The Electric Slide is about as close to Black America as family reunions, dominos and people arguing over a game of spades. Every cookout, a DJ plays the song and all your aunts and uncles get up and begin line dancing. The song that inspires the dance, “Electric Boogie,” – not Cameo’s “Candy” was made by Bunny Wailer, the name behind the amazing reggae group, Bob Marley and the Wailers. The version of “Electric Boogie” that got famous was made by Marcia Griffiths and was released in the ’80s. You know, the one your aunties and uncles play. Well — here’s a mind blowing, dirty fact. Did you know that “Electric Boogie,” the song your granny, mama and uncles and them Electric Slide to — is about a vibrator? It was a rumor but Bunny Wailer himself proved it to be 100% FACT . According to a source close to Livingston, word of the question about the origins of the song reached him in Kingston, Jamaica where he currently resides and he put the rumors to rest. “I’m surprised it took people this long to figure out” the source tells us he said. Apparently Livingston wrote the song after a girlfriend told him she didn’t need him because she had a toy she nicknamed the “electric slide” Yeah, mind blowing. And also, super super dirty! Join Our Text Club To Get The Latest Music, Entertainment And Breaking News On Your Phone
Tyrese Petitions For Full Custody Of His Daughter Remember when Tyrese “just wanted his baby” during court proceedings, yet skipped out on multiple scheduled visits with her to jetset overseas with his new wife? Well, the dust settled on that situation, Tyrese got his formal visitation schedule back on track . But the actor has decided that’s simply not enough for him. According to TMZ , Tyrese now claims that his ex wife Norma is marginalizing his time with their 10 year old daughter Shayla and wants to take custody of her full time — moving her away from her mother and across the country from LA to ATL. Tyrese says his 23,000 square foot home in an “affluent and safe” neighborhood will be a better environment for Shayla . He says she’ll be away from the paparazzi, enrolled in a top-notch private school, and already has established friendships with other kids in the neighborhood. Ty’s decision was allegedly prompted by his perception that he’s being cut out of his daughter’s life, despite having 50/50 custody. He says on two occasions in the past year his daughter was sick, and Norma only called him for insurance information, not to update him on her status or diagnosis. We’re not sure that that warrants taking the child AWAY from her mother altogether, but we suppose that’s for a judge to decide. Do YOU think Tyrese should take full custody of his little girl? WENN
Ice Cube has been a little…removed from the Hip-Hop scene since springboarding his movie stardom , but he’s still a fixture of classic Hip Hop and an OG. He says Drake’s career is all but over after this loss in the Pusha T battle . Meanwhile, his song Nice For What remains at #1 for the sixth week in a row, tying him in a record with Michael Jackson, so…it doesn’t seem as if his sales or popularity are dipping much, though his street cred may be dead and gone forever. Do you think he has a point? WENN/YouTube
“First Lady of Dancehall” Drops New Video “Personality” Dancehall stars D’Angel and Kaffi Blak sing about loving someone for their brains, not their looks in their new song, “Personality.” What do you think of the song?
As you guys know, I try to stick to the important stuff on this site, like celebrity T&A and lingerie selfies, so I didn’t catch any of the American Music Awards last night. But according to my sources, Selena Gomez performed her song “Wolves” and she did it while wearing this . Damn! If I’d known the show was going to be this good, I might have actually watched some of it. OK, probably not, but still. » view all 11 photos
WENN.com Country Music Singer Releases Song Against Taking A Knee, Gets Roasted Country music singer Neal McCoy is fed up with people wanting equal rights, and decided to take a stand against kneeling. Yes, you heard it here first: A man named Neal is super upset at people wanting to kneel….poor guy. The song takes a jab at former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and others who protested the national anthem by taking a knee, in the single he debuted last week. The song is confusingly titled, “Take a Knee, My Ass (I Won’t Take a Knee),” and though it’s unsurprising that a country music star would take a break from singing about his tractor to sing about being racist, the name of the song is what’s got everyone talking. Ok I’ve thought about it for several hours and the correct way to put this in print is “Take A Knee? My Ass!” https://t.co/9H2F55dhg9 — Fiorello La Garbagecan (@StuntBirdArmy) November 18, 2017 The title, “Take A Knee, My Ass” is obviously a terrible name considering the “I Won’t Take A Knee” clarification he felt it necessary to put right afterwards in parentheses. Beside this song being a terrible idea, it’s mostly just hilarious since the title makes absolutely no sense. Take a look at some of the tweets people sent about how dumb “Take A Knee, My Ass” is, and let’s all laugh together.
Taylor Swift, whether you love her or hate her or somehow manage to be indifferent, is back. She's owning the “snake” label and turning it back on her detractors. Her new album comes out sooner that you could believe. But you don't have to wait that long, because she's dropped a brand new single — and you can listen to it, below. What was the first thing that you did this morning? (Wait, don't answer that) The first thing that I did this morning was check my phone, and I'd received an iTunes email telling me that a new Taylor Swift song was available. YouTube had already notified me that she had a new video available. It's a lyrics video, but still — it's the debut of her new song. Taylor has been teasing the track all week, on social media platforms like Instagram and Tumblr. (Taylor is known to interact directly with superfans and address them by name on Tumblr in particular) This song, “Call It What You Want,” is only the fourth single that Taylor has unveiled from her new album, Reputation . As we mentioned, in addition to the iTunes release, the song came out in a lyric video on YouTube. We'll be honest, it's the weakest of Taylor's new singles … but it's also quite possibly the most informative. See, “Call It What You Want” is widely believed to be about Joe Alwyn. Note that Taylor's previous single, “Gorgeous,” which possibly includes North West's voice in order to taunt Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, is also basically universally believed to be about her current boyfriend. Seriously, the whole song sounds like gushing over Joe Alwyn , if not by name. That was “Gorgeous.” In “Call It What You Want,” Taylor gets to that … but first, before she gets into the relationship stuff, she talks about how she was wronged. “My castle crumbled overnight / I brought a knife to a gunfight / They took the crown, but it's alright.” Her career spiraled out of control, as she predicted when she first expressed to Kanye that she was leery of him mentioning her in his song. (Which we know from the shadily edited recordings that Kim later leaked) She speaks frankly about how she deliberately vanished from the public eye in order to let things cool down. “All the liars are calling me one / Nobody's heard from me for months / I'm doing better than I ever was, 'cause.” Why is she now doing better, you wonder? Here's the chorus: “My baby's fit like a daydream.” We don't know of any photos of Joe Alwyn shirtless (which is weird, for an actor, right?), so we suppose that we'll just have to take Taylor's word for it about his fitness. “Walking with his head down / I'm the one he's walking to.” Rumor has it that Taylor and Joe have been meeting covertly to avoid the public eye throughout their relationship. “So call it what you want, yeah, call it what you want to.” Ah, yes, the part of the song with the song's title in it. “My baby's fly like a jet stream / High above the whole scene / Loves me like I'm brand new.” The “high above the whole scene” line clearly refers to how they can avoid public judgments and rumors and haters by just being separate from them. And the “loves me like I'm brand new” line, of course, refers to her reputation not being a factor in their relationship. And then, again, the title. “So call it what you want, yeah, call it what you want to.” You guys, Reputation drops in one week — on November 10th. It will be interesting to see if her relationship with Tom Hiddleston made it into a song. It will also be interesting to hear how aggressively she calls out Calvin Harris. Kim might have never had the opportunity to drop those recordings on Snapchat if Calvin hadn't thrown his little tantrum on Twitter first. Anyway, we can hardly wait. At last, when Reputation comes out, we'll know which song is our favorite. And we'll get to see how it compares to 1989 .
Taylor Swift, whether you love her or hate her or somehow manage to be indifferent, is back. She's owning the “snake” label and turning it back on her detractors. Her new album comes out sooner that you could believe. But you don't have to wait that long, because she's dropped a brand new single — and you can listen to it, below. What was the first thing that you did this morning? (Wait, don't answer that) The first thing that I did this morning was check my phone, and I'd received an iTunes email telling me that a new Taylor Swift song was available. YouTube had already notified me that she had a new video available. It's a lyrics video, but still — it's the debut of her new song. Taylor has been teasing the track all week, on social media platforms like Instagram and Tumblr. (Taylor is known to interact directly with superfans and address them by name on Tumblr in particular) This song, “Call It What You Want,” is only the fourth single that Taylor has unveiled from her new album, Reputation . As we mentioned, in addition to the iTunes release, the song came out in a lyric video on YouTube. We'll be honest, it's the weakest of Taylor's new singles … but it's also quite possibly the most informative. See, “Call It What You Want” is widely believed to be about Joe Alwyn. Note that Taylor's previous single, “Gorgeous,” which possibly includes North West's voice in order to taunt Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, is also basically universally believed to be about her current boyfriend. Seriously, the whole song sounds like gushing over Joe Alwyn , if not by name. That was “Gorgeous.” In “Call It What You Want,” Taylor gets to that … but first, before she gets into the relationship stuff, she talks about how she was wronged. “My castle crumbled overnight / I brought a knife to a gunfight / They took the crown, but it's alright.” Her career spiraled out of control, as she predicted when she first expressed to Kanye that she was leery of him mentioning her in his song. (Which we know from the shadily edited recordings that Kim later leaked) She speaks frankly about how she deliberately vanished from the public eye in order to let things cool down. “All the liars are calling me one / Nobody's heard from me for months / I'm doing better than I ever was, 'cause.” Why is she now doing better, you wonder? Here's the chorus: “My baby's fit like a daydream.” We don't know of any photos of Joe Alwyn shirtless (which is weird, for an actor, right?), so we suppose that we'll just have to take Taylor's word for it about his fitness. “Walking with his head down / I'm the one he's walking to.” Rumor has it that Taylor and Joe have been meeting covertly to avoid the public eye throughout their relationship. “So call it what you want, yeah, call it what you want to.” Ah, yes, the part of the song with the song's title in it. “My baby's fly like a jet stream / High above the whole scene / Loves me like I'm brand new.” The “high above the whole scene” line clearly refers to how they can avoid public judgments and rumors and haters by just being separate from them. And the “loves me like I'm brand new” line, of course, refers to her reputation not being a factor in their relationship. And then, again, the title. “So call it what you want, yeah, call it what you want to.” You guys, Reputation drops in one week — on November 10th. It will be interesting to see if her relationship with Tom Hiddleston made it into a song. It will also be interesting to hear how aggressively she calls out Calvin Harris. Kim might have never had the opportunity to drop those recordings on Snapchat if Calvin hadn't thrown his little tantrum on Twitter first. Anyway, we can hardly wait. At last, when Reputation comes out, we'll know which song is our favorite. And we'll get to see how it compares to 1989 .
Source: Joe Murphy / Getty If you haven’t heard of Big Shaq , you’ve probably seen at least one meme about his famous “freestyle” that ended up going viral. He fooled everyone into thinking he was a (hilariously bad) rapper, but is actually British comedian named Michael Dapaah playing a character. His freestyle went viral back in early September when his “The Ting Goes” meme completely popped off, following his appearance on BBC Radio 1Xtra’s “Fire in the Booth.” That same freestyle was also the result of the ever-quotable “Mans Not Hot,” a song that showed up on iTunes very shortly after it took place. A few weeks after the song dropped, the real-deal Shaquille O’Neal heard about it, and decided to release a diss track aimed at the man calling himself Big Shaq. In the track, he declares that there is “only one Big Shaq” and then proceeded to throw some more jabs in the British rapper’s direction. He also collaborated on the song with a rapper from Toronto named ShaqIsDope , making things all the more confusing in this Shaq v. Shaq beef. The diss track against him only fueled Big Shaq’s momentum. He turned right back around and released a video for his viral track “Mans Not Hot” nearly 2 weeks after Shaq’s diss track hit the internet, which quickly gained millions of views. The music video created even more longevity for a viral sensation that wasn’t going to die any time soon. One day following the release of his music video, Big Shaq then responded to Shaq by performing a remix of “Mans Not Hot” for Bleacher Report, which is also labeled as a diss to the former Laker. And for the latest in beef news, it seems like Mr. O’Neal caught wind of the track aimed at him. On Monday night, he took to Instagram to address Big Shaq for a second time. He called the rapper a fraud and referred to him as “fake Shaq,” also telling him to “#learnhowtorap.” That’s the end of the beef, for now, but who knows what will happen later on. Maybe all Shaqs can live together happily ever after and release a song together.
Erika Goldring/FilmMagic Taylor Swift’s Single Takes Huge Fall From Radio’s Top 5 Taylor Swift’s song “Look What You Made Me Do” is making a steady fall from the charts, and her fans are doing whatever they can to spin this into a positive. If you’ll recall, when the song was initially released it reached number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and was the only thing in the way of Cardi B making history with the reign of “Bodak Yellow.” Swift’s song was priced at 69 cents on iTunes in order to stay at the top, but Cardi fans rallied and got our Bronx Princess’ song to number one. “Bodak Yellow” is still number 2 on the charts–behind Post Malone’s “Rockstar,” but “Look What You Made Me Do” has dropped to number 10. That’s not the biggest drop for the song, either. Chart Data reported that on the radio charts, Swift’s single dropped from being number 5 last week to now being number 20, which is the biggest fall from the top 5 in the chart’s entire history. Taylor Swift's “Look What You Made Me Do” drops 5-20 on Radio Songs, recording the biggest fall from the top 5 in the chart's history. — chart data (@chartdata) October 23, 2017 After recording a cheaper version of Beyonce’s “Lemonade” video for the single and bringing up situations with Kanye after almost a decade, us logical folk were even more done with her isht than we have been in the past. With such stark falls from charts it rises questions of either fan engagement or possible foul play with early sales, but we won’t know how much longer we have to deal with Taylor until her album drops and possibly fades off like her singles. Possibly the funniest part of this fall is Swift’s fan accounts all trying to turn this chart data into something else, congratulating her on breaking another record. They also try to insult Beyonce and imply that the fall is her label’s fault for not advertising. Go to the next page to check out some of the Delusional Debbies on their computers all day to defend T. Swift.
