A Public Memorial Will Be Held For Young Dolph And A Memphis Street Will Be Named For Him

At a private service held for the late Young Dolph this week, it was announced that a public ceremony will also be held in Memphis for fans who want to pay their respects to the hometown hero, according to Memphis’ ABC affiliate. Local community activist Pastor Earle Fisher spoke at the service attended by Dolph’s family and friends, pointing out that Dolph’s death was far from an anomaly on the streets of Bluff City.

“With all of the pomp and circumstance that elected officials and civic leaders have put around this heinous murder, we could do something to bring the people who have been involved in this to accountability and justice a whole lot sooner,” he said. “The reality is there is a body being buried just about every day in Shelby County, and often we have people who are in powerful positions that have created policies that make these bodies pile up.”

The public memorial will be held at FedEx Forum, the home of the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, on December 16. In addition Fox’s local news affiliate also reported that Memphis City Councilman J.B. Smiley announced a street will be named after Young Dolph in the near future. A press release states the public ceremony unveiling the street name will be held on December 15 at 1 pm at Dunn Avenue and Airways Boulevard.

Although Dolph was gunned down in broad daylight, no arrests have yet been made. Police released footage from a security camera near the incident in the hope of learning more about the two men who shot him at the Makeba Bakery on November 17.

Berner Drops Off New Album, “GOTTI” Featuring Future, Rick Ross, Nas & More

At midnight, Bay Area hitmaker Berner shared his new album, GOTTI, via Empire. The 19-track release includes verses from so many of our favourites, including Rick Ross, Benny the Butcher, Ty Dolla $ign, Wiz Khalifa, and more.

The project’s lead single, “Draped Up” featuring Future earned itself an impressive one million global streams in its first week, and the anticipation of listening to previously unheard John Gotti court depositions has attracted even more intrigue.

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish with your back against the wall and during the recording of this album I was fighting for my life. The goal was to produce a timeless body of work with records not many other people could pull off. The Gotti title and family blessing truly elevated everything about this project, and it shows where my head was with it,” the 40-year-old has said of his new release.

Which feature on Berner’s GOTTI are you most excited to dive into? Let us know in the comment section.

Tracklist:

1. Untouchable (Intro) (feat. John Gotti)

2. Draped Up (feat. Future)

3. 1st 48 (feat. Cozmo)

4. Silence

5. Too Many Goats (feat. Rick Ross, Nas & Kevin Cossom)

6. Lonely At The Top (feat. Rod Wave)

7. Legacy

8. Pound For Pound (feat. John Gotti, Mozzy, Conway the Machine, Styles P & Benny the Butcher)

9. Slow Down (feat. Ty Dolla $ign)

10. Zoning (feat. Ryn Nicole)

11. Morals (Interlude) (feat. John Gotti)

12. Bucket List (feat. Cozmo)

13. Next Level (feat. Millyz)

14. Big Chain (feat. Wiz Khalifa)

15. Running Numbers (feat. Cozmo)

16. Pac Vibes (feat. Cozmo)

17. Side Tracked

18. Karma (feat. Janelle Marie & Madeline Lauer)

19. Above The Law (Outro) (feat. John Gotti)

Polo G & Lil Tjay Offer Emotional Bars On “Suicide”

Polo G has continuously brought dope music to the table throughout his young career. The artist has quite a few hits under his belt and after dropping Hall Of Fame earlier this year, he knew he had to come back with even more heat. This ultimately led to the deluxe project Hall Of Fame 2.0 which comes with 14 new tracks. There are some dope features throughout the tracklist here, including the song “Suicide” which features New York crooner Lil Tjay.

This song feels like your prototypical Polo G effort as we are met with some piano keys and even some nice guitar loops. From there, both artists offer up some emotional bars that will immediately hit you in the gut. Both artists talk about gang life and their upbringing, and as you will realize, the bars fit the instrumental perfectly.

You can check out the song, down below.

Quotable Lyrics:

We don’t play shit ain’t allowed
Disrespect, I bet .40 go “Baow”
Been a minute, ain’t drop in a while
But somethin’ keep tellin’ me “Fuck them, play foul”

JT Bares Her Breasts For The Gram In Celebration Of Her 29th Birthday

In celebration of her 29th birthday, City Girls member JT has shared a sexy new photoshoot to her Instagram page. The “Ex For A Reason” hitmaker dropped off a carousel of her rocking nothing but long, bright blue hair with eyebrows to match and a pair of distressed denim jeans.

“Another year around the sun,” the captioned the photo dump. The Liberty City-born starlet bared her breasts for the snapshots, but covered her nipples with strategically placed pink and blue butterflies. If you take a close look at her eye makeup, you’ll also notice the beautiful insects painted to look like they’re fluttering around her face.

Flo Milli, Megan Thee Stallion, Jayda Cheaves, Kali Uchis, Dream Doll, and other prominent names in the industry have already taken the time to send their friend birthday greetings and hype up her new look as thousands of replies continue to flood in. 

28 was a big one for JT – she spent plenty of time cozying up to “The Way Life Goes” artist Lil Uzi Vertfaced some pregnancy rumours that had her “feeling weird” about her body, and sung about bouncing back from a tough breakup on Summer Walker’s sophomore album, Still Over It

Some of her best Instagram posts from the last year show the Miami native behind the scenes shooting music videos, all glammed up for New York Fashion Week, and performing on stage with her City Girls gal pal, Yung Miami. Check out a highlight reel of JT’s 28th trip around the sun below.

Deion Sanders Had Brittany Renner Speak To His Football Team

Brittany Renner has made quite the name for herself over the last few years, however, it isn’t always for the best reasons. Of course, everyone now knows her situation with PJ Washington, which led to a pretty public falling out. These days, Renner has become quite the provocateur online, and this always seems to rub people the wrong way. In fact, at times, some have likened her to a predator, as she is ruthless with how she operates with young men.

Her reputation is so powerful at this point, that she is now giving speeches to college football teams. Recently, Deion Sanders brought Renner to Jackson State University, where she got to speak with the football team. Throughout the talk, Renner spoke about how a lot of women think these days, and how it ultimately relates to men.

In his Instagram caption, Sanders noted that he did this to educate his team, as he wants to make sure they never get into a negative situation with a woman. Needless to say, Renner is giving these men the blueprint on how not to get caught up.

Brittany Renner

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“It’s my responsibility as a Coach to prepare my young men for any and everything on the field and off,” Sanders wrote. “I brought in @bundleofbrittany to educate them on how the game is played between man & woman at their age & stage. The message may not be for everybody but trust me it’s for somebody.”

Many of the players seemed receptive to the speech, and one player was even taking notes. They know that it’s a cold world out here, and with the world at their fingertips, it’s important to not get caught in a terrible situation that could follow you for a very long time.

Give us your thoughts on Sanders’ coaching tactics, in the comments section down below.

Get In The Christmas Spirit With DMX’s New Animated Visual For “Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer”

2021 has flown by in the blink of an eye, and the holiday season is quickly creeping around the corner. Every year, a handful of artists help us get into the spirit by dropping off Christmas singles and albums that we can blast while sipping on hot cocoa, relaxing by the fire place, and driving around to look at the beautiful lights.

Back in 2020, the late, great DMX spent some time at Spotify Studios to record his cover of a seasonal classic – “Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer.” The song comes in at just over a minute and a half, and sees the Mount Vernon native sing the song that we all know and love over a much more amped up beat, adding some edge to the track with his gruff voice.

We lost the “Party Up” hitmaker to a cocaine-induced heart attack earlier in 2021, but his holiday spirit continues to live on thanks to a new animated visual for the song, directed by Chris Bivins. The clip shows an animated X in a Santa suit, hanging out amongst his reindeer friends as he lists of their names. 

They then fly through the night sky in their sleigh, delivering presents to children all around the world so that Rudolph and his pals can “go down in history,” as the song goes.

Which hip-hop Christmas songs have you been loving so far this month? Drop a comment and let us know.

Jussie Smollett Update: Star Witness Painted As Resentful Ex-Lover By Defense

Yesterday, December 2nd, was day four of Jussie Smollett’s trial, which saw the actor’s defense team grill his alleged attackers and star witnesses Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo. The former Empire star is currently facing six felony counts of giving a false report to police after he made claims that two men attacked him back in 2019.

The Osundairo brothers say that Smollett planned the attack – allegations that he vehemently denies. On Thursday, the 39-year-old’s attorney, Shay Allen, was given the chance to question the witnesses. At one point, she insinuated that Abimbola was secretly dating Smollett to help advance his career, which he went on to deny, adding that he didn’t think the Santa Rosa native had any sort of feelings for him.

Allen then asked Abimbola if he and his brother told Smollett that they wouldn’t testify and he could make this “all go away,” by paying them each $1 million; he also denied this. Later in the trial, the same brother was interrogated about visiting a Chicago bathhouse that’s known for having a large gay clientele and allegedly playing pornography inside. Abimbola shared that he didn’t recall seeing porn on screen at the spa, or having masturbated with Smollett there.

As far as why he attacked the B-Boy Blues director, Abimbola told Allen that he and his brother were asked to “fake beat [Smollett] up” because he felt that his security on the set of Empire wasn’t being taken seriously enough. “I said, ‘Hey, aren’t you that Empire (homophobic slur)?’ and we said the other words, and my brother said, ‘This is MAGA country.’ That’s when I proceeded to punch him in the face and tussle … I threw him to the ground, put the bruise on his face, then I saw some car lights and then ran away,” he recalled on the stand.

The brothers reportedly flew to Nigeria after completing Smollett’s alleged plan, where they tuned into the news to see if anyone was reporting on the story. When Allen asked Abimbola why he wanted to check, he said, “Media attention. Jussie wanted it. He got what he wanted.”

When it was Olabinjo’s turn to take the stand, he provided even more detail about the incident. “He went on to explain that there was some hate mail sent to him at Empire studios and he had this crazy idea that two MAGA Trump supporters attack him so he can get the footage of that and put it on social media and have that shown to Empire studios. At first, I was kind of taken aback . . . when I thought about it, it’s Hollywood, I was like, it’s probably what they do out there.”

As VladTV reports, the trial is set to resume on Monday. Check back in with HNHH then for more updates.

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Gunna And Future Add Roddy Ricch To Their Boisterous ‘Too Easy’ Remix

Although Atlanta-bred YSL rapper Gunna has had a productive year as a featured artist on songs like “Repeat It” from Lil Tecca, “Butter ATL” with Ludacris, and his label crew’s solid compilation Slime Language 2 — including Uproxx Best Songs Of 2021 inclusion “Ski” — we haven’t heard quite as much from him on the solo side of things. However, in September, he did release the thunderous single “Too Easy” with Future, suggesting he might be spooling up for the follow-up to 2020’s Wunna soon.

Today, the hometown hero lent even more credence to that suggestion by releasing a boisterous remix to the track, adding the fitting inclusion of Compton rapper Roddy Ricch, who he previously worked with on both Wunna and Roddy’s debut album, Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial. The two certainly have established chemistry thanks to their similar, Young Thug-inspired sing-song flows, and Roddy’s slick boasts fit right in alongside his elders as he brags, “First time I called Elliot, Gunna told me to spend two-fifty / Now my chain cost half a milly and I’m plottin’ on a silly billy.”

Listen to Gunna’s “Too Easy” remix featuring Future and Roddy Ricch above.

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

HBO Released Kendall’s Birthday Party Playlist From ‘Succession’ And It’s ‘All Bangers All The Time’

In last week’s episode of Succession, Kendall wanted the playlist for his 40th birthday party to be “all bangers all the time.” Did he succeed? You can judge for yourself, as HBO has released “Kendall’s Birthday Mix” on Spotify. There’s no Billy Joel, but there is the Chemical Brothers, LCD Soundsystem, Alison Wonderland, and KRS-One.

Assuming Succession takes place in 2021, Kendall would have been born in 1981, meaning his formative music-listening years would be in the mid- to late-1990s. There is absolutely no chance that he didn’t agonize the night before the party over whether to include “Blue (Da Ba Dee)” by Eiffel 65 on the playlist. He made the right call to leave it off — even if the episode ended with him feeling blue, da ba dee da ba di, after — spoilers, but you’ve probably seen the episode already — not being able to find his kids’ birthday present in the rabbit wrapping paper. Everything’s great.

You can listen to the playlist below:

And here’s the tracklist:

1. “White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)” by Grandmaster Flash and Grandmaster Melle Mel
2. “Man of the Year” by ScHoolboy Q
3. “Fotomat” by St. Maximus
4. “Go” by Geek Boy
5. “Here Comes the Warm Dreads” by Lee “Scratch” Perry and Brian Eno
6. “The Club” by Keith Goodey and Julian Napolitano
7. “NY Lipps (Kawazaki Dub)” by Soulwax
8. “Big Conspiracy” by J Hus and iceè tgm
9. “MC’s Act Like They Don’t Know” by KRS-One
10. “Radio Babylon” by Meat Beat Manifesto
11. “Troublemaker” by St. Maximus
12. “New York, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down” by LCD Soundsystem
13. “Don’t Glaze Me” by Dizzee Rascal
14. “Hey Boy Hey Girl” by the Chemical Brothers
15. “Lost Dimension” by Magic Castles
16. “Anything” by Alison Wonderland and Valentino Khan

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