In this Interview with Montreality, Theophilus London speaks about :
- The type of student he was at school (0:21) - Jobs he had as a teenager (0:58) - His first rap, inspired by Pharrell & Kanye (1:30) - His contribution to Kanye's "So Help Me God" album (2:42) - Favorite cartoon character (5:04) - Favorite video games (5:41) - His love for cinema, being a movie connoisseur (6:48) - His message to the youth (7:20)
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Charmayne "Maxee" Maxwell has died in what authorities describe as a freak accident at her Los Angeles home. The 46-year old singer from the 90's group Brownstone was found Friday, February 27, by her music producer husband, Carsten Soulshock.
According to TMZ, when Maxwell was discovered she was bleeding profusely from a neck wound caused by a broken wine glass.
Paramedics arrived after Carsten called 911. She died on the way to Cedars Sinai Hospital from massive blood loss.
LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) — In a fatal encounter captured on video, three Los Angeles police officers shot and killed a man on the city's Skid Row during a struggle over one of the officers' guns, authorities said.
The graphic video widely circulated on social media within a few hours of the incident Sunday brought attention to the death of the man who wound up wrestling with police amid the tents, sleeping bags and trash of Skid Row, where many of the city's homeless stay.
The three officers, one of whom is a sergeant, shot the man as they struggled on the ground for control of one of the police officer's weapons, after a stun gun proved ineffective, LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said. The officers had been responding to a report of a robbery.
Police said they planned to use the video in their investigation.
Smith said the department would attempt to amplify the video's sound and pictures to figure out exactly what happened.
"The video is disturbing," Smith said at a briefing with reporters late Sunday night. "It's disturbing any time anyone loses their life. It's a tragedy."
Smith said at least one of the officers was also wearing a body camera.
On the video — which had been viewed 4.3 million times over the first 12 hours that it was posted — six officers can be seen responding to the scene. They begin wrestling with the man as he takes swings at them.
Two of the officers break away to subdue and handcuff a woman who had picked up one of their dropped batons.
The struggle becomes increasingly blurry and distant, but shouting can be heard, including the word, "gun," followed by five apparent gunshots.
Police did not release the man's name or give any other identifying details, and Smith said he did not know whether the man was homeless.
Other recent deaths during police actions in New York and in Ferguson, Missouri, and the lack of prosecution of the officers involved, have brought nationwide protest.
The violence Sunday had echoes of the August shooting by Los Angeles police of 25-year-old Ezell Ford, whose death in a struggle with officers brought demonstrations in the city.
Ford was unarmed, but police officers said he was shot only after reaching for an officer's gun.
In Sunday's incident, witnesses told the Los Angeles Times that the man is known on the street as "Africa," and that he had been there for four or five months.
One witness, Jose Gil, 38, told the Times he saw the man swinging at police then heard one of them shout, "he's got my gun!" before the shots were fired.
Dennis Horne, 29, said the man had been fighting with someone else in his tent before officers arrived.
"It's sad," Horne said. "There's no justification to take somebody's life."
Tents and cardboard shelters cover the sidewalks of Skid Row, the downtown neighborhood where an estimated 1,700 homeless people live. Many of them struggle with mental illness and addiction.
Police Commission President Steve Soboroff said the independent inspector general and the district attorney had all begun investigating the incident.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, head of the activist group the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable, called on the Police Commission to hold special hearing on use of force by officers in Skid Row encounters.
Hutchinson said in a statement that the shooting "underscores the need for the police commission to hold a special hearing to fully examine police tactics and training in the use of deadly force by LAPD officers involving skid row residents many of whom have major mental challenges."
Jack Thriller stops by the BX Fight Club where Fat Joe and Remy Martin perform for the first time in over 10 years. With Pretty Lou, Jack host the main event between Violator and Pacquiao.
Dakota Johnson was the host on Saturday Night Live on February 28. The Fifty Shades of Grey actress and the show now finds themselves in the middle of a brewing controversy surrounding a skits entitled "Father Daughter Ad."
In it Dakota plays a teenager being dropped off for what appears to be her first year in college. They have the typical dad/daughter conversation about safety and calling home when she reaches her destination.
When Dakota's ride arrives it's a group of ISIS militants. Her dad tells her to be careful, to which she replies, "Dad, it's just ISIS."
"Take care of her," the father says to one of the militants. "Death to America," is the answer he gets back.
Twitter users were quick to voice their displeasure with the skit.
Kanye Westhas revealed the title of his forthcoming eighth solo album.
The rapper took to his Twitter account on Sunday, March 1, to inform his 11.5 million followers that the project would be called So Help Me God. There's no release date information as of yet. We'll keep you updated as soon as we have official word.
LOS ANGELES (Associated Press) -- Ronda Rousey has stopped every opponent she has faced in her meteoric mixed martial arts career, so a first-round victory is no shock for the UFC's bantamweight champion.
Except nobody had finished a UFC title fight this quickly, and hardly anyone had ever done it with so much flair.
Rousey stopped Cat Zingano with an acrobatic armbar after just 14 seconds, dramatically defending her 135-pound title at UFC 184 on Saturday night.
Rousey's fifth title defense before the sellout Staples Center crowd could process what it just witnessed. Those 14 seconds were action-packed, and Rousey delivered again.
"There's very few situations where a fight goes 14 seconds and the crowd is cheering and going crazy and looking at each other with their mouths open," UFC President Dana White said.
Rousey (11-0) earned the most impressive victory of her career with jaw-dropping speed, taking out the previously unbeaten Zingano with her signature armlock from an unlikely position.
Zingano (9-1) dropped Rousey on her head with a flying charge at the opening bell, but the champ used her peerless judo skills to flip Zingano onto her back. Rousey scampered into position to wrench Zingano's arm grotesquely - and just like that, the challenger tapped out.
Rousey wasn't surprised by the opening charge: She suspected Zingano might try to catch her unprepared. Rousey didn't expect to get turned upside-down, but when it happened, the Olympic medal-winning judoka relied on instinct.
"I made that up on the fly, to be honest," Rousey said. "But it was kind of funny: We were going toward the ground, and I kind of reverted back to judo mode and was thinking, `Don't touch your back. It's a point.' That's where the acrobatic thing came from, was thinking about not touching your back in judo.
Nobody in the women's sport can touch Rousey, the most dominant champion in MMA.
Rousey's last three fights have lasted a total of 96 seconds, including two bouts against previously unbeaten opponents. Her 14-second finish was a record for any UFC title bout, but she thought it only went to plan.
"That's not usually how you land an armbar at that angle, but it works," Rousey said.
Champion boxer Holly Holm made her much-hyped UFC debut with a split-decision victory over Raquel Pennington in UFC 184's penultimate bout as the world's dominant mixed martial arts promotion ended a two-year absence from Southern California, the home base of Rousey and numerous fighters.
But the night was a showcase for the star power of Rousey, who has become one of the UFC's most prominent fighters just two years after the promotion added women's bouts. Zingano was considered the most daunting active threat to Rousey's reign, but was obliterated.
Zingano chose the dubious strategy of charging and grabbing onto Rousey, whose judo skills make her practically unbeatable in a clinch.
"She's really good ... but that wouldn't happen again," Zingano said. "It was a knee and then a throw and then a scramble, and then she was wrapped around my arm. I got caught. I was ready to do a million different things. I planned on getting in a fistfight tonight."
For the first time in UFC history, two women's fights headlined a pay-per-view event. Although partly created by necessity when middleweight champion Chris Weidman was injured, that spotlight is the latest affirmation for women's MMA and Rousey - a movie star, a model and a celebrity who can sell out a large arena in her hometown.
The 33-year-old Holm (8-0) ended an 11-year pro boxing career in 2013 to concentrate on MMA. Although she did enough to win her UFC debut against the scrappy, undersized Pennington (5-6), Holm and White both said she needs a few more UFC fights before she can challenge for Rousey's belt.
Southern California fighters Tony Ferguson and Alan Jouban kicked off the pay-per-view card with dynamic first-round stoppage victories. Ferguson has won five straight bouts, while Jouban bounced back from a debatable loss with an impressive striking performance.
Although Los Angeles is the largest U.S. city that allows MMA competition, the UFC hadn't staged a card in the area since Rousey's debut with the promotion in Anaheim in February 2013. A mediocre card scheduled for Staples Center last summer was canceled when champion Jose Aldo was injured.
Dana White speaks on the possibility of Cyborg vs. Rousey fight and Brock Lesnar
The extra publicity paid off: Rousey and the UFC attracted a star-studded Hollywood crowd including Vin Diesel, Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Kiedis and Mickey Rourke. Also watching at cageside was former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, the professional wrestler who is thought to be contemplating a return to MMA.
Dark Lo Tha Crook is simply killing everything moving musically. The Original Block Hustlaz recording artist just re-released released his Ron Harvey Jr. project with five bonus tracks. "Gambling Spot" and "Old Money" are two of the five.
Purchase Ron Harvey Jr: Reloaded now from Amazon and iTunes.
Two people were shot inside the Label nightclub in the NC Music Factory on Saturday, February 28, where T.I., Young Jeezy and Yo Gotti were performing.
The incident happened around 7PM. Both victims were taken to Carolinas Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries, according to the Charlotte Observer.
TMZ video shows the packed club at the moment the shots were fired. Panicked club goers scrambled for safety following the gunfire.
The rappers were in town for the popular Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CAA) basketball tournaments.
Label management issued a statement following the shooting.
“Tonight's events at Label will take place as scheduled. It should be noted that there will continue to be very substantial security for all Label events during tournament weekend,” the club said. “And, Label remains fully committed to the safety and security of its patrons."
Artists need to remember to drink plenty of water when they're out on the road. We saw what could happen if they don't when August Alsinapassed out during a show in NYC last September.
The singer fell into a coma and had to be hospitalized for several days.
RapperLil Boosiesuffered a similar scare, although not as serious on Friday, February 27.TMZ reports that Boosie was on his way to a show in Charlotte when he started to feel faint.
He was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with severe dehydration. Doctors treated him with intravenous fluids. The Charlotte show had to be cancelled, but Boosie got the green light to perform tonight in Georgia.
Take care of yourself Boosie Badazz. Can't get that show money if you can't perform.
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Ab-Soul says he might be dropped from Top Dawg Entertainment for releasing this new song. Obviously he's not too worried. Take a listen to "47 Bars" produced by The Alchemist.
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M3RE boss Pop Dollarz continues to show why he's on the rise. He decides to hop on the instrumental to Big Sean's "Blessings" for his latest freestyle. Check it out up top and hit the download.
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Cold Summers Ent. boss Lil Eto presents Shawn Brown and his new single entitled "Go." The banging track was produced by super producer Swiff D. Check it out up top and let us know what you think.
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Check out this fantastic music video from Tory Lanez for "Henny In Hand." The plot centers around a serial killer of women. Will he get caught or continue his murderous ways? Watch the visuals to find out.
Anthony Mason, the hard nosed former NBA player has died at the age of 48, reports ESPN.
Mason played 13 years in the league after being drafted in the 3rd round by the Portland Trailblazers in 1988. He was cut by Portland before playing a game for the team. A decision I'm sure they regret to this day.
Mason would go on to play 13-seasons in the NBA, for several teams, including the New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat.
He was named Sixth Man of the Year in 1995, as a member of the Knicks.
According to ESPN, Mason had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure earlier this month.
Rest in peace Anthony Mason. Our condolences go out to his family and friends.
Black Migo Gang'sYoung Scooteris preparing the second installment of hisMarried to the Streetsmixtape series. No release date as of yet, but Scooter promises it's on the wat "sooner than you think." Peep the cover art up top.
MEXICO CITY (Associated Press) — Servando "La Tuta" Gomez, a former school teacher who became one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords as head of the Knights Templar cartel, was captured early Friday by federal police as he tried to sneak out of a house wearing a baseball cap and a scarf to hide his identity.
Gomez was arrested at a house in Morelia, the capital of the western state of Michoacan, along with eight bodyguards and associates toting a grenade launcher, three grenades, a machine pistol and assault rifles, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said.
Gomez and his accomplices were arrested without a shot fired, after a months-long intelligence stakeout in which his associates were identified when they gathered on his birthday Feb. 6 with cakes, soft drinks and food, he said.
Rubido said the key break came months ago when agents identified one of Gomez's most-trusted messengers. A series of such liaisons had apparently supplied Gomez with food, clothing and medicine when he was earlier hiding out in the mountains.
Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said that "we have caught the most important target in the fight against organized crime."
The 49-year-old Gomez led the Knights Templar, a quasi-religious criminal group that once exercised what Osorio Chong called "absolute control" over Michoacan.
The cartel orchestrated politics, controlled commerce, dictated rules and preached a code of ethics around devotion to God and family, even as it murdered and plundered. The gang lost power when the federal government took over the state to try to restore order in January 2014 after vigilante groups rose up against the cartel. But Gomez evaded capture for more than a year, while other Knights Templar leaders were captured or killed.
Mexico's government had offered a $2 million reward for his capture, and he also was wanted in the United States for conspiracy to import and distribute cocaine.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto
"With this arrest, the rule of law is strengthened in the country and we continue to advance toward a Mexico at peace," President Enrique Pena Nieto said on his Twitter account.
Also Friday, authorities announced that Gomez's younger brother, Flavio, had been arrested in Merida in eastern Yucatan state. Flavio Gomez allegedly handled the gang's finances.
Gomez's capture was a badly needed win for Pena Nieto, who has faced widespread criticism since 43 college students disappeared last fall at the hands of local authorities in Guerrero state and conflict-of-interest scandals emerged involving his personal home and that of the country's treasury secretary.
It coincided with Friday's announcement that Pena Nieto's embattled attorney general, Jesus Murillo Karam, would leave his post after months of scathing criticism over his handling of the students' disappearance as well as a case last June in which soldiers killed more than a dozen suspected criminals after they surrendered.
The week opened with film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu using his Oscar acceptance speech to urge fellow Mexicans to "find and build the government that we deserve." Then Pope Francis warned that drug trafficking would cause the "Mexicanization" of Argentina and Donald Trump urged people not to do business with Mexico.
The DEA congratulated Mexico on Gomez's arrest, saying he led "one of the world's most vicious and violent drug and criminal networks."
The arrest is the latest by Pena Nieto's just over 2-year-old government, which has been aggressive in capturing drug lords, including the biggest capo, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, in 2014. Of Mexico's top criminal leaders, only Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada of the Sinaloa Cartel remains at large.
"It's a very significant capture and (Gomez) is a very important player," said Eric L. Olson, an analyst specializing in Mexican security and organized crime at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
"The bottom line is these captures are important, but one has to keep them in perspective," he added. "They can unleash a lot more conflict and violence — although it's kind of hard to imagine in the case of Michoacan things getting any worse."
It was not immediately clear who, if anyone, would take over the cartel in Michoacan, where the vigilante "self-defense" groups continue to battle each other and the military and federal police.
The likely result will be an "atomization" of the cartel, said Raul Benitez, a security analyst at Mexico's National Autonomous University. He noted that intensified law enforcement in Michoacan already has forced splinter groups into neighboring Guerrero, where they are fighting to control the heroin trade.
Folksy and charismatic with puffy cheeks and a large nose, Gomez rose from teacher to one of Mexico's most ruthless and wanted cartel leaders, dominating the lucrative methamphetamine trade for a time and controlling his home state through extortion, intimidation and coercion.
Rubido said Gomez was behind the murder of 12 Mexican federal law enforcement officers whose bodies were found in July 2009 while he still operated under La Familia. He said the murdered police officers had been on a mission to capture Gomez. Rubido said Gomez started as a marijuana trafficker around 2000, but by 2007 he was already extorting money from municipal governments in Michoacan.
Outspoken and particularly crafty, Gomez often appeared in videos, wearing his signature baseball cap and salt-and-pepper goatee. Put out during his time on the run, the recordings showed him meeting with elected officials, journalists and other influential people, including the son of former Michoacan Gov. Fausto Vallejo, a member of Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party. Vallejo resigned last year for health reasons. Vallejo's interior secretary, Jesus Reyna, and other officials have been jailed for alleged connections to the cartel.
Though his gang started with drugs, it eventually took over the Port of Lazaro Cardenas, one of Mexico's largest seaports, and made more money from illegal mining, logging and extortion than it did from narcotics. Mexico's military took control of the port in late 2013.
People in his hometown of Arteaga in the hills of Michoacan praised him as a humble man who ambled about in sandals and would give poor people money for food, clothing and medical care. They said he mediated disputes such as a traffic accident or child-support battles.
In an interview with a British television crew in January 2014, Gomez said his illegal work was all about business.
"As we told you, we are a necessary evil," Gomez is seen telling a group of townspeople. "Unfortunately or fortunately, we are here. If we weren't, another group would come."
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Associated Press writers E. Eduardo Castillo and Peter Orsi contributed to this report.
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