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Erykah Badu has been everywhere lately, from The Breakfast Club to the Complex office to talk about her newest mixtape, But You Cain't Use My Phone. She also hosted the Soul Train Awards, where she fired a shot directly to rapper Iggy Azalea, as she pretended to say to Iggy over the phone that what she's doing "is definitely not rap.” Recently, Iggy responded to the diss on Twitter before Badu hilariously shut it down once again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2AjR8AiwkU

While Big Sean was out of the country last week his home in the states was robbed. According to TMZ, the thieves stole $150,000 in jewelry and unpublished music from the rapper’s safe. Assuming the jewels were insured that shouldn’t be that big of a deal, but the loss of unpublished music could spell disaster for Sean, especially if it’s leaked and was planned for a forthcoming album. Sean‘s people think the thieves knew he was out of town and […]

The family is reacting to the death of dancehall artiste J Capri, who died at the University Hospital of the West Indies yesterday morning. Twenty-three-year-old J Capri, whose real name is Jordan Phillips, was in a coma since being involved in a motor vehicle accident in the Barbican area of St Andrew on November 23. Her father Kenneth Phillips was distraught when the Jamaica Observer spoke with him yesterday. "We are trying our best to cope under what is a […]

Yesterday, it was reported that Bobby Shmurda and his legal team were confident their latest bail package would be accepted by a judge and he would be released from prison. Now, TMZ is reporting that Shmurda's request to be bailed out has once again been denied. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb67qSDvTMM It's unclear why the court denied Shmurda's latest request, or why his legal team thought this latest package would be accepted in the first place. This is now the third time that Shmurda […]

Family members of the late reggae singer, Peter Tosh, are seeking the public's help in raising funds for the singer's youngest son, Jawara McIntosh. In 2013, McIntosh was caught by New Jersey police with 65 and a half pounds of marijuana in the trunk of his car. He was arrested and slapped with possession of cannabis charges. He spent six months in jail before he was released on US$70,000 bail. With the matter still before the courts, McIntosh's legal fees […]