Lil Yachty claims NFT seller “maliciously” used his likeness to raise millions

An LA judge has declined to dismiss the negligence and wrongful death claims made by the mother of the late rapper Lil Peep against her son’s former management company First Access Entertainment. Lawyers for the management firm had argued that those claims were too weak to proceed to trial, but judge Teresa A Beaudet does not concur.Lil Peep, real name Gustav Åhr, died in November 2017 of an accidental drugs overdose, aged 21.

Lil Peep‘s mother’s claims of wrongful death and negligence against her late son’s record label First Access Entertainment (FAE) and tour manager Belinda Mercer.Teresa A. Beaudet has rejected FAE’s request to dismiss the claims on the grounds that Liza Kathryn Womack, who is also the executor of her son’s estate, failed to show any “causal connection” between FAE’s alleged negligence and Peep’s overdose from fentanyl and Xanax on a tour bus in 2017.Rolling Stone reports that Beaudet ruled at a court hearing in Los Angeles yesterday (February 17) that Womack’s case still stands, which is also due to providing other viable reasons for lodging such claims.These include that no one on the bus was trained to recognise the signs and symptoms of an overdose, the bus was not equipped with a defibrillator, Narcan or any other “life-saving apparatuses” for overdoses, and that no one on the bus gave Peep a life-saving aid.The judge added that while she agreed with FAE that sections of a highly damaging statement from Peep’s fellow musician Cold Hart were indeed inadmissible hearsay in the civil case, the court’s decision to pare down Hart’s statement submitted in 2021 wasn’t enough to scrap the wrongful death lawsuit first filed by Womack in 2019.In Cold Hart’s disputed statement, he testified that he was travelling with Peep for the rapper’s ‘Come Over When You’re Sober’ tour from November 8, 2017 until the rapper’s death on November 15, 2017.

Lil Wayne has shared details of his first live performance in the UK for 14 years.The rapper is set to return in the summer for an exclusive slot at Strawberries & Creem Festival, which takes place at Childerley Orchard in Cambridge from June 17-19.Strawberries & Creem has also confirmed today (February 17) that Ella Mai, Mabel and Tems will all headline the main stage across the three days of the festival.Tion Wayne, Ghetts, Rema, Ms Banks, David Rodigan, Enny, Sub Focus, High Contrast, Katy B, Wilkinson and Lisa Maffia are also on the line-up.“This year, as we scale up to a full three days, we wanted to ensure our musical offering matched that level of ambition – as well as reflecting our incredibly diverse crowd,” Strawberries & Creem co-founder Preye Crooks said in a statement about this year’s festival, the line-up poster for which you can see below.“We have gone further than ever before to bring exceptional artists together, showing Strawberries & Creem to be a major player on the weekend festival scene. As a team, we also wanted to shine a light on some amazing genres and artists that aren’t always celebrated in full at other festivals.“We hope we have curated a truly representative and exciting line-up, one that offers an unrivalled experience to our festival goers – covering everything from D&B and dance music, to reggae and R&B.”Tickets for Strawberries & Creem 2022 will initially be available in a pre-sale from 10am on Monday (February 21), which requires a sign-up on the festival’s website.

A major moment. Scheana Shay‘s fiancé, Brock Davies, claims that he paid off his child support for his two children in Australia.

Liza Womack, the mother of rapper Lil Peep – who died of a drug overdose while on tour in 2017 – says that newly unsealed documents prove that her son’s management company, First Access Artists, should be help liable for his death.A collection of evidence spanning nearly 400 pages was published by the Los Angeles Superior Court last month, after First Access unsuccessfully argued for seven pages of that evidence to be sealed.The seven pages included text messages from 2017 that were sent by tour manager Belinda Mercer to colleagues after she was found with illegal substances in her bag when Peep’s tour bus was stopped at the Canadian border weeks before his death.Womack and her legal team argue that these texts, and other newly published evidence, support their claim that the rapper was provided with and urged to take drugs by his team.When First Access sought to keep some of the evidence sealed last October, Womack’s lawyers wrote in response, according to Pitchfork: “These seven pages help tell the story of the drug-infected mismanagement that is part of [Womack’s] central narrative and led to her son’s death. What these documents mostly contain are exchanges that reveal [First Access] tour management as dangerous, discordant, inept, and engaged in conduct that contributed to [Peep]’s death”.Lil Peep, real name Gustav Åhr, died in November 2017 of an accidental drugs overdose, aged 21.

Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby have shared another new collaborative single – listen to ‘Bussin’ below.It comes after the rappers teamed up earlier this month on ‘Do We Have A Problem?’, which marked Minaj’s first music release of 2022. Earlier this week, it was announced that a second track with Lil Baby would arrive today (February 11).“I call Baby, ‘Yo, where that stick at?’” Minaj asks in one verse, with Lil Baby replying: “Tell them boys come get his shit back.”“If they act up, we gon’ fix that/ My new n**** ain’t with that chit chat,” Minaj continues.

Text messages between employees of the management company in charge of Lil Peep's final tour, First Access Entertainment (FAE), have been unsealed in Peep's mother Liza Womack's wrongful death case against the corporation, Pitchfork reports. The messages were included in a 372-page document Womack submitted to Los Angeles County's Superior Court on January 28, and will be reviewed today in a hearing on an FAE motion for summary judgement.

Keeping her loved ones close. Queen Elizabeth II gave a sweet nod to her late husband, Prince Philip, during her first public appearance of 2022.

Queen Elizabeth is keeping her late husband, Prince Philip, very close to her these days. The 95-year-old British monarch was spotted over the weekend using the same walking cane Philip used prior to his death in April 2021. Elizabeth made her first public appearance of the new year on Saturday, hosting a reception at her Sandringham House estate on the eve of her Accession Day.

More Playboy Mansion secrets were exposed during Monday’s instalment of the much-talked about “Secrets of Playboy” documentary.

Lil Uzi Vert has been sentenced to three years probation after pleading no contest to one count of felony assault with a firearm and one count of misdemeanor injury to a girlfriend, TMZ reports. The charges date back to an incident in 2021 when Brittany Byrd filed a police report after an altercation involving herself, Uzi, and fellow artist SAINt JHN.

Sam Williams is speaking out against his dad, country singer Hank Williams Jr.

Lil Uzi Vert (aka Symere Woods) has pleaded no contest to a 2021 assault case – wherein he’s alleged to have struck his ex-girlfriend and threatened her with a firearm – and has been sentenced to three years of probation.TMZ broke the news on Sunday (February 5), reporting that Woods appeared in court to strike a plea deal with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. By pleading no contest to “one count each of felony assault with a firearm and misdemeanour injury to a girlfriend”, Woods accepts his conviction, but denies admission of guilt.In addition to his three-year probationary period, Woods must commit to one year of treatment for mental health and substance abuse and 52 weeks of domestic violence counselling.

New Music Friday! It's every audiophile's favorite day of the week, and some of our favorite artists from all different genres have blessed us with new tunes.Jennifer Lopez and Maluma shared the soundtrack and title track from their upcoming rom-com,. Nicki Minaj delighted the Barbz with her return, dropping «Do We Have a Problem» with Lil Baby.

Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby have shared their new collaborative single ‘Do We Have A Problem?’ – you can hear the track below.The song was announced earlier this week along with a hotline (213-523-7762) that fans could call to relay any problems that they were facing.Minaj and Lil Baby have now released ‘Do We Have A Problem?’, marking Minaj’s first new music release of 2022.A Benny Boom-directed video for the song, which stars Minaj, Lil Baby, Joseph Sikora and Cory Hardrict, has also been released – you can see that below.‘Do We Have A Problem?’ follows on from ‘Boyz’, Minaj’s collaboration with the former Little Mix member Jesy Nelson which came out last October.Minaj’s last studio album, ‘Queen’, was released in August 2018. Her 2009 mixtape ‘Beam Me Up Scotty’ was reissued last year.

Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby‘s new collab is out now!

“Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” singer lives and thrives on social media — both as a marketing tool and for engaging with fans (and haters) — but his last posts on Twitter and on Instagram were nearly two months ago on Dec. 6.But Lil Nas X has not been publicly heard from since — and his fans are beginning to notice.More worryingly, he actually last posted on Dec.

Music NFTs start-up Opulous has responded to a lawsuit filed by Lil Yachty, insisting that the claims in that legal filing are “meritless” and that the company will defend itself “vigorously”.Opulous is a music-centric fin-tech and NFTs platform launched by the founders of Ditto Music. Specifically in the NFTs space, it has launched a fan-funding product that allows investors and fans to pledge money to an artist linked to an upcoming track and to then share in any royalties said track subsequently generates.