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Lil Wayne is not happy with the fact that Young Thug is dropping Tha Carter VI before he even has the chance to release Tha Carter V. During a recent concert Weezy told the crowd in attendance how he feels about Thugger and his album cover for Tha Carter VI.
"Y'all let him know I said fuck him," Wayne told the crowd. "Before I can go any further I want y'all to do me a favor. Stop listening to songs of niggas that pose naked on their album cover."
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2 Chainz, Nicki Minaj and Chris Brown will be at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas for Jay Z's big Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. after party. If you're interested in attending and want to hang out with the heavy hitters in the V.I.P. section it will cost you $50,000, reports TMZ.
There will be no shortage of of the rich and famous in town for the May 2nd fight that's being held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Expect Jay's bash to be packed from wall to wall.
There are also tickets for the event that won't hurt your bank account. Women can get in for $30, while men will have to pay $100.
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Meek Mill is facing a possible $250,000 lawsuit by a car company who claims the rapper has damaged their reputation by publicly trashing them on Instagram.
According to TMZ, Euro Sports owner Gene Morales says when Meek's manager went to pick up a Rolls Royce Ghost. Because there was $15,000 still owed on it, Morales refused to hand over the keys until the balance was paid in full.
Eventually the two parties settled on an $8,000 payment to squash the problem.
Meek later made an Instagram post calling Euro Sports thieves and advised his followers not to do business with them.
Morales now wants the IG post taken down, an apology and $250K for the damage to his company's reputation. If that doesn't happen he will file a lawsuit against the Philly rapper.
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The Reverend Al Sharpton won't be a fixture in the coverage surrounding Walter Scott's April 4th shooting death by white police officer North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager.
According to The New York Daily News, Sharpton was asked to stay away from Scott's funeral by his family.
“The Reverend Al has called and expressed his support and condolences,” said family attorney Chris Stewart. “The family is very appreciative. The funeral is only going to be close family members."
Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager (left) shot and killed Walter Scott during a traffic stop
“They are in mourning and we would never come unless they asked,” Sharpton told The News. “We're willing to be helpful to the family but only when needed.”
Although the Scott has requested that he stay away, Sharpton said he will be in Charleston on Sunday.
"I have been invited to preach in North Charleston, SC, on Sunday and to help lead a healing prayer vigil that afternoon by local clergy who have worked on this case from the beginning."
Slager has been fired from the Charleston Police Department and charged with murder for shooting Scott in the back while he fled.
Do you think Al Sharpton needs to be involved in this case?
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Associated Press) — Questions persist about the shooting death of a black South Carolina motorist after the release of dashboard video of a traffic stop that led to a white officer being charged with murder.
The dash cam footage released by state police on Thursday showed North Charleston Officer Michael Thomas Slager pulling over motorist Walter Scott for a broken brake light last weekend.
Saturday's traffic stop opens routinely as Scott is stopped in a used Mercedes-Benz he had bought days earlier, footage from the patrol car showed. The white officer is seen walking toward the driver's window, requesting Scott's license and registration. Slager then returns to his cruiser.
The video also shows Scott beginning to get out of the car, his right hand raised above his head. He then quickly gets back into the car and closes the door. After Slager goes back to his patrol car, minutes later, Scott jumps from his car and runs. Slager chases him.
What's missing is what happens from the time the two men run out of the frame of dashboard video to the time picked up in a bystander's cellphone video a few hundred yards away. The cellphone footage starts with Scott getting to his feet and running away, then Slager firing eight shots at the man's back.
The dashboard camera is in stark contrast to the cellphone footage of the later moments of the encounter. On the dash cam video, Slager never touches his gun during the stop. He also makes no unreasonable demands or threats.
"It is possible for something to happen in that gap to significantly raise the officer's perception of risk," Seth Stoughton, a former police officer and criminal law professor at the University of South Carolina.
Police and Slager's first lawyer initially said the officer fired in self-defense during a scuffle over his department-issued Taser. Within days of Saturday's encounter, the eyewitness video surfaced and immediately changed perceptions of what had happened, leading authorities to charge Slager with murder and fire him from the police force he'd worked on for five years.
There is almost nothing in Slager's police personnel file to suggest that his superiors considered him a rogue officer capable of murdering a man during a traffic stop. In the community he served, however, people say this reflects what's wrong with policing today: Officers nearly always get the last word when citizens complain.
"We've had through the years numerous similar complaints, and they all seem to be taken lightly and dismissed without any obvious investigation," the Rev. Joseph Darby, vice president of the Charleston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said Thursday.
The mostly black neighborhood where the shooting took place is far from unique, said Melvin Tucker, a former FBI agent and police chief in four southern cities who often testifies in police misconduct cases.
Nationwide, training that pushes pre-emptive action, military experience that creates a warzone mindset, and legal system favoring police in misconduct cases all lead to scenarios where officers see the people they serve as enemies, he said.
"It's not just training. It's not just unreasonable fear. It's not just the warrior mentality. It's not just court decisions that almost encourage the use of it. It is not just race," Tucker said. "It is all of that."
As a steady crowd left flowers, stuffed animals, notes and protest signs in the empty lot where Scott was shot, many said police in South Carolina's third-largest city routinely dismiss complaints of petty brutality and harassment, even when eyewitnesses can attest to police misbehavior. The result, they say, is that officers are regarded with a mixture of distrust and fear.
Both Slager, 33, and Scott, 55, were U.S. Coast Guard veterans. Slager had one complaint in his personnel file of excessive force that was ultimately dismissed. Scott had been jailed repeatedly for failing to pay child support. But neither man had a record of violence. Slager consistently earned positive reviews in his five years with the North Charleston Police.
Slager's attorney, Andy Savage, said Thursday that he's conducting his own investigation, and that it's "far too early for us to be saying what we think."
The officer is being held without bond pending an Aug. 21 hearing on a charge of murder that could put him in prison for 30 years to life if convicted.
Slager's file includes a single excessive use-of-force complaint, from 2013: A man said Slager used his stun gun against him without reason. But Slager was exonerated and the case closed, even though witnesses told The Associated Press that investigators never followed up with them. Police say they are now looking at that case again amid questions by the man Tased and eyewitnesses who said authorities never questioned them about it.
"It's almost impossible to get an agency to do an impartial internal affairs investigation. First of all the investigators doing it are co-workers of the person being investigated. Number two, there's always the tendency on the part of the departments to believe the officers," Tucker said.
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Biesecker reported from Raleigh, North Carolina. Associated Press writer Mitch Weiss in North Charleston, South Carolina, and Jonathan Drew in Raleigh, contributed to this report.
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You got bars and think you're ready to step into the big league? Here's your chance as Big T and the IGBattleLeague offers you a chance to take on T in Instagram's first 16 Man Battle Rap Tournament.
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Lil Bibby teams up for T.I. to shoot an official music video for "Boy." The P-Lo-produced track is off of Bibby's mixtape entitled Free Crack 2. Grab it now from Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/Lil-Bibby-Free-Crack-2-mixtape.615403.html.
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Lloyd Banks goes in over Raekwon's classic song "Criminology" off of the Wu Tang Clan member's debut album, "Only Built 4 Cuban Linx."
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K. Camp finally releases an official music video for "Lil Bit." The Big Fruit and A.P.-produced track is off of K's mixtape, One Way. Grab it now from Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/K-Camp-One-Way-mixtape.680674.html.
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Check out the new music video for "Welcome to America" off of Lecrae's seventh studio album, Anomaly!
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Hot Boy Turk sat down with The Breakfast Club to address all drama.
He discussed Birdman jerking all of the artists who were with Cash Money in the beginning, going to prison, partnership with J. Prince, linking back up with Lil Wayne after Baby keeping them part, overcoming a cocaine and heroin addiction, $1.3 million lawsuit against Cash Money, his wife battling cancer, Young Thug naming his album The Carter 6 and more.
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Gimme the loot, Gimme the loot!
Troubled but supremely talented rapper DMX might have to deal with the law...again.
NJ.com reports that a man is accusing Dark Man X and members of his entourage of robbing him at gunpoint at a Newark, New Jersey gas station.
X and his crew allegedly pulled up in four black Cadillac Escalades. The rapper reportedly got out of one of the vehicles and was recognized by a fan. The two had a conversation. That's when things took a turn for the worse.
"The two had a brief conversation about rap music and during the conversation a male in DMX's entourage, showed the victim a gun and demanded the victim's money," Sgt. Ronald Glover said in a statement.
The 21-year old victim says he pulled $3200 from his pocket, before DMX allegedly "snatched the money out of his hand" before jumping into one of four black Cadillac Escalades that left the scene, Glover said.
The victim followed X and managed to get a license plate number of one of the vehicles, which he gave to police.
Authorities are currently investigating the incident. No arrests have been made and no criminal charges have been filed.
**UPDATE** April 9
TMZ caught up with DMX and asked him about the alleged robbery. The rapper says false accusations come with the territory. He admits his team did stop at the gas station, but there wasn't an altercation with anyone.
Listen to what he had to say below.
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Nueliphe World emcee C. Black remixes Meek Mill's "Monster" track. Produced by Jahlil Beats. Video directed by Fes Taylor for Black Out City Films.
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50 Cent's SMS Audio business is building a brand with staying power. From it's previously announced deals with LucasFilms, Intel and Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, to just announced partnerships with Marvel and Reebok, the company is swinging for the fences and hitting homers like Willie Mays.
In a new interview with Fortune, the business mogul and SMS Audio President, Brian Nohe, discuss their unique strategy for expansion into areas other companies haven't explored
How does the rapper 50 Cent describe his headphone company SMS Audio?
“It’s cool, because I’m cool, so that makes the whole thing cool.”
That may not sound like the most refined summation of a business. But the artist, whose legal name is Curtis Jackson, has succeeded in other businesses before, from VitaminWater (he made a reported $100 million when the company sold to Coca-Cola) to his G-Unit record label and clothing line (which also had a Reebok shoe deal). While many have jumped into the headphone space—with its storied low costs and high margins—and failed, SMS Audio (it stands for Studio Master Sound) is still here, after four years. How?
Brian Nohe, president of the company (Jackson is founder and CEO), thinks the key is brand partnerships. He uses Beats By Dre—certainly the better-known rapper-founded headphone brand—as a contrasting example. Beats has mainly used television ads, with artists and athletes, as its marketing vehicle. SMS has avoided that so far and focused on corporate partnerships.
“It is a little saturated when they’ve stuck a headphone on every single person in the world,” Nohe said. “You can only plow that ground so much. We’ve taken a different tack, which is association with brands, and co-branding. We believe those relationships, in a corporate sense, are just as good a strategy.”
SMS has existing partnerships with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (it is the only headphone brand available at Disney World and Disneyland) and with Lucasfilm’s Star Wars. It also has a relationship with Intel, which Nohe says “is spending an enormous amount of money globally on our biotech product.” And now, Fortune has learned exclusively, SMS has cut two more partnerships, with Reebok and Marvel.
While the former makes sense, since headphone marketing is so tied to fitness and sports, the latter may be a surprise. But Nohe and Jackson say it’s about brands that have staying power—whether that’s a tech company, shoe maker, or comics giant. “Those brands don’t go anywhere,” said Jackson. “They’re not going away.”
The Marvel-branded SMS headphones will be at a lower price point, around $99. And SMS says it will keep the Marvel branding subtle. “It won’t look toy-like,” said Nohe. “All that stuff we do, it’s classy. Like on The Avengers headphones, it won’t be a picture of Thor running around. It will be a little symbol, and have the same colorways.” The Reebok-branded headphones, meanwhile, will complement that company’s recent pivot toward a “fit-gen” (fitness generation) image, and be sold at some Reebok store locations and online.
Jackson says he has learned a lot about design. He discovered, from Apple as well as from the “FunToyzCollector” YouTube videos where a woman opens up children’s products (to the delight of Jackson’s little boy), that the act of unboxing is as important as the product within. This is why a package of the SMS Audio on-ear sport headphones contains a lot more than just headphones. It also has a zip-up case; two washable covers for each side; detachable cable with a built-on controller; SMS Audio stickers; and a small sport towel. He has also made sure the product is durable. (In a demonstration at the Fortuneoffices, Nohe grabs a pair and twists it violently, showing that it doesn’t break. “This is why we say it’s better quality, better sound, better value,” he said.)
Head over to Fortune to read the full article
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Before his Cherry Bomb album arrives on April 15th, Tyler, The Creator decides to release a new music video for "Fucking Young/Perfect." Pre-order the new album from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/cherry-bomb/id983056044?ign-mpt=uo%3D4.
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Here's the artwork for Tyler, The Creator's forthcoming album entitled Cherry Bomb. It will arrive in stores on April 15. Pre-order it now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/cherry-bomb/id983056044?ign-mpt=uo%3D4.
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22-year old Frances Bean Cobain was just one-years old when her father, Kurt Cobain, took his own life. Tired of being worshiped as the leader of the grunge sound, which originated in his hometown of Seattle, and addicted to heroin, Kurt checked out age 27.
Frances sat down with Rolling Stone for an interview about being an executive producer of a new HBO documentary, Cobain, Montage of Heck. She also offers her opinion on her father's suicide, his band Nirvana
How would you describe Montage of Heck?
It's emotional journalism. It's the closest thing to having Kurt tell his own story in his own words – by his own aesthetic, his own perception of the world. It paints a portrait of a man attempting to cope with being a human. When Brett and I first met, I was very specific about what I wanted to see, how I wanted Kurt to be represented. I told him, "I don't want the mythology of Kurt or the romanticism." Even though Kurt died in the most horrific way possible, there is this mythology and romanticism that surrounds him, because he's 27 forever. The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long. Kurt has gotten to icon status because he will never age. He will always be that relevant in that time and always be beautiful.
There is, with any great artist, a little manic-ness and insanity. Tropic of Cancer is one of my favorite books. And [author] Henry Miller had this work ethic, where he would get out of bed every day and force himself to write five pages. It taught me that if you do the work, you progress. So many people are content to settle. My dad was exceptionally ambitious. But he had a lot thrown on him, exceeding his ambition. He wanted his band to be successful. But he didn't want to be the fucking voice of a generation.
Do you remember the first time you heard a Nirvana record – and knowing that was your father? I've talked to Sean Lennon about this. He had a few more years with his dad that you did. But for him, the records were a road into understanding his father after he was gone.
I don't really like Nirvana that much [grins]. Sorry, promotional people, Universal. I'm more into Mercury Rev, Oasis, Brian Jonestown Massacre [laughs]. The grunge scene is not what I'm interested in. But "Territorial Pissings" [on Nevermind] is a fucking great song. And "Dumb" [on In Utero] – I cry every time I hear that song. It's a stripped-down version of Kurt's perception of himself – of himself on drugs, off drugs, feeling inadequate to be titled the voice of a generation.
The irony is that he wrote it before Nirvana made Nevermind.
I know. It was projection, to something. There's no way anyone can wrap their minds around that.
Did you feel awkward as a teenager, not being that interested in the music Kurt made?
No. I would have felt more awkward if I'd been a fan. I was around 15 when I realized he was inescapable. Even if I was in a car and had the radio on, there's my dad. He's larger than life. and our culture is obsessed with dead musicians. We love to put them on a pedestal. If Kurt had just been another guy who abandoned his family in the most awful way possible . . . But he wasn't. He inspired people to put him on a pedestal, to become St. Kurt. He became even bigger after he died than he was when he was alive. You don't think it could have gotten any bigger. But it did.
After the first screening I attended, there was a guy who saidMontage of Heck was a very interesting film about people he didn't like.
[Laughs] That's a pretty good description.
I found it interesting that the way Morgen told Kurt's story didn't evoke any sympathy for that viewer – that Kurt's art did not resonate with him. All he saw was a personalty he didn't like.
That is an interesting perspective. For me, the film provided a lot more factual information about my father – not just tall tales that were misconstrued, misremembered, rehashed, retold 10 different ways. It was factual evidence of who my father was as a child, as a teenager, as a man, as a husband, as an artist. It explored every single aspect of who he was as a human being.
What was it like hearing his voice?
I've been hearing his voice forever, through his music.
I was thinking more of his speaking voice.
His speaking voice is sort of similar to mine. It's sort of a monotone. The depth to it is similar to the way I speak. I don't know what the fuck that is. I wasn't even talking when he was around.
Don't mistake the power of genes.
It's very weird how genes are. Dave [Grohl], Krist [Novoselic] and Pat [Smear] came over to a house where I was living. It was the first time [the ex-Nirvana members] had been together in a long time. And they had what I call the "K. C. Jeebies," which is when they see me, they see Kurt. They look at me, and you can see they're looking at a ghost. They were all getting the K. C. Jeebies hardcore. Dave said, "She is so much like Kurt." They were all talking amongst themselves, rehashing old stories I'd heard a million times. I was sitting in a chair, chain-smoking, looking down like this [affects total boredom]. And they went, "You are doing exactly what your father would have done."
But I was glad they came over [smiles[. It was a cool experience, like having a Nirvana reunion minus one. Except for his spawn.
What do you want to do next, now that this film is coming out? In being one of the executive producers, you're stepping into the public at almost the same age your father was when he made Nirvana's first album. The timing is . . .I like to think of it as poetic.
Coincidental, yeah. Oddly enough, being 22, it's the first year a fire has been lit under my ass – not because of the documentary, just personally. I have this motivation and ambition that I didn't have before: "I want to go paint this painting." The hardest part of doing anything creatively is just getting up and doing. Once I get out of bed and get into my art room, I start painting. I'm there. And I'm doing it.
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Another cop shooting is grabbing the nation's attention.
25-year old Lavall Hall was fatally shot by Miami Gardens police officer Eddo Trimino on February 15. The dashcam footage was just released on Wednesday, April 9, by Hall's family.
Police were initially called to the scene by Hall's mother, Catherine Daniels, who wanted help getting her son in a mental hospital. Unlike other cases involving white officers killing African Americans, Daniels stressed this shooting had more to to with the police officer's lack of training in dealing with the mentally ill.
Catherine Daniels (center) speaks on her son, Lavall Hall's, shooting by cop in Miami Gardens
When police arrived on the scene Hall was reportedly in his underwear and waving a broomstick. Officer Trimino can be heard commanding Hall, who can't be seen in the video, to "get on the ground or you're dead," before firing his weapon five times, striking Hall in the arm and stomach area, killing him.
“After seeing the video it’s clear to me that the incident was avoidable,” Eric Pettus, an executive board member for the NAACP in Miami-Dade, told the Miami Herald. “This was a call that was a mental health issue.”
Hall’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit last month in federal court in Miami against the city of Miami Gardens.
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