Ding Dong is thankful for a major endorsement from Usain Bolt on the global stage.
The fastest man in history, Usain Bolt, was at CES 2018 this week when he did an interview with CNET. Among the many things he spoke about was music where he listed a few of the local dancehall artists that he has been listening to. Bolt, who is a longtime fan of Vybz Kartel, says Ding Dong is one of his current favorite deejays because he likes to dance and have fun.
“For me as a DJ, as a guy who listens to music on the regular, I try to stick to every genre of music, you know what I mean, but am much more into dancehall music, I love to dance so one of my favorite artist is Ding Dong,” Usain Bolt said. The sprint legend also spoke about some recent news about trying out for German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund.
Ding Dong says that the endorsement is a big deal for him because it exposes him to a new audience who never know about his music. “this is a good look’ because me know him deep wid Vybz Kartel music and thing because him always a big up Vybz Kartel,” he said. “For him to acknowledge me like dat and den him say artiste, him never say dancer, dat fi show yuh say him consider me pan da level deh.”
Earlier this week, Usain Bolt posted a video on Instagram of himself and professional footballer Leon Bailey dancehall to one of Ding Dong songs. The Ravers deejay also currently has one of the hottest dance songs out right now “Fling Yuh Shoulda.”
Gully Bop says he has finally found true love and Shauna Chyn is dead to him.
Gully Bop’s viral days as a dancehall artist maybe over but that doesn’t mean he has given up on his career or has any plans to come out of the public eye. The “Wuk Off A Me” deejay spoke with journalists earlier this week in the company of his new girlfriend. He opened up about the current state of his career and some recent comments made by his ex-girlfriend Shauna Chyn about what she has done for his career.
According to Bop, Chyn didn’t do anything for his career and it fact its the other way around, he is the one who elevated her career. “A me see Chyn and say yea a 20 year me no chuck on a woman inna me bed,” Gully Bop said. “A round a Frens For Real studio me know the chiney girl not even ina one good shoes. A come she come a di studio and need a dub and when me dweet she never have no money to pay me. She feel hungry and me buy her lunch and give her a big money cuz … She never carry me go buy no clothes cuz she never have no money; a me send her go shop.”
The dancehall deejay says that he knew that Shauna Chyn was a fake from the get-go but he decided to make good out of a bad situation. In the end, their relationship didn’t last and ended in a very public breakup that saw Cyhn uploading a video of Gully Bop attacking her at their home. There were also some rumors that he was homeless again and living in his car, but he denied those claims.
“I don’t live in my car, I have my house. Grants Pen people use to say I was ungrateful ’cause me no come back round dem. Now me come back round dem and mi hear a whole heap a criticism,” Bop said. He added that the rumors started when someone saw him taking a nap inside his car.
A 23-year-old aspiring rapper’s attempt to get the attention of “The Boss” resulted in him being cuffed and jailed.
Cedric Miller reportedly tried to rob a Memphis, TN area Wingstop reportedly owned by Rick Ross as a way to get the Rather You Than Me rapper’s attention. Instead of getting noticed, he was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery..In a surveillance video of the incident, which occurred Friday Jan. 5, Miller is seen with a gun at the counter, while his accomplice hops over it. According to WREG, they did not leave Wingstop with any money, as they could not open the cash register. Miller was identified by one of the employees in a police lineup, where he was later arrested.
“That’s a ridiculous way to get someone’s attention,” said a customer. “How are you going to get his attention after sitting in jail?
Rick Ross has not responded to the incident.
Cardi B places four songs simultaneously in the top 10 of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart (dated Jan. 13) for the second week in a row.
The Bronx native’s quartet is courtesy of her featured turn on G-Eazy’s “No Limit,” also featuring A$AP Rocky, at No. 2; “Motorsport,” with Migos and Nicki Minaj, at No. 3; her debut hit “Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)” holding at No. 5; and “Bartier Cardi,” featuring 21 Savage, which slides 7-9.
The only other woman to sport four tracks in the chart’s top 10 at the same time is Beyoncé, whose “Formation,” “Sorry,” “Hold Up” and “6 Inch” (featuring The Weeknd) occupied the Nos. 6, 7, 8 and 10 spots, respectively, on May 14, 2016. The tunes debuted the same week that the diva’s Lemonade album entered at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
In addition to Cardi B and Beyoncé, only six other acts have matched the stat of four of the top 10 spots in a single week since the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart began on Oct. 20, 1958. 50 Cent inaugurated the club on March 26, 2005, and Drake, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar each later achieved the feat. Notably, Drake and Lamar are the only artists to boast five entries in the region at once.
In December we got a new single from Dej Loaf titled “Big Ole Boss” and now she is hinting that her long-awaited album, Liberated, is ready.
The last solo body of work we received from Dej Loaf was her 2016 mixtape All Jokes Aside. Last year, she released a joint mixtape with Jacquees, F**k A Friend Zone. Though she has released at least four mixtapes and an EP since 2012, we’ve yet to get her long-awaited debut album. Last year she announced that she is working on a new project called Liberated but so far there have been no further details.
On Monday, Dej Loaf posted a preview of a new song on Instagram where she drops some hints about her upcoming album. “Express yourself it’s been building up gradually who ready for the album?” she wrote. In a recent interview with Paper magazine, she opened up about the pressure she has been feeling to deliver her best work yet.
“I think it’s been a year and a half since people have seen me,” she said. “I took that time off and I was working. You don’t know how they’re going to react. It’s definitely pressure, though. I just want to be who they saw me as, but also have them understand my growth in the music. That’s what I focused on this go-round.”
