Bronx, New York emcee Hocus 45TH returns with a brand new mixtape entitled Here 2 Stay. The Bang Bang Boogie member gets assists from Styles P, Billz Raw, E Millz, Laizer, Slugs, Billy Busthead, Took, Rock and Blackout.
Production credits go to Laizer, Minnesota and Ed Burros.
Marlon Wayans was guest on The Breakfast Club this morning. He talks about putting out A Haunted House independently, being a fan of the first Nightmare On Elm Street and The Exorcist, possibly filming White Chicks 2, beef with Lord Jamar, possible Wayans brother comedy tour and more.
Comedian/actor Cedric The Entertainer was a recent guest on DJ Whoo Kid's Shade 45 show The Whoolywood Shuffle. Whoo Kid gave Ced the opportunity to debut Lil B's new song entitled "Don't Go Outside."
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. —As many as 20 people may be injured at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, where a student began stabbing people at the start of the school day on Wednesday morning, according to Westmoreland County emergency management.
One of the patients has been flown to a hospital in a medical helicopter. Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville has taken five of the other patients.
The severity of the injuries is not known.
Police have one person in custody but have not released that person's name yet.
Several police cars and ambulances are at the high school. Three medical helicopters are also there.
A student reported that someone came into the school with a knife and started slashing people, including some of his friends. That information has not been confirmed by police.
A woman told Pittsburgh's Action News 4 that her son was in the hall, getting ready for class, when he heard screaming and saw someone stabbing students.
Students have begun to come out of the building and are gathered around an entrance while emergency responders remain at the scene and police officers check the school room by room.
School buses are lined up on the campus, waiting to take students home for the day.
A parent said she was told by a school security employee that middle school students will be dismissed first and bused home. Meanwhile, the high school remains on lockdown until the school can safely dismiss those students.
20 hurt in stabbings at Franklin Regional High School
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (Associated Press) — A 16-year-old boy "was flashing two knives around" when he injured 19 students and a school police officer who eventually subdued him with the help of an assistant principal at a high school near Pittsburgh on Wednesday, a police chief said.
Murrysville police Chief Thomas Seefeld said the bloody crime scene at Franklin Regional High School, some 15 miles east of Pittsburgh, was "vast" and may take a couple days to process.
Police haven't named the suspect, who was taken into custody and driven from the police station in the back of a cruiser for treatment for a minor hand wound.
Investigators haven't determined a motive, but Seefeld said they're looking into reports of a threatening phone call between the suspect and another student the night before. Seefeld didn't specify whether the suspect reportedly received or made the call.
Two student victims were in critical condition, according to Dr. Mark Rubino of Forbes Regional Medical Center, the closest hospital to the school where eight victims were taken.
Twelve other victims were taken to four other hospitals affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Two of them, a 17-year-old male and a 14-year-old male, were in critical condition, two other students were in serious condition, and the others were either in fair or better condition or had been released. The school police officer was treated and released for superficial wounds, according to UPMC officials.
Seefeld wouldn't detail the carnage beyond saying, "The juvenile went down the hallway and was flashing two knives around and injured the people."
The chief said someone, possibly a student, pulled a fire alarm after seeing some of the victims being stabbed. Although that created chaos, he said, it also resulted in students running out of the school to safety faster than they might have otherwise.
"The fire alarm being pulled probably assisted with the evacuation of the school and that was a good thing that that was done," Seefeld said.
RAW: Authorities provide detailed update on injuries, suspect
RAW: Suspect taken from police department to hospital
**UPDATE**
MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (Associated Press) — Flailing away with two kitchen knives, a 16-year-old boy with a "blank expression" stabbed and slashed 21 students and a security guard in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school Wednesday before an assistant principal tackled him.
At least five students were critically wounded, including a boy whose liver was pierced by a knife thrust that narrowly missed his heart and aorta, doctors said. Others also suffered deep abdominal puncture wounds.
The rampage — which came after decades in which U.S. schools geared much of their emergency planning toward mass shootings, not stabbings — set off a screaming stampede, left blood on the floor and walls, and brought teachers rushing to help the victims.
Police shed little light on the motive.
The suspect, Alex Hribal, was taken into custody and treated for a minor hand wound, then was brought into court in shackles and a hospital gown and charged with four counts of attempted homicide and 21 counts of aggravated assault. He was jailed without bail, and authorities said he would be prosecuted as an adult.
His attorney did not immediately respond to a message for comment.
The attack unfolded in the morning just minutes before the start of classes at 1,200-student Franklin Regional High School, in an upper-middle-class area 15 miles east of Pittsburgh. It was over in about five minutes, during which the boy ran wildly down about 200 feet of hallway, slashing away with knives about 8 to 10 inches long, police said.
Nate Moore, 15, said he saw the boy tackle and stab a freshman. He said he going to try to break it up when the boy got up and slashed his face, opening a wound that required 11 stitches.
"It was really fast. It felt like he hit me with a wet rag because I felt the blood splash on my face. It spurted up on my forehead," he said.
The attacker "had the same expression on his face that he has every day, which was the freakiest part," Moore said. "He wasn't saying anything. He didn't have any anger on his face. It was just a blank expression."
Assistant Principal Sam King finally tackled the boy and disarmed him, and a Murrysville police officer who is regularly assigned to the school handcuffed him, police said.
King's son told The Associated Press that his father was treated at a hospital, though authorities have said he did not suffer any knife wounds.
"He says he's OK. He's a tough cookie and sometimes hides things, but I believe he's OK," Zack King said. He added: "I'm proud of him."
In addition to the 22 who were stabbed or slashed, two people suffered other injuries during the melee, authorities said. The security guard, who was wounded after intervening early in the melee, was treated and released.
"There are a number of heroes in this day. Many of them are students," Gov. Tom Corbett said in a visit to the stricken town. "Students who stayed with their friends and didn't leave their friends."
As for what set off the attack, Murrysville Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said investigators were looking into reports of a threatening phone call between the suspect and another student the night before. Seefeld didn't specify whether the suspect received or made the call.
The FBI joined the investigation and went to the boy's house, where authorities said they planned to confiscate and search his computer.
"They are a very, very nice family. A great family. We never saw anything out of the ordinary," said John Kukalis, a next-door neighbor for about 13 years.
His wife, Sonya Kukalis, said: "It should be an eye-opener for everybody. Everyone always thinks it's the other neighborhood, the other town. We need to be kinder and show compassion to more people. Something must have been going on for him to do this."
While several bloody stabbing rampages at schools in China have made headlines in the past few years, schools in the U.S. have concentrated their emergency preparations on shooting rampages.
Nevertheless, there have been at least two major stabbing attacks at U.S. schools over the past year, one at a community college in Texas last April that wounded at least 14 people, and another, also in Texas, that killed a 17-year-old student and injured three others at a high school in September.
On Wednesday, Mia Meixner, 16, said the rampage touched off a "stampede of kids" yelling, "Run! Get out of here! Someone has a knife!"
The boy had a "blank look," she said. "He was just kind of looking like he always does, not smiling, not scowling or frowning."
Meixner and Moore called the attacker a shy boy who largely kept to himself, but they said he was not an outcast and they had no reason to think he might be violent.
"He was never mean to anyone, and I never saw people be mean to him," Meixner said. "I never saw him with a particular group of friends."
Michael Float, 18, said he had just gotten to school when he saw "blood all over the floor" and smeared on the wall near the main entrance. Then he saw a wounded student.
"He had his shirt pulled up and he was screaming, 'Help! Help!'" Float said. "He had a stab wound right at the top right of his stomach, blood pouring down."
Float said he saw a teacher applying pressure to the wound of another student.
About five minutes elapsed between the time the campus police officer summoned help over the radio at 7:13 a.m. and the boy was disarmed, the police chief said.
Someone, possibly a student, pulled a fire alarm during the attack, Seefeld said. Although that created chaos, the police chief said, it emptied out the school more quickly, and "that was a good thing that that was done."
Also, a girl with "an amazing amount of composure" applied pressure to a schoolmate's wounds and probably kept the victim from bleeding to death, said Dr. Mark Rubino at Forbes Regional Medical Center.
Public safety and school officials said an emergency plan worked as well as could be expected. The district conducted an emergency exercise three months ago and a full-scale drill about a year ago.
"We haven't lost a life, and I think that's what we have to keep in mind," said county public safety spokesman Dan Stevens.
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Russell Simmons illuminates DJ Whoo Kid's mind with his new book Success Through Stillness. He also kicks it about this infatuation for Miley Cyrus, Jay Z in the studio, Phat Farm, drugs in the 80's, being a vegan, his love for YG's"My N*gga" record, being an uncle, gay's in the NBA, and World War 3 with Russia.
"Pit and I have been friends for years and it was dope knowing that he loved the song and wanted to be a part of it. I have to thank Dj SynCity for making such a dope track as well."
Previously: Rico Explains the inspiration behind his new single "B*tches Be Like"
Van, TMZ's self proclaimed ass master, has just crowned Kim KardashianThe Queen of Booty. Van made the decision after seeing pictures of Kim's recent photo shoot in Thailand.
The 33-year old reality star is seen rocking a gold 2-piece bikini. In several shots her butt is on full display as she sits on the side of a boat.
Take a look at several of the photos and watch TMZ's video below. Let us know if Kim deserves the title Van has bestowed upon her. If Kim isn't at the top of your list, who is?.
Troy Ave drops off a new keymix off of the forthcoming BSB Volume 4 mixtape. Harry Powder does his thing on Future's Mike Will Made It-produced single "Move That Dope." Listen up top and download here https://soundcloud.com/troyave/troy-ave-move-that-dope-keymix.
The Smoking Gun has uncovered documents that reveal Reverend Al Sharpton worked as an informant for the FBI and NYPD during the 1980's, providing damaging evidence against the Genovese crime family.
Sharpton was identified by the FBI as CI-7.
A lengthy investigation by The Smoking Gun has uncovered remarkable details about Sharpton’s past work as an informant for a joint organized crime task force comprised of FBI agents and NYPD detectives, as well as his dealings with an assortment of wiseguys.
Beginning in the mid-1980s and spanning several years, Sharpton’s cooperation was fraught with danger since the FBI’s principal targets were leaders of the Genovese crime family, the country’s largest and most feared Mafia outfit. In addition to aiding the FBI/NYPD task force, which was known as the “Genovese squad,” Sharpton’s cooperation extended to several other investigative agencies.
Genovese squad investigators--representing both the FBI and NYPD--recalled how Sharpton, now 59, deftly extracted information from wiseguys. In fact, one Gambino crime family figure became so comfortable with the protest leader that he spoke openly--during ten wired face-to-face meetings--about a wide range of mob business, from shylocking and extortions to death threats and the sanity of Vincent “Chin” Gigante, the Genovese boss who long feigned mental illness in a bid to deflect law enforcement scrutiny. As the mafioso expounded on these topics, Sharpton’s briefcase--a specially customized Hartmann model--recorded his every word.
Records obtained by TSG show that information gathered by Sharpton was used by federal investigators to help secure court authorization to bug two Genovese family social clubs, including Gigante’s Greenwich Village headquarters, three autos used by crime family leaders, and more than a dozen phone lines. These listening devices and wiretaps were approved during the course of a major racketeering investigation targeting the Genovese family’s hierarchy.
A total of eight separate U.S. District Court judges--presiding in four federal jurisdictions--signed interception orders that were based on sworn FBI affidavits including information gathered by Sharpton. The phones bugged as a result of these court orders included two lines in Gigante’s Manhattan townhouse, the home phone of Genovese captain Dominick “Baldy Dom” Canterino, and the office lines of music industry power Morris Levy, a longtime Genovese family associate. The resulting surreptitious recordings were eventually used to help convict an assortment of Mafia members and associates.
Investigators also used Sharpton’s information in an application for a wiretap on the telephone in the Queens residence of Federico “Fritzy” Giovanelli, a Genovese soldier. Giovanelli was sentenced to 20 years in prison for racketeering following a trial during which those recordings were played for jurors. In a recent interview, the 82-year-old Giovanelli--now three years removed from his latest stint in federal custody--said that he was unaware that Sharpton contributed in any fashion to his phone’s bugging. He then jokingly chided a reporter for inquiring about the civil rights leader’s past. “Poor Sharpton, he cleaned up his life and you want to ruin him,” Giovanelli laughed.
During a news conference Tuesday, April 8, Sharpton defended his work for the federal government, saying he was being threatened by the mob at the time.
“I did what was right, I’m not a mobster. I’m a preacher.“I don’t know if I’m C-7 or B-19. I don’t know none of that. I know I was threatened. I did what anybody would do ... other than a thug. And I cooperated. The only thing I was embarrassed by is those old fat pictures."
The Smoking Gun reports that Sharpton actually became an informant after being recorded talking to an undercover agent about a cocaine deal.
“I think there was some fear [of prosecution] on his part,” recalled a former federal agent
Nitty Scott, MC drops a teaser for the upcoming new full-length LP, The Art Of Chill, due on May 23rd.
The album features production from Ski Beatz, Yuri Beats and Moss amongst others with guest appearances from Ab-Soul, Stacy Barthe, Rapper Big Pooh and more.
Nitty also introduces us to #Chilluminati Tuesdays, a new behind-the-scenes series beginning on April 15th. The Boombox Family can look forward to exclusive performances, the making of specific songs + sneak peaks at unreleased gems on The Art of Chill.
O.B.H. (Original Block Hustlaz) presents the debut mixtape from Lik Moss entitled The Transition. Features include P90, Dark Lo. C Dot, Alex Sosa, Razor, Jimmi Leg and Relleown.
Eminem and Rihanna will take the stage together at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards on Sunday, April 13. The duo will perform their hit record "The Monster" off of Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
The show will air live from the Nokia Theater L.A. LIVE in Los Angeles, starting at 9 p.m. ET.
Slim and Riri will team up again in August when they hit the road for The Monster Tour. They will play stadium shows in Los Angeles, New York and Detroit
The Monster Tour Dates
Thursday, August 7 - Rose Bowl - Pasadena, CA
Friday, August 8 - Rose Bowl - Pasadena, CA
Saturday, August 16 - MetLife Stadium - East Rutherford, NJ - SOLD OUT
Sunday, August 17 - MetLife Stadium - East Rutherford, NJ
Friday, August 22 - Comerica Park - Detroit, MI - SOLD OUT
Saturday, August 23 - Comerica Park - Detroit, MI - SOLD OUT
With the April 22 release date for his sophomore album Honest fast approaching, Future lets fans hear his collaboration with Kanye West entitled "Trophy." The song was produced by Metro Boomin. Pre-order Honest now on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/honest-deluxe/id834632492.