(GEMS RADIO)---Rihanna is the music's richest self made woman beating out Beyonce, Madonna, and Taylor Swift. Forbes released its annual list and Rihanna made number 20. She has a net worth of $1.4 Billion. She is the only billionaire on the list. Most of it is from her music career but she also owns three fashion/beauty lines: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin and Savage X Fenty. She was quoted for saying […]
(GEMS RADIO)---Westside Gunn has gotten into a twitter dispute with a producer over financial issues. Ewonee, a producer and hitmaker, asked to send payment to him for Griselda artist Estee Nack. This was in response to a tweet that Westside Gunn said that he pays his producers very well. The rapper didn't take that too well and said that Ewonee was burning bridges over that tweet. “U see ladies &gentlemen […]
(GEMS RADIO)---Tupac will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on June 7th. Twenty six years after his death the rap icon will be getting his long overdue star. Sekyiwa "Set" Shakur, Tupac's sister, will accept the honor on his behalf during the formal opening ceremony for the star. Pac starred in Juice, Poetic Justice, Above the Rim and Gridlock’d. 2Pac released his debut album in 1991 and signed with Suge […]
(GEMS RADIO)---Jam Master Jay's final murder suspect has been charged. According to The New York Times, federal prosecutors indicted 49-year-old Jay Bryant from Queens on Tuesday (May 30), charging him with murder while engaged in narcotics trafficking and other drug-trafficking offenses. César de Castro, a lawyer for Bryant, said the following: “Securing an indictment in a secret grand jury, applying an extremely low burden of proof, is one thing,” de […]
(GEMS RADIO)---Ludacris did not think "Southern Hospitality" was going to be as huge as it was. The song was a late addition to the album Incognegro to be repackaged later as Back For The First Time. “If anybody can give you a hit at the last minute, it’s Pharrell and Chad and The Neptunes,” Luda explained. “He throws on this beat, and I’m vibing to it. I’m thinking it’s cool. […]
(GEMS RADIO)---Pharrell will be debuting his first Louis Vuitton collection during Paris Fashion Week this summer. Pharrell is teaming up with creative director Nicolas Ghesquière. “Since 1854, Louis Vuitton has placed fashion in the context of culture bringing unique designs to the world, combining innovation with style and uncompromising quality,” said the designer. Pharrell was hired as Louis Vuitton's head designer in February following the passing of Virgil Abloh.
(GEMS RADIO)---Ice Spice joined Taylor Swift on stage at her Jersey concert last night. Before coming on stage Swift gave an introduction to the hot rapper. "She reached out and said, ‘If you’d ever like to do a collab, I would love to.' And what she didn’t know at the time is that when I was training for the tour, I was listening to pretty much exclusively just her music […]
(GEMS RADIO)---Jay-Z and Megan Thee Stallion were having a blast at a recent Beyoncé show in Paris on the R&B diva's Renaissance tour. Blue Ivy Carter also made her debut as one Bey's back up dancers that night. Megan Thee Stallion joined the Roc Nation family back in 2019. Her woes continue with her former record label, 1501 Entertainment, though unfortunately.
(GEMS RADIO)---Drake has hit a new milestone. The rapper has hit a streaming record on Spotify. His latest song "Search and Rescue" has now surpassed over 100 million streams. According to Chart Data, Drake has now become the first artist in the streaming platform’s history to surpass 80 billion streams. Drake was the most streamed artist in 2021 with a mega total of 8.6 Billion streams. Her Loss, his album […]
