HIP HOP: Drake Adds Rozay To OVO, Luke Places 4th In Mayor Race, 50 Cent Launches New Phone App & Dietary Suppliment
Drake is promising to bring back last year’s successful OVO Festival, bigger, better and stronger!
To mark the second annual event, Drake has announced the preliminary artists for the event, which will take place at the Molson Amphitheater in Toronto, Canada and feature Drake, Rick Ross and The Weeknd, plus many surprise guests.
At last year’s OVO Festival, Drizzy brought out an all-star roster of guests including Jay-Z, Eminem, Rick Ross, Bun B, Fabolous, Kardinal Offishall and Young Jeezy. Since Drake’s announcement of Rick Ross coming back for a second year, who do you think he will surprise fans with this year?
This year’s OVO Festival will take place on July 31st. Tickets for the event go on sale June 3rd at 11 a.m. EST on Canada’s Ticketmaster site.
Luther Campbell, creator of hip hop’s 2 Live Crew, has lost his bid for mayor of Miami-Dade County.
After the finally poll results came in, Luther Campbell came in at number four, which is impressive since there were 11 candidates. Luke garnered 11% of the votes or 20,652 votes in total.
According to AHH, Luke placed a mere 7,030 votes behind former State Representative Marcelo Llorente, who placed third in the field, with 15% of the votes or 27,682 votes in total.
Former Hialeah mayor Julio Robaina won 33.7 % of the vote, while former Miami-Dade County Commissioner Carlos Gimenez won 28.8% of the vote.
Robaina and Giminez will face off against each other later this month, to determine the new mayor of Miami-Dade County.
The recall election took place yesterday (May 24th), after former mayor Carlos Alvarez was removed from office on March 15th, in one of the most high-profile election recalls in United States history.
Despite the media attention that the recall election generated, voter turnout was relatively lighter compared to previous elections.
Julio Robaina and Carlos Gimenez will advance to a runoff election, which will take place on June 28th.
50 Cent has another endorsement deal, this time with a group that makes cell phone apps.
The G-Unit head honcho has devised a wide variety of ways to make money, since his music is not a strong seller these days.
The rap mogul, who is a step ahead of his peers in the hip hop game, is always expanding his brand. Now, he’s preparing to break ground on a new cell phone venture.
50 Cent’s long-time manager, Chris Lighty, recently spoke to Billboard about the South Jamaica Queens rapper.
Chris Lighty explains the recent deal with UberMedia to launch Uber50, a custom theme available to users of UberMedia’s Blackberry-based Twitter app, UberSocial. Lighty explained that the deal actually came about at a time when UberMedia’s future in the Twitter sphere looked most dubious, reports HHDX.
Lighty said:
“[The deal between 50 and UberMedia] was [struck] during the period that Uber got locked out of Twitter and got fined.”
“[50] had to use a different app. He was one of them [going crazy] and one of the more vocal [ones.] Uber saw that and contacted us.”
Lighty also indicated that 50 Cent also plans to expand his brand further into the health foods market, following his lucrative deal with Vitamin Water. He’s plans on launching a vitamin supplement company that caters to stores like GNC.
He adds:
“We’re working on a new supplement company.”
“We’re going to build new supplements cause it’s a big opportunity like Vitamin Water was. We want to market and promote it when we put out 50′s album. There are different options of penetration for supplements through music; like going to GNC [for] protein shakes, vitamins, [etc.]. No beverage. When you go to a vitamin shop, there’s no one of pop culture [representing], it’s mostly muscle heads. We’ll cut through the clutter with 50 in the store saying, ‘You want to be 10% of me so take what I’m taking.’”
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HIP HOP: Drake Adds Rozay To OVO, Luke Places 4th In Mayor Race, 50 Cent Launches New Phone App & Dietary Suppliment
