(AllHipHop News) Just one week after Lil Uzi Vert let loose the long-awaited Eternal Atake album, the Philadelphia-bred rapper is back with a deluxe version. Uzi presented brand new tracks with LUV Vs. The World 2.
Chief Keef, 21 Savage, Future, Young Thug, Gunna, Lil Durk, Young Nudy, and NAV make appearances on Uzi’s extended Eternal Atake. The Internet’s Sydremains on the original song “Urgency.”
Eternal Atake was already projected to debut at #1 on the next Billboard 200 album chart with around 290,000 – 320,000 first-week units. If those numbers hold up, Lil Uzi Vert will earn his second Number One after 2017’s Luv Is Rage 2 (135,000 units)
In addition, Uzi has released mixtapes such as Luv Is Rage, Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World, and The Perfect LUV Tape. The latter two projects peaked at #37 and #55 on the Billboard 200, respectively. He also scored 32 career entries on the Hot 100 chart.
🚀🛸 @LILUZIVERT returns with deluxe version of brand new album.
(AllHipHop News) Musician/actress/director Teyana Taylor is a star in her own right. Yet, the R&B songstress loves giving iconic female rappers their flowers while they are still here to receive them.
The song is expected to appear on Teyana Taylor’s upcoming third studio album. Her discography already includes 2014’s VII and 2018’s K.T.S.E. She also contributed to the G.O.O.D. Music compilation Cruel Summer.
(AllHipHop News) Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter’s decision to join forces with the NFL led to significant criticism. Some detractors even accused the legendary emcee of being a “sellout” for making the deal without alleged blackballed player Colin Kaepernick.
Jay-Z actually responded to those critics on Jay Electronica’s new album A Written Testimony. The song “Flux Capacitor” includes bars specifically addressing the Roc Nation/National Football League partnership. He also name-drops NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.
“Why would I sell out? I’m already rich, don’t make no sense. Got more money than Goodell, a whole NFL bench. Did it one-handed like Odell, handcuffed to a jail. I would’ve stayed on the sideline if they could’ve tackled that sh*t themselves,” raps Jay-Z.
A Written Testimony is Jay Electronica’s debut studio album. Jay-Z appears as an uncredited vocalist on eight of the tracks. The long-delayed project also features R&B singer The-Dream and Hip Hop artist Travis Scott.
(AllHipHop News) Last April, Kodak Black was arrested at the U.S.-Canada border. The rapper pleaded guilty on Thursday to second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in New York’s Niagara County Court.
The Florida native born Bill Kapri is facing two to seven years in prison. Kodak is scheduled to be sentenced on March 24. He is currently incarcerated for a separate conviction.
In November, a Florida judge sentenced Kodak Black to 46 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to making false statements on a firearms application. According to reports, the New York sentence will serve concurrently with the federal one.
(AllHipHop News) The album is finally here. Jay Electronica has released A Written Testimony, his long-awaited debut album, which features a heavy presence from Jay-Z.
The pair trade bars for the majority of the album that was started late December and recorded for 40 days. Travis Scott and The Dream are also featured on the eccentric album.
Jay Elect first signed to The Roc nearly 10 years ago after a bidding war and has teased fans relentlessly during that period of time. A Written Testimony boasts 10 songs.
The tracklisting for A Written Testimony:
1. “The Overwhelming Event” 2. “Ghost of Soulja Slim” featuring Jay-Z 3. “The Blinding Light” featuring Travis Scott 4. “The Neverending Story” featuring Jay-Z
Louis King is far more than just a rapper, he’s an activist trying to make a difference in this world — specifically prison reform.
The Los Angeles native describes himself as his latest project: De la West Los.
Hailing from the Westside of LA, Louis is here to make music to uplift the people. He states, “To tell a story of a street dude who’s striving to inspire the youth, the people in my community, and around the world… on some G-s##t though.”
His Instagram bio alone reads: hip-hop touring artist, award-winning creative, world-class athlete, and educator. Aside from his own webpage and music, it also includes the link for aim4theheart.org which implements community-based programs in schools and prisons to give at-risk youth an outlet to express themselves through art. AIM is founded by Leila Steinberg who first discovered Tupac Shakur.
Louis was prone to head down the wrong path given his environment, but he also had football to hold on to. Suddenly, he became known as a spitter on campus as he juggled being a National Champion Running Back.
His life experiences overcoming obstacles and hardships in itself is what drives him to record in the studio any chance he can.
Serving as tour manager for Earl Sweatshirt, Louis has traveled to over 20 countries with artists like Anderson .Paak, Thundercat, Erykah Badu, The Outlawz, and Solange. In addition, he releases more music in one year than any other artist in the rap game. Somehow, he still manages to play father figure to his one-year-old daughter (his number one priority).
Regardless, his whole mantra is to encourage the youth to pursue their wildest dreams and work hard until they get there.
AllHipHop: You were raised in Los Angeles correct?
Louis King: I’m from LA, my dad’s from Nigeria. I was born in New York City, then raised out here since I was 2. Being involved in the culture in Los Angeles had a lot to do with it. Growing up with gang violence. I was 11 years old, my house got burnt down. We live near a juvenile detention center off the freeway, so we’ll always have crazy s##t going on. Our house was like a cultural center. We’ll have people escaping from prison jumping over the fence because it’s right by the freeway. People could get onto our house through hopping the fence.
One night, I woke up. We all heard the dogs barking at 4am. Came out, the fire was up the stairs. We live on the second floor, the first floor was all our African drums we’d make. As the fire came up, the dogs saved our lives. We ran downstairs and grabbed whatever we could grab, each other really. When I came downstairs, there’s graffiti on the walls at the top of the backroom courtyard area where it connects to the 10 West freeway (so technically the 10 East side).
That s##t made me understand hip-hop. I identify with hip hop and what was going on because I’m the first one in my family, the first generation in LA to experience this type of s##t. As an African drummer, all the songs come from some place. For me, I needed to make s##t that represented what I come from, what I was growing up in. That s##t got me involved. We were moving around, involved in different street things.
Louis King
AllHipHop: When did the music thing become real for you?
Louis King: It was real for me my whole life because I came into the world with a drum. I’ve been playing in a band. Before I could walk, I was on stage performing. It was something my family did. My dad came to America doing music, that’s how he got here. My mom managed my dad. When the fire happened, I’m like “man, I’m finna rap.” I was listening to Dre, Snoop, whatever was around at the time. This the s##t I’m going through, I had to tell my story.
In high school, we started a riot based on a song we made. This teacher came up to me like “this s##t is pretty good. If y’all actually put your energy into something positive, you can make a big impact.” Literally, everyone on the song got kicked out of school because of the song. They said they didn’t feel safe or some bulls##t. Music was always real to me. I always thought “damn, fools are really getting on.” I didn’t grow up in Nebraska or somewhere random. I grew up in LA, people are on out here. This s##t’s real. This s##t’s a dream, but this is reality. This is what my family does, and I needed to find a way out.
AllHipHop: Talk about your close relationship with Earl The Sweatshirt and working with him.
Louis King: Earl, the man! We went on tour last year. We’ve been on tour all around the world. Going to Scandinavia, went through the US and Canada Fire It Up! Tour. I tour managed for him, it was absolutely a blessing. There’s a beast in every blessing, but it was a blessing. It was a great tour. We didn’t miss any shows. We had a great time. We made some dope music on the tour.
We always joked around. We could be cousins because we have a lot of similarities, both of our fathers come from Africa. They’re both legendary musicians and artists in their own right. It’s a crazy energy when you’re looking at Americans from the African standpoint, because the idea of blackness, black people, African Americans, they look at that s##t differently. But that’s a whole other conversation. We have crazy ass talks. Earl’s an intellectual. Dope artist. Blessing to be on that tour, he even brought me on stage. I opened up the whole West Coast Fired Up! Tour for him. I got love for Earl for real.
AllHipHop: In 2018 alone, you released over 156 songs in a campaign called Beautiful Grind Collection. What’s your work ethic? What are you working towards?
Louis King: Absolutely. A couple years ago, I met E.D.I. Mean, Young Noble, and Fatal from The Outlawz. I started touring with them internationally. The vibe was there. They work so hard because they come from the Pac school. We just meshed together. With the 156 songs, my goal, my message isn’t to tell everyone to make as much music as you can, or try to oversaturate the market or none of that. Do what you do.
For me, I felt I wasn’t doing enough. A couple things here, trying to match whatever standard they got me to do, but I’m a creative creature. I do this s##t for me. I wanted to make a mural. Think of a mural on a big ass building. You’re not thinking how big the building is, you’re just like “damn, that’s art right there.” That’s what I wanted to do when I made 12 songs, through the 12 albums that all connected into each other with matching artwork. The artwork was done live each month by an artist named Vanessa Rivera who went to USC. She’d listen to the music and do the artwork. It’s really a whole, connected art experience.
There’s no record label, there’s no artist that has the data I have as far as algorithms, Spotify, Apple Music, of what happens when you release this type of music. There’s no artist in the internet era who’s released as much music as me in a year.
AllHipHop: Really?
Louis King: I don’t know, is there? [chuckles] I haven’t met anyone in the Guinness Book of World Records. We’re not doing it to try to put a bunch of music out and make that be the thing. The ordeal is not the amount, it’s the music. It’s saying “hey, this is the music I make.” I make all kinds, a lot of music got placed on TV shows, commercials, movies, and documentaries. That was the goal. To do something at all, anything, every single week of a whole year, is a crazy idea.
That attracted certain people who helped me get on tour with Earl, Anderson .Paak, all these other amazing artists. Okay, I’m supposed to be here. We’re working that hard and I’m not trying to slow down. Some people can do some s##t, they get it. It’s easy, it comes to them. But for those of ya’ll it comes hard to… I’m the type to put that energy, go to the gym, get on your Kobe s##t. I’m on that Mamba energy lately.
AllHipHop: Why’d you name your new project, De la West Los?
Louis King: In Spanish, it means “from West Los Angeles.” They call it the West Los. Ater doing this 12 super album, I wanted to put my next foot forward. Only song I really dropped last year was “In the Fire” produced by MIKE, we did that on the tour. But I wanted to do a project that really represented me, to show people who I was.
AllHipHop: Do you speak Spanish?
Louis King: Un poquito. I ain’t no D Smoke now, shouts to my n##ga D Smoke!
AllHipHop: Talk about putting real content in your lyrics.
Louis King: I wanted to make something that represented me, and real content is part of that. You know how Nas made Illmatic sound like Queensbridge? Nipsey sounds like Slauson, like Crenshaw. You feel me? I wanted to make something that sounded really West LA.
AllHipHop: What is the sound of West LA?
Louis King: That’s De la West Los. It’s in the middle right, because it’s in the hood. The Westside of LA, that’s from Crenshaw, Inglewood down to Mid-city up to Santa Monica, Venice. You’re in the hood, but you’re also in Hollywood. You’re in Beverly Hills, you’re in Santa Monica. You’re in all the areas where there wasn’t a rapper who came out to say “oh, I’m from the West.” You got a lot of n##gas from Compton.
When I hear D Smoke, he sounds Inglewood. That’s its own unique sound to show where he’s coming from. You really haven’t had a West Los Angeles rapper come out, so I wanted to produce tracks like “Silhouette” and “Shadows” — that has an EDM feel to it. Still in Hollywood, but that was dark. I wanted vocals. I want them funky, groovy joints! Them Anderson type joints. I wanted to tell stories. I wanted to tell a story with real content.
The TED Talk song, “When TedxTalk,” I’m really going to perform that at a TED talk. It’s really to exemplify emotional literacy in these two characters really needed somewhere to express their trauma. They didn’t get it, so this is the direction they went. I told that story, trying to be in the same realm as any of the great storytellers. “Brenda’s Got A Baby”-esque, all that type of stuff. Education, this is the curriculum. That’s why I made that the first track right off back after the intro. Because a lot of times people look at you with a banger on the second song, but I like giving you something real. Let them know “this the type of s##t you finna hear.”
AllHipHop: What are some goals for yourself as an artist at this point?
Louis King: I want to continue to grow and take this to another notch. Continue touring. It was really cool seeing the Anderson and Earl tour, how the stories of both of them coming up. Eventually, I’m going to be on my own world tour with my own group of artists I’m putting on. The visions I have are even bigger than music. Jay Z moves, feeling the community. Destroying the school to prison pipeline. I want to be in the schools and the prisons.
I want to create opportunities for the youth. I want to create a bridge to Africa and I’m going to say this last because we need to bring our kids to Africa, and we need to bring Africans to America. And that’s what I think is like, my goal in terms of long term. The money’s going to come, all the stuff will fall into place, but I want to make an impact at the end of my legacy.
(AllHipHop News) Kendrick Lamar will join Paul McCartney and Taylor Swift at Glastonbury if festival bosses can avoid a coronavirus cancellation.
The rapper has been added as the event’s third headliner, while Dua Lipa, the Pet Shop Boys, Suzanne Vega, Gilberto Gil, Sinead O’Connor, the Manic Street Preachers, HappyMondays, and Mabel have also been named as performers, who will join the likes of Diana Ross, Supergrass and Lana Del Rey at Worthy Farm in Somerset in June.
Announcing the updated bill for the 50th anniversary of the beloved festival, organizer Emily Eavis revealed she had her “fingers firmly crossed” the event will go ahead.
“As things stand we are still working hard to deliver our 50th anniversary festival in June and we are very proud of the bill that we have put together over the last year or so,” she said.
“No one has a crystal ball to see exactly where we will all be 15 weeks from now, but we are keeping our fingers firmly crossed that it will be here at Worthy Farm for the greatest show on Earth!”
The coronavirus outbreak has already affected several tours and festivals.
The SXSW, Coachella, Stagecoach, and Ultra Music festivals in the U.S. have been scrapped or rescheduled and the same goes for games for the NBA, MLB, NHL and the NCAA.
(AllHipHop News) Amidst the warranted hysteria that the Covid-19 virus has injected into American culture, conference after conference, event after event has been canceled.
The Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards is the most recent annual event to be either delayed or suspended due to the pandemic caused by the coronavirus.
Nickelodeon broke the news via a statement:
“The Kids’ Choice Awards scheduled for March 22, 2020, in Los Angeles is being postponed in consideration of the safety and well-being of every person involved with the show, which is our top priority. We will have further information about a new date in the future.”
The award show was scheduled to be held at the Forum in Inglewood, California and hosted by Grammy winner Chance the Rapper.
According to Deadline, the leading nominees include “Avengers: Endgame with 11,” followed by Taylor Swift with five nominations, “Frozen 2, Henry Danger” and Lil Nas X with four nods.
The cancellation of the awards show follows a list of events that have been scrapped in the past week, including E3, Coachella, SXSW, MIPTV and more.
Many companies have allowed their staffers to work from home or limited face-to-face business meetings and unnecessary travel.
(AllHipHop News) San Francisco city officials banned gatherings of more than 1,000 people due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The city’s mayor, London Breed, announced the two-week ban in a statement on Twitter on Wednesday, with bosses at the Chase Center, which was due to host the gigs, consulting with city officials and agreeing to postpone all concerts until March 21st.
Tame Impala was due to perform at the venue on Friday, with Post due to play next Thursday. A Bell Biv Devoe & Friends concert on March 21 is also affected.
Due to escalating concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, and in consultation with the City and County of SF, all events through March 21, initially, will be cancelled or postponed.
“Due to escalating concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, and in consultation with the City and County of SF, all events through March 21, initially, will be canceled or postponed,” a tweet from Chase Center chiefs reads.
The “Golden State Warriors” basketball team, who are based at the venue, were initially due to play there on Wednesday behind closed doors – but the NBA season has now been suspended after Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert tested positive for the disease.
San Francisco’s ban will also impact shows at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and the Fillmore Auditorium, with Dutch DJ San Holo already announcing his gig at the former venue is canceled.
Washington state governor Jay Inslee has also announced a similar ban on large gatherings, resulting in the cancellation of shows by NGHTMRE and Brantley Gilbert at the Tacoma Dome, near Seattle.
The governor did not specify an end date for the ban, with shows at the Dome in April from artists including; Billie Eilish, Celine Dion, and Rage Against the Machine, still scheduled to go ahead as things stand.
(AllHipHop News) The Coronavirus continues to disrupt the normalcy of life and the not-so-normal like rapper Jay Electronica. The rapper – after 13 years – releases his debut album, A Written Testimony, in the midst of a worldwide pandemic.
Advanced listening sessions set for tonight (March 12) have all been canceled after being set for New York City, Los Angeles and his hometown of New Orleans.
Tidal issued the following statement:
At TIDAL, the health and wellbeing of our employees, members, and artist-partners is our top priority. Based on the guidance of health officials and the growing impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) around the country, we’ve made the difficult decision to cancel all of tonight’s listening events for Jay Electronica’s “A Written Testimony”. We know the artist and our members were looking forward to this event; we were too, and will be listening to the album along with everyone else once available on TIDAL. Thank you to all our members for their understanding.
The album will hit streaming services tomorrow, Friday, March 13.
The rapper and complementary companies have continued to promote the album.
(AllHipHop News) Documentary after documentary has been produced delving into the deaths of many slain rappers, with Biggie and Tupac being the most popular of the batch.
Now, after only a year after his death, the BBC will take a stab at the tragic murder of Nipsey Hussle.
It will look at Eric Holder, the 29-year-old alleged gang-banger. who allegedly murdered the rapper.
It will talk also to witnesses who testified about Holder, his dispute with Nipsey Hussle in the parking lot and how the two exchanged words before the ultimate confrontation that ended his life.
“The Mysterious Murder of Nipsey” aims to detail the many theories around why Holder even needed two guns to shoot down the rapper.
The documentary will appear on the BBC iPlayer on Thursday, March 26th.
(AllHipHop News) We thought it was Tina Fey. It had to be.
That messy brunette ponytail and those librarian reader glasses that have become synonymous with her sketch of John McCain’s running mate during the 2008 presidential election, gave it away because surely this could not have been the real deal shaking her ass to Sir Mix-A-Lot.
But low and behold, it was.
The former Alaska governor and Vice-President hopeful shocked more than just AllHipHop.com when she guest-starred on the Nick Cannon hosted hilarious TV show, “The Masked Singer” on its latest episode that aired, Wednesday, March 11th.
Dressed in a furry pastel-colored bear costume, Sarah Palin rocked out to Sir Mix-Alot’s “Baby Got Back.”
Probably the most tickled about the unlikely reveal was Cannon.
“This might be the most shocked I’ve ever been on this show,” Nick Cannon said. Shockers like these must be why people watch the show.
Many on Twitter went loopy after seeing the conservative get her bop on, reminding them she is a little more gangster fresh that we could have ever imagined.
“Sarah Palin rapping ‘Baby Got Back’ on ‘The Masked Singer’ with a fade into a Trump coronavirus update is the psychedelic dystopia we’re living in now,” tweeter writer and journalist Ashley Spencer.
@oureric said, “for me that tipping point came at 8:55 Eastern time last night when a pastel-colored Lisa Frankenstein bear took off its head to reveal Sarah Palin rapping “Baby Got Back.”
for me that tipping point came at 8:55 Eastern time last night when a pastel-colored Lisa Frankenstein bear took off its head to reveal Sarah Palin rapping "Baby Got Back." https://t.co/24FSPHXu7U
@joshjackson said, “I thought it was supposed to start with an earthquake, birds and snakes and airplanes, not Sarah Palin rapping in a bear suit. R.E.M. lied to us.
I thought it was supposed to start with an earthquake, birds and snakes and airplanes, not Sarah Palin rapping in a bear suit. R.E.M. lied to us.
(AllHipHop News) Kanye West has dodged a court clash with the bosses of a Japanese fabric firm – they have dismissed a $600,000 lawsuit against the rapper.
The fabric company bosses, who worked with Kanye and his company on the production of Yeezy sneakers, claim he left them high and dry with a huge debt after placing a large order for various materials of fleece fabric in July 2018 – and not covering costs.
Toki Sen-I chiefs asked for a down payment, but they pressed on without one, convinced that Kanye would pay up.
He didn’t.
The rap star fired back, accusing the company of failing to deliver a quality product.
“Plaintiff never delivered the allegedly contracted – for product, and Yeezy Apparel allegedly did not pay the full price for that undelivered product,” his company’s countersuit read. “Despite being a basic business dispute between companies, Plaintiff needlessly inflates this case into a 4-count complaint under both tort and contract theories, baselessly including the celebrity member of Yeezy Apparel (Mr. West).”
(AllHipHop News) Megan Thee Stallion is struggling to keep up with her college studies as she juggles her work commitments as a new rap sensation.
The “Hot Girl Summer” hitmaker is in the midst of obtaining her degree in health administration at Texas Southern University, but finding the time to study while constantly on the road has proved to be tough.
“It’s really hard,” Megan admitted on U.S. show “Strahan, Sara, and Keke.”
However, the 25-year-old knows she isn’t the only working student to find herself in such a situation, and she is determined to make the extra effort to reach her graduation.
“School in general is hard,” she shared. “I know my schedule is crazy because I’m on the road all the time and I’m rapping, but it’s other women out there that are taking care of kids and working nine-to-five, graveyard shifts, so I know that a lot of people can relate to me.
“But when you’re going to school and you’re really dedicated and you really want it, you gon’ figure out a way to make the time to do it.”
Megan previously revealed she hopes to put her studies to good use and one day open her own assisted living facilities in her native Texas, and she is eager to hire her fellow classmates and others looking to break into the healthcare industry.
She said, “When you first graduate from college it’s really hard to get a job because nobody wants to hire you because you don’t have any experience, so I really want my facilities to be (staffed by) some of my classmates and other kids that are just graduating from college that need jobs. Like, this could be your first job.”
(AllHipHop News) Jewish rapper Lil Dicky used the cash gifts from his bar mitzvah to kickstart his music career.
The “Freaky Friday” hitmaker came into a lot of money when he turned 13, but his frugal parents refused to let him have the loot until he was more mature.
“Finally, when I was, like, a 23-year old I thought, ‘What am I gonna spend my money on?'” the hitmaker, real name Dave Burd, tells Good Morning America. “I actually used my bar mitzvah money to finance my rap career.
“They (parents) were pretty anti (the idea). I said, ‘What am I gonna do? When I’m 28, buy a couch with this money? Why wouldn’t I pursue my dreams?’
“I think rap was a curveball for them… that I knocked outta the park.”
The big spend paid off and now Burd is launching his own TV show, based on his life as the most unlikely rapper.
He admits a lot of the crazy things on the show, Dave, are based on his real life.
“I happen to be in the position where my life is very naturally entertaining,” he adds. “I’m a rapper and I go on tour and rap in front of thousands of people but then, at the same time, when I record, my nose is too stuffed. It’s the juxtaposition of those two worlds.”
(AllHipHop Rumors) Afrika Bambaataa is a pioneer of this thing of ours – Hip-Hop. He is on Mount Rushmore – period. But the legend had some very foul; rumors and accusations about him. Hassan Campbell is one of the many people that accused Afrika Bambaataa of molestation, along with activist Ronald Savage. Well, Hassan Campbell says, “Lets get it poppin’!”
Now, Hassan Campbell and Ronald Savage have shared experiences, but Hass had been far more vocal in a general sense of the word. Now, something set him off. He is looking to take Afrika Bambaataa to “court” and hit him up legally. Because some have said “this is snitching,” Hass has not previously gone the legal route. But, I think it seems like he is now, because he is a law-abiding citizen now.
“Now, I am going to go to court and I am going to enjoy this sh#t,” he said. “Because at the end of the day, Bam got that bag. Bam got that bag and I believe he paid Ron Savage off. And now the only threat he has to him is me. Ron is silent.” Maybe that explains some stuff. (I am watching this video and wa writing at the same time, by the way.)
He talks directly to Bam saying he wants a new car (a BMW) and some money. One thing I am clear about, if this man was white or a woman, people would care. Since he was a young Black male when he was allegedly molested, very little comes out of it. Also, his demeanor is not “weak” in the way other victims are portrayed. Notice I mentioned “portrayed,” so I am not saying they are actually weak.
Now, there is some stuff in this video where Hass appears to implicate Bam on a murder that he went to jail for. I am not sure exactly what he is talking about. But he dares Bam and his “soldiers” to come get him. I can only imagine he is talking about the Zulu Nation, which is known internationally as a positive organization. Hass does not mince his words in this video – not a bit.
This is about to get very interesting, especially if it gets to court.
(AllHipHop News) Back in February, Lil Wayne was revealed as The Robot on the season 3 premiere of The Masked Singer. Weezy was recently asked about his involvement with the popular Nick Cannon-hosted singing competition.
“I am a fan of the show. I’ve been watching since the first episode. Because of the first episode, when it came on, I knew it was T-Pain. So that made me watch every episode,” Lil Wayne told MTV.
He continued, “Because of that I told Mack [Maine], ‘Call them, let them know I’m a huge fan.’ I wanted to get Nicki [Minaj] on there. I was like, ‘Tell them I would love to get Nicki on there.’ It came back like, ‘Man, they want you on there.'”
Minaj has a history with starring on competitive reality shows from the other side of the table. She served as a judge on American Idol. The “Yikes” rapper also made guest appearances on America’s Next Top Model, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and other programs.
Lil Wayne’s “Got Money” collaborator T-Pain (as the Monster) won the first season of the American version of The Masked Singer. Actor/comedian Wayne Brady (as the Fox) was named the champion in season two. The current season has included Drew Carey, Chaka Khan, Dionne Warwick, Sarah Palin, and other celebrities.
(AllHipHop News) With the NBA suspending its season and legendary actor Tom Hanks announcing he tested positive, more people across the country are now taking the coronavirus more seriously. Hip Hop stars are no exception.
For example, Cardi B expressed her fear of COVID-19 with her 60 million Instagram followers. Emcee-turned-podcaster Joe Budden has also offered his thoughts on the growing global pandemic with an IG post.
Budden uploaded a photo of himself in a pool while holding his cellphone. The picture’s caption reads, “Just checking to make sure you good, it’s getting crazy out there… the NBA suspended all its games, the same way I should have when I was with you.. be safe, I love you.”
That quote was clearly meant to be taken as a tongue-in-cheek joke about an ex-girlfriend which is on-brand for the media personality. Budden’s most recent run on Love & Hip Hop: New York includes him having to deal with the fallout from his former relationships with castmates Cyn Santana and Tahiry Jose.
DaBaby’s attorney, Drew Findling, informedTMZ that Tyronesha is not the person seen getting hit in the viral video. Findling said multiple people contacted his law firm but the identity of the real victim has not been established.
On Saturday, DaBaby struck a woman after she apparently pushed a cellphone into his face as he walked through the crowd inside Whiskey North. Laws insisted she was not the individual with the phone and DaBaby hit her for no reason.
Findling apparently has enhanced video footage that proves Laws is lying. Tyronesha said she was standing next to the woman with the cellphone, but DaBaby’s lawyer contends the phone carrier was the actual person that got slapped.
DaBaby eventually apologized for his part in the violent encounter. After his mea culpa, the North Carolina native faced more backlash for appearing in a skit with comedian Michael Blackson that made fun of the slapping situation.
(AllHipHop News) After calling himself a “wack rapper” on Everyday Struggle, Waka Flocka Flame had his fans scratching their heads and Hip Hop purists nodding their heads. However, he did walk back that statement.
While appearing on RapUpTV with his wife, Tammy Rivera, Waka claimed his “wack rapper” comments were a form of “reverse psychology.” The “No Hands” performer also declared he is one of the greatest of all time that can handle himself on the mic when he is in his own musical lane.
“I be sitting here like, ‘Yo, Hip Hop never sounded like this before me. Who’s more influential than that? Alright, cool I’m a wack rapper, I guess.’ Let me say I’m wack just so y’all can actually hear people say, ‘No, this guy’s actually the GOAT – one of the GOATs.’ I’m not trying to say I’m the GOAT. I’m actually sitting next to them by default,” said Waka.
The What The Flockastar added, “I’m a wack rapper compared to the people I look up to. Let’s be real. If me, Nas, and KRS-One get on a track, who’s gonna have the wackest verse? I’m a realest. I’m real to myself, but if they get on an 808 beat, I’m gonna annihilate them. That’s when a wack rapper wins.”
Louis King