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Lola Brooke Shares “Shelter Baby (Be That B*tch)” Video
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The deluxe version of ‘Dennis Daughter’ is out now.
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SummerStage announces 2024 lineup
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Dozens of special, free concerts can be found across New York City from May-October 2024.
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Travis Scott’s ‘Jumpman Jack’ Jordan Sneakers Set To Hit Stores At The End Of April
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Travis Scott’s long-awaited ‘Jumpman Jack’ sneakers with Jordan have an official release date and will be dropping later this month.
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Had It Coming: Dude Gets Stomped Out On A Train After Trying To Pickpocket People!

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Dude Gets Stomped Out On A Train. Posted By Persist

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Reggie Bush’s Heisman Trophy is back where it belongs.

The Heisman Trust announced the formal “reinstatement” of the 2005 trophy Wednesday to Bush, who had to forfeit his Heisman Trophy in 2010 after an NCAA investigation found that he received what were then considered improper benefits during his tenure at USC from 2003 to 2005.

Andscape senior editor Erik Horne and senior writers Martenzie Johnson and David Dennis Jr. discuss the decision by the Heisman Trust, Bush’s legacy and what the decision could mean for the legacy of other players and programs punished by the NCAA in the past.

DETROIT – For the second time in as many years, two Black quarterbacks are expected to be selected among the top three picks in the three-day NFL draft that begins here Thursday, and three could go in the first round.

In the last two NFL seasons, African American signal-callers were selected as the first- and second-team Associated Press All-Pro quarterbacks, and Black passers won both the AP league MVP and the Super Bowl MVP awards. The league’s best player is a Black quarterback. The league’s best newcomer is a Black quarterback. After being sidelined because of discrimination for most of NFL history, Black quarterbacks now dominate pro sports’ most successful league, and Caleb Williams of USC, Jayden Daniels of LSU and Michael Penix Jr. of the University of Washington are eager to join the accomplished group.

Williams, Daniels and Penix, stars in college, are coveted by teams seeking to improve at the most important position in sports. That’s a far cry from what most Black quarterbacks have faced in the draft, and no one can speak to that better than Warren Moon.

As a senior at Washington during the 1977-78 season, Moon led the team to a conference championship, he helped it win the Rose Bowl and he was selected as the conference’s co-player of the year. However, Moon went undrafted by the NFL, and he only received an opportunity to play quarterback in the league after he obliterated passing records and won multiple championships in the Canadian Football League.

The NFL was founded in 1920, “so when you stop and think about … how long the NFL has been around, what happened to me and a lot of other very capable guys wasn’t all that long ago,” Moon, the only Black quarterback enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, told Andscape in a phone interview recently.

“Really, for the longest time, that’s the way it was for all of us. And everyone now knows the reason: It was just racism and stereotypes. What we’ve been seeing recently, especially with so many guys being picked over the last 10 years, is now we’re coveted in the draft. And the reason for that is also obvious: our success.”

In the previous 87 versions of the process (the NFL held its first draft in 1936), only 28 African American quarterbacks were selected in the first round, and none were until Doug Williams finally broke down the door in 1978. But 16 have been chosen since 2011, including one in every draft except 2016 and 2022. During the 1999 draft, in which as many as three Black passers were selected for the first time, Donovan McNabb and Akili Smith were the second and third overall picks, respectively. During the 2023 draft, the second to include as many as three African American quarterbacks chosen in the opening round, Bryce Young was selected first overall, C.J. Stroud was picked second and Anthony Richardson was the fourth overall pick.

On Thursday night, it would be a shocker if the Chicago Bears, who hold the draft’s first overall pick, did not select Caleb Williams, who was the 2022 Heisman Trophy winner while at USC. Daniels, who produced eye-opening statistics both as a passer and runner at LSU, won the 2023 Heisman Trophy. He’s widely regarded as a top-three pick. Last season, Penix, who throws a picturesque deep ball, led Washington to the College Football Playoff National Championship game, in which it lost to Michigan and finished 14-1. Despite his history of injuries, Penix, largely on the strength of his outstanding pro day (he displayed elite arm talent as well as impressive athleticism), is now widely viewed as a high-round pick, three NFL player-personnel officials told Andscape.

Williams, Daniels and Penix will enter the NFL during a season in which Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, a three-time Super Bowl winner and a three-time Super Bowl MVP, is the league’s best player. At Mahomes’ direction, the two-time defending Super Bowl-champion Chiefs became the first team since the New England Patriots in 2004 and 2005 to win back-to-back Super Bowl championships.

In September, Mahomes will turn 29.

For the second time in five seasons, Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson is the reigning AP league MVP. He’s 27. Stroud of the Houston Texans, a landslide winner in voting for last season’s AP Offensive Rookie of the Year award, is the league’s fastest-rising superstar. In October, he’ll turn 23.

Fact is, Black quarterbacks have become the face of the NFL.

With enormous pressure on football executives and coaches to win, green truly is the primary color that drives decision-making in today’s draft, according to team officials, coaches, and current and former players interviewed by Andscape. That established, based on their longtime standing at the bottom of the league, the rise of Black quarterbacks in the last 10 years is as surprising as it is noteworthy, though not to Doug Williams.

“We [Black quarterback pioneers] always knew this would happen. It was just a matter of opportunity,” Williams, the first Black quarterback to start in the Super Bowl and win the game’s MVP award, told Andscape recently. “You always had guys who had the ability to do what you’re seeing these young guys doing now, but they didn’t get the chance to do it.

“You look at the draft now, and no team can afford to pass on a guy who has the potential to do what you see so many of these guys doing. And it’s not just [starters]. When you look at so many of these teams now, you’re starting to see more guys getting opportunities as backups. That’s a big difference. For a long time, guys who could be stars would get chances. But you wouldn’t see us in those backup jobs. Now, you do. That’s a big sign of change.”

Just look at the AFC North.

Jackson, Deshaun Watson of the Cleveland Browns and Russell Wilson of the Pittsburgh Steelers are the projected starters for their teams. The other two quarterbacks on the Ravens’ roster are also Black. In Cleveland, Jameis Winston is expected to play behind Watson. Justin Fields, a first-round pick of the Bears in the 2021 draft, is Wilson’s backup in Pittsburgh.

For years, quarterback guru Quincy Avery saw this coming.

The foundation for change began at the grassroots level, the renowned coach said.

“We’re finally seeing Black quarterbacks who have gotten the opportunity at every single age of development,” Avery told Andscape. “We’re now seeing guys who had the opportunity, no matter what part of the country they’re from, to play quarterback from the time they were [very young]. That’s something we didn’t see before.

“Then as they kept moving up [through high school and college], younger guys suddenly saw older guys who look like them getting opportunities all the way up the line. So then they just expected to get the same opportunities. It’s not surprising to them. Right now, we’re seeing the future. Very soon, we’ll see a league full of Black quarterbacks.”

As the saying goes, the die is cast. Once prevented from participating in the game, Black quarterbacks are now running it. And based on NFL draft trends, don’t be surprised if they continue to for a long, long time.

Weekly Dope: Nas + DJ Premier, Gangrene (Alchemist + Oh No), Mez & More
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A collection of our favorite songs of the week.
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iShowSpeed Leaks Kai Cenat’s Phone Number In New Diss Track
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Everybody is airing dirty laundry this year. Rappers are making good on subliminal threats that are a decade old, in the case of Drake and Kendrick Lamar, but the aggression is going beyond the world of hip-hop. On April 23, iShowSpeed decided to take aim at fellow streaming giant Kai Cenat with a diss track of his own! The diss was recorded over the beat to Drake’s “Back to Back,” and sees iShowSpeed call Cenat out for being a fake. (Admittedly, the words he chooses are a bit stronger). He also decides to leak Cenat’s phone number.

iShowSpeed doesn’t bother with clever bars or double entendres. Anybody who has watched one of the streamer’s videos will not be surprised. He does, however, bring a wild, intense level of aggression to the freestyle. “Kai, you can’t pull Tyla/You dirty a*s n**ga,” he raps while shirtless. “You do not pull b*tches. I’m sending 5K to a f*cking b*tch, I never pay for p**sy, n**ga suck my d*ck.” Like we said, aggressive. iShowSpeed performs in front of a green screen, though it’s unclear why the green screen wasn’t used during the performance.

Read More: Kai Cenat: All About The Famed Streamer & Super Influencer

iShowSpeed Responded To Cenat’s “In Da Club” Diss

The bombshell comes during the second half of the track, when iShowSpeed mentions streamer Adin Ross. It’s here that he decides to effectively dox Kai Cenat by revealing his phone number to viewers. “Adin leaked by number,” he raps. “Here go your muthaf**kin number.” Speed then holds up his phone to the screen and refocuses the camera so that fans can get a clear look at Cenat’s personal number. He doesn’t stop there, though. “B*tch I really don’t care,” he added. “Zoom in, take a good stare. Nah, I don’t give a f*ck, you always on my d*ck, n**ga suck my left nut.”

Causual fans may be unaware, but this was actually a response to a diss Cenat dropped a month prior. Cenat dissed iShowSpeed over the instrumental to 50 Cent’s “In da Club,” but it’s safe to say that the latter upped the ante by leaking private information online. The reasoning behind their disagreement is unclear, with many assuming the two streamers are merely cashing in on the trend of 2024 feuds. Regardless of the motive, it’s safe to assume Cenat will craft an equally outlandish response.

Read More: Kanye West Calls Kai Cenat An Industry Plant: “He’s On The Wrong Side”

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Childish Gambino Teases ‘The New World Tour’ Amid Rollout For Next Album
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Childish Gambino has teased a new concert series as he has finally started rolling out material from his forthcoming music projects.
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ATLANTA — President Joe Biden will be the commencement speaker at Morehouse College in Georgia, giving the Democrat a key election-year spotlight on one of the nation’s preeminent historically Black campuses as he works to shore up the racially diverse coalition that propelled him to the Oval Office.

The White House confirmed Tuesday that Biden would speak May 19 at the alma mater of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., and then address the graduating class at the U.S. Military Academy on May 25.

Polls have suggested Biden has work to do generate the same levels of Black support he won in 2020, especially among younger voters, and his appearance at Morehouse could be greeted with some form of protest. NBC News has reported that administrators are concerned that some faculty and students might organize demonstrations around Biden’s visit. Biden has increasingly encountered protests this year, mostly from progressives who assert that he is too supportive of Israel in its war with Hamas.

Biden’s speech will mark the second consecutive spring that Biden has spoken to the graduating class of a historically Black school. In 2023, the president delivered the commencement address at Howard University. The Washington school is the alma mater of Vice President Kamala Harris, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American woman to hold that office. Morehouse, a private all-male school that is part of the multi-campus Atlanta University Center, also is the alma mater of Sen. Raphael Warnock, Georgia’s first Black U.S. senator.

Warnock celebrated Biden’s selection, sidestepping any potential unhappiness in the Morehouse community.

“I could not be more thrilled and honored to see President Biden return to our great state,” Warnock said in a statement. “I know the president will have a timely, poignant, forward-looking message for the men of Morehouse.”

It would not take a significant drop in Black turnout for Biden to yield several states to former President Donald Trump in their rematch.

Biden won Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes over Trump out of about 5 million ballots cast. The combined enrollment at Morehouse and its adjoining schools that make up the Atlanta University Center is about 9,000 students. Biden’s margin in Wisconsin, where Black voters in greater Milwaukee are an anchor of Democrats’ statewide vote totals, was less than 21,000 votes. The president had more comfortable margins in Michigan and Pennsylvania, but still cannot afford to lose Black support in the metro areas of Detroit and Philadelphia.

Among states Trump won, Biden is targeting North Carolina, which has a notable Black college student population. Trump’s margin in the state was about 75,000 votes.

The administration and reelection campaign have targeted HBCUs since Biden took office in January 2021. Harris and Cabinet members have spoken on several campuses. Among other policy achievements and priorities, they have touted increases in federal funding support for HBCUs; Biden’s efforts to forgive up to $10,000 in student loan burden per borrower and increase Pell Grants for low-income students; energy investments to combat the climate crisis; and Democrats’ support of abortion rights and decriminalizing marijuana possession.

Reflecting the nation’s overall racial gaps in income and net worth, Black college students are disproportionately dependent on Pell Grants, which typically cover only a fraction of overall college costs, and student loans. According to Federal Reserve data, about 1 out of 3 Black households has student loan debt, compared with about 1 in 5 white households. The average Black borrower also is carrying about $10,000 more in debt than the average white borrower. Federal statistics show about 60% of Black undergraduates receive Pell Grants, compared with about 40% of the overall undergraduate population and a third of white students.

Most historically Black colleges and universities, both state-affiliated and private, were founded in the years after the end of the Civil War and ratification of the 13th Amendment that ended chattel slavery. Most established white campuses in that post-war era, especially in the old Confederacy, denied admission to Black applicants altogether or, in the case of many Northern schools, admitted only a few Black students.

Morehouse was founded in 1867, and Spelman College, its adjacent private all-women’s school, was founded in 1881. The University of Georgia, the state’s flagship public university, meanwhile, was chartered in 1785. That was more than three years before the U.S. Constitution was ratified, but UGA did not serve Black students until Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter were enrolled under a federal court order in 1961.

Biden’s undergraduate alma mater, the University of Delaware, traces its roots to 1743, and its modern version began classes in 1867. The university did not integrate to include any Black students until 1948, when the 81-year-old president was 6 years old.