Heartbreak can hurt. And when that pains becomes too much to bear, most people lose their ability to give any more f##. Ansaya Yah Yah is there and her new song represents that fed up, angry expresses her anger in her new song “No F##.” The song, produced by Parker, is an ode to finer women everywhere who are tired of deadbeat men…and their family. The video is a well visual that extols the virtue of vengeance as Yah Yah commandeers a small fem-posse. Regardless of the men, music has changed her life for the better. “I was inspired to be an artist because I felt a feeling like no other when I made music. Happiness inspired me. Many times in life we are unable to find our purpose and total bliss. This is my bliss,” she said in a statement.
(AllHipHop News) Chris Brown has been arrested by the LAPD on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.
Chris Brown’s Tarzana, California home is now a crime scene, allegedly, and the woman that has accused the singer is now talking to the media.
Baylee Curran – the woman that says Brown put a gun to her head – posted a video on her Instagram discussing the ordeal.
In the short video, Curran said, “Do you all honestly think I wanted this and I caused this? If somebody put a gun to your head, what would you do? Call the police?”
That is exactly what she did, causing an hours-long standoff between Chris Brown and the police.
Recently married singer Ray J completely countered Curran’s account.
“Check it out. I am real upset about today. I am not happy with how things are handled and how people can take a false story and blow it up into something way more than what it should be,” Ray J said. “You got positive people around and you look outside and it is like a war zone for no reason. For something that some stranger said about something that ain’t got nothing to do with nothing. And to react like that so fast, without knowing the facts…its not cool.”
Curran’s call to police had police and even police helicopters surrounding Chris Brown’s home in the wee hours of the morning.
Ray J accused Curran of making a run at Chris Brown’s money.
(AllHipHop News) Pharrell Williams is sharing his family’s beloved recipes with a new food product collection
The “Happy” hitmaker and his father Pharoah Williams have teamed up with bosses at gourmet grocery chain Dean & DeLuca to create The Williams Family Kitchen, a line featuring food products based on authentic Williams family recipes.
Pharrell was inspired to collaborate with Dean & DeLuca executives by his home chef father, who the R&B superstar insists is the best cook in their family.
“My father’s recipes are so good,” Pharrell says in a press release. “My whole family is addicted to his cooking. Our father-son agreement was that he would make food with healthier ingredients that were a better choice for his lifestyle and would essentially help add years to his life.”
The Williams Family Kitchen collection will be available for purchase in the spring of 2017
These days it seems like everyone wants to sign a Future clone or wants to be one.
Desiigner has been accused of being a Future clone, Master P was accused of signing one, and now G-Unit boss 50 Cent is accused of signing his own Future Hendrix clone, Phresher.
Apparently, gone are the days when artists and regions [strive to] have their own distinctive sounds.
If you were from the north you could listen to the south and west coast, if you were from the south you would listen to the left coast or up north rappers to hear a different sound. It seems like now everyone sounds like they are coming out of Atlanta.
50 Cent’s artist Phresher has received much criticism for trying to “run with Future’s sound”.
Do you think he sounds like Future, or are folks reaching? Ahhhh the era of the mumble rappers.
(AllHipHop News) Tragedy has struck the family of rapper/singer T-Pain.
His niece was fatally stabbed at a drugstore in Tallahassee, earlier this morning (August 30).
Police identified Javona Glover, 23, as the victim of the violent stabbing at a Walgreens, where she worked.
Glover was alive when police responded, but later died at a local hospital, due to her injuries.
T-Pain initially pleaded for the public’s help in finding Javona Glover’s murderer and now the cops are hunting for a suspect.
Police announced an arrest warrant has been issued for Tavon Q. Jackson as a suspect in the murder.
“We extend our deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of our team member. The store is temporarily closed while police conduct their investigation and we refer you to police for any additional information,” Walgreen’s said in a statement.
The police are still lookin for the coward ass n#### that just killed my niece at Walgreens in Tallahassee. If you got info pls help us out!
“I’ve never been more Nigerian in my life, I’ve never been more Yoruba in my life, I’ve never been more Black in my life…” I Don’t Camouflage visited visual artist / musician LAOLU Senbanjo one hot summer day at his home in Brooklyn. In this intimate mini-documentary, LAOLU shares his stories on how he used to blend in, how he battled pressure from his parents and peers, new discovery from moving in to NYC, among others.
LAOLU is known for his recent collaboration with Beyonce’s visual album “Lemonade” and Nike’s “Master of Air.”
It looks like Yeezy Yeezy is still trying to achieve peace with Taylor Swift. The controversial Kanye West seems to be extending an olive branch to Swift as he tweeted an image of a fan wearing a T-shirt that combined the album artwork of West’s ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’ and Swift’s ‘1989’. He tweeted the image with a caption that read,
“Unity Love.”
Despite Taylor’s antics and Grammy shots, it looks like Kanye is taking a page out of Diddy’s book on the #TeamLove tip.
West also seemed to be over his beef with Taylor Swift as he joked about it at the MTV VMAs.
“You know like, people come to me like, ‘Man, that’s right! Tell Taylor to…’ Bro, like I love all y’all! That’s why I called her!” said West.
I don’t know man, this whole ordeal has Kris Jenner publicity stunt written all over it. Whatever works Ye; whatever works.
(AllHipHop News) Drake has made history on the U.S pop charts by becoming the first male artist to hit 50 consecutive weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 top 10.
The rapper’s “One Dance” drops a spot from seven to eight on the new countdown, released on Monday (August 29), extending his top 10 stay to 50 weeks, two ahead of Ace of Bass’ run in 1993 and 1994, and 19 behind Katy Perry’s record reign in 2010 and 2011.
Drake’s streak began back in October of 2015, when “Hotline Bling” jumped into the top 10.
Meanwhile, The Chainsmokers’ “Closer” has landed a second week at number one on the Hot 100, holding off Major Lazer’s “Cold Water” at two.
Sia’s “Cheap Thrills” dips a spot to three, while Twenty One Pilots also make chart history, becoming one of only a handful of groups who have scored two top fives in the same week – the band’s “Heathens” from the Suicide Squad: The Album soundtrack comes in at four and “Ride” jumps up a spot to five.
Only three rock acts have managed to score two top five Hot 100 hits in the same week in the chart’s 58-year history – The Beatles and Elvis Presley.
And Twenty One Pilots, aka Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, are only the third duo with top fives in the same week, behind Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Outkast.
(AllHipHop News) Isaiah Rashad is prepping to release his debut studio album The Sun’s Tirade on September 2.The Top Dawg Entertainment emcee had been mostly off the map since releasing the Clivia Demo EP in 2014.
While appearing on Peter Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds’ Juan Epstein podcast, Rashad discussed why he was not out in the public much over the last two years.
“I got off the ‘Oxymoron Tour’ kind of addicted to Xanax and an alcoholic,” revealed the 25-year-old Tennessee native.
Rashad explained the 2-month European leg of the tour is where he began getting involved in using prescription drugs and excessively drinking alcohol.
“[I just wanted] to be like everyone around me, like all the little rap n-ggas I’d see,” Rashad stated. “I f-cked up. I f-cked up pretty bad. I almost got dropped like three times.”
The substance abuse problems apparently escalated when Rashad returned home. He even suffered medical ailments from the issue.
“I tore my stomach lining,” said Rashad. “I don’t drink often no more, at all for reputational reasons.”
The conversation included Rashad admitting he was in “a really bad place” until about six months ago. Apparently, the other artists at TDE were not aware of his struggles with alcohol and narcotics.
Rosenberg asked Rashad if he was currently off drugs. The “Free Lunch” rapper responded by acknowledging he no longer uses Xans but still drinks periodically.
“It’s more of a test. It’s like, ‘Do I feel like drinking? Do I think I can handle it?’ If I can handle it, I’ll drink,” explained Rashad. “If I don’t think I can handle it, I just be honest with myself and not drink. ‘Cause I know how that turns out. I know I turn into Bobby Brown.”
He continued, “I might f-ck your b-tch.”
Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith supposedly refused to release any music from Isaiah during that period. The songs “Nelly” and “Smile” did not come out until Isaiah “got his sh-t together.”
(AllHipHop News)Empire is adding an award-winning actress to its cast.
Phylicia Rashad is set to portray Diana Dubois on the hit Fox series.
Dubois is the mother of an ambitious city councilman named Angelo Dubois (Taye Diggs).
Throughout her career, Rashad has appeared in numerous television shows and films, including last year’s Creed. She earned Emmy nominations for playing Clair Huxtable on the classic NBC sitcom The Cosby Show.
Rashad has joined Mariah Carey and Kid Cudi among the new castmates for season three of Empire.
The Hip-Hop musical is scheduled to premiere on Wednesday, September 21 at 9 pm ET.
Some of the hardest Hip-Hop is coming outside of New York City. Buffalo’s own Westside Gunn and Conway drop a new banger with Daringer WWE-inspired “Mr. Fuji.” The pair rapper over a track dripping with guitar and flooded with lyrics. Those that suggest New York rap is dead, need to peer harder into the underworld. Shout out to Conway, WSG and Daringer.
ILoveMakonnen and Drake haven’t associated with each other much since it was announced that the former OVO Sound artist left the 6 God’s label for good.
Makonnen has dropped a few solo efforts here and there, and Drake has obviously been winning with his triple platinum album, ‘Views’.
Makonnen recently decided to turn to Twitter to aske Drake what the issue is between them.
“Idk what is this all about. I have no beef or animosity towards u, what happen just now is beyond me, I hope we can talk about this. All I have is love and respect for everyone, I was there tonight to meet and greet everyone with love, this is so weird,” said Makonnen.
Perhaps Makonnen ran into Drake somewhere in the VMAs festivities, and Drake wasn’t open to any “reconciliation”.
We wonder why these artists choose to put their personal business and differences on social media! Apparently Makonnen no longer has a direct line of communication to Drake as he tweeted,
“If I could reach out to y’all I would, but this is the only way y’all gonna see it. Peace and love.”
(AllHipHop News) Yung Joc’s brand new hairstyle had social media in a frenzy for hours. The Love & Hip Hop Atlanta star was a trending topic on Twitter and the subject of countless memes on Instagram.
VH1 Live! host Marc Lamont Hill spoke with Joc about his buzzworthy do. According to the man behind the triple platinum hit “It’s Goin’ Down,” some of the visual jokes floating around the web were created by him.
“Would I be wrong if I said after I did it I said, “You know what? People are going to talk about it’?” Joc stated. “I created over seven of the different memes everybody’s reposting. Would I be wrong for that?”
But why did Joc decide to relax his hair? He said it had to do with a potential business opportunity.
“I got a call from a certain exec that I definitely respect. He was like, ‘I want you to come do a show,'” explained Joc. “I was like, ‘Okay, bet.’ I need to do something crazy. I didn’t know it was going to be this crazy.”
Jay Z’s former business partner Damon Dash has signed on to produce a “brutally honest” TV series about the rise of their successful Roc-A-Fella business empire.
Dash has teamed up with reality TV producer Lemuel Plummer to tell the previously untold story of how the record label, co-founded by Dash, Jay Z, and Kareem Burke in 1996, came to be and the high cost that comes with fame an success.
Damon Dash In Ireland circa 2004 Credit: WENN
“It means a lot that Damon trusts us to tell the true story of how two global music icons got their start and did nothing less than redefine pop culture,” Plummer says in a statement. “That story is so unbelievable and yet so true that we know we have an awesome responsibility as storytellers to get things right.”
While the project will not be a straight biopic about Dash, Jay or Burke, their personal lives will be touched upon, including Dash’s relationships with late R&B star Aaliyah and his fashion designer ex-wife Rachel Roy.
“What defined what we were doing is everything that was in my life equals Roc-A-Fella,” Dash adds. “Roc-A-Fella as a movement wasn’t revolving around one person, but that’s the way it was made to look.”
The series will also give a “brutally honest account” on the tense split between the co-founders in 2005, when Roc-A-Fella was sold to The Island Def Jam Music Group.
Jay-Z circa 1998 Credit: Chris Connor / WENN
Jay became President and CEO of Def Jam – while the ousted Dash and Burke went on to build their own label, Dame Dash Music Group.
Despite severing their ties as business partners, both Jay and Dash insist they bear no ill will towards each other, with the 99 Problems hitmaker telling New York’s Power 105.1 station in 2013:
“What people gotta (sic) understand is nothing’s gonna change the way I feel about Dame; no time or space, no separation or anything. I got love for Damon Dash the same way as I did before (we split professionally).
“I don’t know if we can be around each other in the same way because times have changed. He might be a completely different person; I know I’m a completely different person. But nothing can erase that era and those times and those memories and those fights that we had to get Roc-A-Fella where it was. It just is what it is. Nothing’s gonna change that…
“The relationship remains and those memories remain. We did something great; we built something that’s gonna be here forever, that’s gonna be talked about forever so there will always be love there.”
Internationally known fitness model and successful entrepreneur, Rosa Acosta, celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of her boutique “Cossamia” on Melrose Avenue with the launch of a new Beauty Bar offering expert service for hair, nails, make-up, lash extensions and waxing.
The gorgeous business owner hosted an exclusive celebratory, pink carpet event with celebrity guests including Akon, Kreesha Turner, Trinidad Jame$, Carter The Body, Thi Thi, and Basketball Wives LA star Sundy Carter and more were in attendance.
Akon Visits Cossamia For Rosa Acosta Grand Opening – Photo Credit Winston Burris
Invited guests were the first to shop Floyd Mayweather’s“The Money Team”apparel, the latest fashion addition to Cossamia, while enjoying complimentary eyelash extensions, an eccentric art exhibit by Nico Solis, an open bar, sweet treats by Sugar Mama’s, a fun-for-all photo booth and music curated by Rosa Acosta’s very own brother,DJ Smoke.
Trinidad James and Rosa Acosta are seen on the Pink Carpet Inside of Cossamia
Rosa Acosta continues to thrive as a business owner by marking the one-year anniversary of the opening of her boutique on the iconic Melrose Avenue, with an even bigger Beauty Bar expansion.
With a full selection of the latest fashion, including her own Body by Rosa Acosta fitness line, custom designs by designers Geebin Flores, Jessica Rich, Queen Russia and more.
Cossamia is the go-to destination for the hottest looks from head to toe.
(AllHipHop News) Beyonce’s epic MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) performance has angered former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Rudy, who was in office at the time of the 2001 terrorist attacks on the city, was offended by what he believed was the Formation singer’s 15 minute set’s anti-police theme.
During Sunday’s VMAs, which was held in the Big Apple, Beyonce performed a medley of songs from her acclaimed Lemonade album, closing with her black feminist anthem Formation.
Her set included a segment which featured her backup dancers falling to the ground one at a time under a pool of red light, symbolizing the death of black men and women at the hands of the police.
Giuliani was angered by the performance, saying he had done more to save the lives of young African-Americans by putting into place hardline policing policies.
“I saved more black lives than any of those people you saw on stage by reducing crime, and particularly homicide, by 75 percent – of which maybe 4,000 or 5,000 were African-American young people, who are all alive today because of the policies I put in effect that weren’t in effect for 35 years,” Giuliani told U.S. news show Fox & Friends.
Referring to Beyonce’s decision to depict the deaths in dance, the ex-politician angrily continued, “If you’re going to do that, then you also should symbolize why the police officers are in those neighborhoods, and what are you going to do about that? What are you doing about it?”
It is not the first time the former Mayor has criticized Beyonce for incorporating nods to African-American protest movements; in February (16) he slammed her Super Bowl halftime show performance containing similar imagery.
In addition to the political imagery in her VMAs stage performance, Beyonce also appeared on the red carpet with the mothers of three African-American men killed by police, and the mother of Trayvon Martin, who was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in 2012.
T.I. had some choice words for the former Mayor of New York.
“Who gives a f##k” about what Rudy Giuliani thinks about music,” T.I. told a TMZ cameraman out in Beverly Hills. “He also imprisoned so many unnecessarily. you have to against the black lives he saved for the black lives he destroyed by imprisoning people too long, taking them away from their families and breaking up homes.”
1:00PM – Police claim Chris was caught tossing a duffle bag out of window of his home. Police have recovered at least one gun, drugs and other weapons.
Chris supposedly taunted the police saying “come and get me” but he is not in custody yet.
The case has been turned over to the Robbery/Homicide division within the LAPD. This is due to the high profile nature of Chris Brown. Brown’s lawyer Mark Geragos is heading to the scene. So is the LAPD tactical warrant support unit.
12:35 PM – Chris has taken to Instagram to vent his frustrations in a series of posts, as cops get a warrant to enter his house.
The singer posted a series of bizarre clips. “I wake up, all these m############ helicopter choppers is around, police at the gate. I stay out of the way, take care my daughter, do work. I don’t even f### ugly b######.
11:45 AM – Chris’ people told the LAPD to get a warrant if they wanted to come in. So, that’s what they are currently doing.
Chris Brown could be heading for some serious trouble, thanks to new allegiations being levied at the R&B singer.
The singer is currently the suspect of an unfolding criminal investigation, after a woman called 911 to say he had threatened her with a gun during an argument.
According to TMZ.com, Chris was in his house with Ray J. and several other friends, when some unknown, uninvited guests crashed the party.
Things escalated and Chris allegedly pulled a gun on the woman. Police caught up to Ray J. as he was leaving Chris Brown’s driveway.
Ray J. hasn’t been charged with a crime, but his BMW was seized as evidence.
According to police, the situation is still unfolding since Chris Brown, or the people inside are refusing to answer the door at the time of this post.
(AllHipHop News) DJ Whoo Kid and G-Unit’s The Lost Flash Drive mixtape is on the way. The project was delayed because some tracks had to be re-recorded after a mixing issue.
“Me and Tony Yayo stumbled across a hard drive at the G-Unit offices recently that contained lost music and lost footage from the G-Unit Radio Series,” says Whoo Kid. “Getting 50, Banks, Buck and Kidd Kidd on board to release these classics to the world, it’s just something for the fans to embrace.”
As The Lost Flash Drive gets finalized, 50 Cent dropped a video for the track “Set The Pick.” The visuals include lost footage of Kidd Kidd, Lloyd Banks, Young Buck, and Tony Yayo just vibing in the studio.
“The craziest part is no one knew the cameras were rolling, so you can see The Unit in their element. You can tell that when the group is together the chemistry was unreal. And with that being said, it’s Free Buck! POW!” adds Whoo Kid.
G-Unit released two studio albums – 2003’s Beg For Mercy and 2008’s T.O.S: Terminate On Sight. The 50 Cent-led collective also dropped The Beauty of Independence and The Beast Is G-Unit EPS over the last two years.
Ocean’s sophomore studio album Blonde arrived as an independent LP after he turned in another “visual album” titled Endless to Def Jam Records/Universal Music Group as his final contract requirement. Endless was exclusively available for streaming on Apple Music.
Blonde was only streamed on Apple Music as well, but Ocean also sold the album via the iTunes music store. The LPsold 232,000 copies in its first week with a total of 276,000 sales plus streaming units.
Billboard calculated the possible one-week revenue advantage Ocean earned by Blonde coming out on the “Nikes” performer’s own Boys Don’t Cry company rather than Def Jam.
The publication reports:
So far, Blonde has generated about $2.12 million in total, according to Billboard‘s estimate. (Note that the following tallies are based on the assumption that Ocean is receiving 70 percent of revenues, since Blonde was self-released — in a major fiscal coup for the artist.) Of that first week cash, Ocean would have made $1.623 million off 232,000 album sales, and about $504,000 on 69.1 million streams…
With publishing revenue wholly subtracted, Ocean would still net about $1.77 million from Blonde… from its first week.
At one time, it was virtually impossible for a music act to reach a widespread audience and achieve significant financial success without the help of a major record label. It looks as if that is an outdated concept in 2016.
Like Frank Ocean, Chance The Rapper is another independent entertainer that has made a major impact by presenting his work on Apple Music. Unlike Ocean, the Chicago native did not sell his Coloring Book mixtape.
Despite not purposely seeking commercial benefit from direct sales of Coloring Book, Chance still made history when the tape became the first project to make the Billboard 200 album chart (#8) strictly off streaming numbers.
Apple Music and other streaming services are just one alternative for indie musicians. With internet-based platforms such as SoundCloud and YouTube, artists are now connecting with global listeners without corporate backing.
Other companies such as TuneCore and BitTorrent are providing distribution options that allow performers to keep a larger share of the profits from the art they create. Public Enemy, Curren$y, Public Enemy, Curren$y, Cam’ron, MF Doom, Bishop Nehru, De La Soul, and Prodigy are just a few Hip Hop figures that have taken advantage of BitTorrent Bundles.
The impact of the Digital Age and the continuing evolution of the music industry will surely open up more chances for independent artists to circumvent the major label complex and still earn a nice living from their music.
I admit it! I’ve done some things that hip-hop heads would consider “suspect” (i.e. gay). Yes I have!—from being a ballet dancer (something that Tupac and I have in common) and a “Magic Mike” stripper (something that Blood gang member & rapper The Game and I have in common) who wore a G-string wedged up between my butt-cheeks—to repping for gay rappers—to wearing Prince-like poet shirts with lace & frills. Some guys can do this and remain fully heterosexual. (Shout-out to Prince! R.I.P.) That would be me! As Star (of Shot97.com) would say, “I’m a man of a certain age!”—so I really give less than two-s#### about a n#### waving the “suspect” flag in my direction. F**k your idea of manhood & masculinity!
Grown men commenting on other men’s appearances seems to be all the rage these days, and so, Young Thug has given all you male hip-hop fashionistas something to talk about. On the cover of his new mixtape there he is—dressed in a floor-length dress looking fabulously trans! LOL. I’m just so tickled at where hip-hop has taken its fashion sensibilities! There are no boundaries! The days of Timberlands, baggy jeans and over-sized T-shirts have become as extinct as the dinosaur. Hip-hop don’ gone from the dress/kilt-wearing stylings of Diddy, Kanye West, Kid Kudi, Andre 3000, Snoop Dogg and ASAP Rocky to Young Thug’s all-out women’s dress wearing!
At my age, I just find this s### hilarious! A “thug” wearing a dress? If this isn’t the ultimate oxymoronic symbol. I bet Uncle Rico Lord Jamar is just itching to get on Vlad’s couch and have a conniption fit over what Young Thug is doing to hip-hop.
I’ve said it before! Lighten up! The days of the uber-hardcore rapper are gone for now, so all of you Lord Jamar’s might as well take several seats and ride this sh*t out. It’s quite pathetic hearing you old-heads try and steer this young person’s culture. Y’all are like an old washed-up boxer sitting on the front porch telling the young’uns war stories—lying to the kiddies about what hip-hop is—upset that the white kid (Eminem) has mastered his toy (rap) and the gay kid (Young M.A.) is beginning to stand up for himself/herself and speak his/her truth. Indeed! You old-head Negroes are hip-hop’s version of Napoleon Dynamite’s “Uncle Rico”—who so desperately wishes that Kip’s “Time Machine” could take him back to 1990 just to get one more chance at being quarterback in the State Championship game. (See what having children will do? Keep ya current on cult classic movies!)
I know why you are appalled at Young Thug’s dress. Young Thug’s dress pulls at your heterosexual heartstrings, kinda like how Prince did to an earlier generation of music heads. Some of you swore that Prince was gay, yet, since his death not nann no gay man has come out of the closet to verify the veracity of your mind’s claims. Prince was a woman f**king machine linked to some of the finest women on the planet! Indeed, I know why your panties are all bunched up!
Young Thug wearing a dress runs contrary to all that you have been programmed & brainwashed to believe about manhood & masculinity. Thug and Jaden Smith’s dress wearing is the emasculation of manhood as we know it, but don’t mistake this with the feminization of the male species, which, according to pseudo sexual theorists of the Lord Jamar ilk, leads to homosexuality. Nope! Nunna dat!
I fully expect that you black folk Negropeans are aghast (filled with horror & shock) at Young Thug’s dress. As a Negropean, you are no more enlightened than your white counterparts when it comes to black culture and history. Black people are looking at Young Thug’s dress through the lens of this white, European, ethnocentric paradigm and symbol of manhood. A man must wear pants to be fully man. This is what we think. Young Thug is no man for wearing a dress. This is our simplicity.
But we have a collective conscious conundrum (a confusing & difficult problem); that is the fact that pants are a relatively new invention in the annals of men’s fashion, dating back only a few hundred years, created by white people.. According to these Internets “Pants” comes from:
A 3rd century Christian doctor who was condemned to death by the Romans for aiding the poor. The Church canonized him, giving him the name “Saint Pantaleone”—Pan is Greek for “all” and leo is the Latin word for “lion.” In ca. 800 CE, in comic drama according to Robert Hendrickson in his book Facts on File: An Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, the fool in a comic production was called Panteleon (“all lion”). In time this changed to Pantaloon. The actor was dressed in breeches that were tight below the knee but which bloused out in a full puffy fashion from the waist to the knee. In the 18th century the costume became one worn by many men. The famous portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud found in the Louvre shows Louis XIV in a regal pose, showing off his legs in a “Pantaloon” costume. The term was shortened to “pants” in the 1840s. (www.dl.ket.org/latin3/vocab/etym/history/pants.htm)
Pants, britches or trousers are European! Young Thug is African. Pants are a European invention—and a late one at that, yet we diss Young Thug for loosening the fashionista shackles which white people gave us. Pants were unknown to the African, the Egyptian, the Hebrew, the Moor, etc. These people wore dresses, tunics, caftans (for lack of better words). Even the white Greeks & Romans wore something resembling a dress as did the Scottish with their kilts. Again, when you do a survey of the whole of men throughout history—the dress was acceptable, preferable and worn. Like monogamy, the screwing marrying of one wife for a man’s entire life, which has been a 500 year old experiment gone horribly awry, pants are a new thingy on the evolutionary scale of masculinity. We’re just on some b####### and Young Thug is “man enough” to expose it.
The beautiful dress-wearing West African men of the Wodaabe Tribe.
Even Adam & Eve wore dresses made of leaves to hide their shame (according to the myth).
For you religionists that would use the Bible where it says, “The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God” (Deut. 22:5)—this was a prohibition against a religious practice, not an admonishment on how to dress! There were no pants circa 3,000 B.C.E. so they could not have been talking about clothing. In fact, they were talking about a religious practice where women would carve themselves wooden dcks penises (or d#####) and use these strap-on ccks phalluses in the temple, f###### practitioners of the Goddess & Sodomites faiths. Sex, as ritual, had been used since Time Immemorial as a show of honor and worship to the Deities. As for men dressing like women back then—again, that was the Israelite’s answer to Hebrew men who indulged in sword-fighting & c###-jousting (homosexuality) in the name of Sodomite gods, and not any admonishment by God on how to dress. (Like really, what does the God of Creation care about how we dress? Give the Big Guy more credit, wouldja?)
How can you call yourself a “conscious” black person—a Kemetic thinker, a Hebrew Israelite, a Moor, yet have a problem with Young Thug wearing a dress? This is your collective conscious conundrum! Even if Young Thug is on some dress-wearing gay s###, the conscious mind faces a conundrum. Condemn the dress, which the African, Egyptian, Hebrew and Moor all wore or big-up the pants that the European invented.
The dress was ok for the Egyptian, but Young Thug is destroying your white paradigm of manhood? Ok, right!
Dare I say that you “conscious” folk aren’t as conscious as you think? You still have some Negropean in you. Young Thug & I are just here to point it out.
Khalil Amani, C.O.O.N. (Consciously Optimistic, Overtly Nihilistic). Blogger, Writer, author of seven books. IG, Facebook, Twitter @khalilamani. AllHipHop.com, DJ Kay Slay’s Straight Stuntin Magazine, Originators Magazine.
