Kid Ink is back and drops off a new visual off his latest LP Summer In The Winter. Featuring Remy Boy Fetty Wap, watch as the two stunt in the official video for their collaboration “Promise.”
Watch below and be sure to copy a purchase of the album on iTunes now.
Young Dolph continues to promote his latest effort, King Of Memphis and returns with a new visual off the project. He hits the strip club with his gang and bands of stacks to pop on bottles and models.
Watch below and purchase a copy of his new LP on iTunes now.
Big Sean recently appeared on a short CNN segment showing the Detroit rapper giving back to his City’s youth. He started his how foundation and funded enough money to build a recording studio in his old high school. Sean feels it’s his duty to help influence Detroit’s young generation in any positive, possible way he can.
Sara Palin is back with all of her glorious f**kery. The Donald Trump precursor showed exactly how much class she had at a recent event bolstering her buddy. Sarah uses the code word for “n*gga” by evoking the word “thuggery.”
“We don’t have time for all that petty, punk-ass little thuggery stuff that’s been going on with these ‘protesters,’ who are doing nothing but wasting your time and trying to take away your First Amendment rights,” she said. “And the media being on the thugs’ side—what the heck are you guys thinking, media?”
This is what white privilege looks like. A white kid in the Chicago suburb curses the hell out of the police in a drunken rage and lives to tell the tale. He even calls an African American police a n***a – all the while recording the incident. The kid, who is in full knowledge of his rights, seemingly does this brazen act in front of is care takers or some other elders (“Kevin”). What is even more odd is he showed a wounded hand, what would likely be considered probably cause, after the officers were looking for evidence in a crime. We’re thinking if this was a person of color, he would certainly be a casualty and a hashtag. What do you think?
Officer Carver is p##### that she can’t light his ass up – allegedly! Seriously, is this funny or just ignorant.
(AllHipHop News) LL Cool J has officially come out of retirement and a recent well-received freestyle seems to be the culprit.
The veteran rapper dropped a verse on Dr. Dre’s Beats 1 show, The Pharmacy and over 4 million view later, he made the announcement.
“Today I’m officially coming out of retirement. And starting a new album .. studio time is set for 8pm.. I’m gonna massacre the rap game!!!,” Uncle L said on Twitter.
The 48-year-old last dropped Authentic in 2013, which was a somewhat experimental venture. Since, LL has continued to expand his brand as an actor and has hosted the Grammys five years in a row.
What is this whole thing with many of our Hip Hop All Stars getting caught on record doing and saying stupid things in social media that will live on in infamy when it comes to baby mama drama? First, it was Kanye West, Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose over what should have been some harmless lowercase initials, and now it’s some not so modern uncoupling drama between Ciara and her baby daddy Future following what was otherwise a completely A-list marriage proposal between Ciara and her newly minted fiancee, NFL Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson this past weekend on Honeymoon Beach at the exclusive North Island resort located in the Seychelles.
It’s a crying shame for everyone involved – and that’s when we necessarily put ourselves as fans as the low guy on the totem pole safely behind the star exes who do it to each other, and their kids that get left up front and center, lodged firmly in all of that caustic vitriol – chocked full of lawsuits, deleted social media feuds and nasty twitter trolls. A bitter public picture indeed.
As such, we thought we’d put together an aspirational guide to breakups for the musically blessed rich and famous, aka a mini bucket list of what to do and not to do when you are famous and have unresolved baby mama/baby daddy drama. And like we said, it’s purely aspirational. Heaven knows, famous or not, we have all been in that place where upon seeing your well adjusted ex, it takes everything in you not to slap the taste of happiness right out of their mouth – no matter whose child may be present. And that’s all without the benefit of knowing first hand what it is like to have random people trolling our twitter page letting us know just how much better our ex has it now that we are out of the picture.
So, here it goes:
When it comes to vengeance, social media is not your friend but your pimp. Yes, we get it. It’s lonely at the top and maybe, despite having the money to do so, you don’t want to pay somebody to listen to your unresolved issues with your famous ex who has your child, or somebody else’s child. But when it comes to working the system or letting it work you, twitter and the people tweeting back to you on it are not working for your team or even invested in who the heck you are in the IRL. They are getting entertainment off of you – hook line and sinker. Go into it knowing this when you share and in knowing that, seller beware.
Do the record and then be done with it. It would seem to be foolhardy if not fruitless to tell an artist that they shouldn’t use their life as fodder for their music – so we aren’t going to stupidly suggest that. However, if you are going to use your gift to air out what went down between you and your ex, just make sure it’s more cathartic than vindictive when it comes to the makeup of all of that fire you are spitting and spinning into reality. After all, your music is nothing if not your legacy and if you are done with that *&^% then they shouldn’t be taking over all of your art like that, now should they? Take the high road versus just kissing and telling like that girl who rhymes with sailor, who is real “swift” when it comes to playing the victim when it comes to those guys who weren’t “The One” and did her wrong by refusing to be that dude.
Don’t do anything rash that makes you look like a jackass after the fact. If Kanye had taken a minute to think about exactly what Wiz might have logically meant, especially given who Wiz is, when he tweeted, “hit this kk and become yourself,” Kanye might have realized how unlikely it was that Wiz was talking about anything other than weed versus a Kardashian, or any other woman for that matter, as a path towards self discovery and enlightenment. Much of the same sort of Monday morning quarterbacking (excuse the pun) comes to mind when one examines Future’s rash decision to drop a reported $21,000 at the strip club Vlive Dallas immediately after the announcement of Ciara and Russell Wilson’s engagement. True, $21,000 is nothing compared to the $75,000 that Meek Mill spent when both he and Future were partying at the Vanity Grand Cabaret strip club in Philadelphia just a few weeks earlier in February, but as an admired public music figure, timing is everything when it comes to how you look doing such things right after your ex fiancee just became somebody else’s fiancee on a literal Honeymoon Beach that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie-Pitt, David and Victoria Beckham and William and Katherine, the Duke and Duchess Cambridge, have been known to frequent. The inevitable comparisons after the fact are sure to do nothing good for you – whether you claim to care or not.
Lastly, remember who you are. You were something musically great and inspirational before you met your baby mama/ baby daddy and you and your your kid will definitely outlive that drama – no matter how crazy it gets. Knowing this, guard your reputation and who you can claim to be in your kids’ eyes from this point forward. Live by that knowledge, and no matter how low you feel now, you are sure to rise like a phoenix from the ashes once all of the drama is finally done.
As you know the nightlife club scene can have its pros and cons when it comes to turning up. It can be your source for late night fun, or it can often be the backdrop for unruly chaos. Well it looks like Future will have some explaining to do as a promoter is accusing him of skipping out on a show he was previously booked for. The promoter is livid as Future was paid $50K in full the week before. After Future’s concert in Houston, he was supposed to take the party over to Limelight Nightclub. It’s been said that Future never showed up, but the promoter is saying Future did show up but backed out of his performance at the last minute because he felt the venue was too packed and unsafe. Future didn’t return any of the money, and as of right now supposedly he’s working on doing another free show at a later date. Hmmmm it seems like there may be more to this story What are your thoughts?
Things have been really been getting out of control between Blac Youngsta and Young Dolph. Tim Westwood asked Yo Gotti about his feelings on Blac Youngsta showing up in Young Dolph’s hood! Gotti gave positive advice. He also said nothing really popped off, and he believes it was a misunderstanding. He certainly took the positive approach to it. Tim pointed out that it’s crazy that these rapper’s actions are a form of self snitching. Yo Gotti stated,
“Lil’ homie on the team so I’m going to always give him the proper advice that I believe I should give him from like a big brother standpoint or just being the homie standpoint. My advice you know I don’t move like that. I’m going to always tell, not only him but, any youngin’ don’t handle your business like this.”
Yo Gotti is focused and just out here trying to get the paper. Yo Gotti said much of the beef is below his vision. He says he wants to be the king of the bank!
Donald Trump has p##### off more than a few people. Those included are Russell Simmons and John Legend. Russell Simmons took to his Twitter explaining that the Donald Trump we are seeing isn’t the Donald Trump he’s known all of these years. Russell called Trump’s campaign dangerous, racist and violent. Simmons also pointed out that Trump has waged war on the minority, plans to take the country back to 1963, and even offered to pay the legal fees for the man who assaulted an innocent black man at one of his rallies. John Legend took time out to help Donald Trump’s son understand that people have been protesting his racist father. The fact that this man is running for president and has a tremendous amount of supporters is just…..
It looks like another case of baby mama drama for Chief Keef! One of Chief’s baby mamas says she’s back in the strip club because he won’t support his child anymore, and he won’t even make sure the child’s healthcare is taken care of. As terrible as this is, it’s hard to feel sad for anyone who sleeps with Chief Keef. She also says Chief Keef will rot in hell for being a serial reproducer. Hmmm…. interesting. What are your thoughts? Are you surprised?
(AllHipHop News) Michelle Obama, Missy Elliott, songwriter Diane Warren, actress Sophia Bush and Queen Latifah will host a conversation at #SXSW. The First Lady will also offer the keynote speech.
The specific topic will be the White House’s Let Girls Learn initiative and the conversation happens on Wednesday at 11am in the Austin Convention Center. Fans can only get in if they have Gold and Platinum badges from SXSW.
(AllHipHop News) For years Rick Ross has championed the Bentley brand despite flexing the Maybach Music Group chains and pushing Maybachs like a “bawse.”
Well recently the rapper teamed up with Bentley in a social media campaign to further assist the brand in reaching out to greater audiences with its Bentley Bentayga,
Rick Ross reportedly gave the luxury whip his stamp of approval as video emerged in January showing the Carol City, Florida bred rapper showing off Bentley’s first sport utility vehicle.
The post made its way to social media and YouTube generating free publicity for the Bentayga months before the United State release of the utility vehicle.
We also learned that Bentley encourages the exposure by celebrities because the luxury auto-maker does not place television ads instead opting to rely on social media, word of mouth and exposure from celebs.
But, the Bentayga comes with a price tag as large as Rick Ross himself, computing to $229,100 before shipping,
Michael Winkler, CEO of Bentley Motors Inc., spoke about the brand’s marketing strategy going forward and the use of celebs like Rick Ross and Floyd Mayweather to bolster the brand’s image.
A photo posted by Rick Ross / Yung Renzel (@richforever) on
“If we can help them get more publicity, that’s great (laughs). It is a compliment, obviously, when you see celebrities driving your brand. Particularly because in contrast to other high-line, premium brands, we don’t have to give the cars away. They actually buy them. That is a real compliment and I think very positive for the brand,” he explained.
“It’s 99.9 percent positive. But then the odd guy who puts purple stripes with fire blowing out the side and 30-inch wheels on the things — maybe you don’t want that so much. It is a huge compliment that high-profile people want to drive this brand and do so with their own money,” Winkler answered.
When asked if he could quantify the value of free social media marketing, the Bentley CEO said that without the marketing of Bentley drivers on social media, “you’re dead.”
“Whatever I’d tell you would be way off the mark. I wouldn’t be able to put a number on it. What I do know is if you don’t address it, you’re dead. I will say that,” he added.
The SUV will reach 187 mph making it the fastest SUV in the true luxury segment according to the Bentley CEO.
The SUV is set to arrive stateside in April or May so expect to see Rick Ross showing off the luxury SUV possibly as soon as next month.
Check out the gallery below with images of the SUV and also several promotional videos that showcase the speed of the new Bentley Bentayga.
Donald Trump has really gotten people in a furor. Now, people let him get away with the rhetoric for a long time, but now it seems like the ‘hood if fed up. And guess who is more p##### off than most. Trick Trick. Now, I know you know Trick Trick. Official to the bone grizzle and not to be f**ked with. He has posted a series of Instagram posts that suggest this Trump campaign will get more rigorous for the potential nominee. Trick Trick says, “I SWEAR!!! BETTER YET, WILL SOMEONE PLEASE PUT A GUN IN HIS MOUTH AND SQUEEZE!!!! (Because that’s what I felt like saying gatdamnit) Be mindful of this fuckery. Pay attention. The monster hasn’t show. His face yet… This n#### is a Joke! Be EXTREMELY MINDFUL of his SUPPORTERS!!!! WATCH THESE MUTHAFUCCAS!!! And PREPARE YOURSELVES!!!!”
Check it out.
By the way, Trick Trick has a new venture with Treach and Bumpy Knuckles…featuring Raekwon:
(AllHipHop News) Recently both Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross, lead actors in the ABC television show black-ish spoke at #PaleyFest on their roles in a recent episode that tackles police brutality.
The episode called “Hope” focuses on the family’s reaction to the murder of a Black teenager by a police officer and how everyone in the family deals with the verdict.
While watching the news on TV, their kids ask some tough questions and Dre (dad) and Bow (mom) have to find ways to teach their children about what is happening in the world.
Dre, Pops and Ruby (grandma and grandpa) think the kids should be aware of their surroundings, while Bow wants to give them, “a hopeful view about life.”
The show has gotten big reviews from critics and now the characters are speaking about what it was like creating the controversial episode.
When asked about the episode, Anthony Anderson said that the episode personally affected him after he too was a victim of police brutality in his younger years while living in Compton and as a student at Howard University.
“We pride ourselves on being topical and timely,” Anthony Anderson told the AP press. “In the light of whats going on with young Black men across this country, me in particular being a victim of police brutality. Growing up in Compton and while I was a student at Howard University protesting at a Ku Klux Klan rally, I speak to that and I know it first hand. What we deal with on our show really comes from our lives and the experiences we’ve had.”
“As a mom, or as a parent, how do you address these issues with a generation that didn’t experience a lot of these things and that are happening in our country, and then how do you have those conversations?” a concerned Tracee Ellis Ross explained.
This year #PaleyFest partnered with Citi and Hulu in support of the The Paley Center for Media.
With locations in New York and Los Angeles, The Paley Center focuses on the cultural, creative, and the social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public.
Check out some clips from the episode below and a link to the ABC episode below.
(AllHipHop News) With his name being stirred up in the recent Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa saga a few months back, and with his French Montana collaborative Wave Gods project out, Max B is continuing his push for freedom.
In doing so, Max B has launched a line of hoodies that feature a side profile of Max B and a “Free Max B” emblem on the bottom right corner.
Each wavy hoodie has a front pouch and is a heavy blend sweatshirt by Gildan.
The no-pill hoodies have double-needle stitching with a double-lined hood, set-in sleeves, rib knit cuffs and a spandex fitting waistband.
The artist rendering was done by Ozzy Oz Da Vyrus who has also done work for the incarcerated Bobby Shmurda.
It appears the hoodies are already getting support as Wale Tweeted out a link for the sweatshirts in support of Charly Wingate aka Max B.
In addition to the hoodies, Max B has t-shirts that feature Max B with his hands held high and handcuffed.
Below the caricature is a quote that says, “Hip-Hop Isn’t Dead, It’s Behind Bars.”
The hoodies are priced at $80 a piece and t-shirts are priced at $20. There is also a packaged deal that includes Blue Ray discs of the Wavy Baby Volumes 1-3 and all three of the t-shirts for $50.
Max B, born Charly Wingate, is currently serving a 75-year prison sentence, for his role in a September 2006 robbery, that turned into a homicide.
In 2009, Max was convicted of sending his ex-girlfriend Gina Conway and his stepbrother Kelvin Leerdam, to rob two men of $30,000 in a Holiday Inn, in Fort Lee, New Jersey.
The robbery ended in the death of a man named David Taylor.
Gina Conway testified against the two men in exchange for an 18-year sentence for manslaughter, Max B. received 75-years and Leerdam received the harshest penalty, life in prison.
Max B., who has been incarcerated since 2007, was hoping to receive another trial, but in August of 2012, his hopes were dashed when an appeals court denied his claims that the jury had been “improperly instructed and handed down an excessive sentence.”
All proceeds from the hoodies and t-shirts go to the Free Max B organization petitioning for 100,000 signatures to get an official response from the Obama administration.
If everything is bigger in Texas, it would appear that the lengths to which some GOP candidates will go with their election rhetoric is also outsized when it comes to unsubstantiated claims about our current commander in chief, Barack Obama.
Mary Lou Bruner, a 68 year old retired kindergarten teacher who is currently running for a seat on the Texas State Board of Education, has gone on social media claiming that Barack Hussein Obama II, the 44th president of the United States, worked as a gay prostitute during time spent in New York as a teen.
While this accusation in and of itself would seem to be a shocking first with regards to bipartisan mudslinging – not to mention it is mudslinging against the highest elected official in the land, what is more sobering is that the slanderous quality of these claims would seem to have no deleterious effect on Bruner’s chances for election in her home state.
In last Tuesday’s Texas Board of Education Primary, Bruner received 48% of a vote that was split between three candidates – leaving her just 2% away from what would have otherwise been a clearcut 50% win of the seat in question against opposing candidates Hank Hering and Independent School Board President Keven M. Ellis.
Despite further unsubstantiated claims voiced by Bruner in the past, such as her belief in 2010 that Middle Easterners were “buying textbooks” in order to unduly influence the State of Texas school curriculum, and more current claims that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together, to the tune of dinosaurs on Noah’s ark that, ” may have been babies and not able to reproduce,” Bruner may actually find herself in a position of real power after her up coming runoff with Ellis, who received only 31% of the vote last Tuesday.
In response to Bruner’s views, her popularity in her home state, and her ability to affect the Texas School Board, Thomas Ratliff, the moderate Republican who is vacating the contested seat had this to say of the likely scope of Bruner’s reach should she prevail in her campaign: ” I think she will have minimal, if any, influence on the board.”
While many would like to take Mr. Ratliff at his word, interestingly enough that’s precisely what everyone was saying early on about GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s ability to make a name for himself in the GOP presidential race.
(AllHipHop News) Sometimes the good comes with the bad and in this case of social media suicide, the old saying appears to hold true.
Yesterday (March 13th) Black Thought addressed a brazen fan on social media that boldly called out the South Philly bred rapper’s skills.
“@blackthought all I know is if you switched up your flow more you’d be better. Your patterns are predictable. #realtalk.”
What followed was an all out roast session as Black Thought used his fan’s Tweets to expel any notion that he fell off in any way at all.
On the good side, in the process of the roast session, we did get an update on a potential upcoming album from The Roots.
But it didn’t stop there, The Tweets that followed by the lead rapper and conductor for Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show band were pure comedy as Black Thought shunned the Twitter skeptic, with images and other Tweets.
No word on a title or date, but this is potentially some motivation to get the project out to fans soon.
“I feel like we are embarking on a new chapter in our lives and in our careers, so it’s time to either make more music or to stop making music, and we’re not going to stop. Music is on the horizon,” said Black Thought.
Check out the Tweets below from yesterday that hint a new album might be closer than we think.
(AllHipHop News) Legendary Staten Island bred rappers Raekwon and Ghostface hit the stage in Austin, TX at SXSW last night, joining Grammy Award winning and Platinum producer Just Blaze for a set.
In addition to the performance at Austin’s Mohawk Austin aka “The Hawk,” Ghost has a performance with MF Doom presented by New Era & Hypetrak for a Doomstarks advertised set.
(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop artist/educator MK Asante has decided to take a new approach to violence and ignorance in Hip-Hop as he remixes one of the hottest songs on Talib Kweli & 9th Wonder’s Indie 500 album.
MK and his brother Uzi link to remix “Bangers,” which was shot in the streets of Baltimore.
MK told AllHipHop.com, “In ‘Bangers’, we rob people of their ignorance. We wanted to take 9th Wonder’s intro and really show the connection between knowledge, power, and music. We worked with the visual artist Robert The to make one-of-a-kind book guns from my memoir Buck. With Talib Kweli recently re-launching Nkiru Books, the synergy here is beautiful.”
In 2013, MK release a memoir called “Buck,” which was a Washington Post Bestseller in 2014 & 2015. Last year, MK released a soundtrack to the book as well. In the video, MK’s literary work is cut into the shape of a handgun and kids symbolically kill off their ignorance.
