Music sketch

Celebrity musicians can earn top dollar for their art, and, considering how the music industry is a multi-billion dollar business with no signs of slowing down, potential profit is unlimited. After all, fans, who buy up concert tickets and boost music videos streams, can't get enough of their favorite artists. Many even hope to one day meet their faves — but that's not always a good idea. While most encounters with musicians give regular people a cool story to tell at parties, too many have instead ended in tragedy. Insulated by their fame, celebs sometimes exhibit violent behavior, and, unfortunately, they don't always face consequences for their actions. From freak accidents, to vehicular manslaughter, to brutal beatings over perceived slights, many innocent lives have been affected after merely being in the vicinity of a chart-topping star at the wrong time. Let's take a look at musicians who ruined innocent lives. Carlos Bertonatti Local 10 Miami As repor...

Twitter: home of Lil B curses, the occasional Kanye West rant and where trigger fingers turn to … you know the rest. Over time, rap has made its presence known on Twitter while providing artists with a platform to directly connect with countless fans now at 280 characters at a time. Our favorite artists, entertainers, and influencers use the site as an outlet to vent without a filter, as well as to promote their latest work. With 330 million monthly active users to interact with, feeds can sometimes get overwhelming, which is why HipHopDX curates a list of the week’s best and most memorable tweets from the Hip Hop world. This week’s installment of Tweets Is Watching includes Kanye West’s love for Apple and YG calling Rolling Loud “trash.” Kanye West Praises Steve Jobs Kanye West  calls the late Steve Jobs one of his “biggest inspirations” and congratulates Apple for being worth a trillion dollars.

hen BTS did their first-ever show on U.S. soil back in 2014, nobody would have believed that this K-pop boy band would end up generating more tweets than Donald Trump one day, but, by the beginning of 2018, that was the reality. The names of the seven members (RM, Jimin, Suga, J-Hope, Jin, V, and Jungkook) might not household recognition in America just yet, but, at this point, even those with little interest in music are starting to hear all about BTS. Short for "Bangtan Sonyeondan" (Korean for "Bulletproof Boy Scouts"), the name has a "profound meaning," according to rapper and lead dancer J-Hope. "'Bangtan' means to be resistant to bullets, so it means to block out stereotypes, criticisms, and expectations that aim on adolescents like bullets, to preserve the values and ideal of today's adolescents," he once explained (via Affinity magazine). In 2017, they adopted a new English name, declaring that BTS would now also stand for ...