Music News with Shakira and Kanye

Sep 27, 2023 | 6:06 AM

Shakira has been charged with tax fraud in Spain, after failing to pay 6.7 million euros ($7.1 million) on her 2018 taxes. Prosecutors claim the singer, who currently lives in Miami, used an offshore account “based in a tax haven” to attempt to avoid paying. But this isn’t Shakira’s only tax problem. She’s already going to trial in Barcelona on November 20th for a separate case in which she allegedly failed to pay 14.5 million euros ($13.9 million) in taxes between 2012-2014. Shakira’s PR firm insisted in July that she had “always acted in concordance with the law and on the advice of her financial advisers,” adding: “(Shakira) is now focused on her artistic career in Miami and is calm and confident that she will receive a favorable resolution of her fiscal issues.”

KANYE WEST’S UNRELEASED ALBUM WITH DR. DRE HAS LEAKED ONLINEJesus Is King 2, the Dr. Dre-produced follow-up to Kanye West’s 2019 gospel album, has leaked online. The 15-track project features remixes of songs that originally appeared on Jesus Is King along with new verses by West, and from guests like 2 Chainz, Snoop Dogg, A$AP Ferg, Pusha T, Marsha Ambrosius, and more. Ye first announced Jesus Is King 2 back in November of 2019, just weeks after the release of the expanded version of the original album. “Ye and Dre Jesus is King Part II coming soon,” he tweeted. “Jesus Is King is my first clean album. I used to spend all my time trying to make my beats be mixed as good as Dr. Dre. Who knew all I had to do was do an album for God and then Dr. Dre would start mixing my beats?” But it never arrived, and joined the pile of unreleased albums West has made.