Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 24, 2021 at 12:44pm
Universal Music is on the verge of commemorating the 30th anniversary of Nirvana's "Nevermind" with several multi-format reissues ... but the grown-up baby on the iconic album cover has one message -- don't use the damn genitalia pic!!!
Spencer Elden -- the man who was the naked baby pictured in a swimming pool on Nirvana's 1991 iconic album cover -- has already sued over the image. His lawyer, Maggie Mabie, tells TMZ ... she's demanding Universal redact the image of Elden's genitalia from all future album covers.
What's more ... Mabie says it's time to "end this child exploitation and violation of privacy." She says every year, during the anniversary of the release of "Nevermind" ... Elden has to brace himself for renewed, unwanted attention from the media and fans alike.
She says with the 30th anniversary of the album release slated for Friday, Elden's once again fears he'll be subjected to public scorn and ridicule.
Then there's this ... Universal is planning to release several multi-format reissues beginning November 12. There will be a total of 94 audio and video tracks -- including 70 previously unreleased -- made available in digital, CD and single-disc vinyl with a bonus 7-inch. The reissues have all been digitally remastered. The video tracks are CD and Blu-ray.
That's all fine and dandy ... but Elden wants Universal to quit using the famous naked baby on future album covers.
TMZ broke the story ... Elden sued the band, its surviving members and Kurt Cobain's estate to get them to end what he claims is child sexual exploitation.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 24, 2021 at 12:10pm
Jennifer Hough -- the attempted rape victim of Nicki Minaj's husband, Kenneth Petty -- says she's been bombarded with hate-filled messages from Nicki's fans ever since giving her first on-camera interview about her lawsuit against the couple.
Hough's getting a flurry of disturbing direct messages and some threats ... according to her attorney, Tyrone Blackburn. He tells TMZ it all started immediately after Jennifer went on "The Real" earlier this week.
We've obtained some of the DMs sent to Jennifer, which include inflammatory insults, someone wishing death upon her, and we're told there was also a concerning tweet in which someone shared her personal contact information.
Blackburn says the scary response from Nicki's fans reinforces what Jennifer expressed in her 'Real' interview -- she's had to live her life in constant fear for years, change her phone, move and quit jobs ... all because of her connection to Petty.
If you aren't familiar, Jennifer was the victim in Petty's 1995 conviction for first-degree attempted rape in NY -- which is why he has to register as a sex offender. You may recall, Petty was charged with not registering in California, and recently took a plea deal.
In August, Hough sued Nicki and Kenneth for allegedly harassing and threatening her to not speak about the incident. On a more positive note, Blackburn says Jennifer's TV appearance has inspired other women to tell their own stories, and they've reached out to say they're standing behind her.
We're told in the past 24 hours, Blackburn's received messages from 30 different women expressing their support for Jennifer and thanking her for her bravery.
1. Brodie Lee 2. End How You Start ft. AA Rashid 3. Hell On Earth Part 2 ft. Benny the Butcher & Conway the Machine 4. Free Kutter ft. Jay Electronica 5. Richie’s 6. Julia Lang ft. Trap-A-Holics 7. Celine Dion ft. Chase Fetti, Flee Lord & Heem 8. Best Dressed Demons ft. Mach-Hommy 9. Forest Lawn ft. 2 Chainz & Armani Caesar 10. Why I Do Em Like That ft. Billie Essco & Keisha Plum 11. RIP Bergdorf ft. Mach-Hommy 12. TV Boy 13. Survivor Series 95 ft. Jay Worthy, Larry June & TF 14. Eddie Kingston ft. Rome Streetz 15. Ostertag ft. Stove God Cooks 16. Munch ft. Tiona Deniece 17. 99 Avirex ft. AZ & Stove God Cooks 18. The Fly Who Couldn’t Fly Straight ft. Tyler, The Creator 19. Big AL ft. Rome Streetz 20. BYE BYE ft. Keisha Plum
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 24, 2021 at 9:03am
Check out NBA YoungBoy's new album, "Sincerely, Kentrell."
Tracklist:
01. Bad Morning 02. Hold Me Down 03. On My Side 04. Smoke Strong 05. 50 Shots 06. No Where 07. Sincerely 08. I Can't Take It Back 09. Rich Shit 10. Toxic Punk 11. My Killa 12. Life Support 13. Break Or Make Me 14. Forgiato 15. Baddest Thing 16. Nevada 17. Level I Want To Reach 18. Kickstand 19. All I Need 20. White Teeth 21. Panoramic
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 24, 2021 at 8:55am
Westside Gunn drops "Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Side B." Stream it up top.
Tracklist
1. Brodie Lee 2. End How You Start ft. AA Rashid 3. Hell On Earth Part 2 ft. Benny the Butcher & Conway the Machine 4. Free Kutter ft. Jay Electronica 5. Richie’s 6. Julia Lang ft. Trap-A-Holics 7. Celine Dion ft. Chase Fetti, Flee Lord & Heem 8. Best Dressed Demons ft. Mach-Hommy 9. Forest Lawn ft. 2 Chainz & Armani Caesar 10. Why I Do Em Like That ft. Billie Essco & Keisha Plum 11. RIP Bergdorf ft. Mach-Hommy 12. TV Boy 13. Survivor Series 95 ft. Jay Worthy, Larry June & TF 14. Eddie Kingston ft. Rome Streetz 15. Ostertag ft. Stove God Cooks 16. Munch ft. Tiona Deniece 17. 99 Avirex ft. AZ & Stove God Cooks 18. The Fly Who Couldn’t Fly Straight ft. Tyler, The Creator 19. Big AL ft. Rome Streetz 20. BYE BYE ft. Keisha Plum
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 24, 2021 at 7:50am
"The Most High" is the brand new album from UFO Fev co-starring his frequent collaborator Red Inf. The 10-track project features Ace Arty, K Like the Letter, MAV, Sauce Heist and Asun Eastwood.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 24, 2021 at 1:30am
Philadelphia native and Xtreame Measures CEO, Dark Lo, connects with Queens legend, Havoc of Mobb Deep for a new collaborative album, "Extreme Measures."
Vado and Styles P are featured on the 11-song project.
All song were produced by Havoc.
Available on all streaming platforms.
Tracklist:
01. Mob Tales Ft. Havoc 02. Lost Innocence 03. Zombie Land Ft. Havoc 04. Extreme Measures Ft. Styles P 05. Greatest Ever 06. Reports 07. Make it Home Ft. Vado 08. Force of Life 09. Dirty Work 10. Captivating 11. Strong Minded
1. Intro 2. Btw 3. White Wine 4. Alpina 5. Panties (feat. Rockwelz) 6. Red Roof Inn 7. Black Blues Brothers (feat. Milano Constantine) 8. Too Late 9. Elephant's Tusk (feat. RIM) 10. Origami (feat. Rockwelz) 11. '96 Bad Boys (feat. Nam Nitty) 12. Muddy Mxnxpxly (feat. Chukk Rukkuz, Rocc Spotz & Maylay Sparks)
Posted by Traps N Trunks on September 23, 2021 at 3:14pm
Denver rapper and Stamp Brand Ent. CEO ATAK releases his new album titled Tha View. The 16-track project features JaySeeMurda, Trapnlito & AB. Listen below via Audiomack or on any streaming platform.
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Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2021 at 12:44pm
Brian Laundrie would be better off dead than alive at this point in the Gabby Petito case -- at least that's how Geraldo Rivera feels ... despite there being so many unanswered questions.
The FOX News personality gave us his unfiltered take on the streets of NYC Wednesday when we asked what he made of the saga & the fact that Brian is still nowhere to be found. In true Geraldo fashion, he did not hold back whatsoever -- he says the dude should off himself.
He's a little flip here, but GR seems to mean what he says ... adding Brian should have some dignity & spare us his hypothetical BS rationale -- assuming he's ultimately charged -- by just drowning himself in a Florida swamp.
Now, Geraldo does wind it back a little when our photog suggests Brian should give up & turn himself in -- conceding, yes, at the very least. You can tell he's fired up about this story, but there's a major problem with his solution.
It leaves too many loose ends & wouldn't serve as true justice ... especially not for the Petito family, who are seeking the truth about what happened to Gabby & WHY.
Brian committing suicide wouldn't achieve any of that & in this case ... capturing him while he's still breathing would be ideal for everyone.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2021 at 12:00pm
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Legendary MC AZ sits down with Ebro in the Morning to go down memory lane, talk about inspiration from Nas and Jay-Z, working with Lil Wayne, T-Pain, Rick Ross & Conway, and his new project 'Do Or Die 2'.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2021 at 10:30am
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LordMobb General Flee Lord revisits his highly acclaimed album, "In the Name of Prodigy, to release visuals for "Major Distribution" featuring Busta Rhymes.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2021 at 10:05am
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Meredith (CBS46) - A contractor destroyed a bathroom shower he spent hours renovating after the homeowner allegedly refused to pay him -- and the entire ordeal was caught on camera.
A viral video shows a contractor for Dream Home Remodels of Colorado demolishing the shower with a sledgehammer on Sept. 11 in Colorado Springs.
"Is someone going to pay me?" the contractor said in the video. "Let me tell you something. No contractor in the state of Colorado will fix that when they find out that I took it back because she refused to pay me."
The homeowner, Amber Trucke, said she paid $3,330 of the $7,555 bill but wasn't pleased with the work. She said she wanted to inspect it further before handing over the final payment.
"I wanted to be wowed, and I wasn't wowed," Trucke told KRDO-TV. "But I knew he was coming back Friday to clean things up, and I figured maybe I'd be more impressed then. So, I was not going to pay them until I saw the actual finished product."
Jordan Cazares, co-owner of Dream Home Remodels, released a statement to KRDO-TV saying there was a communication breakdown with the homeowner.
"After several weeks of work for a customer, communication broke down at the end of a project," the statement read. "There was no displeasure expressed, and we proceeded to ask for payment on the project by the end of the day. Communication broke further after that and resulted in our company repossessing a tile shower. We regret that this contract went sour."
The company also claims that Trucke did not pay for a vanity, mirror, light fixture, ceiling fans, plumbing work, and an exterior door.
However, Trucke insists she paid for those items and plans to take the company to small claims court, KRDO-TV reported.
Police and the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department are looking into the matter.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2021 at 8:59am
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With the business acumen of a Wharton grad and what authorities describe as the recklessness of a common thief, local YouTuber Bill Omar Carrasquillo went, in the span of just three years, from slinging drugs on a North Philadelphia street corner to running a multimillion-dollar streaming TV empire.
He documented every step of that journey in videos posted online, advertising his subscription service and flaunting his newfound wealth in slickly produced footage of high-end sports cars and diamond-encrusted bling set to hip-hop beats.
But all that came crashing down this week as federal authorities accused Carrasquillo — better known to the nearly 800,000 who subscribe to his YouTube channel as “Omi in a Hellcat”— of heading one of the most brazen and successful digital piracy schemes of the last decade.
And, as is only fitting for an internet celebrity who has made a career out of sharing his life online, his arrest early Tuesday at his Swedesboro home was livestreamed on social media.
Photos of Carrasquillo, shirtless and in neon boxer-briefs as agents handcuffed him in his foyer, quickly circulated on Instagram. A video of the arrest shows agents milling around, as a woman streaming it live to the internet repeatedly asks: “What is going on?”
The 62-count indictment charges Carrasquillo, 35, and two business partners — Jesse Gonzales, 42, of Pico Rivera, Calif., and Michael Barone, 36, of Richmond Hill, N.Y. — with counts including conspiracy to commit copyright violations, tax evasion, and fraud that could send them to prison for decades.
It describes their company, run at various points under names like Gears TV and Gears Reloaded, as a media streamer’s paradise. Subscribers had access to hundreds of on-demand movies and television shows, like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead, as well as access to dozens of live cable channels and pay-per-view events, for a subscription as low as $15 month.
But all of it, authorities say, was stolen from the encrypted set-top box signals of legitimate services like Comcast, Verizon FiOS, and Direct TV and illegally streamed to his thousands of subscribers online.
Prosecutors have moved to strip him of nearly $35 million in assets, including 57 luxury cars — Lamborghinis, Porsches, Bentleys, and McLarens — and a portfolio of more than four dozen properties he has amassed across Philadelphia and the suburbs.
“You can’t just go and monetize someone else’s copyrighted content with impunity,” said Bradley S. Benavides, acting head of the FBI’s Philadelphia office. “Theft is theft, and if you’re going to willfully steal another party’s intellectual property, the FBI stands ready to step in and shut you down.”
The case sits at the cutting edge of digital copyright law and the recent proliferation of services offering cheap streams of protected intellectual property.
So-called illegal IPTV services have grown into a $1 billion-a-year industry in the U.S., according to recent studies, with as many as 7% of North American households subscribing through hardware widely available online and preloaded with apps to access copyrighted content.
Carrasquillo’s service shut down in 2019 and Congress took steps last year to more clearly define such businesses as illegal.
But Carrasquillo’s lawyer, Donte Mills, maintained Wednesday that at the time Gears TV was up and running, there was no law explicitly prohibiting how it operated.
He likened his client to tech innovators Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs — whose 2015 biopic, as it happens, was available to stream on Carrasquillo’s network.
“There were no regulations when he did it,” Mills said. “We will prove the charges he received do not apply to his conduct.”
Still, Carrasquillo made no attempt to hide the money he was making. His service netted him and his partners more than $34 million between 2016 and 2019 alone, according to the indictment.
His Instagram offers a steady stream of luxury — photos of custom jewelry and the latest additions to his car collection interspersed with photos of his family, including one of his son holding stacks of cash.
He posts multiple YouTube videos a week with titles like “Giving $1,000 to a pizza delivery guy,” “Omi in a Hellcat makes over $1,100,000 in one week” and “Omi in a Hellcat buys a $500,000 Lamborghini”
In court filings, prosecutors said, he filed no personal or corporate tax returns for any of that wealth and that before his streaming service the only legitimate income he made was roughly $550 a year in advertising royalties from his YouTube page.
His arrest this week did not entirely come as a surprise.
For months, Carrasquillo has openly discussed his status as the target of an FBI investigation on his YouTube channel, admitting in videos — alternatively morose and defiant — to tax violations he says he committed in ignorance and predicting that he’ll end up in prison.
“You gotta be humble in victory and humble in defeat,” he said in one posted after a 2019 FBI raid of his home. “I’m gonna do a couple of years off of this. I’m going to go to jail for a couple of years.”
In others, like an interview with YouTuber “Say Cheese!” posted last year, Carrasquillo reflected on his rise from a 9-year-old boy who learned the drug trade at the hand of his father in North Philadelphia into a man who, at 28, swore off dope dealing to launch the venture that made him millions.
He has accused the feds of taking an interest only because he is a Black man from North Philadelphia who grew up poor and then struck it rich.
And consistently, Carrasquillo has maintained he is not guilty of copyright crimes.
“I hit a … gray area and exploited it, and they just didn’t like it,” he said in a 2019 video posted under the title “THE FBI SEIZED EVERYTHING FROM ME.” “I made a ton of money … I’m only guilty of making money. I ain’t guilty of nothing else.”
Carrasquillo says he legally paid for subscriptions to all the cable services whose content he is accused of sharing. He likens what he did to inviting friends who don’t have cable over and taking up a collection to pay for a pay-per-view event.
But in a similar case the Justice Department filed in 2019 against eight men behind the IPTV piracy site Jetflix, defense lawyers sought to have the charges tossed, arguing that simply sharing legally obtained DVDs and television shows with others was not illegal.
Prosecutors pushed back, noting that the men weren’t charged with sharing the copyrighted content but rather reproducing it online without permission for their 30,000 subscribers.
The judge declined to dismiss the case. The next test of their argument will come when the case goes before a jury next year.
As he awaits his turn in court, Carrasquillo appears to like his odds. Within hours of his arrest, he was released from custody pending trial.
And he’s expressed confidence that even if he loses the cars, his home and his once-flush bank accounts, he can climb back to the top.
“I became a millionaire once,” he said in a recent video. “I can do it 150 more times.”
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 23, 2021 at 8:00am
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S Eyes Finest works with Rome Streetz & Daniel Son to bring you the official animated video for "All Blakk'' - Now available on Bandcamp. This is the sixth single off of S Eyes Finest compilation album ''WeatheredThaStorm''.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 22, 2021 at 3:22pm
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ATLANTA (AP) — A man who was punched and kicked in the head by Georgia police officers during a traffic stop four years ago has filed a lawsuit alleging the stop was unjustified and the officers used excessive force against him.
Gwinnett County police Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni pulled Demetrius Hollins over in Lawrenceville, just outside Atlanta, on April 12, 2017. Video filmed by a witness shows Bongiovanni punching Hollins as Hollins stood with his hands raised after exiting his car. A second video shows Bongiovanni appearing to yell at a handcuffed Hollins, who then lies face-down in a left-turn lane of a busy intersection. Officer Robert McDonald runs up and immediately appears to stomp on Hollins’ head.
Hollins, who was 22 at the time of the traffic stop, said during a news conference Wednesday that he still has “some kind of PTSD from this situation.”
He filed the federal lawsuit earlier this month against Bongiovanni and McDonald, as well as former Gwinnett County police chief Butch Ayers and the county.
The lawsuit says Bongiovanni pulled Hollins over without justification and then retaliated with excessive force after Hollins began using his cellphone to record video of the encounter. It says McDonald knew Hollins was not a threat when he arrived on scene but still kicked Hollins in the head and held him down with a gun pressed to his head.
Both officers were fired the next day after video of the traffic stop surfaced and were subsequently charged with multiple crimes related to the stop. Working phone numbers for the two could not immediately be found Wednesday, and online court records did not list a lawyer for either man who could comment on the charges.
The lawsuit also says Ayers, now the executive director of the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police, was aware that officers in his department routinely used “unnecessary physical force when making arrests and searches” and that he signed off on use-of-force reports even though supervisors had decided to close the cases without further investigation or inquiry.
It also says the county’s use of force procedure was unconstitutional because it “expressly authorized officers to use unnecessary, gratuitous, and disproportionate non-deadly physical force against citizens as a matter of routine procedure when making arrests and searches.” The county allowed unconstitutional policies and practices in use of force investigations, discipline, training and supervision to continue unchecked for nearly 20 years, the lawsuit says.
Ayers said in an email that he disagrees with many of the allegations in the lawsuit, but cannot comment further because the matter is under litigation. County attorney Mike Ludwiczak said the county does not comment on pending litigation.
As so often is the case in instances of police brutality, the officers were untruthful in their reports and the truth came out because video existed, said L. Chris Stewart, an attorney for Hollins. After this incident, he said, Gwinnett County prosecutors had to throw out dozens of cases because they could not rely on the reports filed by these officers.
“The people of Gwinnett County suffered because of these officers,” Stewart said.
Hollins was driving a red Acura Integra with no license plate and a brake light that did not work, and switched lanes three times without signaling, according to an incident report filed by Bongiovanni. The lawsuit says Hollins obeyed traffic laws, had two functioning brake lights and his vehicle tag was visible through the rear window.
The lawsuit says the original stop “was not supported by actual or arguable reasonable suspicion or probable cause” to believe he had committed a traffic offense or violated any other law. Even if the traffic stop had been justified, Bongiovanni acted “in an objectively unreasonable manner” in violation of Hollins’ rights, it says.
In nearly 20 years with the department, Bongiovanni had previously reported 67 use-of-force incidents. Only four were investigated and only because of formal citizen complaints, the lawsuit says. He was ultimately exonerated in all four.
Officers must file a report whenever they use physical force against a person, and supervisors are supposed to investigate that use of force to make sure it is justified and complies with department policy. But supervisors in the Gwinnett County police department routinely approved officers’ reports and closed the cases without any investigation, the lawsuit says.
Almost all of Bongiovanni’s prior use-of-force reports lacked sufficient information to determine whether they were justified, the lawsuit says. Additionally, Bongiovanni and McDonald had a history of using excessive force when responding to calls together, the lawsuit says.
Bongiovanni pleaded no contest in June 2019 to aggravated assault and battery and was sentenced to six months in a work-release program and 10 years probation. A jury in February 2020 found McDonald guilty of aggravated assault, battery and violating his oath of office, and he was sentenced to 10 years probation.
The lawsuit, which was filed Sept. 10, asks for a jury trial and seeks compensatory and punitive damages, as well as attorneys’ fees and legal expenses.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 22, 2021 at 11:00am
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - Angry scenes broke out at Haiti's main airport on Tuesday among migrants sent home from a squalid Texas border camp, as U.S. President Joe Biden faced mounting pressure to stop an expulsions policy the U.N. refugee chief said may be illegal.
Nearly 10,000 migrants, mainly Haitian, remain in worsening conditions in the impromptu camp that sprang up under a bridge spanning the Rio Grande from the Texas town Del Rio to Mexico's Ciudad Acuna.
In recent days, U.S. authorities have removed at least 4,000 people from the site for processing in detention centers. Some 523 Haitians have been deported to their homeland on four flights, with repatriations set to continue on a regular basis, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said.
Returnees reacted angrily as they stepped off flights at Port-au-Prince airport after spending thousands of dollars on arduous voyages from the troubled Caribbean nation via South America hoping for a better life in the U.S.
A group of men in white T-shirts rushed back toward the plane after they disembarked in Port-au-Prince, with one man attempting to get back on board.
The migrants broke into a restricted area of the airport as they attempted to recover passports and personal belongings, and ground staff closed the door of the plane before the man could scale the steps back into the cabin.
Tempers ran high, exacerbated by news the Haitian government had accepted the deportations.
"I am angry at the government. We were told in prison that the Haitian government had signed to send us back to Haiti. They are all bad people, these authorities," said Yranese Melidor, 45.
Filippo Grandi, the head of the U.N refugee agency, said U.S. expulsions to such a volatile situation might violate international law and could constitute refoulement, or exposing people seeking shelter to life-threatening situations.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also called out Biden, a fellow Democrat, on Tuesday, saying it "defies common sense" to expel the migrants to Haiti and expressing anger over tactics used by border guards to control the crowds at the camp.
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