Following his 2016 album, The Sun’s Tirade, Isaiah Rashad has been gearing up for the release of his second studio album. The TDE rapper gave us a glimpse of some new m from it on Instagram Live and his fans gave him an overly positive response.
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Keep an eye out for the drop of his new project and listen to his previous work The Sun’s Tirade Via Spotify below.
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Whether you like it or not, Eazy-E was one of the most influential figures in gangsta rap. As a member of N.W.A. and even a solo Artist, he was a star. Argue with me if you want, he was unf*ckwitable with his over the top rhymes and charisma. Not only that, his records sold everywhere. After dropping out of high school and selling drugs, Eazy changed the game and started his own record label, Ruthless Records. Ruthless Records was ran by him and partner Jerry Heller and soon they discovered amazing talents Ice Cube and Dr. Dre. It wasn’t until 1987 that the group released their first album titled, N.W.A. and the Posse. This album didn’t do anywhere as good as their second album which came out the following year Straight Outta Compton. Being one of the most controversial albums at the time, this blew them up like crazy. Later on that year in 1988, E did his thing and released a solo project on his own titled Eazy-Duz-It which sold over 2 million copies.
After N.W.A‘s breakup, unfortunately Eazy-E became diagnosed with AIDS in 1995, and passed away shortly after. 23 years ago on this day in history Eazy-E passed away and fans still continue to bump his records till this day. R.I.P. Eazy-E aka the “Godfather of Gangsta Rap”, you are gone but not forgotten!
Check out some of my favorite jams from him. These right here are straight timeless!
For the last few months, there has been a heated lawsuit that was affecting the music world. Radiohead sued Lana Del Rey over writing credits on her Lust for Life track “Get Free.” The songs were pretty similar so it was a case that took a few weeks to fully work out.
Listen to the similarities here if you haven’t already:
“Now that my lawsuit’s over, I guess I can sing that song anytime I want, right?”
Watch her performance here:
Lana Del Rey performing “Get Free” 🕊 https://t.co/ILteGMcVus
— Lana Del Rey Latest (@DelReyLatest) March 26, 2018
Radiohead’s publishers stated:
Overall this lawsuit has been so confusing and attracted bad publicity for both the artists. I don’t get why they keep releasing different statements because I thought that Radiohead was pursuing the lawsuit. There is so much drama in Hollywood. I am glad that Lana gets to sing her song again because it was one of the highlights of her album. We can’t really un-hear the similarities in both their songs, so I wish that Radiohead would have won this lawsuit. I don’t think anything can take down Lana Del Rey that this point in her career.
Chance the Rapper has not been very happy recently. A lot of celebrities have made it their duty to use their platform for good. Chance recently called out Heineken for their apparently racist commercial.
The advertisement he is fighting against is Heineken’s campaign whos tagline is “Sometimes, lighter is better.” Chance told them that it was horribly racist.
He took to Twitter to call out the company for the racist ad:
I think some companies are purposely putting out noticably racist ads so they can get more views. And that shit racist/bogus so I guess I shouldn’t help by posting about it. But 😂 I gotta just say tho. The “sometimes lighter is better” Hienekin commercial is terribly racist omg
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) March 26, 2018
I found that joint 😂😂https://t.co/r4cgSLE8Uz
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) March 26, 2018
Im not saying boucott them or go off im just noticing how often it happens and I think they baiting consumers and tweeters and freelancers and shit. Like I didnt wanna tweet about it so bad 😂😂 but its like how can u not
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) March 26, 2018
He even believes it was placed so that the company could get publicity. Not to say anything but calling them out does create publicity?
You can watch it here
The ad displays a bartender seeing a woman who is in need of a beer and then slides it over to her. Since the bottle is so light it slides past a couple of people until the tagline, “Sometimes, lighter is better.”
Honestly, I don’t know what is so racist about the ad besides the poorly worded phrase. The beer is a light beer and it is shown not carrying a lot of weight. The meaning is not racist and someone who is watching would never even question that implication. But hey, some people find it offensive but I don’t think it was meant to be taken this literally. We might just have to all calm down.
On Saturday, March 24th, 2018 hundreds of people participated in the March for Our Lives protest in Washington, D.C. The march was for gun control laws and the ending to gun violence and mass shootings. The event that triggered this public outcry was the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last month as students stepped up to fight for the regulations. It drew a lot of support and there were about 850,000 people in the crowd. This is sure to change at least something and since there have been over 30 shootings in 2018 this year, it is time to make a change.
The most captivating part of Saturday was the speeches that were given to the crowd from people who were directly involved in the shootings. These people have been directly tied to the shootings due to unfortunate events in their schools and have seen the negative side of no gun control laws with their own eyes. One never knows that it can happen to you until it actually happens to you. It is getting way too common to turn a blind eye to it anymore.
The most moving speech was given by Emma González, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, where she saw her friends die right before her eyes. She is not complacent but rather extremely angry about the progress the government is making on this issue. She has become the face of the gun control movement.
You can watch the speech here:
In the speech, she listed off the names of everyone who was killed and described the things they would never do again, which highlighted just how traumatized their school environment is. By describing the mundane tasks that these students took for granted, no one could never imagine that a gunman could come in and disrupt that. It showed it could happen to anyone, anytime and any place.
After her statements, she stood in silence in tears, which was confusing to the crowd but then she stated,
She walked away from the podium with almost everyone in the crowd in tears and disbelief. The speech was truly moving and I hope it certainly makes the government think about all the pain it is causing innocent victims. This was the speech to actually make a change, and since it is going around on almost every social media platform- people are going to get behind this movement. I am so proud of this generation for speaking up against the government and I can’t wait to see it take off. What Emma González did was powerful and it is sure to make an impact.
We know Chance the Rapper has never had a problem calling out anything he finds to be out of line so it’s not to our surprise that he has expressed his feelings on a new commercial that Heineken aired that appears to be…well, pretty racist.
Chance expresses that he feels companies purposely add underlying racist messages in their add just for publicity and that he did not want to speak on the matter but he could refuse!
Although some people thought that Chance’s interpretation of the commercial was a stretch, many agree with him and believe that the racism in the commercial was clear as day.
What do y’all think? Should Heineken be blasted for this offensive add?
