Photo by Tabatha Fireman/Getty Images Dreamville Festival Has Been Rescheduled For The Spring Jermaine would never leave us hanging. J. Cole has just revealed the rescheduled date for the inaugural Dreamville Festival, which will now take place on Saturday, April 6 at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina. Dreamville Festival was originally scheduled to take place on September 15, but it was forced to be cancelled due to public safety concerns surrounding Hurricane Florence. According to the man incharge, 30,000 fans were expected at the inaugural festival. In response to the hurricane and the event’s cancellation, Cole tweeted out, “Mannn. Due to this Hurricane heading to NC, we have to cancel Dreamville Festival. We’re working to get another date, but right now safety is most important. I appreciate everybody that was headed to rock with us. 30,000 + were expected.” Attendees of the rescheduled event will still get to see a headlining performance from J. Cole to close out the event, although details surrounding the new music lineup will be announced at a later date. The original lineup featured SZA, Big Sean, Young Thug, Nelly, Rich The Kid, Teyana Taylor, Bas, Rapsody, Ari Lennox, and more. Dreamville Festival/Giant Noise “We battled with the idea of moving forward with the festival at this time or formally cancelling the event. But after receiving unwavering support from the fans and the community, we are excited to announce Dreamville Festival will now take place on April 6, 2019,” said Ibrahim “IB” Hamad, President of Dreamville Records and J. Cole’s manager. “We are proud to say that Dreamville this spring will also serve as a benefit to hurricane victims in the Carolinas. We hope that fans in North Carolina and across the US will not only join in celebrating the very first Dreamville Festival, but also the resilience of this amazing community.” General Admission and VIP ticket packages are on sale now at www.dreamvillefest.com . Those who already purchased tickets to the event before its cancellation will have the option to keep their existing tickets, which also will be valid for the festival’s new date in April, or request a full refund.
It’s only been a couple of years since Savannah Chrisley’s horrifying car crash , but the Chrisley Knows Best star is back on the road. In fact, she and her brother Chase are embarking on a road trip for their spin-off. And apparently that spin-off is moving forward — and may even be almost done with production. From what multiple sources tell Us Weekly , Savannah Chrisley and Chase Chrisley’s spin-off of Chrisley Knows Best is really happening. In fact, the spin-off, which has been rumored since last year, is said to be going “full speed ahead.” Chrisley Knows Best has just concluded its sixth season less than a month ago. A lot of shows — scripted or reality — don’t make it to the 100 episode benchmark, but Chrisley Knows Best has 109 episodes and 2 specials. And now, a spin-off. Chrisley Knows Best was previously filmed in Georgia, near Atlanta. Now, the show films in Nashville, Tennessee. According to reports, that is where Svannah and Chase’s spin-off will begin filming. The premise of the spin-off is to capture the two young adults on their sibling road trip across most of the breadth of the United States. They started off in Nashville but will end up in Los Angeles. In fact, the two have been spotted in L.A., which suggests that at least most of the principal photography is already complete. The show has been rumored for ages, and Todd Chrisley addressed this spinoff a while back. “I’m extremely proud of Chase and Savannah as they continue their journey into adulthood,” the family patriarch announced. “This show will follow them as they live on their own,” Todd continued. And give their parents huge headaches and potential heart attacks.” Todd condluded: “The plot thickens with love.” Todd is famous for his frustrations with his family, including and especially Chase, but clearly he is proud of his young adult children. Todd does admit that he can be controlling of his family’s social media activity, policing it personally. “If they say something that I don’t think is appropriate or that I think is offensive to someone,” Todd says. “I send them a text message with a screenshot and go, ‘Really? Really?” That sounds fine for some things — honestly, a few celebrities out there could use Todd Chrisley sending them similar messages — but perhaps a little intrustive for others. “My thing is,” Todd explains. “Aon’t be trashy about anything.” That sounds fair enough. Todd thinks that sometimes people embarrass themselves by being overly eager with fans on social media. “These guys out here today,” Todd laments. “If a girl likes their photograph, that’s a reason for them to slide into your DM.” For the record, clicking “like” doesn’t always indicate thirst, and indicating thirst isn’t always an invitation. Todd then cracks a joke about what some would describe as c–kblocking his kids. “You’re not sliding into anything over here,” Todd says. View Slideshow: Savannah Chrisley: The Most Gorgeous Photos of USA’s Brightest Young Star!
WENN.com Donald Glover Sues Former Label Donald Glover has filed a lawsuit against his former label Glassnote Records as part of a royalties disagreement, according to reports from Pitchfork . The rapper is alleging that the independent label owes him over $10,000 from streaming royalties and has continually miscalculated payments, which violates their licensing agreement. The suit asserts issues including breaches of contract, negligence, fair dealing, good faith, and fiduciary duty. Glover’s new lawsuit is a reaction to Glassnote’s complaint from July, in which they label asked for a judge to act as mediator in court during the contract dispute. “Donald Glover made a claim that he was owed 95% of SoundExchange royalties when we are legislatively and contractually required to share those royalties 50/45,” a Glassnote representative told Pitchfork earlier this summer. “We are not asking for anything back from Donald Glover, just that we are able to retain the monies that are contractually and legally ours and that have already been paid to us.” In Glover’s lawsuit, he refutes the claims Glassnote made in that complaint, and maintains that the label has held on to 100 percent of Glover’s net SoundExchange royalties. The Atlanta creator is requesting his royalties and that the label’s complaint be dismissed, along with payment for damages. Childish Gambino released Camp , Because the Internet , and “Awaken, My Love!” via Glassnote between 2011 and 2016. He has been signed to RCA since January of 2018.
Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for BET Shots Fire Outside Of Nipsey Hussle’s Clothing Store Nipsey Hussle is reportedly in New York City to attend the Diamond Ball. But while the rapper is on the East Coast, a serious situation went down at his Crenshaw clothing establishment. A fight reportedly almost turned deadly as shots were fired in the parking lot of Hussle’s The Marathon Clothing store in Los Angeles, California on Friday (September 14). Witnesses tell TMZ that a huge fight broke out in the parking lot of the store. During the alleged brawl, one of the people involved pulled out a gun and fired a couple shots into the air in an attempt to stop the melee. Those involved then proceeded to disperse from the scene before police finally arrived. Authorities showed up a short time later and discovered blood in the parking lot. According to the report, they questioned employees inside the store who did not offer any information that would assist in solving the crime. Police are hoping to review security footage in an effort to pinpoint a suspect. The rapper’s clothing store is only one of his attempts at making sure to bring business to his beloved hometown. Back in February, he partnered with Vector90 and the District 8 Los Angeles City Council to launch a coworking space in South Los Angeles. Only a month later, he was part of an investment team that put in a bid to purchase a historic Los Angeles hotel. As of now, no one has been arrested in the shooting at The Marathon Clothing.
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Cardi B’s song “Ring” is one of my favorite by far & it officially has visuals! Although Cardi said the visuals were leaked without her permission I’m sure she’s happy with the outcome because the visuals are dope. Check out the official video below, EXPLICIT LANGUAGE [ione_media_gallery src=”https://92q.com” id=”4045132″ overlay=”true”]
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Cardi B’s song “Ring” is one of my favorite by far & it officially has visuals! Although Cardi said the visuals were leaked without her permission I’m sure she’s happy with the outcome because the visuals are dope. Check out the official video below, EXPLICIT LANGUAGE [ione_media_gallery src=”https://92q.com” id=”4045132″ overlay=”true”]
S pike Lee ’s BlacKkKlansman delivers more than a brilliantly entertaining story. Officially, BlacKkKlansman is about Ron Stallworth ( John David Washington , son of actor Denzel Washington ), the first African-American police detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a white proxy. The film is based on actual events discussed in Stallworth’s 2014 memoir, Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime . The actors humorously and yet believably drive home the film’s strong racial irony. Stallworth’s operation upsets a string of Klan meetings and attacks, including a comically rendered attempt to bomb the female head of the Black student union. Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman ( @BlacKkKlansman ) is in theaters now! Read our #BlacKkKlansman review! https://t.co/QuEEwp5xwf — NewsOne (@newsone) August 10, 2018 Stallworth dupes the “Grand Wizard” of the KKK, David Duke (Topher Grace). Stallworth and Duke have a series of phone conversations about Stallworth’s feigned white nationalist beliefs and the upcoming ceremony marking his initiation into the “Organization.” Drama and hilarity abound when Stallworth is assigned to personally guard Duke at the event and Duke is unable to make any connection between his new initiate and the police officer. What makes this film good is not that it successfully delivers the story it promises, but that it also exposes how our racial past has only changed its bell-bottoms for straight-legs. Or put another way, BlacKkKlansman showcases how past racism still operates in the present. Using the past to illuminate the present Spike Lee offers a parody of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s enthusiastic endorsement of the 1915 box office hit, Birth of a Nation . Birth of a Nation , based on a novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr., and unabashedly titled The Clansman, an Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan , is set just after the American Civil War. Both book and movie were used as propaganda to depict the Klan as saving the white race from the newly emancipated Blacks, rendered in the film as crazed rapists and criminals. Lee successfully uses the past, as he has done in movies like Do the Right Thing (1989) , to artistically quash the anticipated criticism that a film by a Black director that portrays white racism is guilty of being anti-white. In contrast, by integrating the facts about Birth of a Nation , Lee explodes this phoney critique and points to the real racial irony: That films depicting white supremacy are likely to be wildly popular, even praised by presidents of their time, while a film that depicts the personal and professional impacts of racism, particularly on Black people, is subject to petty but popular criticism that the film is inherently anti-white. Lee does not tread lightly, but marches into this racial terrain at the end of the movie by explicitly invoking images of U.S. President Donald Trump’s equivocation that some white nationalists are very fine people . Comic relief; deadly serious To artistically execute this heavy history in a film that runs two hours and 15 minutes is no easy feat. But Lee does not disappoint. Lee deftly offers comedy as a necessary relief. For example, Connie Kendrickson, (Ashlie Atkinson), the wife of a Klan member, Felix Kendrickson (Jasper Paakkonen), is an eager-Jane, reminiscent of a classically uncool, geekish, eager-to-please teenager. She dresses up — rather badly — in a two-piece, too loose, bright red pantsuit to pursue her first terrorist act of planting a bomb. She foils the plan and the result is pure humor. Its good to see #JohnDavidWashington restate what he told me when other interviewers mention he's DENZEL's son like his phenomenal mother didn't play the largest role in his life. #BlacKkKlansman pic.twitter.com/5LNZTRvl4C — The Extraordinary Xilla (@BlogXilla) August 8, 2018 On the other hand, Lee interestingly and expertly weaves together the serious mini-dramas in Stallworth’s life. Stallworth must face personal conflicts in his love life when his (completely fictionalized) romantic interest (Laura Harrier) holds anti-cop views. And he must deal with persistent racism when he is formally admonished and told to accept routine anti-Black sentiments expressed at work or face consequences for complaining. Confronting American racism BlacKkKlansman is, of course, not the first time cinema has been used to confront similar themes of Blacks infiltrating the KKK or using covert police tactics. These themes have been variously treated in popular culture since at least the 1960s. The 1966 film, The Black Klansman was directed by Ted V. Mikels and depicts a light-skinned Black man, Jerry Ellsworth (Richard Gilden), whose daughter is murdered by the Klan. Ellsworth passes as white to become a member of the KKK to take revenge on the organization and avenge his daughter’s death. Another iteration was developed in the 1973 cult classic The Spook Who Sat by the Door , directed by Ivan Dixon and based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee. In this film, Dan Freeman (Lawrence Cook) is an African-American who becomes a top CIA agent after being trained in advanced warfare, spy work and subversion. Freeman soon resigns from the CIA and lives by day as a social worker but by night as the leader of a Black nationalist group called the Freedom Fighters. Freeman leads the group in pro-Black both non-violent and aggressive military acts against corrupt police and anti-civil rights efforts. Then there’s David Chappelle ’s famous skit of Clayton Bigsby on Chappelle’s Show . Because Bigsby is blind, raised in an all-white group home, and no one ever tells him that he’s African-American, he develops deeply racist views and joins the town’s chapter of the KKK. He learns he is Black while lecturing at a white supremacist rally when the crowd requests that he take off his hood. Even then, his views don’t change. When asked why he divorced his wife of almost two decades, he responds that it is because she is a n***** lover. So BlacKkKlansman has to be more than just another cinematic episode depicting how a Black subversive is finally sticking it to “The Man.” This story is about much more than one Black police officer who successfully and brilliantly subverted and breached the Klan to assist efforts of Black liberation. And the film certainly does more than chase laughs by exposing the inanity of racist views. BlacKkKlansman is an insightful foray into the neo-passing genre. The neo-passing genre addresses contemporary injustices and asks audiences to consider and distinguish between “classic and popular narratives of passing” where contemporary versions of passing can be about performing resistance and contesting unjust social circumstances. As a neo-passing story, BlacKkKlansman is ultimately about the current reality that African-Americans specifically, and other racial minorities in general, must continue to endure racism; that they must still argue that saying “Black lives matter” always means all lives matter. That Lee is able to highlight this through an entertaining adaptation of the past makes his latest film one to see and discuss. Vershawn Ashanti Young , professor, Department of Drama and Speech Communication, University of Waterloo This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the original article . 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S pike Lee ’s BlacKkKlansman delivers more than a brilliantly entertaining story. Officially, BlacKkKlansman is about Ron Stallworth ( John David Washington , son of actor Denzel Washington ), the first African-American police detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a white proxy. The film is based on actual events discussed in Stallworth’s 2014 memoir, Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime . The actors humorously and yet believably drive home the film’s strong racial irony. Stallworth’s operation upsets a string of Klan meetings and attacks, including a comically rendered attempt to bomb the female head of the Black student union. Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman ( @BlacKkKlansman ) is in theaters now! Read our #BlacKkKlansman review! https://t.co/QuEEwp5xwf — NewsOne (@newsone) August 10, 2018 Stallworth dupes the “Grand Wizard” of the KKK, David Duke (Topher Grace). Stallworth and Duke have a series of phone conversations about Stallworth’s feigned white nationalist beliefs and the upcoming ceremony marking his initiation into the “Organization.” Drama and hilarity abound when Stallworth is assigned to personally guard Duke at the event and Duke is unable to make any connection between his new initiate and the police officer. What makes this film good is not that it successfully delivers the story it promises, but that it also exposes how our racial past has only changed its bell-bottoms for straight-legs. Or put another way, BlacKkKlansman showcases how past racism still operates in the present. Using the past to illuminate the present Spike Lee offers a parody of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s enthusiastic endorsement of the 1915 box office hit, Birth of a Nation . Birth of a Nation , based on a novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr., and unabashedly titled The Clansman, an Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan , is set just after the American Civil War. Both book and movie were used as propaganda to depict the Klan as saving the white race from the newly emancipated Blacks, rendered in the film as crazed rapists and criminals. Lee successfully uses the past, as he has done in movies like Do the Right Thing (1989) , to artistically quash the anticipated criticism that a film by a Black director that portrays white racism is guilty of being anti-white. In contrast, by integrating the facts about Birth of a Nation , Lee explodes this phoney critique and points to the real racial irony: That films depicting white supremacy are likely to be wildly popular, even praised by presidents of their time, while a film that depicts the personal and professional impacts of racism, particularly on Black people, is subject to petty but popular criticism that the film is inherently anti-white. Lee does not tread lightly, but marches into this racial terrain at the end of the movie by explicitly invoking images of U.S. President Donald Trump’s equivocation that some white nationalists are very fine people . Comic relief; deadly serious To artistically execute this heavy history in a film that runs two hours and 15 minutes is no easy feat. But Lee does not disappoint. Lee deftly offers comedy as a necessary relief. For example, Connie Kendrickson, (Ashlie Atkinson), the wife of a Klan member, Felix Kendrickson (Jasper Paakkonen), is an eager-Jane, reminiscent of a classically uncool, geekish, eager-to-please teenager. She dresses up — rather badly — in a two-piece, too loose, bright red pantsuit to pursue her first terrorist act of planting a bomb. She foils the plan and the result is pure humor. Its good to see #JohnDavidWashington restate what he told me when other interviewers mention he's DENZEL's son like his phenomenal mother didn't play the largest role in his life. #BlacKkKlansman pic.twitter.com/5LNZTRvl4C — The Extraordinary Xilla (@BlogXilla) August 8, 2018 On the other hand, Lee interestingly and expertly weaves together the serious mini-dramas in Stallworth’s life. Stallworth must face personal conflicts in his love life when his (completely fictionalized) romantic interest (Laura Harrier) holds anti-cop views. And he must deal with persistent racism when he is formally admonished and told to accept routine anti-Black sentiments expressed at work or face consequences for complaining. Confronting American racism BlacKkKlansman is, of course, not the first time cinema has been used to confront similar themes of Blacks infiltrating the KKK or using covert police tactics. These themes have been variously treated in popular culture since at least the 1960s. The 1966 film, The Black Klansman was directed by Ted V. Mikels and depicts a light-skinned Black man, Jerry Ellsworth (Richard Gilden), whose daughter is murdered by the Klan. Ellsworth passes as white to become a member of the KKK to take revenge on the organization and avenge his daughter’s death. Another iteration was developed in the 1973 cult classic The Spook Who Sat by the Door , directed by Ivan Dixon and based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Sam Greenlee. In this film, Dan Freeman (Lawrence Cook) is an African-American who becomes a top CIA agent after being trained in advanced warfare, spy work and subversion. Freeman soon resigns from the CIA and lives by day as a social worker but by night as the leader of a Black nationalist group called the Freedom Fighters. Freeman leads the group in pro-Black both non-violent and aggressive military acts against corrupt police and anti-civil rights efforts. Then there’s David Chappelle ’s famous skit of Clayton Bigsby on Chappelle’s Show . Because Bigsby is blind, raised in an all-white group home, and no one ever tells him that he’s African-American, he develops deeply racist views and joins the town’s chapter of the KKK. He learns he is Black while lecturing at a white supremacist rally when the crowd requests that he take off his hood. Even then, his views don’t change. When asked why he divorced his wife of almost two decades, he responds that it is because she is a n***** lover. So BlacKkKlansman has to be more than just another cinematic episode depicting how a Black subversive is finally sticking it to “The Man.” This story is about much more than one Black police officer who successfully and brilliantly subverted and breached the Klan to assist efforts of Black liberation. And the film certainly does more than chase laughs by exposing the inanity of racist views. BlacKkKlansman is an insightful foray into the neo-passing genre. The neo-passing genre addresses contemporary injustices and asks audiences to consider and distinguish between “classic and popular narratives of passing” where contemporary versions of passing can be about performing resistance and contesting unjust social circumstances. As a neo-passing story, BlacKkKlansman is ultimately about the current reality that African-Americans specifically, and other racial minorities in general, must continue to endure racism; that they must still argue that saying “Black lives matter” always means all lives matter. That Lee is able to highlight this through an entertaining adaptation of the past makes his latest film one to see and discuss. Vershawn Ashanti Young , professor, Department of Drama and Speech Communication, University of Waterloo This article was originally published on The Conversation . Read the original article . SEE ALSO: Review: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Movie Review: Spike Lee Delivers An Instant Classic If Only The Spike Lee’s ‘Drop Squad’ Really Existed [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”2741958″ overlay=”true”]
Not all heroes wear capes. But some heroes, it seems, shop at Target. A surveillance video is making the rounds after it shows one seriously creepy dudes snapping upskirt photos of girls … and then paying the price. It was a father, out shopping with his daughter, who noticed what the man was up to and took action. Take a look: On Wednesday, August 1, 29-year-old Jorge A. Ibarra Jr. was arrested. The arrest was over “suspicion of invasion of privacy,” which seems like a major understatement after you watch this video and hear the story of what went down. See, surveillance photos appear to have captured him snapping “upskirt” photos of girls, some of whom were minors, at a Target store in Cypress, California. If you're not familiar, “upskirts” are what they sound like — a man takes pictures up a skirt, hoping for a glimpse at a girl's thighs and underwear and any potential glimpse of their butt or genitals that might come with it. Upskirting is gross, it's predatory, it's a nightmarish invasion of privacy, and, in this case, it will get you tackled in a Target store. Ismael Duarte is the hero of the hour. He was shopping with his 15-year-old daughter on Tuesday, July 1 while Ibarra was allegedly on the prowl. According to Duarte, he noticed that something was odd about Ibarra's behavior. It sounds like it didn't take long before he realized that the man was (allegedly) snapping upskirt photos of unsuspecting women, including his own daughter and another girl. Duarte leapt into action, chasing and tackling Ibarra, who fled the store. “My daughter, and the girl that actually was getting their picture taken without her being known,” Duarte says. “That’s what got me” The surveillance video appears to show Duarte kicking the man's phone away and then chasing the man, confronting him, and perhaps pushing him. The man, later identified as Ibarra (who looks 46 and not 29; we don't know what that's about), flees from Target. Duarte gave chase. Though Ibarra did get away, Duarte was able to snap a photo of the man in his car. Duarte provided his photo and a description of what happened to the police. Though he wishes that he had somehow been able to do more, Duarte says that he did not appreciate Target's security team's inaction during the confrontation. “All they did was stand behind,” Duarte laments. “And that's very disappointing.” Target released a statement, affirming that “the safety and security of our guests is very important to us and we have no tolerance for this behavior in our stores.” “Immediately upon learning of these recent incidents,” Target continues. “Our teams called police to investigate and shared video footage with them.” Target concludes: “We will continue to help law enforcement in any ways that we can be of support to their investigation.” Ibarra was arrested and booked at Orange County jail on $25,000 bail. It may be tempting for some individuals to dismiss upskirt photos as a hobby of perverts. But there are victims — the women involved. There are plenty of moral and legal rationales saying that a person has the right to record video of anything that they can see in a public place (though sharing that video is another matter), but upskirts are not part of public view. That's someone peeking inside someone else's clothing. In this case, it sounds like at least one of the alleged victims was a minor. Good for Duarte and the police for taking action.
Last month, Ryan Edwards was arrested for the third time in less than 18 months. This time around, local authorities were understandably less confident in Ryan's ability to keep from messing up again, so they held him in police custody for a week. These days, however, he's a free man — for the time being. Ryan is due back in court on August 23, and if he's convicted for his latest probation violation, he could face up to a year in prison. So it's a bit surprising that the usually press-shy Ryan has decided to speak to the media about his legal troubles. His lawyers probably weren't crazy about the decision, but if we've learned anything about Ryan over these past two years, it's that the man is not big on following rules: 1. Hard Times On July 23, Ryan was taken into police custody after being pulled over for speeding. As this was a violation of his probation, he was held without bail. 2. An Unexpected Release While it was expected that he would be held until his court date, Ryan was released from jail in the wee hours of August 2. 3. A Slap on the Wrist To the surprise of many — including, probably, himself — Ryan received a suspended sentence and six months of additional probation for failing a court-ordered drug test earlier this year. But he’s not out of the woods yet … 4. Not Out of the Woods Ryan still has plenty of legal headaches ahead of him. In July, he was taken into custody not only for speeding but for failing to complete his last round of community service. 5. Spilling the Tea Now, Ryan is speaking out about his most recent brush with the law, and he’s being much more straightforward about the ordeal than many fans expected. 6. What Did You Expect? Of course, this is still Ryan we’re talking about, so he couldn’t stop himself from making excuses to justify his behavior… View Slideshow
