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R&B Legend Kashif Found Dead
Birdman Wishes Lil Wayne ‘Happy Birthday’ Despite Beef
Growing Up Hip Hop Second Season Set To Air October 13th
Angela Simmons and Romeo Miller talk about show.
Lil Wayne turned 34 Tues- day (September 27) and the man who he’s been in a year- long legal battle over his ca- reer, Birdman, wished him a happy birthday despite the negativity surrounding their relationship.
While Lil Wayne has been on his “F*%& Cash Money” cam- paign against his former father figure, it appears that Baby isn’t taking the shots person- ally (publically, at least) and still has love for the rapper who helped him put Cash Money Records on the map.
Lil Wayne accuses Bird- man of allegedly robbed him
Angela Simmons, Romeo Miller, Damon “Boogie” Dash, Kristinia DeBarge, TJ Mizell and Egypt Criss are returning to WE tv’s docu- series Growing Up Hip Hop.
Season 2 will also feature newcomers Swizz Beatz’s brother, André King as well as Briana Latrise, the daugh- ter of Mary J. Blige’s es- tranged husband, Kendu Issacs.
Already in the midst of an in- credibly active 2016, Percy ‘Master P’ Miller has an- nounced his latest project, a video game called ‘Get Money’ which will be available for Playstation, Xbox, PC and mo- bile apps.
Get Money is modeled after Rockstar’s mega Grand Theft Auto, and is being dubbed as the first “African-American mi- nority-owned technology game” available for leading consoles.
Miller partnered with a team of Korean developers six years ago and plans to take the company, Get Money Video Game, public in 2018.
“Why are we not benefitting from this multi-billion dollar industry that has been created off of our lifestyle,” Percy Miller asks via press release. “We have to expand our mind to technology. It is the new way
Rapper T.I. and Tiny’s daughter, Zonnique ‘Nik Nik’ Pullins has been sen- tenced to community service in her gun possession case.
The 20-year-old was ar- rested at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in At- lanta, Georgia in June for al- legedly attempting to carry a gun through airport security.
Transportation Security Ad- ministration (TSA) agents re- portedly saw a .380-calibre Ruger semi-automatic pistol with a clip and five rounds while scanning her bag through an X-Ray machine.
Pullins has never been in trouble with the law and a judge has taken that into con- sideration and sentenced her to 60 hours of community service.
Pullins has 90 days to com- plete the judge’s orders and if
King, Latrise, Simmons, Miller, Dash, DeBarge, Mizell, and Criss allow cam- eras to follow each of them as the relatives of famous music figures deal with their careers, relationships, and more.
The Growing Up Hip Hop
season 2 premiere episode is scheduled to air October 13th, 10pm ET/PT. Season 1 episodes are available for streaming on wetv.com.
KASHIF
R&B legend Kashif aka
Michael Jones, has passed away at the age of 56.
He was found in his Los An- geles home Monday morning (September 26) and police be- lieve he died Sunday night (September 25) of natural causes, according to eurWEB.
The singer and producer is widely credited with introduc- ing the synthesizer to R&B.
He worked with Whitney Houston, Barry White, Evelyn “Champagne” King and many more. Janet Jack- son sampled “I’m In Love,” which was written and pro- duced by Kashif, on her “R&B Junkie” track.
Kashif was a multi-instru- mentalist, singer, songwriter, record producer, artist, com- poser, author, director and ed- ucator from New York City. He taught himself to play a $3 song flute at age seven and later the piano in the basement of his church. At age 15, Kashif joined B. T. Express and per- formed on stages around the world.
Together with Stevie Won- der he was considered a pio- neer in urban music thanks to his specific synthesizer technol- ogy approach and the introduc- tion of MIDI in his production.
Birdman and Lil Wayne
blind of $70 million dollars and letting Tyga out of his Young Money contract with- out his approval.
Master P Launches ‘Get Money’ Video Game
Master P is the mogul of No Limit Records has sold 25 mil- lion records.
to sell music.”
Get Money is set in New Or-
leans. Gamers will have the op- tion to play as villain, hustler, cop, boss, or entertainer. Ac- cording to the press release, “If you make the right choices, you get the money. But if you make the wrong choices it’s death, jail or destruction just like in the real world.”
Demetrius ‘Big Meech’ Flenory, Sr. gave his bless- ing to 50 Cent to produce a television series about his life and the Black Mafia Family (B.M.F.) empire that he ruled through the ’90s. The mogul’s son, Demetrius Flenory Jr. aka Lil Meech, is set to por- tray his father.
Lil Meech says that shoot- ing hasn’t started yet, but he’s working with an acting coach to prepare for the role. He also hasn’t spoken with 50 face-to- face, but he and his father were excited to partner with him, es- pecially after the success of his Starz show “Power,” which just
wrapped up its third season. Big Meech and his brother, Terry organized a drug distri- bution organization in Detroit
in the late 1990s.
The organization became
known as the Black Mafia Family in 2000. The BMF was allegedly involved in large- scale trafficking of cocaine throughout the United States from 1990 through 2005. Its network eventually spanned as far as Los Angeles, California to Atlanta, Georgia. Both Big Meech and his younger brother Terry are serving 30- year sentences.
Demetrius ‘Big Meech’ Flenory, Sr. and his son, Demetrius, Jr. aka Lil Meech.
T.I. And Tiny’s Daughter Gets Sentence In Airport Gun Case
Lil Meech To Portray His Father In 50 Cents’ TV Series About The Black Mafia Family
ZONNIQUE ‘NIQ NIQ’ PULLINS
she does the charge will be dropped.
Zonnique previously spoke out about the incident, insist- ing it was just a mistake be- cause she forgot the gun was in the bottom of her bag when she packed for her flight.
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