Drake‘s label, Universal Music Group, is blasting the rapper as a bitter loser who wants his rap battles one-sided. In a new motion to dismiss Drake’s defamation lawsuit against his own label, UMG says the Canadian-born rapper levied his own “vitriolic and incendiary” diss tracks against nemesis Kendrick Lamar before …
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A New Mexico judge is blocking, at least temporarily, the release of any photos or video showing the partially mummified bodies of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa-Hackman after the actor and his wife were found dead in their Santa Fe home last month. The new order from Judge Matthew J. …
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French Montana can’t shake off a six-figure court judgment owed to a landscaper who claims the musician’s Tibetan mountain dog, also known as a Tibetan mastiff, “viciously” mauled him while the rapper-producer watched in horror, a Los Angeles judge has ruled. The ruling came after the “Unforgettable” rapper failed to …
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Kanye West dropped a new song via X on Saturday that he said is by Sean “Diddy” Combs, which features West and Kim Kardashian’s daughter North West. Kanye shared “Lonely Roads Still Go to Sunshine” after a reported dispute about it being released between him and his former wife Kardashian. …
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While Live Nation-Ticketmaster may have entered the year, as they called it, “hopeful” that Donald Trump’s presidency would bode well for its fight against the massive antitrust lawsuit filed by federal prosecutors last May, the company took a hit Friday when a Biden-appointed judge rejected its bid to dismiss a …
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The former Def Jam executive who claimsRussell Simmonspinned her down andraped her inside his Manhattan apartmentin the mid-1990s has revived her lawsuit against the music mogul after it was derailed by a federal judge last month. The Jane Doe plaintiff refiled her complaint today in New York state court. A …
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Ahead of Sean Combs’ arraignment on two superseding indictments Friday, federal prosecutors and Combs’ defense attorneys are proposing vastly different timelines for a jury selection as both parties gear up for the May trial. The government is seeking to start jury selection on Monday, April 21, with the hope the …
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Soulja Boy, the Grammy-nominated rapper, appeared in a California courtroom Thursday for the first day of his civil trial involving allegations he beat and raped a woman while she was working as his personal assistant for nearly two years, ending in late 2020. The “Crank That” artist, whose real name …
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The Jane Doe who recently dismissed a lawsuit claiming Jay-Z raped her alongside Sean Combs when she was 13 years old was captured on an audio recording agreeing with private investigators that Jay-Z did not assault her. In the recording, first reported by ABC News and independently obtained by Rolling …
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A federal judge appears poised to take a wrecking ball to Miley Cyrus’ motion to dismiss the copyright infringement lawsuit filed over her Grammy-winning hit “Flowers.” At a court hearing in downtown Los Angeles today, U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson repeatedly indicated he believes plaintiff Tempo Music Investments has …
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