Super producer Swiff D has laid down trunk rattling tracks for many of your favorite artists including 50 Cent, Lil Wayne, Pac Div, Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Omarion, Kevin Gates, Schoolboy Q, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Busta Ryhmes and more.
He's just released an instrumental album entitled Washington Park. Take a listen to it up top and download individual tracks by clicking on them.
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Wiz Khalifa is preparing the release of his Blacc Hollywood album later this year. His single "We Dem Boyz" looks like it's going to another smash hit for the Taylor Gang boss. Today he drops the official music video for it.
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Actor/comedian/rapper Donald Glover a.k.a. Childish Gambino continues to promote his Because the Internet album with the release of a music video for "Sweatpants" featuring Problem. Cop the album now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/because-the-internet/id740373880.
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Alicia Keys, Kendrick Lamar and Pharrell Williams deliver the official music video for their contribution to The Amazing Spider Man 2 soundtrack entitled "It's On Again."
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Lana Del Rey drops off her new single entitled "West Coast." This is the lead track off of the singer's forthcoming third album entitled Ultraviolence. You can grab the song now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/west-coast-single/id859340306.
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ABUJA, Nigeria (Associated Press) — A massive explosion ripped through a bus station during the morning rush hour in Nigeria's capital, killing at least 71 people and wounding 124 in a bombing that marked the bloodiest terrorist attack ever in Abuja.
President Goodluck Jonathan visited the scene and blamed Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist group which operates in the northeast of Nigeria and which has been threatening to attack Nigeria's capital. One official said he believed the bomb buried in the earth while the emergency management agency said the explosives were apparently hidden in a vehicle.
The blast destroyed 16 luxury buses and 24 minibuses and cars, said police spokesman Frank Mba, who gave the death toll.
Survivors screamed in anguish and the stench of burning fuel and flesh hung over the site where billows of black smoke rose as firefighters worked to put out the fires. Reporters saw rescue workers and police gathering body parts as ambulances rushed the wounded to the hospitals. State television has broadcast calls for blood donations.
Security personnel battled to belatedly cordon off the area as a bomb detonation team was combing it for secondary explosives, a common occurrence here. Thousands of bystanders gathered, ignoring warnings to stay away. While violence has torn the northeast where Boko Haram has killed thousands, the capital in the middle of Africa's most populous country has been relatively peaceful.
Two notable exceptions occurred when Boko Haram members rammed two explosives-laden cars into the lobby of the United Nations office building in 2011, killing at least 21 people and wounded 60 and when militants from the southern oil-producing Niger Delta in October 2010 exploded two car bombs at Independence Day celebration, leaving at least 12 people dead and 17 injured. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta which carried out that attack has been largely dormant since then, except for some sabotage of oil pipelines.
There was no immediate claim for Monday's bombing though bus stations are a favored Boko Haram target. In March 2013, the extremists drove a car bomb into the main bus station in Kano, Nigeria's second biggest city, killing at least 25 people.
Boko Haram's campaign to make Nigeria an Islamic state with Sharia, or Islamic law, enforced throughout the country poses the greatest threat to its cohesion and security and threatens nearby countries where the fighters have gone to train and fight.
"The issue of Boko Haram is quite an ugly history within this period of our own development," said Jonathan. "Government is doing everything to make sure that we move our country forward ... But the issue of Boko Haram is temporary. Surely, we will get over it."
In May 2013, Jonathan declared a state of emergency and deployed thousands of troops to curb the violence in northeast Nigeria after the extremists took control of entire towns and villages. Security forces quickly forced the Islamic insurgents out of urban areas but have been battling to dislodge them from hideouts, despite near-daily air bombardments and ground assaults this year on forests and mountain caves along the border with Cameroon.
The military has claimed it has the upper hand in the war, but the extremists have fought back with more frequent and ever-deadlier attacks.
Governors and traditional leaders in the northeast have demanded that Jonathan end the state of emergency, saying it is causing suffering and has not been effective. Some 750,000 people have been forced from towns and villages, including tens of thousands of farmers who had to abandon their farms, risking a food shortage this year.
There was believed to be only one bomb detonation Monday with secondary explosions as vehicle fuel tanks ignited and burned. It appeared the explosives were buried in the dirt ground of the bus station, said John Ahwen, counter-terrorism chief of the National Security and Defense Corps. But the National Emergency Management Agency said it thought the explosives were hidden in a vehicle.
"I can't count the number of people that died. They took them in open vehicles. People were running and there was confusion," said civil servant Ben Nwachukwu.
The blast left a hole 4 feet deep (1.2 meters) in the ground of Nyanya Motor Park about 16 kilometers (10 miles) from the city center. It happened at 6:45 a.m. (05:45 GMT) as people were traveling to work.
The deadliest toll in the nearly 5-year-old Islamic uprising came March 14 when Boko Haram attacked the main military barracks in the northeast, Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, and freed hundreds of detainees. Amnesty International said more than 600 people were killed, most of them unarmed detainees gunned down by soldiers.
Last week, Boko Haram suspects detained at the State Security Service headquarters in Abuja, next door to the residence and office of President Goodluck Jonathan, staged a failed jailbreak in which it is suspected that they had outside help. The agency said 21 detainees were shot and killed and two agents wounded in a shootout that lasted more than two hours.
The militants are blamed for attacks in northeast Nigeria that have killed more than 64 people in the past week, including eight teachers living at a boarding school that had been closed because of frequent attacks on schools in which hundreds of students have died.
Boko Haram — the nickname means "Western education is forbidden" — has been attacking schools, villages, market places and military barracks and checkpoints this year in increasingly frequent and deadly attacks. Its mission is to force an Islamic state on Nigeria whose 170 million people are divided almost equally between Muslims living mainly in the north and Christians in the south.
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Faul reported from Lagos, Nigeria.
Police: Blast in Nigerian Capital Kills 71
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Aldon Smith is one of the most talented players in the NFL, but at the rate of trouble he's getting into with the law, the San Francisco 49ers linebacker may throw it all away.
Smith was arrested and booked for investigation of making a false bomb threat in the middle of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday, April 13.
According to the Associated Press, Smith became belligerent while going through secondary security screening and threatened that he had a bomb.
During his arrest, Smith reportedly resisted and became uncooperative. FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said anyone making a bomb threat at an airport could be charged with a federal crime. If that happens he could face a year in prison.
"We are disappointed to learn of the incident today involving Aldon Smith," 49ers general manager Trent Baalke said in a statement. "As this is a pending legal matter and we are still gathering the pertinent facts, we will have no further comment."
In September 2013, Smith crash his truck in San Francisco. He was charged with driving under the influence and drug possession.
The all-pro player took five games off last season to deal with a substance abuse problem. He rejoined the team on November 5, and finished the season with 8.5 sacks.
Aldon Smith -- 49ers Superstar Arrested at LAX ... Allegedly Yelled 'Bomb' in Airport
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Producer Boola links up with two of Brooklyn, New York's best in Uncle Murda and M.O.P. for a new banger entitled "Back Block." Expect more new music from Boola as his "Produced By Boola" series kicks into gear. Download "Back Block" here https://soundcloud.com/producedbyboola2/m-o-p-uncle-murda-back-block
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When all else fails leak a sex tape. Love and Hip Hop Atlanta star Mimi Faust is following in the footsteps of Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Farrah Abraham and others by releasing an explicit romp between the sheets with boyfriend Nikko Smith.
Vivid Entertainment CEO, Steve Hirsch, has already secured signatures from both parties and has put the promotional campaign in motion for the flick entitled Mimi & Nikko: Scandal in Atlanta. It will be released later this month
According to TMZ, the bosses for Love and Hip Hop are all for it as well.
Peep some photos from the XXX encounter below.
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DJ Whoo Kid and DJ S. Whit grab T.I. for a special remix of Wiz Khalifa's new single "We Dem Boyz." This will appear on The Elevation Volume 2 mixtape dropping on April 20.
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PLEASANT GROVE, Utah (Associated Press) — A Utah woman accused of killing several babies she gave birth to over 10 years was arrested Sunday after police discovered seven tiny bodies stuffed in separate cardboard boxes in the garage of her former home.
Megan Huntsman, 39, who lived in the Pleasant Grove home until three years ago, had the infants between 1996 and 2006, investigators said.
Neighbors in the middle-class neighborhood of mostly older homes 35 miles south of Salt Lake City say they were shocked by the accusations and perplexed that the woman's older children still living in the home didn't know their mother was pregnant or notice anything suspicious.
Officers responded to a call Saturday from Huntsman's estranged husband about a dead infant at the home, police Capt. Michael Roberts said. Officers then discovered the six other bodies.
Roberts declined to comment on a motive and what Huntsman said during an interview with investigators. He said it wasn't clear if she has an attorney. Huntsman was booked Sunday into the Utah County Jail on six counts of murder. It wasn't immediately clear why there were six counts and not seven.
Family and neighbors identified the estranged husband as Darren West, who has been in prison on drug-related charges.
The spokesman said police believe West and Huntsman were together when the babies were born, but West isn't a person of interest at this time.
"We don't believe he had any knowledge of the situation," Roberts told The Associated Press.
Asked how the husband could not have known, Roberts replied, "That's the million-dollar question. Amazing."
The babies' bodies were sent to the Utah medical examiner's office for tests, including one to determine the cause of death. DNA samples taken from the suspect and her husband will determine definitively whether the two are the parents, as investigators believe.
Police say West was cleaning out the garage when he made the grisly discovery at the house owned by his parents in a city of about 35,000 people at the foot of snow-capped mountains. It's a nondescript, newer home with a brick facade and a star ornament hanging by the door. Several police cars blocked the entrance to the house Sunday evening as officers milled about with the belongings from the garage strewn across the front lawn.
Late Sunday, West's family issued a statement saying they were in a "state of shock and confusion."
"We are mourning this tragic loss of life and we are trying to stay strong and help each other through this awful event," the statement said before asking for privacy.
West pleaded guilty in federal court in 2005 to two counts of possessing chemicals intended to be used in manufacturing methamphetamine, court records show. In August 2006, he was sentenced to nine years in prison, but appealed the term three times. He maintained his innocence and said he never had any intention to manufacture meth. It's unclear when he was released.
Neighbors told the AP they were shocked and horrified by the accusations of what went on inside the home. None of them even knew Huntsman was pregnant in recent years.
The family members seemed like nice people and good neighbors, said Aaron and Kathie Hawker, who live next door.
Huntsman moved out several years ago, leaving her three daughters, one teenager and two young adults, to live alone, the Hawkers said. They weren't sure where Huntsman has since been living.
Years ago, Huntsman baby-sat the Hawker grandchildren and they were friendly with each other.
"It makes us so sad, we want to cry," Kathie Hawker said. "We enjoyed having them as a neighbor. This has just blown us away."
Aaron Hawker said he talked with West on Saturday morning. He told Hawker he was cleaning out the mess in the garage.
"Two hours later, suddenly we had all these policemen here," Aaron Hawker said.
Fred Newman, a neighbor whose cousin is the husband's mother, said he's perplexed how the three oldest daughters living there didn't know about what police say was going on. He said the girls didn't always park their cars in the garage, but did sometimes in the cold winter months.
"What's shocking is the three older ones living there and not noticing that their mother was pregnant," Newman said.
He said he has used his snow-blower to clean off the driveway of the home and the young women would thank him.
The girls were normal youngsters, coming and going often, neighbor Vickie Nelson said.
"It's shocking and kind of morbid and strange," Nelson said as he looked across the street at the garage from her from lawn.
Roberts said the case has been "emotionally draining" and upsetting to investigators. He was at the home when the bodies were discovered.
"My personal reaction? Just shocked. Couldn't believe it. The other officers felt the same," the 19-year police veteran said.
"They got more and more shocked each box they opened," Roberts said.
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Griffith reported from Reno, Nev. Associated Press writer Annie Knox in Salt Lake City contributed to this report.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (Associated Press) — The man accused of killing three people Sunday in attacks at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City is a well-known white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt.
Frazier Glenn Cross, of Aurora, Mo., was booked into Johnson County jail on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder after the attacks in Overland Park.
At a news conference, Overland Park police Chief John Douglass declined to publicly identify the man suspected in the attacks. But an official at the Olathe jail, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the case, identified the suspect as 73-year-old Frazier Glenn Cross, of Aurora, Mo.
"Today is a sad and very tragic day," Douglass said at the news conference. "As you might imagine we are only three hours into this investigation. There's a lot of innuendo and a lot of assertions going around. There is really very little hardcore information."
According to police, the attacks happened within minutes of one another. At around 1 p.m. a gunman shot two people in the parking lot behind the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. He then drove a few blocks away to a Jewish retirement community, Village Shalom, and gunned down a woman or girl there, Douglass said. Officers arrested him in an elementary school parking lot a short time later.
Police said the attacks at both sites happened outside, and that the gunman never entered any buildings. Douglass said the gunman also shot at two other people during the attacks, but missed.
Authorities declined to release the victims' names pending notification of their relatives, and the identity of the person shot at the retirement community was still unknown early Monday. However, the family of the first two victims put out a statement identifying them as Dr. William Lewis Corporon, who died at the scene, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who died at Overland Park Regional Medical Center.
They were both Christian, and the family thanked members of their church congregation, among other people, for their support.
"We take comfort knowing they are together in Heaven," the family said. It asked for privacy to mourn.
Rebecca Sturtevant, a hospital spokeswoman, said family members told her Corporon had taken his grandson to the community center so that the boy could try out for a singing competition for high school students. Reat was a freshman at Blue Valley High School and an Eagle Scout.
Douglass said the suspect made several statements to police, "but it's too early to tell you what he may or may not have said." He also said it was too early in the investigation to determine whether there was an anti-Semitic motive for the attacks or whether they will be investigated as hate crimes. The Jewish festival of Passover begins Monday.
"We are investigating it as a hate crime. We're investigating it as a criminal act. We haven't ruled out anything. ... Again, we're three hours into it," he said.
Although the suspect was booked under the last name Cross, he is probably better known as Frazier Glenn Miller. A public records search shows he has used both names, but he refers to himself on his website as Glenn Miller and went by the name Frazier Glenn Miller in 2006 and 2010 campaigns for public office.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said it reached Miller's wife, Marge, by phone and that she said authorities had been to their home and told her that her husband had been arrested in Sunday's attacks. Calls by The Associated Press to a number listed as Miller's on his website were met by a busy signal or rang unanswered.
According to the law center, Miller has been involved in the white supremacist movement for most of his life. He founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and was its "grand dragon" in the 1980s. The Army veteran and retired truck driver later founded another white supremacist group, the White Patriot Party, the center said.
Miller was the subject of a nationwide manhunt in 1987 for violating the terms of his bond while appealing a North Carolina conviction for operating a paramilitary camp. The search ended after federal agents found Miller and three other men in an Ozark mobile home, which was filled with hand grenades, automatic weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition. Miller tried running for U.S. House in 2006 and the U.S. Senate in 2010, espousing a white power platform each time.
The attacks rattled Overland Park, a suburb of about 180,000 residents south of Kansas City.
President Barack Obama released a statement expressing his grief over the attack, and Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback vowed to bring those responsible to justice.
"My heart and prayers are with all those who were affected by today's events," Brownback said in a statement. "We will pursue justice aggressively for these victims and criminal charges against the perpetrator or perpetrators to the full extent of the law."
Michael Siegal, chair of the Jewish Federations of North America, also said in an emailed statement that "no community should have to face a moment such as this one."
"Today, on the eve of Pesach, we are left to contemplate how we must continue our work building a world in which all people are free to live their lives without the threat of terror," he said.
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Associated Press writer Tim Jacobs in Chicago contributed to this report.
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Dionisia Pacquiao doesn't play when it comes to her son Manny. On Saturday, April 12, at the MGM Grand she appears to put some kind of hex on Timothy Bradley during his fight with Pac Man.
Watch up top as Dionisia holds a prayer card and rosary in her hand while pointing a middle finger at Timothy while giving him the evil eye and chanting only God knows what.
Pacquiao reclaimed the WBO welterweight championship via unanimous decision over Bradley.
With her son's victory secure mama Pacquiao gives Bradley a hug.
Spotted at New York Daily News
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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 a radio pioneer by many, STAR 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 and Power 105 (2000 - 2006) that secured their place in Hip-Hop history.
Torain'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, shot97.com and VH1 (The Gossip Game).
This clip is from STAR's LIVE show (12noon -- 2pm) on http://shot97.com.
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Pharrell Williams turned the 2014 Coachella Music and Arts Festival into his own private party. The super producer performed his solo hits and brought an all-star cast of guests.
Wearing his now-signature Vivienne Westwood hat and a gray hoodie, Pharrell started with Daft Punk's "Lose Yourself To Dance" and his new Miley Cyrus collaboration "Come Get It Bae" before saying "Let's take it back" and quickly diving into his deep discography. "Frontin'" followed, and before long, Nelly has burst onstage to play the Neptunes-produced "Hot In Herre," Busta Rhymes and Puff Daddy had combined with Pharrell for "Pass The Courvoisier Pt. 2," and Snoop Dogg had strolled into view for the one-two punch of "Drop It Like It's Hot" and "Beautiful." Tyler, The Creator also bounced around the stage at one point, and Pharrell even squeezed in a Diplo drive-by for the Major Lazer track "Aerosol Can."
But the biggest shock came when Pharrell teased "some crazy shit" and an appearance from the "incredible, historical, most important… girl in the world," and the beat to "Hollaback Girl" was met with Gwen Stefani arriving and declaring, "Uh huh, this my shit!" Stefani's appearance ended with a huge embrace with Pharrell, who told the crowd, "Look how amazing the queen looks as she is making her arrival back to the music industry."
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Sunday, April 13, is the final day of the first weekend of the 2014 Coachella Music and Arts Festival. Artists scheduled to hit the stage at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California include Beck, Lana Del Rey, Fishbone, Chance The Rapper, Little Dragon, Arcade Fire, Motorhead, STRFKR, The Nakes and Famous, Ducksauce, Disclosure and more.
You can watch the entire live stream here starting at 5:30 p.m. Central.
Channel 1:
3:30pm - J. Roddy Walston & The Business
4:15pm - Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
5:10pm - Fisbone
6:00pm - Blood Orange
6:50pm - The Naked and Famous
7:45pm - Muse
8:25pm - Calvin Harris
9:25pm - Beck
10:20pm - Arcade Fire
Channel 2:
3:30pm - Preservation Hall Jazz Band
4:30pm - Frank Turner
5:30pm - Superchunk
6:30pm - The 1975
7:15pm - Little Dragon
8:30pm- Daughter
10:10pm - Nas
11:10pm - Disclosure
Channel 3:
3:30pm - Surfer Blood
6:00pm - Flosstradamus
6:50pm- Darkside
7:50pm- Alesso
9:00pm- Big Gigantic
9:55pm - Adventure Club
10:45pm - Duck Sauce
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#Lorde's dressed in desert white, mesmerizing a huge crowd on a wind-whipped side stage. Gorgeous in every way #Coachella @mtye
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17-year old New Zealand singer Lorde was one of the most anticipated acts at the 2014 Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.
On Saturday, April 12, she entertained the crowd with songs from here debut album, Pure Heroine.
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Ain't nothin like performing to 100,000. NOTHIN ! Thank you. #coachella http://t.co/Ve96BWEhHg
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Nas took over the stage on day two of the 2014 Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio California on Saturday, April 12.
Nas killed it in front of 100,000 fans by performing his entire 1994 classic album, ILLMATIC.
Nasir was joined by Jay Z to perform "Dead Presidents II" and "Where I'm From."
Puff Daddy later came out to assist on "Hate Me Now."
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Terrell Owens is in a deep financial hole with Uncle Sam. According to TMZ, the former NFL superstar owes the federal government $244,391.52 for failing to pay his taxes in 2012.
Owens has a history of problems with the IRS. He previously owed $430K in 2005, that he eventually paid off.
Owens last played in the NFL in 2010. He finished his career with 1,078 receptions, 15,934 yards and 153 yards. He is sure to eventually make the Hall of Fame.
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Chicago rapper Big T hops on the instrumental.to Nicki Minaj and Lil Herb's "Chi-Raq." Take a listen to the track up top.
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