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Last Night, Nicki Minaj Shared Some Heartbreaking News With Her Followers… This is Nicki’s slain cousin, 27-year-old Nicholas Telemaque. According to TMZ, he was was killed around 2:40 AM on July 4 from “multiple gunshot wounds to the upper torso.” Police are said to be investigating the murder, but have yet to name any suspects. […]

Last week rumors surfaced that Jay-z and Kanye West’s collaborative album Watch The Throne was releasing digitally on July 4th.

On July 1st @wizardcud’s “Cud Life Tour” (With @Chip216) made a stop here in Cleveland.

Kem opened up day 3 of the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. While performing “If It’s Love” Kem brought out New Orlean’s own Ledisi to cover what Chrisette Michele’s part from the original studio version of the record. Check it out below! SOURCE: @ITSYAGIRLAC ALL ACCESS PASS Kyte.Embed.path=”http://media.kyte.tv”;Kyte.Embed.altpath=”http://www.kyte.tv”;window.kyteplayer=new Kyte.Player(“”,{appKey:”default”,width:416,height:312,p:”1763″,s:1402415,tbid:”421″}); MORE ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL COVERAGE: […]

While in New Orleans this weekend for the Essence Music Festival, Big Daddy Kane caught up with AC of HOT 102.7. AC was taking questions via twitter and received one from @jrbang asking Big Daddy Kane if he was to battle Rakim while they were each in their prime who would have killed it. As […]

KISSDETROIT – Fantasia opened her set at the 2011 Essence Music Festival at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana with a bold statement “F*** It”. Watch the video below for her message to the critics as well as a tribute to Prince.

Trey Songz was one of many artist at the Essence Music Festival who covered their favorite throwbacks and giving tribute to those who paved the way. One of Trey’s cover tracks of the night was ‘Freak’n You’ by Jodeci. ‘Freak’n You was one of the groups hottest record from their last album together, The Show, […]

105.9 kiss-fm – Usher closed down the show of day one at the 2011 Essence Music Festival at the Louisiana Superdome on July 1, 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana. While performing “Lil Freak”, from his sixth studio album Raymond v. Raymond, he tells the Essence crowd “I hope you don’t mind if I get a […]

Tyrese Gibson is having a great year with releasing his first book “How To Get Out of Your Own Way,” which is a best seller and starred in two blockbuster movies “Fast Five” and “Transformers 3.” He hit up Power 105.1′ “The Breakfast Club” Morning Show to talk about how he doesn’t like being labeled […]

Oh boy! I don’t know what you’re gonna do with no NFL or NBA! Add the NBA to the list of lockouts! NBA owners informed the players union that they would be locked out when the CBA expired at midnight Thursday. The two sides negotiated for three hours Thursday, but were nowhere near a deal on […]

HOTHIPHOPDETROIT – You can tell Trey Songz set at the Essence Music Festival was all fun and games as he flipped his traditional hits with blending in snippets of other hits. It was kind of like rough foreplay: all over the place but you like where it is going. Check out the video below as […]

HOTHIPHOPDETROIT – Trey Song was on fire during his performance at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans covering and remixing his records with many other artists hits. He killed his remix to Kelly Roland’s “Motivation”. SOURCE: @ITSYAGIRLAC ALL ACCESS PASS Kyte.Embed.path=”http://media.kyte.tv”;Kyte.Embed.altpath=”http://www.kyte.tv”;window.kyteplayer=new Kyte.Player(“”,{appKey:”default”,width:416,height:312,p:”1763″,s:1400790,tbid:”381″}); MORE ESSENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL COVERAGE: Pregnant Or Not Fantasia Says “F*** It” […]