Rapper Rick Ross is officially off the market. The Maybach Music mogul proposed to girlfriend Lira Mercer and she accepted. Mercer posted a photograph of the engagement ring on social media. No official announcement of a wedding date has been made. Five of Rick Ross’s seven albums reached number one on the Billboard charts. You may not know who Louis York is, but chances are you’ve heard their music. The alt-R&B duo, which consists of Claude Kelly and Chuck Harmony, has written and produced hits for Rhianna, Bruno Mars and Mylie Cyrus. They step out on their own with their EP “Masterpiece Theater”, which will be released today. The group’s name originates from their hometowns St Louis and New York City. Kelly is quoted is saying that the duo’s music is more potent when asked how their music differs from what they’ve wrote and produced for others. In light of the immense success of the N.W.A biopic “Straight Outta Compton”, rapper Ice Cube has been given a green light to retell a timeless tale: Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. The familiar story will hit the big screen again in the new project “Humbug”, a script by Todd R. Jones and Earl Richey Jones was picked up by Universal Pictures after a four studio bidding war. Ice Cube will play the lead role, a wealthy real estate mogul shown the path to redemption by the ghost of Christmas past. Director Tim Story, who worked with the rapper on “Barbershop” and “Ride Along”, will direct the film. Ice Cube is also listed as one of the producers of the project. The film will hit theaters during the 2016 holiday season.