(AllHipHop News) Casanova is taking full advantage of his buzz thanks to the success of his viral “So Brooklyn” challenge on social media.
The rapper is behind the social media challenge, where tens-of-thousands of fans have been dropping bars repping their hometowns, over Cas’ “So Brooklyn” instrumental.
Casanova will be delivering his own bars on a highly anticipated album called Behind These Scars.
Fabolous, Chris Brown, Gunna, and Young Thug are among the guests featured on Casanova’s upcoming album, which will trace his path from poverty and prison to his current success with his hip-hop career.
Behind These Scars is due out October 11 via Roc Nation, in partnership with Republic Records.
Check out Casanova’s new song “Stay Wit It” and the tracklisting for Behind These Scars.
(AllHipHop Rumors) Unquestionably, Celine Dion is a music legend, most notably known for her soaring vocals. She is in the upper echelon of singers.
The songstress has released her fair share of hits throughout the years. Her single, “My Heart Will Go On,” is still one of her biggest records to date.
Recently Dion conducted an interview with People Magazine and during the interview, Celine sent an interesting message to Drizzy himself.
Now Celine is asking Drake not to do such an absurd thing.
“You can write me love letters, you can send me autographs for my kids, you can come and visit. I can have you home for lunch or dinner… we can go for a drink. We can sing together. Whatever you want to do. I can talk to your mother — whatever you want! But please…,” said Celine Dion said asking the rapper to rethink his idea.
Do you think that Drake will honor her request? Leave a comment below and let us know what you think.
(AllHipHop News) LL Cool J has re-signed to the label that made his career, Def Jam Records. LL Cool J was the very first artist to release an album on the label and he also helped the movement become one of the most iconic brands in history.
LL Cool J has made heavy strides in the last few years not only as an actor, but he’s established Rock The Bells Radio with Sirius XM. Now, the classic Hip-Hop artist comes back “home” like DMX.
Sources with the label were unable to identify when LL would drop new music, but revealed it could be soon.
In 2008, Def Jam and LL ended their relationship in a tumultuous fashion with the rapper calling his 12th album release appropriately titled Exit 13. But the entities shared more good, positive and uplifting times from his first album, Radio, which launched the then Queens, New York teenager into superstardom.
At 16, in 1985, LL Cool J rapped about his radio, braggadocios rhymes and was considered the heir apparent in an era when Hip-Hop just began to flourish. He soon grew as an artist with the triple platinum album Bigger And Deffer and was the first rapper to record a doting ode to the ladies, “I Need Love.” Many copied the formula.
Much of the reason why LL has been so successful is his ability to navigate the changes in Hip-Hop. When rappers were suddenly conscious or gangsta, LL maintained his sense of self, particularly in the 90’s. Mr. Smith, his double-platinum 1995 opus, was R&B in an era dominated by Wu-Tang, Death Row Records and Mobb Deep. He also won another Grammy during this period.
LL is largely why we use the term “The G.O.A.T.” in Hip-Hop because he proclaimed himself as such in 2000.
Fans will have to wait and see what the original G.O.A.T. has in store for his next tour of duty with Def Jam Records.
(AllHipHop News) Does Chris Brown want that old thing back? The “No Guidance” hitmaker was one of the more than 17,000 people to write a note under a recent Rihanna Instagram photograph.
RiRi uploaded a picture of herself lying next to a lamp while dressed in her Savage X Fenty lingerie. The fashion mogul captioned the photo, “Be the first to have this and more pieces from the @savagexfenty show now on SAVAGEX.com.”
Breezy decided to drop a ” ” emoji in @badgalriri’s comment section. He also wrote, “I wanna b the lamp .” Chris Brown, 30, and Rihanna, 31, dated over a decade ago before Brown pleaded guilty to assaulting the singer in 2009. They later reconciled and recorded the “Birthday Cake” remix off Rihanna’s 2011 album Talk That Talk.
This is not the first time in 2019 that Brown was connected to leaving comments under a photo associated with one of his former romantic partners. In June, blogs revealed alleged Instagram screenshots of the Virginia native dissing Victor Cruz, the current boyfriend of CB’s ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran. Brown suggested his account had been hacked.
(AllHipHop News) After five decades of existence, Hip Hop culture has many behind-the-scene tales that are still unknown to the general public. Iconic radio personality Angie Martinez is exploring some of that history on her new television show Untold Stories Of Hip Hop.
WE tv released a sneak peek clip featuring a conversation with legendary Los Angeles-based rapper Snoop Dogg. On the first episode, Angie and Snoop reflected on the infamous East Coast versus West Coast beef in the 1990s.
Apparently, California’s Tupac Shakur and New York’s Nas had a serious face-to-face exchange around the time of the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards. Snoop explained how, even though the emcees were surrounded by armed men at the time, things were able to remain nonviolent.
The former Death Row Records artist recalled:
Tupac got the whole Death Row. We’re riled up. I step away from him. Him and Nas right here – boom! Nas like, “Wassup Pac? I love your music, I’m a fan.” Guess what Pac say? [He said,] “Well n*gga, if you a fan – I dissed you, Jay-Z, Biggie.” He named off a gang of motherf*ckers. [Pac added,] “I dissed all you motherf*ckers on a song, and if you a fan and you ain’t got no beef, don’t say nothing.” And Nas said, “I love you. I’ll never diss you.” And he shook his hand and hugged him. When he walked off, Pac said, “Yeah, I punked that n*gga.” In my mind, I was like, nah, he let us slide ’cause Nas had more n*ggas than we did.”
Besides Snoop Dogg, Untold Stories Of Hip Hop will also feature Angie Martinez sitting down with Cardi B, A$AP Rocky, DJ Khaled, Queen Latifah, Ice Cube, MC Lyte, Nelly, Ja Rule, Fat Joe, The Lox, and more. The series is scheduled to premiere September 26 at 10 pm ET/PT on WE tv.
(AllHipHop News) All it takes is 10 seconds to be immortalized on the internet forever. Keke Palmer is one of the latest individuals to see a video of herself become an internet-breaking trend.
While taking part in a “Lie Detector Test” for Vanity Fair, Keke was asked about former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. Her response: “I hate to say it. I hope I don’t sound ridiculous. I don’t know who this man is. He could be walking down the street, I wouldn’t know a thing. Sorry to this man.”
Social media embraced the “Sorry To This Man” clip as a new reaction meme. Cardi B even used the vid as her response to inaccurate reports that 6ix9ine testified in federal court that the Invasion of Privacy rapper was a member of the Nine Trey Bloods gang.
Palmer is looking to take advantage of the attention from her Vanity Fair interview. The Hustlers actress and Strahan, Sara and Keke co-host is selling “Sorry To This Man” merchandise on her website. She tweeted, “This for all y’all sorry a####. Including me available now!”
(AllHipHop News) The most talked about moment from this year’s Revolt Summit in Atlanta involved an exchange between Tip “T.I.” Harris and Candace Owens. The politically active rapper and the conservative pundit went viral for debating the meaning of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
Harris addressed the intense conversation with Owens on his weekly expediTIously podcast. Killer Mike, who was also on the same Revolt Summit “Hip Hop & Politics” panel, was a guest on T.I.’s show.
“We had very candid discussions. We had very pleasant exchanges in conversation. Onstage, after the panel, backstage, we still were cool,” revealed Tip about Owens. “I made sure she knew I wasn’t against her, that she was still a sister, and as a sister, I support her. I disagree with her, emphatically, but I still support her, and I made that known. And so now, when the media – I won’t say the media – when everybody got a chance to see the entire panel, they disagreed as much as I disagreed with what she said.”
Killer Mike responded, “Well, they weaponized her clip against her, too.” T.I. then replied, “That may be so. That may have some merit. However, what she chose to do was send me a text. She sent me a text, privately… It really rubbed me the wrong way because I know I don’t have any ill intent, or any malicious intent, toward her. I want you to read – not aloud – but I want you to read what was said.”
Apparently, the text from Owens included her writing some choice words directed at Tip. The Hustle Gang leader did not read the message on the podcast, but he suggested Owens was upset about the public’s reaction to the dispute in Atlanta.
“You know how I am, Mike. You know I don’t generally take being talked to or called names, and just basically being kind of berated. I don’t take to that very kindly or nicely,” said Tip. “She’s accusing me, or should I say she’s condemning me for the response that the public had to the panel where we both had our chance to speak.”
He later added, “If we’re somewhere and she’s being accosted or anybody’s going to do her harm, I’m gonna be in the mix, just like her husband would. However, I’m not speaking to you until you apologize.”
(AllHipHop News) “Take what the Forbes figured, then figure more,” rapped Jay-Z on his 2007 single “Roc Boys (And the Winner Is)…” It appears two modern-day rap stars feel the same way about the publication’s latest “Highest-Paid Hip Hop Acts” list.
Forbes released their 2019 rankings this week. “On Me” collaborators Cardi B (#13, $28 million) and Meek Mill (#15, $21 million) both took to Twitter to dispute the amount of money connected to their respective names.
“Where do Forbes be getting they numbers from cause they way off? ,” tweeted Cardi. Meek posted, “The Forbes got our accounts f*cked up lol….”
Forbes placed Kanye West in first place on the 2019 “Highest-Paid Hip Hop Acts” list with a reported $150 million in pretax income. Jay-Z took the runner-up position with $81 million, and Drake closed out the Top 3 with $75 million.
Where do Forbes be getting they numbers from cause they way off ?🧐
(AllHipHop News) Once again, accounts of Daniel “Tekashi 6ix9ine” Hernandez’s testimony in federal court lit up the internet. His most recent round on the stand led to several trending topics because the government witness talked about the association between the Nine Trey Bloods and rappers.
6ix9ine apparently named Dipset’s Jim Jones as a member of the New York City gang. There were also reports that the “Fefe” performer testified that Cardi B was part of the alleged criminal organization.
However, Tekashi declaring Cardi was a Nine Trey Blood is fake news. Complex published transcripts from the trial, and the section where 6ix9ine discussed Cardi does not show him affirming that the rapstress was affiliated with that particular Blood set.
Defense attorney Alex Huot asked a line of questions that tried to establish whether Hernandez claimed the Nine Trey Bloods as a way to advance his music career. Huot mentioned Cardi in order to see if 6ix9ine was aware that she was a Blood gang member that achieved success as an entertainer.
6ix9ine admitted he did know that Cardi B was a Blood. However, he never specifically stated that she was connected to Nine Trey, the particular alleged Blood set of 6ix9ine and defendants Anthony “Harv” Ellison and Aljermiah “Nuke” Mack.
Tekashi 6ix9ine was described as the prosecution’s “star witness” in the case against Ellison and Mack. The 23-year-old Brooklyn rhymer claimed they were involved in kidnapping, robbing, and assaulting him in 2018.
Ellison and Mack pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, robbery, and firearm federal charges. Hernandez pleaded guilty in a federal racketeering case. He agreed to cooperate with prosecutors for leniency in his sentencing.
Cardi B has openly discussed being part of the Bloods gang at one point in her life. The Grammy winner supposedly claimed the Brim set, not Nine Trey. She even referenced the Blood gang in her lyrics and music videos.
“When I was 16 years old, I used to hang out with a lot of… Bloods. I used to pop off with my homies. And they’d say, ‘Yo, you really get it poppin.’ You should come home. You should turn Blood.’ And I did. Yes, I did,” said Cardi in a 2018 GQ feature. The “Bodak Yellow” hitmaker also told the magazine that she moved away from the Brims at 19 after becoming an exotic dancer.
The woman born Belcalis Almánzar added, “When I was a stripper, I didn’t give a f*ck about gangs, because I was so focused on making money… You could talk to somebody that is considered Big Homie and they will tell you: ‘Don’t join a gang.’ The person that I’m under, she would tell you, ‘Don’t join a gang.’ It’s not about violence. It’s just like – it doesn’t make your money. It doesn’t make your money. I rep it, because I been repping it for such a long time.”
(AllHipHop Features) The UrbanWorld Film Festival kicked off with a bang, a bang of freedom. The highly touted film “Harriet” was the centerpiece of the launch, which tells the tale of Harriet Tubman. Tubman was an abolitionist, activist and American hero.
The film’s director Kasi Lemmons (Eve’s Bayou, Black Nativity) described Tubman as one of “America’s first superhero” on the opening night of UrbanWorld, which was buzzing around the red carpet. The UrbanWorld Film Festival is one of the largest internationally competitive festivals of its kind. The festival curates a slate of films representing the broadest spectrum of films and movies for people of color.
The film stars Cynthia Erivo (Windows, Bad Times at the El Royale) and delves deep into the genocidal, America institution known as slavery. Erivo’s portrayal of Harriet is rooted in an unwavering need to free her family and other enslaved Africans from the horrors of American Slavery. The performances of all parties, including Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, and Janelle Monáe, were remarkable and will undeniably evoke emotions that will feel palpable coming off the screen to moviegoers.
Harriet offers a layered, nuanced heroine that will compliment the version most people have learned. Refreshingly and fortunately, this film is not a depiction of the brutal physical horrors of slavery that has been seen repeatedly in other movies. Instead, Harriet thoroughly examines the psyche of a woman who bravely navigates her instincts and emotions, willing to sacrifice her life in doing so.
Most superheroes wear a brightly colored outfit and have superhuman powers, however Harriet clearly shows another sort of super being. Harriet Tubman’s cape is exhibited through courage and the power of love.
Here are some pictures from the night with Cynthia Erivo, lead actress (in yellow), Kasi Lemmons, the director (in glasses) and Deborah Martin-Chase, the executive producer (is in all black).
(AllHipHop News) Nicki Minaj is looking to inspire women to embrace their curves with her sexy new swimwear line.
The rapper recently joined forces with bosses at Fendi for the collection and made sure to include pieces that celebrate women of all shapes and sizes.
“I want to make clothes that make girls with my body look sexy,” she told Elle. “We’re in a new time, where you don’t have to feel bad if you’re not the tiniest you’ve ever been.”
The “Anaconda” hitmaker also wants women to be less harsh on themselves when it comes to weight gain, something she admits she herself has struggled with.
“What I want (to tell) girls is not necessarily, ‘Go and gain weight and have a big booty,’ but ‘If you do have curves, be proud of it, flaunt it – love the skin you’re in.’ As cliched as that sounds, I’ve been really trying to teach myself that. ‘This is who I am; take me or leave me, bye!”‘
And Minaj hopes to take her fashion venture a step further by one day launching her own clothing line.
“Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes!” she shares when asked if she’d like to have her own collection. “Yeses across the board, okay? I’ve been really strategic and picky on purpose, turning some things down and waiting for the right opportunities. Once people see that you have selling power and you are able to impact a brand in such a positive way, then I think it’s only a matter of time.
“The Fendi collection alone made me feel like I would love to continue doing this – getting to that boss status. That’s where I would like to take fashion, for sure.”
Following his passing, his mother Sheila Ward was named the executor of the estate.
According to legal documents obtained by TMZ, John’s 21-year-old daughter Cleopatra has filed a petition requesting a monthly allowance of $2,778, because she claims her dad used to cover her bills and expenses because she’s a student.
She is also asking for a one-time payment of $4,150 to cover her study abroad program.
Cleopatra claims she’s struggled to keep up with her finances since her father’s death, and suggested it could take at least another year until the estate works out how to distribute John’s fortune.
The late director’s daughter previously filed papers objecting to her grandmother being placed in charge of the estate and accused her of trying to cut the children out following her father’s death.
(AllHipHop News) Nicki Minaj can’t wait to release her “fierce, fun, and unapologetic” new album.
The rapper, 36, is expected to drop the follow-up to last year’s Queen later this year.
And speaking in the October issue of Elle U.S. magazine, the “Super Bass” hitmaker confessed she’s “excited” for fans to hear her new music.
“It’s probably the most excited I’ve been about an album release in a really long time,” Nicki shared. “I’m happy that we’re not making my fans wait for another album like I’ve done in the past.”
Nicki famously made fans wait four years between her third album The Pinkprint and it’s follow-up Queen and teased the new release will be reflective of her entire career to date.
“This one incorporates all the things people love about Nicki, but it also just has a way bigger sound, so it goes perfectly with the collection,” she explained.
The comments come after the “Megatron” hitmaker shared a tweet earlier this month informing fans she was shunning the spotlight, writing: “I’ve decided to retire & have my family.”
However, the musician, who was rumored to have wed beau Kenneth Petty last month, later backtracked on the remark, admitting the tweet was “abrupt and insensitive,” adding: “I’m still right here.
“Still madly in love with you guys & you know that. In hindsight, this should’ve been a Queen Radio discussion & it will be,” Nicki continued. “I promise u guys will be happy. No guests, just us talking about everything.”
Having been in the music industry for over a decade and bringing valuable game to anybody who crosses paths with him, Sy Ari found Paxquiao through doing video shoots with a mutual friend named Showtime, but he’s known Pax since he was a teenager. This was 9 or 10 years ago, and Pax wasn’t even an artist at the time.
Speaking on what made him become an artist, Pax states, “Just going through real-life situations. I’d use them as a journal and the music started coming out fire.”
AllHipHop caught up with the Atlanta natives at OG King Louie’s studio in downtown Los Angeles to discuss the new project.
AllHipHop: Congrats on 2 Sides of a Story, what’s one thing you want fans to get from this one?
Sy Ari: Both perspectives. Sonically and cadence-wise, the marriage sounds good musically. Our storylines, it’s bigger than me being from the Northside and him being from the Southside. Our perspectives are still different even though we’re both from some kind of the bottom coming up. The way I tell my story — we’re 2 totally different people. We just want people to get to know us through the music. How I am and how he is, we ain’t the same. A lot of people that collab, you hear the same s##t over and over. No offense to that! You see a movie where Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson are both great actors, but 2 different flavors. Either scene you get, you entertained.
AllHipHop: What’s the difference between the Southside & Northside?
Sy Ari: We better.
Paxquiao: The Southside more lit! We have more motion, all that.
Sy Ari: I feel like we on the come up. Our side’s always been the underdogs. People don’t even claim the Northside for real. Eastside, Westside, whatever. Everybody done moved to the Northside, they know that. It’s improving.
AllHipHop: Talk about getting DaBaby on “One Phone Call.” Was that done in the studio?
Sy Ari: We did that at 11th Street Studios, but he was locked up at the time. Pax did that hook and his first verse at Means Street Studios, then I did my verse at the crib. When I knew DaBaby was coming, we linked up. We know some of the same folks. I played some songs for DaBaby and he picked that one. Did it on the spot.
AllHipHop: What’s the dynamic in the studio?
Sy Ari: I like how he record, he gets right to it. His punching pattern was different — I didn’t expect him to record like that. Then seeing he keeps his ad-libs as loud as his lead. That’s another thing that makes him sound unique to me, even though the flow pattern is similar for today. The way he records is different, which is why he stands out. Chemistry was good though. We got in, handled business, got up out of there. It was a good vibe.
AllHipHop: “Where The Love Go” is super personable. Talk about the reality of the streets & turning to music.
Paxquiao: I ain’t even gon’ lie, I wrote the first half while I was locked up. That came from real-life experiences. You can tell from the lyrics. I gotta take cold showers, run extension cords across the hall when we need some more power, all that lame s##t.
AllHipHop: You said “I lost my dawg,” who’d you lose?
Paxquiao: My dawg Slim Dunkin, rest in peace. Long live. That’s dedicated to him.
AllHipHop: Sy, what did it mean to have your daughter in the shot?
Sy Ari: It’s funny ‘cause she was coming to town to see me, so I just put her in the scene for real. I was holding her up, her mama had just dropped her off. We were shooting on the Eastside in the hood, so I’m not about to let her walk around. I had her in my arms during my scene. He got his mom in the video, eating ramen noodles and s##t.
AllHipHop: What does mama think of the rap career?
Paxquiao: She loves that s##t. She already sent the video to all her friends, everybody on Facebook, all that s##t. She’s my biggest fan.
AllHipHop: Artists tend to have their own favorites on the project, what songs mean the most to you?
Sy Ari: Probably “Where The Love Go.” “Submissive” for real though, because I’m a little freaky. I love the ladies. [chuckles]
Paxquiao: That one, and “Rolling Loud” too. It’s just another vibe. Depending on what type of vibe I want to be on, it’s either gonna be “Where The Love Go” or “Rolling Loud.” “Rolling Loud” got that edge on it.
AllHipHop: Best memory recording the project?
Sy Ari: When we did “One Phone Call” because if you have a homie in jail, he’s looking for some type of good information to brighten his day while he’s in there. So when Pax called while DaBaby was doing his verse, I even told Diana “don’t tell him yet.” Then I’m like “damn, my n##ga sounds like he needs to hear some good s##t,” so I told him. That was one of the best memories of the project for real because we knew he was about to get bailed out soon. Every song had its moments, I love how everything came together for real.
AllHipHop: Pax, biggest lesson learned in jail?
Paxquiao: Go with your first instinct, your gut feeling. That’s really what I got from it. Everything happens for a reason so I ain’t really mad or nothing. Everybody always got that feeling, that little voice in the head to tell them something, but we tend to go against it sometimes. I know now to always listen to that voice and go with that feeling.
AllHipHop: What are some goals for yourselves at this point in her career?
Sy Ari: Getting back on the road. I love being on tour. When you come to the stage, not many can perform as good as me. I’ve been on stage with the dopest artists, they got all that production and dancers behind them — I ain’t really had all that yet. I’ve been on tours where people are like “you were the best on stage, and I just met you tonight!” Making sure Pax gets on the road, he ain’t been on a tour yet. Some of them accolades: Grammys! I’m done getting plaques from placements on other n##ga’s album, that s##t weak to me. I want that s##t for my project. It just don’t feel the same. It’s cool but at the end of the day, I want that s##t for my music. If the artist don’t have me hands-on with the project, it don’t really count to me.
Paxquiao: I have the same goals. I want some Grammys too. I really want to go on this road and start touring, get a taste of this tour life. I want to get into these festivals. I want to touch different genres of music, I’m ready to have fun with the music.
AllHipHop: Sy, are you still songwriting?
Sy Ari: I mean, I write my s##t. You know what’s funny? I never physically got a plaque for coming in writing. Every song I ever got a placement for, it was my song and I gave them the song. I don’t work for these n##gas. But you can call me over and we vibe, then you say “I like that song, let me get that!” That’s how I get my placements. These other n##gas, they ghostwrite. They like to get babied like that. But me, you can buy the song off me. It’s the only way I’ll do it. I’m not going through no A&R at a writing camp, submitting 100 songs. I’m more like “suck my d##k, come holla at me.”
AllHipHop: Anything you want to let us know?
Sy Ari: Two Sides of a Story out now! This s##t is just a preview. I might drop a secret hip-hop album, and I’m dropping the last Heartbreak.
AllHipHop: Why the last one?
Sy Ari: I’ve had a long series of them s##ts. I consider B4 The Heartbreak the real first one. It’s like when they had all the Batmans, and then Batman Begins. This is my third Heartbreak, Im’a call it the last one. I want to control the crowd, I could make another after this if I want to. I want them to feel “oh this n##ga might dip after this” type s##t.
(AllHipHop News) DMX is back home with Def Jam Records, the recording label and brand that helped make him a super star, AllHipHop has learned exclusively.
Sources with Def Jam have revealed that the deal was made this year and the rapper will likely return with a Christmas album, titled DMX-Mas. Because of timing, the album could come out this year, but could possibly drop in 2020.
DMX was released from a West Virginia prison in January of this year after he was imprisoned for tax evasion since 2018. The rapper, 48, has stayed on a positive path that has lead to a string of shows, concerts. The Yonkers native most recently joined Swizz Beatz and Rick Ross a song “Just In Case” from the Godfather of Harlem soundtrack.
The rapper, born Earl Simmons, saw his greatest success with Def Jam. His debut album It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot dropped in 1998, selling multi-platinum. His best selling album was …And Then There Was X, which moved platinum six times over. Historically speaking, he is
Beyond music, DMX has been featured in Def Jam-themed video games, movies like the cult classic Belly and even published a book of his memoirs, E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX.
The source said that the label would be active and hands on with the rapper who has had numerous personal challenges and stints in jail.
DMX remains as one of the Top 10 most selling rappers of all time, regardless of his issues.
(AllHipHop News) Tekashi 6ix9ine spent the third day spilling his guts on the stand throughout the trial of two alleged Nine Trey Gangsta Blood members.
Both men are accused of committing violent acts around New York with 6ix9ine’s former manager, Kifano “Shotti” Jordan, who is currently serving a 15-year sentence after pleading guilty to numerous RICO charges and almost a dozen other men.
Today (September 19), 6ix9ine threw Jim Jones under the bus when he referred to him a “retired rapper” who was an active member of the Nine Trey.
6ix9ine also confessed he brokered a deal to traffick a kilo of heroin deal into Bushwick in August of 2017, right around the time he was earning hundreds-of-thousands of dollars a month from his music and shows.
Tekashi started cooperating with federal prosecutors one day after his arrest on RICO charges in November 2018.
The rapper decided to cooperate with the Feds and testify against the Bloods, a gang Tekashi said hundreds of thousands of active members.
The rapper, who was looking at a minimum of 47 years in prison, admitted he was after a 5K letter from the judge to get a reduced sentence for helping prosecutors.
“It has the good bad and the ugly about me. The Judge gets it, and can go under the mandatory minimum. Like, time served,” Tekashi 6ix9ine said.
The trial is expected to wrap up next Wednesday (September 27).
(AllHipHop News) The man who U.S. leader Donald Trump called on to negotiate A$AP Rocky’s release from a Swedish jail has been hired as the President’s new National Security Adviser.
Robert O’Brien replaces John Bolton and becomes the fourth man to take on the role during Trump’s presidency.
Confirming the news via Twitter on Wednesday Trump wrote: “I am pleased to announce that I will name Robert C. O’Brien, currently serving as the very successful Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs at the State Department, as our new National Security Advisor. I have worked long & hard with Robert. He will do a great job!”
Trump dispatched O’Brien to Sweden to follow the criminal case against A$AP Rocky, who was ultimately found guilty of assault in August.
(AllHipHop News) Murder Inc. boss Irv Gotti has confirmed he is working on a new movie about the Supreme Team.
Last week, Chris Gotti claimed actor Jamie Foxx was on board to star as Kenneth “Supreme” McGriff in a new movie about the drug dealing crew from Queens, New York.
Chris Gotti told The Outlaws Radio Show on iHeartRadio that Jamie Foxx was confirmed for the untitled movie, which would center around the drug-dealing operations of the Supreme Team in Queens, New York.
Fellow Southside, Queens New York rapper 50 Cent has been feuding with Irv Gotti, Ja Rule and Kenneth McGriff for over two decades, rooted in part over an infamous incident in 2000, when 50 Cent was shot nine times.
50 got wind of the news and chimed in, claiming he blocked Jamie Foxx from starring in the flick saying he was producing his own movie with a member of the Supreme Team, James “Bimmy” Antney.
However, Irv Gotti just fired back at 50, saying he had the exclusive rights to the Supreme Team story, sanctioned by Kenneth McGriff himself.
“Coming Soon The Supreme Team Documentary and The Supreme Team Movie. 2020!! It’s coming!!” Irv Gotti said on IG.
He also said he and Kenneth McGriff were executive producing a new conceptual album to accompany both projects.
“And please don’t get it f##ked up. I am the only person that can make these projects with the full blessing of PREME. Period. Don’t believe anything else,” Irv Gotti said, before wishing Supreme a happy birthday.
It’s OUR Culture Too: Women in Hip-Hop Deserve Better.
I remember being a kid, riding in my mom’s car and listening to the radio. I remember all of the classic hits of the 80s. I still remember how I felt the first time I heard, “My A.D.I.D.A.S.” But most clearly of all, I remember the first time I saw the video for “Push It.”
I remember it feeling so good and so special to not just hear, but see girls… rapping. They were good too, so pretty, with their unique haircuts and clothes. Literally, every girl I knew got an asymmetric haircut after that. Salt-n-Pepa gave girls who were falling in love with hip-hop hope. They gave us reassurance that our voices mattered in this thing that was supposed to be the voice of the streets.
Dear Lord Jamar, How could Hip-Hop be the voice of the streets without women? Do you not think that we walk those very same streets? We struggled too. We hustled too. Hell, the biggest dope dealer I ever knew was a girl named Pig. Her name didn’t fit her, she was actually really pretty and you should have seen her tearing up Detroit streets in that Mustang 5.0.
It is more than sexist to erase women from Hip-Hop culture. To say that our words don’t matter because you can’t relate to them. That is more than sexist, it is, in fact, a form of violence. It is a deliberate erasure.
It is violent to talk about how this culture emerged in the South Bronx in the late 70s and 80s among a recession and a drug epidemic as if there were no women there. No women affected. As if our stomachs didn’t rumble, and our daddies didn’t leave. It is violent to act like our schools weren’t also f**ked up, that our momma’s didn’t smoke rocks, our friends didn’t get shot.
To be erased from our own history is a violent crime, and it is not one that we are going to allow to happen. We will not allow ourselves to be erased from a culture that WE helped to build. I mean, for God’s sake…it was Kool Herc’s SISTER who threw that party on August 11, 1973!
We are here. We have always been here. This is OUR culture too.
The biggest slight against female rappers in 2019 is to say that they are, “all rapping about the same thing.” It is to say that their celebration of their sexuality, their hustle…it is boring. As if we haven’t heard 50,000 songs about women and weed.
For men to say that they can’t relate to a rapper who is female is oxymoronic, because then, why do WE listen to you? Why do we love the culture? Why is it that we can enjoy listening to you, but you can’t enjoy listening to us?
How ironic to be shut out of a culture that, in fact, refers to itself as HER.
Hip-Hop ignores the voices, input, and contributions of women so consistently. Embracing sexism as the worst of its American qualities, (the other being hardcore capitalism). Most African tribes were matrilineal. The words, thoughts, teachings of women were exceedingly important. So, no… Lord Jamar, you are not standing in righteousness when you ignore us. You are instead, whitemanning hard than a mf.
In my friend Kathy Iandoli’s new book, God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop, she combines both a chronological and topical approach to writing about the history of women in hip-hop. Kathy herself both a woman and white, has had her own struggles loving this culture. In the prologue, she talks about the first time she was called a “c**t” on live radio. To be a woman in this industry is to be consistently assaulted verbally, trust me. Latifah didn’t ask, “Who You Callin’ a B####?,” for no reason.
Kathy Iandoli is a noted Hip-Hop journalist with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Her contributions to a variety of media outlets lend themselves to the importance of the book. Kathy has written for VIBE, The Source, XXL, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Cosmopolitan, Vice, and more. Her writing has contributed immeasurably to Hip-Hop’s lexicon.
In writing God Save the Queens, Kathy finally does what dozens of histories of Hip-Hop have never even attempted, telling the stories of women in the genre. Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop has been considered one of the definitive histories of Hip-Hop culture, and it decisively excludes the histories of women except in their role to complement male rappers. The same is even more true for newer books like The Rap Yearbook by Shea Serrano.
Without God Save the Queens, it is possible that the contributions of dozens of important female hip-hop artists who have sold tens of millions of albums, starred in monumental films, and influenced the direction of the culture would continue to go unrecognized.
In her book, Kathy talks about history, her own experiences, and some opinions about how and why women in this industry win and lose. About how they struggle and suffer, about being underpaid, and oversexualized. Through exclusive interviews with female rap legends, Kathy is able to provide insight into the inner workings of the early days of the industry. In the book, Monie Love talks about beef among female rappers, “I want to be fair by saying there was beef amongst us back then,” but, she explains, “to shut down somebody else behind closed doors was not ever a thought that crossed any female’s mind.”
The book is well-written and explores women in Hip-Hop from every part of the country.
God Save the Queens takes the reader on a journey from Hip-Hop’s earliest days to it’s most recent. Near the end of the book, Kathy talks about an upstart rapper who is the daughter of a female rapper, Megan Thee Stallion is the daughter of the late Holly Thomas, who rapped under the name Holly-Wood.
It is a full circle story. Meg’s and the book’s.
God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop is an urgently needed history of the women who are an inextricable part of this amazing culture. In a year where Joe Budden came in #3 on every list of top rappers and Missy dropped a project for the first time in 14 years. There has never been a more important time to remind the world that it was and still is like James Brown, the most sampled artist ever in hip-hop once sang, “This is a man’s world… but it wouldn’t be nothin…NOTHIN without a woman or a girl.”
Biba Adams is a Senior Contributing Writer for AllHipHop.com. Her work has appeared in VIBE, Revolt, Ebony, and more. She is currently back in her hometown of Detroit writing about food, culture, and her city while procrastinating on a novel, about… Hip-Hop.
