Saweetie will always be the iciest rapper. In a new interview, she’s opening up about some of the not-so-hot moments of her last few years as she prepares a new era of music.
In a new cover story with Allure Thursday, the “Richtivities” rap star shared details about why she hasn’t dropped her long-teased Pretty Bitch Music album — or any album, for that matter.
“I just feel like nobody was caring about my music,” Saweetie said, referring to the people surrounding her. “To me, music is sacred. It’s coming from your spirit.
In a new cover story with Allure Thursday, the “Richtivities” rap star shared details about why she hasn’t dropped her long-teased Pretty Bitch Music album — or any album, for that matter.
“I just feel like nobody was caring about my music,” Saweetie said, referring to the people surrounding her. “To me, music is sacred. It’s coming from your spirit.
- 3/1/2024
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
On her latest single “Richtivities,” Saweetie flexes the perks of having both a bank card and a face card that never declines.
“Money talk bank account motor mouth/Private jets first class not a flex/Post a pic shut down the entire net/Not impressed what competition I’m the best/I confess pretty bitches run the west,” the rapper spits on the second verse.
“Richtivities” features a sample of Willie Hutch’s 1975 single “Love Me Back,” with production from J White Did It. It marks Saweetie’s first solo single of the year,...
“Money talk bank account motor mouth/Private jets first class not a flex/Post a pic shut down the entire net/Not impressed what competition I’m the best/I confess pretty bitches run the west,” the rapper spits on the second verse.
“Richtivities” features a sample of Willie Hutch’s 1975 single “Love Me Back,” with production from J White Did It. It marks Saweetie’s first solo single of the year,...
- 2/23/2024
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
The writer/director returns to talk about his favorite Blaxploitation movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Trick Baby (1972)
The Exorcist (1973) – Oren Pelli’s trailer commentary
The Untouchables (1987)
Predator (1987)
Purple Rain (1984) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
The Loved One (1965) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Live And Let Die (1973)
Enter The Dragon (1973) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
The Green Hornet (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary
The Last Dragon (1985) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Dead Presidents (1995)
Hell Up In Harlem (1973) – Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary
Black Caesar (1973) – Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary
Shaft (1971) – Bill Duke’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Coffy (1973) – Jack Hill’s trailer commentary
Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Taxi Driver (1976) – Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary
Boxcar Bertha (1972) – Julie Corman...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Man Bites Dog (1992)
Trick Baby (1972)
The Exorcist (1973) – Oren Pelli’s trailer commentary
The Untouchables (1987)
Predator (1987)
Purple Rain (1984) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
The Loved One (1965) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Live And Let Die (1973)
Enter The Dragon (1973) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary, Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary
The Green Hornet (1974)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary
The Last Dragon (1985) – Larry Karaszewski’s trailer commentary
Dead Presidents (1995)
Hell Up In Harlem (1973) – Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary
Black Caesar (1973) – Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary
Shaft (1971) – Bill Duke’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairing
Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)
Coffy (1973) – Jack Hill’s trailer commentary
Midnight Cowboy (1969) – Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review
Taxi Driver (1976) – Rod Lurie’s trailer commentary
Boxcar Bertha (1972) – Julie Corman...
- 8/3/2021
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Thirty six hours or so after he finished his stint as the Academy Awards’ first DJ-as-orchestra, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the show’s musical director, has posted a 144-track playlist including every single song he played during the three-plus-hour-long Oscars ceremony this year. Unfortunately, it does not include the music that he and the Roots recorded paying homage to great Hollywood composers (which he described to Variety in an interview last week), but it’s an amazing 10-hour-plus jam nonetheless. It begins with James Brown’s “The Boss,” concludes with three songs from Prince, and hits everything from Donna Summer to the “Super Mario” theme, from Bohannon to the Human League, from Louis Prima to Toto, from Johnny Cash to Bjork, from the Fatback Band to Ronnie Laws, along the way.
Of course, in his two day jobs, Quest is both the drummer and founder of the Roots and the musical...
Of course, in his two day jobs, Quest is both the drummer and founder of the Roots and the musical...
- 4/27/2021
- by Jem Aswad
- Variety Film + TV
Dwayne Johnson has had a very musical weekend. Saturday he shared his “The Rock's Ultimate Ball-Out Playlist” via Apple Music. The playlist includes Big Pun, Tech N9ne, Outkast, Wiz Khalifa, and the O'Jays, among others. He also says his gym entrance song is “Mack Man” by Willie Hutch. Sadly, there's no Madonna. Playlist foul. Later in the day, after pumping iron in the gym, Johnson had some #PostWorkoutBliss (hashtag his) surging in his extremely buff body, so he put on Trendsetter Sense's “What You Know” (which is not on his Ball-Out Playlist) and broke into dance. We already knew Johnson could dance pretty well: He showed off his moves for Ellen in 2010, then did a pec dance for Ellen a year later, and shook it off on Lip Sync Battle this April. Johnson described himself as “#260lbsOfBrownEyedDancinSoul.” Now if only he can somehow incorporate all of those moves into the...
- 8/23/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Vulture
[Press Release] Los Angeles -- Universal Music Enterprises has announced a rollout of 26 individual soundtrack albums on vinyl – including John Williams’ scores to E.T. and Jaws; Blaxploitation classics like Willie Hutch’s The Mack, J.J. Johnson’s Willie Dynamite, Marvin Gaye’s Trouble Man and the hip-hop-flavored Juice; Oscar® winners such as The Godfather, Silence of the Lambs, Rocky and Good Will Hunting; and cult movies like Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Knights, John Landis’ Animal House, Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice, Amy Heckerling’s Clueless and Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing. The rollout got underway on January 20, with the release of Willie Hutch’s classic, much-sampled soundtrack to the 1973 movie The Mack, starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor, which was originally released on...
- 3/3/2015
- by Pietro Filipponi
- The Daily BLAM!
If this is the first time you’re hearing about Black Movie Trivia, click here to get caught up. Mykwain G. of the Bronx, NY is on a serious roll. He’ll receive $500 for winning this past Friday’s trivia game with a perfect score of 500. He also won the April 25 game and was one of the winners that tied for the highest score in the April 18 game. Overall, he’s won five times this year. A lot of the players were tripped up by this question we posed on Friday: For what blaxploitation film did Willie Hutch write and perform in the soundtrack? If you can answer this question without looking it up online, try your luck and play against Mykwain and...
- 5/6/2014
- by Rodney C. Parnther
- ShadowAndAct
When director Michael Campus’s The Mack was released in 1973, it played in only 22 theaters. Even though it did decent business in its limited run, the drama starring Max Julien, Don Gordon, and Richard Pryor about a man who returns from prison to become the king of the pimps in Oakland seemed destined to remain a cultural blip. It wasn’t even released on video.
But then people got hold of the wonderful soundtrack, Quentin Tarantino started touting it as one of his favorites and wrote it into Tony Scott’s True Romance, prolific rappers like Jay-z and Dr. Dre...
But then people got hold of the wonderful soundtrack, Quentin Tarantino started touting it as one of his favorites and wrote it into Tony Scott’s True Romance, prolific rappers like Jay-z and Dr. Dre...
- 9/27/2013
- by Lindsey Bahr
- EW - Inside Movies
Fabric of Cinema is Clothes on Film editor Chris Laverty’s regular column in design journal Arts Illustrated. Its second issue has recently gone to print covering the subject of activism in art (subtitled ‘Wake up, stand up’). Fitting neatly around this theme from a costume perspective is the movement known as Blaxploitation, the subject of Laverty’s latest column, analysing how young people in America, particularly males, assumed the dress codes of gangsters and outlaws on screen. Was this actually an artistically progressive movement in cinema or ultimately regressive? The following are extracts from the article in question, which can be read in full on pages 94-97 of Arts Illustrated volume 2:
‘Costume was an essential part of blaxploitation. What these characters wore on-screen had to represent and entice. In a sense it was social progression, the essence of the self-made man; readable entirely by what he wears. Narrative...
‘Costume was an essential part of blaxploitation. What these characters wore on-screen had to represent and entice. In a sense it was social progression, the essence of the self-made man; readable entirely by what he wears. Narrative...
- 9/20/2013
- by Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
The Mack
Directed by Michael Campos
Screenplay by Max Julien, Richard Pryor & Robert J. Poole
1973, USA
Set in Oakland, California, The Mack was the highest-grossing blaxploitation film of its time, and the story behind the making of the film is perhaps more interesting than the actual movie itself. Rumour has it that screenwriter Robert J. Poole started developing the treatment and script on toilet paper while he was in prison, and later passed it on to Max Julien and Richard Pryor, who wrote the final draft. The film is notorious for featuring the first ever Players’ Ball, and along with Julien and Pryor, the film also featured real life criminals, including the legendary Ward brothers. The production was plagued with problems: Richard Pryor’s notorious behaviour and drug habit led him to be kicked off set after assaulting the director – Frank Ward was murdered during filming and The Black Panthers...
Directed by Michael Campos
Screenplay by Max Julien, Richard Pryor & Robert J. Poole
1973, USA
Set in Oakland, California, The Mack was the highest-grossing blaxploitation film of its time, and the story behind the making of the film is perhaps more interesting than the actual movie itself. Rumour has it that screenwriter Robert J. Poole started developing the treatment and script on toilet paper while he was in prison, and later passed it on to Max Julien and Richard Pryor, who wrote the final draft. The film is notorious for featuring the first ever Players’ Ball, and along with Julien and Pryor, the film also featured real life criminals, including the legendary Ward brothers. The production was plagued with problems: Richard Pryor’s notorious behaviour and drug habit led him to be kicked off set after assaulting the director – Frank Ward was murdered during filming and The Black Panthers...
- 4/14/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Only two of Michael Jackson's tunes won the Grammy for record of the year ("Beat It," "We Are the World") and he only, technically, received the trophy for one of them ("Beat It – the prize for "We Are the World" went to USA for Africa). Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie shared the Grammy for best song (bestowed to the songwriter; best record goes to the recording artist) for "We Are the World." Those were his only top Grammys for individual tunes. Did the Grammys get it right? Is either "Beat It" or "We Are the World" Jackson's greatest song, or does another one beat them? Not included among choices below are songs Michael Jackson didn't write: "I'll Be There" (Berry Gordy, Bob West, Hal Davis, Willie Hutch), "Man in the Mirror" (Glen Ballard, Siedah Garrett), "Rock With You" (Rod Temperton), "She's Out of My Life" (Tom Bahler), "Thriller" (Rod Temperton...
- 7/8/2009
- by tomoneil
- Gold Derby
Gospel-inflected version of song follows Janet Jackson's tribute to brother Michael.
By Jem Aswad
Ne-Yo performs "I'll Be There" at the Bet Awards Sunday
Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images
With Michael Jackson's death occurring just three days before Sunday's Bet Awards, the show was quickly overhauled to be a tribute to the legendary entertainer. And while most awards shows conclude with a rousing finale, this one concluded quietly, with a touching speech from Michael's sister Janet and a soft, gospel-inflected performance of the Jackson 5's 1970 hit "I'll Be There" by Ne-Yo and show host Jamie Foxx.
While the evening began with New Edition romping through a stirring medley of the Jackson 5's more upbeat hits, the gentle version of "I'll Be There" made for a somber, dignified follow to Janet's brief comments.
"To you, Michael is an icon, to us, Michael is family and he will...
By Jem Aswad
Ne-Yo performs "I'll Be There" at the Bet Awards Sunday
Photo: Kevin Winter/ Getty Images
With Michael Jackson's death occurring just three days before Sunday's Bet Awards, the show was quickly overhauled to be a tribute to the legendary entertainer. And while most awards shows conclude with a rousing finale, this one concluded quietly, with a touching speech from Michael's sister Janet and a soft, gospel-inflected performance of the Jackson 5's 1970 hit "I'll Be There" by Ne-Yo and show host Jamie Foxx.
While the evening began with New Edition romping through a stirring medley of the Jackson 5's more upbeat hits, the gentle version of "I'll Be There" made for a somber, dignified follow to Janet's brief comments.
"To you, Michael is an icon, to us, Michael is family and he will...
- 6/29/2009
- MTV Music News
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