While Big Sean was out of the country last week his home in the states was robbed.
According to TMZ, the thieves stole $150,000 in jewelry and unpublished music from the rapper's safe. Assuming the jewels were insured that shouldn't be that big of a deal, but the loss of unpublished music could spell disaster for Sean, especially if it's leaked and was planned for a forthcoming album.
Sean's people think the thieves knew he was out of town and had a layout of the house, leading them to suspect it was an inside job.
Money Bandit Gangstas (MBG) is one of the newest movements coming out of Central Florida. Their newest promotional single Farewell is creating traction in the clubs all over Central Florida. Look out for their newest EP dropping first quarter 2016
2-year old North West now has a younger brother to play with.
Kim Kardashian has given birth to her second child with husband Kanye West, according E! Online. Just a day before the reality television star posted a photo of her pregnant stomach on Twitter.
Adele is in a class by herself. Her new album, "25," continues to move units in massive volumes. The British songbird's third effort sold 1,056,429 in it's second week, pushing the 2 week total to 4.4 million.
According to HitsDailyDouble, Adele's "25" is the first album to sell more than 1 million in the 1st and 2nd week.
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Spike Lee's new movie, "Chi-Raq," has not been well received by a large number of Chicago rappers. King Louie a.k.a. King L lets his feelings be known on his new song titled "Fuck Spike Lee."
(AP) Oscar-nominated actor Robert Loggia, who was known for gravelly voiced gangsters from "Scarface" to "The Sopranos" but who was most endearing as Tom Hanks' kid-at-heart toy-company boss in "Big," has died. He was 85.
Loggia's wife Aubrey Loggia said he died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a five year battle with Alzheimer's. "His poor body gave up," she said. "He loved being an actor and he loved his life."
Hanks expressed his grief on Twitter.
Farewell, Robert Loggia. A great actor in heart and soul ... A sad day. Hanx
"A great actor in heart and soul," Hanks wrote. "A sad day."
A solidly built man with a rugged face and rough voice, Loggia fit neatly into gangster movies, playing a Miami drug lord in "Scarface," which starred Al Pacino; and a Sicilian mobster in "Prizzi's Honor," with Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner. He played wise guys in David Lynch's "Lost Highway," the spoofs "Innocent Blood" and "Armed and Dangerous," and again on David Chase's "The Sopranos," as the previously jailed veteran mobster Michele "Feech" La Manna.
It was not as a gangster but as a seedy detective that Loggia received his only Academy Award nomination, as supporting actor in 1985's "Jagged Edge." He played gumshoe Sam Ransom, who investigated a murder involving Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges.
Loggia gave an endearing comic performance in Penny Marshall's 1988 "Big," when he danced with Tom Hanks on a giant piano keyboard.
Hanks played an adolescent granted a wish to be big, overnight becoming a 30-something man who __ still mentally a boy __ eventually finds work at a toy company run by Loggia's character. A chance meeting in a toy store leads to the pair tapping out joyful duets of "Chopsticks" and "Heart and Soul" on the piano keys built into the floor.
Loggia also appeared in five films for comedy director Blake Edwards, including three "Pink Panther" films and the dark comedy "S.O.B." He also portrayed Joseph, husband of Mary, in George Stevens' biblical epic "The Greatest Story Ever Told."
Asked in 1990 how he maintained such a varied career, he responded: "I'm a character actor in that I play many different roles, and I'm virtually unrecognizable from one role to another. So I never wear out my welcome."
In 1966 Loggia had the rare opportunity for stardom, taking the lead role in the NBC television drama "T.H.E. Cat."
He played a former circus aerialist and cat burglar who guarded clients in danger of being murdered. When the series was canceled after one season, however, the distraught Loggia largely dropped out of the business for a time.
"It was a Dante's 'Inferno' period for me that most men and women go through if they've taken paths they wished they hadn't," he recalled in a 1986 interview. "I didn't want to work. I was played out and I had to re-spark myself."
His marriage had broken up, and he devoted himself mostly to travel and skiing.
He credited his re-emergence to a couple of plays for Joseph Papp, "Wedding Band" with Ruby Dee and "In the Boom-Boom Room" with Madeleine Kahn.
He returned to TV with a role in a two-part episode of the TV show "Mannix," and he was soon working regularly again. He even starred in another TV series, "Mancuso, FBI," a spinoff of Loggia's character in the 1988 miniseries "Favorite Son."
Among his later roles was as a general and presidential adviser in the 1996 sci-fi thriller "Independence Day."
In 2003 Loggia appeared in four episodes of HBO's "The Sopranos," as gangster Feech La Manna, who was released from prison and sought to return to the Mafia. Tony Soprano worried about La Manna's uncontrollable temper and tricked him into violating his parole.
The son of Sicilian immigrants, Loggia was born in 1930 in New York City's borough of Staten Island. He grew up in Manhattan's Little Italy section.
First inclined toward newspaper work, he studied journalism at the University of Missouri, but was drawn to acting and returned to New York to study at the Actors Studio.
He appeared on "Studio One," ''Playhouse 90" and other live dramatic series during television's Golden Age. He made his stage debut off-Broadway in 1956 in "The Man with the Golden Arm," appearing in the title role of a drug addict, played in the movie by Frank Sinatra.
His Broadway debut came in 1964 with the Actors Studio production of Chekhov's "The Three Sisters" which also appeared in London.
In 1956 Loggia made his film debut in "Somebody Up There Likes Me," playing mobster Frankie Peppo, who tries to persuade boxer Rocky Graziano (Paul Newman) to throw a fight.
Loggia married Marjorie Sloane in 1954, and they had three children, daughters Tracey and Kristina and son John.
After their divorce, Loggia married Audrey O'Brien in 1982.
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This report contains biographical material compiled by former AP writer Bob Thomas.
Today, Friday December 4, would have been Chinx's 32nd birthday. As a tribute to the fallen Far Rockaway, Queens, New York rapper, Remo The Hitmaker, releases the official music video for their collaboration, "Smashin Ya Chick."
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The FBI said Friday that it is officially investigating the mass shooting in California as an act of terrorism, while a U.S. law enforcement official revealed that the woman who helped her husband carry out the attack had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader on Facebook under an alias.
David Bowdich, assistant director of the FBI's Los Angeles office, would not give further details about why the bureau made the determination, saying at a news conference that "there's a number of pieces of evidence that has pushed us off the cliff."
Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, killed 14 people at the holiday party for his co-workers. The Muslim couple died hours later in a fierce gunbattle with police.
A Facebook official says Tashfeen Malik praised the leader of the Islamic State group in a post at 11 a.m. Wednesday, when the couple were believed to have stormed a San Bernardino social service center and opened fire.
The Facebook official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not allowed under corporate policy to be quoted by name, said the company discovered the account Thursday. It removed the profile from public view and reported its contents to law enforcement.
Malik, 27, was a Pakistani who grew up in Saudi Arabia and came to the U.S. in 2014 on a fiancée visa. Farook, a 28-year-old restaurant health inspector for the county, was born in Chicago to Pakistani parents and raised in Southern California.
Another U.S. official said Malik expressed "admiration" for the extremist group's leader on Facebook under the alias account. But the official said there was no sign that anyone affiliated with the Islamic State communicated back with her, and there was no evidence of any operational instructions being conveyed to her.
The two U.S. officials were not authorized to discuss the case publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The FBI has been investigating the shooting at a social service center as a potential act of terrorism but had reached no firm conclusions as of Thursday, with authorities cautioning repeatedly that the violence could have stemmed from a workplace grudge or a combination of motives.
Separately, a U.S. intelligence official said on Thursday that Farook had been in contact with known Islamic extremists on social media.
Law enforcement officials have long warned that Americans acting in sympathy with Islamic extremists — though not on direct orders — could launch an attack inside the U.S. Using slick propaganda, the Islamic State in particular has urged sympathizers worldwide to commit violence in their countries.
Others have done so. In May, just before he attacked a gathering in Texas of people drawing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, a Phoenix man tweeted his hope that Allah would view him as a holy warrior.
Two weeks ago, with Americans on edge over the Islamic State attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead, FBI Director James Comey said that U.S. authorities had no specific or credible intelligence pointing to an attack on American soil.
Seventy-one people have been charged in the U.S. since March 2014 in connection with supporting ISIS, including 56 this year, according to a recent report from the George Washington University Program on Extremism. Though most are men, "women are taking an increasingly prominent role in the jihadist world," the report said.
It was not immediately clear whether Malik exhibited any support for radical Islamists before she arrived in the U.S. — or, like scores of others arrested by the FBI, became radicalized through online or in-person associations after arriving.
To receive her visa, Malik was subjected to a vetting process the U.S. government describes as vigorous. It includes in-person interviews, fingerprints, checks against terrorist watch lists and reviews of her family members, travel history and places where she lived and worked.
Foreigners applying from countries that are home to Islamic extremists — such as Pakistan — undergo additional scrutiny before the State Department and Homeland Security approve their applications.
Pakistani intelligence officials said Malik moved as a child with her family to Saudi Arabia 25 years ago.
The two officials, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said that the family is originally from a town in Punjab province and that the father initially moved to Saudi Arabia around three decades ago for work.
Farook had no criminal record and was not under scrutiny by local or federal law enforcement before the attack, authorities said. Friends knew him by his quick smile, his devotion to Islam and his talk about restoring cars.
They didn't know he was busy with his wife building pipe bombs and stockpiling thousands of rounds of ammunition for the commando-style assault Wednesday on a gathering of Farook's colleagues from San Bernardino County's health department.
"This was a person who was successful, who had a good job, a good income, a wife and a family. What was he missing in his life?" asked Nizaam Ali, who worshipped with Farook at a mosque in San Bernardino.
Authorities said that the couple sprayed as many as 75 rounds into the room before fleeing and had more than 1,600 rounds left when they were killed. At home, they had 12 pipe bombs, tools to make more explosives and well over 4,500 rounds, police said.
On Friday morning, the owner of their rental townhome allowed reporters inside. On a living room table was a copy of the Quran. An upstairs bedroom had a crib, boxes of diapers and a computer.
The dead ranged in age from 26 to 60. Among the 21 injured were two police officers hurt during the manhunt, authorities said. Two of the wounded remained in critical condition Thursday. Nearly all the dead and wounded were county employees.
They were remembered Thursday night as several thousand mourners gathered at a ballpark for a candlelight and prayer vigil with leaders of several religions.
The soft-spoken Farook was known to pray every day at San Bernardino's Dar Al Uloom Al Islamiyah mosque. That is where Nizaam Ali and his brother Rahemaan Ali met Farook.
The last time Rahemaan Ali saw his friend was three weeks ago, when Farook abruptly stopped coming to pray. Rahemaan Ali said Farook seemed happy and his usual self. Both brothers said they never saw anything to make them think Farook was violent.
They said Farook reported meeting his future wife online.
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Abdollah reported from Washington. Contributing to this report were Associated Press writers Ken Dilanian and Eric Tucker in Washington; Zarar Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan; Brian Skoloff in Redlands, California; Mike Blood, Gillian Flaccus, Christine Armario and Justin Pritchard in Los Angeles; Holbrook Mohr in Jackson, Mississippi; Garance Burke in San Francisco; and Jason Keyser in Chicago.
With his "Canal Street Confidential" album dropping today, Curren$y, stopped by The Breakfast Club to chop it up with DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee.
Spitta Andretti talked about his cult following, why he gives so much music away for free, formerly being signed with No Limit, Dame Dash and Young Money Records, new album, success of the single "Bottom of the Bottle," friendship with C-Murder, his love for weed, smoking with Method Man, his strain of marijuana, Wiz Khalifa, not passing the blunt and more.
The older brother of rapper Nicki Minaj has been arrested for allegedly raping a 12-year old, according to the New York Daily News.
37-year old Jelani Maraj was hauled off to Nassau County jail in Long Island, New York and charged with first-degree rape and first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child.
Following his arraignment on Thursday, December 3rd, Meraj was freed after posting $100,000 bail.
It's so good to hear some new Pimp C. His new posthumous album is titled "Long Live the Pimp."Lil Wayne, Ty Dolla $ign, Devin The Dude, Juicy J, A$AP Rocky, Bun B, Slim Thug, Lil Keke, 8Ball & MJG, David Banner, T.I., Nas and more contribute vocals.
1. Long Live The Pimp 2. 3 Way Freak” (Feat. Lil’ Wayne) 3. Ain’t Said Shit (Feat. Ty Dolla Sign & Devin The Dude) 4. Wavybone (Feat. A$AP Rocky, Juicy J & Bun B) 5. Spittin’ Game (Interlude) 6. Trill (Feat. A’Doni, Slim Thug, ESG & Lil’ KeKe) 7. Bitch Get Down (Feat. Bun B, 8 Ball & MJG) 8. PayDay (Feat. Juicy J) 9. Slab Music (Feat. Lil’ KeKe) 10. True To The Game (Feat. David Banner) 11. Triflin’ Hoe (Interlude) 12. To Lose A Whore 13. Friends (Feat. Juicy J & Nas) 14. Southside 15. Butta Cookies 16. Country Thang (Outro) 17. Twerk Something (Feat. T.I.) (iTunes Exclusive)
1. Drive By (feat. Future) 2. Everywhere 3. How High (feat. Lloyd) 4. Speed 5. What’s Up (feat. K CAMP) 6. Winning (feat. Wiz Khalifa) 7. Bottom of the Bottle (feat. August Alsina & Lil Wayne) 8. Cruzin… 9. Superstar (feat. Ty Dolla $ign) 10. Boulders 11. All Wit My Hands 12. The Game (Bonus Track) 13. Str8 (feat. Corner Boy P & Fiend) [Bonus Track]
After his recent stint in jail, Judge Joe Brown likened jail to a "slave warehouse," which he explained during his VladTV interview. The famed television judge told us "it's a function of the system to get rid of surplus labor. Labor is a commodity like wheat, corn, cotton, etc., and when you get a glut the prices drop." He then added there's nothing put in place to assist the vicious cycle that is stopping inmates from going back to jail.
During the conversation Judge Brown also shared his thoughts on how he believes there is a lack of masculinity in today's society, including in rap music. After pointing out his belief in gay rights, Judge Brown told us that there should be more masculine images in hip-hop and the media, especially if they're Black. He added, "that's what the youth look to to guide themselves."
Speaking more about masculinity in hip-hop, Judge Brown reacted to Young Thug wearing nail polish and dresses. When told about the situation the famed judge reacted by saying, "Why doesn't he just come on out of the closet? It's the twenty first century, they ain't going to hurt him. Be honest."
Check out more of what Judge Joe Brown had to say on the decline in masculinity and more in the clip below.
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