Banknote Mitch or as he refers to himself the illegitimate child of Tupac Shakur, is ending the year in a blaze of fire. Mitch himself says he can relate in a lot of ways to Tupac's song "Brenda's got a Baby" original released in 1991. Hearing the song again in 2016 and seeing all the pain around him, he says it struck a nerve so he released his pain on the same microphone Shakur once released his on.
It was more then a journey, Mitch says to the camera thoughts racing, writing at an incredible speed. This is me speaking for all of Brenda's babies, and for those who understand what I'm saying, there are a lot of us. I am only the voice of a lost generation, left to be raised by single Mothers and Grandparents. Tupac said it himself, he may not be the one who changes the world, but he guaranteed us that he would spark the brain that would.
That brain is located inside Banknote Mitch's head, if you ask anybody who's heard even a snippet of Mitch's music. This is not another rapper from Charlotte, NC, who will never see the light of day. This artist has a purpose, a goal, and a drive that has been pushing him since his first breath. Not only will he take you along as he travels a world unknown, but he will make you feel every intense emotion that he puts into every word. Its clear Banknote Mitch is here to stay, download his new Ep "Brenda's Baby" October 20th (datpiff Exclusive)
Blac Youngsta stopped by VladTV to talk about his first time being shot at, growing up in an environment where he was constantly getting shot at and his brother getting killed. Youngsta told Vlad his first time being shot at was when he was 8 or 9 years old after he and his friends jumped an older man. "All my life I've been shot at I just never took it too serious..." Youngsta told Vlad he was shot three times 3 or 4 years ago and that's when he started taking being shot at serious. "Wrong place wrong time...I ain't have my gun on me, where I come from I was gonna ride through and hit anyway...I got shot off some sh*t I don't even know about to this day." Youngsta got hit in his leg and his arm when he was the target of gun violence. Youngsta also explained to Vlad he didn't call an ambulance when he got shot but called his friend to bring him a "choppa" because he was ready to fire back.
Blac Youngsta talked with Vlad about his little brother being killed. He expressed how it changed him, and also said, "I got three little brothers and he was the only one that didn't wanna be apart of the streets, I kept him in school, bought him cars...I kept him out the way you know someone ended up killing him." Youngsta said it saddened him and when his little brother died it got him out of the streets. He has yet to visit his younger brother's gravesite because he still can't understand why he lost him. Youngsta also expressed he was almost done rapping after his brother passed but he got through it and released his song "Heavy." Youngsta said he was out of the streets now and focused on his rap career.
Tech N9neis returning with a brand new album titled "The Storm" on December 9th. Features includeProblem, Krizz Kaliko, Boyz II Men, Marsha Ambrosius, gary Clark Jr.and more.
Kingdom "Godspeed" "Need Jesus" (featuring Stevie Stone & JL) "Sriracha" (featuring Logic & Joyner Lucas) "Wifi (skit)" "Wifi (WeeFee)" "Erbody But Me" (featuring Bizzy & Krizz Kaliko) "Get Off Me" (featuring Problem & Darrein Safron)
Clown Town "I Get It Now" (featuring Krizz Kaliko) "Hold On Me" (featuring Kate Rose) "Starting To Turn" (featuring Jonathan Davis) "Poisoning The Well"
G. Zone "Buss Serves" (featuring Big Scoob & Young Devi D) "No Runnin To Ya Mama" "Buddha" (featuring Boyz II Men & Adrian Truth) "No Gun Control" (featuring Gary Clark Jr. & Krizz Kaliko) "What If It Was Me" (featuring Krizz Kaliko) "Anywhere" (featuring Marsha Ambrosius) "Til I'm Gone" (featuring Kiddo A.I.) "The Needle" (featuring Krizz Kaliko) "The Long Way" (featuring Krizz Kaliko)
Common releases a magnificent new song titled "Letter To the Free" featuring Bilal. This is off of the Chicago rapper and actor's forthcoming album, "Black America Again," which will be released on November 4th.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to make the news for all the wrong reasons.
The Daily Beast reports that during the 13th season of NBC reality television show "The Apprentice," also know as "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice,' Trump kept referring to Lil Jon as "Uncle Tom."
The controversy began during a segment in which the rapper dressed as Uncle Sam to promote hair-care products.
“Look, he’s Uncle Tom!” one show staffer recalls the business mogul saying twice.
"Uncle Tom" is a term used to describe black men who are excessively obedient or servile to white people.
Arsenio Hall, who was a guest judge during the episode, heard Trump using the offensive term and made it known he didn't like it.
“We kept trying to explain to [Trump] that that’s not a word you can use, that it’s offensive,” another Apprentice employee told The Daily Beast. “One of the executive producers had to call him up directly to [plead with] him not to say it, and Trump was like, ‘No, that’s a saying, it’s Uncle Tom.’ There are several takes in the footage of the dailies that has him trying to figure out the difference between ‘Uncle Tom’ and Uncle Sam. He just couldn’t grasp that it was offensive… When [Trump] decides he wants to do something, that’s his way.”
Lil Jon addressed the issue via his Twitter account on Friday, October 14th.
"When this 'Uncle Tom' incident happened on Celebrity Apprentice in the boardroom several of my cast mates and I addressed Mr. Trump immediately when we heard the comment," he wrote. "I can't say if he knew what he was actually saying or not but he did stop using that term once we explained it's offensiveness. I also want to be clear that I don't agree with many of the statements Mr. Trump has said during his current run for President."
Harlem, New York native and 2016 XXL Freshman emcee, Dave East, was in Los Angeles recently and made a pit stop by radio station Power 106 to drops a fire freestyle for the L.A. Leakers.
Attorney Gloria Allred comforts Donald Trump accuser Summer Zervos during a news conference Friday, October 14th.
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(Reuters) Two more women came forward on Friday with allegations that Donald Trump had groped them, including a contestant on his reality show, "The Apprentice," as the Republican presidential candidate said accusations of sexual misconduct against him were part of a plot to discredit him a month ahead of the election.
Summer Zervos, who competed on the television show's fifth season in 2006, gave a news conference with celebrity attorney Gloria Allred in Los Angeles, saying Trump tried to get her to lie down on a bed with him when she met him in 2007 to discuss a possible job.
"He then asked me to sit next to him. I complied. He then grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me again very aggressively and placed his hand on my breast," said Zervos.
Summer Zervos speaks at a news conference Friday, October 14, accusing Donald Trump of sexual assault
Separately, the Washington Post published an interview with a woman who said Trump put his hand up her skirt in a crowded New York nightclub in the early 1990s in an unwanted advance, when she had never even met him.
Kristin Anderson told the Washington Post that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her.
"He did touch my vagina through my underwear, absolutely," Kristin Anderson said in a video interview on the newspaper's website. “It wasn’t a sexual come-on. I don’t know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it," she told the paper. Anderson could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the new allegations. But at a campaign rally on Friday afternoon, Trump angrily denounced the allegations that have been made about him by a series of women in recent days, saying that all the accusations about him involving women were fabricated.
"I don’t know who these people are. I look on television, I think it’s a disgusting thing and it’s being pushed, they have no witnesses, there’s nobody around," Trump said at the rally in Greensboro, N.C..
"Some are doing it for probably a little fame, they get some free fame. It’s a total set-up. Now suddenly after many, many years, phony accusers come out less than a month before one of the most important elections in the history of our country," he said.
Trump's White House campaign has been scrambling to recover from the release a week ago of a 2005 video in which he bragged about groping women and making unwanted sexual advances. While Trump said the video was just talk and he had never behaved in this way, multiple women subsequently went public with allegations of sexual misconduct against the New York real estate magnate going back three decades.
Trump has denied the allegations, saying that The New York Times, which published two women's claims, and other media, along with his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, are engaged in a vicious campaign to stop him from winning the Nov. 8 election.
The Times reported on Wednesday that two women said they had endured unwanted groping or kisses from the former TV personality. Several other women made allegations of sexual aggression by Trump in various media outlets following that report.
Reuters could not independently verify the incidents. The Times said on Thursday it stood by its story and rejected charges the article was libelous after a lawyer for Trump threatened legal action and demanded a retraction.
(Additional reporting by Dan Whitcomb, Doina Chiacu, Steve Holland, Susan Cornwell, Michael O'Boyle, Anna Driver, Jessica Toonkel, Jeff Mason, Timothy Gardner; Writing by Roberta Rampton and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Alistair Bell and Frances Kerry)
Top Dawg Entertainment recording artist and Black Hippy member, Ab-Soul, delivers official visuals for his new single titled "Huey Knew" featuring Da$h. It's available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/huey-knew-feat.-da$h-single/id1160048632
Bronx native Teddy Grahams delivers the new 11 track LP "One Thing For Sure". The recording artist who also produces and engineers takes his talent up to the next level with displaying what hip hop is missing which is the art of lyrics. On the new album, it consists of features from Kony Brooks,Diips,Tierra G and Th3 Saga containing that hip hop feel and sound on majority of the records down to a melodic flow.
At his starting point, the Bronx emcee studied music at the famous five Towns College where Chrisette Michele, Adam Levine,Jon Bellion,Wyclef Jean and Olivia Longott also studied music and moved on to successful careers.Back in 2011 Def Jam had signed him to a distribution deal then leaving the label in 2013.
Chicago emceeCommonhas already had an incredible career and shows no signs of slowing down as he prepares to release his eleventh studio album titled"Black America Again"on November 4th.
He's locked down vocal assists from Bilal, Stevie Wonder, BJ the Chicago Kid and more.
1. Joy And Peace (feat. Bilal) 2. Home (feat. Bilal) 3. Word From Moe Luv Interlude 4. Black America Again (Feat. Stevie Wonder) 5. Love Star (feat. PJ) 6. On A Whim Interlude 7. Red Wine (feat. Elena) 8. Pyramids 9. A Moment In The Sun Interlude 10. Unfamiliar (feat. PJ) 11. A Bigger Picture Called Free (feat. Syd) 12. The Day Women Took Over (feat. BJ The Chicago Kid) 13. Rain (feat. John Legend) 14. Little Chicago Boy (feat. Tasha Cobbs) 15. Letter To The Free (feat. Bilal)
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