BTS BEwas Number One by a landslide on the latest Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums chart. The succinct collection, just 28 minutes long, amassed more than 136,000 sales and 27.2 million streams. In addition, the eight songs on BE combined earned close to 242,000 downloads. Megan Thee Stallion‘s Good News …
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Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has donated $10 million to Reform Alliance, the prison reform non-profit co-founded by Meek Mill, Michael Rubin and Jay-Z. The funds, donated as part of Dorsey’s #startsmall initiative, will go toward boosting COVID-19 relief efforts in U.S. prisons and delivering personal protective equipment (PPE) …
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Meek Mill pleaded guilty to a single gun charge from 2007, as prosecutors decided to drop all other charges against him. The decision ends a tumultuous, 12-year legal battle, NBC 10 in Philadelphia reports. Mill was back in court Tuesday after the Pennsylvania Superior Court threw out his 2008 conviction …
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The defiant centerpiece of Meek Mill‘s new Championships album is “What’s Free,” a bristling collaboration with Jay-Z and Rick Ross. Mill slyly subverts the National Anthem, quoting lines from Francis Scott Key even as he suggests that, for many non-white Americans, the “land of the free” is anything but: “Locked …
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UPDATE: Pusha T, Daniel Caesar, Lil Skies and rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, who pleadedguilty in 2015 to use of a child in a sexual performance, have been added to this year’s Made in America Festival. *** The Jay Z-curated Made in America Festival will return to Philadelphia on Labor Day weekend …
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Jay-Z celebrated Meek Mill’s release from prison Tuesday, writing on Facebook, “Today, Meek Mill, a son of Philadelphia, is a free man.” Jay-Z has been one of Meek Mill’s most outspoken supporters since the rapper was incarcerated last November for violating probation stemming from a 2008 conviction on drug and …
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Meek Mill said he hoped to “get my chance” in court soon after the Philadelphia District Attorney issued a statement saying he supported a new trial for the incarcerated rapper. In an interview with Don Lemon on CNN Monday, Mill said, “I try and keep my spirits high, I don’t …
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