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Watch the official music video of "100 Shots" by Young Dolph.

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Philthy Rich and Mozzy drop off an official music video for "Political Ties," the title track off of their joint album. Out now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/political-ties/id1141595869

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NEW YORK (AP) — Bill O'Reilly has lost his job at Fox News Channel following reports that five women had been paid millions of dollars to keep quiet about harassment allegations.

21st Century Fox issued a statement Wednesday that "after a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the company and Bill O'Reilly have agreed that Bill O'Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel."

He had been scheduled to return from a vacation next Monday. O'Reilly was photographed in Rome shaking Pope Francis' hand on Wednesday.

It marks a stunning end to a near-perfect marriage between a pugnacious personality and network. For two decades, O'Reilly has ruled the "no spin zone" with cable news' most popular show, and his ratings had never been higher.

In a memo to Fox staff on Wednesday, the Murdochs said the decision followed an extensive review done in collaboration with an outside counsel.

Fox said that Tucker Carlson's show would move to 8 p.m. to replace O'Reilly and that the panel talk show "The Five" would take Carlson's time slot at 9 p.m.

The fast-moving story took shape with an April 2 report in The New York Times that five women had been paid a total of $13 million to keep quiet about unpleasant encounters with O'Reilly, who has denied any wrongdoing. Dozens of his show's advertisers fled, even though O'Reilly's viewership increased. O'Reilly has denied wrongdoing.

Bill O'Reilly was NEVER this significant "talent" they are making him out to be. He simply pandered to the white supremacists demographic

— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) April 19, 2017

People like Bill O'Reilly have the blood of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner & others on his hands, for normalizing racial executions

— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) April 19, 2017

Cam'ron tried to tell us years ago that he had dirt on Bill O'Reilly. pic.twitter.com/hgjIQlTsL7

— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) April 19, 2017

Even though at least one of the harassment cases against O'Reilly dated back more than a decade and was widely reported then, the accumulation of cases outlined in the Times damaged him much more extensively. It wasn't clear when those stories would end, with a group of women demonstrating in front of Fox's headquarters Tuesday and another woman, a former clerical worker at Fox, calling a harassment hotline and accusing the host of boorish behavior.

"I'm not going away," said Lisa Bloom, attorney for the latest accuser and another woman who alleges her career stalled because she spurned O'Reilly's advances. "My phone is ringing off the hook."

O'Reilly's attorney, Marc Kasowitz, charged that his client was being subjected to a "brutal campaign of character assassination" and that there is a smear campaign orchestrated by far-left organizations bent on destroying O'Reilly for political and financial reasons.

Conservative personality Glenn Beck — who once lost a job at Fox News Channel because a similar campaign choked his program of paying advertisers — came to O'Reilly's defense of Wednesday, but it was too late.

"You need to write and call Fox News Channel today and tell them, you can lose your advertisers or you can lose your viewers," Beck said on his radio show. "But you have to put some spine back into the Murdoch family and the Fox News Channel board because you are about to lose Bill O'Reilly."

O'Reilly's fans aren't likely to be happy about him losing his job, particularly on a controversy set in motion by the Times. His show's viewership increased the week after the story appeared — O'Reilly didn't address it on the air — and has sunk since he left for vacation. Potential successors like Dana Perino, Eric Bolling and Greg Gutfeld have substituted for O'Reilly since he left for vacation.

Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirmed O'Reilly was in the VIP section for the pope's Wednesday appearance. Burke, a former Fox News correspondent in Rome, denied having facilitated the tickets. Such tickets can be obtained via special request to the papal household from embassies, high-ranking churchmen or Vatican officials.

Francis always swings by the VIP seats at the end of his audience for a quick round of handshakes. A photographer from the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano snapped a photo of Francis reaching out to shake his hand.

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AP writer Nicole Winfield in Rome contributed to this story.

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Former New England Patriots star tight end turned convicted murderer, Aaron Hernandez, committed suicide by hanging himself inside his cell at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center on Wednesday, April 19.

However, his lawyer Jose Baez is not buying that and has vowed to launch an investigation into his client's death.

Baez had just gotten Hernandez acquitted in a double murder case last week, and was about to appeal his 2015 murder conviction of Odin Lloyd, for which he was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

According to TMZ, Baez believes Hernandez was murdered. Either by other inmates or prison officials.

"There were no conversations or correspondence from Aaron to his family or legal team that would have indicated anything like this was possible," he said in a statement. "Aaron was looking forward to an opportunity for a second chance to prove his innocence. Those who love and care about him are heartbroken and determined to find the truth surrounding his untimely death."

Hernandez was 27-years old at the time of his death.

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Here's Nicki Minaj's official music video for "No Frauds" featuring Drake and Lil Wayne

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Check out DJ Cassidy's official music video for his single titled "Honor" featuring Grace and Lil Yachty.

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(Reuters) Former New England Patriots football star Aaron Hernandez hanged himself in the jail cell where he was serving a life sentence for murder, just days after being acquitted of a second double-murder charge, state prison officials said on Wednesday.

Hernandez, 27, was a rising star in the National Football League when he was arrested in June 2013 and accused of murdering an acquaintance near his Massachusetts home. He was convicted of that killing and sentenced to life in prison in 2015 but on Friday found not guilty of another 2012 double murder.

Staff at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, found Hernandez hanging in his prison cell at 3:05 a.m. EDT (0705 GMT) and he was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead at 4:07 a.m. EDT (0807 GMT).

"Mr. Hernandez hanged himself utilizing a bed sheet that he attached to his cell window," the state corrections commission said in a statement. "Mr. Hernandez also attempted to block his door from the inside by jamming the door with various items."

An attorney for Hernandez did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

(Reporting by Brendan O'Brien; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

Photo credit: Jeffrey Beall under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license via Wikimedia Commons

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Comedians Lil Duval and DeRay Davis joined VladTV to give Vlad a hard time about doing the interview via FaceTime, talk their new DJ Pooh movie "Grow House" and its similarities to "Friday," and air out their romantic pasts. "DeRay might have the most h**s in the entertainment business," Lil Duval says

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Mac Miller drops a short film for the song "Cinderella" featuring Ty Dolla $ign. From "The Divine Feminine," available on iTunes & Spotify now: https://smarturl.it/MM.TDF

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Check out Kendrick Lamar's official music video for DNA. This is off of his latest album titled DAMN. Available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/damn/id1223592280

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Kendrick Lamar is set to have his third consecutive No. 1 album.

Billboard reports that the Compton rapper's new album titled "DAMN" is projected to move 475,000 equivalent album units in the week ending April 20.

This latest disc follows previous opening week chart toppers "Untitled: Unmastered" (178,000) and "To Pimp a Butterfly" (363,000).

Congrats to Kendrick and Top Dawg Entertainment!

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CLEVELAND (AP) — The man who randomly killed a Cleveland retiree and posted video of the crime on Facebook shot himself to death on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, police said.

Pennsylvania State Police said Steve Stephens was spotted Tuesday morning in Erie County, in the state's northwest corner. Authorities say officers tried to pull Stephens over and, after a brief pursuit, he shot and killed himself.

Steve Stephens was spotted this morning by PSP members in Erie County. After a brief pursuit, Stephens shot and killed himself.

— PA State Police (@PAStatePolice) April 18, 2017

He was wanted on an aggravated murder charge in the shooting death of a 74-year-old man who was picking up aluminum cans on Sunday after spending Easter with his family.

Stephens posted a video of himself killing Robert Godwin Sr., a former foundry worker who had 10 children, police said. In it, he said, "I snapped, I just snapped."

Stephens, 37, shared a recording on Sunday of himself announcing his plan to kill someone, then two minutes later posted another video of himself shooting and killing Godwin, Facebook said. A few minutes after that, he went live and confessed, the company said.

The company said it disabled Stephen's account within 23 minutes of receiving the first report about the video of the fatal shooting and two hours after receiving any report.

Facebook has since announced it was launching a review for reporting harmful content.

Police would not speculate on what was behind the killing, but videos Stephens posted showed him talking about losing everything he had to gambling and trouble with his girlfriend.

Stephens filed for bankruptcy two years ago despite holding down a job as a counselor helping young people develop job skills and find employment. The behavioral health agency where he worked said an extensive background check before he was hired turned up nothing worrisome.

In one video posted on Facebook, Stephens said that he gambled away everything and that he and his girlfriend had planned to marry but did not, without saying why.

In the video of the shooting, Stephens told Godwin the name of his girlfriend and said, "She's the reason that this is about to happen to you." Godwin did not seem to recognize the name.

The woman Stephens spoke of, Joy Lane, said in a text message to CBS that "we had been in a relationship for several years. I am sorry that all of this has happened."

Investigators said that Godwin was the only victim so far linked to Stephens, despite his claim on Facebook that he killed over a dozen people.

Officers searched dozens of places around Cleveland without finding Stephens or any other victims before expanding the manhunt. Detectives spoke with the suspect on Sunday by cellphone and tried to persuade him to surrender, police said.

Within a day, authorities expanded the search nationwide and offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to his capture and prosecution.

Law enforcement officials said on Monday that his cellphone was last tracked Sunday afternoon in Erie, Pennsylvania, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Cleveland.

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Associated Press reporters Michael Rubinkam in Pennsylvania, Dake Kang and Delano Massey in Cleveland, John Seewer in Toledo and Dan Sewell in Cincinnati contributed to this report.

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Chris Miles may only be 17-years old, but he's been ripping down mics for the last several years and is definitely on our watch list for artists who are ready to take off. Look for big things to come now that he is under Tony Yayo's tutelage.

With that said, check out his latest release titled "Missed My Train." Produced by Timeline. Mixed by Mic West

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LeToya Luckett releases an official music video for her single, "Used To," off of her forthcoming album titled "Back 2 Life," which will be released on May 12. Preorder "Back 2 Life" - http://www.2lin.cc/Back2Life

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After a slight delay Dope Boy Troy Ave comes through with his highly anticipated "NuPac" street album.

The lone feature is from Jamila Irish

Production credits go to Trilogy, Rubi Rosa, Yankee, Jamal Hall, Shemon Luster and more.

Grab the project now from MyMixtapez: https://mxtpz.me/a/122446

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Tracklist:

1. Nupac Intro [Prod. By Jamal Hall, Trilogy & Troy Ave]
2. Demonstrate_God Is Great [Prod. By Trilogy]
3. I Ain't Mad At Cha [Prod. By Trilogy]
4. Fight 4 My Life_Word Word [Prod. By Shemonluster_Quablab Productions Inc.]
5. Level 2 Orientation [Prod. By Troy Ave]
6. Press Spray [Prod. By Troy Ave & Trilogy]
7. Jail House_Im Home [Prod. By Trilogy]
8. Truth Be Told_PSA [Prod. By Trilogy & Troy Ave]
9. Never Switch [Prod. By Rubi Rosa]
10. How It Go [Prod. By Trilogy]
11. Praise Pays (Feat. Jamila Irish) [Prod. By Troy Ave, Trilogy & Jemell Hill]
12. Tonight
13. Don't 4 Get Who You Are [Prod. By Yankee & Trilogy]

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The Madison Club, an upscale private residential community in La Quinta, California, has been catching hell from Drake fans after the rapper accused them of racial profiling.

The "One Dance" hit maker took to his Instagram account on Sunday, April 16, to let his 35 million followers know about the shitty treatment he allegedly received during his stay, following a performance with Future at Coachella.

“The most offensive place I have ever stayed at in my life with staff who pick and choose who they are going to accommodate based on racial profiling #Coachella,” Drake wrote in a since deleted post.

That spawned a series of bad reviews from Drizzy fans on Yelp.

"Can't mess with places that be racial profiling. Y'all need to get your act together. And more chune for your head top so watch how you speak on my name you know," read one post.

"Right when I walked in seemed like I was in the movie 'Get Out' smh... gardeners running at me, staff all racist #morelife," read another.

"This is not even worth 1 star. Terrible and shocking behaviour from the staff. If it's not good enough for Drake then it's not good enough for me. Racial Profiling in 2017 is disgusting and I will not tolerate it.
Never going here again. Anyone who disagrees with me and likes this place is Fake news!" wrote one more dissatisfied "customer."

Finally, The Madison Club issued an apology to Drake.

“We are trying to get this issue fixed as soon as possible,” a rep for The club told him in a statement. “Customer satisfaction is our number one priority and for you to experience such a thing is embarrassing for us. We are very sorry for the inconvenience and we will be issuing out a formal apology to you and the public. We will also be investigating this as we do not tolerate racial discrimination.”

Welp ...

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