Tag: hip hop

“Thank you to Kanye West and the fact that he is willing to tell the TRUTH,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

“It’s not a utopian fantasy that you get to do whatever you want and we give you credit for everything,” he said. “Instead, we find the things that relate to a student’s passions and provide that value to the students.”

In her Mother’s Day edition of Sonnie’s Corner on SiriusXM Patriot, Sonnie Johnson explains the difference between revolution and renaissance.

Sonnie Johnson has some advice for Donald Trump on how to reach the black community. On her weekly show Sonnie’s Corner on SiriusXM Patriot, Sonnie says it all comes down to focusing on capitalism, which is the main message of hip hop.

The Chinese government-run newspaper Global Times published a feature yesterday on rapper Wang Yifan, a “patriotic” hip-hop artist recently embroiled in controversy after performing a freestyle at Pennsylvania State University warning students that China “will make Americans call us ‘daddy.'”

The Chinese Communist Party publication People’s Daily debuted an animated rap music video on Thursday celebrating the reforms of the National People’s Congress, warning viewers in cartoon form that “we must fully and strictly implement the party discipline.”

For the past three years, the Communist Party of China (CPC) has made overt efforts to popularize hip-hop music with communist messaging in the country. It only half-succeed – non-political rappers have made it big – triggering a major crackdown on the “low-taste” genre this week.

China’s state media outlets have launched a new initiative to promote “rap with Chinese characteristics” after popular Chinese rapper PG One was forced to apologize this week for releasing songs that did not promote “core values” in the communist dictatorship.

Georgia State University hosted a conference this week on the intersection of “hip hop and social justice,” according to the University’s website.

Conservative commentator, podcaster and writer Sonnie Johnson will be doing Sonnie’s Corner as a weekly feature for Breitbart News Daily. Today she was joined by Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow for a wide-ranging conversation on politics and culture.

Over the weekend, the Chinese Education Minister announced an initiative to attract colleges to “political theory” indoctrination at Communist Party-run universities, a study that has plummeted in popularity due to China’s exposure to the outside world.

Chinese state media is promoting a live performance of a rap song called “Marx Is a Post-90s,” the Chinese term for a Millennial, which encourages Chinese youth to read Marx’s writings and embrace communism.

In a video posted by PJ Media, Marco Rubio answers 46 rapid fire questions on multiple topics, including pop culture, cars, yoga, music, and the zombie apocalypse.

A female gymnast at UCLA has set the Internet ablaze with a floor routine that incorporates popular hip-hop moves.

The makers of the world’s most embarrassing ever pop albums now have some serious competition. A Canadian rapper called Baba Brinkman is crowdfunding a “scientifically peer-reviewed” record on climate change with which he hopes to defeat sceptics through the medium

Hillary Clinton is looking to black voters in South Carolina in a desperate attempt to avoid three early primary season losses against rival Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Sen. Bernie Sanders sat down for a late lunch with rapper Killer Mike on Monday, just hours before the rapper introduced the Democratic presidential candidate at a campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia.

Tremaine Aldon Neverson, better known by his stage name as Trey “Trigga” Songz, is the latest Obama-supporting hip-hop artist to be targeted by the IRS for neglecting to pay his federal tax bill.

A pee-wee football scrimmage broke into a dance-off in Massachusetts this past weekend. A group of seven-year olds were in the middle of scrimmaging during the halftime of a varsity game when the hit song by Silentó’s “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” started

A short video posted to social media this week of what appeared to be a gunman stalking an LAPD patrol car has frightened the department and led to at least one arrest.

Rev. Jesse Jackson’s daughter might only be 16, but her hair, makeup and accessories are on point, according to her newly recorded rap single, which has been obtained by TMZ.

A lot has changed for rapper, producer, and music mogul Andre Young, better known as Dr. Dre, who said in the 2001 track “Forgot About Dre” alongside Eminem, “you won’t get a crumb from me, ‘cause I’m from the streets of Compton.”

They are not looking at Donald Trump’s political platform; they are looking at what life could be when we all live like Donald Trump. He has already sold hip hop access to the Dream.

Rapper 50 Cent, whose legal name is Curtis Jackson, is about to dole out a lot more than 50 cents after a court found him guilty of releasing video of a sexual encounter featuring a woman without her consent.

Several U.S. Army recruits who also happen to be fans of the rap group Insane Clown Posse are suing the Federal Bureau of Investigations over the classification of the “Juggalo” fan base as a “hybrid gang.”

When it rains, it pours.

West coast Rapper The Game was taken into police custody Monday, for allegedly punching an off-duty police officer in the face during an altercation earlier this year.

Actor Tom Hanks’ son is being accused of trashing a hotel room. (No, not the budding TV and film star… the other one. The 24-year-old self-described rapper with an affinity for using the “N-word.”)

A Christian hip-hop group calling itself We Are Watchmen has released a single in support of Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential bid.

Although she falsely accused a man of raping her, and refuses to protect other women by filing charges against her rapist, Lena Dunham was still honored by Variety as a sexual assault role model over the weekend. During her speech,

Rapper Mike Render, better known by his stage name, Killer Mike, has transcended the usual borders of hip-hop music and culture, and is making a name for himself as an activist, one whose opinions are valued by major news publications and prestigious universities.

Gangster rap artist Webbie spent Easter Sunday sitting in the pews of a Louisiana church, and decided to get baptized after he said he felt convicted by God.

Dr. Ben Carson spent part of his Easter Sunday popular New York R&B radio station WBLS, and on that Holy day he generated some headlines with his comments on faith.

Newark, New Jersey, police are investigating a complaint that rapper DMX helped rob one of his own fans at gunpoint in the city early Sunday morning.

During an appearance on MSNBC’s NewsNation with Tamron Hall, Wu-Tang Clan rapper Method Man discussed Wednesday night’s shooting of two Ferguson, MO police officers, asserting that the officers had it coming.