Lupe Fiasco releases a new song dedicated to 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins. The baby girl died Monday after being shot five times on Chicago's South Side. Her father, Jonathan Watkins, was changing her diaper in the front seat of his minivan when a gunman approached them and opened fire. Police say the father was the intended target.
She lives as long as we do. She will live forever. God bless your soul and the family you left behind. We Love You.
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Old Man Ebro of Hot 97 decided to drop the realness this morning about girls on social media by revealing the top 5 lies they tell. Of course, men lie too and hopefully there's a part 2 to this, but today was all about the ladies.
According to Ebro, women lie once a month on social media platforms like Facebook. Lets check out the top 5 list below.
5. They lie about their relationship status
4. They lie about their job.
3. They lie about what they're doing or did on vacation.
2. They lie about how much alcohol they drink
1. They say they are doing something when they are actually at home by themselves.
I don't think K. Foxx agreed with the list at all. She handled it it like a champ though.
What do you think of Ebro's list?
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As they get ready to release their new project titled The Preface on April 2nd, Square Off (Trips and Slim) give us an inside look at their world in this new documentary.
Their father, legendary emcee/beat boxer Doug E. Fresh, talks about the beginning of his son's careers. We also get background information from Trips and Slim on how the group formed, a look at them in the studio and more.
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Upcoming artist C-class from Brownsville Brooklyn & Dj Superstar Jay from Queens linked up to create a street classic
"Kingpin of the Inkpen Vol.2 features artist such as Robbie Nova, Gatsby, Neno Best, Law . Also with production from celebrity Producer Roadsart, production from allrounda, bogey beats, bella beats. This tape has all the elements of a classic, from lyrics to beats, to style, its fire.
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Fabolous and Red Cafe recently toured Europe. In part 1 of his tour vlog, Fabolous provides footage of their stops in Nantes, France, Basel, Switzerland, Stuttgart, Germany and Luxembourg.
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Grafh goes in over Drizzy's "Started From the Bottom"
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Just Blaze and Young Guru surprised the audience during a show at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin by playing a new remix of Kendrick Lamar's "Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe" featuring Jay-Z.
Check it out below.
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Lil Wayne was hospitalized in Los Angeles this week after suffering multiple seizures according to TMZ.
The Young Money CEO became ill Tuesday night after shooting a music video. He was taken to Cedars-Sinai hospital, where he was treated and released on Wednesday.
This is the third third time the rapper has dealt with seizures. He suffered two of them on board separate airplanes last October and had to be hospitalized.
Wayne told MTV during a November interview that he was taking anti-seizure medication
"Please let them know that I have an air unit, but because of the sound, they don't want the air on, so it's super hot in here," He said at the time, "I don't want y'all to think I'm on nothing, man. I'm on seizure medicine, man, that's all. They said I gotta drink four water bottles a day, that's what the doctors say. I just came from the doctor. I ain't drinking four water bottles, but everything's good."
After this latest health scare the rapper is reportedly doing much better now following a couple of days rest..
We wish Wayne a speedy recovery.
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Doug E. Fresh's talented sons Trips and Droptop Slim, together known as Square Off are preparing to release their latest project titled The Preface on April 2nd.
For the latest leak off of the project they recruit Houston rapper Killa Kyleon for "110 Street."
Cynthia Wachenheim and her husband Hal Bacharach in happier times.
Cynthia Wachenheim, 44, who left a suicide note castigating herself for being a bad mother, landed on her back after taking the fatal plunge. Baby Keston was in a harness. He bounced off his mom on impact and then rolled away from her motionless arms.
“I heard a small scream when she was in the air,” said witness Steven Dominguez, 18. “I noticed something falling, but I didn’t want to believe it was a person.”
Dominguez, who teared up as he spoke, said the landing made a horrifying sound.
“It was a loud bang,” he said outside the woman’s building on Bradhurst Ave. near W. 147th St. “It sounded like a big piece of wood hitting the floor.”
“When I got closer, I saw the baby crying,” he said.
Cynthia Wachenheim and her 10-month-old son Keston plummeted eight stories from a Harlem building near W. 147th St.
Sources said Wachenheim left a rambling 13-page, handwritten suicide note on small pages of notebook paper.
“The note said she was not happy and she talked about what she planned to do,” a source said. In the note, Wachenheim is “saying to her husband, ‘I love you. I’m making you suffer. You’re going to think I’m evil,’” a source said.
“She thinks she’s a failing mother. On the last page, she refers to postpartum depression. She was supposed to see a therapist, but she blew him off.
“As the note goes on, you get the idea she’s explaining why she’s going to do it,” the source added.
The note, which mentions little Keston having a physical handicap, was unsigned — but cops compared it to handwriting samples and determined that it was written by Wachenheim, the source said.
Wachenheim died, but her son Keston survived with minor injuries. He was in stable condition at Harlem Hospital.
Wachenheim’s husband, Hal Bacharach, 48, was at work when his wife jumped, the source said. He was spotted on surveillance video leaving the upscale building at 12:55 p.m., less than three hours before the leap. Neighbors said he stormed out of their two-bedroom condo after a loud argument. Shouting echoed through the halls.
“He was yelling at her today,” said Christian Johnson, 37. “It made me stop and listen. He was asking her why she wouldn’t pick up the phone. He kept repeating it. Then, the baby started crying.”
A police source said Wachenheim was taking antidepressants and that pills were found in the apartment.
A different police source said Wednesday was the first time police were ever called to the apartment. The couple had lived at The Sutton — where similar apartments run about $325,000 — for about three years.
Wachenheim, a high school valedictorian in Albany and a Columbia Law grad, was on maternity leave from her $118,000-a-year job in the city court system. She worked there for more than 15 years doing research and writing for judges.
Wachenheim, whose lifeless body lay on the street covered with a whire sheet, wrote a 13-page suicide note where she talked about not being happy and what she planned to do, a source said. She also said in the note to her husband that she loved him and was making him 'suffer.'
“We are deeply saddened by this tragic incident,” said David Bookstaver, spokesman for the city’s Office of Court Administration. “Our thoughts are with her family.”
Two NYPD narcotics detectives were parking a car nearby and were the first to respond after they saw the tragic fall.
Cops took the boy, who appeared to only have scratches and minor injuries, to Harlem Hospital. He was listed in stable condition and was expected to survive. A source said he underwent a CT scan.
Neighbors were shocked that Wachenheim, who officials said worked as an associate court attorney with the New York County Law Office, took her only child with her in the fatal leap.
“She was very friendly,” said Yaa Dwamena, 32. “She always greeted you when you came in and out of the building. She didn’t seem like she was going through anything.”
Neighbor Christian Johnson said he heard Wachenheim and her husband, Hal Bacharach, yelling at each other, but didn’t think it was anything more than a typical squabble until he saw Wachenheim dead.
“She was always holding him in her arms,” the worker said. “She was always with the baby. She loved that baby.”
Johnson, who has known the couple since they moved into the building, said he never saw signs of trouble.
“I saw her a little while ago,” he said. “She seemed stressed out — but what mother of a 10-month-old isn’t stressed out?”
Johnson also thought that Wednesday’s argument was just a typical squabble between parents, until he saw Wachenheim’s body on the sidewalk.
“I saw her on the ground and I lost it,” Johnson said.
With Barbara Ross, Kerry Burke and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh
rparascandola@nydailynews.com, vchinese@nydailynews.com and jkemp@nydailynews.com
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It's very rare to catch Nicki Minaj without her signature pink lipstick and long eyelashes. The Young Money star decided to go for a more natural look in her new photo shoot for the April issue of Elle magazine, which goes on sale on March 18th.
Check out an excerpt from Nicki's cover story with James Patrick Herman for the publication and her photo shoot with Thomas Whiteside below.
On her dramatic make-under for her ELLE photo shoot: "When I saw myself with barely any makeup at, it was such a… like, I'm so, so attached to my pink lipstick, it's hard. I feel that it's become a part of me. To go in front of the camera, without pink lips or big ol' crazy lashes— you know, nothing— I felt naked. It was scary! So this photo shoot was a real accomplishment in my eyes."
On experiencing bullying in school as a child: "I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough. So I've always put up this wall— it was a self-defense mechanism growing up— because I was almost expecting people to attack me. And I still have it. It's sad."
Her advice for women on how to command respect: "My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want— and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge. You want everyone to know, Okay, I can't play games with her. I have to do right by this woman. That's what it's all about."
On her plans for world domination: "My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, Okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire. I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination— in terms of providing for my family— is absolutely my goal."
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Soulja Boy continues to release music videos in rapid fire succession. He directs himself in his latest visuals for the song "All Black." The track is off of his mixtape, Foreign.
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Vado and N.O.R.E. a.k.a. P.A.P.I. were guests on MTV's RapFix Live on Wednesday. The two emcees ended the show by spitting a couple of a cappella freestyles. Peep that below.
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Justin Timberlake continued his week long concert series on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday by performing "Let the Groove Get In" for the first time on television. The song is off of JT's upcoming album, The 20/20 Experience.
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Chief Keef is scheduled to be released from a Chicago juvenile detention center today. It's the perfect time to release his new music video for "Now It's Over." The song is off of his upcoming mixtape, Bang Pt. 2.
Directed by @BHughesStudios
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The internet has been buzzing over the last couple of days about Joe Budden and Consequence scrapping at the Love & Hip Hop reunion.
Not to be overlooked in all this is the fact that Tahiry swung on Cons after he sucker punched Joe.
The reality star/singer called into Hot 97 this morning to talk about punching Cons in the face, the status of her relationship with Joe and more.
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Despite having served 18 months in federal prison and losing millions of dollars in salary and endorsement deals following his 2007 conviction for running a dogfighting operation, some people refuse to let Michael Vick live his life in peace.
Since his May 2009 release from federal custody the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback has been a model citizen by all accounts, but he recently had to cancel a book tour to promote his autobiography "Finally Free" after "credible threats" were called into several Barnes & Noble Booksellers and an independent bookstore in New Jersey.
"It is disturbing that a few extremists would threaten Vick's family and store employees," said Vick's spokesman Chris Shigas. "Michael Vick has millions of fans and has countless letters from teachers thanking him for inspiring students to make positive change."
Despite the death threats, Vick refuses to hide.
According to TMZ, the NFL star will continue giving back to the community by working with the Veterans of Foreign Wars organization and Team Freedom Outreach (recreation and visitation programs for youth detention centers).
"Mike is committed to helping make his community a better place," Vick's rep says. "[He] is determined to continue his work with charity and helping others."
Security measures have been put into place in case more threats are made.
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DJ Paul has cut a plea deal in his New York City weapons possession case. The Three 6 Mafia rapper was caught with a taser back in October after leaving a restaurant with an open beer in his hand
He was arrested and charged with carrying an open container of alcohol and misdemeanor possession of a weapon.
After initially pleading not guilty to the charges, Paul reconsidered and accepted a plea deal yesterday that required him to plead guilty to disorderly conduct according to TMZ.
He was sentenced to 21 hours of community service.
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This looks like something Trinidad James would be more interested in if he were ever injured, but Lady Gaga has beaten him to the punch.
While recovering from hip surgery that forced her to cancel her world tour the pop singer is riding around in a one-of-a-kind wheelchair made of 24-karat gold.
Ken Borochov of the adornment luxury line Mordekai created the chair. He's done specialty pieces in the past for Cher Lloyd, Nicki Minaj and Kanye West, but was surprised when he heard what Gaga wanted.
"I certainly wasn't expecting that phone call and have never done a wheelchair but am always up for a challenge and was thrilled to create what I affectionately dubbed the Chariot, a chair fit only for a queen," Borochov told the New York Post
The gold plated chair "has a black leather seat complete with a removable leather canopy. The chair can also recline all the way back if Gaga needs to lie down."
Peep some pics below.
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As promised Grand Hustle CEO, T.I. comes through with his short film for the diss track, "Addresses." The song is off od Tip's album, Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head’. Directed by Clifton Bell.
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