(AllHipHop News) The Game is not sitting by as Black people and other minorities are being killed disproportionately than others. Snoop Dogg has also joined his Compton counterpart in solidarity with the overtly positive movement.
The Game apparently has issued a call for men to come out, peacefully and unarmed, to protest police brutality. In a statement in circulation, The Game stated the following:
Do not: bring any weapons or anything illegal. We will stand as we are, UNIFIED. Our numbers are all the weapons we need !!!
Mission: to walk to the LAPD headquarters a few blocks and stand UNIFIED as African American & minority men TOGETHER as one peacefully to demonstrate our unity as ONE with ONE VOICE to show them that tomorrow they DO NOT have to HUNT us down to kill us… In front of our women or our children.. If the end goal for them is to KILL OFF all of us then they will have to do it with us standing side by side in the thousands!!!!!!!!!!! There are many things that have to be done to rectify this situation that has plagued us for hundreds of years & UNIFICATION is the 1st step !!! I’m asking for ALL of my AFRICAN AMERICAN, MEXICAN AMERICAN & any other AMERICAN who has the heart to STAND WITH US to meet us at the above address & take the 1st step into altering our future for our children & our FAMILIES… WE CANNOT ALLOW THEM TO KEEP HUNTING & KILLING US LIKE ANIMALS OUT HERE !!!! I LOVE EVERY ONE OF YOU & CANT WAIT TO STAND SIDE BY SIDE WITH YOU EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. WE OWE IT TO OURSELVES & OUR FAMILIES TO BE MEN & TAKE A STAND MY BROTHERS.. THE TIME IS NOW
– SINCERELY, THE GAME
The announcement comes after the murders of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and others that have been killed, seemingly unjustly, by the police. However, the Los Angeles Police have been caught immersed in some of the most heinous crimes of police brutality, which have been well documented.
The rally is to begin at Joe’s Auto park parking on 1221 west 3rd street Los Angeles California 90017 at 6am PST and head over to the Los Angeles Police Department. There has been no cancellation announced in the wake of of the shooting deaths of 5 Dallas police officers downtown.
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(AllHipHop News) Trayvon Lee, manager of slain Baltimore rapper Lor Scoota, was murdered himself near his home Wednesday evening in a second “targeted attack” according to police.
Lee was the CEO of YBS Records and managed the career of Tyriece “Lor Scoota” Watson, a buzzing Baltimore MC who was tragically murdered after attending a charity basketball game at Morgan State University.
Police Spokesman T.J. Smith says that Lor Scoota was murdered as retaliation for a non-fatal shooting one of his associates perpetrated.
Smith also says that although there’s currently not enough evidence to connect the murder of Lor Scoota and his manager Lee, it’s definitely an idea that’s not out of the question.
“Is it ironic? Is it a coincidence? We don’t know the answer to that yet. As investigators are we looking at that? Absolutely. We’re dealing with another young man taken away from his family.
“He has a child, and now there’s another fatherless child who will grow up in Baltimore because someone decided to use a gun to take him down,” T.J. Smith said. “This is a vicious cycle of violence that’s continuing.”
Lee’s brother Pachino “Chino” Braxton survived a drive-by shooting incident on the same block his sibling was murdered on this February.
He left the heartfelt message below on his Instagram. Braxton is a popular dirt biker and Dreamchasers affiliate.
Everybody that is in Hip-Hop hates Gerard Woodley, because he is the man that took Big L’s life. Well, Cam’ron is from Harlem and things are deeper than you know. The word on the street is that Cam’Ron attended the funeral of Woodley and there is Instagram proof. You all know, Cam and Big L used to rap together back in the day so one would assume that he’d hate Woodley. Not the case. On instagram, he said, “Me and Kev at G-LOVE funeral Rip #139st.“
So, everybody has already changed what they are talking about. Just a couple of days, the world was talking about the murder and execution of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. And now they aren’t. They are talking about the police that were shot and/or killed in Dallas. One suspect dead and there are supposedly three others in custody.
Supposedly. Anyway, ponder the unthinkable. Rumor has it the shooter[s] were white males. One of the early accounts from sources at the scene state that there was a white male in a police vehicle shooting. Before the shots rang out. Certainly there are a lot of ways thing could be taken in the midst of chaos.
The rally of thousands of protesters was peaceful. The actual protesters did nothing wrong. Could it be possible that clandestine (or not so clandestine) forces shot up the rally to create the calamity?
This assertion is nothing new and people are talking about it, even though nobody will publicly. Could these forces have shot up the rally? Sure. Nothing new. Remember how the cops shot up N.W.A. concerts to perpetuate the notion that those shows were inherently violent?
Remember COINTELPRO and how the government dismantled groups like the Black Panthers? If you don’t, look it up. The police were known to shoot up gangs drive-by style and cause gangs to fight each other. For example, they would arrest somebody and then drop him off in a rival hood and make it look like he was working with the cops. In places like Ferguson, it was KNOWN that police and others would cause drama at otherwise peaceful protests so that the peaceful protesters would seem animal-like and lawless. You know, stuff like that.
So, suddenly the narrative and focus has changed and people are mourning the police and not Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and people like that. Even the SCOUNDREL of police brutality is no longer the focus.
And then a commercial of Jason Bourne comes on as a sniper…
(AllHipHop News) Dallas Police Chief David Brown has announced the suspect involved in the shooting that took place in the city last night was purposely targeting white police officers. The unidentified man was killed by a robot bomb detonated by authorities.
Brown stated, “The suspect said he was upset about Black Lives Matter. He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people. The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people especially white officers. The suspect said [police] will eventually find the IEDs. The suspect stated he was not affiliated with any groups and he did this alone.”
As of now, five law enforcement officers are dead and another 7 were wounded. Two civilians were also injured.
AllHipHop.com will update this story as more details emerge. Watch the MSNBC report below.
(AllHipHop News) Kanye West fans have been given the opportunity to work with the rapper on his new Adidas collection.
The “Stronger” hitmaker first joined forces with designers at the German sportswear company in 2014 and he has since released apparel and the in-demand Yeezy Boost high end sneakers for the label.
Last week, the two parties revealed plans to expand their partnership to include new apparel lines, shoes, and accessories for men and women as part of the adidas + Kanye West brand, and the rapper is now assembling a dedicated team based at the company’s Portland, Oregon headquarters.
Advertisements for 17 new positions have been posted online, giving aspiring designers and other professionals the chance to work with Kanye on his new project. Among the jobs available include posts for Senior Designer Footwear and Senior Manager Public Relations, reports HypeBeast.com.
In a statement announcing the expansion news last week, Kanye said, “These past two years adidas and Yeezy have given a glimpse into our future. This partnership illustrates that anyone with a dream can dream without limitations.”
Outlining his hopes for the collection, the rapper-turned-designer admitted he wanted to see his products worn by top athletes.
Kanye’s designs have been a source of controversy, but the Hip-Hop star previously insisted his vision is supported by other fashion icons, including designer Alexander Wang and Givenchy’s menswear guru Riccardo Tisci.
“They support me one hundred per cent,” he said last year. “They sent flowers, emails, and just love. They know I’m in that design office. They know I’m there giving an opinion. They know the concept of celebrity designer is so far out the window…”
Young Thug certainly says and does some interesting things in regards to gender and sexuality. Thugger certainly plans on continuing to rock androgynous styles, and he refuses to let gender norms stop him from being who or what he wants to be. On the set of his Calvin Klein ad, he revealed that he doesn’t believe that gender exists. He says,
“In my world of course you could be a gangsta with a dress or you could be a gangsta with baggy pants. I feel like it’s no such thing as gender.”
We are sure Thug and Jaden Smith will be dropping a dress line soon. What are your thoughts?
(AllHipHop News) Last night (July 7), law enforcement officials were targeted in a gun attack in Dallas, Texas. As of press time, 5 cops have been killed and another 6 wounded.
One suspect involved in a standoff with police has reportedly taken his or her own life. Three other people are said to be in custody. None of the suspects have been identified yet.
The shooting took place during a protest against police violence. However, no motive for the onslaught has been reported.
Several figures connected to the Hip Hop community have reacted to the Dallas shooting.
While many celebrities addressed the growing tension in America, some of the social media messages were a response to former Republican House representative Joe Walsh’s tweet that appeared to be a threat against Black Lives Matter protesters and President Barack Obama.
(AllHipHop News) Jay Z’s on a roll and continues dropping joints with a new song, “Spiritual.”
The song, released on Tidal, talks about coming up from rag to rich.
“I am not poison, just a boy from the hood that got my hands in the air, don’t shoot, I just wanna do good, “Jay Z says on the song.
The mogul explained the reasoning for the song on Tidal:
I made this song awhile ago, I never got to finish it.
Punch (TDE) told me I should drop it when Mike Brown died, sadly I told him, “this issue will always be relevant.” I’m hurt that I knew his death wouldn’t be the last……
I’m saddened and disappointed in THIS America – we should be further along.
WE ARE NOT.
I trust God and know everything that happens is for our greatest good, but man…. it’s tough right now.
Blessings to all the families that have lost loved ones to police brutality.
– j
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
– Fredrick Douglas
Beyonce, Jay’s wife and pop star, also addressed the issue on Thursday. “It is up to us to take a stand and demand that they ‘stop killing us,” she said on her site with a link to contact local Congress people.
(AllHipHop News) Four police officers were killed and another 10 shot in downtown Dallas after a pair of snipers unloaded fire from a nearby parking garage, reports say.
“Tonight it appears that two snipers shot ten police officers from elevated positions during the protest/rally,” Brown wrote in a statement. “Three officers are deceased, two are in surgery and three are in critical condition. An intensive search for suspects is currently underway. No suspects are in custody at this time.”
One suspect have been captured according to reports and another is still at large. Sources have not confirmed that the person was the shooter.
A new conference is forthcoming.
The rally was peaceful and the vast majority of those active in it were not aggressive or violent to police, sources with AllHipHop said.
The onslaught comes as a pair of Black men were slain by officers in Baton Rouge and Falcon Heights, just outside of Minneapolis.
Rapper Kelyvn Colt comes out representing London, by way of Germany and Nigeria.
The 22-year-old, who takes inspiration from 2Pac, Kid Cudi and Eminem, dropped out of college to start his own label and prepare for his career as a rapper.
“I wrote the song in my dorm room, after my first year in England,” Kelyvn Colt said. “At the time I couldn’t cover my fees anymore, was alone most of the time or working, hardly having time for music, even though that was
what I came for. So I started pondering about what I had left behind. I missed my home, Germany, my crew and my (now ex) girlfriend especially. I realized that things won’t be the same, even if I gave up now and came back. You may never know if you are trading diamonds for gold.”
Z-Ro, the Houston rap legend, has an album dropping next week, but the recent acts of police brutality have weighed on him heavily.
Alton Sterling, a 37-year old from Baton Rouge, and Philando Castile, a 32-year old Minneapolis man, were both killed by police this week. Bystanders taped the death of Sterling, which closely resembled an execution by police. Castile was pulled over for a “routine traffic stop” and was shot after he reached for his identification. His girlfriend Diamond Reynolds said in a Facebook live video, “He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm.”
Z-Ro has a lot of opinions on the topic coming out of the Missouri City area of Houston, Texas. He said police are intent on breaking down Black men.
“Every time you turn around, they want you soft. They want you to not put up a fight about nothing. ‘Hey go over there and sit down.’ You put your chest out, they shoot you. Stand up for your rights, they shoot you. Walk by ’em too fast, they shoot you,” Z-Ro told AllHipHop.com. “That’s what it is.”
However, he offered concrete solutions that, if implemented, could change the paradigm between Black American and the police.
“When you are looking to steer clear of the subject, you will just [say], don’t do nothing to get apprehended but the crazy part is, you don’t have to do nothing. But, when you look at it like a survivalist, you come up with stuff like, ‘Lets police our own streets. Lets stop calling 911.’ Unless its a medical emergency or a fire. If you see somebody fighting, man, put your camera phone down. Don’t record that. Go an break it up. If somebody’s arguing, don’t call the police. They gonna definitely shoot the male. You turn around [to the police and say] ‘What? [aggressively].’ You definitely getting tazed. You dead in your coffin, you still getting tazed. Its retarded and you really gotta come up with ‘Police Your Own Area.’ You own neighborhood watch. Say:’We don’t need [police] to roll through here. We’re rolling through here.’”
Z-Ro also stated that violence against the police wasn’t the way to go, as so have suggested.
“If we revolutionize and start the killing [of enemies], then that is gonna promote more killing and that’s going to be less of us. Because, we gotta sneak our weapons” he continued. “But, if we get out there and say, ‘In Mo City (Missouri City), we got this. In Fifth Ward in Houston, us 100 people, we got this. South Park, we got this. If you do that, you come up with your own force, man.”
Brown V. Board of Education formally declared separate public schools were unconstitutional, however Z-Ro suggested African Americans may have to create their own communities to survive the onslaught of police brutality.
“[Remember] how they used to say ‘going back to Africa?,’ you can go back to Africa in a sense by just making a village in your community. Cutting down on a whole lot of that riff raff by actually policing yourself. Not being police. We don’t want to be those. But, for your neighborhood, get out there and go check on Mrs. Williams,” he explained. “You hear something? Go over there and check it out. Get you one dude that can carry and some dudes that can beat some faces in and you over over there and see what it is. That way you can stop a whole lot of BS, but you can also stop a whole lot of senseless killing. You know how they [the police] treat us, man. That’s my solution that I see. I’ve thought of a lot of solutions.”
Lastly, he stated that a community watch could help those that have been systemically locked out of the workforce.
“A lot of people that don’t have nothing to do, now they got something to do. Now they got something to do. That’ll probably give jobs. You aint gotta sit around here We hate the badge,” he concluded.
It seems like every time an artist gets ready to release new music a website screws up in regards to the announcement and the schedule for releasing information on it. It looks like Amazon has leaked Gucci Mane’s ‘Everybody Looking’ tracklist since Gucci hasn’t made any formal announcement about it. The album will contain 14 songs with features from Young Thug, and Kanye West. If this tracklist is correct, noticeably missing is Drake’s feature on “Back On Road.” The album is set to hit stores on July 22, 2016, and it also features production from Zaytoven, Drumma Boy, and Mike Will Made It. Guwop recorded the entire album in just six days following his release from prison!
(AllHipHop Features) Xavier “Zaytoven” Dotson has stamped his name as one of the most sought after production minds in the industry. His decade-long musical union with Gucci Mane played a significant part in both Atlanta legends’ respective careers exploding.
In May, Gucci returned home after nearly three years behind bars, and the Trap music forbearer immediately reconnected with Zaytoven. The pair banded together with fellow ATL representative Mike Will Made It for Gucci’s forthcoming Everybody Looking album.
Zaytoven’s discography is also set to include a sequel to his 2015 collaborative effort Beast Mode with Future. In addition, Drake, Young Thug, Too $hort, Migos, Juicy J, Ty Dolla $ign, and others have been recording over the signature Zay sound in recent months.
Besides music, Zaytoven has the Birds Of Feather 2 movie coming. The San Francisco raised instrumentalist is continuing to share his knowledge of crafting tracks and maneuvering through the music business with his Producer Camp as well. Attendees have even traveled from around the world in order to take part in the event held at Patchwerk Studios.
I spoke with Zaytoven to get his thoughts on his most recent production work. Read what the gifted guitar, drums, organ, and piano player has to say about teaming with Gucci Mane, Future, and more.
Me and Gucci have been working on his album. He didn’t want to come out and do a mixtape. He wanted to go for the album. I think it’s a good idea. Especially while all the attention is on him right now.
Before he got home, we were making beats for him. I was making beats for his album. I was collaborating with Mike Will on a lot of the beats. That’s what [Gucci] wanted just to give him something new, a different style. I’m glad he’s home. I know we got something special coming on July 22.
He had songs like, “I wrote these just for my album.” At the same time, when you get in the studio and hear the beat, you just want to do something fresh. Half of the songs are songs he came up with right there in the studio.
What is he talking about on this project? Pretty much the same thing. He’s just got a clearer vision. A lot of his songs are well thought out, because he had so much time to write them. But it’s pretty much still the same Gucci Mane.
It’s been something new. It’s been exciting. It’s a new thing for me to collaborate with producers. I’m usually doing my own thing. Most of the time, they’re doing their own thing. But lately you’ll see me collaborating with guys like Mike Will, Metro Boomin, Sonny Digital, or different producers. It’s something refreshing, so I had a real good time [working with Mike Will].
We worked on Rae Sremmurd’s project. I guarantee after the Gucci album comes out a lot of people are going to want to use this collaboration a lot more. The first one we did was 2 Chainz’s “MFN Right” off the ColleGrove project. Now I think it’s the sound that a lot of people are going to want.
This Gucci project is like [Mike Will and I] working on a whole project together. We haven’t sat down and talked about doing a whole project together, but this Gucci project is that to me.
Beast Mode 16 is what me and Future have been working on. I think that’s something very special. When you listen to Beast Mode 1, to me it’s almost like a work of art. All the tracks we did were real piano driven, real melody driven. So we’re back at that again, but it’s almost times 10 on this one.
We really haven’t put a [release] date on it, but we’re like 95% sure of the songs we want to use already. We got so much material, but we don’t exactly know when we’re going to drop it.
We’re bouncing off of each other. We got so many fresh ideas and new music. He still makes me get chills when he starts recording. He’s definitely got something special going on.
We were at the video shoot. We were working on Gucci’s album, and Drake just came through. We were talking a little bit about working on a project. We were thinking about working on a project with Gucci and Drake.
He said, “I was rapping on one of your beats a couple of days ago.” That kind of sparked our conversation, and we started talking about what we’re going to do in the future.
We got one, maybe two, [Drake features] for Beast Mode 16. One for sure.
This was all during the Gucci Mane video shoot. We were shooting the video that actually features Young Thug.
Thug came through, and we actually recorded music during the break of the video shoot. We had a little 30 minute break. We went up to the studio, put a beat on, and Thug started recording.
I was there watching Thug work with Gucci before Thug was big. This was at Gucci’s old studio. The chemistry is definitely still there.
Me and Too $hort are from the same place. We’re from the Bay Area. He was down here in Atlanta, and he said, “Zay, we need to hook up. I’m working on my 30 year anniversary album.” So he came over, and we put some songs together.
Hip-Hop is mounting and offensive against police brutality. T-Dubb drops a lyrical bomb in response to the murder of two Black men, on camera right after a weekend celebrating the nation’s independence. The song does not mince words. “The Feds, fk em, all the plainclothes, fk ‘em, the DEA, fk em, The CIA, fk em/ Bch ain’t no love, we don’t trust em / Fk Hillary, fk the government, fk the Senator, f**k the governor.” T-Dubb-O is far from new to activism. Listen up.
It’s been a busy few weeks for rapper Wiz Khalifa, who recently became locked in a battle with his former record label, Rostrum Records.
Wiz filed a $2 million lawsuit against the label, claiming they mismanaged his career, and Rostrum responded in kind with a $2 million dollar complaint of its own, labeling the rapper an ungrateful artist.
Last night, (July 7), Wiz jetted from Los Angeles to Malaga Spain, for a show tonight at the Weekendbeach Festival.
The rapper has a series of dates throughout Europe from now until July 14.
