The Carters Have Some Competition: Ashanti and Ja Rule Have an Album in the Works
Who would have thought that Ashanti and Ja Rule would be coming for the Carters?
Jay-Z and Beyoncé always come out on top; the pair currently have the No. 2 spot on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums, but it looks as if they’ll soon have some “competition.”
According to an Entertainment Tonight interview at the BET Awards, Ashanti and Ja Rule have been thinking about recording a joint album.
“Listen, me and Rule, it’s so funny because we’ve been talking about that for so long, but I think now he’s like, ‘OK, now it’s time to do it,’” Ashanti said.
She added that they’d be freeing up their schedule to work on the project. “So we’re going to carve out the time and make it happen,” Ashanti said.
Ja Rule put out a tweet Saturday, suggesting that he and Ashanti should also do a joint album…..
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Iconnic… The Carters… New album is dope!!! @ashanti I think we should do one of these joint albums haha… #fortheculture #iminspired #iconn 👑 rp https://t.co/fKFl76CiRf https://t.co/BrOivmx0C8
— Ja Rule (@jarule) June 23, 2018
Now let me remind or introduce ya’ll who these two are….
Elfen’s EXTRA EXTRA DOPE NEOSOUL HIP HOP MUSIC VIDEO A Tribe Called Quest The Space Program
A Message from ATCQ. From their 2016 album We got it from here…. thank you for your service. The Space Program.
Oakland girl at center of brain death debate has died after surgery
I’m sorry but this precious baby has been dead for 18 years. Her organs was the only thing kept alive. She was brain dead. For me her family to keep her organs minus her brain alive was cruel and selfish to do to Jahi. Jahi was laying in her hospital bed just a shell of herself. Not able to think for herself. This debate will go on as it has for decades. I know one thing if I was declared brain dead I’d tell my family and friends to let me go.
RIP Jahi
OAKLAND, Calif. — A family member says Jahi McMath, the Oakland girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death, has died after surgery.
The girl’s mother Nailah Winkfield said Thursday that New Jersey doctors declared McMath dead from excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation to treat an intestinal issue.
McMath had been in a vegetative state since December 2013, when a California coroner ruled that the 13-year-old girl died after suffering irreversible brain damage during an operation to remove her tonsils.
Winkfield refused to accept the conclusion and moved the girl to New Jersey, where she has been kept on life support and received care. The state accommodates religions that don’t recognize brain death.
Winkfield acknowledged her daughter’s dire medical condition but said her Christian beliefs compelled her to fight for care because the girl occasionally showed physical signs of life by twitching her finger or wriggling her toe.
Source: http://abc7news.com/3671892/
Woman hits her mother with car during fight on Long Island
MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. — A woman allegedly struck her mother with a car during a verbal argument on Long Island, the Nassau County police said Thursday.
Shaquay Minter and her mother, 42, got into an argument in a driveway just after 1 p.m. on Wednesday, according to detectives.
The argument quickly escalated and Minter, 25, got into her car, detectives said.
When her mother attempted to remove her purse from the vehicle, Minter backed out of the driveway, dragging and possibly running her over with the car, according to detectives.
The victim was taken to the hospital with multiple injuries, detectives said.
Minter was arrested and charged with second-degree assault and first-degree criminal contempt.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/06/28/woman-hits-mother-with-car-during-fight-on-long-island-police/
The Hate U Give Trailer
The New York Times best seller about a young black girl standing up for what’s right has released its trailer, check it out.
Mo’Nique releases secretly recorded conversation with Tyler Perry
If you thought the saga between actress-comedienne Mo’Nique and mogul movie director Tyler Perry was over — think again. Rolling out has obtained never before heard phone conversations of Mo’nique, her husband-manager Sydney and Tyler Perry. In the recordings, Tyler admits that the “difficult to work with” brand which has been attributed to Mo’Nique was unfair. The movie director also said he would pay Mo’Nique additional money for the movie Precious (something Mo’Nique says never happened). Tyler is also heard admitting he believed Mo’Nique should have been paid to promote the movie Precious overseas, a point Mo’Nique has made on several occasions but received harsh criticism from many about. Transcribed below are some of the recorded exchanges with Perry. Click the audio links for full recording. Note: the content contains profanity:
Sidney: “When you have that same Black man in Lee Daniels in an interview with Sundance — and I’m telling you somebody’s gonna get that interview — they say what was it like to work with Mo’Nique?”
Tyler: “She’s the Black Oprah Winfrey.”
Sidney: “She’s the Black version of Oprah Winfrey, and it was incredible.”
Tyler: “This is why I’m calling you right now. I just watched the podcast. And the reason I’m calling, I sat down here and watched it, and I’m looking at you and I’m looking at Mo’Nique and I see pain there, I see hurt. I don’t want to be a part of anybody, anybody being hurt.”
Mo’Nique: “It ain’t like I’m no b—- that show up at the party and I don’t perform. It ain’t like I show up drunk and high and I don’t know my lines, it ain’t like that. And y’all know that, so when you and that brother [Lee Daniels] got together a year ago, did y’all at any time say, ‘Ah man, what we did to that sister wasn’t fair, it wasn’t fair’?”
Tyler: “I can totally see the way you see that, but this may piss you off 100% Mo’Nique but it’s the truth, I never wanted to look back on Precious or any of that. I chalked it up as a bad experience and I was ready to move on and move forward.”
Tyler: “If someone had said, ‘Tyler, this is what you need to do right now’; if you had picked up the phone and said, ‘Hey, somebody needs to do something to help me out here …’ ”
Mo’Nique: “You’re talking in Tyler Perry language. I would ask you to let Mo’Nique talk to Madea, because when you start talking in Tyler Perry language, brother, you talk like you don’t get it. [Tyler laughs] Right, n—a, you gotta laugh at it, cause, let me tell you, Tyler, when I watch your movies, I dig Madea, you know why I dig her? You know why I dig her, Tyler?”
Sidney: “Because she could be your mother.”
Mo’Nique: “You know why I dig her? Because that b—- is real to her gut and she don’t give a f— how it come out. She don’t give a f— how it is taken, but everybody know she love you, but she going to tell you the real sh*t. You see, when you stepped away from Madea and you became Tyler Perry the billionaire, this is the conversation we’re having saying what do you want me to do? What do you want me to say? You’re the brother that slept in your car [Tyler laughs] and you needed n—as to fight for you to get you up out the god—- car, — see your momma that you love so dearly, this is when the powers that be — everybody saying, ‘Oh my God it’s Oprah and Tyler,’ — they are the ones that can employ her, why ever would she say it? Because I love those n—as, that’s why I’m saying it. Because 100 years from now that we watched our brothers and sisters die and suffer in poverty and we know what is right, so what I’m saying to you, Madea [would] make Tyler’s a– step his a– up. I’m talking to Madea right now. Madea, I need you to pull Tyler’s ass in the back and say, ‘Baby, you watching this sister and her family starve. You’re watching it. What do you want me to do? Listen, don’t you play with that baby like that. You know the s— y’all did to her was wrong. You gave $400K – $500K to charity and you know that b—- got $50K. Where’s my pistol? Where’s my pistol? Cause I need to shoot this n—a. Now I’m not going to kill him, I’m going to shoot him in his a– to let him know Madea’s mad as s— right now.’ I appreciate you calling me. What you gonna do?”
Tyler: “This is Tyler Perry talking. I’m gonna call and find out what money is coming in from Precious, and I’m going to send that to you. I’m going to send that over to you. Whatever it is, I’m gonna send it to you.”
Tyler: “I don’t want you to feel, not one day, that you were mistreated, or that you were treated unfairly. Now, if that means that that’s what I need to do, you do that, and take it from a place of love.”
Source:
https://rollingout.com/2018/06/25/monique-releases-secretly-recorded-conversation-with-tyler-perry/
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Bernie Sanders: Sarah Sanders has the right to ‘go into a restaurant and have dinner’
Sen Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday came to the defense of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, saying individuals should “have the right to go into a restaurant and have dinner.”
The Vermont senator made the comments while speaking on MSNBC about the recent uptick in public confrontations Trump Cabinet officials have faced. On Friday, Sarah Sanders was asked to leave a small Virginia restaurant because of her role in the administration.
In addition, protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-Ky.) on Tuesday over the Trump administration’s border policies.
“I’m not a great fan of shouting down people or being rude to people,” Bernie Sanders said. “People have a right to be angry when Congress gives tax breaks to billionaires and then wants to cut nutrition programs for low income pregnant women.”
But he said that anger needs to be taken out in a “constructive way” and that people should not be kicked out of restaurants over political differences.
“Look, as I’ve said before, yeah, I think people have the right to go into a restaurant and have dinner,” he said.
The senator added that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who upset longtime Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) in a New York congressional primary Tuesday, is a prime example of taking anger out in a constructive way. Ocasio-Cortez, a first-time Democratic socialist candidate, is a former organizer for Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. Her win stunned political observers.
Lovelyti TBT YouTube commentary Fake Friend
I post these throwbacks from Ti Ti so ya’ll can see just how far this brown skin woman has grown!! I hope it inspires her and you to look and continue to look forward and say YES I CAN! Follow your dreams! Her blessing has given me the courage to say YES I CAN write. And to STOP doubting myself. And she says she shy!! She don’t sound or look shy to me! Ti Ti droppin’ some wisdom and knowledge to a viewer who wanted to know what a TRUE friend is. YouTube Orginal Post April 2nd 2009.
Elfen’s TBT Old School 1994 R&B Jamie Foxx Peep This
Well since Jamie Foxx hosted the 2018 WACK BET Awards. I decided to go Apple iTunes and listen to his music and I remembered this sexy song. And music video he sang called experiment. At the time of this album he was clownin’ on In Living Color. All 13 tracks have that New jack swing vibe. (a mixture of R&B and Hip Hop sounds) Jamie’s live performances are so hypnotically beautiful. And piano playing always makes me tearie eyed.
The older I get I appreciate these now old artists even more. They could sang a love song without all the profanities and in your face lyrics that could NEVER be considered as elevator music. Or even played in the doctors office waiting for your appointment. Sigh the good ol’ days. See you next week for my TBT Ol’ Skool R&B pick of the week!