Here’s what made the news today, Friday, April 27, 2012:
Skratch Bastid kicks off his Skratch of All Trades show in Toronto tonight.
Jay-Z and 50 Cent have each launched Facebook gaming apps. In Jigga’s Sims-like Empire, players work their way from “hustler, to entrepreneur, to business mogul,” while 50 Cent’s Blackjack is a virtual casino where Facebook users can challenge their friends or play the dealer.
Talib Kweli has announced a tour, including a Toronto stop at the Sound Academy on June 1.
"Why do people ask me to lose swear words? Do people ask Eminem to lose swear words? Do they ask Lil Wayne to lose swear words? Nobody stops them and says 'Would you stop swearing swearing [sic] ... for the children, please?'"
- Nicki Minaj on a curious double standard
Nas has been criticized by his ex, Carmen Bryan, for revealing private information about their daughter Destiny in the MC’s celebrated new song “Daughters,” which came out earlier this week.
A Detroit-area record storeowner, who has been selling pieces of J Dilla’s record collection, has been asked to stop by Dilla’s mother, Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey, until she verifies the vinyl’s authenticity.
They were all prematurely booked by my old management without any consideration for me and the album I need to finish!
— ♥ YUNG RAPUNXEL ♥ (@AZEALIABANKS) April 27, 2012
- Azealia Banks on why she’s cancelling a string of European tour dates this summer.
Sales of the late Tupac Shakur’s back catalog spiked after he appeared as a hologram at Coachella.
"I was unprepared for how real that whole moment was gonna be. And I know that probably sounds like it’s full of shit, but for anybody that goes up there to accept that award I feel you can’t help but have this, 'Wow, who woulda thunk it?'”
- Mike D of Beastie Boys on being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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