Toni Braxton On Access Hollywood
Toni Braxton talks about her dating life on Access Hollywood Live, her rule about losing weight before she goes to the gym, and she gives Billy Bush and Kit Hoover an update on her health status.
Drake says he’s tired of being labeled emotional
As an artist who has both rapped and crooned his way through numerous records, Canadian artist Drake has at times garnered a handful of labels due to his more emotionally-charged records. But in a recent interview, the Young Money emcee stated that he wasn’t terribly pleased with the labels he feels aren’t fully accurate.
“’I’m so sick of people saying that I’m lonely and emotional, and associating me with this longing for a woman,” said Drizzy, according to HotNewHipHop.com. “I hate that. It bothers me so much…cause I do make music that makes you feel something but I’m actually not that guy in real life. I’m a happy person.”
“I’m not content by any means, I wanna keep working but I’m a happy person,” said Drake. “I’m very excited, my life is constantly exciting. It’s not some sad, depressing story. As far as the soundscapes go, that’s just the music that I chose to make, I make music strictly for the purpose of driving at nighttime.”
“My right-hand partner in music creation, challenged me on this album to trim that fat,” said Drake. “To make a very concise project and asked me to—actually gave me a song cap. Asked me to keep it at 13 or 14 songs on the original. And so that was an interesting challenge for me. And now that it’s out and the world appreciates it, it’s a great feeling.”
2 Chainz talks about ‘B.O.A.T.S. II: ME TIME’
2 Chainz hasn’t dropped his new album, ‘B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time,’ yet, but the rapper is already bracing for controversy about its lyrics.
In an interview with MTV, the rapper reveals he has a lyric about the Unabomber, which might shock fans. “I said, ‘I blew myself up like a Unabomber,’ ” he explains.
Deuce says the lyric isn’t intended to praise the man responsible for over a dozen public bombings and three deaths, but rather it’s a compliment to the rapper for blowing his career up. “My creative side is saying, ‘I blew myself up,’” he shares.
He also explains his stance on the First Amendment and exercising the right to free speech. “One end, you want to talk about the first amendment, you want to talk about freedom of speech, but on the other end, everything is so delicate, you cannot say anything. What hasn’t happened is that we all haven’t stepped up and taken a stand on, ‘We just gonna have freedom of speech,’” he states.
He continues, “Everything is so delicate, from homosexuality to these diseases that people can’t control, to where, when you’re just trying to be slightly creative and just try to use a metaphor in a different way that people can appreciate, maybe laugh about, it’s taken out of context the wrong way.”
‘B.O.A.T.S. II: Me Time’ arrives Sept. 10.