Although the relationship between members of New York’s finest and current mayor Bill de Blasio continues to deteriorate following the execution of two NYPD officers, the entire department is now under attack for turning their back on the mayor as he delivered a speech at the funeral of Officer Rafael Ramos on December 27.
Criticizing the actions of the NYPD the New York Times wrote, ““Mr. de Blasio isn’t going to say it, but somebody has to: With these acts of passive-aggressive contempt and self-pity, many New York police officers, led by their union, are squandering the department’s credibility, defacing its reputation, shredding its hard-earned respect.” The editorial continued, “They have taken the most grave and solemn of civic moments — a funeral of a fallen colleague — and hijacked it for their own petty look-at-us gesture. In doing so, they also turned their backs on Mr. Ramoss’ widow and her two young sons, and others in that grief-struck family.”
The stand-off stems from the recent Eric Garner verdict, as many officers have accused the mayor of siding with the flood of protesters who took to the streets to voice their growing frustration with perceived police misconduct.
Will Suge Knight Do A Death Row Movie With Black Kapital In 2015
This year cannot end like this for Drake! First Diddy…then Suge? Come on! Anyway, the word on the street is that Chris Brown has pulled his Blood ties into to the fray to get Drake shut all the way down and all the way up. This is crazy since he has denied having these ties to the Bloods in the past. Sure has not denied these things at all. But Suge us talking about getting revenge on his enemies out in these streets. Glad to be one of his friends! Anyway, I am hearing that Suge is looking to bring in a couple big names into his Black Kapital label. I’d think he was looking to secure Lil Wayne if I didn’t know better, but I know Baby’s paperwork is too crazy for all that. I don’t know any of the specific names though.
No Limit Forever always lives up to its namesake, and with the General, Master P at the helm, he has giving AllHipHop.com the exclusive first look at his new clique and new music. 2015 will mark a new sound for No Limit Forever. I actually got a chance to listen to the new music and it some of Master P’s hottest music and with his new line up, Money Mafia is going to make some serious noise for the new year.
On January 5th, 2015, No Limit Forever will release Money Mafia new project We All We Got via Livemixtapes.com. And after getting an sit down with the clique and a listen to the music, there are some serious gems on this project. But, the real gem are the new rising stars in the clique. We all know Eastwood from the West Coast has always been doing his thing but now, Money Mafia boasts new members Ace B, Young Junne and stellar production from BlaqNMild, who produced the mixtape from begining to end and did it right.
No Limit Forever members will be prominently featured on this new project and the fiery hot lyric from Ace B will have your attention throughout the mixtape. Another stand out is the youngest of the crew from Pittsburgh, Young Junne. Junne is capturing the more mainstream feel with the versatility to rap and even sing, which is a double threat not seen previously from ‘The Tank’. Keep in mind, with OG’s like the President of No Limit Forever, Maserati Rome, and the likes of Gangsta, Playbeezy, Callipoe Popeye and Flight Boy, that street sounds will alway be the back bone of the Money Mafia sound.
Take an exclusive look of the mixtape covers and come back to AllHipHop.com for some more exclusive freestyles, and video from No Limit Forever. I do wnat to let you know, the track called “Power” with Master P has a heavy feature from Lil Wayne which let’s you know where this mixtape is going, a soon to be classic!
The word on the street is that Dr. Dre is plotting a new album in 2015, but he will make his musical reintroduction in a most creative way. The word on the streets of Los Angeles is that Dre’s new album will correspond with the release of the new NWA movie: Straight Outta Compton! I’m even hearing that it may be Detox as the soundtrack to the album. That’s just the word. Nevertheless, I love what I am hearing. And then, Cube broke out the trailer in…Australia? What the…!? Anyway, it looks good. I just need them to show a bit more love to Ren and Yella!
RELATED: Ice Cube Debuts Full N.W.A Biopic Trailer In Australia (VIDEO)
While out touring in Austraila, Ice Cube unveiled the full trailer of N.W.A’s biopic, Straight Outta Compton, which was caught on video by a fan.
By the looks of the three-minute trailer, there’s no doubt that the film will vividly tell the compelling story of the gangsta rap pioneers. The cast includes Ice Cube’s son O’Shea Jackson Jr. who plays his father, Corey Hawkins as Dr. Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy-E, Neil Brown Jr. as DJ Yella and Aldis Hodge as MC Ren.
The F. Gary Gray-directed flick is set to hit theaters in August of 2015. Peep the trailer below.
Rush Limbaugh may feel that Idris Elba shouldn’t be the next James Bond but Kanye West does. British newspaper The Sun caught up with Ye and he showed Elba much support.
“James Bond is a role made for British actors and you won’t find a British actor who has the talent of Idris,” Yeezus said. “To be honest you won’t find many anywhere who have his talent…A black Bond would be visionary no doubt.”
Talks of Elba playing Bond began after a leaked email sent by Sony Pictures chairman Amy Pascal said “Idris should be the next Bond.” She had sent the email to Elizabeth Cantillon, who was the executive vice president of production for Columbia Pictures where the Bond flicks are produced.
Elba seems open to taking the role and recently took to Twitter to respond to his naysayers. If he did accept the role, he would be the first African American James Bond.
Nicki Minaj sure knows how to hit ’em where it hurts! Now that the video of her old acting days pop up, she apparently is not excited about it. She has apparently unfollowed her Barbz on Twitter than have posted the old video. And they are really sadddddddddddddd…and want to come back. Peep the tweets.
Peep the offending video.
Barbz are in danger!
Nicki was cute back then, but definitely has filled out a lot in the last few years of her lovely life.
Wiz Khalifa is working on a new project, but we’re not talking music– we’re talking chicken.
A source informed Dish Nation that the O.N.I.F.C wants to bring the Nando’s Chicken restaurant, which is based in South Africa, to Los Angeles.
“His love of Nando’s has led to him telling pals that he wants to bring wider knowledge to the chain in the US,” the source told Dish Nation. “There are just a handful of restaurants in Washington D.C., but there’s nothing in California — which is where Wiz is targeting.”
The Taylor Gang captain reportedly loves the chicken spot so much that he has a black card with the company that allows him to eat there for free year-round.
“Wiz loves their black card scheme that enables customers to enjoy free food at the beloved chain for a year,” the insider continued.”Wiz is obsessed with Nando’s. He makes it his first stop as soon as he steps foot into the UK.”
There are no details on the steps that have been taken yet.
The year 2015 marks LL Cool J’s 30th year in hip-hop. What better way to celebrate that than to release his 15th studio album?
For his next album G.O.A.T 2, which stands for the greatest all of time, he recruited hip-hop heavyweights Eminem and T.I and gushed about hopping in the studio with the two during an interview with RapUpTV.
“I think people are going to be pleasantly surprised when they hear me and Em’ on a record together,” said the Queens emcee. “The record I did with T.I is crazy. The one I did with Em is super hard…It’s some crazy records.”
He went on to say that to miss out on this album would be a “travesty for hip-hop.”
“I got a lot of young gunners on this album. People that are hungry and want to make the best music. It’s about the beats and the bars and the rhymes. It’s about being current and fresh and riveting, not a bunch of old, tired 95 nugget ring b#######. It’s newness.”
LL says that he has a track with Bronx spitter Fred Da Godson as well.
After Kurupt was spotted leaving the home of Donald Sterling’s mistress V. Stiviano back in April, many wondered what the nature of their relationship was but the details about were scarce. During his recent sit down with Vlad TV, Kurupt Gotti described Stiviano as his homegirl and that he was seen leaving her house because he went to go check on her during the Sterling controversy.
“I ain’t know what was going on somebody called me and told me V was in trouble,” said the west coast spitter. “I had to go check on her. I’d do that with any of my friends.”
The Dogg Pound rep then gave his take on the Donald Sterling debacle that involved his friend Stiviano and surprisingly stood up for Sterling, saying he does not agree with him being forced to sell the Los Angeles Clippers.
“I don’t have a problem with this guy,” he said. “He’s a great guy. He’s a good man. They took a good man down.”
He went on to imply that it should have already been common knowledge that the 80-year-old was a racist.
“What the the f–k did everybody [think] he was before they heard it?”
Sterling was banned from the NBA after Stiviano released audio of him telling her not to associate with African Americans.
“Well then, if you don’t feel—don’t come to my games. Don’t bring black people, and don’t come,” Sterling told her.
(AllHipHop News) It looked as if Young Thug was giving the middle finger to the Crips in the video for Dej Loaf’s “Blood” and the reaction has not been good. Thugger’s choice of hand signs caught the attention of Watts rapper Glasses Malone, and the Crips affiliate called out the Atlanta rapper on his Instagram page.
(AllHipHop News) The conversation about Caucasian musician’s “whitewashing” of Black culture has been ongoing since jazz began to spread beyond African-American communities nearly 100 years ago. The discussion took center stage once again after Harlem performer Azealia Banks spoke about the issue as it relates to Australian rapper Iggy Azalea’s emergence.
Macklemore is another White rapper that has often been mentioned when it comes to the appropriation of Hip Hop. His Grammy win for “Best Rap Album” over Kendrick Lamar sparked a debate about the bias acceptance of white entertainers that make “Black music.”
The Seattle native sat down with Hot 97 to talk about beating Kendrick for the Grammy, racism, Azealia, Iggy, and the perceived co-opting of Hip Hop by White artists.
Race is uncomfortable to talk about. White people – we can just turn off the TV when we’re sick of talking about race. We can be like, “Oh, I’m done.” It does not work that way for everybody, but that’s what we can do.
The thing for me is “white liberal people” want to be nice. We don’t want to mess up. We don’t want to be racist. We want to be like, “We’re post racial. We have a Black president. We don’t need to talk about white privilege. It’s all good. Right?” That’s not the case…
It is my privilege that I can be silent about this issue, and I’m tired of being silent about it… It is so imperative right now that we have this race conversation in America, if we’re going to progress, if we’re going to move past this.
On Azealia Banks’ Hot 97 interview:
I thought it was a really good interview. I thought that outside any person-to-person beef conversation – I stay out of that – I will say there’s a lot of truth in that interview… With White appropriation absolutely.
On White artist’s appropriation of Hip Hop:
You need to know your place in the culture. Are you contributing? Or are you taking? Are you using it for your own advantage? Or are you contributing to the culture. And that’s subjective. But I think it’s clear who has contributed, and clear who is taking.
I’m not going to comment on Iggy in that regard. I’m not going to do that, but what I will say is that I saw a tweet on the lines of “Hip Hop was birthed out of the Civil Rights Movement.” This is a culture that came from pain, that came from oppression, that came from White oppression. It was the bi-product of that.
We can say we’ve evolved, that we’ve come along way since the late 70’s/early 80’s, but we haven’t. So you can’t disregard that. Just because there has been more successful White rappers, you cannot disregard where this culture came from and our place in it as White people.
I wouldn’t necessarily say he said he didn’t like it. I think he said it was maybe unnecessary. Whatever it was, I made a mistake. A lot was going into that moment. A lot of fear was going into that moment…
First of all, I wanted to win some Grammys. Don’t get it twisted, I wanted to win some Grammys. I wanted to be in the competition. I’m a competitive dude. I’m an emcee.
I think we made a great album. I think it had great impact. I’m proud of the music that we made. I wanted to win “Song Of The Year. ” I wanted to win “Best New Artist.” I wanted to win some rap categories. But I thought Kendrick had a better album…
The mistake came from Instagraming the text message and betraying my homie’s trust. If I’m texting you, I don’t want you to Instagram whatever I’m saying to you and it to be put on the internet. I betrayed Kendrick’s trust. That’s wack.
Mack also added that he learned from Q-Tip’s Twitter message about the history of Hip Hop culture that was directed at Iggy. Mackelmore emphasized his personal focus on listening, being humble, and knowing his place in what he calls “not my culture to begin with.”
The “Can’t Hold Us” rapper also stated his purpose in having this conversation was not to “appease” Black people. Macklemore wanted to open the dialogue for White people to have an honest exchange about the topic of race.
(AllHipHop News) Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight has decided to insert himself in the Lil Wayne versus Cash Money drama. Speaking with TMZ, Knight showed support for Wayne’s decision to want to cut ties with CMB.
“Double shout outs to Lil Wayne for being free,” said Suge. “Lil Wayne is somebody I gotta lot of love for, gotta lot of respect for. It ain’t about picking him up. It’s about having his back.”
Wayne was not the only YMCMB artist brought up during the interaction. The former record business executive then turned his attention to Drake.
Suge added, “Drake, as long as you stay down with Wayne, you ain’t gotta worry about the last dance with the dancer. It comes.”
(AllHipHop News) Drake’s now infamous interview published in Rolling Stone magazine included the Toronto native making some off-the-cuff remarks about other rappers. The most notable comment was Drizzy’s issue with Jay Z always rapping about art (which led to a response on Jay’s “We Made It” verse), but the article also included Drake taking a shot at Kanye West and Fabolous.
“There were some real questionable bars on there, like that ‘Swaghili’ line?” said Drake about the lyrics on Ye’s Yeezus album. “Come on, man, even Fabolous wouldn’t say some s**t like that.”
Fab recently spoke with MTV, and he was asked about the Drake diss. According to the Brooklyn emcee, the two performers spoke and Drake offered an apology.
“He apologized that I was even brought into that whole mess. I was shocked,” said Fabolous. “Out of that conversation where they were talking about Jay and Kanye, for my name to come up in that mix, it definitely seemed like it was spoken up. It’s over. It’s under the bridge. I got a lot of respect for what Drake does, and he’s expressed that to me personally. So we move on from there.”
Drake came out at the time and blasted the journalist that wrote the article. He claimed those comments were made off the record and should not have been included in the RS story.
(AllHipHop News) Compton rapper YG and L.A. producer DJ Mustard worked together to create one of the best reviewed rap albums of 2014 with My Krazy Life, but as the year comes to a close the two West Coast representatives are going through some personal strife played out on Instagram.
The public conflict apparently began when Mustard posted a statement to his IG page claiming he was never paid for his work on My Krazy Life. YG screenshot the post, then uploaded it to his page with a message directed at Mustard.
The “My N***a” rhymer later posted a picture of his cell phone call log which apparently showed YG attempted to call Mustard several times without an answer.
YG posted:
Wait what? @djmustard F**K YOU N***A
F**K EVERYBODY THATT AINT GOT PAID FOR MY ALBUM
and DJ MUSTARD I KNOW WHERE YO STUDIO AT N***A. & …….. THATS ME SAYIN “MUSTARD ON THE BEAT HOE”. YOU AINT NEVER PAID ME FOR THATT OR YO ALBUM N***A
Three weeks ago YG and Mustard reconnected to drop “2015 Flow.” The song was a response to My Krazy Life being snubbed for a “Best Rap Album” Grammy nomination.
(AllHipHop News) Yet another fabricated news article has made its way around the internet as a true story. The website Infossip published a post titled “DMX arrested in underground pit bull dog fighting bust.”
The fake story claimed the rapper was charged with conspiring to promote and sponsor dog fights and conducting an illegal gambling business. The false article has over 174,000 Facebook likes and tweeted 800 times.
Like other “satirical” sites, Infossip does not point out the DMX story is untrue in the actual body of the post. Its “About” page contends the website promotes “buzzing and breaking news” that is “interesting, controversial, abnormal, thought provoking or satirical.”
DMX’s publicist sent the following statement to AllHipHop.com about the Infossip story:
It is disappointing that Infossip chose to target DMX’s love for dogs for their own benefit. DMX was not arrested last weekend and does not take part in any dog fighting. We apologize to DMX’s fans for Infossip’s attempts at tainting X’s reputation with this false story. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their positive feedback of DMX’s appearance in Top Five and invite fans to see his next concert January 9th in St. Petersburg FL.
~Domenick Nati (Nati Celebrity Services)
The “Get At Me Dog” performer is the second rap star this week to be involved in a bogus news article circulating on the net. Huzlers.com wrote a phony post claiming Brooklyn’s Bobby Shmurda was stabbed to death in jail. That story had over 137,000 likes on Facebook and over 1,000 tweets.
After calling Bill Cosby a rapist during an act, comedian Hannibal Buress successfully reignited speculation about the alleged misconduct of Cosby, however he’s already moving forward, landing a spot in Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg’s upcoming comedy Daddy’s Home.
The film centers on conservative radio executive (Ferrell) who finds himself competing for the affection of his step children with their biological father (Wahlberg.) Playing what he describes as a “sarcastic handyman,” Buress has also acted on various TV series including; Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock and Comedy Central’s Broad City.
Daddy’s Home is scheduled to hit theatres in 2015.
Khloe Kardashian has finally shed some light into her on again, off again relationship with artist French Montana, who she began dating shortly after her split from estranged husband Lamar Odom.
According to Khloe, “It’s nothing against French. I just think I don’t want a boyfriend,” she explained. “I jumped into something because I was just, like, lonely and destructive. But now I’m like, I just want to be alone.”
After admitting that the “Don’t Panic” rapper was highly entertaining, she also revealed that some of his behavior was a bit more harder for her to handle. She shared, “There’s highs and lows in every relationship…. I have no idea why French calls me 5,000 times a day.”
Although the brutal deaths of NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were carried out by mentally ill Baltimore resident Ismaaiyl Abdula Brinsle, current New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has come under scrutiny as many local authorities have turned their back on the man they claim is responsible for the increasing divide between the public and the police.
As thousands have taken to the streets in response to the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, some police have accused the Mayor of fueling the anti-cop sentiment currently washing across the country. De Blasio, who is married to a Black woman, has spoken openly about the dangers his own son faces, prompting others to accuse him of showing favoritism to protesters.
Over the weekend many authorities made their feelings felt, turning their backs as the Mayor delivered a speech at the funeral for Officer Ramos, a move that prompted outrage from former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and more.
Also displeased was Police Commissioner Bill Bratton who expressed, “I certainly don’t support that action yesterday. I think it was very inappropriate at that event. That funeral was held to honor Officer Ramos. And to bring politics, to bring issues into that event I think was very inappropriate and I do not support it.”
The funeral for Officer Liu has been scheduled for January 4, 2015.
