3 months ago 13th Aug 11:46
In todays daily rap Lil Wayne has finally settled his unpaid bills with his jeweller and there has been trouble at the Ozone awards after the stars started scrapping! Elsewhere, Usher has decided to host a free concert and Diddy starts to make more smells as he works on his new fragrance,
He might have the biggest selling album of the year, but Cash Money Millionaire, Lil Wayne has issues in paying his bills it appears.
A dispute over some jewelry has been settled with a New Orleans store owner who provided the Lollipop rapper with a necklace and ring valued at over $160,000 back in 2006. Lil Wayne paid the jeweler $24,000 and arranged to make monthly payments thereafter.
Those monthly payments were not paid and it has been revealed that now Wayne will in actual fact return the ring valued at $138,000 and the outstanding balance.
In other Wayne news, the rapper’s young daughter was being reported to have died in a car accident over the weekend, but these rumors have been denied by the rapper and members of his family, “It has come to my attention that there are recent reports circulating regarding my daughter. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who are genuinely concerned about Reginae and her safety,”
Lil Wayne said; “Please allow me to dispel any rumors or speculations and report that my daughter is alive, healthy and surrounded by family who care and love her dearly. The rumors are completely false and unfounded; neither Reginae nor any other member of my family has been involved in any car accident. My family and I truly appreciate the concern and support shown to us.”
As extensive industry tastemakers, execs, rappers and producers congregated in Dallas for the Ozone Awards this weekend.
There were altercations back stage between Texas rappers Mike Jones and Trae as well as Rick Ross and DJ Vlad.
The trouble between Rick Ross and DJ Vlad came to a point after the Bay area DJ asked the Miami rapper about allegations of him being a Correctional Officer before he made it big in the music industry.
Members of Ross’s camp then allegedly attacked Vlad; but the attack was also said to have been encouraged by the fact that Vlad had asked various rappers to offer their opinions on the alleged fabrication of Ross’s life on his DVD show.
Winners at the Ozone Awards included Trae, rick Ross, DJ Khaled, B.O.B, David Banner and the late Pimp C.
To coincide with the start of the football season in America, R&B sensation Usher is planning a free concert in New York which will be aired on all the NFL networks the following day.
The concert which will see the Confessions singer perform alongside country music star Keith Urban is to happen on September 4th at Columbus Circle on Manhattan’s west side.
Usher joins the likes of Kelly Clarkson and Keyshia Cole who have also performed at the NFL pre season concert.
After the success of his Unforgiveable line of fragrances Sean Combs is back in the lab working on his next new fragrance.
Expected to amass sales of over $100 million when it hits shelves later this year, the new cologne from the mogul is simply called I am King.
The fragrance which will be available in US department store Macys in 2008 and then worldwide in 2009 is expected to be joined by its female counterpart I am Queen also next year.
Melanie Cornish
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