Popular rapper King Louie a.k.a. King L was shot in the head in his hometown of Chicago Wednesday, December 23.
Louie, real name Louis Johnson, was fired upon while sitting in a vehicle in the 3900 block of West 83rd Street about 3:30 p.m., according to the Chicago Sun Times.
Breaking: King Louie's manager confirms he was shot in the head at 83rd and Pulaski earlier today. He's awake and talking.
His management told the Sun Times that Louie was “awake and talking.”
The rapper is credited with creating the now widely used word "thot" and also the term "Chiraq" to describe his city's high murder rate.
He is currently signed to Epic Records.
We wish Louie a speedy recovery.
**UPDATE** December 25
King Louie is well on his way to recovery. He shared 3 photos on Instagram of himself in the hospital. One with Minister Louis Farrakhan by his bedside.
The rapper wished everyone a Merry Christmas and asked that people continue to pray for him.
"I wanna send thanks to everyone for their prayers & support! A special thank you to The Honorable Minister Farrakhan for the blessings & prayers," he wrote.
"MERRY XMAS 2 ALL .... ALL I WANT 4 XMAS IS 4 EVERYBODY 2 KEEP ME N THEIR PRAYERS .....IM STAYING STRONG 4 MY FAMILY & THOSE WHO R PRAYING 4 ME .....THANK U ALL," Louie captioned another photo.
Many in the hip hop community are offering Louie their support, including fellow Chicago rapperKanye West, who took to Twitter to write, "Praying for my brother King Louie and his family."
Code G was born on June 11, 1987 in Titusville Florida. Between the ages of 8 and 9 he started recording hisself on cassette tapes as well as make his beats with a MPC. Code G later moved to Atlanta at the age of 16 where his music career started to flourish. Being a jack of all trades he took the music industry on head strong. Music Producer, Engineer, Videographer, as well as an Artist, Code G is more than a triple threat.Becoming a father at 19 he wanting more for his family. Code G wanted to making sure the world would hear his story through his music. He has collaborated with Young Thug as well as produced for him along with many other artists such as PeeweeLongway, Snootie Wild, Hit Man Sammy Sam, Young Bleed, MPA Duke, Baby Boy and many more independent artist on the raise.Taking many hardships and having many doors closed in his face he never gave up. He eventually linked up with PRU Records and released his mixtape #MOSTunderrated 1 (2014), and is currently debuting his next mixtape #MOSTunderrated 2. With many deals headed his way he remains independent and plans to take over the rap industry in 2016.
It's always great to see people fortunate enough to be in a position of wealth giving back to those in need. Recently comedian Kevin Hart and Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul gave 300 children a $100 Christmas shopping spree at a Target store in Los Angeles.
There was only one rule. The kids had to buy at least one gift for someone else. Check out the video below. Big ups to Chris and Kevin!
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 23, 2015 at 11:30am
Kobe Bryant has announced he will be retiring at the end of this season, his 20th in the National Basketball Association.
During his illustrious career, Bryant, has faced many great teams and legendary players. Here is his list of the top five players and teams he's faced.
Players: Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, LeBron James and Kevin Durant.
Top five players Kobe says he has faced: Olajuwon, MJ, Kevin Durant, LeBron James, Clyde Drexler. Adds that it’s hard to pick just five.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 23, 2015 at 11:00am
The-Dream dedicates his new "IAMSAM" EP to his mother, who passed away in 1992. The eight track project features covers of songs by the late, great Sam Cooke.
"My Mother loved a lot of Artist growing up, but the one we shared the most interest in together was Sam Cooke, so Tonight I give him back to her," he captioned a photo of the EP's cover on Instagram. "These songs were originally recording during the making of @beyonce 's 4 album in 2010 w my good Friend Pat Thrall. My mother passed on the 23rd day of December in 1992."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 23, 2015 at 10:00am
Chris Brown may want to sell his Woodland Hills, California mansion because it seems to be a magnet for troublemakers.
In July three men broke into the home while Chris was away. They held his aunt at gunpoint, locked her inside a closet and ransacked the place.
Today TMZ is reporting that on Tuesday, December 22, a 27-year old woman waited at the gate for someone to leave, then drove onto the property and refused to leave after being ordered to so by security.
Police were called and the woman was charged with criminal trespass. Chris was home at the time, but never came outside.
This was not the singer's first run-in with a female stalker. In May a woman was found inside his Agoura Hills, California home. She had been there for several days while Chris was out of town.
When he got home she was in his bed naked waiting for him. Needless to say she was hauled off by police and charged with felony burglary and felony vandalism
Chris later posted her photo on Instagram with a caption that read:
"I get home and find this crazy individual in my house," he wrote. "She had broken the hinges off the doors. She Found time to cook her several meals. She Wrote "I love you" on the walls. She threw out my daughters clothing as well as my dogs stuff. Then had all these crazy voodoo things around my crib. goes to show you how crazy people are crazy! And she painted her name on my cars!!!! I love my fans but this is some on some real real crazy shit! I pray she will get help."
Demetrius Shipp, Jr (left) and Jamal "Gravy" Woolard on the set of "All Eyez On Me"
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You can't tell the complete story of Tupac Shakur's career without including The Notorious B.I.G. With Pac's biopic, "All Eyez On Me," already in production, the producers of the film have chosen a man fans are very familiar with to portray his East Coast counterpart.
Jamal "Gravy" Woolard will reprise the role of Biggie Smalls he played in the 2009 movie, "Notorious."
Dominic Santana (left) will portray Suge Knight in "All Eyez On Me"
Actor Dominic Santana will assume the role of former Death Row Records co-owner Suge Knight.
"I grew up to become Suge Knight, gotta love the film business," Santana captioned an Instagram photo. "Nothing more humbling and exciting in film then playing a living person and people who know him giving you props for how well you've become that person on film."
Jucee Froot was born on July 12 1994 in Memphis Tennessee and between the ages of 6 and 9 she learned to play piano, as well as write her own music. She later went on to create YouTube videos and generate a following for herself. Jucee Froot remixed K.Camp's song "Damn Right and her version went viral on WordStar and Facebook with over 5 million views. On May 24, 2014 the father of her newborn child was shot and killed in a drive by shooting and that caused her to put a lot of things into perspective. Shortly after the loss of her child's father, Jucee Froot realized she could not give up on her career she linked back up with her original team, Loyal 100 Entertainment/P.R.U RECORDS, and started working on her debut mixtape/EP “DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH”. Jucee Froot was recently featured on Young Dolph’s mixtape “16 Zips” on a track titled “Trap Nigga” & Zed Zilla's “Rents Due 3” mixtape. She has been recognized by Yo Gotti, K. Michelle, and Jermaine Dupri; and has also recorded with Da Brat. With several deals on the table she remains independent and plans to take over the industry in 2016 and beyond.
Checkout the official "Diamond In The Rough" Video
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bill Cosby sued one of his most vocal accusers for defamation Monday, accusing supermodel Beverly Johnson of fabricating claims that the comedian drugged and tried to sexually assault her in the 1980s.
The lawsuit is part of a new legal strategy by Cosby to attack some of the women accusing him of sexual abuse in court. Cosby last week countersued several women accusing him of defamation, but the lawsuit against Johnson is the first time the comedian has taken legal action against a woman who hasn't sued him first.
Cosby's lawsuit accuses Johnson of lying about an incident in which she says Cosby drugged her with a cappuccino in his New York home before letting her go after she angrily rebuked his advances.
The suit contends Johnson, 63, has been using the story — first told in a Vanity Fair story and repeated in numerous interviews and a memoir — to try to rekindle her career.
Johnson's "false allegations against Mr. Cosby have been the centerpiece of her attempted resurgence and she has played them to the hilt, repeatedly and maliciously publishing the false accusations in articles, interviews, and television appearances," Cosby's lawsuit states.
It seeks unspecified damages and an injunction preventing the model from repeating her claims and requests they be removed from Johnson's memoir, which was released in August.
A call to Johnson's publicist Ann-Marie Nieves was not immediately returned.
Cosby's lawsuit states that a dinner described by Johnson was attended by his wife and he never spent time alone with the supermodel.
Cosby's response comes in the wake of counterclaims his attorneys filed last week in a Massachusetts federal court against seven women who are suing him there for defamation. Those women contend Cosby defamed them by allowing his representatives to brand them as liars.
In the countersuit, Cosby claims the women made "malicious, opportunistic, and false and defamatory accusations" of sexual misconduct against him that are "nothing more than an opportunistic attempt to extract financial gain from him."
Cosby is a defendant in six civil cases filed in Los Angeles, Massachusetts and Pittsburgh. Since late 2014, more than 50 women — most of whom have not sued — have accused the comedian of sexual abuse dating back decades. Cosby has never been criminally charged.
Cosby's attorneys on Friday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit by Renita Hill, who lives near Pittsburgh and has accused the comedian of drugging and having sex with her several times after they met on a children's educational TV show in 1983.
She went public with her allegations in a KDKA-TV news interview on Nov. 20, 2014, and contends blanket denials that Cosby sexually abused women issued since by the comedian, his wife and his attorney make Hill out to be a "liar" and an "extortionist."
Cosby's attorneys noted that those denials didn't refer to Hill by name or otherwise identify her. And even if they did, they are protected speech, they contend.
That's because statements that Cosby's accusers have engaged in "innuendo" or are otherwise motivated by greed are mere opinions, according to Hill's legal request to dismiss the lawsuit.
"Opinion, as a matter of law, is constitutionally protected and cannot support a plaintiff's defamation claim," the request says.
"None of what's in Cosby's motion is of any surprise at all. These are the legal arguments we expected of him," Hill's attorney, George Kontos, said in an email Monday. "Renita's claims are viable both from a factual and legal standpoint, and we look forward to setting forth our position in the brief we will be filing with the court."
Cosby, 78, has yet to respond publicly to Hill's allegations that he drugged and had sex with her several times after they met on the TV show, "Picture Pages," in 1983. Hill claims that went on for about four years, starting when she was 16, and that Cosby helped pay for her college and would fly her to cities where he was performing and provide her with hotel rooms where he'd have sex with her, until she cut off contact with him.
On Monday, a Las Vegas casting agent named Kathrine McKee sued Cosby for defamation in Massachusetts federal court. Her suit, which she self-filed, claims Cosby's former attorney defamed her by denying her allegations that the comedian raped her in a Detroit hotel room in 1974. Cosby's attorney Monique Pressley did not immediately return an email seeking comment.
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Associated Press writer Joe Mandak contributed to this report from Pittsburgh.
A local Houston rapper by the name of Corporate Do (pronounced dough) was given the opportunity of a lifetime when Kendrick Lamar pulled him onstage to rap to his song "m.A.A.d. City," at the Day for Night festival Sunday, December 20.
"If you come up here you know you representing all of motherfucking Houston if you don't rap this shit right, right?" Kendrick said while speaking to Do, who was still in the audience at the time. "You know that shit? Do you know it? You sure? Come up here."
When Do hit the stage and the music began he almost blew it because he completely forgot the lyrics to the song, but he bounced back with a freestyle the crowd seemed to enjoy.
When his performance was over he told the audience, "I love Houston with all my heart. I'm living my dream come true right now. I've been waiting for this my whole life. If I die right now, everything would have been worth it."
TMZ reports that Jas Prince, the man who discovered Drake, was in the crowd and came away impressed enough to exchange info with the rapper.
Jas Prince, the son of Rap-A-Lot Records CEO, James Prince, chills with Drake
Do told the Houston Chronicle that his first name is Sam. He's 22-years old and currently works in finance. I guess we'll find out soon enough if he'll be able to quit his day job.
Check out the video below and let us know if you think Do is nice enough to get a record deal.
Pilot Team Entertainment is a team that consists of all bosses, no co-pilots and with their mindset they knew they had to get the streets A&R, Bigga Rankin to host 'Uncounted.' Team Bigga Rankin happily joined the efforts and we proudly present to you Benzo, an artist that doesn't use paper or pen, he just gets in the booth and transforms into Fuego with his first WRNR mixtape. Press Play and Support.
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 22, 2015 at 12:00pm
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After Charlie Sheen announced his HIV status during his interview on the Today Show, he surprisingly gained an enormous amount of sympathy. In an interview with DJ Vlad, Lord Jamar said that he believed a Black man would have been perceived differently, "If it was a Black man that did this. He'd be a monster right now."
Posted by ChasinDatPaper on December 22, 2015 at 10:11am
Chicago rapper G Herbo a.k.a. Lil Herb drops off a new song titled "Just Bars 2." Give it a listen up top and let us know what you think by sounding off in the comment section below.
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