After condemning neo-nazis and the Ku Klux Klan on Monday for inciting racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend, President Trump reversed course on Tuesday.
During an off the rails press conference he said that counter-protesters were also to blame for the heated clashes.
TMZ caught up with T.I. to get his response to Trump's controversial statements.
"Exactly what I expect from a sucka," Tip said. "Cowards throw rocks and hide their hands. They applied pressure and made him denounce his white supremacy homeboys ... his neo-nazi partners. After bi-partisan pressure he denounced them. But I'm sure there was a phone call or some sort of covert meeting. 'What the fuck are you doing? This is not what we elected you for.' Then, he had to come back and reverse. Fuck him to the fullest, he's a sucka."
Brooklyn, New York native and G.O.O.D. Music recording artist, Desiigner, is back this week with more new music from his fans. This one is called "Malibu" and was produced by CashMoneyAp and 16YrsOld.
A$AP Mob are preparing to release a new album titled "Cozy Tapes, Vol. 2: Too Cozy" on August 25th. Here's the official music video for it's lead single, "Feels So Good."
Jimmy Fallon welcomed A$AP Mob to the Tonight Show on Tuesday, August 15th. The group used the occasion to perform their new single titled "Feels So Good."
1.Ziggler Wiggler (Gettin It In) 2.It's In Me [Prod. By Blakk Beatz] 3.Untamed Guerilla 4.Say It Ain't So 5.Damn Rite 6.Everything 7.YNT Da Mobb 8.Freak Dem Hoes [Prod. By Joey Did This] 9.Mr. Young N Thuggin [Prod. By TrapDrumma Yoshi)
Philadelphia rapper and Original Block Hustlaz boss, AR-AB, returns with a new freestyle. He decides to grab the instrumental to A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie's song "Drowning" to make it his own.
Too Old To Die Young is a short documentary series hosted by legendary publicist Bill Adler that showcases the lives of urban culture’s most legendary characters. Today's episode focuses on the world of Ice-T, one of the pioneers of gangster rap, and one of the most successful rapper-turned-actors till date. We spent a day in Ice's home, getting an intimate look into his personal life.
In the second episode of the new series, Bill Adler chills with Ice-T, the rapper, bandleader, actor, and filmmaker whose documentary film 'Art of Rap' breaks down the craft and technique of rapping.
While showing us his "small car collection," Ice retells a conversation he had with a car dealer: "He says 'You have everything you need. You have shoes, you have pants, you have your rent paid. Now life is about what you want.'" So now, Ice-T says, he's been fucking around, buying shit he wants.
Walking through the house Ice reminds us that he has accumulated six gold records, and remarks "this is when people had to actually physically go into the store and buy your record. It's a big commitment." Things have changed a lot now, but back when a 29 year-old Ice-T released his debut album, 'Rhyme Pays,' you had to sell 500,000 records for those gold bones and extinct disks.
As Coco, Ice-T's wife of 15 years, brings us into the Coco Cave, her room full of shoes and accessories, Ice tells us how he watched Ozzy and Sharon Osborne's relationship on TV. "Ozzy doesn't seem like someone that's going to pay a cable bill. Somebody's got to hold that together. I need a chick like that."
As a hustler and an on-screen cop, Ice-T clarifies that the rapper who made "Cop Killer" also plays characters on screen. 'Law & Order' creator Dick Wolf specifically asked him to play the cop character that the show needed. Seventeen years later the player is still playin'.
Trae Tha Truth was a recent guest on The Breakfast Club.
He talked about being banned from the radio, new album, giving back to the community, Trae Day, "All Eyez on Me" movie, the Houston hip hop scene, Beyonce wanting to buy a part of the Houston Rockets, his diverse musical tastes and more.
Wale continues to promote his "SHINE" album by releasing an official music video for it's latest single titled "My Love" featuring Major Lazer, WizKid and Dua Lipa.
50 Cent's new variety show, "50 Central" is set to premiere Wednesday, September 27, at 10:30/9:30c on BET. It will feature hidden camera pranks, sketch comedy, musical guests, celebrity guests and more.
"50 Central's a platform that allows us to get all those hidden talents out in the open," says the "I Get Money" hit maker. "Expect the unexpected. It's me having freedom. It's a different type of comedy. It's a little edgier than the things you might have seen in the past."
We promise, you don't want to miss an episode. So, get ready to laugh your ass off!
Following a 13-week break, Kendrick Lamar returns to the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart with "DAMN."
Billboard reports that it's the discs fourth week overall at number one. The best performance by an album since "Starboy" from The Weeknd spent five weeks atop the list in earlier this year.
"DAMN" sold just under 47,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 10, according to Nielsen Music, to soar past it's competition. It sold 603,000equivalent albumunits in its first week following an April 14 release.
"DAMN." has since been certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump denounced white supremacists including neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan on Monday, and said racism, hatred and bigotry had no place in America following a violent white-nationalist rally in Virginia.
Trump had been assailed by Republicans and Democrats alike for failing to respond more forcefully to Saturday's violence in Charlottesville, in which a woman was killed when a man crashed his car into a group of counter-protesters.
"Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans," Trump said in a statement to reporters at the White House.
Critics said Trump had waited too long to address the bloodshed, and slammed him for stating initially that "many sides" were involved, rather than explicitly condemning white supremacists widely seen as sparking the melee.
A 20-year-old man said to have harbored Nazi sympathies as a teenager was facing charges he plowed his car into protesters opposing the white nationalists, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 19 people. The accused, James Alex Fields, was denied bail at an initial court hearing on Monday.
James Alex Fields
In a strong rebuke to the president, the chief executive of one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, Merck & Co Inc, resigned from a business panel led by Trump, citing a need for leadership countering bigotry.
CEO Kenneth Frazier, who is black, did not name Trump or criticize him directly in a statement posted on the drug company's Twitter account, but the rebuke was implicit.
"America's leaders must honor our fundamental values by clearly rejecting expressions of hatred, bigotry and group supremacy," said Frazier.
Rae Sremmurd recently chopped it up with Montreality about:
- their Utopia (0:58) - how they're going to live their life at 86-years-old (1:53) - their appreciation for Lil Wayne (2:50) - their favorite Cartoon characters (3:44) - their last meal of choice (5:29) - their Message to the Youth (6:24)
"If I had a utopian society, everyone would be treated equally, we wouldn't even grow up knowing black, white, green, orange, purple, Mexican, Christian. It wouldn't even matter, we would all just be people." (0:58)
"86-years-old where I'm at? I'm Dr. Dre, don't nobody know where I'm at, everyone just know I'm rich, that's it. Goals, you know what I'm saying." (1:53)
"Man, Lil Wayne is one of my favorite artists for real, he made me appreciate lyrics. It was just tight the way he rapped, he knew how to swag over a track and say something at the same time, and his lyrics were always off the chain." (2:50)
"Wear condoms, that's one of the messages we have. Because STDs, those aren't cool, and babies at a young age those are really hard to deal with. AIDS, and all that type of sh*t - that's not fun."
Bruno Mars' "24K Magic" album continues to spawn hit records. Here's a music video for it's latest single titled "Versace on the Floor" starring Zendaya.
See Bruno on the ‘24K Magic World Tour’! Tickets on sale now. Visit http://brunomars.com for dates
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods Saturday as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally. The violent day left three dead, dozens injured and this usually quiet college town a bloodied symbol of the nation’s roiling racial and political divisions.
The chaos erupted around what is believed to be the largest group of white nationalists to come together in a decade — including neo-Nazis, skinheads, members of the Ku Klux Klan — who descended on the city to “take America back” by rallying against plans to remove a Confederate statue. Hundreds came to protest against the racism. There were street brawls and violent clashes; the governor declared a state of emergency, police in riot gear ordered people out and helicopters circled overhead.
Peaceful protesters were marching downtown, carrying signs that read “black lives matter” and “love.” A silver Dodge Challenger suddenly came barreling through “a sea of people” and smashed into another car, said Matt Korbon, a 22-year-old University of Virginia student.
The impact hurled people into the air and blew off their shoes. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed as she crossed the street.
“It was a wave of people flying at me,” said Sam Becker, 24, sitting in the emergency room to be treated for leg and hand injuries.
Those left standing scattered, screaming and running for safety. Video caught the car reversing, hitting more people, its windshield splintered from the collision and bumper dragging on the pavement. Medics carried the injured, bloodied and crying, away as a police tank rolled down the street.
The driver, James Alex Fields Jr., a 20-year-old who recently moved to Ohio from where he grew up in Kentucky, was charged with second-degree murder and other counts. Field’s mother, Samantha Bloom, told The Associated Press on Saturday night that she knew her son was attending a rally in Virginia but didn’t know it was a white supremacist rally.
Albermale county jail just sent me the mugshot of today's suspect in today's Charlottesville tragedy. James Alex Fields Jr, 20. pic.twitter.com/ucALl7oSyi
“I thought it had something to do with Trump. Trump’s not a white supremacist,” said Bloom, who became visibly upset as she learned of the injuries and deaths at the rally.
“He had an African-American friend so ...,” she said before her voice trailed off. She added that she’d be surprised if her son’s views were that far right.
His arrest capped off hours of unrest. Hundreds of people threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays. Some came prepared for a fight, with body armor and helmets. Videos that ricocheted around the world on social media showed people beating each other with sticks and shields.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and Charlottesville Mayor Michael Signer, both Democrats, lumped the blame squarely on the rancor that has seeped into American politics and the white supremacists who came from out of town into their city, nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, home to Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s plantation.
“There is a very sad and regrettable coarseness in our politics that we’ve all seen too much of today,” Signer said at a press conference. “Our opponents have become our enemies, debate has become intimidation.”
Some of the white nationalists at Saturday’s rally cited President Donald Trump’s victory after a campaign of racially-charged rhetoric as validation for their beliefs.
Trump criticized the violence in a tweet Saturday, followed by a press conference and a call for “a swift restoration of law and order.”
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides,” he said.
The “on many sides” ending of his statement drew the ire of his critics, who said he failed to specifically denounce white supremacy and equated those who came to protest racism with the white supremacists. The Rev. Jesse Jackson noted that Trump for years questioned President Barack Obama’s citizenship and his legitimacy as the first black president, and has fanned the flames of white resentment.
“We are in a very dangerous place right now,” Jackson said. McAuliffe said at Saturday’s press conference that he spoke to Trump on the phone, and insisted that the president must work to combat hate.
Trump said he agreed with McAuliffe “that the hate and the division must stop and must stop right now.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced late Saturday that federal authorities will pursue a civil rights investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash.
The violence and deaths in Charlottesville strike at the heart of American law and justice,” Sessions wrote. “When such actions arise from racial bigotry and hatred, they betray our core values and cannot be tolerated.”
Oren Segal, who directs the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, said multiple white power groups gathered in Charlottesville, including members of neo-Nazi organizations, racist skinheads and KKK factions. The white nationalist organizations Vanguard America and Identity Evropa; the Southern nationalist League of the South; the National Socialist Movement; the Traditionalist Workers Party; and the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights also were on hand, he said.
“We anticipated this event being the largest white supremacist gathering in over a decade,” Segal said. “Unfortunately, it appears to have become the most violent as well.”
On the other side, anti-fascist demonstrators also gathered, but they generally aren’t organized like white nationalist factions, said Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In addition to Fields, at least three more men were arrested in connection to the protests.
The Virginia State Police announced late Saturday that Troy Dunigan, a 21-year-old from Chattanooga, Tennessee, was charged with disorderly conduct; Jacob L. Smith, a 21-year-old from Louisa, Virginia, was charged with assault and battery; and James M. O’Brien, 44, of Gainesville, Florida, was charged with carrying a concealed handgun.
Just as the city seemed like to be quieting down, black smoke billowed out from the tree tops just outside of town as a Virginia State Police helicopter crashed into the woods.
Robby E. Noll, who lives in the county just outside Charlottesville, heard the helicopter sputtering.
“I turned my head to the sky. You could tell he was struggling to try to get control of it,” he said.
He said pieces of the helicopter started to break off as it fell from the sky.
Both troopers onboard, Lieutenant H. Jay Cullen, 48, and Berke M.M. Bates, one day shy of his 41st birthday, were killed. Police said the helicopter had been deployed to the violent protests in the city, which has been caught in the middle of the nation’s culture wars since it decided earlier this year to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, enshrined in bronze on horseback in the city’s Emancipation Park.
In May, a torch-wielding group that included prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer gathered around the statue for a nighttime protest, and in July, about 50 members of a North Carolina-based KKK group traveled there for a rally. Spencer returned for Saturday’s protest, and denied all responsibility for the violence. He blamed the police.
Signer said the white supremacist groups who came into his city to spread hate “are on the losing side of history.”
“Tomorrow will come and we will emerge,” he said, “I can promise you, stronger than ever.”
Four-hundred miles away, the mayor of Lexington, Kentucky, hinted that the white supremacists might get the opposite of what they’d hoped for.
Mayor Jim Gray announced on Twitter that he would work to remove the confederate monument at his county’s courthouse.
“Today’s events in Virginia remind us that we must bring our country together by condemning violence, white supremacists and Nazi hate groups,” he wrote. “We cannot let them define our future.”
Today's events in Virginia remind us that we must bring our country together by condemning violence, white supremacists and Nazi hate groups
Associated Press writers Alan Suderman in Richmond, Virginia, Heidi Brown in Charlottesville, Claire Galofaro in Louisville, Kentucky, and John Seewer in Maumee, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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