Kicking off his presidential run Kanye attacked the porn industry and made an emotional appeal against abortion. He said his wife Kim Kardashian stood up against him when he wanted an abortion. He said children are the most important thing in the world and that everybody that has a baby gets a million dollars. He also encouraged people to get off prescription pills.
Kanye has so much FU money that he can say whatever he wants. But Kanye believes he has a moral obligation to speak his mind and engage in discourse whether he thinks it benefits him or not. Kanye doesn’t and never has played by the rules.
Kanye tweeted out a new tracklist for his next album, Donda, and said it will be released Friday, July 24th.

Ok, this is a crazy statement, but not really if you think about it. I knew touring would not resume until next year. But Marc Geiger, the former head at William Morris says it’s going to be 2022.

Geiger’s estimation, “It’s going to take that long before, what I call, the germaphobic economy is slowly killed off and replaced by the claustrophobia economy — that’s when people want to get out and go out to dinner and have their lives, go to festivals and shows.”

“It’s my instinct, that’s going to take a while because super-spreader events — sports, shows, festivals, etc. — aren’t going to do too well when the virus is this present,” Geiger added.
Geiger said there are “probably 20” roadblocks that need to be overcome before live music can return. “The virus and illness being one, spacing and density” being another, he explained. A third, Geiger noted, will be insurance and liability. “With [COVID], there’s infinite liability,” he said, noting the challenge venues and promoters will face in finding an insurer willing to cover their events.
England on the other hand will begin allowing indoor performances next month.
Boris Johnson said “From 1 August, we will restart live indoor performances to a live audience subject to the success of pilots, and we will pilot larger gatherings, with a view to a wider reopening in the autumn… From October, we intend to bring back audiences in stadia and to allow conferences and other business events to recommence. These changes have to be made in a covid-secure way subject to pilots.”

As TikTok dies a slow death, Instagram Reels goes in for the kill. The Chinese owned app TikTok has faced scrutiny in nearly every nation, and with India aka as high tech city banning the app people are fleeing faster than New Yorkers.
Instagram see’s a new fresh opportunity and will introduce a new “Reels” feature. It will arrive to the U.S. in early August
What is Instagram reels? It’s a TikTok-style short-form video feature that allows users to record and edit 15-second video clips with audio and music soundtracks. Facebook is set to roll out Reels in 50 countries “in a matter of weeks.”
When the feature arrives check out the video which shows you how to use Instagram Reels.

Lady A is swallowed up in controversy. Do you remember when Lady A dropped Antebellum because it had ties to the period of history before the Civil War? Well, they took the name from a black blues artist Anita White who goes by Lady A.

Some critics called it a hasty decision. Now the Nashville trio is suing the black female black artist.
Anita White aka Lady A. accuses the trio of taking her name and propagating racism. She told Rolling Stone, “At this point, I’m not surprised by anything they would do,”. “When they talked about how talks broke down, they never talked outside of trying to get me to do what they wanted me to do, which is coexist, and that’s something I never wanted. I stand by that. I’ve said it so many times. And in our conversations, I told them, I didn’t think coexistence would work.”
I’m not sure how long the country band (Lady Antebellum) will continue with the lawsuit considering thousands of people took to social media, voicing their opposition to the lawsuit.
As one commentator said, “I’m changing my name to Dave and then suing you for already being named Dave.”

A word to the wise. Stop looking at TikTok as a platform to grow an audience. As more nations look at the Chinese owned app as a security threat, the future of the app looks bleak. While India has already banned TikTok, the U.S. is in discussions to ban the app. Australia labor party has criticized the app and TikTok just exited the Hong Kong market. Why did China bail from Hong Kong? Because a new law would compel TikTok to share information with its users.

Hence, TikTok is falling like flies.

Now, more and more TikTok influencers are looking at other options. TikTok influencers are planning for a mass exodus or a complete ban. How are they planning? They are actively promoting their other social media channels like Facebook and Instagram. Mind you, if TikTok collapses, Facebook would be the biggest beneficiary as it’s looking to recapture the creative audience that moved over to Instagram.
Video gamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins just deleted his TikTok account over security concerns.
Here is the thing, we looked at social media platform having access to our personal information as a bit of joke. Those days are over. Experts are saying that TikTok gives China the means to pump content directly onto the phones of hundreds of millions of citizens in America and Europe.