The NYPD released surveillance video of a disturbing attack against a 12-year-old boy in Brooklyn.
Police are looking for the man who sucker-punched the boy Oct. 14 at the corner of East 13th Street and Avenue T in Homecrest. The boy was reportedly waiting at the curb for a friend around 3 p.m. when the man approached.
Officers say the unprovoked attack knocked the boy unconscious and left his face fractured and bleeding.
Police believe the attacker is between 20 and 30 years old.
Daniel Cormier reacts to UFC president Dana White’s comments saying the he has a feeling that Khabib Nurmagomedov will take one more fight to attempt to go 30-0.
Today is election day and everyone is well aware what another four years of Donald Trump in office would mean for the country. The Breakfast Club interviewed Ed Gordon, who says Trump is dangerous and incompetent. He urges everyone to get out and vote today.
Ryan Garcia says he isn't fazed by that explosive Gervonta Davis knockout -- telling TMZ Sports he's lickin' his chops to get a crack at Tank.
"I'm extremely confident I'd beat that boy down," Garcia tells us ... "He's just a big bully."
Garcia and Davis are 2 of the top young boxers in sports and it seems like it's only a matter of time before they meet in the ring.
Garcia tells us straight up he'd rather fight Tank sooner than later.
Garcia says he gives Tank props for that monstrous 6th-round knockout of Leo Santa Cruz this past weekend -- but he's not scared 1 bit.
"It didn't even make my pulse go up."
Garcia even has a message for Davis -- "Don’t run away from the specialness. I can hit like that too. I can hit like that too."
Next up for Garcia is Luke Campbell. The 2 are set to do battle on December 5 and Ryan says he's looking to show the world why he should be the obvious next fight for Davis.
"We all know we can both knock people out. We all know we can put people to sleep that don't belong in the ring with us. But, one day we got to step up and go against someone who can also get slept. And, that’s what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to get in there and give fans a fight they’ll remember for the rest of their lives."
There's deep concern for what will happen tonight and beyond in the streets of America, regardless of who wins the Presidential election, and we've learned the feds have spent millions to protect the candidates and the building they want to live in.
According to federal docs obtained by TMZ, the Secret Service has dished out $2.6 million in security expenses to protect Donald Trump and Joe Biden tonight -- money earmarked for contractors who specialize in setting up secure perimeters at political events.
One company, Arcus Group LLC, is raking in $988,788 to secure the perimeter of the White House on Election Night. Another company, Showcall Security Services will collect $1.6 mil to keep Joe Biden safe in Delaware Tuesday night.
Each company will construct barriers and walls to keep people out. As you've seen by now, the perimeter of The White House has already been fortified.
Cities across the U.S. are also preparing for the worst ... businesses from Washington D.C. to Beverly Hills have been boarded up out of fear of potential unrest. Police forces have beefed up their operations as well, bringing in additional officers and reinforcements.
J-NESS SITS DOWN WITH THE LEGENDARY DJ KAY SLAY ON SHADE 45 TO DISCUSS HIS LATEST ALBUM "AIN'T NO PRESSURE" UP AND COMING PROJECTS...AND THE CURRENT STATE AND CLIMATE OF HIP HOP IN 2020...HE ALSO PREMIERED AN EXCLUSIVE FREESTYLE FROM HIS NEXT MIXTAPE TITLED "CALM BEFORE THE STORM" COMING SOON!
Sheek Louch of The Lox drops off an official music video for "Hellen Riots" in support of his new album titled "Beast Mode 4." Available now on all streaming platforms: Available now on all streaming platforms: https://songwhip.com/sheek-louch/beast-mode-4
Coach Bombay 3000 and Ty Da Dale connect to release the official music video for "Killa Crossover (Ike’s Story)." This is the second visual off of Coach's new album titled "Runnin' Plays, Vol.1."
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A judge in Cleveland on Monday tossed professional boxer Adrien Broner in jail after holding him in contempt of court as part of a civil lawsuit filed by a woman he assaulted at a nightclub in 2018.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Nancy Margaret Russo found the 31-year-old Broner failed to cooperate with multiple deadlines she set for him to hand over documents and other evidence showing why he has not been able to pay the more than $800,000 judgment the judge ordered him to pay the woman in December.
Russo cited an Instagram video posted this week showing Broner handling large stacks of money after saying in an Oct. 5 court filing in that he had just over $13 in cash. Russo ordered Broner to remain in jail until he provides complete and truthful information about his finances to the woman’s attorney, Subodh Chandra and the Chandra Law Firm.
“Mr. Broner has continually defied every court ordered I’ve given,” Russo said during the hearing. “The jig is up today.”
Russo set a Wednesday hearing for Broner and his attorney, Stanley Jackson, to show they are complying in the case, and Cuyahoga County sheriff’s deputies placed Broner in handcuffs and led him out of the courtroom.
Broner, who last boxed in January 2019, said he is preparing for a fight scheduled in January that will bring him "a significant purse” and he expects to be able to pay the judgment in full after the fight.
Broner was originally charged in November 2018 with gross sexual imposition, a fourth-degree felony, misdemeanor sexual imposition and abduction, a third-degree felony, after a then-35-year-old Wickliffe woman accused him of sexually assaulting her at a nightclub in Cleveland’s Warehouse District neighborhood during the 2018 NBA Finals.
Broner pleaded guilty in April 2019 to assault and unlawful restraint, both misdemeanors, and Judge Sherrie Miday placed him on probation for two years. He was arrested in Miami in March on drunken-driving charges, and Miday in August sentenced Broner to seven days in jail for violating his probation.
The woman filed a civil lawsuit against him, and Broner did not hire a lawyer or show up to any court hearings, resulting in Russo ruling in the woman’s favor. Chandra’s firm then requested information about his finances after he didn’t pay the judgment, and ordered him to supply the information. The coronavirus pandemic pushed hearings back several months, and Russo ultimately ordered Broner to hand over the information before he was set to sit for a deposition scheduled last Friday.
Chandra said the information Broner and Jackson handed over before the deposition was incomplete and insufficient to the point he could not prepare questions for a deposition. Russo set Monday’s hearing for Broner and Jackson to show they should not both be held in contempt of court.
Atlanta's latest power label SRP Entertainment brings us their debut single "Bandz" featuring label artists SideShowDrip, HiLife Dre and Booman. Produced by Drumma Boy.
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SUDDEN VALLEY, Wash. - The woman who shot and killed her twin 7-year-old daughters before turning the gun on herself had planned the killing for several days and gave the children a "large amount" of sedatives before she shot them, the Whatcom County sheriff said.
Sheriff Bill Elfo said his office is taking the unusual step of releasing new information about the unspeakable tragedy because "it has deeply impacted our community."
The scene unfolded Saturday afternoon (Oct. 24), when deputies responded to a call from someone at a multi-level residence who said he found his landlord and her two children dead in an upstairs bedroom.
Investigators who responded to the home outside of Bellingham determined that the children's mother, 55-year-old Michele Boudreau Deegan, shot her twin 7-year-old daughters while they were sleeping and then shot herself.
Detectives said she killed her children and herself amid a custody dispute. It happened four days after a judge granted joint custody to Boudreau and her estranged husband.
"Ms. Boudreau planned this event over the course of several days prior to the discovery of the bodies," the sheriff's office siad. "She clearly stated her suicidal ideations and that she would never leave her daughters alone without her."
Her estranged husband has a strong alibi, Elfo said, and he's been ruled out as having any involvement in the shooting.
An autopsy showed the children were given sedatives that "probably rendered them incoherent at the time of the incident."
If you are feeling like you want to harm yourself or others, help is always available. You can get help by calling the VOA Care Crisis Line at 1-800-584-3578; by texting “TALK” to 741741; calling the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-TALK(8255) or www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org.
"If a friend or family member expresses suicidal ideations, please tell someone! Don’t be silent," the sheriff's office said.
Cardi B is officially calling off her split from Offset.
The "WAP" rapper's divorce case against her husband was "dismissed without prejudice" on Monday and is now closed, ET can confirm.
Cardi initially filed for divorce from Offset in September. The "I Like It" rapper addressed their split on social media, sharing that she was just tired of arguing so much.
"At the end of the day, I decided I wanted to leave," she told viewers on her OnlyFans account, according to multiple reports. "I didn't wait until he cheated on me again. I didn't wait [for] another controversy with him being involved. I decided to leave. If I wanted to stay, I could have stayed. I decided to leave."
However, about a month later, the estranged couple were photographed kissing while celebrating Cardi's birthday in Las Vegas, and going to a strip club in Atlanta together the following week.
Cardi ultimately told fans that she and her husband -- who share a 2-year-old daughter, Kulture -- had gotten back together, saying that she decided to file for divorce to teach the Migos rapper "a lesson."
"If I take a break from my n**** and I decide to work things out, that's regular relationship s**t," she said in a voice message on social media. "If I want to go to an extreme to teach a n**** a f**king lesson and f**king file for divorce, I can do that. It's my life."
"If that divorce s**t didn't went through the court, y'all wouldn't even never knew what the f**k was going on," she added. "So please stop."
Following their reconciliation going public, Cardi admitted that she had missed Offset. "It's hard not to talk to your best friend. You know what I'm saying? It's really hard not to talk to your best friend," she said on Instagram Live.
She also admitted that there are issues in their relationship, noting that the pair are "two young motherf**kers that got married early. That's just what we are. We're no different than y'all's dysfunctional a** relationships."
(CNN) Amber Pflughoeft beamed with pride as she filled out her ballot for the first time last month.
A 20-year-old who'd been fighting bone cancer for a decade, she was fascinated with politics, her mother Tiffany Pflughoeft remembered. And after spending the last midterm election in the hospital following a bone marrow transplant, she was determined to vote this year.
But just a few days after she mailed in her ballot, Amber's condition took a sudden turn for the worse. She went back to the hospital and died in late September.
Now, her ballot will be thrown out under Wisconsin election law. She is one of several dozen Wisconsinites whose votes will be canceled because they passed away after voting early, according to state Elections Commission data provided to CNN through a public records request.
"She was so excited about it," Tiffany said this week. "She died on a Monday, but on Saturday, when she could still talk, she was telling all the nurses and doctors, 'I voted.'"
"We never realized it wouldn't count," she said.
States around the country are divided on whether to count votes from people who cast an early ballot and then die before Election Day. At least a dozen states allow it, more than a dozen others reject those votes, and laws in other states are unclear, recent research from the National Conference of State Legislatures found.
Among the most crucial swing states, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina and Pennsylvania don't count early ballots cast by voters who die before Election Day, while Arizona, Florida, Georgia and Ohio do, according to the NCSL and state elections officials.
Faze Rug joins Complex’s Joe La Puma on the latest episode of Sneaker Stories and talks about RiceGum introducing him to hypebeast sneakers, his favorite Off White sneakers and his Dior sneakers getting ruined.
This 3-part documentary series let's viewers go behind-the-scenes to witness how Deuce Ellis' highly anticipated album "Midnight Ouroboros" was made. Filmed in Brooklyn and Buffalo, this doc sees Deuce creating and recording with Camoflauge Monk (Buffalo Kids), Jae Skeese (Drumwork Music), Lxve The Genius (Drumwork Music), CeeGee, and many more.
In this episode of "People's Party With Talib Kweli," Kweli and Jasmin Leigh sit down with Grammy-winning producer, emcee, and one of the founding members of the legendary D.I.T.C. aka Diggin' In The Crates crew --
DIAMOND D
Like Talib says from the jump, the name Diamond D and D.I.T.C. define what it means to be "Down By Law." During this interview, the longtime friends discuss Diamond D's deep contributions to the annals of hip-hop history. They get rolling by talking about Diamond D's early days -- growing up in the "Boogie Down" Bronx. Next, he discusses learning to DJ under the tutelage of Jazzy Jay. They go on to explore how the D.I.T.C. collective came together, the legacies of Big L and Fat Joe, Diamond's classic album "Stunts, Blunts & Hip Hop," the producers that embodied the 90's golden era sound, as well as the lost art of beat digging and the new art of "e-digging."
Later, Diamond gets into his connections and the work he's done with groups like Brand Nubian, A Tribe Called Quest, The Fugees, and more. He goes on to talk about his more recent work in the 'Diam Piece' album series, and the trio evaluates the best years of hip-hop and the albums that defined them.
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2:30 -- Diamond is asked about his growing up in the Forest Houses projects of the Bronx, New York, and what it was about the Boogie Down that made it the ideal place for the birth of hip hop. They also talk about Diamond leaving the BX to live in Long Island while he was attending college, where he would DJ parties on the regular. They also discuss the challenges of playing music to a crowd that haven't heard it before, while keeping them engaged.
6:53 -- Diamond, Talib, and Jas discuss Diddy and his production team changing the game by their sampling of mega-hits. Puff's approach being such a departure from hip hop's long standing art of digging in the crates. They also talk about the eras that followed with Kanye breaking the rules by sampling the drums from other hip hop records, and go on to do some deconstruction of Diamond's classic album from '92, 'Stunts, Blunts, & Hip Hop'.
11:43 -- Diamond is asked about the early days of the D.I.T.C. collective. He gets into the domino like effect of each getting record deals consecutively, supporting each other along the way. D also digs into detail about the vision of Fat Joe, him being the gangster of the crew. Diamond notes the thing standing out about Joe the most being his passion for the culture. They also talk about why many producers also make some of the best emcees.
16:39 -- Talib brings up Big L and the legacy of hip hop excellence he left, before his untimely passing. The trio converse about the punch-line style of emceeing that L mastered, and became so well known for. They speak about his most iconic track with 'Ebonics', which turns into exploring the origin of the term, and how Big L made it official. The North Carolina hip hop trio Yaggfu Front, as well as Dougie Dee get a shout-out.
22:21 -- Talib and Diamond run down the list of producers that defined the 90's golden age hip hop sound. D is asked about his go-to beat machines that he's used during his illustrious career. He names some of his favorites, but states "It's not the equipment, it's what you do with it". They go on to talk about the skits that tied Diamond's 'Stunts, Blunt's & Hip Hop' album together, he's also asked about his sophomore effort 'Hatred, Passions and Infidelity', and they discuss D's Brand Nubian connection.
26:46 -- Diamond is asked if he could name off the best cities for digging, and if he wouldn't mind giving up a few of his favorite spots. D goes on to walk us through the process of digging, including reading the credits, looking for familiar musicians. He also gives his take on "e-diggin'" with many of today's producers choosing to download their beats online. Talib reminisces on being a young fan of D.I.T.C., and asks D if he can expand a little more on the evolution of the crew.
32:46 -- Diamond talks about his 'Diam Piece' album series, the first edition dropping in 2014. They talk about Talib's appearances on both one and part two, Talib explaining why he felt like he wanted to rewrite his verse, as well as why he's moved past the competitive phase of his career. Diamond also gets asked about some people's perceptions that real hip hop shouldn't be about flossing material items.
38:57 -- Diamond speaks on how he linked up with Q-Tip and A Tribe Called Quest. He explains how he met Tip at the studio to show him some beats for possible use on Tribe's 'Low End Theory', then Tip asking him to take Grand Puba's spot on 'Show Business' after Puba ruffled some feathers at Jive Records with his verse. Talib also expresses the honor of being a fan, then coming full circle and being featured on many of his idol's albums.
43:21 -- Diamond outlines how he ended up producing 'The Score' for the Fugees. He tells how Wyclef approached him, stating he was a fan of his work. Talib goes on to state his favorite years of hip hop, and the albums that defined them. They also discuss the shift to the ultra-polished hip hop of the early-2000's, and how the same ones that dissed it back then, are loving it today on account of it's nostalgia. Diamond also names off a few of his favorite artists on today's scene, and Talib asks D if he really left Large Pro's number on his dresser in reference to a verse on 'Freestyle (Yo, That’s That Sh*t)'.
Albert Johnson, professionally known as Prodigy, was 1/2 of Mobb Deep along with Havoc. Together, they formed the best two man team in hip hop history in my opinion.
We pause to remember Bandana P on what would have been his 46th birthday.
What set Mobb Deep apart from other duos was the fact that Havoc is a rapper and producer. Over his incredible beats Prodigy spit some of the illest bars that have stood the test of time.
"The Learning (Burn)" featuring Big Noyd and Vita, "Quiet Storm" and it's remix featuring Lil Kim, "Shook Ones Pt. 2," "Survival of the Fittest," "Hell On Earth," "Win Or Lose," "Give Up the Goods (Just Step)," "It's Mine" featuring Nas, "Drop a Gem on Em," "The Realest" featuring Kool G. Rap, "Get Away," "Back At You," and "Crawlin" are just a handful of the Mobb's gems.
As a solo artist Prodigy gave us "Illuminati," "Keep It Thoro," "ABC," "Real Power Is People," "Return of the Mac," "Mac 10 Handle" and many other classics.
Happy birthday Prodigy. You will go down as one of greatest emcees in rap history.
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