Anthony Riley, a former contestant on the most recent season of NBC’sThe Voice, was found dead in his apartment on Friday. He was 28.
He was found dead in the basement of the apartment where he was staying and authorities believe that his death was a suicide.
Riley was a popular street performer from Philadelphia who competed on season 8 of The Voice. The singer gained national fame during his blind audition when all four judges turned their chairs around unanimously accepting him onto the show. He was a part of Team Pharrell but left shortly after the first battle round to get his substance abuse issues under control. After leaving the show Riley completed rehab and began working on an album.
The show must go on as the saying goes! It has been an interesting year for the Migos to say the least. The group went to Georgia Southern University last month and end up going to jail midway through their performance. While two of the three where able to make bail, Offset remains locked up in a Georgia jail awaiting trial for a series of charges. That is not going to stop the promotion for their debut album YRN Tha Album.
The album cover is very similar to the Versace logo, which makes sense as The Migos have a huge song of the same name from a few years back. The album which has had some set backs is scheduled for July 31st.Hopefully Offset will be out by then and their legal situations begin to clear themselves up so they focus on the music and promote their biggest project to date.
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This past Saturday (May 16th) Jay-Z held his Tidal exclusive concert in New York City. The concert where he preformed his B-side tracks and B-sides are the songs that were not meant for radio or not promoted as such. Basically for Jay-Z fans he preformed his really good stuff. Songs such as ‘D’evils’, ‘U Don’t Know’, ‘Where I’m From’, ‘Friend of Foe’ and many other classic Jay songs. Hov also kept it classy with a moment of silence for the late and great B.B. King, first playing a portion of ‘The Thrill is Gone’.
The icing on the cake for many was when Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, Young Gunz and Freeway all hit the stage and simultaneously ending any beefs that had previously existed. This was the first time in over a decade since they all got together since the break up of Roc-a-fella records. Dame Dash and Kanye West were not there but it did not take away from the emotional moment for many. The guest list did not end there; Jeezy, Jay Electronica and Just Blaze also came out preformed as well.
While seeing The Roc united was a great moment, it was not the only talked about one. Jay-Z started freestyling and there were some very interesting lyrics. It is probably the closest to a Kanye West rant we may ever get from Jay.
“Don’t ever go with the flow, be the flow And I don’t need no middle man to talk to my ni**as I understand if you don’t understand, I figure I’m Jigga That’s where we differ I take what’s mine, you accept what they give you, I get you I don’t take no checks, I take my respect Pharrell even told me go with the safest bet Jimmy Iovine offered a safety net Google dangled ’round a crazy check I feel like YouTube is the biggest culprit Them ni**as pay you a tenth of what you supposed to get You know ni**as die for equal pay right? You know when I work I ain’t your slave right? You know I ain’t shucking and jiving and high-fiving, and you know this ain’t back in the days right? Well I can’t tell, how the way they killed Freddie Gray right? Shot down Mike Brown how they did Tray right? Let them continue choking ni**as, We gon’ turn style, I ain’t your token ni**a You know I came in this game independent, right? Tidal, my own lane, same difference Oh ni**as is skeptical about they own shit You bought nine iPhones and Steve Jobs is rich Phil Knight worth trillions you still bought those kicks Spotify is nine billion and they ain’t say s–t! ‘Lucy you got some ‘splaining to do’ The only one they hating on look the same as you… That’s cool, I know they trying to bamboozle you Spending millions on media trying to confuse you I had to talk to myself, ‘Hov you used to it’ It’s politics as usual”
Naturally he transitioned into his song ‘Politics as Usual’, but the tale of Tidal’s demise may be greatly over exaggerated if you let Jay-Z tell it. With reports that the new music streaming service Tidal is not doing very well, this freestyle may open eyes and challenge the consumer to ask themselves bigger questions.
There does seem to be a double standard on those saying that Jay is just trying to make more money, but Nike and Apple are worth x times the amount more but continue to bring in money from the black community. YouTube is also known to be shady with how much a person really should be making off monetizing their views with their ad placements.
At the same time, Jay-Z and the other artist that co-own Tidal may also have greatly exaggerated how much music is worth in today’s market. When there is a free option to stream the same content, the sound has to be drastically better. While Tidal has the Hi-fi subscription option it is at $19.99 and the basic membership is $9.99 to hear the same quality as free Spotify or Pandora.
Overall, the B-side concert was one that many are going to remember and for that one night at least, we saw Jay take off the business hat as he brought old friends and preformed the songs that made him a rap legend. If this can give Tidal the extra momentum it needs is what remains to be seen. Who knows, there might be a Beyonce B-side concert in Houston coming where she brings out Destiny’s Child…with LeToya Luckett and Latvia
Boosie Badazz has just released another track from his forthcoming album “Touchdown 2 Cause Hell.” Since his release from prison last summer, Boosie has consistently dropped hot music. In the fall, he released a mixtape called “Life After Deathrow’ and appeared on many featured singles.
Last year the Baton Rouge rapper sat down with HHE’s Dennis Byron (EIC) and spoke about his time in prison and what the future holds for his career. That interview garnered close to a half million views making it one of hip hop’s best interviews.
On “All I Know” featuring PJ, Boosie Badazz shows off a brighter side to him, while using money as a shield against anything negative like haters and rats.
“While y’all criticizing’ my name, I’m on a camel in Dubai/If they say ‘sky’s the limit,’ guess what, then I’m the sky/Real music, I ain’t gotta lie, tears of joy run down my eye/You hatin’ a nigga who come from nothin’, my nigga I ain’t surprised.”
The East and the West Coast reconnect as Raekwon and Snoop trade heat over this Scoop Deville knocker. “1,2 1,2″ will be featured on the Wu-Tang swordsman“Fly International Luxurious Art” which drops April 28th. Check it out now and see how the O.G.s bring the heat.
Tara Rain is more than just a young beautiful new face, she is an amazing vocalist with a unique sultry sound that will send chills down your spin and catch the attention of music lovers all over the world. She does, pop club tech, hip hop and r&b and to many she is a triple threat, and sings, rapsand dance. The soft spoken songstress began singing and discovered her voice at ageseven were she shared her gift with the after school daycare called the Bradfield Center. Tara Rain was born Tara Taneka Thompson to Norma .J. Coates and Billy .D. Thompson Weighing in at 2 pounds and ten ounces arriving in after just six months in her mothers womb,Tara Rainwas indeed nothing short of a miracle, dying in her first few minutes of birth and coming back to life ready with a glow. Born in a town called Lima Ohio.Tara Rainwould listen to her father play guitar and sing to her when he would come and visit. He would tell her” your going to be a star on day sweet-pea” and she began her quest to make her mark singing in school, talent shows and church, were she lead the choir for years. At fifteen Tara Rain won the Miss Black Expo pageants of Fort Wayne Indiana were she won the talent division and rained queen. She went on to be involved in a dance group called Flavor Girls and traveled across the Midwest and preformed in many city’s. While dancing,writing her own songs and writing poetry,she discovered she could rap,and from then on she became “Poettess” one of the hottest female rappers in her city. Tara Rainpreformed every were and her stage presence took over the crowed bringing them to their feet every time she hit the stage, Tara Rain has opened for many celebrity artist including one of her icons 2pac. Tara Rain had a hard fall when her best friend and rap partner “TIGER” Tyvese Moore was gunned down at age 16.Her dreams as she knew to be a big star was now shattered she thought as her best friend would not be there to share their dreams, she picked up and went to job core were she worked harder than ever to critique her skills. She went to L.A California were she lived for a while, were she picked up modeling for catalogs, doing print work and runway shows, Tara Rain was doing great, but felt she was missing her first love “music”. So she went to work singing were ever she was located and made a brand name for herself as an artist. but she missed her support system and soon went back to FortWayne Indiana, she worked on her album and begin being a activist for abused andmolested children and abused and rapped woman and no one understood betterthan she did becauseshe to was a victim of child molestation and rape, but she never gave up hope.
Tara Rain wants to be a voice for children who can not speak or scared to speak. She says “I was that little girl” so I put it in my songs or raps or poetry spoken word. Tara Rain is not only a artist but an amazing heartfelt young lady with passion and hope for the next generation, who has never giving up, she is involved in Aids and Hiv foundation, feeding the children foundations, and cancer foundations her father died of cancer just two years ago and she never left his side. Her friends say she is an angle in disguised. Will give her last and would be fine with it.“I WONT STOP UNTILL GOD TELLS ME TOO” ALL I NEED IS ONE CHANCE, I WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCEIn music with my pop technical hip hop style of music. I justwant to build anempire, a brand name for myself, those in needsin America, Africa and all over the world.”I JUST NEED THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO BELIVE IN MY VISION” AND I WILL PROMISE YOU THE REST…..
