(AllHipHop News) Rap legend Twista has launched The Gun Camp in an effort to teach people how to shoot guns and also to teach firearm safety.
Right now, the United States is in an unprecedented time of social unrest, police brutality, protests, and and, some would argue, revolution. With gun sales going up, Twista has started this venture to teach safety to avoid tragic misuse of firearms.
“I’m proud to announce my newest venture, with everything going on in the world I felt the need to properly train and educate those on having a firearm for safety,” the Chicago rap legend said. “For a limited time, I will be training those who really want to protect their family the right way. Call me now at 224-857-0795 to join #theguncamp now!!”
The class costs $499 and customers work directly with Twista as well as Joe Joe Stagen and Creative Scott, a pair of law enforcement specialists. Amenities include lunch, a concealed carry certification, fingerprints and even a unique opportunity to hear new music by Twista.
Twista is no stranger to guns and even released a song called “War Ready” in 2019. The video for the song has an assortment of firearms on full display.
(AllHipHop Rumors) Tiger King’s Carole Baskin has a very special lane and yet she does a hard right to talk about Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Over “WAP.” But it has nothing to do with the raunchy imagery and everything about the way big cats are portrayed.
Who asked Carol Baskin to speak up about anything, much less Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion? The new video for “WAP” upset the Tiger King Star. She is not a fan of the new video. No, no pets were harmed or abuse in the making of WAP. But she fixed her mouth anyway!
“You have to pose a wildcat in front of a green screen to get that image and that doesn’t happen in the wild. It can’t happen in sanctuaries like ours where cats have plenty of room to avoid a green screen (or would shred it if offered access and could die from ingesting it). That tells me they probably dealt with one of the big cat pimps, probably even one of the ones shown in ‘Tiger King, Murder, Mayhem and Madness,’ who makes a living from beating, shocking and starving cats to make them stand on cue in front of a green screen in a studio. That’s never good for the cat.”
Take another drool, or look at the video and S###, Carole Baskins! (YES I added the “S” on the end like Joe Exotic!)
She said the impression in the video alone makes it abusive! Huh?
Even thought it looks real, Cardi was not even touching a tiger.
The real beef could be that Cardi is a Joe Exotic supporter, who is Carole Baskins mortal enemy!
Omg 😩😩😩😂😂I was just playing 🥴I do love him tho and he deff needed better representation .oooooooooooooooooo here Kitty Kitty https://t.co/cstMiCrMUb
(AllHipHop Rumors) Azealia Banks is back at it. I hope she does not kill herself. So, lets start there before I get going. But, she is back in the news again and it has nothing to do with music. She has released several disturbing messages (to some) suggesting that she is going to kill herself.
Azealia Banks, 29, suggested that she planned to end her own life sometime in the future on Instagram Saturday
Her text posts said her ‘soul is tired,’ and she vowed to finish her ongoing music first
In Disturbing audio posts from early Sunday morning, the rapper said she planned to seek out ‘voluntary euthanasia’ in a slurred message
She also revealed a friend had visited her to do a wellness check
She lambasted friends and family for ignoring her pleas for help. ‘Don’t just respond to me when I’m ready to go’
Now, here are the details.
On Instagram, she started people with some of the stuff she said like, “‘Yea, I think I’m done here. This pandemic, extreme lack of social interaction, no intimacy, combined with constant public ridicule is making life harder than its worth. I think I will end my tenure here on earth soon.”
She continued: “I’m not begging for attention or asking for sympathy/empathy……. I’m just ready to go. Peacefully of course, I will document my last times and release a film for you all to finally understand me, From my perspective. My soul is tired. I’m ready to go.”
I hope she gets the help she needs. Not sure why she would make these proclamations if this is not a play for attention. Anyway, she is definitely in need of help and has for a long time. Go get ya fam!
She claims she is going to finish these projects before doing anything rash.
“I will try my best to finish the projects I promised I would beforehand. With whatever strength Is left,” she wrote. “Please don’t bombard me with messages. I am not in pain. I am at peace.”
(AllHipHop News) Kanye West is facing an uphill battle in Wisconsin in his bid to become President of the United States.
Democrats in the state are challenging the validity of thousands of signatures Kanye’s team submitted in his attempt to get on the ballot with President Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
The Democratic Party in Wisconsin lodged a complaint claiming West’s paperwork contained fake signatures like “Bernie Sanders” and “Mickey Mouse.”
Kanye’s team may have also committed a few felony crimes by tricking people into giving up their signatures by using a register-to-vote scam to get signatures that the rapper’s team supposedly used to get him on the ballot.
The rap star submitted over 2,400 signatures, but the Democrats are also challenging the legitimacy of those as well.
Six individuals claim they had no clue their names would be used to support Kanye’s bid for President.
One woman claimed she was hoodwinked outside of a Walmart, where a circulator asked her to sign her name to confirm she was registered to vote.
‘If I had known that, I wouldn’t have signed the papers, absolutely not. Kanye West would not get my vote and I think it is a joke that he is running for president,’ the woman said in an affidavit.
Another woman claimed she signed a document out of sympathy because the man was being paid $1 for every signature he collected.
The Democrats are terrified Kanye West’s presence on the ballot will move crucial votes away from Joe Biden and give President Trump an easy win in a pivotal state.
(AllHipHop News) The highly-anticipated opening of The Universal Hip Hop Museum has been delayed thanks to the pandemic.
Construction on a new $65 million development at the Point in the South Bronx which houses the museum was supposed to start in July.
Plans to build the development, which will feature the Universal Hip Hop Museum as a centerpiece, have been pushed back to the Fall.
Universal Hip Hop Museum founder Rocky Bucano said the extra time has allowed him to rethink his approach to the museum due to the outbreak, and resurgences of the coronavirus.
“We are building a museum that will be pandemic-proof, because now, we are incorporating everything that’s the new normal—social distancing, how to position exhibits, how many exhibits should be in a space, what kind of exhibits,” Rocky Bucano told NY1.
The museum is also taking additional precautions to protect the hundreds of thousands of patrons expected to visit the site each year.
The Universal Hip Hop Museum has formed a new partnership with a technology company that will provide PPE like digital scanners which can detect if a visitor has the coronavirus.
A groundbreaking ceremony is slated for this October, while the museum will not open until 2024.
(AllHipHop News) It looks like Nick Cannon is going against the collective grain, stating that Kanye West is his pick for president in 2020.
The one time host of Wild ‘N Out seemed to give Kanye West his ringing endorsement in an interview with TMZ. The mogul laughed when he made the remark, but media outlets have taken hold of the statement as backing the presidential aspirant. “I love it,” Cannon said. “We need another Black man [as president].”
The interviewer pressed Cannon, stating that a vote for Kanye was essentially a vote for Donald Trump. “You never know, man. Stranger things have happened in 2020,” Cannon said. In the past, Nick Cannon has stated rather emphatically that he does not believe in voting at all.
In related news, Kanye West has been removed from the Illinois presidential ballot for invalid signatures, according to reports. Officials discovered that 1900 of the 3128 signatures he submitted were completely invalid. The rapper was then short 2500 signatures needed to be on the presidential ballot. They did not state how those signatures were invalid but simply regarded them as not eligible in Illinois. The Rapper allegedly paid $30,000 to be on the ballot.
(AllHipHop News) FBG Duck wants any justice for her son to be delivered in the courtroom and she is begging his fans, friends, and affiliates not to go to the streets to avenge his death.
The Chicago rapper, whose real name is Carlton Weekly, was gunned down on Tuesday, August 4th in front of a high-end boutique in the brazen shooting.
Authorities believe FBG Duck was killed after he released a video that seemingly criticized a dead rival gang member.
His mother, LaSheena Weekly said in a press conference, “I am asking that his fans, friends of my son to please not seek retaliation.”
She is not alone with her concern – so are the police.
“We’re putting extra resources in the areas where we think there might be retaliation just as a precautionary measure,” said Deputy Chief Daniel O’Shea who warned the gangs were rolling with high-caliber, automatic weapons.
The weekend is of particular concern for many on the force. Despite an uptick in coronavirus infections, Chi-town is notorious for summer hangouts that end in deadly violence.
Tragically his brother FBG Brick (also a rapper) was murdered three years ago after he was shot in his driveway, right in front of their home.
Both Brick and Duck were allegedly a part of the Fly Boy Gang, a subset of the Windy City’s Gangster Disciples.
The Grime rapper was reported to the Metropolitan Police and banned from major social media sites and YouTube after embarking on an antisemitic Twitter rant last month.
Activists from the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) raised the matter of his MBE with government officials who have confirmed they have the MBE under review.
The letter states that their Honors Forfeiture Committee is “aware of the issues” raised about Wiley, real name Richard Kylea Cowie Jr., and will update on progress in the case at a later date.
In a statement, a spokesperson said: “We are pleased that the Cabinet Office has confirmed that a case in respect of forfeiting Wiley’s MBE has been opened, and shall continue to monitor progress. For now, we are urging the public to support our petition calling for racists to be stripped of their honors automatically.”
The 41-year-old’s tweets included ones stating Jews “make me sick,” repeating the trope of Jewish people controlling businesses and comparing this to the Ku Klux Klan, as well as insisting Israel should not be a Jewish state.
“My comments should not have been directed to all Jews or Jewish people,” he said. “I want to apologize for generalizing, and I want to apologize for comments that were looked at as antisemitic.”
(AllHipHop News) Kanye West can forget about ruining Joe Biden’s chance to win Illinois.
Fans of the Chicago rapper will not be able to vote for him in the state, where more than half of the signatures he needed to get on the ballot were tossed.
He ended up getting 3,128 signatures, which was well over the 2,500 he needed to get on the ballot to run for President.
The only problem is, the board of elections reviewed the signatures, and 1,928 of them have been ruled invalid.
The issues with the signatures have tanked Kanye’s hopes of winning his home state of Illinois.
The rapper is also waiting to have his signatures verified by the board of elections in Wisconsin, where he also garnered more than 2,500 signatures needed to be considered.
16-year-old DCG Shun, 17-year-old DCG Bsavv, and 22-year-old DCG Msavv are the new hottest rappers to come out of Chicago. Growing up on the Westside of the Chi, the 3 youngin’s rap about real life experiences and the reality of life coming up in the trenches. Each individual adds their own personality and style of rapping, coming together to create nothing less short of bangers.
DCG used to stand for Durk City Generals, after one of their cousins who passed away. While they’ll never shy away from their roots and where they come from, they decided to change their name for the positive in hopes of influencing the masses.
Their biggest song to date is “OK,” which currently hails over 1.2 million views on Youtube and counting within just a few months. The record actually began while Shun was in prison, finishing the rest while he was fresh out. Having his run-ins in the law has given him the motivation and drive to commit to music full-time.
Bsavv is a father too a beautiful 2-year-old, while Msavv remembers being shot twice as a kid. All three are influenced by the likes of Lil Wayne, Drake, Lil Uzi, Gucci Mane, and fellow Chicago native G Herbo. They collectively state, “nobody’s f##king with us.”
AllHipHop caught up with Shun, Bsavv, and Msavv in downtown Los Angeles to discuss how they came together, gaining a presence, new music, and more!
AllHipHop: How did all 3 of you come together?
DCG Bsavv: We’ve been together, we grew up around each other. We really came together through our manager, that’s how we came together through music. Started to do business together.
DCG Shun: We all from the same area, all been knowing each other. We from the same hood, same block. We’ve been knowing each other forever, growing up with each other, childhood friends. We came together doing music through our manager, who also grew up with us in the same area and hood. He brought us together because he knew we all rap. Since then, it’s been history.
AllHipHop: That’s crazy you guys have been rapping for less than a year. When did you realize you could do this?
DCG MSavv: I’ve been rapping before them. They had started rapping after I started rapping, a year, maybe 2 years before them. All we did was be in tune with each other. They’ll make a song, then they’ll stop. At one point, we’re like alright, we gotta take it serious. Our manager stayed on us, pushed us. That’s how we all connected.
AllHipHop: Being from the West side of Chicago, what was the household like growing up?
DCG Bsavv: It was typical, like for every other Chicago kid. We gotta see the same thing: people doing drugs, killing, etc. Some people grow up, they gangbang. Some people grow up, they stick to positives. Same thing everywhere else, people trying to make it out.
DCG Shun: Man, where we grew up is not normal. It’s not normal. It’s non typical, because all kids don’t see the things we see. Majority of kids have probably never went through what we have went through as kids, seeing different things you never shoulda seen ever as a kid in life. That’s what we got going on in our city, we adapted to it.
DCG Msavv: It’s hard in our city because it’s so much violence, hate, jealousy. It’s rare to see what we’re doing, it’s different. That’s why it’s catching everybody’s eye, the fact they’re so young makes it even better.
AllHipHop: Were you rapping on your own before you tapped in with them?
DCG Msavv: It was going aight. I was making stuff, I get better at it every year. The way they rap and the way I rap is actually 2 different ways. The way they rap, they actually they motivate me. I be trying to keep up with them, but it’s cool working together.
DCG Bsavv: He can do a lot of styles, we can’t. We try to keep up with him on a lot of styles, but he tries to keep up with us on certain styles too. On certain beats, we keep up with each other.
DCG Shun: He [Msavv] got an older flow, he got more experience than us. When we try to keep up with each other, it’s not bad. We be teaching each other more as we’re in the studio. The way we rap, he started to adapt to it quick. The way he rap, we’re starting to adapt to it because we work together a lot. We always go to the studio, everything we do is together. Everything’s starting to fall into place.
DCG Msavv: We got a lot of unreleased coming up.
AllHipHop: “OK” is at over a million views, did you think it would go up like this?
DCG Shun: Nah, I wrote that in jail. I wrote half of it in jail, got out and freestyled the other half. I definitely wrote that track in jail, it was my last weekend. “I know I’m finna go home, I need a song.” I had wrote it so quick, I wrote it in 15 minutes, just thinking. I was rapping to my COs, they’re like “that’s hard.” I’ma drop this when I get out, my first video. I got out and threw my older brother on it, we went crazy. We turnt up. It got 40K, 50K views in a day, but that’s normal now. I never got 50K views in a day. Organic, I just put it out. I made it at home on house arrest. 3 days later, I shot the video.
DCG Bsavv: We ended up dropping the video 8 days later.
DCG Shun: In a week, it did 200K. That’s major, I feel blessed. I feel like I’m chosen, this is destiny.
DCG Bsavv: Humbled.
DCG Shun: I’m real humble so I’ma get everything I deserve.
AllHipHop: Are you still in school?
DCG Shun: Of course. I’m still in school, I’m 16 years old. I’m a junior.
DCG Msavv: I finished school actually, but I had to go back. I want to tell people it doesn’t matter how long it takes, you should always go back and try to do that.
DCG Bsavv: I’m currently not in school, but I’m finna go back in school. I’m a father, I gotta focus on more important things. I’m smart too. I became a father, I had a baby when I was 15.
DCG Msavv: They grew up fast.
AllHipHop: Bsavv, how’s fatherhood treating you?
DCG Bsavv: That s##t’s fun. It’s irritating, but it’s alright.
DCG Shun: When you’re young in Chicago, you gotta own up to those things like a man.
AllHipHop: At 15, you’re still navigating your own life.
DCG Bsavv: Now I’m navigating another one. Kids are very expensive, my son gets whatever. My first time having a kid, I went to go buy the milk and food, that s##t’s $30 dollars bro. I gotta spend money on weed too, that s##t’s crazy. I love him like I love weed. I love him more though.
“Patching Opps” is a bop, bring us back to that recording session.
DCG Shun: They made that when I was locked up. On God I heard it, I had to go crazy. As soon as I got out, I laid the verse. Y’all went crazy though, we shot the video on Father’s Day.
AllHipHop: How’s the independent grind?
DCG Shun: We’ve been going crazy independent. We’ve been good, you don’t see too many people doing this good independent. Not even a year, we’ve been out for 9 months.
DCG Bsavv: You don’t see people doing this good with labels. Sometimes you gotta pop your s##t, I pop my s##t.
DCG Msavv: We really trying to make what we’re doing bigger than what it is, eventually have our own label.
DCG Shun: That’s coming. We got our own clothing line coming out. My older brother, he’s 22. He got his own weed strain coming out, finna go so crazy.
AllHipHop: Shun, how long were you locked up for?
DCG Shun: I was locked up for damn near 3 months, then I got out on house arrest for another 3 months. The biggest lesson I learned was stop the violence, stop killing each other. We’re really making no luck doing that s##t.
DCG Bsavv: If you got hurt a motherf##ker, you hurt a motherf##ker. People play with people too much. I understand you get fed up, you break loose. All hell breaks loose, you gotta handle your business.
AllHipHop: Msavv, you’ve been shot twice. How’d you overcome that?
DCG Msavv: I got shot on the side of my leg, but it came out my Achilles. I was running, so it slipped out at the bottom. Then I got shot up here, on my thigh. I got shot twice. I won’t really say I overcame it because that s##t gave me PTSD. Because it happened from behind me, so I didn’t see it coming. That s##t f##ked me up. I got shot when I was 17, turning 18. It made me stronger and stay on point more. It made me smarter.
DCG Shun: We got a crazy video coming, we’re finna shoot in Cali. You can expect big features, a tape. Hottest everything, you can expect Platinum f##king record. We got everything going crazy, we’ve been working hard. A lot of new movies.
AllHipHop: Anything else you want to let us know?
DCG Msavv: We f##k with a lot of rappers from our area, we grew up with them. The Heavy Steppers, Pronto, we f##k with all the Chicago rappers. There’s no support like your city’s support. I listen to a lot of Chicago rappers like Herb, Durk, Polo G. Herb’s our boy.
DCG Bsavv: DCG taking over.
DCG Shun: We’re the hottest artists coming out of Chicago.
(AllHipHop News) There are two words associated with Tekashi 6ix9ine: delusional or brave.
Recently, the Brooklyn rapper has taken to the streets of New York to let the world know that he is “OUTSIDE.”
Tekashi 6ix9ine recently posted a video where he is all over Brooklyn, with minimal security, enjoying life.
The clip alarmed his supporters since it has been rumored that he is a wanted man after cooperating with law enforcement to bring down several members of the Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods.
As a result of 6ix9ine’s cooperation, the top leaders of the gang, including his one-time manager, Kifano “Shotti” Jordan, are serving lengthy prison sentences.
6ix9ine’s received two years in the clink, but he was credited with time served as he awaited trial. He was also granted an early stay-at-home release due to the coronavirus.
In the 6ix9ine is on the train taking pictures, all smiles, and chuckles. Obnoxiously, he also eats in restaurants (rarely rocking a mask) and reports say he has even been kicking it in Central Park.
That rumor is believable since he took a picture next to a rat across from New York’s largest urban park.
Perhaps, he is not crazy or delusional but just like many of us, has gone a little stir crazy from COVID-19 due to cabin fever.
(AllHipHop News) Megan Thee Stallion has vowed to move on and not “stay down” after she was hospitalized following a shooting at a party in the Hollywood Hills last month.
Reports suggested Megan was barefoot when she was shot and took off in a vehicle with fellow rapper Tory Lanez, who was later arrested for carrying a concealed weapon.
In a new interview with Variety, Megan did not directly address the shooting but said: “I’m not the type of person who can stay down for a long time. I don’t like to be sad or keep myself in a dark place because I know it could be the worst thing happening, but the pain and the bad things don’t last for long.”
After revealing to fans what had happened in an Instagram video the star also slammed those who had joked or spread rumors about the terrifying incident online.
“It was nothing for y’all to start going and making up fake stories about,” she raged. “I didn’t put my hands on nobody. I didn’t deserve to get shot. I didn’t do s##t, and thank God that the bullets didn’t touch bones.”
In her chat with Variety, the star revealed she has discovered there are downsides to fame – as she attracts negative as well as positive attention.
“The only thing I don’t like about having all eyes on you at all times is not all eyes are good eyes,” Megan added. “I still want to be able to walk into Walmart and buy dog food. I still want to party in the club and nobody’s recording me and no super-judgey internet police are going, ‘Shame!’ But all that comes with it, and you have to be prepared for people to be in your business, 24/7.”
(AllHipHop News) Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Benny Boom teamed up with students to create a movie that is already garnering critical acclaim.
His new film, co-executively produced with Philadelphia’s own Benny Boom, has been selected to have a screening at this year’s American Black Film Festival (ABFF), slated to take place from August 21st thru August 30th.
The film, titled “Tazmanian Devil,” is certainly not low hanging fruit about the hood and will push fans to see the Cash Money head honcho in a different light.
“Tazmanian Devil,” it is a coming of age story about a 19-year-old young man, who finds himself not only dealing with the cross-cultural dynamics of being a native Nigerian who has been plucked up to live with his father in the city for his college years.
The character balances pledging a Black Greek Letter fraternity against his dad’s own strict Christian values and vocation to find his own definition of manhood.
He also deals with issues of abandonment and loyalty as the film has the young man reconcile his father leaving him and his mother in Africa to come to the States to make his own way.
A fascinating project, the duo — Baby and Boom — agreed to work with The Nate Parker Film and Theatre conservatory department at Wiley College, one of Texas’ nine Historically Black College and Universities.
Students worked on the production, thanks to the partnership, affording them hands-on film experience and academic credit.
The film was directed and written, Solomon Onita, Jr.
And while Onita is impressive, his cast also is powerful: Independent Spirit Award-winning actor Abraham Attah (“Beasts of No Nation” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming”), Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine (“The Chi,” “Queen of Katwe” and “Treme”), Adepero Oduye (“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier,” “Central Park Five,” “12 Years a Slave” and “Pariah”) and Kwesi Boakye (“Claws,” “Flight and The Amazing World of Gumball”).