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Tim Dog Wanted For Arrest

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Tim Dog Wanted For Arrest

It looks like the authorities aren’t so sure about rapper Tim Dog‘s death. Despite reports that the Bronx native died from complications from diabetes back in February, a warrant has been issued for his arrest in Mississippi. Born Timothy Blair, the rapper was convicted of swindling a Southhaven women in 2011. Prosecutor Steven Jubera says that if he’s alive, he’s going to jail. “I need proof,” said Jubera. His family is being asked to present proof that the hip-hop star is indeed dead.

via:hiphopblog

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No Limit Rapper Mr. Magic Dead In Car Accident

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No Limit Rapper Mr. Magic Dead In Car Accident

No Limit Records rapper Mr. Magic and his wife reportedly died in a car accident last night in Mississippi. According to Complex, only Magic’s daughter survived the tragic incident. Today, Silkk The Shocker tweeted about the passing of the Ninth Ward, New Orleans rapper. ”Prayers goes to the Family and Friends of Mr. Magic. him and Wife died in a car accident last night..” Silkk said. Magic released four solo albums during his career. The first three were released on No Limit Records, and the final one, On My Own, on Koch. He was also known as one-third of the rap trio, Body Head Bangerz. Mr. Magic was perhaps best known for his No Limit debut, Sky’s the Limit, when it landed in the top 20 on the Billboard 200 upon its release in 1998. BigLonPromo sends its condolences to Mr. Magic’s family during this difficult time.

via:hiphopdx.com

Epic Records To Pull Future’s “Karate Chop” Remix Over Offensive Lil Wayne Lyric

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Epic Records To Pull Future's "Karate Chop" Remix Over Offensive Lil Wayne Lyric

Lil Wayne caused controversy with a lyric on Future’s “Karate Chop” remix where he raps, “Beat that pussy up like Emmett Till,” eliciting a fiery response from Till’s family. According to Associated Press, Epic Records has responded to the backlash. After the Rev. Jesse Jackson reached out to Wayne’s management The Blueprint Group on the family’s behalf, the label has released a statement claiming that the remix was “unauthorized” and that it leaked online. The label promised to make efforts to erase the track from the web, stating that an official version of the song will be released at a later time that “will not include such references.” “We regret the unauthorized remix version of Future’s ‘Karate Chop,’ which was leaked online and contained hurtful lyrics,” the statement said. “Out of respect for the legacy of Emmett Till and his family and the support of the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. … we are going through great efforts to take down the unauthorized version.” Additionally, a Facebook posting on the Mamie Till Mobley Memorial Foundation last night said that Epic Records Chairman and CEO LA Reid personally reached out to apologize.

After learning of the reference on the song, Airickca Gordon-Taylor, the founding director of the Foundation and cousin of Emmett Till, spoke out on behalf of the family and branded the reference “disrespectful.” “We found it dishonorable to his name and what his death has meant to us as a people and as a culture,” said Gordon-Taylor. “It was offensive not only to us, but to our ancestors and to women and to themselves as young, black men. I just couldn’t understand how you could compare the gateway of life to the brutality and punishment of death. And I feel as though they have no pride and no dignity as black men.”

Till was killed in 1955 while visiting his family in Mississippi. He was beaten severely and shot in the head before his attackers tied a cotton gin to his body with barbed wire and threw him into the Tallahatchie River. Two white men were acquitted of the killing by an all-white jury.

via:hiphopdx.com

Emmett Till’s Family Responds To Lil Wayne’s Disrespectful Lyric [PHOTOS]

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Over the weekend, Future dropped a remix to his “Karate Chop” track that features Lil Wayne. During his verse, Weezy dropped a disrespectful punchline that used the name of Emmett Till. The family of the then 14-year-old Black boy that was murdered in 1955 in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman is none too happy about said line. 

On the “Karate Chop (Remix),” Weezy raps, “Beat that p-ssy up like Emmett Till.” For the record, the late Emmett Till wasn’t just beat up. After being kidnapped, he was beaten on throughout the night, shot and then tossed into the Mississippi River with a 7o-pound fan tied around his neck with barbed wire to keep his body from floating back up. Till’s corpse did eventually rise and was found a couple of day later by two boys fishing. Despite his head and face being heinously mutilated, his mother demanded to have an open casket at her son’s funeral so everyone could see what was done to her child. Till’s murder was a catalyst for the Civil Right Movement, which in turn helped Wayne maintain his lavish lifestyle today. Activist and scholar Dr. Boyce Watkins spoke to a representative of the Till family named Airickca Gordon Taylor. Said Gordon Taylor, ““I just couldn’t understand how he could compare the gateway to life to the brutality and punishment of death.” Wayne isn’t the first rapper to use Emmett Till’s name in a suspect line. In 2004, Remy Ma made an off color remark about Till’s face on Terror Squad‘s “Yeah Yeah Yeah.” Watkins and others are making a call to action about lyrics like these having ill effects on consumers.

ThyBlackman.com reports:

Rev. Jesse Jackson and his associate, Bishop Tavis Grant of the Rainbow/Push Coalition have spoken up on the matter, and I’ve promised to give them my support.  Hip-hop music is one of the most powerful and persuasive art forms in the history of the world, and it is now being used to enslave the minds of young black people so that they might become food for the prison industrial complex.  Lil Wayne’s reference to till is just the latest effort to dumb down black America and to produce messages that are nothing short of disgustingly toxic.

Many potential black male father figures have been extracted from our community and sent to the concentration camps of the prison industrial complex, given dozens of years for sometimes minor offenses.  All the while, their sons grow up without fathers, and are taught on the radio how to get high and drunk every day, to kill other black men, and to disrespect the black women who raised them.  Lil Wayne’s music is a reflection of this reality, as a man who is as brilliant as the great Malcolm X has been convinced to use his powers for evil rather than good.

You can see photos of Emmett Till (they are not for the squeamish) at his funeral Below, and there is nothing funny about them. Let us know what you think of Lil Wayne’s Emmitt Till rhyme and its potential ramifications in the comments.

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via:hiphopwired.com

Django Unchained Action Figures Discontinued

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Dolls made in the likeness of the characters in the slave film Django Unchained have been discontinued. The figurines were pegged as “action figures,” and led to a public outcry calling for them to stop being sold.

From TMZ:

Sources connected to the toy production tell us … shortly after advocacy groups like Al Sharpton‘s National Action Network and Project Islamic Hope spoke out against the figurines … the Weinstein Company (which produced the film) reached out to the toy company and told them to put the kibosh on the toy line ASAP. 

We’re told the toy company agreed, insisting they never intended to offend anyone … and halted production immediately.Sources tell us … the toymakers only released somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000 dolls before shutting down production. 

Retailing for $299 on Amazon.com the dolls were meant for collectors rather than children. Django Unchained has been plagued by controversy over its content, including the use of the “n-word” which is said more than 100 times. Director, Quentin Tarantino, brushed off the critiques explaining that given the time period in which the film is set, the racial epithet is fitting. “If somebody is out there actually saying when it comes to the word ‘ni**er,’  the fact that I was using it in the movie more than it was being used in the antebellum South in Mississippi, then feel free to make that case,” he said after winning a Gloden Globe award in the Best Screenplay category. “They are saying I should lie, that I should whitewash, that I should massage, and I never do that when it comes to my characters.”

via: hiphopwired

Quentin Tarantino Uses The “N-Word” After Winning Golden Globe

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Quentin Tarantino won the Best Screenplay award at the Golden Globes Sunday (Jan. 13), but the big news is that the  acclaimed director spewed the “n-word” while speaking to reports. When asked of his controversial slave film Django Unchained, and the excessive use of the racial epithet, he decided to drop the n-bomb to get his point across. “If somebody is out there actually saying when it comes to the word ‘ni**er,’  the fact that I was using it in the movie more than it was being used in the antebellum South in Mississippi, then feel free to make that case,” he said, potentially making the media incredibly uncomfortable. “They are saying I should lie, that I should whitewash, that I should massage, and I never do that when it comes to my characters.” According to reports, the room went silent after Tarantino used the word. Tarantino’s film has been plagued by controversy since the start. Aside from the subject matter, and the word-use, a collection of Django action figures did little to calm the opposition. Yet all of the attention has helped propel the film past the $100 million mark, as it has remained on the Top 10 box office list since its release on Christmas Day.Django has also been nominated for five Academy Awards. via:hiphopwired