(AllHipHop News) The Game and the LAPD Police Chief seem to be developing quite a close relationship in their efforts to put an end to violence in the city.
According to TMZ, the two teamed up to film a video pleading for an end to all of the senseless killing.
Chief Beck and The Game initially linked up a few weeks ago when The Game along with Snoop Dogg organized a peaceful protest for unity between law enforcement and citizens in the wake of growing tensions.
The protest culminated with the former gang members turned rap stars meeting with Chief Beck and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.
Now The Game and Chief Beck have connected for a Stop The Violence campaign, which addresses the high rates of crime in the city, especially involving minorities.
The video makes note of the fact that 80% of individuals involved in shootings as either the perpetrator or victim last year were people of color.
This unlikely collaboration between the two has certainly raised some eyebrows however, as some members of the Black Lives Matter movement have been calling for Beck’s resignation with claims that he has condoned police violence in the black community.
Beck took the time to address the negative perception that he and The Game may have among each others peers by stating that he has always stood for saving lives in the city.
He also stated that The Game is a perfect spokesman for the cause as he’s lived the street life and welds large influence within the community with his musical success.
Check out the Stop The Violence video and Beck addressing concerns about the campaign below.
Toronto rapper Raz Fresco is proclaiming the influence of the Five Percent Nation on his new song “God Body.”
Rappers like Jay Electronica, Rakim, Nas, Jay Z and Jay Electronica have all made references to the organization in their songs.
Raz Fresco’s “God Body” features Arkansas based Bakers Club member Lo Thraxx.
Take a look at the the video, which was shot in New York at the Allah School in Medina (Brooklyn). Raz is currently working on his new album Time Waits For No Man.
(AllHipHop News) Common has signed on to star in a remake of coming-of-age drama “Cooley High.”
The Oscar winner will also produce the revamp of the 1975 Blaxploitation comedic drama, which featured Glynn Turman and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs.
“Cooley High” was set in Common’s hometown of Chicago, Illinois, and centered on a pair of teen best friends during the final weeks of the school year.
The original film was produced on a $750,000 budget and grossed $13 million at the U.S. box office, making it one of the top 30 highest domestic grossing films of 1975.
Bosses at America’s ABC network developed a TV adaptation of “Cooley High” soon afterward, but the pilot was poorly received.
As a result, studio executives asked the show’s producers to completely revamp the show as a sitcom with new characters and a new title, and the series became beloved comedy “What’s Happening!”
(AllHipHop News) Before Kanye West jumped on the stage at the 2009 Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift was a well-known singer in many circles.
However, it is a fact that the country star went from selling 592,000 copies of Fearless in its first week in 2008 to selling 1,047,000 copies of Speak Now in its first week in 2010.
Plus, Google searches for “Taylor Swift” skyrocketed in September 2009 after the VMAs and that interest has mostly remained above any highest point before the Kanye microphone grab.
The publicity from the VMA interruption appeared to help push Swift into superstar status. Kanye addressed that outcome on his controversial song “Famous” from The Life Of Pablo.
The track sparked the latest round of Swift versus West and his wife Kim Kardashian. The feud hit a climax when Kardashian released audio of Taylor saying she felt the concept of Ye’s “Famous” was “a compliment.”
The #KimExposedTaylorParty became one of the most talked about trending topics this week. Power 106’s The L.A. Leakers checked in with music executive/producer Jermaine Dupri to get his thoughts on the controversy.
“I don’t think Kanye was doing anything slick,” said Dupri. “Even if he asked her or not, he still did make her famous in different areas.”
He continued, “For us to even be talking about Taylor Swift on Power 106 is because of Kanye. It’s not he made her completely famous, but he made her famous in areas that she wasn’t even popping at. We’re talking about her on a Hip Hop station.”
(AllHipHop Features) “I’m starting with the man in the mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways,” sang the iconic Michael Jackson on his classic “Man In The Mirror.”
The message of that #1 single off the 1987 Bad LP is being personified nearly 30 years later through the music and actions of a 23-year-old Chicago Hip Hop artist.
Upon searching within himself for understanding on various social issues, Vic Mensa chose to step forward and be a public voice for disenfranchised and maligned communities in this country.
Mensa could have accepted his role as a Grammy-nominated songwriter and Roc Nation signee by simply staying apolitical and focusing on Pop friendly tunes. That safe approach would have likely guaranteed him a spot in the upper echelon of mainstream America acceptance.
The latter track was included on Mensa’s debut EP There’s Alot Going On. As he prepares to support the project by hitting the road on the “Back With A Vengeance” tour, Victor is also currently finalizing his first studio album (formerly titled Traffic).
In an exclusive interview with AllHipHop.com, Vic Mensa discusses his nationwide trek starting in Atlanta on Thursday, his views on police violence, his upcoming full-length body of work, and more.
Your tour is set to start this week. Are you approaching this particular tour any differently than the “Traffic Tour” you did last year?
The music I’m performing is different than the music I performed last year. It’s a lot more topical. I’m just excited to get out there and really spit that sh-t they need to hear.
You have Joey Purp opening for you. Can we expect you guys to hit the stage together for some of your collaborations?
Yeah, we might throw it back and do some old sh-t. Joey Purp has a phenomenal tape out right now called iiiDrops. I’m excited to watch his shows and see him tear that sh-t up, because he’s got one of the dopest rap projects of the year out right now.
I would say the same about your project. “16 Shots” is a very powerful song, but it’s been seen as controversial by some people. Especially in the wake of what’s been happening the last few weeks with all the different killings. Can you go into more detail about your intent behind the subject of the song?
Being from Chicago, Laquan McDonald being murdered by Chicago police was something that was very close to home. I’ve had a bad relationship with police as long as I can remember because that’s how the system is set up. I’ve been wanting to write a song like “16 Shots” for a long time to express that. The Laquan situation just put it on a world stage, so that was something I felt compelled to address.
What about people who may feel the song is “anti-police”?
I am anti-police. Police are anti-me.
Does anti-police, in your view, mean returning violence against the police?
I don’t think the shooting of those police officers was strategically the way to fix the problems that we have with police in the black community. But I can understand why something like that would happen when we’re being murdered on camera time and time and time again.
I mourn for the families of those officers as well, because they’re human. I don’t think they deserved to die. Nor do I think Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant, or Laquan McDonald deserved to die. The list goes on.
People try to make it a two-sided thing when at the end of the day – strictly by the numbers – this is a one-sided attack and onslaught. There’s not a widespread slaughter of police. The stats are up for police killed in the line of duty this year, but those stats don’t even begin to measure up to unarmed innocent black people killed by police.
It’s unintelligent for people to even start making those type of arguments. They make those arguments because of those subconscious or conscious biases, prejudices, and internal racism.
I think white people get really offended when you talk about things like that because they think you’re calling them a racist. It’s hard for them to empathize and understand the challenges we have to go through just by being born with darker skin. But they’re real by the numbers.
You can say more white people are killed by police because white people outnumber black people in America tremendously. But as far as percentages of unarmed black people killed by police, it’s through the roof.
You can’t watch the video of Alton Sterling or Philando Castile and be a genuine person that cares about their fellow man without realizing there’s something grossly wrong with that. But this requires people to look in the mirror and to question and think.
That’s how I grow. When I’m not able to understand where somebody is coming from or what somebody is going through… I made a song recently called “Free Love” about LGBT rights. That’s not something that I was always concerned with.
I always thought gay marriage was cool, but I wasn’t concerned with it. I couldn’t empathize with them. It took somebody in my family telling me that’s how they identify for me to start questioning the way I was thinking about that and realize these are just people who didn’t choose to be the way they are.
It took somebody in my family telling me that’s how they identify for me to start questioning the way I was thinking about that and realize these are just people who didn’t choose to be the way they are. They just want to live a fair, equal life. That’s what people that doubt us [on police brutality] need to think about.
I was going through your Twitter timeline and I saw you posted something about [Milwaukee County] Sheriff [David] Clarke.
He’s a hating ass b-tch
TO THE BRAINWASHED BLACK OFFICER WHO THINKS THE POLICE FORCE ARENT MODERN DAY OVERSEERS… WAKE UP… HOUSE N****R pic.twitter.com/erl4l0VxG7
He’s been saying some really wild stuff over the last few weeks.
He’s brainwashed that’s all. He might be too far gone. We might just need to wait for him to roll over. He’s got an entire slave house n-gger mentality, and we’re out here in the fields.
What is the solution? We’ve recognized the problem – maybe everyone has not recognized the problem – but we’ve recognized the problem.
That’s part of the solution is for everyone to recognize the problem. Like you said, there’s still a lot of people that don’t think there’s a problem.
I say something on my Twitter about how disproportionate Congress is to white males, and I have people start tearing me down saying white people were slaves too, all kind of stupid sh-t.
That’s why I say the things I say in my music, to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. So that people understand – the people from Chicago – I can help them through this sh-t.
The people that don’t understand and think they’re comfortable where they are, I got to shake their mentality and make them start thinking. A lot of people are just regurgitating the racist beliefs that their grandparents handed down to their parents that handed it down to them.
Are you filming a video for “16 Shots”?
Yeah, we’re doing a video. It’s in the works.
What’s the status of your album?
I made an album and then I didn’t feel like it was the right representation. So I started making a new album. That’s where the songs from There’s Alot Going On came out of. I would say it’s about 75% done.
Now that you’re on Roc Nation, could we see some collaborations with some of the artists on the label for your studio project?
Potentially, but I don’t really do a lot of collaborations. I really just collaborate with my immediate team. The stories that I’m telling are real personal. It’s very unique to me, so it’s not often that the songs I’m writing for the album really lend themselves for somebody else’s voice.
Can you talk about where you are conceptually for the music that you’re working on now?
The things I’m doing are very autobiographical. There’s a lot of narratives, a lot of stories.
Speaking of which, my favorite song on the EP was the title track. It’s rare to have an artist be that open in their music.
I’m glad you liked that. That’s one of my favorites on the EP.
Was it therapeutic writing and recording that song?
It was very therapeutic writing that song. Writing that song was like writing in the mirror. It helped me come to terms with a lot of the sh-t that I’ve gone through and be able to express it through music.
It seems like you have sort of a love-hate relationship with the media. I was listening to your freestyle you did recently with the BBC, and you talked about how you felt the media spun what you said about Justin Timberlake. You have a message on your website where you say you don’t really pay attention to critics. What led you to have those feelings toward the media?
I don’t have any animosity towards the media. I think people are a lot more concerned with ratings, clicks, and views than they are with the truth. I find a lot of people in the media to be parasitic, and I don’t like people trying to take advantage of me or use me just for visibility. I appreciate the people in the media who use the power that they have to say things that matter and offer real perspective on sh-t.
De La Soul has blessed Hip-Hop lovers with a new song “Royalty Capes” from their first studio album in 11 years.
The song is from their highly anticipated album the Anonymous Nobody.
“Royalty Capes” was produced by Dave aka Plug Too and mixed by the legendary Bob Powers.
It is one of the first songs De La recorded for the Anonymous Nobody, at The Bomb Shelter and Vox Studios.
“It was one of those rare moments where he [Dave] wrote his part first,” Pos told AllHipHop.com in a statement. “He said it just sounded like royalty walking in and he put his rhymes down and I followed his lead.”
(AllHipHop News) Rapper Yelawolf has pulled together an interesting collective of rappers for his upcoming “Trial by Fire” tour.
The Alabama based artist has tapped Georgia country-rapper Bubba Sparxxx, country legend Waylon Jennings’ grandson Struggle Jennings and Tennessee-born artist Jelly Roll to open up for him on his latest outing.
The “Trial by Fire” tour is meant to serve as a promotional vehicle for Yelawolf’s upcoming third album of the same name.
The tour begins on October 13th in Asheville, North Carolina at The Orange Peel, and winds down December 4th at Pensacola, Florida’s Vinyl Music Hall.
Here is the complete list for the “Trial By Fire” tour:
10/13 – Asheville, NC: The Orange Peel
10/14 – Columbia, SC: The Music Farm
10/15 – Raleigh, NC: Lincoln Theatre
10/16 – Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Sound Stage
10/18 – Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Bowl
10/19 – Boston, MA: Paradise Rock Club
10/20 – New Haven, CT: Toad’s Place
10/22 – Montreal, QC: Metropolis
10/23 – Toronto, ON: Sound Academy
10/25 – Pittsburgh, PA: Rex Theater
10/26 – Detroit, MI: The Fillmore
10/27 – Covington, KY: Madison Theater
10/28 – Indianapolis, IN: The Vogue Theatre
10/29 – Chicago, IL: Thalia Hall
10/30 – Madison, WI: Barrymore Theatre
11/1 – Minneapolis, MN: Skyway Theater
11/2 – Iowa City, IA: Blue Moose Tap House
11/7 – Salt Lake City, UT: The Complex
11/9 – Boise, ID Knitting Factory Concert House
11/10 – Missoula, MT: The Badlander
11/11 – Spokane, WA: Knitting Factory Concert House
11/12 – Seattle, WA: The Showbox
11/13 – Vancouver, BC: Commodore Ballroom
11/15 – Portland, OR: Roseland Theater
11/18 – Sacramento, CA: Ace of Spades
11/27 – Tucson, AZ: The Rialto Theatre
11/28 – Albuquerque, NM: El Rey Theatre
11/30 – Dallas, TX: Bomb Factory
12/1 – Houston, TX: Warehouse Live Ballroom
12/2 – Austin, TX: Empire Auto Garage
12/3 – New Orleans, LA: Tipitina’s
12/4 – Pensacola, FL: Vinyl Music Hall
For Part one of this AllHipHop Short Story, Click Here For “The Future According To Donald Trump” “THE REAPERS”Miller stopped to regard it for a moment. There was nothing spectacular about it. It was a simple scrawl in black spray paint, nothing fancy. It probably took three seconds to do it, definitely not the best piece on the wall, yet everything else was written over & disparaged, some even crossed out. “THE REAPERS” was untouched. Miller felt a sense of pride. The Reapers were the real reason Trump initiated the Trump Brigade. It was a natural progression from benign protests to malignant actions.Although Trump initially decried them as being illegal immigrants, The Reapers were actually multicultural & indigenous to whatever region they were from. For example, the Colorado Reapers were full of Pueblo Indians. The Reapers stood in open rebellion against the Trump Administration, making them the de facto military arm of Anonymous, the group of superhackers, . The FBI could never prove any link between the two groups but Trump went on TV after the second assassination attempt on his life and immediately blamed both The Reapers and Anonymous. The Reapers did eventually claim responsibility for the attempt and, although Anonymous said nothing publicly to admit or deny their involvement, a “winking eye” happy face emoji ‘?’ was sent to every Android cellphone in America at the exact same time of the attack.The Trump’s Brigade’s main task is to seek out and destroy The Reapers.Miller chuckled and continued walking. Three assassination attempts in less than four years. Insane. The first was in 2017 by some deranged guy named Brady Lee Johns who shot Trump at a rally to impress actress Jennifer Lawrence. Trump got a graze wound to his left arm. Of course he played it up as if he had defied death. The next attempt was also in 2017, two months after the first. A brazen attack orchestrated by a California based faction of The Reapers with alleged financial support from the Mexican Mafia. Some say they were the very first faction, the originators. They attacked Trump’s caravan with legally purchased assault weapons and lobbed grenades in the middle of Los Angeles. It was like a Michael Bay / Jerry Bruckheimer film. Trump got away unharmed but five Secret Service agents lost their lives protecting his. The numerous death threats started immediately as he became President Elect & both the FBI & the Secret Service called Trump’s presidential protection detail The Pall Bearers, but after five of them died during the LA assault they started to call that detail the Suicide Squad.Six members of The Reapers were also killed during the assault, with eight more arrested a few days later. Three of which who weren’t even present at the attack. Those eight currently reside at The Big One, a Supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado. They aren’t serving a sentence, they haven’t even been charged with anything yet. The fallout was crazy. Magazines, CNN, Twitter, all media outlets were aghast. American citizens arrested and detained with no formal charges. It seemed the FBI investigation couldn’t pinpoint who did what. After two years the charges remain pending. The LA 8 as they were called, became the catalyst and inspiration for the present day incarnation of The Reapers. There are many of them, tightly knit “SETS” with no single leader or council connecting them all. The Reapers pretty much do whatever the f**k they want to do. They all follow the 3D mantra though. To DISCREDIT, DISRUPT & DESTROYthe government. They have perpetrated numerous crimes against many federal agencies as benign as stealing mailboxes to the assassination attempt on Trump. The Reapers have also attacked Trump’s supporters and most of his surrogates, vandalizing homes with Trump signs in the yards. They have popularized former Orlando Magic guard Dennis “3D” Scott’s “throwback” basketball jersey. There are also plastic 3D glasses with one red and one blue lens that they leave strewn at the scenes of their activities, like a calling card. The Trump Brigade hated The Reapers, and with good reason. The Reapers took potshots at them constantly. They were natural enemies, like Bloods & Crips. Since both groups were so secretive the members of the Trump Brigade were suspicious of everyone and very heavy-handed with citizens, hence the brutality complaints. Miller kept walking, the air getting thicker and smokier with every step. He saw a school bus rumbling towards him, belching black diesel smoke clouds into the air. As the bus rolled past, Miller saw the group of preteen passengers and printing on the side of the bus. “FIRE FIRST ACADEMY.” He shook his head and chuckled. Trump’s big plan for education turned out to be to arm teachers and school administration, with mandatory target shooting and gun safety classes for students 12 & up. Miller could feel moisture spreading under his armpits as the sun peeked out from behind the clouds. The air became so thick with the smell of smoke that he could hardly breathe. He coughed and spat, his eyes beginning to water. Miller made a left turn onto the main thorough fare and stopped dead in his tracks.Miller had found the source of the smoke.
Across the street from his position on the opposite corner were about 20 Muslims, the men garbed in kufis, long white shirts and robes, the women in hijab. They were picking through the rubble of their still smoking mosque, bags in hand looking for anything they could salvage. Fire bomb. So this was why he’d heard the faint wail of sirens last night. As he walked closer a group of 3 or 4 Muslim men standing in front of their ruined place of worship saw Miller approaching and turned towards him. Miller nodded at the men in a gesture of greeting. Their responses were hostile glares. He could feel their hatred focused on him, their eyes so accusatory that he had to avert his own & turn away. He passed by the men, albeit on the opposite side of the street. They never spoke. They just continued their hostile stares. There was definitely no lack of suspects in the mosque bombings. It could have been The American Patriots, The Greatest American Heroes, The Reveres, or that old standby The KKK. The Klan has made a resurgence during Trump’s presidency, it’s membership up 600%, more any of the other all-white militias. It could have even been the Trump Brigade. They were no friends of the Muslim community, especially after the last assassination attempt on Trump’s life. Instead of going to Camp David, Trump would head to Trump Tower in NY for his vacations.Trump Tower was constantly under protest, with opposers setting up tents around the building, reminiscent of Occupy Wall Street complete with police barricades, police, national guardsmen, and of course, the ever present Trump Brigade. On September 12, 2018 at approximately 9:42 a.m. All hell broke loose. There were three explosions in succession as two men and a woman broke through the barricades like Viet Cong sappers. Three suicide bomber detonations, each 10 minutes apart. The first boom created instant shock, the successive detonations causing pandemonium, killing and injuring protesters and first responders alike. Over 100 casualties making the Trump Tower attack the deadliest on American soil since the mass murder spree at the gay nightclub, Pulse in Orlando, Florida. The crowd’s faces seem unbelieving. One blood splattered face fixed with a blank stare would become the literal face of the attack, appearing everywhere and personified the attack the way the visual of the damaged, smoking towers embodied 9/11. The assault itself was horrific, even The Reapers disavowed the attack which killed many innocent people, however we wouldn’t wait long for a group to come forward and claim responsibility.ISIS AMERICA. That’s right. Isis America. Even the name was enough to send shudders down American spines everywhere. They were here. Homegrown and engaging in some of Isis’ deadliest activities. Suicide bombings, kidnappings, video taped beheadings broadcast on the internet. Trump’s policies against Muslims worldwide brought the fight into his backyard. Miller never understood why Americans thought a man who was basically a draft dodger who received five deferments for the Vietnam War was fit to lead the War On Terror anyway. Because of both The Reapers and Isis America, Trump took to addressing the nation via video feed from an undisclosed location with no press present so there would be no questions. These addresses are broadcast on government television, dubbed “TRUMP TV,” where 24 hours a day you can watch Trump’s speeches, John Wayne movies, and reruns of “The Apprentice.” People had to watch it because it was the only way to get information since Trump obliterated the First Amendment thus shutting down any media that he didn’t control and blocking certain sites on the internet, like Google.As Miller walked & the streets became steadily more crowded with pedestrians and bikers, he saw the reason why. Looming up ahead was a gas station with its dusty pumps looking like blocks from Stonehenge. The gas station’s sign overlooked the entire street, it’s numbers seemingly like a bizarre joke. Miller could still scarcely believe his eyes as they looked over the plastic sign & he read it’s legend. $8.32.Eight thirty two.EIGHT THIRTY TWO.EIGHT DOLLARS & THIRTY TWO CENTS A GALLON. Miller blinked his eyes. It had been like this for over a year, a combination of Trump’s policies on Muslims and his isolationist policies. Trump turned his back on the Middle East & the Middle East turned it’s back on America. There were talks in Congress of actually going into our oil reserves. It was a f*cking mess. It’s like Trump imposed sanctions on America. He did bring jobs back from overseas, but unfortunately the cost of American labor drove the prices of everything with a Made In The USA label through the roof. That, combined with Trump’s 35% import tax basically raised prices on everything, meaning that to get $100 worth of any product you would have to spend about $135. A story in The Washington Post revealed that Trump had made soft inquiries to the Federal Reserve about printing more money. Just the suggestion that the president may have asked about printing more USD sent Wall Street and the global economy into a tailspin. It immediately devalued the American dollar to the point that world leaders began discussing supplanting the dollar as the world’s common business currency.Trump had done so much damage to America, he was being referred to as the Kim Jong Un of the West, and the USA as the North Korea of the west. Both South Korea and Japan obtained nuclear weapons in 2017 when Trump decided to pull all of our military from the region. The sabre-rattling between North and South Korea was deafening Likewise with China and Japan. Trump also pulled back from the Middle East with Putin’s subtle urging, “LET ASSAD AND I HANDLE ISIS IN SYRIA. YOU HAVE MUCH WORK TO DO IN YOUR COUNTRY AND ONLY YOUY CAN FIX IT.” Putin had learned that Trump was as susceptible to a well placed empty compliment as a 17-year old girl on prom night. Although a videotape of Trump’s meeting with Kim Jong Un was not released he surely followed Putin’s playbook because two weeks later American troops were pulling out of South Korea. Miller saw his job ahead & the sight of it spurred him forward. There it was, he thought as he reached his destination. A nondescript blue building with peeling paint. The only thing new about this building were the 3 ft tall plastic letters raised above the building. TRUMP PLASTICS. Jesus that man loved putting his name on s###. Now that he was President him buying a new commercial business was frowned upon. Trump avoided this scrutiny by running everything through his sons, but it was him.It was always him.Miller walked around to the rear entrance of the building & saw about thirty or forty men milling around, either consciously or unconsciously divided by race. Like a prison yard.Miller walked by two Hispanic men leaning on the wall separating the parking lot from the alley.The Wall.The wall became the most embarrassing failure early in Trump’s presidency. After all his barking, all his Mexico bashing. All his promises to build a wall and making Mexico pay for it. When it came time to put up or shut up Mexico said simply, “NO.”Trump was livid. He deployed ICE, Homeland Security and the Trump Brigade to Texas with a vengeance. They rounded up everyone brown they could find including Mexican-American US citizens, Black people, and some people of Indian descent. It was early 2019 and the immigration detention centers were still clogged from those raids. Countless innocent people remain in detention awaiting a day in court they should never have to face. Trump seized money wires from the US to Mexico. He almost invaded Mexico but Congress stopped him. Ironically enough, the only wall that almost got built was between the USA and Canada when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joked that he may have to e#### a barrier along the Canadian border to keep out all of the Americans. Trumpfugees they called them. After the consistent flow of American’s into the Great White North, Trudeau stopped joking. Miller paced around the rear parking lot, getting a few curious glances from his co-workers, who were mostly wearing blue jeans, work boots, t-shirts, and safety glasses. “A bit over dressed, ain’t you Mills?” Asked one man around the cigarette he cradled between his lips. Jeff something, Miller thought. Miller looked down at his Armani suit & shrugged.Jeff Something chuckled and moved on into the building. Time to punch in. Miller allowed himself to be sucked inside with the throng. There were pictures of Trump all over the building, including the hallway walls, his orange face alternating between smiling and scowling depending on which picture frame he was staring at you from. Miller stopped in the hall in front of a picture of Trump smiling. This divisive man who had torn this country apart and pit all these different races against each other. Smiling.Who had relinquished America’s role in the world, making Russia top dog by default.Smiling.This man who was the cause of so many Muslim, Mexican-American, and Black children being teased and bullied.Smiling.The Boogeyman who came in the night and separated children from their parents.Smiling.The man who was afraid to fight in the Vietnam War and somehow received FIVE deferments but has no qualms about restarting the draft and sending others’ children to die in a desert thousands of miles away.Smiling.Miller knocked the picture off the wall, getting some strange looks as the wooden frame clattered & broke on the cement floor. He walked into the dank, stuffy locker room, where men were in various states of undress, some pulling on green coveralls & donning hard hats. Miller looked around at all the men “Come on, Mills”, said a short black man who had worked next to Miller on the the line for the last two years.Ben Somebody.“Be there in a minute, man.” Miller said back, then went & sat in front of his locker after Ben Somebody left. He sat there for a moment, quiet. Then Miller opened his locker, reaching past his coveralls with the TRUMP PLASTICS patch on them til he felt something hard. He pulled carefully & out came the corner of a vest adorned with approximately 20 small rectangular shaped boxes with wires connecting them all to a crude detonator with a red button. Miller surveyed the room, saw various men of different ethnicities, all broken into their own small groups. All more or less pretty good guys. He saw Jeff Something talking to What’s His Name. “Well, you can’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs,” he thought. He looked at another picture of Trump smiling that hung above the locker room’s doorway. This time, he smiled back.Then he pressed the button. – @ironsidehex
(AllHipHop News) Idris Elba was a guest on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon this week. Fallon asked the Luther star to play “Box of Microphones.”
Elba first picked from the “song pile” and ended up selecting Desiigner’s #1 hit “Panda.” With The Roots backing him, the Emmy-nominated actor ran through the song with a microphone that made his voice sound like The Chipmunks.
In addition, Fallon hit Drake’s “One Dance.” Then they both did a duet of “Endless Love” by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross.
Grammy-nominated rapper, Remy Ma recently received a “Her Imports” makeover, while shooting a scene for the upcoming season of Love & Hip Hop.
Acclaimed hair stylist, Tym Wallace, gave the award winning rapper a new look featuring Her Imports extensions, while makeup artist, Renny Vasquez provided a flawless beat face.
Remy Ma was filmed for the episode last Wednesday (7/13).
Kevin Gates is never one to hold back or bite his tongue, but his recent comments on Instagram might get him so unwanted extra attention from the government.
Gates truly upset his fans last week by calling the Black Lives Matter movement BS, because he believed that people couldn’t protest with the movement with blacks killing blacks daily.
Gates says that you have to stand up against it all, and not pick and choose when you decide to get on the front lines. Although Kevin doesn’t seem to think those protesting, are handling the issues of police brutality correctly, he makes it crystal clear that he will kill an officer’s family if they violate his.
Gates reflected on Instagram after being asked how would he respond to a police officer causing harm to a member of his family, to which he replied saying,
“B-tch yo whole family gonna die instantly…. If a police search my daughter and put his finger in her p-ssy his whole family gonna die. A n-gga disrespect my son slap him, touch him, scratch him whatever yo family gonna die instantly.”
This is interesting, it sounds like he’s doing the same “hoopin’ and hollerin'” that he complained about others doing about incidents of injustice. What are your thoughts?
(AllHipHop News) Billboard recently caught up with Hip-Hop legend and political activist Chuck D. of Public Enemy/Prophets Of Rage, to get his thoughts on the growing tension between citizens and law enforcement nationwide.
On July 5 Alton Sterling was murdered by police in Baton Rouge under very questionable circumstances, followed by the controversial murder of Minnesota resident Philando Castile the next day, which was streamed in real time on Facebook Live.
This prompted some bold citizens to take matters into their own hands with retaliatory slayings of law enforcemen at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, and again in Baton Rouge.
“WTF. That was my first reaction. I mean, do you have the words for things like that? I had no words [in regards to Alton Sterling]. I still have no words for it,” Chuck D. said. “And they went and covered that woman’s boyfriend Philando Castile that just got killed — I was even more silent. And then I totally had no words for what happened in Dallas…,” chimes Chuck D when asked of his initial reaction to the growing controversies.
He also had some choice words for media giants and their irresponsibility in tying Professor Griff to Dallas shooter Micah Xavier Johnson.
“We’re in the era where a picture tells you a thousand words, but now we got a thousand pictures and it doesn’t do that,” Chuck D. snapped. “You got a thousand pictures per person out there in the world. I just thought that was lazy low-fi journalism.”
According to the outspoken legend he wishes to see media improve by having the discipline to stick to the facts in their reporting regardless of the bottom line.
Chuck D. also recommended Cynthia McKinney or community organizer Rosa Clemente as presidential candidates to combat the current unrest and stated that he only views Hilary Clinton as the lesser of two evils in campaign against Trump.
(AllHipHop News) This year has crossed its halfway point, so Business Insider took a look at which music acts dominated the Pandora streaming platform.
The publication listed the most frequently added “artists stations” on Pandora in every state. Drake was crown the king of streaming in over 35 states.
The YMCMB representative was followed by Kevin Gates and Eminem with 5 states each. Fetty Wap topped the tally in 2 states.
Drake’s Views has been a streaming juggernaut. The album has spent 10 weeks at #1 based on mostly streaming totals.
(AllHipHop News) KRS-One found himself catching heat from critics after the rap legend defended Afrika Bambaataa while the “Planet Rock” performer was in the midst of child molestation allegations.
Rather than backing off his support, KRS doubled down on his views about the situation during a Q&A in Birmingham, England.
“When you’re talking about Afrika Bambaataa, first of all, you’re talking about the person who invented Hip Hop, not participated in it,” said KRS-One. “There was no Hip Hop before Afrika Bambaataa. Let’s start there. So anyone who has a problem with Afrika Bambaataa should quit Hip Hop.”
The Bronx-born emcee went on to speak about the men that have accused Bambaataa of sexual abuse, and he argued some members of the Hip Hop community should never be publicly attacked.
“As I wrote in my statement, I hope for healing for everyone involved. First, for those who are accusing Afrika Bambaataa – accusing. No evidence, no convictions,” stated KRS. “Okay, but we will at least give you the benefit of the doubt. You made these accusations against Afrika Bambaataa. Okay, no problem. Bam, deal with that.”
He added, “Some of us are infallible. Some of us are going to have to be untouchable or our entire culture is going to fall.”
(AllHipHop News) Houston rappers Slim Thug, Paul Wall, Willie D and others recently met with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to discuss solutions to inner city violence.
According to CW39, the rappers have opened accounts at Unity Bank in the Third Ward to stimulate economic development as a first step in improving conditions of the community.
Geto Boys alum Willie D stated that the goal of the group is to stop the violence and also “create an atmosphere of respect instead of discontent with our law enforcement.”
Willie D then continued: “You know, it’s very important that people understand that when we say Black Lives matter, we’re not saying that Blue Lives do not matter.”
Mayor Turner believes that it is very important for the artists to become involved because many in the community have lost hope for the future.
“There a lot of people in our city that have lost hope and people are feeling helpless,” Mayor Turner said. “People in many ways are feeling disrespected, and these individuals here- these artists- they have collectively more power than I do.”
At the end of the day Paul Wall just wants to make a difference no matter how big or small.
Although Future has remained a little quiet lately as he gears up for the Summer Sixteen Tour, a new song “Paparazzi (Dab)” recently leaked online.
“Paparazzi (Dab)” was originally previewed in Mike Will Made It’s “Drink On Us” video that featured Swae Lee & Future.
Since the track leaked, there have been mixed reviews on social media.
Many believe the song isn’t living up to the hype originally created by the snippet found in Mike Will’s song.
The song actually made some eager to hear more new collaborative music from Future & Mike. Remember, the original snippet was intended to get people hype about their joint ‘Ape S###’ project.
Future recently took to Twitter, to explain that the track leaked and it really isn’t the wave he’s currently on. He also says it wasn’t a record he would’ve done for himself.
What are your thoughts? Were you feeling it?
No disrespect to anyone jus not a record I would've did for myself…
(AllHipHop News) Travis Scott joins Drake, Future, DJ Khaled, and other rap stars on the list of Apple Music partners.
The Houston native discussed the new deal with DJ Whoo Kid.
“I just did my partnership with Apple Music,” said Scott. “[Apple Music’s head of content] Larry [Jackson]’s f-cking amazing. That dude, he believes,” “He’s always talked to me when I was like beginning off. He always gave me that advice. You know, just to figure out where I’m going. So, I’m glad he’s down to take this trip with the kid and with this album. It’s super good.”
