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XXL recently rolled out their Freshman Class list for 2017. There were some fans who loved the artists included. Others felt like there were notable absences.
The publications Editor-In-Chief, Vanessa Satten, sat down with The Breakfast Club to discuss the decision making process.
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OVO Sound recording artists Majid Jordan and PARTYNEXTDOOR collaborate on a new slow burning single itled "One I Want." Give it a listen up top.
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T.I. and B.o.B release an official music video for "Writer" featuring Translee. This is off of the "Us or Else: Letter to the System" project. Watch the TIDAL exclusive below.
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Cassidy a.k.a. Da Hustla is back in his back again. Listen to the Philadelphia emcee rip the instrumentals to Kendrick Lamar's "Be Humble" and Future's "Mask Off."
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Freddie Gibbs & Minister Tony Muhammed stopped by The Breakfast Club to discuss the following topics:
- Talks about arrest, posting bail and being arrested in another country
- Not wanting to make music after he was arrested and released
- Connecting with Brother Tony Mohammed
- Resolving gang beefs
- How therapeutic it was to write this album
- Experience in a foreign jail
- Suing the country and girls who made false claim
- Moving forward and what's next in his life
Check out the full interview below:
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Jamie Foxx was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday, June 14.
The actor and comedian impersonated LeBron James, cheers up the city of Cleveland with a song, plans for his 50th birthday, his new movie "Baby Driver."
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Its imperative to say no one is safe with DPone making moves up the ladder of the hip hop
underground scene.The likelihood of gritty hip hop still existing still matters as the Brooklyn
emcee adds the Pasadena way with words cutting the beat faster than cars going down the I-5
freeway on the new single "Who Rep"
Upon this record he links with another emcee straight out of Tampa Bay in DeWane Green
who also exhilarates that missing element of bars and metaphors as D-Pone illustrated
as well.
Keep an eye on the growth of his status this summer.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Floyd Mayweather Jr. said Wednesday he will come out of retirement to face UFC star Conor McGregor in a boxing match on Aug. 26.
Mayweather, who retired in September 2015 after winning all 49 of his pro fights, will face a mixed martial arts fighter who has never been in a scheduled 12-round fight at the MGM Grand arena. The fight that will take place in a boxing ring and be governed by boxing rules.
“It’s official,” Mayweather said on his Instagram account next to a video poster of both fighters.
“THE FIGHT IS ON,” McGregor tweeted several minutes earlier, posting a picture of himself next to one of Mayweather’s father, Floyd Sr.
THE FIGHT IS ON. pic.twitter.com/KhW0u3jRft
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) June 14, 2017
Mayweather will fight at the relatively advanced age of 41 in a bout that McGregor has been pushing for months. It finally came together over the last few days, and Nevada boxing officials on Wednesday approved the date for a Mayweather Promotions bout.
Though Las Vegas oddsmakers have made Mayweather a heavy 10-1 favorite, the thought of the fight has excited many in the MMA world. It has also intrigued some in boxing, though most dismiss McGregor’s chances under boxing rules against one of the greatest defensive fighters in history.
Even if the actual bout may not shape up as a great matchup, the run-up to the fight will. Both fighters are noted for their ability to sell their fights, and both have exchanged in trash talking and more to promote their bouts.
The fight will be televised on pay-per-view on Showtime and would likely gross tens of millions of dollars. It comes less than a month before Gennady Golovkin and Canelo Alvarez meet in a highly anticipated fight that could rival it for pay-per-view buys.
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Straight out of Queensbridge, New York comes fast rising emcee Yung Aura. Peep the video for his latest banger titled "Still Pushing."
Produced by Yak
Directed by Fahargo Filmz
Follow Yung Aura on Instagram @YoungDad_
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R&B music is at a returning point with the elevation of rising singer Josh K. The Chicago singer
and songwriter fuels the moment in the new video "Feeling Myself".
The hard working,talented singer comes through off the D'usse with Fabolous as they both shine
and flex just enough to show the confidence is hitting the ceiling. This is only the beginning
for the the Chi-town singer who has scored work with Kevin Gates,Don Benjamin,King Louie plus
not to mention producers such as Young Chop,Csick (who produced this record),Murda Beatz
and others.
2 Chain recently stopped by Los Angeles radio station Power 106 and kicked a freestyle over Kendrick Lamar's banging instrumental for "DNA."
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Bringing a new type of sound to the music industry, producer and composer Ike Sav drops unmatched single “I’m the Prize”. Mixing his melodic and soulful sounds within his music, Ike Sav is creating space for a new kind of Pop R&B. Telling the tale of an unpredictable fall of a relationship and what his love is truly worth, “I’m the Prize” takes you to an emotional place, while leaving you singing along to his beats.
Vic Mensa is not really digging the 2017 XXL Freshman Class list of Kamaiyah, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, PnB Rock, Madeintyo, Playboi Carti, Aminé, Kap G, Kyle, Ugly God and XXXTentacion
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Keke Palmer delivers new visuals for her single with Quavo titled "Wind Up." The song is available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/wind-up-feat-quavo-single/id1226780552
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Iggy Azalea was the musical guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden. She used the occasion to perform her latest single titled "Switch." Peep it below.
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Chinese rap group the Higher Brothers have what could be a breakout song for 2017 titled "Made in China."
Watch PnB Rock, Lil Yachty, Migos, KYLE, G Herbo and Playboi Carti react to the music video.
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Young Thug's new Drake-produced album titled "Beautiful Thugger Girls" will be dropping this Friday, June 16. Ahead of it's release, Thugger presents the violent album trailer. Check it out below.
E.B.B.T.G pic.twitter.com/jnzBsWd7YP
— Young Thug ひ (@youngthug) June 13, 2017
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LONDON (AP) — A deadly overnight fire raced through a 24-story apartment tower in London on Wednesday, killing at least six people and injuring 74 others, police said. Witnesses reported seeing residents throw babies and small children from high windows to people on the sidewalk in a desperate effort to save them from the flames.
The inferno lit up the night sky and spewed black smoke from the windows of the Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, where more than 200 firefighters battled the blaze. A plume of smoke stretched for miles (kilometers) across the sky after dawn, revealing the blackened, flame-licked wreckage of the building, which was still burning over 12 hours later.
People trapped by the quickly advancing flames and thick smoke banged on windows and screamed for help to those watching down below, witnesses and survivors said. One resident said the fire alarm did not go off.
“The flames, I have never seen anything like it, it just reminded me of 9/11,” said Muna Ali, 45. “The fire started on the upper floors ... oh my goodness, it spread so quickly. It had completely spread within half an hour.”
“This is an unprecedented incident,” Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton told reporters. “In my 29 years of being a firefighter I have never, ever seen anything of this scale.”
She said she feared more victims would be found still inside the building.
There was no immediate word on the cause of the blaze, but angry residents said they had warned local authorities about fire issues at Grenfell Tower. The subsidized housing block of 120 apartments was built in 1974 and was recently upgraded at a cost of 8.6 million pounds ($11 million), with work finishing in May 2016, according to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Samira Lamrani, a witness, said one woman dropped a baby from a window on the ninth or 10th floor to people on the sidewalk.
A baby was caught by a member of the public after being dropped from a #GrenfellTower window https://t.co/JS6ClddbOK pic.twitter.com/oo3h7PbHjy
— BBC Newsbeat (@BBCNewsbeat) June 14, 2017
“People were starting to appear at the windows, frantically banging and screaming” and one woman indicated she was going to drop the baby, Lamrani told Britain’s Press Association news agency. “A gentleman ran forward and managed to grab the baby.”
Joe Walsh, 58, said he saw someone throw two children out of a window from the fifth or sixth floor. Tiago Etienne, 17, said he spotted about three children between the ages of four and eight being dropped from an apartment around the 15th floor.
Police commander Stuart Cundy gave the death toll of six but added the figure was likely to rise “during what will be a complex recovery operation over a number of days.”
Paul Woodrow, head of operations for the London Ambulance Service, said 20 of the injured were in critical condition.
The London Fire Brigade received the first reports of the fire at 12:54 a.m. and the first engines arrived within six minutes, Cotton said.
Witnesses described a white, polystyrene-type material falling like snow from the building as it burned. Some feared the charred tower block might collapse, but a structural engineer said the building was not in danger, according to the London Fire Brigade, which added “it is safe for our crews to be in there.”
Ruks Mamudu, 69, escaped from her first floor apartment wearing only her purple pajamas and bathrobe. She and her grandson sat outside the building and watched people trapped on higher floors cry desperately for help.
“I sat there watching my house burn down and watching people cry for help who couldn’t come down,” she said.
People at the scene spoke of being unable to reach friends and family inside. Others saw people inside using flashlights and mobile phones to try to signal for help from higher floors.
Nassima Boutrig, who lives opposite the building, said she was awakened by sirens and smoke so thick that it filled her home as well.
“We saw the people screaming,” she said. “A lot of people said ‘Help! Help! Help!’ The fire brigade could only help downstairs. It was fire up, up, up. They couldn’t stop the fire.”
The disaster occurred 10 days after a terror attack at London’s Borough Market. Some residents initially feared the fire was also terror-related, though authorities discounted that possibility.
Edward Daffarn, a 55-year-old who lived on the building’s 16th floor, said the fire alarm didn’t ring. Daffarn said residents had complained for years to London City Council about building safety, to no avail.
“I’m lucky to be alive. A neighbor’s smoke alarm went off and another neighbor phoned and told me to get out,” he said. “I consider this mass murder.”
The Grenfell Action Group, a community organization formed to oppose a nearby redevelopment project, has been warning about the risk of fire at Grenfell Tower since 2013. The group has raised concerns about testing and maintenance of firefighting equipment and blocked emergency access to the site.
“All our warnings fell on deaf ears and we predicted that a catastrophe like this was inevitable and just a matter of time,” the group said after the fire broke out.
A July 2014 newsletter for residents said the tower building was designed “according to rigorous fire safety standards” and recommended that in case of a fire residents should stay inside their apartments.
Londoners showed acts of kindness to those affected by the fire at #GrenfellTower, offering beds, tea and lifts. https://t.co/16hswLAji8 pic.twitter.com/W5cthBWKBd
— BBC_HaveYourSay (@BBC_HaveYourSay) June 14, 2017
The British company that carried out the tower’s 2016 refurbishment, Rydon, said in a statement that its work “met all required building control, fire regulation and health and safety standards.”
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said many questions now need to be answered about the scores of tower blocks around the city.
“There will be a great many questions over the coming days as to the cause of this tragedy, and I want to reassure Londoners that we will get all the answers,” Khan said.
PM @theresa_may "deeply saddened" by loss of life in #GrenfellTower fire & being "constantly updated" on situation https://t.co/XlnmwPYYjP pic.twitter.com/HSSiwHMSMo
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) June 14, 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May’s Downing Street office said she was “deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life in the Grenfell Tower and is being kept constantly updated on the situation.”
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Associated Press journalists Cara Rubinsky, Sylvia Hui and Ben Jary contributed to this report.
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This story has been corrected to show that the building has 24 floors, not 27.
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