Rick Ross bought back the block, but is back to make sure his homies do the same from the west to the east coast. The Bawse nabs Nipsey Hussle, E-40, Slim Thug, and Fat Joe for the “Buy Back The Block Refinance.”
Neighbahood Nip leads things off by rapping about his business ventures on Crenshaw, including his Fatburger, his TMC store, and his $100 mixtapes. From Crenshaw, Slim Thug takes listeners through Texas, where the Boss Hog talks about his hustle, real estate, and ambitions to buy the whole city. E-40 then takes folks to the Bay Area and debates franchising a Ralphs, a Whole Foods, or a Sprouts, and what he would be able to do with the money from his 9,000 square foot house. Fat Joe closes things out by spitting about putting the hood on his back and how he intends to build a 30-room mansion.
Ross originally dropped “Buy Back The Block” featuring 2 Chainz and Gucci Mane in November. Rozay is currently working on his EPIC Records debut album, ‘Rather You Than Me’. His 9th studio album is set to be released on March 17th. Ricky will also host the MTV Woodie Awards on March 16th.
The Boss Ricky Ross stopped by the Power 106 #Liftoff to chop it up with Justin and Sourmilk about his EPIC Records debut album ‘Better You Than Me’. On the show he told the Leakers he’s dropping the album on March 17th.
Ricky urged listeners to go check Comedian Chris Rock’s Instagram out, which revealed the release date for the upcoming album.
‘Rather You Than Me’, will be Rozay’s 9th studio album and the follow up to his last Def Jam album ‘Black Market’, that dropped in 2015. The upcoming album will include the single “I Think She Like Me” featuring Ty Dolla $ign. Be on the lookout for the tracklist and more.
We may be having an extended winter this day after Punxsutawney Phil saw its shadow on Groundhog Day. That’s not stopping Rick Ross from getting ready for the summer with his new single “Summer 17.”
The track isn’t an ode to his former friend turned foe, Drake’s “Summer Sixteen” track. Instead Ross raps about wanting to see all his n*****z rich by the summer of this year. Rozay then flexes on them by bragging about a purple Lamborghini, all the women in his swimming pool, his lawyer, and other commodities in his lavish lifestyle.
Ross has been in the studio working hard on his upcoming album ‘Better You Than Me’, which is expected to be released later this year. The album will be his first under EPIC Records. In the meantime get in shape for “Summer 17” by pressing play below.
In its first week Drake’s ‘Views’ went certified platinum and with the kind of units it’s moved so far, the album figures to go multiplatinum soon.
According to Drizzy’s label, Republic Records, ‘Views’ sold over a million units and was streamed over 250-million times on Apple Music in ironically, 6ix days.
The success of this album has Drake sitting on a pedestal in the hip-hop game, with numbers that only big Pop stars like Taylor Swift and Adele are able to conquer.
Mainstream songs on the album “One Dance,” “Hotline Bling,” and “Controlla” really helped propel sales and streams for the album.
‘Views’ is officially the most successful urban album of the year thus far. The album tops sales of Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’, Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo’ and Rihanna’s ‘Anti’.
Drizzy will go on to host Saturday Night Live on May 14th. The second time the rapper will do so.
Watch these hilarious skits from the last time he hosted:
FORBES HIP-HOP FIVE LIST
Forbes released their annual “Forbes Five: Hip-Hop’s Wealthiest Artists” list with some familiar names and a new one.
Diddy topped the list with an estimated net worth of $750-million for his stakes in Ciroc vodka, Revolt TV network, Aquahydrate alkaline water and SeanJohn clothing.
Dr. Dre came in at No. 2 with $710-millon much of which came with the sale of his Beats by Dre headphones brand to Apple. Last year’s N.W.A. biopic also reeled in a nice amount of revenue. In addition he also has stocks in Apple and a plethora of real estate in Southern California.
Jay-Z cruised in at No. 3 with $610-millon for his TIDAL streaming service that has over 3-million subscribers and also a slew of other business ventures including D’usse and Ace of Spades champagne.
At No. 4 was Bryan “Birdman” Williams with $110-million for the success of multiplatinum selling artists: Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj. Put some “respeck” on that.
The final and newest member of the list at No. 5 is OVO head-honcho, Drake with $60-million. The music sales definitely helped, but Drizzy owes most of it to touring and partnerships with Jordan, Apple and Sprite.
The combination of the moguls totaled over $2-billion combined.
50 Cent’s recent bankruptcy struggles kept him off the list this year.
Kanye West already has one of the most successful albums of the year with ‘The Life Of Pablo,’ and he is looking to follow the success with a tour.
He teased ‘The Life Of Pablo’ tour on Steve Harvey’s show Tuesday saying he could be hitting the road in September.
“My tour game is unprecedented,” he bragged to Harvey. “So we’re going to go out in September I believe, and we’re just working on some of the ideas right now.”
I’m excited to see the kind of creativity he will exude for the tour, from the merch to the stage design.
The tour is only in the planning stages, so there are no dates out or opening acts on the bill as of now. Although, it is safe to assume he will probably take his artist Desiigner on tour with him after the success “Panda” has had.
FRENCH MONTANA SIGNS TO EPIC RECORDS
Epic Records has been busy adding to their roster lately with the recent signings of DJ Khaled, Rick Ross and Puff Daddy. The label announced this week that French Montana was the newest signee.
The partnership of Puffy’s Bad Boy Records with Epic had a lot of influence in the signing of Montana, being he is also signed to Bad Boy. Take that, take that, take that.
It’s been three year’s since Montana dropped a studio album, in the meantime he’s been supplying the streets with anthems like, “All The Way Up,” and mixtapes.
His next album will have the Epic Records stamp on it.
Several sources have confirmed that Space Jam 2 will be starring LeBron James, but according to ESPN’s Brian Windhorst “no deal is in place,” although a deal is expected to be done soon.
The director of Fast & Furious, Justin Lin, was announced Monday as the director for the upcoming sequel.
Space Jam came out in 1996 and raked in $230.4-million worldwide and starred Michael Jordan in a box office monster that has since became a classic.
LBJ looks to be MJ’s successor in the series. Let’s see if James can come close to the success Jordan brought to the film, because he hasn’t been able to match it on the court.
French Montana unleashed the video for “Figure It Out” featuring Kanye West and Nas off the ‘Wave Gods’ mixtape. French also announced he signed a deal with Epic Records earlier this week.
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