Blackway, born in Brooklyn in 1991, grew up in Ghana with father/entertainer Kwaku Sintim-Misa until he was 13 years old when he returned to NY to live with his Mother. Although initially beginning his entertainment stint with lead roles in middle school plays, he went on to pursue music at the age of 15 recording his first freestyle to Sheek Louch’s “Mighty D-Block”. The immediate praise from family and friends encouraged Blackway to continue making music, ultimately leading to approval from other artists and faces across the industry. Gaining inspiration from home life and relationship turbulences, Blackway’s music has grown significantly from being solely a rapper, with his new unique captivating sound and content that his fans can easily relate to. He reintroduces an Afro-pop and international sound that the world once fell in love with with artists such as Akon and Wyclef, adding a modern yet still timeless feel to his music. Blackway linked up with the big bully of NY, Uncle Murda on his new song "BAG" that he recently premiered on SoundCloud. Uncle Murda gives fans a look into his childhood as well his position on police brutality. This speaker knocker is a dope mix for the clubs and the streets.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 15, 2017 at 11:25am
Mountain Dew has partnered with the NBA for the The Courtside Project. Joey Bada$$ contributes a new song to the project titled "Victory." It was produced by Kirk Knight and Adam Pallin.
"I’m excited to be a part of The Courtside Project," Joey told Billboard. "It’s the fusion of several different worlds -- from basketball to music, style and art -- that are not all separate streams anymore, they are interconnected. I always want to encourage the youth to be themselves and pursue their dreams, whether those are hoop dreams, Grammy dreams or PhD dreams."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 15, 2017 at 10:20am
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Ralo's stock is rapidly rising. The Atlanta rapper just inked a deal with Gucci Mane's 1017 Eskimo Records imprint and dropped his "Famerican Gangster 2" mixtape.
He recently chopped it up with Buzz Wars about how the deal with Gucci came about and explains why he has no love for Jeezy.
"[Gucci] didn't want to sign nobody. He said he wasn't signing none of these niggas. All these niggas broke his heart and left him while he was in prison. And shit, I said I didn't want to sign with nobody," Ralo explains. "So, if he didn't want to sign nobody and I ain't wanna sign with nobody ... it just go together. Our birthday on the same day. that wasn't nothing but God. It's about time for some real niggas to link up and do what they gotta do.
"I used to think Jeezy was the real nigga. I used to be a big fan of Jeezy's. I wasn't really a big fan of Guwop. Until you meet these niggas. I met the other dude, he was a fuck nigga. And then I met Gucci Mane [and] he was a real nigga. You can't just go by the music. You gotta go and start being around 'em. I was listening to them nigga raps and them niggas wasn't doing shit they say they was doing. And now when you go on Gucci Mane's [Instagram] page ... nigga done got married. That nigga really telling a nigga they need to do what's right."
With their collaborative album titled "Plato O Plomo" dropping on Friday, February 17, Remy Ma and Fat Joe stopped by The Breakfast Club.
They talked about "All the Way Up" being nominated for a Grammy Award, congratulate Chance the Rapper, Remy suffering a miscarriage, staying independent, Nicki Minaj, memories of Big Pun and more.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just six days into his presidency, Donald Trump was informed his national security adviser had misled his vice president about contacts with Russia. Trump kept his No. 2 in the dark and waited nearly three weeks before ousting the aide, Michael Flynn, citing a slow but steady erosion of trust, White House officials said.
Flynn was interviewed by the FBI about his telephone conversations with Russia's ambassador to the U.S., a sign his ties to Russia had caught the attention of law enforcement officials.
But in the White House's retelling of Flynn's stunning downfall, his error was not that he discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russian before the inauguration — a potential violation of a rarely enforced law — but the fact that he denied it for weeks, apparently misleading Vice President Mike Pence and other senior Trump aides about the nature of the conversations. White House officials said they conducted a thorough review of Flynn's interactions, including transcripts of calls secretly recorded by U.S. intelligence officials, but found nothing illegal.
Pence, who had vouched for Flynn in a televised interview, is said to have been angry and deeply frustrated.
And Trump lashed out at the news media Wednesday morning, sending out a tweet berating some news organizations for focusing on "This Russian connection non-sense." In a post on his verified Twitter account, Trump said, "The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred." He added that the news reporting was "merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign."
The fake news media is going crazy with their conspiracy theories and blind hatred. @MSNBC & @CNN are unwatchable. @foxandfriends is great!
Trump also asserted in a tweet: "Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?). Just like Russia."
Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia
At the White House Tuesday, press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters: "The evolving and eroding level of trust as a result of this situation and a series of other questionable incidents is what led the president to ask General Flynn for his resignation."
Flynn, in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation, said Monday "there were no lines crossed" in his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
The explanation of the episode left many questions unanswered, including why Trump didn't alert Pence to the matter and why Trump allowed Flynn to keep accessing classified information and taking part in the president's discussions with world leaders up until the day he was fired.
White House officials also struggled to explain why Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway had declared the president retained "full confidence" in Flynn just hours before the adviser had to submit his letter of resignation.
Later Tuesday, The New York Times reported that U.S. agencies had intercepted phone calls last year between Russian intelligence officials and members of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign team. Current and former U.S. officials who spoke to the Times anonymously said they found no evidence that the Trump campaign was working with the Russians on hacking or other efforts to influence the election.
Flynn's firing heightened questions about the president's friendly posture toward Russia. Democrats called for investigations into Flynn's contacts, and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Congress needed to know whether he had been acting with direction from the president or others.
Trump initially thought Flynn could survive the controversy, according to a person with direct knowledge of the president's views, but a pair of explosive stories in The Washington Post in recent days made the situation untenable. As early as last week, he and aides began making contingency plans for Flynn's dismissal, a senior administration official said. While the president was said to be upset with Flynn, he also expressed anger with other aides for "losing control" of the story and making his young administration look bad.
Pence spokesman Marc Lotter said Pence became aware that he had received "incomplete information" from Flynn only after the first Washington Post report Thursday night. Pence learned about the Justice Department warnings to the White House around the same time.
The officials and others with knowledge of the situation were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and requested anonymity.
Ahead of the Jan. 20 inauguration, Pence and other officials insisted publicly that Flynn had not discussed sanctions in his talks with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. On Jan. 26, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates contacted White House counsel Don McGahn to raise concerns about discrepancies between the public accounting and what intelligence officials knew to be true about the contacts based on routine recordings of communications with foreign officials who are in the U.S.
The Justice Department warned the White House that the inconsistencies would leave the president's top national security aide vulnerable to blackmail from Russia, according to a person with knowledge of the discussion. The president was informed of the warnings the same day, Spicer said.
Flynn was interviewed by the FBI around the same time, according to a U.S. official who was briefed on the investigation.
It was not immediately known what questions the FBI asked of Flynn or what he told law enforcement officials.
McGahn, along with chief of staff Reince Priebus and strategist Steve Bannon, also questioned Flynn multiple times in the ensuing weeks, a White House official said. Top aides also reviewed transcripts of Flynn's contacts with the ambassador, according to a person with knowledge of the review process.
At the same time, the official said Trump aides began taking steps to put some distance between the president and Flynn. CIA Director Mike Pompeo and retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, a top Flynn aide, started taking part in Trump's daily security briefings.
Before he resigned Monday night, Flynn told the investigative news nonprofit affiliated with the website The Daily Caller that he and Kislyak spoke only generally about the Russian diplomats expelled by President Barack Obama as part of the previous administration's response to Moscow's interference in the U.S. presidential election.
"It wasn't about sanctions. It was about the 35 guys who were thrown out," Flynn said. "It was basically: 'Look, I know this happened. We'll review everything.' I never said anything such as, 'We're going to review sanctions,' or anything like that."
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Associated Press writers Jonathan Lemire, Eric Tucker, Ken Thomas, Jill Colvin, Erica Werner and Catherine Lucey contributed to this report.
(Reuters) Russia dismissed on Wednesday as groundless a U.S. media report that said members of Donald Trump's presidential campaign had contacts with Russian intelligence officials.
The report, from the New York Times, has boosted concerns about Russia's role in influencing the outcome of the United States' election. U.S. intelligence agencies have already accused Russia of being behind the hacking of Democratic Party emails in order to help Trump, a Republican, to win.
U.S-Russia relations are under particular scrutiny following the inauguration of Trump, who pledged in his campaign to improve ties with the Kremlin after they deteriorated to their worst level since the Cold War under the Obama administration.
The New York Times, citing four current and former U.S. officials, reported on Tuesday that phone records and intercepted calls show that members of Trump's campaign and other Trump associates had repeated contacts with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the election.
This Russian connection non-sense is merely an attempt to cover-up the many mistakes made in Hillary Clinton's losing campaign.
"Let's not believe anonymous information," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters, noting that the newspaper's sources were unnamed.
"It's a newspaper report which is not based on any facts."
In a rare comment to media, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service told the TASS news agency the report consisted of "unsubstantiated media allegations".
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denied there had been any inappropriate contact between Trump representatives and Russian state agencies during the campaign.
She told a daily news briefing the latest allegations looked like part of a domestic U.S. political tussle that Russian officials have suggested is designed to damage the chances for better U.S.-Russia ties.
"We're not surprised by anything anymore. This information once again proves that a very deep political game is playing out within the United States," said Zakharova.
The prospect of a swift rapprochement between Russia and the United has lessened since Trump's inauguration due to scandals including the resignation on Monday of national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was seen in Moscow as a leading advocate of softer U.S. policy towards Russia.
(Writing by Andrew Osborn and Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Gareth Jones)
While Rico Recklezz may have created some enemies after releasing his Chicago rapper diss track, "Hit Em Up," he's gained a fan in Lil Bibby. Although Rico name drops Bibby in the viral song, the rapper says he's not bothered and would consider signing Rico because he likes his character. "That'll be the type of artist that I'll sign too." He explained, "Because a person like that—he damn near putting his life on the line for this shit. You can tell he want it."
In this sit-down with DJ Vlad, Lil Bibby talks about rapper's crews taking diss tracks to the street, enjoying watching Soulja Boy over TV and why believes Blacks prefer their pride over money.
Snow Tha Product decides to release an official music video for a song she dropped at the end of last year titled "Let U Go." It was produced by DJ Pumba.
The much talked about blockbuster fight between boxing legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. (49-0) and UFC superstar, Conor McGregor (21-3), is inching it's way towards becoming a reality.
ESPN's Stephen A. Smith says he spoke to Money May Saturday, February 11, at an NBA game between the Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder.
According to Smith, Mayweather told him "we're getting there ... we're getting very, very close."
The Sun, a newspaper published in Ireland is reporting that there is a financial agreement in place, but it hasn't been signed yet "because of a third party hold-up."
That third party is most likely the UFC, which has McGregor under contract. It's possible the fight could happen without the UFC's consent, although that's not likely.
The MMA organization wants a piece of this large financial pie and would be willing to go to court if they're not included.
At the January 28,UFC on Fox 23post-fight press conference, the organization's president,Dana Whitewarned McGregor not to take that route.
“I’ve always shown Conor nothing but respect, and if he wants to go down that road with us, let me tell you, it will be an epic fall,” he told MMAjunkie.
Last month White offered Mayweather (39) and The Notorious (28) $25 million each for the boxing match.
Mayweather responded by laughing and telling TMZ Sports that White is "a fucking comedian."
The fact is, that if this fight happens it will be the biggest combat sports event in history. Bringing boxing and MMA fans together assures all previous pay-per-view numbers will be shattered. It's not out of the realm of possibility that Mayweather could command a $200 million payday. McGregor would probably make half that amount.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 14, 2017 at 11:49am
G-Unit's own Young Buck links up with fellow Tennessee rapper, Chitty, for a collaboration titled "Nightmare." Check out the BlackFly Music-directed official music video up top.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 14, 2017 at 11:00am
Futurerevealed lots of big news on Tuesday, February 14. In addition to a new self titled album, which will be released Friday, February 17, Hendrix announced his upcoming "Nobody Safe Tour."
The 34-date trek will kick off of May 4, in Memphis. Additional stops include Toronto, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Seattle, Denver, Houston, and Phoenix, before winding down in Las Vegas on June 30.
Young Thug, A$AP Ferg,Kodak Black, Migos and Tory Lanez will serve as opening acts. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 17.
Nobody Safe Tour Dates:
May 4 – FedEx Forum – Memphis, TN May 5 – Lakewood Amphitheatre – Atlanta, GA May 6 – Bold Sphere Music at Champions Square – New Orleans, LA May 9 – Mississippi Colliseum – Jackson, MS May 11 – Jiffy Lube Live – Bristow, VA May 12 – BB&T Pavilion – Camden, NJ May 13 – Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek – Raleigh, NC May 14 – PNC Music Pavilion – Charlotte, NC May 16 – Budweiser Stage – Toronto, CAN May 18 – PNC Banks Center – Holmdel, NJ May 19 – Barclays Center – Brooklyn, NY May 20 – Xfinity Theater – Hartford, CT May 23 – Xfinity Center – Mansfield, MA May 24 – Darien Lake Performing Arts Center – Darien Center, NY May 25 – KeyBank Pavilion – Pittsburgh, PA May 27 – Blossom Music Center – Cuyahoga Falls, OH May 28 – DTE Energy Music Theater – Detroit, MI May 31 – Riverbend Music Center -Cincinnati, OH June 1 – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – St. Louis, MO June 2 – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre – Chicago, IL June 3 – Klipsch Music Center – Indianapolis, MN June 4 – Sprint Center – Kansas City, KS June 7 – Rogers Place – Edmonton, CAN June 9 – Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena – Vancouver, CAN June 10 – White River Amphitheatre – Seattle, WA June 11 – Sunlight Amphitheatre – Ridgefield, WA June 13 – Pepsi Center – Denver, CO June 15 – Shoreline Amphitheatre – Mountain View, CA June 22 – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion – Houston, TX June 23 – Austin360 Amphitheatre – Austin, TX June 24 – Starplex Pavilion – Dallas, TX June 28 – Ak-Chin Pavilion – Phoenix, AZ June 29 – Isleta Amphitheatre – Albuquerque, NM June 30 – T-Mobile Arena – Las Vegas, NV
Futureis ready to kick off his 2017 campaign with a new self-titled album. On Tuesday the Atlanta rapper unveiled the cover art for the project, which drops on Friday, February 17.
"I was preparing the feast. U walked away from the table too soon," he tweeted, along with an order link for the album.
Bob Romanik, a white conservative radio host for radio station KQQZ 1190 AM, doesn't consider himself a racist even though he liberally uses the N-Word.
As we previously reported, Romanik launched into a bigoted on-air tirade targeting Waka Flocka, after the rapper wiped his butt with a fan's President Trump jersey during a concert last month in Athens, Georgia.
"Waka Flocka, he took a good crap on our president elect's shirt. Our white president," Romanick said. "You think that Trump has done anything to this man? Trump will probably do more for this black nigger than Obama's ever done for the proud black community. In my opinion, of course. Think about it. We're talking about Waka Flocka. That greasy black nigger son of a bitch. I'll tell you what you black bastard. Let me wear a Trump shirt and you grab it off me. You'll be the deadest son of bitch walking around."
Waka responded by telling TMZ that Romanik was "a disgrace to White America." TheBrick Squad Monopoly CEO, couldn't believe the radio host hadn't lost his job and said he planned to "pull up" to the station in hopes of getting a face-to-face interview with Romanik, to see if he would still talk that "rah rah shit."
TMZ caught up with Romanik this week and asked him if he would be willing to apologize to Waka.
"If he'll take the violence out of his rap, I'll never again call him a nigger and I'll apologize to him. But until then, he is what he is," Romanik says in a video posted on the website. "I'm not a racist. I don't like that no-good greasy son of a bitch. That's not hatred for the blacks. That's hatred for him and his actions. He can say it for the First Amendment. And he can talk about killing cops and killing crackers, but I can't?
"He said that I was disrespectful for calling him a nigger because I'm nothing but a white cracker," he continued. "Waka Flocka can come by anytime in this world, but let me tell ya. I'm far from being a racist. I'm a proud white man. And if he thinks that thug ass of his scares me, he's got another thing coming."
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