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Rotimi Announces New Spring Dates For U.S., International Headlining Tour

March 8, 2022 by newhiphopnews

Having always been an artist with a work ethic and grind like no other, Rotimi is already on the move for 2022 officially announcing his first headlining U.S. and International All or Nothing Tour. Being an entertainer who has always put his fans first, the tour was originally postponed in January to keep Covid cautious, and now as the world opens back, Spring of 2022 is slated to start with a bang. New tour date tickets are now on sale.

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Stream All or Nothinghttps://music.empi.re/allornothing

“This is a dream come true. Bringing the story of the underdog around the world! My fans are in for a treat! “ -Rotimi

During the 17 city tour, Rotimi will be performing favorites from his latest debut album, All or Nothing as well as his gold-certified hit single “In My Bed” and other throwback specials singles. Recently the singer/songwriter released visuals for “Weapon” featuring Fireboy DML and his wedding classic track “I Do.” The original album charted on Apple Music’s Top 10 R&B/Soul albums and currently sits at 30 million streams across all platforms. Rotimi led the rollout for both projects by releasing some of his most creative videos to date in “What To Do,” “Don’t You Ever,” and “Decide,” all of which appear on the album as well.

Rotimi: World Tour Dates

April 19, 2022 || Boston, MAApril 20, 2022 || Philadelphia, PAApril 21, 2022 || Baltimore, MDApril 23, 2022 || New York, NYApril 26, 2022 || Toronto, ONApril 28, 2022 || Chicago, ILApril 29, 2022 || Detroit, MIMay 4, 2022 || Dallas, TXMay 5, 2022 || Houston, TXMay 7, 2022 || Atlanta, GAMay 11, 2022 || Los Angeles, CAMay 12, 2022 II Oakland CAMay 13, 2022 || Las Vegas, NVMay 17, 2022 || Amsterdam, NetherlandsMay 18, 2022 || Paris, FranceMay 20, 2022 || Berlin, GermanyMay 22, 2022 || London, England

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Rotimi Announces New Spring Dates For U.S., International Headlining Tour

March 8, 2022 by newhiphopnews

Purchase Ticketshttps://linktr.ee/allornothingtour

Stream All or Nothinghttps://music.empi.re/allornothing

“This is a dream come true. Bringing the story of the underdog around the world! My fans are in for a treat! “ -Rotimi

Rotimi: World Tour Dates

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[WATCH] Kanye West And Teyana Taylor Record Unreleased Track During ‘Jeen-Yuhs’ Filming

March 8, 2022 by newhiphopnews

it is unmistakeable that the Jeen-Yuhs documentary on Netflix that chronicles the life and times of Kanye West by friend and filmmaker Coodie over the past two decades is one of the most important pieces of visual Hip Hop history available to the public today.

Adding to the five hours of never seen before footage of Ye is the Time Magazine-exclusively released footage of West and G.O.O.D. Music signee Teyana Taylor in the studio in 2017 during Ye’s infamous Wyoming sessions. The two are shown working on an unreleased song titled “Cold Blooded” that didn’t make the final cut for Taylor’s K.T.S.E. album.

Taylor’s K.T.S.E. was recorded in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and was the ast of five albums completed there, including Pusha T’s Daytona, Kanye’s Ye, Kids See Ghosts with Kid Cudi and Nas’ Nasir.

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Today In Hip Hop History: Cult Classic Film ‘New Jack City’ Premiered in Theaters 31 Years Ago

March 8, 2022 by newhiphopnews

On this day, 31 years ago, the cult-classic crime thriller New Jack City arrived in theaters across America. The story of the rise and fall of Nino Brown and the Cash Money Brothers has continued inspired Hip Hop culture for a quarter-century and continues to permeate the culture that made it a success.

New Jack City came about at a pivotal time. In 1991, Hip Hop was still a fledging music genre and culture, looking to legitimize itself in the eyes of mainstream America officially. In addition, the blaxploitation film genre had been defunct for over a decade, leaving a gaping hole in “Black Hollywood.” New Jack City was a harbinger of the resurgence of Black actors, writers, and filmmakers in Hollywood, as well as the crystallization of Hip Hop’s synergistic capabilities.

The film also catapulted actors like Wesley Snipes, who played the lead role as the morally barren kingpin Nino Brown and Chris Rock stick-up-kid-turned-crackhead-informant “Pookie,” into stardom. The film’s director Mario Van Peebles also made his directorial debut with the film, which he also starred in. Ice T, who also played a major role in New Jack City as NYPD detective “Scotty Appleton,” spoke with Rock on his “Final Level” podcast about some of the behind-the-scenes of the cult classic.

Chris Rock: At the time, you and I were the most popular people in the cast, really, just ’cause we’d done s**t.

Ice-T: We’d done things.

Chris Rock: Nobody knew Mario [Van Peebles]. Nobody knew Wesley [Snipes].

Ice-T: Wesley had done Major League.

Chris Rock: No one knew “G-Money,” you know, Allen Payne.

Ice-T: That was what got me confident enough to act.

Chris Rock: And you were actually making money. [Laughs] I was broke.

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Ice-T: … You know, it was an interesting experience. New Jack City was a new-jack movie. The director was a new-jack.

Chris Rock: The producers were new-jacks, new-jack actors, new-jack soundtrack. Remember we kept runnin’ out of money? There was a couple of times, while we were filming, we were like, “This s**t is getting shut down.” Like, the chase on the bikes was [suppose to be] a car-chase. But it turned into a bike-chase; we had no money! [Laughs] Somebody had to think fast.

The film was shot on an $8 million budget and premiered at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival on January 17, 1991. The film would later release nationally on March 8, 1991, raking in $7,039,622 in opening weekend sales — and later became the highest-grossing indie film of 1991 with $47,624,253 domestically.

The film also had a longstanding effect on the music industry. Perhaps the most notable example is brother Bryan “Birdman” and Ronald “Slim” Williams‘ Cash Money Records label, a blatant reworking of Nino Brown’s “Cash Money Brothers” gang in the film. In addition, Lil Wayne‘s solo album series Tha Carter is not only his last name but an homage to “The Carter,” Nino’s crack house fortress in the film, as well as name drops Nino in his 2010 single “I’m Single.”

For decades, Nino Brown has become a regularly referenced movie character in rap lyrics. A simple search of “Nino Brown” on RapGenius shows over 4000 references to the surface by artists from all over the world. It’s safe to say Nino and New Jack City will continue to inspire generations to come, and if you disagree…

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[WATCH] Women’s History Month: Fly Girl Jossie Harris-Thacker

March 8, 2022 by newhiphopnews

Harlem-bred former In Living Color, “Fly Girl”, Jossie Harris-Thacker was a trendsetter when she became one of the top hip hop dancers of all times. From her signature braids to her 90’s style—young girls everywhere wanted to be like Jossie. We watched In Living Color to get a glimpse of her moves and adored her as Renee in The Lost Boyz video. She was definitely the ‘it’ girl but doused in immense natural talent.

Although she wasn’t formally trained in dance, her talent landed her featured roles in a host of music videos including, Michael Jackson’s, “Remember the Time”. As one of the most sought out dancers, touring the world with top artist such as Janet Jackson, and many others, Jossie starred as one of the acclaimed, “Fly Girls”, in Keenan Ivory Wayan’s, hit TV show, “In Living Color”, alongside her friend, Jennifer Lopez, Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, and Damon Wayans.

Following, In Living Color, Jossie honed in on her natural acting talent that landed over 45 roles in many top television series. Jossie’s lead performance in the NAACP nominated short, “Brooklyn’s bride to Jordan”, led to her award winning role, “Charlie”, in Chicago International Film Festival’s best film, “Mississippi Damned”, which earned Jossie “Best Supporting Actress” award and makes her the first African American, Latina woman ever to win in that category. Jossie recently won the People’s Choice award for “Best Lead Actress”, at the Las Vegas Film Festival for her film work in, “No Weapon Formed Against Us”.

Still fine as wine, Jossie’s passion is teaching. Known as a professional acting coach to the stars, Jossie has her own, “Respect for Acting Academy” for adults and “Kids W.A.Y. (Who Are You?) Acting Academy.

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Can you spot Jossie in the videos below?

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New Photo Surfaces Of Pooh Shiesty In Jail

March 7, 2022 by newhiphopnews

After it was reported that Memphis rapper Pooh Shiesty would remain behind bars after he pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge for possession of a firearm. Shiesty, whose given name is Lontrell Williams, was denied bond after his attorneys filed a motion to have the “Back In Blood” rapper on the streets before sentencing by granting him a bond, but Shiesty was denied. Now, a new photo of Pooh Shiesty behind the wall has surfaced on line.

Culture critic DJ Akademiks posted the photo to his Instagram page, showing Shiesty rocking a beard in the center with two other inmates flanking both sides.

Shiesty is reportedly facing an eight year bid at his sentencing next month for the firearm charge. TheSurce.com will update the story of Pooh Shiesty’s sentencing when details are made available.

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Snoop Dogg: Jay-Z Threatened to End NFL Partnership For Halftime Show

March 7, 2022 by newhiphopnews

Super Bowl LVI and more specifically, its halftime show, was probably the most publicized and talked about sports finale show to date. The show featured Snoop, Dr .Dre, Eminem, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar and many more however according to the Dogg, jay-Z almost closed the curtains on the entire show and Hip Hop’s partnership with the NFL.

Snoop affirmed that Hov gave the execs in the NFL a simple ultimatum, which obviously forced them to do what he wanted. “[Jay-Z and I] we love each other,” Snoop said in a Tidal interview. “It is what it is, so it’s like for him to go to bat for us and tell the NFL, ‘F**k that. They perform, or I quit,’ that was the most gangster s**t out of everything.”

He also added that when it came to him rocking his favorite true blue colors, it was insinuated that Snoop Dogg was wearing gang affiliated colors as the world watch the most watched television program of the entire year, but Jay told him to wear whatever he wanted.

“Then with attire and kneeling and all this … you can’t wear your gang bang sh*t? JAY-Z hit me like, ‘Wear what the f**k you want to wear. Peace to the Gods.’, Snoop added.

Is this the future of the Super Bowl and possibly other sports finals and All Star games? Will the shows and fanfare take precedence over the actual game? Only time will tell.

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The Break Presents – BabySantana

March 7, 2022 by newhiphopnews

Taking over the internet, one stream at a time. Continue reading…

Best Rap Verses on R&B Songs Over the Last Five Years

March 7, 2022 by newhiphopnews

In hip-hop, versatility pays. Continue reading…

Today In Hip Hop History: Biggie Gets Booed At Soul Train Music Awards In L.A. 25 Years Ago

March 7, 2022 by newhiphopnews

On this date in 1997, The Notorious B.I.G. was booed on stage before presenting the award for Best R&B Soul Single Female at the 1997 Soul Train Music Awards.

The audience in Los Angeles wasn’t too friendly towards Biggie, especially since his then rival Tupac Shakur was just shot and killed in Las Vegas six months earlier. Big gave a cynical “What’s up Cali?” as the boos and jeers grew louder and more intense.

Biggie was killed a little more than a day later in a drive-by shooting after leaving the Vibe Magazine Soul Train Awards after party. Biggie’s sudden murder proved that Tupac’s murder the year prior was more than a random shooting and that the East Coast vs. West Coast beef was more than just a rap beef between two former friends.

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