Category: Rap

Jaime King and 50 Cent Join Escape Plan 2

… plan to escape from the most protected and fortified prison ever built. Escape Plan was released by Summit Entertainment in 2013, and though it only grossed $25 million domestically, it took in $137 million worldwide with the bulk of the …

Ice Cube: The “Fist Fight” Interview

Born O’Shea Jackson in Compton, California on June 15, 1969, Renaissance man Ice Cube is an actor, writer, producer, director, rapper, philanthropist and father. N.W.A., the rap group he co-founded with Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.

Mel and Sue back together for Let’s Sing And Dance For Comic Relief

Presenting duo Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins have made their return to the BBC together for the first time since the broadcaster’s final series of The Great British Bake Off. The pair hosted Let’s Sing And Dance For Comic Relief, a celebrity talent show in which well-known names perform as music stars to raise money for Comic Relief.

Jay Z and Beyonce teased

Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein teased rapper Jay Z after he and his pregnant wife Beyonce arrived fashionably late to his pre-Oscars party on Saturday night. The Hollywood producer’s event to celebrate Oscar-nominated biopic Lion was in full swing at the Montage in Beverly Hills, California on Saturday when the hip-hop supercouple entered the room and made their way to their seats at Weinstein’s table.

Alex Trebek Awkwardly Recites Kanye West and Drake Lyrics on ‘Jeopardy!’ But We Love It — Watch

The Jeopardy host was back to the rhymes on a recent episode, reciting bars from big-name artists like Kanye West, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Desiigner, and Lil Wayne as clues for questions on the show. “They mad they ain’t famous, they mad they still nameless,” the 76-year-old TV host said at one point, nodding, of course, to Kanye’s infamous track , “Famous.”

Juan Gabriel Returns to Mexico This Weekend – in Hologram Form

Mexican pop music fans were devastated last August when one of the country’s most beloved singers, Juan Gabriel, passed away at age 66. But today, Saturday, Feb. 18, fans in Toluca, Mexico will get a chance to see El Divo de Juarez in action once again – courtesy of Hologram USA, the same company that resurrected Tupac Shakur in hologram form at Coachella in 2012. The Juan Gabriel hologram – which, if you want to get all technical, isn’t really a hologram – will appear as part of a tribute concert called “Juan Gabriel, Eternally” at the Foro Pegaso in Toluca, a suburb of Mexico City.

2017 Spring Movie Preview: 9 comedies due in theaters

Let’s be honest: We could all probably use a good laugh right now. This spring movie season, Hollywood is going to try to deliver them, with no fewer than nine comedies on the schedule between now and the arrival of the summer movie season in early May — and including everything from a movie based on the old TV series “CHiPs” to the latest film from the minds of New Orleans’ Duplass brothers.

50 Cent to sue his former lawyers after losing sex tape case

Leviston successfully sued the New York rapper in July 2015, after a judge ordered 50 Cent – real name Curtis Jackson – to pay her $5 million after he leaked a sex tape of her and her partner online. As a result of that case, Jackson was forced to file for bankruptcy – a decision that the rapper is now blaming on his former lawyers.

Jay Z on Protests: – We Are the Power’

The hip-hop legend and activist sat down for a discussion about his new docuseries ‘TIME: The Kalief Browder Story,’ about the life of the titular wrongfully imprisoned teen who spent 800 days in solitary confinement without trial before taking his own life.

‘Split’ shocks the box office a ” and Vin Diesel’s ‘xXx’ sequel a ” with a $40-million debut

Competing with a presidential inauguration, multi-city marches and big-budget Hollywood productions, M. Night Shyamalan’s creepy psychological thriller “Split” pulled off a surprising victory its opening weekend, pulling $14.6 million Friday for an estimated weekend gross of $40.2 million. The low-budget “Split,” which cost a reported $9 million to make, blew away predictions that it would be bested by Vin Diesel ‘s big, action-packed “xXx: Return of Xander Cage.”

10 L.A. Artists to Watch in 2017

No one got us the crystal ball on our Amazon wish list for Christmas, and our Magic 8-Ball has terrible taste in music – so we still can’t predict the future here at L.A. Weekly . But hey, we know talent when see it, and these 10 artists are flush with it.

Run-DMC Sues Wal-Mart, Amazon for $50 Million

Run-DMC filed a $50 million lawsuit in New York accusing Wal-Mart, Amazon, Jet and other retailers of selling products that traded on the rap group’s name without permission. A founder of the group and owner of the Run-DMC brand, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, was listed as the plaintiff in the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in the Southern District of New York.

Best of 2016: Jeff Parker, Jack DeJohnette and Mary Halvorson among…

After a fractious election year that saw misogyny and bigotry woven into the political discourse, some took comfort in the hope for art becoming energized in the years ahead with the fire of resistance. Some of the most memorable albums of 2016, however, offered magnetic expressions of a musician’s personal journey, whether via guitarist Jeff Parker finding inspiration in his homes of Los Angeles and Chicago in the “The New Breed” or JD Allen reexamining the broader significance of the blues with his trio album “Americana.”

50 Big Ones

From a 12-month melange of events, interviews, life milestones, and press & runway sightings SO extracts the most fashionable moments of 2016. 2 Choreographer/deejay Fatima, model/actress Grace Jones and actress Queen Latifah party at Island Outpost founder Chris Blackwell’s New Year’s Eve party at GoldenEye.