Nearly 19 years after his debut album was released, DMX, is still serving up bangers. The Yonkers, New York rap icon teams up with frequent collaborator Swizz Beatz for his latest song titled "Bane Is Back."
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SOE Maxx Ft. StayLit
STRIVE
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After his hit records "Life" and "Geeked Up", SOE Maxx shows off his versatility with artist StayLit on his new "Strive" music video shot by TJ Henderson! SOE Maxx once again lays down sultry lyrics and smooth vocals on this rap, auto-tune infused record. Contrary to what many may believe, "Strive" is a metaphorical reference to what most artists seek out of rap, which is striving to be the best. This "striving" serves as a temporary escape from everything else that is going on in life, and any artists that fulfills that role is considered “striving”!
Social Media: @SoeMaxx @ _Staylit4311 @ @T_henderson5
Contact: MayorOfDMV@gmail.com
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Get your next project distributed at @MayorOfDMV www.SGodRecords.Com
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Check out August Alsina's official music video for his new single titled "Drugs." It's available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/drugs-single/id1187037534
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Tech N9ne is preparing to perform in a city near you with Brotha Lynch Hung, Krizz Kaliko, Stevie Stone and CES Cru as the opening acts.
The trek, dubbed the "Strictly Strange Tour 17," is in support of the Kansas City, Missouri native's 17th studio album titled "The Storm."
Tech will play 68 shows in 74 days. Tour dates, ticket information and VIP packages will be announced soon.
"The Storm" is available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/the-storm-deluxe-edition/id1164755767
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The past so-called beef between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Ronda Rousey was primarily a media creation.
Floyd has no ill will towards the former UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion and is not kicking her while she's down, after consecutive losses to Holly Holm and Amanda Nunes.
Instead, the boxing legend is offering words of support.
"I want Ronda Rousey [to] hold your head up, stay focused, keep believing. A true champion can bounce back. You'll be OK ... everything will be OK," Floyd told Fighthype in a new interview. "I think that with her losing, had a lot to do with [her taking] time off. She may should have competed against another MMA female fighter that wasn't as active as [Amanda Nunes]. I think the female that she faced ... I think she was rugged and tough, so we can't take anything away from the girl that she faced. The girl that Ronda Rousey faced she was a tough competitor. She was the better woman that night.
"But Ronda Rousey has a lot left. I don't want her to think this is the end of the world," he continued. "She hearing it from the best. She'll be OK. Ronda Rousey hold your head up. You're still a true champion in our eyes. You made women's MMA huge. So, stay focused, go back to the drawing board and do what you gotta do. 2017 is a whole new year. You're undefeated this year. Come back, champ."
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The lineup for the 2017 Bonnaroo Festival, which will be held from June 8 through June 11 at Great Stage Park in Manchester, Tennessee, has been announced.
The Bonnaroo 2017 lineup is here!
— Bonnaroo (@Bonnaroo) January 11, 2017
Tickets on sale NOW: https://t.co/tl6mDbjEX1 pic.twitter.com/vRtdaB8Jlr
Major acts that will perform include the Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2, The Weeknd, Travis Scott, Lorde, Tory Lanez, D.R.A.M., Chance the Rapper, Major Lazer, The XX, Flatbush Zombies, Cage the Elephant and more.
Tickets went on sale Wednesday, January 11. Head over to the festival's website for more information: https://www.bonnaroo.com/
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GQ has selected Chance the Rapper and The Weeknd for the double cover of their February issue.
The Weeknd sits down with Devin Freidman to talk about sex, marriage and cutting off his signature hairdo.
Chance chops it up with Mark Anthony Green about whether he should be referred to as Chance the Artist, why he always rocks the cap and his embarrassing Facebook videos from high school.
Make sure you head over to GQ on Wednesday, January 11th, for Chance's interview and Thursday the 12th for The Weeknd profile.
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Dave East drops off an official music video for "30 Niggaz." Produced by Buda & Grandz. This is off of his "Kairi Chanel" album, available now at https://massappeal.lnk.to/kairichanel
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Lil Bibby a.k.a. Dr. Bib recruits fellow Chicago rapper Lil Durk, as well as Kevin Gates and Dej Loaf for the remix to his song "You ain't Gang."
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CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama has bid farewell to the nation in an emotional speech that sought to comfort a country on edge over rapid economic changes, persistent security threats and the election of Donald Trump.
Forceful at times and tearful at others, Obama's valedictory speech in his hometown of Chicago was a public meditation on the many trials the U.S. faces as Obama takes his exit. For the challenges that are new, Obama offered his vision for how to surmount them, and for the persistent problems he was unable to overcome, he offered optimism that others, eventually, will.
"Yes, our progress has been uneven," he told a crowd of some 18,000. "The work of democracy has always been hard, contentious and sometimes bloody. For every two steps forward, it often feels we take one step back."
Yet Obama argued his faith in America had only been strengthened by what he's witnessed the past eight years, and he declared: "The future should be ours."
Brushing away tears with a handkerchief, Obama paid tribute to the sacrifices made by his wife — and by his daughters, who were young girls when they entered the big white home on Pennsylvania Avenue and leave as young women. He praised first lady Michelle Obama for taking on her role "with grace and grit and style and good humor" and for making the White House "a place that belongs to everybody."
Soon Obama and his family will exit the national stage, to be replaced by Trump, a man Obama had stridently argued poses a dire threat to the nation's future. His near-apocalyptic warnings throughout the campaign have cast a continuing shadow over his post-election efforts to reassure Americans anxious about the future.
Indeed, much of what Obama accomplished during his two terms — from health care overhaul and environmental regulations to his nuclear deal with Iran — could potentially be upended by Trump. So even as Obama seeks to define what his presidency meant for America, his legacy remains in question.
Even as Obama said farewell — in a televised speech of just under an hour — the anxiety felt by many Americans about the future was palpable, and not only in the Chicago convention center where he stood in front of a giant presidential seal. The political world was reeling from new revelations about an unsubstantiated report that Russia had compromising personal and financial information about Trump.
Obama made only passing reference to the next president. When he noted he would soon be replaced by the Republican, his crowd began to boo.
"No, no, no, no, no," Obama said. One of the nation's great strengths, he said, "is the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next."
Earlier, as the crowd of thousands chanted, "Four more years," he simply smiled and said, "I can't do that."
Still, Obama offered what seemed like a point-by-point rebuttal of Trump's vision for America.
He pushed back on the isolationist sentiments inherent in Trump's trade policies. He decried discrimination against Muslim Americans and lamented politicians who question climate change. And he warned about the pernicious threat to U.S. democracy posed by purposely deceptive fake "news" and a growing tendency of Americans to listen only to information that confirms what they already believe.
Get out of your "bubbles," said the politician who rose to a prominence with a message of unity, challenging divisions of red states and blue states. Obama also revived a call to activism that marked his first presidential campaign, telling Americans to stay engaged in politics.
"If you're tired of arguing with strangers on the internet," Obama said pointedly, "try to talk with one in real life. "
With Democrats still straining to make sense of their devastating election losses, Obama tried to offer a path forward. He called for empathy for the struggles of all Americans — from minorities, refugees and transgender people to middle-aged white men whose sense of economic security has been upended in recent years.
Paying tribute to his place as America's first black president, Obama acknowledged there were hopes after his 2008 election for a post-racial America.
"Such a vision, however well-intended, was never realistic," Obama said, though he insisted race relations are better now than a few decades ago.
The former community organizer closed out his speech by reviving his campaign chant, "Yes we can." To that, he added for the first time, "Yes we did."
He staunchly defended the power of activists to make a difference — the driving factor behind Obama's optimism in the face of so much anxiety, he said. Though the coalition of young Americans and minorities who twice got Obama elected wasn't enough to elect Democrat Hillary Clinton to replace him, Obama suggested their day was still ahead.
"You'll soon outnumber any of us, and I believe as a result that the future is in good hands," he said.
Steeped in nostalgia, Obama's return to Chicago was less a triumphant homecoming than a bittersweet reunion bringing together loyalists and staffers, many of whom have long since left Obama's service, moved on to new careers and started families. They came from across the country — some on Air Force One, others on their own — to be present for the last major moment of Obama's presidency.
Unexpectedly absent was Obama's younger daughter, Sasha, who had been expected to join sister Malia at the speech. The White House said Sasha stayed in Washington due to a school exam Wednesday morning.
After returning to Washington, Obama will have less than two weeks before he accompanies Trump in the presidential limousine to the Capitol for the new president's swearing-in. After nearly a decade in the spotlight, Obama will become a private citizen, an elder statesman at 55. He plans to take some time off, write a book — and immerse himself in a Democratic redistricting campaign.
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Lederman reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Ken Thomas and Calvin Woodward in Washington contributed to this report.
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Reach Josh Lederman on Twitter at http://twitter.com/joshledermanAP and Darlene Superville at http://twitter.com/dsupervilleap
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(Reuters) Classified documents that the heads of four U.S. intelligence agencies presented last week to President-elect Donald Trump included claims that Russian intelligence operatives have compromising information about him, two U.S. officials said Tuesday evening.
They told Reuters the claims, which one called "unsubstantiated," were contained in a two-page memo appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election that U.S. intelligence officials presented to Trump and President Barack Obama last week.
Golden showers in Obama's hotel bed! https://t.co/IGdKmM04pB pic.twitter.com/DalEmYNdD9
— Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) January 10, 2017
Donald Trump reportedly hired Russian prostitutes and had them pee on each other. https://t.co/pT8CfaBoa5
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 11, 2017
Congress preparing to greet Donald Trump with investigations into allegations of Russian involvement in election. https://t.co/0qfhk6o8gs
— Globalnews.ca (@globalnews) December 13, 2016
Donald Trump’s response to the allegations of Russian hacking is both dumb and dangerous. https://t.co/RYSBXw2ybt pic.twitter.com/uPyWhWPYs3
— New Republic (@NewRepublic) December 12, 2016
Trump responded on Tuesday evening in a tweet calling the reports: "FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!" The Trump transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. One of the officials, both of whom requested anonymity to discuss classified matters, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other U.S. agencies are continuing to investigate the credibility and accuracy of the claims.
FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
Russia just said the unverified report paid for by political opponents is "A COMPLETE AND TOTAL FABRICATION, UTTER NONSENSE." Very unfair!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA - NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public. One last shot at me.Are we living in Nazi Germany?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 11, 2017
They are included in opposition research reports made available last year to Democrats and U.S. officials by a former British intelligence official, most of whose past work U.S. officials consider credible.
The official said investigators so far have been unable to confirm the material about Trump financial and personal entanglements with Russian businessmen and others whom U.S. intelligence analysts have concluded are Russian intelligence officers or working on behalf of Russian intelligence. Some material in the reports produced by the former British intelligence officer has proved to be erroneous, the official said.
The FBI declined comment.
SURFACED LAST YEAR
The charges that Russia attempted to compromise New York real estate businessman Trump were presented to the FBI and other U.S. government officials last summer and have been circulating for months.
Also on #wato - there's been an explosive response from Donald Trump over allegations that Russian spies obtained lurid details about him.
— The World at One (@BBCWorldatOne) January 11, 2017
Jounalist knew in October 2016 about allegations of Russian operation to cultivate Donald Trump https://t.co/44Qajp5V5r via @motherjones
— Ayeworld (@ayeworld) January 11, 2017
The FBI initially took the material seriously, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, which was first reported by CNN.
However, the FBI failed to act on the material, and the former British intelligence officer broke off contact about three weeks before the November election, they said.
The warning of information about Russia's compromising claims follows growing U.S. intelligence and law enforcement concerns about what Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has called "multifaceted" Russian influence and espionage operations in Europe and the United States.
In addition to hacking computer networks and spreading propaganda and fake news, it includes efforts to cultivate business and political leaders and find compromising personal, financial and other information on persons of interest, U.S. intelligence officials said.
The classified briefings last week were presented to Obama and Trump by Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers.
U.S. intelligence chiefs included a classified summary of the material to make Trump aware that it is circulating among intelligence agencies, senior members of Congress, government officials and others, one of the officials said.
"The golden shower allegations are the most salacious, but they are not the most disturbing." https://t.co/xaPYyQY3Gf
— by jamie, a theorist (@thejamiejournal) January 11, 2017
An unclassified intelligence report released on Friday concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an effort to help Trump's electoral chances by discrediting Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The report said U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that as part of the effort Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, used intermediaries such as WikiLeaks and others to release emails it hacked from the Democratic National Committee and top Democrats.
Read the leaked documents here.
(Reporting Warren Strobel, Mark Hosenball, Jonathan Landay and John Walcott; Editing by Grant McCool and Lisa Shumaker)
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Check out Casey Veggies latest banger titled "All Eyez on Me." The song was produced by DJ Reflex.
NEW PROJECT COMING SOON
PNCTINTL
Artwork & Photography: @JorgePeniche for The Marathon Agency
@caseyveggies @djreflex
WWW.CASEYVEGGIES.COM
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Houston rapper's Kirko Bangz and Z-Ro a.k.a. the Mo City Don collaborate on a song titled "Money On the Dresser." Peep the video shot By BlueStaar
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CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — An unrepentant Dylann Roof was sentenced to death Tuesday for killing nine black church members during Bible study, the first person to face execution for federal hate crime convictions.
A jury deliberated his sentence for about three hours, capping a trial in which Roof did not fight for his life or show any remorse. He was his own attorney during sentencing and insisted that he wasn't mentally ill, but he never asked for forgiveness or mercy, or explained the crime.
And he threw away one last chance to plead for his life on Tuesday, telling jurors: "I still feel like I had to do it."
Every juror looked directly at Roof, 22, as he spoke for about five minutes. A few nodded as he reminded them that they said during jury selection they could fairly weigh the factors of his case. Only one of them, he noted, had to disagree to spare his life.
"I have the right to ask you to give me a life sentence, but I'm not sure what good it would do anyway," he said.
When the verdict was read, he stood stoic and showed no emotion. Several family members of victims wiped away quiet tears.
Roof told FBI agents when they arrested him after the June 17, 2015, slayings that he wanted the shootings to bring back segregation or perhaps start a race war. Instead, the slayings had a unifying effect, as South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from its Statehouse for the first time in more than 50 years and other states followed suit, taking down Confederate banners and monuments. Roof had posed with the flag in photos.
Roof specifically picked out Emanuel AME Church, the South's oldest black church, to carry out the cold, calculated slaughter, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Richardson said.
Family members of the victims of the Emanuel Church shooting leave the courthouse during a break at the Charleston Federal Courthouse during the federal trial of Dylann Roof in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. January 10, 2017.
The 12 people he targeted opened the door for a stranger with a smile, he said. Three people survived the attack.
"They welcomed a 13th person that night ... with a kind word, a Bible, a handout and a chair," Richardson said during his closing argument. "He had come with a hateful heart and a Glock .45."
Nine victims of the Charleston church shooting. Top row: Cynthia Hurd, Rev. Clementa Pinckney, Rev. Sharonda Coleman-Singleton Middle row: Daniel Simmons, Rev. Depayne Middleton Doctor, Tywanza Sanders Bottom row: Myra Thompson, Ethel Lee Lance, Susie Jackson
The gunman sat with the Bible study group for about 45 minutes. During the final prayer — when everyone's eyes were closed — he started firing. He stood over some of the fallen victims, shooting them again as they lay on the floor, Richardson said.
The prosecutor reminded jurors about each one of the victims and the bloody scene that Roof left in the church's lower level.
Nearly two dozen friends and relatives of the victims testified during the sentencing phase of the trial. They shared cherished memories and talked about a future without a mother, father, sister or brother. They shed tears, and their voices shook, but none of them said whether Roof should face the death penalty.
Jennifer Pinckney testified about huddling under a desk with her 6-year-old daughter, her hand clasped over the girl's mouth to keep her quiet, as Roof started firing.
Not knowing for certain if the danger had passed, Pinckney dialed 911 and breathlessly told an operator she had heard shots inside the church.
"I think there's been a shooting. I'm in the closet, under a desk," Pinckney told the operator. "Please hurry."
On the call, Pinckney tries to comfort her daughter Malana, who had been watching cartoons in her father's office as he participated in Bible study.
"Daddy's dead?" Malana says.
"No, baby, no," the mother says. But at that moment, Pinckney said she knew her husband, church pastor Clementa Pinckney, had been killed.
The prosecutor reminded jurors that Clementa Pinckney, the church pastor and a state senator, would be remembered for singing goofy songs and watching cartoons with his young daughters. In a sign of perhaps how important that testimony was, jurors re-watched a speech by Pinckney in which he talks about the history of Emanuel and its mission.
State Senator Clementa C. Pinckney
The jury convicted him last month of all 33 federal charges he faced, including hate crimes.
Roof did not explain his actions to jurors, saying only that "anyone who hates anything in their mind has a good reason for it."
Roof had the opportunity to present evidence that he had possibly suffered from mental illness, but he did not call any witnesses or present any evidence.
In one of his journals, he wrote that he didn't believe in psychology, calling it "a Jewish invention" that "does nothing but invent diseases and tell people they have problems when they don't."
His attorneys said he didn't want to present any evidence that might embarrass him or his family.
After he was sentenced, Roof asked a judge to appoint him new attorneys, but the judge said he was not inclined to because they had performed "admirably."
A judge will formally sentence him during a hearing Wednesday.
The last person sent to federal death row was Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in 2015.
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Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP. Read more of her work at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/meg-kinnard/ .
Follow Jeffrey Collins on Twitter at http://twitter.com/JSCollinsAP. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/jeffrey-collins .
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Parts of a sex tape that allegedly shows Fetty Wap with his ex-girlfriend Alexis Skyy hit the internet Tuesday, January 10, leaving the rapper scrambling to prevent the entire thing from getting out.
TMZ reports that Fetty has put his legal team to work sending cease-and-desist orders to websites posting the footage.
Fetty's team is not accusing Skyy of leaking the tape, but say that only she and the rapper had copies of it.
What the "Trap Queen" hit maker fears most is the full tape being sold. He's on a mission to prevent that.
Skyy's lawyer, Eric Croone, told TMZ that the tape was leaked without his client's permission. He says they are also considering taking legal action.
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Kodak Black is on a mission to dethrone Lil Wayne as the best spitter in the business.
The 19-year old Pompano Beach, Florida native started his campaign against Weezy in December when he tweeted: "Lil Wayne Ain't The Best Fucking Rapper Alive ... IAM."
On Monday, January 9, Black took things to another level by challenging the Young Money Records CEO to a fight.
“Ay listen here man. Tell Lil Wayne fight me, know what I’m saying. Black says in a video posted on his Instagram account. "We finna get in the ring, we finna fight -- me and Lil Wayne. I’m finna knock that stupid ass nigga out. And if he whoop me, he the best rapper alive, ya heard me?
"Tell Lil Wayne fight me in the ring. And I’m gon’ beat his stupid ass," he continues. "And I bet everything on it. Since Soulja Boy and Chris Brown doing it, I don’t even need no trainer. I don’t need Floyd Mayweather, Adrien Broner. I’m finna beat Lil Wayne stupid ass, watch!”
Ummm ... Okay.
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Mike Tyson is training Chris Brown for his upcoming boxing match with Soulja Boy. The legendary former pugilist teamed up with Breezy to record a Soulja diss track titled "If You Show Up."
“If you show up, it’s going down/ I’m gonna teach him how to knock your ass down," Mike repeats in a leaked snippet from his verse in the song.
Give it a listen up top.
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15-time Grammy Award-winning R&B superstar Alicia Keys brightens our day with a new song titled "Sweet F'in Love." The track was produced by Kaytranada.
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Fast rising Atlanta rapper Bankroll Fresh lost his life in March of 2016, at the young age of 28. Luckily, his legacy will live on through his music.
"Truth Be Told" is the first single off of his forthcoming debut album titled "In Bank We Trust." The song is available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/truth-be-told-single/id1191582550
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