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Sometimes the only people who are as obnoxious as Donald Trump are his supporters. Specifically, Forgiato Blow, the face-tatted MAGA rapper who turns stale Republican talking points into the wackest of wack “bars,” proving one can fit all of his political knowledge into a thimble with room to spare.
During a Tuesday Trump rally in Atlanta — where the ex-president declared that Black and Latino voters who are planning to vote for Kamala Harris “gotta have your head examined” — Blow told reporters that women who won’t vote for Trump are “Trump bigots” after offering his Caucasian opinion that “most African American men hate Kamala,” Raw Story reported.
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“I know one thing, I know most African American men hate Kamala,” the white supremcee said. “You know, there’s a lot of women out here that just think Trump’s this and that. They’re just Trump haters, Trump bigots.”
First, let’s address Blow’s bloviating nonsense about how “most African American men hate Kamala.” White MAGA supporters have gotten themselves all in a Miss Millie frenzy over a single New York Times poll that suggests around 20% of Black male voters will vote for Trump. Even if one were to believe that singular poll and ignore the various polls that suggest otherwise, it would still leave around 80% of Black men who will cast their ballots for Harris. We certainly don’t need white men like Blow to whitesplain who we do and don’t hate, especially when his math doesn’t come anywhere near mathing.
As for the female Harris supporters Blow laughably calls “Trump bigots,” maybe the Republican nominee would be doing better with women if he weren’t an accused rapist who pays hush money to prostitutes and has bragged about grabbing random women by the genitals — all while boasting about giving the states control over women’s reproductive rights. That doesn’t make them “bigots,” it makes them voters who don’t vote against their own interests. Hell, Blow once wrote and performed a whole rap song to “show love” to Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, who, lest we forget, was under DOJ investigation over allegations of sex trafficking and having sex with minors. Maybe he’s not the one to speak on women and their reluctance to vote for accused predators.
It’s bad enough that Blow is appropriating Black culture while whitesplaining to Black people that we should hate Harris and love his white nationalist MAGA messiah, now he’s mansplaining to women that they’re bigots if they don’t vote for his favorite demonstrable bigot. Make it make sense.
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Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory, a founder of the infamous Black Mafia Family, is out of prison.
TMZ reports that Big Meech was transferred from FCI Coleman Low in Wildwood to halfway house that is supervised by the BOP’s Miami Residential Reentry Management Office. Meaning, Big Meech is in Florida.
Back in 2005, Big Meech and BMF, which was co-founded by his brother Terry Lee “Southwest Tee” Flenory, were both indicted under the Continuing Criminal Enterprise Statute and each was sentenced to 30 years in prison. They were accused of making $270 million from drug trafficking during their run.
Southwest T was reportedly released in 2020.
In June 2021, Big Meech was granted an earlier release date by U.S. District Judge David M. Lawson, who shaved off three years from his sentence. He was originally scheduled to be released in 2028.
The question now is, will Big Meech make a cameo in the fourth season of hit Starz series BMF?
The story is developing.
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This year’s edition of the BET Hip-Hop Awards showcased the genre’s best, with Kendrick Lamar showing out as the top winner.
On Tuesday (October 15), the 2024 BET Hip-Hop Awards was aired on the network, with Fat Joe serving as the host. The event took place at Drai’s Las Vegas, and it was the scene for some of Hip-Hop’s notable stars to walk away with coveted awards including the night’s top winners, Kendrick Lamar and Megan Thee Stallion. Kendrick Lamar, who wasn’t in attendance, snagged eight awards including Hip-Hop Artist of The Year, Song of The Year, and Best Hip-Hop Video of The Year for his smash hit “Not Like Us”. His 12 nominations were tied only by Megan Thee Stallion.
Travis Scott received the “I Am Hip-Hop” Award and was on hand to accept his trophy. “I always had this vision, to this day, to take the sound to the next level,” he said in his speech, emphasizing how much the award meant to him and his career.
The award for Album of The Year went to Nicki Minaj for Pink Friday 2, making her the first female artist to secure that victory. She wasn’t present at the event, in part due to her contentious history with the network over a since-deleted post mocking her after a Grammy win by her rival Cardi B on X, formerly Twitter back in 2019. Nicki Minaj did share a meme after her win was announced, showing Chucky from the Child’s Play movies biting on a woman’s arm.
Other winners of the night included Future and Metro Boomin, who won Best Duo or Group and also for Best Collaboration for the “Like That” track featuring Kendrick Lamar. The Alchemist took home the honors for Producer of The Year and DJ of The Year, while the legendary Missy Elliott won the award for Best Live Performer. Sexxy Red won the award for Best Breakthrough Hip-Hop Artist and Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay snagged the Best Podcast Award.
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Eric Adams cannot do anything right. He cannot correctly represent NYC’s professional baseball teams.
The indicted Mayor of New York City is getting dragged on social media again for a swaggerless baseball cap he wore during the Columbus Day parade.
Trying to capitalize on the excitement of a potential Subway Series World Series with the New York Mets and Yankees in their respective division championship series, Adams proudly sported a fitted cap featuring both teams’ logos while marching down Fifth Avenue.
As the embattled mayor continues to see the walls close in on him as the federal corruption probe into his campaign intensifies, Adams is looking for any way to gain favor with New Yorkers who continue to grow tired of his antics. Unfortunately for him, this gesture backfired big time.
Per The New York Times:
“I’m like everyday New Yorkers,” Mr. Adams told reporters on Monday, with the curved brim cap situated on his head.
Fabien Levy, a spokesman for the mayor, said that the hat captured a mayor caught between his personal fandom and his political duties.
“Mayor Adams is a long-suffering Mets fan and has been clear he’s cheering them on to win it all (what can I say, no one is perfect),” Mr. Levy said in an email. “But as the mayor of the greatest city in the world, he’s also rooting for a subway series that will make millions of New York sports fans happy, while bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars of economic impact for our city.”
A Similar Hat Sold At A NYC Store Sold Out Online
Well, that’s not the case because both Yankees and Mets fans are clowning the snapback hat that Mr. Levy says belonged to someone on Adams’ staff and is a relic from the 2000 World Series that featured both the Yankees and Mets.
A similar hat can be found at Exclusive Fitted, a hat store in Jamaica, Queens. The hat, which retails for $45, sold out online, so maybe fans were just irritated by seeing Adams wearing it.
You can peep reactions to Adams getting clowned in the gallery below.
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3. Melo is cooler than Eric Adams, just saying
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Elon Musk gets plenty of praise for his “technical prowess,” but one person, Alex Proyas, doesn’t share those sentiments.
Last week in Burbank, California, the Tesla Chief and terrible owner of X, formerly Twitter, unveiled his company’s new Optimus robots and self-driving vehicles at an event interestingly titled “We Robot.”
Like many on X, Aley Proyas, the director of the 2004 blockbuster film I Robot, believed Musk jacked the designs from his movie.
“Hey Elon,” Proyas wrote on X, “Can I have my designs back, please?” The message was accompanied by a series of stills from the film, side-by-side with photos of Musk’s latest designs.
Musk, who doesn’t hesitate to respond when he’s called on his platform, has yet to respond to Proyas’ claims, but that didn’t stop his delusional fans from putting on their capes to defend the billionaire.
“Be honored. What you did with CGI and a green screen, @elonmusk did in reality,” one person wrote in response to Proyas’ claims.
Another glazer wrote, “you feel you inspired the future yet you’re trying to dunk on the person who made it a reality.”
This was not the first time Musk had shown off the Optimus robot; it debuted in 2022, the same year he reluctantly bought Twitter for $44 billion before stupidly renaming it to X.
Musk’s reputation as the real-life Tony Stark has since taken a well-deserved hit, and now he has become “Dark MAGA,” whatever that means.
Word on the tech streets is that humans partly controlled the robots at “We Work.” Following the event, Tesla stock took a hit, dropping by nearly 9%.
Welp.
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5. Yes, he’s definitely watched it.
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Somehow, we find ourselves in a national conversation about Black men and our reluctance to support Vice President Kamala Harris over ex-President Donald Trump. Over the weekend, the New York Times released a poll that shows Vice President Harris at 78% among likely Black voters, which puts her nine points behind where President Joe Biden was with Black voters in 2020. Other polls show Trump hasn’t gained nearly as much support among Black voters as the Times poll indicates, but with Election Day right around the corner, and the race being a tie right down the middle, Harris supporters are clearly concerned.
One Democrat who doesn’t appear to be as worried as some is Sen. Raphael Warnock, who made an appearance on CNN Tuesday to assure folks that Black men are going to turn out for Harris and remind us that Trump’s history with Black men includes full-page ads in multiple publications calling for the execution of the Central Park Five (now the Exonerated Five).
“Listen, let me tell you something this morning. Black men are not going to vote for Donald Trump in any significant numbers. There’ll be some. We’re not a monolith,” Warnock told CNN’s Dana Bash, who asked him about the Times poll. “But as Black folk in general, and Black men in particular, consider who Donald Trump is, as they consider the fact that this is the man who literally took out a full-page ad in the New York Times saying that these young teenagers back in the 1980s who were accused of a horrific crime should receive the death penalty.
“And then when it was proven that the Exonerated Five, the Central Park Five, were actually innocent, Donald Trump has shown no deal of concern about what they went through, no deal – no bit of contrition about it,” Warnock continued. “He’s doubled down on his position. This is who he is. And black men know that as they watch him deal with his own criminal problems and concerns, that the criminal justice system certainly doesn’t handle them the way it handles him.”
Not that we needed to go that far back in history to find instances where Trump was being brazenly racist, but Warnock told no lies. Even after they were exonerated after they were wrongly accused as teenagers of attacking and raping a white woman in Central Park in 1989, Trump made it clear he still had it in for the five Black and Latino men, one of whom, Yusef Salaam, has been outspoken about his disdain for Trump as well as his support for Harris.
Anyway, all of this comes not long after former President Barack Obama made a stop in Pittsburg and addressed the topic of Black men who are reluctant or unwilling to vote for Harris, saying, “Part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.” His remarks sparked controversy with some accusing the ex-president of setting Black men up to be scapegoated should Harris lose in November.
Warnock didn’t address the controversy, but he did emphasize that the distinction between Harris and Trump is clear and that Black men, while not a “monolith,” can see that Trump is not our orangey-white savior.
“On the other hand, you’ve got Kamala Harris, who in her work as a prosecutor found ways to give people a path towards a better life, who has spent her whole life as a lawyer, as a senator, and now as vice president, centering the concerns of ordinary people,” Warnock said. “Again, we’re not a monolith, but this idea that large numbers of Black men are going to vote for Donald Trump, it’s not going to happen.”
I guess we’ll see in a few short weeks.
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Kamala Harris has agreed to an interview on Fox News and is looking at sitting down with Joe Rogan for an interview on his podcast, capturing the interest of cautious social media fans.
With three weeks until the presidential election, Vice President Kamala Harris is making a big play for moderate Republican and undecided voters by agreeing to an interview on Fox News and potentially one with Joe Rogan. The news has left some on social media cautious about these moves and others confident that she would do well in the interviews. According to reports, Vice President Harris will sit down with chief political anchor Bret Baier on a special episode of Special Report with Bret Baier. The episode will air on Wednesday (October 16) with the interview taking place in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Harris is also weighing whether to be a guest on Joe Rogan’s podcast, which is hosted on Spotify. Her campaign team has reportedly met with Rogan’s staff.
The push for Harris to appear on Rogan’s top-rated podcast (which has 14.5 million viewers)is crucial as polls currently have her in the lead over the Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. The Fox News interview would also be her first on the network. The news comes as Trump has opted out of major media appearances down the stretch, most notably with 60 Minutes earlier this month. Trump has also had a tiff with Rogan, taking shots at him on his Truth Social network in August before recanting and calling him “a good guy.”. Rogan said in 2022 that he wouldn’t back Trump in an election, opting to support then-independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Social media greeted the news with a mixture of caution and approval. Some observed that liberals were rushing to applaud the move while having berated Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for appearing on Rogan’s show in the past. Others felt that Harris would be more than capable of handling herself with Baier and Rogan. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, political commentator Matthew Sheffield wrote of how beneficial Harris’ decision to do Rogan’s show could be: “Rogan is conservative, but he’s not a Fox hack. This group needs to be addressed rather than ceded to Trump. She’s got the facts his audience needs.”
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Bow Wow has found a way to get dragged because of Diddy.
The rapper, born Shad Moss, is now being dragged after appearing on Rocsi Diaz’s podcast, More To The Story. During their conversation, the miniature rapper claimed that he misses Diddy parties.
Bow Wow’s head*ss comments come as the embattled music mogul, whom he called the “gatekeeper to the game,” is currently behind bars after he was arrested and indicted on sex trafficking, racketeering, and transporting for prostitution charges for his alleged “freak off” parties.
The “Let Me Hold You” rapper lamented about Diddy’s absence from the industry party scene to host Rocsi Diaz.
“Like, BET Award weekend, like the past two, it didn’t feel right,” Bow Wow said, speaking about the BET Awards in June and BET Hip Hop Awards that went down last week in Las Vegas.
He continued, “There was no motion, there was no parties. There was nowhere to go.”
Diaz interrupted Bow Wow and pointed out the difference between the Diddy parties and his alleged freak-offs, which he denies happened.
“For the record, I left before 1 [a.m.]! I never stayed,” she told Bow Wow after he brought up industry parties they both attended.
She continued, “I’ve only been to two parties, and I’ve never seen a freak-off!”
Ignoring the off-ramp, the 37-year-old continued saying there is a “hole” now that Combs’ influence in the music industry is no longer present.
“I said, ‘Jermaine, there’s no parties,’” Bow Wow said while recalling a phone conversation he had with his mentor, Jermaine Dupri.
“You feel it. It’s like a hole. He was everything hip hop! So for that to die out, you just would have never thought,” he added.
Bruh.
Social Media Tells Bow Wow To Read The Room
Since the clip has gone viral, X users are dragging Bow Wow for his foolery.
“His stupid forever teenager ass need to read the fucking room,” one user on X, formerly Twitter, wrote.
Another user wrote, “Diddy has a long history of violence. Against men & women. This should not be suprising to anyone! This “we aint know. We just wanted to party” has to stop.”
Where’s the lie?
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On Monday, October 14, Vice President Kamala Harris told Black men, I see you, and I hear you.
The Harris/Walz campaign is on a mission to strengthen the coalition, specifically with Black voters, where, surprisingly, they lack in comparison to the 2020 Biden/Harris ticket.
Following a moment with former president Barack Obama addressing a small group of Black men directly during a surprise visit to a field office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he had a “Black dad” moment and had some stern words on Black men on the fence about supporting Harris, and suggesting misogynoir is the culprit.
The fallout from Obama’s comments was immediate, with Black men reacting big time. The Harris campaign, which has been out in these political streets a lot lately, has been talking about that exact issue and releasing a new proposal that will provide Black men “with the tools to achieve financial freedom, lower costs to better provide for themselves and their families, and protect their rights.”
The Harris-Walz Policy Broken Down
Part of her proposal, which definitely has cheap Republicans clenching their butt cheeks, is the one million loans that are fully forgivable, up to $20,000, for Black entrepreneurs to start a business. Now, the million-dollar question would be how this would be possible; according to the campaign, the loans would be a product of a new partnership with the Small Business Administration with the addition of some lenders and banks.
The new Harris-Walz policy will also support education training and mentorship programs that lead to good-paying jobs for Black men, plus pathways to becoming teachers.
It also calls for protecting cryptocurrency investments made by Black men, giving them the assurance that their money is safe.
The policy also calls for the launch of a national health initiative that will focus on illnesses that affect Black men disproportionately and also the legalization of marijuana and create opportunities for Black Americans to succeed in the new industry.
The Fallout Continues
While Donald Trump, who has been president, has never come up with any proposals geared toward Black men, with his only claim to being an ally is issuing pardons to rappers, there are still some Black men scoffing at Kamala Harris’ attempt to let Black men know they have a seat at the table.
If you need a perfect breakdown of the discourse surrounding the new policy, look no further than Plies’ social media accounts, where he accurately broke down what
Plies tells no lies.
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Donald Trump’s presidential campaign staff reportedly asked Elon Musk to block links to the JD Vance dossier on the X platform before the action took place.
According to reports, members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff reached out to Elon Musk to request that links to a dossier on his running mate JD Vance be blocked on X, formerly Twitter. The request apparently came before X made the move to suspend Ken Klippenstein, the independent journalist, from the platform. Klippenstein had published a link to the dossier in his newsletter. The security account for the platform stated that their reason for the suspension was due to its “rules on posting unredacted private personal information.” Klippenstein had publicly queried why other press outlets hadn’t released the document after obtaining it. The Trump campaign claimed that it was leaked after an alleged hack by Iran.
Klippenstein would be reinstated quietly over the weekend just as the report from the New York Times broke. He wasn’t named in the article, but he would subsequently point out in posts on X, formerly Twitter, that Musk’s actions were contrary to his previous posturing as a “free speech absolutist” who had deemed actions by the platform in 2020 concerning the ban of stories about Hunter Biden and his laptop as “incredibly inappropriate” after acquiring the company in 2022. After backlash, former CEO Jack Dorsey changed the hacked materials policy to prevent the “straight blocking of URLs.”
The news comes as Musk has been more and more expressive in his support of the Republican presidential nominee, being described as “obsessive, almost manic, about the stakes of the election,” even appearing on stage with Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last week. He’s also expressed that fervor in a recent interview with former Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson, where he stated that if Trump didn’t win in November he’d be “screwed.” It has not gone unnoticed by many on the X platform, who have noted how much pro-Trump propaganda has been allowed to be published there. Trump has recently said that he’d consider making Musk a part of his administration, remarking over the weekend at a campaign rally that he was looking to make him “Secretary of Cost-Cutting.”