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Rapper Silento Arrested And Charged With Murder Of His Cousin
Source: Dekalb County Sheriff’s Office / DCSO Things continue to seemingly get worse for Silento. Police say he is now is responsible for a family member’s untimely passing. As spotted on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the former teen Hip-Hop sensation has some very serious allegations looming over his name. On Monday (Feb. 1), the artist born Ricky Lamar Hawk was arrested for his involvement in the murder of 34-year-old Frederick Rooks. Dekalb County police made the announcement via Twitter. “Today, Ricky Hawk, 23, was arrested for the murder of his cousin Frederick Rooks, 34. On January 21, the DeKalb County Police Department investigated Rooks’ death after he was found shot on Deep Shoals Circle. Hawk is in the DeKalb County Jail charged with Murder. #WeAreDKPD,” read the t...
Revered Hip-Hop Photographer Ricky Powell Has Passed Away
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Famed Hip-Hop and street photographer Ricky Powell has passed away. NME is reporting that the triple OG cameraman who worked with the likes of Run-DMC, The Beastie Boys, and Andy Warhol died of heart failure at the too-young age of 59. “I just want to let everybody know he was a very special man, and he will be sorely missed.” Powell began his professional career in 1986 when he left his gig selling lemon ices to join with Run-DMC and Beastie Boys on the Raising Hell tour. After capturing some of Hip-Hop’s most iconic pictures during that run, Powell went on to become one of the most notable photographers in the game and eventually published a few books including Oh Snap!: The Rap Photography of Ricky Powell and Public Access: Ricky Powell Photographs 1985-2005...
Macklemore’s White Guilt When He Won Grammy Over Kendrick Lamar Led To Drug Abuse
Source: Johnny Louis/WENN.com / WENN History has shown us that The Grammys doesn’t reflect nor truly represent our culture. One of their biggest gaffes apparently caused one performer to turn to illegal substances. As spotted on AllHipHop.com Macklemore was a recent guest on Talib Kweli’s People’s Party show. The two discussed his meteoric rise in 2012 with the release of The Heist with Ryan Lewis. The album would go on to put his name on the map via the crossover single “Thrift Shop”. Naturally, his Grammy Award win for Best Rap Album over Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D City in 2014 came up during the conversation. To hear the Seattle native tell it, the win was a bigger curse than it was a gift. “It wasn’t just the Grammys that we won. We won every f***ing thing,”...
Georgia Police Chief & Officer Caught On Bodycam Saying Disgusting Racist Remarks At BLM Rally
Source: picture alliance / Getty Here is one instance when police bodycam footage actually worked in getting racist cops fired. A police chief and an officer from the small Georgia town of Hamilton are now out of a job after being caught saying racist and misogynistic remarks on footage recovered from a bodycam one of the officers was wearing. The disgusting comments were made as the two law enforcement officials were preparing to patrol a Black Lives Matter protest last year. On the video, both officers can be heard having a conversation. Brooks can be heard using the N-word and made lewd comments about Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams asking which one they would rather sleep with? Complaining about the protests, Allmond also made...
Puma Blue’s Dreamland Dispatches
Saying Jacob Allen appears front and center on his new album cover isn’t technically wrong. But it’s obfuscation, much like the image of the artist himself. You can spot a foot and a baggy pant leg bent on a bed, and then Allen’s torso vanishes behind a pink curtain. Curving across the entire scene is the album’s title, In Praise of Shadows, a thesis statement for its contents taken from an essay by Japanese thinker Jun’ichirō Tanizaki. Allen, who records and releases music under the name Puma Blue, might as well count those shadows and intrigue as collaborators in his liner notes. In his jazzy, rhythmic, and ethereal takes on R&B and downtempo café music, as on the cover of his debut album (out February 4), he’s there, but he’s immaterial. He’s like mist, or a dream, or the pale...
Black Coffee Teams Up With HyperionDev To Gift Scholarships to Prospective Coders
Thanks to a new partnership between Black Coffee and HyperionDev, several prospective coders will be on their way to class with a full scholarship. HyperionDev is a remote learning organization that provides coding boot camps and certifications to software developers. The company states that a six-month part-time or full-time investment is all it takes for students to become job-ready, even when starting from limited-to-no experience. Alumni have gone on to work for Amazon and IBM, among other tech giants. Luckily, Black Coffee is among the investors helping to lower the barrier of entry even further by partnering with the platform to give away scholarships to prospective students. Entrants will need to submit a creative 60-second video and write a 200-word essay in order to be...
UK Covid Rave Broken Up By Police Before Hundreds Of Ticket Purchasers Arrived
A forthcoming rave that had sold hundreds of tickets to individuals in advance has been shut down by UK police. The event, titled, Covid Rave, was scheduled to take place last weekend in an abandoned warehouse, but it was thwarted by police ahead of time as organizers arrived to begin making preparations. Northumbria Police made several arrests on the scene. In the process, concert equipment and drugs were also seized. Subsequently, attendees who had purchased tickets were warned by police via social media to stay home. Assistant Chief Constable, Neil Hutchison, condemned the actions and stated that the event would have been illegal even in the absence of a pandemic. “This event was widely marketed, flyers were distributed and tickets were sold to hundreds of people. It woul...
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“The Song 2.0“ – Elport & Aiden Myers Out via Nightblue Music, “The Song 2.0” finds producer Elport and vocalist Aiden Myers team up to create a stunning combination of pop and future bass. “One Night” – problem solved & ScoobE German producer problem solved and Dutch/Irish rapper ScoobE wish for just one night of normality and festivals in their new tune – a groovy and genre-bending gem. “Easier” – PAPER FACE Emerging duo PAPER FACE have struck gold once again with their latest single “Easier,” a lighthearted tropical pop tune. “Tik Tok” – Wasback Taking on Kesha’s 2009 smash hit, Wasback taps into our nostalgia by infusing the original with house drums and groovy basslines in this slap house cover. “Disappear” – Severin & Like Lio...
JOHN JOSEPH’s BLOODCLOT Announces New Lineup, Drops ‘Save The Robots’ Single
Hardcore supergroup BLOODCLOT, led by former CRO-MAGS frontman John Joseph, has revealed a lyric video for the new single “Save The Robots”. “Save The Robots” is the first BLOODCLOT track to feature new members, guitarist Tom Capone (QUICKSAND, BOLD), bassist Manny Carrero (STILL SUIT, GLASSJAW, BURN) and drummer Darren Morgenthaler (MADBALL, MAXIMUM PENALTY). After the release of the 2017 album “Up In Arms”, BLOODCLOT went on hiatus while grieving the loss of its guitarist and dear friend Todd Youth. “Todd passed away just after ‘Up In Arms’ was released, and we did one U.S. tour,” Joseph says. “BLOODCLOT was hit hard. It took us by complete surprise. I’ve known Todd since the early ’80s, so it wasn’t just...
TERROR To Release ‘Trapped In A World’ LP Featuring Former Guitarist TODD JONES
Long-running Los Angeles hardcore outfit TERROR is preparing to release “Trapped In A World”, revisiting its earliest records with former guitarist Todd Jones of NAILS, who will also be producing the band’s next LP. Set for release on March 5, the effort will include the song “Overcome”, which can be streamed below. Since its 2002 inception, TERROR has held their own at the forefront of hardcore, through nonstop international touring, an incredible discography, and deep roots in the hardcore community. While their full-time touring has been halted for the past year during the ongoing pandemic, the band has been revisiting material from some of their prior incarnations, and in recent months, the current lineup met up to recapture songs from their earliest days....
Watch Ex-METALLICA Bassist JASON NEWSTED Perform Cover Of JOHN ANDERSON’s ‘Seminole Wind’
Former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted‘s official YouTube channel has just shared a video of him and his THE CHOPHOUSE BAND performing a cover version of the John Anderson song “Seminole Wind” in March 2019 at the Lighthouse ArtCenter in Tequesta, Florida. Check it out below. Also available are previously released performances of Johnny Cash‘s “Big River” the blues classic “Cocaine Blues”, Tom Waits‘s “Jockey Full Of Bourbon”, Neil Young‘s “Rockin’ In The Free World” and “I’ve Been Everywhere” (originally written by Australian country singer Geoff Mack and later recorded by Johnny Cash). Named after Jason‘s four recording studio facilities around the U.S. and featuring a fluid ...
METALLICA To Perform On ‘A Late Show: Super Bowl Edition’
METALLICA will perform on “A Late Show: Super Bowl Edition”, a live special edition of Stephen Colbert‘s “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”, on Sunday, February 7. It will follow late local news after Sunday’s Super Bowl LV, beginning at approximately 11:35 p.m. ET/8:35 p.m. PT on CBS. METALLICA announced its participation in the program via social media earlier today. The group wrote: “We’re celebrating Super Bowl LV with our friend @stephenathome on Sunday! Tune in to @colbertlateshow’s ‘A Late Show: Super Bowl Edition’ at 11:35pm EST on CBS to catch our performance. #LSSC #LateShow”. “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”, a production of The Late Show Inc., airs weeknights (11:35 p.m. – 12:37 a.m....
