Frank Ocean Returns $212,500 To Chipotle Following Lawsuit

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After being sued by Chipotle last week, Frank Ocean has decided to pay back money that he was given to create an ad for the restaurant:

Singer Frank Ocean is being sued by Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle. According to a complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, March 7, the company says it paid the Channel Orange star $212,500 to record a cover of “Pure Imagination,” a song originally made famous when Gene Wilder sung it in 1971’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The suit says the track was supposed to appear in a marketing campaign promoting locally and sustainably sourced food over industrial farming practices. Ocean (born Christopher Breaux) was due to turn in the track on August 7, when he was also set to receive another $212,500, but he instead informed the company that he would not be participating in the campaign.

JAY Z & Kanye West To Kick Off Samsung SXSW Concert Series

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Mashable got word that Jay Z & Kanye West will be headling the first of four SXSW concerts this week, courtesy of Samsung. The specific locations will not be announced until the day of each show.

Here’s how to get access:

Samsung plans to distribute concert wristbands only to owners of Galaxy devices with the newly launched ad-free radio service called Milk Music downloaded on their devices. They can pick up their wristbands at the Galaxy Experience pop-up location at 2nd Street and Trinity Street starting Tuesday at 10 a.m. CT.

This news comes in addition to a concert that Kanye & G.O.O.D. Music will be doing with Yahoo!

UPDATE: First Week Sales For Ashanti, Pharrell & Rick Ross

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UPDATE: The numbers are in — Rick Ross’ Mastermind officially tops Billboard with about 185,000 units sold, which Pharrell coming in second with about 110K (BUT, over in the UK, Pharrell hits number one, so congrats to both). Ashanti did marginally better than expected with 28,000 copies sold.

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So, the forecasts are in for three big album that dropped this week, and — courtesy of Hits Daily Double — they are:

Rick Ross – Mastermind: 145-160K
Pharrell Williams – G I R L: 85-95K
Ashanti – Braveheart: 18-21K

I’m not surprised at all by any of the above numbers for varying reasons (sorry Ashanti, you’re along way from Murder Inc….but you probably know that already).

Future – Honest (Tracklisting)

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Future reveals the tracklisitng for his upcoming album Honest, which is set to hit the stores on April 22nd. Honest will feature new songs from Lil Wayne, Kanye West, Andre 3000 and more. Check out the standard & deluxe tracklistings below.

Honest Tracklisting (Standard)

1. Look Ahead
2. T-Shirt
3. Move That Dope featuring Pharrell, Pusha T and Casino
4. My Momma featuring Wiz Khalifa
5. Honest
6. I Won featuring Kanye West
7. Never Satisfied featuring Drake
8. I Be U
9. Covered N Money
10. Special featuring Young Scooter
11. Benz Friendz (Whatchutola) featuring Andre 3000
12. Blood, Sweat, Tears

Honest Tracklisting (Deluxe)

1. Look Ahead
2. T-Shirt
3. Move That Dope featuring Pharrell, Pusha T and Casino
4. My Momma featuring Wiz Khalifa
5. Honest
6. I Won featuring Kanye West
7. Never Satisfied featuring Drake
8. I Be U
9. Covered N Money
10. Special featuring Young Scooter
11. Benz Friendz (Whatchutola) featuring Andre 3000
12. Blood, Sweat, Tears
13. Big Rube Speaks
14. Side Effects
15. I’ll Be Yours
16. How Can I Not featuring Young Scooter
17. Sh!t
18. Karate Chop (Remix) featuring Lil Wayne

Jury Returns Partial Verdict In Jimmy Henchman Murder Trial

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Spotted on XXL:

A partial verdict has come back in the murder for hire trial of former CEO of Czar Entertainment and former manager of Game, James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond, though it wasn’t related directly to the murder at hand. Henchman’s co-defendant, Rodney Johnson, is charged with the same four counts of murder for hire and conspiracy as Henchman, but also had three additional charges of conspiracy to distribute narcotics, weapons possession related to drug trafficking, and felony firearm possession. The jury returned a verdict today convicting Johnson of his three separate charges, according to Henchman’s attorney J. Bruce Maffeo.

The case stems from the September 2009 murder of G-Unit affiliate Lowell “Lodi Mack” Fletcher, killed in the Bronx, allegedly as retaliation for slapping Henchman’s 14-year-old son on the street in 2007. Prosecutors contend that Henchman hired Johnson and four others to murder Mack as part of a long-running “blood feud” between members of Czar Entertainment and G-Unit that began around 2003. No verdict was returned on either Henchman’s or Johnson’s murder charges, and the jury reconvenes tomorrow morning to continue deliberating on those additional charges.

Johnson, 40, was originally arrested hiding under sheet rock at a cocaine stash house in April of 2010 with 12 kilos of cocaine, while weapons and an additional five kilos of cocaine were found in his car. Henchman is already serving life in prison after being convicted in 2012 of running a multi-million-dollar drug trafficking ring.