Why couldn’t Michael Jackson’s older siblings simply allow Detroit to honor the late King of Pop? Last month, the Detroit City Council announced that surviving members of the Jackson 5 – Jermaine, Jackie, Tito, and Marlon – would headline this yearR…
Category archives: Scandals
As Artists Pull Their Music from the Service, TIDAL Faces Criminal Complaint Over Fake Streams
TIDAL remains suspiciously silent as the fallout over fake plays on Jay-Z’s streaming music platform continues to grow. Norwegian songwriters, composers, and music publishers have filed a complaint against Jay-Z’s streaming music service, T…
TIDAL Accused of Fraudulently Inflating Kanye, Beyonce and Subscriber Numbers
How far did TIDAL go to promote Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo and Beyoncé’s Lemonade? Let’s face it. Jay-Z hasn’t had such a great time so far. First, his last 4:44 album didn’t appear on Billboard charts …
Adidas Refuses to Drop Kanye — Despite His ‘Slavery Was a Choice’ Diatribe
So what does Adidas stand for, anyway? Kanye West’s latest pro-Trump rants and racist invectives are hardly the stuff that marketers dream of. But maybe Adidas already knew what they were getting into. The question is whether Adidas is abou…
R. Kelly Wins the Music Industry’s Male Piece of Garbage Award
Against a very competitive field, Time’s Up has named R. Kelly the music industry’s biggest piece of male garbage. Now, they want the industry to do something about it. Forget sexual harassment. R&B singer R. Kelly has been …
Rap Group Who Says They’ll “Make Another Holocaust” Wins a Prestigious German Award
German rap duo Kollegah and Farid Bang are anti-Semitic. So why did they just receive Germany’s prestigious ECHO Award? In one song, they vow to “show up with a Molotov.” That sounds all well and good, right? Rappers…
Drake’s ex-Manager Derrick Lawrence Is Spending 8 Months In Prison
Derrick Lawrence is found guilty of tax evasion. Derrick Lawrence, co-founder of music label Aspire Music Group, used to manage Lil Wayne and Drake back in 2008. Those were good times — though maybe there was a little bit too much cas…
Is This Who You Want Representing You?
Something interesting happened to me recently. Ari Herstand was working on an investigative report, Music PR Company: 25% of Our Clients Are Entitled Little Brats, discussing how Manimal PR was under-delivering to its clients while charging exorbitant …
Police Find Exactly 420 Grams of Marijuana on Migos’ Tour Bus
Migos’ tour bus was raided after a concert in Boone, North Carolina. After their April 5th concert in Boone, North Carolina, the police boarded the Migos tour bus searching for drugs, specifically marijuana. This was after officers wor…
Google’s Ban on Gun Sales Also Blocks ‘Guns n Roses,’ ‘Sex Pistols,’ ‘Gundam,’ and ‘Burgundy Wine’
Looking to purchase Guns n Roses or Sex Pistols merchandise? Or, anything with ‘gun’ in it? That’s been a challenge of late. Following the tragic Parkland shooting two weeks ago, multiple organizations have lambasted the g…