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Chris Broussard joins Colin Cowherd to discuss the status of Kevin Durant, and Giannis Antetokounmpo performance in the Eastern Conference Finals. Hear why he thinks KD played his last game with Golden State and will leave during NBA free agency.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Magic Johnson abruptly quit as the Los Angeles Lakers’ president of basketball operations Tuesday night, citing a desire to get back to the simpler life he enjoyed before taking over the franchise just over two years ago.
Johnson didn’t tell owner Jeanie Buss or general manager Rob Pelinka before he stepped in front of reporters about 90 minutes before the final game of the Lakers’ sixth consecutive losing season.
Johnson didn’t directly tie his decision to the future of coach Luke Walton, who was widely expected to be fired by Johnson soon. But Johnson repeatedly mentioned Buss’ affinity for Walton and Johnson’s desire not to cause upheaval between them.
Johnson also says he’s tired of being fined by the NBA for tampering.
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38 Spesh is on a roll as he continues to drop back to back projects. The latest one is titled "The Trust Tape 3." Features include Benny The Butcher, Klass Murda, Che Noir, Green Double and Duffle Bag Hottie.
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Tracklist:
1. Trust - Benny The Butcher, Klass Murda, Che Noir
2. Trap N Rap - Klass Murda, Benny The Butcher (Produced By Midnite)
3. Summer Pain - Green Double, 38 Spesh, Klass Murda
4. Section - Klass Murda, Che Noir (Produced By 38 Spesh)
5. Black Horns - 38 Spesh (Produced By 38 Spesh)
6. Dope Dealing - 38 Spesh, Klass Murda (Produced By Reddy Roc & 38 Spesh)
7. Going Through It - Klass Murda, Benny The Butcher, Che Noir (Produced By Rick Hyde)
8. LMOP - 38 Spesh, Benny The Butcher
9. War Wounds - Duffle Bag Hottie, Benny The Butcher, Che Noir (Produced by Eto)
10. Play For Keeps - 38 Spesh, Benny The Butcher (Produced By Rome On The Beat)
11. Business As Usual - Klass Murda, Benny The Butcher, Che Noir (Produced By 38 Spesh)
12. Love Hurts - Klass Murda, Benny The Butcher (Produced By Black Metaphor)
13. Block Food - Cashwitus Pooh, 38 Spesh
14. Hurt Souls - 38 Spesh (Produced By 38 Spesh)
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In this clip, Tray Deee gave his take on Tekashi 6ix9ine snitching on his friend Kooda B and the larger 9Trey Bloods set despite being deeply involved in their criminal activities. Tray Deee also spoke briefly about YNW Melly murdering his friends and just how he questions the code the younger generation abides by today. Tray Deee said their actions were foul and won't shed a tear if they're both washed by the system.
Later, Tray Deee touched on rappers deciding to gang bang after already being famous and the lack of commitment they have to the lifestyle as a result of not growing up in it.
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Martin Luther King III begs to differ with Vice President Pence, who said Trump is honoring MLK's legacy by pushing for the border wall.
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Footage of a barefoot 2-year-old in Florida with her arms up in the air as police arrest one of her parents is raising eyebrows. Tallahassee police pulled over a vehicle of suspected shoplifters. Two men were handcuffed while a woman was in the car. After the adults exited the vehicle, a small girl’s feet are seen dangling beneath the car door as she was trying to get out. The little girl then mimicked her father, who was under arrest, and put her hands up in the air.
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Skip Bayless believes that LeBron James will use Luke Walton as a scapegoat for the struggles of the Los Angeles Lakers early in the NBA season.
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Young Chris Aka Chris Ries 1/2 of Roc A Fella's Young Gunz speaks with Mikey T the Movie Star of Report Card Radio about his Controversial New "Roc A Fella" Record Featured on "The Network 5" addressing a lot of the speculated inner circle turmoil going on between the careers of Jay Z , Dame Dash, Beanie Sigel and Himself.
Young Chris also discusses Lyor Cohen as Def Jam President and gives up some knowledge Cohen shared with him..
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In this clip, Lord Jamar and Vlad discuss some of the major moves in NBA free agency. The pair discussed the unprecedented move of DeMarcus Cousins joining the Golden State Warriors and how the defending champs now boast a squad with five all-stars in their prime. Lord Jamar also queried about LeBron's placement on the all-time list if he's able to bring a championship to the Lakers.
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Boskoe100 spoke to VladTV about getting arrested as a teen for burglarizing, including in his own apartment building, which got him evicted. He also spoke about continuing to get arrested after that, including a 3-year bid at 20 on gun possession charges.
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Former Green Bay Packers wide receiver and FS1 NFL analyst Greg Jennings joins Undisputed to supply his take on the Aaron Rodgers/Tom Brady conversation, saying Rodgers trumps Brady as the best quarterback in the NFL.
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(CBS News) Papa John's Pizza's founder John Schnatter may have resigned as chairman of the restaurant chain's board of directors following news that he used a racial slur in a conference call, but he still owns a substantial stake in the company.
Schnatter owns roughly 30 percent of Papa John's. As of March 12, his stake was worth $622 million, though a recent decline in the company's stock price now values it at $479 million as of the close of trading on Wednesday.
Other major stockholders include asset management firm BlackRock, with a 9 percent stake; hedge fund Eminence Capital (6.5 percent); and investment advsier Vanguard (6 percent).
Schnatter resigned as chairman on Wednesday amid a growing uproar about his comments. Papa John's shares, which fell nearly 5 percent on Wednesday, were up 12 percent on Thursday.
Schnatter acknowledged using a racial slur during a May conference call and apologized following a media report that also said the pizza chain founder had graphically described violence against minorities.
"News reports attributing the use of inappropriate and hurtful language to me during a media-training session regarding race are true," Schnatter said in a statement released Wednesday by the company.
"Regardless of the context, I apologize. Simply stated, racism has no place in our society," Schnatter's statement said.
The media-training company working with Papa John's opted to end its business relationship with the pizza company after the call, according to Forbes. The publication reported the objectionable behavior took place on a conference call intended as a role-playing exercise for Schnatter on avoiding racially charged mishaps in the future.
Papa John's initially declined to confirm or deny the report, but said in an emailed statement that the company "condemns racism and any insensitive language, no matter the situation or setting."
The controversy comes only seven months after Schnatter relinquished his CEO role after criticizing National Football League players for kneeling during the national anthem, blaming the outcry surrounding their protests for slowing sales growth at Papa John's, at the time an NFL sponsor and advertiser.
On the May call, Schnatter reportedly said the N-word while complaining that a legendary fast-food chain founder had used the word in the past without being subjected to public backlash. He also reflected on his childhood in Indiana, saying people used to drag African-Americans from trucks until they died, according to Forbes.
The Forbes report prompted protest from the Louisville NAACP, which said Schnatter should either step down or be removed from the University of Louisville's board of trustees by the city's NAACP.
The request was complied with quickly, as Schnatter did resign from the board he'd served on for two years, its chairman, J. David Grissom, said in a statement, which also thanked the executive for his "generous" support.
"After speaking with John, I'm confident that his comments, while inappropriate, do not reflect his personal beliefs or values," said Grissom, who added the board did not condone "racism or insensitive language regardless of the setting.
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(New Orleans Advocates) One of two key witnesses who identified rapper Corey “C-Murder” Miller as the lone gunman in a 2002 nightclub killing in Harvey has recanted, claiming in a sworn statement that Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office detectives pressured him to lie under threat of a criminal charge.
Miller’s attorney, Paul Barker, filed a memorandum Tuesday in 24th Judicial District Court, arguing that the newly obtained affidavit from the witness, Kenneth Jordan, warrants a hearing and, ultimately, Miller's release.
Miller, 47, is the younger brother of Percy Miller, the rap mogul better known as Master P.
His claims of innocence, broadcast in rap albums released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where he is serving a life sentence, have helped fuel interest in the case and drum up support for his cause. It's the subject of an episode that airs Wednesday in a true-crime series on Investigations Discovery.
Jordan also recants in the TV episode, saying he was threatened with a 10-year sentence over the death of his child if he didn’t finger Miller as the nightclub shooter.
“If I could turn back the hands of time, I wouldn’t have did it. In that moment it felt like that’s what I had to do,” he says in the TV episode.
Jordan testified at Miller’s trial in 2009 that he was inside the Platinum Club on Manhattan Boulevard in the early morning of Jan. 12, 2002, when 16-year-old Steve Thomas stepped off the stage during a rap contest and was attacked by several patrons.
He told the jury that Thomas was mobbed and fighting for his life and that he never saw Miller throw any punches. But when the fracas subsided, he said, Miller stepped forward, stood over Thomas and shot him once. Jordan testified that he saw flames from the gun. The bullet struck Thomas in the heart.
But in his new affidavit, dated June 23, Jordan claims he saw a man with a dark complexion and wearing a hoodie fire the fatal shot.
“I know that the individual who I saw shoot the gun was not Corey Miller,” he states in the affidavit.
Well over 100 people remained in the club but told officers who had locked it down that they didn’t see the shooting.
Jordan had left in the chaotic aftermath of the shooting. Sheriff’s Office detectives first spoke to him more than a year later, after his newborn daughter had been found dead. The baby’s mother would later be charged and convicted in the killing, but at the time, Jordan said, he was being threatened with a criminal charge.
“I was distraught and scared,” Jordan claims in the affidavit. “JPSO officers told me that if I testified against Corey Miller I could ‘go home’; they told me what to say; they fed me facts about the fight and details about the DJ and the dance party, none of which I really knew.”
Prosecutors did not call Jordan to testify at Miller’s first trial, in 2003. A jury convicted Miller, but the trial judge later threw out the guilty verdict, ruling that it was tainted by prosecutors' withholding of information about the criminal background of a witness. The Louisiana Supreme Court endorsed the judge’s ruling.
Jordan claims Jefferson Parish deputies harassed him and his family in the years between trials. Shortly before Miller’s retrial in 2009, deputies hauled him in from Georgia and jailed him on a material witness bond.
“I told the JPSO officers that my 2003 statement was not the truth, but the officers forced me to testify anyway,” the affidavit states. “They kept saying, ‘It’s on black and white now, too late.’ ”
Whether Jordan’s recantation is enough to overturn a conviction that has withstood several legal attacks remains to be seen.
In his legal filing Tuesday, Barker argued that the recantation raises several constitutional issues, among them a requirement that prosecutors turn over any evidence, including witness statements, that would favor a defendant at trial.
“On countless occasions (both prior to making his statement and prior to testifying at trial), Mr. Jordan told members of law enforcement and prosecution that his 2003 recorded statement to the JPSO officers was not true, that the person he saw commit the shooting was definitely not Corey Miller, and that he did not want to lie under oath about Corey’s involvement,” Barker wrote.
“At no time during the 15+ years of proceedings in this tortured case has the state once disclosed this information to Mr. Miller himself, or to Mr. Miller’s attorneys.”
Barker is also reasserting an “actual innocence” claim, which would require a judge to rule that Jordan’s recantation is new, “conclusive” evidence that undermines the state’s entire case.
Jordan’s testimony at Miller’s second trial, implicating the rapper, was supported by that of a security guard at the club who also identified Miller as the gunman.
But in the new episode of the TV program "Reasonable Doubt," the security guard, Darnell Jordan, appears to recant as well. He asserts in the program that he doesn't believe it was Miller who fired the shot, though Miller was involved in the fight that led to the gunfire.
In the program, Darnell Jordan describes grabbing Miller during the fracas, causing the rapper's shirt to lift and showing there was no gun in his waistband.
Miller’s claim that he had been talking to the club’s DJ was contradicted at the trial by the DJ.
A jury convicted Miller on a 10-2 vote. His last appeal was denied in 2011. Nearly all of his claims under a motion for post-conviction relief were thrown out, and the Louisiana Supreme Court refused to upset that ruling in 2016. What remain are two claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.
In the meantime, the rapper has released four albums from prison. They include “Penitentiary Chances,” an April 2016 release that spawned a music video for the song “Dear Supreme Court,” in which Miller implored the state’s high court to free him.
Last year, a Jefferson Parish judge ordered Miller to pay Thomas’ family $1.15 million.
Miller also was found liable in a separate civil case in Baton Rouge stemming from a botched nightclub shooting there in 2001. Those plaintiffs asked a judge last year to seize any earnings Miller might have.
In the Baton Rouge incident, Miller was accused of trying to shoot a bouncer and club owner at Club Raggs on Plank Road, only to have his gun jam. He pleaded no contest to attempted second-degree murder there and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Kenneth Jordan could face a felony charge should he take the stand and recant his identification of Miller as the shooter in the Harvey incident. Under a Louisiana perjury statute, prosecutors wouldn’t need to prove on which occasion he lied, only that he gave inconsistent statements on the stand.
The penalty for perjury in a murder case is five to 40 years in prison.
On the TV episode, Corey Miller's ex-wife, Dionne, and daughter, Alexis, found little comfort in the remorse Kenneth Jordan showed as he recanted on camera.
"To see that, it's too little, too late," Alexis said after being shown the footage by the TV show's investigators, Fatima Silva and Chris Anderson, who are helping the Miller family.
Dionne said, "I am just so mad about this. How could you even be that heartless to do this?"
Citing other interviews conducted by the TV program's investigators, the episode builds a theory that Miller knows who fired the gun that killed Thomas but won't say because of a street code prohibiting "snitching."
"Let me tell you something about me," Miller says during a telephone interview played on the episode. "You ain't never gonna hear nothing come out my mouth pointing the finger at nobody else. That just ain't gonna happen. That's just the way I live. That's the way I come up."
Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick's office declined comment, citing a policy against discussing unresolved legal matters.
The attorney representing Thomas' family said Tuesday that his clients found the upcoming TV program and Kenneth Jordan's sworn statement Tuesday to be "very disturbing." Trey Mustian said the details of Kenneth Jordan's precarious legal situation during Miller's second trial were fleshed out extensively, and he questioned why Jordan didn't take the witness stand during the first trial.
"I was at the first trial, and the defense that was put on had four separate witnesses who placed C-Murder at four separate locations doing four separate things," Trey Mustian said, in part. "If Mr. Jordan was saying at that time that Corey Miller was not the shooter, he would have been an important witness."
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Ar-Ab and Dark Lo sat down with VladTV once again, and this time around, Dark Lo spoke about recently being diagnosed with the same kidney disease as fellow Philly rapper Freeway. Dark Lo detailed his symptoms leading up to going to the hospital, and he revealed that he didn't get health insurance until he had a serious diagnosis.
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Lloyd Banks is on one hell of a roll as of late. Today he releases his third new freestyle in as many days. This one is called "Soul Food."
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Styles P of The Lox has been on a tear as of late, dropping new song back to back. Today he releases a new one titled "Ghost Wars."
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Thug Life members Mopreme, Big Syke, and Macadoshis spoke to VladTV about the the lasting effect of 2Pac and the effect Pac would have had on politics if he was still alive. "Obama wouldn't have gotten elected if it weren't for 2Pac," Big Syke said, "People better stop thinking that it didn't happen because of that. Not just Pac but hip hop period. If it wasn't for hip hop, there wouldn't be no Obama." The three continued to discuss the media's role in playing up the east coast/west coast beef, the 2Pac movie, and Pac's "One Nation" project.
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While police brutality is being well-documented and viewed worldwide thanks to social media and major news coverage, Killer Mike believes things have gotten worse despite the visibility. While a witness to violence between officers and citizens, Killer Mike believes there has been a drastic change within the last 20 or 30 years where he says drug units would catch drug dealers, take their drugs and let them go. He told DJ Vlad, "So you got your ass kicked, but you didn't get an arrest record... now they're murdering."
While on a campaign run with his right-hand man, Bernie Sanders, the rapper says he saw fear in another man's eyes due to the unsettling circumstances between cops and Black men. After inviting one man on stage, he recalled the man telling him, "When y'all leave town, who's going to protect me?" He went on to explain how the reckless reaction of officers who abused their authority within the last two decades has morphed into super-predators who view black men as "animals." The Run the Jewels rapper said, "Policemen enter their work now as though they're going on a hunt. Policemen are strapping up as though they are paramilitary and they are hunting."
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In the newest episode of The Sex Room, we meet the beautiful, talented, Coco (@cocostorm_). Coco sits with Jack Thriller and talks being an exotic dancer as well as modern, lyrical and hip hop dancer, her dream celebrity crush and of course displays her favorite sex position. Check out this beauty right here on Episode 17. Follow @_thesexroom @jackthriller @frankantonio @jetfrombk @calicoo_ @ashtheprgod @drinktoppop @effentwinindaclub
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The highly-anticipated PSA from the independent major Billionaire Buck surprisingly kicks off 2015 on the media outlet Datpiff. Although a surprise release, there is no surprise that this 18-track conceptual body of work is amazingly raw, proactive, and refreshing as the Compton, California native enters into a new year continuing to capitalize on his new-found success from his hit single, “Around Da Way”. So enjoy the new mixtape " Fuck Them Haters " and keep up with buck on the social media websites, Instagram: @billionaire_buck twitter: @comptonsbuck & Facebook: facebook.com/billionaire-buck
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