(AllHipHop News) Ricardo “6lack” Valentine, Jr. celebrated his 28th birthday on June 24. Two days later, the Atlanta-based performer let loose a new 6-track extended play project titled 6pc Hot EP.
The opening record “ATL Freestyle” hit DSPs earlier his year. 6lack recruited Lil Baby for a guest feature on the song “Know My Rights.” 6pc Hot EP includes production by Timbaland, Fwdslxsh, Gravez, Singawd, and more.
Over the last four years, 6lack has released the studio LPs Free 6lack in 2016 and East Atlanta Love Letter in 2018. He appeared on records with J. Cole, Offset, Khalid, Ty Dolla $ign, Normani, EarthGang, J.I.D, and other acts.
In addition to 6pc Hot EP dropping, 6lack also announced a partnership with Postmates and the Goodfellas restaurant in Atlanta. Customers will receive a free bottle of the singer’s 600 Degrees hot sauce when ordering a “6pc hot” meal from the black-owned business.
6lack on black business ✊🏾 starting tomorrow through the weekend, you can order a “6pc hot” meal from atlanta’s black owned Goodfellas and recieve a free bottle of my @600_degrees hot sauce with your order. special thanks to @Postmates🍗🔥 pic.twitter.com/KlmiJaKrwm
(AllHipHop Rumors) Now you know I have spoken my piece on Tekashi69 quite a bit on these pages and I will continue to do so as long as I have a career. And the truth is, I really don’t have a problem with the guy because he is just symptomatic of the bigger issue that we face here in America. However, if you were going to get yourself into some sort of a mess then you have to take the liberty to also deal with the consequences as a man. If you are going to deal with gangsters and other such folks out there, then you contend with the consequences of dealing with those types of people.
That said, Tekashi69 may have to deal with the return of Shotti. Now we know now that Shotti is the guy that allegedly was running the Trey-9 Bloods in Brooklyn. He has not wavered in any way shape or form from his gangsta. He is MR. WE DON’T BREAK WE DON’T BEND WE DON’T FOLD!
He has maintained all of that street credibility that he had before going to jail. In our recent post on his social media it seems like he may be coming home soon. Now what is soon to me and you may not be soon to him. I know that Gio house cats think 1 to 3 years is short time. But to me that is a long time. To some of these guys anything less than football numbers is a short period of time. So look at this post and tell me what you think. Is Shanti coming home soon or is he just going to do a few years?
(AllHipHop News) Feds have denied Michael “Harry-O” Harris, one of the deep pockets that start Death Row Records, his request for an early release from the Federal Correctional Institution Lompoc.
Harry-O is slated to be released in 2028 after being paroled from his life term, but still, with the recent global COVID-19 pandemic, he had hoped to get a compassionate release based on his age and the fact that he contracted the virus while in prison.
Harris was knocked for running a multi-million cocaine drug ring in the 80s as a King Pin.
And that is what U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. kept in the front of mind when deciding his fate. At 87, Judge Hatter is not phased.
“Harris failed to set forth an extraordinary and compelling reason to warrant a sentence reduction,” Hatter wrote. The judge also believed that the gravity of his actual crimes were so heavy that his condition has to be more grave- like experiencing serious mental or physical deterioration.
Harry-O who has been locked up over almost 40 years and has changed his life.
“I will always wear the internal shame of hurting others for my own personal gain and greed,” Harry-O shared in a letter to Hatter’s court. “So I say, there is no punishment on earth that can match or equal the pain I have caused throughout my years of drug piffling and I pray to our creator to forgive me for helping to bring harm to his precious creations.”
Reports say that he worked in and outside of the walls of the institution to stop violence.
Still, that does not seem like enough for the judge.
(AllHipHop News) Mathew Knowles, father of singers Beyonce and Solange, wants to “save lives, especially in the black community” by opening up on his battle with breast cancer.
The entertainment mogul and former manager of Destiny’s Child went public with his diagnosis on the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month last October and, after undergoing a mastectomy, is now free of the disease.
Speaking to People, Mathew shared he started working with Invitae, a genetic testing company, at the start of this year to encourage everyone to get tested, insisting: “If you’re ahead of the curve, then your outcome will be, most of the time, great… I’m a living example.”
While the company tests men and women, it’s male breast cancer he’s passionate about raising awareness of. While men make up just a tiny portion of the breast cancer diagnoses each year, they die at a disproportionately higher rate than women – in part because their cancer is often found later.
The former medical sales executive also wants to raise awareness of the BRCA2 mutation, admitting that, “All those years I’ve been in diagnostic imaging, I had never heard the word BRCA before.”
“A whole lot has to change in the education of men about breast cancer,” he insisted, adding that black men are diagnosed with breast cancer at a 52% higher rate than white men.
“I want to save lives, especially in the Black community,” Mathew said.
(AllHipHop News) Doja Cat has insisted she’s “here to stay” following allegations she made racist remarks in the past.
The “Say So” hitmaker was previously the victim of a social media campaign to have her “canceled”, with the hashtag #DojaCatIsOverParty trending on Twitter.
While she denied ever making the remarks and insisted she’s “sorry to everyone that I offended”, after footage of a Tinychat video, which appeared to show her featuring in an alt-right group, emerged online last month, fans once again brought up the controversy during an Instagram Live chat this week.
As viewers began writing “we ain’t forget,” alluding to allegations of racist comments she’d previously made, in the comments section, she fired: “B**ch, all the people saying ‘we ain’t forget.’ B##ch, good. Don’t forget.
“‘Cause that’s my plan, is for you not to forget motherf##ker. I’m here to stay. I’ll make sure you remember,” she said to the camera during her stream, before going back to dancing to music.
The star has since made it clear her career is her main priority, and this week released the new single Unisex Freestyle on Soundcloud, and also shared a preview of the music video for her official new single, Like That, which is out Friday.
(AllHipHop News) Grime star Stormzy wore his sister’s clothes growing up, as his family “didn’t have a lot of money at all.”
The “Vossi Bop” star opened up on his humble beginnings while speaking at a local youth club, reported Britain’s The Sun newspaper, where he admitted his “working-class background” taught him to be thrifty.
“I grew up in Norbury (in south-west London), that was my stomping ground, in a house of five of us, my mom, my two big sisters, my little brother and I grew up and we didn’t have a lot of money at all,” he shared. “I used to take all my sister’s clothes. Lucky for me my big sister was a tomboy. So lucky for me I could go and take her clothes.
“New trainers were never a thing for me. School trips were a myth. My mom was working two to three jobs at a time. She was a cleaner, dinner lady, so we didn’t have much growing up at all.”
Despite the financial hardship, the “Own It” hitmaker insisted he didn’t go without, adding: “We didn’t have anything growing up, to be fair. But what we did have was love.”
The star went on to slam the “lie” that people’s economic background doesn’t affect their opportunities, insisting: “People coming from where we come from, the estates, the ends, the hoods, wherever, it’s tougher for us.
“Me becoming who I’ve become, I should never neglect the fact that it’s more difficult,” he vowed. “So whatever I can do to level the playing field, I feel like I’m obliged to do it.
“I’m not some Nobel Peace Prize winner. I’m just doing what I should genuinely do.”
SauxePaxk TB is the world’s youngest pimp, literally. 16 years old out of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the young legend is on his way to becoming a household name. In an oversaturated music industry, it’s hard to stand out. SauxePaxk arrives with an explosive personality, endless energy, a crazy work ethic, exclusive drip, and unwavering passion.
Under management with E Sudd (2 Chainz’ official DJ), SauxePaxk is ready to take over.
Immediately off the rip, he introduces himself: “SauxePaxk TB, the youngest biggest P in the W-O-R-L-D. That’s me, AKA Mr. Irresistible. AKA Mr. Pink P##sy Pimpin’. AKA Mr. Take Your B##ch, Break Your B##ch, Make Your b##ch Pay For S##t. Don’t play with me mayne. 16-years-old, I’m doing everything. We’re lit and we’re everywhere.”
If you’re on TikTok, you may have seen the “Ballin” challenge going up — a record he did with “Big Salute.” Most recently, Sauxe released the official music video to “Quarantine,” speaking volumes to these sunken times.
AllHipHop caught up with Sauxe Pxck TB in downtown Los Angeles to discuss how he got his name, how he got into music, going viral with “Ballin,” upcoming music, and more!
AllHipHop: What does it mean to be the youngest pimp in the world?
Sauxe Paxk TB: That means I’m pimpin’ your girl. We’re dripping in all the diamonds and pearls, we’re putting nuts in mouths like squirrels. That’s what’s going on exactly. We’re not even trapping anymore, we’re getting paid of p##sy. Everything I got on me smells like a b##ch, because some p##sy came from it. You feel me?
AllHipHop: How’d you get your name and why the X’s?
Sauxe Paxk TB: The X’s go where the C’s go because my big brother is a Piru. He’s a Tree Top Piru, I grew up around Bloods. I got a few Crip homeboys too, but I don’t gangbang myself. Another thing is my big brothers taught me how to rap. I was 4 or 5 years old around them in the cypher, while they had to babysit me. I dedicated the majority of the things I do or accomplish from the raps to my big brothers, he’s in prison right now. SauxePaxk with the X’s! SauxePaxk came from me not knowing what I wanted my rap name to be, because I already had songs recorded but never dropped them. Never made a name or none of that.
AllHipHop: What’s the TB for?
Sauxe Paxk TB: TB stands for my real name: Tobias. That’s what I’ve been called my whole life. People started calling me SauxePaxk when I popped out, so that name stuck. Motherf##kers don’t even call me TB no more.
Sauxe Paxk TB: You could say that. I was highly inspired by him, heavily inspired by him when I was younger. Now that I’m on the scene and in the mix. I’m finding my own lane. I used to look up to Sauce Walka, but I had to find my own lane.
AllHipHop: They’re out of Texas, how did you tap into him?
Sauxe Paxk TB: I actually went to Texas and tapped in. I had to tap in with the sauce drippers because I’m talking about SauxePaxk, sauce dripping. Everybody always talking about sauce but don’t pay homage. They’re the first people I really got the drip from, me and my big brothers. Me and my big cousins, my people. Big shout out to Sauce Walka for that drip.
AllHipHop: What do your brother think of the music?
Sauxe Paxk TB: They lit, they love it. They know what’s going on. I’m putting big money on my brother’s books. Me and my brother who’s out, my oldest brother BoofGod, we’re staying at hotel rooms. Having producers and engineers come to the room, locking in. We’re getting neck while we’re recording, literally. We’re living like that, we lit. [laughs] I love my brothers, those my guardian angels. They keep my head on a swivel.
AllHipHop: Being from Winston, Salem North Carolina, what was the household like growing up?
Sauxe Paxk TB: It wasn’t nothing too exclusive. It was really boring. Now that I travel, it’s hella s##t that I’ve never seen. Never thought I would see. Damn, what the hell? Winston’s nothing compared to this s##t, but I love my city though. I get big love from my city. Especially doing this music, I got the whole Winston on my back. They f##king with the kid heavy. Shout out to Winston-Salem. Shout out to 336. Shout out the whole North Carolina. No lie, our music scene is actually hard as f##k. We got a superstar/all-star lineup, on gang. Underground artists, they’re going to be on your radar pretty soon.
AllHipHop: DaBaby is from North Carolina.
Sauxe Paxk TB: Yeah DaBaby’s from Charlotte, an hour and 40 minutes away. Winston’s not that far from Charlotte. We’re like neighbors. Shout out Charlotte, the 704. Take a hoe, break hoe, go make some doe, go make some mo’.
AllHipHop: When did you realize you could do music for a living?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Ever since I was 5, freestyling with my brothers. When they weren’t around, I’d f##k around and be rapping to my self in the mirror or the shower. I’m acting like I got 10,000 people in the crowd, when it’s really me by myself. I’m with that s##t. I’ve been growing up thinking I’m a superstar artist. I didn’t ever have no name though, I was TB or Tobias. But nah, I’m not finna have my name as my rap name so I came up with Sauxe Paxk. People around the city started calling me Sauxe Paxk instead of TB, I’m like “what the f##k? Okay okay.” Now, everybody all over the world is screaming SauxePaxk. We turnt up.
AllHipHop: You got a lot of s##t out for 16 years old.
Sauxe Paxk TB: Hell yeah, I’m working. I love this music s##t. I shoot at least 3 videos a month, if not more.
AllHipHop: What would say are the craziest records you have?
Sauxe Paxk TB: The ones getting the most attention are “Finaygo” and “Ballin”, it’s a feature with this dude Big Salute. He’s from Albemarle, an artist from North Carolina as well. He dropped a bag on a feature, I blessed him with the drip. Bro came in hard, they’re loving it. Tommy Craze did a review on it, big shout out to Tommy. I didn’t even know he did a review, I had people sending it to me. “What the hell’s going on?” We had dropped it not even a whole 24 hours ago, so it only had 600 something views. Then I go look at bro’s video, it’s going up by the thousands. K’s on K’s on K’s! The TikTok off “Ballin'” is going crazy as well. They’re loving that s##t on TikTok.
AllHipHop: How’s it feel to have it going up on TikTok?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Man, that s##t is lit! I’m mad I don’t know how to work it. People younger than me knowing how to work it, I’m not even that old. Yo, what the hell’s going on? I’m not really hip, I have to get back hip.
AllHipHop: How’d it feel to have Lebron’s son dancing to your song?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Lebron’s son, that’s a big blessing. Major blessing, shout out Bronny. No lie, my brother f##ks with that more than me because he’s an athlete head. I didn’t really grow up watching sports. I know nothing about sports, basketball or football. That’s hard though, he’s a beast on the court.
AllHipHop: Talk about recording “Quarantine” during quarantine.
Sauxe Paxk TB: We’re recording during quarantine, the gang got tired of being at home. I’ve been social distancing like hell but I haven’t really been on quarantine during this epidemic s##t. I’ve still been out working. I’ve been masked up and sanitized like hell. Staying out the way but still in the mix. You have to stay active, you can’t not be active for not one second. Gotta turn up.
AllHipHop: Best memory from the video shoot?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Having the whole gang out there, having everybody come together even with all the circumstances going on. They definitely popped out. They showed up and showed out. Good vibes, we had fans walking up and down the street. We’re at some place on the south side of my city in Winston, out in the open. People were outside and they seen me, “you look like SauxePaxk!” I’m like “damn, I look like him forreal?” That’s me gang. They lit though, they f##k with me. They’re getting in the videos, that video was lit. That video was turnt.
AllHipHop: You’re only 16, are you able to still be a kid?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Right now, I’m not in school. I got pulled out of school, so it wouldn’t be I dropped out of school. I always skipped school to try to go to the studio or go get some p##sy, so my attendance was ugly as hell. If I woulda kept missing days at school, my mom probably coulda went to jail. She doesn’t condone that s##t, she’s not the type of mom that’ll let me not go to school. She’s on my ass about school, but I always do what the f##k I want to do. She pulled me out, then the music s##t actually started making sense. I started getting paid from it, so I’m on the road more than I’m in the city anyways.
AllHipHop: Paid from shows?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Yeah! Shows, features, appearances, we’re lit! I’m loving this s##t, it’s really a dream come true. I don’t even know how to express it. Now that I’m doing it, I’m used to it. At first, everything — this interview, I woulda been cheesing like hell. I know how to handle it now. I had to train myself how to be an artist and a public figure.
AllHipHop: You trained yourself, nobody taught you?
Sauxe Paxk TB: I got big lessons from my manager, DJ E Sudd. I got a whole lot of celebrity homies, they drop a few jewels on me every here and there. I learn a lot. At the same time, I definitely had to train myself. I had to think to myself like “bro don’t do that, that’s corny. Bro don’t act like this in front of them,” because they’re really looking at you. They look up to you so you have to watch what you say. I really have to do that because my mouth. A motherf##ker will ask, “do you kiss your mother with that mouth?” Nah, I don’t kiss ma dukes with this mouth man. I get a little hectic from time to time so I have to tell myself “bro, calm down.”
AllHipHop: What’s it like to have so many people believe in you from such an early age?
Sauxe Paxk TB: It’s beautiful, I repost everybody that tags me in social media. I make sure if I see it, I repost it. I appreciate it. Those little reposts, those little videos, those little pictures, people using my lyrics as their captions, all that s##t matters. I highly appreciate that because I grew up wanting that s##t. Now that I’m getting it, you can’t reject it.
Sauxe Paxk TB: I don’t even like calling them fans because I got real die-hard fans, but I call them my supporters. Now that I have supporters, it makes this s##t a lot easier. Promotion-wise, all that. I self-promote a lot. I’m not signed to a major label right now. I’m big independent, but I got labels banging the jack back to back. I’m waiting for them to up their price on that bag because this is a billion dollar pimp that they ain’t never had.
AllHipHop: So you’re open to signing? A lot of artists have been looking to stay independent.
Sauxe Paxk TB: Yeah, I’m not with that. That’s that 1997 s##t, 1980 s##t. I’m ready to go major. I got record labels on my ass, but I’m waiting to hear the right s##t.
AllHipHop: Money-wise?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Period. I’m making sure I make the right decision, make sure I’m not too thirsty for nothing. You can’t be money thirsty. You f##k around and make this decision, if you would have waited, you could have had a bigger opportunity. Most definitely not waiting too long on nothing either though, because this s##t’s going on right now.
AllHipHop: Do you feel like your life is going to change when you find that major situation?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Not tremendously, but definitely. I already treat this s##t like I’m signed to something, I make sure I stay looking like somebody. The love I get from the music is crazy. They going crazy! Motherf##kers want me to sign their t###### type s##t. People’s mamas, motherf##kers triple my age. We lit like that.
AllHipHop: Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Sauxe Paxk TB: In 10 years, I see myself in my mansion kicked back, with probably about 2 mini-me’s. You feel me, teaching them the ropes.
AllHipHop: You want kids already!?
Sauxe Paxk TB: I don’t want kids, but I know I be f##king.
AllHipHop: Yo, you better wrap that s##t up!
Sauxe Paxk TB: You know I wrap up mayne! Have to wrap up. Because this time of age man, long live Eazy-E but I can’t go out like the homie. I f##k with Eazy-E hard.
AllHipHop: What you know about the West Coast!?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Bruh, what? My big brother is a real trojan, a real Tree Top Piru. I grew up on the westside of my city, but f##k that right now. It’s big westside business going on, the westside the best side. Now that I’m really out here in Cali, I’m at home. This really my first time out here.
AllHipHop: Who’s in your Top 5?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Definitely Sauce Walka, Future, Chief Keef off the rip. Now I have use my other 2 wisely. I’d give it to Uzi, but I’ll go to Detroit real quick. I f##k with Uzi hard. LUV Is Rage and the tapes around that time, hard! That’s the Uzi I was f##king with heavy.
AllHipHop: Who you f##king with from Detroit?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Sada Baby for sure! Baby Smoove harder than a b##ch, stop playing with Baby Smoove. Ya’ll better put some respect on that man’s name. Veeze, Drego & Beno.
AllHipHop: The scammers!
Sauxe Paxk TB: Yeah! They’re hard, they gave me a whole nother sound. Not trying to steal their flow, but they made me open up. They gave me a whole nother flow. This new s##t I’m finna drop, expect some crazy s##t!
AllHipHop: What can we expect next?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Big visuals! Right now during quarantine, I’m trying to perfect my music videos to where they really look like movies. Trying to put out movies. We’re coming out with a movie 2020. Dolo, the hood Home Alone!
AllHipHop: What can we expect from Dolo?
Sauxe Paxk TB: It’s a movie that me and my dawg DJ E Sudd wrote. We got together, we have Chico Bean. This dude named Fetti P, P Frank from Charlotte, North Carolina, they’re going to be the burglars. I’ma be Kevin McCallister. 2 Chainz is going to co-star in it. Street Bud will be in it, Street Bud hard!
AllHipHop: This is a legit movie?
Sauxe Paxk TB: I’m giving you the cast right now! I’d spill some big flame on you but I’m not even going to do all that in the interview. Ya’ll make sure you’re on the lookout for Dolo. SauxePaxk presents Dolo!
AllHipHop: Do you want to be an actor down the road?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Hell yeah, I definitely f##k with that. I’m not really good at acting because I be trying to be authentic as hell. I have to tell myself “bro, this s##t’s for the camera.” Now, I get out the box and I’m really with the s##ts when it comes to acting. I do drops for people, little skits with people. I’m really getting into character. Being in character was hard for me at first, trying to be too much of a hood dude. You have to realize that bag doesn’t come in off being stuck in the streets, trying to be street all the time. You have to know how to switch it up so I’m with it. I’m with all that.
AllHipHop: What about projects?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Definitely coming out with a Dolo album along with the movie. I just dropped Harder Than Your Daddy, streams on that going crazy. Thank You TB was my very first mixtape I put out, that’s my best tape. I have hella unreleased music but I don’t want to drop another tape on them yet. I dropped 3 tapes since July, don’t want to give them too much flavor.
AllHipHop: Anything else you want to let us know?
Sauxe Paxk TB: Aye man, this SauxePaxk TB, the youngest biggest pimp in the W-O-R-L-D. Right now we’re in quarantine so make sure you masked up, gassed up, and your b##ch assed up. Because if her ass flat, you can’t get no bag off of her. We’re still putting them hoes to work, all quarantine man! Corona ain’t stopping s##t. We’re still out here breaking these tricks, making these gifts, making a whole lotta flips off a lick. This s##t smooth, this drippin’ don’t stop. This pimpin’ don’t stop, we’re on the block. Whole lotta gang going down. Be on the lookout for Dolo in 2020, and we blowing strong!
(AllHipHop News) Sensitive information about Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey is among the latest haul set to be auctioned off by celebrity hackers “Revil.”
The group attacked celebrity law firm, Allen Grubman, earlier this year and threatened to release privileged information about their famous clients unless they paid a ransom of $42 million.
The company refused, and “REvil” has been threatening to auction off the information they allegedly have about the celebrities.
Info on Nicki and Mariah is starting at $600,000 per star, while REvil also claims to have documents on Diddy’s Bad Boy Entertainment company, with a reserve price of $750,000.
Secret files on Universal and MTV will also be going up for auction, starting at $1 million per company.
“Bribery celebrity’s by the Democratical party, sexual harassment by top politicians, envy of celebrity’s for each other … all of that is waiting for you in files of Grubman company,” the hackers wrote on their website.
The alleged new auction comes after REvil claimed to have sensitive information about U.S. President Donald Trump back in May but then announced a week later that the files were off the market, as they’d been sold to a secret bidder.
The turnaround sparked rumors the hackers didn’t have any information to sell at all, and a spokesperson for law firm Grubman, Shire, Meiselas & Sacks said of the latest threats: “The most recent post is yet another desperate nuisance tactic these criminals are using to try to squeeze out a profit from stolen data.
“Our clients and the entertainment industry as a whole have overwhelmingly applauded the firm’s position that we will not give in to extortion.”
(AllHipHop News) Teyana Taylor is hoping Erykah Badu will help her facilitate a home birth when it comes to welcoming her second child into the world.
The 29-year-old R&B star is expecting another baby with her basketball star husband Iman Shumpert and revealed she’s planning to avoid going to the hospital if she can this time around.
“I don’t know if I want to go to the hospital for this next baby,” Teyana told Nick Cannon on his Power 106 radio show. “I’ll make sure it’s not on the toilet or the bathroom floor.
“(I’m) considering home birth, and I’m actually going to be doing it with Erykah. Her and Iman are going to deliver my baby.”
Teyana teamed up with Erykah on the track Lowkey for her new record titled The Album.
Erykah has been working as a doula – a woman who helps other women during labor – since 2011 and has helped deliver more than 40 babies into the world, including three of her own.
In an interview in May 2019, the singer, who is nicknamed “Erykah Badoula” by her clients, revealed she was working towards obtaining her midwifery certification.
“A home birth is about being able to create exactly what you want because it’s such a violent moment inside of the body that you want everything else to be as beautiful as it can be,” she said of her inspiration to become a certified midwife.
(AllHipHop Features) It is not often that the world stops and pays attention, but that is exactly what “Cracka” did. The looming show, which chronicles what happens when an extreme racist is thrust into a world where Black people are the owners of slaves and perpetuate the very brutality that historically was exacted upon those Africans. The creator of that show is director Dale “Rage” Resteghini. Rage has long tentacles in Hip-Hop as the director of more than 400 rap videos.
Resteghini is not running from the furor that has resulted from a 90-second teaser that premiered on AllHipHop. That video, albeit how short, shows a woman raped, a noose around a white neck, and also the flip of power. It is difficult to process the concept and the resulting feedback speaks to just that. Still, even death threats and outrage cannot prevent the Bostonian from his noble aim: educate his people. White people.
“Rage” talks to Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur about the controversy, the “white blindness”, history vs science fiction and what is next for “Cracka.”
AllHipHop: We debuted the trailer for “Cracka” on AllHipHop.com, and it went through the roof immediately. So I have to ask you before we get into all the detailed questions, what has been the feedback so far?
Dale Resteghini: It’s been explosive. I created it to have people see racism through a new lens, as an artistic freedom choice as a filmmaker. And like any artist can write and produce whatever they want. It’s a moment that I felt was needed. And, I’ve got a tremendous amount of support from the community. Most of the pushback has been mostly from white people. who suffer from their “white blindness.” And I don’t mean that negatively they just didn’t get it. But for the most part, it’s been phenomenal. And, and it was meant to spark conversation, which obviously has been taking place not just here in America, but all over the world.
AllHipHop: What have been some of the specifics on the pushbacks? What specifically are people saying?
Dale Resteghini: I’d be happy to send you some of my hate mail from mostly white people basically saying, it’s inappropriate for me to show Black people in power. How dare I put white people on blast. It’s all about their fear of seeing the balance of power shift in a movie, and something that I created, a portal to get into a new world using science fiction as a Trojan horse. Just like any other sci-fi show out there. But obviously, this is a trigger for people who have some deep-rooted fear and issues when it comes to racism in their black friends or their Black family members.
AllHipHop: My first thoughts were I was almost confused. I was like, is this good? Is this bad? Would Black people even do that? Because you, you have some serious depictions in there of beating and rape. It’s very triggering, I guess you could say, What made you take that approach? There are cultural nuances that I think exist. Do you think this is even possible in an even in an alternate reality, even in science fiction?
Dale Resteghini: The artistic and creative Aside from my writers who are also Black my producers are black and white, and brown. That’s, that’s where I just that’s where this should be focused on and come on coming up with various possibilities of what can happen. But it’s more about Hollywood, always pushing out the stories that people have seen. “Roots,” “12 Years A Slave.”
They’re okay showing black people get brutalized and degraded and enslaved. But the second they see a relatively tame 90 seconds – there’s no nudity. There’s none. They are okay continually just driving it home. Blacks were enslaved now their minorities we’re the group in power. Look what 90 seconds of just a few seconds depicts something brutal. But there’s no blood. There’s no nudity? And people have lost their mind literally gone bonkers. On the white side.
By and large, all my friends in the community of Hip-Hop and in Hollywood, they supported 100 percent. And they know where I’m coming from because most people know me in the space. So they know I’m a good person, they know where I come from. So they know there’s no ulterior motive. Most know that my amazing wife for 25 years, her brother in 1981, and going to FDU in New Jersey was attacked and then beat up and then thrown over a bridge and killed by three white men who never even got charged by the FBI and by the police.
So this is not just for people like her, but even during the George Floyd protests, there were many other mothers and sisters and brothers that would come out and they were talking to reporters telling them their story about their loved one who was killed by cops or whites that never got justice. So nothing had worked up until summer 2020. No movie. No miniseries, no preaching. Nothing has worked. So how dare anybody criticize somebody trying to show it through a new lens.
AllHipHop: What made you go with “Cracka” with an “A,” as opposed to an “ER.” Was that a play on the N-word or what?
Dale Resteghini: So in a different lifetime, in the late 80s, I was down in Orlando County Jail in Florida, and I was playing spades for push-ups, and I beat this brother and he was mad, and he called me a “cracker” and that word stuck with me all these years. I never knew all these years later, it would be a part of my creative endeavors. But when I came up with the idea of doing this as a way to help educate people, or at least let people see racism through a new lens, I was gonna try to be cute with the title and call it like The Enslaved” or “The Endangered Species,” but I said to myself “this isn’t a soft tip subject, this is this is really hard-hitting, and it’s brutal.”
People need to be cracked over the head. And so with a title like “Cracka” it just made total sense. And everybody I spoke to in the business they got it like, “that really is the title.” And there’s female Black executives that I’ve been talking to and I’ve been working with, and they said “No, do not change that title, that is the title.”
AllHipHop: You mentioned some of your African-American friends. What’s the response from the Black community?
Dale Resteghini: By and large, it’s been great. We have the extreme right and we have extreme left. We have extreme whites, extreme Blacks And you know, I’ve been involved with enough Black women in my life to have heard many comments thrown at me from militants who are like “who are you, white man, with my Black sister” all that kind of stuff.
So, same thing with the crackers who hit me up, the supremacists, hitting me up on my social media, saying we’re gonna come to your house, here’s your address, we’re gonna come lynch you. And so we have those facts on both sides. And if you’re going to make a statement, if you want to create change, you’re going to get it from somebody. So by and large, the Black community has supported me, but there have been some who have approached me to say, “you don’t deserve to do this.”
And I’m like, “No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.” My life and the Black people in my life, what I’ve been through. I’m an artist, I get to do what I want as an artist. I don’t rap. I don’t rock. I don’t paint, but I film-make. So as my wife calls me a “disruptive filmmaker,” I’m entitled to create my art based on my experiences, and I have done this because I’m sick and tired of having up conversations with white people who tell me to my face that racism doesn’t exist. They literally say there’s no racism. Well, look what look what a 90-second trailer has done.
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(AllHipHop News) Bow Wow has been doing his best to educate himself amid the Black Lives Matter protests taking place worldwide, to ensure he has the answers when his nine-year-old daughter asks questions about racism.
The 33-year-old rapper, real name Shad Gregory Moss, shares daughter Shai with his ex Joie Chavis. And he’s making sure he’s educating his little girl about the things that matter in life, by “getting out there” and participating in the protests that have been occurring around the globe following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers.
Asked how he’s doing his bit to help, Bow Wow told Entertainment Tonight: “By me looking out the window and seeing all races, all colors, protesting, marching for the cause, I felt like, ‘Yo, I gotta get down there and walk with them.’ That’s what I did. It’s right in front of me… something has affected me here in our country.
“I got a nine-year-old daughter that I’m raising during this crazy time, asking Dad questions, and I’m making sure I got the answers. You get the answers by getting out there, getting active, watching the news… For me, that’s been the biggest change.”
And while Bow Wow has been doing his best to give Shai the correct information, the little girl already has an understanding of the systemic racism issues within the U.S. police force.
Recalling a tale from two years ago, when Shai burst into tears after police pulled over the car she was being driven in, the Like You star continued: “My little girl thinks police are bad. I don’t know at the time if she saw a movie or where it came from, but she’s definitely aware. She’s watching movies, she’s digging up on her history. She just played Harriet Tubman in her school play right before the pandemic… so she’s very aware what’s going on with Black Lives Matter and what it means.”
(AllHipHop News) Jeezy believes that his ex-fiancée and mother of his child is vindictive, spiteful, and jealous.
Those are the reasons, in his opinion, as to why she has recently dragged him in court and claiming that he is not a good father to their daughter, Amra.
But … he is sure that outside of her personal feelings, he is actually a pretty dope dad and wants the courts to figure this out.
Since their break up the “Mr. President” rapper started seeing and became engaged to “The Rea”l talk show host, Jeannie Mai.
The recent engagement made a tense situation get even more strained, leading Jeezy and Mahi in family court to make arrangements around the one person innocent in this whole debacle: Amra.
In April 2020, the judge ordered the Atlanta trap star to pay $7,500 a month in child support plus $30,000 for school tuition.
Yet amidst the coronavirus pandemic and the civil unrest, somehow communication and any congenial relationship between the parents have dissipated.
Mahi is done and has asked the family court to incarcerate The Snowman for not paying up — but he says she is bugging out because she is jealous of Jeannie Mai.
He believes this so much, that he actually filed a motion to dismiss her claim, adding that he “fears for her mental health” and is being harassed by her.
The hope is that the two come to an agreement, that the child does not lack, and moreover how the three can figure out a way to co-parent in harmony.
(AllHipHop Rumors) Cardi B is back in the news and it has nothing to do with her fashions, husband or talking to Bernie Sanders. She is being cancelled for…what? I am not sure. Right now it seems like Cardi B is trending because of the things that she has said in the past. Make no mistake about it, Cardi B is controversial. That is, in fact, an understatement. But let’s run down the report. Cardi B has said that she has gotten men raped by transsexuals after a long night of stripping. Her justification for that is that they were trying to pay for sex with her. We all know that is not right no matter how you slice it. The truth is, Cardi B is someone that grew up in a really tough area of the Bronx, has said so many things to offend, I cannot keep up. The difference now, I believe, is that Cardi B has offended Black women.
In some past tweets that Cardi has put out there, but not that long ago, in the year 2016, she called a black woman ugly and said she looks like a burnt roach she also said other things allegedly like calling women monkeys. The reality is is this is something that is done by a vast swath of the population, if you are a racist or a woman-hater. But that does not make it acceptable so people are going at Cardi B right now for these things. I also think that this is the result of a long-standing feud with Nicki Minaj. Back in the day, and I do mean just a couple of YEARS ago Cardi B went at Nicki Minaj for collaborating with a pedophile a.k.a. Tekashi69. In the year of our Lord: 2020, Tekashi69 has evolved into the world’s biggest Hip-Hop snitch. The point is it seems like The Barbs are now going at Cardi B, but I can’t confirm that because it is very hard to find the origins of this trending topic in the minutia of the Internet.
What does this all mean? At the end of the day, this means Cardi B will blow up even more. The rapper has completely embraced the controversy and is continually, at the time of this writing, addressing, retweeting, and laughing at those that are trying to cancel her. She is essentially making the #GoEvenFarther.
Last time y’all had a cancel party for Cardi she got a Vogue cover. What’s not clicking for y’all? https://t.co/o1bDgQ1BGX
— Fan Account | #BLM 🫵🏾 (@BardiUpdatess) June 25, 2020
I do feel really powerful.The fact that I haven’t dropped music in 8 months .I haven’t announced none of the projects I been workin on .All I been doing is eating food & people have to make fake edits to cancel me it makes me feel like IM THAT B#### ! https://t.co/UTPoqdumbI
(AllHipHop Features) Everybody loves Erika Alexander. The beloved actress has played some of the most beloved, seminal characters known to Black America. Erika has portrayed iconic roles like lawyer Maxine Shaw on “Living Single” and Cousin Pam of “The Cosby Show” fame, but also Detective Latoya (“Get Out”), and Perenna (“Black Lightning”). She even renewed her kinship with Hip-Hop as Linda Diggs on “Wutang: An American Saga.”
These days, the Philadelphia-bred legend takes her trailblazing ways as the Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer for Color Farm Media. The company has a new Magnolia Pictures-distributed film titled “John Lewis: Good Trouble,” a riveting documentary about the Triple OG Civil Rights icon and Congressman. In this interview, with Chuck “Jigsaw” Creekmur, Erika shares some lighter moments about where she’s headed and what she’s up to as a thought leader, activist, producer, and businesswoman.
AllHipHop: Tell us about this documentary. What makes it special and unique and different from other incarnations and visualizations we’ve seen about Mr. John Lewis.
Erica Alexander: Well, John Lewis is an American hero and icon. There are very few people that can dispute that. He showed us on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. He’s been in SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), as one of the students that went down to the South and fought for our voting rights and the right to vote. And to this day, he’s been arrested more than 45 times for the beliefs that he holds. And he believes that in America, civil rights is the cornerstone and the security that our democracy is based on. So, what makes this different, is that this is about his life. He’s usually seen next to Martin Luther King or Bobby Kennedy, or any of those other really big American figures, but I don’t think people knew about him and his life and how he got here as a congressman and his family and his wife, things like that. So that’s the difference. It’s his story. He’s in the spotlight.
AllHipHop: So who did you speak to in addition to him, and what revelations might we find or see, that we might not have known before?
Erica Alexander: We spoke to many of his colleagues in Congress from Nancy Pelosi to AOC. Like the people who know him best and who have worked with him in Congress to move legislation. We’ve also spoken to his son and talked about his wife, his past, and his brothers and sisters. He’s one of 12 children. You get to see him down in Alabama on their land, while he feeds the chickens. He has a famous story about feeding the chickens as a boy and wanting to go to school and not be a sharecropper, and running away and getting on the bus so he could go learn. And his brother, who was older saying “let him go I’ll, do his work share for him.” So you hear things like that. But you also get to see his run against Julian Bond in Atlanta and get to see that he’s an art collector. I think mostly you get to see an archive of him watching himself, and the lens through seeing his life transported back to him.
So I think that this is a really wonderful lesson for people who don’t know what it was like back in the day, for many people who are talking about not voting. This type of thing is an alternative. They need to see that there was blood, and there was murder and all sorts of other things sacrificed. So just walk up to a simple ballot box and vote.
AllHipHop: A lot has not changed in America for Black people. And he’s one of those who can really put that into context. Have you been able to offer or see any insight that he may be able to give us some context to this whole thing in 2020?
Erica Alexander: Yes, I think the biggest context is you see that history and change is slow. It’s a marathon. And a lot of people think these things happen overnight. They don’t. It’s called legislation. People need to know that the voting thing doesn’t [just] come up every four years for President. All politics is local. And you see this man doing the work, showing up for other people, supporting candidates that aligned with his views, making sure that he shows up and you see how long he has shown up. He’s an older man and he’s in great shape. After this, he was diagnosed with stage four, pancreatic cancer.
But he’s been everywhere fighting for this. And I think that that’s important for people to see. Because I think people do very little in order to understand how you get clean water or how your trash gets picked up, and they complain about everything. And I said, “did you do the simple thing of voting for your school board? Did you do you know that you can vote for your Chief of Police?” All these things and they don’t vote, then they complain. And so I think that we need to learn that civics, it is a contact sport, and you got to be engaged, got to read. And I think it’s important for people to start to take ownership and responsibility for their decisions to do it or not to do it.
AllHipHop: He’s in our prayers daily How is he mentally right now? How is he physically?
Erica Alexander: Chuck, I’m sure it’s difficult for him. I call him a true OG. Some people really had to deal with adversity and suffer through some things and put their own lives in danger for other people. For a person who’s done all that, this diagnosis (of cancer0 is what he eats for breakfast. He’s got to get up every day and he’s gonna do the thing, but it can’t be easy for him. He has good and bad days. He has great weeks and bad weeks you saw him, I don’t know a couple of weeks ago on Black Lives Matter Boulevard, which is the first time he’s ever gone out [post-diagnoses].
But he wanted to make sure that the young people knew that he was with them that he understood what they were doing. Overall, it was a good thing. And that’s an iconic photo now and that lifts his spirit. So let’s just hope, Chuck, that, for our own sake that he’s doing well because he deserves not to suffer and to recover as best he can.
AllHipHop: I hope he’s proud of us because we are continuing the fight in his honor as well as many others.
Erica Alexander: He’s very proud, by the way. Absolutely, especially Black men, because I don’t know if we are as engaged as we need to be with Black men. So many are feeling so disassociated from the process. But that’s up to Black men to come into the process and reclaim it. For whatever reason that turned them off or numbed them, they must see that, especially with all the Black men getting shot in the streets and also in jail and their families at risk, that the only way to change this away from taking up arms, is to vote and be in the process.
AllHipHop: I have some theories behind that. But that’s for that’s a whole ‘nother conversation on another.
Erica Alexander: I bet you do. I hope you run for office so you can put your theories into work so good.
AllHipHop: I’m like I don’t know, politics are dirty.
Erica Alexander: Politics aren’t dirty, politicians are dirty. Politics are very clean. Because if John Lewis tells us anything it’s that good people are there. We need more good people to run. And we need more people to be less cynical about it because there really are great things happening. I see every day in my neighborhood and inside of California, which is moving forward on environmental protections, moving forward on education, not reform, but restructuring and destructuring of what they’ve done. I see it happening. The problem is that there are people who do believe that politics matter and they run and they have horrible, horrible ideas. They’re not doing it against you, they’re just doing what they believe.
And I believe, Chuck, that if you really are one of those people in the community that people trust, and they see you up there trying to move the dial sure, it may seem like it’s not moving, but just your very face, it gives them a whole nother thing about the possibilities, and I do believe that politics can be different and difficult. And you can change the process. But I believe that you would be one of the people we need.
AllHipHop: I’ll let you know. If you run, I’ll vote for you too! I wanted to ask you just a couple of things about your own career. You were very vocal about “Friends” kind of copycatting off “Living Single.” It was a bite, it was jacked. And I hate “Friends” by the way. And this is before I knew anything about that I just hated it. I despised it because it was super duper white and I worked in a corporate environment at the time. It just reminded me of all the people I’ve worked with. But I’ve been speaking a lot about just systemic racism. And I think that “Friends” is an unfortunate byproduct of systemic racism on one level, which is Hollywood or the TV. Do you feel as though as you’re a pioneer in that respect to kind of leading the charge and highlighting these inequities or differences, or biases?
Erica Alexander: I think I put it upon myself to try to be a truth-teller where I can. I’m in an industry that I have made my living from. I’m very grateful and fortunate for the opportunities that have come to me. But I’ve also experienced and seen after 37 years, your right, systemic bias, racism, gender sexism, ageism, geography bias, all the way through this industry. It conspires silently to keep those out of power through the representation, through the studios…. all of that. And when people want to boycott the Oscars, I say “why that’s movie started years ago.” You would have to go not to the end-user, but to the people who precede these things in order to change the relationship between the color line and the way they think about film and television and our stories. So here’s the thing about the “Friends” thing:
I hadn’t signed up to be a mouthpiece for that. I just said what I felt was true when David Schwimmer was talking about, maybe one day there would be an all Black “Friends” and or all Asian “Friends,” he did not know that the year before he was ever on the same studio, Warner Brothers, that we had already been the template for him. And I was just stating it, as a matter of fact, not to blow the brother up or anything like that. He’s a really wonderful actor, and I actually do enjoy the show.
But I wanted him to see that and I think that the discussion, what it really set off, was that Black people have always been frustrated and just downright angry about the fact that when it’s done with white faces, it can get so much more marketing and play and even be called the original. When it’s done with a Black face, it’s not even seen. It’s not even acknowledged. So that’s what set it off….Tell the truth shame the devil.
AllHipHop: I gotta ask, Cousin Pam or Maxine?
Erica Alexander: Don’t be mad Cousin Pam people, Maxine. I didn’t know what I was doing on The Cosby Show yet and I was glad to get the gig and everything but no, it was much more fun to play Maxine. Although I gotta give props to Pam because she went to college and did her thing and it was really fun to be a part of that iconic show but every day all day, Max
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(AllHipHop News) The coronavirus pandemic is still raging across the country. As of press time, there are over 2.4 million confirmed cases in the United States and more than 120,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.
Unfortunately, Bernard “Bun B” Freeman’s son is one of those individuals that has contracted coronavirus. The founding member of the UGK rap duo offered a warning to his 1 million Instagram followers.
“So many people wanna say that COVID-19 is fake news. My son just tested positive. He has a 4-day-old baby that my wife and I have to go get and bring to our home,” posted Bun B on IG.
He continued, “I was on my way to joint Trae Tha Truth and Mysonne at the Kentucky State Capitol. Had to turn around and head back home. Please stop playing with this virus y’all. I don’t wanna lose my son, daughter in law, my newest granddaughter, or any of my other grandchildren.”
COVID-19 diagnoses are rising in Bun B’s home state of Texas. This week, the Lone Star State, along with other places such as California and Florida, set a record for the number of new coronavirus cases in one day.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently admitted coronavirus is now spreading at an “unacceptable rate” in the state. Abbott told the press that if COVID-19 spikes continue in Texas he may have to implement “additional measures” to combat the spread of the virus.
(AllHipHop News) Illuminati conspiracy theories about Hip Hop artists have spread across the world for decades. Polo G appears to be one of the latest rap stars to have his name thrown into the secret society rumor mill.
“I just wanna know why people wanna say that I sold my soul,” said Polo in a TikTok video. “Like where the f*ck? I watch my son and go to the studio. Where the f*ck would I find time to do some sh*t like that?”
Apparently, the cover art for Polo’s The Goat album had some theorists questioning if the 21-year-old Chicago representative was covertly acknowledging his so-called turn towards the dark side. He addressed the image in his vid.
“‘Oh the goat and goat horns, it signifies the Baphomet.’ Half y’all a#### wouldn’t even know how to f*cking spell Baphomet if it wasn’t for autocorrect, you stupid b*tch,” declared Polo.
The “sold his soul” gossip likely got a boost in recent months because Polo earned his highest-charting album when The Goat peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200 chart. It currently sits at #9 after five weeks on the tally.
Polo G seems to be aware that when entertainers are attached to the half-human/half-animal occult deity known as Baphomet that is typically a sign of growing fame. He wrote on TikTok, ” I mean [I guess] that mean I really made it when they say sh*t like that .”
(AllHipHop News) Kid Cudi could be the next Hip Hop performer to make the transition into podcasting. The entertainer born Scott Mescudi could be set to introduce his own digital talk show in the near future.
“Should I do my own podcast??” tweeted Cudi on Wednesday night. An hour later, he returned to the social media platform to say, “Ok…[I’m] doin my own podcast then.”
The Cleveland native explained what type of pod he wants to create. Cudi posted, “All love no sh*t talkin. Only uplifting artists and talkin [with] my friends and fans. All positive vibes! It’ll be like ur hanging [with] me smokin and shootin the sh*t for [a while]. [It’ll] be meant to comfort the lonely.”
If Cudi follows through with his intention to start a podcast, he will join other rappers that have moved into that media space. Joe Budden’s The Joe Budden Podcast, N.O.R.E.’s Drink Champs, Talib Kweli’s People’s Party, and T.I.’s expediTIously are among the current emcee-led programs.
All love no s### talkin. Only uplifting artists and talkin w my friends and fans. All positive vibes! It'll be like ur hangin w me smokin and shootin the s### for awhile. Itll be meant to comfort the lonely.
“Rockstar” reached the top of Billboard‘s Hot 100 songs chart without an official music video. However, it appears visuals for the smash hit are on the way soon.
DaBaby uploaded an image of himself and Roddy Ricch to Instagram. The photo features Ricch positioned behind a red piano in a field as DaBaby sits on the ground with a red guitar.
The caption for DaBaby’s Instagram post simply reads, “You ready? .” A “Rockstar” music video would arrive following the release of the Black Lives Matter remix of the track.
