Daily 30: Fri 01.09.2015

1mo
How Keystone XL Got (So) Political

2 How Keystone XL Got (So) Political Breaking News

As Congress begins a new hearing on the Keystone XL pipeline and President Obama threatens to veto a bill authorizing its construction, here’s how the 1,179-mile pipeline became so political.
No Flex Zone! 1mo
Rosenberg talks to Rae Sremmurd!

3 Rosenberg talks to Rae Sremmurd! HOT 97

Rae Sremmurd stopped by to speak with Peter Rosenberg in a conversation which helps you understand the group a little better. The three sat down to speak on their recent success, the girls, fame, and the history of their culture especially rumors of Elvis being racist.
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Nicki Minaj & Safaree Samuels

11 Nicki Minaj & Safaree Samuels TMZ

Nicki Minaj and Safaree Samuels each went out of their way Wednesday night to send clear signals to the other and the world ... they're with other people now
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Fake LSD "N-Bomb" Is Wreaking Havoc

12 Fake LSD "N-Bomb" Is Wreaking Havoc Complex

Remember bath salts? Of course you do. They were the mystery grab-bag of drugs you could pick up over the counter at most head shops which fell out of favor late in 2012 thanks to some minor side effects such as face-eating and seeing the face of god.
Play This Sh!t Loud!!! 1mo
Blackman Pt. 2

13 Blackman Pt. 2 Trinidad James

Trinidad James is back with a vengeance on the Diplo produced "Blackman Pt. 2". soundcloud.com/trinidad-jame/blackman-pt-2-prod-diplo
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Room 302

14 Room 302 Future Brown ft. Tink

The production team Future Brown drop a bangin' track with the help of Tink on "Room 302". soundcloud.com/future-brown/room-302-feat-tink
R.I.P. 1mo
Legendary Andrae Crouch dies at 72

16 Legendary Andrae Crouch dies at 72 Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andrae Crouch, a legendary gospel performer, songwriter and choir director whose work graced songs by Michael Jackson and Madonna and movies such as "The Lion King," has died. He was 72. Crouch died Thursday afternoon at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, where he had been admitted Saturday after suffering a heart attack, said his publicist, Brian Mayes. The Recording Academy, which awarded seven Grammys to Crouch during a career that spanned more than a half-century, said in a statement that he was "a remarkable musician and legendary figure" who was "fiercely devoted to evolving the sound of contemporary, urban gospel music." Crouch and his twin sister, Sandra Crouch, also a singer, lived in the Pacoima area of Los Angeles. They were pastors at the New Christ Memorial Church in the Los Angeles suburb of San Fernando. "Today my twin brother, womb-mate and best friend went home to be with the Lord," said Pastor Sandra Crouch. "I tried to keep him here but God loved him best." Born in San Francisco, Crouch wrote his first gospel tune at age 14. Crouch wrote dozens of songs, including gospel favorites such as "The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power," ''My Tribute (To God Be the Glory)" and "Soon and Very Soon," which was sung at a public memorial to Jackson. Debuting in 1960, Crouch helped pioneer the burgeoning "Jesus Music" movement from the late 1960s and '70s that started the spread of contemporary Christian music. "We've lost a true pioneer and he will be missed," said Jason Crabb, another Grammy-winning gospel singer. His influence also crossed over into in pop music. Elvis Presley performed his song "I've Got Confidence" for a 1972 gospel album, and Paul Simon" recorded "Jesus Is the Answer" for a 1974 live album. Crouch worked with many other stars, from Diana Ross to Ringo Starr, and his gospel albums sometimes featured performers from other musical genres. His 18th solo album, "The Journey," released in 2011, featured Chaka Khan, Shelia E., Take 6, Kim Burrell and Marvin Winans. Crouch was one of only a handful of gospel performers to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His choir, The Disciples, sang background for Madonna's song "Like a Prayer." Crouch helped Michael Jackson arrange the King of Pop's 1987 hit song, "Man in the Mirror." He also arranged music for the 1985 film "The Color Purple" — which earned him an Academy Award nomination — and Disney's "The Lion King" in 1994. His success came despite a lifelong struggle with dyslexia. To create, he would make drawings that allowed him to grasp the concept. For the Jackson song, he drew a mirror with an image in it. "I memorized everything through sight, the shape of the word," Crouch told The Associated Press in 2011. "Some things that I write, you'll see a page with cartoon pictures or a drawing of a car — like a Ford — or a flag. I still do it on an occasion when a word is strange to me." "So when I finish a song, I thank God for bringing me through," he continued. "You have to press on and know your calling. That's what I've been doing for all my life. I just went forward." Crouch had health issues in recent years, including diabetes and cancer. Last month, he was hospitalized for pneumonia and congestive heart failure and had to cancel a tour.
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Obama's free community college program

17 Obama's free community college program USA Today

WASHINGTON -- President Obama will propose two years of free community college for American workers Friday, part of what the White House says is an effort to make community college as universal as high school is today. Obama teased his community college proposal in a video uploaded to Facebook on Thursday and will deliver a speech Friday in Tennessee. "Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for anybody who's willing to work for it," he said aboard Air Force One amid a three-state tour to preview his State of the Union Address. "It's something we can accomplish, and it's something that will train our workforce so that we can compete with anyone in the world." The program would require action from a Republican-dominated Congress. "With no details or information on the cost, this seems more like a talking point than a plan," said Cory Fritz, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. The White House said details on the cost and funding would come in the State of the Union Address on Jan. 20 and the president's budget request Feb. 2. But the White House expects 9 million students to participate and save up to $3,800 a year for two years. That would place the cost at nearly $70 billion, though there are questions about building capacity at the nation's 1,100 community colleges. The federal government would pay three quarters of the cost, at least initially. In some ways, the community college plan is a bookend to Obama's 2013 proposal to pay for universal pre-Kindergarten through a state and federal partnership. That $75 billion proposal, which relied on dwindling tobacco tax money to provide federal matching funds, never got traction in Congress. But Cecilia Munoz, Obama's domestic policy adviser, said Obama's pre-K proposal spurred state and local governments to increase the number and quality of preschool offerings, and hopes the college proposal will do the same. "We don't expect the country to be transformed overnight, but we do expect the conversation to begin tomorrow," she said. Obama, joined by Vice President Biden, will announce the plan at Pellissippi Community College in Knoxville, Tenn. Obama's plan is modeled after the Tennessee Promise -- a state-level free-college plan starting this fall, paid for with Tennessee Lottery proceeds. That plan, Munoz noted, has support from Republican lawmakers in Tennessee. Munoz said the college plan would require the cooperation of states, community colleges and students. States would have to pick up a quarter of the cost -- more or less depending on how much they currently fund community colleges. "Community colleges have to raise their game by establishing standards to allow students to transfer those credits to a four-year degree," she said. "And students must take responsibility for their education, earn good grades and stay on track to graduate in order to earn free tuition." The America's College Promise program would be available to traditional and non-traditional college students, she said, and would support those seeking the first two years of a bachelor's degree, an associate's degree, or even just job training. Obama said a world-class education starts with children, but that adults need training, too. "It's not just for kids, we also have to make sure that everybody has the opportunity to constantly train themselves for better jobs, better wages, better benefits."
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Blame It On The Streets YG

After delivering a classic debut album My Krazy Life, YG is back in the limelight to finish the year off on a high. The Def Jam rapper has released a mini movie called " Blame It On The Streets " which comes along with an accompanying soundtrack. The movie is directed by Lucky Rodgers and Alex Nazari.
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Live From New York

19 Live From New York Eminem

Eminem is THE global rap superstar. This concert was filmed at Madison Square Garden in New York in 2005 at the culmination of his farewell tour prior to his retirement. It's a spectacular show with multi-level staging, amazing lighting and guest appearances from D12, Obie Trice and Stat Quo.
Must Watch! 1mo
Crime Reporting in the Murder Capital

24 Crime Reporting in the Murder Capital Vice News

San Pedro Sula, Honduras, has made it to the top of the list of the world’s most dangerous cities (outside of war zones) for three consecutive years, with an annual homicide rate of 187 per 100,000 people. Reporting crime in Honduras is considered a high-risk job — according to the Honduran National Human Rights Committee, at least 47 journalists and media executives have been murdered between 2003 and 2014. VICE News spent four nights alongside Orlin Castro, a young reporter who covers the crimes that occur in the streets of San Pedro — which often result from the never-ending turf war between the 18th Street and MS-13 gangs, two of the city's most notorious criminal groups.
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Viola Davis Expertly Shades NY Times

25 Viola Davis Expertly Shades NY Times Jezebel

During Wednesday night's People's Choice Awards, wearing a bold gown and a solid wig choice, Viola Davis took the stage to accept the award for Favorite Actress in a New TV Series. She thanked lots of people—her daughter, her husband, Shonda Rhimes. She also managed to slip in a little dig at The New York Times.

In her speech, Davis shouted out the creators of How to Get Away with Murder for the opportunity, saying, "Thank you Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers and Peter Nowalk for thinking of a leading lady who looks like my classic beauty."

As the kids and Nene would say: Bloop! Yes, that was an expert jab at Alessandra Stanley for her racist New York Times article that reduced Shonda Rhimes to an angry black woman and referred to Davis as "less classically beautiful." If that wasn't enough, Davis added a facial expression that can only be described as icing on a shade cake. Judge Kara R. Brown, this incident officially qualifies as public shade, right?

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#ThingsGentrifiersDo Hashtag

26 #ThingsGentrifiersDo Hashtag Atlanta Blackstar

When your neighborhood is undergoing gentrification, it can be a disorienting, frustrating experience that might have you grappling with a mix of rage and helplessness as you fume about the entitled, clueless population newly in your midst. But you might also find some humor there. That’s the premise behind a new hashtag growing in popularity: #ThingsGentrifiersDo.   Created earlier this week by Umaara Elliott, the hashtag already has streams of hilarious and insightful posts by users commenting on the bizarre and ironic world of life in a gentrifying neighborhood. “I made the hashtag #ThingsGentrifiersDo to make YOU aware of how racist you actually are being even if it’s indirectly,” Elliott wrote on Twitter to explain the hashtag. She connected it to a funny list/questionnaire that was posted on Curbed called “Has your neighborhood become gentrified?”   While creeping gentrification  has previously been more of a vague feeling, a sense that the neighborhood is changing, a new study released in November by the nonprofit Citizens Housing and Planning Council actually documented the growth of gentrification over the last decade in New York City. The CHPC study traced the slow but radical transformation of the nation’s largest city into a place that contains largely the rich and the poor.   Middle-class Blacks fled the city between 2000 and 2010, while rich white neighborhoods become even more predominantly white. The number of poor Hispanics in the city increased and large numbers of wealthy white singles moved into previously “racially diverse” neighborhoods—the very definition of gentrification. It turns out Spike Lee was right. “You can’t discover this!” Lee said back in February at Pratt Institute. “We been here. You just can’t come and bogart.”   The Twitter hashtag is an outgrowth of the list to the right. The theme of the list, if anything, is the lack of awareness that gentrifiers often have of the way their actions and complaints impact everyone around them.   These are some of the highlights of the tweets under the #ThingsGentrifiersDo hashtag: “Act like they care about the neighborhood while never spending money in the actual neighborhood,” Elon James White wrote. “Call police on old Black men drinking beer & on THEIR stoop. Then have loud wine tastings till 5am,” Imstilltoofly wrote. “Attempt to erase cultural context by creating abbreviations/acronyms. SpaHA…Spanish Harlem smh,” ‏@bcognoscenti wrote. “Create a special shuttle because the 20 minute train ride has too many black folks,” @Blackamazon wrote. “Ask the black guy who has lived in the building longer than them, if he actually lives there,” @fakerapper wrote. “Come to a neighborhood “for the culture.” Call the police on the culture,” wrote ‏@JamilahLemieux.
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Wer

27 Wer Universal Pictures

Witness the rebirth of a legend in this spine-tingling descent into true terror. When a vacationing family is brutally murdered, an intrepid attorney, Kate Moore (A.J. Cook), is assigned to defend Talan (Brian Scott O’Connor), the main suspect and mysterious loner with a strange medical condition. As she delves into his shadowy past and runs scientific tests to prove his innocence, Talan’s darker instincts soon surface with unparalled violence. As Talan slashes and shreds his way to freedom, Kate must stop the atrocity she’s unleashed before the city is torn apart limb by bloody limb.
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Black or White

28 Black or White Treehouse Films

BLACK OR WHITE is the story of a grandfather (Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner) who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter. When the little girl’s paternal grandmother (Academy Award® nominee Octavia Spencer) seeks custody, a legal battle ensues that forces the families to confront their true feelings on race, forgiveness and understanding. Anchored by an all-star cast and based on real events, the movie is a look at two seemingly different worlds, in which nothing is as simple as black or white.
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Kingsman: The Secret Service

29 Kingsman: The Secret Service Marv Films

Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
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The Houses October Built

30 The Houses October Built Image Entertainment

Beneath the fake blood and cheap masks of countless haunted house attractions across the country, there are whispers of truly terrifying alternatives. Looking to find an authentic, blood-curdling good fright for Halloween, five friends set off on a road trip in an RV to track down these underground Haunts. Just when their search seems to reach a dead end, strange and disturbing things start happening and it becomes clear that the Haunt has come to them.