XXXTentacion signed $10 mn deal before his death
Los Angeles, July 9: Rapper XXXTentacion had signed a deal worth $10 million with music distributor Empire to release his next album before he was shot dead in Florida.
XXXTentacion, whose given name is Jahseh Onfroy, had released two full-length albums during a short but fruitful career - "17" in 2017 and "?" in 2018, as well as a number of mixtapes and one-off tracks.
Ghazi Shami, the founder of Empire, said that XXXTentacion had finished "a significant amount of material" for the new record, but there were no firm plans for its release, reports nytimes.com.
Because of a clause in XXXTentacion's last record contract, the forthcoming posthumous release won't drop before October.
The late rapper's following has grown in size since his death, and even before his murder, in spite a short ban from Spotify playlists under the streamer's former "hateful conduct" policy.
"Sad" returned to the top of consumption charts, as did both of his albums to the Billboard 200, and currently boasts more than 380 million streams on Spotify.
XXX died on June 18 at the age of 20 after he was wounded in a South Florida shooting. According to police, two armed suspects pursued XXX as he was leaving RIVA Motorsports in Deerfield Beach. At least one of the two suspects shot at XXX, fatally wounding him before fleeing the scene in an SUV in what investigators have called a possible robbery.
An open-casket viewing and memorial took place on June 27 which drew thousands of mourners to the 20,000-capacity BB&T Center in Sunrise Florida.
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Cong’s disinformation campaign failed, public aware of truth: Union minister Rijiju
Mumbai (PTI): Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday said that the Congress’ “disinformation campaign” has failed, referring to the opposition party’s claim during the Lok Sabha polls that the BJP would change the Constitution if it won the 2024 general elections.
People are now aware of the truth, said the BJP leader in a press conference here ahead of the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections.
He targeted Rahul Gandhi over the latter’s visit to Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur, where Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar had embraced Buddhism 68 years ago, on Wednesday and attacked the Congress over historical political events and for “treating” Muslims as a vote bank.
Questioning Rahul Gandhi’s respect for the Constitution, he said, “The Congress should first answer why it insulted the Constitution and late Dr Ambedkar. The Congress had even ensured Dr Ambedkar’s defeat.”
He said the country’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru initially did not want Ambedkar, the principal architect of the Constitution, in his cabinet, although the Dalit icon was eventually inducted and made the law minister.
Rijiju also mentioned Ambedkar’s resignation, describing it as an insult to him. This marked the beginning of significant changes in the constitutional framework, said the former law minister, citing the 42nd Amendment, passed during Emergency (1975-77).
“The spirit of the Constitution was attacked in 1975, and democracy was murdered,” Rijiju said, referring to the Emergency imposed by then PM Indira Gandhi.
Rijiju also described Congress leaders holding copies of the Constitution as a “fake drama”, claiming the book had blank pages. “Some people told me that the books Congress party distributed to people (as copies of Constitution) had a red cover but with blank pages,” he said.
The BJP leader praised the pace of infrastructure development under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, highlighting the construction of highways and expressways.
The Maharashtra government, when Devendra Fadnavis was the CM, built the Nagpur-Mumbai Samruddhi Expressway. He contrasted this with what he described as the failure of Congress-led governments in delivering on their promises in Telangana, Karnataka, and Himachal Pradesh.
“Within one month, people were dissatisfied with the guarantees made in these states,” he claimed.
Rijiju also accused the Congress of exploiting Muslims as a vote bank.
“Congress fooled Muslims. They are still poor, and no major work was done for them. This affected both the Muslim community and the country as a whole,” Rijiju claimed.
