It looks like rapper Waka Flocka is doing some serious backtracking and damage control in regards to his controversial statements about President Barack Obama not being our real first black President.
After receiving much backlash, Waka tweeted out a full explanation of what he “meant”.
We aren’t buying it. He knew that tweet would be controversial, and if this is what he really meant he could’ve posted it to begin with…. although not everyone agrees with his second statement either.
Waka or honestly a friend of his tweeted out,
“Clearly I love our prez and chief. I just think that america as a whole thought it was time for a black president. It was similar to what was expected in the civil rights evolutionary chain. When I stated that I can’t wait until we get a real black president, I meant a black president who is accepted by all who just happens to be black. I do think obama is for the people, I don’t think the people of america were fully about his administration. He was elected into office then had to fight for his agenda at every turn. Bush didn’t. Obama was handcuffed by the same government that was in place to support him. The media can make this about me or they can make it about change in this election year. I said it, I explained it, now I’m done.”
How do you feel about Waka’s statement? Who did Waka pay to try to clean this up?
Several days ago Baltimore City caught the attention of the masses, yet again. This time it wasn’t because a young man died in the custody of law enforcement or because our city was set ablaze due to civil unrest leading to an uprise in response to a young man dying in the custody of police. Naw, this time a corner in east Baltimore, approximately a stone throw away from the “city” of Johns Hopkins, encompassed by dilapidated buildings, deteriorated roads, vacant and demolished homes, trash strewn gutters and curbs, across the street from two churches, a struggling elementary school and directly in front of a bar, got its 15 minutes of fame.
Well in all honesty, it wasn’t the corner that got the attention it so desperately need. As a matter of fact, I’d bet, most people who watched the video uploaded to WorldstarHipHop , which accumulated more than 1 million views in less than a week, entitled “So Sad: 19 year old Baltimore Woman Tripping After Doing Drugs” wasn’t astutely paying attention to all that the girl was in the midst of, seen and unseen. Just like I’d surmised that most of us, myself included, aren’t always actively addressing the societal ills and influences that oftentimes lead our youth to be “tripping off of drugs.”
Less than one mile from the corner of North and Rutland, the location where the video, “So Sad” was recorded, is a methadone clinic. Every day the corner of North and Gay Street is inundated with loss dreams and broken promises. The corner is comprised of people who are just a shell of their former selves, who, for reasons unbeknownst to many, succumbed to the ills of society unable to wrestle with their reality without being inebriated. I know this truth personally because one of the many “inundated with loss dreams and broken promises” occupying that corner daily is my father. The video of the 19 year old young lady prompted hundreds of thousands to be outraged. I just wonder how outraged people would be if they could see the hundreds of individuals up the street from North and Rutland in the same exact stupor. Or how outraged are you when you visit the World Famous Lexington Market downtown Baltimore and see the exact same thing. Are you outraged then? Is it the same type of outrage? And if you are outraged, what are you doing about it?
The Turning Point Methadone Clinic is one that provides narcotics and “treatment” for the old guard of Baltimore addiction. However, the young 19 year old recorded “bent” on the corner of North and Rutland is the new and present pictorial of Baltimore City substance abuse. Sad, you say? Hell yeah! But the whole story is far much worse than what even that ten minute video depicted.
Do you have any idea how many of our young people are smoking weed and/or popping pills, daily? After the Baltimore Riots in 2015 when all of those pharmacies were burglarized and robbed, our then Police Commissioner Anthony Batts stated that there were enough drugs looted to keep our entire city high for more than a year. Man, a friend of mine just told me two weeks ago that he offered to give an elderly woman a ride home from the grocery store (he was hacking) and she offered to pay him with prescription pills. Oh yeah, we’re a city in turmoil. And addiction, alcoholism, substance abuse is the root cause of our problems. And sadly to say, whether we want to accept the harsh truth or not, but it’s just as many of our youth addicted to serious drugs as there are adults.
The question I’m oftentimes baffled with is, “why are so many of our young people amenable to get high?” When I was a kid, if anything, we wanted to be hustlers that sold the drugs. Nowadays, kids don’t want to hustle, they’d rather be the person indulging in the use of drugs. How the hell did that happen?
Throughout recent years, there have been many people who question the influence that drug induced rap music has on our youth. We’ve always been honest in our music. Shid, the same people who put out arguably one of the best rap songs ever, The Message, also dedicated an entire song to cocaine. In the early years of hip hop Run from Run-DMC once rapped that he “keeps a bag of cheeba inside my locker.” So the muse of drugs is nothing new to the genre of hip hop, but maybe the perspective from which we view the conversation of drug usage in our music is. Remember, there was once a time when we looked at peers with disdain if they were getting high. Today, getting high is celebrated. It’s encouraged. If you don’t get high, people began to wonder why you’re not indulging in narcotics because everybody else is trying to get “lit, lit, lit-ty!”
Is it the music? I don’t know, but I doubt it very seriously. We blame hip hop for everything. But even Jeezy, hip hop artist and self-proclaimed SnowMan/Trapstar had to recently ponder himself, “why all of the youth now want to get high and not get money?”
We presently live in a very drug friendly and accepting culture until it’s video recorded an plastered on a computer monitor or telephone screen for the whole world to see one of our children so high that she can barely stand. We presently live in a very drug friendly and accepting culture, until the access of drug usage leads to addiction, infinitely deferred dreams, a multitude of lies and foreseeable personal pain. In the ‘80s Nancy Regan told us to “Just Say No” to drugs. Well it’s apparent that s### didn’t work. Is it the music or is it the hopeless despair that many of our youth feel? Or is it the example that we either set or don’t set for our children to follow? Who’s the blame?
After a mini hiatus, “Empire” Season 3 episode 4 titled “One Before Another” is on tonight. While we would never ever spill the beans preemptively, here is a little hint of what you can expect:
Shine manages to pull the trigger on a Lyon that we have come to hold dear. But which one and to what end? Well, that would spoil it all for tonight, wouldn’t it now?
Becky decides to make a move when it comes to her belief that she more than deserves to be calling some shots somewhere as a head of A and R.
More love triangle beef between Tiana, Hakeem and Gram
Lucious Lyon shows us that thugs can be both street wise and book smart with fight quotes from Shakespeare to Jamal and philosophical bedtime stories to his granddaughter Bella courtesy of Kahlil Gibran’s “The Criminal.”
A debate on the worth of clap back music versus lyricism for it’s own sake.
And with that little taste, we haven’t even scratched the surface of what promises to be a great night of “Empire” television.
“Empire” airs Wednesday nights on FOX at 9/8 pm central.
(AllHipHop News) Congratulations are in order for Hip Hop legend Big Daddy Kane.
The Long Island Music Hall of Fame will be adding the “Ain’t No Half Steppin'” rapper to its list of inductees.
Chuck D of Public Enemy has been tapped to induct BDK into the LI Music Hall.
Big Daddy Kane’s career includes being a member of the respected rap collective the Juice Crew as well as releasing critically acclaimed solo albums Long Live The Kane and It’s a Big Daddy Thing.
The Brooklyn native is often cited as one of the greatest emcees of all time, and he won a Grammy award for his contribution to Quincy Jones’ “Back on the Block.”
“I wanted to be different,” Kane toldNewsday. “I wanted to address everyone. I wanted to address the hood, but also the people that was getting money. I wanted to address the men and women, the kids and the adults.”
The Long Island Music Hall of Fame Induction Gala is scheduled for Thursday, November 3 at The Space at Westbury.
Tickets for the event can be purchased at Ticketmaster.
It’s been a busy two weeks for the Snowman! Jeezy recently released his seventh studio album,’Trap Or Die 3′, and he’s been on the road non-stop promoting the project across the country.
From performances at ‘Powerhouse,’ Miami takeovers, ESPN and Larry King visits, Jeezy had to bring the energy back to his hometown, Atlanta, as he teamed up with Atlanta’s own Hot 107.9 radio station for a secret show on Saturday.
On Saturday afternoon, Jeezy hit the stage at the popular Edgewood district Atlanta venue, Music Room for a private pop up show. The Snowman performed tracks from his ‘Trap Or Die 3’ album for the first time live.
Jeezy performed, “Let Em Know,” “G-Wagon,” “Goldmine,” “Going Crazy,” “All There,” and more. Not only did Jeezy perform his new music, he also took his day-one fans down memory lane as he performed classics like “Trap Or Die,” “Air Forces,” “Standing Ovation,” “Trap Star,” and more!
AllHipHop’s own Rea Davis moderated a brief Q&A with Jeezy where he reflected on his success 7 albums later.
“I just wanted to make a difference. I just wanted to get out of my situation. I put a lot of blood sweat and tears into my first mixtape which was ‘Streets Is Watching,’ and I saw the success of that, and I came back and dropped ‘Trap Or Die’. I spent a lot of money making it and I gave it free to create my buzz, and it changed my life!” said Jeezy.
On the process of creating ‘Trap Or Die’ and choosing the features Jeezy stated,
“We grinded hard. This wasn’t even about selling records; this wasn’t about being on the radio everyday. This is about my fans because they want what I do and they wanted it my way…. I wanted to please them. I wanted to put something out that they would love. This ain’t about nobody but y’all. As long as y’all are riding with me we good.”
Jeezy also discussed drawing inspiration from Tupac’s music and now having people draw inspiration from his music.
“It’s a lot of responsibility but I’m all for it. I’m a pretty stand up guy. I can never be that guy, but at the same time I’m going to try my best. Keep it 100 [and] make sure the city on top at all times. Make sure the streets and people are being represented in every way possible,” said Jeezy.
As far as what’s next from Jeezy it’s a lot of touching and inspiring people, more music, and more fun!
“I don’t care if you got a 9-5, you in college… whatever you doing this is your motivational music for you to get through your day. So anytime somebody tells you you can’t do something, you look them in their face and tell them it’s a got damn lie. Jeezy did that sh-t ten times over.”
(AllHipHop News) Lil Wayne once again shared his thoughts about social issues.
After addressing racism during an appearance onUndisputed and Black Lives Matter as part of an interview with the New York Times, Wayne was again asked about the social justice movement on Nightline.
“That just sounds weird, I don’t know, that you put a name on it. It’s not a name, it’s not ‘whatever, whatever.’ It’s somebody got shot by a policeman for a f-cked up reason,” said Wayne, responding to a question about BLM. “I am a young black rich motherf-cker. If that don’t let you know that America understands black motherf-ckers matter these days, I don’t know what it is.”
He added, “That man’s white. He’s filming me. I’m a n-gga. I don’t know what you mean. Don’t come at me with that dumb ass sh-t, ma’am. My life matter. Especially to my b-tches.”
The Young Money boss made sure to point out he does not feel any connection to Black Lives Matter.
“I don’t feel connected to a damn thing that ain’t got nothing to do with me. If you do, you crazy as sh-t,” Wayne declared. “You. Not the camera, you. Feeling connected to something that ain’t got nothing to do with you? If it ain’t got nothing to do with me, I ain’t connected to it.”
The “Sucker for Pain”” rapper then walked off the set, “I ain’t no f-cking politician.”
Twitter users began blasting Wayne for his comments.
His name became a trending topic on the social media platform for hours once clips of the Nightline Q&A arrived online last night (November 1).
Gangsta Boo endures. The former Queen of the Three Six Mafia is back with another one for all the smokers out there. This is not the song that pushed the legalization of weed through, but the Memphis rapper is more than willing to continue her lifestyle when it was revolutionary. Enter “Loc’d Out Smoked Out,” her latest anthem for those that love to explore the higher side of life. Why? Boo said, “Just a song I dropped on my SoundCloud produced by Stunt N Dozier that I wanted to shoot a video for.” She told AllHipHop.com that she also has a new collaborative album coming with Jackie Chain called “Stoner Club Music.”
In addition, the G.O.O.D. Music president is backing California’s Proposition 64 through a public service announcement.
Prop 64 is a voter initiative on the November ballot that calls for the state to control, regulate, and tax responsible adult use, sale, and cultivation of marijuana.
“If California’s Prop 64 passes, no one will ever be incarcerated for marijuana again,” Pusha states in the PSA. “I’m not a California voter, but I know when good legislation passes in the biggest state, other states follow. What’s most important to me is keeping people who are coming home, home. If ending prohibition on marijuana reduces recidivism, then let’s do it.”
Pusha is part of Artists for 64, a group of entertainers supporting the Adult Use of Marijuana Act.
Shawn “Jay Z” Carter, Russell Simmons, Common, Ty Dolla $ign, Jesse Williams, Shailene Woodley, Olivia Wilde, Danny Glover, Harry Belafonte, Piper Kerman, Michael K Williams, and Al Harrington are connected to Artists For 64 as well.
I have been hearing things. I have been hearing that the 10-year anniversary iPhone will be revolutionary. I don’t know, but that’s the word.
The other word is that there is a wild new design coming that may show a foldable phone. This – CLEARLY – is in stark contrast to the way the old iPhones were. This could provide a compact way to give people a “tablet” vibe and a bigger phone but not really be “bigger.”
Check out the rumored prototype design.
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While AubRih are on “break” Drake introduced Taylor Swift to his mom at his 30th birthday party and sent the internet into a frenzy.
Drake is unpredictable yes… he even likes the rumors that he’s dating various high-profile women, but we don’t know if Drake would actually date Taylor Swift.
Perhaps some good break up anthems and a few stage performances could come from this, but even then we might pass.
Both artists are known for penning hits about their exes, and both have enjoyed extreme commercial success, so they could successfully put out some collaborative music though. Hmmmmmmm.
Either way some fans were here for it; most weren’t. LOL. Would Drake really date Taylor Swift?
Rapper Waka Flocka logged in to his Twitter account once again to send out some pretty controversial tweets.
This time Waka decided to take a few shots at President Barack Obama as Waka tweeted,
“Can’t wait to see the day America gets a real black president because Obama don’t count‼️‼️‼️”
and
“When will America get a president that don’t see race or money????”
Is Waka even registered to vote? Half of the time, is Waka even literate?
As you know Waka Flocka has tried to get “involved” in politics before, and he’s even tried to throw his name in the pool for a few political roles, but Waka the country just doesn’t see it for you.
What do you think about Waka’s controversial statement?
When will America get a president that don't see race or money????
Observers began questioning why would Kanye “co-write” a record that supposedly dissed his own G.O.O.D. president Pusha and longtime collaborator Cudi?
Genius spoke to Noah “40” Shebib – Drake’s right-hand production partner – to get some information about the Ye connection.
“Me and Kanye produced the track,” said 40. “I made it from some drums he had given me. Not quite the elaborate story the world is looking for.”
Writing credit on a song could be given to a contributor that actually pens the lyrics as well as producers, instrumentalists, and the original creators of any samples used on a track.
According to Tidal, both 40 and Kanye are listed as a “producer,” “composer” and “lyricist” for “Two Birds, One Stone.”
One of the collective’s lead artists, A$AP Rocky, spoke with Genius about the project.
The interview included the Harlem native being asked about rapping “anti everything since Yams died” on Cozy Tapes.
Rocky explained why he used those words:
It’s like, I f-ck with n-ggas but I don’t f-ck with n-ggas. [Laughs] You’ll know when I f-ck with something for real, man. Like Tyler, The Creator, that’s my n-gga. ScHoolboy Q, French Montana, Danny Brown—they’re my bros right there. But I don’t really f-ck with a lot of these rap n-ggas man, because they… I’m not even gonna get into that, but what I will say is, I got darkness in my heart but I’m not just gonna let that take over and be the thing that reflects who I am as a person. I gotta be Yams to an extent now. I’ve gotta be the one who shakes hands and kisses babies and sh-t, and keeps relationships poppin’. Other n-ggas ain’t.
Jeezy’s seventh studio album, ‘Trap Or Die 3’, has certainly been heating up the streets!
Although the project is already a fan favorite, there’s another album fans are certainly interested in!
Pastor Young aka Young Jizzle opened up to Rap Up about the possibility of a joint album with Jay Z!
“We talked about it after we went on tour. We had a couple of words about doing a project like that. At the time, he got busy and I got busy but there was definitely a conversation had about us doing some type of project whether it was an EP, a street album, or whatever,” said Jeezy.
Although a joint album would take a considerable amount of time, neither party is ruling it out! Both Hov and Young both are known for “going in” and talking that good shhhh on the track, so they would have to take time out to get the sound together.
Many were surprised to see that Hov wasn’t featured on ‘Trap Or Die 3’, but Jeezy revealed that Jay Z actually loved the album and expressed that it was complete without him. In fact, Jay Z was one of the first to hear the album, and he loved the song ‘All There’ that features the late Bankroll Fresh.
Are you here for this joint project? We certainly are!
(AllHipHop News) Former music mogul Jimmy “Henchman” Rosemond scored a major victory in court today (November 1), when a court overturned his murder-for-hire conviction.
Rosemond contended that former Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Kaminsky’s case was biased because prosecution witnesses Henry Butler received substantial benefits for his testimony during the trial.
In November of 2015, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan agreed, and ruled a judge made errors that affected the fairness of the trial, specifically, limiting the defense’s questioning of a key witness.
“Today truth has come to defend me in my fight for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Truth has knocked out falsehood. My God is truth,” Jimmy Henchman told AllHipHop.com in an exclusive statement. “I want to thank my attorneys Jonathan Edelstein, Michael Rayfield and Bruce Maffeo for being soldiers of the inevitable.
“I want to thank my family who has suffered irreparable consequences; Michael K. Williams, Leeann Hellijas and Derrick Hamilton for never taking no as an answer; Don Sikorski and the “Unjust Justice” series for exposing inequality and injustice surrounding my cases.
Rosemond took a swipe at ex-prosecutor Todd Kaminsky, who put the case together against the music executive, built mostly on testimony by informants.
Before the feud with G-Unit turned deadly, Rosemond’s Czar Entertainment managed The Game, Sean Kingston, Brandy, Gucci Mane, Salt-n-Pepa, Mike Tyson, Akon and others.
Jimmy offered up a little message to some of his former friends.
“Lastly to my so called friends and the music business that have abandoned me, the devil is a liar and now you’ve seen the devil and its details,” Jimmy Henchman told AllHipHop.com.
Rosemond’s current attorney Michael Rayfield said he was delighted with the outcome. Even though Rosemond is still serving seven life sentences as a “drug kingpin,” for allegedly heading up a $10 million-a-year cocaine operation (another charge he denies).
Now, the decision to overturn the murder conviction could set the stage for his other case to be dismissed, since most of the same witnesses provided the same testimony.
“We’re delighted by this outcome; it’s a major step in Mr. Rosemond’s path to justice,” Michael Rayfield told AllHipHop.com. “James has consistently maintained his innocence, and we’ll continue to work hard to make sure that he’s ultimately vindicated.”
Rosemond will get a new trial if prosecutors decide to try him again.
Cali wordsmith Locksmith and cohort Mark Battles trade bars over The Lock Sessions’ stand out track. Download The Lock Sessions: http://bit.ly/TheLockSessions
(AllHipHop News) Jeezy just dropped his seventh studio album Trap Or Die 3.
While the Atlanta native extended his veteran career with another project, Jeezy still keeps his ears open to some of the newcomers in the culture.
Power 105’s Angie Martinez interviewed Jeezy, and the “Let Em Know” spitter named a few of the new era rappers he is vibing with at the moment.
“[Lil] Durk, YG, all day. As far as young cats, definitely Dave [East],” said Jeezy. “Them cats got energy. I just want to give that knowledge, cause it’s little things that help a cat go a long way.”
He continued, “It could just be them hanging around and seeing certain stuff. But it’s always like that for me. If you’re a real one and you’re really about what you do, then I want to see you succeed.”
Jeezy also gave a major co-sign to buzzing New Yorker Young M.A. last week.
The “OOOUUU” performer was brought out during Jeezy’s set at the Powerhouse 2016 concert in Brooklyn.
(AllHipHop News) Media personality Charlamagne tha God will release a book this year through a major deal with publishing imprint Simon & Schuster.
Next year, Charlamagne is releasing “Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It.”
Charlamagne told AllHipHop.com that the book will chronicle Charlemagne’s life growing up in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
“I decided to put out a book for the dreamers,” Charlamagne told AllHipHop.com. “I don’t have all the answers but I’ve got some experiences and lessons I want to share. ‘Black Privilege’ is not for the pessimist it’s for the optimist, who feels like nothing can stop the plan God has for them.”
Charlamagne accomplish this by detailing his journey through the industry with stints besides Wendy Williams, to hosting shows on MTV.
He will also discuss his current status and controversial image as a no-holds-barred interviewer on the hit radio show “The Breakfast Club” with DJ Envy and Angela Yee.
“Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It” is due out in Spring of 2017.
In hilarious news, the internet refuses to believe that Angela Simmons was a virgin before marriage.
She alluded to the “fact” that she was a virgin earlier this year during a Breakfast Club interview, when she said she doesn’t have sex.
Whether she’s claiming virginity before her new marriage or not, her ex Bow Wow revealed that her “mouth game” was A1. Supposedly he came out later and said he never slept with her though.
It’s hilarious because absolutely no one believes Angela was holding out. When Angela tells her sister, Vanessa, on the WE TV show ‘Growing Up Hip Hop’, not even she believes her.
Angela Simmons also says her husband was her first sexual partner, and she got pregnant the first time she had sex.