The Insanely Lavish Lifestyle Of Mariah Carey

When it comes to reigning pop divas, no-one wears the crown like Mariah Carey. The singer has developed a reputation for living luxuriously, and we can’t say we blame her. After such a successful career, she’s earned the right to a lavish lifestyle.

With record sales of around 200 million, there are only a few people in the world who have shifted as many albums as Mariah. No-one could have anticipated that she’d become quite so successful when she made her debut in the ‘90s.

Kanye West sues Walmart

Kanye West’s sartorial ode to the Alien franchise is yet again causing a stir, as the entertainer and fashion entrepreneur just upped the ante in an ongoing trademark dispute with Walmart.

Independent Record Labels You Should Know

From independent icons like XL Recordings and Sub Pop to newer teams like 88 Rising and Mind of a Genius, here are some of the essential labels you should know. As always, we encourage you to do your own digging and share your own favorites with us, but as long as you discovered just one new label, artist, or piece of music that you love from this list, then we did our job.

From legendary indies to internet-based upstarts, these labels are all doing something special.

Sacrifices Ben Affleck Has To Make To Keep Jennifer Lopez Happy

 

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have agreed to do things right in their relationship this time around. After canceling their wedding in 2003 and living through two decades of necessary life lessons, the two have evolved into better versions of themselves.

Erica Mena or Jennifer Lopez

You know it's something big every time Celebrity Match Up decides to team up with the Wrap-Up Magazine for a new article. In this celebrity post, we want fans to decide who they would choose out of Erica Mena or Jennifer Lopez.

Today's Pic of the Day comes to you courtesy of Erica Mena and her spirit animal, Jennifer Lopez. These two girls got love for each other every time they see one another.

But now the Wrap-Up Magazine wants to know what you think about the comparison to the two now? Leave your comments and thoughts below!

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 Erica Mena is a well known reality star who became famous with her participation in the show 'Love & Hip Hop: New York. The fiery and feisty Latina on VH1's Love & Hip Hop has been proving she's a force to be reckoned with. And despite having a reputation for being "the crazy one" who's always ready for a fight, Mena is a real sweetheart.

When she was just 14 years old, she won her first contest for a Jennifer Lopez lookalike. Erica Mena is an American model, music video actress and reality television star who has a net worth of $350 thousand.

 She turned to music and found major success on the pop and dance charts with hits like "Get Right" and "Play," while continuing to garner Hollywood film work. In school, Lopez did gymnastics, ran track on a national level, and was a member of the school's softball team.

Jennifer Lopez's first taste of Hollywood came in 1991 when she worked as a backup dancer for New Kids on the Block, but it wasn't until she became a Fly Girl on the show In Living Color that she really got her start. Jennifer Lopez's net worth is $400 million according to Celebrity Net Worth. She makes a salary of roughly $40 million a year.

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El Chapo Says He's Broke

Requests made by the defense of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman were batted down by the judge overseeing his second hearing at a federal court in Brooklyn on Friday, February 3. Attorneys representing Guzman argued that his prison conditions have been "too restrictive," with them citing that he has been ordered to remain locked in a cell for 23 hours out of the day. "He's only permitted out for limited members of our office and one hour of exercise a day — it's extremely restrictive," public defender Michelle Gelernt said while advocating for a lightening on the restrictions. But Judge Brian Cogan wasn't sympathetic to his plight.

"They're taking extra security measures. I think we all know the reasons for that," Cogan said. His statement was in reference to El Chapo's reputation for escaping prison, a feat he's famously pulled off from maximum security institutions twice before.

El Chapo now also faces pressure to speed up the process of acquiring the services of a private lawyer, after Cogan ordered him to disclose his financial status. The Mexican kingpin has faced questions as to why he is receiving the counsel of public defenders when his fortune has been assessed well into the billions. Prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York cited the success of his Sinaloa Cartel, a report by Forbes Magazine, and the U.S. government's $14 million suit against him as evidence that he can afford a lawyer, in a letter delivered to Cogan last week. However, Gelernt insists on his behalf, that El Chapo Guzman "has no ability to hire a lawyer" because for the time being the restrictions placed upon him prevent him from being in contact with family and associates who might be able to extend him access to funds.

For the time being Cogan has ruled that Guzman may continue to receive the services of a public defender, but must submit an affidavit making a case for why he currently needs one.

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Why Roc-A-Fella Signed Kanye West

The creativity, the energy, the plan of action Kanye West puts into his music is inevitable. How could you not sign a artist with so much to add to the growing music industry.

Investors Put $2.4 Billion Into Music

In the 57 investment deals totaling over $2.4 billion tracked by Billboard, nearly 9 in 10 dollars invested went to a traditional music company, an EDM concert promoter or a company that streams music. Most of the investments were made in small, digital startups. Some are trying to improve how people discover concerts. A handful of them are changing how people create music.

A similar company hoping to disrupt the recorded music market is Beats Music, a subscription service that launched Jan. 21. An offshoot of Beats Electronics, the maker of the popular Beats By Dr. Dre headphones, Beats Music raised $60 million from Access Industries, the owner of Warner Music Group. (A year earlier, Access placed $130 million in Deezer, a competitor of Spotify and Beats Music.)

Warner Music Group’s acquisition of Parlophone Label Group was the biggest single investment in music in 2013. The $765 million deal, representing nearly a third of the year’s music investments, gave Warner not only Parlophone and Chrysalis but EMI’s operations in a handful of European countries. Also in this category was the acquisition of Nettwerk Music Group for $10.3 million in April.

Investors in streaming music were attracted to scale, potential and momentum rather than profitability. Services that provide on-demand streaming either audio or video raised $406.5 million. The largest deal was a $250 million investment in Spotify, an unprofitable company that’s a category leader and has 24 million active users — not all of them paying customers — across 55 countries.

SFX Entertainment accounted for the next-largest bucket, concert promotion, worth $480 million. The EDM-focused company’s initial public stock offering in October raised $260 million. It also acquired three EDM promoters: ID&T for $130 million, i-Motion for $21 million and Totem OneLove Group for $69.1 million.

In spite of a reputation for difficult business models and costly licensing fees, services that use licensed music attracted $838.8 million, or 49% of all investments. Four deals landed by Internet radio companies raised $443.3 million. Following Pandora’s $393.3-million secondary stock offering were smaller venture capital rounds by TuneIn ($25 million), DeliRadio ($9.4 million) and Songza ($4.7 million). There is a catch: TuneIn is merely an aggregator of Internet radio streams and doesn’t itself pay any royalties.

Investors backed numerous companies that help consumers find music they like. The smallest investment was $100,000 in Bop.fm, an online tool that aggregates songs from various digital music services. Two other startups that offer aggregation tools, Songdrop and MFiveLabs, received funding. Investors also backed numerous companies that help people discovery music or concerts. Most such deals were small, but music identification app Shazam received a $40-million investment from the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim.

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Understanding Mississippi - The US Explained

 

How did a little state that rests alongside the banks of a mighty river make so many contributions to American letters and literature? "There's so much that you can learn about the world, and I would say about this country, from studying what Mississippi writers have done and written about this place, which I think telescopes onto our larger national issues, and even some of our larger international ones."

The Life Of Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. He was an American clergyman, activist, and leader for African Americans. King led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. 

King had a reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported to government officials. King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986.

Fontane - You The Type @fontanearo @arorecords #MixshowReady

Fontane also known as Swaggie, is exploding with ambition and overflowing with talent, ready to make his mark bringing a fresh, new, unique and edgy sound to the music industry. Born in the Midwest, in the state of Iowa to be exact, Dre “Fontane” Jackson has a musical style and lyrical abilities that has been influenced by family, harsh upbringing, street life, getting money, and mainly underground hip hop artists.

Amber Heard And Johnny Depp Engaged In A Heated Lawsuit

Amber Heard has added a prominent attorney who led the Time’s Up legal defense fund to help in Heard’s defense against ex-husband Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation lawsuit.

Depp argues that Heard hurt his reputation when she wrote about domestic abuse in her op-ed for the Washington Post, even though she did not specifically name him in the piece.

Heard said her intention was to highlight the potential implications brought upon by the #MeToo movement. She asked Congress to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, and criticized proposed changes to Title IX rules about the treatment of sexual harassment and assault in schools.

Depp’s team will now get a chance to fight the dismissal motion, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

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What's Your Favorite Track By Duran Duran?

 

The group were a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US in the 1980s. The band took their name from Roger Vadim's 1960's cult sci-fi classic film Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda. There was a character played by Milo O'Shea called “Durand-Durand.”

Best known as a founding member and keyboardist for the new wave '80s sensation Duran Duran, Nick Rhodes is an English musician who has a net worth of $60 million dollars. The original five members of Duran Duran are reforming for the first time in more than 15 years. Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, Roger Taylor, and Andy Taylor have not recorded together since.

Duran Duran's reputation was built through music videos, which accentuated their fashion-model looks and glamorous sense of style. Duran Duran's next studio album is slated for release in the fall of 2020. The group's publishing for songs recorded prior to 1986 is with Sony/ATV.

The World's Richest Family

 

The Rothschilds of Frankfurt are among the wealthiest folks to have ever existed.  Nathan Mayer and James Mayer de Rothschild, at one point, they controlled the world.

The Rothschilds were a family of bankers that originated from Frankfurt, Germany. Their power and influence went on to span the globe, and relatively quickly, they became one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in history.

Jennifer Lopez Talks Beyonce And Who's Better

 

It’s no secret that Jennifer Lopez has a reputation of being a shady diva - but going after Beyonce?

Believe it or not, J-Lo just revealed she thinks she is BETTER than Queen Bee herself and as you can imagine, the Beehive is now dragging J-Lo on Twitter and calling her delusional.