Kanye West Epic Freestyle at Queens Church …
People who stay talking about missing the “old Kanye” might wanna listen to this — ’cause Mr. West was in NYC dropping bars like it was 2004 again ahead of his album drop.
Ye was in Jamaica, Queens Sunday at The Greater Allen A.M.E. Cathedral of New York, where he put on his weekly service with the help of the local congregation there — and at one point, the MC did what he arguably does best (besides making music) … spittin’ rhymes!
Check it out … Kanye joyfully rapped with the help of the choir behind him, and it sounds like the man was flowing from off the top. A pure freestyle, in other words.
He had the whole church rockin’ with him too as he got everyone to put their hands up, jamming along to the music before eventually stepping back and letting another guy — who looks like he might’ve been the pastor for the day — take center stage again.
BTW, Ye had some talented company with him too. Word on the ground is Akon, Swizz Beatz and Alexander Wang were all in the building. So was Kim, North and Jonathan Cheban.
As for this though … Kanye looks happy as hell high heaven here. And rightly so, of course — he is supposed to be
releasing his new album, “Jesus is King,” later Sunday … and based on
what we’ve heard from here to Detroit, he’s in a great mode right now.
He’s also been on the move — Kanye was just in Chicago Saturday night, where he performed alongside his pal, Chance the Rapper, building the hype for his new record even more.
If this freestyle and the music we’ve been hearing lately is any indication … it should be a good one. And now, we wait … ah, the anticipation. ?
Article via TMZ
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Where to Invade Next, Documentary
Where to Invade Next is a compelling documentary on the need for discussion and change within American social, work, and governmental systems. The film’s title is a tongue-in-cheek name based on America’s world reputation for leading the charge against rival nations. It is Michael Moore’s latest documentary about the rest of the world and how America compares to it.
Throughout the film, Moore ‘invades’ other countries to learn what ideas they may have to offer the United States. As the narrator and director, he investigates the ideas that Europe has regarding social issues such as healthcare, education, paid leave and vacation, sex education, decriminalisation of drugs, and even cafeteria food. Through these discussions, Where to Invade Next highlights some of the ideologies existing in American culture that may need an extreme overhaul to keep up with modern society.
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Demi Moore says she was raped at age 15 by a man who paid her mother $500
Demi Moore said she was raped at age 15 by a man who paid her alcoholic mother $500 for the unspeakable act.
The 56-year-old opened up about the shocking episode, which she initially detailed in her new memoir “Inside Out,” with Diane Sawyer on “Good Morning America” Monday.
Moore has dedicated the book to her three daughters as well as her troubled mother, who died in 1998.
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According to the actress, the incident took place when she came home one night and an older man she and her mother knew was in the apartment. After he raped her, Moore says the man asked her how it felt “to be whored by your mother for $500.”
“I think, in my deep heart no — I don’t think it was a straightforward transaction,” Moore told the television journalist about whether she felt her mother sold her.
“But she still — she did give him the access and put me in harm’s way,” Moore shared.
Moore’s upbringing was far from loving. The star said both her parents suffered from alcoholism and the family moved across the country frequently as they faced debt. Moore said she was 12 when her mother first attempted suicide.
“I remember using my fingers, the small fingers of a child, to dig the pills my mother had tried to swallow, out of her mouth,” Moore recalled in her book.
Moore also told Sawyer, 73, that her mother attempted suicide “many, many times.” The actress also learned that the man she believed and loved as a dad was not her biological father. Moore then told herself that “I wasn’t wanted, or that I don’t deserve to be here.”
After Moore’s parents divorced, she lived with her mother, who would bring her along to bars in hopes of attracting men.
Attempting to escape her shattered childhood, Moore dropped out of high school and left her home. It was then when she decided to attend acting auditions despite lack of training.
“I mean, I was figuring it out, by the seat of my pants,” said Moore. “The school of ‘fake it till you make it… I don’t have anything to lose. I don’t have anything, so why not?”
Moore’s big break came at age 19 with a role in the soap opera “General Hospital.” Moore said she was in over her head and started using alcohol and later cocaine to cope with her fears. And like her parents, Moore suffered from blackouts.
“I don’t have an off switch,” recalled Moore. “I don’t have the thing that says, ‘This is enough.’”
Then in 1984, Moore earned the role of party girl Jules in the 1985 film “St. Elmo’s Fire.”
“I mean, I think the irony certainly was not lost on me,” said Moore.
Moore said she easily identified with her character and that the film’s producer and director insisted that she go to rehab. Moore committed to sobriety and her pledge lasted “almost 20 years” until she reached her 40s, when she relapsed.
“[It was] a profound gift that they gave me,” she said, speaking about sobriety.
Moore’s career in Hollywood skyrocketed, but not without its challenges. When Moore was cast in 1992’s “A Few Good Men,” opposite Tom Cruise, a studio executive insisted for their characters to have a romance.
“[The studio executive asked], ‘If there wasn’t gonna be a sex scene, then, you know, why was I in it?’” said Moore.
Ultimately, Moore defied expectations and became the highest paid actress in Hollywood, with a $12.5 million salary. She said some critics consequently gave her the nickname “Gimme Moore.” She chose to ignore them.
“Why shouldn’t I?” said Moore. “Why shouldn’t all women be paid equal to the quality of the work they’re doing? Just treat me the same. No better, no worse.”
Article via FoxNews
CupcakKe Tearfully Announces That She Is Retiring & Removing Music From Streaming Platforms
Last night, the Chicago rapper CupcakKe sent out an Instagram Live video in which she claims that she’s retiring completely from the music industry. She claims that she’s ending her current tour, which started earlier this month. She also says that she’s going to remove all of her music from every streaming platform. In the 18-minute video, CupcakKe is visibly distressed, frequently breaking down in tears, speaking to a camera while wrapped in what appears to be a hotel bedsheet. It’s very disturbing.
Earlier this year, CupcakKe was hospitalized after tweeting that she was “about to commit suicide.” (After her hospitalization, she thanked fans, writing that she is getting the help she needs.) Last month, she announced her 10k Tour, in which she would give away $10,000 to random fans over the course of the tour. And she just released a new track called “Grilling N****s” last Friday. Since posting the video, she has deleted her Twitter and all of her posts on Instagram. She is scheduled to perform at the Masquerade in Atlanta tonight, and the venue’s website, at least right now, says nothing about the show being cancelled.
In the video that she posted last night, CupcakKe, visibly in tears, opens up by saying, “So this Live is going to be the last video that y’all will see of me.” She goes on: “I will no longer be doing music, and all of my music will be coming off of every platform.” She also says that her tour is cancelled, effective immediately.
In the video she claims that she’s ashamed of the music she’s released, much of which is extremely sexual: “I feel as though I’m corrupting the youth… I want to go to heaven after this, and I don’t want to go to hell. Just seeing all-age kids at the shows, seeing them sing along to ‘hump me’ and ‘fuck me’ and all this shit, it has torn me apart. I’m just not happy. I don’t want to be around no one right now… It’s wrong. And even if it’s OK for y’all, it’s not OK with me… I want to be normal again.” She thanks fans and apologizes for letting them down.
In the video, CupcakKe says that, even when she raps about non-sexual topics, the sexual music is what gets the most attention. She also feels that “the media” won’t take her seriously because of her body. And she says that she has “a very bad gambling addiction” and that she recently lost $700,000 in a casino, which allowed her to see that the people around her are using her.
Here’s the video, via XXL:
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Billy Porter Addresses RuPaul Shade
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North American bird population has dropped by 3 billion since 1970, study reveals
There are almost 3 billion fewer birds in the United States and Canada now than in 1970, according to a disturbing new study.
That amounts to a 29 percent drop in the avian population over the past half-century.
“Three billion is a punch in the gut,” Peter Marra, a conservation biologist at Georgetown University, told Science News. “Our study is a wake-up call. We’re experiencing an ecological crisis.”
For their study, which was published Thursday in Science, researchers examined a dozen databases covering decades of bird observations in the U.S. and Canada. They used statistical analysis to estimate trends since 1970.
“This loss of bird abundance signals an urgent need to address threats to avert future avifaunal collapse and associated loss of ecosystem integrity, function and services,” the study’s abstract states
The population loss affected common and rare birds alike, as well as invasive species.
Although the study does not specifically address why the birds are disappearing, experts believe that many species face habitat damage or loss.
“As habitats diminish, birds have nowhere to go,” Kenneth Rosenberg, an ornithologist at Cornell University, told Science News.
However, the study shows that some populations of birds — such as mallard ducks and Canadian geese — have actually increased in number since 1970.
“This increase is no accident,” Rosenberg said. “It’s a direct result of decades of conservation efforts made by hunters and billions of dollars
to protect these birds and their habitat.”
Rosenberg added that he hopes the study will spur similar concern for all types of birds.
Article via FOXNews
800-Pound Opioid Spoon Dropped At Johnson & Johnson’s HQ
An artist placed an 800-pound opioid spoon outside the front entrance to Johnson & Johnson’s world headquarters in New Brunswick.
A Boston-based artist placed an 800-pound opioid spoon outside the front entrance to Johnson & Johnson’s world headquarters in New Brunswick on Wednesday. Anyone trying to enter J&J’s office building had to walk around the giant metal spoon, etched with the initials “J&J” on its handle.
The artist, Dominic Esposito, spoke to Patch about his protest performance art, and said he expects to get plenty of push-back for what he did. But he wants to start a conversation about the danger of prescription painkillers and opioid addiction in America.
“The balance has been a hard line for us to toe: Even as a group we are not totally against opioids: For example, their use for acute cancer patients or for after an operation. Yes, there is a use for them in society,” said Esposito. “But our society has also been handing them out like candy for the past 20 years. Opiate painkillers are very dangerous drugs and should be treated as such.”
Esposito kept his ten-foot long spoon up Wednesday until New Brunswick police asked him to move it to a public space near the building. He complied, saying it wasn’t worth it for him to have the artwork confiscated or be arrested.
“I’ve gotten hate mail from people after yesterday, telling me that it’s addicts’ own fault if they are addicted,” he told Patch. “Or telling me they need the painkillers. I think some people don’t even realize they are addicted …. But to at least spark conversation makes me feel like I’m getting somewhere.”
In April of this year, Johnson & Johnson was hit with an unprecedented $572 million fine after it was sued by the state of Oklahoma for downplaying the addiction risks of its opiate painkillers. Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter sued the pharmaceutical giant for what he says is their role in causing opiate devastation in that state. Johnson & Johnson is currently appealing the fine.
“Johnson
& Johnson did not cause the opioid crisis in Oklahoma, or
elsewhere,” Johnson & Johnson vice president, Ernie Knewitz told NJ.com Wednesday, adding that opioids are regulated by the FDA and the DEA.
“At the same time, we recognize that the opioid crisis is a tremendously
complex public health issue and have deep sympathy for everyone
affected.”
“I just feel like there is so much finger pointing
in all this: Someone blames Big Pharma, someone blames the DEA, someone
blames the CDC,” said Esposito. “Meanwhile, you have people literally
dying from these drugs. And they are still prescribing this stuff.”
According to the New York Times, Johnson & Johnson contracts with poppy farmers in Tasmania and supplies 60 percent of the opiates in drugs such as oxycodone.
In fact, Johnson & Johnson even developed a special strain of poppy, giving it the name “Norman.” This is the strain that produces the core pain-blocking derivative found in Oxycontin, said Esposito, who has long researched the company.
Johnson & Johnson owns subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals, also headquartered in New Jersey and which also makes its own opioids and produces the fentanyl patch.
New Brunswick is only Esposito’s most recent stop: Last year, he dropped his opioid spoon outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharmaceuticals in Stamford, Connecticut. Purdue is credited as the original maker of the oxycodone generic, and the company is now bankrupt after they were hit by dozens of lawsuits. In February, he dropped a spoon outside the headquarters of Rhodes Pharma in Rhode Island, to highlight the fact that even as Purdue was being fined due to an earlier suit, they opened Rhodes Pharma to continue producing and selling opioids.
This past April, Esposito and his team dropped a spoon outside the federal Health & Human Services building in Washington, D.C. That spoon was stamped FDA. They track their work on https://www.theopioidspoonproject.com/
For the artist, it’s personal: His own brother has been struggling for the past 12 years with substance abuse.
“My mom would call me in this panic voice that she found a spoon in the house,” he told NJ.com. “It was the peak of my brother’s 12-year battle with addiction.”
He alluded that there will likely be future “spoon drops” in the future, although wouldn’t say where.
“It’s worth it for me to do this. Every time someone comes up to me and tells me they have a family member struggling with opiate addiction, it’s worth it,” Esposito told Patch.
Watch video from the protest Wednesday:
Article via Patch.com