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    Swizz Beatz Says Rappers Should Pay 'Taxes' to Hip-Hop Founders

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    The producer husband of Alicia Keys wants rappers to pay a million dollars each to the hip-hop pioneers like Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, and Sugarhill Gang.
    May 14, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Swizz Beatz has called on the rap stars of today to pay “taxes” to hip-hop’s founders.
    The star spoke out on the issue during a chat with Joe Budden on his Beatz’s Zone Radio on Instagram Live, where he suggested he wants to “raise a million dollars for each icon that started hip-hop.”
    “The fact we’re not paying taxes on who started hip-hop shows we don’t f**king really love hip-hop,” he explained, reported the New York Post’s gossip column Page Six. “The fact we don’t pay taxes as artists to those icons that paved the way took the lower cut for the music that allowed us to feed our families.”
    The star, real name Kasseem Dean, added, “We need to be paying taxes to the creatives of hip-hop that gave us freedom of speech to go forward.”
    “Melle Mel, Grandmaster Flash, and Sugarhill Gang, minimum a million a piece.”
    The “Echo” hitmaker made the comments after saying he wanted to stage a rap battle between Rakim and Big Daddy Kane. He also claimed that a similar face-off between his wife Alicia Keys and singer John Legend, in which they will both play the piano, is also in the works.

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    Kelly Rowland Talks About the Time Destiny's Child Was Boo-ed in 2001

    The one third of the ‘Say My Name’ hitmaker reveals in a YouTube video that prior to hitting the stage, they were like, ‘Are we going to do this, are we going to go out here?’
    May 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Destiny’s Child is one of the greatest girl groups of all time but that doesn’t mean they never experienced a dark time throughout their career. Back in 2001, the singers received a roaring “boo” from the audience when they hit the Hot 97’s Summer stage. While it’s not a happy memory to remember, member Kelly Rowland reveals in a new interview that the experience taught them something.
    “It prepared us, because what was so interesting was like, around that time Destiny’s Child was crossing over, and because we were crossing over, I think that it was a question if we were still down or black, or…you know what I mean?” said Kelly in a YouTube video. “At that time we crossed over so that was just in question, which is ridiculous.”
    Going on recalling the moment, Kelly said, “Before we went out there, it was that overwhelming loud ‘boo’ and it was…we were looking at each other like, ‘Are we going to do this, are we going to go out here?’ ”
    “I saw the look in [Beyonce Knowles]’ eyes and I was like, ‘If she’s going out there I’m not letting her go out there by herself. Like, I’m going with her.’ And then it was like a trickle effect, and then we were out there, we were on the stage.”
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    Kelly shared they ran off stage as soon as they finished performing their set. She said, “I don’t think it was anything anybody could’ve told us at that time. Here we are at the height of our career and we are being praised everywhere except for in our neighborhood. In the space that first took us on and gave us so much love.”
    Whether the booing had something to do with their race, Kelly said, “I don’t want to say that the color of our skin was questioned but it was like, ‘Y’all too popular. Y’all too big for your britches so we got to humble you.’ That was some of it too.”

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    Rihanna Beats Elton John for Third Place on Britain's 2020 Richest Musicians List

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    Raking in almost $576 million in 2019, the ‘Umbrella’ hitmaker falls behind Andrew Lloyd Webber and Paul McCartney, but dominates over the likes of Mick Jagger and Ed Sheeran.
    May 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Londoner Rihanna has pipped Sir Elton John to third place on a new list of Britain’s richest musicians thanks to the success of her lingerie and cosmetics lines.
    The “Umbrella” singer, who was born in Barbados but now lives in the U.K., raked in almost $576 million (£468 million) last year to land third place on the Sunday Times’ annual list of wealthy hitmakers, behind Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sir Paul McCartney, who share the top spot with $980 million (£800 million) apiece.
    Elton comes in fourth place with a not-too-shabby $441,000 (£360 million) and Sir Mick Jagger rounds out the 2020 top five with $349 million (£285 million).
    Keith Richards and Ringo Starr also make the top 10, as do Sting, Ed Sheeran and Sir Rod Stewart, who all tie for the 10th spot.
    The Sunday Times’ Top 10 Richest Musicians in Britain:

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    Cardi B Shares New Snippet of Unreleased Song Dedicated to Daughter Kulture

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    In honor of Mother’s Day, the ‘Bodak Yellow’ raptress unveiled over the weekend another part of the track she wrote for her daughter that samples Eve’s ‘Love Is Blind’.
    May 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – While her fans are eagerly anticipating her next album, Cardi B treated her followers to a new snippet of her unreleased track dedicated to her daughter Kulture. In honor of Mother’s Day, the raptress jumped to Instagram Live over the weekend to preview the song, which she wrote for her and Offset’s child.
    “From that, sonogram when I saw your little hand/ Legs got weak when I heard your heartbeat/ I cried for you, prayed for you, even lost sleep,” she mouthed the lyrics as the song played in the background in the clip. “Little life growing inside of me/ Whole world has been dying to see/ I just wanted a little time for me/ This is invasion of privacy.”
    Cardi recorded the track in 2018, while she was pregnant with Kulture and recording songs for her Grammy Award-winning debut album, “Invasion of Privacy”. She previously unveiled another part of the song, which samples Eve’s 1999 single “Love Is Blind”, in 2019 when celebrating her daughter’s 1st birthday in July.
    “Thank you everybody for wishing my sweet baby a Happy Birthday,” the Bronx femcee wrote in an Instagram post along with a video that compiled footage of Kulture. She continued in the caption, “I made this song one day before I turned in my album and Eve gave me the green light for the beat I was so grateful! She a real one!”

    On why the song didn’t make it into her highly successful debut studio album, Cardi explained at the time, “It didn’t make it on time tho cause as you can hear I was maaa stuffy with a terrible cold.I couldn’t get it right no matter how many times I spit it Even when we try to mix it u still sound stuffy . I love my baby she changed my life.”

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    Beyonce Forced to Call Off Cardi B Duet Due to Leak

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    Beyonce Knowles was ready to collaborate with the ‘Bodak Yellow’ hitmaker but the latter’s producer ruined it by prematurely announcing the project on social media.
    May 13, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Plans for a highly-anticipated 2017 collaboration between Beyonce Knowles and Cardi B were scrapped for good when the news leaked online, according to the producer behind the song.
    Rumours about the secret project first hit headlines in October 2017, when Michael Ashby, who goes by the name Ashby the Mix Engineer, sent fans into a frenzy after posting a picture of his computer screen on his Instagram Story timeline, showing a mixing programme with a file titled, “Cardi B ft Beyonce Demo.”
    He captioned the picture, “Wow this feature is big,” but stopped short of sharing any further details.
    He subsequently apologised to the two stars for making the big reveal while Cardi played coy as she insisted she had never met Ashby, the engineer behind her breakout hit “Bodak Yellow”, and denied knowing anything about the proposed song.
    Now producer J White Did It, who had been quietly developing the track, has opened up about the debacle, admitting the studio get-together between Beyonce and Cardi was ditched the moment Ashby made it public because the “Formation” icon is known for keeping an air of mystery around her work.
    “Three years ago I had a Beyonce play with Cardi and that kinda went sour because it went viral that they was doing a song together and that cut out (sic),” J White Did It explained in an Instagram video.
    “I was just as giddy as everybody else (about the collaboration),” he shared, before recalling the moment he knew that project was dead, “I was sitting there just waiting, looking on the Internet, then it leaked…”
    The beatmaker, who also worked on “Bodak Yellow”, has since been granted a new opportunity to team up with Beyonce as he produced the “Savage Remix” she recently recorded with rap newcomer Megan Thee Stallion.

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    Gwen Stefani Makes Grand Ole Opry Debut With Blake Shelton Duet

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    Though she was not billed to perform during the virtual show, the No Doubt frontwoman accompanies her singer boyfriend in singing ‘Nobody But You’ from his Oklahoma farm.
    May 12, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Gwen Stefani made her Grand Ole Opry debut on Saturday night (May 09) – from over 630 miles (1,000 kilometres) away.
    The No Doubt star performed “Nobody But You” with her country star boyfriend Blake Shelton from his Oklahoma farm, where the couple has been self-isolating throughout the coronavirus lockdown.
    Gwen wasn’t even billed to perform during the virtual show, which also featured Trace Adkins and Dustin Lynch, but few were surprised when she appeared to sing her hit duet with Blake.
    “Is this happening? Am I really on the Grand Ole Opry?” an excited Stefani said.
    Shelton, who is an inductee of country music’s most famous venue, then made it clear than he plans to get his girlfriend on the stage of the Opry in Nashville, Tennessee.

    Shelton also performed “Ol Red” and “God’s Country” during the show.
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    Keith Urban, Kelsea Ballerini, and Morgan Evans are billed to appear on the Grand Ole Opry this coming Saturday, May 16.

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    Rae Sremmurd Settles Fyre Festival Lawsuit by Agreeing to Pay Back $18,000

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    In addition to hip-hop duo Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi, Migos has also reached out a deal to hand back $30,000 of the $100,000 they were paid to perform at the disastrous event.
    May 12, 2020
    AceShowbiz – Rae Sremmurd stars Swae Lee and Slim Jxmmi have agreed to hand over $18,000 (£14,600) to settle a lawsuit over cash they were paid to perform at the disastrous Fyre Festival.
    According to court documents obtained by The Blast, the hip-hop duo reached a deal with the trustee presiding over the event’s bankruptcy case.
    Last year (19), the trustee sued a string of celebrities and artists who were paid to promote the music festival and perform in an effort to pay back Fyre’s creditors, who were left out of pocked when the 2017 event in the Bahamas fell apart.
    Rae Sremmurd was initially sued for over $100,000 (£81,000), but they’ve now agreed to settle for less than a fifth of that amount.
    “The Defendant shall pay the total sum of $18,000.00… as full and final settlement and complete satisfaction of all claims the Trustee has against the Defendant,” the paperwork reads.
    The Blast previously reported Migos settled a separate lawsuit over Fyre Festival and agreed to pay back $30,000 (£24,300) of the $100,000 they were paid to perform.
    Other celebrities still facing lawsuits include Kendall Jenner and festival headliners Blink-182.
    Fyre Festival boss, Billy McFarland, is still behind bars after being sentenced to six years in prison on fraud charges.

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    Spain's Primavera Sound Festival Gets Official Push Back to 2021 Over COVID-19 Pandemic

    Two months after they postponed the Barcelona event to late August, organizers come out with an announcement that the 20th anniversary edition will no longer take place in 2020.
    May 12, 2020
    AceShowbiz – The 20th anniversary edition of Spain’s Primavera Sound Festival has officially been postponed until 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
    Headliners including The Strokes, Lana Del Rey and Tyler, the Creator had all been due to lead the celebrations in Barcelona from 3 to 7 June, but in March, organisers decided to postpone the event until late August, when they hoped the worst of the COVID-19 outbreak would have passed.
    However, with the uncertainty surrounding the return of the live music industry still ongoing, festival bosses have been forced to scrap plans to host the big show this year, instead choosing to put the celebrations on hold until next summer.
    “Today, Primavera Sound announces the most difficult decision in its history: finally we will not be able to celebrate our 20th anniversary during 2020,” they share in a statement to ticket holders.
    “In the face of the evolution of the COVID-19 health crisis, we find ourselves obliged to postpone the next edition of Primavera Sound Barcelona, for reasons of force majeure, until next year: from 2nd to 6th June 2021.”
    “We are devastated and are terribly sorry for the inconvenience caused, but the health and well-being of our festivalgoers and all of the people involved in the festival has always been and is still our absolute priority. We cannot thank you enough for your patience, love and understanding in this uncertain scenario. We will never forget this.”

    Officials are now set to mark what would have been the original first day of Primavera 2020 on 3 June by unveiling the first acts booked to hit the stage for the new anniversary festival.
    It’s the latest music casualty of the global crisis – Britain’s Glastonbury Festival and New York City’s Governors Ball were also cancelled, while California’s Coachella and Stagecoach events, and Bonnaroo in Tennessee, were all pushed back from the spring to this autumn.

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