Latest news with #TheEmperorsNewClothes
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Raekwon Announces New Album ‘The Emperor's New Clothes' Featuring Ghostface Killah, Nas & More
Raekwon announced that he's dropping off his highly anticipated new album, The Emperor's New Clothes, later this month, and the set is stacked with features. The Wu-Tang Clan member finally revealed the release date for his new project on Tuesday (July 1), and it will feature appearances from Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Inspectah Deck, Nas, Westside Gunn, Benny the Butcher, Conway the Machine, Stacy Barthe and Marsha Ambrosius. Production will also be handled by Swizz Beatz, Nottz, J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League and Frank G and Roadsart. The album is set to drop on July 18 via Mass Appeal, and will be Raekwon's first release since 2017's The Wild. More from Billboard Wu-Tang Clan's Masta Killa Explains Why You Should Go Vegan in PETA Spot: 'There's Really No Excuse' Bob Vylan Axed From Radar, Kave Fest After Glastonbury Backlash Neil Young Plays Rare Full-Band 'Ambulance Blues' With The Chrome Hearts The news comes after Nas and Mass Appeal announced in April that they'd be dropping off seven different albums from seven different legendary artists before the end of 2025. Raekwon was on that list, which also included Nas and DJ Premier, Ghostface Killah, Mobb Deep, Big L, De La Soul and what the brand calls an 'epic return by a surprise guest of honor,' according to a press release. Among those projects will likely be Ghostface Killah's long-rumored Supreme Clientele 2. As for the De La Soul and Mobb Deep records, they'll be the first release since the deaths of Trugoy The Dove and Prodigy. No more details were made available, but the new Nas record will be the rapper's first since his 2023 run, during which he dropped off King's Disease III, Magic 2 and Magic 3. Raekwon is currently on tour as part of the Wu-Tang Clan and Run the Jewels' The Final Chamber tour. The trej will head to Denver's Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre on July 4. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
Yahoo
30-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Same as It Ever Was
In their upside down, Alice-in-Wonderland version of reality, the left has a point when they cast George Orwell as a prophet of our times. Our world increasingly resembles the soul-crushing landscape of manipulation the English writer limned in the pages of "1984" and "Animal Farm." Powerful forces in government, media, academia, and business have transformed much of the news into propaganda. During the Biden years, for example, the left cast their push for censorship as a commitment to truth and the coercive control of everyday life as the flowering of freedom. Talk about Orwellian. Now that Donald Trump is back in office, they are once again insisting the president and his populist supports on the right are an existential threat to liberty. Blessedly, however, we still live in a relatively open society. Many of us can see through and expose their deceit. Thats why Hans Christian Anderson rivals Orwell as our most useful modern prophet. His tale, "The Emperors New Clothes," captures the daily experience of watching very serious people holding very serious conversations about total nonsense. Its why watching the news makes us channel our inner Elvis - give me a gun so I can shoot that TV. The most recent front-page example is the wall-to-wall coverage of Jake Tapper and Alex Thompsons new book, "Original Sin: President Bidens Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again." They report that hundreds of people knew that Biden was not up to running the country, and yet this scheming horde hid this secret from the legacy media. It was only after they lost the election that these conspirators decided to spill the beans. In fact, polls show millions of people knew the score on Biden well before the election. One didnt need special access, just two eyes to see the truth. Yes, it is nice to have the books detail on the consternation about Bidens infirmities, but that just confirms rather than expands our knowledge. Even as it pretends to reveal the truth, "Original Sin" is another exercise in gaslighting, because it tries to make the starting point of the story - the effort to hide Bidens incapacity - its endpoint. The pressing issue, however, is not the cover-up, but the cover-up of the cover-up. Which unelected officials were running the government in Bidens name? How did they do it? How did they justify it? Turning the old Watergate question around: What did the president not know and when did he not know it? And, why did so many of the nations most influential news outlets participate in this charade? How was Bidens health discussed in top newsrooms? Who made the decision to dismiss these consequential concerns? Answering those questions and naming names is the urgent task for media outlets who have already lost the trust of much of the country because of their partisan coverage. Instead of experiencing a come-to-Jesus moment, however, the legacy media is likely to use its coverage of the book to bury the Biden years under the claim that the key questions have now been asked and answered. It will use the "lessons" it learned as a reason to pound Trump even harder, including questioning his mental fitness. If Democrats and their media stenographers have learned anything, it is that they will almost certainly get away with it. The Biden cover-up is part of a decades-long pattern in which they have stridently misled the American people - against all evidence - about the biggest issues of the day. The short list includes advancing the clearly bogus claims that Trump conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election; attacking those who made the obvious connection between the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology; delegitimizing reports about the material on Hunter Bidens laptop detailing the Biden familys influence-peddling schemes; and the truly Orwellian effort to disparage honest challenges of official narratives as "misinformation" and "disinformation." Going back nearly two decades, there was the 2006 Duke lacrosse case, in which local and national media outlets echoed a local Democrat district attorneys assertion that a bunch of rich preppies had raped a poor black stripper. There was never any real evidence for this heinous crime, apart from the troubled womans claims. Yet the young men were convicted in the press simply because of their alleged privilege. A few years after this shameful episode, the media were back it, advancing false narratives about the deaths of Trayvon Martin in 2012 and Michael Brown in 2014 to allege a war on blacks - setting the stage for the racist convulsions of the Black Lives Matters movement and DEI programs. None of these missteps resulted in soul-searching - though a few did result in Pulitzer Prizes. The next few years promise more of the same: the Orwellian twisting of facts that will bombard us with dangerous lies. As the aptly named group "Talking Heads" once sang: Same as it ever was, same as it ever was. Its enough to make you go full Elvis. J. Peder Zane is an editor for RealClearInvestigations and a columnist for RealClearPolitics. Follow him on X @jpederzane.
