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Nightclub owners Jacques and Jessica Moretti face potential manslaughter charges after a devastating fire ripped through their Le Constellation venue in the Swiss Alps during New Year’s Eve celebrations. The blaze erupted around 1:30 AM on January 1st when champagne sparklers ignited foam ceiling material in the packed basement club. At least 40 people died and 119 others suffered injuries, many with severe third-degree burns. Jacques Moretti broke his silence Thursday, telling Swiss media, “We can neither sleep nor eat, we are all very unwell.” The French couple defended their venue’s safety record, claiming three inspections over the past decade…
Will Smith is being sued for sexual harassment and wrongful termination by his former tour violinist.On Tuesday (Dec. 30), Brian King Joseph filed suit against the Philadelphia rapper-actor in the Superior Court of California in Los Angeles, NBC News reports. Joseph claims he was hired in November of 2024 to play on Will’s Based on a True Story album and to appear on the Based on a True Story: 2025 Tour. However, according to the suit, Joseph experienced a “traumatic series of events” while on tour with Will in Vegas in March of 2025.Joseph claims Will’s team lost his bag, which contained his hotel key.…
Battle rap just got a whole lot more interesting. A 70-year-old British grandmother named Joy France stepped into the ring with 33-year-old American rapper Anderson Burrus, and the internet can’t stop talking about it. The battle was uploaded to YouTube just days ago and already has over 116,000 views. People are calling it everything from “elder abuse” to “the most wholesome battle ever.” But here’s the thing: Joy France isn’t your typical grandma. France started battle rapping at 60 years old. She was a retired schoolteacher who promised herself she would try 60 new things before her 61st birthday. Battle…
New York City just got its most culturally connected mayor in decades. Zohran Mamdani made history Thursday (January 1) when he took the oath of office, becoming the first former rapper to lead America’s biggest city. But this wasn’t your typical political ceremony. Mamdani brought his culture to City Hall. The 34-year-old dropped a Jadakiss reference that had the crowd going wild. “We will, in the words of Jason Terrance Phillips – better known as Jadakiss or J to the Muah – be outside!” he said during his inaugural speech. The crowd erupted when Mamdani said Jadakiss’s government name and…
Diddy just picked up some unexpected heavy hitters in his legal fight to get out of prison, and they are not music-industry friends or celebrity supporters. The legal brain trust going to bat for Diddy is: Professor Douglas A. Berman of The Ohio State University, Professor John Blume of Cornell Law School and The Honorable John Gleeson, Retired (E.D.N.Y.), Adjunct Professor at New York University of Law. The law professors who argue that a federal judge overstepped by sentencing him on the basis of claims that a jury had already rejected. In a newly filed brief with the U.S. Court…
Celebrate New Year’s Eve with the 11th EP from Belleville, New Jersey emcee/producer Action Figure 973. For a while at this point, his first couple mixtapes followed by his last 10 EPs & the full-length debut DOOM Was Right almost 8 months ago giving flowers to one of my all-time personal favorite albums Madvillainy have each established himself as a promisingly skilled luchador who so happens to rap. The Most Interesting Man in the World got with Machacha for his sophomore effort in October, coming off last week’s Lucha Libre for the Soul sequel Lucha Libra for Christmas to air out some Luchador Body Odor. The title track after the “Vaginal Monologue” intro…
Vanilla Ice performed ‘Ice Ice Baby’ at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago NYE party, joined by a dancing Ninja Turtle as officials danced along. AllHipHop.com Since 1998, AllHipHop.com has pioneered delivering Hip-Hop news. Get our daily email for exclusive, breaking news, and weekly digests, all curated for the true Hip-Hop enthusiast. Stay connected and informed with the heartbeat of Hip-Hop culture. Subscribe now! Subscribe The ’90s came roaring back to life at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago New Year’s Eve party as Vanilla Ice took the stage for an unexpected performance that has social media buzzing. The rapper performed his 1990 mega-hit Ice Ice Baby…
ZELLI’s three-track EP, Chapter 2 Pack, is a deliberate and cohesive close to 2025, wrapping the year in a blanket of sonic warmth and lyrical honesty. True to his multi-genre approach and rooted in the Bay with influences from Louisiana and Oakland, ZELLI crafts a soundscape that feels like comfort food blending jazzy undertones, and smooth R&B-rap fusions into music that is restorative and introspective. Each track serves as a vignette centered on the complexities of relationships with a significant female, weaving narratives of connection, reflection, and growth that meet listeners where they are in their own journeys. The standout single, “See…
The Dallas Hip-Hop community woke up to devastating news on New Year’s Day as rising artist ZeeTheWizard lost his life following a shooting at a local strip club. The tragedy has left friends, family, and fans mourning the loss of a young talent who was just beginning to make his mark on the Texas rap scene. ZeeTheWizard was celebrating the arrival of 2026 alongside fellow Dallas rapper BigXThaPlug at the Pink House strip club’s grand opening when violence erupted around 3:50 A.M. The shooting left four people hospitalized, with ZeeTheWizard suffering a fatal head wound that would ultimately claim his…
YoungBoy Never Broke Again will not face charges after being the passenger in a vehicle where drugs were discovered during a recent traffic stop in Utah.On Wednesday (Dec 31), a Utah Highway Patrol trooper pulled over a vehicle on I-15 that was occupied by YB, a female passenger and a male driver, Utah’s KUTV reports. During a search of the vehicle, drugs and a significant amount of cash were discovered. The driver and female passenger admitted the drugs belonged to them and YB was not charged, police say.”I do believe there was money in the vehicle, but it didn’t seem…