Category: Media

Dope Tweetz: Lil Wayne Said He Will Never Work With Birdman Again 

Today’s dope tweetz comes courtesy of rap legend Lil Wayne. —– Let’s be honest, in his tender 33 years and maybe 18 years of rapping, he EARNED that title. He’s definetly held a long lucrative rap career. 

(Side note: For my writer friends who are clue less about Hip Hop happenings, here’s a 2 second rundown.) Lil Wayne and his ex label head, pa, friend, homie etc. — Baby aka Birdman have fallen out about money. $51 million or so. Lil Wayne says Birdman owes him the money, and he wants it now. Hell, he needs it, he’s got a family to feed. 

Things are now so bad between the 2 that Wayne is having nervous breakdowns and damn near ready to quit rappin’. It’s hard to watch. 

Nobody saw this falling out coming. I sure didn’t. But here it is… and it’s ugly. 

https://twitter.com/rapspotlights/status/776103675416588288
Aww damn… Free Lil Wayne! 

Here is a throwback of Wayne & Birdman court side at a b-ball game. During better days. Days Wayne said are now over. 

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WATCH: Jay Z Declares The War On Drugs “An Epic Fail” 

Check out this scathing eye opening short documentary in which Hov addresses the war on drugs in the U.S.

Why are white men poised to get rich doing the same thing African-Americans have been going to prison for?

New York Times:

This short film, narrated by Jay Z (Shawn Carter) and featuring the artwork of Molly Crabapple, is part history lesson about the war on drugs and part vision statement. As Ms. Crabapple’s haunting images flash by, the film takes us from the Nixon administration and the Rockefeller drug laws — the draconian 1973 statutes enacted in New York that exploded the state’s prison population and ushered in a period of similar sentencing schemes for other states — through the extraordinary growth in our nation’s prison population to the emerging aboveground marijuana market of today.

We learn how African-Americans can make up around 13 percent of the United States population — yet 31 percent of those arrested for drug law violations, even though they use and sell drugs at the same rate as whites.

Do you agree with Jay Z or nah? 

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Throwback Special: Oprah Winfrey Visits Racist Atlanta Town Where No Black Person Had Lived For 75 Years

In the following video, Oprah Winfey took her talk show to Forsyth County- Georgia, a town only about 30 miles north of Atlanta, to tackle race relations.
 
In 1987, Forsyth County was proudly an ‘all white’ county and a hotbed for racism fueled by the KKK. At the time, not one black person had lived there for 75 years!

Needless the to say the town ‘locals’ were NOT thrilled to see Oprah (or her show) which had only been on air 5 months at the time. In true KKK fashion they put on their robes, flew their confederate flags, protested and chanted “Go Home N-gger!”

The real tragedy is 30 years later not much has changed in terms of the race relationship between blacks & whites, especially in the south. The question is will it ever?

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