Music & Entertainment
Via:Sohh.com In this week’s Sales Wrap, Kanye West dominates the competition, Nicki Minaj’s debut album lands softly at No. 2, plus new releases from Lloyd Banks, Jay-Z and Ne-Yo make the chart. Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy topped the chart this week in the No. 1 spot. According toNielsen SoundScan, Yeezy’s follow-up to 2008’s 808’s & Heartbreaksold 497,100 records […]
Via:Ballerstatus.com Jay-Z’s business resume just keeps growing. His popular 40/40 Club franchise is expanding, and will reportedly hit airports around the country very soon. The hip-hop mogul recently struck a deal with North Companies, one of the world’s leading and hospitality service providers, which will place his sports-themed bars inside select airports throughout the U.S. […]
Via:Ballerstatus.com Singer Faith Evans, best known as the wife of the late Notorious B.I.G., cut a deal recently for a lesser charge, stemming from an August DUI arrest. Evans was busted in Los Angeles in late August when cops determined that she was driving under the influence when the stopped at a DUI checkpoint. According to TMZ, […]
Via:Ballerstatus.com Former 2 Live Crew frontman, Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell, recently announced that he’s accepted a position as assistant football coach for Miami Central High School. The 49-year-old — who once stood up against censorship in hip-hop with his rap lyrics — was given permission by the Miami-Dade school system to coach the team, after […]
Via:Ballerstatus.com The new Harry Potter film battled it out with the animated “Tangled” during the long holiday weekend, but in the end, the young wizard came out on top. “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1” remained the #1 movie in its second weekend, pulling in $50.3 million to bring its domestic take to […]
The only station in the Nati for Hip-Hop and R&B bringing you the livest parties all year long. This time we got it in after we ate good and watched some good football, we popped bottles and showed out at all the events going on in the 513 for Thanksgiving 2010. From Young Jeezy rocking […]
Via:Sohh.com In this week’s Sales Wrap, Rihanna gets loud atop her competition, Nelly‘s comeback speeds into Top 10 and Eminem hits the three million albums sold mark. Leading the way this week is Rihanna’s Loud which debuted at No. 3, falling behind Jackie Evancho‘s O Holy Night (237,600) and Susan Boyle‘s The Gift (334,500). According to Nielsen SoundScan, RiRi’s new LP has sold 206,800 records to […]
Via:ballerstatus.com When Eminem and Jay-Z announced that they’d be teaming up for joint show dates in Detroit and New York, people knew the concerts would sell out. Now, with the numbers in, the dates for the joint tour have become the quarter’s biggest grossing series of concerts. According to TheBoomBox.com, the rap superstars raked in $6.9 […]
Kanye West dons the cover of Complex’s December/January 2011 issue, for the cover story Editor-in-Chief Noah Callahan-Bever traveled to Hawaii to give us a behind the scenes look at the creative process of Kanye & his “Fantasy Rap Camp” for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. You also get commentary from key contributors to the project, […]
Twista is lending a helping hand to several families who don’t have enough food for Thanksgiving.
Willow Smith’s “Whip My Hair” is one of the most requested songs on 97.9 The Box and across the nation! Willow loves the Rihanna comparisons, says Tupac is her favorite rapper and is in the process of growing out her hair.
Ne-Yo fell during his performance at this past weekend’s American Music Awards show. He appeared as a guest on “Lopez Tonight” last night (November 22) and talked to the host about whether or not the spill was on purpose, why he’s not technically a good dancer, his 5 signature moves, and what living out of […]