Hall of Fame radio personality Sway Calloway has officially returned to the West Coast after over two decades, marking a significant milestone in his career. To celebrate, Sway in the Morning hosted…
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During a conversation with Sway on his Sway In The Morning SiriusXM show, Eve spoke about her new memoir which details her journey from chart-topping rapper to philanthropist, actress, and beyond. Eve opening up about her struggles and triumphs, her early days breaking barriers in the male-dominated rap industry to her candid reflections on challenges like her DUI and the pressures of fame.
While speaking with Sway Eve opened up about her experience as a dancer for two months and quitting the day after she met Mase.
Sway Calloway: The last day you danced, what happened?
Eve: So, the night before is when I met Mase and he was like, “What you want to do?” It was a slow night and I was like, “I want to rap,” and he was like, “Well, let me hear you,” and we rapped a bit. He was like, “Yo, you’re kinda dope.” He was like, “Why don’t you get dressed and we can ride around the city, and we can just listen to music,” and I was like, “I’m not coming with you. If my homies ain’t coming, I’m not coming. I don’t know you.” He was like, “Alright, be cool. Relax.” He was like, “My homeboy is with me. They can drive in the car with him, and they can drive behind us,” and that’s exactly what we did. Literally drove around until the sun came up, listened to music, homegirl’s in the back, went to his sister’s house when the sun came up, had some food. We fell asleep, the girls. When I woke up, he was gone and did not see him again and I stopped that day. I was like, “Never again.”
See her comments about her short lived dancing career HERE
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After a long week of unprecedented promotion, Jada Pinkett Smith stopped by the SiriusXM studios and appeared on SiriusXM’s Sway In The Morning to promote her new book Worthy.
Even though the public have been hit with a string of new revelations from Jada not only about Will Smith and 2Pac, but the famed actress admits to selling crack as a young adult as a means for survival. In her appearance on Sway In The Morning, Jada reveals even more about her and Will, asserting that her and Mr. Smith have considered writing a book together. When asked about the husband and wife literary collaboration, Mrs. Smith says, “I know it seems like it’s a lot of life because it is a lot of life in the book, but it’s very streamlined. There’s like layers and layers and layers and layers. There’s no way I could have put it all in one book. There’s no way, you know, so there’s definitely other books to come. I mean, even Will and I are thinking about writing a book. We were talking about this last night, writing a book called “Don’t Try This at Home,” where he and I kind of sit down and talk about our specific journey together.”
Jada added that she left “a whole lot out of this book”, which led to her having to elaborate to Sway, saying, “No, I mean, you know, this is just, I know it seems like it’s a lot of life because it is a lot of life in the book, but it’s very streamlined. There’s like layers and layers and layers and layers. There’s no way I could have put it all in one book. There’s no way, you know, so there’s definitely other books to come. I mean, even Will and I are thinking about writing a book. We were talking about this last night, writing a book called “Don’t Try This at Home,” where he and I kind of sit down and talk about our specific journey together.
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Angela “Blac Chyna” White appeared on SiriusXM’s Sway in The Morning sitting down to talk to SiriusXM’s Sway Calloway and co-hosts Heather B and Tracy G.
During the interview, she opened up about her recent surgery and how her kids reacted, the transformation she has been through and much more.
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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.
Check out her remarks around the 20-minute mark.
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Fresh off from rocking the Hot 97 Summer Jam stage, Hot Girl and captain of the boat Megan Thee Stallion stopped by Sway In The Morning and put on for the Hotties with an impressive freestyle.
Don’t let the twerking fool you, Megan got bars.
Before showcasing her skills she spoke on her love for cognac D’USSE to be more specific, her parents contributing to her loving her body as well as being inspired by Biggie and Pimp C. Megan also revealed she is still in college and shared a story about her professor stumbling upon her Instagram page and finding out about her rap persona.
Other topics touched on during the sit down with Sway, Tracy and Heather B included her thoughts on politics, the environment, her love life and yes fellas she is single, artists having ghostwriters and much more.
Before she left, she stepped into the valley of the hyenas and didn’t disappoint. The “Realer” rapper floated effortlessly over the “Hit Em Up” instrumental flexing her lyrical prowess and put her haters on notice that she just not here to be looked at, she’s here to also be heard. Step into Megan Thee Stallion’s Sway in The Morning freestyle below.
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Megan Thee Stallion can freestyle an there’s no ifs, ands or buts about it. Her “Running Up” freestyle was so fire that she had to close her Fever mixtape and now she blessed the hotties with another one.
“I listen to the patterns, I listen to the melodies, I listen to the wordplay,” Sway says before introducing Meg and praising her latest full-length project in the video below. “She got vocabulary. It makes sense.”
DJ Wonder then started spinning Tupac’s “Hit Em Up” and the H-Town Hottie began rapping about the importance of independence, confidence and more.
In the 22-minute interview, Sway and Megan Thee Stallion reflects on her 2017 EP, Make It Hot, and growing her discography. “I’m not even calling it an album,” Megan clarified of Fever, which arrived in May. “I’m calling it a tape, a project.”
She added that she draws her inspiration from the likes of Pimp C, Biggie, and Three 6 Mafia.
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“Tommy ain’t my motherfuckin’ Boy..” -GZA “Labels”
Legendary Long Island trio De La Soul announced to the public this week that they are currently unhappy with their former record label, Tommy Boy Records.
For the group’s 30th anniversary of their debut album 3 Ft High And Rising, the group announced via social media posts throughout the week and most recently during an appearance on Sway In The Morning how they would only be receiving 10% of the streaming revenue of their six albums that would now be available online.
On the show, Sway confirmed that Tommy Boy founder and president Tom Silverman and producer Prince Paul were expected to join yesterday’s discussion, but only De La appeared.
Om a positive note De La does have two upcoming albums with DJ Premier and and Pete Rock respectively.
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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 Morning show 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.
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Kevin Hart is a recent guest on Sway In The Morning. He addresses the recent controversy surrounding his stepping down from hosting this year’s Academy Awards. While there were some suggestions that Kevin might return to the post for next month’s 91st Oscar event, he puts those notions to bed. At the top of the Sway interview, Hart says that more than a month of necessary preparation time was lost from when he initially signed on, and subsequently stepped away after facing pressure from producers and members of the public.
Near the end of the conversation, the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania native says that his 13-year-old daughter recently reminded him why he must remain true to his principles. “My daughter comes up to me and says, ‘Dad, you said what you were gonna do. Why would you ever go back on what you said? You tell us when we make decisions [to] follow through with the decisions. Don’t start nothing unless you finish it…so if you started to go one way, why would you go another way?’ It was a simple kid question, but I was like, ‘F*ck, man. But you’re 100% right.’ This was when I was teetering with the back-and-forth. I did Ellen; Ellen [Degeneres] was riding for me. She’s my friend. For her to go that hard [I thought that] maybe I should [go back]. In the house, my daughter said that and I was like, ‘You’re right, honey.’”
Kevin Hart Explains Why He Stepped Down As Oscar Host & Why He Might Come Back
While at Sway In The Morning, Hart applies the last five weeks of his life and points to a perceived problem in society, especially online. At 6:00, the superstar comedian elaborated on a comment he made at Ellen last week, about an agenda he feels that exists to take him down. “The people that I was referring to are not the LGBTQ community. Those weren’t the people that I was referring to. The people [I was referring to are] Internet trolls, people that thrive off of finding what they can that can act as damaging material to one’s persona.” Hart believes that people who dig up things such as tweets and old footage work together for public enjoyment. “It’s a team of people; it’s a business. It’s a real thing. I think the movie of watching people grow and get to success is a great one, but I think the better movie is watching people fall off. That’s the one that people really tune in to watch. That’s the one that people are in love with; they love [to watch people] fail.” Hart jokes about public reactions to salacious headlines about drug abuse, repossessed homes, tax problems, broken families, and others. “Mothaf*ckas find joy in the unhappiness of others, and it’s a f*cked up thing. It’s a fact! If you look at the state of the world today, the views that you get from [negativity] are so high.”
Hart separates the recent condemnation of R. Kelly or Bill Cosby from his experience, claiming that criminal allegations and charges are something entirely different. “On GMA, there was a moment—if it wasn’t Good Morning America, I was about to say, ‘Y’all are asking me about these f*ckin’ tweets. We ain’t talkin’ about R. Kelly out here f*ckin’ these kids; you want to talk to me about my tweets!’ That’s some sh*t. I don’t even want to put that in the same conversation [as what R. Kelly is accused of].”
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Hart adds, “On a day-to-day [basis], one person’s struggle becomes another person’s happiness.” He attributes the negative culture to jealousy. “I don’t see the same energy put into positive sh*t. I won’t even say how much positive sh*t I do or have done—there’s millions of dollars that I’ve thrown at so much sh*t. It doesn’t see the light of day!…from college educations to lives to houses bought for people to money donated for causes. It’s so much sh*t! [It doesn’t] see the light of f*ckin’ day! But you throw some negative sh*t in the air, it’s gonna stick like glue. That goes from everything, across the board in entertainment and in life. I would love to just see how much good we can highlight. There’s so many people in communities [with] no fame attached to their names whatsoever that [do] so much [good].” Previously, Hart has been the subject of scandals including DUIs and infidelity. Like December’s Oscar controversy, he has addressed each issue in the public eye.
Hart points to a celebrity peer, Steve Harvey as an example. “He takes these young men that are coming from troubled situations and areas. He has a boot camp that specializes [in] building men! On his f*ckin’ property! He brings a sh*t-load of f*ckin’ young men that could be ex-convicts, whatever—he doesn’t care—takes his money and invests in these men to give them a future. We don’t hear about it. We don’t hear about it because it’s not that f*ckin’ negative. ‘I wanna talk about when Steve opened up that envelope and f*cked up the words,’” Hart jokes about the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant, which Harvey hosted. That event made the headlines that his philanthropy does not. “It’s just what we do. When you realize that and you understand that, then you swerve. I’m in the business of swerving now. You can only step up and show your high level of maturity and apologize so much. At some point, other people have to take accountability and say, ‘do you receive it? Do you accept these things and changes? And if we do, we move on.’ If you don’t accept the changes, then that means you’re stuck in a lane where you’re never gonna move. You’re idle.”
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Asked how Hart moves forward when under the scrutiny from this microscope of negativity, he explains, “The sun gon’ shine in the morning regardless of your life. The sun is gonna come up every God damn morning. I don’t give a sh*t what happens to you, the next morning the sun will shine. That means that life goes on. Everybody else got to keep moving. So if you choose to stay in a position of sorrow and sulk, you’re just affecting you. I have to continue my life. So in the heat of all of this [controversy], I’m going to Australia; I got 140,000 people that have bought tickets to come see me live. You know what I’m about to do? I’m about to go out here put on the best show possible. You know what I realize when I put on this show? My audience is everybody. I’m a prime example of making people come together—all facets of people. There’s no segregation at a Kevin Hart show or the business of Kevin Hart. Everybody! I don’t care who you are, Black, white, Chinese, gay…I don’t care who you are; my world is about bringing all of these people together and letting go of whatever’s going on in your life to laugh.”
Elsewhere in the Sway In The Morning interview, Hart describes his new film The Upside, and its parallels to his life views as of late.
Kevin Hart is a recent guest on Sway In The Morning. He addresses the recent controversy surrounding his stepping down from hosting this year’s Academy Awards. While there were some suggestions that Kevin might return to the post for next month’s 91st Oscar event, he puts those notions to bed. At the top of the Sway interview, Hart says that more than a month of necessary preparation time was lost from when he initially signed on, and subsequently stepped away after facing pressure from producers and members of the public.
Near the end of the conversation, the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania native says that his 13-year-old daughter recently reminded him why he must remain true to his principles. “My daughter comes up to me and says, ‘Dad, you said what you were gonna do. Why would you ever go back on what you said? You tell us when we make decisions [to] follow through with the decisions. Don’t start nothing unless you finish it…so if you started to go one way, why would you go another way?’ It was a simple kid question, but I was like, ‘F*ck, man. But you’re 100% right.’ This was when I was teetering with the back-and-forth. I did Ellen; Ellen [Degeneres] was riding for me. She’s my friend. For her to go that hard [I thought that] maybe I should [go back]. In the house, my daughter said that and I was like, ‘You’re right, honey.’”
Kevin Hart Explains Why He Stepped Down As Oscar Host & Why He Might Come Back
While at Sway In The Morning, Hart applies the last five weeks of his life and points to a perceived problem in society, especially online. At 6:00, the superstar comedian elaborated on a comment he made at Ellen last week, about an agenda he feels that exists to take him down. “The people that I was referring to are not the LGBTQ community. Those weren’t the people that I was referring to. The people [I was referring to are] Internet trolls, people that thrive off of finding what they can that can act as damaging material to one’s persona.” Hart believes that people who dig up things such as tweets and old footage work together for public enjoyment. “It’s a team of people; it’s a business. It’s a real thing. I think the movie of watching people grow and get to success is a great one, but I think the better movie is watching people fall off. That’s the one that people really tune in to watch. That’s the one that people are in love with; they love [to watch people] fail.” Hart jokes about public reactions to salacious headlines about drug abuse, repossessed homes, tax problems, broken families, and others. “Mothaf*ckas find joy in the unhappiness of others, and it’s a f*cked up thing. It’s a fact! If you look at the state of the world today, the views that you get from [negativity] are so high.”
Hart separates the recent condemnation of R. Kelly or Bill Cosby from his experience, claiming that criminal allegations and charges are something entirely different. “On GMA, there was a moment—if it wasn’t Good Morning America, I was about to say, ‘Y’all are asking me about these f*ckin’ tweets. We ain’t talkin’ about R. Kelly out here f*ckin’ these kids; you want to talk to me about my tweets!’ That’s some sh*t. I don’t even want to put that in the same conversation [as what R. Kelly is accused of].”
Kevin Hart Obliterates Katt Williams In Defense Of Tiffany Haddish (Video)
Hart adds, “On a day-to-day [basis], one person’s struggle becomes another person’s happiness.” He attributes the negative culture to jealousy. “I don’t see the same energy put into positive sh*t. I won’t even say how much positive sh*t I do or have done—there’s millions of dollars that I’ve thrown at so much sh*t. It doesn’t see the light of day!…from college educations to lives to houses bought for people to money donated for causes. It’s so much sh*t! [It doesn’t] see the light of f*ckin’ day! But you throw some negative sh*t in the air, it’s gonna stick like glue. That goes from everything, across the board in entertainment and in life. I would love to just see how much good we can highlight. There’s so many people in communities [with] no fame attached to their names whatsoever that [do] so much [good].” Previously, Hart has been the subject of scandals including DUIs and infidelity. Like December’s Oscar controversy, he has addressed each issue in the public eye.
Hart points to a celebrity peer, Steve Harvey as an example. “He takes these young men that are coming from troubled situations and areas. He has a boot camp that specializes [in] building men! On his f*ckin’ property! He brings a sh*t-load of f*ckin’ young men that could be ex-convicts, whatever—he doesn’t care—takes his money and invests in these men to give them a future. We don’t hear about it. We don’t hear about it because it’s not that f*ckin’ negative. ‘I wanna talk about when Steve opened up that envelope and f*cked up the words,’” Hart jokes about the 2015 Miss Universe Pageant, which Harvey hosted. That event made the headlines that his philanthropy does not. “It’s just what we do. When you realize that and you understand that, then you swerve. I’m in the business of swerving now. You can only step up and show your high level of maturity and apologize so much. At some point, other people have to take accountability and say, ‘do you receive it? Do you accept these things and changes? And if we do, we move on.’ If you don’t accept the changes, then that means you’re stuck in a lane where you’re never gonna move. You’re idle.”
Kevin Hart Feels The Full Sting Of His Infidelity In J. Cole’s Powerful New Video
Asked how Hart moves forward when under the scrutiny from this microscope of negativity, he explains, “The sun gon’ shine in the morning regardless of your life. The sun is gonna come up every God damn morning. I don’t give a sh*t what happens to you, the next morning the sun will shine. That means that life goes on. Everybody else got to keep moving. So if you choose to stay in a position of sorrow and sulk, you’re just affecting you. I have to continue my life. So in the heat of all of this [controversy], I’m going to Australia; I got 140,000 people that have bought tickets to come see me live. You know what I’m about to do? I’m about to go out here put on the best show possible. You know what I realize when I put on this show? My audience is everybody. I’m a prime example of making people come together—all facets of people. There’s no segregation at a Kevin Hart show or the business of Kevin Hart. Everybody! I don’t care who you are, Black, white, Chinese, gay…I don’t care who you are; my world is about bringing all of these people together and letting go of whatever’s going on in your life to laugh.”
Elsewhere in the Sway In The Morning interview, Hart describes his new film The Upside, and its parallels to his life views as of late.
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