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No One Asked: CeeLo Green Criticizes Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” & More
Source: Johnny Louis/WENN.com / WENN Despite the long list of men in music and entertainment who have been allowed to express sexually explicit thoughts, that same freedom is rarely granted to women. CeeLo Green, who has faced questions over his checkered past, chimed in on Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” smash, framing the joint effort and that of other women artists in similar spaces as “desperate.” In an exclusive chat with UK magazine Far Out, the Goodie Mob star and singer seemed a bit distressed over “WAP” and its soaring popularity, this as the song has become something of a tool of right-leaning politicians to decry the moral fiber of the nation. Adding to this puritanical observation, Green looks to be concerned about the state of ...
Viola Davis Approves of Her “WAP” Cameo That Hilariously Erased Kylie Jenner
Source: Rachel Murray / Getty Cardi B’s pearl-clutching Megan Thee Stallion song and video for “WAP” is still the talk of the internets (RIP Combat Jack) thanks in large part to the memes. Fans were left excited and moist for the most part after watching the senses tantalizing visual for “WAP” except for one moment featuring Kylie Jenner that Twitter collectively turned it’s nose up at. Immediately fans found clever ways of erasing the youngest Jenner’s mood-killing cameo from the video. One way in particular featured actress Viola Davis making replacing Jenner was well-received by everyone, including Davis herself, who shared the photoshopped photo featuring her in the video on Jenner’s body asking in the caption “Who Did This?” ...
Big Ten Presidents To Meet Today To Decide Future Of NCAA Football Season
Source: Diamond Images / Getty Last week the University of Connecticut decided it would forego putting their players out on this field due to COVID-19 concerns. That action has caused other organizations to rethink 2020. As spotted on ESPN the upcoming collegiate football season might not see the light of day due to growing concerns regarding the pandemic. According to the article The Big Ten is expected to meet on Tuesday, August 11 to decide whether or not the 2020-2021 schedule will indeed take place. While several states continuing to see an upswing in cases, the sports publication says that senior leadership are not ready to cancel. View this post on Instagram UPDATE: The Big Ten and PAC-12 seem to have pushed their decision back till tomorrow, but they are still expected to cancel fa...
Spotify Rolls Out RapCaviar Day 1 Club For Fans Who’ve Been Rolling Since Day One
Source: Spotify / Spotify Hip-Hop fans who use Spotify should already be well aware of RapCaviar, the leading playlist of its kind on the streaming service. To help celebrate the five years since its inception, the playlist has rolled out the RapCaviar Day 1 Club for fans to highlight and share which artists they’ve been rolling with since, ahem, day one. Spotify’s latest digital experience, the RapCaviar Day 1 Club, will give fans an opportunity to show and prove how long they’ve been in support of their favorites and give the artists hard-earned bragging rights to showcase who has been streaming them the most. The interactive experience will apply Spotify personal listener data via a separate microsite, not unlike the service’s past offering of year-end most-liste...
The Chainsmokers, BTS Producer DJ Swivel Shares Music Business Advice in New YouTube Series
DJ Swivel doesn’t believe in gatekeeping in the business and believes that information is meant to be shared. DJ Swivel has launched two new YouTube series called “Story Time” and “Just The Tips.” Too many big players—artists, songwriters, producers, engineers—think they have the “secret sauce” in what it takes to be successful. They found a method that’s worked for them and don’t share their expertise with others for any number of reasons. What they fail to realize is that their success will be different than mine, yours, and, well, just about everyone else in music. Not DJ Swivel, though. He doesn’t believe in gatekeeping in the business and believes that information is to be shared. He’s proven that time and time again with his Full Sail Universit...
Badshah Faces Criminal Investigation After Allegedly Purchasing Fake YouTube Plays
Badshah has become a focus in a broader criminal investigation by Mumbai police. Mumbai Police brought in Bollywood artist Badshah over the weekend for several hours of questioning in connection to an alleged scheme involving the purchasing of fake social media metrics. Badshah’s digital presence first came under scrutiny last year when it appeared he had broken a high-profile streaming record on YouTube. Upon releasing his single “Paagal,” the song’s music video rocketed to nearly 75 million views in a 24-hour period. At the time,”Paagal” seemed to have dethroned BTS‘ “Boy With Luv” for the biggest debut on the platform, but after further review, YouTube decided not to award the record to “Paagal” and simultaneou...
Watch Patrick Topping Play Mesmerizing Skyline Set Atop Scotland’s Iconic Calton Hill
Topping dropped a stunning set atop the idyllic Scotland hill. Famed English DJ and house music producer Patrick Topping has taken the streaming game to new heights after filming a dazzling set atop Scotland’s iconic Calton Hill. Flanked by the idyllic skyline of Edinburgh, Topping played a mesmerizing song-cycle of deep and tech house bops as day turned to night. He dropped many of his own originals as well as a litany of tracks from his house and techno music compatriots, like Paul Johnson‘s “I Make U Create Dance Steps That U Can’t Repeat,” Loods‘ “Gummi,” and Charlotte de Witte‘s monster remix of Jerome Isma-ae‘s iconic 2010 progressive track “Hold That Sucker Down.” Calton Hill is no...
IDLES Team With Michel Gondry for ‘Model Village’ Video
IDLES and Michel Gondry? You better believe it. Gondry, in case you forgot, has directed both videos (Daft Punk, Radiohead, The White Stripes) and films (including the mind-bending, Oscar-winning Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). So it’s fitting that he’d team up with the British rockers to produce a surreal clip for their latest single, “Model Village.” The dance-punk tune tackles small-town thinking. “I hated growing up in a city that was really a town that was really a fishbowl. I left as soon as I could, only to realize the fishbowl didn’t exist…just the fish, and they’re everywhere,” IDLES singer Joe Talbot said in a statement. “Michel’s work is handmade and it’s human and that’s something that our society pushes agains...
Chelsea Peretti Shares New EP Featuring Kathleen Hanna, Wale, Nick Kroll
Actress-comedian-singer Chelsea Peretti dropped five new songs today on the Phosphorescent Panic EP, which features Wale, Kathleen Hanna, Money Mark, Nick Kroll, Reggie Watts, Kate Berlant and Kid Mero. It joins the previously released Foam & Flotsam EP for a 10-song preview the full-length, coffee-themed album, due in Fall. Along with the single “JAVADAWGS,” other caffeinated cuts on the EP include “EXPRESSO” AND “GREENTEA.” The EP and album were produced with longtime collaborator Kool Kojak (Flo Rida, Nicki Minaj, Weezer) and includes contributions from Juliette Lewis, Hannibal Buress, Patti Harrison, and Andy Milonakis. Peretti also shared a Vincent Scala-directed music video for “JAVADAWGS (feat. Kate Berlant & Reggie Watts).” T...
Fresh Out The Bing Juelz Santana Heads To The Dentist To Make Sure His Purchased Chompers Are Good
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Sunday (Aug.9), it was revealed Juelz Santana is a free man, and one of the first people he visited was his dentist. Fresh out of the bing, we immediately learned that Santana was not only excited to enjoy his wife, Kimbella’s cooking in the kitchen, but also her cake in the bedroom. View this post on Instagram Home Sweet Home… I Love U @kimbellasworld #FreeAtLast #ImmBack #GodIsGood A post shared by thejuelzsantana (@thejuelzsantana) on Aug 6, 2020 at 9:12am PDT But that’s not all, immediately after becoming a free man thanks to some help from Meek Mill, Santana made a trip to Brooklyn to see his dentist, Dr. Daniel Rubinshtein. The man responsible for fixing Santana’s previously jacked up grill due to drug use shared a video of himself...
D.L. Hughley Says Kanye West Hides Behind Mental Illness When Slandering Black History, Compares Him To Donald Trump
Source: Michael S. Schwartz / Getty As painful as it is to admit, Kanye West is really out here acting like the ops and while some like Nick Cannon are completely cool with the bipolar Chicago rapper playing spoiler in the Presidential race to help Donald Trump steal another election, D.L. Hughley is peeping game and calling it out. During an interview with Chanel Omari for Fanroom Live, D.L. Hughley spoke on Kanye West dealing with mental illness, but wondered why it was mainly brought up whenever Yeezy would slander his own community while caping for Donald Trump. “There is no doubt that he suffers from some level of mental illness, but it isn’t why he’s misogynistic, it isn’t why he’s disrespectful to our history,” Hughley said. “Kanye West R...
Troubled Faraday Future Auctions off Pikes Peak Prototype
Electric car manufacturer Faraday Future seemed to have a future. That vision has been crumbling for years, and it’s been one troubling sign after another. The latest indication that things are going badly has a silver lining, however. Instead of creditors getting stiffed or executives jumping ship, this bit of news includes an actual car you can buy. In fact, this FF 91 prototype is—as far as we can tell—the first, and so far only, Faraday Future vehicle to go up for sale. Buying it won’t save the company, but at least you’ll be able to hold a tangible product produced by a company that otherwise just seems to be burning cash. And this is no ordinary FF 91 prototype. It’s the car that ran up Pikes Peak in 2017 in a claimed record time, although it wasn’t a production car—and, frankly, sti...
