Listen now: Swizz Beatz drops “Poison” album featuring Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne and Nas
Epic RecordsSwizz Beatz dropped his second studio album, Poison, on Friday. The album features numerous stars, including Kendrick Lamar, Lil Wayne and Nas.
The 10-track project also includes collabos with French Montana, Jadakiss, Styles P, Áine Zion,Giggs, Pusha T, Jim Jones, Young Thug and 2 Chainz. J. Cole served as Beatz’ co-executive producer for the album.
Poison comes 11 years after Swizz’ first album, One Man Band Now, was released in 2007. He’s been busy producing for other artists this year, including “Uproar” for Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V album, and “The Weekend” by T.I. featuring Young Thug for TIP’s new album, The Dime Trap.
“Thanks for all the love on the #POISON ALBUM OUT NOW,” Swizz commented on Instagram. “I promised pure quality & no compromising the craft @nas ECHO video coming soon! I’m Not DONE YET.”
Swizz also posted a teaser video, commenting, “Poison is uncut hip-hop.”
Swizz Beatz Poison track list:
“Poison Intro” featuring Áine Zion
“Pistol On My Side (P.O.M.S.)” featuring Lil Wayne
“Come Again” featuring Giggs
“Something Dirty/Pic Got Us” featuring Kendrick Lamar, Jadakiss and Styles P
“Preach” featuring Jim Jones
“Echo” featuring Nas
“Cold Blooded” featuring Pusha T
“25 Soldiers” featuring Young Thug
“Stunt” featuring 2 Chainz
“SwizzMontana” featuring French Montana
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Disabled teen honored at World Series says he found inspiration in Jackie Robinson story
Courtesy Tracey Quist(BOSTON) — A high school sophomore from Wyoming recently had a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience, all thanks to an essay he’d written about baseball legend Jackie Robinson.
Jesse Quist was recognized on Oct. 24 at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, as one of two winners in Major League Baseball’s 2018 “Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life” essay contest.
Quist, 15, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, is a Korean adoptee with two parents and seven siblings. He was born missing most of both of his arms. He has no hands but uses what he calls “nubbins” — two fingers on his left arm and one finger on his right.
As part of his winnings, Quist was invited to attend Games 1 and 2 of the World Series between the Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers.
“It was crazy,” Quist told ABC News about being at the game. “It was definitely one of the loudest baseball games that I’ve ever been to. … The crowd was wild.”
The Red Sox defeated the Dodgers in the end, taking the series, 4-1, and winning the 2018 World Series. Quist, a Colorado Rockies fan, said he was just happy to be in the stands enjoying the moment.
The contest — a joint effort by Jackie Robinson’s daughter, Sharon Robinson, the MLB, and children’s publisher Scholastic — asks students in grades 4 to 9 to discuss how they’d used values exemplified by Jackie Robinson to overcome “barriers or obstacles” in their lives.
Quist’s essay was chosen among 13,000 essays submitted from around the U.S., Puerto Ric and Canada, according to the MLB.
“It was just a shock to me. I didn’t think I was going to win,” he told ABC News. “I just wanted to get my story out there.”
He told ABC News that when his mother found the essay contest, the topic really spoke to him, particularly because he’d seen the movie “42” about Jackie Robinson, an MLB Hall of Famer who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947 when he became the first black athlete to play for the league.
In his essay, Quist said in part, “I have pretty much learned how to do things differently and in my own unique way. … To learn how to write, eat and basically do everything needed for everyday life, I used determination, commitment, persistence and excellence.”
He said that he had incredible respect for the baseball player.
“It can be very frustrating knowing that everywhere you go, there will always be someone whispering about you. … There’s no doubt in my mind that Jackie Robinson experienced the same thing: the pointing and staring and whispering,” Quist wrote.
“(Jackie Robinson) just went out and played baseball and, you know, showed the world that he deserved to be in the MLB,” Quist told ABC News. “I wanted to be like him. … I’ve got a book about Jackie Robinson sitting underneath my alarm clock in my room.”
Quist, who attended high school last year but is now home-schooled, said an everyday challenge was people’s reactions to him.
“Everywhere I go, I’m going to get, you know, stared at, pointed at. That’s always an everyday challenge, everywhere I go,” he said.
Quist, who has run cross-country and track as well as played soccer and basketball, said he’d like to go to college and attend law school, or be an English teacher or professor.
“I try not to let anything stop me,” he said. “Jackie Robinson definitely showed that you can do anything that you want to do as long as you’re driven to do it.”
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Mariah Carey is not sure she'll ever top 2005's “We Belong Together”
Trae Patton/NBCMariah Carey has been releasing a string of new songs in anticipation of her forthcoming album, but the singer says she’s not sure any song has ever topped her 2005 hit “We Belong Together.”
In a video for The Voice’s “Story Behind the Song,” the singer — who’s serving as key advisor on The Voice this season — discusses the making of “We Belong Together” and why she considers it to be so special.
Mariah talks about working late into the night with Jermaine Dupri and Johnta Austin, focusing on the second verse of the song, which samples lyrics from Bobby Womack’s “If You Think You’re Lonely Now.”
“We knew it was going to have an effect on us when it came down to the publishing, but we didn’t care because we really, really focused on that song,” she says. “I don’t know that we’ve ever actually been able to top it.”
She also discusses the music video for the song, in which she ditches an older man at the altar and runs away with the man she actually loves, played by Wentworth Miller.
“I get goosebumps thinking about it because it really was such a special time in my life when we did that record,” Mariah says. “I feel like the video definitely captured the emotion of the song.”
To this day, Mariah says “We Belong Together” remains one of her favorite songs to perform. Her new album, Caution, comes out November 16.
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Tupac personal items donated to Temple University collection
Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesSeveral items owned by the late Tupac Shakur, including a bullet-dented golden medallion he was wearing when he was shot five times in 1994 in New York City, have been donated to Philadelphia’s Temple University.
They’ll be displayed in the university’s Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection.
The items, donated by the Goldin Auctions company, include handwritten track listings for unreleased albums, and lyrics for Tupac’s songs “It Ain’t Easy” and “I Ain’t Mad At Cha,”
“For a hip-hop head, this is truly a dream come true,” African-American Studies Professor Aaron Smith tells the Philadelphia Inquirer. “Just 20 years ago, they were saying [hip-hop] was a pariah in society. Here, we have legitimization from the academic community on the highest level.”
In addition to the gold medallion, the collection also features the diamond earring Tupac wore on the cover his 1996 album, All Eyez on Me.
“There is a lot of mystery around Tupac and his jewelry,” Smith says. “To have some of [it] here means a whole lot.”
Collection curator Diane Turner says her goal is to develop a “large collection related to hip-hop. This is just the beginning of a long journey to collect and preserve hip-hop culture.”
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Cardi B reveals hooking up with Offset violated her rule: “I don’t date rappers”
ABC/image Group LACardi B and her husband, Migos rapper Offset, are one of the power couples of entertainment. However, the “I Like It” rapper says hooking up with him violated one of her most important rules.
“When I met him I told him, ‘I don’t date rappers,’” Cardi tells E! News. “I always said that I don’t date rappers, because I know that these rappers they like women, and I always felt like if, ‘imagine I have sex with you and I fall in love with you and you not trying to take me serious.’“
The couple began dating last year and secretly married in September 2017. Their daughter, Kulture, was born July 10.
After telling Offset he was off limits because he was a rapper, Cardi remembers asking him why he wanted her in the first place.
“Any woman that you could have, why you gonna choose me?” she says. “I always avoid dating artists. But he was co consistent. He put it down, he was just on some, ‘look I’m not stopping until I get you,’ and its like, ‘well, if you want me so bad come get me.'”
Now Cardi and Offset are ruling the hip-hop world. She’s also celebrating being named Star of the Year this week by People En Espanol.
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Kanye West donates an additional $126K to Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia
ABC/Randy HolmesAfter tweeting earlier this week that he was “distancing himself from politics,” Kanye West has made a second donation to the campaign of Chicago mayoral candidate Amara Enyia.
Kanye donated $126,000 Wednesday night, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
“Kanye has an interest in investing in Chicago, his hometown, and is welcome to act on those interests at any time,” Enyia campaign spokeswoman Kristi Kucera says in a statement. “We think it is valuable that he is able to focus his efforts on his creative work and on supporting the platform that he believes will help move our city in the right direction.”
“Kanye has never been involved with our campaign other than as a supporter,” Kucera added. “His interest in the mayoral race is about problems and results, and has nothing to do with partisan politics.”
Last week, Kanye donated $73,000 to Enyia’s campaign, matching the amount in fines she owed from her 2015 campaign for not filing financial reports. The candidate immediately used his donation to pay the fines.
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Listen now: H.E.R. releases new EP, “I Used To Know HER: Part 2”; announces new tour
RCA RecordsH.E.R. released a new EP, I Used to Know HER: Part 2 on Friday.
The eight-song EP is the follow up to her summer release, I Used To Know Her: The Prelude EP, which debuted at number one on the Billboard R&B Albums chart.
The 21-year old singer from Vallejo, California leads all artists with seven Soul Train Award nominations, including Best R&B/Soul Female Artist.
H.E.R. has also announced her second headlining tour. She’ll kick it off November 10, performing 21 shows through in December 20 in San Francisco.
Here’s the I Used To Know HER: Part 2 EP track list:
“Carried Away”
“Can’t Help Me”
“I’m Not OK”
“Take You There”
“Going” (Interlude)
“Hard Place”
“Fate”
“Lord Is Coming”
Here’s the I Used To Know HER Tour itinerary:
11/10 — Atlanta, GA, Coca Cola Roxy
11/11 — Raleigh, NC, The Ritz
11/13 — Nashville, TN, Marathon Music Works
11/14 — Charlotte, NC, Fillmore
11/16 — Philadelphia, PA, Electric Factory
11/17 — Baltimore, MD, Rams Head Live
11/19 — Toronto, ON, Rebel
11/20 — Montreal, QC, MTELUS
11/25 — Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Steel
11/26 — Boston, MA, House Of Blues
11/29 — Norfolk, VA, The NorVa
11/30 — Richmond, VA, The National
12/2 — Cleveland, OH, Agora Theatre
12/3 — Detroit, MI, Royal Oak Music Theatre
12/4 — Chicago, IL, Riviera Theatre
12/6 — Houston, TX, Revention Music Center
12/9 — Dallas, TX, Bomb Factory
12/11 — Denver, CO, Ogden Theatre
12/13 — Las Vegas, NV, House Of Blues
12/18 — Santa Ana, CA, Observatory
12/20 — San Francisco, CA, The Warfield
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