Madonna is set to take the stage as a performer at the MTV Video Music Awards for the first time in over 20 years today as she looks to add to her 20 career wins at the VMAs. The awards show also brings a milestone for Taylor Swift, who will be given the VMAs’ first-ever…
Ed Sheeran speaks out on dropping Macklemore from tour, says it was promoters’ decision – CBS News Watch CBS News Ed Sheeran spoke out Tuesday after facing backlash for dropping Macklemore from his tour following the rapper’s pro-Palestinian statements onstage. Shanelle Kaul reports. Source link
The rapper Macklemore was bumped from Ed Sheeran’s U.S. concert tour for pro-Palestinian comments that some say crossed a line into prejudice. Now, four additional supporting acts have quit in solidarity and the headliner has addressed the controversy. Carter Evans reports. Source link
Several supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran’s tour on Tuesday after the rapper Macklemore was removed for pro-Palestinian comments he made during a concert in New Jersey. Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore’s ouster and attributed the decision to the tour’s promoters, Aaron Rowe, Beoga, Finneas, and Danish band Lukas Graham posted on…
It was mid-August at the bar inside the plush Ritz-Carlton hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia, just outside Washington, and Jack Burkman and his business partner Jacob Wohl were making their latest sales pitch. They were seated at a table with Ammon Covino, a convicted felon, and his wife, Crystal. “With this particular White House,…
A federal jury in Los Angeles has acquitted Grammy-winning Chicago rapper Lil Durk in a murder-for-hire plot targeting another rapper. Durk, whose real name is Durk Devontay Banks, had faced multiple felony counts, including charges of murder, stalking and conspiracy. Five other people associated with Lil Durk’s Chicago-based rap collective, “Only the Family” or “OTF,”…
Busta Rhymes sits down with “CBS Mornings” to talk about his new album, “Dillagence II,” and J Dilla’s legacy after the rapper’s shocking death in 2006. Source link
A Las Vegas jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang for his role in arranging the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur. Monday’s conviction is the first in connection to the drive-by shooting. Jericka Duncan and Carolina Polisi…
A jury has found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur on a Las Vegas night nearly 30 years ago. The jury reached its verdict in less than three hours. Davis, 63, was charged with murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang in Shakur’s death….
The murder trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur is headed to closing arguments after the defense rested Thursday following testimony from three former Las Vegas police officers. Jurors are scheduled to return Monday for closing arguments before beginning deliberations in the only prosecution brought in the killing of…
