LeBron James is a free agent. According to multiple reports from around the NBA, James is declining to opt in on the player option on the last year of his contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers, meaning he’ll be permitted to chat with other teams beginning at 12:01 a.m. ET on Sunday. While this may sound like
While most plebs might look at Kanye West’s recent prodigious output and wonder how Ye is surviving on absolutely no sleep, Chance the Rapper is making West’s nonstop creative effort his personal goal. “What’s cool is Ye’s kind of got me in a mode of understanding, just, your ability to multitask and work on different things,” the
Drake just dropped a big bombshell — he’s a daddy! The 31-year-old rapper confirmed the long-rumored news that he fathered a child with French former adult-film star Sophie Brussaux on numerous tracks on his new double album Scorpion, which was released just before midnight Thursday on Apple Music. In “Emotionless,” which samples Mariah Carey, Drake declares, “I wasn’t hidin’ my kid
In a cover story titled “The Gospel According to Kendrick Lamar,” the Compton rapper touched on several topics of interest to the American public. Kendrick was asked to comment on Kanye West‘s slavery comments, and sensing the time had passed to create headline, the rapper simply stated, “He has his own perspective, and he’s on this whole
Steven Lamar claimed credit for the idea of creating a brand of celebrity-endorsed headphones. He took the idea to Dre and Iovine in 2006; and the first Beats headphones were released two years later, based on a design by Robert Brunner. The parties later fell out, and Lamar sued over unpaid royalties in 2016. At
Ed Sheeran has reportedly been hit with a $100m (£76.5m) lawsuit for allegedly using many of the musical components in Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On” for his 2014 hit, “Thinking Out Loud”. A lawsuit filed in the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in New York claims the “Shape of You” singer copied Gaye’s “melody, rhythms, harmonies, drums, bassline, backing
Nicki Minaj has offered her support after rapper Lil Uzi Vert called on celebrities for help in setting up a fund to aid families of those killed by gun violence. After revealing that he had been speaking to the family of the late rapper XXXTentacion, who was shot dead in Florida on June 18, Vert tweeted that he wants to
The Grammy Awards will expand the number of nominees in its top categories from five to eight, a move that may help increase gender diversity after the awards were sharply criticized this year for their lack of recognition for women artists. The change, announced Tuesday, will affect the four most prestigious categories: album, record and
Joseph “Joe” Jackson, the patriarch who launched the musical Jackson family dynasty, died Wednesday in a Las Vegas hospital, a source close to the family tells CNN. He was 89. Jackson was the father and at times manager to pop stars Michael and Janet Jackson, along with the sibling-singing group, The Jackson 5. No cause
JAY-Z has partnered with Larry Marcus, managing director of Walden Venture Capital, and Roc Nation president Jay Brown to launch a new venture fund called Marcy Venture Partners, according to regulatory filings in California. The pairing with Marcus, an early backer of Netflix and Pandora, appears to pick up where the “Jays” left off when, last year,