D’Angelo is back. The reclusive R&B singer made his first live U.S. appearance in 12 years at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival early Sunday morning, surprising a few thousand fans during Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Superjam session.
“I’ve been waiting 12 years to say this – ladies and gentlemen, D’Angelo!,” Thompson said as the crowd roared. It was his first U.S. show since 2000 and a prelude to an appearance at July’s Essence Music Festival and a European tour with many of the same players who backed him Sunday morning. D’Angelo played live in Europe earlier this year.

There’s no way in hell Drake took the $30k missing Rolex in NYC … he claims his version came directly from Rolex, not some jeweler in midtown — this according to sources. Manhattan lawyer James McMillan filed a lawsuit in New York, says the NY Post, claiming his $30k Rose-Gold Rolex Presidential watch with a diamond bezel went missing from a midtown jeweler last year. McMillian claims the jeweler wouldn’t return the watch and eventually sold his Rolex to rapper Drake.

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A New York City jury has found a rap industry agent guilty of federal drug-trafficking charges. The verdict was reached Tuesday at the Brooklyn trial of James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond. The head of New York-based Czar Entertainment was charged last year with running a coast-to-coast drug ring that used music equipment cases to transport cocaine and drug money. The 47-year-old Rosemond had claimed he was framed.

Warning: Use of laser lights at a Kanye West concert will result in Kanye embarrassing the crap out of you, and shouting, “You gonna get fucked up!” One fan at Kanye and Jay-Z’s “Watch the Throne” show learned that lesson the hard way during one of the duo’s Paris shows. When the guy flashed some sort of pen laser onstage … Yeezy shut down the show and shouted, “You see this guy right here with the green laser? Don’t fuck up everybody’s show … it’s not a fucking game!”

On Sunday, a bullet claimed the life of aspiring Memphis rapper Adrian Thomas who was shot and killed on his front porch after an argument with a man while his wife sat in the house and while his small children were in their beds asleep. According to Thomas’ wife, Malikah Thomas, 32, she was in the house when she overheard her husband arguing with a man which was followed by a gunshot.