Austin Poe formerly known as E-Money, is a Chicago-based rapper. Poe delivers a new single, in visual form, titled “Soul Flow.” Tapping into that nostalgic ‘90s feel, he delivers some breezy lyricism over Freshboy’s production.
“Soul Flow is a feel-good song about finding yourself and knowing you have arrived. Everything in your past has got you to this point. Now, you can embrace your present, and look towards a bright future. With that mindset you can enjoy the moment: laugh, and most importantly inspire people along the way,” Austin shares with us.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Jon Jones reached the pinnacle of mixed martial arts and then fell harder than just about anyone ever had before.
When he got back on top Saturday night by stopping his greatest rival in dramatic style, Jones vowed to appreciate everything he had lost and regained.
Jones reclaimed his UFC light heavyweight title by stopping Daniel Cormier in the third round with a vicious head kick and a finish on the ground at UFC 214, completing his rocky journey back to the top after 2 1/2 years of drama with his 14th consecutive victory.
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He fended off a stiff challenge from Cormier (19-2), who held the belt for most of the past two years while Jones (23-1) dealt with self-inflicted setbacks outside the cage. His title belt has been stripped twice, and he endured a yearlong suspension for a doping test failure before returning to beat Cormier for the second time.
“I feel like I’m leaving my past behind me and I’m erasing everything I’ve done before,” Jones said. “I feel like this is a step to a new career, a new championship, and I want to be a better champion than I was in the past.”
After 2 1/2 rounds of even, high-level striking, Jones landed a left head kick that caught Cormier leaning in. The champion staggered backward and then around the cage with Jones in pursuit, and Jones finished the fight on the ground with a series of merciless strikes.
Jones was widely considered the world’s top pound-for-pound mixed martial artist while he held the belt for nearly four years from 2011-15. He beat Cormier by clear decision in their first bout in January 2015, but had fought just one time since.
In contrast to the combative nature of their public dialogue over the past three years , Jones praised Cormier afterward.
“I want to thank Daniel for being my biggest rival and my biggest motivator,” Jones said. “He has no reason to be ashamed. He has been a model champion. I aspire to be a lot more like that man, because he’s an amazing human being.”
Earlier, Cris “Cyborg” Justino became a UFC champion for the first time at Honda Center, stopping Tonya Evinger in the third round to win the vacant featherweight belt. Tyron Woodley also defended his welterweight title with a clear decision over Demian Maia, thoroughly frustrating the Brazilian jiu-jitsu master in a fight that drew loud boos from the Honda Center crowd.
Former welterweight champion Robbie Lawler squeaked out a unanimous decision victory over Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone in another compelling matchup on the UFC’s most stacked card of the summer.
Jones’ next opponent for the 205-pound belt could be Swiss sensation Volkan Oezdemir, who kicked off the pay-per-view show with a sensational 22-second knockout of Britain’s Jimi Manuwa.
But Jones, who did an exuberant cartwheel when he entered the UFC cage for the first time since April 2016, is the UFC’s light heavyweight champion for the third time in his tumultuous career.
Jones lost his belt in early 2015 for his involvement in a hit-and-run accident in which a pregnant woman’s arm was broken. In July 2016, Jones was pulled from a rematch with Cormier for his drug test failure.
Cormier reigned atop the division for most of Jones’ absence, but he realized his glittering title belt was affixed with an enormous asterisk. The 39-year-old ex-Olympic wrestler has been trading verbal shots with Jones ever since one of the best rivalries in MMA history was sparked by their brawl in a casino lobby during a promotional appearance in 2014.
Cormier apparently incurred a concussion during their rematch. He cried in the cage afterward.
Jones’ victory thrilled a crowd that was deflated after Woodley defended his welterweight belt with a strong technical performance against the 39-year-old Maia, a vaunted jiu-jitsu specialist from Brazil. Maia couldn’t get the fight to the ground thanks to the wrestling acumen of Woodley, who patiently stuffed takedowns and grinded out a victory that bored UFC President Dana White.
Afterward, White said Georges St. Pierre will fight middleweight champion Michael Bisping next instead of Woodley. White claimed that “nobody wants to watch Tyron Woodley fight.”
Justino is widely considered the most dangerous pound-for-pound fighter in women’s MMA after a lengthy career spent dominating smaller promotions. She finally claimed a UFC belt by methodically breaking down the tough Evinger, a late replacement opponent fighting 10 pounds above her usual weight.
“I’m really happy to be champion,” Justino said. “This is the perfect time, because I feel I’m at the top of my career.”
Justino, born in Brazil and living in Orange County, has reigned atop the sport for a decade with her fierce, skilled style of fighting. But the UFC didn’t add a 145-pound weight class until last year, and a failed doping test was another obstacle in her meandering path to get into the world’s biggest promotion.
Justino was her usual merciless self against Evinger, but it still took two rounds of work before landing the punches and kicks that ended it.
“I am very happy and proud to own this belt and it will be really hard to take it away from me,” Justino said.
After Oezdemir got the Anaheim fans on their feet with a vicious first-round stoppage for his fifth consecutive victory, Lawler (28-11) and Cerrone kept them up with an entertaining three-round striking exhibition between two of the toughest veterans in the sport. Cerrone (32-9) shrugged after the judges favored Lawler in two of the three rounds.
Police have tracked down the person who drained $361,000 from Boosie Badazz's Capital One bank account. It turns out that the culprit was the rapper's own brother, Taquari Hatch.
TMZ reports that Taquari used Boosie's stolen driver's license to make more than a dozen wire transfers to different people ... who would then give him cash.
Bank officials caught on after Taquari made the mistake of mentioning that he had a wife on a phone call. Boosie is not married, which sent the fraud department into action.
Taquari was arrested last week and booked for identity theft and fraud charges.
Chester Bennington of the band Linkin Park passed away last week at the age of 41. As a tribute to the late singer, Machine Gun Kelly, covers one of LP's biggest hit songs, "Numb."
When it comes to bars, Vic Mensa is one of the best. Watch the Roc Nation rapper destroy Kendrick Lamar's "HiiiPower" instrumental in an exclusive freestyle on Sway in the Morning.
DJ Clue teams up with Future Hendrix and Tru Life for a new collaboration titled "Last Night." Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
Kendrick Lamar and Bad Girl Riri team up to shoot the official music video for their collaboration titled "LOYALTY." The song is off of Kendrick's latest album, "DAMN." Cop it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/damn/id1223592280
Dir: Dave Meyers & the little homies Prod Co: TDE Films / FREENJOY INC Prod: Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, Dave Free, Nathan K. Scherrer
Black Wave has recently released their new single "Cash Money," and the wave has started. In the first week this CashMoneyAP produced track has passed half a million plays on Soundcloud and counting. Hitting hard on the bass, and rode with a melodic style, Black Wave keeps their eyes on the prize of getting that bag. A turnt up feel filled with skilled art of flow, Black Wave is a wae worth following. Peep the single today on soundcloud.com and follow Black Wave for more updates and releases.
19-year old Breana Rachelle Harmon has been indicted by a Grand Jury in Denison, Texas on four charges, including three felonies, related to false reports of kidnapping and sexual assault she made earlier this year.
In March Harmon, who is white, ran half-naked and bloodied into a church, claiming 2 masked black men had raped her, while a 3rd held her down.
A police investigation revealed that the entire story was fabricated.
“Ms. Harmon was originally arrested for the misdemeanor offense of false report to a peace officer,” Grayson County District Attorney Joe Brown said in a press release Wednesday. “However, the more we have looked at what happened in this case, and considered the harm it caused, and certainly could have caused, we believe what she did fits these higher charges. What she did was very serious, and we believe it was felony conduct.”
Three of the charges are third degree felonies. Harmon could face up to 2-10 years in prison along with a $10,000 fine.
The fourth charge is a state jail felony, punishable by up to 2 years in state jail and a $10,000 fine.
She faces up to 32 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
Chris Rivers releases an official music video for "Dasafac," the second single off of his new album, "Delorean."
Video directed by Director GT for GT Visionz. Music produced by Unleash Musik. Delorean album available now on iTunes . https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/del...
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Tyler, the Creator is wondering if there's some funny business going on over at TIDAL. The Odd Future rapper's newly released solo album titled "Flower Boy" is competing with Meek Mill's "Wins and Losses" and Lana Del Rey's "Lust for Life" for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
But based on tweet's from Tyler Wednesday, July 26, it seems as though he feels like TIDAL is giving Meek an unfair advantage.
"IM PETTY I WANT THAT TOP SPOT HAHAHA I WANT IT SO BAD MAN," he wrote. "DAMN TIDAL GOT ALBUMS PLAYING BEFORE A PAYWALL WHICH MAKES ME THINK NIGGAS CAN HAVE BOTS SPIKING UP PLAYS FOR BILLBOARD ON FRIDAY HMM. FUCK THAT I NEED THAT TOP SPOT."
On Thursday, due to many requests, Billboard explained how they count free streams.
"Free streams -- with 'free' defined as streams a listener has accessed without having a paid subscription or as part of a trial period subscription -- have counted towards the Billboard 200 since it changed to a consumption model in 2014 where the ranking is determined by blending album sales, track equivalent album units and streaming equivalent album units."
HitsDailyDouble reports that two other recent TIDAL releases have come under scrutiny.
"In the first week of wide release for Jay-Z’s 4:44, total reported streams to SoundScan were 122m, which was 68m more than the same streaming services reported to BuzzAngle. Similarly, two weeks prior, DJ Khaled won a race with Imagine Dragons for #1 when SoundScan logged 17m more streams than BuzzAngle. Industry insiders have confirmed that both Apple Music and Spotify, the leading steaming services with over 90% combined share, reported the same numbers to both chart services."
There are rumblings that Nielsen may change the way streams are counted in the future. In the meantime, artists will just have to deal with the status quo.
2017 XXL Freshman rapper Aminé delivers his debut album titled "Good For You." Features include Ty Dolla $ign, Nelly, Offset, Charlie Wilson and Kehlani. Grab it now from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/good-for-you/id1252787331
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