Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams, founders of Cash Money Records, are set to be honored for their accomplishments in the music industry in alignment with Black Music Month. YouTube announced the two Hip-Hop moguls as the honorees for its 2024 Leaders and Legends Gala. Set for June 27 in Los Angeles, the invite-only affair is YouTube’s way of celebrating entrepreneurial achievements and groundbreaking founders in black music and culture. The evening will consist of a star-studded lineup of performances, and Lyor Cohen, Global Head of Music at YouTube, presenting Birdman and Slim with the 2024 Leaders and Legends Award.

Apparently Laurence Fishburne’s daughter, Montana Fishburne, thinks doing porn will jump start her acting career. “I’ve watched how successful Kim Kardashian became and I think a lot of it was due to the release of her sex tape,” said Mo ‘Burne (don’t feel like typing out her whole name) according to Global Grind. Now let me say this:  I’ve seen that quote on various blogs but you know how you have to read about 20 blogs and put the pieces together in order to get something remotely close to the truth so that may not be what she said ver batim, however, she really is planning to use this film as a stepping stone into stardom.

Making his way to the Big Apple by way of Port Arthur, Texas, Bun B held a private listening session for his forthcoming album, Trill OG, last night (June 1) at Dame Dash’s DD172 gallery. Nestled on the outskirts of New York’s artsy Tribeca district, media, friends and special invited including guests Chamillionaire, Slim Thug, Asher Roth, Cool Kids and others gathered in the former (and new!) Roc-A-Fella CEO’s creative playhouse to get the first listen to Bun’s latest chapter in the Trill saga.

After Cam’ron went on a revealing discourse on Instagram Live earlier this month concerning Jim Jones, he later engaged with Joe Budden in another war of words over what he initially said about his former Dipset brethren. During the latest episode of Budden’s I’ll Name This Podcast Later, he addressed Killa Cam’s revelations about copyrighting ByrdGang without Jones’ knowledge. Apparently, Cam’s alleged disloyalty rubbed the “By Law” rapper the wrong way, “Dog, when he said, ‘You told me you wasn’t doin’ nothing with ByrdGang, so I copyrighted it,’ I would’ve fu**ed him up, immediately!

R&B singer Case explained his belief that Charlie Wilson is a better singer than “Never Too Much” performer Luther Vandross in a clip from the Music Is The Love Language podcast hosted by Clint Coley, shared to Instagram on Thursday (March 23). “Charlie Wilson snoring sing better than Luther,” exclaimed the 47-year-old to the disbelief of the host. “You must not used to listen to the Gap Band.” “It’s not that I don’t listen to the Gap Band,” Coley responded.