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In this clip, China Mac talked about the need for media outlets to stop covering Tekashi 6ix9ine and how Akon's collaboration with him was about relevance. China Mac also saluted Gillie Da Kid for turning down 6ix9ine's offer to do an interview.
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On Thursday's (Feb. 6) episode of #EverydayStruggle, Nadeska, Wayno and DJ Akademiks start off the show discussing Nicki Minaj and Meek Mill’s Twitter beef that involved some serious allegations against each other. Afterwards, the crew uses their ‘The Review” segment to dissect Yo Gotti’s new album ‘Untrapped’ and Russ’ latest album ‘Shake The Snow Globe.’ Later in the show, DJ Akademiks goes through some recent stats about album sales from Roddy Ricch, Post Malone, Mac Miller and Eminem. To close out the show, the squad share their thoughts on Tekashi 6ix9ine requesting to move out of New York upon his release, Game revealing that he’s spent over $12 million on lawyer fees since the start of his career and the trio pays its respects to A$AP J. Scott, who passed away recently.
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Wack 100, who manages Blueface and The Game, recently sat down with Hollywood Unlocked to talk about Tekashi69, Nipsey Hussle and admits he did take a punch at the Rolling Loud Festival.
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Talks recently stopped by The Beat 139 to about his life growing up and the transition to becoming a black activist.
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DJ Akademiks has a response to Meek Mill after Meek called him out on Instagram about going at Tekashi69's baby mama.
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Following Gucci Mane's album listening party on December 4th, he drops by Real 92.3 to talk about the advice he gave Tekashi 69, the Mt. Rushmore of Trap Music, Offset & Cardi B's breakup and more.
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Tekashi 69 Disses G Herbo, Adds Him To Chicago Diss List, FBG Duck Says He Feels Like A Goofy Now.
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Tekashi69 is at war with J. Prince Jr. and Baby Jay Prince of Rap-A-Lot Records. 69 wasn’t allowed inside Prince Jr’s birthday party earlier this week in Houston for not showing proper respect. Things escalated after Tekashi said he refuses to check in with anyone no matter the city. On Friday, March 16, 69 was scheduled to perform at a Worldstarhiphop SXSW show in Austin. Baby Jay & Prince Jr popped up looking for him, but he didn’t show up.
J Prince Jr and Baby J Prince went to sxsw with 50 ppl to make a statement to Tekashi 69 pic.twitter.com/ZkGfKko9h4
— DJ Akademiks (@IamAkademiks) March 17, 2018
J prince Jr calls out Tekashi 69 for missing his performance at the world star show since him and his mob was on stage all night waiting for him pic.twitter.com/HSPSrE29FC
— DJ Akademiks (@IamAkademiks) March 17, 2018
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DJ Luke Nasty releases an official music video for "HWY 69" off of his latest album, "The Detour." It's available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-detour/id1224298697
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Afeni Shakur, the mother of music icon Tupac Shakur, has passed away.
PEOPLE reports that the Marin County Sheriff's Office responded to a call of a possible cardiac arrest at a Sausalto, California home on Monday night, May 2. Afeni was taken to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead at around 10:28 p.m. She was 69-years old.
Renown rap artist #Tupac Shakur's mother Afeni Shakur Davis, age 69, died late last night in Marin County. pic.twitter.com/oP0crvINm8
— Marin County Sheriff (@MarinSheriff) May 3, 2016
Sheriff's Coroners Office will lead investigation to determine exact cause & manner of Afeni Shakur's death.
— Marin County Sheriff (@MarinSheriff) May 3, 2016
A year after 2Pac's 1996 death, Afeni, founded The Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, a performing arts center for the youth based in Stone Mountain, Georgia.
The former Black Panther Party member also founded Amaru Entertainment, a record and film production company that oversaw the posthumous releases of her son's music and recently signed off on the upcoming biopic, "All Eyez on Me."
2Pac dedicated the 1995 song "Dear Mama" to Afeni.
Afeni was preparing to face off in a North Carolina divorce court with her husband of 12 years, Gust Davis.
Davis is seeking half of the income Afeni received from Tupac's estate for life, in addition to a Jaguar, the rights to live in the soon-to-be ex-couple's 50 acre North Carolina ranch and the keys to their houseboats.
The couple didn't have a prenup.
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NEW YORK (AP) — David Bowie, the other-worldly musician who broke pop and rock boundaries with his creative musicianship, nonconformity, striking visuals and a genre-spanning persona he christened Ziggy Stardust, died of cancer Sunday. He was 69 and had just released a new album.
Bowie, whose hits included "Fame," ''Heroes" and "Let's Dance," died "peacefully" and was surrounded by family, representative Steve Martin said early Monday. The singer had fought cancer for 18 months.
Long before alter egos and wild outfits became commonplace in pop, Bowie turned the music world upside down with the release of the 1972 album, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" which introduced one of music's most famous personas. Ziggy Stardust was a concept album that imagined a rock star from outer space trying to make his way in the music world. The persona — the red-headed, eyeliner wearing Stardust — would become an enduring part of his legacy, and a touchstone for the way entertainers packaged themselves for years to come.
Bowie turned 69 on Friday, the same day as he released a new album called "Blackstar."
"While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family's privacy during their time of grief," said a statement issued via his social media accounts. No more details were provided.
The singer, who was born David Jones in London, came of age in the glam rock era of the early 1970s. He had a striking androgynous look in his early days and was known for changing his appearance and sounds. After Ziggy Stardust, the stuttering rock sound of "Changes" gave way to the disco soul of "Fame," co-written with John Lennon, to a droning collaboration with Brian Eno in Berlin that produced "Heroes."
He had some of his biggest successes in the early 1980s with the bombastic "Let's Dance," and a massive American tour. Another one of his definitive songs was "Under Pressure," which he recorded with Queen; Vanilla Ice would years later infamously use the song's hook for his smash hit "Ice Ice Baby."
"My entire career, I've only really worked with the same subject matter," Bowie told The Associated Press in a 2002 interview. "The trousers may change, but the actual words and subjects I've always chosen to write with are things to do with isolation, abandonment, fear and anxiety — all of the high points of one's life."
Bowie lived in West Berlin in the late 1970s and Mayor Michael Mueller said Monday that "Heroes" became "the hymn of our then-divided city and its longing for freedom."
An Iconic Love #RIPDavidBowie #IMAN pic.twitter.com/bbvfi0s43b
— vsnotebook. (@vsnotebook) January 11, 2016Germany's Foreign Ministry added Bowie was "now among heroes" and thanked him for "helping to bring down the wall."
Bowie's performance of "Heroes" was also a highlight at a concert for rescue workers after the 2001 World Trade Center attacks.
"What I'm most proud of is that I can't help but notice that I've affected the vocabulary of pop music. For me, frankly, as an artist, that's the most satisfying thing for the ego," Bowie said.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, but he didn't attend the ceremony. Madonna, another artist who knew something about changing styles to stay ahead of the curve, accepted for him and recounted how a Bowie concert changed her life when she attended it as a teenager. David Byrne, of the art rockers Talking Heads, inducted Bowie and said he gave rock music a necessary shot in the arm.
"Like all rock 'n' roll, it was visionary, it was tasteless, it was glamorous, it was perverse, it was fun, it was crass, it was sexy and it was confusing," Byrne said.
Bowie kept a low profile in recent years after reportedly suffering a heart attack in the 2000s. He made a moody album three years ago called "The Next Day" — his first recording in a decade which was made in secret in New York City. "Blackstar," which earned positive reviews from critics, represented yet another stylistic shift, as he gathered jazz players to join him.
He released a music video on Friday for the new song "Lazarus," which shows a frail Bowie lying in bed and singing the track's lyrics. The song begins with the line: "Look up here, I'm in heaven."
Tributes poured in for the singer after the announcement of his death. British astronaut Tim Peake tweeted about his sadness from outer space aboard the International Space Station, saying "his music was an inspiration to many."
I wish he could have stayed on earth longer. RIP #DavidBowie pic.twitter.com/jnYLaaootw
— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) January 11, 2016#DavidBowie made a GREAT call on the future of the music industry, 14 years ago: https://t.co/0MPpsGSkMF pic.twitter.com/MularE9gzi
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) January 11, 2016He never seemed of this earth. Now he's left it. He bent rules, gender, genres, and our minds. RIP David Bowie. One. Of. A. Kind.
— josh groban (@joshgroban) January 11, 2016David Bowie was one of my most important inspirations, so fearless, so creative, he gave us magic for a lifetime.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) January 11, 2016David Bowie was a true innovator, a true creative. May he rest in peace RIPDavidBowie
— Pharrell Williams (@Pharrell) January 11, 2016DAVID BOWIE
— ErykahBadoula (@fatbellybella) January 11, 2016British Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted that Bowie's death is "a huge loss." He wrote he had grown up listening to and watching Bowie and called the singer a "master of reinvention" and a pop genius who kept on getting it right.
I grew up listening to and watching the pop genius David Bowie. He was a master of re-invention, who kept getting it right. A huge loss.
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) January 11, 2016The Rolling Stones wrote they were "shocked and deeply saddened to hear of the death of our dear friend David Bowie. As well as being a wonderful and kind man, he was an extraordinary artist, and a true original."
Bowie felt uneasy about some of his greatest material, once embarking on a "greatest hits" tour saying it would be the last time performing much of his old material. He later relented, however.
"I'm not a natural performer," he said in the 2002 interview. "I don't enjoy performing terribly much. Never have. I can do it and, if my mind's on the situation, do it quite well. But five or six shows in, I'm dying to get off the road and go back into the studio."
Bowie was married twice, to the actress and model Mary Angela "Angie" Barnett from 1970-80, and to international supermodel Iman since 1992. He had two children — Duncan Jones and Alexandria Zahra Jones — one with each wife.
Iman on David Bowie: 'I'm Not Married to David Bowie, I'm Married to David Jones' https://t.co/N7eCoxIKGN pic.twitter.com/f7l3WetlMC
— Esquire Magazine (@esquire) January 11, 2016___
AP entertainment writer Dave Bauder in New York and Danica Kirka in London contributed to this report.
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One day after a grand re-opening that featured A-list guests like Warren Buffet, Spike Lee, Lance Bass and Russell Simmons, Jay-Z's 40/40 Club was shut down by New York's Health Department Thursday (January 19).
Among the violations seen by health inspectors according to the New York Post, included a worker mixing salsa with his bare hands. Five pounds of cooked mashed potatoes left out at a temperature of 89F, while 10 pounds of cooked rice and 50 turkey burgers were kept at 67F. All the hot foods should be at least 140F.
In addition to those violations, the refrigerator was at a rancid 60F instead of 41F, putting at jeopardy the safety of 50 pounds of raw chicken wings, five pounds of raw shrimp and 100 turkey burgers.
“If you have a walk-in place with food like this, you put a hell of a lot of people at risk,” said a source. “A night of dinner and dancing should not include the risk of contracting food-borne illness.”
Club patrons already inside the establishment were allowed to stay, but new customers were turned away.
Although the problems were corrected and the club was allowed to open again for business on Friday, there could be big trouble looming for the establishment.
The club was given 69 violation points. Only 28 violations points are needed for a restaurant to be given the worst possible "C" grade. Restaurants with a "C" grade are forced to post a "C" in their storefront windows which is horrible for business.
"It's killing us," a host at Reme Restaurant told the New York Daily News of the dreaded "C" grade. "People see the C and they walk away."
During an inspection of Hov's 40/40 club in February 2011, it "racked up 39 violation points for problems including improperly handled food and unsanitary conditions."
It's not a good sign for a club that just underwent $10 million dollars in renovations. It will be adjudicated at a hearing next month.
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Singer Nick Ashford died of throat cancer Monday at the age of 69.
As 1/2 of the singing/songwriting duo Ashford & Simpson, along with his wife of 37 years Valerie Simpson, Ashford helped pen some of r&b's biggest hit records.
"I'm Every Woman" by Chaka Khan, "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, and their own "Solid" are just several of the many soul classics written by the duo.
The group released 16 studio albums total
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