The ongoing battle between Kenneth Petty, husband of Nicki Minaj, and his alleged rape victim, Jennifer Hough, continues to heat up. For some background information, Petty was convicted of first-degree attempted rape in 1995. As a result, he served over four years in prison. Furthermore, almost 20 years later, Petty still did not register himself as sex a offender. Subsequently, the judge sentenced him to one year of home confinement and three years of probation. Read More...
What began as a subgenre exclusive to Brooklyn has now defined New York City as a whole as a result of growing popularity and artists. The NY drill scene is still thriving with artists from practically every borough adapting the sound and putting their own spin on it, like Kenzo Balla.
Following the surge of drill rappers across NYC, Kenzo Balla's become a promising new force to emerge from hip-hop's birthplace, the Bronx. Read More...
Content from Kevin Hart, John Mulaney, and hundreds of other comedians has been removed from Spotify over a dispute regarding royalty payments. A large group of comedians is hoping to earn royalty payments when their content is played on streaming services similar to the way musicians earn money for the usage of their music.
Spoken Giants, the organization representing the comedians, released a statement explaining their position on their website: "Compared to music and other media, Spoken Word assets are under-represented in today's sonic landscape and more importantly key rights, provided for under copyright law, are not paid by the very channels that obtain great value from using comedy works, podcasts, and other spoken-word assets. Read More...
