Red INF and frequent collaborator UFO Fev are back at it once again on "Opium Fields." Inf lays the lyrical groundwork while Fev handles the hook, over fire Vanderslice production.
GREEN LEVEL, N.C. (WTVD) - A popular Charlotte-area teacher was killed in an Alamance County shootout with a Mexican drug cartel last week, the Alamance County Sheriff's Office said during a news conference Wednesday.
Barney Harris, a basketball coach at Union Academy in Monroe was well-loved & respected, but Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson said, on the side, Harris was involved in the "dangerous & deadly" drug world.
"I can tell you right now, when we are dealing with the Mexican drug cartel, someone is going to die as a result of this," Johnson said.
Police said Harris & his brother-in-law Steven Alexander Stewart, of Wadesboro, went to a mobile home park on Wyatt Road in Green Level in the early morning hours of April 8 to steal money & drugs from a Mexican cartel's stash house.
Authorities said the duo broke into a trailer & a member of the cartel, 18-year-old Alonso Beltran Lara, showed up while they were inside. Johnson said the men questioned Lara about the stash & when he didn't give them the answers they wanted, they shot him in the head.
"And they were trying to find the money & drugs & apparently he didn't give them the information to do that & he was technically close range, two bullets to the back of the head, he was executed," Johnson said.
After the shooting, other cartel members showed up & gunfire erupted -- killing Harris, who was found dead in a bedroom.
"Mr. Harris, he had a bulletproof vest on, but it did not work with the kind of ammunition that was used," Johnson said. "He had gloves on & he, they went there to do what was done except they did not think it was going to backfire on them."
Stewart, who is married to Harris' sister, was arrested & has since been charged with armed robbery and first-degree murder.
Former Brooklyn Park, Minn. Police Officer Kimberly Ann Potter, 48, is now behind bars at the Hennepin County Jail, according to records reviewed Wednesday by Law&Crime. She was booked into the facility at 12:07 p.m. Central Time.
Potter is accused of second-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of Daunte Wright, 20, during a traffic stop Sunday afternoon. During the stop, Potter drew her service weapon and fired. Wright, who was attempting to flee from custody, took off in a white sedan, crashed nearby, and subsequently died.
Potter had warned she was going to use a Taser on Wright but instead fired a bullet. She yelled “holy shit! I just shot him” as Wright sped away.
Since-resigned Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon earlier this week characterized the shooting as an “accidental discharge” of a gun. He said Potter appeared to have made a mistake when she drew her gun, rather than her Taser, in an altercation with Wright which lasted only a few seconds. Gannon believed Wright didn’t realize she pulled the wrong weapon until after the gunshot rang out.
Potter’s body camera footage released Monday shows Potter drawing her weapon and threatening to pull the trigger for less than 10 seconds before Potter pulled the trigger and Wright drove away.
Santana Fox, the daughter of the late, great Prodigy of Mobb Deep is spreading her wings and showing the world the apple didn't fall far from the tree when it comes rapping skills.
Santana drops bars over the instrumental to Eminem's classic song "The Way I Am" in her latest music video, which she directed and edited herself.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A lawyer and his 26-year-old client told Pittsburgh police Wednesday that Los Angeles Rams defensive lineman Aaron Donald and others assaulted the man at a nightclub last weekend, causing multiple injuries.
Attorney Todd J. Hollis said his client, De’Vincent Spriggs, needed 16 stitches and suffered a broken orbital bone in his head, a broken nose and a sprained or broken arm at a bar on East Carson Street in the city’s South Side.
“We believe there was a misunderstanding that Mr. Spriggs bumped into Mr. Donald and Mr. Donald escalated the matter, leading to my client’s assault moments later,” Hollis said.
Hollis said Spriggs, who lives in another state, was taken by a friend to a hospital for treatment. The alleged attack occurred around 3 a.m. Sunday, he said. Hollis released a photo that showed Spriggs with facial injuries and swelling.
Hollis and Spriggs filed a criminal complaint with Pittsburgh police on Wednesday.
“They did a preliminary investigation and they’re going to look into the matter and get back to us as soon as they have more information,” Hollis said.
A message seeking comment was left with Pittsburgh police. It wasn’t immediately clear how many others Spriggs believed attacked him.
Donald, 29, was named the Associated Press NFL defensive player of the year in February, the third time he has received the distinction. He played college football at the University of Pittsburgh.
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota prosecutor said Wednesday that he will charge a white former suburban Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot 20-year-old Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, igniting days of unrest and clashes between protesters and police.
Kim Potter will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, Washington County Attorney Pete Orput said. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
The announcement came a day after Potter resigned from the Brooklyn Center Police Department, where she had served for 26 years. Police Chief Tim Gannon also resigned Tuesday.
Gannon had released Potter’s body camera video the day after the Sunday shooting. It showed her approaching Wright as he stood outside of his car as another officer was arresting him for an outstanding warrant. Police said he was pulled over for having expired registration tags.
As Wright struggles with police, Potter is hearing shouting “I’ll Tase you! I’ll Tase you! Taser! Taser! Taser!” before firing a single shot from her handgun.
Gannon has said he believed Potter mistakenly grabbed her gun when she was going for her Taser. However, protesters and Wright’s family members say there’s no excuse for the shooting and it shows how the justice system is tilted against Blacks, noting Wright was stopped for expired car registration and ended up dead.
The charging decision was announced as the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin progresses. George Floyd, a Black man, died May 25 after Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck.
Philadelphia emcee and BlockstarNation CEO, Dot Stacks, links with J Philly for his new single and accompanying music titled "Bad Day." This is off of Dot's "Faded" album.
A former Louisiana sheriff’s dispatcher was busted for allegedly refusing to return more than $1.2 million that was accidentally deposited into her account — and splurging some of it on a new car and house, according to a local report.
Kelyn Spadoni, 33, who worked for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, was seeing green when Charles Schwab accidentally deposited the hefty sum into her brokerage account back in February — when it meant only to transfer about $82, according to court records obtained by nola.com.
When Charles Schwab staffers attempted to stop or reclaim the transfer, they couldn’t — Spadoni had already allegedly moved the funds into another account, the outlet reported, citing sheriff’s office spokesman Capt. Jason Rivarde.
She spent some of the cash on a house and new car, a 2021 Hyundai Genesis sport utility vehicle, which can range in price from $48,000 to over $70,000, authorities told nola.com.
Although the money was placed in Spadoni’s account, “it’s not her money,” Rivarde told the outlet.
“She has no legal claim to that money,” he said. “Even if it was put in there by mistake. It was an accounting error.”
Spadoni was arrested Wednesday and booked on charges of theft valued over $25,000, bank fraud and illegal transmission of monetary funds, according to Rivarde.
She was fired by the sheriff’s office — where she had worked in the 911 center for four-and-a-half years — after she was booked, the outlet reported.
Charles Schwab & Co. also sued Spadoni in federal court, accusing her of ignoring their calls, texts and emails attempting to recover the money, according to the report.
So far, about 75 percent of the money has been recovered, Rivarde said.
Schwab argued that Spadoni’s account contract includes an agreement that if a client receives an overpayment of funds, that person must return the funds in full.
“If someone accidentally puts an extra zero on a utility payment, they would want that money returned or credited to them,” Rivarde said. “This is no different.”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A one-time California man who bilked wine collectors out of millions by selling cheaper booze he rebottled in his kitchen has been deported to his native Indonesia, U.S. immigration officials said Tuesday.
Rudy Kurniawan, 44, was deported last week on a flight from Dallas to Jakarta.
Kurniawan came to the U.S. on a student visa in the 1990s. He unsuccessfully sought political asylum & was ordered to voluntarily leave the country in 2003 but stayed on illegally.
Kurniawan was convicted of mail & wire fraud in 2013 in a New York federal court & spent 7 years in prison. He was deported after being released from prison into immigration custody last November.
In a public black eye for the wine industry, prosecutors at Kurniawan’s New York trial said he made millions of dollars from 2004 to 2012 by putting less-expensive Napa & Burgundy wines into counterfeit bottles at his home in Arcadia.
The scheme was recounted in the 2016 Netflix documentary, “Sour Grapes,” & in a March episode of ABC’s “The Con.”
Kurniawan’s trial featured testimony from billionaire yachtsman, entrepreneur & wine investor William Koch, who said he was conned & cheated by Kurniawan into paying $2.1 million for 219 fake bottles of wine.
In one auction in 2006, Kurniawan sold $24.7 million of wine, a record for a single consignee.
However, the scheme began to unravel after several consignments he submitted for auction were found to be fake. In 2007, Christie’s auction house in Los Angeles pulled a consignment of what was supposed to be magnums of 1982 Château Le Pin after the company said the bottles were fake.
In all, Kurniawan may have sold as many as 12,000 bottles of counterfeit wine, many of which may still remain in collections.
Prosecutors said money from the fraud funded a lavish lifestyle in suburban Los Angeles that included a Lamborghini & other luxury cars, designer clothing & fine food & drinks.
UTG Yoppa links up with Blacc Zacc for his latest music video "Digit Scale Jimmy." The track is featured on the South Carolina native's Dealers N Associates album which is out now on all music platforms. Directed by FoolWithTheCamera.
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — A white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb & the city’s chief of police resigned Tuesday.
Officer Kim Potter & Police Chief Tim Gannon both resigned two days after the death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center. Potter, a 26-year veteran, had been on administrative leave following Sunday’s shooting.
Gannon has said he believed Potter mistakenly grabbed her gun when she was going for her Taser. She can be heard on her body camera video shouting “Taser! Taser!”
“Whenever, through the line of duty, someone kills another human being, there must be accountability,” Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott told the “Today” show earlier Tuesday.
Activists & some residents say Wright was racially profiled & his death has sparked two days of clashes between police & protesters. The shooting happened as the Minneapolis area was already on edge over the trial of the first of four police officers in George Floyd’s death.
Wright was shot as police were trying to arrest him on an outstanding warrant.
“I’ll Tase you! I’ll Tase you! Taser! Taser! Taser!” the officer is heard shouting on her body cam footage released Monday. She draws her weapon after the man breaks free from police outside his car & gets back behind the wheel.
After firing a single shot from her handgun, the car speeds away, and the officer is heard saying, “Holy (expletive)! I shot him.”
Memphis native, rapper and producer D Cinn releases an official music video for his new single "Everything." Produced by D Cinn. Directed by Loyalty Films.
“After I finished making the beat, the concept of the hook came to me instantly. It’s about manifesting what you want in life. It’s about getting everything you want regardless of what others may think, feel or say about it.”
The Million Dollaz Worth of Game show, a weekly podcast with rapper Gillie Da King and social media influencer and disruptor Wallo267 (who are also first-cousins) targeting their combined social media presence of over 1.3 million followers.
Gillie and Wallo’s audiences have been demanding a podcast and this is the delivery. For their audience, the Million Dollaz Worth of Game show bridges the gap between social media and reality tv, satiating the hunger for original and authentic content.
Stephen A.: Steph Curry will have a bigger impact than Wilt Chamberlain on the NBA | First Take Stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins debate whether Wilt Chamberlain or Steph Curry will have a bigger impact on the game of basketball. #FirstTake #NBA
0:00 Molly Qerim Rose breaks down stat comparisons between Wilt Chamberlain and Steph Curry. 0:25 Stephen A. Smith explains the NBA rule changes that Chamberlain caused. 2:11 Stephen A. argues that Curry will have an overall bigger impact on basketball.
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In Catdo Rich's follow up dance anthem to “Hold It” comes “Dance Floor”. This is a perfect Dance Hall, Caribbean night out type of vibe. It is a feel good, dance with your partner, and have a good time dance. The lyrics are catchy and easy to grasp the mood. The addition of the steel drums to the song gives it a whole different level of flare and creativity. Pass me a drink with an umbrella and let’s dance!
UFC lightweight Michael Chandler is predicting he will win the 155-pound championship against Charles Oliveira on May 15, and then make his first title defense against Conor McGregor before the end of the year.
Of course, Chandler (22-5) has a stiff test ahead of him in Oliveira (30-8) at UFC 262 in Houston. Oliveira, of Brazil, is actually a small favorite to defeat Chandler in their vacant title fight. The title was recently vacated by retired former champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.
Oliveira, 31, has won eight fights in a row. Chandler says he respects what Oliveira has done, but believes he has a tendency to give up if fights aren't going his way.
In this episode of "People's Party With Talib Kweli," Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with rapper, writer and actor:
The King Asiatic Nobody's Equal, Dark Gable, Blackanova, Count Macula...
BIG DADDY KANE
Truly a legend among legends and always a top contender in the conversation for the greatest of all-time, Kane blessed us with one of our best. Here's what we covered:
• The origins of his name coming from the show 'Kung Fu' and film 'Beach Party'. • How Five Percent Nation teachings have inspired Kane through his life and career. • Getting the attention of Marley Marl through his friendship with Biz Markie. • The Bridge Wars rivalry and being stuck on the Juice Crew side while friends with KRS-One. • His hometown of Brooklyn and the sights and sounds there that influenced his writing. • Working with Rudy Ray Moore on 'Big Daddy Vs. Dolemite'. • The legacy of Brooklyn emcee Jaz-O. • Acknowledging Kane's influence on Eminem's pen game. • All the reasons why 1988 should be considered the best year in hip hop. • Sex and violence in hip hop and how the radio and censorship has shifted. • The significance of the flat top hair cut to Kane and his legacy. • An update on the potential for a Verzuz battle between Kane and Rakim. • Mentoring the Wu-Tang Clan and a classic ODB drunk out of his mind story. • Recording with 2Pac and MC Hammer at Death Row studios. • Black Thought's style being a combination of Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap. • Kane's "all over the place" approach to subject matter in his rhymes. • Activism being a trend and celebrating victories while not losing sight of the big picture. • The reason why Kane chose to make his move to Raleigh, North Carolina. • Forming the band Las Supper with singer Showtime and what it's like to be on tour with them.
TIME STAMPS:
3:02 -- Kane elaborates on the origins of his name taken from the character of David Caine from the TV show 'Kung Fu' as well as the Big Daddy from the film 'Beach Party'. Talib tells Kane about him being his son's first favorite rapper, Kane reflects on everyone thinking he was older than he really was when he first hit the scene at age 19 and Jasmin asks Kane how the Five Percent Nation teachings have influenced him and which parts of the doctrine he's held onto over the years. Kane also touches on how he always found purpose in opening other people's eyes about knowledge-of-self, especially those who needed it most.
12:12 -- Talib turns the conversation to Biz Markie and notes how much being on tour with him so early on in his career gave him a leg up. Kane also tells how Biz's health is currently, how long it's been since he's been able to speak with him and he tells the classic story of how he got the attention of Marley Marl through knowing Biz, leading to his eventual signing with Cold Chillin'. They also discuss the Bridge Wars rivalry between BDP and the Juice Crew and how Kane felt being a battle rapper from Brooklyn caught in the middle, having close ties with KRS-One. Jasmin also asks Kane what he thought it was that made people want to emulate him even outside the realm of hip hop.
21:16 -- Kane speaks of his hometown of Brooklyn and all the incredible emcees that it produced following his first stepping on the scene. He reflects on his starting to write in 1982 and the things around him growing up in BK that influenced his pen game. Kane also tells about how Eric B. connected him with Rudy Ray Moore to make 'Big Daddy Vs. Dolemite' and what the scene was like with Rudy in the studio in full form. Talib then asks Kane to speak on rapper Jaz-O and how he fits into the legacy of Brooklyn emcees, him being the hottest unsigned artist in BK early on.
29:55 -- Kane is asked about his memories of being on tour with Jaz-O and Jay-Z before Jay was known, and if he saw signs of his potential to become one of the future GOATs back then. Kane talks about his long-time friends and back-up dancers Scoob & Scrap as well as his DJ Mister Cee and how it's always been a family thing. Kane also talks about receiving an intervention from Jay-Z and Sauce Money during the making of 'Show N Prove', Sauce being the funniest when he's upset, Kane is asked if he recognized his influence on Eminem when he was blowing up and Kane talks about what he thinks of Em as a lyricist.
39:12 -- Talib tells how Kane's 'Ain't No Half Steppin'' shattered his previous perspective of the definition of cool when he dropped that track. He illustrates the moment he heard the song come on the radio, his reaction, he lists the albums that made 1988 his favorite year in hip hop, and he asks Kane if he has a favorite year that comes to mind. They go on to discuss the changes that took place during '88, why Kane felt it was important to portray black royalty on the cover of his album 'Long Live The Kane' as well as his thoughts on sex, violence and diversity in hip hop and how the radio and censorship has changed over the years.
52:15 -- Kane gives the history behind why he used his flat top as a focal point for him and his crew since the beginning, becoming one of his trademarks. Talib thanks Kane for songs like 'Young Gifted & Black' as well as 'Lean On Me'. Jasmin asks Kane for any updates on a potential Verzuz battle between him and Rakim, they discuss Kane's influence on the Wu-Tang Clan, meeting the GZA when he started out with Cold Chillin', as well as the first time Kane saw the WU perform and inviting ODB and Shyhiem to his friend's Birthday party afterwards. Kane then goes on to tell a hilarious story about ODB drunk out of his mind asking Kane for the keys to his Pathfinder.
1:03:08 -- Kane gets asked about what it was like to record with 2Pac. He talks about first meeting Pac at a Tyson fight in Vegas and taking a plane back to LA the following day to record two tracks in Death Row studios along with MC Hammer. Talib notes his feelings of Black Thought being a combination of Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap. He asks Kane how he felt when he first heard Black Thought emulate him and G Rap on 'Boom!', as well as the full circle moment of performing with him at Dave Chappelle's Block Party. Kane also tells how his DJ Mister Cee has been doing and gives him his props for always being so dependable.
1:11:49 -- Kane touches on his "all over the place" approach to writing. Choosing the subject matter in the moment, based on how he's feeling at the time and what he sees going on around him. He also notes his respect for those that write with a single mission in mind like Public Enemy. Jasmin brings up Kane's recent song 'Enough' about police brutality, they discuss why it's so important that people take advantage of activism trending, celebrating the victories of more black representation in positions of power but not overlooking the big picture of how much it's really helping on the ground level with the people that need it most.
1:19:59 -- Kane talks about his move to Raleigh, North Carolina after New York no longer resembled the New York he remembers growing up. Talib goes on to bring up Kane having some of the best breath control in hip hop despite his having asthma and asks him if he feels that extra challenge helped or hurt him. They also discuss Kane forming the band Las Supper with singer Showtime. Kane tells how much he's appreciated having Showtime and the Lifted Crew by his side during his live shows, they talk about Kane's podcast on the way focusing on many untold stories over his life and career, and Kane's asked if he has anything coming down the line music-wise.
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