Logic has long been a huge anime guy, and now he’s teamed up with one of the industry’s biggest US-based titans — anime-focused streaming service Crunchyroll — and one of his favorite shows, Cowboy Bebop. As for what they’re doing: It’s a new streetwear collection partnership inspired by the classic show.
The following 11 Crunchyroll exclusives are included in the collection: See You Space Cowboy T-shirt, Sympathy for the Devil T-shirt, Logic and Radical Ed Smiley T-shirt, The Crew T-shirt, Logic and the Crew-neck Sweatshirt, Logic and the Crew Sweatshirt, Cowboy Bebop 1998 Hoodie, Varsity Jacket, Beanie, Corduroy Hat, Skate Deck, and Poster. The collection is available to pre-order now on the Crunchroll online store.
Logic offered a statement, saying, “Anime was there for me when I was growing up in a drug and violence-ridden childhood and household. I discovered anime through Cowboy Bebop, and would later go on to befriend the voice of Spike Spiegel, Steve Blum, and collaborate with him on various albums, which is a dream come true. Without Cowboy Bebop, there is no Logic. I just hope that collabing with Cowboy Bebop and Crunchyroll will allow me to introduce a lot more of my fans who might not be hip to Cowboy Bebop, and vice versa, and hope that a bunch of people out there who love Cowboy Bebop will realize I’m making fun anime nerd albums.”
Usher won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 BET Awards on Sunday, but his speech was so heavily edited that viewers watching at home weren’t able to make out what the “Confessions Part II” singer was saying. BET has since apologized for what a spokesperson called an “audio malfunction.”
“Celebrating global icon Usher on our stage with a star-studded tribute and having him accept his award with a heartfelt speech was an honor,” the spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter. “Due to an audio malfunction during the live telecast, portions of his speech were inadvertently muted. We extend our sincere apologies to Usher as we couldn’t be more grateful for his participation in culture’s biggest night. Fans can catch his full uninterrupted speech across BET platforms and tonight’s encore on BET.”
“We’ve got to be willing to forgive. We’ve got to be willing to be open,” he said. “I’m telling you, you’re standing before a man who had to forgive a man who never showed up ever. And look what I made with it. Look what I was able to ‘usher’ in. But that’s what’s real. That’s what makes us human. That’s what makes us women and men.” Let’s see if he forgives BET.
Earlier this week, Kanye West and his former chief of staff Milo Yiannopoulos were hit with yet another new lawsuit. In it, they’re accused of subjecting their employees to “forced labor and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment,” and more. The plaintiffs also accuse Ye’s wife Bianca Censori of having sent porn to employees, some of which were allegedly minors. They’re seeking damages for allegedly unpaid wages, overtime pay, and emotional distress.
Now, Yiannopoulos has addressed the lawsuit, insisting that he and the other defendants are the real victims in this scenario. TMZ reports that according to him, he’s been given permission from Censori to shut down claims that she allegedly sent porn to minors, which she says are completely false. He argued that these allegations are impossible, seeing as though Yeezy Porn was seemingly canceled only weeks after it was first announced.
Milo Yiannopoulos Responds To New Lawsuit Against Him & Kanye West
Kanye West and Bianca Censori are seen on May 13, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
He even called one of the plaintiffs, Shemar DaCosta, a “tragic, desperate, attention-seeking wannabe Yeezy staffer.” Yiannopoulos claims that DaCosta posed as a lead developer for Yeezy on LinkedIn when he wasn’t and that there were inside jokes about him among Yeezy staff. He also adds that he’s unlikely to ever score a job there after telling such “odious lies” about the “the Lady of the House,” AKA Bianca Censori.
The plaintiff’s attorney, Ben Lockyer, issued a statement on their behalf earlier today. “Our team looks forward to achieving justice on behalf of our very deserving clients for the shocking working environment that they were forced to endure,” he said. What do you think of the new lawsuit Kanye West and Milo Yiannopoulos were hit with earlier this week? What about Yiannopoulos’ response to the allegations? Share your thoughts in the comments section down below, and keep an eye on HNHH for more updates.
BET has issued an apology to Usher after his acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement award was plagued with audio issues. In a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter, a spokesperson said the organization “couldn’t be more grateful” for his appearance and offered fans access to his uninterrupted speech on BET’s platforms online.
“Celebrating global icon Usher on our stage with a star-studded tribute and having him accept his award with a heartfelt speech was an honor,” the spokesperson said. “Due to an audio malfunction during the live telecast, portions of his speech were inadvertently muted. We extend our sincere apologies to Usher as we couldn’t be more grateful for his participation in culture’s biggest night. Fans can catch his full uninterrupted speech across BET platforms and tonight’s encore on BET.”
Usher accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2024 BET Awards at Peacock Theater on June 30, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)
Usher focused his 13-minute speech on the value of family and the importance of forgiveness. “We’ve got to be willing to forgive. We’ve got to be willing to be open,” he said at one point. “I’m telling you, you’re standing before a man who had to forgive a man who never showed up ever. And look what I made with it. Look what I was able to ‘usher’ in. But that’s what’s real. That’s what makes us human. That’s what makes us women and men.” Check out his full unfiltered speech below.
Usher Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
In addition to the speech, several artists including Childish Gambino and Chloe Bailey performed tributes for the legendary singer. He also took home the award for Best Male R&B/Pop Artist earlier in the night. Other winners during the ceremony included SZA, Killer Mike, and more. Be on the lookout for further updates on Usher and the BET Awards on HotNewHipHop.
Meet and greet packages for Chris Brown’s tour can result in some scandalous couples controversies, but most of the time, they’re a more heartening affair. Moreover, that’s especially the case for a disabled fan who recently met up with him for one of these meet and greets, and apparently she has a very sweet story. Breezy did the whole meet and greet with pictures and a nice convo and refunded her entire $1,111 ticket with an extra $10K to boot. According to commenters under the Instagram post below, this is far from her first meet and greet with him, and they had a promise that she would stay in school which he seems to have repaid.
However, the sad reality is that not everything in Chris Brown’s world is as friendly as this. PARTYNEXTDOOR recently caused quite the stir online after he dissed him, Jeremih, and Bryson Tiller with a tweet-and-delete, seemingly over their inclusion of his ex girlfriend in their “Wait On It” music video. The 11:11 artist demanded a public apology from the OVO singer, and he then added that he has “nothing but love” for the trio, walking back his resentment. It’s a pretty odd situation and a vague one at that, but nothing that some conversations and clarifications can’t fix.
Fortunately, it seems like recent developments and sightings have healed at least some of the wounds in Chris Brown’s life, although this one has nothing to do with the music industry. He and his baby mama Diamond, the mother of his youngest child Lovely, seemingly said “I love you” to one another at the club. Of course, we all know that the Virginia superstar has a controversial and rocky relationship history. But partners don’t need to marry to be amicable, and that’s great to see.
In other news, it seems like everything else on Chris Brown’s tour is going well, barring some technical malfunctions here and there. That’s just par the course for big live events, but hopefully he doesn’t stress himself out too much over it. Regardless, the important thing is the bond that fans experience through these meet and greets. As this disabled supporter’s story tells, a little love and care goes a long way.
Too Short says Kendrick Lamar emerged victorious from his viral beef with Drake and loved the way the West Coast stood up for him. He discussed the feud with Billboard while walking the red carpet at the BET Awards on Sunday night.
“I like the way a lot of people stood up and rode with the homie [Lamar] in this one because it seemed like he was supposed to be the underdog,” Short said while referring to his fellow West Coast native. He added: “I think he held his own pretty good. I think that in this situation… none of us would dispute that this battle was amongst two really good artists.” Despite adding that both Lamar and Drake are “two great artists,” he suggested “gangsta Drake,” is over but “R&B Drake” is still “for the ladies.”
Kendrick Lamar Films “Not Like Us” Music Video In L.A.
Watts, CA – June 22: Kendrick Lamar dances during the music video shoot for “Not Like Us” at Nickerson Gardens on Saturday, June 22, 2024, in Watts, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
From there, Short recalled the “most beautiful woman in the world” getting him hip to Drake back in 2007-2008. “The ladies are good judges of what good music is, they dictate a lot of stuff in the industry, so I say kudos to Drake cuz I wouldn’t have never knew about your music if it wasn’t for the baddest of the baddies,” he said. He recalled listening to the Comeback Season mixtape in particular. After the interview, Short performed his iconic song, “Blow The Whistle,” on the red carpet. Check out his performance at the BET Awards below.
Too Short Takes Over The BET Awards Red Carpet
As for the latest in the beef, Lamar recently took to the streets of Los Angeles to film a music video for “Not Like Us.” Be on the lookout for further updates on Too Short as well as Kendrick Lamar and Drake on HotNewHipHop.
Moneybagg Yo is ready to don a cowboy hat and spurs it appears after showing some interest in going full country for a project. This news come from an interview surrounding the success of “WHISKEY WHISKEY” with Billboard at the 2024 BET Awards. For those who are not aware, this song lands on the Memphis rapper’s recent album SPEAK NOW. It sees him work with country star Morgan Wallen, someone who has been doing his own crossing over working with the likes of Lil Durk. These two genres melding together continues to grow more and more common, so seeing this trend is not all that surprising. Overall, it works pretty well, and “WHISKEY WHISKEY” is no exception.
The album cut debuted at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 and it is the only song to chart from it. Additionally, Moneybagg’s project is doing well too, sliding into 13th on the Hot 200. But due to him and Morgan Wallen displaying some solid chemistry he sees the vision and would not be opposed to dropping a country album or EP in the near future. The veteran hitmaker also mentioned to the publication that him and Morgan had been texting very often and that the latter was encouraging him to dive into this space.
@MoneyBaggYo discusses his collaboration with Morgan Wallen and why he felt he was a great choice, teases a country EP, and chats about how genre-blending Nelly who tapped in country inspires him #BETAwardspic.twitter.com/6Xf0qxyWYg
Furthermore, he has been hearing from a lot of other country mainstays since the release of “WHISKEY WHISKEY”. Yo claims they are down to collaborate, but before that happens, he still has some ideas he wants to tackle first. “After these next two albums I’m fixing to drop before the summer is over, I think after that, going into the winter or something, I think I’m going to do a country album, a country EP or something”, Yo revealed. He did say during the rollout of SPEAK NOW that he was going to drop an R&B tape soon, so clearly it is a great time to be a fan of his right now.
What are your thoughts on Moneybagg Yo having interest in making a country project? Do you think this is something that he should genuinely pursue, why or why not? Have you been messing with “WHISKEY WHISKEY” from his recent album SPEAK NOW? We would like to hear what you have to say, so leave your thoughts in the comments. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Moneybagg Yo. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on in the music world.
During last night’s BET Awards ceremony, Donald Glover — who was there to present the award for Album Of The Year — took a bit of a digression during his time onstage to call out the show for never nominating him. Indeed, it’s one of the first times the network has even acknowledged Glover’s existence, and the fact he was also allowed to plug his quirky new film Bando Stone And The New World is probably a testament to the concessions BET’s programmers had to make to soothe his bruised ego over the years of neglect.
“This isn’t personal, but I just feel like I should have more BET awards,” Glover said. “I’m serious. It’s the Black Entertainment Television Awards. How much more entertaining do I have to do? Because it’s just the math of the fact. It doesn’t really make sense. I have more Grammys than Will Smith, which makes no sense, but I have the same amount of BET awards as Sam Smith.” Smith and Glover both have one BET Award each; Glover won Best Music Video in 2019 for “This is America”, while Smith won the 2015 award for Best New Artist. I don’t know if you noticed, but Sam Smith… also isn’t Black.
Glover joked that he’d be willing to remake BET Saturday afternoon mainstay Baby Boy if it would get him more recognition from the network. “I’ll have Jonathan Majors put me in a headlock, shave my head, I’ll do it,” he said, referring to a scene in which Ving Rhames puts Tyrese Gibson in a headlock during a heated domestic dispute in the film.
— Well guess what, I’m CP (@TopherPatt) July 1, 2024
Social media users on Twitter noted that Glover has kind of a point — he should not have the same number of BET Awards nominations as Sam Smith, regardless of whether he and Will Smith have the same amount of Grammys — and drew parallels to another recent addition to the BET canon, Tyler The Creator. The Hawthorne, California native also went unacknowledged by the network until 2021, when he was honored with a (the admittedly vaguely titled) Rock The Bells Cultural Influence Award. During an interview about the award, he, too, acknowledged that he felt he “wasn’t accepted by that audience,” but that he held a deep reverence for the network growing up.
“I was so hype to perform at the BET Awards,” Tyler admitted. “I just never felt like my style of music would ever have been, not even appreciated, but allowed on there. And because of that, I would mock it. It was like a defense mechanism because I felt like I wasn’t accepted by that audience. But when they asked me this year, man, I was enthralled. I was so happy.” At first glance, it does appear that artists like Glover and Tyler contrast starkly from the usual BET fare. When they were both in the target demographic for BET’s old video countdown show, 106 & Park, they likely didn’t see themselves reflected in the usual rotation of artists like Soulja Boy, 50 Cent, or Hurricane Chris.
The way BET has left him and Tyler out of most of the convos for such a long time is crazy. https://t.co/319hUs11UC
— Well guess what, I’m CP (@TopherPatt) July 1, 2024
But over the years, they’ve each garnered mainstream acclaim for their creative works, which have always celebrated their Blackness and drawn extensively from deep cultural roots — even if they didn’t reflect the stereotypical looks and concerns promoted by not just BET, but mainstream depictions of Blackness in media in general.
Glover’s groundbreaking work in music and television includes the funk-soul revival album Awaken, My Love! and his paradigm-shifting dramedy Atlanta, which often addressed ongoing current events and made references to Black lifestyle deep cuts like the “haunted” Lake Rainier in his native Georgia. Meanwhile, Tyler’s multihyphenate takeover of hip-hop, fashion, and animation with albums like Igor, shows like The Jellies!, and his history-making collaboration with Pharrell Williams and Louis Vuitton, centered Blackness and posited a broader spectrum of possibilities for it. You can’t tell me you couldn’t see Carlton Banks decked out in Tyler’s preppy Louis pieces. There are all kinds of alternative expressions of Blackness, and neither artist allowed the fact they didn’t see those expressions on TV stop them from expressing themselves in full.
While it’s clear that BET’s definition of notable Black art is expanding — a net good for a network whose narrow typecasting of Black art has been criticized in the past — neither Glover nor Tyler should ever have fretted. They’ve been two of the most important Black artists of their generation all along. From the beginning, both artists have presented a dazzling, wide-ranging perspective of what Black art can be. Beyond BET, we would all benefit from recognizing those talents — and the talents of others who go against the grain — and letting Black art be more than what we’ve already seen.
Khalid has impressed recently with the singles “Adore U” and “Please Don’t Fall In Love With Me.” Now, we know the fate of those songs: They’ll be included on Sincere, the new album (Khalid’s third) that was announced today, July 1. The project is set for release on August 2.
In a statement, Khalid says of the album, “Sincere is a combination of my life experiences, it takes inspiration from conversations that I have had with my fans, supporters, and the people that love me. When I listen back to this project, I hear a sound that’s so unique and represents me at my best. This album is me at 26, continuing to evolve with the knowledge that I have garnered throughout the years.”
A press release says the project “showcases Khalid’s evolution as an artist and person and explores the all-too-relatable feelings of growing up.”
Last month, the racketeering trial against YSL and Young Thug was sent into disarray as Judge Ural Glanville had Thug’s attorney, Brian Steel, held in criminal contempt, sentencing him to a month of weekends in jail alongside his client. While that sentence was suspended while Steel appeals the decision, now the whole proceeding has reportedly been put on hold, as another judge must now review a recusal motion filed against Glanville by the defense.
JUST IN: #YSL case against Young Thug and his alleged associates has been put on hold until another judge rules on whether Judge Glanville should have to recuse himself from the case.
Judge Glanville has canceled his show cause hearing for the contempt issue about who disclosed the ex parte meeting. The judge also is saving the defense a step and sending the recusal motion against him to another judge.
The defense moved to have Judge Glanville recuse himself a couple of times in this case, but he’s refused on every occasion. On June 18, he denied the most recent motion, which stemmed from a secret meeting between the judge and a witness for the prosecution — the same meeting that prompted Steel’s supposed contempt of court when the defense attorney demanded the minutes from the meeting and refused to tell Glanville how he found out about it.
According to WSB-TV Atlanta, the case will now be on hold until another judge has made a decision on whether Glanville can continue to preside over the case, which has been underway for 100 days today.
Leave it to Judge Glanville to say the rules for recusal and transfer motions are “pretty clear” after clearly screwing up the process for the ones against him. pic.twitter.com/1v9cLeaAto
Young Thug is accused of being the ringleader of a criminal organization, YSL (Young Slime Life), which has been credited with a wave of crimes across Atlanta, including armed robbery, drug trafficking, and attempted murder.
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