(AllHipHop News)Actor Dominic Santana hopes to take the role of Suge Knight to another level in the upcoming biopic “All Eyez on Me.”
The Tupac biopic stars Demetrius Shipp Jr. as Tupac, while Danai Gurira plays Afeni Shakur. Jamal Woolard plays Biggie Smalls, and Dominic Santana landed the role of Suge Knight.
Even though the actor has dozens of credits to his name, including “20 Funerals,” “Dead Heist,” and “The Game,” his role of Suge Knight is one of the most anticipated performances of the biopic, which will be in theaters this summer.
“I’m very excited to be a part of such an iconic story and piece of music history,” Dominic Santana told AllHipHop.com. “Whenever a biopic is made, you have to approach it with respect to the people you are portraying, but also bring the role to a new level for those who aren’t familiar with the life and times of the historical figures.
“The response from fans has been a great mixture, but overall, most people have been excited about how well the casting was,” Dominic Santana continued.
(AllHipHop Rumors) Well it looks like Future may not be smashing Scottie Pippen’s wife, Larsa Pippen anymore. Or maybe they have an open relationship. LOL.
As you know, at one point Scottie was filing for divorce, and rumors spread that the reason he was filing for divorce was that his wife was allegedly having an affair with Future.
While Larsa has maintained that her and Future are just friends, word around the A is they have definitely been messing around with each other.
Last year Larsa was allegedly spotted on Future’s jet and flying city-to-city with the rapper, and she was caught at his Miami mansion.
Future was even a bit petty last year as he posted a few cryptic subliminals [aimed at Scottie], one saying “She’s mine now,” on Snap Chat.
Word previously spread that Scottie was calling off the divorce despite the fact that Larsa continued to hang out with her alleged side boo, Future.
Well, now Larsa and Scottie were recently spotted together at the Nice Guy restaurant in Los Angeles. Apparently they have been working on their relationship. Larsa has also been flaunting a new 14 karat ring that she says was an early Valentine’s Day gift.
As Larsa and Scottie were spotted leaving the restaurant, a rude member of the crazy paparazzi decided to ask the couple where Future was!
Scottie looked like he wanted to punch the sh-t out of dude, but he kindly avoided the lawsuit by asking all of the photographers were they “done.” Pippen was visibly mad. Hell I would be too. That is the ultimate disrespectful question especially given the state of their current relationship drama. How would you have handled the situation?
“Our intention with this year’s brand campaign is to highlight the inspirational and motivational power of music and his positive impact in light of the challenging times that we face,” said Evan Greene, Chief Marketing Officer of the Recording Academy. “This latest spot in the series captures music undeniable force to connect us and bind us together through a shared, collective community. The Recording Academy strives to reinforce music’s ability to unify, and this film serves to powerfully amplify this message.”
Others featured in the video include Anderson’s sister Camille, and his six-year-old son Soul.
Anderson .Paak will perform at this year’s Grammy awards with A Tribe Called Quest on Sunday, February 12.
(AllHipHop Rumors) Well it looks like Stevie J & Wale have found themselves as the subjects of gay scandals this week!
You know that every other day a story emerges that some rapper or singer is allegedly gay. This week’s victim of the gay rapper rumor mill happens to be Wale.
Someone allegedly sent a photo of a man and someone who people believe to be as Wale in the bed together with a story line of an alleged gay affair to gossip IG account @IndustryOnBlast.
The person says that Wale was allegedly messing around with their male cousin but got ghost once Wale had his new baby.
“My cousin has been dealing with Wale off and on for 3 years, he flew him up to DC last summer and we all went out to stadium and a few other places. He stopped hearing from him and all of a sudden he post his new baby on his page. The tea is my cousin is a guy. He really should be ashamed, he’s living a lie and really foul out here, but then again that’s probably why he’s paranoid and on edge,” wrote the insider.
Wale wasn’t with the sh-t, so he took to Twitter to respond.
“Kill yall wild af and believe anything. Some of yall want some drama bad you’ll settle for a fake one if it’ll create a convo,” said Wale.
I mean not that it matters that much whether he is or he isn’t, well depending on who you ask. LOL.
It certainly didn’t help Wale’s case when people brought up his interview with Larry King where he says that he thought it would be a gay rapper before a black president, and that it’s taboo to speak bad about the gay community now because homosexuality is socially accepted.
Wale saying that homosexuality is socially accepted doesn’t necessarily mean he’s gay either. He could just be speaking in general and expressing that he’s a heterosexual male who isn’t homophobic. Either way, you can’t convince the internetz that that’s not Wale in the picture below. What are you thouhts?
All I know is yall better leave Wale alone. Yall know he’s experienced suicidal thoughts in the past, and that he’s been considering quitting music.
(AllHipHop News) Migos has linked with Spotify to releases two new tracks earlier today (February 8).
The two songs were recorded at Spotify’s studio in New York City last month, along with engineer and DJ, DJ Durell.
During the session, Migos turned their “Dab Of Ranch” video in honor of their alignment with of potato chip brand Rap Snacks, into a full three-minute song.
The group also recorded a special version of their latest single “T-shirt,” which can be also be found on Spotify.
Take a look at a few photos from the recording session below:
(AllHipHop Features) In the Information Age, music artists continue to devise new ways to connect directly with the public. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat offer entertainers the opportunity for viral challenges, memes, and live video to elevate them to positions of widespread popularity.
Sage The Gemini is one of the contemporary acts that effectively uses social media to bring attention to his artistry. The California-bred songwriter and producer turned what may seem to be just a silly Snapchat filter into a genius marketing move for his 2016 song.
“Now and Later” was released as a single in mid-October and was added as the soundtrack for a sunglasses feature on Snapchat. The track quickly spread across cyberspace when A-list celebrities like Kevin Hart, Snoop Dogg, and Khloe Kardashian were seen rocking the colored-tinted virtual eyewear on the social network.
The video for “Now and Later” has also collected over 11 million views on YouTube and the Soundcloud version of the song currently sits at over 2.7 million plays. Sage followed the noteworthy buzz for the record by heading out on the “West For The Winter Tour.”
A video diary from the 13-city trek is now available, with more content from The HBK Gang affiliate in the works. It has been three years since his Remember Me album was released, but Sage insists he’s still coming with a sophomore set titled Bachelor Party in the near future.
After dealing with a public breakup from singer Jordan Sparks and other unsubstantiated tabloid rumors, Sage The Gemini is ready for fans to focus on his music and not his personal matters. I spoke with the man born Dominic Woods by phone last week, and our conversation delved into his creative direction, his command of social media, and more.
Right now you’re on the West Coast. Do you plan on extending the tour to other regions?
That’s a bridge we’ll cross when we get to it. Right now, we’re securing the West Coast. I’m going to wait until I put out some more music so I can go out there with more material.
You recorded a recap for the tour. What can your fans expect to see in that video?
It’s showing the personalities of the people who I’m working with. It’s a lot of fun stuff. It shows how I interact with my fans. Honestly, I haven’t even seen it yet. It’s just stuff I’ve been doing.
So you’ve just been living and the cameras were just following you?
Yep. [laughs]
You mentioned being interactive with your fans. You’re someone that’s pretty open about your life on social media. Not all artists choose to do that. Why do you choose to be so active on social media?
Just so people can realize I’m an actual human being, that the stuff that I go through is exactly what they go through, and I’m no different from them. It lets people know the difference between a situation that’s normal and one that has been exaggerated because they are a lot of trolls on the internet. I’m just letting people see what reality is.
You’ve been able to harness social media and turn it into a hit record with “Now and Later.” How did the Snapchat filter for that song come together?
The song came out and we wanted to do a great marketing strategy. Two great minds came together with this plan, and they brought it to Snapchat. My great marketing team at Atlantic and my management brought it to Snapchat. Snapchat believed in it. Shout out to Snapchat. They used my shades I usually wear. They put it to use as a Snapchat filter, so everyone could look like me while still rapping my song. [laughs]
A lot of celebrities have used the filter. What was your reaction to seeing the Kardashians and Kevin Hart using it?
My heart, as well as my mouth, just dropped to the floor. I was like, “What the…” Kevin Hart used it like six times.
Have you seen an increase in the numbers?
Yes! A lot. It’s crazy. “Gas Pedal” has been out for like five years and it has like 63 million plays on Spotify. That record came out [last fall] and it has 75 million plays.
Is this intended to be the lead single to the album? Is the rollout process beginning?
I don’t know yet. I’m just doing what I do. I’m honestly just releasing music. I’m just creating the music in my thought process. I’m leaving it up to the label to do all that.
Are you still sticking with the title Bachelor Party?
Most definitely. You know the concept of going through trial-and-error, just trying to find yourself before you get married – it’s basically like I’m done playing games. Things are about to get real. I’m about to marry this music and show what commitment looks like when doing this music. Just to let people know – he’s a grown up in the music now, he’s going to start showing talent.
It’s been a while since you put out an album. What’s the sound that you find yourself attracted to at the moment?
All of them. It doesn’t matter. I’m just attracted to music, period. I’m just making music. I don’t want to be “Bay Area famous.” I don’t want to be “California famous.” I want to be a worldwide, international Pop, Hip Hop artist. So I’m doing everything right now. I’m not sticking to one thing. So you’ll be hearing a lot of different stuff out of me – rapping fast, being lyrical, being not so lyrical, being more melodic. All that stuff.
You want to go for the Pop icon status. As you know, the more famous you become, the more stuff you have to deal with as far as the media, especially with social media. You talked about trolls before. How do you manage to brush off the negativity that comes at you online?
I let go and let God. I just worry about music and I don’t talk about none of that. I just do music. That’s what I came here to do. If they’re talking about me on social media, then I must be famous. I must be doing something right with my music for people to feel like every time something is going on they got to mention it to the world. They do that to famous people. So for me to be mentioned at a place where people always mention famous people, I must be doing something right with the music.
So you embrace the fame? Some artists don’t. They try to avoid the spotlight.
It’s annoying. But like I said, I look at the positive in it. I don’t keep talking about it. I don’t acknowledge it. I just do what I do. Because at the end of the day, if people don’t love me, God will love me.
I’m sure you get a lot of positive feedback from your fans as well.
Most definitely. The positive always outweighs the negative.
You have the single out now that’s buzzing. You’re touring. Then Kehlani just dropped her album. What’s the vibe like among the HBK collective at the moment?
Everybody’s just working. Everybody’s congratulating everyone and working on ourselves as people. We’re still having fun. Everybody’s good. We’re stronger than ever. The young Wu-Tang. [laughs]
So are you guys planning on coming together and doing projects as a unit?
I’m pretty sure. Everybody has their own life. We all didn’t come out the same mother, so everyone has a different thought process. So when we come to that [point], then we’ll do that most definitely.
There’s a lot happening in the world right now. There’s been a discussion in the Hip Hop community about whether or not artists should take a stand on issues that are affecting people’s lives. What are your thoughts about that?
Of course, I can see where people are coming from when they say artists should speak out more. But honestly, just because we sell records, ain’t nobody going to listen to us. Just like they don’t listen to other people. We’re just people just like them.
If you feel like you’re intelligent enough to say some stuff that can get people to open their eyes, then most definitely. But you can’t ask an artist to speak out when you have a voice too. Don’t spend your time asking me to speak when you should be speaking out as well.
We’re going to do what we have to do. Just because we’re not saying it in the media and trying to get likes, doesn’t mean we’re not trying to speak out in real life. You don’t know what we got going on. Don’t worry about us. You got to worry about what you’re saying, what you’re contributing. We’re going to do what we need to do in private.
I’m about to sit my ass down and think about what the hell I’m about to say. I don’t need no pressure from you because all that’s going to do is f-ck up what the hell I got going on because I’m trying to please you instead of trying to make the situation better.
I don’t need to please you. I need to be able to sound intelligent when making a damn point instead of trying to get likes on Facebook and Instagram. We don’t need to do that. Don’t worry about me. You need to worry about yourself, period.
There’s definitely a good and bad side to social media.
There is. I feel like people should just pray on situations. There’s a lot of horrible stuff happening in the world and there are a lot of great things that’s happening in the world. If you’re intelligent enough to go out there and speak or lend a helping hand, by all means, if that’s what you want to do, go ahead. We all have voices, but that doesn’t mean that you should speak. Not everybody is meant to be a spokesperson.
You show a lot of your personality to your fans. Is there any interest in going into other areas of entertainment like comedy or acting?
Most definitely. When the time is right, I’m going to go for some movie roles if the role is right.
You have to jump on one of these biopics. [laughs] That’s the wave right now. Look at The New Edition Story and Straight Outta Compton.
That would be crazy. [laughs] My partner Keith Powers from Sacramento was in New Edition. Shout out to him. That was tight.
Oschino took to Instagram to blast Meek, calling him a “coward” in one post.
“THE NERVE OF THIS DUDE F-CKING COWARD!!” wrote the Philly rapper in the caption of a video.
In the reposted clip, Meek is seen talking about how Oschino was one of the few people that gave him a feature verse in the early days of his career.
Some of Oschino’s followers were confused about the motive behind the post, so he added another IG video explaining why he has issues with Meek.
“I know y’all were wondering why I put that video up. It’s to let n-ggas know, who ain’t from Philly, who the boy was hanging with when he ain’t have sh-t,” he stated.
Oschino went on to explain that he expected Meek to support his Appetizer projects on social media after they apparently agreed to promote each other’s work.
“I look at his page. My sh-t ain’t up. I look again. His page’s deactivated. So I was talking about it on [Instagram Live]. He must of watched my page from somebody else’s Live,” recalled Oschino. “I don’t know what I said. But whatever I said, he caught feelings. He’s a sissy n-gga. Y’all know he’s a sissy n-gga. The same n-gga who got mad about Drake and Wale not putting his sh-t up.”
Oschino then claimed a text conversation between he and Meek featured the MMG member reportedly saying, “Don’t text my phone. I don’t owe you nothing. I ain’t scared of you.”
Meek may have responded to the IG attack on his own page by adding the caption “Doors on the coupe waaaaaayyyy up….. it’s so easy to hateeee us!” to a recent picture.
Prior to this recent falling out, Oschino actually defended Meek during his feud with Beanie Sigel.
“First of all, I think it’s Beans’ fault, personally. Because at the end of the day Beans don’t even know Meek at all, you know what I’m saying? He don’t even know him, so for him to jump in Meek and The Game’s beef is just like, What is you doin’? You supposed to carry yourself a different type of way,” Oschino is quoted saying in a 2016 article.
(AllHipHop News) A promoter is suing Young Thug, claiming that the Atlanta rapper botched a show, which ended up costing him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
A concert organizer named Nicholas Fitts filed the lawsuit in Cobb County, Georgia court claiming the rapper skipped out on a concert in August.
According to the lawsuit, Young Thug had signed a $55,000 contract for the concert, which was supposed to take place at Sahlen’s Stadium in Rochester, New York.
Apparently, Young Thug skipped the show with no “valid legal reason” and caused the promoter to lose over $200,000 in ticket sales, in addition to the $57,000 he spent in marketing and promotional costs.
All told, the promoter is seeking over $360,000 from Young Thug and his company YSL Enterprises.
Young Thug has faced several legal challenges over the past 12 months.
(AllHipHop Rumors) I don’t know about this one man…….
Word on the street is that Lil Wayne and Chief Keef may be gearing up to create a joint album.
Out of all the rappers that I’d take a joint Lil Wayne album from, Chief doesn’t come to mind or make the list.
Anyway a video has surfaced of Chief Keef‘s team discussing an upcoming joint project from Keef and Lil Wayne.
Allegedly the collaborative effort will be called ‘Young Glo Money’, and it will drop sometime in August.
“We just did an album with Lil Wayne b-tch. Sosa and Lil Wayne got an album coming out in August. Sosa and Lil Wayne in August, the album, Young Glo Money. It’s called Young Glo Money, Lil Wayne and Chief Keef. The album coming out August, Young Glo Money,” said one of the crew members.”
Is this what you wanted? Is this what the streets have been asking for? LOL. What are your thoughts?
(AllHipHop News) An alleged Chicago gang member associated with rappers Chief Keef, Lil Reese, and Lil Durk, has been hit with a 40-year prison sentence, due to his involvement in the death of a 14-year-old in 2014.
D. Rose, born Ahbir Sardin, was convicted of shooting a teenager named Venzel Richardson.
(AllHipHop News) Rapper Tyga and his team have been sued by a process server for allegedly assaulting him in November.
The “Rack City” hitmaker was served with court papers as he arrived at Penthouse nightclub in West Hollywood on November 18 to celebrate his 27th birthday.
Video footage showed the process server handing the rapper the papers as he made his way from his car to the club’s entrance despite being pushed away by the rapper’s security guards.
The server has now filed a lawsuit over the incident, claiming he was “grabbed, yanked, pulled and choked” by a member of Tyga’s entourage.
He claims Tyga, real name Michael Ray Stevenson, green lit their violent behavior.
It is not known what lawsuit Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend was being served with back in November, but days after the incident, it was reported he had been sued by car dealer Alex Benedict for failing to keep up with monthly payments on a red Ferrari.
Benedict claimed Tyga had signed a lease agreement in May for a Ferrari 488 but it was repossessed in August after he failed to pay.
They allegedly reached another deal to use the sports car until October but the rapper missed the deadline to return it and it was repossessed again.
Benedict then sued him for at least $150,000 in damages.
Last year, he finally settled a case relating to a long-running jewelry debt with bosses at the Jason of Beverly Hills store, after he allegedly failed to return a diamond Cuban link chain and a diamond pantheon watch he had borrowed in 2012.
He was first ordered to pay up in 2014 but failed to do so.
The retail bosses went back to court to demand payment, and Tyga finally agreed to hand over the outstanding funds in November.
(AllHipHop News) Atlanta rapper Desiigner has announced he is launching his first ever headlining tour of North America.
The rapper will launch a six week, 25-city tour this April, starting in Seattle and the outing will wind down May 16th in Toronto, Canada.
The Brooklyn-bred artist will perform material from his debut mixtape “New Engliish,” in addition to previewing material from his official debut album, which is due in stores in 2017 via Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music.
Desiigner’ s also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance.
Public tickets for the tour go on sale at 12:00 noon on February 10th.
(AllHipHop Features) D.R.A.M. will spend much of this Sunday patiently waiting to find out if he’ll be adding “Grammy winner” to his career accomplishments. The German-born, Virginia-raised vocalist’s Top 5 smash hit “Broccoli” is up for Best Rap/Sung Performance at this year’s ceremony.
That particular Grammy category is highly competitive with records by Beyoncé, Kanye West, and Drake also nominated for the award. A win would be great, but D.R.A.M. is already riding high over the fact he has earned his first nod from The Recording Academy.
AllHipHop.com spoke with the singer-songwriter to get his initial reaction to finding out he was officially a Grammy nominee. The discussion also consists of D.R.A.M. reflecting on penning his first song as well as the first time he met face-to-face with his “WiFi” collaborator Erykah Badu.
With “Broccoli” going double platinum, the Big Baby D.R.A.M. album earning critical praise, and a well received international tour continuing until June, Idnit the dog’s best friend is one of the brightest new voices in Hip Hop and R&B. So it’s the perfect time to see some of the history behind how D.R.A.M. became an award-nominated performer.
Me and my boy TJ – he goes by the name of Perfekk now – were like 16 years old. There was this song called “Introduction” or something like that. We recorded it with this guy named Mr. Kelsey. He put it on a little CD. We got in the car and listened to it. The guy who actually recorded it, ejected the CD, took an ink pen and scribbled all over it, broke it, and threw it out the window. He said, “I’d never record this!” [laughs] That’s a true story.
First Time Performing On Your Own Tour
Nashville was crazy because it was a real question on what was the crowd going to be like. We had never hit Nashville. The fact that we sold the show out was already a blessing. Then we got so curious to see the crowd. It was so many different people. I just took it all in like, “They’re here to see me?” It was really a one-of-a-kind feeling.
First Time Meeting Erykah Badu
That sh-t was lit. This was down at SXSW [Festival]. It was at one of the sponsored shows where she headlined as a DJ. I was on the bill as well. We had been conversing, but that was the first time we met in person. I went into her dressing room. It was so dope. A few days later, we ended up linking up and working in the studio. That was even more lit. It was pretty monumental.
First Time Finding Out You Were Nominated For A Grammy Award
Oh my God. I was in Brooklyn. I was cooling with my homegirl. It was mad early in the morning. I don’t even think I went to sleep the night before. Then I put out a random ass tweet like “Big Baby” or something stupid. Somebody responded back immediately like, “I hope the Grammys don’t snub you today.”
I had no idea anything was going on with the Grammy announcements. So I was like, “What the f-ck is this n-gga even talking about?” Like fifteen minutes later, I get a call from my manager Tunde. He’s like, “It’s f-cking lit! We’re Grammy f-cking nominated! I’m about to send you this screenshot.” All of a sudden, I just started jumping on the bed. Oh my god. I can’t… You know what I’m saying? That sh-t was crazy.
First Time Hearing A Parliament-Funkadelic Song
Okay. I’m going to give you the first time that made me fall into the trance of loving and studying Parliament-Funkadelic. I think I was like 19 years old. I was riding around, getting high. I finally get back to the crib. I go upstairs in my room. My room had a computer, so I would make beats and songs. But I would also listen to music.
I had just recently downloaded the entire discography of Parliament. Then I went to Motor Booty Affair, track 3 – “(You’re a Fish and I’m a) Water Sign.” It was so bass heavy and trancey. It was a song about a request to have sex with a girl. It’s supposed to be like a bar underwater. It’s all these innuendoes about water, but it sounded so glorious.
The way my rinky-d### speakers were set up the subwoofer was overpowering the speakers. I swear I had the record on repeat for two hours. I was just sitting there vibing. I was crying to that sh-t, and it’s not even a song about emotions. It’s got to be in the top 5 greatest records I’ve ever heard in my life.
(AllHipHop Rumors) Hey I wouldn’t trust anyone that continuously gets arrested for something like gun charges and gets out anyway. LOL. Like that’s not how it works unless they are…. nvm.
Anyway in this week of L’s, like his dear friend Bow Wow, Soulja Boy also took another L!
So the internet spent most of last night roasting Soulja Boy so bad about putting up a sonogram pic that didn’t belong to him aka anyone he’s associated with, that eventually he deleted the photo off of all of his social media accounts.
By now, no one believes anything Big Soulja has to say. I mean from fake jewelry, fake houses, fake guns, fake hometowns, fake street cred…we’ve now arrived at fake pregnancies apparently.
So the rapper posted a photo of a baby’s sonogram Tuesday and claimed that he would soon be a father.
It immediately sent people into a research frenzy where people found the same “12 weeks” photo on Google images.
Now no one believes that he is going to be a father. If he really was, couldn’t he have posted the real sonogram?! Many people wanted to know who in their right mind would get pregnant by Soulja Boy in 2017. You’d be surprised though. SMH!
Folks ridiculed Soulja so bad yesterday. I’m starting to think he takes more L’s than Bow Wow and Meek Mill now.
Big Soulja is really starting to sound like the rapper who cried wolf every single time. It’s one thing for a woman to be lame, but when a man is lame and doesn’t know he is…….my gawd! Carry on.
Hey @souljaboy, next time you plan on bullshitting about having a kid make sure the pic you use isn't on the first page of Google Images pic.twitter.com/4nxevwodXu
(AllHipHop News) It appears Tremaine “Trey Songz” Neverson is following in the footsteps of Flavor Flav, Ray J, and The Game by starring in a dating reality show.
Tremaine The Playboy is set to follow Trey as he attempts to find “love” among seventeen women competing for his attention.
Draya Michele and Steelo Brim serve as hosts for the VH1 web-series.
The trailer for Tremaine The Playboy features the typical reality show moments: shady confessionals, fights, and sexual imagery.
(AllHipHop Features) Nick Cannon is back to music. The multi-media mogul has been busy with a plethora of projects, but music continues to be one of his true passions. He’s got a new song in “Hold On,” which is rapidly gaining popularity, tinged with Bollywood influence. Nick is also getting a lot of traction for his more conscious work and outspoken demeanor. Focused decidedly on the music, AllHipHop’s Chuck Creekmur also talked to him about the state of America under Trump, #StayWoke and why kids need to know Talib Kweli, Mos Def and Common! For more video content go to: AllHipHop’s YouTube Channel.
AllHipHop.com: Now one of the things that somebody said when I told them I was interviewing you, they were like, “Oh he woke! He woke.”
Nick Cannon: I hate that term, yo. I had #staywoke. I hate woke. For the people who started, it started out in a beautiful place but now everybody, especially now, and everybody all of a sudden … Trump done woke everybody up, but I like the term awakened because when you truly understand what this and if you study Buddhism, that’s what the definition actually is, is one who’s awakened and understands the light, you know what I mean? I study all philosophies, not all but many philosophies, you know what I mean?
I spent a lot of time with my Moorish brothers, understanding the mathematics and the blessings in that world. My brothers in the nation, I’ve grown really close to them. I come from a family of ministers in Christianity and so I’ve seen every side of that. I grew up in megachurches. I’ve seen the ones that hustle for the money. I’ve seen the pimps turned preachers, no joke. Go from one hustle to another, but I’ve also seen the miracles and the beauty and the anointing in that world so I know that world is real too.
I’ve understood that, I always say it’s like a meal man or it’s like a phone service. Whether you got Verizon or Sprint as long as your call get through, you know what I mean? I think people need to understand, yo you can borrow from this philosophy. You can understand this philosophy but it’s all about knowledge and information. That’s what breathes wisdom. I don’t have to act or even front like I know anything. I just know I want to know more. I want to understand why these group of people believe this. I want to understand this.
At the end of the day, I don’t believe what people tell me all that. That’s what I think people say that I’m woke because I don’t believe in government. You know what I mean? I don’t believe everything that they telling us in the news each and every night is the truth. I’m always looking for the real answers, or at least a stronger answer, and especially when it comes to our people.
We know that we’re disenfranchised. We know that this system wasn’t set up for us. As a community we got to come together and educate ourselves at every level and invest in ourselves because they clearly show us that the top 3%, the elitist care about them and they don’t care about us so how are we going to change that, so I put my money where my mouth is and really want to help the community, help this education system and help the babies at the end of the day.
If that’s me being woke, I appreciate it, but I’d rather say I’m awakened.
AllHipHop.com: Right. You have a really ill free style that was shared, I mean I saw it repeatedly shared on Facebook. That I think got a lot of people onto you in a more substantial way.
Nick Cannon: Yeah with some substance. What I started doing on Facebook and even on my Instagram, I do focus Sundays. Spoken word is like to me, even as I’m getting older it’s like yo I can’t be rapping about b###### in the club forever, you know what I mean? That’s always been an outlet for me. Poetry and I’ve been inspired by Pac. I’ve been inspired by you know Gil Scott Heron, you know the last poets. I came up listening to that whether it was my pops or my grandfather or whatever having that stuff.
It’s always been in me like I wrote my first poem when I was eight and to actually, that’s my outlet to actually say something. Whether it’s spoken word or freestyle, it’s just like yo I can just give some bars to these young people that that man they not really hearing it.
AllHipHop.com: Yeah.
Nick Cannon: You know what I mean? At the end of the day a lot of these young kids they never heard of Talib Kweli. They never heard of Mos Def. They don’t know Common was an ill-ass rapper, you know what I mean? It’s like they see him as a movie star. I feel like because I love 21 Savage. I love Yachty. I love [Lil] Uzi, but we got to give them something else that they can balance it in. I mean that’s why I salute to cats like Kendrick and Cole, but it needs to be, if we can deliver it in a certain way that you know, dang even Nick Cannon? Get it? You know what I mean? I felt like that was my opportunity and I continue to push that out there. Everybody who’s understanding it and rocking with the sovereignty, I appreciate you.
(AllHipHop Music) Star Rios, the daughter of legendary rapper Big Pun, has started on her rap career. The budding entrepreneur has already had tremendous success with her line of fashionable glasses and now she followers in her fathers massive footsteps. “Your Highness” is a fun, lyrical excursion that samples “Who’s That Girl” by Eve. Poppa Pun is well represented in the video, as well as younger brother Chris Rivers.
Today (February 7) marks the 17th year anniversary of the late Christopher Rios. Job well done, mama!
(AllHipHop News) Rap trio Migos have been announced as headliners for The 15th Annual #Fest, which is billed as the nation’s largest collegiate music festival.
Organizers for the festival had already announced a hip-hop heavy line-up, which includes 21 Savage, Lil Yachty, Young Thug, Jauz, and now Migos will hit the stage during the outdoor event.
“Migos was the perfect headlining act to place on #Fest bill,” said Dominic Petrozzi, the founder of #Fest.
“The cultural impact the group has made with recently released music aligns perfectly with the cult-like following #Fest has grown into with the collegiate space.”
Last year, over 20,000 people came to the #Fest in 2016, and Petrozzi said he expects even higher numbers this year.
Even higher numbers this year during the two-day festival, which takes place April 21st and 22nd.
Passes to the festival include overnight parking and an expanded second stage, to accommodate more acts including Wacka Flocka Flame, Party Thieves, Cheap Codes, and others.
(AllHipHop Rumors) Well it looks like Stevie J & Wale have found themselves as the subjects of gay scandals this week!
