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lil nas x May 22, 2019
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HA! Lil Nas X inks deal with Wrangler Jeans, country fans are big mad

In what seems like a never-ending snowball, Lil Nas X’s smash hit “Old Town Road” has notched yet another feat.

Thanks to a lyric from the rapper’s No. 1 hit, “Cowboy hat from Gucci / Wrangler on my booty,” a partnership has been inspired between the popular denim line and the Atlanta rapper.

Monday, May 20, the company announced Lil Nas X will become the focus of its new capsule collection, making it publically official with an Instagram post.

“As an iconic brand in fashion, we have shown up in music, film, and popular culture for decades, but this is the first time our jeans are actually the key to unlocking a behind-the-scenes look at the making of a chart-topping hit,” Jenni Broyles, VP/GM of Wrangler North America, said in a statement to Complex.

“We’re incredibly excited about the success of ‘Old Town Road’ and our partnership with Lil Nas X. It is another great example of the power music – and in our case, fashion – has to unite and inspire us all.”

The look is just the latest of what has been larger-than-life developments for the viral rapper.

Originally taking off on the app TikTok, the genre-defying single that can only be described as trap-rock, debuted on Billboard’s cross-genre Hot 100 chart, the Hot Country Songs chart and the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart all at once.

He then recruited one of country music’s most prominent figures, Billy Rae Cyrus, for the remix, and, as if that wasn’t enough, dropped a video with comedian legend Chris Rock in it.

It’s been great, really, especially seeing how Lil Nas X was a kid with a pipe dream just a couple of months ago. Except, every step of the way country fans have tried to impede his progress.

When the original version of “Old Town Road” charted, it was quietly taken down because the song did “not currently merit inclusion on Billboard‘s country charts,” as told to Rolling Stone.

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Now, they’re in the Instagram comments threatening to boycott Wrangler because of the new partnership.

“Really? Supporting an artist that so clearly is mocking country music and the lifestyle it represents? Bad move Wrangler,” one commenter wrote.

“Thank you, Wrangler, for ruining the original cowboy cuts awesome just fantastic,” another person wrote.

Not too long after the controversy, Lil Nas X hopped on Twitter to address his haters.

“Y’all really boycotting wrangler? Is it that deep?” Nas X tweeted.

It’s ironic, being that country is a derivative of blues and soul, that it’s fans now feel like Lil Nas X’s contributions are out of place. Honestly, it does nothing more than speak to the genre’s demographic and how they view others outside of it.

Who wouldn’t want country opening its doors to hip-hop and all the versatility, flavor and money it brings? What country purist is this angry that they’ll get in front on another man’s bag?

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And we know Wrangler is light-weight affordable. Lil Nas X’s collection has prices ranging from $39 to $139. That’s a steal compared to most designer wears.

Either way, it seems like Lil Nas X has a nose for the bag. I’m sure a little country hate won’t stop him.

9th wonder May 22, 2019
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Legendary 2000’s rap group Little Brother is reuniting: Why it matters

Say what you will about the new era of hip-hop with SoundCloud and mumble rappers bracing the scene, but thanks to the digital age, you can get your hands on just about anything you want.

Because hip-hop is as popular as it’s ever been there are more artists to pick from; the elder statesmen, like the Jay Z, Pusha T, and Nas’ of the world, are proving longevity can exist, not to mention the genre’s overall collective consciousness is still maturing.

In other words, there should no longer be complaints about what rap has to offer.

Which is why the early 2000’s hip-hop group Little Brother announcing a return couldn’t have been at a better time.

Yesterday, DJ Booth reported that the Durham North Carolina trio comprised of MCs Phonte (born Phonte Coleman) Big Pooh (born Thomas Jones) and DJ/producer 9th Wonder (born Pat Douthit), are back to working together with the announcement of Hopscotch Festival.

“I’m excited to announce that my brother Big Pooh and I are back at work. New Little Brother music and a tour are coming soon,” Phonte wrote in an email to DJBooth.

He continued: “After conversations with 9th Wonder following our Art of Cool reunion show in Durham last year, the three of us mutually agreed it was best for LB to continue as a duo, as Pooh and I have officially been Little Brother since 2007.”

The two should fare well in today’s waters seeing they both have had solo releases and successes.

Big Pooh has been consistent with content, releasing albums just about every two years including the critically acclaimed Everything 4 Sale in 2016. And Phonte’s 2018 offering, No News Is Good News, was an honest look into a coping with death after the loss of his father.

Because the new era of rap tends to be this angsty, drug-use inspired sound that’s fun but exhausting, mature raps that tell life’s events over soul samples, like what Little Brother offers, is a sound that will most definitely find it’s fanbase.

Besides, Phonte and Big Pooh are regarded as some of the best MC’s in the game and 9th Wonder is on every hip-hop head’s Mt. Rushmore of producers — their music practically makes itself.

Like Phonte mentioned earlier, the group reunited briefly at the Art of Cool Festival in Durham, North Carolina last year, but the reunion this year between Phone and Pooh will also mean new releases as Little Brother.

Hopscotch Festival will take place in Raleigh, North Carolina, September 5 through September 7.

basketball May 22, 2019
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The Warriors are headed to the Finals, but not without Draymond’s good luck charm

The Golden State Warriors clinched the Western Conference Monday night, routing the Portland Trailblazers 119-117 in a four-game sweep.

There were tons of storylines to take away. Do the Warriors play better with or without Kevin Durant? What about the heightened level of Draymond’s play or how much of an all-time great Steph and this team is? Still, the storyline that seemed to stick was the impromptu good luck charm the Warriors found before game four: a reporter.

The Warriors found the reporter handy when looking for a prop to stand in for the injured Kevin, whom they usually rally around heading to the court. Because Durant wasn’t with the team, grabbed the nearest guy standing next to the team and put him in the middle of the circle.

After the game, Green noticed the reporter and this funny exchange happened:

“I gotta buy his flight to the Finals … I ain’t paying for your hotel though,” Draymond told the reporter who joined the team in the pre-game huddle.

Apparently, he was good luck for the Warriors tonight and hopes for the good omen to continue.

Still, the Warriors don’t need him. They’ve improved to an impressive 31-1 winning record for games which the star forward has missed but Stephen Curry has played.

That’s also without all-star center DeMarcus Cousins, who is also expected to make a return sometimes during the finals.

The Warriors are going to be fine, good luck charm or not, especially now that Draymond has a new approach to the game. Following his game three triple-double, he admitted his son mimicked his dad’s negative body language made him change his ways.

“Yeah, he plays on his little hoop and then he’ll stomp around. It’s like, I like the intensity but slow down, young fella,” Green told reporters on Sunday.

He continued, “I realize how impressionable the kids are at the ages they’re at. I just really want to be a good example for them and show them the right thing. My son was playing, he was shooting and flopping. I was like, ‘You’ve got to stop watching the NBA.’ He’d fall on the floor: ‘Oh, Daddy, help me up.’ What are you flopping for?”

“Just really impressionable at this age. I want to make sure I’m setting a good example for them as well.”

Draymond has been on a tear and arguably the team’s best player. If he’s looking for a good luck charm, it’s possibly a lot closer than he thinks.

chance tha rapper May 21, 2019
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Chance The Rapper is back and he’s giving away a year of free groceries

Promoting an album in 2019 looks absolutely nothing like it did 10 years ago. Back in the day, you had to stop at every major radio station, hit a couple of morning shows and spit a freestyle.

Now that everyone lives online, all you have to do is attract attention.

Which is exactly why Chance The Rapper is giving a year’s worth of free groceries for 10 fans that make a video dancing to his newest single, “GrOceries” with TisaKorean.

“I would like to pay for your #GRoCERIES for the next year,” he says in a tweet last Friday. “Yup. I’m picking the 10 best dance videos posted with #Groceries and paying for their groceries THROUGH NEXT SUMMER! extra points if you do it with friends/parents. EXTRA EXTRA points if you do it at work/school,” he continued.

The fun single is the first offering of what will be the Chicago native’s debut studio album slated to drop in July. It will be his first project since Coloring Book, which won three Grammys in 2016.

The app you see Chance dancing on is called Triller, which, among being fun, is perfect for the marketing of his single and the challenge.

The 15-second video platform, best known for dance and lip sync clips, has been used by Rae Sremmurd, Lil Uzi Vert, Rico Nasty, Queen Key, and many more to promote their own songs and spotlight emerging artists due to the platform’s popularity.

The app is flooded with tastemakers, trendsetters, and influencers dancing to artists’ songs, sometimes for fun, sometimes by the commission.

12-year-old Triller enthusiast, Seth Vangeldren, claims being offered six-figure deals from labels just so they can have direct access to his audience on the app. Having gone viral, the music he picks to dance to is coveted by up and coming artists who hope to get their music in front of a large audience.

As you can imagine, submissions have been flooding in from school children, moms, families, athletes, and all alike. So far Chance has picked two of the 10 videos, which you can see here and here, meaning there are 8 more shots for you to get your videos in.

Stipulations or further details on just how he plans on distributing the groceries for a year have not been disclosed but if there’s anyone to count on it would be Chance.

Supplying groceries is just the latest of many real-life heroics he does on a day in and day out basis for Chicago and hip-hop. It’s a brilliant marketing strategy by Chance’s team and a win-win for everyone.

10K80 May 17, 2019
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Young adults vs. credit cards: Why it’s a struggle to pay bills on time

In the middle of everything else that seems to be going wrong in America, Bloomberg decided to inform everyone that more than half of the U.S. millennials that own a credit card are having trouble meeting payments.

In a report published yesterday, the finance publication reported that the charge-off rate or the amount of debt a creditor has decided is unlikely to be collected divided by the average outstanding credit card balances owed. Additionally, the first quarter increased to the highest level in almost seven years.

The culprit is arguably the last group of individuals we need in debt: the generation that’s got next.

Furthermore, 8.05 percent of outstanding credit card debt among Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 was delinquent by at least 90 days. Those are the highest level since early 2011, according to data released this week by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

But why?

According to a report by CNBC, four in 10 millennials say day-to-day expenses such as groceries, child care and utilities are their biggest reasons for carrying a credit card balance. And about 20 percent cite emergency situations like medical bills and car repairs.

“The inability to get over that debt hurdle can be a pervasive problem,” Rossman says. That’s because millennials tend to have other debts, such as student loans, as well as high housing costs. About three out of four millennials say they’re juggling some type of debt, according to a recent LightStream Survey conducted by the Harris Poll.

The danger of these late and failed payments is not immediate per se but lies in the future. The average credit card APR is at a record-breaking 17.57 percent, thanks to creditors using compound interest, which works against you in a hurry.

Not to mention, other debts, like student loans and high housing costs, make payments even tougher. When you realize that repayment takes the majority of you to check and you still have other responsibilities, a tricky game of priorities ensues.

About three out of four millennials say they’re juggling some type of debt, according to a recent LightStream Survey conducted by the Harris Poll.

It’s why politicians like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders are calling for new legislation that caps credit card interest rates at 15% and it’s why millennials, as opposed to Gen-Xers, are fretting.

So what can and should millennials do?

Well, most experts advise having an emergency savings fund equivalent to three-to-six months of living expenses set aside in an account. This creates a buffer between credit card users and high-cost credit card debt. Other ways are to consistently save a small percentage of your paycheck by setting up automatic transfers.

As we enter shakier financial times, credit card holders have to be intentional about methods of slowing down, making a dent or some kind of action to help themselves in the very near future.

It’s tough, but trust, you’re not the only one.

Bruh May 15, 2019
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Stan Lee’s ex-business partner was reportedly finessing him before his death

Stan Lee, the man behind some of the biggest films in the past decade, was reportedly the subject of abuse before his passing in 2018, reports say.

A spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Superior Court told The Hollywood Reporter an arrest warrant was issued for Keya Morgan. Morgan was charged with multiple counts of elder abuse including alleged false imprisonment.

As of right now, Morgan is not in custody but his attorney, Alex Kessel, told The Associated Press that his client is not guilty and he expects him to be exonerated.

The new drama surrounding the late comic icon can actually be traced back to last year. In April, THR reported that Lee was quarreling with his most inner circle. He also claimed they were financially motivated to take control over his life.

In result, that same summer, Lee’s legal representatives filed for a restraining order against Morgan, which was granted.

Also to be noted, last month, Morgan pleaded no contest to filing a false police report. He was then mandated to stay away from Lee’s family and residence, along with completing 100 hours of community service, according to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office.

While all the facts of the case aren’t out, the potential of foul play going on with Stan Lee would be a let-down of epic proportions, from what he has brought to the culture and our childhoods.

His Marvel franchise is the highest grossing movie franchise in history. Thus far the franchise has raked in $23 billion at the box office and Lee as an executive producer boasts a personal fortune of around $50 million. To think of someone wanting to bring harm to a 90-year-old, let alone of these accomplishments is saddening.

Now, Stan Lee did not live a life without blemish. In April of last year, the Marvel mastermind was accused of sexual misconduct by several home nurses who used to work for the 95-year-old.

According to the lawsuit, Lee was accused of assault, battery, violation of the Illinois Gender Violence Act. Additionally, he was accused of emotional distress, and named his former assistant, Max Anderson, in a count of civil conspiracy. The later charges stemmed from two separate massage therapy sessions on Apr. 21 and 22, 2017, in a Chicago hotel room.

But that doesn’t mean he, even in death, deserves to be canceled or be denied justice if these allegations prove true. Lee and his team denied the claims, he just never lived long enough to have his name cleared.

Lee died in November of 2018.

More information on the case is sure to develop as they look to arrest Morgan until then we can only hope justice is served for all parties involved.

10K80 May 15, 2019
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How Beyoncé made a hot $300 million off of Uber with one move

Beyoncé just made $300 million dollars.

Well, kinda.

Four years ago Beyoncé was offered $6 million to perform for a corporate Uber event in Las Vegas and, instead of cold hard cash, Queen Bey elected her compensation to be in equity. And over four years it has turned into $300 million.

“If you were an early investor … this may be an opportunity which may only come around once in a lifetime,” Deirdre Bosa of CNBC said in a statement to the entertainment site Inside Edition. It just so happened that Beyoncé was one of them.

The Lemonade artist joins the likes of Leo DiCaprio, Ashton Kutcher and others who experienced a massive payday after the ride-sharing juggernaut went public on the New York Stock Exchange last Friday.

The $8.1 billion IPO (Initial Public Offering) went for $45 each. Thus, making it one of the biggest tech IPOs in recent history.

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong who invested an early $100,000 experienced a glow up also. He said the investment “saved” his family after his doping scandal single-handedly left him for broke. Armstrong’s Uber investment could now be worth north of $30 million.

“A lot of the people you are talking about, Lance Armstrong, Jay-Z, Jeff Bezos, even Jeff Schmidt of Google, they got in early through word of mouth really,” Bosa said.

When it comes to Beyoncé, it always feels like there aren’t enough words in the English dictionary to fully describe her essence or what she’s accomplished.

In 2019 alone, Houston’s finest dropped an album, the live audio of her Coachella set titled Homecoming.   As well as, a complimentary doc on Netflix and she has a major role in the heavily anticipated live action film, Lion King to boot.

It’s no longer just music for Beyoncé. She has become an icon in every way and in many regards, her investment in Uber is just another testament to that.

The rich may be getting richer but there’s no reason why we can’t peep how they do it. Seeking compensation through equity is business savvy. Especially when you find yourself working for a start-up.

Yes, celebs have the top financial advisors money can buy as well as the resources to risk. Still, it should still get us thinking about how to make our money work smarter and not harder.

Beyoncé joins Rick Ross, Rihanna, Akon and many others who used their status and fortune earned in music to venture into larger means. They’re laying the blueprint. It’s just a matter of picking up the game and making it happen for yourself.

Salute the Queen.

festival May 14, 2019
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Rolling Mid: 5 ways Miami’s biggest hip-hop festival ‘Rolling Loud’ flopped

When co-founders Matt Zingler and Tariq Cherif debuted Rolling Loud in February of 2015, they envisioned creating something never been done before.

“I’m trying to create [a] Starbucks,” he told Forbes in a 2018 profile explaining his goal of franchising the Rolling Loud festival brand.

Now, with hip-hop heavyweights consistently headlining, established venues in Los Angeles and San Francisco, with plans to expand in New York, London, Japan, China, Mexico, Australia and Croatia, and a formidable rival to Coachella for number one music festival, it’s safe to say he has.

Selling out the Miami Dolphins’ 40,000-seater Hard Rock Stadium with general admission priced tickets going for $300-plus, like Starbucks, is a darn successful business model. Each year they’ve increased in occupancy and turned a profit.

Except, Starbucks isn’t the creme de la cream of coffee. In fact, Starbucks isn’t the creme de la cream of chain coffee (that’d be Intelligentsia), so it’s to no surprise that this year the festival did not live up to its high expectations.

After three days of confusion, no-shows, and arrest, Rolling Loud 2019 has come to an end. And apparently, it ended up being more ‘mid’ than anything.

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With any mass gatherings of bodies, you cannot expect perfect or for everything to go smoothly but in the case of Rolling Loud this past weekend it was astronomically bad.

Just how bad? Well, how about you judge for yourself. Here are 5 ways Rolling Loud was was some mid and flopped:

False active shooter

Festival goers should have known Rolling Loud was going to be on some bullshit when on opening day there were false alarms of an active shooter.

 

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The Miami Times reports that around  10:30 p.m. a fight broke out, causing thousands of guests to stampede and leaving several guests trampled and hurt. The panic caused many to think something worse — a shooting —  had happened, which resulted in more scrambling and hopping fences.

Although they deemed there never was a shooter, many left and missed the headliner that night: Cardi B.

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Kodak arrested

One could say it was his fans’ fault, seeing Kodak ‘s problematic history, that they were stood up and left out to dry when he didn’t show up to his set, but this time it wasn’t his fault?

On Saturday, the Florida rapper was picked up by the police as part of a joint sting by federal agents and local authorities to pursue federal and state firearms charges. Authorities have yet revealed what led to his arrest, but it was reportedly the result of an “extensive investigation.”

Despite reports that he’d been arrested on festival grounds, Rolling Loud issued a statement saying that he was “arrested on his way to the festival and we have no knowledge of what led to the arrest since he was not on festival property.”

Lil Wayne absent

Similarly, and adding to the belief that the festival was predisposed to arresting artists, Lil Wayne also missed his set, citing police asking to search him before getting on stage.

In a tweet, Wayne explained the situation, stating that he wouldn’t be subject to such stipulations, “I do not and will not ever settle for being policed to do my job,” he wrote. He was ultimately replaced by Meek Mill, who complied with the search.

Miami’s trash weather

If the arrests and no-shows weren’t bad enough, the weather was lackluster as well. Being that it is Miami in the springtime, it’s to be expected, but in many cases, it ruined the show.

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A lightning storm broke out of nowhere, causing the festival to be put on hold for nearly two hours for safety while fans both got drenched. Then, of course, things we’re muddy afterward, followed by humidity.

Yeah, people didn’t like that.

Sound issues and checking-in/leaving

Then there were the sound issues.

From Travis Scott’s mic cutting out entirely during his headlining set on Saturday to Young Thug not being able to hear himself for most of his, there’s an argument that the $400 tickets should have covered those technical difficulties.

In addition, a lot of the sets were close to each other, causing a clash in sounds at times and forcing some to turn around and look for a different set.

You have to admit, bringing  40,000 people and 140 hip-hop different hip-hop personalities to one festival was probably asking for a lot and this year’s go-round might have been the pushing point.

Even the process of entering and leaving the festival grounds was a nightmare. The traffic surrounding a venue like Hard Rock Stadium is one thing, but organizers had attendees walk around the stadium and through a fenced-in corridor to get through security and enter the show, causing crowds to compact together and herd along at a snail’s pace. In some instances, leaving was half an hour process.

With that being said, that’s the dice you roll with festivals, especially as they grow in size. Let’s just hope they fix the issue for in time for next year.

10K80 May 13, 2019
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Stop asking Rihanna for new music, she’s trying to become a billionaire

This past week, news broke that Rihanna’s Fenty line is now officially part of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), the largest luxury group in the world.

According to the New York Times, Rihanna will become the first woman to create an original brand at LVMH, the first woman of color at the top of an LVMH Maison, and her line will be the first new house created by the group since Christian Lacroix in 1987.

Just to put into context how big of a deal this is for Rihanna, hip-hop, and people of color in general, Fenty now joins a lineage of larger-than-life brands like Dior, Givenchy, Celine, and Fendi. Automatically making her a breakthrough designer in the highest regard.

Rihanna, born of Barbados, signed by Jay Z and who broke through to stardom through urban appreciation, now holds a seat at the table of fashion’s elite. With this move, we now have to group Rihanna with the likes of designers like Hedi Slimane and Nicolas Ghesquière.

The deal signifies that there aren’t limits in the luxury industry anymore and it’s the glass ceiling Kanye was so desperately trying to break. Remember how he ranted in his interviews back in 2013?

It’s an opportunity to reinvent old heritage names and it opens a door for many others after her. Yet, people are still badgering Rihanna and giving her a hard time about not releasing music.

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It’s going on four years since Rihanna’s last album Anti and while that is a significant time for artists in this era, she has eight albums worth of music in her catalog. Besides, since when aren’t artists trying to become businessmen and women nowadays?

If anything, for a lot of these artists, rap is how to get your foot in other avenues you’d otherwise have no shot to break through. Will Smith started off as a rapper. The Fresh Prince of Bel Air is the play of Fresh Prince, the artist, and, although he did win a Grammy, Will is globally recognized as an actor.

Same goes for Ice Cube, Ice T, Joe Budden, and even Diddy in many regards. For years, hip-hop has been a vehicle to getting people of color the resources to explore the full extent of their ambitions. If singing was a longshot of a dream that came true, why wouldn’t we expect them to explore the other ones?

Surely you and I don’t have one singular aspiration.

This is not saying Rihanna has quit music. While withdraw symptoms are humanly understandable, she did confirm a 2019 album last year so we should be patient and let her plot out these billions. Because she’s definitely not sitting on her hands.

Her Fenty Beauty line which launched last year made over $100 million in the first 40 days and is recognized as one of the first cosmetic lines to include shades representing all girls of color.

She has dealt with Puma and Dior. She’s the official Global Ambassador for Barbados and her contributions to raising money for global education have reached a staggering $2.3 billion to date. That doesn’t include acting appearances in Oceans’s 8 and Donald Glover’s Guava Island. 

Clearly, she has more on her mind than music.

According to a press release, the new luxury house “is centered on Rihanna, developed by her, and takes shape with her vision in terms of ready to wear, shoes and accessories, including commerciality and communication of the brand.”

“Designing a line like this with LVMH is an incredibly special moment for us,” Rihanna, 31, said in the statement. “Mr. Arnault has given me a unique opportunity to develop a fashion house in the luxury sector, with no artistic limits. I couldn’t imagine a better partner both creatively and business-wise, and I’m ready for the world to see what we have built together.”

With the first products from the new company to be unveiled in a few weeks, I think her fans should be proud of her. They shouldn’t be pressing her for music.

If it wasn’t for music, maybe Rihanna wouldn’t have the position and power to do what she’s doing outside of it. Still, that doesn’t mean she’s bound to ballads and recording.

We’ll get the Rihanna music when we get it. But for now, let’s appreciate the doors she continues to open and the inspiration she’s sparking in the minds of the ones who look up to her.

Bruh May 13, 2019
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Is she really putting in the work? The truth behind Kim K freeing inmates

This past week, reports of Kim Kardashian “quietly freeing inmates” over the past 90 days rubbed some people the wrong way.

The reality television star and mogul’s interest in law isn’t what’s shocking. She’s made it known that she was following the footsteps of her father by studying to become a lawyer.

Kim has even received kudos for her lobbying efforts by getting President Donald Trump to commute the life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson. Johnson was serving a life sentence on a nonviolent drug charge committed in 1996.

But it’s the latest headlines that have caused a stir because it, yet again, proves everything true of what many feel Kim K really is. A culture vulture and talentless fraud.

TMZ reported that Kim and her legal team helped 17 prisoners gain freedom over the last three months or so — each of them having served years of life sentences without parol for low-level drug offenses. But apparently, that’s not quite the case.

Kim K’s “team” is actually made up of two lawyers Brittany K. Barnett and MiAngel Cody. Both are two Black women that started a campaign called 90 Days of Freedom and brought Kim K on for funding.

The headlines are so misleading and reports so dismissing, that Barnett actually took time out to clarify. She wrote on her Facebook last week:

“The first and last time I will speak on it. Seriously, because the negativity from today is misdemeanor s*** and we still have lives to save. MiAngel Cody and I have BEEN doing this work for FREE. Ask any of our dozens of clients who are now free living their best lives. Both of us left six-figure salary jobs and wiped out our own savings accounts to fund our work. We attempted to get grants from these large foundations shelling out MILLIONS of dollars to other organizations but would not look our way because they so-called don’t fund ‘direct services’”

Barnett went on to say that Kim is majorly involved in the financial aspect. Plus, she is very grateful to work with the reality star. She said,

“Kim linked arms with us to support us when foundations turned us down. We and our clients and their families have a lot of love for her and are deeply grateful for her. Regardless of who helped fund us for the past three months, in 90 days, TWO black women lawyers freed SEVENTEEN people from LIFE W/O PAROLE sentences – the second most severe penalty permitted by law in America. Only two of us.”

She even went to Kim’s defense and said it’s the media’s fault, not hers.

“Kim has always been very clear in her role. It’s the media that spins it around – not Kim. We do not care how the media is portraying it – that’s what the media does. Who cares. We need Kim’s support and the support of anyone else who wants to join this fight. We love that she is using her platform to raise awareness. We ain’t trying to be famous, we trying to get our people free. Period.”

While her defense of Kim is fair, it still would’ve been nothing for Kim to come out and reappropriate the praise she was receiving. It falls along too well with behavior people have brought up about her and her families products all these years.

From stealing fashion looks to make-up platelets to receiving credit for bringing full lips and braids back in style, this is just the latest episode of the Kardashians being praised for things Black women have been doing for years.

For the record, Barnett and Cody have saved 37 lives from unfair sentences with The Buried Alive Project. FYI: That work has not received one headline. Funding is not the same as the actual legwork and paperwork it takes to make these things happen. People need to see the true faces bearing the burden, not the one writing the check.

Nonetheless, Kim’s intentions are honorable and it would not be able to happen without her. But credit should be given where credit is due.