It’s probably no surprise that a man who drapes himself in fur and hosts an annual White Party would come in at number one on Forbes‘ Top 5 Wealthiest Hip-Hop Artists list for the second year in a row. How do they all avoid getting ketchup all over themselves? It just doesn’t add up. With [...]
This is one collaboration that we would never have dreamt up. Dr. Dre is expanding Beats by Dre, his ubiquitous brand of headphones and loudspeakers. The Doctor has gone high fashion and teamed up with designer Oscar de la Renta to create a limited edition pair of headphones called, what else but Beats by Oscar [...]
Snoop Dogg turns the big 4-0 today, and to mark the occasion he got a cake shaped like…a forty. The rapper celebrated at Hollywood’s Rolling Stone Lounge last night with a cake featuring a bottle of Colt 45 malt liquor made out of fondant icing. Some sparklers also adorned the top, because something had to [...]
Dr. Dre has been a background player in the music business for the better part of the last decade, choosing to act as producer rather than performer during that time. But Dre has announced that he’ll be performing live with Eminem at the Grammy Awards this Sunday, his first television appearance in over ten years [...]
In the words of Stephanie Tanner, “How rude!” The scenario could not be more different from the Tanner household, but the sentiment is the same: Ice Cube was ditched by Dr Dre midway through a recording session. This obviously caused some major problems because they had to scratch the whole track they were working on [...]
First things first: Do people still say the word “bling”? Or is that term a relic of a bygone era? Either way, it’s no secret that there is a lot of money to be made by becoming a global hip-hop icon these days. So much so, in fact, that a normally hoity-toity magazine like Forbes [...]
In 1989, Matt Dillon played an edgy junkie in Drugstore Cowboy and Dr. Dre played an edgy gangsta with N.W.A. In 2009, Dillon will be seen with rapper T.I. in the crime thriller Bone Deep. And if we’re lucky, Dre will include his collaboration with actor T.I. on his long-awaited album, Detox. Both men were [...]
A toxicology test has been ordered after the autopsy of Dr. Dre’s son, Andre Young Jr, has proved inconclusive. The rap star’s 20-year-old son was found unresponsive in his bed around 10 am Saturday after having been out with friends the night before, and was declared dead shortly thereafter. Capt. Ed Winter of the Los [...]
Photos of 26-year-old Curtis Young, also known as Hood Surgeon, have been mistakenly used in several blog posts concerning Andre Young, Jr., Curtis’ 20-year-old half-brother, who died on Saturday. Andre, Jr. is pictured above in a pr photo for Forat Electronics. [Photo: Forat Electronics, PR]
Andre Young, Jr., son of rap legend Dr. Dre, was found dead in his Woodlawn, CA home on Saturday morning. Young, who came home at 5:30 AM, would not respond when his mother checked on him four and a half hours later. The cause of death is unknown, pending a toxicology report. If Young’s death [...]
