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It has to be a great day to be J. Cole. The North Carolina rapper recently received some very welcome good news from the RIAA that both his debut album Cole World: The Sideline Story and the follow-up Born Sinner have both been certified as platinum records in the U.S. Additionally, it's been revealed that Nicki Minaj's album The Pinkprint has been declared double-platinum while Future's Dirty Sprite 2 has been certified gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_3M7xrh2dM

Future has followed in Drake's footsteps by revealing he's locked in a deal with Apple Music. While details have yet to be disclosed, the Atlanta rapper is clearly excited about his new partnership. "My tweets worth millions now....in real life," he wrote on Twitter. "@AppleMusic thanks for the new deal." It should be noted that Future is sharing a new project this Friday on DJ Khaled's recently announced Apple Music Beats 1 radio show. The project is called EVOL and […]

Jamaican music is no stranger to the mainstream film world. Persons like, Jimmy Cliff, Eric Donaldson, Bob Marley and Sean Paul are among an elite group of Jamaicans whose music can be heard blasting in some of the most high-budget American films. Dancehall artiste Busy Signal has found himself among this elite group for his song 'Watch Out Fi Dis', a hit collaboration he did with Electronic Dance Music group, Major Lazer. This comes as the song was a featured soundtrack […]

Buju Banton may be released from prison in the United States some two months earlier than his initial release date. The US Federal Bureau of Prison indicated on its website yesterday that the artiste, whose given name is Mark Myrie, is to be released on December 8, 2018 instead of the February 2019 date that was initially set for his release. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told The Gleaner/Power 106 News Centre yesterday that she was not authorised […]

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, a.k.a. the guy who escaped maximum security on two separate but equally baffling occasions, has reportedly been re-captured by local authorities. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto confirmed the news on Friday afternoon, Reuters initially reported. "Mission accomplished," the president tweeted. "We have him. Joaquín Guzmán Loera has been arrested." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wuh_UoXtu0 The news comes after months of speculation regarding how, exactly, someone might escape a maximum security prison without being detected. A sophisticated underground tunnel, a brief […]