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Lil Baby welcomes XXL to his Oakland City stomping grounds in Atlanta, where he chilled in the streets before becoming a rapper. The Quality Control artist discusses his friendship with Young Thug, kicking off his rap career and fatherhood. Read Lil Baby’s full-length XXL magazine cover story interview here: https://bit.ly/2IfPbXF Beat produced by D-Fresh Beatz.
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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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Azealia Banks wrote a song about executing Elon Musk
Azealia Banks teased new music on her Instagram Tuesday night, and one song in particular, “96’Corolla (Motorman),” seems to be a thinly-veiled fantasy about executing Elon Musk.
The song is about an “ungrateful technocrat who’s [sic] ego becomes too big for his britches,” according to the since-deleted post. The song’s villain, Alon Dust, is plotting to use the brains of the poor to power his neural network, Neuralink. But things go sideways when Neuralink recognizes Dust himself as a threat. The AI overlord, played by Banks in the song (but originally written for Poppy, according to the Instagram post), decides to cut the technocrat’s neural activity off via satelite, “rendering him a vegetable and erasing him as a threat to humanity.”
Banks has had a bone to pick with Musk since last August, when she flew to LA to collaborate on a single with his girlfriend Claire Boucher, aka Grimes. Banks alleged Grimes never showed and she was left alone to wander Musk’s mansion “for days” and said it was “like a real life episode of Get Out.”
In a string of mostly now-deleted Instagram posts, Banks railed against the singer and the tech tycoon, calling Grimes a “dirty-sneaker-inbred-out of the woods Pabst beer pussy methhead-junkie” and Musk a “trash ass beta male” with “pork skin.”
The rapper is hardly the first to compare Musk to a Bond villain-in-the-making, but the fact that her song clearly and specifically envisions the execution of a powerful public figure throws the ethics and legality of her creativity into question. Freedom of Speech debates rage in America today, and many of the arguments involve social media.
In 2014, a man named Anthony Elonis was sentenced to 44 months in prison for a series of posts he made on Facebook, mostly in the form of rap lyrics, threatening to harm his estranged wife and a female police officer. Elonis ended many of the posts with the lines, “Art is about pushing limits. I’m willing to go to jail for my constitutional rights. Are you?” In 2015, the US Supreme Court heard his case on appeal to settle the narrow legal standard of what constitutes a “true threat” versus harmless creative fantasizing. The justices reversed Elonis’ conviction in an 8-1 decision — but they didn’t decide the case on First Amendment grounds. The court said the government just couldn’t prove whether Elonis intended to act from his Facebook alone.
It’s unclear how Banks’ foray into “revenge art” will play out in the court of public opinion or the actual legal system. But she arguably knows Musk and Grimes personally. She could potentially harbor ill-will towards them. But come on, “96’Corolla (Motorman)” is a work of science fiction. There’s no way Banks would advocate for actual violent revolution against the capitalists, right?
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Beyoncé’s team gives the finger to Emmys after ‘Homecoming’ shut out
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This weekend, Beyoncé’s critically acclaimed Netflix documentary, “Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé,” was shut out of the 2019 Creative Arts Emmys, taking home none of the six awards for which it was nominated.
While Queen Bey has remained mum on the matter, key members of her crew took to social media to share their disappointment, as publicist Yvette Noel-Schure posted an Instagram video of herself along with manager Steve Pamon and other team members throwing up the middle finger while brushing off the evening.
Tour videographer Ben Hagarty took to Twitter to address the snubs, reposting a fan video comparing his work to the production value of “Carpool Karaoke” which ended up taking home the award for Outstanding Variety Special.
“I held a heavy ass camera and walked backwards keeping these 3 legends in frame while dave held a carabiner on my pants to guide me… Oh and I did it going down a set of stairs … ” he wrote.
Deadline reports Beyoncé lost the directing trophy to “Springsteen on Broadway” while the live televised version of “RENT” took home the award for Best Production Design. “RuPaul’s Drag Race” won for Best Costumes and FX’s “Fosse/Verdon” won for Musical Direction. Lastly, Australian comic Hannah Gadsby beat out Bey for Best Writing with her Netflix comedy special, “Nanette.”
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