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R. Kelly is today's Donkey of the Day for comments he made during his interview with Gayle King on CBS This Morning. The rapper claims the women accusing him of sex abuse are lying on him and he is innocent.

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Report via TMZ -- Fabolous just struck a plea deal in his domestic violence case ... and he'll avoid jail time.

According to the Bergen County, NJ Court ... the rapper will enter a pretrial intervention program. This is generally offered to first-time offenders. Fab's attorney, Brian Neary, tells TMZ ... the charges will be dismissed as long as he completes the program and keeps his nose clean for a year.

Neary says Fab must give the court a status update once a month. He also doesn't need to take part in any therapy or anger management courses.

Huge ... considering Fab faced up to 20 years behind bars. 

TMZ broke the story ... a grand jury indicted Fabolous back in October 2018 on 1 count of domestic violence with significant bodily injury, 2 counts of threatening to kill and 1 count of possession of a weapon ... a pair of scissors. 

The indictment stemmed from a physical altercation -- captured on video -- between Fabolous and Emily B, the mother of his 2 kids. That Fabolous scored a deal's not surprising ... considering Emily's father -- whom Fabolous also allegedly threatened -- patched things up a day after the incident.

Fabolous and Emily also remained together.

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Hassan Campbell discusses allegations against Michael Jackson and Oprah Winfrey turning against him but not criticizing Harvey Weinstein.

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Report via TMZ - Pacman Jones cussed out multiple law enforcement officers during his Feb. 27 arrest at an Indiana casino while threatening one cop with death and inviting another to "suck my d*ck," this according to court docs obtained by TMZ Sports. 

As we previously reported, the NFL star was arrested at 3:17 AM at the Rising Star Casino Resort following allegations that he was cheating at a table game. 

Now, we've got the details ... and they're crazy. 

First off, officials say Indiana Gaming Commission Enforcement agents responded to Jones after he was suspected of "capping bets" -- which is shop talk for adding more chips to a bet after you know the outcome of the game. 

Jones didn't take kindly to the allegations -- telling multiple officials, "F*ck you" ... while moving his hands in a threatening manner and gesturing with his middle finger, according to the court docs. 

During the altercation, IGCE agent Christopher Norton says Jones turned to another IGCE agent and told him, "I will kill you ... I will whoop your ass."

Norton says Jones continued to act in a threatening manner, so he subdued the NFL player and placed him in handcuffs. It was then Norton says he smelled booze emitting from Pacman. 

While Jones was being taken to the gaming office, the NFL star allegedly continued to berate law enforcement officers ... saying, "F*ck you," "You ain't sh*t" and "You ain't nothing but a bitch."

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE ...

While the agents were handing Jones over to the Ohio County Sheriff's Dept., Jones managed to break out of custody and tried to make a run for it ... but he was ultimately subdued by officers. 

After he was recaptured, Jones continued to cuss out the cops -- saying, "F*ck you," "Suck my d*ck" and "You're a bunch of crackers."

Another officer claims Jones also said, "Suck my d*ck, n***er."

The court docs show Jones was ultimately hit with 8 criminal charges including felony intimidation and felony battery against an officer. 

The other charges, all misdemeanors, include cheating at gambling, resisting law enforcement and public intoxication. 

Jones is due back in court later this month. Calls to Jones' rep have not been returned. 

The incident is similar to a 2017 arrest at a Hyatt hotel -- when Jones was captured on video telling an officer to "suck my d*ck" and "I hope you die."

Jones has played in the NFL for 14 years -- most recently, he played with the Denver Broncos. He played 7 games with the team in 2018 before being released in November.

Before that, he had a run with the Tennessee Titans, Dallas Cowboys and Cincinnati Bengals. He was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2015.

Jones has reportedly made close to $40 million during his NFL career.

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Uncle Ruckus of The Boondocks stops by to preach his love for President Donald Trump and explain how black people are enjoying the time of their lives.

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In this clip, Lord Jamar & Rah Digga theorize on whether or not the Gucci blackface controversy might have been intentional, keeping in mind how in the grand scheme of things all they really got was free promotion. From there, however, they mention how fashion houses have always discriminated against blacks, yet they're still waiting for the black community to boycott these companies with enough discipline to demand real change.

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2 Chainz joins Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe in studio to discuss many topics. Hear him break down his relationship with LeBron James after he helped A&R his album 'Rap or go to the League'. He also explains the correlation between rappers and athletes, and why Anthony Davis the reason for the current state of the Los Angeles Lakers.

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In this first clip of a VladTV exclusive with Bobby Shmurda, the incarcerated rapper speaks on how he's maintaining in prison, revealing that he's stayed positive while making clear that "they'll never kill my spirit." He says that time is flying by and that he's doing well, while looking forward to his upcoming release sometime in 2020. Later on, he also mentions how during the trial, he took on more prison time to lessen Rowdy Rebel's sentence in return.

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The Musalini drops off an official music video for "Gold Fish" featuring John Brodie off of his album titled "M$G."

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New music video from 38 Spesh for "Trust Gang" featuring Benny The Butcher, Klass Murda and Green Double.

This is off of 38's latest album titled "38 Strategies of Raw."

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Last night (Mar 3), HBO aired its first part of two, 2-hour episodes in which Wade Robson and James Safechuck and their families remember their time and experiences with Michael Jackson including allegations of sexual assault.

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A breathtaking display of artistic creativity through visuals and audio to tell Bellion's experience of how Love turns to Hatred. The love from others can create hate amongst those who are envious. A story of betrayal, envy, and hatred. 

Artist Name: Theolodge

Album Title: Striving

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Hailing from Central Florida, Theo Jones, better known by his stage name Theolodge is set to explode on the scene as the next big thing. Realizing that God blessed him with the ability to create beautiful music, Theolodge got started at an early age. He began performing in talent shows in elementary school and performing impromptu shows during lunch while in middle and high school. Theolodge has honed his musical skills over the years, creating a laid-back sound with his unique style and voice.

Theolodge developed into a talented songwriter and overall musician. Influenced by some of hip-hop’s elite artist, such as Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Kanye West, TI, Outkast, Biggie and Tupac, Theolodge is ready to take his place as the Next Big Thing. Theolodge released his project “Just Because” featuring singles like: “Beautiful Thief”, “Florida Love”, “Blue Faces” & “Drippin”. With a strong work ethic and his aggressive self-promotion, Theolodge understands that the key to success is to make the best investment he can make and that is in him.

Theolodge began to expand his globally by traveling to Mumbai India in 2017 to perform as a headliner act for the “Totempole Music Fest. The summer of 2018 Theolodge went on his first mini tour overseas spending 2 months in Europe. As one of the headliner acts for his first indie D.I.Y. Euro tour entitled “Its More Than an Algorithm Tour” his tour stops included the following: Rotterdam, & Groningen NL, Luxembourg, Valencia, SP, Cannes, FR, & Helsingor, DK.

Theolodge’s work ethic is like know other, once you hear his music you will understand why he has the name Theolodge.

Connect with Theolodge:

• Official Website: http://www.theolodgemusic.com/ 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itstheolodge/ 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Itstheolodge/ 
• TIDAL: https://listen.tidal.com/album/103703889 
• Apple Music: https://apple.co/2IU19Jc 

For Bookings, Features, and Interviews contact lashon.jones@creativejmllc.com 

With his hot new song "Different" rotation heavily, it time for this to be what it needs to be "a great artist in the making".

"B.T the Artist" proves you can put good into the world without profanity or degrading culture, people's lifestyle, women and beyond. Born Bryanne Toney in the northeast of the different seasonal temperatures of the Tri-State is one of a kind. He grew up in Brooklyn, New York alongside the one and only "Notorious B.I.G" with his memory where he said "Biggie in a Camaro with Cease old times". B.T currently lives in Massachusetts.

Think about the Iconic movie "Brown Sugar" and how Mos Def stuck to his beliefs. B.T the Artist is prolific and a musical lyrical instrument the world is missing. His voice is delivered over beats in accords to Tupac "Dear Mama". His first EP "Better Days" was released on February 8th, 2019 which is available on all digital platforms.

The Better Days' EP includes songs such as "Problem", "Better Days", "For You, I Will (feat. Milianny Garcia)", and "They Look Up to Me" the record is epic. B.T is a college graduate following in his parents' footsteps, which is expressed in his body of work. He expresses in his work, though he has the education alongside his parents' it is still a struggle in today's world financially.

Listening to B.T you can hear the flow of a master storyteller using talks of politically-change, education, children having children, and people with dead-end jobs and people just trying to survive. B.T goal is to become a great lyrical musician that brings real change through his music into the world.

Beyond his "Better Days EP" he also recently release new songs called "Honey" and "Different". The music overall is well produced and make you want to listen over and over again.

B.T abilities to communicate what is going on around him is second to none. It not necessarily about telling a story in the most intricate and detailed of ways, it is about making you feel like you are there seeing what he is seeing.

B.T the Artist is giving us what we need, now music is just all over the place and why? It's like Sean "P.Diddy" Combs and The Notorious B.I.G. - "Hypnotize" video, after that approach to creativity everyone had to step their production level up to the next level when it came to making videos. Here in 2019, I believe we have a musician that will make some change that is so needed.

Not everyone can be a star, they are few and in between. A person has to be so careful in sharing their ideas from the world before someone takes it away. Emulation has become so easy, people never understand originality.
But here we are, we have one, B.T the Artist and all you need to do is listen.

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(Washington Post) -- SACRAMENTO — Nearly a year after an unarmed black man was fatally shot by Sacramento police, prosecutors on Saturday announced there would be no charges against the two officers who fired at and killed Stephon Clark.

Clark, a 22-year-old father of two, was fatally shot March 18 as he ran to the backyard of his grandmother’s Sacramento home while police were responding to a neighbor’s call about someone breaking into cars. Officers said they began shooting at Clark because they thought he was holding a gun. He was later found to have been holding an iPhone.

Police body camera and helicopter footage later showed the officers had fired at Clark 20 times. The official coroner’s report concluded Clark was shot seven times, while an independent autopsy ordered by Clark’s family showed he had been struck eight times, including six in the back.

Clark’s shooting sparked demonstrations in California’s capital and nationwide. In January, Clark’s family filed a $20 million lawsuit against the city of Sacramento.

At a news conference Saturday, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert acknowledged the “tremendous grief, anger and anxiety by the Clark family and by this community” since the shooting. She said she had met that morning with Clark’s mother, whose grief was “very apparent.”

“There is no question that the death of Stephon Clark is a tragedy, not just for his family but for this community,” Schubert said. “My job as a district attorney is to make sure that we conduct a full, fair and independent review of this shooting. That job means that I follow the facts in the law and that, in that process of this review, that we treat everyone with dignity, grace and fairness.”

Schubert announced that a months-long investigation supported the conclusion that the officers — Terrence Mercadal and Jared Robinet — were justified in using deadly force against Clark.

“We must recognize that [police officers] are often forced to make split-second decisions. We must also recognize that they are under tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving circumstances,” Schubert said. “That is the crux of this whole case: Did the officers have an honest and reasonable belief they needed to defend themselves?” In this case, the officers believed they did, Schubert said.

After the decision was announced, Clark’s mother — flanked by family members at a somber news conference — said it was “only the beginning” of the family’s fight for justice.

“We’re outraged,” SeQuette Clark told reporters. “They executed my son. They executed him in my mom’s backyard. And it is not right. It is not right. . . . We’re not going to accept that. We’ve been sitting for a year patiently allowing [Schubert] an opportunity to do right, and she has failed us.”

In particular, Clark took issue with Schubert’s decision to reveal text messages and other evidence Saturday that indicated her son had been suicidal and having domestic problems before the shooting.

“What was on his cellphone with [Stephon Clark] and his baby’s mother has zero to do with the actions of the police officers at the time of his homicide,” SeQuette Clark said. “What should be under investigation and in your report is solely the actions of your officers. It’s not hard. It’s simple. . . . Stop trying to justify by looking at a person’s character or your assumption or judgment or opinion of him because you didn’t know him.”

For more than an hour during the news conference, Schubert had reviewed extensive footage and evidence gathered from the moments leading up to the shooting, some of which she said was new. For instance, Schubert said DNA analysis showed Clark was the suspect in the vehicle break-ins that had prompted a neighbor to call 911.

“That was not known at the time,” Schubert said.

Investigators concluded Clark, on the night of the shooting, had smashed three car windows, jumped fences into backyards and smashed the rear sliding window of a home while a helicopter was overhead, Schubert said.

She also replayed body camera footage of the moments just before the shooting, warning that it was “graphic and troubling to watch.”

In the video, the two officers can be seen following Clark into a dark backyard, later realized to be the home of Clark’s grandmother. As they rounded the corner, Clark was at least 30 feet away behind a picnic table, Schubert said.

In the video, Mercadal can be heard shouting: “Show me your hands! Gun! Show me your hands! Gun, gun, gun!”

Immediately afterward, the officers can be heard firing 20 times in the video. Then, an officer is heard saying: “He is down. No movement. We’re going to need additional units.”

Schubert also slowed down frames from body camera video that showed a “flash of light” in Clark’s hands that Mercadal said he believed was a muzzle flash from a gun, while Robinet said he believed it was light reflecting off a gun.

“They don’t have to wait to get shot to use deadly force,” Schubert said.

After the announcement, Jamilia Land, a close family friend of the Clarks, told The Washington Post she was not surprised by the decision. She called the news conference a “smear campaign” against Clark.

"It’s what is to be expected, a smear campaign on the deceased person’s life before inflicting the final wound of ‘there will be no charges,’ " Land said in a phone interview Saturday afternoon. “We live in a country where if we have a young white shooter who’s gone in and killed a slew of people, there are de-escalation tactics used. . . . That is a part of the outrage we feel in the African American community.”

During the interview, Land abruptly excused herself, then called back shortly afterward, sobbing, to say paramedics were taking Clark’s grandmother to the hospital. She had already been under extreme stress since Clark’s death, and the events of the day had been “too much,” Land said.

“The anxiety and waiting to hear this news, the fact that he’s gone and there’s no coming back and there’s no justice,” Land said. “It’s literally breaking her heart. It’s killing all of us. We want to stop being killed! We’re tired of being gunned down senselessly. Our lives matter.”

Ben Crump and Dale Galipo, attorneys for the Clark family, vowed to pursue justice through the civil courts.

“The key and inescapable fact that the DA failed to even acknowledge is that Stephon was shot in the back multiple times,” Crump said in a statement. “If he was advancing on the officers, why was he shot in the back and the side? Why were 20 shots fired, striking him eight times, even while falling to the ground and while on the ground? These facts cannot be reconciled with the DA’s narrative that the officers were in fear of their lives.”

The decision not to charge the officers was not a surprise for some. In emails sent earlier this week, lawmakers were urged to avoid California’s Capitol during the weekend, while downtown Sacramento business owners were advised to prepare for protests, the Sacramento Bee reported, leading to speculation that the district attorney’s decision might upset the community.

At a news conference later Saturday evening, Clark’s girlfriend, Salena Manni, said, “My boys Aidan and Cairo have to grow up without their father, and I have to continue on as a single parent without Stephon.” Manni paused frequently to weep as she spoke to reporters. “Please don’t stop advocating for legislation and policies that could protect other families from suffering this overwhelming pain and immense sense of loss,” she said.

Shortly after the news conference, the Sacramento chapter of Black Lives Matter tweeted for supporters to “COME THRU NOW!!!!” and listed the address of Sacramento police headquarters.

By early evening, a few dozen protesters had gathered in the rain-drenched parking lot of the police station. Some protesters held a Black Lives Matter banner that read, “We must love and support one another.” Others held signs that read “Fire! Charge! Convict!,” “Honk for justice” and “Stop killing our kids!”

“Nothing is being done,” 23-year-old Breanna Martin, of south Sacramento, told the crowd. “You saw today what happened. Nothing happens.”

After Martin spoke, she walked off to a corner of the parking lot. Others followed. Martin began to cry and hugged the other protesters.

As a round of speeches ended, a protester headed to the middle of the circle and burned a black-and-white American flag that featured a thin blue line across the center, a pro-police symbol. Some protesters, posing for a photo in front of the police station doors, gave a middle finger to officers lined up inside behind the glass.

“No one should die over a broken window,” said Victor Brazelton, 39, of Sacramento. “Cops shouldn’t have more rights than the people.”

Deon Taylor, 45, of Sacramento came to the rally with his family. He said he wanted to show his 14-year-old daughter, Milan, what it means to be black in America. He said he hoped more young people would choose to become police officers and patrol their own neighborhoods, where they know who people are and how to ask the right questions.

The American Civil Liberties Union called for “immediate reform” of California’s law on the use of deadly force after the district attorney’s announcement.

“No family should have to live through what Mr. Clark’s family is going through: first traumatized by a system of policing that violently and unjustly takes the lives of unarmed Black men at alarming rates and retraumatized again by a justice system that is set up to sanction these unnecessary killings,” Lizzie Buchen, legislative advocate for the ACLU of the California Center for Advocacy and Policy, said in a statement.

Clark’s family members have been advocating for the passage of Assembly Bill 392, which would establish clearer use-of-force guidelines, including mandating that police use de-escalation tactics whenever possible.

The Sacramento Police Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment Saturday.

Mayor Darrell Steinberg said in an interview last year that he was “extremely conscious” of the concerns many have expressed regarding police accountability in recent years. “There is deep pain and anguish” in Sacramento, he said. “It’s our job to bear some of that pain and to help translate the anguish and grieving and the historic pain [of black communities] into tangible and real change.”

Just under 1,000 people are shot and killed by police officers each year, according to The Washington Post’s database. A handful of those shootings lead to criminal charges, and convictions are even more rare, which has prompted intense criticism from civil rights activists across the country.

Mark Berman and Alex Horton contributed to this report.

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Senator Bernie Sanders stops by to talk his opinions on reparations for descendants of slaves, how he'll handle prison reform, why he believes in raising taxes, and whether he has a campaign agenda for black citizens.

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Pslums drops off an official music video for the G_MIX of "Let It Bang" featuring Mobb Deep affiliate Big Noyd.

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