Netflix unveiled the premiere date for “Breathless,” its first hospital drama produced in Spain. The series, created by Carlos Montero (Élite) and starring a renowned cast including Najwa Nimri (La casa de papel, Sagrada Familia), Aitana Sánchez Gijón (Madres paralelas, La Regenta), Blanca Suárez (Las chicas del cable, Jaguar), is set to premiere on August 30th.
This gripping 8-episode series follows the staff of Joaquín Sorolla Hospital in Valencia, a public institution where the daily fight to save lives takes place against a backdrop of frenetic emergency rooms, high tensions, and personal connections that blur the lines. The arrival of a prominent patient further strains the already stressed healthcare system, pushing the hospital staff towards an unprecedented and drastic response.
“Breathless” is produced by El Desorden Crea with Carlos Montero and Diego Betancor serving as executive producers. The series is directed by David Pinillos and Marta Font, with a writing team led by Carlos Montero, and including Carlos Ruano, Guillermo Escribano, and Pablo Saiz. The cast also features Ana Rayo, Macarena de Rueda, Blanca Martínez, Abril Zamora, Xoán Fórneas, Marwa Bakhat, and Víctor Sáinz.
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The brothers of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. are coming to Tampa for their Grand Conclave and supporting youth and the arts while they are at it.
Omega Psi Phi will host its highly anticipated Talent Hunt Program and a special Juilliard Masterclass at the Tampa Convention Center, offering an unparalleled platform for young Black artists to showcase and develop their talents. These events, free and open to the public, are part of the fraternity’s “Conclave with a Purpose” initiative, emphasizing their commitment to artistic excellence and community support.
The Juilliard Masterclass, scheduled for Friday, June 28, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., features students and faculty from the prestigious Juilliard School in New York. This one-day program will provide intensive artistic mentorship for Talent Hunt participants. Through performance demonstrations, clinics, panel discussions, workshops, and constructive feedback, the masterclass aims to foster the artistic growth of these young talents.
Following the masterclass, the Talent Hunt Demonstration will take place on Saturday, June 29, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. This event will highlight the skills of twelve selected students from the fraternity’s districts, who have advanced through local, state, and district competitions. The demonstration not only serves as a showcase of their abilities but also underscores Omega Psi Phi’s dedication to supporting the artistic aspirations of Black youth.
A significant highlight of the Talent Hunt Demonstration will be the donation of 25 violin kits to the orchestra program of Orange Grove Middle Magnet School in Tampa, Florida. This contribution is part of the Talent Hunt Foundation’s Instrument Donation Program, which aims to support under-resourced schools and enhance their music programs.
The Talent Hunt Program, established in 1946, was born out of the need to provide Black youth with opportunities to express their artistic and creative abilities. Since then, thousands of aspiring artists have benefited from the program’s recognition awards, financial assistance, and college scholarships. Omega Psi Phi’s International Talent Hunt Foundation, operating as a 501(c)(3) organization for the past decade, continues to advance this mission by supporting projects, programs, and activities for motivated youth in the visual and performing arts.
Both the Talent Hunt and the Juilliard Masterclass exemplify Omega Psi Phi’s commitment to addressing the lack of students of color in the performing arts and music education. By creating educational partnerships and providing significant resources and mentorship, these events aim to enhance opportunities for careers in these fields.
We at Watch The Yard believe that Omega Psi Phi’s upcoming events in Tampa promise to be a celebration of young Black talent and a testament to the fraternity’s enduring legacy of supporting the arts and the community.
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio.
Twenty years ago, an Atlanta poetry collective released a platinum-selling hit song that would come to define the spirit of Black resistance, youthful exuberance and, most of all, the specific mentality necessary for mutual combat.
Released on June 29, 2004, “Knuck if You Buck” is not just a song; it is an anthem. It is also an instructional video and a barometer for people who want “that smoke.” In three minutes and 28 seconds, Crime Mob and Lil Scrappy set the “f*ck around” parameters for anyone interested in “finding out.” While it has become a rallying cry to ne’er-do-wells and a signal to others that it’s time to leave the club, the literal “slam poem” is much more than an incitement to riot.
For Black Music Month, theGrio wanted to explore, explain and dissect the scientific principles surrounding this melee lullaby. Is buckness required or is it simply recommended? Should potential knuckers use a cumulative scale or a knuck-to-buck ratio? Most importantly, why would anyone endeavor to knuck in the first place?
Thankfully, we have the answers.
What is knucking?
“Knucking” is not just a synonym for fighting; it is a movement.
There has always been a punk rock-inspired moshing movement in underground hip-hop. During hip-hop’s golden era, parties would erupt in raucous exultation when DJs played House of Pain’s “Jump Around,” Onyx’s “Slam” or Mash Out Posse’s “Ante Up.” But the Dirty South took this trend to another level.
During the early 2000s, “Headbussa rap” emerged as its own Southern rap gene. Partygoers in the Deep South were “throwin’ bows” long before Ludacris released “Southern Hospitality.” Songs like Bone Crusher’s “Never Scared,” Lil Scrappy’s Headbussas, Pastor Troy’s “No Mo Play in G.A., and — perhaps the most famous of all, Three Six Mafia’s “Tear da Club Up” were not just underground club hits, they were mainstream Southern staples.
While non-Southerners often conflate the knucking movement with the “crunk music,” the two are not the same. In fact, one could say that knucking is just a form of male twerking. Just as the 69 Boyz inspired tennis skirt-clad booty-shakers to upgrade from the Butterfly to the “Tootsee Roll,” the opening of Master P’s “Hot Boys & Girls” was all that was needed to transform a dance floor into a Black mosh pit filled with young Black men in oversized T-shirts.
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In fact, brain scans showed Three 6 Mafia’s “Hit a MF” activated the same areas of men’s cerebellum as women who listened to “Scrub Da Ground.” However, according to the BUCK Project’s dedicated Team for Weaponized Elbows, Rhythmic Knuckle Throwing and Exuberant Ass Movement (TWERKTEAM) people who are diagnosed with BUCK Syndrome are different.
Yes, buckness is a medical diagnosis.
Buck, explained.
To properly understand the two different interpretations of the term “buck,” one must first know the etymological and the grammatical origins of the phrase.
As an adjective, the scientific term describes an unapologetic lack of concern for the negative repercussions of one’s own actions. While many people mistakenly assume the word “buck” is a shortened version of “buckwild,” it is actually a portmanteau of the phrase “bereft of f*cks,” according to the Black Literary Almanac of Communication, Knowledge, Slang, Patois, Euphemisms and Conversational Homilies (BLACKSPEAK).
Until recently, African Americans attributed buckedness to a lack of home training or not being raised right. However, scientists recently isolated the gene responsible for this behavior. Their studies show that Juvenile Buckness Syndrome is responsible for 72.8% of sniggling, giggling, hooping, hollering and, in extreme cases, the conduct described as “acting a damn fool.”
As a verb, the term describes the actions of highly buck individuals. While most people are willing to comply with requests to “don’t start none,” people who suffer from Adult Onset Buckness are unconcerned about creating an environment where “there won’t be none.” They are willing to fight for the most innocuous action. They “get buck” at someone for being disrespectful” or “buck up” at someone for “acting funny.” In the most extreme cases, a buck person may get buck by bucking off a few shots at buck-deficient busters.
Symptoms of Buckness
We are proud to announce that a buck vaccine is in the early stages of development. But until the FDA approves the “buccine,” the Buckology Research University of the Hood (BRUH) has identified four distinct symptoms of people who suffer from Adult Onset Buckness:
Brazen: Outbursts of buckness are impossible to predict but, for some reason, people who commit acts of bucketry must brazenly announce their hometown. They can’t help it. To be fair, people who yell “Brooklyn!” are always in the house and Crime Mob repeatedly mentions Ellenwood, Ga. However, our data shows that people from Duval County, Fla., are three times more likely to participate in an act of buckitry. (Look, I’m just telling you what BRUH told me.)
Unruly: Buck children may be addicted to walking in and out that door and often speak when grown folks are talking. But among adults, almost all buck behavior is “thang” related. They are more than willing to “throw them thangs” while “gettin’ cruck off in the thang.” Generally, you should remove yourself from the premises when someone says: “Don’t be here when I get back.” Buck people never say this. They “keep that thang on them.
Crazy: In interviews, subjects often compared themselves to Saddam Hussein, Hitler, and even Osama Bin Laden. More importantly, they often convince themselves that they are surrounded by unseen enemies who are out to get them. BRUH says 37.4% of bucksters directed their knucking at their “opps.” Another 22.6% was aimed at “haters” who can’t stand to see them shine. A smaller percentage was due to others’ inability to keep a buck person’s name out of their mouth.
Knucklehead: A boneheaded “gat-totin’, pistol-holdin’ n***a on yo damn street” may simply be exercising their Second Amendment rights, but if someone is “stompin’, jumpin’, bumpin’” or being “ready to fight,” they might be buck-adjacent. Not everyone who exhibits this behavior is a carrier of the buck gene. But if you hear someone yell “Duuuuuuvaaaaal!” while opening their trunk; get the hell up outta there. It’s about to get buck.
Left untreated, a person suffering from Adult Onset Buck Disorder may exhibit some of the symptoms described by Crime Mob, including gat totin’, pistol holdin’, shaking dreads and the desire to go “upside someone’s head”– all of which fall under the category of bucking. If this sounds like someone you know, trust me, you’re wrong. Aside from the acronym, you may recognize the universal Buck war cry:
“You don’t know me!”
“DUUUUUUVALLLLL!”
The Knuck-Buck Continuum
Now that you understand the basics of knucking and bucking, it is also important to understand the relationship between the two.
In the past, some mathematicians incorrectly expressed Crime Mob’s premise as: If U=buck → U=knuck. But newer generations soon realized that knucking and bucking are two separate and distinct activities. According to the principles of Knuckonomics, a person’s level of buckness is not necessarily related to their decision to knuck. As our completely scientific chart illustrates, knucking and bucking are two separate and distinct activities.
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As you can see, not only is buckness not a necessary element of knucking, it is quite possible that someone can display high levels of buckness while never knucking.
One of the most recent examples of this phenomenon is the Kendrick Lamar beef. Initially, Drake was extremely buck but eventually proved to not be sufficiently skilled at knucking. Kendrick Lamar, on the other hand, was not outwardly buck but, when pushed, showed world-class knucking ability. While the Black people on the infamous Montgomery Riverboat possessed high levels of buckness and knuckability, the white combatants were simply just buck.
Perhaps the most famous knucking versus bucking occurred On July 9, 1919, when rumors spread in Coatesville, Penn., that a white mob was preparing to lynch a falsely accused Black man. Recalling how a 5,000-man white mob lynched Zacaharia Walker a few years earlier, Coatesville’s Black residents grabbed their guns, bats and ax handles and marched to the city jail. Presented with the choice of effing around or finding out, Coatesville’s white citizens proved they were buck, but they were not ready to knuck.
Nearly 125 years later, not one Black man has been lynched in the state of Pennsylvania.
Now that is a “crime mob.”
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If asked to describe what you think a doula looks like, the first image that likely comes to mind is some sort of hippie, Erykah Badu-type burning sage around your home. But more than anything, you’d probably be willing to bet it all on the fact that a person responsible for providing physical and emotional support for a mother through childbirth is a woman.
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But one Kansas City dad is on a mission to change that stereotype and empower other fathers to be trusted sources of support for their partners during that critical time.
James Hogue’s journey started four years ago as he and his wife Shunquita planned to have their son James II at home. But the couple was forced to change their plans and give birth in a hospital when Shunquita was diagnosed with preeclampsia and gestational diabetes, a condition the CDC cites as the most common pregnancy complication.
Although they had to pivot from their original plan, Hogue says the training he received with their doula while preparing for their home birth helped him be a positive source of support for his wife in the hospital – something she appreciated.
“I felt super loved and secure with him there by my side,” Shunquita told PEOPLE. “Whatever needs I had — words, lights, music — were met. And he was my advocate in the hospital.”
Reflecting on his experience, Hogue realized the education he received could benefit other fathers, particularly as Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women according to the CDC. This staggering statistic drove Hogue’s decision to become a certified doula.
“Knowing how difficult it is for Black women in particular, and the disparities are clear, I wanted fathers who are well-informed so they can be their first line of defense,” he told PEOPLE. “I knew we needed to step up and be present.”
In 2022, James launched his nonprofit Fathers Assisting Mothers (FAM), an organization focused on helping arm expectant fathers with the knowledge and resources they need to help their partners through childbirth. Their Dad Doula Bootcamp is a four-week course taught by experienced professionals that covers everything from conception to postpartum care.
According to Zippia.com, less than six percent of certified doulas in the United States are men and less than ten percent are Black. But Hogue is passionate about his mission to improve pregnancy outcomes for Black families across the country.
“If a father is trained and aware of what’s happening and knows how to advocate, we can reduce some of these disparities,” he said.
Global superstar Anitta is making waves once again, scoring three nominations at the prestigious 2024 Premios Juventud Awards! The “Envolver” singer is up for Artist Premios Juventud® Female, The Perfect Mix – “BELLAKEO” – Peso Pluma – Anitta, and Best Urban Track – “Funk Rave.”
The ceremony takes place on July 25th at the Jose Miguel Agrelot Coliseum in Puerto Rico and will be broadcast live on Univision.
While collecting awards, Anitta is also captivating audiences across Europe with her “BAILE FUNK EXPERIENCE” tour. Launched in May, the tour has already brought the vibrant energy of funk to stages in Mexico City, the US, and Latin America.
This recognition comes as no surprise to fans who have witnessed Anitta’s meteoric rise. Since taking Brazil by storm, the Grammy-nominated artist has become a leader in the new generation of Latin music. Her 2022 single “Envolver” shattered records, becoming the biggest debut by a Brazilian artist on Spotify’s global chart and topping iTunes charts in 19 countries.
Anitta’s April 2022 release, Versions of Me, solidified her place as a global force. The genre-bending album, featuring tracks in Spanish, English, and Portuguese, held the record for the longest streaming week for a Brazilian artist on Spotify and has surpassed a billion streams on the platform. Anitta also holds the title of the first Brazilian artist with 35 million monthly Spotify listeners and boasts the most songs on the Hot 100 list by a Brazilian artist in history.
Her accomplishments extend beyond streaming numbers. In 2022, Anitta secured an MTV Music Video Award® for “Best Latin Song” with “Envolver,” etching her name in history with her second Guinness World Record: “First Brazilian soloist to win the MTV VMA for best Latin (female) song.” This victory followed a show-stopping VMA debut performance of “Envolver.”
Anitta’s reign as “Best Brazilian Actress” at the MTV Europe Music Awards spanned five consecutive years, starting in 2014. Last year, she added another MTV Music Video Award® to her collection, winning “Best Latina.”
A champion of Brazilian funk, Anitta released Funk Generation: A Favela Love Story in 2023, featuring the chart-topping single “Mil Veces.” This was followed by the massive hit “BELLAKEO” with Peso Pluma, now her most popular song on the Hot 100. To close out a phenomenal year, Anitta released “Joga pra Lua,” a fusion of funk carioca and electronic music, which was on her latest record breaking album Funk Generation.
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Rep. Jamaal Bowman, one of the most liberal members of Congress, will try to fight off a strong Democratic primary challenge Tuesday from moderate county executive George Latimer in a New York race that has put a spotlight on the party’s divides over the Israel-Hamas war.
Latimer got into the race at the urging of Jewish leaders upset with Bowman’s criticism of Israel.
An exorbitant amount of money, mostly tied to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has flooded into the race to oppose Bowman after he accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza, where over 37,000 Palestinians have been killed. Bowman also opposed a symbolic House resolution to support Israel after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas.
AIPAC’s allied super PAC has spent nearly $15 million on the primary, according to Federal Election Commission records. The cash paid for a torrent of ads attacking Bowman, who has accused the influential pro-Israel lobbying group of trying to buy the race in the mostly suburban district north of New York City.
A Bowman loss would disrupt what has generally been a stable primary season for congressional incumbents. Most current members of Congress have been able to repel challenges from within their party, though GOP Rep. Bob Good is in a tight contest with a rival backed by Donald Trump in a race that is too close to call.
Some major progressive figures have rushed to Bowman’s defense. In the final stretch of the race, he rallied with liberal darlings Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders, while Latimer pulled in the endorsement of former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The winner of the primary will be the prohibitive favorite to win in the general election. The district, which includes parts of Westchester County and a small piece of the Bronx, is a Democratic stronghold.
The primary fight has emerged as a case study of where Democratic voters might stand on Israel and exposed the ever-simmering tensions between the party’s liberals and centrists.
Latimer, 70, has been in politics for more than three decades. He was in the state legislature for years before becoming the Westchester County executive in 2018. His campaign has mostly been about his knowledge of the district and the relationships there that would allow him to be an effective member of Congress.
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Latimer says he wants to go to the House to extract what he can for the district, not to score political points or get on cable TV. He has portrayed himself as a staunch supporter of Israel and says the country can’t negotiate a cease-fire with Hamas because Hamas is terrorist organization.
Bowman, a former middle school principal, has framed the race as a contest between big-money donors and average voters. He has vigorously defended his position on Israel and calls for a cease-fire in the current conflict, while condemning Hamas for their Oct. 7 attack in Israel.
In an interview before the election, Bowman said he wasn’t paying attention to the noise around the race. Instead, he said he wanted to continue helping working-class people in the district and try to get young people involved in the political process.
Bowman is seeking his third term in a district whose boundaries have shifted since he first won office in 2020, losing most of its sections in the Bronx and adding more of Westchester County’s suburbs.
Today, 21% of its voting-age population is Black and 42% is non-Hispanic white, according to Census figures, compared to 30% Black and 34% white in the district as it existed through 2022. Bowman is Black. Latimer is white.
Nationally, Democratic Party leaders have emphasized moving toward centrist candidates who might fare better in suburban races.
New York Democrats will also decide another primary Tuesday, this one on the eastern end of Long Island, between former CNN pundit John Avlon and scientist Nancy Goroff.
That seat, which is represented by incumbent Rep. Nick LaLota, is one of a handful of targets for Democrats in New York, as the party tries to flip suburban congressional districts and retake control of the House.
Avlon has secured several endorsements from party officials, including some current members of Congress, who argue he can stand on a moderate platform to take on LaLota in an area that’s swung to the right in most recent elections. Goroff ran for the seat in 2020 but lost by about 10 points.
Also on Tuesday, Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney faces a primary challenge from businessman Mario Fratto in a sprawling, conservative district that includes the state’s Finger Lakes region and rural areas along Lake Ontario. Tenney defeated Fratto by 14 points in a primary in 2022.
Johnnie Davis’ wedding day was supposed to be one of the happiest days of her life. The Omaha, Nebraska woman describes her husband, Toraze, as “charming, funny and a hard worker,” and she said he wanted to make the day they said, “I do,” a day they would always remember.
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“It was a dream wedding. It was something. He told me pick whatever you wanna do. I dressed him, I dressed us. Everything was going fine until we went outside,” Johnnie Davis told 3News Now Omaha.
But June 19, 2023, was the last time Johnnie laid eyes on Toraze. The 48-year-old died of a blood clot on the couple’s wedding day, outside of the church, just moments after the couple exchanged vows in front of their friends and loved ones.
According to the CDC, blood clots are a “leading cause of preventable hospital death in the United States.” They say between 60,000 and 100,000 people in this country die of blood clots each year and others suffer “long-term complications.”
“He was there, he went through the whole ceremony. His last words was, ‘Johnnie Mae, I love you, I’m sorry.’ “ Johnnie said.
As KCCI Omaha reports, friends and family stepped in immediately, starting a GoFundMe, a meal train and donations of other supplies and services to support Johnnie and her daughter through their tragic loss.
Now, one year after experiencing an unspeakable tragedy, Johnnie Davis is honoring the life of her late husband. She took time to celebrate their special day by releasing balloons and sharing memories with their daughter and other loved ones.
“I feel good, I mean, it’s a celebration of life and love. it’s our anniversary, so it’s not a sad day,” Johnnie told 3News Now.
Toraze’s cousin Tiffani McCowin sees the day as a reminder to appreciate time spent with loved ones while you can.
“Family is all you got,” she said. “Treasure and cherish the memories and moments you get to spend with them.”
Will Smith will be taking the stage at the 2024 BET Awards on Sunday.
The Oscar winner is scheduled to perform a new original song at the awards ceremony, according to Variety. Smith is working on a new album, the publication reported, but no further details about his upcoming performance were shared.
Connie Orlando, executive vice president of specials, music programming & music strategy at BET, gushed about Smith in a statement, saying that he is a “global icon.”
“From his start as a rapper to ‘The Fresh Prince’ to being a box office king as one of the Bad Boys, Will Smith is truly a global icon, and we are honored to welcome him back to grace the BET Awards stage,” Orlando told Variety. “We look forward to Will adding to yet another defining night for the culture that is not to be missed.”
Smith’s BET performance follows a surprise appearance during singer J Balvin’s set at the Coachella festival in April, where Smith rapped one of his signature hits “Men in Black” while wearing the costume from the 1997 film.
Actor Will Smith attends the ‘Bad Boys: Ride Or Die’ photocall on May 26, 2024, in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images) –
Smith opened up about his rap career in an interview with David Letterman, explaining that he disliked being called “soft” during his early career.
“Not pressure as much as it was always that I was ‘soft,’” Smith told Letterman in 2022. “Dave, I hated that, being called soft. The origin of my style and why I pursued it in that way [is] when I was about 12, my grandmother, she found my first rap book.”
“I couldn’t even curse well,” he continued. “It was like, ‘Shit ass damn/Will, you the man.’ Not even good cursing. My grandmother found my rap book and wrote a letter in [the] front of my book and said, ‘Dear Willard, truly intelligent people do not have to use words like these to express themselves. Please show the world that you’re as smart as we think you are. Love, Gigi.’ And that was the reason I never cursed in any of my records.”
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Academy Award nominee Taraji P. Henson will host The BET Awards, which will air on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. In addition to Smith, Ice Spice, Sexyy Red, Latto, Lauryn Hill & YG Marley, Tyla, GloRilla, Muni Long, Shaboozey and Victoria Monét are set to perform at the awards ceremony.
The BET Awards will honor Usher with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Cardi B, Davido, Gunna, the Roots, Common, Queen Latifah and the Jungle Brothers are scheduled to make appearances during the event.
Rising rap star Destroy Lonely is facing serious allegations from his ex-girlfriend, who claims he physically abused her during a dispute. The accusations surfaced on social media, where she recounted a series of disturbing incidents.
In a series of tweets, Destroy Lonely’s ex-girlfriend alleged, “Cracked my head open in Germany after pushing me into a bed frame and then threw all my shit in the hallway… all because I was tired and didn’t want to get up at that exact second to roll a blunt.” She added, “Cry baby ass nigga. Mad over Lucki you verbally abused me for an entire 21 hr flight to Germany and when I finally snapped and hit you choked me and then called my mom to play victim.”
The accusations didn’t stop there. She also accused Destroy Lonely of using homophobic slurs, particularly against fellow artist Don Toliver. “Overly controlling I couldn’t listen to @DonToliver for 2yrs he’s my fav artist you called him a faggot and that he dance like one and his voice is gay and then when we stop talking for a month but I’m still at the crib u wanna go record songs with him n send to me,” she tweeted.
In support of her claims, she referenced footage showing Destroy Lonely following her friend to the bathroom and then pleading once he realized he was being recorded. The video has been widely circulated online, adding to the public outcry.
Now bobby why are you in paris following my bestfriend in the club to the bathroom? With your security? To talk about me ? pic.twitter.com/lvYtKRa9iP
Destroy Lonely has responded to the allegations with a series of tweets. He dismissed the accusations, tweeting, “Hoes Mad” and “everybody know the true story not doing no clout cap for u.” He further claimed, “Bitch beat on me 1000 times wanna post a fake ass injury. Never cracked nobody skull ask my manager.” He continued, “everybody who know me in real life knows this aint facts or me im not proving myself to the internet or no woman.”
The rapper’s management has yet to issue an official statement, and it remains unclear how these allegations will impact his burgeoning career. For now, the public remains divided, with some standing by the artist and others demanding accountability.
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The evolution of hip-hop’s relationship with Donald Trump has all the sinister plot twists of Get Out. Once upon a time, Trump was hip-hop’s gold-plated mascot of wealth. But as his true colors started to run—much like Giuliani’s hair dye in a heat wave—the Culture began to perceive Trump as a great instigator of societal ills. Over the past 35 years, hip-hop’s conversation about #45 has gone from “money and power” to an exasperated “What did this agent of chaos do now?”
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Early Era: Trump as a Symbol of Wealth
Before Donald Trump traded in his TV gig for the Oval Office, he was often referenced in hip-hop as a symbol of power and success. Songs like Mac Miller’s “Donald Trump” (2011) and Rae Sremmurd’s “Up Like Trump” (2015) used his name to signal opulence and ambition. Trump was the guy you compared yourself to when you wanted to flex a few financial muscles.
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Here are some other Hip-Hop songs that mentioned Trump during this era:
“Lie-Z” by The Fat Boys (1989): “Boy, I got money like Donald Trump!”
“Shut Up Bitch” by Lil’ Kim (2005): “I’m in the Trump International, 30 floors up.”
2016 – 2017: The Shock of Trump’s Election
After Trump’s hate-based presidential campaign and subsequent election, many in the hip-hop community reacted with a pungent mix of disbelief and outrage. YG and Nipsey Hussle’s “FDT (F*** Donald Trump)” became an anthem of protest, capturing the sentiments of many who were deeply dismayed by Trump’s victory and all the ways his distorted rhetoric emboldened Karens and other racists. Songs of this era became the musical equivalent of that middle finger emoji.
YG & Nipsey Hussle “FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)“
Hip-hop Songs from 2016-2017 that Mention Trump:
“Black Barbies” by Nicki Minaj & Mike WiLL Made-it (2016): “Island girl, Donald Trump want me go home.”
“Spar” by Dreezy, ft. 6lack & Kodak Black (2017): “They disregarding us and if I go to D.C., I’m tryna spar with Trump.”
“Land of the Free” by Joey Badass (2017): “Obama just wasn’t enough, I just need some more closure / And Donald Trump is not equipped to take this country over.”
2018-2020: The Trump Presidency
During Trump’s time in office, hip-hop continued to speak its mind. Rapsody’s “12 Problems” is a perfect example: the rapper tackled police brutality and systemic racism, putting a spotlight on the heightened tensions that were prominent during Trump’s presidency. The conversation also extended to broader social justice issues with artists like Noname taking on patriarchy and the silencing of women’s voices on tracks like “Song 33.” This era brought a surge of politically charged music, with artists using their platforms to advocate for immediate change.
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More Hip-hop Artists Who Mention Trump in their Songs, from 2018 to 2020:
“Veins” by Earl Sweatshirt (2018): “Stuck in Trump Land, watching subtlety decayin’”
“Real One” by G Herbo ft. Lil Durk (2020): “I can’t blame the judge and state’s attorney, ‘cause both of ‘em voted for Trump.”
2021-Present: Post-Presidency & New Campaign
As Trump left office, the political and cultural climates in this country were reeling from unrelenting injustices. The murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd highlighted deep systemic issues, while the fight against “alternative facts” forced us to navigate a global pandemic under botched leadership. We also had to endure a fallen president who refused to accept his loss as anything other than “fake news.” Hip-hop expressed its disdain for Trump’s tenure, particularly the long-term effects his policies would have on disempowered communities. When he announced a new presidential run, Kendrick Lamar’s “The Heart Part 5″ captured the complex emotions of a society grappling with the possibility of another Trump presidency.
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More Hip-Hop Songs That Mention Trump, from 2020 to 2021:
“State of the Union (STFU)” by Public Enemy (2020): “White house killer, dead in lifelines. Vote this joke out, or die tryin’”
“Plead the .45th” by Smino & Saba, (2021) “Runnin’ from pagans, runnin’ with Reagan, now they with Donald Trump.”
“SHELTER” by Vic Mensa ft. Wyclef Jean & Chance the Rapper (2021): “Tell me why it ain’t no trauma units when everyone is traumatized.”
As the music industry’s relationship with Trump has evolved from viewing him as a power player to becoming a supervillain, one thing hasn’t changed: artists remain necessary in society by giving voice to the world around us and calling bullshxt whenever necessary.
Take it as a warning. (“Black Parade” by Beyoncé, 2020).
