01 The Wild (Intro) 02 This Is What It Comes Too 03 Nothing 04 Skit (Bang Head Right) 05 Marvin [feat. CeeLo Green] 06 Can’t You See 07 My Corner [feat. Lil Wayne] 08 Skit (Fuck You Up Card) 09 M & N [feat. P.U.R.E.] 10 Visiting Hour [feat. Andra Day] 11 Skit (Bang Fall Down) 12 The Reign 13 Crown of Thorns 14 Purple Brick Road [feat. G-Eazy] 15 You Hear Me 16 Bang Outro
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 16, 2017 at 11:30am
Legendary Wu Tang Clan emcee Raekwon is prepping the release of his new album, The Wild, on March 24. He recruits G-Eazy for the latest single off of it titled "Purple Brick Road." Produced by J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on February 16, 2017 at 10:30am
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Inmates inside a Hardin County, Kentucky jail got the chance to kick back and watch two cops assault each other last week.
Wave 3 reports that the altercation started when Sheriff'sDeputy Clennon Smith attempted to turn over inmate property to Deputy Jailer Joe Funk.
Funk threw the property back because he felt like Smith “came at him in a violent manner” during the exchange.
In video of the incident, Funk can be seen approaching Smith with his arms raised. There is no audio, but it's clear the two men are arguing before Smith grabs Funk.
Several officers rushed in to separate the two. Minutes later they got into another physical altercation that had to be broken up.
According to the police report, Smith was attempting to arrest Funk, who refused to put his hands behind his back as instructed.
Smith punched Funk several times in the face before handcuffing him.
Kentucky Deputy Jailer Joe Funk sustained injuries during an altercation with Sheriff's Deputy Clennon Smith
Funk says he sustained an injury to his hand, a bloody nose, sore neck and a swollen lip. According to Funk, he didn't comply with Smith's commands because he didn't understand why he was being arrested.
He was taken into custody and charged with menacing, resisting arrest and assault. He's been suspended with pay.
Smith was not disciplined and remains on the job. Funk is due back in court February 17.
"It is very unfortunate that this incident occurred," a police press release read. "Sometimes bad decisions and anger causes people to make the wrong choice."
Check out Bebe Rexha's new collaboration with G-Eazy titled "F.F.F. (Fuck Fake Friends)." This is off of Bebe's forthcoming "All Your Fault: Pt. 1" EP, dropping February 17th.
Chicago rapper Rico Recklezz a.k.a. Mr. Kush Smoke Gun Smoke releases an official music video for his song titled "I Don't Know." Directed by Ogun Pleas Films.
With the album "Rich Gang II: The Lifestyle" set to drop on April 14, Birdman and Young Thug release the first single off of it titled "Bit Bak." The song was produced by TM88.
Tony Touch recently invited Page Kennedy to his Shade 45 show. Watch and listen as Page rips a fire freestyle and be on the lookout for his forthcoming album titled "Torn Pages," dropping March 10.
Before he started spittin’, Adam ran wild through the streets of his East end Toronto neighbourhood, Dundas, cultivating his rep as an evil, reckless prankster. After being refused TTC service multiple times for not packing his grade 9 student card, Adam began throwing 7-11 Big Gulps of urine at streetcar drivers, then biking off into the sunset, emitting a high-pitched cackle. Affectionately referred to by his peers as the “Piss-Bomb Bandit,” the p***-bombings came to an abrupt end one hot May night in ’97, when a freshly-soaked streetcar driver rang his emergency alarm, ordered all his passengers off, calling both the po-po, and TTC security. Though Adam managed to disappear into the shadows, as usual, he decided to put his p***-bombing ways behind him, feeling they had simply brought “too much heat, for no real reward besides my boys’ amusement.”
Coincidentally, on June 1st, 1997, the TTC launched their new “Special Constables” unit, authorized by the Toronto Police Services Boards, responsible for “ensuring the safety and security of all TTC employees.” However, on February 1, 2011,the “Special Constables” division changed their name to, simply, the “Transit Enforcement Unit.” Adam believes this change was made “Hundred percent purely outta embarrassment,” for after 14 years without any leads on the elusive P***-Bomb Bandit, they finally “realized they weren't so special, after all.”
Shortly after the p***-bomb heat died down, Adam switched his focus to money-making schemes, evolving into the “Blockbuster Bandit.” This moniker derived from his trademark of placing pop can tabs inside the lock of the boys’ change room door (causing it to remain slightly open, despite looking closed), then returning to rifle through unattended backpacks, and teef Blockbuster Video membership cards out students’ wallets. The B.B.B. would then fraudulently rent typically 10-12 games on his victim’s account, then flip them on the black market. In total, he is alleged to have “rented” over 100 games for Nintendo 64/PlayStation 1 on nine different accounts, before being caught on camera and identified by a fellow student, leading to the ignominious downfall of the BlockBuster Bandit.
After an unsettling run-in with the po-po, a third straight suspension from his disgruntled high school principal, and a threat from his Jewish mother to ship him off to boarding school if he didn’t “straight up and fly right,” Adam began seeking new outlets for his chronic frustration, and creative energy. Though he found solace and discipline in sports such as rugby and wrestling, he finally discovered his true release in the act of creative writing.
Prankster 2 Rapper
In 1999,“MC Wildcat” released his debut cassette tape, “Pulling More Than Pranks,” produced by his blind DJ, “Kevy K.” Then under the tutelage of two beat-making high-school buddies, Wildcat went on to drop nine independent rap albums between 2000-2008, then returned in 2010 with the street classic, “Cleaning Out the Squirrel’s Den.”
Throughout his evolution as a rapper, Wildcat recognized his life had taken new direction, yet still felt his prankster legacy needed closure. So after streaking two Leaside Select League baseball games in Howard Talbot Park, a Toronto Maple Leafs inter-county ball game in Christie Pits, and a Wal-Mart parking lot in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Wildcat felt ready for the major leagues. In August 2004, he executed his farewell prank by streaking Toronto’s Skydome, during a baseball game between the Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles (battle of the birds, if you will). By all accounts, Wildcat set a record for the longest streak in professional sports history, running from the first base line to just past center field, before being swarmed and apprehended by the Blue Jays grounds-crew, and Skydome security.
After being assigned a court date for “indecent exposure” and “committing an act of mischief in a public setting,” Wildcat’s court case miraculously fell through the cracks. After sitting in the back of a City Hall courtroom for hours, waiting for the judge to summon him to the stand,Wildcat’s name was never called. He trotted out thatcourtroom scot-free, and the incident has never since been brought up by police,despite frequent run-ins for biking infractions, and other petty hassles.
Wildcat stated his lack of punishment for streaking the Skydome, “Proved to methe gods got a sense of humour.” Though he also received a lifetime ban from enteringthe Skydome premises, since it was re-branded the “Rogers Centre” in 2005, he considers thisa legal loophole, and feels free to come and go as he pleases. Cat has since attended many Blue Jays games without incident, and thus far resisted his urge to run naked on the field, once more.
Creative Struggles
Despite Wildcat making a conscious attempt to channel his energies constructively for most his adult life, this effort has largely gone unrewarded. Though Cat’s creative projects have been rejected on nearly every level, he simply charges it to the price of “doin’ sumpin’ different, in a game that rejects originality and rewards conformity.” In 2003, uponcompleting York University’s “Introduction to Creative Writing” course, Catapplied to major in theirCreative Writingprogram, and was rejected without explanation. He attributed this to York’s criteria being “based more on internal politics, than pen game,” as he felt they were searching for “flowery, literary flakes,” concludingthat his style was simply “too raw, too street, basically just too damn wild for them snooty twits.”
Cat eventually transferred to York’s Glendon campus and majored in English, but flunked out his final year, due to having landed a part-time job as a condo security guard, and getting“swallowed up by the zombie grind.” “I was working midnight till 8 am every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and just got stuck in this cycle of crashing out from like 10 am till 4 or 5 every day, then by the time I’d woke up, I’d slept through every class. So I hardly showed up for no classes that year, and pretty much bombed every single one.”
In 2008, Wildcat applied for Humber College’s Creative Writing Graduate program, and much to his surprise, was accepted. During this program he worked closely with a mentor, who gave Cat constructive feedback on his novel, “The Misadventures of Howie Inwood.” After graduating, Cat’s mentor graciously offered that once Cat revised his novel based on the feedback he’d received,he could re-submit it to him, and if he felt was publishable would recommend itfor publishing through Humber’s program. Cat spent two and a half years revising thisdamn thing, then sent it back to his mentor upon completion, only to have himdecide it still wasn’t ready to drop. Wildcat handled this disappointment by embarking on a drunken, late-night rampage through Leaside (a prosperous, white neighbourhood outside of Dundas), smashing several stranger’s car windshields, house windows, and uprooting many a garden.
After calming down about a year later, Wildcat and a childhood friend turned filmmaker began collaboration on the documentary, “Pulling More Than Pranks: The Rise of MC Wildcat.” Despite a sold-out premiere andglowing reviews, the film was ultimately rejected from the Hot Docs Film Festival, largely because of it’s length. At roughly 45 minutes, the film was classified as a “medium-length short,” meaning it ran significantly longer than a short (15-20 min), yet significantly shorter than a feature length (90-120 min). And due to some rule of always screening two filmsof the same length simultaneously in two different theaters, the film was ultimately s***-canned, simply cuz Hot Docs didn’t have no next “medium length short” to co-screen it with. Afterseveral more drunken,late-night smash-fests, Cat once again settled down, and found himself in the tough, yet familiar position of having to re-assess his career path.
Pushing Forward
Despite 16 years of neighbourhood street cred, Wildcat feels his career has largely been perceived as a joke gone to far, and remains hungry for respect in the game.
Wildcat has recently dropped his new mixtape Claw & Scramble, available for free download at soundcloud.com/mc-wildcat Wildcat has also completed a collection of inter-twined, semi-autobiographical short stories, “Wildcat Prowls the Urban Jungle,”currently being considered by a Toronto publisher.
Though no one can quite predict what Wildcat’s future holds, all signs point to one more wild ride.
To quote Wildcat’s producer, Star, “The Cat just….sometimes marches to his own off-rhythm drum, ya know?”
UFC Lightweight ChampionConor McGregoris on top of the world right now. The 28-year old Irishman is the biggest draw and highest paid fighter in mixed martial arts. He's also about to become a father. His longtime girlfriend,Dee Devlin, is expecting their first child in May 2017.
McGregor would be even happier if a much talked boxing match with Floyd Mayweather Jr. comes to fruition.
Most boxing pundits don't believe The Notorious can win, but he's convinced that Mayweather will fall when one clean shot is landed.
During an interview withZach Baronof GQ, for the publication's Spring 2017 issue, McGregor makes a case for why he would emerge victorious in a match against the undefeated, future boxing Hall of Famer.
GQ:Would you have to do anything different to be competitive in boxing? Floyd Mayweather's been fighting every day of his life for 40 years.
Conor McGregor: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's great. Except you use the term ‘fighting’ differently, because he's not been fighting for 40 years. He's been boxing for 40 years. There's a big difference between boxing and fighting. Boxing is limited fighting with a specific rule set. Fighting is true, where you can do anything.”
GQ:But we're talking about his rule set, right?
McGregor: “Yeah, of course we are. We're talking about boxing. That's it. But again, age waits for no man. He's 40 years of age. He's a little…he's got a little head on him. Honestly, my fist is bigger than his head. I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I'm stating facts. If I hit that man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers. You understand that? If I crack that little head of his, it's gonna go clean off his shoulders and up into the bleachers.”
GQ: So is Floyd Mayweather the guy you're hoping to fight?
McGregor: “I mean, that's the one that everyone wants, that's the one that makes the most sense. But I've no problem going and slapping the head off one of his opponents that he couldn't finish. All he does is decisions. He can never stop them. So all I have to do is pick some schmuck out that he only could decision, bounce the left hand off his dome, sleep him, and then there you go: It's already done.”
Mystic Mac has one more mission he'd like to accomplish during his time in America. He wants to have an up close look at the glorious backsides of the Kardashian sisters, Khloe in particular.
McGregor: “Maybe I'll search for Khloé's big fat ass—she's been floating around Malibu. I don't give a fuck about them. I just like to see them in the flesh.”
GQ:You mean…the Kardashians?
McGregor: “Yeah, just see what the big fat asses on them look like.”
GQ: Just to…admire them from a distance?
McGregor: “Not about admiring. Admire? Never. What's the saying? Never put the pussy on a pedestal, my friend. I just want to see it. I want to see them.”
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.
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