Over the past few months, Philly emcees have proven once again that the "City of Brotherly Love" isn't always so loving. Ar-Ab and Dark Lo made a diss track towards Meek Mill after the "R.I.C.O." rapper called out Ar-Ab at a New Jersey show, igniting a beef that could've all been avoided in the first place.
In a separate incident, the two Philly natives recall the time "everybody ran" but them during one of Meek Mill's video shoots. "Every rapper from Philly was down there, so we went out there to hang out with the rappers and whatnot," Ar-Ab tells us regarding the video shoot where a man was pistol-whipped. "Then that little dumb stuff happened and it was like 'woah, what's going on?'...I'm not looking for no trouble, but I'm definitely not running from it," he adds.
Nick Gordon's attempt to get a judge to stay a civil lawsuit against him has hit a major roadblock after Bobbi Kristina Brown's estate filed documents in Fulton County court alleging he injected her with a toxic mixture that led to her death.
The estate filed a $40 million civil lawsuit against Gordon in in June. It was amended in August, just weeks after Bobbi's July 26th death.
WSBTV reports that the motion filed by Brown's estate says Gordon's request should be denied, citing that Gordon "has no problem giving an interview to Dr. Phil but asks this court to relieve him of his legal responsibility."
The suit further alleges that Gordon injected Bobbi followed "a violent altercation with Defendant after which he placed her in the bathtub unconscious, after he injected her with a toxic mixture."
Bobbi, 22, the only child of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, was found by Gordon and a family friend in her Roswell, Georgia home on January 31, 2015. She was face down, unconscious, submerged in water in the bathtub.
After being rushed to the hospital she was placed in a medically induced coma. Her condition never improved and the Brown and Houston families made the decision to take her off of life support and move her to hospice care, where she passed away.
Gordon is a person of interest in a criminal investigation into her death.
The rap game's little buddha serves up some magic in the dreamy new visual for "Generation Now" off of The Art Of Chill album. Directed by: Nitzia Scott. Shot by: Eric De La Cruz (@ThePrimeProdigy).
01 Dj Robby Dee - Intro 02 G.G., Boe Almighty & Sean Deez - Summertime in the I.N.G. (Remix) 03 Boe Almighty - All About (Remix) 04 G.G. - One Way (Remix) 05 Sean Deez - I.N.G Sh_t (Remix) 06 King Ruby - How We Do (Remix) 07 Boe Almighty , Sean Deez & G.G. - Gangsta Sh_t (Remix) 08 G.G. - Spazzmatic (Remix) 09 Boe Almighty - Dollaz & Sense (Remix) 10 G.G.- Money Monster (Remix) 11 Sean Deez - Still I.N.G. (Remix) 12 G.G. - S.O.L. (Remix) 13 G.G. - Woop Thru (Remix) 14 Boe Almighty - D-Boy (Remix) 15 G.G.- Criticism (Remix) 16 King Ruby - No Pressure (Remix) 17 G.G. - To The Side (Remix) 18 Boe Almighty ft Lady Boe & Baby Tako - My Nayba (Remix)
(BadLeftHook) Adrien Broner is almost certainly going to be facing Ashley Theophane in his next fight, a manufactured rivalry that has already been pretty openly rejected by fight fans and media, but the more interesting bit of chatter about Adrien Broner comes from Michael Woods, who says he's been informed of "rumblings" to have a Mayweather-Broner fight next year, if Floyd decides that he wants to fight again, which most expect he will.
Broner (31-2, 23 KO) is coming off of a solid win over Khabib Allakhverdiev last weekend in Cincinnati, and Mayweather met with him there this week to "put the finishing touches" on a fight with Theophane (39-6-1, 11 KO), a 35-year-old journeyman fighter who has been part of untelevised Mayweather Promotions undercards for the last few years. Broner called out Theophane on Showtime after the Allakhverdiev fight, saying that Mayweather believes Theophane can beat Broner. It's all very transparent, but it does set up Broner, 26, with what would seem to be an easy first title defense now that he's WBA junior welterweight titleholder.
All of this could easily be worked into some sort of concocted storyline to put Mayweather and Broner at odds later in 2016, and would even give Mayweather a chance to play the babyface for once, since the easiest way to sell it would be Rocky Balboa-Tommy Gunn style, where the young idiot starts thinking he's better than his mentor.
If this fight does come together, it wouldn't surprise me, at least. I said a couple of years ago that I could see that as a future fight, because Mayweather might eventually tire of Broner sort of riding his coattails. And more than that, when you have two guys with egos as big as those on Floyd and AB, you're going to get some friction if they spend enough time in the spotlight related to one another in any way, even if the comparisons between the two have become more of a running joke than anything serious at this point.
For his part, Broner is much better at talking up a fight than Andre Berto, even if he wouldn't actually be any more qualified as an opponent, and a Mayweather "comeback" likely would be a pretty easy sell, especially with the potential for shenanigans and dramatic nonsense.
Of course, it's all a rumor, but I'm buying it as a legit possibility for next year. It just adds up too easily, at least to me. What do you think? Just talk or something you could see happening for real?
Houston rap legend Scarface was taken into custody Friday. October 9, for back child support shortly after accepting the I Am Hip Hop trophy at the 2015 BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta.
Facemob, 44, real name Brad Jordan, was previously arrested in Houston for the same offence on October 13, 2010. At the time he owed $123,372 for four separate case.
He was released 10 months later.
He's currently being held in Fulton County jail following his latest arrest.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Prosecutors investigating the death of a 12-year-old black boy who was fatally shot by a white Cleveland police officer say they are just trying to be transparent in seeking and sharing outside reviews by experts in use of force. A lawyer for the boy's family, however, says the outside reports finding that the shooting was justified show that prosecutors are avoiding accountability.
The reports were released Saturday night by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office, which asked for the outside reviews as it presents evidence to a grand jury that will ultimately determine whether Timothy Loehmann will be charged in the November death of Tamir Rice, who was holding a pellet gun.
Officer Timothy Loehmann
A retired FBI agent and a Denver prosecutor both found that the rookie patrolman who shot Tamir moments after pulling up beside him exercised a reasonable use of force because he had reason to perceive the boy — described in a 911 call as man waving and pointing a gun — as a serious threat.
"We are not reaching any conclusions from these reports," Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty said in a statement. "The gathering of evidence continues, and the grand jury will evaluate it all."
He said the reports, which included a technical reconstruction by the Ohio State Highway Patrol, were released in the interest of being "as public and transparent as possible."
Subodh Chandra, a lawyer for the Rice family, said the release of the reports shows the prosecutor is avoiding accountability, which is what the family seeks.
"It is now obvious that the prosecutor's office has been on a 12-month quest to avoid providing that accountability," he said. He added that the prosecutor's office didn't provide his office or the Rice family with the details from the reports. He also questioned the timing of the release, at 8 p.m. Saturday on the Columbus Day holiday weekend.
Samaria Rice, center, the mother of Tamir Rice, at a news conference in Cleveland, Ohio, in December.
"To get so-called experts to assist in the whitewash — when the world has the video of what happened — is all the more alarming," Chandra said. "Who will speak for Tamir before the grand jury? Not the prosecutor, apparently."
The killing of Tamir has become part of a national outcry about minorities, especially black boys and men, dying during encounters with police.
Both experts were provided with surveillance video of the shooting that showed Loehmann firing at Tamir within two seconds after the police cruiser driven by his partner pulled up next to the boy. Police say the officers were responding to a call about a man with a gun, but were not told the caller said the gun could be a fake and the man an adolescent.
The report prepared by retired FBI agent Kimberly A. Crawford concluded that Loehmann's use of force did not violate Tamir's constitutional rights, saying the only facts relevant to such a determination are those the patrolman had at the time he fired his weapon.
Loehmann, she wrote, "had no information to suggest the weapon was anything but a real handgun, and the speed with which the confrontation progressed would not give the officer time to focus on the weapon."
"It is my conclusion that Officer Loehmann's use of deadly force falls within the realm of reasonableness under the dictates of the Fourth Amendment," Crawford wrote, though she noted she was not issuing an opinion as to whether Loehmann violated Ohio law or department policy.
Lamar Sims, the chief deputy district attorney in Denver, also concluded that Loehmann's actions were reasonable based on statements from witnesses and the reconstruction.
Sims said the officers had no idea if the pellet gun was a real gun when they arrived, and that Loehmann was in a position of great peril because he was within feet of Tamir as the boy approached the cruiser and reached toward his waistband.
"The officers did not create the violent situation," Sims wrote. "They were responding to a situation fraught with the potential for violence to citizens."
Chandra, the Rice family lawyer, says the experts "dodge the simple fact that the officers rushed Tamir and shot him immediately without assessing the situation in the least. Reasonable jurors could find that conduct unreasonable. But they will never get the chance because the prosecutor is working diligently to ensure that there is no indictment and no accountability."
The pellet gun Tamir was holding shoots non-lethal plastic projectiles but its orange markings had been removed.
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Associated Press writer John Seewer in Toledo contributed to this report.
BET has released the list of emcees for it's cyphers at the 2015 Hip Hop Awards. Notable participants include Keith Murray, Redman, Erick Sermon (Def Squad), Black Thought, Vince Staples, Casey Veggies, Charles Hamilton and Doug E. Fresh.
The event was taped on Friday, October 9th, in Atlanta. It will air on Tuesday, October 13, at 8 p.m. EST.
Snoop Dogg will serve as the host.
Peep the full list below.
Vince Staples Black Thought Casey Veggies Charles Hamilton Albe Back Doug E. Fresh Erick Sermon Renee Elise Goldsberry Daveed Diggs Tripz Joyner Lucas Jackie Spade Lin-Manuel Miranda Keith Murray Muggsy Malone Nicole Paris Rahzel Redman J-Doe King Mez Raury Tink
Keith Murray's longtime Def Squad rhyme partner Redman caught his homie's recent battle against Fredro Starr. Like many others, Funk Doctor Spock, couldn't help chuckling at Keith's performance.
"I hit Keith Murray right after the battle and I said, 'Keith, that battle was hilarious.' I didn't know whether to be embarrassed or laugh the whole time, but that's my brother. I'ma support him forever," Red told Bossip.
Hurricane Chris links up with Boozie Badazz to release an official music video for their "Ratchet" remix. Check it out below and let us know what you think in the comment section.
There's no love lost between Young Chop and Kanye West.
Chop released a couple of videos taking shots at Yeezy for exploiting Chicago artists and taking credit for discovering Chief Keef and Vic Mensa.
"He right along with the shits," Chop said. "Use you, try to soak up everything niggas know. Get you to write songs for him and then don't call you after that. Fuck him. For instance, "Don't Like" and my boy Vic Mensa. They gon' make it seem like he put them on. And he really fucking didn't. Niggas started from the bottom."
When it comes to violence in hip-hop, legendary emcee Scarface told VladTV that "every man fights the war he deserves," and he revealed why he doesn't roll with an entourage. He explained that he believes in settling things squarely, and Scarface added, " If you come for me you gotta come, though, because I come back."
While discussing negative media portryals, Scarface brings up Donald Trump and how he loves him "because he don't know no better." "I love him," Scarface says with a grin. "He's f*cking rich and f*cking lawless...he don't give a f*ck about that sh*t."
During the conversation the Houston emcee also spoke about why he never wanted to reach superstar status, as Scarface says he likes living a life of normalcy. After pointing out that he's friends with Jay Z, Kanye, and other highly watched celebrities, Scarface admits that he never desired that kind of life.
(Savannah Morning News) Mathew Ajibade was placed in a restraining chair at 11:48 p.m. Jan. 1 after a struggle with jailers and then left for extended periods of time without an action by jail staff, a jail video played in court Wednesday revealed.
The video, played for the Chatham County Superior Court jury hearing the case of three jail employees charged in his death, was part of the prosecution’s key evidence in their case of involuntary manslaughter and failing to monitor what they said led to Ajibade’s death while still in a restraint chair.
Judge James F. Bass Jr. recessed court Wednesday, in part because a broken air conditioner made the courtroom uncomfortable for the second day. Jurors were to return today to resume the video presentation with Bass being assured the system will be repaired.
Ajibade, 21, died late Jan. 1 or early Jan. 2 in a restraint chair in the wake of a violent confrontation with jailers.
Mathew Ajibade
Former deputies Jason Kenny, 31, and Maxine Evans, 56, along with Gregory Brown, a 45-year-old Corizon Health licensed practical nurse at the jail, are on trial for involuntary manslaughter for causing Ajibade’s death “without any intention to do so.”
Jason Kenny
Gregory Brown
Maxine Evans
Kenny is charged with using a Taser against a restrained Ajibade. The other two are charged with reckless conduct by failing to monitor Ajibade’s status.
In addition, Kenny and Evans are charged in two separate indictments with committing perjury before the Chatham County grand jury that was hearing the case in what the state contends was part of an attempt to cover up their involvement in the death.
All three defendants have pleaded not guilty to all charges.
On the witness stand Wednesday, former Lt. Debra Johnson, who was watch commander that night, provided narrative to the video.
The evidence showed Ajibade refusing repeated instructions from a deputy to sit in a red chair in the pre-booking area, then battling with as many as five deputies on the floor as they tried to subdue him.
At one point, Sgt. Anza Rowland is knocked to the floor during a scuffle with Ajibade over a Taser, her nose broken and suffering a concussion by Ajibade, and Brown can be seen rushing to her assistance.
Also during the struggle, Deputy Mark Capers strikes Ajibade twice in the face, action Johnson said was justified under jail policies in an effort to control the inmate.
Johnson also testified that Kenny asked for a spit mask for Ajibade after he was in the restraint chair and moved to a cell in the old jail area, then called for a Taser.
Johnson retired after 26 years with the sheriff’s department in the wake of Ajibade’s death.
Dr. Chris Sperry, the state’s chief medical examiner, testified Wednesday that Ajibade “was stressed to death as a consequence of what occurred” by the series of confrontations with law enforcement before his death at the Chatham County jail.
Sperry, who works for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation crime lab, said the beginning was when Savannah-Chatham police arrested Ajibade earlier in the evening in a domestic violence case involving his girlfriend and ended with Ajibade being placed in restraints and left unattended for an hour and a half.
“All of these things added up to cause his death,” Sperry said in response to questions by defense lawyers. “I don’t know exactly when he died. That is impossible to do.”
Sperry’s testimony followed that of Chatham County Coroner Dr. William Wessinger, who listed blunt force trauma as cause of death on Ajibade’s death certificate.
“It was so many items listed I couldn’t put it on the death certificate,” Wessinger testified of the autopsy report. “I put down immediate cause as ‘blunt force trauma.’”
Bass has ruled that “this case rises or falls on the issue of (direct) cause” for Ajibade’s death.
In other testimony Wednesday:
• Two state toxicologists testified that Ajibade was “negative” for alcohol and had some evidence of marijuana in his system but nothing heavier.
• Savannahh-Chatham police Star Cpl. Reginald Owens testified he was called to the El Cheapo gas station at East Duffy and Abercorn Streets about 6:15 p.m. on Jan. 1 after a 911 caller reported a dispute between Ajibade and a woman later identified as his girlfriend.
• Owens testified the woman’s face was covered in blood and that he “took Ajibade off balance” and to the ground to control him to make an arrest.
• Owens also testified that when he got Ajibade to the jail, “Jason Kenny was the first officer I turned Ajibade over to. ... He was in booking.”
For K. Camp's latest he decides to remix Future and Drake's song "Jumpman." Give it a listen below and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
Chicago producer/rapper Young Chop was a performer at the MyMixtapez show that went down in Atlanta on Thursday, October 8, during the A3C Music Festival & Conference.
There was an issue with security that set Chop off.
"But y'all bitch ass security needs to stop it," Chop said into the mic.
One security guard then rushes Chop and starts swinging, sparking a brawl. Check it out below.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An overnight confrontation between two groups of students escalated into gunfire Friday when a freshman at Northern Arizona University killed one person and wounded three others, authorities said.
University police chief Gregory T. Fowler identified the shooter as 18-year-old Steven Jones and said he used a handgun in the shootings at about 1:20 a.m. Friday. Police were still interviewing Jones and he had not been booked into jail Friday morning.
Steven Jones
The university in a statement identified the student who died as Colin Brough. The victims being treated at Flagstaff Medical Center are Nicholas Prato, Kyle Zientek and Nicholas Piring. The hospital said it couldn't release any information on conditions.
"This is not going to be a normal day at NAU," said school President Rita Cheng. "Our hearts are heavy."
She called it an isolated and unprecedented incident and said classes would go on as scheduled Friday.
The parking lot where the shooting happened is just outside Mountain View Hall dormitory on the Flagstaff campus, which provides housing for many of the campus' sororities and fraternities. The gate to the dorm's main entrance was closed Friday, and police had the surrounding area taped off.
Iowa City, Iowa-based Delta Chi Fraternity said Delta Chi members were involved, but offered no other details.
Alex McIntosh, a friend of Zientek, said he worked part time at the High Country Conference Center while attending the school full time.
"He's very calm, very respectful, has a great manner, calm demeanor and you'd never expect him to be caught up in something like this," McIntosh said.
Brough was from Castle Rock, Colorado, about 30 miles south of downtown Denver. Randy Barber, a spokesman for Douglas County Schools, confirmed that Brough graduated from Castle View High School in 2013. He said the school district had activated a crisis team to support students and staff at the high school.
Student Maria Gonzalez told The Associated Press that she at first suspected firecrackers when the shooting happened.
"I was studying for an exam so I looked out the window and see two people running, and that's when I realized they weren't fireworks they were actually gunshots," she said.
Arizona political leaders voiced support for the university and surrounding community, with Gov. Doug Ducey calling the shooting heartbreaking. He said the state stands ready to help in the investigation and response.
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who lives in Flagstaff, expressed confidence that the city "will only grow stronger in difficult moments like these."
The Flagstaff shooting comes on the same day that President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Roseburg, Oregon, where eight students and a teacher were shot and killed last week at Umpqua Community College. The gunman in the Oregon shooting wounded nine others before turning the gun on himself.
NAU is a four-year public university that has more than 25,000 total undergraduate students at the campus in Flagstaff, a city about two hours north of Phoenix that is surrounded by mountains and ponderosa pines.
Freshman Cameron Sands, 18, said he had pledged at a fraternity and was supposed to move into Mountain View Hall on Friday.
"It's crazy. You don't think this stuff happens. When I think of Flagstaff, I think safety," he said.
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AP writers Bob Seavey and Paul Davenport in Phoenix, Jim Anderson in Denver, Bob Lentz in Philadelphia and Matt Small in Washington contributed to this report.
Vin Diesel, Dwayne "The Rock" JohnsonandJason Stathamare confirmed to star in what will be the first of a trilogy that will end the movie franchise.
"Universal has been so good to me and so trusting of the vision ... they have been like family ... I promised the studio I would deliver one last trilogy to end the saga," Diesel wrote on his Facebook page.
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