Bay Area native and West Coast Hip-Hop fan favorite Bobby Brackins drops his highly anticipated new mixtape titled “Maxwell Park”. The project includes features from E-40, Ray J, Clyde Carson, Ty Dolla $ign, Kreayshawn, Lil Debbie, Iamsu!, and is guaranteed to be one of the most creatively arranged and delivered mixtapes of the summer. After dropping bombs with his hit single “Big Body” featuring Clyde Carson and Ty Dolla $ign, then causing catastrophic damage with the overwhelming viral success of “Hit It First” with Ray J, Bobby is definitely redirecting the spotlight to focus towards his direction more often than not. With songs to ride to, grind to and vibe to, Maxwell Park has definitely been developed to compete and potentially surpass recent releases for the summer thus far.
(AllHipHop News) Stevie Wonder has seen enough and has decided that he is taking a stand against Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law by boycotting all performances in that state.
While performing in Quebec City, Stevie Wonder told a packed crowd “we can make change by coming together in the spirit of unity” and also will not perform in any state that honors the stand your ground law.
Stevie has has a long history of political activism dating back to him being an integral part in Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday becoming a holiday in 1983. The legendary singer also has a history of cancelling performances due to his political views. In 2012, the Songs In The KeyOf Life artist cancelled a performance at a fundraiser for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces after learning the nature of the group’s political views.
Check out Stevie Wonder’s speech on his denouncement of the “Stand Your Ground” laws and his call for peace:
(AllHipHop News) Rachel Jeantel thinks the George Zimmerman acquittal was “B.S. Just B.S.”
The last person to speak to Trayvon Martin before his death held her first interview with Piers Morgan after the end of the trial. In the interview, Jeantel attempted to clear up misconceptions of Trayvon’s image perpetuated by Don West and George Zimmerman’s defense attorney.
In the interview she denies that Trayvon was a thug and attributed the numerous social media posts of him with guns and seemingly engaging in gang activities as just bragging on social media.
Jeantel also questions “If Trayvon was white, what would have happened?”
She also responded to the onslaught of inflammatory comments aimed at her by onlookers of the cases which centered on her speech and intelligence:
“I have an underbite. [There’s] a bone they have to push back. I have to have surgery to push it back. Right now, I dont want to do it because it takes a year to heal. Alot of people have that situation.”
Check out both parts of the video interview where she addresses jurors’ assessment of her intelligence, Trayvon’s funeral and more:
(AllHipHop News) No matter what Bobbi Kristina Brown (or 80’s Madonna) may say, poppa going to preach.
After learning that his daughter would be engaged to the man the Brown’s raised as unofficial adoptive parents, Nick Gordon, the “My Prerogative” singer tells TMZ he does not approve of their union.
He also reveals that Nick did not ask for his daughter’s hand in marriage prior to the engagement news being announced earlier last week.
Bobby and his daughter is estranged and the issue of marriage has caused some division between the two in the past. Bobbi Kristina did not attend her father’s wedding when he got remarried on June 18th of 2012 to Alicia Etheridge.
WOW! So now Hip-hop is to blame for the murder of Trayvon Martin?
That’s what The Last Poets’ member Dahveed Nelson says! Most of you are too young to remember The Last Poets, but I was a coming-of-age teenager in the 70’s and remember quite vividly this amazing group of black guys “going in” on whitey over bongos—before rap music. The Last Poets are the eponymous fathers of the rap music genre. With classic spoken-word joints like, “N###### Are Scared of Revolution,” “When The Revolution Comes,” “Black Thighs,” and “Gashman”—these guys fueled my blackness. I really respected these cats back in the day! The Last Poets helped give me my militancy and I still own that classic album!
But what’s this I’m reading by one of their members—Dahveed Nelson claiming hip-hop is responsible for Trayvon’s death? And saying Jay-Z is a “coon.” And s####### on Russell Simmons? According to this coon (and yeah, anyone who makes these assertions about hip-hop is an ass-backwards coon—with all due respect to your Negritude bruh-man)—hip-hop’s uber-macho gangster thug image is the reason Trayvon is dead. He says, “You can put the blame squarely on hip-hop.” I’ll just say you’ve become a “Hot African Mess!”
Dude moved to Africa!—the Motherland!—Akebulon!—the cradle of civilization where all religion was birthed or, as Count C.F. Volney (a white guy) wrote in 1793 in his book, “The Ruins of Empires,”“There a people [Africans], now forgotten, discovered, while others [we Europeans] were yet barbarians, the elements of arts and sciences. A race of men, now rejected from society for their sable skin and frizzled hair, founded on the study of the laws of nature, those civil and religious systems which still govern the universe.”
If we are to follow brotherman’s logic, hip-hop must’ve been around 400 years ago when many, many, many more blacks were killed (by whites). Did hip-hop kill Medger Evers? Did hip-hop kill those four black girls in a church? Did hip-hop kill Martin Luther King Jr.? Did hip-hop kill Emmitt Till? Did hip-hop kill Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman? How do you explain the thousands of dead black people prior to hip-hop’s advent? How about all of the black men that were gunned down in your era (da 70’s) while wearing bell-bottoms and platform shoes?
White folks didn’t just start becoming suspicious of black men in the age of hip-hop! They were locking their car doors, clutching their purses and crossing the street before hip-hop was a twinkle in The Last Poet’s eye! Eff’s wrong with you man? You just oughta have your hood-pass and black militant I.D. card revoked! As a matter of fact, it expired the minute you came to these fooGAYzi conclusions!
It is the most scapegoating excuse coming from the mouf of a supposed former revolutionary mind! Trayvon Martin’s death was the work of a rogue American citizen!
Dahveed Nelson uses those antiquated words “n#####” and “coon” to try and assert his “blacker-than-thou-ness!” That might’ve rubbed a black man the wrong way in 1974, but this hip-hop generation has flip-da-script on you old-heads! The new “n#####” is a N.I.G.G.A.—Never-Ignorant-Getting-Goals-Accomplished. (You can thank the son of a revolutionary for that—Tupac Shakur!) The new “coon” is a C.O.O.N.—Consciously-Optimistic-Overtly-Nihilistic. (And you can thank me for this!)
For all of hip-hop’s brashness—to think that gangster music and hoodies cause black people to become the victim of white fear and their need to protect themselves against that fear by murdering the assumed object of their fear is just a crock of sociological s### horse dung and you, Dahveed Nelson have just gone down in hip-hop history by making the most coonerific statements evaaar! Even Jesus wore a hoodie.
He goes on to say, “This whole hip-hop generation, it’s the devil. It’s Satan…”
Nelson—a supposedly enlightened black man from another generation, who picked up his bed and moved to the Dark Continent — is still steeped in the oppressor’s religious mythology and language — the devil, Satan — to make a point about hip-hop by using mythical, fairytale-like imagery! (Where dey do dat at? “They,” meaning black militants of the Eldridge Cleaver/Huey Newton/Stokely Carmichael variety circa 1968.) I knew Stokely Carmichael a.k.a. Kwame Toure’ personally! He would never use euro-Christian imagery!
Does this devil you speak so knowingly of live in the center of the earth and does he have a pitchfork, horns and a tale? Talk about losing cool-points!
If Langston Were Here (For Trayvon…)
Way Down South in Dixie.
(Break the heart of me)
They shot a young black brother.
He was only drinking tea.
Way Down South in Dixie
(Black boy’s body, who cares?)
I asked the Lord White Jesus
What’s the use of prayer?
Way Down South in Dixie
(Break the heart of me)
Hate is a n####’s shadow
He was only trying to flee!
Khalil Amani is a blogger for AllHipHop. He also writes for DJ Kay Slay’s Originators Magazine & Straight Stuntin Magazine. Amani also writes for Hoodgrown, Maybach and Sext Magazines. He is the author of six books, including the ground-breaking book, “Hip-Hop Homophobes…” iuniverse.com 07). Amani is gay hip-hop’s self-proclaimed straight advocate. Visit The Coonerific One at http://www.khalilamani.ning.com Follow on Facebook/Twitter @khalilamani. Youtube @ yahweh 12
(AllHipHop News) Chris Brown’s probation was revoked yesterday after he allegedly hit and left the scene of an accident without sharing proper documentation with the other motorist.
The singer will remain a free man, but if a judge finds he violated his probation, Brown could be sentenced for four years in prison, according to TMZ.
Brown pleaded his case on Twitter, claiming he did the right thing.

“I did everything I was suppose to do during the so called hit n run, I provided the correct info. There were no injuries or damages. C’mon!! My cross is heavy but God gives me the strength to carry it,” he said on the social network.
(AllHipHop News) Hip-Hop took over the stage this year at Wireless; a three-day festival which took place at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London from July 12-14 2013.
This year, the festival’s main headlining acts were Snoop Lion, Nas, A$AP Rocky, Kendrick Lemar, John Legend, Will.I.Am and many others.
Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake capped off the Festival on Sunday (14 July) by giving the audience a taste of Legends of Summer tour, which is due to kick-start in North America on July 17 in Toronto. The duo was also joined by Rihanna, who appeared as a surprise guest, for a rendition of the track Run This Town.
The other main headliners of the festival were the legendary group, A Tribe Called Quest.
During the group’s performance, Q-Tip made reference to the Trayvon Martin case by stating “This is not the first time it has happened where a young black man in our country, in America, life is devalued so grossly.”
Q-Tip praised the system in the UK by admiring the way information is analyzed before making a verdict. He asked the crowd to pray for America and said “There’s a lot of motherf***ing black on black violence going on in Chicago and Miami and all over our country man. We are losing our youth at an incredible rate. We need you to pray for us man.”
It was the first time in over 10 years, the group performed as a trio in the UK’s capital.
(AllHipHop News) The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) is calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the Jay-Z/Samsung “Magna Carta” app for inappropriate data collection. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that EPIC filed a complaint with the FTC that states the app “accessed substantial information, including data about users’ location, telephone numbers dialed, networks and other applications on the phone.”
Samsung failed to disclose material information about the privacy practices of the App, collected data unnecessary to the functioning of the Magna Carta App, deprived users of meaningful choice regarding the collection of their data, interfered with device functionality, and failed to implement reasonable data minimization procedures.
Owners of Samsung’s Galaxy smartphones who downloaded the app were given early access to Jay-Z’s new album Magna Carta Holy Grail and other exclusive features on July 4th. The reported $20 million deal Jay signed with Samsung was viewed by many observers as groundbreaking and capable of changing the way music is consumed in the future.
The app also drew criticism from some, including rapper Killer Mike, for being too invasive since users were required to agree to several phone permissions before downloading. The ‘Magna Carta’ app also asked for authorization to post to social media sites and made users provide status updates in order to access certain features. EPIC says these requirements were unnecessary for the app to function properly.
Samsung issued a statement that read in part:
Any information obtained through the application download process was purely for customer verification purposes, app functionality purposes, and for marketing communications, but only if the customer requests to receive those marketing communications… Samsung is in no way inappropriately using or selling any information obtained from users through the download process.
(AllHipHop News) Three years ago actress Alison Quinn uploaded footage of an unaired HBO pilot starring Kanye West to YouTube. Somehow the 4-minute clip went mostly unnoticed until now. In the video Kanye is playing a fictionalized version of himself similar to Curb Your Enthusiasm‘s Larry David.
According to a 2008 MTV report, the show was not picked up because HBO executives called it “too hard-core.” Writer and producer for the program Larry Charles also expressed that he felt HBO was not sure what to do with the show because it featured a black main character.
“HBO doesn’t have a good track record when it comes to black shows, and I felt like that may have had something to do with it also,” said Charles.
Charles also talked about meeting with Kanye about creating the show.
“What Kanye West said to me the first time, he said, ‘I’m the black Larry David.’ That’s the first thing he said to me,” added Charles. “So it’s like a Kanye-and-Curb’ show.”
(AllHipHop News) YMCMB rapper Lil Wayne returns with his latest video for the track “God Bless Amerika” off his 10th studio album I Am Not a Human Being II. Wayne travels back to his hometown of New Orleans to give his take on the current state of what the Young Money leader calls “this ol’ godless America.”
YUP! George Zimmerman is going to have a crazy rest of his life, here on. Lets just start with the accusation that George Zimmerman is a perverted child molester. Peep:
“It started when I was six,” the woman told investigators in 2012. “We’d all lay in front of the TV and we had pillows and blankets and he would reach under the blankets and try to do things and I would try to push him off but he was bigger and stronger and older,” the woman said, audibly weeping in the Florida State Attorney’s Office interview recording released Monday. “It was in front of everybody and I don’t know how I didn’t say anything, I just didn’t know any better.”
“We’ve known about this since the beginning but out of respect to her privacy, her emotional state, we haven’t said anything,” Natalie Jackson, an attorney for the family of victim Trayvon Martin, told The Huffington Post.
“This is the first time in my life that I’m not afraid of him,” the woman said. “[H]e cant get to me. If I saw him on the street or saw him anywhere it would just make me break down in tears, but now with everything going on I know that he’s not going to be out in public. I won’t go to Target and see him anymore. I’m not afraid of him anymore.”
AND…there is another woman on deck ready to come forward as well to claim the same. Apparently, she charges that Zimmerman and his family only liked “oreo” Black people.
“I was afraid that he may have done something because the kid was black,” the witness told investigators. “Because growing up they’ve always made, him and his family have always made statements that they don’t like black people if they don’t act like white people. They like black people if they act white and other than that, they talk a lot of bad things about black people.”
I secretly had a crush on Kat Stacks, but now its all gone.
She went and got the owner of WSHH tatted on her WHOLE BACK.
And she got the WSHH logo tatted above her boobage. Is she celibate now, because not too many dudes gonna wanna hit it from the back if homey dog is going to be smiling back!
Peep the pics!
WOW. They keep us talking, but if we stop talking about them then they should worry! -illseed.
(AllHipHop News) The Last Poets are considered one of the forefathers of Hip Hop. The 1970’s spoken word collective’s politically conscious poems over beats laid the foundation to what would eventually become rap music. Dahveed Nelson (formerly David Nelson), one of the founding members of The Last Poets, is now expressing his contempt at what Hip Hop has become in his eyes.
“This whole Hip Hop generation, it’s the devil. It’s Satan. It’s hedonism. It’s the pursuit of pleasure. There’s no soul. They’ve captured our medium,” Nelson told Fox Sports’ Jason Whitlock.
Nelson contacted Whitlock after the sports columnist wrote a critical article about Jay-Z becoming a sports agent. Whitlock received a lot of negative feedback about the piece, but Nelson wanted to reinforce Whitlock’s assertion that Hip Hop is currently a negative influence on society and called out Jay-Z in particular.
“[Jay-Z] is one of the most wealthy people in America, certainly one of the wealthiest blacks and most influential, for being a n***er, for putting on blackface and cooning. That’s what he’s getting paid for,” said Nelson.
The 74-year-old, who now lives in Ghana, also agreed with Whitlock that Hip Hop is to blame for George Zimmerman’s profiling of Trayvon Martin as a “thug” by reinforcing those images to the public.
“You can put the blame squarely on Hip Hop,” said Nelson. “The enemy has its responsibilities, but you’ve got the collaborators. That’s what the whole Hip Hop culture is.”
Nelson goes on to call Jay-Z and Russell Simmons “pimps and prostitutes” and says Hip Hop’s global reach is now affecting children around the world including those in Africa. He states that he is not angry with the “righteous seeds gone astray” and believes they can change their lives.
“I hope they repent, pray for the Creator’s pardon and turn to a righteous path.”
