Tomorrow French Montana will be debut his new mixtape, “Wave Gods”, on DJ Khaled’s “We The Best Radio.” Today he drops the tracklist for the album. If you ask me they look like some album cuts. The project is hosted by Max B and features Nas, Kanye West, Future, Travi$ Scott, Big Sean, Chris Brown and more. Check out the tracklist after the jump.
J. Cole’s First Two Albums Have Officially Went Platinum!
Congrats to Cole. Well deserved…his first two albums Cole World: A Sideline Story and his sophomore set Born Sinner have both been officially declared platinum status after the RIAA changed it’s rules. Hit the jump.
Straight Outta Compton Wins “Best Film” At NAACP Image Awards
Although being snubbed now infamously by the Academy Awards, ‘Straight Outta Compton’ pulls through and grabs the award for “Best Film” at the 47th annual NAACP Image Awards. Hit the jump for the story and also the full list of winners from the awards!
(Photos) TDE’s CEO Blasts RIAA’s New Certification Rules: “No Cheat Codes To Platinum”
Monday (February 1) was a huge day for the music industry. RIAA CEO Cary Sherman announced that they will now be factoring in streaming numbers when tracking album sales. Under the new system, RIAA will count every 1,500 audio or video streams as 10 equivalent sales.This came as great news for artists like Big Sean and TDE’s own Kendrick Lamar who with this new system, received new certifications. Not everyone was happy with the new system however, not even TDE’s CEO Anthony Tiffith despite his artist finally going platinum. Tiffith took to Twitter to blasts the new regulations. He wrote,
we don’t stand behind this @RIAA bs. ole skool rules apply, 1 million albums sold is platinum.until we reach that #, save all the congrats.
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Aretha Franklin Donates Hotel Rooms And Meals To Residents Of #FlintWaterCrisis
Aretha Franklin has joined in the efforts to help out the residents of Flint, Michigan who are currently being plagued by lead-fused water. Several celebs including, The Game, Big Sean and Diddy have made huge monetary and water donations to the Flint Water Crisis and now Aretha Franklin, who’s a Detroit native herself has announced that she will provide free hotel rooms at the Holiday Inn as well as food to 50 residents of Flint in need of assistance. The Queen of Soul opened up about her decision to donate saying,
“Detroiters usually come to the aid of Detroiters — and Flint is certainly regarded as Detroit. Hang in there.”
Diddy, Eminem & Wiz Khalifa Donate One Million Bottles Of Water To The Flint Water Crisis
Celebrities have been doing their part to donate to the ever growing water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Meek Mill pledged $50,000 in addition to donating 60,000 bottles of water, while Detroit native Big Sean started the #HealFlintKids fundraiser. The latest to donate to the Flint Water Crisis are Diddy along with Eminem, Wiz Khalifa revealed via Twitter they are sending one million bottles of their water AQUAhydrate, to Flint. This huge donation should make a great impact in providing clean drinking water to the 90,000 citizens of Flint. AQUAhydrateannounced that the water should arrive to the city this week, confirmed tthat its committed to help until this problem is resolved. Click the gallery for more.
