Elfen’s TBT R&B Artist of the week Mtume
It’s July 1983 and the sexiest song blasting on the radio airwaves was a song called juicy fruit by Mtume. Juicy Fruit stayed #1 on the Billboard HOT Black singles Chart for 8 weeks. Here’s a little black history from 1983!
President of the U.S.A Ronald Reagan Vice President George H. W. Bush
Cassette tape’s and records cost about $10
Watching Saturday morning cartoons from 7am to 1pm was a treat in 1983
Local Programming The Best of Scooby-Doo The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show The Pac-Man/Rubik, the Amazing Cube Hour The Littles The Puppy’s Further Adventures The New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show ABC Weekend Special American Bandstand.
Movies playing July 1983
- 4 day weekend July 4th 1983 Return of the Jedi
- Continued #1 at the box office July 10, 1983 Return of the Jedi
#OnThisDay in 1983, BET went from a programming block on @Nickelodeon to a 24-hour TV channel!
Here's to 34 strong years & more to come! pic.twitter.com/oE9Xa3L28U
— BET (@BET) July 1, 2017
Ebony magazine July 1983
1983 Timex Sinclair Color Computer
Price: $179.99
Description It’s got 48K of memory power with built-in BASIC programming language, eight vivid high-resolution color and four simultaneous sounds. It has special features to set it above the competitors. One-Touch Keyword lets you program an entire computer word with a single key. This saves typing time and computer memory as well. Includes AC power adapter.
Apparently, Kanye Wanted To Make Porn Movies To Accompany ‘The Life Of Pablo’
And according to his collaborator, the artist may still make them.
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Kanye has some big ideas.
Remember that time he took over Cannes to debut Cruel Summer with a movie that played on seven screens of different sizes all at the same time inside an all-white pyramid on the beach?
Kanye also has some crazy ideas.
Remember that time he said, “When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice!”
It turns out, one of his wild, big ideas that never came to fruition was a series of pornographic films featuring The Life of Pablo as their score.
According to NME, the movie was to be a collaboration with literary enfant terrible Bret Easton Ellis.
Known for publishing Less Than Zero when he was only 21 (and following that up with the hugely successful American Psycho), Ellis went on to make his directorial debut with The Canyons, a critically panned film starring Lindsay Lohan.
Ellis spoke about the porn project on his podcast.
The two men are friends and have collaborated before; Ellis helped created promotional material for Yeezus, a short film parodying the writer’s American Psycho that starred reality stars popular at the time of the album’s release:
While the adult film project never quite got off the ground, Ellis claims Yeezy-approved porn movies may still be on the way.
The writer said he went to the Kardashian-West compound in Calabasas to talk with the artist about reviving the project not long ago and also took some time to defend Kanye’s recent behavior.
“In the five years I had known him, I had never seen him this focused, this together,” Ellis said, arguing that ‘Ye is an artist at the top of his game, not a “drugged-out freak gibbering on Twitter.”
Jay-Z Is Beefing With the Mayor of Philadelphia
Jay-Z Is Beefing With the Mayor of Philadelphia Over His Made in America Festival
While there’s a potential beef brewing between Beyoncé and the city of Rome, there’s one already roaring between her husband and the city of Philadelphia. Jay-Z has published an op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer accusing the city’s mayor, Jim Kenney, of attempting to shut down Jay’s annual Made in America Festival. Jay claims that Mayor Kenney banned next year’s festival from its usual location of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway without notice, and tried to get this year’s festival canceled.
We are disappointed that the mayor of the city of Philadelphia would evict us from the heart of the city, through a media outlet, without a sit-down meeting, notice, dialogue, or proper communication. It signifies zero appreciation for what Made In America has built alongside the phenomenal citizens of this city. In fact, this administration immediately greeted us with a legal letter trying to stop the 2018 event.
The letter goes on to slam the mayor for his failure to support a minority-owned business that financially benefits the city. Jay ends by saying he and his team “will discuss our options internally and handle accordingly,” meaning his festival could soon be on the market for a new city. Hey, Hov, your hometown is available!
Update, July 18th, at 8:10 p.m.: Mayor Kenney’s office has issued the following statement in response to the op-ed: “The City of Philadelphia supports the Made in America festival and is greatly appreciative of all that it has done for Philadelphia. We are committed to its continued success and thank them for their partnership. We hope to be able to resolve what has been an unfortunate misunderstanding. We are working with Roc Nation and Live Nation to resolve this issue and we are committed to continuing our partnership with the Made in America festival.”
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Destiny’s Child Singer Michelle Williams Says She Is Seeking Mental Health Help
LOS ANGELES) — Destiny’s Child singer Michelle Williams says she’s seeking help for the depression she has struggled with for years.
Williams said in an Instagram post Tuesday that she has “sought help from a great team of health care professionals.”
She gave no specifics on her treatment, and a message left with her manager seeking details was not immediately returned.
Williams’ post says that for years she has dedicated herself to increasing awareness of mental health and empowering people to seek help. She says she recently decided to listen to the advice she has given, and wants to lead by example in seeking treatment.
The 37-year-old Williams was a core member of Destiny’s Child, the trio with Beyonce Knowles and Kelly Rowland that sat atop the R&B world from 1997 to 2006.
Watch Michelle Obama Dance to Jay-Z With Beyonce’s Mom
The Carters also debuted their collaborative song “Apeshit” during second Paris show
danced joyously to Jay-Z‘s “On to the Next One” on Sunday during the rapper’s joint concert with Beyoncé in Paris, France. The former First Lady joined Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles Lawson, in the front row – and even getting a quick onstage smile from Jay-Z.
BEYONCÉ LEGION@BeyLegion.@MichelleObama & Ms. Tina dancing at Beyoncé & JAY-Z’s show in Paris tonight. #OTRII #Round2
Another video shows Obama and Knowles walking up to their VIP spots as husband-and-wife duo the Carters performed Beyoncé’s “Drunk in Love.” Fans erupted with screams and photo snaps after recognizing the celebrity guest.
The Carters also performed their single “Apeshit” live for the first time that night. They modified the song as the evening’s farewell, dropping verses to make space for “thank you”s and salutes to their band. “Please give it up for my beautiful husband,” Beyoncé said as a cinematic list of production credits scrolled across a massive screen.
The Carters and Obamas famously share a long-running bond. Last year, former President Barack Obama helped induct Jay-Z into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, calling the rapper a “true American original” in his speech. “I like to think Mr. Carter and I understand each other,” he said. “Nobody who met us when we were younger men would have expected us to be where we are today.”
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‘Have Another Stroke’: Azalea Banks Goes After Wendy Williams
Two days ago, Azalea Banks went after Nick Cannon and his MTV show Wildin Out. She accused the cast of blindsiding her with colorist, insensitive jokes – making her the dark skin punching bag (who cried on the show!).
(Cast members admitted to calling AB ugly but they insist that they did not dole out any colorist jokes.) Watch Lovelyti’s video on the situation:
Yesterday, Wendy Williams commented on the situation, where she shadily or unknowingly kept calling Azalea, Iggy.
Afterwards, Wendy listed some of the celebrities that Banks fought with over the years like Cardi B, Remy Ma, Rihanna, Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, Russell Crowe, Skai Jackson and Kendrick Lamar.
“My thought about Azealia Banks, I don’t know her, but she seems to be smart but angry and her anger seems to be the problem,” said Wendy. “A lot of times people would rather work with second best who’s not so angry than first best. And I’m not familiar with her music. I’m just familiar with her anger.”
Some might say that Wendy took it easy on Banks and didn’t come down on her like she has other celebs. But that didn’t stop the rapper from responding on Instagram.
“OMG, can Wendy Williams have another stroke on TV and finally drop dead?” wrote Banks. “I would love to see her die on air.”
If you didn’t know, the rapper’s message has to do with a 2017 Halloween episode where Williams fainted on live TV.
Meanwhile, Banks was working on her new album “Fantasea II: The Second Wave” but shelved it after her “Wild ‘N Out” experience. “Album is canceled,” she wrote on her Instagram story. “I need some time to relax and bounce on d–k. I’ll release new music when I feel like it.”
We are waiting with bated breath for this episode to air.
In the meantime check out AB’s new hit Treasure Island!
False Alarm: Chance the Rapper Says He’s Not Dropping an Album This Week
And the year of the surprise everything continues: Chance the Rapper has announced that he’s releasing an album this week. He let the news slip to the Chicago Tribune, revealing no other details about how the project will arrive other than it’ll drop “just in time” for his Special Olympics 50th anniversary concert (held on July 21). His last album, 2016’s Coloring Book, was an Apple Music exclusive that became the first streaming-only album to win a Grammy. He’s not sure now if he’ll choose to monetize his work. “I’ve never been against selling music. Music has value,” he says. “I put my music out there for free because I wanted people to see and notice it as a beacon for what I’m doing, in terms of how unorthodox I wanted my approach and my delivery of each piece of music to be.” He does, however, still sound to be anti–record labels, saying that his collaborations with bigger artists have been stifled by their labels: “It has been difficult for me to release music with artists who work with the majors. A lot of stuff I’ve worked on hasn’t come out since Coloring Book because it’s hard [when collaborating with artists limited by record deals].”
As for his upcoming separate project with Kanye West, which Chance previously teased, he says they made two songs weeks ago during the Wyoming sessions and will revisit that work shortly. “We’re up in the mountains around these wild animals — it’s very different out there — and we got some music done, and then he asked me if he could do an album with me,” Chance says. “I don’t know of a timeline on it yet, the trajectory of it, but he’s coming here to work on it some more. We’ve just started making it, but I don’t want to manipulate the situation and impose any time frame, because that can hinder you.”
Update, 11:30 a.m.: On second thought, don’t get your hopes up yet. Chance has tweeted a clarification to the Tribune story saying he’s not, in fact, putting an album out this week. But he does hint that there’s music coming … whenever that will be. The element of surprise is still alive!
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Elfen’s Neosoul Hip Hop New Music Tuesday. London Funk Allstars
London Funk Allstars Vol 1 release date 1995
This weeks what’s new to me old to you. What’s old to you is new to me. Comes all the way from London. I present to you two albums from London Funk Allstars! From 1995 The Album London Funk Allstars Vol 1. And 1996 London Funk Allstars Fleash Eating Disco zombies Versus the Bionic Hookers from Mars.
I got turned on to these two Kats back in 2006. The band members are Mad Doctor X and Stefen Turner. I love their choice of sound bites and musical samples. When you go to Apple Music or Spotify you will not be disappointed. See you next week!!
London Funk Allstars Album Fleash Eating Disco zombies Versus the Bionic Hookers from Mars release date 1996
Nick Cannon Responds To Azealia Banks’ Accusation Of Mistreatment On “Wild’n Out”
Nick Cannon questions Azealia Banks’ karmic merit.
Banks first made her feelings known in the above post, then resorted to the Instagram Story feature for additional commentary, adding: “If I were to make fun of Nick Cannon for having lupus and being weak and sickly….If I made a joke that said he’d be dead by the end of the year….Then Azealia Banks is the bad guy…. right?”
Inevitably word got around to Nick Cannon that she’d referenced him by name. He then chose to enliven her post on his own page with a not so well intended message, in which he referenced a familiar proverb: “creating storms without an umbrella.” Nick Cannon closed his message by mocking her mental illness and by offering prayers for a “speedy recovery.”
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KENDRICK LAMAR and SZA: ‘BLACK PANTHER’ Lawsuit Over Song
Kendrick Lamar and SZA were monumentally huge artists and that’s what propelled the soundtrack for “Black Panther” … not a 19-second clip an artist claims was a rip-off of her artwork.
Kendrick and SZA just filed legal docs asking a judge to give Lena Iris Viktor the boot in her lawsuit which claims Kendrick and Co. ripped off her artwork in the music video for “All the Stars.”
Kendrick and SZA claim in the new docs … even if the artwork in the video was a rip-off, she’s not entitled to the profits they made from the song because “common sense and logic dictate that the alleged 19 second use of the artwork in the video” is not what generated the success of the song.
The duo goes on to say the success of the album is the result of his “worldwide popularity as well as numerous accolades, including a Pulitzer Prize and dozens of Grammys.”
Kendrick and SZA also give credit for the album’s success to the incredible cultural impact of the “Black Panther” flick.
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