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Yerrrrrr Disney: Here’s who we’d cast for the new Aladdin remake

Yerrrr! Disney let me holler at you for a second. We have beef.

You played the homies Desus and Mero when you selected Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner (still don’t know whose mans that is) to voice the characters of Timon and Pumbaa in the 2019 Lion King remake and I’m still sick with your selection.

You might run the game but you don’t run game, ju hurd. So, here’s what you are going to do to fix this problem.

You are not only going to cast the voices of Desus and Mero as the crows in a Dumbo remake but you are also going to fuck with our voice over cast list for the Aladdin remake.

That’s right, Disney I’m coming for your neck. I don’t care what anyone else says – you fuckin with this list. So, pay attention because we expect to see this list drop when you debut the cast for Aladdin.

Drake will play Aladdin – no options

Drake already knows what’s good with the Hollywood gang. Plus he has the voice over experience.

He killed it back in 2012 when he voiced Ethan the mammoth in Ice Age: Continental Driftso, ultimately he will kill the voice role of Aladdin.

Listen Disney, I know you have his digits, so hit him up. We are not playing, tell Mena Massoud to beat it. He’ll cop the Aladdin On Ice reboot.


Rihanna must flex the voice of Princess Jasmine

Rihanna is a Bajan princess so it’s only common sense to cast her voice for the princess of Agrabah.

She and Drake have worked well together in the past, so the animated chemistry will be gold.

Both Rihanna and Princess Jasmine’s characteristics align – strong, bad(ass), and confident. If you need to see her resume peep her voice over skills in the animated hit Home

Disney if you play Rihanna, you play the world.


Kevin Hart is perfect for the voice of the annoying parrot Iago

Kevin Hart is a grumpy and funny little man that lowkey acts like a parrot. He has a big mouth, a tiny body, and he’s always wild shook.

If he had wings you know he would be flapping everywhere, that scared little man-bird.

Anyway, Hart’s persona is the epitome of Iago’s character. He would absolutely body the voice over.

He’s voiced little animals before. Have you ever seen the animated movie Pets? He played the gully bunny.


Jaden Smith is weird enough to play Abu

Jaden Smith would love an opportunity to make weird voices over a microphone. Trust me. Jaden is one weird man.

Plus, who do you have on call to voice Abu? Washed Frank Welker? Nah, it’s curtains for that idea. You are casting Jaden.


Craig Robinson will be coming out of Genie’s lamp

That’s right we finna do Aladdin the right way. You heard Disney? There is no way you can miss this.

It’s the obvious choice. If Craig Robinson was to paint himself blue he would actually look like Genie.

Ah, ah, ah. No one else is gucci to play the part. I don’t care if you are already talking to Will Smith, He already has enough guap anyway. Tell Smith I said ‘kick rocks.’ He had his chance.


John ‘Pops’ Witherspoon gets to play the Sultan

He will forever be known for his part as Ice Cube’s streetwise father from the Friday movie series.

But, can you imagine if you put Witherspoon in the Agrabah palace? I can. The results would be too lit. We are talking about lit nights with an animated king. You ever peep him in that Jay-Z video? He just gets it.


Issa wrap, 21 Savage has to play Jafar

Homie is a real-life villain. He has a knife tattooed on his head. Enough said.

To all y’all Aladdin lovers out there, bring your kids, bring your family because Disney finna put it on for the culture when they drop this remake. They owe us.

Warning: This list is just a parody, so SMDFTB.

Rap music has you fooled! 10 hip-hop artists that are low key cuffing

Ah yes, cuffing season — the time of year where men and women with large sexual appetites decide to quell their promiscuity for the sake of one and one only.

Some say it’s the cold weather that does it, which I can see. I mean, who has time to be out here calling Ubers across the city? The walk of shame is just different when it’s 20 degrees out. Others claim the phenomenon is due to the holidays.

Romantic fall activities like hay rides and going to the pumpkin patch are way more lit with someone on your arm. Matching Halloween costumes, surviving haunted houses, Thanksgiving and Christmas are cool with family and all, but you can’t tell me the holidays aren’t less lonely with a significant other. Besides, who are you gonna kiss on New Years?

There have even been studies. Biological anthropologist Helen Fisher told the Washington Post that as it gets darker in the winter, the body produces more melatonin, making us sleepy and groggy — “more like a homebody,” she said. “The lack of light might make people want to stay in.”

It’s funny because popular belief would suggest that rappers —  and hip-hop as a whole — contradict such monogamous ideas. If we had to guess a genre of music where the main players were allergic to relationships, it would be rap.

But that’s not the case. Rappers have everyone fooled: being cuffed is actually the wave.

Despite what you hear, they aren’t really out here like that. All that “make her eat a plan B,” “never chase ’em, I duck ’em,” “I don’t love these hoes,” rhetoric you’ve been consuming is not always true.

Charlemagne Tha God, from 105.1 FM’s The Breakfast Club, said it perfectly on his Instagram yesterday:

All Wife Everything.

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So here are 10 rappers to hopefully give you the courage you need to get out the game.

It’s okay to have only one.

21 Savage

4L

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The Atlanta-based rapper who has a knife tattooed on his forehead, survived multiple gunshots, and who doesn’t speak too well about his past girlfriends is actually head over heels in love.

21 and T.V. personality/model girlfriend Amber Rose have been hot and heavy and they don’t care who sees it. Amber even had him at the Slut Walk holding a “I’m A Hoe” sign. Now that’s love.


Wiz Khalifa

MOOD Forever.

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Although his raps may not suggest it, this guy is a sucker for love.

Just a few years ago, the Pittsburgh star fell hard flat on his face in love with Amber Rose (who clearly has a knack for wifing rappers), marrying and having a child with the model.

Then, after their divorce, when you’d expect someone to whore out, he fell for Brazilian model Izabela Guedes. They’ve been living happily ever after on Instagram ever since.


2 Chainz

On the way to Wop Wedding , looking like it !!!

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When 2 Chainz appeared on BET with his wife Kesha Ward for Gucci’s wedding, people were in legit shock, gasping in bewilderment that 40-year-old was married to the mother of his three kids.

Just because he knows pretty girls like trap music and has a well-known affinity for big booty hoes on his birthday, doesn’t mean he’s opposed to settling down or that any of those songs were depictions of his actual life.


Kevin Gates

#tb #hajj #mena

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Troubled, complicated, problematic or however you want to categorize Kevin Gates, the fact is that he has found someone to love him for who he is.

The “Two Phones” rapper, who has been in and out of the prison system (most recently for kicking a fan), is another example of a rapper who ultimately just wants to settle down.

He and his wife Dreka seem to be happy together even working as business partners.


Pharrell Williams

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY

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Pharrell and wife Helen Lasichanh have been together since 2007 and married since 2013, but I swear I didn’t know until 2017.

The 44-year-old Grammy award-winning producer might have been hot and heavy with shorties thanks to Snoop and Jay-Z back in the day, singing songs like “Beautiful”, “Frontin'”, and “Excuse Me Miss,” but these days it’s all about Helen.

And when you see them move together it’s dope.


Juicy J

Word on the street is #JuicyJ is now a married man! Congratulations! #BaeWatch

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Juicy J is hilarious. First of all, no one had a clue he was engaged, and when he did get married in Vegas last year, he kept it under wraps, even deleting the Instagram post above from a close friend.

The Oscar winner had to have been talking about his longtime girlfriend, Regina Perera, on his classic “Slob On My Knob.” If not, it’s who he’s talking about now.


Kendrick Lamar

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You can always expect Kendrick to move respectably, which is why I wasn’t surprised that he got hitched to his long-time girlfriend Whitney Alford in 2015. 

Lamar told Billboard back in 2015, “I wouldn’t even call her my girl,” he told the magazine. “That’s my best friend. I don’t even like the term that society has put in the world as far as being a companion — she’s somebody I can tell my fears to.”

Levels, guys. Levels.


Nipsey Hussle

Take the mind the rest will follow 😎? 😂

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Who is more G than Nipsey Hussle?

The west coast entrepreneur, rapper, and businessman and his actress girlfriend Lauren London gave birth to a son in September and he isn’t giving any fucks about what anyone has to say about his affectionate side.

If a Crip can settle down, why is it hard for others to?


Dom Kennedy

Danica’s Wedding part 2

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At one point in time the world looked to this man for the soundtrack to the summer (Yellow Album still bangs), but it seems like the West Coast rapper is more into family life now.

Dom Kennedy has done extremely well keeping his private life private but you cannot blame him. Look at how happy they are.


Jay Z

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Do we really need further examples of why cuffing is the wave?

Jay Z and Beyonce so happen to be the King and Queen of rap and R&B and they make it look easy.

Through infidelity, and probably other issues we don’t know about, they stayed down.

Don’t let these rappers fool you, it’s all about settling down with a main ting and riding off into the sunset. Just ask these ten.

Post Malone’s ‘Rockstar’ reached No. 1 through weird YouTube hack, what does it all mean?

There’s a complicated relationship between artists, record labels, and streaming services in this weird new world of music consumption.

Labels are trying to figure out a way to monetize streams, streaming services are trying to become profitable, and artists are now handcuffed by streaming services to have to have their music on these platforms.

The most prevalent of these streaming services is YouTube. You don’t have to pay for it, everything is on YouTube, but it’s also the least profitable for artists and labels in terms of monetizing ‘views’ or streams.

With Lyor Cohen now heading YouTube Music, perhaps there will be a change in the YouTube format and the business model. YouTube is also able to rely on revenue in ways that other streaming services can’t, they have other content besides just music.

Regardless, that relationship between label, streaming service, and artist has come into the spotlight of recent as Post Malone’s “Rockstar” has reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in an apparently contrived manner.

If you search for “Rockstar” on YouTube you’ll find this 3:38 long clip (the same length as the actual song) of the song’s chorus on loop. This particular chorus, “I been fucking hoes and popping pillies, man, I feel just like a rock star” is pretty insufferable, let alone for three and a half minutes.

But this snippet wasn’t posted by some random YouTube user trolling people trying to hear the full song, it was posted by Post’s label, Republic Records. The comments on the video have been disabled, there’s no clear label that it’s a snippet, and the video links out to all the various streaming platforms and Post Malone’s website.

So what’s going on here? Is this a stunt in order to improve Post Malone’s numbers on the other (more profitable) streaming services? Was this a hack that enabled to get Post Malone and 21 Savage to No. 1 on the Billboard charts?

The Fader reported yesterday that this YouTube snippet still counts towards the charts, in a way, “According to a person familiar with the situation, a view of the video counts for the charts in the same way that a view on a remix of an instrumental track would.”

And as The New Yorker’s Matthew Trammel points out, this stunt has basically doubled Post Malone’s streaming numbers,

“The video creates a mechanism through which anyone who has sought out “Rockstar” on YouTube must then jump to hear its complete version on another service—effectively doubling the single’s total play count across platforms.”

This whole thing is pretty bizarre. It’s wack to see Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” unseated by Post Malone, especially through some weird record label contrivance.

Is this the new way that record labels will try to monetize and promote artists? Perhaps this is a one-off, but it signifies the ways that the music industry is constantly searching for new methods to use streaming to their benefit.

Special shoutout to anyone who can sit through the entire 3:38 clip of the “Rockstar” chorus on repeat.

Amber Rose really had 21 Savage out here with a ‘I’m A Hoe’ sign

Yesterday Amber Rose held her third annual Los Angeles Slut Walk.

If you’re unaware, Amber Rose’s Slut Walk serves to take the derogatory power out of words like hoe, slut, and thot. The walk is an attempt to empower women and promote  sex positivity.

It’s no secret that woman are treated differently than men regarding their sexual exploits and Amber Rose aims to eliminate that trend in search of equality.

Wearing her “Captain Save-A Hoe” superhero outfit, Amber Rose led the charge swinging around her ‘Captain Save-A Hoe poster.’

Save Me My Love #arsw17

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Rocking a pink cape in her white leotard Amber walked around looking spectacular. Other women supporters showed out to the walk including Blac Chyna and Just Brittany to support the cause.

Amongst the other celebrities that joined in on the walk, everyone’s eye was on 21 Savage. The platinum-selling rapper stood right next to Amber showing his support for her Slut Walk movement.

During the walk 21 carried a poster of his own reading “I’m a hoe too.”

Caption this #HHVW

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Amber and 21 seemed like weird couple at first, but they’re really out here for each other.

“I’m a hoe too” ‍♂ #TheSavages

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Of course the internet had jokes…

https://twitter.com/RealLifeKaz/status/914594859419389958


And more jokes.

Some people are trying to clown 21 for supporting his girlfriend. I know damn well you guys making fun of the savage for being soft for Amber would do the exact same in his position. At the Slut Walk, 21 was doing exactly what he should: supporting his girl.

21 doesn’t have the friendliest reputation but for the love of his life there’s obviously an exception. Amber’s annual event ended a huge success bringing out a large number of attendees.

With 21 joining the slut movement the possibility of bringing a new male audience to the walk is a real one. While the internet continues to make its jokes about 21 and Amber they’ll continue to live unbothered and lit lives.

21 Savage supports his woman in anything she does.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BZuccdKhEtx/


At the end of the day, he may be the Kaepernick for equal rights.

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Just look at him trooping through it like a champ.


This is what sacrifice in a relationship looks like.

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Young Nudy is next up out of ATL and he’s got the streets on fire

Atlanta has churned out a never-ending revolving door of hip-hop artists, each with their own style, swag, and delivery. Young Nudy is the latest artist to pop out of East Atlanta with two mixtapes in 2017 gaining him more and more hype.

Slimeball 2 from February of this year and Nudy Land from last week open a window into the world of Young Nudy. And this world is about as dark and murky as possible. Assisted by young hitmaker Pi’erre Bourne of “Magnolia” fame, Young Nudy paints a picture of drug dealing (and taking), violence, and poverty.

Nudy has the streets and the internet on fire so far in 2017. He’s got a co-sign from 21 Savage (Nudy’s cousin) and a feature from Juicy J, but Nudy has done this mostly off the strength of his own personality.

His unique, husky voice is unmistakable and his choppy, sporadic flow is completely distinct. In the age of flow-stealing and copying, Nudy has made his own lane.

In the same vein as his cousin 21 Savage, Young Nudy’s picture of East Atlanta is a dystopian landscape of all the greatest ills of the most neglected areas of our country.

Nudy Land opens with “Judge Scott Convicted,” a song with one straight verse of Nudy vibing over a Pi’erre Bourne organ-laced beat. The opening bars of the mixtape tell you about Nudy’s upbringing,

“I done robbed a lot of n***as ’cause I had to n***a
I ain’t have no food on the table n***a
I ain’t have no motherfucking cable n***a
Mama didn’t have no job, we would stay with n***as
Had to go and get that gun so we were able n***a
Yeah, and I would run in them streets
Lowkey with the heat
I ain’t have no fucking daddy
Yeah that gun was my pappy”

As always with hip-hop that depicts these themes, critics will come out saying Nudy is glorifying violence and drug use, but it’s obviously much deeper than that. Nudy is out here telling his truth, staying off the streets, and making a living off his story.

Nudy isn’t for everyone, and surely those who are constantly in search of the mystical “real hip-hop” label Nudy as “mumble rap” or whatever that means. But he got to this point through hard work and grinding. Going beyond his means to get in the studio and make this shit work.

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Pi’erre Bourne told XXL back in April about working with Nudy and immediately recognizing his unique delivery,

“I met Nudy on the Eastside [when I was] engineering at this studio. And I didn’t even play him any beats the first day. I just liked his voice. I was like, Yo, he sounds just like Gucci Mane. I was like, We could be Zaytoven… and Gucci Mane!

There was an immediate connection between Bourne and Nudy. Pi’erre described their chemistry,

“Like while I’m recording him, I’m thinking this. I’m like we’re on the Eastside… I’m like, Oh shit. We can do it. And then he came out the booth and he was like, ‘Man, where the fuck you been at?’ And I was like ‘… What you mean?’ He was like, ‘Man, I need you to record me all the time!’ And I was like, ‘Alright, cool! ‘Cause I want to record.’ It was just weird, we just clicked, and we just been cooking up ever since. That was like two years ago.”

A couple years ago, Bourne had an engineering gig with Epic and the company would let him have his own studio time at 2 a.m. and at the end of the day Pi’erre would sneak Nudy into the studio to cook up heat,

“My job with Epic, they gave me studio time after 2 a.m. So I stayed at the studio. From noon to 2 a.m. I was engineering sessions, Monday to Saturday. And Sunday, I had the whole day to myself in the studio. And then after 2 a.m. during the week I’ll have a session… 12 Music Group Studios in Atlanta. Epic would get time out of there every month. So whenever I would get done with my sessions, I had to work. I would call Nudy and just tell him pull up. So he’ll pull up like 3 in the morning, ’til like 7.”

That’s a wild grind. It’s clearly paid off for both Pi’erre Bourne and Young Nudy. Bourne is supplying the beats for some of the hottest up and comers in the game and Nudy is the next dude out of the ATL to have the streets on fire.

Do yourself a favor and go peep Nudy Land right now.

Lunch Table Opinions: WTF were they wearing at the VMAs, son?

Remember walking over to your lunch table just to be bombarded by 5 other people waiting to cut your ass (or roast you for the non-New Yorkers)?

Whether it be your 5-year-old sneakers hitting the milly rock or your teeth doing the Harlem Shake, we’ve all been subject to Lunch Table Opinions – even celebrities.

Coincidentally, the MTV Video Music Awards aired last night and I couldn’t help myself from wanting to go in on everyone on the red carpet… so that’s exactly what I’m going to do now!

Don’t forget that the number 1 rule at the lunch table is to not get in your feelings, everything is in jest so let’s just have fun with this!

Lorde

MOON TIME 🌒

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Lorde looking like she murdered the whole muppet cast and stapled them to her dress, looking like Snuffleupagus’ eyelashes.

I just graduated, she looks like the Tassel on my graduation cap. Look like she’s holding in a mean ass sneeze, probably allergic to all that yak hair.


Lil Yachty

I think I’m cute… I know I’m sexy.. #vmas

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Lil Boat looking like he came straight off the Lil Bus. My son captain of the S.S. Super Senior. He wearing someone else’s prescription glasses to look smart.

Looking like he about to blow on his imaginary cello face ass.


Kendrick Lamar

#KendrickLamar

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Ole “If I gotta slap a pussy ass n**** ima make it look sexy” head ass. Kendrick my brother, it looks like you pimping a lot more than butterflies out here.

Look like he got all his old Reebok shoelaces in his hair. He ain’t know what to do with his left hand.


Katy Perry

She was just in her dressing room cutting her hair with corner store razors.

Somebody needs to call Billy Ray Cyrus, he’ll know how to fix this. She look like Ezio from “Assassin’s Creed.”

“The different earrings symbolize the yin and yang of sexuality” head ass.


Quavo

H U N C H O #VMAs

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My son happy as fuck, about to go do some more solo features. Quavo looks like my mother when she finally gets away from the kids. Two watches on still can’t tell time ass.

“Shit, I ain’t get left off Bad and Boujee.”


Kodak Black

I Jumped Up In This Rap Shit Gave It A New Meaning #ProjectBaby2

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Kodak, you know ain’t nothing playing out them headphones. That jacket got a big ass zipper, zipper for dummies ass jacket. Kodak is Florida personified.


21 Savage & Amber Rose

It’s all urs baby

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21 ready to devour the soul of anybody who comment on Amber’s wig. They look like super villains, Doofenshmirtz and his daughter in the flesh.

I can’t even talk shit cause they look amazing and evil simultaneously.

Tyler, the Creator says we can’t name 5 black cartoon characters. Here they are boi.

At San Diego Comic-Con, Tyler, the Creator promoted his animated series The Jellies.

During a Q&A, someone asked why the main character, Cornell Jelly became black after being white during the first season. Tyler replied,

“’Why you make him black?’ Why can’t niggas have anything, man?… How many fuckin’ black cartoon characters is it on TV right now? Name five. I’ll give you time. It is none… We don’t got shit.”

Well Tyler, you’re actually quite incorrect. There are many cartoons with more than 5 black characters like the Boondocks.

Since you don’t believe that we can name 5 black cartoon characters, I’ve got you right now bro.

Steven from Steven Universe

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Steven Universe is one of the best shows on Cartoon Network right now. The story centers around Steven, a boy with a magical gem placed where his naval should be.

He has companions called the Crystal Gems, who fight to protect the world from evil gem creatures.

The story follows Steven as he goes on adventures with the Crystal Gems and learns more about himself as well as the duties of a Crystal Gem.


Cyborg from Teen Titans Go

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I do not in any way, shape, or form like the new Teen Titans Go series. I grew up on the original Teen Titans and this felt like a major bullet to the franchise.

However, Cyborg has always provided light-hearted comedy and boasts an IQ of 170.

Born to scientists, he was experimented on at a young age. After a freak accident his father, attempting to save his son’s life, experimented on his son using a cyborg suit meant for soldiers blown to bits from war.

Victor was shunned by society until he got the invite from Raven to join the Teen Titans.

Cyborg uses his intelligence, as well as his skill with machinery, to aid the Titans in their fight against evil.


Kiawe from Pokemon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GlKr_0NZ-s

Pokemon has had its fair share of black characters such as Brock, Archie, and Iris. Kiawe is part of the new season of Pokemon based out of brand new Alola region.

He’s the oldest in the class as well as the voice of reason for the group. Kiawe works on his parents’ ranch and uses his Charizard to help deliver supplies and other goods across the Alola region.

He’s also a skilled Pokemon trainer, boasting the likes of Turtonator and Alolan Marowak.


Jerome from Family Guy

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Jerome from Family Guy was brought into the series after Cleveland left Quahog to go back to his childhood home in Virginia.

He is Lois’ ex boyfriend and they dated 20 years before Lois married Peter. Jerome appears after Peter accidentally burns down Jerome’s house and needs a place to stay.

Lois invites him to stay with them. He ends up accidentally killing Horace during a baseball game after the ball Jerome hits ends up striking Horace in the face.

He apologizes after killing Horace and becomes the owner of the Drunken Clam once run by Horace.


21 Savage from The Year 2100

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21 Savage has a mini cartoon series and it is hilarious. It may not be a conventional cartoon series like the others above but it is an animated cartoon starring 21.

21 burst on to the scene with hits like “X,” “No Heart,” and “No Advance.”

He recently released this cartoon series with WeBuyGold and it chronicles the saga of a villainous 21 Savage trying to retake the world over with his music.

It also gives a glimpse into criticism 21 received for not dropping any music for awhile after his Savage Mode Project.

21 recently released a banger in Issa Album and surely enough “Bank Account” off the album debuted at number 33 on the Billboard Hot 100.

“Bank Account” was 21’s highest charting single. Go on Young Savage…

metro boomin

How Metro Boomin became the most trusted hitmaker in hip-hop

If you’ve listened to hip-hop in the last three years, you’ve heard Metro Boomin’s beats ringing from your speakers.

He’s produced for Gucci Mane, Future, Migos, Kanye West, Drake, The Weeknd, Yo Gotti, and more.

You’ve heard the beats, you’ve heard the hits, and you’ve heard his tag, “If young Metro don’t trust you I’m gon’ shoot you.”

This (slightly threatening) producer tag has become more than just another beatmaker marking their territory; it’s entered the pop culture lexicon, become a meme, and a stamp of guaranteed quality.

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The St. Louis native explained the origin of the now famous producer tag (provided by Future) to DJ Drama:

“I’ve been using that as a tag in beats since about August [2015]. ‘Jumpman,’ before the song was recorded, that beat already said that. We had did this one with Uncle Murda one time, and one of the lines that Future said in there was, ‘If young Metro don’t trust you, I’m gon’ shoot you.’ When he said that, it had a different tone, but I remember when we were in the studio he had another tone, which is the one that’s the tag that was just like muted. I just made sure to go back on the session and just get it and just go HAM with it.”

Future and Metro really shaping the culture.

These last couple years have proved that if Metro supplied the beat, basically anyone could rap over it and it’d still be a hit.

Now he’s launching his own record label, Boominati Records, before his 25th birthday.

At 23 years old, the sky is the limit for Metro Boomin. We’ll be watching his moves closely over the next couple years.

The music week in review: Toro y Moi, 21 Savage, Joey Bada$$ and more

July 4th has come and gone, which means we’re truly in the midst of summer.

Whether you’re trying to recreate last weekend’s shenanigans, or taking it easy because you embarrassed yourself, we’ve got some music for every occasion this week.

Toro y Moi – Boo Boo

Toro y Moi, real name Chaz Bear (legally changed from Chaz Bundick recently, yeah, I don’t know), has released one of the most interesting records of the year with Boo Boo.

In early June, Bear announced the release date of his new album in a statement, claiming he had become jaded with fame and that, “At times… felt unable to tell what was real.”

Bear wrote that he went into the Boo Boo recording process thinking about Frank Ocean, Daft Punk, Travis Scott, Oneothrix Point Never, and other artists’ use of ‘space’ in their music.

The South Carolina native has made an alt-pop masterpiece. At times the grooves will make you get up and dance, at other times you’ll want to take a long walk contemplating your own life, but it’s all so damn good.

Where he used to splice, cut, and distort his voice over layered samples and walls of bass, and crashing drums, Toro y Moi’s music has a new clarity to it. We hope he does too!

Toro y Moi released the album yesterday with visual accompaniment, which you can check out here.


Haim – Something to Tell You

HAIM, a trio of SoCal sisters who were initially signed as a tween-pop group that made songs for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants soundtrack, flipped the pop-rock world upside down with their debut album Days Are Gone in 2013.

Days Are Gone was unpredictable, different, and just an overall badass record. The Haim sisters had matured beyond tween movie soundtracks and were now being compared to Fleetwood Mac.

In lieu of Days Are Gone, this week’s Something to Tell You feels like somewhat of a disappointment. There’s still shiny, fun pop-rock, like on “Little of Your Love,” but there isn’t anything altogether different about this album to HAIM’s first.

That may just be the basic challenge of being a hyped rock band, and this album is still pretty damn good, but HAIM are definitely victims of their own success.


21 Savage – Issa Album

My favorite thing about doing this weekly music roundup is listening and writing about music that is just the most different. Listening to HAIM and 21 Savage back to back is quite the experience, I recommend it.

Anyways, we covered the internet’s wild reaction to Issa this morning but I promise to never grow tired of writing about 21 Savage.

Issa Album displays 21 at a weird place in between his upbringing and his new life in Beverly Hills. On the opening track “Famous” 21 contemplates this conundrum, “I’m a street n****, yeah I’m famous.”

At times on Issa, 21 wants to leave that bullshit in his past, most notably on the meditative “Nothin New” on which 21 addresses the cyclical nature of poverty and crime in communities like the Zone 6 Atlanta neighborhood he hails from. At others moments, 21 claims he’s not going anywhere, “You knockoff gangbangers ain’t bangin’
In the hood / everyday, I’m hangin’.”

Shit is complicated, but Issa Album is more than just another ATL trap rap album. 21 might just take over the game.


Joey Bada$$ – “500 Benz,” “Too Lit,” “Love Is Only A Feeling”

Joey released a trio of Statik Selektah-produced tracks earlier this week. Despite releasing his album All-Amerikkkan Badass back in April, Bada$$ is still coming out with material for his fans.

All three tracks are pretty typical Joey and Statik. Statik Selektah provides the smooth, laidback, jazzy beats and Joey flows over them in trademark fashion. Definite spliff material here.

Joey is going on tour with Logic, starting today in Salt Lake City.


French Montana – “Bring Dem Tings” ft. Pharrell

Another of New York’s favorite rapper/producer duos, French Montana and Harry Fraud are back on this new set-it-off track “Bring Dem Tings.”

Pharrell spits some pretty fire bars (that he probably did not write himself) and Harry Fraud supplies the lit horns. Catch me pulling up to La Marina bumping “Bring Dem Tings” this summer.


Cousin Stizz – “Lambo”

Cousin Stizz came up with his 2015 project Suffolk County and gained a cult-like following in ridiculously quick fashion.

The shit-talking Boston rapper has become one of the most exciting prospect on the East Coast and his new single “Lambo” off next week’s mixtape Only One Night definitely shows he’s about to bring the heat.

Stizz is one to watch.


Billy Bragg – “The Sleep of Reason”

Punk rock’s favorite 60-year-old socialist Billy Bragg released his anti-Trump protest song “The Sleep of Reason” and it fuckin’ rocks.

Ol’ Billy ain’t holding anything back, “It’s over now, you lost my friend, move on just let it go / says the man who flies a Confederate flag / on his profile just for show.”

We need more Billy Braggs. How do we make more Billy Braggs?


AlunaGeorge – “Turn Up The Love”

Remember when, like, everyone was making noise-pop duos of pop-star potential woman singers and pairing them with anonymous, weird dude producers?

All the sudden, everywhere you turned there was another Sleigh Bells, Phantogram, Cults, Chairlift, The Kills, or AlunaGeorge.

Anyways, Aluna George, which consists of singer-songwriter Aluna Francis and producer George Reid (get it?) released a new song. It’s pretty cool.


A$AP Twelvyy – “Strapped”

Harlem’s own A$AP Twelvyy dropped “Strapped” and he’s rapping his ass off over a Sampha sample.

With help from Sampha’s “Beneath The Tree,” Twelvyy goes off, even Kendrick tweeted this shit out.

Feels like Twelvyy is the next dude up in A$AP Mob. His mixtape 2127301090 is slated to drop sometime this year, with A$AP collab album Cozy Tapes Vol. 2 on the horizon as well.


Skepta – “Hypocrisy”

Sketpa, London’s number 1 MC, is back with a vengeance. He’s throwing his classic punchlines and ‘you ain’t shit’ bars.

The “Shutdown” rapper is always clowning, but he seems truly wronged on hypocrisy, I mean look at this chorus,

“They try to disrespect me/When they’re online especially/But everything cool when they check me/Because I’m so cool and deadly/See, I had to realize slowly/That nobody actually knows me/Yeah, man, I’ve got fifteen different iPhones/But I am so not phony.”

Word, same.

21 Savage just dropped ‘Issa Album’ and the internet is on fire (Listen)

Ever since 21 Savage dropped Savage Mode, last summer’s collab EP with Metro Boomin, the Zone 6 rapper has become a fixture in the highest trap echelons of hip-hop.

On Savage Mode, 21 painted a picture of his upbringing surrounded violence, drug-dealing, addiction, and poverty all backed by haunting horror movie Metro Boomin instrumentation.

Off the success, and subsequent hype, of Savage Mode, 21 scored features for artists like Drake, YG, and Mike Will Made-It.

A year later and 21 has dropped Issa Album, 14 tracks with, yes J. Cole stans, no features.

Issa Album is a more ambitious project than Savage Mode, there’s even a track where 21 sings about his feelings for a new love interest (supposedly Amber Rose).

Production-wise, Metro Boomin pops up on multiple tracks, and 21 enlists DJ Mustard, 808 Mafia head Southside, Playboi Carti’s “Magnolia” producer Pi’erre Bourne, and lord of trap music Zaytoven. 21 Seven produced a couple tracks, specifically “Bank Account,” by himself.

Here are the full album credits off Issa:

1. “Famous”

Producer: Metro Boomin

Composer: 21 Savage, Metro Boomin

2. “Bank Account”

Producer: 21 Savage

Composer: 21 Savage

3. “Close My Eyes”

Producer: Metro Boomin

Composer: 21 Savage, Metro Boomin

4. “Bad Business”

Producer: Southside

Composer: 21 Savage, Southside

5. Baby Girl”

Producer: Pi’erre Bourne

Composer: Pi’erre Bourne, 21 Savage

6. “Thug Life”

Producer: Metro Boomin

Composer: 21 Savage, Metro Boomin

7. “FaceTime”

Producer: DJ Mustard

Composer: 21 Savage, DJ Mustard

8. “Nothin New”

Producer: Metro Boomin, Zaytoven

Composer: Metro Boomin, 21 Savage, Zaytoven

9. “Numb”

Producer: Metro Boomin

Composer: 21 Savage, Metro Boomin

10. “Dead People”

Producer: Southside

Composer: 21 Savage, Southside

11. “Money Convo”

Producer: Metro Boomin

Composer: 21 Savage, Metro Boomin

12. “Special”

Producer: Wheezy

Composer: 21 Savage, Wheezy

13. “Whole Lot”

Producer: Metro Boomin

Composer: 21 Savage, Metro Boomin, Young Thug

14. “7 Min Freestyle”

Producer: Metro Boomin

Composer: 21 Savage, Metro Boomin

Despite his seeming distaste for the internet, as he puts it “The internet won’t help you understand me,” 21 has become somewhat of a social media sensation.

The “Issa” itself is a reference to 21 Savage’s answer to a question about his forehead tattoo from VladTV, a quote that quickly became meme fodder.

Social media had plenty to say about Issa Album.


21 really had something to say on “Nothin New”


21 > Pac?


Ayyy

https://twitter.com/nolimitdreams_/status/883164780390883328


Some were rather surprised to hear 21 singing…


Others were just confused as to why the previously leaked song “Issa” with Drake and Young Thug isn’t on the album


Just sayin’,


What if…?


“Bank Account” definitely got us like


Produced by 21 himself


21 got the shoutouts from hip-hop’s best

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