Jay Z talks police brutality on raw new song spiritual

World-weary Jay Z is “saddened and disappointed” that an anti-police brutality anthem he wrote years ago is still vitally needed today.
The rap mogul on Thursday released “Spiritual,” his first new music in three years, in the wake of two black men being gunned down by cops earlier that week in Baton Rouge, La., and Falcon Heights, Minn.

“I made this song a while ago, I never got to finish it,” Jay Z wrote in a statement on his streaming hisite, Tidal. “Punch (TDE) told me I should drop it when Mike Brown died, sadly I told him, ‘this issue will always be relevant.’ I’m hurt that I knew his death wouldn’t be the last...…”

The nearly four-minute-long song, available to stream on Tidal without a subscription, features a haunting hook on which Jay Z raps, “Yeah, I am not poison, no I am not poison / Just a boy from the hood that / Got my hands in the air / In despair don’t shoot / I just wanna do good, ah.”
“Spiritual” marked the rapper’s first new release since dropping his 12th studio album, “Magna Carta Holy Grail,” in July 2013.

“I’m saddened and disappointed in THIS America — we should be further along. WE ARE NOT,” he wrote in the statement. “I trust God and know everything that happens is for our greatest good, but man.... it’s tough right now.”

He went on to offer “blessings to all the families that have lost loved ones to police brutality,” capping off his message with a quote from famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass on societal oppression.

Activism is nothing new for Jay Z, whose Tidal service announced Feb. 5 — the same day slain black teen Trayvon Martin would have turned 21 — that it would donate $1.5 million from its October charity concert to the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups.

The “99 Problems” rapper’s surprise track came on the heels of Philando Castile, a cafeteria supervisor at a Montessori school in Minnesota, dying after police shot him during a traffic stop Wednesday. Just one day earlier, CD salesman Alton Sterling had been fatally shot by cops in Louisiana.

Jay Z’s wife, Beyoncé, also released a statement Thursday condemning what she called “the war on people of color and all minorities.”
“We are sick and tired of the killings of young men and women in our communities,” she wrote on her website, linking to congresspeople’s websites. “It's up to us to take a stand and demand that they 'stop killing us.’”
During a Dallas protest Thursday night in response to the police shootings, a lone gunman opened fire on cops and shot 14 people, killing at least five officers and wounding seven more, officials said.




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New Music: Joe Budden - Making A Murderer Pt. 1 (Drake & Meek Mill Diss)

Joe Budden is ready for war. After teasing and much talk on social media about wanting to spar lyrically with Drake and Meek Mill, the Slaughterhouse MC decides to back up the talk. Released on Thursday (Jun. 30), Joey liberates a new record titled “Making A Murderer Pt. 1.” On the araabMUZIK-produced track, a diss record, Budden fires vicious rhymes at Drake. Jumpoff Joe also takes time to throw subliminals at MMG’s Meek Mill and touches on past issues with JAY Z.
Back in May on his podcast show, the Slaughterhouse MC accused Drake of sounding “uninspired” on his chart-topping album VIEWS. “I think that that kid on that album that I heard sounds real Fuckin ’ uninspired,” said Budden. “That music sounds good and I enjoy it. I played that album all the way to D.C. and all the way back multiple times. 40 you sound amazing. 40 continues to progress. Drake you do not. I said the other day on this podcast I miss the Drake that starts the waves, not hops on other waves and I’ll say it again: I miss the Drake that pushes the FKN’ agenda, not lets the agenda push him.”

Weeks later, French Montana posted a preview his upcoming single “No Shopping” featuring Drake on Snapchat. In the clip, Drizzy raps the words “pump, pump it up,” referring to Joe’s 2003 “Pump It Up.” The quick audio lead many to speculate that the face of OVO is dissing Joe Budden on the soon to be released song off Montana’s MC4 album.

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Boosie Badazz Says TV Is ‘Trying To Make Everybody F--king Gay’

Rapper Boosie Badazz is trying to complain away the gay.

The Louisiana-born musician fumed in a recent interview that gay characters on television were “forcing” kids to be homosexual — boldly estimating that nearly half the population would be gay in just 10 years time.

“They’re trying to make everybody fking gay,” the rapper, whose real name is Torrence Hatch, told DJ Vlad.

“Six or 7-year-olds, 5-year-olds shouldn’t be turned on to gay cartoons when their mind (is) not even developed yet,” he added. “Now you’re forcing them to be gay.”
The 33-year-old, formerly known as Lil Boosie, reportedly posted a since-deleted Instagram tirade late last year blasting shows like “Empire” and “Love & Hip Hop” for including homosexual storylines.

As he doubled down on those sentiments this week, he insisted he didn’t hate gay people “at all” — but still harked back to the golden age of TV shows being on the straight and narrow.

“It wasn’t like that when I was coming up,” he said. “The Ninja Turtles wasn’t kissing ... They didn’t have two men on ‘The Flintstones’ kissing. ‘The Jetsons’ wasn’t kissing.”

“I say in 10 years, you’re going to have damn near half the population gay because of what they put on TV,” he added. “It’s because how they’re forcing it.”

Boosie’s conspiracy theory went all the way to the top, as he speculated television execs were merely peddling gay stories “for monetary gain.”

And when asked by his interviewer how he would react to one of his own kids — he has at least seven — coming out as gay, the rapper offered up a wealth of parenting wisdom.

“First, I’m gonna try to slap his a-- back straight. I’m gonna kick his a--, and maybe he’ll realize that he’s not gay,” he said.“But if I can’t stop him from being gay, I’m not going to ban my son from my life. I’ll just have to find some crazy-a way to deal with it.”

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