Andrew Yang struggled to name a Jay-Z song after claiming that he frequently listens to the rapper. Comedian Ziwe Fumudoh interviewed the mayoral candidate for New York City for her new Showtime series.
“I listened to a lot of hip-hop during like the 90s and 2000s,” Yang said when asked what he’s been “vibing to” lately. He clarified that he likes Jay-Z and Nas in particular.
“What’s your favorite Jay-Z song?” she asks. “I mean, he’s a New Yorker.”
“Yes,” Yang replies before taking a long pause. “What is my favorite Jay-Z song?”
After more pause, the clip ends without an answer from Yang.
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Comedian Seth Rogen commented on the video on Twitter writing, “I feel like he was literally asking someone else to tell him what his fav J song is.”
Yang’s gaffe is reminiscent of Vice President Kamala Harris’ opinion on who the best rapper alive is. When asked during the run-up to the 2020 Presidential Election, Harris answered Tupac. When informed that the legendary rapper is dead, she responded: “I mean, there’s so many. I mean — there are some I would not mention right now because they should stay in their lane.”
In late March, shortly after they announced a new deal with Triller, Verzuz shared plans for several upcoming battles. The first two were matchups between Earth, Wind, & Fire and The Isley Brothers and Method Man and Redman. A third battle between SWV and Xscape was later announced, but since then the group has gone quiet on updates with future battles. A scheduled Mother’s Day Verzuz came and went without an actual battle while potential participants and dates for the remaining three matchups were never revealed. Now, it looks like one of those battles could finally be set.
— HIPHOP CROWN NATION® (@hiphopcnation) May 22, 2021
Soulja Boy took to Twitter to announce that a Verzuz between himself and Bow Wow is “official.” The rappers hopped on Instagram Live to speak about the upcoming matchup as fans watched in excitement.
“This sh*t gonna be bigger than life bro,” Bow Wow proclaimed during the livestream. “I’m happy to celebrate with you. They was throwing O in there, I saw a lot of Omarion, I’m like that’s my bro too, but O an R&B singer.” He added, “Me and you [Soulja] make so much sense. We’ve toured together, me and you got a whole motherf*cking mixtape together. We on tour right now and on top of that sh*t, n**** you got a hot new record out. The day before we do Verzuz, my movie come out… Fast & Furious 9 drop the day before.”
The end of Bow Wow’s quote of course reveals that he and Soulja’s Verzuz will take place on June 26 as Fast & Furious 9 will premiere in theaters on June 25.
The Verzuz announcement also comes after Soulja Boy was sued by his ex-girlfriend for sexual battery and domestic violence. As for Bow Wow, he was hit assault charges in 2019 after he was involved in a physical altercation with a woman who was also arrested in the matter.
You can watch a clip from their Instagram live session above.
One of, if not the most heartwrenching, moment in Ariana Grande’s career is one most artists will not have to go through. Four years ago on Saturday, the pop sensation’s concert in Manchester was tragically used as the venue for a terrorist attack. A normal overseas show quickly turned for the worst as a bomb at Manchester Arena was detonated as attendees left the area. In the end, 22 people were killed and it was an incident that left the singer forever scarred. Four years later, Grande took to her Instagram story to remember the victims.
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“Although grief is ever-present and our relationship to it is constantly evolving and expressing itself in different ways every day, year round,” she wrote on her Instagram Story above a list of the victims from the bombing. “I know that this anniversary will never be an easy one. Please know that I am thinking of you today.” She concluded her message and added, “Manchester, my heart is with you today and always.”
The singer’s message comes after she married her fiance Dalton Gomez last weekend. The pair were engaged since December and had been dating since early 2020. According to TMZ which cited “sources with direct knowledge” about the situation, the wedding occurred at Grande’s home in Montecito, California with “no real ceremony and few guests.”
Ziwe Fumudoh sat down with former presidential and current New York mayoral candidate Andrew Yang this week, and those who assumed the result would be bad news for Yang were apparently very correct according to the first clips from Ziwe.
Ziwe, whose Showtime series has garnered a reputation for putting celebrities on the hot seat and asking some very leading questions, asked Yang on Twitter earlier in the week he would appear on the show. “You would be an iconic guest,” she wrote on Twitter.
Those who knew her work pretty plainly thought this would be a tough interview for Yang, who has stumbled in his mayoral campaign in recent weeks. By Thursday night, however, Wall Street Journal reporter Katie Honan had reported Yang would indeed appear. And on Saturday, Ziwe posted a clip from the episode that involved New York legend Jay-Z. The clip, which cuts off after about 30 seconds of awkwardness, includes Ziwe asking Yang what his favorite Jay-Z song is with him unable to name a single one.
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“I listened to a lot of hip-hop during like the 90s and 2000s,” Yang said when asked what he’s “vibing to” lately after a question about listening to rap music. She presses him, saying “I gotta know” what artists he likes, and he mentions Nas and Jay-Z after some hesitation.
“What’s your favorite Jay-Z song?” she asks. “I mean, he’s a New Yorker.”
Yang only says “yes” initially, and then there’s a long pause as he seems to think it over. “What is my favorite Jay-Z song?” he asks, as if to himself as well as anyone willing to give him the name of one to rescue him from the situation. Ziwe’s expression really says it all here.
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The clip cuts off right as he says “it’s” after a full 10 seconds of contemplation or so. And while he may just have had a hard time coming up with his favorite, not simply struggling to come up with any songs at all, the awkward moment is the latest in a campaign that’s struggled to avoid them.
For Yang to have said yes to the interview means either no one on his staff knew what Ziwe’s deal was with these interviews, or he was simply not as prepared as he should be for the kind of questions she’d ask. But it’s also an own goal in several ways here: If Yang simply isn’t a Jay-Z fan, which is fine even for New York mayoral candidates, the easiest way to avoid falling into this trap is to not claim he spent a few decades listening to his music seconds before.
Following the Golden State Warriors’ 117-112 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies in the play-in game for the eighth seed in the Western Conference, Draymond Green admitted that the team is “far away” from being a championship competitor.
“We’re not in the playoffs, so we’re a ways away,” Green told reporters, according to ESPN.
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The star forward, who whiffed on a potential game-winner to end regulation, added that the team will need more than “a few tweaks here and there.”
“I may go to Mexico or something [Saturday], but that’s not a gym,” he continued. “That’s not to an arena. That’s not flying to Utah, so we got a ways to go because we’re not in the playoffs — so we’re far away. Because in order to win a championship, you got to be in the playoffs. So we’re clearly a ways away — a few tweaks here and there, and we’re not that far. But right now we’re a ways away because we’re not in the playoffs.”
The Warriors, without Klay Thompson, who has been injured for the past two seasons, have had to rely heavily on Steph Curry. The star guard finished with 39 points on 13-of-28 shooting but also turned the ball over seven times during the team’s final chance to make the playoffs.
Toni Soleil has been making moves in the r&b space as of late and with each new release, fans can see the growth in her music and storytelling. With the summer almost here, many are looking for those r&b tracks that will set the vibe for the warmer months, and Soleil’s new track “Cheated” with Luh Kel certainly makes a great case for itself.
The song sees Soleil and Luh Kel going back and forth over their imaginary relationship. Soleil has cheated on her partner and she feels happy about it because of everything he has done to her in the past. She’s effectively taking the power back in the relationship all while explaining to her partner that he shouldn’t be mad at her for exacting revenge. Overall, both artists put in solid performances and if you’ve never checked out Toni Soleil’s music, now is a good time to do so.
Quotable Lyrics:
Baby, you gave me them reasons Shit I was peeping but I act like I ain’t seen it So you got to face all these demons, oh Just look at how you was treated
Toni Soleil has been making moves in the r&b space as of late and with each new release, fans can see the growth in her music and storytelling. With the summer almost here, many are looking for those r&b tracks that will set the vibe for the warmer months, and Soleil’s new track “Cheated” with Luh Kel certainly makes a great case for itself.
The song sees Soleil and Luh Kel going back and forth over their imaginary relationship. Soleil has cheated on her partner and she feels happy about it because of everything he has done to her in the past. She’s effectively taking the power back in the relationship all while explaining to her partner that he shouldn’t be mad at her for exacting revenge. Overall, both artists put in solid performances and if you’ve never checked out Toni Soleil’s music, now is a good time to do so.
Quotable Lyrics:
Baby, you gave me them reasons Shit I was peeping but I act like I ain’t seen it So you got to face all these demons, oh Just look at how you was treated
As usual, there are some weird things going on in the US government. US House candidate, and current Wyoming state senate member, admitted to impregnating a 14-year-old girl when he was 18 years old. Anthony Bouchard revealed this truth on a Facebook Live video last Thursday. Then, he again touched on the story with the Casper-Star Tribune.
“Bottom line is it’s a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant,” the 55-year-old Bouchard said on Facebook Live. “You’ve heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it’s like the Romeo and Juliet story. There was a lot of pressure to abort a baby. I got to tell you, I wasn’t going to do it and neither was she. And there was pressure to have her banished from their family. Just pressure. Pressure to go hide somewhere.”
Bouchard says the girl’s mother signed consent papers and they were sooner married. They divorced three years later, and she committed suicide at the age of 20. The GOP member came forward with the story because he got wind of people looking to investigate him. “I’ve heard reports over a week ago calling family members, even offering to compensate them for anything they would give up on me. That’s dirty,” Bouchard revealed. “That also tells you I’m in the lead, because they wouldn’t be doing this to me if I wasn’t in the lead. They wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t the front-runner.”
Bouchard is going up against Republican Liz Cheney for her House seat.
As usual, there are some weird things going on in the US government. US House candidate, and current Wyoming state senate member, admitted to impregnating a 14-year-old girl when he was 18 years old. Anthony Bouchard revealed this truth on a Facebook Live video last Thursday. Then, he again touched on the story with the Casper-Star Tribune.
“Bottom line is it’s a story when I was young, two teenagers, girl gets pregnant,” the 55-year-old Bouchard said on Facebook Live. “You’ve heard those stories before. She was a little younger than me, so it’s like the Romeo and Juliet story. There was a lot of pressure to abort a baby. I got to tell you, I wasn’t going to do it and neither was she. And there was pressure to have her banished from their family. Just pressure. Pressure to go hide somewhere.”
Bouchard says the girl’s mother signed consent papers and they were sooner married. They divorced three years later, and she committed suicide at the age of 20. The GOP member came forward with the story because he got wind of people looking to investigate him. “I’ve heard reports over a week ago calling family members, even offering to compensate them for anything they would give up on me. That’s dirty,” Bouchard revealed. “That also tells you I’m in the lead, because they wouldn’t be doing this to me if I wasn’t in the lead. They wouldn’t be doing this if I wasn’t the front-runner.”
Bouchard is going up against Republican Liz Cheney for her House seat.
