The Notorious B.I.G.’s mother, Voletta Wallace, said her son did not only “spread love the Brooklyn way” but could spread love worldwide.

Her remarks were given at a celebration for what would have been Biggie Smalls’s 50th birthday today. Celebrities packed the Empire State building on Thursday, May 20th, the eve before the Brooklyn native’s official b-day.

“First, I need to thank all the staff and everyone at the Empire State building who put all this together. I am a proud mother tonight. I don’t do proud. I am one of the most humble human beings you will find on the face of the earth. But tonight, I can say I am proud. I am proud to be a mother of one of the nicest human beings you will ever know, that is my son Christopher Wallace.”

The crowd erupted into applause to affirm how nice the “Juicy” artist was.

The bereaved mother, lost her son in March of 1997 to a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.

In celebration of his Biggie’s birth, the estate will have vans driving throughout the city with a crown projected in the sky spinning around the five boroughs.

Tonight, the Empire State Building will pay homage to The Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die LP by changing to red and white with a crown in its mast to honor Biggie’s classic album.
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The Barclays Center in Brooklyn will honor The Notorious B.I.G. tonight as well, by displaying a video montage of his records on the oculus above the arena’s entrance.

​A$AP Rocky has a new song called “D.M.B.”

It comes with a music video written, directed, and executive produced by Rocky for AWGE. The visual stars Rocky and Rihanna, who is pregnant and expecting her first child with the rapper.

Last year, he tacked “Sandman” on to a new edition of Live. Love. A$AP, and, in 2019, released the song “Babushka Boi.”

Rocky was arrested last month in Los Angeles on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.
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In a 2018 Vogue cover story, Rihanna told the magazine that she was planning on making a reggae album. Later that same year, she claimed that her ninth studio album would drop in 2019, but the LP never materialized. Rihanna’s latest full-length remains 2016’s Anti.

Drake has signed what’s being called a “LeBron-sized” deal with Universal Music Group.

According to Variety, the expansive, multi-faceted partnership includes recordings, publishing, merchandise, and visual media projects.

The announcement was made on Tuesday. The exact terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Variety claims that it could be worth north of $400 million.
Drake remains one of UMG’s most bankable stars.
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His music reportedly brings in $50 million annually for the company.

Eminem is headed to the Hall of Fame.

Eminem is among the inductees for the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. The Detroit rapper joins the diverse class of 2022 including Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar, Eurythmics, and Carly Simon.

According to Rolling Stone, Eminem is the only hip-hop artist to be inducted as a Performer this year and the only artist that began releasing music in the ’90s.

Additionally, he is the only act to be inducted in his first year of eligibility, an achievement previously matched by Tupac Shakur, Public Enemy, Nirvana, and Guns N’ Roses.
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Eminem is the latest rapper to be inducted into the Rock Hall following hip-hop icons JAY-Z and LL Cool J last year.

​Reports have been circulating online that YouTube sensation and self-proclaimed relationship guru Kevin Samuels has passed away (May 5).

He was known for dating advice and YouTube videos where he operated under the self-proclaimed title of an “image consultant.”

Although Samuels himself was twice divorced with an alleged single status, he never shied away from speaking his mind when it came to relationship topics.

Rumors regarding his death began circulating on Twitter and other social media outlets earlier yesterday evening, leading to an online battle between Samuels’ fans and critics.
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Those who have found fellowship in the influencer’s ideology accused his critics of celebrating his death.

The Marvel Universe is going big this Friday with the release of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”

The Marvel madness is about Dr Stephen Strange, who casts a forbidden spell that opens a portal to the multiverse. However, a threat emerges that may be too big for his team to handle.

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness might be if not the most insanely Marvel movie ever, for good and ill. Unleashing the infinite possibilities of the multiverse throws open the studio’s toy chest, but the anything-goes aspects of that can be alternately thrilling, disorienting and occasionally, a little silly. All told, this sequel proves highly entertaining, if not quite worthy of the pent-up demand for it.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles say they won't bring a felony charge against the man who attacked comedian Dave Chappelle onstage at the Hollywood Bowl. The case has been referred to the city attorney as a possible misdemeanor case.

The LA Police Department had filed a charge of assault with a deadly weapon, a felony, against 23-year-old Isaiah Lee, alleging he had been in the audience, jumped on stage with what turned out to be a replica handgun with a knife blade attached, and tackled Chappelle.

The comedian and others were performing in the Netflix is a Joke Festival.

The District Attorney's Office says there was not enough evidence to charge Lee with the felony.

The attack was videotaped by audience members who sneaked cell phones into the venue. Ironically during his standup routine before the incident, the comedian had talked about his beefed-up security. Others noted that Chappelle had spoken about the recent Oscars incident in which best-actor winner Will Smith slapped presenter Chris Rock over a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith's hair. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences investigated the incident and banned Smith from all its events, virtually or in person, for 10 years.

Chappelle reportedly said both Smith's and Rock's actions had resonated with him.

Some audience members also posted video of Chappelle as he was joined on stage later by actor Jamie Foxx and by Chris Rock. "Was that Will Smith?" Rock asked, as the audience laughed.

Foxx appeared in a large hat. "Make some noise for Foxx. Whenever you're in trouble, Jamie Foxx will show up in a sheriff's hat," Chappelle said. "I thought that was part of the show," Foxx said.

"I grabbed the back of [the attacker's] head — his hair was spongey. Absorbent," Chappelle said. Foxx responded: "I just want to say, man, I've had an incredible time. This man is an absolute genius. We gotta make sure we protect him at all times, man."

Chappelle appeared unharmed, and reportedly joked that his attacker "was a trans man." Earlier in the set, he said he felt attacked by transgender people who criticized his past material as transphobic. For example, in his Netflix special The Closer last October, Chappelle joked about trans women and their genitalia.

Just after the incident, Chappelle and security guards could be seen chasing the man backstage. When he returned, he called his assailant "clumsy" and said, "I've been doing this 35 years. I just stomped a [n-word] backstage — always wanted to do that."

The LAPD did not give many details about the suspect; they say Lee was injured while security guards detained him. He was seen leaving the Hollywood Bowl on a stretcher, with apparent injuries, and being booed by Chappelle fans. He was treated medically and remains behind bars at the Hollywood jail with a $30,000 bail bond.

Chappelle's PR representative Carla Sims said the comedian is cooperating with the active police investigation. "Dave Chapelle celebrated four nights of comedy and music during the festival, tying with Monty Python for the most headlined shows by any comedian at the Hollywood Bowl," Sims said in a statement sent to NPR. "He refuses to allow last night's incident to overshadow the magic of this historic moment."

Sims added, "As unfortunate and unsettling as the incident was, Chappelle went on with the show. Jamie Foxx and Chris Rock helped calm the crowd with humor before Chappelle introduced the last and featured musical guests for the evening, hip-hop artists Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli, a.k.a. Black Star."
After the incident, Netflix sent a statement to NPR that read, "We care deeply about the safety of creators and we strongly defend the right of stand-up comedians to perform on stage without fear of violence."
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This is not the first incident in Hollywood since the "slap heard 'round the world" at the Academy Awards. In March, a man reportedly pulled out a gun at a Hollywood comedy club attended by former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. In that case, the club patron reportedly said it was a joke, not a threat, and told Tyson he was a fan. The ex-boxer is said to have responded to him with a handshake and a hug.


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Kris Jenner became emotional while recalling a volatile 2016 argument she heard about between her son Rob Kardashian and his then-girlfriend Blac Chyna that traumatized him.

Jenner testified for the second day from the witness stand in a Los Angeles courtroom on Friday that she believed Chyna attempted to murder her son.

At the time, she said she was told that Chyna pointed a gun at Kardashian’s head, tried to strangle him with a phone cord and hit him with a metal pole while intoxicated.

Earlier this week, much of Chyna’s testimony dealt with the fight, and the celebration of the show’s renewal the night before. Chyna testified that she was joking with her fiance when she wrapped a phone cord around his neck and grabbed his unloaded gun off a nightstand.

But Kris Jenner said putting a gun to her son’s head was “not a joke.”

Kris Jenner began to shed tears while remembering the Rob Kardashian-Chyna spat, which happened months after Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris. She said knowing that both her children had a gun pointed at them within the same year was traumatizing for her.

The New York Post is reporting that Elon Musk is willing to invest between $10 billion and $15 billion of his own money to take Twitter Inc private and is planning to launch a tender offer in about 10 days.

According to the report, Musk has tapped American multinational investment bank Morgan Stanley to raise another $10 billion in debt.

The social media company adopted a “poison pill” last week to protect itself from its second-biggest shareholder’s $43 billion buyout offer.

If the deal does go through, Musk has said his goal is to “unlock” Twitter’s “extraordinary potential,” but his suggestions for specific changes for how to do that have arguably been vague.

A key focus of his, has been bolstering free speech on the platform, and his suggestion for algorithms is central to that effort.
Hours after Musk made his offer to buy Twitter, he repeated the idea for open sourcing Twitter’s algorithms during an on-stage appearance at the TED conference in Vancouver.

Grammy Winning recording artiste Sean Paul has crossed the 1 billion stream threshold on Youtube with his single No Lie.

With the feat he becomes the first Dancehall act to achieve this milestone.
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The 2015 smash hit single features British Pop superstar Dua Lipa.
The single now becomes his most successful single in terms of views.