Kanye Westfans now have an actualBiblein which to worship him. The book is being sold onEtsy. It replaces every mention in the book ofGenesisofGodwith eitherYeezusorKanye West.
Each generation champions a superstar, so consistently relevant that they come to accompany that generation through it’s evolution, being a part of and ultimately shaping its identity. Such past icons have been the likes of Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, or Michael Jackson. For this generation, Generation Y, Kanye West is not only its greatest spectacle, but in some senses, a spiritual figure.
We are here to spread a doctrine. Well, a pseudo-doctrine. We ask you to use your pulpit for Good.
A few months ago, my brothers and I embarked on a creative journey that began with a “What If?”:
What if the Bible, the most singularly significant publication in the ancient canon of Western tradition, were updated to reflect our modern society? What would it look like? What we came up with was an interventionist art, coffee-table novelty, that will appeal to both Kanye fans everywhere and those made curious by this enormous cultural phenomenon.
At it’s simplest, it is the book of Genesis, modified to feature “Kanye” or “Yeezus” in the place of God or Y---A. “In the beginning Kanye created the heaven and the earth… And Kanye said, Let there be light: and there was light.”
In a sense, Kanye’s awesome and orchestrated spectacle is truly a religious experience. In a foreword, we explore our consumerist, quick-fix, and information-culture, and celebrate Kanye and the outsized significance he plays in our lives. All of this, bound in a black, hard-cover gold-leaf imprinted book.
There's no escaping the video of Plies getting body slammed by the black "Ric Flair," at a recent concert (woo!!). The man of the hour looks like he took a beating from security afterwards, but he's got a story to tell and explains why he mistreated Plies like that.
Here's some new footage of "Fancy" rapper Iggy Azalea sounding like she's speaking in tongues. Are these lyrics from a song? Take a listen up top and please decipher them for us in the comment section below.
Logic opened up to VladTV about his difficult childhood, and growing up with both parents addicted to drugs.
The Maryland-born emcee said that his dad was hooked on crack and even smoked it around him as a kid, which he admitted was one of the most shocking things his father did.
The "Mind of Logic" rapper also spoke about his tumultuous relationship with his mother, whom he said neglected him as a child by choosing cigarettes and alcohol over buying food for him. Logic also admitted that he doesn't have a relationship with his mother at this moment, mainly because he believes that she's not a positive person to have in his life.
San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr speaks to members of the media
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SAN FRANCISCO (KTVU) - San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr on Friday announced the conclusion of an Internal Affairs investigation into racist and homophobic text messages sent by officers.
Suhr said at least one police sergeant and a captain were involved. "It just makes me sick to even talk about it," said Suhr. "Certainly to have a member as high ranking as a captain was particularly disheartening."
The texts surfaced a couple of weeks ago after former officer Ian Furminger was sentenced on federal corruption charges.
Former officer Ian Furminger
Fourteen officers in all were the subject of an internal investigation. Suhr says eight - including the captain - sent messages sickening enough to warrant immediate suspension and eventual termination.
Michael Robison - a gay police officer and 23 year veteran - resigned over the texts he shared with Furminger.
On Friday, Officer Michael Celis, a 16 year veteran of the force, announced he'd step down as well - a move that may help the officers keep their pensions.
"Those [texts] don't represent his views, they don't represent how he approached his work and his life," said San Francisco attorney Tony Brass, who represents Celis and Robison. "But he understands that the texts are incompatible with continuing his work as a San Francisco police officer."
In a statement, San Francisco Police Officers Association President Martin Halloran said, "These officers need to be afforded their due process... If these allegations are proven to be true... there is no place for this type of behavior within the San Francisco Police Officers Association or the SFPD."
The officers will go before the Police Commission, which will have the final say on whether to terminate them or mete out another form of discipline.
Critics on Friday called for reform in the department. "We have to vet officers," said San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, "so we don't have officers who hold racist views that are going to endanger not only themselves but the public, and also provide training on unconscious bias."
Suhr said the department recently restored a racial profiling class that had lost funding and plans to examine officers' backgrounds for warning signs.
"You have to assume that there could be more," said Suhr. "So we're going to look at their personal history questionnaires to see if there's some commonality that we hired somebody that we should've known that we shouldn't have hired."
The Harsh conditions of living on the streets has been told, no one saw the next chapter. They can lock your body but never your soul. Knowing you have support gives you hope especially when you can listen to it. Yung Aura gives you FrontLine off his Mixtape " Yungest in Charge " which can be noted as the Front Cover of his Book luckily this book came with Video !
Plies had a bad night at his most recent concert. While onstage some guy got in his face. The rapper told him to step back and before you know it the guy grabbed the Florida rapper and body slammed him.
The situation turned into chaos afterwards. Watch below.
RIZSELFMADE is in the lab putting the finishing touches on his forthcoming album entitled #DATMADELIFE2. Take a listen up top and download his first offering off of the project, "I Own the Night."
(Reuters) - An accused New York City gang member was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday for a slew of violent crimes, including three murders, after being convicted in a trial in which prosecutors used his graphic rap lyrics against him.
Ronald "Ra Diggs" Herron, 33, was sentenced to 12 terms of life in prison plus 105 years by U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in Brooklyn, New York.
The sentencing came after a jury in June 2014 found Herron guilty of all 23 charges against him, from racketeering to drug trafficking to gang-related killings between 2001 and 2009.
Prosecutors at the trial used Herron's "gangsta rap" videos - in which he boasts about belonging to the infamous Bloods street gang, firing weapons and dealing drugs - to argue the lyrics documented his crimes.
Herron's lawyers argued that the lyrics were not autobiographical, but were commentary on crime, violence and drug wars in the inner city.
Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch in a statement Thursday said the life sentence would put an end to the "brutal, unrelenting violence" that Herron unleashed.
"Herron styled himself a rap artist, but the evidence proved that he was a murderous thug who sought power through violence, fear and intimidation," she said.
A lawyer for Herron did not respond to a request for comment.
Jack Thriller and Smack recently sat down with Vlad TV to talk about Azealia Banks'Playboy spread. Both thought it was a good move for her. Jack added a few extra comments although we're not 100% sure if it was the Effen Vodka talking for him, lol.
Jason Statham is one of Hollywood's go-to actors for roles that require a lot of fighting, action and fast car driving. His latest role as Deckard Shaw incorporates all of the above as he plays the bad guy role in Furious 7.
The 47-year old British actor recently sat down with HipHollywood to talk about the role and his fight scenes withDwayne "The Rock" JohnsonandVin Diesel.
Amber Roseis through fronting. She wantsWiz Khalifaback in the worst way.
Rose filed for divorce from the Pittsburgh rapper in September 2014, citing irreconcilable differences. Since then she's been rumored to have been romantically involved with Nick Cannon and Nick Simmons. She also gave a very public twerking session to Chris Brown and posed for a few eye raising photos.
Now it looks all of that was an attempt to get her estranged husband's attention. The model dedicated her #ManCrushWednesday to Wiz with a social media message leaving no doubt that she wants her baby's father to come home.
My #ManCrushEveryday you know what it is.... We went wrong somewhere and even if we never ever get back together (Even tho I pray, dream and hope we do) he will forever be the love of my life. The media doesn't make it easy but fuck them we gotta live for reality and not society. We forever have a bond because we made a beautiful baby from our Love. Through all the ups and downs of our relationship my heart still beats for him every single day. I'm sick of putting on a front like I'm happy without him. I'm not. He makes me happy. He's the only one who can. Regardless of how our lives Turn out in the long run he will always be the skinny tatted up stoner that has my heart ❤️
GARISSA, Kenya (Associated Press) — The Islamic extremists who slaughtered 147 people at a college in Kenya as they shouted "God is great" appeared to have planned extensively, even targeting a site where Christians had gone to pray, survivors said Friday.
Police on Friday were at the campus of Garissa University College, taking fingerprints from the bodies of the four assailants and of the students and security officials who died, for thorough identification purposes. The northeastern Kenyan town lacks the facilities to store all the bodies.
In Nairobi, Kenya's capital, family members were lining up at a morgue where about 20 bodies had already been airlifted from Garissa, victims of the worst attack in Kenya since the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy by al-Qaida which killed more than 200 people. Screaming and crying relatives of the victims were assisted by Kenyan Red Cross staffers, who tried to console them.
One of the first things that the al-Shabab gunmen did when they assaulted the campus early Thursday, survivor Helen Titus said, was to head for a lecture hall where Christians were in early morning prayer. Al-Shabab is a Somalia-based extremist group with ties to al-Qaida.
"They investigated our area. They knew everything," Helen Titus told The Associated Press at a hospital in Garissa where she was being treated for a bullet wound to the wrist. Officials said 79 people were wounded.
Titus, a 21-year-old English literature student, said she covered her face and hair with the blood of classmates and lay still at one point during al-Shabab's deadliest attack on Kenyan soil in hopes the Islamic extremist gunmen would think she was dead.
The gunmen also told students hiding in dormitories to come out, assuring them that they would not be killed, said Titus, who wore a patient's gown as she sat on a bench in the hospital yard.
"We just wondered whether to come out or not," she said. Many students did, whereupon the gunmen started shooting men, saying they would not kill "ladies," Titus said. But they also shot women and targeted Christians, said Titus, who is a Christian.
Esther Wanjiru said she was awake at the time of the attack. Asked if she lost anyone, she said: "My best friend."
Another survivor, Nina Kozel, said she was woken up by screaming and that many students escaped by sprinting to the fences and jumping over them. Some suffered bruises, she said. Many men were unable to escape, and hid in vain under beds and in closets in their rooms, according to Kozel.
"They were shot there and then," she said.
Those who surrendered were either selected for killing, or freed in some cases, apparently because they were Muslim, she said.
The killers shouted "God is great" in Arabic as they proceeded with the slaughter, she said.
Security forces stood guard Friday at the gate of the school. School slogans on the wall outside said "Oasis of Innovation" and "A World Class University of Technological Processes and Development."
At one point, a group approached the college gate and was blocked by soldiers. Several women began shrieking and collapsed in apparent grief in the dust for several minutes. A bystander said the son of one of the women had died in the attack.
A small group of male demonstrators walked down a main road in Garissa with signs that read "We are against the killing of innocent Kenyans!!!! We are tired!!" and "Enough is enough. No more killing!! We are with you, our fellow Kenyans."
"We feel very sorry for them and we condemn the attack," demonstrator Abdullahi Muktar said of the victims.
Some surviving students awaited evacuation to Nairobi by plane from a nearby airstrip.
The masked attackers — strapped with explosives and armed with AK-47s — singled out non-Muslim students and then gunned them down without mercy, survivors said. The gunmen took dozens of hostages in a dormitory as they battled troops and police before the operation ended after about 13 hours, witnesses said.
Al-Shabab spokesman Ali Mohamud Rage said fighters the group was responsible for the attack. The al-Qaida-linked group has been blamed for a series of attacks in Kenya, including the siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi in 2013 that killed 67 people, as well as other violence in the north. The group has vowed to retaliate against Kenya for sending troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight the militants staging cross-border attacks and kidnappings.
Somali President Said Hassan Sheikh Mohamud called for stronger collaboration between Somalia and Kenya to defeat al-Shabab.
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Odula reported from Nairobi, Kenya. Abdi Guled in Mogadishu, Somalia contributed to this report.
With every moveAzealia Banksmakes you start to realize that she's the type of polarizing figure who is impossible to ignore.
Love or hate her it doesn't matter. Because when she talks about dating white men, black artists selling out, feuds with T.I. and Iggy Azalea, poses for Playboy or portrays a frozen Medusa in her new music video for "Ice Princess," Banks is maybe the most interesting/entertaining artist in the business.
She lands on the latest cover of Billboard. In her interview with the publication she talks about five things she really wants including slipping under the sheets with the President of America.
Five Things Azealia Banks Really Wants
1. She Wants Control of Her Life
"There was a point where I was questioning everything," Banks admits. "Am I brushing my teeth at the wrong time? Am I drinking too much? Smoking too much weed? What have I done?'" But that's changed now: "I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want."
2. She Wouldn't Mind Horizontally Hailing the Commander-In-Chief
The rapper admits she has a crush on Barack Obama. "He’s so fine. Those big-ass white teeth and ears hanging off his head? I’m like, ‘Oh my god, I want to fuck the president.'"
3. But She Really Wants to Meet a Meet a Nice Guy
While Banks says she's known to sleep with her female friends and bodyguards (“I love security guards. They’re these big meathead bald white guys with blue eyes"), she's looking for something more permanent: "I want a really smart man, who has a lot of silly jokes and stuff. I have to tone it down if I want to get that," she admits.
4. She Wants to Be Recognized in Her Lifetime
"Celebrities are celebrated, and I don’t think I’m celebrated,” Banks says. “But maybe one day. It would be nice. I just don’t want to be forgotten about while I’m still alive.”
5. She Wants to Write a Fable About Herself
And she's already deep into it. Banks says she listens to the audiobook of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance and then wakes up at 3 a.m. to drink red wine and work on her passion project: a book that will tell "the fable of Azealia Banks." She adds: "I work during witching hours, 3 a.m., 4 a.m., when the dead writers, the failed writers and the failed musicians who are dead are roaming around.”
With his new project entitled The Robb Report available now on iTunes, 2Eleven a.k.a. Deuce is going full throttle with the promotion. Check out his official music video for the single, "Promise."
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