Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva joins Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show to discuss his upcoming boxing match against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and future in combat sports.
0:00 How the fight vs. Chavez Jr. came together. 5:44 Why he's done competing in MMA. 12:30 The advice he’s told his sons about getting into fighting. 15:18 His reaction to Chris Weidman’s leg injury. 20:22 Reaction to DMX’s death.
1. RocAmerkkka 2 (Intro) 2. Real Pressure 3. Triangle Offense Ft. Willie the Kid 4. Respect is Everything Ft. G4 Jag 5. Well Done 6. Skip the Hassle 7. Brigante & Delgado 8. Free the Real Ft. Jai Black 9. Hoodie Season 10 RocAmerikkka 2 (Outro)
ESPN MMA’s Brett Okamoto speaks with Khabib Nurmagomedov about how he’s prepared for his lightweight title unification fight vs. Justin Gaethje at UFC 254. Khabib gives his thoughts on (3:20) Tony Ferguson’s loss to Gaethje and why he believes Ferguson’s time is finished. Nurmagomedov also (7:18) discusses why he shut down the idea of coaching against Conor McGregor on The Ultimate Fighter.
ATLANTA, GA – Music lovers across the world need to hail the new queen of Reggae and Pop. The royal one, AKA Kween Kalanii, is a hot new artist from Atlanta whose fusion of sounds and styles is all the buzz across the Southern U.S. And her new EP that’s set to drop on Valentine’s Day 2020 will propel her into superstardom across the entire country.
Two of her singles from that upcoming EP are already available to stream across all platforms. The first is a Reggae/Pop fusion called “Rasta Love” that incorporates elements of R&B. She calls it an “upbeat, feel-good song” that uses the setting of a beach vacation to examine the fun times a couple can have when they’re in love. Kween grew up listening to island music which influenced her taste in Reggae. She’s born in Dayton, Ohio, raised in Cincinnati and now resides in Atlanta which is her home!
The other single that’s making waves is “Done Her Wrong” which is more of an R&B-forward vibe that tells the tale of her struggles to make it in the industry while also raising three young children as a single mother.
“It’s a song that tells my testimony of coming out of an abusive relationship and telling my truth so that it will motivate and empower other women not to stay in that situation,” Kween said. “It’s basically me saying — “Look at me now. You shouldn’t have done me wrong.”
Kween said the vibes she brings through her music are original and authentic, without much auto-tune or trap or “vixen,” as she calls it.
“I’m also BBW,” she said, “and I’m creating a whole new wave. It’s music with a Southern tone but with a late 90s or early 2000s vibe. It’s an original Southern R&B and Soul and a hint of Hip Hop and Trap. I have a rough edge, that’s what I say I’m not a vixen. I’m dressed up but I have sneakers. Even though my teeth are nice, I still rock the 10-piece gold. But at the end of the day, I want my music to be known for female empowerment. I want my story to be one that encourages other women to embrace their flaws and turn everything that has hurt them into the reason why they’re great. This music is just me telling my truth and a lot of other women’s truths in a more raw way. It’s me being honest because I feel like honesty is something a lot of people in the industry today try to cover up. I’m telling other women to move on to the next thing and make better versions of them.”
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Nate Diaz joins Ariel Helwani's MMA Show and proclaims himself to be the king of the UFC's 155-pound division because he has defeated all of the big names and there is nothing left for him to accomplish there. Diaz also sounds off on Conor McGregor and Khabib Nurmagomedov, and explains why they aren't worthy of another fight with him.
(Sports Illustrated) Chris Bosh hasn't played professional basketball since the 2015-16 season, but the 11-time All-Star says he's ready to make a comeback to the NBA.
"I've been in the gym. I can still play basketball. No I'm not done yet," Bosh said in an appearance on ESPN's "First Take."
Bosh, 33, was then asked by Stephen A. Smith if that means he's trying to come back.
"Yeah, I'm trying to come—man, I see all these guys shooting threes and not playing defense. Man, I mean, I got to get some of it," he quipped. Bosh said he's ready to return this season for a contending team.
Bosh's stellar career hit a major road bump in February 2015, when he was found to have a blood clot in his lungs. He missed the remainder of that season but returned in 2016 and was voted to the All-Star game before another blood clot surfaced, this time in his calf. Despite attemps to get back on court, Bosh has not played since then, and the league ruled his blood clotting issues a career-ending injury, which allowed the Heat to take his salary off their cap sheet.
Bosh spent seven years with the Raptors before joining with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade to form a "Big 3" in Miami. Bosh reached four straight finals with the Heat and won two championships before he re-signed with the franchise after James left to return to Cleveland before the 2014-15 season.
He has career averages of 19.2 points, 8.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists.
The last day a free-agent can sign with an NBA team and still be eligible for the playoffs is March 1.
Video After The JumpThe O.D.: A Mixtape Daily ExclusiveChris Brown is in the #1 film in the country, "Takers," and now that he's done with Hollywood (for now), he's going back to the lab.
"Me, I'm definitely writing on other people's projects. A lot of in-house stuff," Brown said recently in L.A. "I got a lot of artists coming out. The single 'Deuces' features one of my artists K-Mac and Tyga [from Young Money]. I'm pushing forward. The movie's out, so I'mma have fun."
"Deuces" is in the top 30 of Billboard's Hot 100 charts and #1 on urban radio. The record's success is simply due to fan support. It's part of Brown and Tyga's Fan of a Fan mixtape and skyrocketed once the video hit virally and on MTV Jams.
"That was actually Chris' idea," Tyga told us about putting out a visual for the song. "I thought the record was dope. I thought it was dope for us to do that video. He got to explain his situation. It connects to his fans. His fans miss that from him."I think the people chose the record," Tyga added. "We put the mixtape out, and we asked them: What record do you like the most? They was like, 'Deuces.' It was always coming up. It was growing on YouTube as well, like 100,000 views a day on YouTube. It was his idea to shoot the video. My homie Colin Tilly, he's done all my videos. He's done everything. All my mixtape stuff to the bigger stuff I'm doing now. He got it right. It's what people wanna see, what they wanna hear."
Despite the overwhelming success of Fan of a Fan, Tyga said he and Chris aren't planning an official LP, but they are hitting the road together.
"I don't think you wanna drown people too much," Tyga said about making a full album with Brown. "We've been doing a lot of stuff, though. He's on my album. We're actually working on a tour right now. A Fan of Fan Tour at the end of the year. It'll be dope."
Tyga has an album coming out soon; it doesn't have a release date yet. But his next mixtape, Well Done, will hit within the next couple of weeks. It's going to be a Gangsta Grillz edition.
"I feel like I had to deal with [DJ] Drama. He reminded of Wayne, when he did Dedication with him," Tyga explained. "[Wayne] was going in on every beat. All the mixtapes I've been dropping, they're close to albums. They're more songs. They have more content. This one, I wanted to rap on everybody's beat and murder every beat that's out. It's fun to do that. It's easy. I can knock that out real fast. I think Drama is dope when you wanna link up and murder beats like that."
Some of the tracks Tyga is pilfering are Soulja Boy's "Pretty Boy Swag" and Nicki Minaj's "Your Love."
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