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Former Exec Sues BET Over “Misogynistic Culture” Allegedly Fostered By Stephen Hill

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) In March, there were a lot of headlines about the exit of longtime Black Entertainment Television executive Stephen Hill.

However, the turnover at the Viacom-owned cable network also included the dismissal of Zola Mashariki, the one-time Head of Original Programming at BET.

Mashariki has since filed a lawsuit in California federal court.

She alleges there was blatant gender discrimination at the company.

Mashariki’s complaint names Viacom, BET, and Hill as defendants.

“The Company fosters a good old boys’ club atmosphere and mentality that are hostile to women and their advancement,” reads the suit. “This misogynistic culture, which marginalizes, demeans, and undervalues women, begins at the top of the corporate structure.”

Mashariki also claims a senior executive at BET suggested she was faking her breast cancer diagnosis.

“These false and reprehensible statements caused irreparable damage to Ms. Mashariki by suggesting that she was a liar attempting to avoid the duties of her office,” states the complaint.

The Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School graduate called out Hill’s supposed actions in particular, “Defendant Hill has been permitted to systematically discriminate against and harass numerous women. He is protected by the Company’s old boys’ club and HR department.”

The complaint adds, “Defendant Hill announced he was leaving BET on March 29, 2017, while Ms. Mashariki was on leave. Upon information and belief, Defendant’s Hill’s contract was terminated. Between February 9 and March 29, Viacom and BET went from supporting Defendant Hill to terminating him. This is likely because Defendant Hill’s performance suffered when he could no longer appropriate and take credit for Ms. Mashariki’s work while she was on leave, nor could he effectively lead Original Programming without her.”

She also accused the company of violating the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) by unlawfully terminating her while she was on medical leave.

Viacom issued a statement about Mashariki’s lawsuit.

“These claims misrepresent the facts and are without merit,” responded a spokesperson for the corporation. “We strongly deny any allegation of wrongdoing and we intend to respond to the specific allegations in the course of legal proceedings. At Viacom and BET, we take the health and well-being of our employees very seriously and we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse workplace that supports the success of all employees.”

New Music: Jax “Out Here”

By: Kisha MCategory: Music

As a rap artist, storyteller and creative writer, JAX embodies the spirit and aesthetic ‘true folk art.’ With his sublime jargon, bodacious hooks and evocative lyrical style that paints the perfect story, JAX expresses an identity deeply rooted in the culture of traditional and contemporary hip-hop. JAX’s gratifying flow, fresh cadence and cognitive lyrical style culminate into a sub-genre and brand known as TRAP x WOKE. Check his new single, “Out Here” below.

RRose RRome Sticking Around All Year

By: Kisha MCategory: Music
He’s worked side by side with Chris Brown, JadaKiss and more. The public can hear his music streaming on major outlets and his videos have been featured on Music Choice and MTV. RRose RRome plans on continuing this pace for the remainder of 2017, with new single “All Year.” Take a listen to his new joint here. “Hustle all week, grind all year” – RRose RRome

CNN’s Van Jones Signs Management Deal With Jay Z’s Roc Nation (VIDEO)

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) Roc Nation – the record label/management firm founded by Shawn “Jay Z” Carter – is extending its reach beyond just signing entertainers and athletes.

The New York-based company has announced political commentator and former Barack Obama advisor Van Jones has signed a deal with the Roc.

“Roc Nation stands for excellence, innovation and impact, and I am proud to join the family. To make positive change in today’s world, we must close the gaps that exist between artists and activists … cultural leaders and political leaders …  taste-makers and changemakers,” stated Jones. “This partnership opens up the opportunity to do that on a global scale. It’s a bold, unprecedented move. And I’m both humbled and excited by the possibilities.”

Jay Z adds, “Van’s immense capacity for empathy builds bridges. He inspires dialogue and only through conversation and active listening, can true change occur. Roc Nation is honored to support and amplify every initiative.”

Jones recently launched The Messy Truth series on CNN.

In addition, the Yale-educated attorney is set to release his third book, Beyond The Messy Truth: How We Came Apart & How We Come Together, in October.

Previously, Jones penned the New York Times bestsellers The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream.

The new partnership with Jay’s company is said to be “cause-oriented, it will be justice-oriented, and it will promote innovative approaches that uplift people.”

Jones is set to take part in a tour this summer and fall that will support initiatives around education, the environment, and social justice.

Roc Nation is also the management home of Big Sean, DJ Khaled, DJ Mustard, Fabolous, Fat Joe, Mack Wilds, Meek Mill, Rihanna, The Lox, Yo Gotti, and others.

More Really Bad News For Ja Rule And The Fyre Festival

By: Mike WinslowCategory: News

(AllHipHop News) Rapper Ja Rule and his fellow Fyre Festival bosses have been slapped with their third lawsuit this week, following their disastrous canceled event in the Bahamas.

The “Always On Time” hitmaker teamed up with technology entrepreneur Billy McFarland to launch the inaugural luxury bash, which was set to take place over two weekends, starting on April 28.

However, they failed to properly set up the site on the Great Exuma island, and ticket holders, who had paid thousands to attend concerts by musicians including Major Lazer, Tyga, and Pusha T, were forced to stay in disaster relief tents instead of the plush villas they had been promised.

The festival was axed on the morning of its planned launch day, and after all attendees were safely flown home, the first class action lawsuit was filed by celebrity attorney Mark Geragos, demanding $100 million for fraud and breach of contract.

A second similar suit was lodged in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday (May 2) by personal injury lawyer John Girardi, on behalf of his three clients, while a third has now been filed in New York City.

According to documents obtained by Pitchfork.com, ticket holders Matthew Herlihy and Anthony Lauriello are demanding a jury trial against Ja Rule, McFarland, and two other officials, accusing them of “false representations, material omissions, and negligence regarding the ‘Fyre Festival’ and their failure to organize, prepare, and provide attendees with the experience that the Defendants marketed as being a luxurious private-island getaway”.

They are seeking unspecified damages for themselves as well as other attendees for “negligence, fraud, and violations of consumer protection statutes”.

The Fyre Festival founders have yet to comment on the latest legal action.

Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s Unveil Kid’s Clothing Line Today

By: Mike WinslowCategory: News

(AllHipHop News) Reality TV star Kim Kardashian and her rapper husband Kanye West will unveil their joint children’s clothing line today (May 5).

The superstars are no strangers to the world of fashion, but their work in the rag trade has been concentrated on solo projects in the past, with Kanye focusing on his Yeezy lines with sportswear brand Adidas while Kim has been collaborating with her famous sisters on apparel for their DASH label.

But the spouses are proud to be debuting The Kids Supply, their first husband-and-wife clothing collection for children, which will be available to purchase this week.

“Keeping Up with the Kardashians” star Kim reveals she and Kanye have been testing out The Kids Supply designs on their own kids, daughter North, three, and 17-month-old son Saint, ahead of the collection’s release.

“For the past few years Kanye and I have made almost all of our kids clothes…,” Kim shared, before noting the demand for their designs became clear after loved ones kept asking for new designs.

“All of my friends would ask where we get our kids clothes, so now they will be available!,” she added, “Tomorrow’s drop is so sick! Just a hint… Calabasas”.

Kim’s hint seems to refer to Kanye’s latest Yeezy x Adidas collection, which had a Calabasas, California-theme and sold out within minutes after its online release in March.

Calabasas is Kim’s hometown, and where she and Kanye currently reside.

Mimi Faust Asks A Judge To Keep Joseline Hernandez Away From Her Family

By: Mike WinslowCategory: News

(AllHipHop News) A new court battle has broken out between Mimi Faust, Stevie J and their estranged girlfriend, Joseline Hernandez.

Mimi went to court on Tuesday (May 2), and asked a judge to grant a restraining order against Joseline.

Mimi alleges that Joseline’s aggressive behavior has been escalating, and includes threats over social media, allegations that Stevie J is a child molester, not to mention their many physical encounters on the show.

Mimi also made another disturbing allegation against Joseline, claiming she allows the open use of illegal drugs around her baby.

“People think this is a f##king joke. This is for real. This is my real life. I don’t give a f##k about the show or what was said on it,” Mimi fumed to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution while blasting Stevie J.

“If he’s not going to protect my daughter, I will,” Mimi snapped. “If the shoe were on his foot, he’d do exactly what I’m doing. I don’t understand why he thinks this is okay. This is not okay with me in any respect.”

Drake And Meek Mill Ended Beef?

By: YourfavenightmareCategory: Rumors

(AllHipHop Rumors) I thought Meek and Drake were going to be forever enemies. On More Life, I (and others) agree that Drake took some shots at Meek, basically throwing more dirt on him. But Rick Ross is talking on their behalf again. Sometimes I wonder if Rozay is just speaking things into existence or if they are true. I just don’t see Drake or Meek putting things to the side after the whole “twitter fingers/is that a world tour or your girls tour” thing. And Meek damaged Drake more than people want to admit with that ghost writer stuff. Anyway, Ross talks about it around the 11-minute mark.

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Kodak Black Gets More Jail Time

By: Mike WinslowCategory: News

(AllHipHop News) Rapper Kodak Black has been sentenced to 364 days behind bars after violating his house arrest.

The star, real name Dieuson Octave, was found guilty of the violation, which included going to a Miami-Dade strip club and a boxing match in Ohio without the authorization of his probation officer, last month.

Black, who has been in the Broward Main Jail since the end of February, could be free again within the next 30 days, according to reports.

His latest incarceration comes as his career has spiked – he released his new album Painting Pictures at the end of March and his song “Tunnel Vision” has become a big hit in America.

Kendrick Lamar Earns Third Platinum Album With ‘DAMN’

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) It only took three weeks for Kendrick Lamar’s third major label album to earn a platinum plaque.

The TDE emcee’s DAMN has now totaled over 1 million album units.

Interscope announced the achievement on Twitter by simply posting, “DAMN. is now PLATINUM #TDE.”

Both of Lamar’s previous major label LPs – good kid, m.A.A.d city and To Pimp a Butterfly – earned platinum status.

gkmc took nearly a year to pass the million unit mark, while TPAB was not certified platinum for close to a year after its release as well.

Kendrick’s discography also includes the gold-certified project Section.80.

At the moment, DAMN holds the record for the highest first-week album sales for 2017.

The LP opened with 603,000 sales plus streaming units and added another 238,000 units in week two.

DAMN is predicted to collect around 160,000 to 170,000 units in its third week.

T.I. & Suge Knight’s Son Address Funk Flex’s 2Pac Comments; Flex Responds (VIDEO)

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) Funkmaster Flex had a lot of people in the Hip Hop community shaking their heads when he went on Instagram Live to comment about the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur.

The Hot 97 deejay claimed Pac initially shot himself during the violent incident at Quad Recording Studios.

Among the people to address what Flex had to say were T.I. and Suge Knight’s son Suge Jacob Knight.

T.I. posted:

Yo @funkflex Respectfully Bruh… on G-Code…. regardless of what YOU THINK the validity of your statement is, I was taught never to speak down on a dead man. Considering they ain’t here to speak up for themselves. When he was alive, you was on da air then…. that was the time to address this. NOT HERE, NOT NOW, NOT LIKE THIS!!! And I’d say the same to a n-gga from LA speaking on BIG.

Jacob Knight wrote:

I saw how all of a sudden you want to speak on Suge name you b-tchmade ass n-gga. Yall this man is in the same position as Cassie, he’s Puffys b-tch. 20 years later and suge gets locked now you come out and speak on the name? You scary and a coward. All you do is scream on the radio dont try to talk about a CEO who made the westcoast. Everybody from DEATHROW became succesful and I cant say the same for bad boy. WestSide to yo b-tch ass dad cause he didnt teach you how men confront each other.

Flex jumped back on IG to react to the criticism.

In a 41-minute video, the 48-year-old New Yorker claimed he was “not slandering the dead.”

He stated:

We just giving truth. That’s all. I’m just keeping it one hundred. Pac’s music – I love him. I love what he put down. I love what he put in the game. I loved everything he did. It’s just the lying about Biggie. He lied. He f-cking lied. He never cleared it up and then he died. Then Biggie died. I ain’t trying to start no East Coast-West Coast thing.

At one point, Flex responded directly to T.I.:

I was on the radio when that was happening, my brother. I was on the radio breaking Digital Underground on [WBLS] in 1990. T.I, you was 10 years old. So you wasn’t aware of it. And I’m not knocking you, bro… I know you’re speaking from the heart too. Your mom told you you shouldn’t sh-t on the dead, and you’re absolutely right. That’s all. I just wanted to say what I wanted to say. That’s just how I feel.

 

Flex spoke about Suge Knight:

I know Suge’s son had a lot to say. I respect your opinion, my brother. I went to your Instagram page and I see you’re a positive brother… You and your dad probably had some amazing times. But I’m gonna keep it super one hundred for you today. Suge Knight let greed and envy and jealousy seep into his heart and ruin his entire empire. That’s just my opinion. And I wanna say this with a straight face so there’s no f-cking confusion today. I do respect your dad for what he laid down in the music business, but I wanna be so f-cking clear right now. When he used to come to New York, nobody gave a f-ck. Nobody was scared of him. He had no weight over here. Zero weight. He used to come and stay in a hotel over in Fort Lee. He used to stay over there and sneak into the city. All of that is to say, I’m not disrespecting his hustle. I’m just saying I was never scared of him.

The live feed included Flex nearly breaking down in tears as he talked about Tupac allegedly lying about The Notorious B.I.G. being involved in the ’94 ambush at Quad.

Yo @funkflex Respectfully Bruh… on G-Code…. regardless of what YOU THINK the validity of your statement is,I was taught never to speak down on a dead man. Considering they ain’t here to speak up for themselves. When he was alive,you was on da air then…. that was the time to address this. NOT HERE,NOT NOW,NOT LIKE THIS!!! And I’d say the same to a n#### from LA speaking on BIG.

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I saw how all of a sudden you want to speak on Suge name you bitchmade ass n####. Yall this man is in the same position as Cassie, he’s Puffys b####. 20 years later and suge gets locked now you come out and speak on the name? You scary and a coward. All you do is scream on the radio dont try to talk about a CEO who made the westcoast. Everybody from DEATHROW became succesful and I cant say the same for bad boy. WestSide to yo b#### ass dad cause he didnt teach you how men confront each other.

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Tonight 9pm! #InstagramLive We Address!

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Big Boi Talks Wanting ‘Empire’ Creator Lee Daniels To Direct OutKast Biopic

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) Could OutKast be the next music act to get the biopic treatment?

One-half of the Grammy-winning Hip Hop duo spoke with HipHopDX about a possible feature film covering the Atlanta natives.

Big Boi stated:

Me and [Andre 3000] just spoke about it last week when I was in New York. I think he might have been taking a couple meetings talking to people and then I got a couple of people in mind that I’ma talk to, one of them being Lee Daniels who I just did the TV show Star with so yeah all that’s coming and we just know it’s time to do it. It’s coming!

Daniels is best known as the co-creator of the Fox drama series Empire.

The 57-year-old filmmaker also directed the movies Precious, The Paperboy, and The Butler.

When asked who he would like to play him in a biopic, Big Boi suggested one of his offspring could take on the role.

He replied:

Sh-t, I don’t know, maybe one of my sons could do it cause they look exactly like me and they know all the words to all the raps so they probably could pull it off, and they know me so I may have to do the Cube move and pick one of my sons to play me.

There are several upcoming music biopics in the works.

The life stories of Nas, Pharrell Williams, Master P, Bobby Brown, Faith Evans, Jodeci and Xscape are all expected to hit screens in the near future.

While Daddy Fat Sax and Three Stacks figure out creating a film about their career, fans of OutKast can be on the look out for Big Boi’s third solo album Boomiverse. 

Playboi Carti Interview On ‘Ebro In The Morning’ (VIDEO)

By: Mike DeBlasioCategory: Videos

After a successful first week of his self-titled debut project, Playboi Carti recently stopped by Hot 97 to chop it up on Ebro In The Morning. The ATL-rapper spoke on the new project, meeting and signing with A$AP Rocky, wanting to act as well, his influences and much more.

Watch the full interview below.

Xscape Disses TV One and Lands High Powered Producer For “Authorized” Biopic

By: Mike WinslowCategory: News

(AllHipHop News) A biopic about R&B group Xscape is in the works with the original members.

Kandi Burruss-Tucker, Tameka ‘Tiny’ Harris, and sisters LaTocha and Tamika Scott are working on the project with “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” producer Mona Scott-Young.

Tucker, Harris, and the Scotts will also be featured in the biopic. The project is currently being shopped to networks, according to Deadline.com.

Xscape recently announced they are reuniting to record a new album and launch a tour after a 12-year hiatus.

The news about the project also comes after bosses at TV One revealed they are developing a biopic about the group.

The biopic at TV One is not authorized and the group members do not approve of the project.

“We are excited to join forces with Mona Scott-Young and Monami Entertainment to bring the real Xscape story to the world,” a statement from Xscape reads. “This partnership will allow us to tell our story about our lives the way we lived it. It’s our truth about the rise, the fall, and the return of Xscape. We feel the recent announcement of an unauthorized biopic on our lives is disrespectful and disappointing. We are not, in any way, participating in that project and it will never represent our true story.”

In addition to the biopic, the group is looking to develop a docuseries about its reunion.

Ne-Yo Releases His Own Rendition of “HUMBLE.”

By: Mike DeBlasioCategory: Music

Two years since his last album, followed by only a few [under the radar] singles; Ne-Yo has been somewhat quiet these past months. However, the R&B singer returns from his hiatus with a new remix over Kendrick Lamar’s popular “DAMN.” single “HUMBLE.”

Check it out below.

YG – “Pop It, Shake It” (Feat. DJ Mustard) [VIDEO]

By: Mike DeBlasioCategory: Videos

Compton rapper YG returns with the official video to his latest single, released back in March titled “Pop It, Shake It” featuring frequent collaborator, DJ Mustard. He is currently working on his forthcoming project “Just Re’d Up 3: Know Your Worth” which is set to drop this summer.

Watch the Director X-visual below.

Nas Breaks Down “It Ain’t Hard To Tell” With Harvard Poetry Professor (VIDEO)

By: Yohance Kyles (@HUEYmixwitRILEY)Category: News

(AllHipHop News) Nas has built a nice relationship with Harvard University.

The rap icon helped establish the prestigious institution’s Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellowship, and he was awarded the W.E.B Dubois Medal from Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.

Recently, Nas sat down with Harvard poetry professor Elisa New to discuss his classic Illmatic record “It Ain’t Hard To Tell.”

Nas took the time to break down a few lines from one of his breakout singles for the Poetry in America YouTube channel.

The conversation goes to show the truly poetic nature of the Queens emcee’s lyrics and Hip Hop music in general.

“Before there was rap music, there was this different way of using the English language,” said Nas. “There’s certain neighborhoods that spin the words around a lot different than others.”

He added, “I talk from that point of view – that language around my neighborhood that everybody uses. I don’t even recognize an outside world, especially back then.”

Read “It Ain’t Hard to Tell” by Nas on Genius