Recently Columbus native and Ohio word spitter, Cap City Kiddelivered his new projectIn Due Time. Fans of the 26 year-old talent have been waiting patiently for this new release that shows this highly capable wordsmith in his best light, displaying maturity and growth in his music with each release.
Consolidated into five new songs for fans, In Due Time is a coming of age project that gives fans something to latch on to as Cap City Kid prepares to hit fans relentlessly with more music.
“It’s been a little bit since I released music, all 2019 I had done this thing where I was putting out a song a week. Just kind of because I could and because I was just trying to build my catalog. Since then I’ve been working on a lot of music especially all of last year going to the top of this year. Really I got multiple albums worth of stuff, but I really just wanted to get a project out there,” Cap City Kidexplained.
“This is just like a little appetizer almost because the rest of the year we have multiple projects planned, multiple releases, singles more like EPs and full length albums. I just wanted to get something out there, you know, that was a small, but like good compilation music. A couple of different sounds on there for people to digest and just kind of a set up for the rest of the year. I didn’t want to start too crazy with a full length album or anything. But I just wanted to come with some good music that I could preface the rest of the year with and reach out to the fans.”
Pieced together with producers from across the internet, Cap City Kid has been locked in with lesser known up-and-coming producers after having worked with big artists like DJ Mustard on more recent projects.
“Sometimes if a random producer sends me beats whether they got my email through social media or whatever, I’m always going through those and just listening because you never know what you’re going to find. I find music from the dopest and most obscure random places. So it was crazy. A lot of the producers that I worked with on this project are still on their own come-up just like I am, which honestly makes it even doper,” Cap City Kid said.
“Cause once this project prospers and we get it to the place we want to get it. It’s a win for both of us and advances us both further in our careers. So lately I’ve been working with smaller ones, man. I’ve gotten to work with big producers in the past. I’ve been fortunate to work with DJ mustard on my last project which was crazy. And obviously he’s a whole other level of super producer at this point in the rap game, but this was just something different and still very special without the big names.
Remaining true to the city that gave him his name, Cap City Kid is forever thankful to be able to draw fans from the adjacent Ohio State University and the community that surrounds him in Columbus.
“I always say it’s a blessing and a curse being in Columbus. I say it’s a blessing because there hasn’t been a major artist really yet to come out of Columbus, so there’s got to be someone that’s finally going to break through at some point. And why can’t it be me? And it’s also a curse because no one has broken out of Columbus. So there’s no like alpha that came out of the city, that people can follow that same path or you know, be a mentor throughout this journey,” Cap City Kid said.
“At the same time, it’s also a dope city because there’s a lot of young people – we got to OSU right down the street, you know, it’s one of the biggest campuses in the country and the world. It’s absolutely nuts, so the resources are like everywhere, man, you got 80,000 students here and pretty much my target audience already as it is right now. There’s a lot of dope venues in Columbus, there’s a lot to take advantage of and there’s also a lot of dope artists in Columbus that just like me, I feel like haven’t gotten the proper recognition. So I’m hoping this project sheds some light on the city.”
The Weeknd is going into the 2021 Billboard Music Awards with more chances to win than any other act. The Canadian vocalist picked up 16 nods, including Top Artist, Top Male Artist, and Top Hot 100 Artist.
Hip Hop star DaBaby came in second behind The Weeknd with 11 nods. North Carolina’s native son is competing in BBMA categories such as Top Hot 100 Artist, Top Rap Artist, and Top Rap Album.
DaBaby’s Blame It On Baby was listed in the Top Rap Album category. That 2020 project is vying for the trophy against Juice Wrld’s Legends Never Die, Lil Baby’s My Turn, Lil Uzi Vert’s Eternal Atake, and Pop Smoke’s Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon.
Five records are up for Top Rap Song. 24kGoldn’s “Mood” featuring Iann Dior, Cardi B’s “WAP” featuring Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby’s “Rockstar” featuring Roddy Ricch, Jack Harlow’s “Whats Poppin” featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez & Lil Wayne, and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage” are finalists in that section.
Late recording artists Pop Smoke (10 nods) and Juice WRLD (7 nods) received prominent recognition at this year’s Billboard Music Awards. In addition, Houston-bred rapper Megan Thee Stallion is going into the night with the second-most nominations for a female act (7 nods) behind country music singer Gabby Barrett (9 nods).
Finalists for the 2021 Billboard Music Awards are based on the chart period of March 21, 2020 through April 3, 2021. Winners are determined by album and digital song sales, streaming, radio airplay, and social engagement which are tracked by Billboard and its data partners like MRC Data.
The 2021 Billboard Music Awards ceremony is produced by dick clark productions and scheduled to air live Sunday, May 23 at 8 pm ET/ 5 pm PT on NBC. To see the full list of nominees visit billboardmusicawards.com.
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Throughout Hip Hop’s over forty years of existence, countless important moments and people contributed to the history of the world-shifting culture. Legendary Wu-Tang Clan member Dennis “Ghostface Killah” Coles believes the rappers of today should be aware of that past.
Ghostface Killah took part in an interview with Vulture. During the discussion, the Ironman album architect gave his perspective on the importance of younger rap talent being aware of the Hip Hop acts that came before them and laid the groundwork for modern-day success in the industry.
“I’m all for these young Black kids getting money and doing what they do, but musically, I think that becoming a rapper now, you should know the history, know now who the Spoonie Gees and Sugarhill Gangs was, the Wu-Tangs and the Biggies, all that. Grand Puba, all these guys,” said Ghostface.
The 50-year-old emcee continued, “You need to know these people. You gotta add to that. We got bodies of work. Mobb Deep, Nas, Wu-Tang, Jay-Z, we got bodies of work. Only reason you heard that record is because it’s the single, and it’s what was hot. But, where’s your body? How many bodies you got? It’s not gonna work later on in the future when you trying to tour and n##### remember one record, but you can’t do a whole show.”
Ghostface Killah also showed love to some of the performers that have emerged on the music scene over the last 15 years. He named-dropped DaBaby, Lil Baby, Drake, A$AP Rocky, Bobby Shmurda, Pop Smoke, and Migos. Plus, the Staten Island native specifically mentioned Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole as artists he sees as creating their own lane in Hip Hop.
“I even like a few young guys that’s out there right now. People get it twisted, like, ‘Oh, this new rap generation is garbage.’ But you know what? You gotta have the ear to understand what’s going on. Some of them really got talent,” offered Ghostface.
The man who also goes by the alter ego Tony Starks added, “You might not be able to understand that talent because that’s not the era you come from, but being an artist, you gotta be willing to listen to everything. It took me a while to start to understand these kids and their sound.”
Last month, the Millennial and Gen Z generations got the chance to get more familiar with Ghostface Killah’s career discography. The East Coaster participated in a friendly Verzuz faceoff against his Wu-Tang brethren Raekwon on March 20.
Massachusetts-bred emcee Joyner Lucas and Georgia-raised rapper Lil Baby joined forces for a new single titled “Ramen & OJ.” The record hit DSPs on April 30. A music video for the track also landed on YouTube the same day.
The duo’s “Ramen & OJ” was created via the Tully platform and released via Joyner Lucas’s independent record label Twenty Nine Music Group. Tully was co-founded by Lucas and manager/technology entrepreneur Dhruv Joshi.
“I wanted to have all the power of a label and artist management company in my hands wherever I was and whatever I was doing because my focus needs to be on creating,” says Lucas.
He continues, “With Tully, I can see what everyone on my team and on a project is doing and that gives me the confidence to stay on track with what I’ve got to do because I need to know that they’ve got my back.”
Lucas is looking to inspire other independent musicians to establish themselves as artists and build their brand with a DIY mentality. The Tully app is now available on Apple’s App Store and Google Play.
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“Joyner’s creativity and collaboration with Lil Baby on ‘Ramen & OJ’ was amazing to watch because he was free to concentrate on what matters most,” states Tully co-founder Dhruv Joshi. “And I was right there with him because we built Tully to empower us to be able to succeed on our own terms.”
Lil Baby continues on his impressive run as one of the leading rap stars of the current decade. In 2021, the Quality Control Music representative worked with Russ, Lil Durk, Drake, Young Thug, Gunna, DJ Khaled, Megan Thee Stallion, and more. These latest collaborations came after Lil Baby found mainstream commercial success with 2020’s My Turn studio LP.
Earlier this week, news broke that Jeffrey “Ja Rule” Atkins was being sued by the Internal Revenue Service for an unpaid tax debt of $3,139,237.76. Ja Rule’s longtime nemesis, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, took the opportunity to make fun of his fellow Queens native’s financial situation.
50 Cent posted a screenshot of a headline about Ja Rule and his wife’s reported issues with the IRS for unpaid taxes between 2005-2010 and 2012-2017. The recording artist-turned-television producer wrote in his Instagram caption, “👀you gotta pay your taxes fool,😆😆.”
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Previously, Ja Rule was accused of evading paying taxes for over $3 million in earnings between 2004 and 2006. The former Def Jam artist was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison in 2011 which he served concurrently with a weapons conviction in New York state.
Ja Rule and 50 Cent have been beefing online and in real life for over two decades. Their respective camps – Ja’s Murder Inc. and 50’s G-Unit – were involved in several violent interactions over the years.
Both rappers also released multiple diss tracks directed at the other. The animosity between the 2000s-era chart-toppers led to some fans hoping for a Verzuz battle involving the “Wanksta” spitter and the “Loose Change” rhymer.
In response, 50 Cent wrote on Instagram, “Who want to battle, and here’s a moment of silence for the still sick and suffering. LOL.” Ja Rule then fired back on Twitter, “N##### know to stay out the cage when the lions are feeding…”
50 Cent’s latest round of attack against Murder Inc. affiliates did not stop with his takedown of Ja Rule. He also blasted Murder Inc. Records co-founder Irv Gotti for publicly commenting on DMX’s alleged cause of death.
The Get Rich or Die Tryin’ album creator posted on Instagram, “This guy [Irv Gotti] is [an] idiot, 👀Did he just say DMX died from smoking crack and fentanyl! 🤷🏽♂️Why would he say that?”
Once again DJ Khaled recruited a stacked lineup of guests for his 12th studio LP Khaled Khaled which dropped today (April 30). With a “who’s who” array of talent on the project, Cardi B’s contribution with “Big Paper” has generated the most chatter on Twitter.
Cardi became one of the top trending topics on the social media platform after Khaled Khaled dropped on Friday morning. Most of the online reactions to her latest track were positive.
One Twitter user questioned who wrote Cardi’s lyrics on the record while suggesting the flow sounded new. She replied, “ME!!! It’s actually not. ‘Red Barz’ and ‘Hectic’ exist. [three faces with tears of joy emojis]. I can go New York when I want [to].”
ME !!! It’s actually not Red Barz and Hectic exist 😂😂😂I can go New York when I want too https://t.co/4ShMWYuaTP
“Big Paper” is Cardi B’s first solo release since “Up” arrived in February. That single went onto become the Grammy winner’s record-extending fifth #1 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, the most all-time for a female rapper.
According to Khaled, “Big Paper” made the Khaled Khaled tracklist at the last minute. The music business executive/media personality posted a video on Thursday afternoon announcing the “Cardi B vocals is in.”
CARDI B VOCALS IS IN!! 101%%% JAMIE UPDATE THE TRACKLIST NOW!!!!#KHALEDKHALED TONIGHT MIDNIGHT!!!
Khaled Khaled also features Lil Wayne, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, H.E.R., Migos, Post Malone, Megan Thee Stallion, DaBaby, Justin Bieber, 21 Savage, Bryson Tiller, Roddy Ricch, Drake, A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Big Sean, Rick Ross, Puff Daddy, Justin Timberlake, Meek Mill, and more.
Plus, Hip Hop legends Jay-Z and Nas reunited for “Sorry Not Sorry” along with singer-songwriter James Fauntleroy. A music video for the collaboration hit YouTube this morning. It is the only official visual from DJ Khaled’s Khaled Khaled album so far.
Now if Cardi do more of that…. she not only gonna gain a new fan… she very well may lose a few enemies. Best Female Rapper in the game at the moment, it’s not even close. She’s miles above the others at the moment.
Drake’s luxury car, a customized 2020 Rolls Royce Cullinan Chrome Hearts, will be showcased at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami, Florida.
From May 1 and May 15, fans can go to see one of the cars from the “God’s Plan” $8 million car collection. This particular car was packaged by Mansory, custom-ly designed Chrome Hearts, and was featured in his new video for “What’s Next,” released in March 2021.
Also displayed in the video, according to Authoevolution.com, is a snow-drifting Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Roadster, a private jet, and his very own Patek Philippe Nautilus by Virgil
Abloh.”
The “What’s Next” video is a love letter to his hometown of Toronto and allows fans to see just how good the rapper’s life is.
But did fans need to see the video to know that the Champagne Papi is loaded? At 34, Drake is worth almost a quarter billion dollars.
Reports say that his house is 50,000 square feet. One of the mattresses (one of them) cost about $400K (it is a Grand Vividus, not Sealy). He has more entries in the Billboard Hot 100 than anybody in the history of the world (208).
In 2020, he was ranked the 25th highest-paid celebrity in the world. He has more Top 10 hits than The Beatles, Prince, and Michael Jackson. He also put up $100,000 for the winner of the Ultimate Rap League’s Ultimate Madness tournament on Caffeine.tv, as an incentive to inspire the most elite battle rappers in the culture to participate.
It’s the biggest Ultimate Madness Tournament ever, I ’m putting up $100k to the winner so someone go get that. Starts this Saturday at 12p PT / 3p ET the first round of #UltimateMadness3 for free on @caffeinepic.twitter.com/aY4lizGqTv
Let’s talk about this baller. If fans are interested in seeing the 2020 Cullinan by Mansory x Chrome Hearts they have to make an appointment with the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Despite debuting in the midst of a pandemic, P1Harmony is already making strides within the industry and continues to feed their fans with nothing short of bangers.
FNC Entertainment formed the group in 2019 and began teasing their debut in February 2020. With the release of their first EP Disharmony: Stand Out and a movie, P1Harmony has catapulted into the spotlight.
Best known for their performance prowess and ability to dominate a stage, these rookies have been focused on creating a new R&B sound. The group released their highly anticipated second EP Disharmony: Break Out now.
Their title track “Scared” has all the right vibes standing strong as an anthemic banger that blends their soulful singing and hardline rap verses over a glitchy soundscape of punchy beats, lush R&B harmonies, and trippy melody lines.
AllHipHop: As for each member, who is the first R&B artist you looked up to?*
AllHipHop: For each member, which R&B and hip-hop artists most heavily influenced this EP, and your life?
KEEHO: I get a lot of my inspiration from SZA, Frank Ocean, and Daniel Caesar. I’ve been really into the way they write and create music.
JIUNG: Post Malone, Justin Bieber, & 24kGoldn.
INTAK: A$AP Rocky, EK.
JONGSEOB: J.Cole, Joey Bada$$.
AllHipHop: What sets your guy’s music apart from the rest
KEEHO: I don’t think there’s a specific difference, but we try to add songs that were written or composed by all six members into our albums. There’s a song called “That’s It” from our first debut EP, which was co-written and composed by all of us, and from this new album, we have a song called “If You Call Me,” which was also co-written and composed by all the members as well. I think through this process, we are able to deliver and express the kind of message we want more clearly.
THEO: I personally think what sets us apart is that we have and know the precise message we want to deliver through our music.
JIUNG: I think the way we keep reinterpreting or finding new ways to deliver our message (which has been consistent since the very beginning) is our key appeal.
INTAK: I think what makes us a bit more different is that we are striving to harmonize the world.
SOUL: I think it’s our harmonious, vocal tones and choreography! I think we have a distinct dance style.
JONGSEOB: I think we all have a different way of expressing our thoughts and opinions even if the message or the subject we want to relay is the same. I also think our personal characteristics are strong and different and we also like and listen to different genres of music and that’s what makes us unique.
AllHipHop: Why did you choose the title ‘Disharmony: Break Out’?
KEEHO: It’s a continuation from our first album, which was titled DISHARMONY: STAND OUT. Our message is still based on the idea of ‘disharmony,’ but this time, we wanted to share our message, which is to ‘break out’ from the things that hold us back, our fears, and injustices and be confident enough to create a life that we want, while achieving our goals and dreams.
JIUNG: I think ‘break out’ is the best description of our album’s main theme, which is to ‘break out’ of all the things that you’re tied down to, from people’s judgments, and our fears.
JONGSEOB: Our first album, DISHARMONY: STAND OUT posed questions and pointed out problems, while DISHARMONY: BREAK OUT is about acknowledging these problems, and finding a way to resolve these issues, which is to be confident, ‘break out,’ and become a better person.
AllHipHop: What does it mean to give back to your country through the arts?*
KEEHO: I am so honored and grateful for the opportunity to be a part of this global movement that K-pop is becoming. But then again, to be honest, I also feel a lot of pressure and responsibility. I want to reach out to as many people as I can by making good music and want to show our performances to our fans all across the globe.
THEO: I think it’s a great honor, and I am super proud of it.
JIUNG: I am also proud of K-pop and am grateful for all the support we have been getting. This makes me want to work harder to become an exceptional artist.
INTAK: Being a K-pop artist with the opportunity to help expand K-pop is such an honor, and I am filled with gratitude that I was given this opportunity by my company and all the staff members who are helping us.
SOUL: I am also very proud, and I feel like I was destined to become a K-pop artist [Laughs].
JONGSEOB: I am doing what I’m doing because I wanted to be onstage to perform and write/make music, but it’s so amazing that K-pop is headed towards such a positive direction.
AllHipHop: How did you guys come together?
KEEHO: We were put together for how well we worked together as trainees and for the harmony we created as a team. I think that is also the reason why we are all so close to each other.
AllHipHop: How tight-knit are you guys?
KEEHO: Yes! We are super close. We spend so much time together; we train and see each other every day so I think that’s why we are so close. But above all, we communicate a lot and are like family. I think we are lucky and fortunate that we all get along so well.
THEO: We are REALLY close.
JIUNG: We are SUPER tight-knit
INTAK: We are like family.
SOUL: I think of them as my family in Korea, that’s how close we are.
JONGSEOB: We are close enough to share everything.
AllHipHop: How has debuting in the middle of a pandemic been for you?
KEEHO: Honestly, we didn’t have that much trouble or difficulties. We spent more time training and working on our music since we couldn’t go out. The only thing that was kind of unfavorable was the fact that we didn’t get to see other people and experience things that could have inspired us for our music.
THEO: It was difficult because we couldn’t meet our fans in person.
JIUNG: We didn’t have many difficulties when we were preparing for our debut. The only difficult thing was that we couldn’t perform in front of people.
INTAK: I didn’t experience difficulties
SOUL: I think the pandemic is difficult, but what’s more difficult for me personally is the language barrier!
JONGSEOB: The only thing that is hard to deal with is that we don’t get to see our fans during TV music program shoots or when we are onstage.
AllHipHop: What’s the hardest thing to adjust now that you’re gaining more recognition?
KEEHO: I don’t think there is anything to really adjust right now, and I don’t think I will need to adjust to getting recognized more [Laughs]. I like people and attention! I’m assuming later in our careers; it might get hard when our personal lives diminish, but that too, I don’t think it will be hard for me to adjust. I am very good at adapting!
THEO: I’m OK with getting recognized more, but it’s difficult when they want to see my cutesy stuff in person.
JIUNG: I am a bit worried that I’m not going to have much of a personal life.
INTAK: I don’t have any problems. I think I have already adjusted to this lifestyle! [Laughs].
SOUL: I agree with Intak
JONGSEOB: I have none.
AllHipHop: What can we expect next from the group?
KEEHO: Please continue to show us love and support as we will be releasing a lot of new contents, music, as well as holding more performances.
THEO: I hope to become more at ease when I’m onstage and hope we can grow as one of the more charismatic groups.
JIUNG: I want our fans and everyone to anticipate the amount of energy we will have when we are onstage performing in front of an actual audience.
INTAK: Please look forward to what kind of messages we will be delivering with our music.
SOUL: Please look forward to our future promotional activities with a lot of love and interest!
JONGSEOB: We will become a group that is continuously evolving and excelling in every facet so please look forward to our every move, and we will also continue to release our new message and worldviews.
During the episode that Mac Donald said she believes that rap music and the culture around it is one of Black people’s biggest hurdles in getting ahead – not systemic racism.
Mac Donald claimed that “it all happened in the ‘80s,” as she references the birth of Hip-Hop. She continued, “This steamroller of hatred towards greatness and it has never slowed down.”
The Thomas W. Smith Fellow continued on by stating that this era basically rejects white maleness.
“It came from a narcissism of the failed … it’s a hatred of a civilization deemed too white and male. There it grew out of this tragic pendulum swing within the Black civil rights movement that was, for so long, striving for the ideals that America was itself violating.”
Mac Donald even suggested that Black people like Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington lived up to the American expectation and were dignified in a way that Black Gen X’ers, Millennials, and Gen Z’ers have not.
“And then, it all swung past and you got the oppositional culture of the ghetto and hip-hop that came up, that now — now, all that striving for bourgeois normalcy is gone, and you have the glorification of gangster culture, which is tragic,” Mac Donald said.
She continued: “But, I think the Black radicalism drove a lot of this, and the growth of racial preferences, the dismantling of single standards of evaluations began in the 60s with preferences for admission. Then the females glommed on to that, you know, with feminism and their marginalization of males, and since then, the glorification of victimhood.”
So let’s get this right … Black radicalism of the 1960s and Hip-Hoppers dismantled the American standards, marginalized white males, and have the African-American community constantly glorifying being victims!
Today H-Town artist JimmyBoltdropped the visual to his lively new track “YEX.” Making a play on the word “sex” Jimmy has fun with his crew while “yexy” women bounce around a yacht and turn out a vacation in the tropics. Featuring “YEX” merchandise throughout, JimmyBoltproves why the spotlight is on him as he makes a run for next up in Houston’s competitive rap scene.
“Yex is going crazy – it all started when my friends and I were joking around and started a dictionary of Y words. So like sex, we said change the sex to yex. So we just branded everything, we got the shirts, the hats, the socks and the condoms. I always have some bad females around me so it’s just a vibe. The yock star vibe, the girls, the cars, the money. Yock star lifestyle, might not make it,” he joked.
In the music video JimmyBoltlives up to his name as hiselectric personality and non-stop energy fly off the screen. One look at this video and it’s clear this 3rd Coast artist draws energy the music pulsating through his veins.
“For one, I draw energy from life and my passion and love for music itself, so I always try to translate that love to the songs and to the records. Lighting bolts and bolts that’s just that whole vibe, and it’s what fuels me to turn up as an artist,” JimmyBolt explained. “But secondly my family, my pops, they are the ones that fully give me just that energy to keep going. Truthfully that’s why I have that get up and go get it mentality everyday – I stay ready. You never have to get ready if you always stay ready.”
Originally the visual started off as a behind the scenes vlog, but the episode became so epic during the filming Jimmy decided to turn the footage into an actual video. While the visual looks like it’s all fun and games, at one point during filming things got so crazy JimmyBolthad to keep the peace between dueling ladies fighting for camera time. Needless to say viewers are in for a mini royal rumble cat fight that takes this visual to new levels. And, although things got crazy in the tropics, no video vixens were harmed during the filming of this raucous music video.
“A few females had got into a little argument and the one girl just walked up to the other and hit her. I was like, ‘Hell naw’ because they were both bad, but I was like, ‘Yall ladies not gonna be fighting here!’ So I tried to break it up but one of them girls was strong as hell. They broke my Chrome Hearts frames, my glasses, I was p#####, things got crazy!”
Raised in a musical family, JimmyBoltis a natural when it comes to creating and visualizing the feel to his music and the industry has taken notice after his collaborations with Lil Keed, SSG Splurge and co-signs from OG Louie the XIII, Rubi Rose, Gunna, Lil Baby, Trippie Redd and more.
“Music was just something that I was always around and heard. My pops was in music, he was a band instructor, so I always heard all types of music from Jazz to Pop, to Rap to Rock. So I’ve always been around it and had an ear for it. Around four or five years ago I just started doing it, so it went up from there”
Coupled with a physique that’s molded by a crazy workout each day, JimmyBolt has the music and look to back his growing fan base that’s spread outward from Houston and to the surrounding areas.
“We call our fans the Yang – not the gang – but Yang. It’s a whole fan club and the whole lit crowd of people that are always gonna tee-up and wear the merch and just catch the full vibe,” JimmyBolt said. “Get ready Yang, this is our year, we gonna drop this crazy s### and show y’all something that you’ve never seen before. Real life yock star ish, on Yod.”
Big Sean and his mom Myra Anderson are launching a new video series to help the rap star’s fans deal with mental health issues.
The Detroit rapper, who admits he struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts in the past, is dropping a new video every Saturday during the month of May, to recognize Mental Health Awareness Month.
“Sean and I wanted to share some of the no or low-cost techniques that we have used over the years to help us attain and maintain emotional balance. In the future, we may do a deeper dive into some of these techniques and other tools that we use,” says Myra Anderson.
Every Saturday, Big Sean will have a 10-15 minute conversation with his mother Myra, where they will talk about issues ranging from meditation to diet and exercise, as well as the “emotional freedom technique.”
“I feel that Mental Health Awareness Month is the perfect time to talk with my mom about some of the things I have learned from her that have helped me along the way, and I hope will help others,” Big Sean explained.
The video series will start dropping on Big Sean’s IGTV account and his website, for the Sean Anderson Foundation, on May 1st, starting at 12:00 pm EST.
Rapper 40 Cal is calling upon the hip-hop community to help him find his missing daughter.
The Harlem, New York-bred rapper took to his social media accounts to alert his fans about the crisis.
“My daughter Saniyya is missing out of Buffalo University …. anyone with any helpful info hit my dm, any other matters respectfully don’t contact me!” the rapper said.
A variety of rappers, ranging from JR Writer and Westside Gunn to TSU Surf rallied around the battle rapper’s Call for help by alerting their sizable followings, asking everyone to keep their eyes open for Saniyya.
40 Cal, a former member of Dipset is also offering up a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to the safe return of Saniyya.
Boxing champ Mike Tyson has lured Lennox Lewis out of retirement for a rematch of their 2002 battle.
Tyson returned to the ring last year for an exhibition fight with Roy Jones, Jr., which ended in a tie.
Now he’s attempting to get revenge on British star Lewis, who knocked out the American in the eighth round almost two decades ago.
According to the 54-year-old, he’s lined up a big fight against Lewis, 55, later this year.
“I’m gonna fight Lennox Lewis,” Tyson told TMZ as he left an eatery in Los Angeles.
He didn’t furnish many other details, other than that the fight will take place in “September.” Lewis departed from boxing in 2004, but in 2019 acknowledged he would contemplate stepping back into the ring to take on Tyson – but only for a $100 million purse.
He has yet to react to Tyson’s statements, which emerge a month after “The Hangover” star affirmed his planned fight with Evander Holyfield was a go – even though his adversary’s manager had already indicated talks between the pair had “fallen apart.”
Tyson infamously bit off a piece of Holyfield’s ear when they met in the ring in 1997.
Inspiration comes from a lot of things people say; for William Rodda it was saving a child from a fire. He originally wrote pop tracks, but after this tragic event he began writing child friendly lofi tracks. Not your typical hip hop rapper, but a great person nonetheless.
The lofi industry has certainly changed a lot in recent years, with the introduction of modern day lofi rappers. William works in both newer style lofi tracks and older. William was raised in Brisbane, Australia brought up to manage his parents properties. His musical taste started at a young age, and actively grew as he got older, he picked up a guitar at 8, and studied for about a year.
After that he lacked interest in the instrument. He picked up guitar again at 15, and after the incident at 16, he was back on track to be a preschool teacher and lofi writer. The music doesn’t stop there for him either, while working as a part time producer in his home studio at Brisbane, he has made many connections and many friends along the way, William will also be working for the foreseeable future as his father just retired.
His home studio will stay though, and his music as well. He quotes “Music is for everyone, and some kids don’t have the ability to listen on the fly. My goal is to make it possible for them.” He is a great guy and we all have a thing or two to learn from him.
A 52-year-old man will be considered a senior citizen when he is released from prison for posing as a member of the Wu-Tang Clan and pretending to be an employee of Roc Nation, to run a nationwide scam.
Walker Washington, 53, of Augusta, Georgia, is heading to prison for more than 8 years (100 months) in prison, 19 businesses out of more than $300,000.
They ran the scam from at least September 2019 until November of 2019.
The scam fell apart after an eagle-eyed staff member at the Fairfield Inn and Suites in Augusta became skeptical of the pair and contacted the FBI.
Both men have admitted to they pretended to be members of the Wu, and acted as though they were employees of Roc Nation.
“These two scammers will have plenty of time to figure out if their few weeks of unearned fame was worth several years in prison,” said Chris Hacker, Special Agent in Charge of FBI Atlanta. “With this sentence, law enforcement and the victims of their scam, have spoken loudly that we won’t tolerate anyone who takes anything they do not earn or deserve.”
King Von was a loyal companion who would do anything for his homies, even when he achieved breakthrough success.
He declared this in his latest video, “Mine Too.”
An aspirational anthem, “Mine Too” rises in intensity as Von declares he’ll do anything for his homies he and his Only The Family associates plot world domination from a mansion, before they go for a joyride in a Rolls Royce.
“Mine Too” is the third video to be released from Welcome To O-Block since King Von tragically passed in November.
Earlier this year, Von’s estate shared “Armed & Dangerous,” which calls back to Von’s experiences in prison and shows how the lessons he learned inside shaped his worldview, and in late 2020, the estate shared the video for “Wayne’s Story,” which was Von’s favorite of his music videos.
King Von appeared posthumously on several tracks on Loyal Bros, a new compilation tape by Only The Family, the label started by Von’s close friend Lil Durk.
In today’s episode of plastic surgery goes wrong, troubled rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine’s daughter’s mother has experienced some trauma while getting her body done up in South America.
Sara Molina went to Colombia to have 360 liposuction and a Brazilian butt lift.
During the two surgeries, which took up five hours to complete, her Multiple Sclerosis was triggered, and later after the procedure her body basically started to spazz out.
The lead physician, a man named Dr. Humberto Peña, and his team tried to help her during the flare-up by giving her “nausea medicine.”
At the same time, they removed the pain medicine that was being pumped through her abdomen through a tube placed under her skin.
It is reported that she is not able to lay down flatly and has had to get a special recliner in a fancy-schmancy facility called Llux Recovery in the tropical paradise.
She’ll be there until the middle of May recuperating. Despite the MS trauma, she is very pleased with the results.
So much so, she took to social media to promote Llux Recovery and the doctors.
Sara Molina
After deleting all other posts, she wrote:
“I’d like to begin by saying thank you so much to Junito @lluxerecovery for making sure my experience has been going smooth. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YALL BOOK WITH HIM. From consultation, to a doctor recommendation, & making sure we had a sfe flight. An amazing experience all around, especially at the recovery home. The staff has been taking AMAZING care of us here since we have landed. I honestly have no complaints. We love it here & I really do mean it 🥺💕••A special thank you to the most lit doctor out here 🥵💪🏼 @drpena_cirujanoplastico I’m so happy, words can’t describe it. I can proudly say I’m a Muñeca de Peña. 🤷🏻♀He made sure that everything was set in stone as I wanted before moving forward. I’m so in love with my end result. I love my new new body Kanye Voice ••If anyone is looking to book with them, please consult with @lluxerecovery. Please understand, as we all have different bodies, not everything and everyone will work the same for us. I was recommended to Dr.Peña due to my body type and shape. It is very important to consult before booking any
doctor!”
Perhaps, she doesn’t really know Kanye’s voice … the one that was crying when his mother died from plastic surgery (liposuction, a tummy tuck, and a breast reduction) gone wrong in 2007.
North Carolina’s Saint Augustine’s University is set to give music executive Kevin “Coach K” Lee and civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump honorary doctorate degrees during the institution’s 2021 commencement ceremony.
To be held on Saturday, May 1, this graduation will be for both the Classes of 2020 and 2021, held in person at the George Williams Athletic Complex, have Raleigh City Manager Marchell Adams David serving as the keynote speaker and will be the university’s 90th baccalaureate exercise in its 154-year history.
The combined-class graduation is a result of all of 2020’s scholastic activities being interrupted and postponed due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
Perhaps that’s why the HBCU, founded in 1867 by Episcopal clergy to educate recently freed enslaved Africans, wanted to make this occasion super special.
After all, Ben Crump is perhaps one of the most foremost figures in America’s current wave of social justice advocacy.
Over the last decade, this member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. has come to represent and fight for the families of people wronged by systemic racism like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, as well as the residents of Flint, Michigan.
He also represented 9 of the 13 Black women rape and victimized by the Holtzclaw Oklahoma City Police rape in 2015 and contributed to the 2008 “precedent-setting” U.S. Supreme Court Robbie Tolan case that centered around extreme police-involved violence and their use of force.
The Quality Control founder, Coach K, is just as impressive.
Just consider that some of your favorite artists he discovered, groomed, and put on. Shout out to Migos, Lil Baby, City Girls, and Lil Yachty.
But what is most extraordinary is that in addition to him receiving his honorary doctorate, he is also receiving his Bachelor of Science Degree in Organizational Management from the school.
Back in 1992, he was admitted to SAU as a basketball student-athlete. A tragic injury stopped his matriculation temporarily.
Thanks to the SAU’s Gateway Program for adult learners, he completed his degree and will walk with the 2020 class.
Congrats to the Class of 2020 (including Coach K), Class of 2021, the university, and everyone celebrating this great achievement (virtually or in-person).
