Trap Back drops February 5
After being named the biggest digital artist, Rihanna has just been named the first female artist ever to reach 2 billion views on the popular video site. Justin Bieber is currently the highest overall artist with 2.3 billion and Lady Gaga at 1.8.
Drizzy Drake has left Toronto and moved to an oasis in Hidden Hills, Los Angeles. The Young Money rapper is renting the 7500 square foot $9 million dollar mansion for $45,000 a month. Amenities include: “a water oasis leading into a cave setting with seating and wet bars for any occasion,” a tennis court, five stall horse facilities with riding arena, a sand volleyball court, a mechanical bull, a 24 seat theater, game room, and a wine cellar/tasting room. Six-bedrooms, ten-baths. Check out some pics of Aubrey’s bachelor pad after the jump!
Today would have marked Jam Master Jay’s 47th birthday.
Rest in Beats Jason Mizell aka Jam Master Jay (January 21, 1965 – October 30, 2002)
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Slim Thugga drops new visual featuring up and coming Houston artist Propain.
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Rest in Paradise Etta James. A great talent with a great voice. You paved the way for so many people. You will be missed.
Here’s how CNN is reporting it….
Etta James, whose assertive, earthy voice lit up such hits as “The Wallflower,” “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” and the wedding favorite “At Last,” has died, according to her longtime friend and manager, Lupe De Leon. She was 73.
She died from complications from leukemia with her husband, Artis Mills, and her sons by her side, De Leon said.
She was diagnosed with leukemia in 2010, and also suffered from dementia and hepatitis C. James died at a hospital in Riverside, California. She would have turned 74 Wednesday.
” This is a tremendous loss for the family, her friends and fans around the world,” De Leon said. “She was a true original who could sing it all — her music defied category.
Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z who welcomed daughter Blue Ivy with wife Beyonce earlier this month, stepped out solo for the big launch of Manhattan’s 40/40 Club, unveiling the hotspot’s new renovations.
The hip-hop superstar was joined by his celebrity friends, among them singer Ashanti, Russell Simmons, director Spike Lee, record producer Irv Gotti, rapper Wale, The Roots star QuestLove and billionaire Warren Buffett.
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The FBI on Thursday shut down popular file-sharing website Megaupload.com and charged the site’s founders and five others with running “an international organized criminal enterprise” responsible for “massive online piracy.”
Megaupload Limited and sister company Vestor Limited generated “more than $175 million in criminal proceeds” and caused “more than half a billion dollars in harm to copyright owners” through the piracy of “numerous types of copyrighted works,”according to FBI.
Seven people have been charged with online piracy crimes in an indictment, dated Jan. 5 and unsealed in northern Virginia. Four of those suspects are already in custody, authorities said.
Among those charged are site founders Kim Dotcom and Kim Tim Jim Vestor and Chief Marketing Officer Finn Batato.
Megaupload CEO Swizz Beatz, a rapper and producer and husband to pop star Alicia Keys, was not listed among those charged. Read More
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