Blogs

Video After The Jump

Fetty Wap gives us a glimpse into his world. Check out his "A Day With Fetty Wap" vlog below.

►Website: http://www.fettywap.com/
►Instagram: https://instagram.com/FettyWap1738/
►Twitter: https://twitter.com/fettywap
►Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FettyWap

Follow Me

SWAYDAY?? I really shared tears on this one #Thank You God???? I don't do this to be famous I don't do it for money. I have real Live pain growing inside me. But I will fight this battle to the end. I feel more free than I ever felt before. Markeithia Jazzie Bonner I just want to thank you for believing in me when my back was against the wall when I Lost faith in everything Thanks ???? #IPutnwork

Follow @Fungsway1

Destructo teams up with Too $hort and E-40 for his new single titled "All Night," available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/all-nite-feat.-e-40-too-$hort/id1192745167

Follow DESTRUCTO:
FB: bit.ly/DestructoFB
IG: bit.ly/DestructoIG
TW: bit.ly/DestructoTW
SC: bit.ly/DestructoSC

Follow E-40:
FB: bit.ly/2k7MZX1
IG: bit.ly/2jDpP7z
TW: bit.ly/2k7EFq7
YT: bit.ly/2jvbAV2

Follow Too $hort:
FB: bit.ly/2jDkUn8
IG: bit.ly/2kqClbj
TW: bit.ly/2ja8QOf
YT: bit.ly/2k9fp32

Follow Me

Chief Keef is out of a Los Angeles County jail after posting $500,000 bail on Friday, January 27.

As we previously reported, the Chicago native was arrested at his Tarzana, California home Thursday, January 26, by special operations officers from the Los Angeles Police Department, in connection with a home invasion robbery that allegedly occurred last week.

Producer Ramsay Tha Great claims the 21-year old, born Keith Cozart, and several other men came to his home to confront him after an argument he had with a female associate of Keef's.

According to Ramsay, he was beaten and robbed of a ring, a Rolex and $1600. One of the men was allegedly brandishing an AK-47. He plans on filing a lawsuit.

The Los Angeles County Sheriffs' online database indicates Keef is due back in court on February 24.

Follow Me

Fredo Santana slides through with his 13-track "Plugged In" project. Chief Keef is featured on two songs.

Fredo locked down production from DP Beats, Cory Lingo, HurtBoyAG, StoopidXool, 808MafiaDY and more. Grab a copy now from Datpiff: http://www.datpiff.com/Fredo-Santana-Plugged-In-mixtape.825877.html

Plugged In Tracklist:

1.Hand To Hand [Prod. By 808MafiaDY]

2.Trapper Of The Year [Prod. By BeatPluggTwo]

3.Nervous [Prod. By StoopidXool]

4.Bail Money [Prod. By Cory Lingo]

5.10 Min [Prod. By MexikoDro]

6.Watch Me [Prod. By DP Beats]

7.My Pain, My Struggle [Prod. By Cory Lingo]

8.My Pistol Make Ya Famous (Feat. Chief Keef) [Prod. By Chief Keef]

9.Some Money [Prod. By Cory Lingo]  

10.Lotta Lotta Gunz [Prod. By HurtBoyAG StoopidXool]

11.Whole Lotta Trappin [Prod. By Mexiko Dro]

12.Baby CEO - CBG [Prod. By 808MafiaDY]

13.Tell Nobody (Feat. Chief Keef) [Prod. By Trap Money Benny]

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

(Reuters) President Donald Trump's sweeping ban on people seeking refuge in the United States and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries caused confusion and panic among travelers on Saturday, with some turned back from U.S.-bound flights.

"Extreme xenophobia."

World leaders slams Donald Trump's #MuslimBan https://t.co/pSbmvBssXc pic.twitter.com/dOcfa1yznV

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) January 28, 2017

where was all this #ExtremeVetting when we were asking for Trump's tax returns (which we STILL don't have) ??

— JuanPa (@jpbrammer) January 28, 2017

Immigration lawyers in New York sued to block the order, saying numerous people have already been unlawfully detained.

Muslim leaders to file lawsuit against Donald Trump’s refugee ban https://t.co/6dpkCSSBeZ pic.twitter.com/I1SNoOumYR

— The Independent (@Independent) January 28, 2017

The new Republican president on Friday put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily barred travelers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries. He said the moves would protect Americans from terrorism.

"Analysis of terrorist attacks on US soil 1975-2015...found foreign nationals from those seven countries have killed zero Americans" https://t.co/ME45gA1X2u

— Claire Phipps (@Claire_Phipps) January 27, 2017

US now looking at two children - one Christian, one Muslim - and saying: "You, your life is worth saving. You, yours isn't." #ExtremeVetting

— ChristianChristensen (@ChrChristensen) January 27, 2017

FACT: Terrorism by Muslims makes up just .0033% of all murders in the U.S. #ExtremeVetting https://t.co/cB572aRhXc pic.twitter.com/0IZsLbCFBk

— The Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) January 28, 2017

Want A Safer Amer? Instead of inflicting more pain on suffering people-How about #ExtremeVetting before ALL #gun purchases? @realDonaldTrump

— W Smith *RESIST* (@WesSmith123) January 28, 2017

The executive order prompted fury from Arab travelers in the Middle East and North Africa who said it was humiliating and discriminatory. It drew widespread criticism from U.S. Western allies including France and Germany, Arab American groups, human rights organizations.

"This is a stupid, terrible decision which will hurt the American people more than us or anybody else, because it shows that this President can’t manage people, politics or global relationships," said Najeed Haidari, a Yemeni-American security manager for an oil company in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

There are tears running down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty tonight. pic.twitter.com/X6q40dMCsN

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) January 27, 2017

#DonaldTrump executive order prompts Google to recall staff https://t.co/WmbITKR170 #MuslimBan #ExtremeVetting pic.twitter.com/ZTguEGnNr2

— Khary Penebaker (@kharyp) January 28, 2017

The bans affect travelers with passports from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and even extends to green card holders who are granted authorization to live and work in the United States, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman.

In Cairo, five Iraqi passengers and one Yemeni were barred from boarding an EgyptAir flight to New York on Saturday, sources at Cairo airport said.

The passengers, arriving in transit to Cairo airport, were stopped and re-directed to flights headed for their home countries despite holding valid visas, the sources said.

@aayoub @BBCKimGhattas My father is a green card holder, he will be traveling soon, should I say bye forever to him? is this real?

— Independent Muslim (@firstmuslim) January 28, 2017

House GOP source says exec order is supposed to have exemption for ppl in transit

Seems clear rollout allowed much confusion among agencies

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 28, 2017

Propublica: Trump Executive Order Could Block 500,000 Legal U.S. Residents From Returning to America From Tripshttps://t.co/XPTdsVid8l

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 28, 2017

That the President of the United States would order on Holocaust Memorial Day the banning of a people due to their religion is reprehensible

— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 28, 2017

This could've been our refugee policy, but you made a protest vote. #ExtremeVetting https://t.co/yME3TltdQt

— Ess (@ScottyLiterati) January 28, 2017

Lawyers from numerous immigration organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union sued in federal court in Brooklyn on behalf of two Iraqi men, one a former U.S. government worker and the other the husband of a former U.S. security contractor.

The two men had visas to enter the United States but were detained on Friday night at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, hours after Trump's executive order, the lawsuit said.

Customs and border patrol agents at many airports were unaware of the executive order early on in the evening, said Mana Yegani, an immigration lawyer in Houston, who works with the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Yegani and her fellow lawyers worked through the night fielding calls from travelers with student and worker visas who were being denied entry into the United States and ordered on flights back to Muslim-majority countries on the list.

Green card holders were also being stopped and questioned for several hours. Officials also denied travelers with dual Canadian and Iranian citizenship from boarding planes in Canada that were headed the United States, she said.

"These are people that are coming in legally. They have jobs here and they have vehicles here," Yegani said.

Those with visas from Muslim-majority countries have gone through background checks with U.S. authorities, Yegani noted.

"Just because Trump signed something at 6 p.m. yesterday, things are coming to a crashing halt," she said. "It's scary."

Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway reaffirmed the president's decision in a Twitter post on Saturday.

Get used to it. @POTUS is a man of action and impact.
Promises made, promises kept.
Shock to the system.
And he's just getting started https://t.co/AoUsZWClXt

— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) January 28, 2017

"@POTUS is a man of action and impact. Promises made, promises kept. Shock to the system. And he's just getting started," she tweeted.

Trump's visa ban for Iranians is racist. Whether this will include a cultural event or not,I won't attend the #AcademyAwards 2017 in protest pic.twitter.com/CW3EF6mupo

— Taraneh Alidoosti (@t_alidoosti) January 26, 2017

(Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee, David Ingram in New York and Roberta Rampton in Washington; Writing by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Mary Milliken)

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has barred all refugees from entering the United States for four months, and indefinitely halted any from Syria, saying the ban is needed to keep out "radical Islamic terrorists."

The order Friday immediately suspended a program that last year resettled in the U.S. roughly 85,000 people displaced by war, political oppression, hunger and religious prejudice. Trump indefinitely blocked those fleeing Syria, where a civil war has raged, and imposed a 90-day ban on entry to the U.S. from seven Muslim majority nations.

"We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas," Trump said as he signed the order at the Pentagon. "We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country and love deeply our people."

Trump said the halt in the refugee program was necessary to give agencies time to develop a stricter screening system. While the order did not spell out what additional steps he wants the departments of Homeland Security and State to take, the president directed officials to review the refugee application and approval process and find any more measures that could prevent those who pose a threat from using the refugee program.

The U.S. may admit refugees on a case-by-case basis during the freeze, and the government will continue to process requests from people claiming religious persecution, "provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country."

In an interview with CBN News, Trump said persecuted Christians would be given priority in applying for refugee status.

"We are going to help them," Trump said. "They've been horribly treated."

I promise that our administration will ALWAYS have your back. We will ALWAYS be with you! pic.twitter.com/D0aOWhOH4X

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 27, 2017

The order was signed on Trump's most robust day of national security and foreign policy at the start of his presidency. He met with British Prime Minister Theresa May and had a lengthy phone call with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

As a candidate, Trump called for a temporary ban on all Muslim immigration to the U.S. He later shifted his focus to putting in place "extreme vetting" procedures to screen people coming to the U.S. from countries with terrorism ties.

The State Department said the three-month ban in the directive applied to Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen — all Muslim-majority nations.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it would challenge the constitutionality of the executive order.

"There is no evidence that refugees — the most thoroughly vetted of all people entering our nation — are a threat to national security," Lena F. Masri, the group's national litigation director. "This is an order that is based on bigotry, not reality."

During the past budget year, the U.S. accepted 84,995 refugees, including 12,587 people from Syria. President Barack Obama had set the refugee limit for this budget year at 110,000.

According to Trump's executive order, he plans to cut that to 50,000. Refugee processing was suspended in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks and restarted months later.

The president was applauded by House Speaker Paul Ryan, who said it was "time to re-evaluate and strengthen the visa-vetting process."

But many Democrats cast the measures as un-American.

"Tears are running down the cheeks of the Statue of Liberty tonight as a grand tradition of America, welcoming immigrants, that has existed since America was founded has been stomped upon," said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York.

Trump's order was signed on Holocaust Remembrance Day, which brought to mind the global effort to help refugees during World War II and its aftermath.

The order makes no mention of a plan to provide safe zones in Syria and the surrounding area. A draft of the order had directed the Pentagon and the State Department to produce a plan for safe zones in the war-torn Mideast nation.

The president's directive capped a hectic first week for Trump at the White House, giving Americans an initial look at how he intends to position the United States around the globe.

Earlier Friday, he hosted May at the White House for his first meeting with a world leader since taking office. Asked about whether he would revert back to Bush-era use of torture, Trump said he would defer to the views of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.

"He has stated publicly that he does not necessarily believe in torture or waterboarding, or however you want to define it. ... I don't necessarily agree," Trump said. "But I would tell you that he will override because I'm giving him that power. He's an expert."

The Associated Press and other news organizations have obtained copies of a draft executive order signaling sweeping changes to U.S. interrogation and detention policy. The draft, which the White House said was not official, also requests recommendations on whether the U.S. should reopen CIA detention facilities outside the United States. Critics said the clandestine sites have marred America's image on the world stage.

Trump held firm on another matter of contention, trade and illegal immigration from Mexico. He told reporters he had a "very good call" with Pena Nieto earlier in the day, but he reaffirmed his belief that Mexico has "outnegotiated and beat us to a pulp" on trade — and that would change.

"We're no longer going to be the country that doesn't know what it's doing," he declared a day after the Mexican leader canceled his visit to Washington in response to Trump's plans to build a border wall and have Mexico pay for it.

___

Follow Ken Thomas at http://twitter.com/kthomasDC

Follow Me

Doing the 'D' proud, TV/film actor and rapper, Page Kennedy, rounds up fellow Motor City cohorts, Royce da 5'9 and Denaun (Mr Porter), as well as King Los and drops a feisty follow-up to last week's mumble rap diss, "No Offense." "Testing Me", which appears on Page's upcoming March release, "Torn Pages", is meant to serve as a warning shot to any that would come up against these veterans of the battle rap scene. 

As Page himself explains it, "Testing Me is a lyrical combat song. It's designed to flex creative and lyrical skill. Since all the rappers involved come from a battling background we thought it would be fun to have this competitive lyrical onslaught. In other words "this is what will happen to anyone that Test Me."

"Torn Pages" also features Elzhi, Kxng Crooked, Kuniva and Marsha Ambrosius and drops March 10th via Empire Distribution.

Twitter / IG: @pagekennedy  Facebook: facebook.com/PageFanClub

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

Newark, New Jersey battle rapper ShotGun Suge invaded New York City radio station Hot 97 to drop a freestyle for Funkmaster Flex. Check it out below.

Follow Me

Lloyd Banks aka Blue Hefner comes through with some new heat to get the weekend started off right. This one is titled "The Only Thing." It was produced by Tha Jerm.

Stay connected:

https://www.instagram.com/lloydbanks/

https://twitter.com/Lloydbanks

Follow Me

Original Block Hustlaz (O.B.H.) recording artists Sha Money and Dark Lo link up for a new banger titled "Not Alike."

Connect with them online:

Sha Money

https://www.instagram.com/_sham0ney/

https://twitter.com/shamoney74obh

Dark Lo

https://twitter.com/obhdarklo

https://www.instagram.com/darklo/

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

On August 28, 1955, 14-year old Emmett Till was murdered in the town on Money, Mississippi, after a white woman named Carolyn Bryant claimed he had flirted with her.

Till had gone to a store where Bryant worked to buy two cents worth of bubble gum. Bryant later told her husband, Roy Bryant, that the black teenager wolf-whistled at her.

Three nights later Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam abducted Till from his great-uncle's house, where he was staying during a visit from Chicago.

Till was beaten, mutilated and shot before being thrown into the Tallahatchie River. His badly mutilated body was pulled from the river 3 days later.

At the boy's funeral his mother, Mamie Till Bradley, insisted on leaving the casket open because she wanted the world to see what had been done to her son.

Milam and Roy were subsequently arrested and stood trial for the murder. An all-white, 12-man jury acquitted them in September 1955.

The men would later admit to murdering Till, knowing they couldn't be retried because double jeopardy prevented them from standing trial for the same crime twice.

Vanity Fair reports that in a new book titled "The Blood of Emmitt Till," Carolyn Bryant confessed to author Timothy Tyson in 2007 at the age of 72, that she lied about Till flirting with her.

“That part’s not true,” she told Tyson. "Nothing that boy did could ever justify what happened to him.” 

Bryant didn't apologize for causing the death of an innocent 14-year, but said she "felt tender sorrow.”

Feeling "tender sorrow" doesn't cut it in my book. In 1955 Bryant was well aware of what would happen to a black male in Mississippi, that was accused of unwanted advances on a white woman.

"The Blood of Emmitt Till" will be released January 31.

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

The Lox keep the promotion of their new album "Filthy America... It's Beautiful" going by releasing an official music video for "The Family."

Credits:
Directors - Jay Rodriguez & Rock Davis
Producers - Jyothi Raju & Nigel Talley
Production Company - Itchy House Films

Get “Filthy America…It’s Beautiful”:
http://smarturl.it/iTheLOXfaib

Follow The LOX:
https://www.loxofficial.com/
https://www.facebook.com/theloxtrinity/
https://twitter.com/thelox
https://www.instagram.com/real_lox/

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

International Boxing Hall of Famer and CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, Oscar De La Hoya, was arrested Wednesday, January 25, on suspicion of driving drunk.

ESPN reports that the 43-year old former pugilist was was pulled over by police for speeding in Pasadena, California, shortly before 2 a.m. The officer smelled a strong odor of alcohol coming from De La Hoya's Land Rover.

He agreed to take a series of field sobriety tests and failed all of them.

He was taken into custody, cited, then released to his manager.

De La Hoya has a history of substance abuse ... in particular cocaine and alcohol. In 2011 he missed the Golden Boy promoted fight between Bernard Hopkins and Jean Pascal, while he was in a rehabilitation facility.

In 2013 the former 10-time world title winner was forced to miss the big showdown between Canelo Alvarez, who is under contract to Golden Boy, and Floyd Mayweather Jr. when he checked into rehab for a second time.

"Canelo Alvarez and I have big fights coming up this weekend," De La Hoya said in the statement at the time. "His is the ring and mine in treatment. I will not be at the fight to cheer Canelo to victory since I have voluntarily admitted myself into a treatment facility.

"I explained this to Canelo, and he understood that my health and long-term recovery from my disease must come first. Thank you for your understanding. I ask for your support and privacy during this difficult time for me and my family."

In December of 2016 it was reported that De La Hoya and his wife of 15 years, Milagros Corretjer, had split up. Whether that contributed to his recent DUI is unknown, but we're sure this is a stressful time and hope De La Hoya can overcome his demons.

Follow Me

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

Masta Killa drops off an official music video for "Therapy" featuring fellow Wu Tang Clan member, Method Man, and Redman." Produced by PF Cuttin, "Therapy" is the first single from Masta Killa's upcoming album "Loyalty Is Royalty", coming soon on Nature Sounds.

"Therapy" flexi: https://mastakillamusic.net/products/...

Video directed by Method Man.
Shot by Mr. Hawkins.

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

Kehlani was the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday, January 26. She used the occasion to perform her single titled "CRZY."

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

Missy Elliot is back and sounding as dope as ever. Check out the official music video for "I'm Better" featuring Lamb.

New single "I'm Better" ft. Lamb available for streaming and download now: https://missyell.io/tt/imbetter 

Director: Dave Meyers & Missy Elliott
Executive Producer: Jordan Browning 
ProducerJon Brewer
Prod. Company: Bounty Content
Creative Direction By HiHat Productions 
Choreography By Sean Bankhead & Missy Elliott 
Video Commissioner: Emmanuelle Cuny-Diop, VP Video Production
Lily F Thrall, Associate Director, Video Administration
Joe Boyd, Manager, Video Production

Follow Missy Elliott:
http://www.missy-elliott.com
http://www.twitter.com/missyelliott
http://www.instagram.com/MissyMisdeme... 
http://www.facebook.com/missyelliott 
https://www.youtube.com/missyelliott 
http://soundcloud.com/missyelliott

Follow Me

We're not even a full month into 2017 and it's already shaping up to be a great year for Ciara.

The 31-year old singer is expecting her second child ... the first with husband Russell Wilson, and she's just signed a new record deal with Warner Bros.

"Warner Brothers Records!!! Lets Get It! Proud to announce and honored to join the family! I’m supercharged to make the World Dance again!" she tweeted Friday, January 27.

Warner Brothers Records!!! Lets Get It! Proud to announce and honored to join the family! I’m supercharged to make the World Dance again! pic.twitter.com/pYfndZNVzY

— Ciara (@ciara) January 27, 2017

"We welcome Ciara to Warner Bros. Records and look forward to the next chapter of her storied music career," said Cameron Strang, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros. Records, in a statement. 

Cici has released six studio albums, beginning in 2004. The last two were with Epic Records. Prior to that she was signed to Jive.

We'd like to congratulate Ciara on the new deal and look forward to hearing her next project.

Follow Me

Video After The Jump

Robin Thicke and his ex-wife Paula Patton are involved in a nasty legal battle, with both seeking sole custody of their 6-year old son, Julian.

E! News reports that Patton is trying to prove Thicke is unfit. She's accusing him of spanking their child excessively. In Patton's declaration to the court she also alleges that the "Blurred Lines" singer cheating on and physically abused her. Citing alleged instances when he "kicked, pushed and hit" her.

The Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services is reportedly investigating the allegations of child abuse.

Thicke said his son told school officials that his dad had spanked him. The school then notified DCFS.

"On a very rare occasion, and only as a last resort, I will use light spanking, but it is consistent with the law—open hand on the butt," Thicke explained. "This is the type of discipline to which Paula and I agreed during our marriage."

On Thursday, January 26, a Los Angeles judge ruled that Thicke "has a history of domestic violence." Patton was granted a temporary restraining order, which gives her sole custody of Julian until the next court date on February 24

Thicke was ordered not to come within 100 yards of Patton, her mother and Julian, other than supervised visits with his son. He will be allowed to see Julian three days a week at a neutral location.

The singer's attorney, Angela Pierce di Donato, says the DCFS will be closing the case against her client because they could not find proof that Julian had been harmed by his father.

“The Court issued temporary orders today based solely on paperwork,” she told PEOPLE. “[L.A.’s Department of Children & Family Services] will be closing the physical abuse allegation against Robin as ‘Unfounded,’ but has added an emotional abuse allegation against Paula, which remains under investigation. We believe that DCFS sees the damage that Paula has done to Julian and will take appropriate action to protect him.”

Despite Donato's claims, a source confirmed to PEOPLE that the “investigation is ongoing" and Patton is not being looked into by the agency.

Donato told PEOPLE that “Paula never reported any domestic violence until she was in a position of contempt by violating the custody orders. Infidelity has nothing to do with custody. She is attempting to throw anything at him to hurt him, but Robin’s focus is their son.”

Patton and Thicke divorced on March 20, 2015, after almost 9 years of marriage.

Follow Me