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25-year old rapper Yung Mal, born Jamal Braud, is one six men who have been arrested on murder charges after gunfire erupted and one man was killed at a Decatur gas station Saturday night, police said.

DeKalb County police were called to the Chevron gas station on 2450 Candler Road around 9 p.m. after a man in his mid-40s was shot, police said. The victim was transported to the hospital, where he later died.

Police did not release the victim’s name.

The suspects and victim were arguing prior to the shooting, police said.

In addition to Mal, De’Vonti King, 19; Thavian Ford, 46; Bryan Jones, 26; Deavin Baker, 31; and Darreun Dodson, 20 were charged with murder and violation of the street gang terrorism and prevention act, DeKalb County Police spokesperson Michaela Vincent told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday.

Dodson faces an additional violation of the street gang terrorism and prevention act charge and an additional aggravated assault charge alongside the murder charge, according to online records.

The suspects are being held at the DeKalb County Jail, according to online records.

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CHICAGO (ABC7) - Chicago drill rapper Londre Sylvester was killed in a hail of bullets as he walked out of Cook County Jail over the weekend, a day after his fiancé had posted his bail.

Sylvester, 31, who performed as KTS Dre and Kutthroat Dreko, was standing with a 60-year-old woman in the 2700 block of South California Avenue when a car pulled up around 8:50 p.m. Saturday and two gunmen fired off dozens of shots.

Court records indicate Sylvester's fiancé had put up $5,000 on Friday to secure his release on charges of violating a previous bond in a 2020 gun case.

It was not clear why Sylvester did not walk out of the jail until the next day, or how the gunmen knew he would be leaving then. The Cook County sheriff's office deferred comment to the Chicago Police Department, which declined to release any more details of the attack.

Police reports identified Sylvester as a member of the Lakeside faction of the Gangster Disciples, and mugshots show he had the words "Kill To Survive" tattooed on his neck beneath what appeared to be a gun sight.

Sylvester was struck in the face and chest and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said. The woman, 60, was struck in the knee and taken to Stroger Hospital, where she was listed in good condition.

Another woman, 35, was standing nearby and was grazed by a bullet to her face, police said. She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and was also listed in good condition.

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This female rising singer Destinee Renee has recently teased her new single entitled “Suave”. The song is described as smooth, sultry, relaxing, and melodic that puts you in a calm element. The single is available on all digital platforms. Follow Destinee Renee below for all updates!

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Floyd Mayweather is reveling in Conor McGregor's downfall ... trolling the UFC star on social media and laughing about the fighter's broken leg.

Floyd took to Instagram on Monday to rub the salt in Conor's wounds ... posting a photoshopped pic that showed a sitting-down McGregor whose foot was turned sideways.

"Y’all got it twisted!" Floyd said, we're sure with pun intended. "I like how his shoes fit. Now, do the stanky leg."

Floyd has been basking in McGregor's loss ever since The Notorious snapped his leg in his match with Dustin Poirier on Saturday night in Vegas ... claiming he won more than $35,000 betting against Conor.

"[Dustin Poirier], thanks for getting me paid," Floyd said just minutes after the match.

Of course, the barbs are just the latest in a long-going feud between Floyd and Conor ... as the two have proven over and over again they REALLY don't like each other.

In fact, it was just a few weeks ago that Conor was throwing repeated jabs at Floyd for his whole drama with Logan and Jake Paul.

Unclear if it's all part of a plan to set up an eventual boxing rematch between the two ... but if it is, we're certainly for it.

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A new tribute to DMX is finally complete -- a huge mural in his hometown of Yonkers, NY.

TMZ got images of the mural designed by NYC artist Floyd Simmons ... no relation to DMX, by the way. He painted it on a wall near the Calcagno Homes on School Street, the same public housing where DMX once lived -- and it will be unveiled to the public Tuesday morning.

Floyd, tells TMZ ... residents at the housing project reached out to him because they liked another famous mural he'd done in Harlem back in the '90s.

The mural -- 35 feet by 22 feet -- featured a stoic DMX front and center and a verse from his "Look Thru My Eyes" track ... which pays homage to the very same neighborhood.

The memorial will be held at 11 a.m. at the Calcagno Houses on School Street.

DMX, whose real name was Earl Simmons, died in April after suffering a heart attack. He was 50 years old.

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NFL linebacker Barkevious Mingo, who was arrested in Arlington last week after being accused of indecency with a child, allegedly tugged at a teenage boy's underwear and tried to initiate sex while in a hotel room, according to a search warrant. Mingo's attorney says the allegations are a lie and that his client will be vindicated.

Mingo, 30, was arrested Thursday after he traveled to North Texas to surrender to Arlington police. He was freed a short time later after posting $25,000 bail. Two days later the Atlanta Falcons said they'd terminated his contract.

According to a search warrant, Mingo was entertaining a young relative and his best friend, who was 13 at the time, during a visit to North Texas over the July Fourth holiday in 2019.

During the visit, the alleged victim said Mingo took the boys to Six Flags, K1 Speed & then a restaurant for dinner before they all went back to stay at his hotel. The victim also told police Mingo allowed them to buy anything they wanted from the Nike website & that those items, including clothing & shoes, were sent back to the relative's home.

At the hotel, the 13-year-old boy told police he woke up & noticed Mingo was in the bed with him.

"The victim thought this was odd because the plan had been for him to sleep in the other room with his best friend. The victim advised he did not think much of it & went back to sleep," the affidavit said. "The victim was then awoken by the suspect pulling at his underwear."

The affidavit goes on to describe this occurring for several minutes until Mingo got more aggressive & pulled the boy's underwear down to his shins. The boy told police he, "was scared & pretended to be asleep."

The child told police Mingo put lotion on him that made his skin burn & that he felt the man rubbing his body against his.

Investigators obtained the search warrant to recover purchase orders from Nike to "corroborate the victim's statements" about the orders made that night. Investigators said "purchasing gifts for children is a known 'grooming' behavior in child sex abuse cases."

It is not clear from the search warrant if Nike was able to confirm the orders placed. Police also have been hesitant to release further details citing the ongoing investigation.

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John Jigg$ and producer K Sluggah are gearing up to release their “Twin Cannons 2 : Mollan Vibes” album on July 21st. Check out the lead single, "Red Roof Inn."

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As an influencer and avid hip hop fan nothing makes me happier than being able to give a platform to up and coming artists (emcees and producers). Which brings to mind Rochester, New York spitter CoryTrappin? What stands out the most is Cory's worldplay and versatility.

So Get Familiar and check out the official visuals for "Honestly" off of Cory's "Flour City Nights" EP.

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"Flour City Nights" Tracklist:

1. TikTok
2. Honestly
3. My Advice
4. Stand For

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CLEVELAND (AP) — Drake Bell, the former star of the popular Nickelodeon show “Drake & Josh,” was sentenced in Cleveland on Monday to two years’ probation on charges relating to a girl who met him online and attended a number of his concerts when she was 15.

Jared “Drake” Bell, 35, of West Hollywood, California, pleaded guilty last month via Zoom to felony attempted child endangerment and a misdemeanor charge of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles.

Cuyahoga County Judge Timothy McCormick is allowing Bell to serve probation and 200 hours of community service in California.

Bell, via Zoom, spoke briefly before sentencing.

“I accept this plea because my conduct was wrong,” Bell said. “I’m sorry the victim was harmed. It was not my intention.”

The victim, who is 19, spoke at length about the damage Bell has done to her life, saying he began grooming her when she was 12. She said she initially felt loved and protected by him during online chats and that his messages became “blatantly sexual” after she turned 15. She said his remarks made her feel uncomfortable, but she felt trapped because she “idolized” Bell.

The woman said she and Bell exchanged explicit photos online and that he engaged in sexual conduct with her on several occasions, including at the concert venue in Cleveland and at a hotel. She also called Bell a “pedophile” and a “coward.”

Bell’s attorney, Ian Friedman, disputed those claims on Monday. He said there were no explicit photos or sexual contact between Bell and the victim and the inappropriate conduct that did occur were reflected in the charges Bell pleaded to last month. Friedman did not detail the inappropriate conduct Bell was acknowledging.

Authorities have said the victim contacted Toronto police in October 2018. Toronto authorities then forwarded its findings to Cleveland police, prompting an investigation.

Bell and the girl had “developed a relationship” online several years prior to the concert. 

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Hell Rell links up with J.R. Writer to drop an official music video for "Baking Soda Bible" off of his new EP, "The Golden Triangle."

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The Kid LAROI goes Sneaker Shopping with Complex's Joe La Puma at SoleStage in Los Angeles and talks about Nike Air Max TNs in Australia, wearing white Nike Air Maxes, and being able to beat Justin Bieber in Basketball.

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Soft White Underbelly takes another trip to Skid Row in Los Angeles to talk to another poor soul down on their luck. This latest interview and portrait is of Juliana, a crystal meth addict.

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He liked to tell people he was “the Black John Gotti of the Ohio”, as he swaggered around American crime and corruption capital Youngstown, and Riddle had became a trusted lieutenant of Youngstown mafia leader Lenny Strollo in the late 1980s and 1990s.

Mentored in the treacherous Motor City underworld by the legendary Giacalone brothers (Anthony “Tony Jack” Giacalone and Vito “Billy Jack” Giacalone), Usher went on to become the biggest African-American drug kingpin in the state of Michigan during the mid-to-late 1970s. Ruling the streets with his Murder Row gang, Usher was nicknamed by longtime Detroit mob street boss Tony Giacalone in honor of the former Chicago mob boss Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti.

“You’re always late, late for your own F’ing funeral” this is what Tommy D played by Joe Pesci says to Samuel L. Jackson as he puts a pistol to the back of his head and pulls the trigger. And so ended the saga of the first guy on our list Pernell “Stacks” Edwards.

Edwards was born in the South Bronx, to parents from North Carolina and Northern Virginia. He was said to have been chubby at 6'0", 300 pounds, but became muscular from his visits to prison. He was a bodyguard to Muhammad Ali. He met mobster Tommy DeSimone as a struggling blues-rock musician, singer and songwriter on Queens Boulevard sometime during 1967, earning money as a street performer. At the time DeSimone was selling stolen Rolex watches.

Henry Cogwell – Founder of the Cobras street gang on the westside of Chicago in the 1950s, Cogwell rose to be the Windy City black underworld’s liaison to the Italian mafia, known locally in the Chicagoland area as “The Outfit.” That sounds kind of cool, I guess, but the reality is quite dark. When Heroin usage became endemic in some parts of black Chicago the Mafia sought him out personally and cut a deal to supply him with H as they knew his Cobras controlled certain public housing projects that would be perfect, and did become, the epicenter of drug dealing in the Windy City even till today.

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Crime is usually a family affair at the top levels. Being a kingpin or Mafia boss is a lifestyle not an occupation. You often sweep your children into the business, and only a certain kind of women marry Gangsters and Narcos. In the case of El Chapo’s wife Emma Coronel she was born into the Sinaloa Federation- her uncle Nacho Coronel was nicknamed “the King of Crystal”- and was co-founder of Sinaloa after breaking away from the Gulf Cartel. Nacho was supposedly killed in 2010, just months after his son was killed by the Mexican military. And now his niece Emma is heading to U.S. Federal prison for about a decade.

A few months ago she landed at the Washington D.C. airport and was taken into custody, obviously she had made some outline of a plea agreement was turning herself in.

And just a few weeks before that, a U.S. judge ordered the daughter of Mexican drug lord "El Mencho" to serve two years and six months in prison in a rare criminal case involving the Kingpin Act, and involved her business dealings with a sushi restaurant, tequila company, and other business said to launder Jalisco New Generation profits. was arrested in Washington while trying to see her brother, who was extradited to the U.S. last week to face drug charges, law enforcement officials told NBC News.

Jessica Oseguera Gonzalez, 33, known as "La Negra," was arrested in February of 2020 at the federal courthouse in Washington D.C. by the DEA and U.S. Marshalls. She had shown up to see her brother appear in court for his own smuggling and distribution charges. Her brother, “El Menchito” or “Little Mencho”, recently ended up with a 15 year Federal prison term.

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Napoleon gives his beliefs on if Tupac was gonna leave death row records and tells story about a mystery women sending Tupac a letter telling him that his life was in danger and gives the meaning behind Tupac's Euthanasia chain.

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An enraged British mom was sentenced to life in prison for killing her husband with a boiling mixture of water and sugar after she was told he had sexually assaulted her two children.

Prosecutors say Corinna Smith, 59, of Neston, near Liverpool, poured the superheated liquid over Michael Baines, 80, as he slept in their bed last year, according to reports. He suffered burns over one-third of his body and died weeks later from his injuries.

Prosecutors told a local court the sugar “made the liquid more viscous, thicker and stickier, so that it stays on the skin and causes greater damage.”

Smith, reportedly “livid” and “fuming” at news of her spouse’s alleged predatory behavior, mixed two kettles of water with three bags of sugar before attacking Baines in bed.

He died in the hospital five weeks later after repeated surgery and skin grafts.

Smith’s daughter claimed Baines had sexually abused her and her brother “for many years when they were children.” The brother, Craig, committed suicide in 2007, and had been imprisoned for an assault.

He had told his mother the man he attacked was a “pedophile” who had “touched him sexually,” according to reports.

She will serve a minimum of 12 years in jail before she can be considered for parole.

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Source: New York Post

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Flint, Michigan native and A.M.I. (Above My Influences) co-CEO, REIN, drops off a new freestyle over the Trust Comes First family's "Price of Fame" freestyle, produced by 38 Spesh.

Originally performed by Ransom, Che Noir and Klass Murda. Listen to it here: https://youtu.be/32toiK5t6MA

Off of the "Trust the Sopranos" album

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Conor McGregor sat and seethed with his back on the cage, a temporary cast around his left shin and foot. The biggest star in mixed martial arts was convinced he had just been robbed of revenge on Dustin Poirier by a broken leg.

“I was boxing the bleedin’ head off him, kicking the bleedin’ leg off him,” McGregor shouted. “This is not over! If we have to take this outside for him, we’ll take it outside.”

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McGregor’s animosity toward Poirier hasn’t cooled, but this fight trilogy ended — for now, at least — with another victory for his more mild-mannered enemy.

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Poirier beat McGregor for the second time in six months when McGregor was unable to continue after the first round at UFC 264 on Saturday night.

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McGregor (22-6) fell to the canvas and never got up after a punch by Poirier (28-6), who will get the UFC’s next lightweight title shot. McGregor’s leg and ankle buckled when he stepped back from the blow, and Poirier finished the round raining blows down on the former two-division UFC champion.

“Just the thing had separated, and I bleedin’ landed on the wonky leg like Anderson Silva that one time, something similar to that,” McGregor said, referring to longtime middleweight champ Silva’s infamously gruesome broken leg against Chris Weidman. “It’s a mad business.”

UFC President Dana White said he was told McGregor broke his shin near the ankle. McGregor will have surgery on Sunday morning.

Poirier said he thought McGregor’s leg broke when he checked one of McGregor’s kicks earlier in the fight. McGregor disagreed, saying there was “not one check.”

“You never want to get a win that way, but what happened was the result of checking a kick,” Poirier said. “I’m more than sure of it. He got what he had coming to him. Karma is a mirror.”

McGregor dropped to 1-3 in the cage since 2016, when he abdicated his UFC title reigns and accepted a wildly lucrative boxing match with Floyd Mayweather. McGregor has been unable to recapture his fearsome MMA form over the past half-decade — and despite his protestations, there was little in the first round at UFC 264 to suggest McGregor was back in elite form.

Poirier was largely in control of the opening round, parrying McGregor’s kicks and landing several strikes before getting control over McGregor on the ground. After McGregor got up from a long stretch of punches and elbows, Poirier knocked him down one last time — and McGregor’s ankle bent gruesomely as he fell.

“It (stinks), because I was going to beat the guy if his leg held up,” Poirier said. “I need to digest it all, because right now, it kind of feels weird. It’s not a good feeling.”

White confirmed Poirier will get the next shot at new lightweight champ Charles Oliveira. White also said he expects a fourth fight between McGregor and Poirier at some point after McGregor’s leg heals.

“The fight didn’t get finished,” White said. “You can’t have a fight finish that way. We’ll see how this whole thing plays out. Who knows how long Conor is out? Poirier will do his thing until Conor is ready.”

Poirier also said he intends to fight McGregor a fourth time — and it will be personal. McGregor returned to his verbose, mean-spirited promotional persona for this fight promotion, repeatedly insulting Poirier’s wife and vowing to kill Poirier.

“We are going to fight again, whether it’s in the octagon or on the sidewalk,” Poirier said. “You don’t say the stuff he said.”

Poirier stopped McGregor in the second round when they met in Abu Dhabi last January, avenging his first-round knockout loss to McGregor in 2014. Poirier’s clear superiority in the fighters’ second bout made a third showdown seem questionable just six months later, but McGregor demanded the chance to fix his mistakes and Poirier accepted the massive paycheck that comes from sharing a cage with McGregor.

Instead of taking an easier fight or another boxing match, McGregor wanted another shot at Poirier after getting stopped by strikes for the first time in his MMA career. He claimed he had been distracted by his plans to box Manny Pacquiao this year, and he vowed to devote his full attention to MMA in training camp.

McGregor has lost decisively to Khabib Nurmagomedov and twice to Poirier since 2016 while beating only an over-the-hill Donald Cerrone.

McGregor’s star power has shown no significant decline despite the dwindling evidence of his once-transcendent skills. The celebrity-studded Vegas crowd was vocally behind McGregor, who strutted into the octagon with his usual flair.

But the steady, hardworking Poirier has earned the chance to recapture the lightweight title he held on an interim basis in 2019 before his loss to Nurmagomedov. That was the only defeat in nearly five years for Poirier, who has mostly maintained a decade of upward momentum in the UFC.

McGregor was charming and friendly to Poirier throughout the promotion of their second bout earlier this year, but that collegiality was gone for the third fight. Poirier refused to return insults to McGregor when the Irish fighter insulted Poirier’s wife again after the fight.

“We don’t talk like that,” Poirier said. “I hope this guy gets home safe and gets to be with his family.”

T-Mobile Arena was packed with a sellout UFC crowd for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, and President Dana White said the gate revenue was around $16.5 million, ranking among the highest in UFC history. The celebrity crowd included Dave Chappelle, Mel Gibson, Miles Teller, Jared Leto, Steve Aoki, Jackass’ Steve-O, Baker Mayfield and NFL owners Robert Kraft and Mark Davis.

Donald Trump also arrived for the final three fights and got a brief, loud burst of cheers and boos from the packed arena.

Gilbert Burns won a unanimous decision over Stephen “Wonderboy” Thompson in the co-main event, with the Brazilian bouncing back from his knockout loss to welterweight champ Kamaru Usman in February.

Earlier on the pay-per-view card, Australian heavyweight Tai Tuivasa celebrated his violent first-round knockout of former NFL player Greg Hardy by climbing onto the octagon fence and doing a shoey -- drinking booze from a shoe in proper Aussie celebratory style. Hardy, who lost his NFL career in 2015 after being convicted of domestic violence, has lost two straight fights after a 7-2 start to his MMA career.

Welterweights Michel Pereira and Niko Price put on the best show on the early undercard, and Pereira highlighted his narrow decision victory with a remarkable standing backflip and a scramble into full mount on a prone Price.

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