Vox Earworm: Season 2 Episode 1 How Heavy Metal and Satan gave us this sticker.
I remember this controversy. And everyone was talking about the double standard. If it wasn’t for ice cube and these other rock groups our music today would not be as in your face as it is today .
Elfen’s Hip Hop Music Video of Week Nipsey Hussle Ft. Ice Cube Why Me?
RIP NIPSEY!! Gun’s Down and L’s (Love) UP!!
Elfen’s Neosoul Hip Hop New Music Tuesday Nappy Ninja The Tree Act
I am such a sucker for the unusual visually pleasing album artwork. I mean just look at it. The album cover made me want to press play. The concept of the album is unique in its own right.
The Tree Act is a sonic story of Nina’s navigation through the current world of corrupt marijuana laws and white collar weed , white women’s rights and black women’s work, the inner woes of a black queer body in brooklyn. It is a tribute to inner oakland , to outer spaces and to summer cyphers in chicago where this album first started.
Nipsy Hussle Shot Dead outside his clothing store
LOS ANGELES — The Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle was killed in a shooting outside his clothing store in Los Angeles, multiple law enforcement sources said. Two other men were in serious condition, and a suspect remained at large.
No further information was immediately available about the shooting at Marathon Clothing on Slauson Avenue in South Los Angeles. But just a couple of hours before, Hussle, 33, whose real name was Ermias Ashgedom, had tweeted, “Having strong enemies is a blessing.”
A large crowd of people, many of them crying, gathered at the intersection as police and media helicopters whirred overhead.
One of them was Matthew Talley of Denver, the engineer and director known as Megatron.
“It ain’t just Los Angeles. He was an inspiration that was bigger than Los Angeles,” Talley said. “You see all these people out here? …
“He was really cool,” Talley said. “He was a dope individual every time I met him.”
Hussle’s debut studio album, “Victory Lap” was nominated for Best Rap Album at this year’s Grammy Awards.
Hussle had long been associated with the Rollin 60s Neighborhood Crips, one of Los Angeles’ largest street gangs, which he publicly acknowledged in a 2010 interview with Complex magazine.
In more recent years, however, Hussle had developed an interest in technology and community development, and he was part of a team of artists and entrepreneurs who developed Destination Crenshaw, an open-air museum devoted to honoring African-American artistic achievement.
“In our culture, there’s a narrative that says, ‘Follow the athletes, follow the entertainers,'” he told the Los Angeles Times last year. “And that’s cool, but there should be something that says, ‘Follow Elon Musk, follow [Mark] Zuckerberg.’
In an interview last year with Forbes, Hussle said that as a youth, he’d fallen prey to the “ignorance and self-destructiveness in the narrative that was pushed on us through music in our generation.”
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Sheck Wes Assault Case Declined by L.A. District Attorney
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has declined a case against Sheck Wes, TMZ reports and Pitchfork can confirm. The D.A.’s Office cited “insufficient evidence.” According to TMZ, the case involved an incident of alleged abuse of singer, actress, and model Justine Skye. The incident reportedly occurred last summer at the Montrose Hotel in West Hollywood. Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Sheck Wes.
When contacted by Pitchfork, a representative for Justine Skye shared the following statement:
A judge in the Superior Court of California granted a restraining orderagainst Sheck Wes that is still in effect and the correlating case is still pending. However, it is unfortunate that the Los Angeles District Attorney decided to not pursue any further action at this time but that is often the case with many victims of Domestic Violence which is why incidents like this go unreported much of the time.
At no time did anyone from the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office take a statement on the incident from Justine Skye or reached out to garner a statement which is unfortunate.
Justine Skye publicly accused Sheck Wes of abuse in February 2019. Following Skye’s allegations, Sheck tweeted, “I’ve chosen to remain silent until now out of respect for actual victims of abuse. But I cannot stand by while lies are repeatedly told about me. I never hit or beat any women and I did not beat up or jump anybody.”
Article via Pitchfork
Justine Skye Accuses Sheck Wes of Alleged Abu$e~ He Denies it!
Schoolboy Q: Numb Numb Juice
Check out Schoolboy Q’s latest music video for his song; Numb Numb juice!
R&B Singer Andre Williams Dies at 82
Article via Billboard
R&B singer/producer Andre “Mr. Rhythm” Williams, died in Chicago on Sunday (March 17) at age 82, according to a statement from his label, Pravda Records. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of legendary artist Andre Williams,” read a FB statement from the Chicago-based label. “He died this after in Chicago at the age of 82. He touched our lives and the lives of countless others. We love you Dre.”
William’s manager, Kenn Goodman, tells Billboard that the singer died on Sunday afternoon while in hospice care in Chicago surrounded by family. “He was diagnosed two weeks ago with colon cancer that spread to his lungs and brain,” Goodman says. “After that his body started shutting down pretty quickly,” he adds, noting that Williams had battled a number of other health issues recently, including strokes and seizures. “But was committed to trying to sing and record again.”
Born in Bessemer, Alabama, on Nov. 1, 1936, Zephire “Andre” Williams launched his career as a teenager after moving to Detroit in the early 1950s, where he quickly became a key member of the city’s then blossoming R&B scene, making his name after winning the top prize at the Warfield Theatre’s amateur night show eight weeks in a row. Known for his fiery, often profane style, Williams signed to Fortune Records and took over the lead vocal slot in the vocal group The Five Dollars.
Renamed Andre Williams and the Don Juans, the group released “Goin’ Down to Tijuana” in 1955, with Williams releasing his signature hit, “Bacon Fat,” the next year, hitting No. 9 on the Billboard R&B chart. His sing-talking style on the track presaged hip-hop, earning him the nickname “godfather of rap.” He wrote and produced hits for other acts during his early years in the business, including the Five Dutones’ “Shake a Tail Feather,” as well as cranking out other beloved Fortune Records singles including “Jail Bait” and “The Greasy Chicken.”
An early 1960s four-year gig as artist/producer/writer for Motown Records failed to produce any recordings of note, though he did score a co-write on Stevie Wonder’s first song, 1964’s “Thank You For Loving Me,” and worked with The Temptations, while continuing to write and produce for other acts at the time, including Alvin Cash & The Crawlers (“Twine Time”) and The Contours. He followed in 1965 with a run at Chicago’s Chess Records, during which he released some of his other most beloved tracks such as “The Stroke,” “Humpin’ Bumpin’ & Thumpin'” and “Cadillac Jack.”