Killer Mike recently made an exciting announcement during an interview on Sway In The Morning. While discussing his own album, MICHAEL, the Atlanta rap veteran revealed that fellow rap legend and OutKast member Andre 3000 has a solo album on the way. Killer Mike Announces Andre 3000’s Upcoming Solo Album During the interview, Sway Calloway mentioned […]
The Hip-Hop community has come to one consensus. Mutually, we all agree that Phylicia Rashad is our mom… our TV mom anyways…. and so when she went on Sway in The Morning and he asked her about if she is on social media… her response was something that we should all take to heart.
“No.” She responds to Sway. “My mother said that ‘people need not know you personally.’ Everyone need not know you personally.”
She continues with her signature Claire Huxtable cut-eye, “I think social media has given some anonymous people a very loud voice.”
“And you just need to be a little careful about yourself and what you are putting out there.”
Tyler Perry adds that this why no one has seen his son. Even though the young Perry is five years old, his father has opted to allow the child some anonymity while he can have it.
“I refuse to put him in this place of… throw[ing] you to the world [by] putting your picture everywhere.” Perry continues. “… He doesn’t even know who he is just yet.”
The two were on Sway Calloway’s Sway in The Morning radio show on Sirius Radio with the rest of the cast for Perry’s new show, “A Fall From Grace” that drops on Netflix on January 17th.
Tyler Perry and the cast of A Fall From Grace, Crystal Fox, Bresha Webb, and Phylicia Rashad, visited the Sway in Morning show to promote this new and apparently unpredictable story.
The interview also provides a platform for Tyler Perry to respond to his critics that have taken shots about him writing his own scripts and speaks on giving other people the opportunity people as they push to get into the industry.
Questioning Black excellence was not the best career move for Gina Rodriguez. The actress experienced a lot of hurt when she was attacked for raising the question regarding equal pay.
This week the Jane The Virgin lead paid a visit to SiriusXM’s Sway in the Morningshow to promote her upcoming film Miss Bala. The discussion then turned to some commentary she made that got her in hot water last year.
In November 2018 Rodriguez took part in a Net-a-porter round table alongside Ellen Pompeo, Emma Roberts and Gabrielle Union. When discussing television she stated that Black women are noticeably paid higher than Latinas.
Naturally, the story caught fire online but instead of gracefully acknowledging how her words could be perceived the wrong way she bit back via her Twitter. SiriusXM host Sway Calloway got her to discuss the faux pas that caused her to be dragged to filth. “I always find it difficult to talk about equal pay as a woman who makes a substantial amount of money. As someone who came from poverty to now the amount of money that I get paid, it doesn’t feel right that I’m the one talking about it because I’m just so damn grateful” she explained.
Gina went on to further elaborate her stance. “To then be on a panel with women that I respect and admire and for us to talk about a subject that I find very difficult to talk about… what I was saying was that when we talk about equal pay, we have to talk about intersectionality because we all must rise.”
When discussing the backlash she received she became emotional citing the slander put her in a very weird space. “The Black community was the only community that I looked towards growing up. We didn’t have many Latino shows and the Black community made me feel like I was seen,” she admitted as she cried. “So to get anti-black is saying that I’m anti-family. My father is dark-skinned, he’s Afro-Latino and my cousins are and Puerto Ricans are African, Taino and Spaniard and it’s in blood, so that was really devastating to me.”
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Where things got even weirder for the Annihilation star is when she needed to defend her reputation but didn’t know exactly how to given the touchy situation. “What do you say? Sorry for cheating when you didn’t cheat? How do you talk to a bunch of people that all they do is read: ‘Gina Rodriguez Says Controversial Comments About Black Actresses.’
For those still unconvinced she offered to what seemed to be a sincere apology to those offended. “So, if I have hurt you, I am sorry and I will always be sorry, but you have to know that, until you know my heart, there’s no way that we can live off clickbait, you guys!”
You can view the interview in entirety below. The talk about the round table starts at the 12:00 minute mark.
Even as a musical superstar, Eminem has remained rooted in his hometown of Detroit, Michigan. His home is there, and his recording studio is there, where many of the artists on his label record. Although historically out of the traditional celebrity lifestyle, Eminem is regularly in attendance at the city’s major sporting events, and uses his city as an exteriors in videos. In the early 2000s, 8 Mile filmed on location in Greater Detroit. Meanwhile, Shady Records has been a home for many local artists’ releases, including D12, Obie Trice, and Em’s partnership with Royce 5’9, Bad Meets Evil. Fresh off of producing 2017’s Bodied satire on Battle Rap (which had a theatrical run in late 2018), Eminem is gearing up to release Marshall From Detroit. It is a 21-minute long VR 360-degree film, according to Variety. “Our idea was to extend the blanket of intimacy offered by VR beyond the once-in-a-lifetime ride with Marshall and introduce you to a more mystic version of Detroit you could never see for yourself,” director Caleb Slain told the publication. “We wanted to take the ‘reality’ out of VR and cook it down into something more unreal, but also truthful.” Eminem Names His Top 12 Rap Diss Songs Of All-Time (Audio) A 360-degree trailer has released ahead of the doc’s Sundance Festival debut this Saturday (January 26). “I don’t think we really knew who we were yet, as far as what’s gonna be our style, what’s gonna be our sound,” Em begins in a voice-over as an SUV drives through the downtown Motor City on a snowy night. “Especially back then, we used to think like, ‘Man, nobody comes from Detroit.'” Appearing on camera, the man born Marshall Mathers continues, “They look at us like a ghost town. We want to be somebody; we want to f*ckin’ stand up.” Sway Calloway’s voice can also be heard interviewing the MC/producer. Notably, Eminem was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri. After his parents separated, the artist would divide much of his youth between Michigan and Missouri. He eventually settled in the D, where he remained for most of his adulthood. Before signing with Dr. Dre, Eminem also lived in New Jersey with The Outsidaz for a period. He later made California his home while recording his early major label material. Eminem Returns To His Battle Rap Roots With 2018’s Best Freestyle (Video) On Friday (January 25), Shady Records is releasing Boogie’s Everything’s For Sale album. Eminem is a guest, as are Interscope label-mates J.I.D. and 6lack. Last year, Eminem released Kamikaze.
