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When it comes to making game changing decisions, Grammy award winning producer and art connoisseur Kasseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean has made great strides in the arts and entertainment arena. The 38-year old has teamed with Canon USA to present #TheUnknowns collection, which consist of body of works by a group of five artists who are all passionate about becoming known artists. And what better place than to have an viewing at Sotheby's! Read More »
As we covered pretty extensively earlier this year, Rick Ross was dropped (or was he?) from his Reebok sponsorship due to pressure from women's advocacy groups after Ross appeared to rap about date rape during his guest verse on Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O." (Even Rocko caved to the pressure, re-releasing the track sans Ross' verse). However, Ross doesn't seem to have any hard feelings toward the sneaker company. Here admitted that he still rocks their shoes in an interview with the Associated Press. Read More »
Birdman, rapper and head honcho over at Cash Money Records, has gotten tired of all of the political correctness in hip-hop. He expressed his irritation with a rent wave of forced apologies on the air with MTV Thursday. The former Big Tyma said he considered rallying his troops and boycotting Reebok and Mountain Dew for dropping endorsement deals for Rick Ross and Lil Wayne respectively. Read More »
Chris Brown may have publicized anger issues with women, but its obvious that Breezy loves the kids. Chris Brown was all smiles over the July 4th holiday weekend as the "Fine China" singer donated 1000 pairs of Reebok sneakers to children at Crenshaw High School in L.A. on July 6, at the "WE US: Walk Everywhere in Unity's Shoes" event. Read More »
Rick Ross hopes his very public fallout with Reebok after dropping some highly questionable lines on Rocko's "U.O.E.N.O." will stand as a lesson to his MMG family. Read More »
Lil Wayne has lost his PespiCo Mountain Dew contract following backlash for "inappropriate" Emmit Till lyrics. Read More »
Reebok recently dropped Rick Ross over a flurry of controversy surrounding lyrics that seemed to promote date rape in the song "UOENO." However, it appears that the company was merely bowing to public pressure and didn't honestly feel all that bad about it. Ross was recently pictured with Reebok's CEO Uli Becker and Swizz Beatz and it appears that his sponsorship deal may be re-instated. Read More »
Rick Ross is back for the first time since his guest verse on Rocko's "UOENO" ignited a firestorm of controversy with track "Ice Cold (feat. Omarion)" off of God Forgives, I Don't. Ross has left his date rape days in the past and returned to typical Ross subjects: luxury items, cigars, guns and (completely willing, he promises) women. Read More »
Mstarz News reported yesterday that Reebok dropped Rick Ross Thursday, over the controversy involving his date rape lyrics, now the Maybach Music exec has released an official statement and a sincere social media message to Reebok. Read More »
