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Rapper Eminem released a brand-new track ahead of the final presidential debate titled “Campaign Speech.” The seven-minute freestyle rap covers a wide range of controversial news events that have surfaced during this election season — from the killing of Trayvon Martin, to Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof, to 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his anti-cop demonstrations. Given the rap’s title, it’s no surprise that Donald Trump gets a mention. What is surprising, however, is the fact that Eminem of all people chose to bash Trump and his supporters, considering how much he and the Republican nominee have in common.

My phone is telling me that my GPS signal has been lost, which is not the most comforting thing to hear while driving into a thick and winding nothingness in the woods of Fulton County, Georgia, just southwest of Atlanta. I’m searching for Bouckaert Farm, the site of the first annual Many Rivers to Cross festival. The brainchild of Harry Belafonte and his daughter Gina, the two-day festival exists to, once again, connect all facets of the black oral and performance tradition with the fight for social justice. This isn't a new idea; similar concerts have been held many times...

This election I'm moving like Hillary I'm off the deep end Vacation every weekend I'm lying when I'm speakin My health is concerning Lied about Benghazi Play the woman card/ While I'm shaken my body Changing my position to what everybody wants to hear And everybody who opposes me disappears We're moving like Hillary

Ah, the warm, loving embrace of political Islam has arrived in Malaysia: A Malaysian rapper has been remanded in custody by a court in Penang over a music video entitled Oh My God that allegedly insults Islam because it was partly filmed in a mosque. Namewee, whose real name is Wee Meng Chee, will be held for four days, a district police chief, Mior Faridalathrash Wahid, told Agence France-Presse. He said the rapper was being investigated for defiling a place of worship with the intent of insulting a religion. If convicted, Namewee could be sentenced to two years in prison,...

"After Malia Obama was reportedly caught at a raucous party that was broken up by police, the first daughter went on a long walk with her dad near their vacation home on Martha's Vineyard."

For some reason, playing a song in which 50 percent of the lyrics are the exact phrase “smack my bitch up” for an accused domestic abuser didn’t quite sit right with people, leading the Cubs to issue the following formal apology: "The selection of this track showed a lack of judgment and sensitivity to an important issue. We have terminated our relationship with the employee responsible for making the selection and will be implementing stronger controls to review and approve music before public broadcast during our games."

Rapper Chuck D of the 80s group Public Enemy ranted against the police on CNN's New Day on Tuesday. When Chris Cuomo played up how "you have a lot more diversity in the police force," the guest wildly claimed that "when it comes down to enforcement...people feel like it's still a slave patrol." He also likened the Black Lives Movement to the anti-Vietnam War protests: "People feel is that Black Lives Matter is this violent movement. It's not what it is. It's a movement against the violence....almost like in the '60s, when you had people protesting against Vietnam." [video below]

Seven people were arrested and nearly 100 needed medical attention after country singer Kenny Chesney performed in Pittsburgh last night on his Spread the Love tour. The concert at Heinz Field drew about 40,000 people on Saturday night, 37 of whom were taken to the hospital mostly due to dehydration and intoxication, according to the city's public safety director, the Post Gazette reported. From midnight to 6am on Sunday, the city's sanitation department cleared a shocking 48 tons of garbage left behind from the tailgate party, TribLive reported. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3672409/25-people-taken-hospitals-Kenny-Chesney-concert.html#ixzz4DNedIr3C Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

It’s not everyday you see an artist speaking positively about our Second Amendment rights. That’s what makes Smo’s new song “We the People” so refreshing. Smo, the country rapper famous for “Kickin’ It In Tennessee” and “American Made“, released a fiery new track for the 4th of July. The powerful song “We the People” bemoans the state of our country and the erosion of our rights and liberties. The track is a departure from his previous lighthearted songs that focused more on muddin’ than political revolution. It’s great to see an artist standing behind his beliefs, especially when so many...

GIVE IT UP FOR SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS AND OCCUPY WALLSTREET'S FINEST, OG CRACKPIPE! We gonna drink we gonna buy WE gonna smoke and get high Smoke and get high Smoke and get high Smoke and get high Smoke and get high King foe a week welfare SSI gonna use my EBT Gonna hustle and buy Gonna smoke and get high smoke and get high Smoke and get high Smoke and get high Yeah, I livin in the projects and living of yo back you work two jobs while I get to lay back you workin foe the man and...

“Anytime anyone would walk to my door, they had six officers out here, staring into my room,” she said. “I’m a girl. I’ve never been shot. I’ve never been hospitalized. I’ve never had surgery. “I cooperated with the officers. I don’t know if they wanted me to tell them more, but I don’t know what happened. Shots went off. Lights went off. I just tried to get out the room.”

Two British Muslim women rappers say that they smashing the stereotype that women in Islam are oppressed – one rhyme at a time. In a new ad campaign by a subsidiary of a UK smartphone retailer, hip-hop duo Muneera Rashida and Sukina Abdul Noor - together known as Poetic Pilgrimage - are filmed in a short clip discussing their image as Muslim hip-hop artists. “The typical messages that come out about Muslim women being oppressed, if someone was to look at me, if someone was to hear our music - that would be dispelled” the rappers, say in the video....

<p>In a string of early-morning tweets on Sunday, Rapper Azealia Banks called for Sarah Palin to be brutally gang-raped by a group of black men. Screenshots of the tweets (which Banks later deleted) were captured by the Media Research Center’s Ashley Goldenberg.</p>

Miami's police union voted to boycott Beyonce's April concert in the city on the grounds that Beyonce used used the Super Bowl to spread an "anti-police message" that "shows how she does not support law enforcement", the organization said. The Miami Fraternal Order of Police announced on Wednesday that the organization would be boycotting the singer's April 26 show at Marlin Stadium. In a series of tweets posted this week, Miami FOP President Javier Ortiz posted images shared images supporting the boycott, with one reading "back the blue, boycott Beyonce". ...

Kanye West has launched a furious tirade at Taylor Swift, calling her a liar for denying she knew nothing about lyrics in his new single in which he calls her a 'b*tch' and raps about having sex with her. In an astonishing 15 tweet outburst, Kanye begins by saying he 'did not diss' the 26-year-old singer and he has 'never dissed her'. But he then launches into a rant about how he called her on the phone, had an hour-long conversation with her about the song Famous, she found it 'funny' and she gave him her blessing. Furthermore, he defends...

BERNIE SANDERS and KILLER MIKE Go for the Gold. Killer Mike introduced Sanders at his big rally. Mike favorably compared Sanders to fellow "revolutionary" King, as well as Jesus Christ. Mike also asked the audience to "stay confronting bullsh*t wherever you turn." Sanders said of his friend Killer Mike, "He's trying to talk truth throughout this country and, in fact, throughout the world."

t has now been a little more than a year since Rolling Stone published Sabrina Rubin Erdely`s infamous, false story about a horrific gang rape at the University of Virginia. Rolling Stone is being sued by characters who were misrepresented in the story, Erdely has ceased writing, and the source of all the trouble, UVA student `Jackie,` has joined the ranks of Crystal Mangum and Tawana Brawley as a known fabricator of rape accusations. Jackie`s story is routinely cited as one of the most spectacular failures of journalism in the last decade it`s a veritable what-not-to-do-guide for reporters covering sensitive...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police are investigating the fatal shooting of a young rapper whose group gained some notoriety before one of its three members went to prison earlier this year. James Johnson Jr. of Ferguson was found dead in the yard behind a St. Louis home about 10 a.m. Sunday. He had been shot in the head. Police have no suspects. Johnson was known as Swagg Huncho in the group 3 Problems. The group consisted of three 18-year-old cousins — Johnson, Taylor Merriweather of Jennings (known as Lil Tay) and Terrell Brown Jr. of Florissant (known as...

Former Gov. Martin O’Malley spit fire at the National Rifle Association during a freestyle rap released late Tuesday. “The NRA hates me because I don’t like guns,” he rapped during an interview with “Off The Record.” “Guns, guns, guns, I don’t like them guns,” O’Malley told hosts Xavier Rotnofsky and Rohit Mandalapu. “If you look at the polls you might get the impression, that president of the United States may not be next profession,” the Democratic White House hopeful said. "Just FYI bro, you’re so dang wrong, soon my polls will be higher than Cheech and Chong.”

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s list of friends who are famous rappers is growing: P. Diddy is the latest to count himself among them. “Donald Trump is a friend of mine, and he works very hard,” the “Last Night” rapper and record label founder says in an interview published Friday in The Washington Post.