When you're a high profile couple like Meek Mill and Nicki Minaj you can expect rumors to start flying. One persistent one is that they had broken up and were being cordial so they could finish Nicki's The Pinkprint world tour.
You can dead that because the couple is still very much together. Nicki referred to her boyfriend as her "baby father" during a recent show. For emphasis she posted new photos of them together on her Instagram.
There you have it.
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In an exclusive interview with VladTV, artists Lord Jamar and Sadat X spoke on the sudden loss of Sean Price, his music and how he's genuine sprit will be missed by the Hip Hop community.
The two were close with Price, who died in his sleep on Saturday. Jamar says he will miss the rapper and his strong sense of loyalty. While he wasn't a lead member in the Boot Camp Clik, he still kept the name going throughout his career. He was also a member of Heltah Skeltah and Random Axe, which Jamar attributed to his talent.
Sadat X also added the loss of indie-battle rap veteran Pumpkinhead this year should wake up the older African American community when it comes to maintaining their health. The rappers also said they haven't had a chance to speak to the rapper's widow but says they plan to soon. The guys also reminisced about Price and some of his funniest moments. Since he always spoke his mind, the rappers had fond memories they'll never forget.
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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Police arrested nearly two dozen people in Ferguson during a fourth consecutive night of demonstrations marking the anniversary of the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The gathering that stretched into early Tuesday morning came a day after a protest along West Florissant Avenue that was interrupted by gunfire and a police shooting that left an 18-year-old critically injured. The violence set the St. Louis suburb on edge and had protest leaders worried about whether tensions would escalate.
St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger declared a state of emergency, which authorized county Police Chief Jon Belmar to take control of police emergency management in and around Ferguson.
By early Monday evening, hundreds of people had gathered again along West Florissant, the thoroughfare that was the site of massive protests and rioting after Brown was fatally shot last year in a confrontation with a Ferguson police officer.
The protesters chanted, beat drums and carried signs. When some in the group moved into a traffic lane, officers in riot gear forced people out of the street. Some demonstrators threw water bottles and other debris at officers.
Belmar told The Associated Press: "They're not going to take the street tonight. That's not going to happen."
Ferguson resident Hershel Myers Jr., 46, criticized the police response as aggressive and unnecessary.
A military veteran, he added, "It's wrong for me to have to go overseas and fight with 'Army' across my chest, but we can't fight on our own street where I live."
By 1 a.m., the crowd and police presence along West Florissant had been begun to diminish.
County police spokesman Shawn McGuire said approximately 23 arrests were made, though police were still confirming official totals.
There were no shots fired and no burglaries, looting or property damage during the protest, McGuire said in a statement. No smoke or tear gas was used, and no police or civilians reported injuries, he said.
Protests also spilled outside of Ferguson earlier Monday. Almost 60 people, including scholar and civil rights activist Cornel West, were arrested around midday for blocking the entrance to the federal courthouse in downtown St. Louis. Another group later briefly blocked Interstate 70 during the late afternoon rush hour, with an additional 64 arrests, according to McGuire.
At the protest that began Sunday night, tensions escalated after several hundred people gathered in the street, ignoring repeated warnings to get to the sidewalk or face arrest. Then, several gunshots suddenly rang out from an area near a strip of stores, including some that had been looted moments earlier. The shots sent protesters and reporters running for cover.
Belmar said he believed there were six shooters, including 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr., who Belmar said then opened fire on officers.
Police had been watching Harris during the protest out of concern that he was armed, the chief said.
During the gunfire, Harris crossed the street and apparently spotted plainclothes officers arriving in an unmarked van with distinctive red and blue police lights, Belmar said. The suspect allegedly shot into the windshield of the van.
The four officers in the van fired back, then pursued the suspect on foot. The suspect again fired on the officers when he became trapped in a fenced-in area, Belmar said, and all four opened fire.
Harris was in critical condition after surgery. Prosecutors announced 10 charges against him — five counts of armed criminal action, four counts of first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer and a firearms charge. All 10 are felonies.
All four officers in the van, each wearing protective vests, escaped injury. They were not wearing body cameras, Belmar said.
Harris' father called the police version of events "a bunch of lies." He said two girls who were with his son told him he was unarmed and had been drawn into a dispute involving two groups of young people.
Tyrone Harris Sr. told The Associated Press his son was a close friend of Michael Brown and was in Ferguson on Sunday night to pay respects.
The elder Harris said his son got caught up in a dispute among two groups of young people and was "running for his life" after gunfire broke out.
"My son was running to the police to ask for help, and he was shot," he said. "It's all a bunch of lies ... They're making my son look like a criminal."
Online court records show that Tyrone Harris Jr. was charged in November with stealing a motor vehicle and a gun, as well as resisting arrest by fleeing. A court hearing in that case is scheduled for Aug. 31.
Belmar said the suspect who fired on officers had a semi-automatic 9 mm gun that was stolen last year.
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Associated Press reporter Alan Scher Zagier and photographer Jeff Roberson contributed to this report.
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The lyrical war is heating up between the Original Block Hustlaz and Dream Chasers camps. Following a diss track by DC's Omelly, OBH's Dark Lo fires back with one of his own titled "Warm Ups" featuring Ar-Ab.
Download it here: https://soundcloud.com/gooniegangpromo-1/warm-up-1
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"I know everything about you - all the sucker shit you did your whole life," Ar-Ab says to Meek Mill. "You's a bitch, you's a coward all your life."
Philly emcee Ar-Ab used to be cool with Meek Mill and the rest of the Dreamchasers at one point. Now that Meek has called him out, however, he says that could never be the case again. "We could never be friends again, 'cause you said 'f*** me.," he adds. Ar-Ab claims people refer to Meek Mill as a "bum" and an "underdog" in Philly because of how he grew up. "They watched how bad he had it back in the day. He the dirty kid that turned his life around," he remembers. According to him, Meek "never really got active" in the hood, either.
When asked about the diss track Omelly put out about him recently, he say's he's not about to go head to head with a "worker" because "suckers do sucker s***." "At one point in time me and Omelly was cool. We was alright," Ar-Ab recalls before calling him out. "Omelly, he's the softest one in Dreamchasers...He's softer than Meek, he's a coward. That's Meek's cousin, so he gotta say something to defend Meek honor."
Ar-Ab also calls out Omelly for trying to say he saved his life during a club outing in Philly. Apparently Omelly gave him a gun and Ar--Ab and one of his homeboys began a standoff with six guys trying to rob him. Omelly drove them to the guys, and was reportedly scared because he didn't want to be involved. "He acting like 'cause he passed me something off he saved my life. You was crying, nigga. You was bitching," he states.
Press play to hear why Ar-Ab believes the Dreamchasers "don't pose no threat." The truth always comes to the light, man," he says. Listen above.
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. is out promoting his upcoming fight against Andre Berto. He stopped by ESPN's Deportes studios where he was asked to give his top 5 fighters of all time from a list of 10 all-time great champions on a touch screen.
Check out the boxer's top 5 and listen to his explanation for each choice.
5. Muhammad Ali
4. Julio Cesar Chavez
3. Pernell Whitaker
2. Roberto Duran
1. Floyd Mayweather Jr.
What do you think of Floyd's list?
Source: Complex
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Fast rising R&B singer/songwriter/model/actress Kitami Safiya delivers an official music video for her new single titled "Love N Leave." The song was produced by Remo The Hitmaker.
Music video shot by Gravidi Studios
This can be found on Remo and PaperChaserDotCom's new mixtape, "The Purest Product, Vol. 1." Grab it now from Datpiff http://www.datpiff.com/Remo-The-Hitmaker-The-Purest-Product-Vol-1-mixtape.719557.html.
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It didn't take long for Ar-Ab to respond to Omelly's "Back 2 Back" diss. The Philly rapper took to Twitter on Monday, August 10th, to call out Meek Mill for having his artist fire at him instead of doing it himself.
"HE SCARED SO HE SEND HIS LIL MAN TO TRY AND KILL ME," Ab wrote. "Niggas ghostwriting diss tracks now ctfu."
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Nicki Minaj has everyone talking after telling a concert audience during a recent The Pinkprint tour stop that Meek Mill was her "baby father."
Meek looked pretty happy when she made the announcement, but realistically what are the chances she and Meek are actually expecting a child? Was Nicki trolling us?
Watch the video below and let us know what you think.
**UPDATE**
TMZ reports that Nicki is not pregnant. The statement she made at the show was a "term of endearment" she says frequently.
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Michael Jordan is widely considered the best basketball player ever to lace up a pair of sneakers. His six championship rings with the Chicago Bulls is a testament to his incredible skills.
During the Michael Jordan Flight School camp in Santa Barbara on Saturday, August 8, MJ held a Q&A session with fans. He talked about a number of topics including LeBron James, Kobe Bryant his Chicago Bulls vs. Los Angeles Lakers, Hakeem Olajuwon, Larry Bird and much more.
Check it out below.
If I had to play one game, who would I want to coach: Phil Jackson or Dean Smith?
"Dean Smith. [Some audible gasps/murmurs.] Fortunately Dean Smith helped me become the basketball player I am today. Phil was lucky because I was taught the game by Dean Smith."
"I felt fine. I felt accomplished. We beat them and they felt ashamed about us beating them. I felt like it was bad sportsmanship. I would not advise you guys to do that. You've got to be able to lose in grace and win in grace -- so don't walk off the court. Even though you hate losing, that's just bad sportsmanship if you do that."
"Probably Larry Bird. He talks a lot of trash. Good trash, though, not dirty trash. Good trash."
"I just felt like he was just talking. It's a debate. The thing is that we would never know. I think we would have killed them. He thinks they would have killed us. You guys decide. It's just a debate."
"My best pick-up game I've ever played was the games and the practices with the [1992] Dream Team. ... My team was myself, Scottie Pippen, Patrick Ewing, Larry Bird and Chris Mullin. We played against Magic Johnson, Clyde Drexler, Charles Barkley, David Robinson -- that's five, right? -- and we killed 'em.
Note: That's not five; the other player team's fifth had to be either Karl Malone, John Stockton or Christian Laettner. There's also a chance Jordan is misremembering a bit, and he's talking about this scrimmage covered in-depth by Sports Illustrated, which featured a Jordan-Malone-Ewing-Pippen-Bird five against Magic, Barkley, Robinson, Mullin and Laettner (although a 40-36 final score in favor of Jordan's team hardly constitutes a "killing.")
"Right now, or when I was in my prime? Right now? Buddy, I couldn't beat -- well, I'd go against [Stephen] Curry because I'm a little bit bigger than him. So I could kind of back him in. But LeBron is a little bit too big."
[Note: Take that, 34 percent of America.]
"I'm a big fan of [Mike] Trout, the baseball player. I absolutely love him. I wish I could hire him. But he's Nike, so I can't steal Nike's guys."
[Long pause in which the campers mutter/shout their opinions.]
No question!
[Huge applause.]
"I, along with everybody that was in that draft room, wanted Kwame Brown because of his athleticism, his size, his speed. He was still a young talent, 18-year-old, 19-year-old kid."
"Great question. I went to college, I got my degree in cultural geography, and everybody wanted to know what is cultural geography? Well it's an introduction to meteorology. I always wanted to be the weather man. Don't laugh. But that's what I really wanted to do. So if I wasn't playing basketball or baseball, I was going to tell you what the weather was going to be like tomorrow."
[Note: Don't think meteorology is a sport? Tell that to Jim Cantore!]
[Uncomfortable laughter in the crowd.]
"Actually, Kobe and I are good friends. I like Kobe, we talk a lot, I hope he comes back healthy. I think he's one of the great players of the game, I think he's done a lot for the game, and he has a true love for the game of basketball. I absolutely have high regard for Kobe Bryant.
"Even though he stole all my moves, but that's OK. I still love him like a brother."
Source: ESPN
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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A man who authorities say opened fire on officers in Ferguson, Missouri, on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death was critically wounded when the officers shot back, St. Louis County's police chief said early Monday.
Chief Jon Belmar said at a news conference that officers had been tracking the man, who they believed was armed, during a protest marking the death of Brown, the black, unarmed 18-year-old whose killing by a white Ferguson police officer touched off a national "Black Lives Matter" movement.
The man approached the officers, who were in an unmarked police van, and opened fire, Belmar said. The officers returned fire from inside the vehicle and then pursued the man on foot when he ran.
The man again fired on the officers, the chief said, and all four officers fired back. He was struck and fell.
The man was taken to a hospital, where Belmar said he was in "critical, unstable" condition. Authorities didn't immediately release the identities of anyone involved, but Tyrone Harris told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the injured man was his son, 18-year-old Tyrone Harris Jr.
The elder Harris told the newspaper shortly after 3 a.m. that his son had just gotten out of surgery.
None of the officers was seriously injured. All four have been put on standard administrative leave. They were not wearing body cameras, Belmar said.
The shooting happened shortly after a separate incident that the chief called "an exchange of gunfire between two groups" rang out around 11:15 p.m. Sunday while protesters were gathered on West Florissant Avenue, a business zone that saw rioting and looting last year after Brown's killing. The shots sent protesters and reporters running for cover.
The chief said an estimated six shooters unleashed a "remarkable" amount of gunfire over about 45 seconds.
Belmar waved off any notion that the people with the weapons were part of the protest.
St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar
"They were criminals. They weren't protesters," he said.
The man who fired on officers had a semi-automatic 9 mm gun that was stolen last year from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, according to the chief.
"There is a small group of people out there that are intent on making sure that peace doesn't prevail," he said. "There are a lot of emotions. I get it. But we can't sustain this as we move forward."
Early Monday, another reported shooting drew officers to an apartment building in the area. Two men told police they were targeted in a drive-by shooting near the memorial to Brown outside Canfield Apartments. A 17-year-old was shot in the chest and shoulder while a 19-year-old was shot in the chest, but their injuries were not life-threatening, the St. Louis County Police said in a news release.
Separately, police said a 17-year-old male has been charged with unlawful use of a weapon and one count of resisting arrest after he fired shots near the protesters late Sunday. He is being held on $100,000 bond.
The anniversary of Brown's killing, which cast greater scrutiny on how police interact with black communities, has sparked days of renewed protests, though until Sunday they had been peaceful and without any arrests.
Before the gunfire, protesters were blocking traffic and confronting police. One person threw a glass bottle at officers but missed.
For the first time in three consecutive nights of demonstrations, some officers were dressed in riot gear, including bullet-proof vests and helmets with shields. Police at one point early Monday shot smoke to disperse the crowd that lingered on West Florissant, Belmar said.
One officer was treated for cuts after a rock was thrown at his face, and two officers were pepper-sprayed by protesters, county police spokesman Officer Shawn McGuire said in an email. Five people were arrested, according to records McGuire released.
Several other peaceful events earlier Sunday were held to mark the anniversary.
Mike Brown
Brown's father, Michael Brown Sr., led a march through town. It started at the site where Brown was fatally shot by officer Darren Wilson. A grand jury and the U.S. Department of Justice declined to prosecute Wilson, who resigned in November.
Later, a few hundred people turned out at Greater St. Mark Family Church for a service to remember Brown, with his father joining other relatives sitting behind the pulpit.
Organizers of some of the weekend activities pledged a day of civil disobedience on Monday, but have not offered specific details.
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Associated Press photographer Jeff Roberson contributed to this report.
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Love is definitely in the air between Tyga and his now 18-year old girlfriend Kylie Jenner.
It was initially thought that T-Raww bought the youngest member of the Jenner clan a Mercedes G-Wagon for her b-day, but the "Rack City" hit maker had much bigger plans in mind.
While at Bootsy Bellows in WeHo, celebrating the big day along with a celebrity guest list that included Kevin Durant, James Harden, Kyle Massey, Caitlyn, Kris and Kendell Jenner, along with Khloe, Kourtney and Kim Kardashian, Tyga surprised his girlfriend with a $260,000 Ferrari 458.
Watch her reaction below courtesy of TMZ.
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Dream Chasers Records recording artist Omelly grabs Drake's "Back To Back" instrumental and drops off a new diss record going at Ar-Ab. Give it a listen up top and sound off in the comment section below.
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Jack Thriller and Thriller Gang presents Zaire Malik "CAITLYN JENNERZ" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
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Effen Vodka is quickly becoming the alcoholic beverage of choice for many responsible drinkers around the world.
Count Philadelphia rapper and Original Block Hustlaz boss Ar-Ab, as someone who enjoys the 50 Cent-endorsed brand. He took to Twitter to offer a co-sign and show respect to G-Unit's shot caller in the process.
"@50cent I WANNA TAKE TIME OUT AND LET THE WORLD KNOW I JUST HAD SOME OF THAT #EFFENVODKA THIS NIGGA IS A GENIUS A #PUREEARNER," Ab wrote.
That's what's up...
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R. Kelly a.k.a. The Pied Piper of R&B is back with a new single titled "Backyard Party." This is off of his forthcoming album, Bullet, due out on September 25. Give it a listen up top.
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BROADWAY DICE - "I.G.T.O.Y.S" (NEW BITCH) [DIR. WAYNE CAMPBELL]
*(Prod By Flu Kang)
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Hip Hop fans will never know what Detox would have sounded like and that's just fine because Dr. Dre delivered the album, Compton: The Soundtrack, instead.
The 16-track project inspired by the movie Straight Outta Compton is packed with bangers and great features from the likes of Marsha Ambrosius, Kendrick Lamar, Ice Cube, Eminem, Snoop Dogg and more.
According to HitsDailyDouble, the album will sell between 260-275K copies it's first week in stores. You can purchase a copy now from iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/compton/id1025137696
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It's no secret that 50 Cent and Machine Gun Kelly are friends. Last Saturday, August 1, 50 hosted an Effen Vodka event in Atlantic City's Pool After Dark inside the Harrah's Resort.
TMZ reports that MGK was at the event drinking the G-Unit business mogul's alcoholic beverage like it was water.
It's great publicity for 50, but Diddy is probably not too happy about it. He reps Ciroc and as a Bad Boy Records artist, MGK is supposed too as well.
Nothing spells headache like having a member of your team switch sides for a night.
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Original Block Hustlaz (OBH) capo Dark Lo is not afraid to speak his mind. After Meek Mill dissed Lo and Ar-Ab's crew, Lo responded by firing shots of his own via his Instagram page.
"Aye meek Fuck yu nigga suck a dick pussy stop dry snitching on stage lil nigga!!," Lo wrote. "Yea I lost a couple homies to the game bcuz we don't Twitter beef we beef in the streets wit killas yu ain't on shit nigga!! Let's goooooo"
This beef might last for a while.
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