50 Cent recently stopped by Hartford radio station 93.7 for a great conversation.
The music icon talks about why the time was right to do Effen Vodka, pitching Power to STARZ, looking forward to doing 6-7 seasons of the show, La La Anthony's sex scene in episode 4, gearing up for G-Unit tour, Street King Immortal features from Ne-Yo, Kendrick Lamar and Chris Brown, needing some loving from Taraji P. Henson, the Southpaw movie, Puffy Juice, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and more.
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Rotimi is the latest artist to sign to G-Unit Records. The singer/actor also stars in season two of the 50 Cent-executive produced crime/drama, Power.
Let's go behind the scenes with Rotimi as he soaks up the excitement building up to the premiere and performance at Best Buy Theater in New York City.
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There's no stopping Lil Eto's wave at this point. After treating us to a stream of his 1983 album earlier in the week the Tanboys member and Cold Summers Ent. boss releases an official music video for the LJ Milan-produced banger titled "Right On."
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"Everyone is essentially a video reporter" these days, according to Vlad. During his talk with the culturally-aware emcee Immortal Technique, the two discussed how social media has taken citizens' awareness of national problems to new heights. What some people fail to realize, however, is that issues like police brutality have been going on for over half a century, and that it's not something that just began when technology became more advanced.
"Before, there used to be a guy in a blue shirt and black pants with a billy club and a revolver," says Immortal Technique, who feels police have become more militarized. "Now you got a guy in full tactical uniform who looks like a NAVY Seal who's pointing an automatic weapon at you." He even compares the European "colonization" of America to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, commonly referred to as the ISIS terror group.
Recently, Immortal Technique got into a heated debate with a "Youtube scholar" about how ISIS shares similarities with the Europeans from that time. The scholar referred to the militant group as "un-American," though Immortal Technique provided enough reason as to why ISIS may just be exactly like the early North American settlers.
In this clip, the "Dance With the Devil" artist gives us another look at the disturbing realities of America's society (past and present), advantages that certain citizens have in this day and age, and why in the end, America's claim of being a "free society" may not be all that accurate.
Watch and share your thoughts about the world we live in today below.
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Vibe premieres Fetty Wap's latest music video titled "A Couple Bandz."
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During the Out4Fame Festival VladTV got a chance to get up with hip-hop duo Dead Prez. M-1 and Stic gave us the 411 on everything from M-1's upcoming "transformative" reality show to the rumors that they used to ghostwrite for Nas, to which they quickly denied. "C'mon man that's Nas. That's like saying I did all [of] Bruce Lee's stunts," said jokester Stic.
The two emcees were homeless and spent half of their days on the trains in Brookyln before they met up with Brand Nubian's Lord Jamar. Years later Dead Prez began touring with The Roots when they ended up meeting their good friend, comedian Dave Chappelle. According to M-1 they met Dave backstage where he spoke of a pilot he made for television. Fast forward a couple of months later and their "Hip-Hop" track appeared on the opening credits of Dave's show, who M-1 says has "been really supportive" since the beginning.
Stic also talked about his three-week-old bundle of joy, who up until June 21 will be called "baby boy." "In our tradition we wait, so on the Summer Solstice, on June 21st, bong, that's when he'll get his name," states Stic.
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(CNN) Dylann Roof heard words of forgiveness from families of some of the nine people he's accused of killing.
His response: A blank expression.
Wearing a striped inmate jumpsuit, the 21-year-old appeared Friday afternoon by video feed at a bond hearing in Charleston, South Carolina. He stood motionless while listening to the anguished words of relatives of victims he gunned down Wednesday night at a Bible study at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
"I will never be able to hold her again, but I forgive you," a daughter of Ethel Lance said. "And have mercy on your soul. You hurt me. You hurt a lot of people but God forgives you, and I forgive you."
Felicia Sanders -- mother of victim Tywanza Sanders and a survivor of the church shooting herself -- said that "every fiber in my body hurts, and I will never be the same."
"As we said in the Bible study, we enjoyed you," she said of Roof. "But may God have mercy on you."
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The families got the attention of President Obama, who tweeted: "In the midst of darkest tragedy, the decency and goodness of the American people shines through in these families."
Roof's family spoke out for the first time Friday, extending its "deepest sympathy and condolences to the families of the victims," according to a statement issued by his public defender.
"Words cannot express our shock, grief and disbelief as to what happened that night. We are devastated and saddened by what occurred. We offer our prayers sympathy for all of those impacted by these events," the statement says. It ends asking for privacy for the Roof family.
Roof barely spoke at the hearing, answering the judge's questions about his unemployment with a "yes, sir" and "no, sir" and stating his age as 21. The video feed meant Roof could hear, but not see, people in the courtroom, according to court employees. People in the courtroom could see and hear Roof.
Magistrate James B. Gosnell Jr. drew fire on social media by opening the hearing by expressing sympathy for Roof's family.
Magistrate James B. Gosnell Jr.
He spoke about how Charleston would embrace all the crime victims and said: "There are victims on this young man's side of the family. Nobody would have ever thrown them into the whirlwind of events that they were thrown into. ... We must find it in our hearts at some point in time to not only help those who are victims but to help his family as well."
Tweeted Desiree P. Urquhart @CBMaiden, "Magistrate James Gosnell Jr is an example of white southern bigotry, ignorant pontification & a good ole boy's entitlement to say anything."
Elizabeth Bradbury @isabellabc tweeted, "For those who don't understand why blacks in America are still angry just watch Judge Gosnell's lecture to the court at Roof's hearing."
Gosnell set bail at $1 million on a weapons possession charge. A circuit judge will hold a bond hearing later on the nine murder charges, but it's unlikely Roof will be allowed to leave jail.
The suspect actually is being held in the North Charleston jail. Authorities didn't want him to appear at the bond hearing in person for security reasons.
Roof also may be prosecuted by federal authorities if it's determined he committed a hate crime. The Justice Department issued a statement Friday saying, "This heartbreaking episode was undoubtedly designed to strike fear and terror into this community, and the department is looking at this crime from all angles, including as a hate crime and as an act of domestic terrorism."
Roof admits he shot and killed the people he'd sat with for Bible study at the historically black church, two law enforcement officials said.
But why? To start a race war.
That's what Roof told investigators, according to one of the officials.
CNN's Evan Perez and Wesley Bruer were the first to report Roof's confession. Others earlier gave a glimpse into the twisted motivation -- including at the time and site of the shooting.
There, a survivor told Sylvia Johnson that Roof answered one man's pleas to stop by saying, "No, you've raped our women, and you are taking over the country ... I have to do what I have to do."
CNN Charlotte affiliate WBTV, citing a source, says Roof told investigators in Shelby, North Carolina, where he was arrested, that he had researched the church and targeted it because it turned out to be a "historic African-American church."
A friend recalled a drunken Roof ranting one night about his unspecified six-month plan "to do something crazy" in order "to start a race war." And the Berkeley County, South Carolina, government tweeted a picture of him in a jacket with flags from apartheid-era South Africa and nearby Rhodesia, a former British colony that was ruled by a white minority until it became independent in 1980.
By telling authorities his aim, Roof admitted he attacked unarmed civilians for political purposes in an act of terror.
What led the South Carolinian to adopt this reasoning and take such actions Wednesday night? Did anyone else help him or even know about his plans? And what is his general mental state? All are major, looming questions. Another is what American society should or will do now, if anything, to prevent similar tragedies.
In the meantime, nine families are left to mourn and a community is left to come together, ideally, to heal.
"This hateful person came to this community with some crazy idea that he would be able to divide," Mayor Joseph Riley said. "And all he did was make us more united, and love each other even more."
Roof faces a long legal road ahead.
It could end in his execution, assuming he's convicted and prosecutors seek (and are granted) such a death sentence,according to South Carolina law. Gov. Nikki Haley indicated that's what she wants, while Charleston's mayor -- while he doesn't support the death penalty personally -- thinks it's inevitable.
"If you're going to have a death penalty," Riley said, "then certainly this case will merit it."
How did Dylann Roof get to the point of being accused of one of the most hateful, violent race-related crimes in recent memory?
His uncle, Carson Cowles, told the Washington Post that Roof's mother "never raised him to be like this." Those who knew him, though, paint a picture of someone who has long voiced racist sentiments, even if they never anticipated he'd act on them like this.
John Mullins recalls "racist slurs in a sense" that Roof made while the two attended White Knoll High School in Lexington, South Carolina, though he also remembers him having black friends.
"He would say it just as a joke," Mullins told CNN. "I never took it seriously. But ... maybe (I) should have."
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That sentiment was echoed by Joey Meek, who told CNN that he hadn't seen his old classmate for five years until the two became roommates about a month ago. He recalled Roof being quiet and keeping to himself since then, except for one night when he drank a liter of vodka and talked about his vague plans to start a race war.
"He wanted it to be white with white, and black with black," Meek said, adding that he took Roof's gun as a precaution that night only to put it back the next morning. "He had it in his mind, and he didn't really let nobody know (what he was going to do)."
Meek said he told Roof then that he "didn't agree with his opinion at all," but he didn't talk to authorities until Thursday, when he noticed surveillance photos and called a police hotline.
"Dylann wasn't a serious person, no one took him serious," Meek said. "But if someone had taken him serious, this all would all have been avoided."
It's one thing to talk of stirring racial hatred, another to act on it to kill nine innocent people -- including the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a state senator who had welcomed Roof into the Bible study session.
One key part of this horrific scheme -- the weapon -- came in April, when Roof bought a .45-caliber handgun at a Charleston gun store, the two law enforcement officials told Perez and Bruer from CNN, the first network to report this development. His grandfather says that Roof was given "birthday money" and that the family didn't know what Roof did with it.
He apparently didn't hint at his intentions when he went to the historic church Wednesday. A Snapchat video shows him at a table with a small group, not anything to suggest the carnage to come.
An arrest warrant says Roof entered the church at 8:06 p.m. wearing a fanny pack. "After approximately an hour of studying," the warrant says, "the defendant stood up and with malice and aforethought pulled out a handgun and began shooting at the parishioners inside the hall striking nine victims. All victims were hit multiple times."
From what Johnson heard, Roof reloaded his gun five times. Six women died at the scene, as did two men -- with a third, the Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr., passing away later during surgery. Johnson said her friend played dead, lying in the blood of her slain son.
Before Roof left the church, he asked one of the elderly members whether he had shot her, and she said no.
"And he said, 'Good, because we need a survivor because I'm going to kill myself,' " Johnson told CNN.
Emanuel AME: A storied church in a historic city
Roof then took off, hopping into his car and heading north.
Debbie Dills spotted a vehicle matching the description given by authorities, noticing the South Carolina license plate.
"I don't know what drew my attention to the car," Dills told CNN. "In my mind I'm thinking, 'That can't be.' ... I never dreamed that it would be the car."
She followed him more than 30 miles, keeping authorities updated along the way.
Police in Shelby, North Carolina -- about 245 miles (395 kilometers) from Charleston -- pulled him over and took him into custody. He waived extradition and returned to South Carolina late Thursday.
The Charleston Police Department also got help from Roof's family. The arrest warrant says: "The father and the uncle of the defendant contacted CPD and positively identified the defendant and his vehicle as those they saw in the photographs. Further, the defendant's father told investigators that his son owns a .45-caliber handgun."
Federal authorities have opened a hate crime investigation into the shooting at the oldest AME church in the South, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Charleston's mayor said that society should continue to talk about issues pertaining to race and try to educate people more, such as through an African-American history museum planned for a Charleston site where slaves used to land to be sold in the United States. But, he added, it may not be realistic to think you'll be able to change the minds of all racists.
"There's a lot of things we can do, in our country, to enhance the dialogue about race," Riley said. "But to get (hateful thoughts) out of the minds of very evil people ... is very difficult."
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Warren Sapp could be facing more trouble with the law.
TMZ reports that the NFL Hall of Famer is a suspect in a Las Vegas domestic abuse case. Cops spoke to a woman who said she allegedly got into an altercation with Sapp in a casino on April 28.
She was interviewed by the police at a different location. According to the report, the victim appeared to have minor injuries.
An incident report was taken, but authorities have not spoken with Sapp yet to get his side of the story. He has not been charged with a crime and is still free while the investigation continues.
If arrested this would be Sapp's second run in with the law in the last 6 months.
Sapp was fired from his job as an analyst for the NFL Network in February following an altercation with two prostitutes in Phoenix while covering Super Bowl XLIX.
**UPDATE** June 25
Police have charged Sapp with 3 counts of domestic violence in connection with an assault on his girlfriend Chalyce Moore on April 28th.
According to TMZ, the couple were at the M Hotel in Las Vegas when Sapp allegedly threw a margarita in Moore's face.
The two left the hotel and headed for Moore's condo. After telling her to get out of his car, Sapp reportedly bit her middle finger.
Once at Moore's residence more violence erupted. The woman's friends told police Moore suffered a checkered shoe mark and bruise on her temple where Sapp stomped her, had bruises on her legs, lips and shoulder, as well as abrasions.
Moore told the cops that she believed she suffered a concussion because she had a stiff neck, headache and was vomiting after the abuse.
Sapp is scheduled to appear in court on July 23.
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With none other than being consistent, eMkay returns with yet another remix! This time he goes in over Rico Richie's popular "Poppin" instrumental.
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The Chicago Reporter has obtained disturbing footage of a police officer opening fire on a car full of six unarmed teens who had been pulled over for a traffic violation by two other cops.
One of the minors got out of the car and ran.
When Chicago police officer Marco Proano arrived on the scene he exited his patrol car, pulled out his gun and pointed it sideways at the rest of the passengers still in the car. At that point the driver began to back up the vehicle.
Proano then violated Chicago Police Department policy by opening fire. He let off 12 shots until the car crashed into a light pole.
Two of the car's passengers were injured. One person was shot in the hip and heel. The other was hit in the shoulder.
According to the Chicago Reporter, CPD policy prohibits officers from firing into a moving vehicle, unless necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to the officer or another person.
That was not the case in this situation.
The incident happened on December 22, 2013, but the video has just been released by retired Cook County Judge Andrew Berman.
“I’ve seen lots of gruesome, grisly crimes,” Berman said. “But this is disturbing on a whole different level. My first reaction was, if those are white kids in the car, there’s no way they [would] shoot. You don’t start firing into a car full of unarmed people. You just don’t do that.”
It was later discovered that the car the minors were in was stolen.
Berman found the driver in his courtroom not guilty of possessing a stolen motor vehicle. He said the State’s Attorney failed to prove that the teen knew the car was stolen, and his verdict would have been the same even if no shots had been fired.
A federal lawsuit has been filed against the city and the three officers involved on behalf of the teens. A settlement of $360,000 was agreed to, but must be approved by The City Council
Officer Proano is still on active duty pending the results of an internal investigation.
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Roc Nation recording artist Vic Mensa gave fans at his concert at Echoplex in Los Angeles a special surprise when he debuted a new song titled "No Chill" with Skrillex. Check out the live footage below.
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Styles P follows right behind his D-Block partner in rhyme, Jadakiss, and drops two weekend starter freestyles. The first one is "Ghost Motion." The second is titled "Ghost IP Man."
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"One Man Can Change the World" is quite simply a great song. The combination of Big Sean, Kanye West and John Legend is flawless.
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Al Qaeda Jada is back with a new freestyle he calls "Shame On Ya." The Lox rapper goes in over Ol' Dirty Bastard's "Brooklyn Zoo." This is a hot one.
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Wu-Tang's Cappadonna and the Clan's affiliate Streetlife took a break from the Germany leg of their Out4Fame tour to let VladTV know how the shows have been going and to speak out on the comparisons the group - both individually and collectively - have been receiving lately.
The two emcees are fans of any other artists they can "rock out" to, but in the end they feel like there is no other rap group that can compare to them. When asked if they see any similarities between them and Harlem's A$AP Mob, the pair stated that Rocky's group is still "on the come up." Our correspondent also brought up T.I.'s claim that Young Thug is up to par with Ol' Dirty Bastard, Cappadonna was quick to say that "ODB is in a class by himself. He don't even compare to us."
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