It's impossible not to notice that Karrueche Tranis smoking hot. The model posted a photo on Instagram of herself in a bikini Thursday, August 27, that's getting a lot of attention.
One person who took notice is singer Marques Houston, who left a comment on the pic.
"Dizayum look at all that booty, can't even see your face cuz that booty in the way," Houston wrote.
TMZ reports that an associate of Karrueche's ex-boyfriend Chris Brown soon responded with a not so subtle threat.
"Niggas sho no how to disrespect, I don't care if they not still together #MH."
According to TMZ, the person who took offense is a known gang member.
Well damn!
**UPDATE**
Tran reached out to TMZ to give her side of the story. She said that she and Houston are just friends. Read her full response below.
"I'm bored and tired of this situation," said Tran. "I don't get it because I'm single. I thought we have all matured and moved on. Especially since Chris has been seen with multiple women since the breakup. I don't want anything to do with any type of violence or negativity."
Straight Outta Compton has been a huge success. The movie has pulled in over $120 million at the box office in the U.S. since opening on August 14.
The budget for the film was $28 million, so you can imagine that the executives at Universal are very pleased.
Box Office Mojo projects it will finish on top for the third week in a row with an estimated $15 million windfall over the weekend.
Ice Cube, one of the original members ofN.W.A.,is pleasantly surprised by the movie's success, especially the$60 millionopening weekend.
"I'm surprised that it did $60 million," Cube said. "We would be happy with 35-40 [million]. 40 would have been, you know pop some champagne, but 60 is ridiculous."
The Jared Fogle scandal is one very few people saw coming. The former Subway spokesman took a plea deal last week after confessing to having relations with over a dozen young girls. On top of his wife leaving him, Fogle is expected to serve a minimum of five years in prison and pay each of his victims $100,000, convictions many feel don't amount to the crime. If it were up to Lord Jamar, the man he looked at as "just the n*gga on a Subway commercial" would be hung by his own body parts. Though he didn't believe the accusations at first, upon second glance the rapper can understand all too clear how something of this nature could take place.
Lord Jamar also believes Fogle's actions may have resulted from long-standing emotional issues. Listen as he discusses the factors that may have led to Fogle's name being involved in the investigation and explains why he's going to have a hard time in jail.
Justin Bieber releases an official lyric video for his new single titled "What Do You Mean?"
Director: Laban Production Company: Occupy Films Producer/Video Commissioner: Cori Weber Director of Photography: Erik Bragg, Jeff Morris, Marque Cox, Mike Brown
Lyrics: What do you mean? When you nod your head yes But you wanna say no What do you mean? When you don’t want me to move But you tell me to go What do you mean? Said we’re running out of time Trying to catch the beat make up your mind What do you mean? Better make up your mind What do you mean? You’re so indecisive of what I’m saying Don’t want us to end where do I start First you wanna go left and you want to turn right First you up and you’re down and then between
Ohh I really want to know…
When you nod your head yes But you wanna say no What do you mean? What do you mean? But you tell me to go Said we’re running out of time What do you mean? Better make up your mind What do you mean? You’re overprotective when I’m leaving Trying to compromise but I can’t win You wanna make a point but you keep preaching You had me from the start won’t let this end First you wanna go left and you want to turn right Wanna argue all day make love all night First you up and you’re down and then between Ohh I really want to know… What do you mean? When you nod your head yes What do you mean? When you don’t want me to move But you tell me to go What do you mean? Said we’re running out of time What do you mean? Better make up your mind What do you mean?
Tanboys boss Bodega Bamz links up with Snow Tha Product for "2 Lit To Quit" Track produced by JohnBoyBeats. Take a listen up top and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
VIENNA (AP) — Three people believed to be part of a human smuggling operation were arrested overnight in Hungary in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants found in a refrigerated truck abandoned on Austria's main highway, law enforcement officials said Friday.
It was the latest tragedy in a year that has seen tens of thousands of people risking everything to seek a better life or refuge in wealthy European countries.
At least 2,500 have died, mostly at sea, where another tragedy was unfolding Friday as Libyan authorities counted bodies from two ships that capsized off the coast of that country. The U.N. refugee agency said 200 were missing and feared dead.
In Austria, officials said they are still investigating but believe the migrants suffocated in the truck. Investigators found a Syrian travel document, indicating that at least some of the dead were refugees fleeing violence in Syria, though it wasn't clear if some were from elsewhere.
The 71 included eight women and four children, the youngest a girl between 1 and 2 years old, the others boys aged 8 to 10. Authorities initially estimated the death toll at 20 to 50, but raised it after towing the truck to a refrigerated warehouse and counting the partially decomposed bodies.
Migrants fearful of death at sea in overcrowded and flimsy boats have increasingly turned to using a land route to Europe through the Western Balkans. They start in Greece, which they can reach via a short boat trip from Turkey, then move on through Macedonia, Serbia and into Hungary, where thousands have been crossing the border every day, crawling over or under a razor-wire fence meant to keep them out.
Most go from there to other countries in the European Union, sometimes paying smugglers to drive them, but the discovery of the bodies in the truck showed there is no truly safe path.
Police in Hungary said that as of Tuesday, 776 suspected human smugglers had been detained so far this year, compared to 593 all of 2014. In the southern part of the country, police said they had found 18 Syrians near an overturned van on the M5 highway between Szeged and Budapest early Friday. Ten were taken to the hospital for treatment while the driver, a Romanian, was treated for head injuries and then taken into custody on suspicion of human smuggling.
The truck with the 71 migrants inside was found parked in the safety lane of the highway from Budapest, Hungary, to Vienna on Thursday. It was not clear how long the bodies had been in it, but police believed they may already have been dead by the time the truck crossed the border into Austria overnight Wednesday. Autopsies were being conducted, said state prosecutor Johann Fuchs, with results expected in several days.
At least two of those arrested are Bulgarian citizens, while the third has Hungarian identity papers, police said. One is the truck owner, a Bulgarian of Lebanese descent, while two others were apparently taking turns driving, said Hans Peter Doskozil, chief of police in Burgenland province, where the truck was found. He said police believe that the suspects were part of a larger Bulgarian-Hungarian human smuggling ring.
Fuchs said it was unclear when the suspects would be extradited by Hungarian authorities, who were looking to see if they had jurisdiction in the case. Romania's foreign ministry also said that 12 Romanians had been detained in Hungary on suspicion of human trafficking and Hungarian authorities are seeking to arrest them.
Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said the tragedy "should serve as a wake-up call ... for joint European action" in dealing with the torrent of migrants flocking to Europe. Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency in Geneva called the tragedy "absolutely shocking."
"We believe this underscores the ruthlessness of people smugglers who have expanded their business from the Mediterranean Sea to the highways of Europe. It shows they have absolutely no regard for human life, and that they are only after profit," she said. "It also shows the desperation of people seeking protection or a new life in Europe, and their only means is to submit themselves to these criminals."
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Associated Press Writer Alison Mutler in Bucharest, Romania; Pablo Gorondi in Budapest, Hungary; and Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.
French Montana stopped by Hot 97 to chop it up with Ebro Darden, Peter Rosenberg and Laura Stylez about a variety of topics. Check it out below and let us know what you think.
With all the media attention being given to Ronda Rousey and Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s back and forth banter, Elie Seckbach of ESNEWS went to a reliable and hilarious source to find out what the fuss is all about.
Check out what Floyd Mayweather Sr. had to say below.
Original Block Hustlaz (O.B.H.) boss Ar-Ab swept through Thisis50 Radio recently for an interview. While there he dropped some heroin bars over Jay Z's "Dynasty Intro."
Darryl Dawkins, the glass shattering former NBA player has passed away at age 58, according to WFMZ.
Dawkins played 15-years in the league for the Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets, Detroit Pistons and the Utah Jazz.
Dawkins was best known for his tremendous dunks that he gave colorful names, such as "The Chocolate-Thunder-Flying, Robinzine-Crying, Teeth-Shaking, Glass-Breaking, Rump-Roasting, Bun-Toasting, Wham-Bam, Glass-Breaker-I-Am-Jam."
In 1979, Dawkins shattered two glass backboards with powerful dunks.
His nickname, "Chocolate Thunder," was given to him by Stevie Wonder near the end of his career.
Chris Brown has taken his love for tattoos to a whole new level. The singer posted a photo of new ink covering a large portion on the back of his head. Let us know what you think in the comment section below.
**UPDATE** August 27
Chris completed his new tattoo by getting a bull inked on the left side of his head. Check it out.
August Alsina links up with fellow New Orleans native Lil Wayne for his new single titled "Why I Do It." Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think in the comment section below.
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Killa Kyleon bodies another visual off his 30 Days 30 Deaths project, this time drawing inspiration from the infamous Death Row Records Vibe Magazine cover from 1996. Check out the video for "Used To," directed by David Stunts
(AP) Even after gunning down a TV news reporter and cameraman during a live interview, Vester Lee Flanagan II continued to rage. But after a volatile career that had seen him fired at least twice for clashing with co-workers who recall him as an off-kilter loner, this would be the former broadcaster's last, brutal sign-off.
"I've been a human powder keg for a while...just waiting to go BOOM!!!" Flanagan wrote in a rambling 23-page note faxed to ABC News soon after the shooting.
Hours after he shot his former co-workers and then posted video of the attack to his Facebook page, Flanagan crashed a vehicle and shot himself. He died at a hospital later Wednesday, authorities said.
In the note, Flanagan — who had appeared on air using the name Bryce Williams — said he'd been discriminated against both for being black and gay. He listed grievances dating to the 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech and the more recent massacre of worshippers at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
When Flanagan was fired from Roanoke, Virginia, station WDBJ in 2013, he had to be escorted from the building by police "because he was not going to leave willingly or under his own free will," the station's former news director, Dan Dennison, said in an interview with a Hawaii station, Hawaii News Now (KHNL/KGMB).
Flanagan, 41, had "a long series of complaints against co-workers nearly from the beginning of employment at the TV station," said Dennison, now an official with the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources. "All of these allegations were deemed to be unfounded." Though the claims were along racial lines, he said, "we did a thorough investigation and could find no evidence that anyone had racially discriminated against this man."
The victims of Wednesday's shooting — reporter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27 — were white; Flanagan was black.
Alison Parker and Adam Ward
The conflict described by Dennison in many ways echoed another, in 2000, when Flanagan was fired from a Tallahassee, Florida, television station after threatening fellow employees, a former supervisor said.
Flanagan "was a good on-air performer, a pretty good reporter and then things started getting a little strange with him," Don Shafer, the former news director of Florida's WTWC-TV, said Wednesday. He spoke in an interview broadcast by Shafer's current employer, San Diego 6 The CW.
Shafer said managers at the Florida station fired Flanagan because of his "bizarre behavior."
"He threatened to punch people out and he was kind of running fairly roughshod over other people in the newsroom," said Shafer, who did not immediately return a call from The Associated Press for comment.
Kimberly Moore Wilmoth, who worked with Flanagan at the Florida station, recalled him as "off-kilter" and someone who "never really made himself part of the team."
Recalling one of a number of incidents, Wilmoth said co-workers meant to tease Flanagan for a story he did on a spelling bee that made it sound as if the winner would get a case of Girl Scouts, rather than cookies sold by the group.
"The next day, somebody had a Girl Scout emblem on their desk and we made some copies of it and taped them to his computer," she said. "If he had only laughed, we would have all been friends forever. But he didn't laugh ... he got mad. And that was when I realized he wasn't part of the collegiality that exists in a newsroom and he removed himself from it."
In 2000, Flanagan sued the Florida station over allegations of race discrimination, claiming that a producer called him a "monkey" in 1999 and that other black employees had been called the same by other workers. Flanagan also claimed that an unnamed white supervisor at the station said black people were lazy because they did not take advantage of scholarships to attend college. The parties later reached a settlement.
Flanagan grew up in Oakland, California, and graduated from San Francisco State University.
Virgil Barker, who grew up on the same tree-lined street in the Oakland hills, recalled his childhood friend Wednesday with fondness.
"I know you want to hear that he was a monster, but he was the complete opposite," Barker said. "He was very, very loving."
Barker said he had lost touch with Flanagan over the years but remained close to Flanagan's sister, who still lives in the family's home across the street.
No one answered the door Wednesday morning at the white stucco house, with fruit trees in the front yard overlooking San Francisco Bay.
Before and after his work in Florida, Flanagan worked at a series of stations around the country.
They included a stint in 1996 at KPIX, a San Francisco station, where a spokeswoman confirmed he worked as a freelance production assistant. From 1997 to 1999, he worked as a general assignment reporter at WTOC-TV in Savannah, Georgia. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as a reporter and anchor at WNCT-TV in Greenville, North Carolina, general manager and vice president John Lewis said.
A former co-worker at the California station, Barbara Rodgers, recalled him only vaguely as "a young, eager kid out of journalism school," who "just wanted to be on TV and to do a good job."
Working in Georgia years ago, Flanagan was "tall, good looking and seemed to be really nice, personable and funny," said a former fellow reporter, Angela Williams-Gebhardt, who now lives in Ohio. The station's former news director, Michael Sullivan, said Flanagan was relatively inexperienced, but did a decent job, without any apparent problems.
But at Roanoke's WDBJ, Flanagan "got in lots of arguments with people," said LaRell Reynolds, a former production worker at the station. "I don't think anyone liked the guy."
After managers fired Flanagan, he worked as a call center representative for UnitedHealthcare in Roanoke from late 2013 to November 2014, the company said.
But in the days before the shootings, Flanagan assembled photos of himself on Twitter and Facebook, as if preparing to introduce himself to a wider audience. The postings continued after the shooting, when he tweeted that Parker had "made racist comments" and Ward had complained to human resources about him. Then, Flanagan posted video of the shooting online, showing him repeatedly firing at a screaming Parker as she tried to flee.
As word of the killings spread, friends from Oakland who knew Flanagan as a sociable kid who mixed easily in a high school with few racial tensions, struggled to connect those memories with the shooter shown on video.
"I don't remember anything bad about him," said Sasha Dansky, a high school classmate, recalling Flanagan's frequent appearance at parties. "He was just a nice, affable guy."
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Geller wrote from New York. Associated Press writers Gary Fineout in Tallahassee, Florida; Garance Burke in Oakland, California; Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Mississippi; Russ Bynum in Savannah, Georgia; Kristin Bender in San Francisco and John Raby in Roanoke, Virginia, contributed to this story.
Minya Oh—or Miss Info, as she is know professionally—is a legend in the hip-hop journalism game, having famously written Nas' Illmatic 5-Mic review for The Source when she was just an intern before moving on to big-time gigs at MTV and Hot 97 and launching her own must-read music blog, MissInfo.tv. Recently she's added another line to her résumé: mother. In this episode of The FADER and Sonos' At Home With series, Miss Info welcomes viewers into her Brooklyn home and introduces her adorable 2-month old son, Max. "One of the jokes while I was pregnant was, whenever I would see a hip-hop artist they would talk about how I had to make sure the baby would know their entire catalogue," she says. "I'm working through that slowly."
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