After an offseason where Kyrie Irving bragged about finally having a teammate that he trusted to take a clutch shot with the game on the line, he and Kevin Durant both had their chance against the Wizards on Sunday night. However, both stars missed potential game-winning shots in the closing seconds and the Nets dropped under .500 for the first time this season. Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe share their thoughts on KD and Kyrie.
In this clip, Crunchy Black reacted to Mike Tyson saying in his VladTV interview that he still feels guilty for pressuring 2Pac to come to Las Vegas. Crunchy then added that he feels guilty for not answering his daughter's last phone call to him before she was killed. At the end of the clip, Crunchy reacted to Mike Tyson saying a woman snatched his $7 million chain.
It's been roughly 2 years since Anima Vestra has given the game some new music. And it is built like an emotional roller coaster. Creative and compiled of different sounds and styles, it is immediately clear that A.V. is very creative in his art....and in a lane all his own.
"Cerasus Flores" is a 6 track showcasing of raw undeniable talent. Latin for "Cherry Blossom", Cerasus Flores buds beautifully, then comes to soul touching end of appreciation...much like life itself does. With the songs in the beginning have more of a lively, upbeat feel....and as the Ep drives on, it takes a more deep thought, almost depressing feel...as if...there just isn't enough time in the world to appreciate all the beauty around us. Each song differs in content and sound, showing Anima Vestra is more of a versatile artist...than just an emcee. He is not one who's music can be "boxed in" with categories.
And that is timeless music. A project that can tell us a story with out realizing we are hearing one. That is what music used to be. And Anima Vestra has paid great respect to those before him,just by making true art with a creative and original form. "Cerasus Flores" is available for free streaming on the popular Soundcloud platform. Check it out today and let us know what your favorite song is.
Grandmaster Dee stops by Unique Access Ent to discuss Jalil crafting Whodini's great story raps. The Brooklyn, New York DJ-producer also tells Soren Baker about producer Larry Smith being like Quincy Jones & Whodini adding breakdancers to its show.
WASHINGTON — Police in the nation’s capital on Monday arrested the leader of the Proud Boys, who is accused of burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtown Washington last month.
Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, 36, was arrested by Metropolitan Police Department officers after he arrived in Washington ahead of protests planned by supporters of President Donald Trump to coincide with the congressional vote expected Wednesday to affirm Joe Biden’s election victory.
Tarrio was taken into custody after a warrant was issued for his arrest for destruction of property, police said. He was also facing a weapons charges after officers found him with two high-capacity firearm magazines when he was arrested.
A pro-Trump rally in December ended in violence as hundreds of Trump supporters, some wearing the signature black and yellow of the Proud Boys, sought out confrontations with a collective of activists and counterprotesters attempting to bar them from Black Lives Matter Plaza, an area near the White House. By nightfall, vandals tore down a Black Lives Matter banner and sign from two historic Black churches in downtown Washington and set the banner ablaze.
Tarrio told The Washington Post he had participated in the burning of the Black Lives Matter banner and said he would plead guilty to destruction of property and pay the church the cost of the banner.
Another video showed men removing a Black Lives Matter sign at the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church.
“We just want to see justice be done,” the Rev. Dr. Lanther Mills, senior pastor at Asbury, said in an interview Monday night.
The church community is “in some ways of course feeling some relief” following the arrest, Mills added. Even so, she said, “we still remain concerned” about the high number of expected protesters in the area.
Griselda Records will be releasing their first movie titled "Conflicted" on January 15, via Amazon Prime. The film will be accompanied by a star-studded soundtrack, which includes Benny the Butcher, Westside Gunn, Lloyd Banks, ElCamino, Flee Lord, Wale, Smoke Dza, Dave East, Heem, Ransom, Rick Hyde, Eto, ElCamino, Chase Fetti, Armani Casaer, YN Billy, Billy V and more.
Producer credits: by Daringer, Camoflauge Monk, DJ Shay, IceRoxx and more.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin pharmacist convinced the world was “crashing down” told police he tried to ruin hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine because he believed the shots would mutate people’s DNA, according to court documents released Monday.
Police in Grafton, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Milwaukee, arrested Advocate Aurora Health pharmacist Steven Brandenburg last week following an investigation into the 57 spoiled vials of the Moderna vaccine, which officials say contained enough doses to inoculate more than 500 people. Charges are pending.
A detective wrote in a probable cause statement that Brandenburg, 46, is an admitted conspiracy theorist and that he told investigators he intentionally tried to ruin the vaccine because it could hurt people by changing their DNA.
Misinformation around the COVID-19 vaccines has surged online with false claims circulating on everything from the vaccines’ ingredients to its possible side effects.
One of the earliest false claims suggested that the vaccines could alter DNA. The Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine as well as the Moderna vaccine rely on messenger RNA or mRNA, which is a fairly new technology used in vaccines that experts have been working on for years. MRNA vaccines help train the immune system to identify the spike protein on the surface of the coronavirus and create an immune response. Experts have said there is no truth to the claims that the vaccines can genetically modify humans.
“He’d formed this belief they were unsafe,” Ozaukee County District Attorney Adam Gerol said during a virtual hearing. He added that Brandenburg was upset because he and his wife are divorcing, and an Aurora employee said Brandenburg had taken a gun to work twice.
Eminem already apologized to Rihanna for an old leaked diss by saying sorry on his new track, "Zeus" ... but he's going the extra mile to show just how sorry he is.
Shady opened up about the leaked snippet of "Things Get Worse" during a SiriusXM interview Monday, saying he doesn't have any recollection of recording the verse in which he raps that he sides with Chris Brown ... this shortly after CB assaulted Rihanna in 2009.
Em's controversial verse -- "I'm not playing, Rihanna, where'd you get the VD at?/ Let me add my two cents/ Of course I side with Chris Brown/ I'd beat a b***** down too/ If she gave my d**k an itch now." He scrapped it from the final version of his 2019 collab with B.o.B.
The rapper says he told his manager after the leak that he had no idea how someone got it, but also claims ... "I have zero recollection of even remembering doing that verse." Eminem added ... "The rhyme scheme doesn't even sound, like, familiar to me. So I was caught off guard, too. I was like, 'What the f**k?! I said that?'"
Shady says it's no excuse, and calls it "f***ing stupid" of him to record the verse, but claims at the time he was re-learning how to rap due to his addiction issues. He says he believes he just went with it because it rhymed ... but adds he should have thought better of it.
On "Zeus," Eminem addresses Rihanna directly with the lyrics ... "And wholeheartedly, apologies, Rihanna/ For that song that leaked, I'm sorry, Ri/ It wasn't meant to cause you grief."
Sounds like he's set on making amends ... but it's still unclear if the same goes for his brewing beef with Snoop Dogg.
Watch the best moments of Complex's Sneaker Shopping with Joe La Puma from 2020, featuring guests such as Jaden Smith, VP-elect Kamala Harris, Jimmy Fallon, Pop Smoke, Will Smith, Alicia Keys, Lil Wayne and more.
Bobby Shmurda's 2021 is off to a good start, because the incarcerated rapper could get sprung early -- as soon as next month -- if he can stay out of trouble.
The Department of Corrections just updated the Miami rapper's conditional release date to February 23, 2021 ... which is about 10 months earlier than when his sentence was expected to end at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility.
Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... this decision was made by the Time Allowance Committee, which consists of prison staff, but not the parole board. We’re told the Committee reviewed Shmurda's behavior and participation in prison programs and decided to bump up his conditional release date.
If he is released, he'll be under parole supervision, but we're told any mess-ups or bad behavior between now and Feb. 23 could nullify the earlier conditional release date ... and he'd likely have to serve out his full sentence until December 11, 2021.
As we first told you ... Shmurda was denied parole in September due to multiple violations while in prison -- including allegedly having a shank, fighting and drug possession. The possibility of a February release would seem to indicate he's turned things around since the parole board's rejection.
As we reported ... the rapper copped a plea deal back in September 2016 to conspiracy to possess weapons and possession of a weapon.
He was ultimately sentenced to a max of 7 years in prison, but he was given credit for time served since December 2014.
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A longtime Orange County firefighter engineer is headed back from Texas, where he was arrested for a major drug charge.
According to an arrest report, Erik Quarterman was wearing his department uniform when he was pulled over for failure to signal.
Investigators said they found enough marijuana to feed a major drug operation -- 110 pounds.
A spokesperson for Orange County Fire rescue said Quarterman has been relieved of duty without pay.
The spokesperson said the department will schedule a hearing as part of its formal investigation process, and they are withholding comment until that process and criminal proceedings are over.
This isn’t the first time Quarterman has been in trouble. Channel 9 is currently waiting for a full copy of his personnel file and discipline history.
But 9 Investigates reported in 2016 when as a lieutenant, Quarterman failed to tell his boss when the only fire truck at his station broke down.
Nicki Minaj is being sued for more than $200 million over her song "Rich Sex" ... which a Queens rapper claims she ripped off after he played it for her.
Jawara Headley -- a Queens rapper who goes by Brinx Billions -- is suing Nicki, claiming he let her hear his version of "Rich Sex" sometime before 2016. In docs, obtained by TMZ, Brinx claims Nicki told him it would be extremely marketable and become a global hit.
But, Brinx -- who calls himself a songwriter, artist, music producer, composer and rapper -- claims Nicki jacked his song and put it on her "Queen" album. Brinx insists he's the sole author/creator/composer/writer/producer of "Rich Sex."
Interestingly enough, Jawara is already credited as a writer of "Rich Sex" according to the ASCAP database.
Brinx says he's known Nicki since 2007, when they met on MySpace, but he's still pissed his pal allegedly ripped specific lyrics, such as ... "It ain't such a thing as broke and handsome." Beyond lyrics, he says her song also has similar music, musical notes, musical arrangement, musical beats and musical rhythm.
Brinx is suing Minaj, along with Universal Music Group, Young Money, and Cash Money, for more than $200 million in damages.
Watch the first matchup between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor back at UFC 178 in 2014 when both fighters were featherweights on the rise. The lightweight rematch goes down at UFC 257 on Saturday, January 23 in Abu Dhabi.
The apparently unrelated deaths of two female Army soldiers in Texas are under investigation after officials said one died after being shot in her car on a freeway on New Year's Day and the other was discovered dead in her military barracks on New Year's Eve.
The soldiers were identified as 30-year-old Staff Sgt. Jessica Mitchell and 19-year-old Pfc. Asia M. Graham, according to military officials.
The back-to-back deaths come just four months after two congressional committees launched probes into the high number of deaths at Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, in 2020, highlighted by the disappearances of three soldiers who were later found dead, including Spc. Vanessa Guillen.
Mitchell, a drill sergeant assigned to the U.S. Army Medical Center for Excellence at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, was shot to death around 2:30 a.m. on New Year's Day while driving on Interstate 10 in San Antonio, according to the San Antonio Police Department.
Firefighters discovered Mitchell with multiple gunshot wounds after responding to what they initially thought was a car crash, police said. She was taken to University Hospital San Antonio, where she was pronounced dead around 3 a.m., police said.
The fatal shooting is being investigated by the San Antonio Police Department and the Army's Criminal Investigation Division.
Graham, of Cherryville, North Carolina, was found unresponsive in her barracks room at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, and pronounced dead by emergency personnel, officials said.
The Army is investigating Graham's death. There was no immediate indication that foul play was involved.
The Black teenager who was falsely accused of stealing a woman's phone is now in need of therapy because the incident has seriously scarred him ... this according to his parents.
Keyon Harrold tells TMZ ... he and his ex-wife, Kat, are currently vetting therapists and looking to get their son -- 14-year-old Keyon Jr. -- into trauma therapy soon. Keyon (the dad) tells us his son is seriously traumatized ... and a lot has to do with Miya Ponsetto immediately zeroing in on him.
Keyon Jr. asked his dad a simple question that unearths lots of serious issues, including self-doubt ... "Why Me?"
Keyon says he's raised his son to become a proud, Black man, saying, "I have tried to instill dignity in my son. I'm trying to build his ego, because for so long egos of Black men have been shattered."
Keyon feels without professional help, his mission may be torpedoed by Ponsetto's vicious attack on his son. His dad tells us, "He wonders if he's good enough to own an iPhone, or whether he's out of place at a nice hotel." That, Keyon says, must immediately be nipped in the bud.
There's also a practical problem. Both parents are musicians and travel a lot, which means they stay at hotels quite a bit. Keyon says his son is now showing fear about going to hotels. Keyon Jr. has told his dad he's afraid someone will come from behind and tackle him. He's also afraid of being accused of a crime. In fact, he told his dad the day of the incident he felt like a criminal.
Keyon's handling it with broad strokes ... "You definitely belong, everywhere you go."
On Saturday, December 26, the woman in this video falsely accused an innocent 14-year-old teenager of stealing her cellphone. She then proceeded to physically attack him and fled the location before police officers arrived on scene. pic.twitter.com/qtZZWetBWH
VIRAL KAREN VIDEO: At a hotel in New York City, the teenage son of prominent jazz musician Keyon Harrold was unjustly accused of stealing a woman’s iPhone, and the troubling incident was caught on camera. pic.twitter.com/v2bnM5axy6