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Whew! So many stories to report, where do I start? Well Iggy Azalea's fiancé Nick Young was caught on tape admitting that he cheated on Iggy with a 19 year old girl. Allegedly the tape was recorded and released by one of his teammates. Shame! It's funny because I remember reading that this story was about to break and low and behold it did. Why Nick? Iggy was already close to committing suicide. Don't be the reason she attempts to do it again? Speaking of suicide, Kehlani, who recently admitted to attempting to commit suicide has sparked some naysayers about her story, namely Chris Brown, who went on a Twitter tirade. He accused the singer of faking her suicide attempt for sympathy votes and threw shade at Kehlani's relationship with PARTYNEXTDOOR saying they "stank" among other things. Speaking of PARTYNEXTDOOR(I hate typing his name), his boss Drake is on Lil' Kim's wish list to work with in the future. Lil' Kim recently gushed about collaborat...

Things got a little too real for R&B singer Kehlani. The singer attempted to take her life yesterday after news spread about her relationship via social media. She is currently recovering in the hospital and many people have send prayers her way. Let's pray for a speedy recovery for the Grammy nominated star. Faith Evans has revealed that she plans to release a duets album with Biggie. She also revealed that a hologram featuring the late rapper is in the works. How do you all feel about a duets album between Faith and Biggie? Lil' Wayne is suing Universal Music Group, the parent label to Cash Money. Wayne alleges that Universal owes him money for profit he brought to the company through Nicki Minaj, Tyga, and Drake. Wayne has been in a long battle with Cash Money for money owed to him as well. Universal is being sued for $40 million dollars. Do you think Lil' Wayne will see some money? Well that's all the stories I have for today! Thanks for reading!

Kehlani, a popular R&B singer whose mixtape album, "You Should Be Here" was nominated for a Grammy last year just broke up with her NBA sweetheart Kyrie Irving. But we didn't know that until it was revealed on Instagram that she had reunited her former boo, singer, PARTYNEXTDOOR of OVO(Drake's label) sound. The singer posted a picture of himself and Kehlani in bed holding hands with a caption saying he got his "R&B girl" back. The picture and the news of it all sent shockwaves through social media yesterday(Monday). I'm still shocked by it all myself. It's crazy! What do you all think about this? In other music news, Lil' Kim just dropped her new mixtape, "Lil' Kim Season". For a minute there it looked like the Queen Bee wasn't going to live up to the hype she created surrounding her mixtape, but the Queen Bee delivered as promise. I'm listening to it as I type this. If I like it enough, I might type up a review. N...

Last night Azealia Banks dropped her long awaited mixtape, "Slay Z" and the salacious cover art that has everyone talking. The 8 track mixtape features the previously released songs, "The Big Beat Beat" and "Used To Being Alone". The mixtape features appearances from Rick Ross("Big Talk") and Nina Sky("Riot"). Remember Nina Sky? I listened to the mixtape in the wee hours of this morning and I thoroughly enjoyed it. One of the standout lines is "pussy be peppermint clean". :) Azealia was forced to rush release the "Slay-Z" mixtape after she said her engineer was leaking songs. It's funny she said that because I wasn't sure what songs he leaked. Anyway the mixtape is available for streaming and a iTunes link is coming soon says Azealia. I just don't understand the purpose of an iTunes link now since you released it for free, unless your going to enhance some of the tracks, not that they need it or is she...

Drake's alleged ghostwriter Quentin Miller says Meek Mill punched him in Beverly Hill while he was shopping. Miller says Meek and his goons ran up on him and left him bloody and bruised. Apparently since Miller made Meek look like an ass lyrically, Meek had no choice but to bring it to him in person. In other music news, Big Sean and Jhené Aiko are collaborating on a duets album. It makes since being the two are label mates and they've collaborated numerous times before and their duets are very good anyway so I'm looking forward to this. Are you? And Lil' Kim is denying rumors that she is engaged to former boyfriend Maino. Both rappers took to social media to deny their engagement though both have been seen together a lot recently. So of course that means they are fucking! Do we at least think their fucking? Well anyway enjoy your weekend! Thanks for reading!

So all the stories featured today have to do with tours, funny enough. Mariah is difficult to work with!? No surprise there. Madonna is showing out on her tour as well and 50 Cent had a special guest at his recent tour. So word on the street is that Mariah Carey is becoming increasingly difficult to work with. Mariah is currently shooting a docu series for E! which will document the singer as she prepares for her tour. Mariah wants to have control of how everything is edited, which as far as I know is pretty hard to do when it comes to "reality" shows. The production company behind the show is also responsible for "Keeping Up With Kardashians". Mariah is currently overseas on her "Sweet Sweet Fantasy" tour. If that wasn't enough Mariah was recently 45 minutes late on stage in Leeds. One fan tweeted that "Mariah needs to join the crowd of over 10,000 spectators". What is wrong with these divas? Speaking of tours, Madonna is making news for her...

Rihanna's album, "Anti" is number one again! The album spends its second non consecutive week at the top spot. Also Rihanna's single, "Work" is number one for four weeks. Rihanna recently shared the news and thanked followers on social media. I just submitted my review of "ANTI" and if you missed that, click here . In other music news, Justin Timberlake is back in the studio with Pharrell Williams. So look forward to some new music from Justin in the new future. And if your guy and you get too close or touchy feely with Young Jeezy, you might get hurt. The rapper was recently caught on tape at a concert telling a male fan not touch him. You've been warned. And tonight Part 1 of the "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" airs tonight and its a showdown between former friends, Kandi Burruss-Tucker and Phaedra Parks. Will you be watching? Well that's all for now folks! Enjoy your week and thanks for reading! :)

Rihanna quietly released her oft-delayed album, "Anti" this past January. The album was quickly certified Platinum thanks in part to the million of streams it received on TIDAL, where it was released first. Billboard however didn't recognize the sales and at presstime, "Anti" has sold close to 280,000 copies. "Anti" is Rihanna's second #1 album and it features the #1 single, "Work". Now as far as the album is concerned, I feel "Anti" is Rihanna's most enjoyable album since "Good Girl Gone Bad". The album opens with "Consideration" featuring SZA followed by the breezy but brief, "James Joint". "Kiss It Better" is an instant favorite to me and deserves the single treatment, while "Needed Me" might be the proper follow up since its already charting on the charts. "Desperado" finds Rihanna playing the bad ass that she is known to be singing in a monotone voice. ...

Iggy Azalea is back with a new single titled, "Team". It the first single from her new album,"Digital Distortion". The famed rapper spoke candidly recently in an interview saying she was "suicidal" during the times everyone was taking jabs at her. I wouldn't of guessed she felt that way being that she always responded back to everyone who came at her, but that still doesn't mean that those words didn't affect her. Well I hope she is okay now! In other music news..Ashanti's stalker has been found guilty. Ashanti and her stalker both appeared in court and he defended himself and grilled Ashanti about the lewd text messages he sent her. And 2 Pac's mother Afeni Shakur is getting a divorce and her estranged husband wants half of 2 Pac's estate. Say what? And the Game is being sued after threatening to break a man's jaw! Nothing new there! And on top of that he spoke explicitly about singer Kehlani on IG and she clapped back. Game ...

Foxy Brown has spoken out after being misquoted in a news article for saying that she was endorsing Trump. The famed rapper says she is not endorsing Trump and showed love for Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Foxy recently received the key to the city for her hometown of Brooklyn. One thing I don't like to really discuss is politics esp after work because I feel like things can get out of hand. Kanye West says he's releasing three albums next year or is it this year. Anyway do we care? Or will we be listening? I do hear his "The Life of Pablo" album is good. He will also do another fashion show for his "Yeezy" fashion line. Ne-Yo's new wife just gave birth to their baby. I believe this is the third or fourth child for Ne-Yo. Congrats to Ne-Yo and his family. A duet may possibly be brewing between Tyrese and Ashanti. Ashanti had Tyrese on her Snapchat over the weekend and the two were in the studio. Are you guys interested in hearing what a Tyrese and...

Earlier this year Future surprised us with his third straight #1 album, "EVOL". After being such a big fan of Future's last album, "DS2" I just knew I would like this album. After first listen, the album was sort of blah to me. Maybe I didn't give it a fair chance so I went back just recently and started listening to this album when I worked out. I realize that "EVOL" is actually a proper follow up to "DS2", though I feel Future shouldn't rush release albums. Okay so on to the review, "Aint No Time" opens the album which is a listenable track, not my favorite. Much better is "In Her Mouth", where Future says "I'm trying to fuck the DA lady in her mouth though". This is one of my favorite songs on the album. "Maybach" follows which isn't bad. Next is "Xanny Family" which is also very enjoyable and features quite a few laughable lines from Future who is a very witty lyricist. ...

So there's a lot of ground to cover here so let's get right into it. Future is being blasted by a promoter for not showing up for a performance. The promoter claims Future was paid in full but was too scared to enter the venue. Hmm..I wonder what Future has to say about this. And I read that Janet Jackson has canceled the UK portion of her tour. Rumors are that tickets are not moving at all. Poor Janet! I kinda wanna see her this June if she still plans on coming here, then again she might cancel that too. I just think people are not too into her tour because its not like her other tours. Janet is basically just performing in one outfit and barely dancing. I don't think she's all into it at the moment to be honest. Still love her Janet though and her "Unbreakable" album was one of my favorites last year. Keri Hilson is back with a new album titled,"L.I.A.R." The acronym stands for Love Is A Religion. Personally I think she should of went with the f...

Hey folks! So the big news stories today are Ciara getting engaged to Russell Wilson. Congrats to the couple! Still can't stand Ciara though! I think she is severely overexposed. Something tells me she'll be pregnant again soon. The other big story Chris Brown's mental state. The singer has been going off online about many a things including his beef with artist Kevin McCall. He's also beefed this week with Jacob York(I forget who he is) and his ex Karrueche Tran. Chris filled his social media with various tirades dissing, dismissing, and threatening former associates, ex girlfriends, and fans. The man is insane! I hope he gets a hold of himself and gets the professional help he needs. Seriously! Remember the news about Keyshia Cole egging Bow Wow's car? Well Lil' Mo has came out and thrown some shade at Keyshia, which if I'm not mistaken she has done in the past and to add to that, Mo has thrown shade at many a artist over the years. I forget what Mo said...

So Azealia Banks has deactivated her Twitter and I think we can all breath a huge sigh of relief, though I find her tweets entertaining. In other news, Bow Wow is on social media dogging the ex(Keyshia Cole?) who egged his car or what she thought was his car. Turns out the culprit egged the wrong car and Bow Wow shared the news on social media. What exactly is going on between Keyshia Cole and Bow Wow? No one knows but there's obviously trouble in paradise. It seems like every dude that Keyshia dates or marries, it ends up disastrous. Speaking of Keyshia Cole, have you seen her lately? Many say that she's might of had some work done. What do you think? Chris Brown is at it again this time with his artist and frequent collaborator Kevin Mccall. If you don't recall who Kevin Mccall is, he collaborated with Chris Brown on "Dueces". Apparently Kevin called Chris out on social media for not engaging with him over a business matter. Chris soon caught wind of the shade...

"Used To Being Alone" is the newest offering from Azealia Banks. It will appear on her upcoming mixtape release, "Slay-Z". There is no release date for her new project. "Used" follows "The Big Big Beat" which was released just a few weeks ago. Get into the latest Azealia offering and tell me what you think?

Hey! I'll call this blog plot, "the beef edition" since all the news I'm reporting has to do with quarrels between lovers, former band mates, and rival rappers. The war is on between Tank and Tyrese. Formally the two singers were apart of the R&B trio TGT(Tyrese Ginuwine and Tank). Now the two singers are at odds over what Tank describes as Tyrese being greedy when it came to splitting money between the three men. Tank was caught in an airport on camera via TMZ and had some not so nice things to say about Tyrese. Of course Tyrese caught wind of this and has been throwing shade at Tank on social media all day. Personally I never liked Tyrese. I think he's very cocky and he's homophobic. I'm on team Tank! Iggy Azalea has reignited her beef with Azealia Banks after Iggy mentioned how she "still hates Azealia Banks" in the cover story of some magazine. Of course Azealia got wind of this and went ballistic on Twitter calling Iggy out and releasi...

The Beyoncé fans and the Rihanna fans are beefing after a shady tweet from Rihanna surfaced. Rihanna liked and retweeted a tweet that poked fun at the fact that one of Rihanna's song, "Desperado" was in a higher chart position than Beyoncé's "Formation"which was performed at the Super Bowl. The chart in question is the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, which is the songs that just missed the chart. It seems like many have stayed away from the controversial song, "Formation" which is why its yet to chart on the Hot 100 chart but it has charted on the R&B charts. "Formation" likely won't go down as Beyoncé's most successful single but I'm sure she has plenty of hit songs in her pocket from her upcoming album. Rumor has it that Beyoncé will be dropping her new album either this month or April. But back to Rihanna, do you think she was being shady with the tweet? After all Rihanna later deleted the tweet, likely after all the ho...