NEWS: The Weeknd Arrested For Allegedly Punching A Police Officer

The Weeknd Arrested For Allegedly Punching A Police Officer

The Weeknd was arrested in Las Vegas this Saturday, after allegedly punching a cop.

The Weeknd just had a pretty crazy... umm... weekend in Las Vegas, as reports indicate the singer was arrested for striking a police officer on Saturday. 

According to TMZ, Abel was involved in a scuffle that broke out at Cromwell Hotel around 4:20 AM that morning. When police intervened, the singer was apparently pulled into an elevator by a cop, at which point he is said to have punched the officer in the head. After that, he was brought into custody for "battery of a protected person", though he's already out on bail. As of yesterday, he was on a plane out of the city, captioning his Instagram post of the plane with "escaped from Las Vegas".

Judging by his subsequent 'grams, the incident inspired him to get back in the studio, seemingly leaving all the drama back in Vegas where it belongs.

escaped from Las Vegas

A photo posted by The Weeknd (@abelxo) on Jan 10, 2015 at 10:12pm PST

ALBUM STREAM: D'Angelo & The Vanguard's "Black Messiah"

Stream D'Angelo & The Vanguard's "Black Messiah"

D'Angelo's new album, "Black Messiah" is now available for free stream.

After Beyonce dropped her self-titled album unannounced last December, ironically enough, a "surprise" album was pretty much expected for 2014's fourth quarter. Bets were on Rihanna, Madonna, and Kanye West, but the ever-elusive D'Angelo was never in the running. Thus, the announcement ofBlack Messiah was a surprise in the traditional sense, because truly no one saw this coming.

Only a few days after word spread of the release, D'Angelo and The Vanguard's new effort can now be streamed on Spotify. For anyone that still didn't believe the mastermind behind 2000's Voodoo was actually delivering this week, the evidence is below.

Now, about that Ye album...