The mayor of Hartford has responded to dicey comments shot at his residents from comedian Dave Chappelle after a reported meltdown in Connecticut last week.
Mayor Pedro Segarra let loose on Chappelle for calling out Hartford during a stand-up show this week in Chicago.
"Dave Chappelle should quit whining, do his job and try some yoga. #HartfordHasIt
P.E.S.," Pedro tweeted September 5. (Mayor Pedro Segarra's Twitter)
During a Chicago stand-up show Tuesday night (September 3), the former Comedy Central star came clean on what really went down in Hartford.
"F*ck Hartford," Dave said to the audience. "I swear to God,
f*ck that whole city. Thank-you for being here. Oh my God, it's off the
chain. If I would have known it'd be like this, I'd have dressed up.
What's up you guys? Good to see you all. ... I know you guys read the
paper, I took a nasty spill the other night. But I swear to God, it
wasn't my fault - I'm not on drugs. ... This is so much better than
Hartford. I'll never go back. I won't even go to Hartford for f*cking
gas. I don't want anything bad to happen to the United States, but if
North Korea ever drops a nuclear bomb on this country, I swear to God I
hope it lands in Hartford, Connecticut. ... It was a room full of
torturers -- young, white, alcoholics." (Da Laughing Barrel)
Dave also referenced the now-infamous Laugh Factory 2006 incident when former "Seinfeld" actor Michael Richards went on a racist tantrum during his stand-up show.
"I wanted to pull a reverse Kramer and call them all
crackers or something crazy like that," Chappelle added. "I know that
sh*t would be on YouTube. 'Dave Chappelle calls a room full of white
people crackers.' Couldn't do that. I felt bad when Kramer did that sh*t
to us. I did. I was a f*cking Seinfeld fan to the end. I saw that sh*t
and was like, 'Kramer, you f*cked up. You lost me, baby.' That was the
black in me. The comedian in me was like, 'Woo, this n*gga's having a
tough set! Hang in there, Kramer! Don't let 'em break you!' That sh*t in
Hartford was bad. And you know that crowd's lucky they got to see me
freak out. Sh*t's like being at a f*cking tiger show the night Sigfried
and Roy got their throats bit out by the tiger. It's f*cked up and I
know deep down that's why you go to the tiger show. You don't go to the
tiger show to see somebody be safe. You guys are thinking in the back of
your mind, 'This motherf*cker might get bit. I'd like to see that for
$35.'" (Da Laughing Barrel)
Buzz behind Dave's Hartford experience heated up the Internet last week.
A week into his comeback tour, Dave Chappelle either had a
"meltdown," was "booed off the stage," or was treated like a black-face
minstrel by a crowd of "fucking animals" last Thursday in Hartford,
Connecticut. The incident has made for a bloggery buffet of commentary
on race, comedy and corporate culture, but what happened really wasn't
all that dissimilar from what drove Chappelle from comedy in the first
place back in 2005: heckling from audience members demanding the iconic
"I'm Rick James, bitch!" one-liner. (Denver Westword)
In what amounted to his exit interview
from his chairman post at Live Nation, mega manager Irving Azoff said
his “biggest regret” was selling Front Line Management, the management
company rollup that created the world’s largest management firm, to
Ticketmaster in 2008.
“I really wish we would have kept it a pure
management play,” he told Billboard at the time.
Now, with Azoff MSG Entertainment (AMSGE) the new joint venture between
Azoff Music Management and the Madison Square Garden Company, Azoff has
his management play, along with a publishing play, a multimedia play, a
digital play, and a live entertainment play.
And, according to MSG Executive Chairman James Dolan, a VC play.
“From MSG’s point of view, we see this as a venture capital play,” Dolan
tells Billboard, “not run by us, but taking advantage of our position,
of all our venues and combining it with great artists managed by Azoff
Music.”
MSG has purchased half of “all of my companies,” Azoff says, and
formed a new company (AMM continues on with clients such as the Eagles
and Christina Aguilera) that will, in effect, fulfill the vision and
leverage promised when Azoff first began consolidating management
companies more than a decade ago. “[Dolan] was an early investor in
Front Line, he stayed with me all the way through, and this has been our
dream, to do something like this together,” says Azoff. “These days, to
make an impact you need clout and financing and brains, and we think we
have all three of those.”
That could include acquiring other firms as well as signing new
artists. Asked whether the AMSGE venture (Azoff says, “that’s what we’re
calling it for now, unless you come up with a better name before we go
to print”) would be acquisitive, Dolan says, “Yes we will, using the
assets of both Azoff Music Management and MSG, and a bunch of cash.”
Azoff says management will be “a core business” of the new venture,
but the company could be hindered in the early going by the terms of
Azoff’s exit agreement with Live Nation, which has since rebranded Front
Line as Artist Nation. Those terms say Azoff can sign an “established
artist” (more than $5 million in revenues the previous year) in limited
circumstances, and can represent up to five new “less-established” (less
than $5 million) artists in both 2013 and 2014, and an unlimited number
of emerging artists. Asked about the Live Nation non-compete, Azoff
says, “there’s a beginning and end to everything.”
More importantly is AMSGE’s status as a privately held company, at
least for Azoff, who made clear his distaste for steering a public
company after he left Live Nation. So, while MSG has been public since
spinning off from parent Cablevision in 2010, its venture with Azoff is
private, with Azoff as CEO.
“What I like about it is that it doesn’t go through the public
company process,” Dolan says. “Irving is the first and last call with
the decisions at this company. He will be able to move quickly, he
doesn’t have boards to answer to on this. It’s just going to be him, and
I have great faith, as does everybody here at MSG, that he’s going to
produce a lot of winners for us in this partnership.”
As head of MSG and Cablevision, Dolan is well versed in all the
various interests of AMM-MSG, save one: publishing. Asked what is
intriguing to him about entering the performing rights space, Dolan
says, “What intrigues me most about it is Irving thinks it’s a good
idea, and when he thinks something is a good idea, that generally means
it’s gonna make some money,” he says. “I will tell you that [with] this
company, I feel we’re setting the tiger loose in Mr. Azoff. We’re going
to be riding on his coattails, and that’s one of the big advantages of
the way we’ve constructed this.”
Live entertainment, venues, and old and new media are familiar
territory to Dolan and MSG, and, in marrying content and distribution,
AMM-MSG seems a familiar concept, if one with powerful leaders behind
it. Madison Square Garden is no ordinary venue brand, just as Azoff is
no ordinary manager. Both are entrenched in the live business, and that
will be the case in this partnership, as well.
“We obviously run some of the most important music venues in the
world and, along with that, have a company that has been involved in the
entertainment and sports business for decades, and all the
infrastructure that goes along with that,” says Dolan. “Irving will have
all of that available to him to leverage. I think he will find there
are opportunities in those venues in terms of developing content and
having a place to play, developing new ways for artists to relate to
audiences inside the venues. We bring the bricks and mortar of the
business, and he [brings] the content and the artists, and together they
are powerful.”
The industry should expect live entertainment components along the
order of special events or touring properties, but not outright concert
promotion or artist touring deals. “We’re not going to be promoters,
we’re not going to be a ticketing company,” says Azoff, “but, yeah,
we’re interested in live events.”
As strong as the management, live entertainment and venue components
seem here, it is their melding with the publishing quotient that sets
AMM-MSG apart from other major players in the music business. “We’re in
several spaces here, so nobody’s in this space,” is how Azoff weighs
the venture’s place in the industry. “Everybody in the business whines
about ‘there’s no place to go, there are only three record companies and
Live Nation and AEG,’ well, hopefully, people will think of us as a
place equal to one of those [companies] to come to with a great idea or a
great project.”
No one does sibling rivalry like Real Housewives of New Jersey.
In this exclusive sneak peek at next week's episode, Caroline Manzo attemps to air out all the drama among the families to try and make peace. Well, we all know what those conversations usually turn into.
As expected, drama goes down almost instantly. Joe Gorga claims his sister Teresa Giudice has been spreading lies about him and his wife Melissa Gorga,
an accusation Teresa brutally denies. Teresa's husband tries to defend
his wife, and that's when the you-know-what really hits the fan. Joe
absolutely loses it on his sister, but in the usual entertaining Housewives kind of way.
Rap mogul Jay Z is now experiencing the same fate as boxer Manny Pacquiao and singer Miguel as a new photo of himself and wife Beyoncé Knowles-Carter has turned into an instant Internet gag.
The photo, which features Jigga and Bey hopping into a pool, has caught widespread attention this week.
Jay Z and Beyonce are on vacation for Bey's birthday right
now in Stromboli, Italy. But while the two were enjoying each other's
company on a luxurious yacht with Blue Ivy, some
paparazzo nabbed a photo of Jay jumping into the pool. The photo is
hilarious. Mostly because Jay tends to look extremely awkward when he's
doing anything besides rapping. But he's so good at rapping and is
always looking and acting so damn cool it's extra funny whenever he
looks uncool. Which is probably why Twitter reacted, of course, because
no Jay, you cannot live. You cannot have nice things. (Complex)
A few days ago photos started circulating online of the music couple heading out to Spain for some holiday weekend fun.
The Carters spent Labor Day weekend at home and abroad.
Following Beyoncé's headlining set at Saturday's Made in America
festival in Philly, the jet-setting couple kicked back and enjoyed
performances from Solange, Miguel, and Nine Inch Nails
on Sunday. Hours later, they hopped a plane to Spain for some R&R.
The famous family was seen boarding a yacht in Ibiza with Blue Ivy
Beyoncé carried her adorable daughter in her arms as she strut up the
ramp in her stilettos. Bey has a few more days to rest before she kicks
off the Latin American leg of "The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour" on Sept.
8. (Rap-Up)
Bey dominated the opening Made In America night with performances of hit songs like "Run the World (Girls)" last weekend.
Beyonce rocks out on stage wearing a brand new outfit to
close the evening at the 2013 Budweiser Made in America Festival held at
Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Saturday evening (August 31) in
Philadelphia, Penn. The 31-year-old entertainer performed her full Mrs.
Carter Tour set for the crowd. The first two songs of her show - "Run
the World (Girls)" and "End of Time" - were live streamed online. (Just Jared)
Back in May, R&B singer Miguel turned into a meme sensation following a televised Billboard Music Awards accident.
During R&B star Miguel's performance of his hit "Adorn"
at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards the singer attempted to jump over a
crowd of screaming fans but didn't quite stick the landing. Needless to
say, one fan got a face full of Miguel and knows him better than any one
else in the audience. Thanks to the internet moments like this don't
just go away, they live on forever in a stream of memes that won't end
until another celebrity does something embarrassing. (The Urban Daily)
Have you ever wondered how the artists of today would fare against
their counterparts from past generations? How would Marvin Gaye sound up
against Frank Ocean? Who wins when you pit Minnie Ripperton against
Mariah Carey?
Well, wonder no more.
http://jetmag.com/entertainment/mix-it-up-prince-meets-miguel/
JET asked the incredible DJ Averi Minor aka Mr. Mixshow to slice and
dice an epic sonic stew of Prince aka The Purple One and his suggested
contemporary, Miguel.
Check out the mixing magic, get your desk dance on and then let us
know what you think of it. We’d also love suggestions for more old to
new school splices.
https://soundcloud.com/averi-mrmixshow-minor
Drake started out Thursday morning (September 5) with a question he already knew the answer to, tweeting, "Would You Like The Tracklist."
Of course we would like the Nothing Was the Same
track list, Drake; we've only been clamoring for details surrounding
your new album since you announced the title on the 2013 Grammy Red
Carpet in February.
Drizzy's tweet came complete with a link to his new OVO Sound
website, which presented to us 16 song titles, some of which we already
knew. When fans download the album on September 24, they will start
with "Tuscan Leather," a track where a single Whitney Houston sample is
flipped in three different ways, according to Drake's right-hand Noah
"40" Shebib.
Of course there is "Started From the Bottom," "Hold On, We're Going Home"
and on the deluxe there is the Big Sean and 2 Chainz-assisted "All Me."
The track list also reveals that YMCMB producer Detail appears on a
song called "305 to My City"
and Jay Z will appear on a track titled "Pound Cake."
There don't
appear to be any Wu-Tang features, but there is a song titled "Wu-Tang
Forever."
Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, who both lent their vocals to
Drake's first two albums, aren't credited on the track list that Drake
posted, so it doesn't look like they'll appear. It is important to note
that 2 Chainz and Big Sean aren't credited on the previously released
deluxe track "All Me" either.
After releasing the cover art for
the upcoming album featuring two profile portraits of himself — one
current and one when he was a child — he told MTV News the cover
reflects his music, saying, "This is my most clear, concise thoughts
from now and my best recollection of then."
New York rapper Papoose has unleashed some fury on G.O.O.D Music's Big Sean after recently being taunted by him in an interview with the release of "First Chain" remix.
Without holding back, Pap delivers onslaught to Sean with a combination of disses.
"Big Sean's album is trash, it sound wicked
/In fights I be swinging like Will and Jada Pickett
/"Papoose, who?" Boy, I'll give you faceshots
/I'll leave your eye puffy like the n*gga who made Ma$e hot
/All of your dogs is straight dogs, y'all get straight shots
/Bastards, I spit ACID they need mallocks/
/Kanye wore a skirt what was he trying to prove
/Y'all be following them illuminati rules
/Carry yourself like a man, and you will fail
/Play a b*tch, you prevail
/The only time they want the black man to show his strength
/Is during sports, outside of that they want us to be soft
/So Big Sean speak like a woman when he talk
/When he having a seat he keeps his legs crossed
/We can't blame him, it's really not his fault
/This is the feminization that he was taught
/You ain't a man take that M from your mannerism
/You brain dead, I just gave you aneurysm
/True and living, god cipher divine, use your widsom
/Whenever I'm reciting a rhyme the proof is given
Using Biggie's name, who gave you permission?
You look like Ralph Tresvant from New Edition" ("First Chain" Remix)
Pap took things a bit further by clowning Sean's verse on "Control" in light of guest feature Kendrick Lamar sparking so much attention from the track.
"Every time they play Control they skip your verse
/Little b*tch how much change you got in your purse?
/I'm 'bout to lift your skirt
/It's a different between great music and good music
/Y'all ain't good with me
/How the f*ck they put your album out before Pusha T?
/I figured out why you're so skinny then I got over it
/Pusha must be selling the crack and you smokin' it
/Anorexic describe the way that you spit
/On your album cover it look like you taking a sh*t
/Behind the green curtain, the same color as Kelis' dress-
/On Nas album cover, you a complete mess
/Is that a indirect or you just a copycat?
/Cause he killed you on your own album, he bodied that
/Got the audacity to say your better than Drake
/And out rap Jay Z, what level of hate
/Those artists made you hot, go ahead and give grace
/Worst Clique verse, they should spit that in your face
/Your biggest record was called A-S-S
/Nicki Minaj made it hot, you way less fresh
/I heard you Ye yes man who get paid less checks
/So when Ye ask a question you just say "yes yes"
/You cocky for no reason like you making mad noise
/You got your style from the original Bad Boy
/B-I-G, why you said that sh*t?
Always saying "Boi!" that's Craig Mack's sh*t" ("First Chain" Remix)
Last week, Sean wrote off Papoose when asked about him dissing Lamar over the "Control" track.
"Yeah right," Sean said when told his "Control" record ultimately sparked tensions between J. Cole and Diddy.
"I don't believe it. Rumors is rumors, you know. It is funny. I feel
like people are taking it way too serious. People turning up, especially
people who didn't even get named. You know what I'm saying? Who cares?
[Papoose threw bars?] Who? Who? Nah -- it's sportsmanship. I look at
this whole industry like it's wrestling, you feel me? It's basketball.
Kendrick hit me up before we did 'Control' and said, 'You got any songs
to let me hop on, man? Send some sh*t through.' It just shows how cool
we are but it's crazy 'cause just like basketball players, we'll go on
the court and score 30 on each other but afterwards we'll go get a beer.
But that's what it is. It's competitive. Just like he think he's the
best, Drake thinks he's the best and I think I'm the best and Jay Z thinks he's the best and Kanye thinks he's the best, we're all dudes trying to be the best at what we do. Period." ("The Breakfast Club")
During a Hot 97 radio interview in August, Pap told host Peter Rosenberg why he could not take back dissing Kendrick.
"Nobody is going to disrespect New York City like that, man,
and kick dirt on New York City and say you the 'King of New York' when
you not even from New York," Pap said in an interview. "It doesn't get
no more disrespectful that that. Then, you're a Muslim who eats pork.
Are you kidding me? You don't say that, you don't say you're a Muslim
who eats pork. What's that? ... Nobody is going to disrespect New York
while I'm breathing -- that means when you disrespect New York,
everything goes. It is what it is. This is hip-hop, don't get it
twisted, I'm going to go on the record and say that." (Hot 97)
