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Hip hop mogul Birdman, the man who started a musical dynasty in New Orleans through Cash Money Records, wants to pay the rent for his entire childhood neighborhood in the Crescent City. Bryan “Birdman” Williams, 51, founded the iconic hitmaking label in 1992 with his older brother, Ronald “Slim” Williams, which has churned out numerous…

Toni Braxton has been “going back and forth” on wedding dates. The “Unbreak My Heart” hitmaker is set to tie the knot with her fiancé Birdman, but the couple are still trying to work out the finer details. Speaking on the “Rick & Sasha Morning Show,” she said: “We have been going back and forth…

Toni Braxton and Birdman are fueling speculation that they have reconciled. The 49-year-old rapper appears to have unbroken Braxton’s heart after he popped up at her Atlanta show on Wednesday night, Jan. 23, 2019, and the 51-year-old singer — who hinted she had ended their engagement three weeks ago — gave him a long embrace before…

The emotionally volatile Tamar Braxton has suddenly issued a warning to her fans in the aftermath of her older sister’s relationship implosion: you can “drag” her to the hills and back, but you had better leave her sisters alone. Or else. As the youngest sibling, Tamar Braxton, 41, expressed this sentiment on social media to alert…

Perhaps the most unlikely and controversial relationship in pop music has reportedly come to an end. Singer Toni Braxton and music mogul Birdman have broken off their engagement, according to New York Post‘s “Page Six” and E! Online. Last night, the speculation and innuendos began racing wildly across cyberspace that the “Unbreak My Heart” vocalist and…

Toni Braxton’s engagement ring is missing. The “He Wasn’t Man Enough” hitmaker is lamenting the loss of her jewelry after she left her Louis Vuitton train case on her flight from New York City to Los Angeles. And while she has had the case returned, her jewelry — including the ring — is missing from…

A rap beef that resulted in the shooting up of rapper Lil Wayne’s tour bus is back in the news after shocking details have emerged. Back in 2015, police in Cobb County, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, responded to a report of shots fired after a concert. Lil Wayne had just finished a late-night performance…

Only a few artists can manage the balance between player and gentleman. Cash Money’s Jacquees accepts the challenge with the debut of his long-awaited studio album, 4275. Titled after the address of his childhood home, it’s a dope blend of crunk and trap, infused with ’90s R&B. The 24-year-old singer/songwriter has been grinding on the ATL music scene…

Lil Wayne has reportedly received a payout of well over $10M as a settlement of his legal battle against Birdman, Cash Money Records and Universal Music Group. The 35-year-old rapper filed a lawsuit demanding Cash Money pay him a reported $51M in 2015, claiming the CEO, fellow rapper Birdman, owed him millions of dollars for…

We all know by now that sultry songstress Toni Braxton is in love with music mogul Birdman. But now she is telling the world how she fell in love with the Cash Money boss and co-founder. “He and I have been friends for a long time, for like 17 years, and it just grew from…

Toni Braxton wants Drake to perform at her wedding. The 50-year-old singer revealed last month she has gotten engaged to her partner and rapper Birdman when a teaser clip for the upcoming season of her TV show “Braxton Family Values” was released showing the beauty telling her sisters about her upcoming nuptials. And now, the…

Birdman doesn’t like bird brains. Or at least that’s how he views Wendy Williams in the wake of her inflammatory, if not defamatory, comments about him personally as well as his romance with sexy songstress Toni Braxton. The New Orleans-bred, self-made music boss said he is definitely in love with Braxton and wants to have…

On the surface, it is a mystifying occurrence to pop culture observers peering in from the outside. Here you have a beauty queen with hypnotic eyes and an angelic voice, a debutante type. And then you have a guy whose rugged skin looks like it’s been ripped up by bulldozers in preparation to be resurfaced.…

Rap veteran Lil Wayne is continuing to show flashes of his old self with each release. After releasing Dedication 6 on Christmas, followed by “Family Feud” ft. Drake, Weezy is back with another flip of a hit. This time he’s remixing Black Youngsta’s track “Hip Hopper.” Wayne left no room for questions on “Big Bad Wolf.”…

Keyshia Cole will have to cut a check for allegedly fighting a woman she thought was dating Birdman. In 2014, Cole entered a Los Angeles-based condo owned by rap mogul Birdman. The singer accused Birdman of cheating on her and decided to attack a woman who was in the condo with Birdman and several other…

Music magnate Rick Ross really feels some kind of way about Cash Money label boss Birdman, and this feud of hip-hop titans was ratcheted up several more degrees when Ross claimed Birdman is broke, cannot pay his artists nor his debts and is using Toni Braxton for money. Ricky Rozay is particularly thorny about the fact…

On the heels of her big sister’s recently announced so-called nuptials between Toni Braxton and Bryan “Birdman” Williams, Tamar Braxton is facing a divorce. She filed for a divorce following an alleged domestic dispute at the Ritz Carlton In Atlanta on August 22, 2016 where Herbert, 44, reportedly bit Braxton’s hand causing it to bleed. Braxton, 40,…

Atlanta singer-songwriter Sy Ari Da Kid has released a new single titled “Vices” in preparation for the release of his new mixtape, 2 Weeks No Diss. While his last single, “Ex-Fiance” centered around marriage and funny antics, the multitalented artist is shifting gears by giving a synopsis on his sinister behavior. “Vices” is an ode…

This past week, Tyga made headlines when he appeared on Power 105’s “The Breakfast Club” and claimed that Cash Money Records owed him millions of dollars from his years with the label. Since then, people have been talking about everything from Tyga’s finances to Cash Money’s notorious history of controversy over unpaid fees and royalties.…

Keyshia Cole could be forced to pay millions for allegedly going into a jealous rage. The incident occurred in 2014 when Cole dated Cash Money Records CEO Bryan “Birdman” Williams. Cole decided to visit Birdman at his Los Angeles-based home at 5 a.m. on Sept. 19, 2014. Several people were in the home with Birdman…