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LL Cool J To Host The Grammy’s Again
Pusha-T Performs Politically Charged Song ‘Sunshine’ On The Daily Show
Pusha T
Pusha T is preparing to drop King Push – Darkest Before Dawn: The Prelude, the first of two upcoming projects, this Fri- day (Dec. 18) and to commemo- rate the occasion, he appeared on The Daily Show Tuesday (Dec. 15) to debut a new, politi- cally-loaded song called "Sun- shine."
According to Billboard, dur- ing a Jill Scott-featuring inter- lude, the rapper raised his fist in the air in a moving evocation of the Black Power movement.
American Idol Winner Ruben
The Grammy Awards will celebrate a lot of new music, but its ceremony will have a fa- miliar face up-front in host LL Cool J.
The Recording Academy an- nounced Wednesday that the rap artist and actor will be the master of ceremonies for the fifth consecutive year. The Grammys will be telecast Feb. 15 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
Recording Academy Presi- dent Neil Portnow says LL Cool J's personality and en-
Degree From Alabama A&M
Release Mock Video
No doubt Studdard was
Tamar Returns To ‘The Real’;
Amidst rumors that Ken- drick Lamar and ScHool- boy Q recently had a fight in the studio, the friends and fre- quent collaborators had some fun with a video mocking the suggestion that they'd ever brawl.
Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony Tiffith had al- ready dismissed the sugges- tion of a scuffle on Twitter, posting it was "Just family having a minor disagreement. Nothing serious." He and Lamar also had a laugh at people saying they had footage of the alleged altercation.
Now we get to see that footage... Or at least a hilarious
Had To Have Rib Removed
LL COOL J
ergy set the perfect tone for the show.
After graduating in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in vocal studies, winning Ameri- can Idol, releasing a platinum- selling debut album and four successful studio follow-ups, Ruben Studdard has re- turned to the place where it all started— Alabama A&M Uni- versity.
The Velvet Teddy Bear an- nounced last Friday that he was awarded a Master’s Degree from his alma mater. Wearing a cap and gown, Studdard beamed with joy in an Insta- gram photo captioned, “Today I received a Master of Arts De- gree from My School Alabama A&M University!!! I’m super happy and proud to be a Bull- dog #AAMU.”
Studdard Receives Master’s
Kendrick Lamar And ScHoolboy Q Have No Beef:
RUBEN STUDDARD
feeling nostalgic. Alabama A&M is where his career began. The youngest son of two teach- ers, Studdard began singing in church as a child. A football scholarship led him to AAMU.
St. Louis Rapper
Tamar is back on her feet, and back to work on the daily talk show “The Real.” And in a video montage, the show de- tailed Braxton’s journey back to good health.
Tamar’s health issues had recently taken a turn for the worse to the point where she was hospitalized twice.
Doctors initially diagnosed what they thought was pneu- monia, but it turned out to be pulmonary embolism. She also had blood clots in both of her lungs.
One of the major things we find out as we watched is that after a week of bed rest, doc- tors, determined to get at the
N.W.A. Voted Into Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
N.W.A.
Swagg Huncho was found fatally shot in his yard.
St. Louis police are investi- gating the fatal shooting of a young rapper whose group gained some notoriety before one of its three members went to prison earlier this year.
James Johnson Jr. of Fer- guson, Mo., was found dead in the yard behind a St. Louis home about 10 a.m. Sunday. He had been shot in the head. Po- lice have no suspects.
Johnson was known as Swagg Huncho in the group 3 Problems. The group con- sisted of three 18-year-old cousins -- Johnson, Taylor Merriweather of Jennings (known as Lil Tay) and Ter- rell Brown Jr. of Florissant (known as Relly Rell). Earlier this year, Brown pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Their music focused on the crime and difficult lives in rough neighborhoods of north St. Louis County.
3 Problems apparently had no recording contract, but some of their videos on social media drew hundreds of thousands of views. Johnson was the sec- ond St. Louis-area rapper fatally shot this year.
Tamar back on ‘The Real’.
cause of the problem and de- cided major surgery was in order. It was revealed that Tamar underwent a procedure to remove her rib to alleviate a source of the problem.
KENDRICK LAMAR
reenactment of what that could have looked like, with a short video Tiffith shared showing the two rappers pre- tending to duke it out.
Found Shot In
The Head
The fourth time’s a charm for N.W.A. ...And a successful biopic doesn’t hurt.
The groundbreaking Los Angeles rap group has been chosen for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, joining fellow inductees Chicago, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple and Steve Miller.
Led by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, N.W.A. was elected after three unsuccessful nomi- nations in a year when a movie about their career, “Straight Outta Compton,” was a box of- fice hit. Their hard-core tales of life on the street on songs like “F— the Police” made
them a provocative chart pres- ence in the late 1980s and in- fluenced an empire of other acts.
The induction ceremony for the Cleveland-based hall will be held April 8 in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. HBO will televise highlights later in the spring.
More than 800 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation selected the inductees.
Meanwhile, the band Chic has failed to win induction for the 10th time. Janet Jack- son, The Cars, Los Lobos and Yes were among the other nominees rejected.
The Game Offers To Fight Stitches With Stipulations...Really
The Game and Stitches
The conflict between The Game and Stitches has reached another level. After he got knocked out by Game’s manager Wack 100, Stitches challenged the Compton rapper to a celebrity boxing match. Game has now responded, and The Documen- tary 2 album creator is willing to face off in a street brawl against his rival under certain conditions.
Game is currently on pro-
bation, and he does not want to get involved in any situa- tions that could jeopardize his freedom. So in an Instagram post, the 36-year-old per- former offered to fly Stitches to Los Angeles for a prelimi- nary fight against his “white boy” friend. If Stitches avoids being k.o.’d again and he is open to signing a waiver agree- ing not to take any legal action, Game says the two can then fight each other for free.
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