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Webbie is an interesting guy. Some may dislike some of the things he says, but he's a straight shooter. He recently sat down with Vlad TV and compared the cases of his incarcerated friend Lil Boosie to the George Zimmerman case. Check out what he had to say below.
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STAR talks Marc Anthony being hated on by Major League baseball fans, Rolling Stone magazine trying to create a rock star image for the Boston bomber and more promotion being needed for black suffering (slavery) in America.
Radio legend Troi Torain (STAR) always delivers hard-hitting objective truth. As a culture critic he is vicious, as a businessman he is relentless, as a luminary he is un-matched.
Considered radio pioneers by many, the Star & Buc Wild show has set precedents on the urban landscape and was recently inducted into News One's "Top 20 Black Radio Jockeys Of All Time."
Star & Buc Wild made the national stage on MTV (1999) but it was their radio show on New York's Hot 97 (2000 - 2003) that secured their place in Hip-Hop history.
Star & Buc Wild's resume includes The Source magazine, MTV Networks, Hot 97, Power 104.1, Power 105.1, Pulse 87, Hip-Hop Weekly magazine, Vladtv, Thisis50, 100.3 The Beat and shot97.com and VH1 (Reality Television).
This clip is from STAR's LIVE show (12noon -- 2pm) on http://shot97.com.
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AR-AB has a lethal hit list of emcees on deck in Philadelphia. One of them is Goonie Gang member Kylledge. Peep his official music video for "Spaz" off of his project, Notamixtape. Be on the lookout for his forthcoming mixtape, Drugs, Women & Music."
Directed by @ggridah18. Follow Kylledge on Twitter @KYLLEDGE.
Multiple Grammy Award winning singer/rapper Lauryn Hill is currently serving out a three-month prison sentence in Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Connecticut for tax evasion. Despite her unfortunate situation the former Fugees members spirits seem high in a letter that was posted on her Tumblr page.
She lets her fans and supporters know how much she appreciates them and talks about her interaction with other female prisoners.
Read the letter below.
"I have known since very young to look for the purpose and lesson in everything, including the trials. Although it has taken some adjustment, I cannot deny the favor I have encountered while in here, and general warm reception from a community of people who despite their circumstances, have found unique ways to make the best of them. Thank you for the letters of concern and well wishes that I receive in the mail every day. Although I may not be able to write everyone back, please know that they have been received, read, acknowledged, and appreciated.With Love back, MLH"
Keep your head up Lauryn, we look forward to you returning home soon.
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Kimmy Blanco still has what it takes to continue making her mark in the game. The Queen Bee releases a music video teaser for her latest single, "Look Like Money." Check it out below and see what you think.
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As battle rap continues to grow in popularity, the U.K.'s Don't Flop league has emerged as one of the top. Today they bring us a battle between Canada's Dirty Harry vs. London emcee Quill. Who takes the crown?
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With the outrage surrounding George Zimmerman's acquittal in the murder trial of 17-year old Trayvon Martin continuing to grow, President Barack Obama decided to hold a press conference today to speak to the country about the issue.
Watch his press conference and read the transcript courtesy of Business Insider below.
THE PRESIDENT: I wanted to come out here, first of all, to tell you that Jay is prepared for all your questions and is very much looking forward to the session. The second thing is I want to let you know that over the next couple of weeks, there’s going to obviously be a whole range of issues -- immigration, economics, et cetera -- we'll try to arrange a fuller press conference to address your questions.
The reason I actually wanted to come out today is not to take questions, but to speak to an issue that obviously has gotten a lot of attention over the course of the last week -- the issue of the Trayvon Martin ruling. I gave a preliminary statement right after the ruling on Sunday. But watching the debate over the course of the last week, I thought it might be useful for me to expand on my thoughts a little bit.
First of all, I want to make sure that, once again, I send my thoughts and prayers, as well as Michelle’s, to the family of Trayvon Martin, and to remark on the incredible grace and dignity with which they’ve dealt with the entire situation. I can only imagine what they’re going through, and it’s remarkable how they’ve handled it.
The second thing I want to say is to reiterate what I said on Sunday, which is there’s going to be a lot of arguments about the legal issues in the case -- I'll let all the legal analysts and talking heads address those issues. The judge conducted the trial in a professional manner. The prosecution and the defense made their arguments. The juries were properly instructed that in a case such as this reasonable doubt was relevant, and they rendered a verdict. And once the jury has spoken, that's how our system works. But I did want to just talk a little bit about context and how people have responded to it and how people are feeling.
You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.
There are very few African American men in this country who haven't had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are very few African American men who haven't had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me -- at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven't had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.
And I don't want to exaggerate this, but those sets of experiences inform how the African American community interprets what happened one night in Florida. And it’s inescapable for people to bring those experiences to bear. The African American community is also knowledgeable that there is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws -- everything from the death penalty to enforcement of our drug laws. And that ends up having an impact in terms of how people interpret the case.
Now, this isn't to say that the African American community is naïve about the fact that African American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system; that they’re disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence. It’s not to make excuses for that fact -- although black folks do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context. They understand that some of the violence that takes place in poor black neighborhoods around the country is born out of a very violent past in this country, and that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history.
And so the fact that sometimes that’s unacknowledged adds to the frustration. And the fact that a lot of African American boys are painted with a broad brush and the excuse is given, well, there are these statistics out there that show that African American boys are more violent -- using that as an excuse to then see sons treated differently causes pain.
I think the African American community is also not naïve in understanding that, statistically, somebody like Trayvon Martin was statistically more likely to be shot by a peer than he was by somebody else. So folks understand the challenges that exist for African American boys. But they get frustrated, I think, if they feel that there’s no context for it and that context is being denied. And that all contributes I think to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.
Now, the question for me at least, and I think for a lot of folks, is where do we take this? How do we learn some lessons from this and move in a positive direction? I think it’s understandable that there have been demonstrations and vigils and protests, and some of that stuff is just going to have to work its way through, as long as it remains nonviolent. If I see any violence, then I will remind folks that that dishonors what happened to Trayvon Martin and his family. But beyond protests or vigils, the question is, are there some concrete things that we might be able to do.
I know that Eric Holder is reviewing what happened down there, but I think it’s important for people to have some clear expectations here.
Traditionally, these are issues of state and local government, the criminal code. And law enforcement is traditionally done at the state and local levels, not at the federal levels.
That doesn’t mean, though, that as a nation we can’t do some things that I think would be productive. So let me just give a couple of specifics that I’m still bouncing around with my staff, so we’re not rolling out some five-point plan, but some areas where I think all of us could potentially focus.
Number one, precisely because law enforcement is often determined at the state and local level, I think it would be productive for the Justice Department, governors, mayors to work with law enforcement about training at the state and local levels in order to reduce the kind of mistrust in the system that sometimes currently exists.
When I was in Illinois, I passed racial profiling legislation, and it actually did just two simple things. One, it collected data on traffic stops and the race of the person who was stopped. But the other thing was it resourced us training police departments across the state on how to think about potential racial bias and ways to further professionalize what they were doing.
And initially, the police departments across the state were resistant, but actually they came to recognize that if it was done in a fair, straightforward way that it would allow them to do their jobs better and communities would have more confidence in them and, in turn, be more helpful in applying the law. And obviously, law enforcement has got a very tough job.
So that’s one area where I think there are a lot of resources and best practices that could be brought to bear if state and local governments are receptive. And I think a lot of them would be. And let's figure out are there ways for us to push out that kind of training.
Along the same lines, I think it would be useful for us to examine some state and local laws to see if it -- if they are designed in such a way that they may encourage the kinds of altercations and confrontations and tragedies that we saw in the Florida case, rather than diffuse potential altercations.
I know that there's been commentary about the fact that the "stand your ground" laws in Florida were not used as a defense in the case. On the other hand, if we're sending a message as a society in our communities that someone who is armed potentially has the right to use those firearms even if there's a way for them to exit from a situation, is that really going to be contributing to the kind of peace and security and order that we'd like to see?
And for those who resist that idea that we should think about something like these "stand your ground" laws, I'd just ask people to consider, if Trayvon Martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk? And do we actually think that he would have been justified in shooting Mr. Zimmerman who had followed him in a car because he felt threatened? And if the answer to that question is at least ambiguous, then it seems to me that we might want to examine those kinds of laws.
Number three -- and this is a long-term project -- we need to spend some time in thinking about how do we bolster and reinforce our African American boys. And this is something that Michelle and I talk a lot about. There are a lot of kids out there who need help who are getting a lot of negative reinforcement. And is there more that we can do to give them the sense that their country cares about them and values them and is willing to invest in them?
I'm not naïve about the prospects of some grand, new federal program. I'm not sure that that’s what we're talking about here. But I do recognize that as President, I've got some convening power, and there are a lot of good programs that are being done across the country on this front. And for us to be able to gather together business leaders and local elected officials and clergy and celebrities and athletes, and figure out how are we doing a better job helping young African American men feel that they're a full part of this society and that they've got pathways and avenues to succeed -- I think that would be a pretty good outcome from what was obviously a tragic situation. And we're going to spend some time working on that and thinking about that.
And then, finally, I think it's going to be important for all of us to do some soul-searching. There has been talk about should we convene a conversation on race. I haven't seen that be particularly productive when politicians try to organize conversations. They end up being stilted and politicized, and folks are locked into the positions they already have. On the other hand, in families and churches and workplaces, there's the possibility that people are a little bit more honest, and at least you ask yourself your own questions about, am I wringing as much bias out of myself as I can? Am I judging people as much as I can, based on not the color of their skin, but the content of their character? That would, I think, be an appropriate exercise in the wake of this tragedy.
And let me just leave you with a final thought that, as difficult and challenging as this whole episode has been for a lot of people, I don’t want us to lose sight that things are getting better. Each successive generation seems to be making progress in changing attitudes when it comes to race. It doesn’t mean we’re in a post-racial society. It doesn’t mean that racism is eliminated. But when I talk to Malia and Sasha, and I listen to their friends and I seem them interact, they’re better than we are -- they’re better than we were -- on these issues. And that’s true in every community that I’ve visited all across the country.
And so we have to be vigilant and we have to work on these issues. And those of us in authority should be doing everything we can to encourage the better angels of our nature, as opposed to using these episodes to heighten divisions. But we should also have confidence that kids these days, I think, have more sense than we did back then, and certainly more than our parents did or our grandparents did; and that along this long, difficult journey, we’re becoming a more perfect union -- not a perfect union, but a more perfect union.
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Kanye "No Questions Ever" West reportedly just attacked a paparazzi at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). TMZ is reporting that the rapper was on his way out of the airport with his bodyguard when he was surrounded by about five paps who began to take his picture.
Kanye has warned paparazzi recently to not only not speak to him, but don't even talk to themselves. One of the paps got aggressive and repeatedly tossed questions the rapper's way until he allegedly went nuts and attacked the photographer.
TMZ reports that Yeezy threw several punches, knocking the man down. Paramedics and police were called to the scene.
Smells like a lawsuit is coming. Watch footage below of Kanye telling a pap last week to never talk to him or anyone he knows.
Kanye buggin the hell out
**UPDATE** July 19 - VIDEO FOOTAGE OF KANYE'S PAPARAZZI ATTACK ADDED BELOW
**UPDATE** No. 2 July 19
Kanye West is now a wanted man by police in Los Angeles According To TMZ, cops have determined that the G.O.O.D. Music CEO injured the paparazzi in the attack, although he doesn't appear to throw any punches during the skirmish. It looks like the rapper is attempting to take the pap's camera
The victim wants to press charges. Authorities say Kanye committed felony attempted robbery during the assault. The case is being referred to the District Attorney.
Check out a second angle of the tussle below.
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The King of Philly Gille Da Kid is making major moves both rapping and acting. In his latest video he raps about the quality of sticky icky he smokes in the song "No Sticks, No Seed." Clip directed by Peter Parkkerr.
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Charles Barkley is both loved and hated for his sometimes controversial statements. The NBA Hall of Famer and basketball analyst is never afraid to let his true feelings be known.
The "Round Mound of Rebound" sat down with CNBC on Thursday (July 18) and gave his opinion of the George Zimmernan acquittal.
“Well I agree with the verdict,” Barkley said. “I feel sorry that young kid got killed, but they didn’t have enough evidence to charge [Zimmerman]. Something clearly went wrong that night — clearly something went wrong — and I feel bad for anybody who loses a kid, but if you looked at the case and you don’t make it — there was some racial profiling, no question about it — but something happened that changed the dynamic of that night.”
Barkley added that he doesn't agree with the way the media covers racially charged events.
"I don't like when race gets out in the media because I don't think the media has a pure heart," he continued. "There are very few people that have a pure heart when it comes to race. Racism is wrong in any way, shape, form. There are a lot of black people who are racists too. I think sometimes when people talk about race they act like only white people are racists."
As many of you know by now George Zimmerman was acquitted in the murder trial of 17-year old Trayvon Martin.
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The group Migos has been making a lot of noise with their single "Versace." Two of the three members were guests recently on The Breakfast Club. (The third member is currently locked up for probation violation).
They discussed Drake jumping on "Versace," staying independent, working with family, collaborating with Soulja Boy, Meek Mill, Wale, Riff Raff and more.
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YMCMB's Rich Gang compilation will arrive in stores on Tuesday, July 23. Here's a new leak off of the project titled "Bigger Than Life" featuring Chris Brown, Birdman, Lil Wayne and Tyga.
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Jhené Aiko is a fast rising singer signed to Def Jam. Recently she appeared on Rap-Up Sessions. One of the songs she sang was a cover of Tupac Shakur's "Keep Your Head Up." Check it out below.
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The Hustle Gang is in the building. Shad Da God links up with Grand Hustle CEO T.I. to release an official music video for their collaboration "Ball Out." The video was directed by Philly Fly Boy
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Snoop Dogg recently stopped by Chelsea Lately's show for a chat.
The two have teamed up to create a dog treat called "Dog for Dog." The treats can be eaten by humans and their four legged friends. For every bag bought one is shipped to an animal shelter. Chelsea actually eats one on air.
They also discussed Snoop smoking weed with his oldest son and his youth football league.
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Cold Summers Entertainment CEO took a small break to deal with some legal issues, but the beast is back and ready to represent his hometown of Rochester, New York. Check out his latest music video for "Monkey."
Directed by Khelo Suave @therealkeyz. Follow Eto @FireArmEbogota
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Can you imagine an NBA team with Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony and LeBron James? It could happen, at least that's what the Lakers are banking on.
After losing Dwight Howard in free agency to the Houston Rockets the Los Angeles Lakers chances of making the playoffs in 2013 are slim to none. But 2014 could be quite different if things go the way Lakers executives envision.
Melo and King James can both opt out of their current contracts with the New York Knicks and Miami Heat respectively in 2014. By that time the Lakers will have the cap space to sign both of them to max contracts.
Yes, Kobe will be entering his 19th year in the league, but he still has plenty of gas in the tank, is a top 5 NBA player and is ahead of schedule as he rehabs from a torn Achilles tendon he suffered in April.
What would be the attraction to L.A. for Carmelo and Lebron you ask? No. 1 it's one of most respected organizations in basketball. No. 2. Teaming up with Kobe would create on paper the best basketball trio ever assembled on one team.
Could Melo and James stay with their current teams? Yes, that's a possibility, but both Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh could also opt out of their Heat contracts in 2014 leaving little incentive for Bron Bron to stay. And the Knicks, well they're the Knicks, so Carmelo bolting is a distinct possibility.
What do you think the chances are the Lakers can convince Carmelo and LeBron to play in L.A.?
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Bronx, New York emcee Fred The Godson never seems to leave the recording booth. After introducing his Talkin Bout Money (TBM) crew on his recent mixtape, he's already about to bounce back with a new one titled Fat Boy Fresh.
Check out his new freestyle music video over Drake's "Jodeci Back."
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