According to Forbes, Diddy is now worth $700 million, making him (easily) the number one Hip-Hop cash cow on their latest list. Behind him sees Dr. Dre, JAY Z, Birdman and 50 Cent take the remaining spots in the top 5 (you can see that below)….above, you can see Diddy breaking down his vision to Forbes’ senior editor Zack O’Malley Greenburg.
1. Diddy: $700 million
2. Dr. Dre: $550 million
3. Jay Z: $520 million
4. Birdman: $160 million
5. 50 Cent: $140 million
OG Juan spoke with GQ about Jay Z’s Roc Nation Sports, including their first acquisition and player development. An excerpt is below; you can read the rest of the questions from the interview here.
When you guys make a decision about a player, how big is the circle making the decision?
Just me and Jay.Just the two of you?
Just us two.
50 Cent appeared on the Hot 97 Morning Show…he spoke on his upcoming album Animal Ambition and appearance at this year’s Summer Jam, Rick Ross, Ja Rule and more. Additional clip below.
Common & Dreezy stopped by WGCI to talk about Nicki Minaj & Lil Herb’s record ‘Chi-Raq‘ with UB Rodriguez. Common spoke about being inspired from the younger Chicago generation, and Dreezy (who has a version of the aforementioned single) inspires to be one of the best in the game. Common also announced the release date of his upcoming albumm, which is set to hit stores June 24th.
August Alsina returned to The Breakfast Club to discuss his debut album Testimony, distaste for going down on women, love from Donnell Rawlings, taking care of his nieces after the death of his brother, relationship with his mother, lack of mentoring and friends, fallout with Trey Songz, maintaining his honesty and speaking his true feelings, touring experiences, and more. – Team Yee
Birmingham’s Lil Choppa discusses his clash with Zeo on Lord Of The Mics 5 and gives his views on P Money vs Big H on the forthcoming Lord Of The Mics 6. – TGR
Scarface stopped by the The Combat Jack Show while on a promo run for his new album. They talked about several topics in the interview…read them below.
Scarface lost 100 pounds. And we’re all over the place in this interview. He plays guitar, he talks drugs and depression and Pink Floyd, he talks about his time in prison, why his son went missing earlier this year, why Rick Ross is underrated and more. He does his best to avoid making controversial statements, but he just can’t help himself. This is Brad Jordan like you’ve never heard before.
Rico Love stopped by Power 105 yesterday morning and spoke on his Interscope deal, female response to his single “Bitches Be Like”, his situation with Tiara Thomas (and Wale) and more.
Lil Herb & Lil Reese stopped by WGCI to chop it up with DJ Moondawg about their friendship, Chicago’s music scene and more. Lil Herb also touched on his new project “Ballin Like I’m Kobe” and Lil Reese revealed he has songs with Young Thug, Plies and Young Scooter. Shot by Elevator.
Spotted on MTV:
Oprah Winfrey sure knows how to bring the emotions out of people, and on Sunday night on “Oprah Prime,” the veteran journalist and media mogul brought the oh-so-cool Pharrell Williams to tears.
“Why am I crying on ‘Oprah’?” P asked rhetorically, fighting its way through his tears.
During the interview, Williams spoke to the Big O about his #1 Billboard single “Happy” and its slow burn to the top of the charts. “Zero airplay, nothing,” P said of the single he released in June as a part of the “Despicable Me 2” soundtrack. “And next thing you know we put the video on November 21st, all of a sudden, boom.”
The “boom” that Pharrell referred to was the viral explosion of fan-made “Happy” videos, which came from all across the world. When Oprah showed the multiplatinum producer a compilation of all of those different fan videos, he was moved to tears.
“It’s overwhelming because I love what I do and I just appreciate the fact that people have believed in me for so long, that I can make it to this point to feel that,” he said through tears as he pointed to Oprah’s video screen.
President T gives us some exclusive bars as well as a quick catch up on whats going on with his forthcoming release ‘The Stranger Returns’ his feelings on being credited enough on his innovations to the Grime scene, The forthcoming visual to his track with Chronik and more. – The Grime Report
YG stopped by the Whoolywood Shuffle to speak on Snoop and Dre’s The Chronic (and how it compares to his album My Krazy Life), ‘Toot It & Boot It’, working with Drake and Kendrick Lamar, DJ Mustard and more.
DZA was recently on Sway In The Morning to promote Dream.ZONE.Achieve, and accepted the challenge of going through the show’s 5 Fingers Of Death. Below, he spoke on his various inspirations.
So technically, Wiz Khalifa’s tattoo-artist-turned-rapper is the one who set off one of the biggest beefs in rap history. Kudos. From Vlad TV:
Tuki Carter opens up about getting his start as a celebrity tattoo artist after giving Canibus his now-infamous microphone tattoo that stirred up beef between him and LL Cool J, who had the same image inked first. He reveals that some guys from his shop said that Canibus was looking to get a tattoo, and he wasn’t going to turn down the opportunity.
To celebrate her new album Z, SZA breaks down the lyrics of her track “Babylon” featuring Kendrick Lamar. – LIFE+TIMES
Kirko Bangz was in Seattle recently (he’s currently on tour with Bun B), where he spoke to Sermons Domain on a number of topics, including his love for Rihanna, Progression IV, his upcoming album Bigger Than Me, touring with Bun B and more.
Frisco was a recent guest on Bang Radio and Link Up TV’s Tuesday Night Link Up series, and during his visit he spoke on his new British Nights EP, the current Grime scene, P Money Vs. Big H and more.
The individual in the above clip happens to be Trey Songz’ musical director, so naturally, he felt that August Alsina handled the situation (of which we still don’t even know) in a “very bitch like” manner. Get your popcorn.
Youngs Teflon talks his latest release with Link Up TV.
Multi-platinum producer, rapper and songwriter, Jermaine Dupri made a stop by Sway in the Morning and spoke candidly on all-things music.
Our Shade 45 morning show went over-time to hear Dupri’s interesting back stories behind working with Jay Z, discovering Bow Wow and how Snoop gave him his name and opens up entirely about working side-by-side with Mariah Carey.
Katy Perry set a new record on the Billboard’s Pop Songs chart, topping a record previously held by Mariah Carey for the most weeks at No. 1, thus claiming that she “dethroned” MC — JD then gave his honest opinion on all the above.
The issue has been addressed a few times before by all parties, but during a visit to Sway In The Morning, Rico Love spoke on the evident triangle that is him, his artist Tiara Thomas and Thomas’ former mentee Wale.
Rico Love, is a singer-songwriter and producer who was behind hit records such as Usher’s There Goes My Baby and Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home), as well as Beyoncé Knowles’ Sweet Dreams, just to name a few.
His latest project? Tiara Thomas — the recognizable female voice on Wale’s hit, Bad.
There has been rumors of beef and betrayal between Rico Love, Tiara Thomas and Wale — and Rico stopped by Sway in the Morning to clear the air.
“I met her [through Wale’s partner], and the first thing I said was, ‘Why Wale didn’t sign her?’ She’s amazing, I can’t believe this.” Love tells Sway in the Morning.
“I ended up offering her a contract, we negotiated on the contract.” Rico explained. “After we negotiated, she gave ‘Bad’ to Wale on his mixtape. No one ever said this was gonna be Wale’s single.”
He goes on to explain how Wale’s emotion makes him a genius, “but sometimes that can hurt you when you don’t know how to separate it,” in reference to business deals.
“It got so bad where his assistant was on the line threatening her and a bunch of stuff like that.”
Among other reasons for Drama to come to the show (mainly speaking on working with Atlantic records and the Atlantic scene — Young Thug, Que, etc. — in general), there was apparently a conflict between he and obvious friend Envy regarding an earlier disconnect involving the two rivalries of Power 105 and Hot 97. According to Envy, there was a project that was supposed to be in the works before DJ Drama backed out to avoid issues with the rival station. Check it that (and the rest of the interview) for yourself above.
In the first episode of Elliott Wilson’s fifth season, he sat down with YG to talk about his debut My Krazy Life, the West Coast resurgence, DJ Mustard and difficulty in choosing singles.
