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West Coast rapper Saweetie is enjoying her independence. She went online to share a preview of some upcoming heat she’s been making in her time off now that she’s single. Saweetie Celebrates Her Independence W/ ‘Risky’ Saw shared a clip of a track called “Risky”, featuring fellow California native Drakeo The Ruler. While the preview […]
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Drill’s sound has touched pretty much every part of the world at this point. Ghanian artist emerged with his debut single, “Sore” which emphasizes that song heavily. Later came along a remix with Stormzy as well as a few other singles which led to the release of Friday’s Time, the latest EP from Yaw Tog. Laced seven songs, including “Sore (Remix)” ft. Stormzy and Kwesi Arthur, Yaw Tog showcases his versatility as an artist that can find a comfort zone in any sort of genre you throw his way.
“I’m very much an Asakaa boy, but I wanted people to know I can do every type of music, from drill to hip-hop and Afrobeats. I want to build connections with this one, with people from every genre,” said Yaw Tog in an interview with DJMag about his new EP.
Check the project below.
The hustle never ends for Jay Worthy who seemingly releases a new project every season, at least. This week, the rapper and Sha Hef connected for their brand new collaborative project, No Sleep For The Wicked. The project includes the previously released single, “Borgata” that flips the classic Flamingos’ record, “I Only Have Eyes for You.” The six-song EP showcases the two rappers offer grim and honest depictions of the street life over smooth and soulful production.
This marks the first release from Jay Worthy this year. In late 2020, he reunited with Sean House for LNDN DRGS Burnout 4. As for Sha Hef, No Sleep For The Wicked follows the release of his 2020 project, Numb.
Check out the latest offering from Jay Worthy and Sha Hef below.
The unexpected July 2020 death of Naya Rivera is playing out in court. The Glee actress drowned in California’s Lake Piru after reportedly pushing her son on a boat to safety before losing her life. There have been varying reports regarding Rivera’s death and her family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Ventura County Parks and Recreation Management. According to them, the boat Rivera and her son Josey rented was unsafe because there weren’t life vests available. However, the County has responded by stating that isn’t true.
According to Parks and Rec, Rivera was allegedly offered a life vest but ultimately decided not to wear it. It’s reported that when Josey was found floating alone on the rented boat, he was wearing a vest, but when Rivera’s remains were located days later, she wasn’t. The Blast reports that court documents from the County state, “Ms. Rivera was offered a life vest by Parks Management Company’s boat rental agent, which Ms. Rivera declined to wear, after which the rental agent ‘put the vest in the rental boat’.”
“Regardless of whether the (The Family) allege that the boat was not equipped with flotation devices, a life vest was present in the boat at the time of the incident.” Meanwhile, Ryan Dorsey, Naya’s ex-husband, issued a complaint against Ventura County Parks and Recreation, accusing them of renting out a boat “not equipped with a safely accessible ladder, adequate rope, an anchor, a radio, or any security mechanisms to prevent swimmers from being separated from their boats.”
Parks and Rec reportedly responded to Dorsey by saying he is mistaken. “Other than the lack of an anchor, no facts are alleged demonstrating how a lack of any of these things caused (Naya’s) death. The pleading does not allege that Ms. Rivera died while attempting to climb back into the boat, and therefore a lack of a safety ladder did not cause her death.” The County believes Rivera simply separated from her boat and struggled to return. They don’t believe it is of any fault of thier own that the actress sadly passed away.
Karol G’s been an unstoppable force in the past few years. The Latin Grammy Award winner’s 2019 album OCEAN helped her breakthrough into a wider market, and since then, her music has dominated across the globe to Latin and non-Latin audiences. On Friday, she released her latest body of work, KG0516. Boasting 16 songs in total, Karol G offers the world into her evolution as an artist, especially alongside a slew of new collaborators. Nicki Minaj, of course, appears on the tracklist for the award-winning single, “Tusa.” Ludacris also slides through with a verse on “BEAUTIFUL BOY” which also features Emilee. Other features on the project include Anuel AA, J Balvin, Ozuna, Brray, Juanka, Mariah Angeliq, and more.
Check out Karol G’s new project below and sound off in the comments with your thoughts.
A song from YG’s debut album is at the center of debate at YouTube’s headquarters over the song’s anti-Asian sentiment in the wake of the Atlanta shooting last week. According to Bloomberg, YouTube refused to pull “Meet The Flockers” from its platform after staff members cautioned over the song’s offensive content towards Asian-Americans.
In “Meet The Flockers,” YG details the ins-and-outs of performing a robbery in which he targets a Chinese neighborhood specifically. “You find a house and scope it out/ Find a Chinese neighborhood ’cause they don’t believe in bank accounts,” he raps on the My Krazy Life song. Employees posted on internal message boards where they railed against the executives who decided against removing the song from their platform.
“We find this video to be highly offensive and understand it is painful for many to watch, including many in Trust & Safety and especially given the ongoing violence against the Asian community,” the executives wrote in an email to staff members. They acknowledge that the lyrics could violate their hate speech policy but they said there are exceptions to be made for video clips that have an Educational, Documentary, Scientific or Artistic (EDSA) context.
“While we debated this decision at length amongst our policy experts, we made the difficult decision to leave the video up to enforce our policy consistently and avoid setting a precedent that may lead to us having to remove a lot of other music on YouTube,” the email concluded.
An employee at the company fired back at the company’s response to the complaint on an internal message board that earned over 400 upvotes. “This is your perfect opportunity to demonstrate your leadership as a lead for ‘Racial Justice Initiative.’ Which side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge do you want to be on?” the response reads.
Check out the full email from YouTube on Bloomberg.
Boxer Adrien Broner is speaking up. The veteran fighter has come forward to share his support for Migos’ Quavo following graphic footage of a past physical altercation with his now-former girlfriend Saweetie. Adrien Broner Defends Quavo AB went to his Instagram page and kept things 100. Broner encouraged Huncho to keep his head up following […]
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Lil Nas X has pretty much had the entertainment world in the palm of his hands since he released his video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” last week. Think pieces from all over were written, but the singer is taking it all in stride, trolling his critics in response. Things worsened when he unveiled the footwear line “Satan Shoes” mere days after the song arrived, but even a lawsuit from Nike didn’t faze him.
There was one other piece of criticism: Some said the new video bore similarities to FKA Twigs’ 2019 video for “Cellophane,” namely the part where he descends to hell on a stripper pole. However, the director of FKA Twigs’ video, Andrew Thomas Huang, wasn’t so quick to accuse the “Old Town Road” singer of theft.
I’m a fan of @LilNasX. “Old Town Road” is iconic. Sharing collaborators is common. Seeing the “Cellophane” choreographer collab with Lil Nas X is awesome (love a Satan dance). Sharing aesthetics and paying homage is part of the creative process. Collective consciousness exists.
— Andrew Thomas Huang (@Andrew_T_Huang) March 28, 2021
“I’m a fan of @LilNasX. “Old Town Road” is iconic,” Huang wrote over Twitter. “Sharing collaborators is common. Seeing the ‘Cellophane’ choreographer collab with Lil Nas X is awesome (love a Satan dance). Sharing aesthetics and paying homage is part of the creative process. Collective consciousness exists.” He added, “Images are also expensive to make. Years of work went into the creation of ‘Cellophane,’ from physical training to the emotional labor of unpacking Twigs’ life to construct images told her story of trauma and recovery. ‘Cellophane’ was a confession in the most vulnerable sense.”
Images are also expensive to make. Years of work went into the creation of “Cellophane,” from physical training to the emotional labor of unpacking Twigs’ life to construct images told her story of trauma and recovery. “Cellophane” was a confession in the most vulnerable sense.
— Andrew Thomas Huang (@Andrew_T_Huang) March 28, 2021
Huang then discussed the work that was put into the “Cellophane” video. “Images are also expensive to make. Years of work went into the creation of ‘Cellophane,’ from physical training to the emotional labor of unpacking Twigs’ life to construct images told her story of trauma and recovery. ‘Cellophane’ was a confession in the most vulnerable sense,” he said. “When an artist is in a position of power (amplified with the help of major record labels, social media, PR, etc) and repurposes someone’s labor and ideas to serve their brand image, they cause harm by displacing the efforts of the artists who did the original leg work.”
Intentional or not, copying other artists’ work happens. Making music videos is a labor of love. The demand for content pushed by major labels renders our work disposable and pits artists against each other.
— Andrew Thomas Huang (@Andrew_T_Huang) March 28, 2021
Huang then shifted his attention to major records labels like Columbia, to which Lil Nas is signed, and asked that they do a better job of enforcing artistic integrity with their creatives. “I urge the music community, particularly major record labels like @ColumbiaRecords to respect directors, uphold artistic accountability and honor the ingenuity of artists dedicating their blood sweat and tears to imagine better futures amidst a broken industry,” he said, adding, “We can do better.”
He’s previously been critical of Saweetie and her relationship with Quavo, and it doesn’t look as if Akademiks is letting up. Recently, Akademiks gave his opinions on the Migos’s next season, and according to him, it will be lucrative. “The Post Saweetie era for Quavo finna be legendary.. I’m calling it. She was dead weight holding mans back. He already rapping different,” he tweeted. “Offset been rapping like cardi in the next room going thru his phone.. he snapping like a mf.”
Following the release of the latest ‘fight in an elevator video’ to take over Hip Hop headlines, Akademiks claims that Saweetie and Quavo were “fighting over the birkins” as the bag seen in the clip resembles the Hermès brand’s shopping tote. “They finna do Quavo like Ray Rice…” the blogger tweeted. “That elevator video w/ Quavo and Saweetie …….. wild. Glad they aint together no more. Clearly their relationship only look good on the gram.. it was toxic and abusive asf.”
Once his comments went viral, Akademiks returned to say, “Black twitter stay having me trend lol I swear I’m just the placeholder for y’all to take out y’all hate. I’m the only n*gga I seen that can unite black twitter on any issue lol… they unite to hate me . Somebody gotta be the sacrificial lamb.”
Neither Quavo nor Saweetie has spoken out about this altercation. Check out Akademiks’s posts below.
Rap crooner Tory Lanez stays with the jokes. The hip-hop singer takes a minute from music-making to deliver some super hard-hitting Instagram humor. TL imagines – and impersonates – what he imagines would be an Apple Support conversation straight from Jamaica. All jokes aside, Lanez is keeping busy making power moves. He’s recently teased fans […]
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