Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 24, 2016 at 7:28am
Lloyd Bankshas locked down vocal assists fromTony Yayo, Vado, Joe Budden, ProdigyandStyles Pfor hisDJ Drama-hosted "All or Nothing: Live It Up" mixtape, which drops Sunday, September 25.
Production credits on the 15-track project go to Doe Pesci, Tha Jerm, Ty James, Mr. Authentic, Sean Anderson, Ty Nitty, Prospect Beatz, Quis Star and Phil Jackson.
Hailing from the south side of Chicago, FO aka FoFilla is a lyricist, producer & CEO of Zero Sound Empire and and makes you feel like you’re back in school studying the Anthology of hip hop mixed with old school and today's flavor. His love for rap and the hip hop culture is more than evident as he
paints both vivid imagery and captures precise emotions through his lyrics.
Today, Friday the 23rd of September FO releases his brand new single "Freaky Girl" which has been tearing up the strip clubs and mix shows heavy in the market. Stream below and be on the look out from more new music from FO & the Zero Sound Empire!
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2016 at 8:00pm
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Cyssero was once referred to as the “Protégé of the Game” when he was with Black Wall Street Street, but the Philadelphia rapper decided to get a few things off of his chest in a new diss track titled "The Ghost Behind the Pen."
Cy says the business end of things weren't right with Game and claims to have ghostwritten 30 bars for the Compton rapper's "92 Bars" diss track aimed at Meek Mill.
"I heard Game dissed Meek with 92 Bars /Yeah, I know, 30 was mine / We was supposed to be Meek and Ross way before Ross and Meek / Instead control, alt, delete got me in an awkward beef / with my own city, sent me right back to them heartless streets /Set back for a small defeat, had me nauseous weak / Success is hard to keep, you did me dirty you slime / You got me confused with a lame one / It's more where that story came from," he raps.
Meek Mill, QuillyandReed Dollazwere also in Cyssero's line of fire. Peep game below.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2016 at 3:00pm
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Video of a deadly encounter between Charlotte police and a black man shows his wife repeatedly telling officers he is not armed and pleading with them not to shoot her husband as they shout at him to drop a gun.
The video, recorded by Keith Lamont Scott's wife and posted Friday by The New York Times, does not show clearly whether Scott had a gun. Police have said he was armed, but witnesses say he held only a book. The 2 ½-minute video does not show the shooting, though gunshots can be heard.
Scott's wife tells officers that he has a traumatic brain injury. At one point, she tells her husband to get out of the car so police don't break the windows. She further tells him, "don't do it," but it's not clear exactly what she means.
As the encounter escalates, she repeatedly tells police, "You better not shoot him."
After the gunshots, Scott can be seen lying face-down on the ground while his wife says "he better live." She continues recording and asks if an ambulance has been called. The officers stand over Scott. It is not clear if they are checking him for weapons or attempting to give first aid.
In the footage, Scott's wife states the address and says, "These are the police officers that shot my husband."
Here is video of Keith Scott being executed in Charlotte. This was filmed by his wife. He clearly DID NOT HAVE A GUN. No gun on the ground pic.twitter.com/f94ZXMvq5J
Representatives for the police department and the mayor's office did not immediately return emails from The Associated Press seeking comment.
The video emerged after a third night of protests over the shooting gave way to quiet streets as a curfew enacted by the city's mayor ended early Friday.
The largely peaceful Thursday night demonstrations in the city's business district were watched over by rifle-toting members of the National Guard.
Protesters called on police to release video that could resolve wildly different accounts of the shooting earlier this week. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said Friday that there is footage from at least one police body camera and one dashboard camera.
The family of Scott, 43, was shown the footage Thursday and demanded that police release it to the public. The video recorded by Scott's wife had not been previously released.
Demonstrators chanted "release the tape" and "we want the tape" Thursday while briefly blocking an intersection near Bank of America headquarters and later climbing the steps to the door of the city government center. Later, several dozen demonstrators walked onto an interstate highway through the city, but they were pushed back by police in riot gear.
Charlotte is the latest U.S. city to be shaken by protests and recriminations over the death of a black man at the hands of police, a list that includes Baltimore, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York and Ferguson, Missouri. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Thursday, prosecutors charged a white officer with manslaughter for killing an unarmed black man on a city street last week.
Thursday's protests in Charlotte lacked the violence and property damage of previous nights, and the curfew encouraged a stopping point. Local officers' ranks were augmented by Guard members carrying rifles and guarding office buildings against the threat of property damage.
Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts signed documents Thursday night to be in effect from midnight until 6 a.m. each day that the state of emergency declared by the governor continues.
After the curfew took effect, police allowed the crowd of demonstrators to thin without forcing them off the street. Police Capt. Mike Campagna told reporters that officers would not seek to arrest curfew violators as long as they were peaceful.
So far, police have resisted releasing the footage of Scott's death. Putney said Friday that releasing it could inflame the situation. He has said previously that the video will be made public when he believes there is a "compelling reason" to do so.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney
"It's a personal struggle, but I have to do what I think is best for my community," Putney said.
During the same news conference, Roberts said she believes the video should be released, but "the question is on the timing."
Earlier in the week, the Charlotte protests turned violent, with demonstrators attacking reporters and others, setting fires and smashing windows of hotels, office buildings and restaurants.
Forty-four people were arrested after Wednesday's protests, and one protester who was shot died at the hospital Thursday. City officials said police did not shoot 26-year-old Justin Carr. A suspect was arrested, but police provided few details.
Police have said Scott was shot to death Tuesday by a black officer after he disregarded repeated warnings to drop his gun. Neighbors have said he was holding only a book. The police chief said a gun was found next to the dead man, and there was no book.
Officer Brentley Vinson (pictured) fatally shot Keith Scott
Putney said he has seen the video and it does not contain "absolute, definitive evidence that would confirm that a person was pointing a gun." But he added: "When taken in the totality of all the other evidence, it supports what we said."
Justin Bamberg, an attorney for Scott's family, watched the video with the slain man's relatives. He said that in the video, Scott gets out of his vehicle calmly.
"While police did give him several commands, he did not aggressively approach them or raise his hands at members of law enforcement at any time. It is impossible to discern from the videos what, if anything, Mr. Scott is holding in his hands," Bamberg said in a statement.
Scott was shot as he walked slowly backward with his hands by his side, Bamberg said.
Keith Scott, right, with his wife and son
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Associated Press writers Mitch Weiss, Seanna Adcox and Jeffrey Collins in Charlotte, North Carolina; Gary Robertson in Raleigh, North Carolina; and Meg Kinnard and Jack Jones in Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2016 at 12:00pm
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World renowned battle rapper and Dot Mob member, Murder Mook, spit an insane 8-minute freestyle when he recently visited Funkmaster Flex at Hot 97. Check it below.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2016 at 11:26am
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The Game stopped by Power 105.1 to visit The Breakfast Club crew of Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy.
He talked about his forthcoming "1992" album, Meek Mill implicating him in Sean Kingston's robbery in L.A., wanting to smash Nicki Minaj, Black Lives Matter, being a fan of Beanie Sigel but having to take a shot at him because he jumped in the Meek beef, Sigel apologizing, squashing Lil Durk and Young Thug beefs, Sitches getting knocked out by his manager Wack 100, shooting in Miami, respecting Nipsey Hussle for trying to squash the Meek beef, sleeping with three Kardashians, Chris Brown, Karrueche Tran shouts out 50 Cent and talks about them settling their differences and more.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2016 at 10:00am
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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Less than a week after an unarmed black man was shot dead by a white police officer on a Tulsa street, prosecutors charged the officer with first-degree manslaughter, a decision that may prevent unrest in a city with a long history of tense race relations.
Tulsa officer Betty Shelby "reacted unreasonably" when she fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16, prosecutors wrote in an affidavit filed with the charge on Thursday. Police also acted quickly to provide videos of the shooting to black community leaders and members of Crutcher's family and then released them to the public.
Shelby was booked in the Tulsa County jail at 1:11 a.m. Friday and released 20 minutes later after posting $50,000 bond, according to jail records.
Crutcher died from a "penetrating gunshot wound of chest," the Oklahoma state medical examiner's office said Friday, classifying the death as a homicide. Spokeswoman Amy Elliott said a full autopsy report and toxicology results are not yet complete.
Terence Crutcher, left, with his father, Joey Crutcher. Crutcher, an unarmed black man was killed by a white Oklahoma officer Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, who was responding to a stalled vehicle.
The swift action in Tulsa stood in contrast to Charlotte, North Carolina, where police refused under mounting pressure Thursday to publicly release video of the shooting of another black man this week and the National Guard was called in after two nights of violent protests. Demonstrations in Tulsa since Crutcher's death have been consistently peaceful.
Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett praised the police department for quickly providing evidence to District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler's office.
Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett
"These are important steps to ensure that justice and accountability prevails," Bartlett said in a statement. "We will continue to be transparent to ensure that justice and accountability prevails."
Phil Turner, a Chicago-based defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, said the motivation of prosecutors in Tulsa may have been partly to allay outrage and avoid the kind of violence Charlotte has seen.
"But I don't think the charge was only to give the crowd some blood. ... No. I think (prosecutors) must have thought charges were warranted," he said.
If convicted, Shelby faces between four years and life in prison.
Crutcher's twin sister, Tiffany Crutcher, said her family is pleased with the charge, but she and her attorneys want to ensure a vigorous prosecution that leads to a conviction.
Attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons said: "We are happy that charges were brought, but let me clear — the family wants and deserves full justice.
"Not only for this family, not only for Terence but to be a deterrent for law officers all around this nation to know that you cannot kill unarmed citizens."
Shelby's attorney, Scott Wood, did not immediately respond to telephone messages seeking comment on the charges.
Dashcam and aerial footage of the shooting and its aftermath showed Crutcher walking away from Shelby with his arms in the air. The footage does not offer a clear view of when Shelby fired the single shot that killed Crutcher. Her attorney has said Crutcher was not following police commands and that Shelby opened fire when the man began to reach into his SUV window.
But Crutcher's family immediately discounted that claim, saying the father of four posed no threat to the officers. And police said Crutcher did not have a gun on him or in his vehicle.
The affidavit filed Thursday indicates that Shelby "cleared the driver's side front" of Crutcher's vehicle before she began interacting with Crutcher, suggesting she may have known there was no gun on the driver's side of the vehicle.
The affidavit says Shelby told police homicide investigators that "she was in fear for her life and thought Mr. Crutcher was going to kill her. When she began following Mr. Crutcher to the vehicle with her duty weapon drawn, she was yelling for him to stop and get on his knees repeatedly."
Prosecutors offer two possible theories in charging documents: That Shelby killed Crutcher impulsively in a fit of anger or that she wrongly killed him as she sought to detain him. Lee F. Berlin, a Tulsa-based defense lawyer and a former assistant district attorney in Oklahoma, said prosecutors could present both theories or may decide to move forward with only one and let jurors decide.
Berlin also said he thought ongoing tests by the state medical examiner's office would be enough to delay the filing of criminal charges.
"So, yes, I was surprised it came back quickly," he said, adding that he and other Tulsa attorneys he spoke with thought any charges against Shelby were unlikely.
Shelby, who joined the Tulsa Police Department in December 2011, was en route to a domestic violence call when she encountered Crutcher's vehicle abandoned on a city street, straddling the center line. Shelby did not activate her patrol car's dashboard camera, so no footage exists of what first happened between the two before other officers arrived.
The police footage shows Crutcher approaching the driver's side of the SUV, then more officers walk up and Crutcher appears to lower his hands and place them on the vehicle. A man inside a police helicopter overhead says: "That looks like a bad dude, too. Probably on something."
Police Sgt. Dave Walker has said investigators found a vial of the drug PCP in Crutcher's vehicle. Shelby's attorney, Wood, has said that Shelby completed drug-recognition expert training and thought Crutcher was acting like he might be under the influence of PCP.
Attorneys for Crutcher's family said the family didn't know whether drugs were found in the SUV, but that even if they were, it wouldn't justify the shooting.
In the videos, the officers surround Crutcher and he suddenly drops to the ground. A voice heard on the police radio says: "Shots fired!" The officers back away and Crutcher is left unattended on the street for about two minutes before an officer puts on medical gloves and begins to attend to him.
Crutcher's shooting followed a long history of troubled race relations in Tulsa, dating to the city's 1921 race riot that left about 300 black residents dead. As recently as 2013, a City Council vote to rename the city's glitzy arts district, which had been named after the son of a Confederate veteran and Ku Klux Klan member, drew vehement opposition.
Earlier this year, a white former volunteer deputy with the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office was sentenced to four years in prison after he was convicted of second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Eric Harris, who was also black and unarmed.
But Kunzweiler, the Tulsa prosecutor, emphasized the city's peaceful reaction in the aftermath of Crutcher's shooting.
"It's important to note that despite the heightened tensions felt by all, which seemingly beg for an emotional response and reaction, our community has consistently demonstrated the willingness to respect the judicial process," he said.
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Associated Press reporters Michael Tarm in Chicago, Jill Bleed in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Ken Miller in Oklahoma City contributed to this report. Murphy reported from Oklahoma City.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2016 at 9:30am
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Rochester, New York rap collective Da Cloth are ski masked up and rummaging through your favorite rapper's hard drives snatching beats, as part of their "Broad Day Kidnaps" mixtape campaign.
The latest beat to get savaged is Kodak Black's "Skrilla." Watch and listen as Times Change and Rigz spit heroin bars.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2016 at 9:00am
As promised singer Skylar Grey delivers her new album "Natural Causes" right on time. The project has stellar production from Eminem, Symbolic One (S1), Alex Da Kid, Mark Batson and Mike Elizondo.
1. Intro - Wilderness 2. Jump 3. Straight Shooter 4. Kill For You Ft. Eminem 5. Come Up For Air 6. Off Road 7. In My Garden 8. Real World 9. Lemonade 10. Moving Mountains 11. Picture Perfect 12. We Used to Be Bad 13. Closer
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 22, 2016 at 7:02pm
Here's a new music video from Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo, who unfortunately lost his life yesterday in a car crash. The name of this joint is "Put Some Respek On It."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 22, 2016 at 2:30pm
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Gucci Mane was in New York this week and stopped by Hot 97 for a conversation with Funkmaster Flex.
The Atlanta rapper talked about how he lost 80 pounds while in prison, being determined not to go back in, quitting alcohol and drugs, relationship with Young Thug, not speaking to Waka Flocka in three years, collaborative project with Drake, his upcoming album "Woptober," wanting to work with 21 Savage, Young M.A., Lil Uzi Vert, clone rumors, upcoming autobiography, explains how he released so much music while he was locked up.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 22, 2016 at 1:38pm
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New Jersey representative and Slaughterhouse group member, Joe Budden, will release his collaborative album with araabMUZIK titled "Rage & the Machine" on October 21.
Today, he drops off an official music for his Jazzy-assisted single off of the project, "By Law."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 22, 2016 at 12:30pm
Wack 100 (front) Says the beef between The Game and Meek Mill isn't over
Russell Simmons wanted to intervene and put an end to the beef between The Game and Meek Mill, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.
Simmons posted an Instagram video Thursday morning, September 22, promoting his upcoming interview with Hot 97.
In the caption he said he was going to mediate the conflict.
"Happy to announce Game & Meek Mill have stopped posting and escalating their beef. Both are heroes to me and A list rappers," Simmons wrote. "Scheduling a meeting w these 2 industry giants. Game and I recently attended rally's and meetings regarding police and community and I got to know Meek better on phone last night and he is now a real A list inspiration to me."
It didn't take long for The Game's manager, Wack 100, to respond.
"Hey Russel stay in your muthafucking Lane you don't dictate or have a voice in Wtf we doing over here," Wack captioned a photo of Simmons. "When's the last time you reached down to sign a urban artist ? Whatever you and @meekmill is talking about during your Yoga sessions is y'all business !! We keeping it #West over here my nigga .... #WeAintSquashingShitRu @uncleRush."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 22, 2016 at 11:30am
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Brad Pitt is being investigated for allegedly getting physically and verbally abusive with one his and Angelina Jolie's children during a flight last Wednesday, September 14.
The accusation led to Jolie filing for divorce Monday, September 19, from her husband of two years.
PEOPLE reports that the incident in question happened on the couple's private jet. Pitt is said to have been intoxicated at the time.
Someone anonymously reported what happened, sparking an investigation by the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services.
"The DCFS investigation is absolutely ongoing," a source told PEOPLE. "Brad has been interviewed and is cooperating fully. The case remains open."
A source close to Pitt told TMZ, "He takes the matter very seriously and says he did not commit any abuse of his children," adding, "It's unfortunate that people involved are continuing to present him in the worst possible light."
Jolie and Pitt were married in 2014, but have been together for 12 years. They have six children - Maddox, 15, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 8.
Jolie cited irreconcilable differences in her divorce documents. She is seeking sole physical custody of the children.
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