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19 Apr

Obrafour Sues Drake For $10m After Rapper Sampled ‘Oye Ohene’ Without Consent

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Legendary Ghanaian rapper Obrafour is suing popular Canadian rapper Drake for sampling his 2003 remix of ‘Oye Ohene’ on his song ‘Calling My Name’ off the Honestly Nevermind album. In the documents presented to a court in New York, Obrafour stated that Drake infringed on his copyright when he sampled his song without permission. “Defendants released the Infringing Work on June 17, 2022, despite the fact that an agent of one or more Defendants had previously contacted Obrafour seeking to obtain Obrafour’s permission for the use of the Copyrighted Work in the Infringing Work.” “Obrafour never granted Defendants permission to…

11 Apr

UFC: Rapper Drake Pockets £2.2Million After Adesanya Knocks Out Pereira In Title Fight

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Multi-award winning rapper Drake continued his run of extravagant bets on sporting events by placing stakes worth close to £725,000 ($900,000) during the UFC middleweight title fight between Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira. Adesanya regained the 185lb title just months after he had lost it to his fierce rival Pereira as the Brazilian triumphed at UFC 281 in November 2022. The 36-year-old had two separate bets in play worth over £323,000 ($400,000) each in the early hours of Sunday morning on both Adesanya to beat Pereira and for Adesanya to win by knockout. The Canadian artist won £2.17 million ($2.7m) from his two high stakes bets as…

28 Feb

Drake Says He Regrets Talking About His Ex-Girlfriends In His Music

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Drake has a track record for name-dropping his ex-girlfriends in his music. But it appears the rapper might have some second thoughts about some of those choices. While chopping it up with Lil Yachty on FUTUREMOODS’s premiere episode of Moody Conversations, Drake hinted that he feels remorseful about naming drop his ex-girlfriends. “I heard it the other night. I think that, and sometimes when I’ve said girls’ names in songs, maybe those are the two things that I look back on, and I’m like, ‘Maybe I coulda done without, like, shitting on people for age or disrupting somebody’s life,’” he said. “The lyrics are never with ill…

14 Sep

BET Hip Hop Awards 2022: Drake, Kanye West Take The Lead, See Full List Of Nominations

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The organisers of the annual BET Hip Hop Awards on Monday evening announced the list of nominees for the 2022 edition. The event hosted by rapper Fat Joe will be taped on Friday, September 30, at Atlanta’s Cobb Energy Centre and premiere on Tuesday, October 4. Ghana’s Black Sherif secured a nomination in the Best International Flow category. Meanwhile, Drake takes the lead with 14 nominations while Kanye West comes in second with 10 nods and Kendrick Lamar follows closely behind with nine. The Certified Lover Boy MC is up for Hip Hop Artist of the Year, Hustler of the Year, lyricist of the year, best live performer…