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Propaganda & Derek Minor Dropped A New Collab EP ‘Nothing But A Word’ Collab EP
Propaganda and Derek dropped a collab EP called ‘Nothing But A Word’. Peep It here and let me know what you think…
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“J. Crum is first and foremost a man of God. I’m a husband and a Christian hip-hop artist.”
Ohama, Nebraska artist J. Crum started listening to Christian hip-hop in his youth back in the 90s. Artists and groups such as Gospel Gangstaz, The Cross Movement, and T-Bone were among his favorites back then.
He wrote his first rap at age fifteen. Due to a severe illness, J. Crum missed a lot of school and had a teacher visit his home to help him keep from falling behind. “I got ahead, so when I went back to school, I had three study halls. I was like, ‘I need to figure out what to do with my time.'” Being a huge fan of hip-hop, he had the idea of writing his own raps. “I downloaded a bunch of beats off of Soundclick back in the day and started writing to beats in my study halls.” He then received help from a member of his church to record his raps for the first time.
Last month, J. Crum released a new album, VIGILANTES VOL. 1, the first out of three planned editions. The message acts as a sequel to his January album, Villians. Villians discussed what comes next after a person living in a villainous manner decides to follow Christ.
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A desperate Blazers team made a desperate gamble that might help keep them afloat
Carmelo Anthony is one of the most prolific scorers in the history of the NBA, but he hasn't played a game since November of 2018. That's about to change because the injury-riddled Portland Trail Blazers are reportedly expected to sign the 35-year-old veteran to a non-guaranteed deal.
In the broadest possible terms, Anthony is a perfect fit for the Blazers. Of the nine players who have spent at least 100 minutes on the floor for them this season, only three have played the majority of their careers at forward. Two of them, Mario Hezonja and Anthony Tolliver, are playing out minimum contracts. The third, Skal Labissierre, is in the final season of a rookie deal, and has only played center this season. Even if you generously classify Labissiere, Pau Gasol and Zach Collins as forwards rather than centers, Portland is paying less for all of their forwards combined this season than the New York Knicks are paying Julius Randle alone.
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Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation have released first look images and announced the cast of the Netflix original series Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, based on Universal’s multi-billion dollar franchise.
The series is executive produced by Vin Diesel, Neal H. Moritz, Chris Morgan, Tim Hedrick and Bret Haaland and is slated to debut on Netflix December 26.
Teenager Tony Toretto follows in the footsteps of his cousin Dom when he and his friends are recruited by a government agency to infiltrate an elite racing league serving as a front for a nefarious crime organization called SH1FT3R bent on world domination. Hedrick (DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender) and Haaland (DreamWorks All Hail King Julien) serve as executive producers and showrunners. The series is also executive produced by Diesel, Moritz and Morgan, who have all served as producers on the live-action Fast & Furious film franchise.
The post First Look & Cast of ‘Fast & Furious: Spy Racers’ appeared first on Black Girl Nerds.
Samsung is expected to launch at least three flagship smartphones next year, including the Galaxy S11, Fold 2, and Note 10. But when it comes to design changes, only the Fold 2 is expected to get a significant makeover, according to recent reports.
The Galaxy S11 and Note 11 may look a lot like their predecessors, although Samsung will probably add discrete changes in order to help consumers tell all of their phones apart. However, Samsung is also working on smartphone designs unlike anything seen on the Galaxy S or Note series so far.
In the past year or so, it's gotten to the point where most times I've gotten a press release from T-Mobile -- which has almost always included a quote from the so-called Un-carrier's CEO, in which he almost always goes out of his way to zing rivals like AT&T and Verizon -- AT&T has followed suit with an email of their own.
Such is the culture fostered by T-Mobile CEO John Legere, who announced Monday that he's finally stepping down come April 30, 2020, after his seven years in the job. We're the Un-carrier, he insisted every chance he got. We're not like the others. We're the good guys. All of that, while cultivating a Twitter-savvy image and gleefully skewering the competition, like the time he starred in a claymation Christmas video that featured an elf, Frosty the snowman, and Legere declaring that the business practices of AT&T and Verizon are "bullshit."
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