Once again former Roc-a-Fella videographer and director, Arthur ‘Choke No Joke’ Alston is taking shots at Jay Z, and this time it’s over Hov’s bars on Jay Electronica‘s debut album, A Written Testimony (2020). It seems like ever since the fall of Roc-a-Fella Records, Choke No Joke has been using his platform to slander Jay Z at any given moment or time. Throughout Jay Elec’s debut LP, Jay Z chose to address a variety of subjects including his deal with the NFL, ownership, and more. However, on one particular entitled “Ghost of Soulja Slim,” Hov did make a direct reference of Choke No Joke throughout his initial verse. Theo Wargo/Getty Images 

Jay kicks off his verse rapping:

“Next time they bring up the Gods, you gon’ respect us
That lil’ vest ain’t gonna do you, I shoot from neck up
I ain’t even tryna hold ya, Magnolia Slim
I’m a soldier from that mode, I’m the ghost of him
From the era of police stretcher, no cameras catch it
Drop you off in a rival hood, you rather be arrested”

Then proceeds to reference Choke No Joke in the following bar before referencing his twin child Rumi Carter and the destruction of imperialistic ideals by infiltrating corrupt systems from within, stating:

“If you didn’t have no straps, you couldn’t wear your necklace
Niggas hand around your throat, that’s a choker reference
My ancestors took old food, made soul food
Jim Crow’s a troll too, he stole the soul music
That’s the blood that goes through me, so you assumin’
I could never sell my soul, they sold they soul to me
Peaceful teaching of Rumi, but don’t confuse me
You mouth off for the cameras, I make a silent movie
Now here’s some jewelry
No civilization is conquered from the outside until it destroys itself from within
Pen, put a pin in that, will come back when I fin”

Of course, Choke No Joke didn’t take too kindly being referenced in one of Hov’s verses and took to his Instagram account to voice his disdain for Jay’s semi-silent shots. The director went on to post a photo of Jay Electronica’s album cover and “Ghost of Soulja Slim” song captioning it:

“Hey Jay-Z ‘If it’s not directly directed at me then I don’t respect it.!’ Isn’t these your words, fraud! The King of Subliminal’s. Your whole life is a lie.”

Choke then went on to call Jay Z a fake follower of Islam and claimed that his verse was ghostwritten by Sauce Money, writing:

“Now you got a Gat AND YOU BRAZY! N*gga Stop! Who Blooded you in? Now you a Muslim Blood. What you got the bandanna over the Kufi? Hova The Hypercrit(e)! Y’all young niggaz better keep this nigga out the studio with y’all. Y’all got this n*gga talking like he active now. He really thinks he the Big Homey. I know you took over L.A. so what now you Suge? (Shonuff in the Last Dragon voice nigga pleassssee). Hey @darealsaucemoney Sauce are you Pen? A subliminal name for Ghostwriter? Sounds like it to me. On my song ‘They Got To You’ I say Jay-Z sold his soul. This nigga said I didn’t sell my soul them niggaz sold their souls to me. Good for y’all dumb n*ggaz. Basically y’all on his d*ck.”

Choke then closed out his caption claiming Drake took his sauce, writing:

“Anyway if that’s all you had for me you better come better. You losing it HOVY Baby! @champagnepapi must of took ya heart doing that video in Marcy. Where’s the Takeover Jay??? You get 2 mics for that weak subliminal diss.”

While Choke No Joke has found a lane and fellowship as an avid YouTuber, Roc Nation and Jay Z are currently combating the coronavirus, gun violence, and more. Check out Choke No Joke’s full response to Jay Z’s “Ghost of Soulja Slim” verse in the Instagram post provided below. 

Mariah Carey took some time to throw some subtle shade at The Grammys and the Recording Academy in a recent Tweet. Earlier this week, Mariah Carey posted a video of her daughter attempting to jokingly perform the #highnotechallenge which revealed that is none other than the "A No No" singer behind her daughter's impressive performance. With the clip going viral, one Tweeter responded to the video writing, "Mariah Carey is always dressed like she’s accepting a Grammy and I love it,” which prompted Carey to get in Twitter fingers mode and take shots at music industry gatekeepers. 

The Jordan Peele-curated Amazon Prime series, Hunters, is catching some heat from the Auschwitz Memorial for a historically inaccurate depiction of an event that never actually occurred during the Holocaust, according to Variety. The show’s opening credits feature several frames from the premiere episode where Nazi soldiers played a game of chess using Jewish prisoners as chess pieces. As each chess piece is eliminated, the Jewish captives are executed on the spot. 

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The show about a team of American Nazi hunters originally debuted this past Friday (Feb. 21) and was almost instantaneously met with harsh criticism from the Auschwitz Memorial who took to their Twitter account to voice their displeasure with the scene, Tweeting: 

“Auschwitz was full of horrible pain & suffering documented in the accounts of survivors. Inventing a fake game of human chess for @huntersonprime is not only dangerous foolishness & caricature. It also welcomes future deniers. We honor the victims by preserving factual accuracy.”

David Weil, the series’ showrunner and creator released a statement of his own this past Sunday (Feb. 24) saying, “symbolic representations provide individuals access to an emotional and symbolic reality that allows us to better understand the experiences of the Shoah.”

Weil also stated that the show “is not a documentary” and “was never purported to be.” He told Business Insider that Hunters was based on an 80-page “bible,” he created five years ago which details each characters’ backstory. Weil’s grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, was his inspiration for the show’s existence.

Hunters is currently available to watch on the Amazon Prime streaming service. Check out the trailer to the series in the video provided below. 

The explosive Meek Mill vs Nicki Minaj Twitter beef yesterday led to a lot of reactions across social media, especially with all the serious accusations being thrown between the two ex-lover emcees. However, one person who got surprisingly thrown into the mix was Minaj's other ex-boyfriend Safaree Samuels — it was surprising because he actually came out on the winning side.

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We'll keep this one brief, but somehow people saw all the good things going on in Safaree's life, including a highly-publicized marriage to Erica Mena that aired on VH1 and a newborn that arrived earlier this week, as blessings for getting out of his decade-long relationship with the QUEEN emcee back in 2014. In short, people really got jokes out here!

See below to read some of the wildest responses below:

This past holiday season, former-Basketball Wives star, Draya Michele revealed that she broke up with her then-fiance, Orlando Scandrick. Since the announcement of the couple's separation, the Pennslyvania-bred socialite has been lighting the timeline up with sub-Tweets and shade for her former significant other. 

At the beginning of the week, Draya Michele took to her Twitter account to send a couple of shots at free agent corner, Orlando Scandrick in a scathing Tweet that read, Don’t hug a clown. Don’t kiss a clown. You’ll get their makeup on your face and everyone will know," ending her post with the notorious 'clown' emoji.