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A list of the top media figures in the Hip-Hop world was released, with Joe Budden being named number oneâleading some on social media to applaud and others to question how that was possible.The power ranking of the top media personalities in Hip-Hop was released by Complex Media on Monday (April 3), with twenty-five notable figures on podcasting and radio being recognized. The host of The Joe Budden Podcast nabbed the top spot, edging out his former Everyday Struggle co-host DJ Akademiks. Buddenâs pick as number one by his former platform surprised some but also delighted many other fans, given how he and Complex parted ways under stormy conditions after he spoke out about being undervalued by the media group. And there were also those who openly wondered how such a list could be created without bias and with some questionable placements (i.e. Sway Calloway coming in at 23rd on the 25-person list).
Before unveiling the list, the staff detailed their criteria for putting the list together which had them focus on individuals rather than shows or platforms. In an apparent nod to those who might complain about the placement of certain figures above others especially if veteran personalities were lower on the list, the staff stated: âWe engineered the list to be a ranking of the right nowâwhich means that current relevance and influence supersedes legacy and longevity.â They also addressed potential questions about including those who have been hit with allegations of abuse and misconduct by stating, âWe ranked the personalities strictly based on their content, not their character.â
Responses to the Hip-Hop Media Power Ranking were predictably all over the place, as some praised Joe Budden for attaining the top position. Others trashed the list for various reasons. We highlighted some more notable reactions in the gallery.
1. ImeWrites
Nigerian journalist ImeWrites weighed in with perspective. âI am disappointed at the ranking for Sway. However, Sway is an actual journalist, while this list is for media personalities,â they wrote.
2. DeronIsDope
This Twitter user offered a sarcastic jab at Buddenâs placement at the top, while voicing that it was âegregiousâ that Sway came in at 23rd on the list.
3. Lauren
A viral video clip summed up this Twitter userâs response to Budden getting the top spot.
4. CRU137
âWhat does Joe Budden do other than hate on people for clout?â, they asked.
5. Nicholas Price Sr
âThis list donât make no sense. @RealSway is not number one with the impact that he has on hip-hop media?â, they asked.
6. Lloyd Banks
The G-Unit artist sent out his salute to Joe upon hearing the news.
7. Preston Taylor
âI must be missing something. The word power is definitely being thrown around nowadays for no rhyme or reason,â Preston Taylor wrote.
8. TheFuture8606
This user offered up praise for Buddenâs ranking and his reformatting of his current podcast for success.
9. Joshua
Joshua called out the list for placing Narduwar towards the bottom. âNardwuar should not be so low this is actual blasphemous writing yâall should be ashamed,â they wrote.
10. Joezzy_ACH
This Twitter user who goes by the handle âWins and Lossesâ gave âThe Pod Fatherâ his due.
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You just knew Van Jones couldnât let a historic moment like a former President being indicted just go by without putting his tap dance shoe in his mouth. The known Op is getting cooked on Twitter after he caped for Donald Trump having to sit and listen to the judge during his arraignment.
By now you should know that Trump was charged with 34 felonies, and pled not guilty. Which is his right.
But Van Jones went out of his way to show sympathy for the racist and bigoted former POTUS known for tax evasion and acting like a whole donkey on social mediaâthe receipts are out there.
âHe looks sad, he looks like the weight of it is hitting him,â said Van Jones on CNN prior to the revealing of the charges. âJust as a human being, I donât take joyâŠI donât like the prison systemâŠI donât like this process ⊠doesnât mean that accountability is not owed, we donât know what he is going to be charged witâŠbut at that moment that is not a conqueror, that is a granddad having a very bad day.â
Sounds like Jones wants to give Trump a hug. Trump is also the same guy who came for the presiding judge in the caseâs daughter and wife. Does he feel bad about Alvin Bragg and his family being put in harmâs way? Also, itâs a safe bet Cheeto wouldnât spit on Jones if he was on fire.
The audacity of Jones expressing the sads about the start of Donald Trump actually being held accountable for just some of his illegal activity quickly led to another slander session from Twitter. Jones should be used to thisâlike when it was revealed he worked on Trumpâs police reform plan on the quiet.
Peep some of the best slander in the gallery.
8. Relevant
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Sukihana, regardless if youâre a fan or not, knows how to keep the cameras rolling on her when sheâs in that mode. However, it was an older clip that had the raunchy rapperâs name trending on Twitter after she claimed to be of Nigerian heritage and it appears that Naija Twitter isnât having it.
For context, we need to go back a bit to explain some of the weird back-and-forth happening between a group of Black Americans who frame themselves as âFoundational Black Americansâ (FBA) and portions of Twitter users who reside in African nations.
Just a short while ago, an African Twitter user caused a stir after blasting the fact that most Black Americans only speak English, although that user failed to acknowledge how slavery and colonialism jacked everyone up in some form or fashion.
Predating this very nuanced but tired discussion was chatter around Ice Spice speaking about her links to Nigeria, which was reportedly celebrated by some in the West African nation. The same canât be said for Sukihana, this after an old clip of her explaining that she is Nigerian resurfaced.
Sukihana tirelessly promotes a sexy image, even more than the aforementioned Ice Spice as evidenced by the Love & Hip Hop: Miami starâs X-rated OnlyFans content. To add, the clip in question makes mention of a certain body part while linking it to her reputed country of origin.
Adding to all of this is a recent NLE Choppa video for the remix of his new track âSlut Me Outâ which features Sukihana and Sexyy Red being walked like dogs with NLE holding their weaves like a leash. Yeah, itâs out there.
As it stands, Sukihana has the streets talking again and Naija Twitter, an active segment of the social media network, seemingly has something to say. Weâve got reactions from all sides below.
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Dinner with Soulja Boy? Apparently, nobody has time for that.
Soulja Boy was BIG MAD after a viral video showed people choosing $250 worth of food stamps instead of having dinner with him to pick his legendary brain.
As expected, the rapper, who claims to be the first to do many things, got on Instagram to rant, holding stacks of cash, calling the people in the clip âbrokeâ and reminding them that they will ânever make it out the hood,â while taking a shot a the state of New Jersey.
New Jersey-based platform 856 Entertainment was behind the now infamous clip. Hence the Jersey shade and a young man approaches random women with the $250 question if dinner with Soulja Boy is worth more than the food stamps. Hilariously, almost all of them didnât think a meal and a conversation with Big Draco was worth passing up $250 in food stamps.
âSuck my d*ck. Yaâll ainât ever gonna make it out the hood,â he started his rant. âYâall ni**as gonâ die broke. I wouldnât have dinner with yâall pu**y AIDS-infested h*es anyway,â the insanely bitter Hip-Hop star said, adding he âwould not have dinner with no broke a** bi**h from New Jersey anyway. I would not have dinner with no crackhead looking h*es anyway.â
He continues, âBi**hes could not be in the same room with me. Yaâll ni**as gonâ die in the hood, gonâ die broke, and gonâ never touch a million dollars. Never gonâ touch 30 million, yaâll ainât never gonâ touch 100K in a day, you gonâ die broke, you lived your whole life broke, bi**ch. You ainât gonâ never be sh*t.â
Weâve Been Down This Road Before
If this question about dinner with a high-profile celebrity sounds familiar, it is. At that time, people were asked to choose between â$500,000 or dinner with Jay-Z.âÂ
Unlike the question with Soulja Boy, there was a bit more of a divide, with some choosing an opportunity to speak with HOV and some preferring the money. Tidal, the music streaming platform that the Brooklyn rapper used to own, told its followers to take the $500K.
There is a good chance that Jigga was the creator of that tweet.
We know one thing, Soulja Boy better respond to the SEC after being hit with charges for illegally promoting cryptocurrency.
Speaking of tweets, Twitter has been reacting to Soulja Boyâs rant. You can see those reactions in the gallery below.
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1. Accurate
3. Well, there is one person.
5. What a bitter man
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Lori Harvey and Damson Idris were celebrated just months ago as the newest young âitâ couple, with many fans of the two loving their romantic connection. However, the streets say the pair have broken up and the reactions from the failed relationships segment of Twitter are out of control.
Lori Harvey, 26, and Damson Idris, 31, first made their relationship official on Instagram at the top of the year. Late last year, Harvey split with Michael B. Jordan after an intense romance between the pair went to the wayside. For Idris, the showy declarations of love and the like were just as noticeable as it was with Jordan and Harvey herself joined in on the display with photos sealing the deal.
News of the breakup came by way of a source who spoke to Media Take Out and the outlet took notice of the fact that recent public appearances of Idris feature him without Harvey on his arm. That doesnât necessarily confirm the rumors of the breakup but it definitely has folks online talking.
As it stands, fans are making their own assumptions about what happened, even though the source that spoke with Media Take Out said there are no issues between the two and the split was amicable. Further, those same fans are taking shots at Idris over his sex scene with Chloe Bailey in the Amazon Prime thriller series, Swarm.
Yeah, we know that doesnât make sense.
At any rate, the reactions are starting to bubble up and this latest high-profile relationship examination inspired some cringeworthy and frankly mean-spirited reactions on Twitter. Weâve got the best of the worst below.
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In todayâs episode of Tapioca Tears And The Poor Souls Who Supply Them, an apparently bi-racial interviewer conducted an awkward, cringy and second-hand embarrassment-inducing interview with the rap duo City Girls, got dragged for it by Black people and tried to blame the dragging on Black peopleâs alleged attitudes towards those who arenât âfull Black,â not her deplorable interviewing skills.
First, letâs start with the interview, because, bruhâwhat was even going on here?
Tamera Kissen, the interviewer who Blavity described as an âinfluencer,â caught up with City Girls after their set at Hip Hop festival Rolling Loud in California. I would say that at some point, the interview went downhill, but really, there was never a hill. This interview started on the ground and just continued to sink.
From Blavity:
During the interview, Yung Miami and Kissen realized they had met before. However, they were unable to recall the details of their last encounter. An awkward silence followed as the pair tried to remember how they met.
The conversation continued to spiral down as Kissen threw out random questions throughout the clip.
Many social media users followed up with criticism, saying Kissen doesnât know how to conduct herself professionally.
In other words, she got dragged because the âinterviewâ was drag-worthy.
According to the Shade Room, Kissen had an interesting take on why Black people reacted so negatively to an interview that would obviously only receive a negative response.
âThe community really donât f**k with you if you ainât full black, letâs just be honest,â she wrote in a since-deleted tweet.
Nah sis, if you really want to âbe honest,â you donât get to throw Black people under the bus because everyone who saw your janky-a** interview wanted to know what in the amateur hour was happening.
I mean, she spent the first 30 seconds of the âinterviewâ going back and forth with Miami about where they knew each other from like they had just bumped into each other at Walmart. Then Kissenâs first question out the gate was, âHow many broke men have you let hit?â
Wait, sorry, that was her second question. Her first question to the rap duo was, âDid you know it was the 50th day of Hip Hop today?â to which the City Girls answered âno,â to which the supposedly partially Black woman interviewing a Hip Hop act responded, âMe neither. They told me to talk about it.â
Now, Iâm going to give Kissen the benefit of the doubt and assume she meant â50th anniversary of Hip Hop.â Still, she doesnât know why the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop is important, but sheâs upset the Black community doesnât take her seriously, huh? I mean, OK.)
But nah, itâs probably just because sheâs biracial. That tracks.
Honestly, you can tell Kissen hasnât been around enough âfull Blackâ people, because if she had, she would have known hitting âsendâ on that alleged tweet would get her dragged even further.
I mean, if we want to really keep it one hundred, blaming Black people for your own inadequacy is some white people sh*t. So, maybe thatâs the real problem.
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Elon Musk is facing heavy criticism on Twitter Tuesday morning (May 7) after an exchange with an employee took a turn that shocked many. Musk was seen questioning the personâs disability and dismissing them in what some viewed as insulting.
Elon Musk, 51, was called out by former Twitter designer Halli Thorleifsson in a tweet asking if he was fired from the company after losing access to his work computer.
Dear @elonmusk [waving emoji]. 9 days ago the access to my work computer was cut, along with about 200 other Twitter employees. However, your head of HR is not able to confirm if I am an employee or not. Youâve not answered my emails. Maybe if enough people retweet youâll answer me here?â Thorleifsson tweeted on Monday (May 6).
Thorleifssonâs thread also contained a message for former Twitter CEO and founder Jack Dorsey.
âHi @jack. I would really appreciate your help on this one. My company was acquired on your watch and I joined because I believed in what you were building,â Thorleifsson added.
Gaining Muskâs attention, the Twitter boss asks, âWhat work have you been doing?â in the thread to which Thorleifsson fired back with, âI would need to break confidentiality to answer this question here. If you have your lawyers share in writing that I can do that then Iâd be happy to discuss that openly!â
Another Twitter user, Alex Cohen, who tweets under @anothercohen, shared a screengrab of the exchange between Musk and Thorleifsson and got a response from Musk.
âThe reality is that this guy (who is independently wealthy) did no actual work, claimed as his excuse that he had a disability that prevented him from typing, yet was simultaneously tweeting up a storm. Canât say I have a lot of respect for that,â Musk wrote.
Truthfully, it appears that Elon Musk is determined to bring the once-mightly social media platform to its knees and there are even reports that he currently walks about Twitter headquarters with bodyguards in tow, according to a new piece from The Daily Beast.
On Twitter, folks are giving the Telsa founder the business. Keep scrolling for those reactions.
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First, they were mad at M&Mâs for making Maya Rudolph its spokesperson. Now, they have set their crosshairs on Hersheyâs.
There are a bunch of sour people on the internet now after Hersheyâs Canada announced that Fae Johnstone, a trans woman, would be one of five women to be featured in Hersheyâs Canadaâs International Womenâs Day campaign.
Hersheyâs Canada rolled out its Her For She campaign on Wednesday, which features limited edition wrappers with the likenesses of five Canadian women, including Johnstone.
Johnstone is an award-winning trans activist and a professional LGBTQ+ advocate. When speaking about her involvement in the campaign, she said, âI hope this campaign helps give more young women and girls role models and possibility models.â
Immediately bitter conservatives lost their collective marbles, and #BoycottHershey began to trend on Elon Muskâs Twitter. âHow does it honor women to feature a MAN wearing lipstick? Did you feature a white man in blackface during Black History month?,â one Twitter user stupidly wrote.
âHersheyâs celebrates #InternationalWomansDay featuring a biological male You canât make this shit up #BoycottHersheys,â another MAGA clown wrote.Â
These people are genuinely not okay.
But, for every person showing expressing blatant transphobia, there was someone to defend Hersheyâs for standing in solidarity with Trans women.
âItâs sad that #BoycottHersheys is trending because of transphobia. I think weâre going to see conservatives start lashing out more at gay marriage as well. This is not OK,â another Twitter user wrote.Â
The right is dug in deep on identity politics. You donât have to look further than U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, who constantly spews hateful rhetoric daily toward the Trans community.
You can see more reactions in the gallery below.
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1. The dog whistling is getting very loud.
2. Exactly
3. LOL, no one is erasing women
4. Thatâs fine more chocolate for us to enjoy.
5. L M A O, these people need help.
6. There are four other women in the campaign though
7. She sure told them.