cancelled
Kenya Moore is married to businessman, Marc.
"Real Housewives of At- lanta" star Kenya Moore is now married.
And it's not to her ex- boyfriend, Matt Jordan, fea- tured on the last season of the hit reality TV show.
The former Miss USA took to Instagram last weekend to share photos from her inti- mate, secret wedding and re- ception in St. Lucia.
Her husband is a business- man, according to People. Moore says the two met a year ago.
Moore is finally a wife in the housewife series.
The cast of ‘The Carmichael Show’. Jerrod Carmichael center front is the show’s creator.
In a guest column for The
Hollywood Reporter, Jer- rod Carmichael talks about the uphill battle of convincing NBC to allow his ample use of the N-word on “The Carmichael Show.”
On the June 21st episode, the racial slur is front and center.
Carmichael wrote a guest column for THR about his own personal history with the word, why he wanted to
tackle it on the sitcom.
Series May Not Get Renewed
NBC has to make a re- newal decision about The Carmichael Show, as the op- tions on the actors expire on June 30, according to a re- port.
The Carmichael Show, a rare critically acclaimed multi-camera sitcom, scored a dramatic eleventh hour re- newal last year.
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