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During an upcoming episode of People’s Party With Talib Kweli filmed previously to the coronavirus outbreak, Chuck D opened up about Flavor Flav’s dismissal from Public Enemy. The rap pioneer explained not only why Flavor Flav was sacked from the group, but also how he got put in the group in the first place, as well as rap fans’ unfortunate tendency to only notice rappers when bad things happen.
“Not to say that me and Flav were on two different pages,” Chuck clarifies in the above video clip from the episode. “Because we were always on two different pages. But we felt that over the past few years, Flavor’s stock is low… and my stock with Prophets Of Rage does what it does.” However, their divergent career paths weren’t the only reason that the two couldn’t stick together. “Long story short, we had the Bernie Sanders thing,” which he said was the last straw in their disagreement.
“Number one, Flav don’t know the difference between Bernie Sanders, Barry Sanders, or Colonel Sanders,” Chuck jokes. “Public Enemy Radio went up, his lawyer sent out a cease-and-desist, I’m like, ‘Good move.’ Then publicly, ‘Man, you don’t f*cking sue me again.’ … Boom, f*ck that, you fired, dude. That’s my last thing with you.” He did clarify that Flav wasn’t “fired” because he’s technically a partner in Public Enemy. “You don’t fire partners,” he says.
He even teases a new project from the pair: Food As A Machine Gun, which is coming soon.
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Continuing to supply top-notch entertainment for those in quarantine, Tory Lanez has been on quite the roll lately thanks to his newly-launched Quarantine Radio show held for fans on Instagram Live. The almost-daily livestream session invites celebrities to join and discuss their life in quarantine, and Bryson Tiller, Justin Bieber, Jacquees, Megan Thee Stallion, Trina, Tinashe, and 21 Savage have all made appearances.
Following the celebrity appearances, Quarantine Radio then moves onto its main event: a twerking contest where the contestants are fans who tuned into the livestream. On Tuesday, however, it was the appearance from a high-profile guest that served as the highlight for the day’s show.
By far the biggest guest to join Tory’s Quarantine Radio, Drake hopped on the show to join in on the fun after repeated requests from Tory for his appearance. Soon after Drake’s addition to the livestream, the number of viewers in the Instagram Live spiked considerably. According to DJ Akademiks, this set a hip hop streaming record for the most viewers in an Instagram livestream, with over 300,000 showing up. Drake’s appearance helped break the record of over 150,000 viewers previously held by Taylor Swift. In celebration, the two Canadian acts took a shot together, as Tory has a few times with his Quarantine Radio guests.
The new accomplishment comes just a day after Drake shared the first photos of his two-year-old son Adonis in an emotional Instagram post.
Don Toliver’s audience has widened considerably after having his breakout moment on Cactus Jack Records’ compilation album, Jackboys. Fans of the Houston rapper, both new and old, then sought a new project from him as his last effort, Donny Womack. That came 2018, just a day after Travis Scott’s Astroworld, where he made his star-making appearance on “Can’t Say.” While his follow-up project, Heaven Or Hell, arrived earlier this month, the wait for it was momentarily numbed by his appearance of Eminem’s surprise album, Music To Be Murdered By.
Providing the hook for “No Regrets,” fans of both Eminem and Don Toliver, were taken aback by the collaboration between the two rappers. Heading over to Ebro Darden’s Apple Music radio show, Rap Life With Ebro Darden, Toliver opened about the collaboration.
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Toliver revealed that it was in fact Eminem who reached out and requested to have him on the track.
“I was in the Cactus Jack studio… and I was recording, so I got that whiff of that and we flipped that on and did that quick,” he said. Ebro then asked Toliver who he believes put him on Eminem’s radar, to which he replied, producer D.A. Damon.
“I think Em was already on tip of what I had going on but who really I think plugged the spot was D.A. Got That Dope,” he said, refering to D.A. Doman. Toliver later revealed that it took him “an hour, two hours” to turn in his contribution to the song, which would be released as a part of the album a couple of days later.
“We really believe and hope every day we can do a lot better than that, because that’s not assuming 100% of every American,” Dr. Deborah Birx said.
